Oxford
University Gazette, 31 January 2008: Lectures
Cyril Foster Lecture
DR JAVIER SOLANA, EU High Representative for the Common
Foreign and Security Policy, will deliver the Cyril Foster
Lecture at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 28 February, in the
Examination Schools. The lecture will be open to the
public.
Admission will be by presentation of university card.
Non-card-holders should apply for tickets to ir@politics.ox.ac.uk or
Oxford (2)78705.
Subject: 'Europe in the world. Next steps.'
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Lecture Marking the Retirement of the Secretary General
of the Commonwealth
THE RT. HON. DONALD MCKINNON will lecture at 5 p.m. on
Monday, 25 February, in Rhodes House (entry from 4.30 p.m.).
The lecture marks Mr McKinnon's retirement as Secretary
General of the Commonwealth.
Subject: 'Paths to peace and prosperity in the
modern Commonwealth.'
All those attending the event are invited to join the
Vice-Chancellor and the Secretary General at a drinks
reception after the lecture, 6–7 p.m.
Admission will be by ticket only. Those
wishing to attend should email to events.office@admin.ox.ac.uk,
giving full name, a full address to which the ticket can be
forwarded, and a full telephone number. Early application for
tickets is advised. Note that for security reasons,
tickets are not transferable.
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English Language and Literature, Music, Fine Art
The Bible in Art, Music, and Literature (amended
notice)
The following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Mondays
in the Sutro Room, Trinity College (not, as previously
announced, in the Danson Room).
Conveners: Professor Christopher Rowland and Dr
Christine Joynes.
DR KEVIN MILLS, Glamorgan
4 Feb.: 'A parable of criticism.'
DR HARRIET SONNE DE TORRENS, Toronto
18 Feb.: 'Ecclesia and fovea: female sexuality and
baptism in the Middle Ages.' ('Biblical women and their
afterlives' series, funded by the ARHC)
PROFESSOR MIRI RUBIN, Queen Mary, London
3 Mar.: 'Mary: a challenge to the (medieval)
historian.' ('Biblical women and their afterlives'
series, funded by the ARHC)
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History
Oxford architectural history seminar
The following seminars will be given at 5.30 p.m. on
Mondays in the St John's College Lecture Room, 15 St
Giles'.
SUSIE WEST, Open University
18 Feb.: 'Bess the builder: female creativity and
architectural experiment in early modern Derbyshire.'
NIGEL HISCOCK, Oxford Brookes
3 Mar.: 'The king of the castle: Edward I's castles
in Wales.'
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Medical Sciences
Botnar Research Centre
The following seminars will be given at 12.30 p.m. on
Fridays in the Botnar Research Centre.
PROFESSOR DAVID ABRAHAM, University College London
8 Feb.: 'Pathogenesis and anti-fibrotic therapies in
systemic sclerosis.'
DR INKEN LORENZEN
15 Feb.: To be announced.
PROFESSOR TIM HARDINGHAM, Manchester
14 Mar.: 'Chondrogenic differentiation and cartilage
formation by human bone marrow stem cells.'
DR SHELLY ANNE LAWSON, Sheffield
28 Mar.: To be announced.
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Oriental Studies
Japanese traditional performing arts
The following lectures will be given at 5.30 p.m. on
Wednesdays in the Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane.
The lecture on 13 February will be given in Lecture Room
2; other lectures will be given in Lecture Room 1.
The series of lectures is a part of the Oxford Kyogen
Project, and a Japanese traditional comedy, Kyogen, will
follow at the O'Reilly Theatre, Keble College, on 4, 5, and 6
March. Details can be found at http://faculty.orinst.ox.ac.uk/kyog
en/.
PROFESSOR MASARU SEKINE, Waseda University6 Feb.:
'Minimalism and Japanese arts.'
PAUL GRIFFITH, formerly Saitama University
13 Feb.: 'Kabuki matsubamemono and the
influence of Noh and Kyogen in Kabuki.'
DR BRIAN POWELL
20 Feb.: 'From isolated oddity to global leader:
Japanese theatre over the past 150 years.'
PROFESSOR ANDREW GERSTLE, SOAS
27 Feb.: 'The cult of celebrity of Kabuki actors in
the Edo period.'
Bhattoji and Nagoji: grammarians and philosophers of
language in early modern Banaras
The following workshop will be held on Friday, 29 February
in the Russell Room, Balliol College.
Convener: Professor Christopher Minkowski.
Session 1: 2–4 p.m.
Professor Polly O'Hanlon: 'Is a social history of Sanskrit
Pandits possible?'
Madhav Deshpande, Michigan: 'Sanskrit grammarians in
Vedantic disputes: Bhattoji, Rangoji and their
opponents.'
James Benson: 'Commentators and commentaries on
Bhattoji.'
Jan Houben, Paris: 'Bhattoji's brilliant fundamentalism:
grammar, ritual, religious life.'
Session 2: 4.30–6 p.m.
Maria Piera Candotti, Leiden: 'Changing rule-order: what
was at stake in reorganising Panini's test?'
Pascale Haag, Paris: 'Philology in a rural setting:
grammar and genealogical chronicles in Bengal.'
Christopher Minkowski: 'Philosophers of grammar on the
types of people.' (Followed by discussion)
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Philosophy
Oxford–Harvard Applied Ethics Lectures
PROFESSOR FREDERICK SCHAUER, Harvard, George Eastman
Visiting Professor 2007–8, will lecture as follows in
Seminar Room 2, the Old Indian Institute. Enquiries may be
directed to Miriam Wood (e- mail: miriam.wood@philosophy.ox.ac.uk)
.
Wed. 6 Feb., 10 a.m.: 'Academic freedom: what is it, where
does it come from, and is it a good thing?'
Thur. 21 Feb., 5.30 p.m.: 'Stereotypes: are they
always wrong?'
Wed. 27 Feb., 5.30 p.m.: 'Reasoning in law, and
how it differs from reasoning.'
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Social Sciences
Problems in British government (Amended notice)
The following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Fridays
in Lecture Room XI, Brasenose College.
Note: this replaces the notice published in the Gazette of 17
January (p. 506). Professor Bogdanor will now speak at the seminar on 1 February, and Lord
Goldsmith at the seminar on 7 March.
Conveners: Professor Vernon Bogdanor and Lord
Butler.
PROFESSOR VERNON BOGDANOR
1 Feb.: 'Reforming the constitution.'
SIR MICHAEL BARBER, formerly Head of the Prime Minister's
Delivery Unit
8 Feb.: 'Government and the delivery of public
services.'
PROFESSOR SIR ROBERT WORCESTER, Chairman, MORI
15 Feb.: 'Politics and public opinion.'
TREVOR PHILLIPS, Chairman, Equality and Human Rights
Commission
22 Feb.: 'Rights in a multicultural society.'
THE RT. HON. JUSTICE LADY ARDEN, Lady Justice of Appeal
29 Feb.: 'The judiciary and parliament.'
LORD GOLDSMITH, formerly Attorney-General
7 Mar.: 'Citizenship.'
Foundations of governance in a globalised world
The following lectures will be given at 5 p.m. on Mondays
in the Lecture Theatre, the Manor Road Building.
The lectures form part of a programme of academic events
sponsored by the Social Sciences Division on 'Governing the
globe? Governance and institutions in the twenty-first
century', directed by Professor Andrew Hurrell. The programme
also includes the seminars listed below. Full details can be
found at http://gtg.politics.ox.ac.uk.
Enquiries may be directed to gtg@politics.ox.ac.uk.
PROFESSOR STEPHEN WEATHERILL
4 Feb.: 'What is supra-national governance? When and
how is it effective?'
PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER MCCRUDDEN
11 Feb.: 'Buying social justice: human rights and
economic regulation.'
PROFESSOR VAUGHAN LOWE
25 Feb.: 'Private disputes and the public interest
in international law.'
PROFESSOR JONATHAN ZITTRAIN
3 Mar.: 'Network governance and the Internet.'
Global perspectives on order and justice
The following seminars will be given at 5 p.m. on the days
shown in Seminar Room G, the Manor Road Building.
The seminars form part of a programme of academic events
sponsored by the Social Sciences Division on 'Governing the
globe? Governance and institutions in the twenty-first
century', directed by Professor Andrew Hurrell. The programme
also includes the lectures listed above. Full details can be
found at http://gtg.politics.ox.ac.uk.
Enquiries may be directed to gtg@politics.ox.ac.uk.
PROFESSOR PANG ZHONGYING, Visiting Fellow, Brookings
Institution
Wed. 6 Feb.: 'China, international society, and
global governance: China's intervention in the world.'
PROFESSOR YASUAKI ONUMA, Tokyo
Tue. 12 Feb.: 'The expansion of international
society revisited.'
PROFESSOR WANG JISI
Fri. 6 June: 'China and the United States.'
Medical anthropology research seminar: Vitality-enhancing
body substances
The following seminars will be given at 11 a.m. on Mondays
in the Seminar Room, 61 Banbury Road. All welcome.
Convener: Elisabeth Hsu.
LENA SPRINGER, Vienna
4 Feb.: 'Ensuring the relatedness of qi
and blood in republican Chinese medicine.'
DR ANDREW IRVING, Manchester
11 Feb.: 'Money, materiality and imagination.'
KARIN ELI
18 Feb.: 'A meaningful lack: amenorrhea and identity
among Israeli women with anorexia.' DR IKUMI OKAMOTO,
Southampton
25 Feb.: 'Tairyoku (body power)
in
Japanese cancer patients: a body substance or a coping
strategy for managing illness?'
DR CHRIS LOW
3 Mar.: 'Working with potency: blood, wind, identity
and healing amongst southern African Khoesaan.'
Higher education and professional learning research
group
PROFESSOR DR HANS-PETER BLOSSFELD, Bamberg, will lecture
at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 20 February, in Seminar Rooms G and
H, Department of Education, Garden Building.
Conveners: Hubert Ertl and Michael Hoelscher.
Subject: 'National Educational Panel Study (NEPS)
in Germany—research questions and design for a new
lifecourse study.'
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International Gender Studies Centre
Audrey Richards Commemorative Lecture
PROFESSOR 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: 'AIDS, migration and gender inequality
in southern Africa.'
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Refugee Studies Centre
Public seminar series
The following seminars will be given at 5 p.m. on
Wednesdays in Seminar Room 2, Department of International
Development, 3 Mansfield Road.
Further details can be found at www.rsc.ox.ac.uk. Enquiries may
be directed to rsc@qeh.ox.ac.uk.
Conveners: Mr Richard Haavisto, Pedro Arupe and
Dr Jason Hart.
DR EMMA HADDAD, European Commission
6 Feb.: 'Crossing borders: in search of a new
relationship between migration policy and research.'
DR ALICE BLOCH, City University, London
13 Feb.: 'Gaps in protection: Zimbabwean
undocumented migrants in South Africa.'
DR DANNY MULALA SIMATELE, Sussex
20 Feb.: 'Rising to the challenge: Zambia's response
to the influx of refugees from the sub-region.'
DR HEAVEN CRAWLEY, Swansea
27 Feb.: 'Asexual, apolitical beings: the
conceptualisation of children's identities in the UK's asylum
determination process.'
JEAN-FRANÇOIS DURIEUX
5 Mar.: 'Refugee law and groups at risk: legal
representations of discrimination and persecution as
individual and/or collective experiences.'
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Taylor Institution Library
THE RT. HON. TESSA JOWELL, MP, Minister for the Olympics
and London, will lecture at 6 p.m. on Friday, 1 February, in
the Hall, the Taylor Institution. Admission costs £6
(£3 unwaged/student), with proceeds in aid of
Oxfordshire Mind.
Subject: 'Mental health.'
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University Church of St Mary the Virgin
Oxford Debates Religion
FRANK FIELD, MP, will be in conversation with THE REVD
CANON BRIAN MOUNTFORD at 7.30 p.m. on Monday, 11 February, in
the Old Library, the University Church.
Subject: 'Politics, religion, and ethics.'
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All Souls College
Neill Lecture
THE RT HON THE LORD HOPE OF CRAIGHEAD will deliver the
Neill Lecture at 5 p.m. on Friday, 29 February, in the
Examination Schools. All are welcome.
Subject: 'From Clova to Godmanchester—public
rights over private land.'
Lee Lecture in Political Science and Government
PROFESSOR JOSIAH OBER, Constantine Mitsotakis Professor in
the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University,
will deliver the Lee Lecture in Political Science and
Government at 5 p.m. on Monday, 18 February, in the Old
Library, All Souls College.
Subject: 'Democracy and knowledge: innovation and
learning in classical Athens.'
Inside the United Nations—reflections on an eight-year
sabbatical
EDWARD MORTIMER, former Director of Communications in the
office of the UN Secretary-General, will lecture at 5 p.m. in
the Old Library, All Souls College, except where noted. All
welcome.
Tues., 26 Feb.: 'First impressions: the United
Nations in 1998.'
Wed., 27 Feb.: 'The responsibility to protect, in
theory and practice.'
Thur., 28 Feb.: ' "We the peoples"—making the
United Nations relevant.' Fri., 29 Feb., 3.30 p.m.: 'The
tragedy of Iraq.'
Tues., 4 Mar.: 'Kofi's annus
horribilis (2004).'
Wed., 5 Mar.: ' 'In larger Freedom' and the 2005
summit.'
Thurs., 6 Mar.: 'The United Nations and the
Middle East.'
Fri., 7 Mar., Wharton Room: 'Conclusion—Kofi
Annan's achievement.'
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Balliol College
Oliver Smithies Lectures
PROFESSOR JOHN T. RAMSEY, Professor of Classics,
University of Illinois at Chicago, will deliver two Oliver
Smithies Lectures at 5 p.m. on Mondays in the Examination
Schools. 11 Feb.: 'When did comets become portents of
disaster in the Graeco-Roman world?'
25 Feb.: 'Halley's comet and the destruction of
Jerusalem in ad 70.'
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Hertford College
Starun Lecture in Polish Studies
PROFESSOR PIOTR PIOTROWSKI, Head of the Department of the
History of Art, University of Poznan, will deliver the Starun
Lecture in Polish Studies at 5 p.m. on Friday, 29 February,
in Hertford College.
Subject: 'Beyond democracy—art and censorship
in post-communist Central Europe.'
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Lady Margaret Hall
Canada Seminar
PROFESSOR MARGARET MACMILLAN, Warden of St Antony's
College, will lecture at 5.15 p.m. on Friday, 8 February, in
the Talbot Hall, Lady Margaret Hall. Enquiries may be
directed to Janet Wardell (e-mail: janet.wardell@lmh.ox.ac.uk).
Subject: 'Who owns Canadian history? Controversy
at the Canadian War Museum.'
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Nuffield College
Oxford Centre for the Study of Inequality and
Democracy
JUERG STEINER, Department of Political Science, University
of California, will lecture at 5.30 p.m. on Friday, 1
February, in Nuffield College.
Subject: 'The potential for democracy in deeply
divided societies: power-sharing and deliberation.'
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St Antony's College
Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship Seminar: Climate change
and international conflict (amended notice)
The following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays
in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College. This
notice replaces that published in the Gazette of
17 January (p. 509).
Conveners: Professor David Marquand, Dr Alex
Pravda, Baroness Quin, and Mr Ian Taylor, MP.
LINDA MCAVAN, MEP, Environment, Public Health and Food
Safety Committee, SIR KENNETH COLLINS, Chairman, Scottish
Environment Protection Agency, and BARONESS (JOYCE) QUIN,
formerly Minister for Europe
5 Feb.: 'Can Europe lead?'
IAN TAYLOR, MP, formerly Minister for Science and
Technology, SIR ANDREW WOOD, formerly UK Ambassador to
Russia, PROFESSOR DIETER HELM, and PROFESSOR JONATHAN
STERN
12 Feb.: 'Energy security in the wider Europe.'
KEVIN WATKINS, Director, Human Development Report Office,
PROFESSOR FRANCES STEWART, and PROFESSOR WILLIAM BEINART
19 Feb.: 'Climate change and the "bottom
billion".'
ELLIOT MORLEY, formerly Environment Minister, CHRIS HUHNE,
MP, and PROFESSOR TOM BURKE, environmental policy adviser,
RTZ
26 Feb.: 'Drift or decision?'
European Studies Centre
Twentieth-century international history workshop
The following workshops will be given at 5 p.m. on
Wednesdays in the European Studies Centre, St Antony's
College. All welcome.
Convener: Dr Anne Deighton.
PROFESSOR MARGARET MACMILLAN
6 Feb., Uses of history: 'Uses and abuses of
history.'
DR KARL GERTH
13 Feb., Cultural history: 'The international
history of consumerism in twentieth- century China.'
PROFESSOR JUSSI HANHIMAKI, The Graduate Institute,
Geneva
20 Feb., Transnational history: 'Refugees and the
Cold War.'
PROFESSOR PATRICK SALMON, FCO
27 Feb., UK archives; the Freedom of Information
Act: 'Writing official history.'
DR CHRIS FLETCHER
5 Mar., Oxford archives: tour under the Bodleian of
twentieth-century manuscript collections.
Seminars
The following seminars will be given at 5 p.m. at the
European Studies Centre, St Antony's College. All welcome.
For more information, contact the Administrator at
274470.
RICHARD WHITMAN, Bath and JOCHEN PRANTL
Thurs. 31 Jan., ESC Core Seminar: 'Is the EU really
the master of multilateralism?'
SIMONE DERIX, Cologne
Fri. 1 Feb., Stifterverband Seminar: 'Courting
dictators? State visits as political performances and the
making of West German democracy in the 1960s.'
South East European Studies at Oxford
The following lectures will be given at 5 p.m. on Mondays
in the Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, St Antony's
College, unless otherwise stated. For more information,
contact julie.adams@sant.ox.ac.uk.
ULRICH SEDELMEIER, London School of Economics and
GWENDOLYN SASSE
4 Feb.: 'Europeanisation through conditionality? The
EU's influence in post-Communist Europe.'
ECE TEMELKURAN and KEREM OKTEM
11 Feb.: 'Turkey's hidden war: the AKP and the
Kurdish challenge.'
GEORGE ALOGOSKOUFIS, Minister of National Economy, Greece
and PROFESSOR COLIN MAYER
18 Feb., Lecture Room, St Antony's College:
'Globalisation and the European social model.'
OLEG LEVITIN, European Bank of Reconstruction and
Development and CONSTANTINOS FILIS
25 Feb.: 'Russia's re-engagement in the Balkans:
genuine or tactical?'
LEONARD ORBAN, Romanian Commissioner of the European
Union
3 Mar.: 'Enlargement and diversity in the European
Union.'
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St John's College
Venice and the League of Cambrai: politics, art,
architecture
The following conference will be held on Saturday, 15
March, in St John's College. Registration is free, but space
is limited. To reserve a space, e-mail cambrai_conference@hotmail.co.uk.
The conference will be chaired by Dr Catherine Whistler and
Dr Malcolm Vale.
Convener: Dr Simon Oakes.
PROFESSOR DEBORAH HOWARD, Cambridge
10 a.m.: 'Civic building in wartime Venice,
1508–17.'
PROFESSOR PAUL JOANNIDES, Cambridge
10.20 a.m.: 'Echoes of the Cambrai Wars in the work
of Giorgione, Titian and Sebastiano?'
PROFESSOR PAUL KAPLAN, Purchase College
10.45 a.m.: 'Between tempests and pastorals:
Venetian painters, private patrons and the Cambrai Wars.'
DR SIMON OAKES
11.30 a.m.: 'Venice and Germany, 1505–10.'
DR STEPHEN BOWD, Edinburgh
11.50 a.m.: 'The sack of Brescia (1512).'
DR DAVID OLDFIELD, Cambridge
12.15 p.m.: 'Art in Bergamo during the League of
Cambrai.'
DR KRYSTINA STERMOLE, Boston University
2 p.m.: 'The art of reportage during the Cambrai
Wars: printed news pamphlets and their woodcuts.'
MATTHIAS WIVEL, Cambridge
2.30 p.m.: 'Titian's Submersion of the
Pharaoh's Army in the Red Sea: grand allegory and
editorial cartoon.'
PROFESSOR RONNIE FERGUSON, St Andrews
2.50 p.m.: 'Representing the Wars on stage
(1517–30): the experience of the Veneto peasantry form
Cambrai to Cognac in Ruzante's theatre.'
PROFESSOR IAIN FENLON, Cambridge
2.40 p.m.: 'Music in the aftermath of the Wars.'
DR JANE STEVENS, St Andrews
4.10 p.m.: 'Disease and defence on the Terra
Firma after the League of Cambrai.'
PROFESSOR MONIQUE O'CONNELL, Wake Forest
4.30 p.m.: 'Cambrai and its aftermath in the
Venetian Adriatic.'
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Somerville College
Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture
PROFESSOR E. YVONNE JONES will deliver the Dorothy Hodgkin
Memorial Lecture at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 4 March, in the
University Museum Lecture Theatre, Parks Road. All are
welcome.
Subject: 'Postcards from the surface: the
structural biology of cell–cell communication.'
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Trinity College
Richard Hillary Memorial Lecture
HOWARD JACOBSON will deliver the Richard Hillary Memorial
Lecture at 5 p.m. on Monday, 3 March, in the Gulbenkian
Lecture Theatre, the St Cross Building. All welcome.
Subject: 'Forget plot, it's the thought that
counts: the novelist as moral mentor.'
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Wolfson College
Haldane Lecture
LORD REES, President of the Royal Society, Astronomer
Royal, and Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics,
Cambridge, will deliver the Haldane Lecture at 6 p.m. on
Thursday, 28 February, in the Hall, Wolfson College. Tickets
are not required for admission. Enquiries may be directed to
college.sec@wolfson.ox.ac.uk.
Subject: 'Scientific challenges in the
twenty-first century: a cosmic perspective.'
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