Oxford
University Gazette, 24 July 2008: Diary
Monday 28 JulyBATE COLLECTION reopens (closed from 5 July for gallery refurbishment). Wednesday 30 JulyTHE REVD CANON PROFESSOR NIGEL BIGGAR: 'Medical killing should not be legal; therefore it is not ethical' (Christ Church Cathedral Summer Lectures: 'Dying and living: faith matters'), Priory Room, Cathedral, 4.30 p.m. (open to the public). Wednesday 6 AugustCANON PROFESSOR SARAH FOOT: 'Living with the dead: saints and pilgrims in the earlier medieval church' (Christ Church Cathedral Summer Lectures: 'Dying and living: faith matters'), Priory Room, Cathedral, 4.30 p.m. (open to the public). Wednesday 13 AugustTHE REVD JOHN PATON: 'Climbing Jacob's ladder: living where heaven and earth meet' (Christ Church Cathedral Summer Lectures: 'Dying and living: faith matters'), Priory Room, Cathedral, 4.30 p.m. (open to the public). Sunday 17 AugustGLOBE THEATRE touring production: The Winter's Tale, Bodleian Quadrangle, 2.30 p.m. and 7.45 p.m. (continues Tuesday–Friday, at 7.45 p.m.; details and booking at www.oxfordplayhouse.com). Tuesday 19 AugustDR ROGER HUTCHINS: 'Astronomy and controversy: the Oxford observatories, 1772–1939', Museum of the History of Science, 7 p.m. (open to the public; admission free). Friday 22 AugustPROFESSOR FRITZ ROTH: 'Systematic analysis of genetic interactions from yeast to humans' (seminar), Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, 12 noon. Saturday 23 AugustBODLEIAN LIBRARY (all buildings) closed (reopens 26 August). SACKLER LIBRARY closed (reopens 26 August). Sunday 24 AugustTAYLOR INSTITUTION LIBRARY closed (reopens 1 September). Tuesday 26 AugustTOWER POETRY ANNUAL SUMMER SCHOOL, for poets aged 18–23, Christ Church, until Friday (no vacancies remaining; further details at www.towerpoetry.org.uk/summerscho ol/). Tuesday 2 SeptemberPROFESSOR CRAIG CLUNAS: 'Wise men from the west, or pirate spies? The Jesuits seen from Ming China', Museum of the History of Science, 7 p.m. (public lecture, linked to current special exhibition; admission free). Tuesday 16 SeptemberOXFORD BIOMEDICAL IMAGING FESTIVAL, Garden Quadrangle Auditorium, St John's, from 9 a.m. (registration required: full details at www.imaging.ox.ac.uk/activies). Monday 29 SeptemberCONFERENCE: 'Kafka and Modernist short prose', St John's, from 8.30 a.m. (Continues until Wednesday. Details at: www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/german/kafk a/) Wednesday 1 OctoberLEARNING INSTITUTE seminar: 'Springboard' (Programme 3, follow-up day) (see information above). Friday 3 OctoberLEARNING INSTITUTE seminar: 'Springboard' (Programme 2, follow-up day) (see information above). Tuesday 7 OctoberCONGREGATION meeting, Convocation House, 12 noon (Vice-Chancellor's Oration). Sunday 12 OctoberFULL TERM begins. |
