Oxford
University Gazette, 5 February 2009: Lectures
Hensley Henson Lectures
PROFESSOR JOHN RICHES, Professor Emeritus of Divinity and
Biblical Criticism, University of Glasgow, will deliver four
Hensley Henson Lectures at 5 p.m. on the following days in
the Examination Schools.
Wed. 4 Mar.: 'What are "pre-modern" readings of the
Bible?'
Thur. 5 Mar.: 'The literary history of
Galatians.'
Wed. 11 Mar.: 'The literal meaning of the Bible
and the search for "what Paul wanted".'
Thur. 12 Mar.: 'Being found by the Bible:
Coleridge and biblical inspiration.'
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Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
Computing Laboratory
RAGHU RAMAKRISHNAN, Chief Scientist for Audience and Cloud
Computing, Yahoo! Research, will lecture at 3 p.m. on Friday,
13 February, in Room 478, Computing Laboratory/E-Science
Research Centre, Keble Road and Parks Road.
Convener: Professor M. Benedikt.
Subject: 'Semantics on the Web: how do we get
there?'
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Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences, Social
Sciences
Darwin's lost world: the early history of life and the
planet
The following lectures will be given at 2 p.m. on
Thursdays in the Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth
Sciences. The meetings will end with an open discussion.
Conveners: Professor Lynn Margulis, Professor
Martin Brasier and Kathy Willis.
19 Feb.: Towards a habitable planet
TIM LENTON, East Anglia: 'Gaia and the early
biosphere.' BOB WILLIAMS: 'Later evolution and the chemical
elements.' DAVID CATLING, Bristol: 'Oxygen and
evolution.'
26 Feb.: Origins of the eukaryote cell
LYNN MARGULIS: 'Origins of the eukaryote cell.' STEPHEN
BELL: 'Archaea and the origins of eukaryotes.'
5 Mar.: Life at four billion revisited
PROFESSOR A.N. HALLIDAY: 'The early solar system.'
12 Mar.: Complexity in multicellular
lineages
LIAM DOLAN, John Innes Centre: 'On the origin of rooting.'
PETER HOLLAND: 'Genes, genomes and animal complexity.'
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Medical Sciences
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research: The signalling
pathways and genetics of cancer
The following seminars will be given at 11 a.m. on
Wednesdays in the Ludwig/Jenner Seminar Room, Lower Ground
Floor, Old Road Campus Research Building. The series will
continue in Trinity Term.
Convener: Dr Gareth Bond.
DR ELIZABETH PATTON, Edinburgh
11 Feb.: To be announced.
DR GRANT STEWART, Birmingham
11 Mar.: To be announced.
DR DAVID ADAMS, Sanger Institute, Cambridge
15 Apr.: 'Cancer gene discovery in the mouse.'
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Medieval and Modern Languages
Sub-faculty of Russian and Other Slavonic Languages:
Taylorian Special Lecture
PROFESSOR BORIS GASPAROV, Columbia, will lecture at 5 p.m.
on Thursday, 26 February, in the Main Hall, the Taylor
Institution. The lecture will be followed by a reception.
Convener: Professor Andrei Zorin.
Subject: 'The Silver Age heritage and the rise of
Stalinism: Prokofiev in search for a new voice.'
Italian Studies
Seminars and lectures
The following events will be held as shown. Further details may be found at
www.italianstudies.ox.ac.uk/events.
PROFESSOR R. BOSWORTH (chair)
Thur. 26 Feb., 5 p.m., Room 16, Taylor Institution:
'Fascisms'—discussion of The Oxford Book of
Fascisms, edited by Professor Bosworth (OUP,
2009).
DR FABRIZIO SACCOMANNI
Mon. 2 Mar., 4.30 p.m., Seminar Room G, Manor Road
Building: 'Managing international financial
instability.' (Mellon–Sawyer Seminar)
PROFESSOR ROMANO PRODI
Wed. 4 Mar., 5 p.m., Saïd Business School:
'What does this financial crisis mean for Europe? Issues of
governance, governments, and stability?' (Provisional
title)
DR CARL LEVY, Goldsmiths
Tue. 10 Mar., 5 p.m., Lecture Room 1, Christ Church, 5
p.m.: 'Italy and its racisms.'
Workshop: Media and narrative representations of
immigration in contemporary Italy
This workshop will be held on Friday, 27 February, 10
a.m.–6.30 p.m., in the Saïd Business School.
Further details will be available shortly at
www.italianstudies.ox.ac.uk/events.
Film-showings
The following films, in Italian with English subtitles,
will be shown at 8 p.m. on Tuesdays in Lecture Room B,
Worcester College.
17 Feb.: Io non ho paura (Salvatores,
2003)
3 Mar.: Aprile (Moretti, 1998)
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Philosophy
Gareth Evans Memorial Lecture
PROFESSOR ELLIOTT SOBER, Wisconsin–Madison, will
deliver the Gareth Evans Memorial Lecture at 5 p.m. on
Tuesday, 10 February, in the Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre, the
St Cross Building.
Subject: 'Parsimony arguments in science and
philosophy.'
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Social Sciences
Lessons in Government seminars (amended notice)
Unless otherwise indicated, the following seminars will be
held at 5 p.m. on Thursdays in Lecture Room XI, Brasenose
College.
This notice replaces previous announcements. The seminar
by Rhodri Morgan, AM, will now be held in May, and the
seminar by Mr Lubbock and Dr Stockley will be held on 5 March
(in place of 27 February).
Conveners: Mr Tom Lubbock and Dr Andrew
Stockley.
5 Feb.: PROFESSOR ANTHONY KING, University of
Essex
Fri. 6 Feb.: PETER KELLNER, YouGov
12 Feb.: ANN ABRAHAM, Parliamentary and Health
Ombudsman
19 Feb.: LORD BEST, President, Local Government
Association
26 Feb.: MICHAEL HOWARD, MP, former Leader,
Conservative Party
5 Mar.: MR LUBBOCK and DR STOCKLEY: 'The US
elections: lessons from the small screen.'
Wed. 11 Mar., 11 a.m.: CHARLES CLARKE, MP,
formerly Education Secretary and Home Secretary
Self-concept Enhancement and Learning Facilitation:
Advanced Quantitative Research Methods Special Interest
Group
The following seminars will be held at 12.45 p.m. on
Mondays in Seminar Room J (computer laboratory), the
Department of Education.
DR CHAU-KUANG CHEN, Meharry Medical College, Nashville,
Tennessee
9 Feb.: 'Survival analysis.'
DR SUSAN CONROY, Cambridge
2 Mar.: 'An investigation into the geography of
artistic self-concept using correlation studies.'
EBRAHIM TALAE
9 Mar.: 'Children's home computer use and their
cognitive and social/behavioural development in primary
school.'
Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of
War
The following seminars will be held at 1 p.m. on Tuesdays
in Seminar Room G, the Manor Road Building. Further
information can be found at http://ccw.politics.ox.ac.uk.
Enquiries should be directed to Naomi King (e-mail: ccw@politics.ox.ac.uk).
DR TAMAR MEISELS
10 Feb.: 'Targeted killing.'
VICE-ADMIRAL PETER WILKINSON, Royal Navy
17 Feb.: 'Strategic personnel challenges facing the
armed forces.'
SIR MICHAEL QUINLAN
24 Feb.: 'Thinking about nuclear weapons:
principles, problems, prospects' (book-launch).
COMMANDER JEFF SHORT
3 Mar.: 'Recruiting and retention in the post- Cold
War era: implications for the all-volunteer force.'
PAUL SCHULTE, LSE and Defence Academy
10 Mar.: 'Morality and war: public support and
strategic patience in counter-insurgency campaigns.'
Campaigning and Generalship seminar
BRIG. PIERS HANKINSON, Deputy Head of CJ5 [Plans and
Strategy] for General Petraeus, 2007–8, will give a
seminar at 5.15 p.m. on Wednesday, 18 February, in the
Wharton Room, All Souls College. The subject of the seminar
will be announced later.
Further information can be found at http://ccw.politics.ox.ac.uk.
Enquiries should be directed to Naomi King (e-mail: ccw@politics.ox.ac.uk).
Military History Seminars
The following seminars will be held at 5.15 p.m. on
Wednesdays in the Wharton Room, All Souls College. Further
information can be found at http://ccw.politics.ox.ac.uk.
Enquiries should be directed to Naomi King (e-mail: ccw@politics.ox.ac.uk).
JAMES KITCHEN
25 Feb.: 'The last crusade? The impact of religious
and crusading ideology on the Palestine Campaign,
1916–18.'
DR RAPHAËLLE BRANCHE, Paris
4 Mar.: 'Prisoners of war during the
French–Algerian war.'
DR JAMES BEACH, Salford
11 Mar.: 'Haig and Charteris: intelligence myths and
realities, 1916–18.'
Centre for Professional Service Firms: New organisational
perspectives: design, networks, and practices
Unless otherwise indicated the following seminars will be
held at 4 p.m. on Thursdays in the Andrew Cormack Seminar
Room, the Saïd Business School. The series will continue
in Trinity Term.
This notice replaces previous announcements. The seminar
by Mehdi Boussebaa will take place on 12 February, and not,
as previously announced, on 5 February.
MEHDI BOUSSEBAA
12 Feb., 3 p.m., Reception Room: 'Managing projects across national
borders: the case
of multinational professional service firms.'
ANDREW PETTIGREW, Bath
26 Feb.: 'Leading global professional service firms:
preliminary thoughts for a research project.'
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Centre for Corporate Reputation, Saïd Business
School
The following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on
Wednesdays in Andrew Cormack Seminar Room, the Saïd
Business School. Enquiries may be directed to Emily Baker
(e-mail: emily.baker@sbs.ox.ac.uk).
DR TIMOTHY LEUNIG, LSE
18 Feb.: 'The role of reputation in the development
of labour markets.' (Provisional title)
DR JONATHAN SILBERSTEIN-LOEB
4 Mar.: 'The relationship between reputation and
regulation.' (Provisional title)
Sociology Group seminars: Inequality, politics, religion,
and moral attitudes: theoretical issues and empirical
findings
Amended notice
The following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on
Wednesdays in the Clay Room, Nuffield College.
This replaces the announcements in the Gazettes of 15 January and 22 January.
Professor Louis Chauvel will speak in place of Dr Francesca Borgonovi on 11 February.
Conveners: Nan Dirk de Graaf and Kenneth
Macdonald.
PROFESSOR LOUIS CHAUVEL, Sciences-Po, Paris
11 Feb.: 'Birth cohorts between hysteresis and resilience effects:
social value of education and stratification in France and the US, 1970–2005.'
DR MAN YEE KAN
18 Feb.: 'Analysing social rhythms by optimal
matching: working-week schedules of France 1998–9 and
UK 2000-1.'
PROFESSOR ANTHONY HEATH
25 Feb.: 'Class dominance, male dominance, or
individualisation? Class identity in Britain,
1965–2005.'
DR MICHELLE JACKSON
4 Mar.: 'The relative importance of primary and
secondary effects in creating ethnic inequalities in
educational attainment.'
PROFESSOR DAN OLSON, Purdue
11 Mar.: 'Why do small religious groups have more
committed members?'
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Theology
Sacrifice and Modern Thought
PROFESSOR ROBERT PARKER will lecture in this series at 5
p.m. on Thursday, 5 February, in the Danson Room, Trinity
College.
Convener: Dr Johannes Zachhuber.
Subject: 'Greek sacrifice: the big issues.'
Ian Ramsey Centre Conference: Religious responses to
Darwinism, 1859–2009: commemorating the 150th
anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species by Means of
Natural Selection
This conference will be held in St Anne's College,
15–18 July. Registration forms, online credit-card
booking, and further information can be found at
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~theo0038/Conferenceinfo/General.html.
Enquiries may be directed to
ian-ramsey-centre@theology.ox.ac.uk.
Contributed twenty-minute papers are invited for this
conference. The closing date for submission of papers is 16
February. Details may be found at
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~theo0038/Conferenceinfo/Callforpapers.htm.
Speakers at the conference (to be confirmed) will be:
Professor Pietro Corsi, Professor
Marwa Elshakry (Harvard), Professor John Haught (Georgetown),
Professor David Livingstone (Queen's University, Belfast),
Professor Ronald Numbers (Wisconsin), and Professor Jon
Roberts (Boston University).
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Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity
PROFESSOR GUY STROUMSA, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
will lecture at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 19 February, in the
Danson Room, Trinity College. The event is funded through the
generosity of Lewis Chester.
Subject: 'Sacrifice and martyrdom in the Roman
Empire.'
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Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
The governance of climate change
The following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Mondays
in the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Hayes
House, 75 George Street.
Convener: Dr Chuks Okereke.
IAN CURTIS, Department for International Development
9 Feb.: 'Forging a partnership for global climate
governance.'
DR SAM FANKHAUSER, LSE
16 Feb.: 'The UK Committee on Climate Change.'
PROFESSOR SIMON CANEY
23 Feb.: 'Global justice and climate
governance.'
DR KEITH HYAMS, University of Exeter
2 Mar.: 'Just response to climate change: personal
carbon allowances and the normal functioning approach.'
PROFESSOR PETER NEWELL, East Anglia
9 Mar.: 'Governing clean development.'
Environmental Law Discussion Group
Except where otherwise noted, the following seminars,
arranged in conjunction with the Faculty of Law, will be held
at 1 p.m. on Tuesdays in the Smith School of Enterprise and
the Environment, Hayes House, 75 George Street.
Convener: Eloise Scotford.
SANJA BOGOJEVIC
10 Feb.: 'Legal challenges in designing emissions
trading schemes.'
PROFESSOR DAN BODANSKY, University of Georgia
Fri. 27 Feb.: 'Constitutionalism and legitimacy in
international environmental law.'
PROFESSOR MARIA LEE, UCL
3 Mar.: 'Legal controversies in decision- making on
genetically modified organisms.'
DAVID FORSDICK, barrister, Landmark Chambers
10 Mar.: 'Renewable energy developments and disputes
over wind farms: science and the law.'
The Europaeum
Europaeum Lecture
PROFESSOR VERA GOWLLAND-DEBBAS, Geneva, will deliver
the Europaeum Lecture at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 12 February, in
the Old Library, All Souls College. All welcome. The lecture
will be followed by a reception. The meeting will
chaired by Professor Vaughan Lowe, and the discussant will be
Professor Avi Shlaim.
Subject: 'Middle East crises and the challenges
for international law.'
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Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
A.N. Stencl Lecture in Yiddish Studies
DR KERSTIN HOGE will deliver the A.N. Stencl Lecture in
Yiddish Studies at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 19 February, in the
Taylor Institution.
Subject: 'Objects of desire: on the role of
non-Jewish languages in Sholem Aleichem's Mayses far
yidishe kinder.'
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Taylor Institution Library
Portuguese and French event: readings and book
launch
DR ANA CLAUDIA SURIANI DA SILVA, Birmingham, and DR
AQUILES ALENCAR BRAYNER, British Library, will discuss a new
edition of Queda que as mulheres tem para os
tolos, by Machado de Assis, one of Brazil's greatest
writers (a translation of Victor Hénaux's De
l'amour des femmes pour les sots), at 5 p.m. on
Monday, 16 February, in Room 2, the Taylor Institution. The
event will be in English, with readings in Portuguese and
French.
Enquiries should be directed to Liz Baird (e-mail:
liz.baird@taylib.ox.ac.uk).
A display of books by and about Machado de Assis will
continue in the library until 30 March (open
Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–7 p.m., and Saturday, 10
a.m.–4 p.m).
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All Souls College
Lee Lecture in Political Science and Government
PROFESSOR ALAIN DESROSIÈRES, French National
Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies, will deliver
the Lee Lecture in Political Science and Government at 5 p.m.
on Tuesday, 3 March, in the Old Library, All Souls
College.
Subject: 'Statistics and governmentality: an
historical approach.'
The experience of beauty in the Middle Ages
PROFESSOR MARY CARRUTHERS, Remarque Professor of
Literature, New York University, will continue her series of
seminars at 5 p.m. on Thursdays in the Wharton Room, All
Souls College. The first seminar in the series, on 'Sensation
and sense', took place on 22 January.
5 Feb.: 'Hot tears and cold reason.'
19 Feb.: 'The bitter and the sweet.'
5 Mar.: 'Beauty is skin-deep and brightly
coloured.'
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Balliol College
Oliver Smithies Lectures
PROFESSOR IAN STOREY, Professor of Classics, Trent
University, Ontario, will give two Oliver Smithies Lectures
at 5 p.m. on Fridays in the Classics Centre.
6 Feb.: 'On looking (again) into Kratinos'
Dionysalexandros.' What happens when Paris
cannot be found for the (in)famous Judgement of Paris, and
the only substitue that can be found is the comic god,
Dionysos? In 1904 a papyrus from Oxyrhynchus yielded most of
the plot-summary of this lost comedy by Kratinos (career:
454–423 bc).
20 Feb.: 'The play before the play: when did a
Greek play "begin"?'
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Brasenose College
Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Meeting the challenges of the twenty-first century
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values will be held on
Friday, 20 February, and Saturday, 21 February, in the Nelson
Mandela Lecture Theatre, the Saïd Business School.
Tickets will be required for admission: see
www.bnc500.co.uk/bnc500/events.html.
Registration is free. Enquiries may be directed to Pat Spight
(e- mail: pat.spight@bnc.ox.ac.uk).
PROFESSOR ROBIN WEISS, University College London,
PROFESSOR JANE CARDOSA, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, and
PROFESSOR EDDIE HOLMES, Penn State
Fri., 9.30 a.m.–1 p.m.: 'The challenge of
emerging infection.'
LT.-COL. JOHN NAGL, Center for a New American Security,
TANVIR KHAN, Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad, LEO
DOCHERTY, author of Desert of Death and former
serving officer in Iraq and Helmand, and PADDY DOCHERTY,
author of The Khyber Pass
Fri., 2–5.30 p.m.: 'Terrorism and security:
what have we learned from Afghanistan and Iraq?'
PROFESSOR VERNON BOGDANOR, SIR NICOLAS BRATZA, UK Judge on
the European Court of Human Rights, KATE ALLEN, Director of
Amnesty International UK, SIR IAN KENNEDY, Chairman of the
Healthcare Commission, and PROFESSOR JULIAN SAVULESCU
Sat., 9.30 a.m.–1 p.m.: 'Human rights in the
twenty-first century.'
GEORGE MONBIOT, Guardian columnist, SIR DAVID
KING, PROFESSOR DIETER HELM, and PROFESSOR ROBERT WATSON,
Chief Scientific Adviser, DEFRA (Chair: David Shukman,
Environment and Science Correspondent, BBC News)
Sat., 2–5.30 p.m.: 'Environmental challenges
in a warming world.'
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Keble College
DR SOPHIE RATCLIFFE, British Academy Post-Doctoral
Research Fellow, Keble College, will lecture at 5.30 p.m. on
Friday, 20 February, in the Pusey Room, Keble College. Dr
Ratcliffe's first book, On Sympathy, was
published by Oxford University Press in 2008.
Subject: 'A history of tears: some readings of
fictional sympathy.'
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Magdalen College
Towards a new constitutional settlement?
Unless otherwise indicated the following seminars will be
held at 5 p.m. on Thursdays in the Summer Common Room,
Magdalen College. The Chatham House Rule will apply.
Conveners: Sir Michael Wheeler-Booth and Dr
Stewart Wood.
THE RT HON. BARONESS HAYMAN, Speaker
5 Feb.: 'The Speakership in the Lords, where the
House is self-regulatory.'
CHRIS HUHNE, MP
12 Feb., Auditorium: 'Terrorism and the conflict
with liberty.'
SIR JOHN SCARLETT
5 Mar.: 'Why the accountability of the security
services has increased, is increasing, and seems likely to
increase.'
SIR ROGER SANDS, PROFESSOR VERNON BOGDANOR, and PROFESSOR
IAIN MACLEAN (speakers subject to confirmation)
Date to be announced: 'Constitutional and
parliamentary modernisation, aspirations and reality.'
PETER OBORNE, SIR ROGER SANDS, SIR ALAN BUDD, and SIR
MICHAEL SCHOLAR
Date to be announced: 'Politicians and non-political
public servants: has the relationship broken down?'
THE RT. HON. WILLIAM HAGUE, MP
Date and subject to be announced.
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St Catherine's College
Katritzky Lecture
SIR JOHN MEURIG THOMAS will deliver the inaugural Katritzky
Lecture at 5 p.m. on Monday, 23 February, in the Lecture
Theatre, the Department of Inorganic Chemistry.
Subject: 'The genius of Michael Faraday.'
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Somerville College
Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture
PAMELA J. BJORKMAN, California Institute of Technology,
will deliver the Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture at 6.30
p.m. (reception at 6 p.m) on Wednesday, 11 March, in the
University Museum Lecture Theatre. The lecture is arranged in
conjunction with the Association for Women in Science and
Engineering. All are welcome.
Subject: 'Your mother's antibodies: how you get
them and how we might improve them to combat HIV.'
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Wolfson College
Lectures
COLIN BLANE, formerly East Africa correspondent, BBC, will
lecture at 7.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 11 February, in the
Haldane Room, Wolfson College.
Subject: 'Reporting Africa: where journalism
fails'—why some stories matter and others are
ignored.
PROFESSOR JAMES CRABBE, Supernumerary Fellow of Wolfson
College, and Executive Dean and Professor at the University
of Bedfordshire, will lecture at 6 p.m. on Thursday, 12
February, in the Buttery, Wolfson College.
Subject: 'Climate change and coral reefs: moving
from science to conservation actions.'
Wolfson Haldane Lecture
PROFESSOR V.S. RAMACHANDRAN, Director, Center for Brain
and Cognition, University of California, San Diego, will
deliver the annual Wolfson Haldane Lecture at 6 p.m. on
Thursday, 5 March, in the Hall, Wolfson College. The lecture
is open to the public.
Subject: 'Molecules to mind: the self and others
in neurology.'
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Blackfriars
Aquinas Lecture
THE REVD DR WOJCIECH GIERTYCH, OP, will deliver the
Aquinas Lecture at 5 p.m. on Friday, 6 February, in
Blackfriars.
Subject: 'St Thomas's understanding of human
freedom.'
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St Benet's Hall
SIR JAMES CRAIG, formerly British Ambassador to Syria and
Saudi Arabia, will give an informal talk at 5.30 p.m. on
Thursday, 12 February, in St Benet's Hall, 12 St Giles'.
All members of the University are welcome, especially undergraduates.
Enquiries may be directed to Wendy Bunning (telephone: Oxford
(2)80556, e-mail: wendy.bunning@stb.ox.ac.uk).
Subject: 'The East is a career.'
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