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University Gazette, 24 April 2008: Lectures
Inaugural LecturesRun Run Shaw Professor of ChinesePROFESSOR TIMOTHY BROOK will deliver his inaugural lecture at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 13 May, in the Examination Schools. Subject: 'Ming China and the emergence of a common world.' Professor of LinguisticsPROFESSOR ADITI LAHIRI will deliver her inaugural lecture at 5 p.m. on Friday, 6 June, in the Lecture Theatre, the Taylor Institution. The subject of the lecture will be announced later. Professor of Mathematical FinancePROFESSOR XUNYU ZHOU will deliver his inaugural lecture at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, 20 May, in the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre. The lecture will be followed by the Nomura Lecture. Subject: 'Risk, human judgement, and asset allocation.'
Nomura LecturePROFESSOR HARRY M. MARKOWITZ will deliver the Nomura Lecture, via video-link from the United States, at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 20 May, in the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre. The lecture will follow Professor Xunyu Zhou's inaugural lecture. Subject: 'A taxonomy of risk-facing behaviour.'
Valedictory LecturesChichele Professor of Social and Political TheoryPROFESSOR G.A. COHEN will deliver his valedictory lecture at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 1 May, in the Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre, the St Cross Building. Subject : 'My philosophical development, and impressions of philosophers whom I met along the way.' Note: Professor Cohen's valedictory lecture will be given on 1 May, and not on 22 May, as stated in the Special Lecture List for Trinity Term. Professor of the History of ArtPROFESSOR MARTIN KEMP will deliver his Valedictory Lecture at 5 p.m. on Friday, 2 May, in the Headley Lecture Theatre, the Ashmolean Museum.
Professor of PoetryPROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER RICKS will lecture at 5 p.m. on Monday, 12 May, in the Examination Schools. Subject: 'Rhythms 3. Robert Graves?'
Julia Bodmer Memorial LectureSIR ALAN WILSON, Professor of Urban and Regional Systems, Centre for Applied Spatial Analysis, University College London, will deliver the Julia Bodmer Memorial Lecture at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 20 May, in Lecture Theatre A, the Department of Zoology. Subject: 'Superconcepts for interdisciplinary research.'
O'Donnell Lecture in Celtic StudiesDR KATHERINE FORSYTH, Glasgow, will deliver the O'Donnell Lecture in Celtic Studies at 5 p.m. on Friday, 16 May, in Lecture Theatre 2, the St Cross Building. Subject: 'Rocking the cradle of Scottish Christianity: new work on Whithorn and its carved stones.'
Zaharoff LecturePROFESSOR SUSAN SULEIMAN, Harvard, will deliver the Zaharoff Lecture at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 15 May, in the Taylor Institution, St Giles'. Subject: 'Language, foreignness, and the Canon: Beckett/Nemirovsky.'
Cherwell–Simon LecturePROFESSOR PETER A. GRÜNBERG, Institut für Festkörperforschung Forschungszentrum Jülich, Nobel Laureate in Physics 2007, will deliver the Cherwell–Simon Lecture at 4.30 p.m. on Friday, 9 May, in the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, the Clarendon Laboratory. Subject: 'From spin waves to giant magnetoresistance and beyond.'
J.W. Jenkinson Memorial LecturePROFESSOR DIDIER STAINIER, University of California, San Francisco, will deliver a Jenkinson Lecture at 5 p.m. on Monday, 12 May, in Lecture Theatre B, the Zoology/Psychology Building. Tickets are not required for admission. Those with specific access requirements are asked to telephone Oxford (2)82464 a few days before the lecture. Subject: 'A genetic approach to cardiac development and function.'
Halley LecturePROFESSOR GEORGE F. SMOOT, University of California, Berkeley, will deliver the Halley Lecture at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, 24 April, in the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, the Clarendon Laboratory. The lecture will be open to the public. Subject: 'The history and fate of the universe.'
Public Address By His Holiness the Dalai LamaHIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA will give a public address at 10 a.m. on Friday, 30 May, in the Sheldonian Theatre. The visit has been arranged by the Society for the Wider Understanding of the Buddhist Tradition, associated with the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies. Admission will be by tickets, obtainable through through www.so-wide.org. Subject: 'Buddhist understanding: why and how.'
Speaker's Lectures in Biblical StudiesThe Corinthian correspondence and the birth of Christian hermeneuticsPROFESSOR MARGARET MITCHELL, Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature, University of Chicago Divinity School, will deliver the Speaker's Lectures at 5 p.m. on the following days in the Examination Schools. Mon. 28 Apr.: 'The Corinthian diolkos.' Wed. 30 Apr.: 'The agôn of Pauline interpretation.' Fri. 2 May: 'Anthropological hermeneutics between rhetoric and philosophy.' Mon. 5 May: 'The veil and the vessel: the hermeneutics of occlusion.' Wed. 7 May: 'Visible signs, multiple testimonies: interpretative criteria in the agonistic paradigm.' Fri. 9 May: 'Hermeneutical exhaustion and the end(s) of interpretation.'
Radhakrishnan Memorial Lectures 2007–8Reflections of an Indian Bhasha writerPROFESSOR U.R. ANANTHAMURTHY will deliver the Radhakrishnan Memorial Lectures at 5 p.m. on the following Thursdays in the Examination Schools. 24 Apr.: 'Being an Indian regional language writer.' 1 May: 'Tradition and modernity in Indian writing.' 8 May: 'Some reflections on my fictional work.' Film- showings Screenings of three films based on Professor Ananthamurthy's fictional work will take place at 4 p.m. on the following days in the Examination Schools. Mon. 5 May: Samskara Tue. 6 May: Ghatashradha Wed.7 May: Mouni
ClassicsArchive of Performances of Greek and Roman DramaCancellation of lectureIt is regretted that the lecture due to have been given Dr David Beard at 2.15 p.m. on Monday, 28 April, has been cancelled. LectureJOANNA PAUL, Liverpool, will lecture at 2.15 p.m. on Monday, 19 May, in the Lecture Theatre, the Classics Centre. Enquiries may be directed to Oxford (2)88210 (e-mail: apgrd@classics.ox.ac.uk). Subject: 'Performing epic in the cinema: epic bards, Kleos, and the epic tradition.'
HistorySpecial Faculty LecturePROFESSOR JULIAN GARDNER, Foundation Professor of the History of Art, University of Warwick, will deliver the Special Faculty Lecture at 5 p.m. on Monday, 28 April, in the Examination Schools. Subject: 'Painters and saints: anthroponymy and art in medieval Italy.' Oxford Architectural History SeminarThe following seminars will be held at 5.30 p.m. on Mondays in the New Seminar Room, St John's College. Conveners: Louise Durning, Geoffrey Tyack, and William Whyte. RICHARD WITTMAN, California, Santa Barbara FRANK KELSALL, Architectural History Practice Medieval Economic and Social History SeminarThe following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays in the MacGregor Room, Oriel College. Conveners: John Blair and Ian Forrest. JUSTINE FIRNHABER-BAKER HANNAH WHEELER ANNE COLE JOHN HINES, Cardiff GUY GELTNER PETER COSS, Cardiff SALLY HARVEY CHARLES WEST
Mathematical, Physical and Life SciencesAstor Visiting ProfessorPROFESSOR ARES ROSAKIS, California Institute of Technology, Astor Visiting Professor in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences, will lecture at 4.30 p.m. on Friday, 2 May, in the Lecture Theatre, the University Museum of Natural History. Subject: 'Intersonic earthquakes: what laboratory earthquakes can tell us about real ones.' Department of Plant SciencesThe following research talks will be given at 4 p.m. on Thursdays in the Large Lecture Theatre, the Department of Plant Sciences. Abstracts can be found at www.plants.ox.ac.uk. Details of the 15 May seminar will be announced later. DR
WOLF WEIJERS, Wageningen DR CLAUS SCHWECHHEIMER, Tübingen PROFESSOR ROBERT FRECKLETON, Sheffield PROFESSOR GARRY WHITELAM, Leicester DR HELEN JOHNSON DR PAUL KENRICK, Natural History Museum, London DR GEORGE COUPLAND, Max Planck Institute for Plant
Breeding, Cologne Physical Chemistry SeminarsThe following seminars will be given at 2.15 p.m. on Mondays in the Large Lecture Theatre, the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory. Conveners: Dr J. Doye and Dr D. Aarts. BEN MURRAY, Leeds WILLEM KEGEL, Utrecht GRANT RITCHIE Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics: Mathematical Geoscience SeminarsThe following seminars will be held at 2.30 p.m. on Fridays in Seminar Room 3, Dartington House. PROFESSOR JOHN DOLD, Manchester DR DOMINIC VELLA, Cambridge DR TONY BOOER, Schlumberger, Abingdon Technology
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Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences and Medical SciencesBiomedical engineering seminarsThe following seminars will be given at 4.15 p.m. on Mondays in the Lecture Theatre, the Richard Doll Building, the Old Road Campus. Specialised seminars are held at 1 p.m. on Mondays. Further details can be found at www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/seminars_events/. Convener: Dr M.S. Thompson. PROFESSOR ROB KRAMS, Imperial College, London DR HARVEY BURD
Medical SciencesDepartment of Physiology, Anatomy, and GeneticsThe following seminars will be held at 1 p.m. on Fridays, as follows: the seminars on 25 April, 9 May, 23 May, and 6 June will take place in the Large Lecture Theatre, the Sherrington Building; other seminars will take place in the Lecture Theatre, the Le Gros Clark Building. ROBIN LOVELL-BADGE, NIMR KEITH BAAR, Dundee LARS FUGGER PETER COOK DR ALEX GOULD, NIMR CAHIR O'KANE, Cambridge COLLEEN CLANCY, Cornell PROFESSOR ANDREW KING
Medieval and Modern LanguagesIlchester LectureDR KONSTANTIN BOGDANOV, University of Konstanz and Institute of Russian Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg ('Pushkin House'), will give an Ilchester Lecture at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 1 May, in Room 2, the Taylor Institution. Convener: Professor Catriona Kelly. Subject: 'Little Volodya Ulyanov: Lenin stories for Russian children.' (In Russian) Taylor Special Lecture SeriesPROFESSOR STEPHANIE SANDLER, Harvard, will lecture at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 6 May, in Room 2, the Taylor Institution. Subject: 'Visual poetry, in and out of Russia.' Romance Linguistics SeminarsThe following seminars will be given at 5 p.m. on Thursdays in the Taylor Institution. Convener: Professor Martin Maiden. CHIARA CAPPELLARO PROFESSOR ABBE ABEILLÉ, Paris VII PROFESSOR CECILIA ROBUSTELLI, Modena PAUL O'NEILL PROFESSOR ORA SCHWARZWALD, Bar-Ilan Italian graduate seminarThe following seminar and lecture will be held as shown.
DILWYN KNOX, University College London PROFESSOR MAIR PARRY, Bristol Other meetings. The following meetings will be held as shown. Fri. 9 May: Italian Graduate Joint Training Programme, at the University of Reading (programme to be announced). Fri. 23 May: Annual Postgraduate Italian Conference, jointly with the Universities of Cambridge, Reading, and Bologna, Royal Holloway London and University College London: 'Il mestiere per vivere. Letteratura e lavoro'. To be held at the University of Reading (programme to be announced). Fri. 6 June: Annual Society for Italian Studies Postgraduate Colloquium, at the University of Reading (programme to be announced).
PhilosophyCareer Establishment and Development SeminarPROFESSOR LOANE SKENE, Melbourne, will discuss how doctoral students and early career academics can take steps from the outset to enhance their later career opportunities, and lay the foundations for success in research, management, and influencing policy and practice, at 2 p.m. on Friday, 9 May, in the Lecture Theatre, the Philosophy Faculty Centre. The seminar is open to students and early career academics from all faculties. St Cross Special Ethics SeminarsSee under 'St Cross College', below.
Social SciencesDepartment of International Development: Contemporary South Asian SeminarUnless otherise stated the following seminars will be held at 2 p.m. in Seminar Room 2, Queen Elizabeth House. Conveners: Dr Nikita Sud, Mr Rajesh Venugopal, and Dr Nandini Gooptu. PAUL BRASS, Washington KANTI BAJPAL, Headmaster, Doon School, India VENKATESH ATHREYA, M.S. Swaminathan Research
Foundation PROFESSORSUNIL KHILNANI, Johns Hopkins Governing the globe? Governance and institutions in the twenty-first centuryUnless otherwise indicated the following seminars, which form part of the series 'Foundations of governance in a globalised world', will be held at 5 p.m. on Mondays in the Lecture Theatre, the Manor Road Building. For details of seminars on 15 May and 29 May, held in conjunction with Queen Elizabeth House, see under 'Department of International Development', above. PROFESSOR WALTER MATTLI; PROFESSOR DUNCAN SNIDAL, Chicago;
PROFESSOR JOE JUPILLE, Colorado DOCTORAL STUDENT WORKSHOP PROFESSOR JOSEPH S. NYE, Harvard PROFESSOR DIANA LIVERMAN PROFESSOR WANG JISI, Beijing
Rothermere American InstituteEsmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and LettersLORRIE MOORE, author of works including Birds of
America, will deliver the Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in
American Arts and Letters at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 29 May, in
the Rothermere American Institute. Subject: 'Random things one can learn from a visiting writer.'
Ashmolean MuseumPublic seminarDR ABBAS AL-HUSSEINY, Al Qadassiyah University, Iraq, and PROFESSOR ROGER MATTHEWS, University College London, will hold a seminar at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 27 May, in the Headley Lecture Theatre, the Ashmolean Museum. This is a joint seminar with the Oriental Institute, and is open to the public. Enquiries should be directed to Oxford (2)78020, e-mail: antiquities@ashmus.ox.ac.uk. Subject: 'The present state of archaeological heritage in Iraq.' Roger Moorey Memorial LecturePROFESSOR ELSPETH DUSINBERRE, Colorado, will deliver the fourth Roger Moorey Memorial Lecture at 5.30 p.m. on Friday, 30 May, in the Headley Lecture Theatre, the Ashmolean Museum. Enquiries and reservation requests should be made to Oxford (2)78020, e-mail: antiquities@ashmus.ox.ac.uk. Subject: 'Persepolis and the founding of an empire.'
Ashmolean Museum and the Oxford Centre for Late AntiquityPROFESSOR MICHAEL VICKERS and DR SUSAN WALKER will lecture at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 1 May, in the Headley Lecture Theatre, the Ashmolean Museum. The lecture marks the recent acquisition by the Ashmolean of the Wilshere Collection of late Roman gold-glass, sarcophagi, and inscriptions. Those wishing to attend should e-mail antiquities@ashmus.ox.ac.uk, or telephone Oxford (2)78020. Subject: 'Miracles, myths, and menorahs: celebrating the Wilshere Collection at the Ashmolean Museum.'
Unit for Biocultural Variation and ObesityThe following seminars will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Rees Davies Room, the History Faculty. Conveners: Avner Offer, Debra Oxley, Stanley Ulijaszek, Madelief Bertens, and Caroline Potter. MEGAN WARIN, anthropology, Durham NEIL MANN, food science and nutrition, RMIT University,
Australia GARY WHITLOCK, epidemiology, CTSU
Saïd Business SchoolLubbock Lecture in Management StudiesNICHOLAS F. OPPENHEIMER, Chairman, the De Beers Group, will deliver the annual Lubbock Lecture in Management Studies at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 29 April, in the Saïd Business School. The lecture will be followed by a reception. The lecture is open to the public, but registration is necessary (www.sbs.oxford.edu/events/debeers). Subject: 'De Beers, diamonds, development, and democracy.'
International Gender Studies CentreAudrey Richards Commemorative LecturePROFESSOR BRIDGET O'LAUGHLIN, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, will deliver the Audrey Richards Commemorative Lecture at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 7 May, in St Anne's College. Subject: 'Missing men again: gender, AIDS, and migration.'
Museum of the History of ScienceUnless otherwise indicated the following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Education Room, the Museum of the History of Science. DR ANNA MAERKER, Oxford Brookes PEDRO RAPOSO DR SOFIA TALAS, Padua PROFESSOR DAVID WOOTTON, York DR ALEXANDER MARR, St Andrews
Oxford Internet InstitutePublic lecturePROFESSOR JONATHAN ZITTRAIN, Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation, and PROFESSOR FREDERICK SCHAUER, Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment, Harvard, will lecture at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, 7 May, in the Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre, the St Cross Building. The event is open to the public. Those wishing to attend should e-mail details of name, and affiliation if any, to: events@oii.ox.ac.uk. Subject: 'The Internet is primed for a meltdown—and the most obvious cures are just as bad...'
Nissan Institute of Japanese StudiesThe following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Fridays, as follows: the seminars on 25 April, 2 May, and 30 May will take place in the Dahrendorf Room, the Founder's Building; other seminars will take place in the Deakin Room, St Antony's College. Conveners: Dr Mark Rebick and Dr Jenny Corbett. SAYURI SHIRAI, Sciences-Po, Centre Asie, France SHARON KINSELLA HIROKO TANAKA, essex GREGORY JACKSON, King's College, London MARGARET SLEEBOOM-FAULKNER, Sussex PETER MATANLE, Sheffield
Reuters Institute for the Study of JournalismSeminarsThe following seminars will be held at 12 noon on Wednesdays in the Committee Room, Green College. Conveners: Sarmila Bose, Trevor Mostyn, Antonis Ellinas, and Henrik Ornebring. JENNIFER SIEBENS, London Bureau Chief, CBS News HENRY LAWRENCE, Visiting Fellow ROGER ALTON, formerly editor, the
Observer MARTIN CONBOY, Sheffield EDWARD MORTIMER, All Souls CORY WAY, Research Associate Book launch11 June, Committee Room, Green College, 12 noon: News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment, with the author, Professor Daya Thussu.Media and Politics semianrsThe following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Fridays in the Seminar Room, Nuffield College. Conveners: David Butler, John Lloyd, and Malcolm Dean. JACKIE ASHLEY, the Guardian WILLIAM HORSLEY, Chairman of the Association of European
Journalists, and formerly Foreign Correspondent, BBC NICK DAVIES THE RT. HON. TONY BENN NORMA PERCY, Brian Lapping Associates
Oxford Centre for Late AntiquityThe following lectures will be given at 5 p.m. on the days shown. JOHN DILLON, Trinity College, Dublin DANIEL BOYARIN, Berkeley MICHAEL MORONY, UCLA GYBURG RADKE, Free University, Berlin
Latin American CentreSeminarsThe following meetings will be held at 5 p.m. on Fridays in the Latin American Centre. DR JOSÉ ANGEL RODRÍGUEZ, Andrés Bello
Fellow, St Antony's DR TONY BEBBINGTON, University of Manchester PROFESSOR PETER WARD, Texas at Austin DR PABLO ANDRADE, Universidad Andia, Quito, Ecuador ALAN ANGELL Other meetingsThe following events will be held as shown. 2 May, Dahrendorf Room, St Antony's, 10 a.m.–4.30 p.m.: 'Territory, conflicts, and development in the Andes.' (St Antony's College and University of Manchester Seminar) 2 May, McKenna Room, Christ Church, 9.30 a.m.–5.30 p.m.: 'Road moves and travel narratives: journeys of (self-)discovery in Brazilian cinema.' (Brazilian Studies Programme Conference) 23 May, Dahrendorf Room, St Antony's, 8.45 a.m.–5.30 p.m.: 'Accountability institutions and political corruption in Brazil.' (Brazilian Studies Programme Workshop, convened by Timothy J. Power, Oxford, and Matthew M. Taylor, Sao Paulo) 6 June, location and time to be announced: 'Colombia and the work of Malcolm Deas.' (Conference, convened by Alan Knight and Eduardo Posada, St Antony's)
Centre for Socio-legal StudiesNew directions in law and society (amended notice)The following seminars will be held at 4.30 p.m. on Mondays in Seminar Room D, the Manor Road Building. Enquiries may be directed to Paul Honey (e-mail: paul.honey@csls.ox.ac.uk). This notice replaces that published in the Gazette of 17 April, pp. 905–6. Convener: Professor Dennis Galligan. DR BETTINA LANGE DR DAVID ERDOS DR FERNANDA PIRIE DR YIK-CHAN CHIN DR MICHELLE COWLEY DR CRISTINA PARAU DR PHILIP CLARK
All Souls CollegeCollecting legal texts in late antiquityThe following papers will be delivered and discussed in All Souls College on Wednesday, 14 May, and Wednesday, 4 June, 11 a.m.–1 p.m. on both days. Convener: Professor Boudewijn Sirks. PROFESSOR WOLFGANG KAISER, Freiburg im Breisgau DR SIMON CORCORAN, University College London DR ALEXANDER EVERS, Augustinianum, Rome DR OLIVER HUCK, Strasbourg Chichele LecturesAll Souls after Anson: aspects of college history, c.1914–15DR SIMON GREEN will deliver the Chichele Lectures at 5 p.m. on Fridays in the Old Library, All Souls College. 30 May: 'Affluence and anxiety: the significance of the Asquith Commission.' 6 June: 'Historians and men of letters: the emergence of a research college.' 13 June: 'Wykehamists and public servants: the recasting of the Ansonian ideal.' Evans-Pritchard LecturesSecret networks and major misfortunes: an historical anthropology of 'crisis' in the African Great Lakes RegionDR RICHARD VOKES, Canterbury, New Zealand, will deliver the Evans-Pritchard Lectures at 5 p.m. on the following days in the Wharton Room, All Souls College. Tue. 29 Apr.: 'Splicing the networks: millennarianism, HIV/AIDS, and the new Christianity in south-western Uganda.' Wed. 30 Apr.: 'On the origins of violence: suicide, murder, and the limits of the academic detective.' Tue. 6 May: 'Broadcasting networks: secret networks, new radio stations, and the Rwandan genocide of 1994.' Wed. 7 May: 'Secret societies and the origins of crisis in the African Great Lakes.'
Balliol CollegeOliver Smithies LecturesCan we win the long war against global corruption?MR BEN W. HEINEMAN, JR, former Senior Vice-President for Law and Public Affairs, General Electric Co., will deliver two Oliver Smithies Lectures at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesdays in Lecture Theatre 4, the Saïd Business School. 20 May: 'Inside the private firm?' 27 May: 'Through governmental initiatives?' Leonard Stein LecturesPROFESSOR SHLOMO BEN-AMI, author of Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: the Israeli-Arab Tragedy, will deliver two Leonard Stein Lectures at 5 p.m. on the following days in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College. Tue. 13 May: 'The changing window of opportunities for an Israeli-Arab peace.' Thur. 15 May: 'Lessons of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.'
Exeter CollegeMarett Memorial LecturePROFESSOR SHERRY ORTNER, California, will deliver the Marett Memorial Lecture at 5 p.m. on Friday, 25 April, in the Saskatchewan Lecture Room, Exeter College. Subject: 'Indie producers: class and the production of value in the American independent film scene.'
Jesus CollegeDon Fowler Memorial LectureDR EFI SPENTZOU, Royal Holloway, London, will deliver the Don Fowler Memorial Lecture at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 1 May, in the Classics Centre. Dinner for the speaker and guests will be held at 7.15 p.m. in Jesus College. Applications for tickets (£25) should be sent to Dr Armand D'Angour (telephone: Oxford (2)79683, e-mail: armand.dangour@jesus.ox.ac.uk). Subject: 'Travelling to forget: space and memory in Statius' Thebaid.'
Keble CollegeEric Symes Abbott Memorial LectureTHE REVD CANON DR JANE SHAW, Chaplain, New College, and Dean of Divinity, will deliver the Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture at 5.30 p.m. on Friday, 9 May, in the chapel, Keble College. Subject: 'The mystical turn: religious experience in the modern world.'
Lincoln CollegeJohn Wesley LectureDR DEBORAH MADDEN will deliver the John Wesley Lecture at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 21 May, in the Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College. Subject: 'Saving souls and saving lives: John Wesley's "inward and outward health".'
Magdalen CollegeLectureDOMINIC GRIEVE, MP, will lecture at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 24 April, in the Auditorium, Magdalen College. Convener: Sir Michael Wheeler-Booth. Subject: 'What constitution do we need? The Conservative approach to reform.'
St Anne's CollegeHoskins LectureTREVOR ROWLEY, Emeritus Fellow, Kellogg College, will deliver the Hoskins Lecture at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 6 May, in the Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College. The annual lecture, in honour of Professor William G. Hoskins, on some aspect of local history, has been generously endowed by the late Mrs Jean Duffield. Subject: 'Heathrow—the landscape history of a global airport.'
St Antony's CollegeAfrican Studies CentreUnless otherwise indicated the following meetings will be held at 5 p.m. on Thursdays in the Fellows' Dining Room, St Antony's College. For details of the Evans-Pritchard Lectures, see under 'All Souls College', above. The annual 'Researching Africa Day' workshop will be held from 9.30 a.m. on Saturday, 26 April, in the Nissan Lecture Theatre. Enquiries may be directed to Katie McKeown (e-mail: kathleen.mckeown@africa.ox.ac.uk).
KARIN BARBER, Birmingham, STEPHANIE NEWELL, Sussex, DAVID
PRATTEN, Oxford, KATE SKINNER, Birmingham, and NARA MUNIZ
IMPROTA, Stirling PROFESSOR WILLIAM BEINART, convener ADAM HIGAZI, Oxford (convener), PAULINE VON HELLERMANN,
York, OLIVE OWEN, Oxford, LEENA HOFFMAN, Birmingham, DAVID
BENNETT, Roehampton, and GERNOT KLANTSCHNIG, Oxford AMI SHAH, Oxford THOMAS KIRSCH, Goldsmiths College, London JEAN COMAROFF, Chicago Asian Studies CentreTaiwan Studies ProgrammDR MICHAEL KAU, Representative of Taiwan in the EU and Belgium, will lecture at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 6 May, in the Dahrendorf Room, Founder's Building, St Antony's College. Enquiries may be directed to asian@sant.ox.ac.uk. Convener: Dr Steve Tsang. Subject: 'The future of the DPP.' European Studies CentreLectures and seminarsUnless otherwise indicated the following lectures and seminars will be given at 5 p.m. in the European Studies Centre, St Antony's College. PROFESSOR EKMELEDDIN IHSANOGLU, Secretary General,
Organisation of the Islamic Conference ZAKI LAIDI, Sciences-Po, Paris OLLI REHN, EU Commissioner for Enlargement EDILBERTO SEGURA FRANZISKA BRANTNER, Heinrich Böll Foundation ANTONIS ELLINAS EMMANUELE OTTOLENGHI, Director, Transatlantic Institute, Brussels ELENA NOSENKO, Institute for Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Science H.E. ALAIN LE ROY, Ambassador of France Workshops, conferences, and other meetings
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