Oxford
University Gazette, 29 November 2007: Lectures
Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary
Theatre
PATRICK STEWART will be in conversation with PHILIP FRANKS
at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 29 November, in the Bernard Sunley
Lecture Theatre, St Catherine's College.
Philip Franks directed the recent RSC production of
Twelfth Night, in which Patrick Stewart played
Malvolio.
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Medical Sciences
Medical Sciences Division Science Day: Vaccinology
The Science Day will be held on Wednesday, 5 December, in
the Medical Sciences Teaching Centre.
Conveners: Professor Richard Moxon and Professor
Siamon Gordon.
DR K.A. FLEMING
1.30 p.m.: Opening remarks.
BENJAMIN DAVIS
1.45 p.m.: 'Exploring glycoimmunology.'
THOMAS HANKE
2.05 p.m.: 'Development of HIV-1 vaccine.'
ANDREW POLLARD
2.25 p.m.: 'Maintaining humoral immunity in early
childhood.'
HELEN MCSHANE
2.45 p.m.: 'Developing an improved TB vaccine:
results from clinical trials.'
MARGARET STANLEY, Cambridge
4.15 p.m.: 'HPV vaccines—where are we
now?'
JOHN WOOD, NIBSC, Potters Bar
4.35 p.m.: 'Pandemic flu vaccination—prospects
and problems.'
Department of Psychiatry: Guest Lectures
The following guest lectures will be given at 5 p.m. on
Tuesdays in the Seminar Room, the University Department of
Psychiatry, the Warneford Hospital. Enquiries may be directed
to Lucy Curtin (e-mail: lucy.curtin@psych.ox.ac.uk).
PROFESSOR PETER TYRER, Imperial College, London
22 Jan.: 'What value is the diagnosis of personality
disorder in those with affective illness?'
DR CARMINE M. PARIANTE, King's College, London
12 Feb.: 'Depression: mind and body.'
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Christ Church
Advent Conversations: What is God saying in...?
The Advent Conversations, arranged by Christ Church
Cathedral and the Wesley Memorial Church, will be held as
follows: the meetings at Christ Church will take place at
7.15 p.m. on Thursdays; the meetings at the Wesley Memorial
Church will take place at 12.30 p.m. on Wednesdays.
What is God saying in decisions about unborn
life?
29 Nov., Christ Church: DR RICHARD WADE-MARTINS
5 Dec., Wesley Memorial Church: PROFESSOR SIR RICHARD
GARDNER
What is God saying in peace-making
"interventions"?'
6 Dec., Christ Church: DR BASIL MUSTAFA, Nelson Mandela
Fellow, OCIS
12 Dec., Wesley Memorial Church: DR MILLIUS PALAYIWA
What is God saying in reality TV?
13 Dec., Christ Church: NICHOLAS BUXTON, Senior Student, St
Stephen's House
19 Dec., Wesley Memorial Church: Speaker to be announced
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Green College
McGovern Lecture in the History of Medicine
PROFESSOR ALLAN BRANDT, Professor of the History of
Science, and Kass Professor of the History of Medicine,
Harvard, will deliver the annual McGovern Lecture in the
History of Medicine at 6 p.m. on Thursday, 6 December, in the
E.P. Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green College.
Subject: 'The tobacco pandemic: history, culture,
and science.'
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St Antony's College
Russia beyond 2008
This conference, organised by the Centre for East European
Language-based Area Studies, will be held on Friday, 14
December, in St Antony's College.
A limited number of places is available. Those wishing to
attend should inform the Conference Organiser, Dr Elena Katz,
by 10 December (e-mail: elena.katz@sant.ox.ac.uk).
There is no fee.
JULIAN COOPER, Birmingham, CHRISTOPHER DAVIS, Oxford,
PHILIP HANSON, RIIA, and VLADIMIR MAU, Institute of
Transitional Economics
9.15 a.m.: 'Economic developments in Putin's
Russia.' (Chair: Carol Leonard)
GRIGORII GOLOSOV, European University, St Petersburg,
RICHARD SAKWA, Kent, and PAUL CHAISTY, Oxford
11.15 a.m.: 'Politics in the Putin era and beyond.'
(Chair: Rodric Lyne, formerly UK ambassador to
Russia)
FYODOR LUKYANOV, editor, Russia in Global
Affairs, CAROLINE KENNEDY-PIPE, Warwick, and ALEX
PRAVDA, Oxford
2 p.m.: 'Russia's resurgence as a major world power
under Putin: will it continue?' (Chair: Peter
Duncan, SSEES)
GRIGORII GOLOSIVE, FYODOR LUKYANOV, RODRIC LYNE, and
VLADIMIR MAU
Round-table discussion, 4 p.m.: 'New directions for
Russia?' (Chair: Robert Service)
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Wolfson College
Launch of Oxford Poets 2007: An
Anthology
Oxford Poets 2007: An Anthology will be
introduced by Bernard O'Donoghue (joint editor, with David
Constantine), with readings by Sue Leigh, Anna Robinson,
Frances Thompson, Kieron Wynn, and Lynne Wycherley, at 7.30
p.m. on Thursday, 29 November, in the Buttery, Wolfson
College.
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Ripon College, Cuddesdon
Oxford Centre for Ecclesiology and Practical
Theology
THE REVD RICHENDA LEIGH, Chaplain, London Metropolitan
University, will lecture at 4 p.m. on Thursday, 29 November,
in Ripon College, Cuddesdon. Enquiries may be e-mailed to
oxcept@ripon-cuddesdon.ac.uk.
Subject: 'Christian communicative practice in the
media.'
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Society for the History of Medieval Technology and
Science
KEN FOLLETT will lecture at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday, 8
December, in the Headley Lecture Theatre, the Ashmolean
Museum.
Subject: 'The historical novelist at work.'
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