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University Gazette, 26 June 2008: Lectures
Medical SciencesPROFESSOR MONTY KRIEGER, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will lecture at 1 p.m. on Monday, 7 July, in Room 3b, the Medical Sciences Teaching Centre. Convener: Professor Siamon Gordon. Subject: 'Charting the fate of the "good cholesterol"—characterisation of the HDL receptor SR-BI and its influence on coronary heart disease.' DR RICHARD FARAGHER, University of Brighton, Director of Strategic Promotion of Ageing Research Capacity (SPARC), will lecture at 1 p.m. (admission from 12.30 p.m.) on Wednesday, 9 July, in the University Museum of Natural History. The lecture is open to all members of the University. Convener: Dr Lynne Cox. Subject: 'Ageing: the best news for a billion years?' Oxford Biomedical Imaging Festival 2008The second annual Oxford Biomedical Imaging Festival will be held on Tuesday, 16 September, from 9 a.m., in the Garden Quadrangle Auditorium, St John's College. The festival is aimed at gathering together all biomedical imaging scientists across the University and its partner NHS hospitals, working at all scales from microscopy to radiology. Registration is free to members of the University's biomedical imaging community and to the University's NHS partners. Those attending are invited to present posters of their work, and to indicate if they would like to contribute a fifteen-minute talk as part of the Proffered Talks session. Details of the event, and of registration arrangements, can be found at www.imaging.ox.ac.uk/activities/. Wellcome Trust Centre for Human GeneticsPROFESSOR FRITZ ROTH, Harvard Medical School, will give a seminar at 12 noon on Friday, 22 August, in the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics. Convener: Professor Shoumo Bhattacharya. Subject: 'Systematic analysis of genetic interactions from yeast to humans.' Neuroscience Grand Round: Guest LecturesDR MATTHEW WOOD will lecture at 11.30 a.m. on Friday, 11 July, in Lecture Theatre 1, the Academic Block, the John Radcliffe Hospital. Subject: 'Gene therapy for neurodegenerative disorders: quo vadis?'
Oriental StudiesThe rise of the Persian RenaissanceThis conference will be held on 14 July (from 9.10 a.m) and 15 July in Wadham College and the Holywell Music Room. Registration is required: details can be found at www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/nme/rise_persian_renaissance_TT08.shtml. Convener: Dr Firuza Abullaeva. Monday, 14 July. Session 1: Before the Silence OLGA YASTREBOVA, NLR, St Petersburg NICHOLAS AND URSULA SIMS-WILLIAMS, SOAS VESTA SARKHOSH CURTIS, British Museum Session 2: On the edge VICTORIA KRYUKOVA, Kunstkamera Museum, St Petersburg 11.40 a.m.: 'Cult niches in Central Asia: before and under Islam.'ABOLALA SOUDAVAR, independent scholar, New York Session 3: Still on the edge ALI KOLESNIKOV, Institute of Oriental Studies, St Petersburg2 p.m.: 'On Arabo-Muslim clichés in late Zoroastrian scriptures.'OLEG GRABAR, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Session 4: On another edge ANTON PRITULA, Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg3.40 p.m.: 'Syriac poetry with Persian approach.'FRANCOIS DE BLOIS, SOAS Tuesday, 15 July. Session 5: Hedonistic Renaissance in poetry ALI MIRANSARI, Great Islamic Encyclopaedia, Teheran9.10 a.m.: 'Aesthetics of the early Persian wine odes.' NATALIA CHALISOVA, Russian University of Humanities,
Moscow KAMRAN TALATTOF, Arizona Session 6: After the Silence, first attempts at revival ASGHAR SEYED-GOHRAB, Leiden11.30 a.m.: 'The tradition of the genre of riddle in Persian literature before Islam and after the Arab conquest.' DR FIRUZA ABDULLAEVA, Oxford Session 7: The rise of the Renaissance ANDREW PEACOCK, BIPS, Ankara2 p.m.: 'Gardizi, the Seljuks, and the Persian Renaissance.' SUNIL SHARMA, Boston Session 8: Revival in prose EDMUND HERZIG, Oxford3.40 p.m.: 'The "Persian Revival" in narratives of Iranian nationalism.'ALI DEHBASHI, Bukhara journal, Teheran Art, patronage and society in the Muslim Deccan from the fourteenth century to the present dayThis conference will be held in the University on 4, 5, and 6 July. The architecture and art associated with the polities known as 'Deccani Sultanates', which flourished in the Indian sub-continent between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, are receiving increasing scholarly attention. The conference will explore them in a broader socio-historical perspective, examining the cultural premises that brought them into existence, the dynamics of their development, and the legacy of this rich and diverse heritage to the present day. A public lecture and a round-table discussion will additionally explore the issue of conservation of the architectural heritage in the sub-continent today, with a focus on the Deccan's regional capital, Hyderabad, as a paradigm of the challenges India's historical cities face in this phase of fast urban development. Further information may be found at www.krc.ox.ac.uk/deccan.html. Registration requests and enquiries should be addressed to Alessandra Cereda (e-mail: alessandra.cereda@orinst.ox.ac.uk). The deadline for registration is 20 June. Conveners: Professor J.W. Allan and Dr L.E. Parodi.
TheologyMichael Argyle Forum for Psychology and ReligionPROFESSOR JULIE EXLINE, Associate Professor of Psychology, Case Western Reserve University, will hold a seminar at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, 2 July, in the Charles Wellbeloved Room, Harris Manchester College. Enquiries may be directed to Joanna Collicutt (e-mail: jcollicutt@aol.com). Subject: 'Anger toward God and emotional atheism.'
Bodleian LibraryCentre for the Study of the BookPROFESSOR JOSEPH GWARA, US Naval Academy, will lecture at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 2 July, in Room 132, the New Bodleian. Enquiries may be directed to Dr Alexandra Franklin (e-mail: alexandra.franklin@bodley.ox.ac.uk). Subject: 'Four early English printers—Robert Copland, Henry Pepwell, Henry Watson, Wynkyn de Worde.'
Christ ChurchDying and living: faith mattersThe Christ Church Cathedral Summer Lectures will be held at 4.30 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Priory Room. The lectures are open to the public. THE REVD RALPH WILLIAMSON, college chaplain THE VEN. JULIAN HUBBARD, Archdeacon of Oxford THE VERY REVD CHRISTOPHER LEWIS, Dean THE REVD CANON PROFESSOR NIGEL BIGGAR, Regius Professor of
Moral and Pastoral Theology CANON PROFESSOR SARAH FOOT, Regius Professor of
Ecclesiastical History THE REVD JOHN PATON, Precentor
Kellogg CollegeCentre for Creative WritingSUDEEP SEN, one of India's leading younger poets, will read from his work at 6 p.m. on Monday, 30 June, in the Mawby Pavilion, Kellogg College. The event is held to celebrate the second graduating year of students from the M.St in Creative Writing. Members of the Writing Centre will also read from their work, and there may be an opportunity for those attending to read their own short poem, or paragraph of prose.
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