Oxford
University Gazette, 15 January 2009: Lectures
Bampton Lectures
'Le christianisme est étrange': Christian
particularity in writing of the French seventeenth
century
PROFESSOR RICHARD PARISH, Professor of French and Fellow
of St Catherine's College, will deliver a series of Bampton
Lectures at 5 p.m. on the following days in the University
Church of St Mary the Virgin. The lectures will be delivered
in English, and all exemplary material will be
translated.
20 Jan.: 'Particularity and apologetics.'
27 Jan.: 'Particularity and physicality.'
3 Feb.: 'Particularity and language: (i) talking
of God.'
10 Feb.: 'Particularity and language: (ii)
talking for God.'
17 Feb.: 'Particularity and discernment.'
24 Feb.: 'Particularity and polemics: (i)
Jansenism.'
3 Mar.: 'Particularity and polemics: (ii)
Quietism.'
10 Mar.: 'Particularity and salvation.'
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Grinfield Lectures on the Septuagint
From oral translation to textual transmission
PROFESSOR ANNELI AEJMELAEUS, University of Helsinki, will
deliver the first series of Grinfield Lectures on the
Septuagint at 5 p.m. on the following days in the Examination
Schools.
Tue. 17 Feb.: 'Once more: the origins of the
Septuagint.'
Thur. 19 Feb.: 'Text-history of the Septuagint
and the Hebrew text in the Books of Samuel.'
Thur. 26 Feb.: 'Towards a critical edition of the
Septuagint of 1 Samuel.'
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Herbert Spencer Lectures
Modifying human behaviour
The Herbert Spencer Lectures will be given at 5.15 p.m. on
the following days in the Lecture Theatre, the Medical
Sciences Teaching Centre.
The lectures are arranged by a trust fund held by the
University. They are held every three years, on a theme that
would have been of interest to Herbert Spencer.
JUSTICE EDWIN CAMERON, Supreme Court of Appeal, South
Africa
Thur. 5 Feb.: 'Rethinking rights and
responsibilities in the AIDS epidemic.'
PROFESSOR ANTHONY DICKINSON, Experimental Psychology,
Cambridge
Mon. 9 Feb.: 'Beast machines or cognitive
creatures?'
PROFESSOR JON ELSTER, Philosophy, Columbia
Thur. 19 Feb.: 'How constitutions shape and change
behaviour.'
PROFESSOR DAVID MACDONALD, WildCRU, Zoology, Oxford
Thur. 26 Feb.: 'People and nature: conservation,
conflict, and compromise.'
PROFESSOR UTA FRITH, Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL
Thur. 5 Mar.: 'How our social brain modifies our
behaviour.'
PROFESSOR JULIET B. SCHOR, Sociology, Boston College
Thur. 12 Mar.: 'The social consumer and the
sustainability challenge—consumer behaviour, ecological
challenge, and the new "social science".'
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James Ford Lectures in British History
The politics of feeling in the age of revolutions,
1770–1830
PROFESSOR JOHN BREWER, California Institute of Technology,
will deliver the Ford's Lectures at 5 p.m. on Fridays in the
Examination Schools.
23 Jan.: 'Mixed feelings: physiology, society, and
morality, 1740–1800.'
30 Jan.: 'Conjugal love and aristocratic
depravity, 1769–1809.'
6 Feb.: 'The politics of fear and love: Edmund
Burke and Mary Wollstonecraft.'
13 Feb.: 'Attachment and distance: loyalism,
patriotism, and benevolence in the 1790s.'
20 Feb.: 'The love of God and the fear of
enthusiasm: vital religion.'
27 Feb.: 'A man without soul: Dr Erasmus Darwin
and the spectre of materialism.'
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Slade Lectures
Style versus the state: naturalism and avant-gardism in
Third Republic France, 1880–1900
PROFESSOR RICHARD THOMSON, Watson Gordon Professor of Fine
Art, University of Edinburgh, Slade Professor 2009, will
deliver the Slade Lectures at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays in the
University Museum of Natural History.
21 Jan.: 'Defining the dominant naturalism.'
28 Jan.: 'Naturalism at the service of the
Republic.' 4 Feb.: 'Naturalism: flexibility or failure of
style?'
11 Feb.: 'The caricatural: visual humour and
subversive style.'
18 Feb.: 'The "populaire": identifying or
imagining art from below.'
25 Feb.: 'Organicism: national energy and natural
flux.'
4 Mar.: 'Repudiating naturalism: the avant-garde
seeking style.'
11 Mar.: 'Naturalism strikes back: tradition,
consensus, rupture.'
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J.W. Jenkinson Memorial Lecture
PROFESSOR SEAN CARROLL, Wisconsin–Madison, will
deliver a J.W. Jenkinson Memorial Lecture at 5 p.m. on
Monday, 19 January, in Lecture Theatre A, the
Zoology/Psychology Building. Those with specific access
requirements are asked to telephone Oxford (2)82464 before the
lecture.
Subject: 'Endless flies most beautiful:
cis-regulatory sequences and the evolution of animal
form.'
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English Language and Literature, Music, Fine Art,
Theology
The Bible in art, music, and literature
The following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Mondays
in the Danson Room, Trinity College.
Conveners: Professor Christopher Rowland and Dr
Christine Joynes.
DR JAMES CROSSLEY, Sheffield
26 Jan.: 'For every Manc a religion: biblical and
religious language in the Manchester alternative music scene
1977–94.'
DR CHRISTINE JOYNES
9 Feb.: 'Wombs and tombs: the reception history of
Mark 16:1–20.'
LIZZIE LUDLOW, Warwick
23 Feb.: 'Christina Rossetti and the Bible.'
PROFESSOR BEN QUASH, King's College, London
9 Mar.: 'How can Job contemplate the dead Christ?
Some reflections on typological uses of the Bible in the
light of Carpaccio's painting.' (Hussey
Seminar)
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History
Graduate seminar in early modern intellectual
history
The following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on
Wednesdays in the Hovenden Room, All Souls College.
Conveners: Professor Ian Maclean and Dr Noel
Malcolm.
DR COLIN BURROW
21 Jan.: 'The Marprelate controversy.'
PROFESSOR NICHOLAS JARDINE, Cambridge
28 Jan.: 'The war of the worlds: conflict and
priority in early modern astronomy.'
DR FILIPPO DE VIVO, Birkbeck College, London
4 Feb.: 'Wars of words: understanding polemics in
seventeenth-century Venice.'
PROFESSOR MORDECHAI FEINGOLD, California Institute of
Technology
11 Feb.: ' "Those Terrible Men" ;, the Wits: the
polemics over science in early modern England.'
PROFESSOR ANN HUGHES, Keele
18 Feb.: 'Preachers, hearers, and polemic in
revolutionary London.'
PROFESSOR MARTIN DZELZAINIS, Royal Holloway, London
25 Feb.: 'Ridicule and the fall of Clarendon.'
DR INGRID DE SMET, Warwick
4 Mar.: 'Historicising polemics: calumny and memory
in the republic of letters.'
PROFESSOR RICHARD PARISH
11 Mar.: 'Intra-Catholic polemic in
seventeenth-century France: winners and losers.'
Medieval history seminar
The following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Mondays
in the Wharton Room, All Souls College.
Convener: Professor C.J. Wickham.
PATRICK HEALY
19 Jan.: 'Miracles of the papal reform,
1049–95.'
SOPHIE CRICHTON
26 Jan.: 'Medieval Mallorca, 1276–1349.'
ELINA SCREEN
2 Feb.: 'Old ideologies in a new kingdom? Lothar I
and Carolingian ideology, 843–55.'
FELICITY CLARK
9 Feb.: 'The frontiers of early medieval
Northumbria: perception and experience.'
RORY COX
16 Feb.: 'John Wyclif on war and politics.'
KERRITH DAVIES
23 Feb.: 'The Knights of Mortain: some thoughts on
the development of Anglo-Norman feudalism.'
MAYKE DE JONG
2 Mar.: 'Becoming Jeremiah: Paschasius Radbertus and
Carolingian political polemics.'
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History, Medieval and Modern Languages
Language and history seminar
The following seminars will be held at 2.15 p.m. on
Wednesdays in the MacGregor Room, Oriel College.
Conveners: David Cram, Robert Evans, and Suzanne
Romaine.
ANTHEA FRASER GUPTA, Leeds
21 Jan.: 'Malay and English: trade and conquest
1614–2008.'
DAVID CRAM
28 Jan.: 'Edward Lhuyd's Archaeologia
Britannica (1707): method and madness in early modern
comparative philology.'
YORICK WILKS, Sheffield
4 Feb.: 'On ownership of text.'
DAVID WILLIS, Cambridge
11 Feb.: 'Non-literary sources as evidence for the
history of the Welsh language in the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries.'
CRISTINA PSOMADAKIS, London
18 Feb.: To be announced.
PATRICK HONEYBONE, Edinburgh
25 Feb.: 'History and historical linguistics: two
types of cognitive reconstruction.'
NILS LANGER, Bristol
4 Mar.: 'Multilingualism in nineteenth-century
Schleswig-Holstein.'
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History, Medieval and Modern Languages, and the Centre
for the Book, Bodleian Library
Seminar on the history of the book, 1450–1830
The following seminars will be held at 2.15 p.m. on
Fridays in the Wharton Room, All Souls College.
Convener: Professor I.W.F. Maclean.
PROFESSOR M.M. SMITH, Reading
23 Jan.: 'Hand rubrication: the mid fifteenth-
century method of textual articulation.'
DR HANS-JÖRG KÜNAST, Erlangen
30 Jan.: 'Konrad Peutinger's library
(1466–1547): the history and reconstruction of a
Renaissance collection.'
DR MALCOLM WALSBY, St Andrews
6 Feb.: 'Printers, booksellers, and the printed word
in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Brittany.'
DR GILES BERGEL
13 Feb.: 'Oral tradition, print culture, and "The
Wandering Jew's Chronicle" ;, 1634–1830.'
DR NOEL MALCOLM
20 Feb.: 'The printing of Hobbes's
Leviathan: a case study in material bibliography
and textual criticism.'
DR CRISTINA DONDI
6 Mar.: 'Book provenance as evidence for economic
and social history of the Renaissance.'
PROFESSOR MICHAEL SUAREZ, Fordham
13 Mar.: 'Peers' pounds and antiquaries' nous:
publishing learned pictures in Restoration and early
eighteenth-century England.'
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Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
Department of Statistics: Corcoran Memorial Prize
Ceremony
The Corcoran Memorial Prize Ceremony will be held at 2.30
p.m. on Thursday, 22 January, in the Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre,
St Anne's College. The prizewinners will each deliver a
lecture: Dr Anja Sturm (2004), Dr Simon Myers (2006), Dr
Ludger Evers and Dr Chris Spencer (2008). The lectures will
be followed by a reception.
Enquiries may be directed to cstone@stats.ox.ac.uk.
Computational Mathematics and Applications
Except where otherwised indicated, the following seminars
will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursdays in Lecture Theatre A, the
Computing Laboratory. Enquiries may be directed to Lotti
Ekert (telephone: Oxford (2)73885, e-mail: lotti.ekert@comlab.ox.ac.uk).
Conveners: L.N. Trefethen and S. Dollar
(Rutherford Appleton Laboratory).
DR MIRO ROZLOZNIK, Academy of Sciences of the Czech
Republic
15 Jan.: 'On the accuracy of inexact saddle point
solvers.'
DR FRED WUBS, Groningen
22 Jan., RAL: 'Preconditioning of linear systems in
an ocean flow model.'
DR MARTIN LOTZ, City University of Hong Kong
29 Jan.: 'Coverage processes on spheres and
condition numbers for linear programming.'
DR ROBERT NÜRNBERG, Imperial College, London
5 Feb.: 'Parametric approximation of geometric
evolution equations and their coupling to bulk
equations.'
DR RAPHAEL HAUSER
12 Feb.: 'A new perspective on the complexity of
interior point methods for linear programming.'
DR CHRISTIAN MEHL, Birmingham
19 Feb.: 'Numerical methods for palindromic
eigenvalue problems.'
DR RICHARD KATZ
26 Feb.: 'Golden syrup, lubrication theory, and
PETSc—a recipe for models of ice-sheet dynamics.'
PROFESSOR REINOUT QUISPEL, Latrobe
5 Mar.: To be announced.
PROFESSOR KE CHEN, Liverpool
12 Mar., RAL: 'On fast multilevel algorithms for
nonlinear variational imaging models.'
Atmospheric, Ocean, and Planetary Physics
The following seminars will be held at 4.15 p.m. on
Thursdays in the Dobson Lecture Room, the Atmospheric Physics
Laboratory. Because on rare occasions the arrangements need
to be changed, anyone intending to come to Oxford specially
to attend should check first by telephoning Oxford
(2)72933.
DR G. TINETTI, University College London
22 Jan.: 'Exploring extrasolar worlds, from gas
giants to terrestrial planets.'
DR H. BÖSCH, Leicester
29 Jan.: 'Remote sensing of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere—the NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory
Mission.'
PROFESSOR R. GREATBATCH, IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel
5 Feb.: 'Tropical storm and meteorological tsunami
events affecting Atlantic Canada.'
DR A. THOMPSON, Cambridge
12 Feb.: 'Jets, topography, and transport.'
DR J. LOWE, Hadley Centre, Meteorological Office
19 Feb.: 'Mitigation of future climate change.'
DR U. QUAAS, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology,
Hamburg
26 Feb.: 'Analysis of clouds and cloud–aerosol
interactions with satellite data and general circulation
models.'
DR J. PHILLIPS, Bristol
5 Mar.: 'The dynamics and structure of short
duration volcanic eruption plumes: insights from laboratory
experiments and field measurements.'
MS B. HARRIS, Reading
12 Mar.: 'The potential impacts of super- volcanic
eruptions on the Earth's climate: a GCM study.'
Department of Plant Sciences
Unless otherwise indicated the following research talks
will be given at 4 p.m. on Thursdays in the Large Lecture
Theatre, the Department of Plant Sciences. Abstracts may be
found at www.plants.ox.ac.uk.
Convener: Professor Nicholas Harberd.
PROFESSOR LEWIS ZISKA, US Department of Agriculture
Mon. 19 Jan.: 'Exploring the links between climate
change, plant biology, and public health.'
DR TIMOTHY BARRACLOUGH, Imperial College, London
29 Jan.: 'Changing landscapes: the evolutionary
origins of a plant diversity hotspot.'
DR LARS OSTERGAARD, John Innes Centre, Norwich
5 Feb.: 'Cell fate determination by hormonal
patterning in fruits.'
DR OWEN LEWIS
12 Feb.: 'Insect food webs: patterns, processes, and
applications.'
DR JIRI FRIML, Ghent
19 Feb.: 'Auxin transport—developmental output
of subcellular dynamics.'
PROFESSOR DAVID MABBERLEY, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
26 Feb.: 'The citrus story.'
PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER HOWE, Cambridge
5 Mar.: 'Who bother with a chloroplast genome? Hints
from dinoflagellate algae.'
PROFESSOR SUSAN MCCOUCH, Cornell
12 Mar.: To be announced. (Mary Snow
Lecture)
Organic Chemistry colloquia
The following colloquia will be held at 4 p.m. on
Thursdays in the Dyson Perrins Lecture Theatre. Enquiries may
be directed to Dr Michael Willis (e-mail: michael.willis@chem.ox.ac.uk).
PROFESSOR JOHN NJARDARSON, Cornell
15 Jan.: 'Natural product synthesis and new
synthetic methods.'
PROFESSOR DAVID HARROWVEN, Southampton
22 Jan.: 'The total synthesis of colombiasin A,
elisapterosin B, and cavicularin.'
DR MICHAEL GREANEY, Edinburgh
5 Feb.: 'Synthesis using reversible and irreversible
reactions.'
PROFESSOR MAGNUS RUEPING, Frankfurt
12 Feb.: 'Bio-inspired catalysis: from concepts to
applications.' (Lilley Lecture)
PROFESSOR ANTONIO ECHAVARREN, Institute of Catalysis,
Taragona
19 Feb.: 'New approaches to molecular diversity
through gold catalysis.'
DR NICK TOMKINSON, Cardiff
26 Feb.: 'Chemical and theoretical tools to
understand iminium ion catalysis.'
PROFESSOR THOMAS CARELL, Munich
5 Mar.: 'The chemistry of DNA repair and
mutagenesis.'
PROFESSOR CHRIS MOODY, Nottingham
12 Mar.: 'Recent developments in the synthesis of
heterocyclic natural products.'
Theoretical Chemistry Group
The following seminars will be held at 4.45 p.m. on
Mondays in the John Rowlinson Seminar Room (20.12, opposite
the Main Lecture Theatre), the Physical and Theoretical
Chemistry Laboratory.
Convener: Dr W. Barford.
DR CLAUDIO CASTELNOVO
26 Jan.: 'Magnetic monopoles in spin ice.'
PROFESSOR DAVID WALES, Cambridge
9 Feb.: 'Exploring energy landscapes.'
DR JEREMY HARVEY, Bristol
23 Feb.: 'Computational prediction of mechanisms and
rate constants for chemical reactions in solution.'
DR MICHAEL TOWLER, Cambridge
9 Mar.: 'Are highly accurate quantum Monte Carlo
calculations of any use in quantum chemistry?'
Department of Materials
The following colloquia will be held at 4 p.m. on
Thursdays in the Hume Rothery Lecture Theatre, the Department
of Materials. Talks by second-year D.Phil students will be
held on 5 March and 12 March.
DR VALERIA NICOLOSI
22 Jan.: 'Processing of organic and inorganic 1-D
nanostructures: problems and "solutions".'
DR MARK H. RÜMMELI, IFW Dresden, Germany
29 Jan.: 'Advances in understanding carbon nanotube
nucleation and growth.'
PROFESSOR MICHAEL WEINERT, Wisconsin–Milwaukee
5 Feb.: 'Stability and structure of polar surfaces
and interfaces.'
DR MARTIN HŸTCH, CEMES-CNRS, France
12 Feb.: 'New electron holographic technique for the
measurement of strain at the nanoscale: application to
strained-silicon transistors.'
PROFESSOR COLIN J. LAMBERT, Lancaster
19 Feb.: 'Controlled electron transport through
single molecules.'
DR KYRIAKOS PORFYRAKIS
26 Feb.: 'Ehdohedral fullerenes: challenges and
opportunities.'
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Medical Sciences
Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics
Unless otherwise indicated the following seminars will be
held at 1 p.m. on Fridays in the Large Lecture Theatre, the
Sherrington Building.
Conveners: Dr Deborah Goberdhan and Dr Ole
Paulsen.
DR MALCOLM LOGAN, MRC NIMR
23 Jan.: 'Understanding vertebrate limb development
and disorders.' (Jenkinson Seminar)
DR FIONA GRIBBLE, Cambridge
30 Jan.: 'Taking a new look at entero- endocrine
cells.'
PROFESSOR KATRIN AMUNTS, Aachen
6 Feb.: 'Towards a multimodal architectonic atlas of
the human brain—aims, methods, and application.'
PROFESSOR FREDDIE HAMDY
13 Feb.: To be announced.
DR GERALD FINNERTY, King's College, London
20 Feb.: 'What does experience-dependent plasticity
tell us about learning and memory?'
DR AFSANEH GAILLARD, Poitiers
27 Feb.: 'Cellular repair of CNS disorders.'
DR OLE PAULSEN and DR MATTHEW WOOD
Mon. 2 Mar., 4 p.m., Library, Sherrington Building:
To be announced. (Research seminar)
PROFESSOR ARTHUR KONNERTH, Munich
6 Mar.: 'Metabotropic glutamate receptor- mediated
synaptic signalling in the CNS.'
PROFESSOR ANNE FERGUSON-SMITH, Cambridge
13 Mar.: 'Genomic imprinting and the epigenetic
control of mammalian gene expression.' (Jenkinson
Seminar)
Neuroscience Grand Round Guest Lectures
The following lectures will be given at 11.30 a.m. on
Fridays in Lecture Theatre 1, the Academic Block, the John
Radcliffe Hospital.
PROFESSOR MICHAEL HANNA, National Hospital for
Neurology
16 Jan.: 'Update on channelopathies.'
PROFESSOR GAVIN GIOVANNONI, Barts and the London Centre
for Neurosciences
13 Feb.: 'Update on anti-basal ganglia
antibodies.'
PROFESSOR GERAINT REES, UCL
20 Mar.: 'Imaging consciousness.'
Institute of Musculoskeletal Sciences, Botnar Research
Centre
The following seminars will be held at 12.30 p.m. on
Fridays in Rooms NDO 7 and 8, the Nuffield Department of
Orthopaedic Surgery.
DR KENNETH POOLE, Addenbrooke's Hospital
13 Feb.: ' Through thick and thin: new insights into
hip fracture mechanisms from 3D computed tomography.'
PROFESSOR ALEX SEIFALIAN, Royal Free Hospital,
Hampstead
27 Mar.: 'Nanocomposite polymer and its application
in development of medical implant using tissue
engineering.'
OXION seminars
The following seminars will be given on Thursdays in the
Seminar Room, the Henry Wellcome Centre for Gene Function,
South Parks Road (or, if numbers exceed capacity, the Small
Lecture Theatre, the Sherrington Building).
PROFESSOR BIRGIT LISS, Research Centre for Life Sciences,
University of Ulm
15 Jan., 3 p.m.: 'Dopamine midbrain neurons:
functional and molecular diversity in health and
disease.'
PROFESSOR BERNARD ATTALI, Tel Aviv
29 Jan., 4.30 p.m.: 'Gated motions and assembly
modalities of voltage-gated Kv7 potassium channels: the case
of the cardiac IKS potassium channel.'
Pharmacology, anatomical neuropharmacology, and drug
discovery seminars
The following seminars will be held at 12 noon on Tuesdays
in the Lecture Theatre, the Department of Pharmacology.
DR LLEWELYN RODERICK, Cambridge
20 Jan.: 'InsP3- stimulated nuclear calcium signals
are a common and requisite signal for the induction of
cardiac myocyte hypertrophy by diverse stimuli.'
DR STUART CONWAY
27 Jan.: 'Better living through chemistry: molecular
probes for biological systems.'
DR MAJOR LORINCZ, Cardiff
3 Feb.: 'Cellular and network mechanisms of the
occipital alpha rhythm.'
DR RUTH MURRELL-LAGNADO, Cambridge
10 Feb.: 'P2X purinergic receptors: the molecular
basis for diversity of function.'
DR HEIKKI TANILA, Kuopio, Finland
17 Feb.: 'Neurobiological mechanisms of memory loss
in Alzheimer's disease.'
PROFESSOR ANNETTE DOLPHIN, University College London
24 Feb.: 'Calcium channel alpha2delta subunits,
mechanism of action, involvement in disease and target site
for drugs.'
PROFESSOR HANS CHRISTIAN PAPE, Westfaelische Wilhelms Universit„t,
Germany
3 Mar.: 'Patterns of activity in the amygdale and
beyond: significance for fear memory and extinction.'
DR THOMAS BORAUD, Bordeaux
10 Mar.: 'Decision making as a competition mechanism
in the cortex–basal ganglia loop circuits.'
PROFESSOR GYÖRGY BUZSÁKI, Rutgers
24 Mar.: 'Self- organised cell assemblies in
cerebral cortex support cognitive actions.' (David
Smith Lecture)
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research: The signalling
pathways and genetics of cancer
DR HOLGER GERHARDT, Cancer Research UK London Research
Institute, will hold a seminar in this series at 11 a.m. on
Wednesday, 21 January, in the Ludwig/Jenner Room, Lower Ground
Floor, Old Road Campus Research Building.
Subject: 'Guided vascular patterning during
sprouting angiogenesis.'
Convener: Dr Gareth Bond.
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Medieval and Modern Languages, History
From 'Stasiland' to 'Ostalgie': remembering the
GDR—twenty years on
The following seminars will be held at 5.30 p.m. on
Tuesdays in the Noël Salter Room, New College. Professor
Jan-Wener Müller, Princeton, will deliver a special
lecture on Thursday, 21 May, to conclude the series.
A programme with full details, abstracts, and directions,
is available at www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/g
erman/rememberthedgr/.
Convener: Dr Karen Leeder (e-mail: karen.leeder@new.ox.ac.uk).
PROFESSOR WOLFGANG EMMERICH, Bremen
20 Jan.: 'Cultural memory East/West: is what belongs
together growing together?'
PROFESSOR T.J. REED
27 Jan.: 'Revisiting the Wende.'
PROFESSOR KATRIN KOHL
3 Feb.: 'Conceptualising the GDR—twenty years
after.'
DR PETER THOMPSON, Sheffield
10 Feb.: ' "Die unheimliche Heimat": the GDR as the
presence and absence of hope.'
DR DANIELA BERGHAHN, Royal Holloway
17 Feb.: 'Remembering the Stasi: from DEFA
Gegenwartsfilm to the Stasi fairytale Das
Leben der Anderen.'
DR LYN MARVEN, Liverpool
24 Feb.: ' "Berlin ist bekannt [...] für die
Mauer, die es aber nicht mehr gibt" (Monika Maron): the
persistence of East Berlin in the contemporary city.'
DR CHLOE PAVER, University of Exeter
3 Mar.: 'Memory and place in the new
Bundesländer.'
PROFESSOR TIMOTHY GARTON ASH
10 Mar.: ' "A footnote in world history": the GDR as
memory, myth, and history.'
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Oriental Studies
Jewish history and literature in the Graeco-Roman
period
The following seminars will be held at 2.15 p.m. on
Tuesdays in the Oriental Institute.
Convener: Professor Martin Goodman.
DENNIS MIZZI
27 Jan.: 'The cemeteries at Qumran: re-evaluation
of the evidence.'
SACHA STERN, University College London
3 Feb.: 'Rabbinic perspectives on pagan ritual,
public shows, and Roman civic life: some fresh evidence.'
PROFESSOR GOODMAN
10 Feb.: 'Sectarianism before and after 70 ce.'
GAIA LEMBI, University College London
17 Feb.: 'Geographical descriptions in Josephus: the
case of Jerusalem.'
SARAH PEARCE, Southampton
24 Feb.: 'Philo on the extreme allegorists.'
MARKUS BOCKMUEHL
3 Mar.: 'Locating paradise.'
TESSA RAJAK, Reading and Oxford
10 Mar.: 'Translation and identity: the language of
the Greek Bible.'
Hebrew and Jewish Studies Unit: David Patterson
Seminars
The following seminars will be held at 8 p.m. on
Wednesdays in the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish
Studies, Yarnton Manor. Details of minibus arrangements will
be found at www.ochjs.ac.uk.
Convener: Dr Piet van Boxel.
DR JOSEPH SHERMAN
21 Jan.: 'David Bergelson (1884–1952) in
Weimar Berlin: 'language, ideology and modern Jewish
identity.'
DR DILWYN KNOX, University College London
28 Jan.: 'Maimonides' reflections on the immortality
of the soul.'
DR GHIL'AD ZUCKERMANN, University of Queensland,
Australia
4 Feb.: ' Language, religion, and identity in
Israel.'
DR JOSEFINA RODRIGUEZ ARRIBAS
11 Feb.: ' Technical terminology in Abraham ibn
Ezra's Biblical excursuses: the sciences of stars.'
DR ANNA AKASOY
18 Feb.: 'Andalusian exiles and identities. The
experience of Jewish and Muslim scholars in the eastern
Mediterranean (twelfth and thirteenth centuries).'
DR DAVID ARIEL
25 Feb.: 'Objectivity and engagement: the changing
agenda of Jewish studies.'
PROFESSOR TESSA RAJAK, Reading
4 Mar.: 'Martyrdom, Kiddush Ha-shem and resistance:
from Josephus to Akiva.'
DR CHRISTINE KRUEGER, Oldenbourg
11 Mar.: 'Are we not brothers? French and German
Jews in the Franco-Prussian War, 1870–1.'
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Philosophy
James Martin advanced research seminar series
The James Martin advanced research seminars, led by
Professor Julian Savulescu and Professor Nick Bostrom,
provide an opportunity to discuss issues surrounding the
future of humanity and the ethics of the new biosciences.
They are open to scholars and Oxford graduate students. The
seminar programme can be found at www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/teaching.html
and www.bep.ox.ac.uk/teaching.html.
Unless otherwise stated on the seminar programme, all
seminars in Hilary Term will take place at 3 p.m. on
Wednesdays in weeks 1–8, in Seminar Room 1, the James
Martin Twenty-first Century School, Old Indian Institute,
Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BD.
Reminders and information about the talks and speakers may
be obtained by e-mailing to fhi@philosophy.ox.ac.uk.
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Social Sciences
Lessons in Government seminars
Unless otherwise indicated, the following seminars will be
held at 5 p.m. on Thursdays in Lecture Room XI, Brasenose
College.
Conveners: Mr Tom Lubbock and Dr Andrew
Stockley.
22 Jan.: LORD HUTTON, former Law Lord
29 Jan.: RICHARD THOMAS, Information
Commissioner
Fri. 30 Jan.: CLEMENCY BURTON-HILL, actress and
political commentator
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
Fri. 27 Feb.: MR LUBBOCK and DR STOCKLEY (on the
US elections)
5 Mar.: RHODRI MORGAN, AM, First Minister of
Wales
Wed. 11 Mar., 11 a.m.: CHARLES CLARKE, MP,
formerly Education Secretary and Home Secretary
Controversies in post-conflict state-building
The following seminars will be held at 2.30 p.m. on
Tuesdays in Seminar Room C, the Manor Road Building.
Convener: Professor Richard Caplan.
SIR ADAM ROBERTS
27 Jan.: 'Post-conflict state destruction in
Iraq.'
PROFESSOR JENNIFER WELSH
10 Feb.: 'Evaluating the ethics of post-conflict
reconstruction.'
PROFESSOR PAUL COLLIER
24 Feb.: 'Post-conflict risks.'
DR HUGO SLIM, Director, Corporates for Crisis
10 Mar.: `The role of business in post-conflict state-building.'
Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict:
Strengthening international authority
The following seminars will be held at 1 p.m. on Mondays
in the James Martin Twenty-first Century School, the Old
Indian Institute Building, corner of Broad Street and Catte
Street. Enquiries should be directed to Jennifer Wilkinson
(e-mail: elac@politics.ox.ac.uk).
Details of the 16 February seminar will be announced
later.
Conveners: Dr David Rodin and Professor Jennifer
Welsh.
PROFESSOR MERVYN FROST, King's College, London
19 Jan: 'Understanding contemporary warfare in
ethical terms.'
PROFESSOR HENRY SHUE
26 Jan.: 'Indiscriminate disproportionality: another
attempt at rules with teeth.'
DR ANTHONY LANG, St Andrews
2 Feb.: 'The just war tradition as political theory:
authority and the use of force.'
DR JAMES PATTISON, West of England
9 Feb.: 'Who should intervene? The agents of
humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to
protect.'
PROFESSOR NIGEL WHITE, Sheffield
23 Feb.: 'Institutional responsibility for private
military contractors.'
PROFESSOR NICHOLAS WHEELER, Aberystwyth
2 Mar.: 'A leap of trust? Overcoming the distrust in
US–Iranian nuclear relations.'
DR TONI ERSKINE, Aberystwyth
9 Mar.: 'Kicking bodies and damning souls: the
danger of harming "innocent" individuals while punishing
"delinquent" states.'
Israel: historical, political, and social aspects
Unless otherwise indicated, the following lectures will be
given at 8 p.m.
Convener: Peter Oppenheimer, Christ Church.
PROFESSOR ANITA SHAPIRA, Tel Aviv
Thur. 15 Jan., Lower Lecture Room, Lincoln: 'The
Holocaust as a pro-Zionist and anti- Zionist narrative.'
PROFESSOR ALON HAREL, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mon. 26 Jan., Lower Lecture Room, Lincoln: 'Judicial
review of human rights in Israel.'
PROFESSOR CHAIM GANS, Tel Aviv
Mon. 16 Feb., Harris Lecture Theatre, Oriel: 'Could
Zionism be rejected just because of its defining
principles?'
PROFESSOR SHIMON SHAMIR, Tel Aviv
Thur. 19 Feb., Harris Lecture Theatre, Oriel:
'Israel's relations with Egypt and Jordan: cold peace or
cooperation?'
A.B. YEHOSHUA, Israeli novelist and playwright
Thur. 26 Feb., 5.30 p.m.: Venue and title to be
announced.
TOM SEGEV, Israeli novelist and journalist,
Ha'aretz
Mon. 2 Mar., Harris Lecture Theatre, Oriel: 'Israeli
society and the Holocaust.'
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies: Human investigation and
privacy in a regulatory age
The following seminars will be held at 4.30 p.m. on
Mondays in Seminar Room D, the Manor Road Building. Enquiries
may be directed to admin@csls.ox.ac.uk.
PROFESSOR FRANK FUREDI, Kent at Canterbury
19 Jan.: 'If it moves—regulate! Society's
uneasy relationship with the informal.'
DR REBECCA WONG, Nottingham Trent
26 Jan.: 'Social networking: the application of the
data protection framework.'
PROFESSOR ROBERT DINGWALL, Nottingham
2 Feb.: 'Motherhood and apple pie? Questioning
ethical regulation in the social sciences and
humanities.'
DR RENATE GERTZ, Glasgow
9 Feb.: 'Quo vadis, FOI?'
ANTHONY WHITE, QC, Matrix Chambers
16 Feb.: 'Data protection, freedom of expression,
and the media.'
PROFESSOR GAVIN PHILLIPSON, Durham
23 Feb.: 'Media freedom and privacy under the Human
Rights Act.' PROFESSOR CHARLES WARLOW, Edinburgh2 Mar.:
'Proportionality—regulate the banks, keep off the backs
of clinical researchers,'
Foundation for Law, Justice, and Society, and Centre for
Socio-Legal Studies
PROFESSOR ANTONIO CASSESE, Professor of Law, University of
Florence, and formerly President of the International
Criminal Court for the Former Yugoslavia, will lecture at
5.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 28 January, in Mordan Hall, St Hugh's
College. Further information may be found at www.fljs.org. Subject: 'The
International Criminal Court and evolving conceptions of
victim-centred justice.'
Department of Social Policy and Social Work: Sidney Ball
Memorial Lecture
PROFESSOR GREG DUNCAN will deliver the Sidney Ball
Memorial Lecture at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 26 February, in the
Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College.
Subject: 'Poverty and child development.'
Department of Social Policy and Social Work: Values,
ideas and welfare cultures in comparative perspective
The following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays
in the Violet Butler Room, Barnett House. Enquiries may be
directed to Bryony Groves (e-mail: bryony.groves@socres.ox.ac.uk).
STEINAR STJERNO, Oslo
20 Jan.: 'The history of an idea: three traditions
of solidarity.'
ALEX WADDAN, Leicester
27 Jan.: 'American exceptionalism and social
policy.'
PROFESSOR WIM VAN OORSHOT, Tilburg
3 Feb.: 'Popular deservingness perceptions and
conditionality of solidarity in Europe.'
RANA JAWAD, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations,
Warwick
10 Feb.: 'Possibilities of positive social action:
religion and social welfare in the Middle East.'
PROFESSOR ROBERT WALKER
17 Feb.: 'European and American welfare values: case
studies in cash benefits reform.'
DR MARTIN SEELEIB-KAISER
24 Feb.: 'From conservative to liberal-
communitarian welfare states: changing interpretative
patterns in Austria, Germany, and the Netherlands.'
PROFESSOR PETER TAYLOR-GOOBY, Kent
3 Mar.: 'Social justice and social provision:
qualitative and quantitative evidence from Germany and the
UK.'
RACHEL HINTON, Department for International
Development
10 Mar.: 'Culture and social policy in developing
countries: a perspective from UK development policy.'
All Souls Criminology Seminars
The following seminars will be held at 3.30 p.m. on
Thursdays in the Old Library, All Souls College. Enquiries
may be directed to ccr@crim.ox.ac.uk.
DR PHIL CLARK
22 Jan.: 'Restorative justice for genocide?
Assessing the impact of the Gacaca Community Courts in
Rwanda.'
PROFESSOR DAVID NELKEN, University of Macarata, Italy
5 Feb.: 'What makes concepts travel well? Comparing
prison rules and corruption standards.'
DR ANNA SOUHAMI, Edinburgh
19 Feb.: 'Transforming youth justice: power,
ambiguity, and the governance of youth crime.'
PROFESSOR PAUL WILES, PROFESSOR IAN LOADER, and other
speakers
12 Mar.: 'Does crime policy need criminology, and
does criminology need crime policy?'
(Debate)
School of Geography and the Environment
TIM SCHWANEN will lecture at 2 p.m. on Monday, 15
December, in the Boardroom, the School of Geography and the
Environment.
Subject: 'Analytical, critical, and cultural
understandings of every mobility and beyond.' Open
lecture series: Sustainable transport
PROFESSOR CHENG YUAN LIN will deliver the first lecture in
this series at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 20 January, in the School
of Geography and the Environment. The full series programme
will be published later. Enquiries may be directed to Lara
Scott (e-mail: lara.scott@ouce.ox.ac.uk).
Subject: 'Approaches towards sustainable maritime
transportation.'
Louwes Lecture
PROFESSOR LAURENCE BOISSON DE CHAZOURNES, Geneva, will deliver the
Louwes Lecture at 4.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 21 January, in Lecture Room 2, Christ Church.
Subject: 'Freshwater and international law: universal and regional perspectives.'
Ethnicity and Identity Seminar: The identity of ghosts:
haunting, corporeality, and the spectre
The following seminars will be held at 11 a.m. on Fridays
in the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, 51
Banbury Road.
Conveners: Shirley Ardener, Elisabeth Hsu, Lidia
Sciama, and Katherine Swancutt.
OLGA ULTURGASHEVA, Cambridge
23 Jan.: 'The wandering spirits of the dead: ghosts,
social imagination, and memory about Gulag in north-eastern
Siberia.'
GREGORY DELAPLACE, Cambridge
30 Jan.: 'Who sees what, and how? Ghosts and
Mongolian regimes of communicability.'
DAVID BERLINER, Université Libre de Bruxelles
6 Feb.: 'Persistent spirits: interactive aspects of
religious transmission.'
THOMAS THORNTON
13 Feb.: 'Land otter men and other spectral forces
in Tlingit environmental perception.'
EMMANUEL NUESIRI
20 Feb.: 'Kindred spirits and the fate of the Bimbia
Forest, Cameroon.'
MICHAEL POLTORAK, Kent
27 Feb.: ' "Run from dead ghosts, but enjoy the
living ones!" Tongan tevolo as anthropological
inter-subjects.'
KJERSTI LARSEN, Oslo
6 Mar.: 'A body of spirits: problems of identity and
shared realities among humans and spirits in Zanzibar.'
KATHERINE SWANCUTT
13 Mar.: 'Spectres of slavery and a false start to
death rites among the Nuosu of Yunnan, China.'
Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology and
the Ian Ramsey Centre, Faculty of Theology
DR GRAHAM WOOD, School of Philosophy, University of
Tasmania, will lecture at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 22 January, in
the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, 64
Banbury Road.
Subject: 'Detecting design: fast and frugal or
all things considered?'
ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society seminars:
Immigration and low-wage labour markets
The following seminars will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursdays
in the Seminar Room, the Pauling Centre, 58a Banbury Road.
Further information is available at www.compas.ox.ac.uk/e
vents/seminars_lectures.shtml.
Convener: Martin Ruhs.
KEN MAYHEW, SKOPE, Oxford
22 Jan.: 'Low-wage work in the EU and US.'
STEPHEN NICKELL, Nuffield
29 Jan.: 'The impact of immigration on occupational
wages in Britain.'
DAVID METCALFE, LSE; Chairman, MAC
5 Feb.: 'Labour shortages and immigration policy:
the work of the UK's Migration Advisory Committee (MAC).'
DON DEVORETZ, Simon Fraser
12 Feb.: 'Border thickness: obese or svelte?'
MARTIN RUHS, COMPAS
19 Feb.: 'Economic research and labour immigration
policy.'
SONIA MCKAY, London Metropolitan
26 Feb.: 'Undocumented worker transitions.'
JO MORIARTY, King's College, London
5 Mar.: 'Immigration and the social care sector in
the UK.'
BRIDGET ANDERSON, COMPAS
12 Mar.: 'Smoke, mirrors, and magic numbers:
immigration and labour markets.'
Contemporary South Asia seminar
The following seminars will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursdays
in Seminar Room 2, the Department of International
Development, Queen Elizabeth House.
Conveners: Dr Nikita Sud, Mr Rajesh Venugopal,
and Dr Nandini Gooptu.
ARADHNA AGGARWAL, Delhi
22 Jan.: 'SEZs in India: past experience, current
status, and future prospects.'
DEEPAK MISHRA
29 Jan.: 'Institutional diversity and capitalist
transformation in the eastern Himalayas: the case of
Arunachal Pradesh.'
THOMAS BLOM HANSEN, Amsterdam
5 Feb.: 'The India that does not shine: Muslims and
the new urban security regimes in India.'
NIKITA SUD
12 Feb.: 'From zamindari to land reform and back
again: the liberalisation of Gujarat's land.'
NIAZ KHAN
19 Feb.: 'Society versus social forestry:
implications of patronage for community-based forestry in
Bangladesh.'
SUBIR SINHA
26 Feb.: 'Theorising the developmental state: some
culs-de-sac and some ways forward.'
NANDINI GOOPTU
5 Mar.: 'Enterprise culture, society and politics in
India today.'
MATTHEW NELSON
12 Mar.: To be announced.
Department of International Development: Development
seminar
The following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Thursdays
in Seminar Room 2, the Department of International
Development, Queen Elizabeth House. Those wishing to attend
are asked to note that there is no access to Queen Elizabeth
House after 5.15 p.m.
Late alterations to the arrangements will be made
available at www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/event-info.
Enquiries may be directed to Denise Watt (telephone:
Oxford (2)81803, e-mail: denise.watt@qeh.ox.ac.uk).
Conveners: Professor A.J.B. Wood and Professor
E.V.K. Fitzgerald.
DUNCAN GREEN, Head of Research, Oxfam GB
22 Jan.: Book- launch: From Poverty to
Power.
FRANCES STEWART
29 Jan.: 'CRISE findings on horizontal inequalities
and conflict: an overview.'
RAUFU MUSTAPHA
5 Feb.: 'Limits of ethnic engineering: rebuilding
Nigerian unity by building Abuja.'
ROZANA HIMAZ
12 Feb.: 'Using longitudinal data to understand the
dynamics of poverty: examples from Young Lives.'
JOHN WILLIAMSON, Peterson Institute for International
Economics, Washington, DC
19 Feb.: 'Are financial crises an inevitable feature
of the landscape?'
MARTIN WOODHEAD, Open University
26 Feb.: 'What does education for all mean in
practice for young children in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and
Vietnam?'
GRAHAM BROWN, Bath
5 Mar.: 'The political economy of secessionism: a
quantitative model and case studies from south-east
Asia.'
GINA CRIVELLO
12 Mar.: 'The "place" of aspirations: youth
transitions through school, work, and migration; evidence
from Young Lives in Peru.'
Department of Education: public lectures
The following lectures will be held at 5 p.m. on Mondays
in Seminar Room A, the Department of Education. The lectures
are followed at 6.30 p.m. by a short reception.
ANNE EDWARDS, INGRID LUNT, and ELENI STAMOU
19 Jan.: 'Schools and inter-professional
working.'
JEAN-MARC DEWAELE, London
26 Jan.: 'The effect of authentic communication
during foreign language acquisition on later self- perceived
communicative competence and foreign language anxiety.'
MAGGIE SNOWLING, York
2 Feb.: 'Children at risk of dyslexia and
implications for intervention.'
CATHERINE BRISSEAU, visiting research fellow
9 Feb.: 'Is French spelling more difficult than
English spelling?'
ANNE WATSON
16 Feb.: 'Teaching mathematics mathematically.'
PAM SAMMONS, Nottingham
23 Feb.: 'Leadership and pupil outcomes: findings
from a mixed method longitudinal study of leadership in
effective and improving schools funded by DCSF.'
EVE GREGORY, Goldsmiths, London
2 Mar.: 'The role of the family in bilingual
learning.'
ZOLTAN DORNYEI, Nottingham
9 Mar.: 'The ideal self and motivation.'
Sociology Group seminars: Inequality, politics, religion,
and moral attitudes: theoretical issues and empirical
findings
The following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on
Wednesdays in the Clay Room, Nuffield College.
Conveners: Nan Dirk de Graaf and Kenneth
Macdonald.
PROFESSOR GEOFF EVANS
21 Jan.: 'Structural transformation, party strategy,
and the end of class politics.'
DR EVA JASPERS, Nijmegen
28 Jan.: 'A comparative study on attitudes towards
euthanasia: testing the "slippery slope" and "dignity with
death" argumens.'
PROFESSOR HERMAN G. VAN DE WERFHORST, Amsterdam
4 Feb.: 'Skills, signals, or closure? A
cross-national comparison of the usefulness of three
mechanisms explaining the schooling effect on the labour
market.'
DR FRANCESCA BORGONOVI, LSE
11 Feb.: 'The relationship between education and
levels of trust and tolerance in Europe.'
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
Interdisciplinary seminars in the study of religions
The following films will be shown at 7.45 p.m. on Mondays
in the Harris Lecture Theatre, Oriel College.
Convener: Dr Elizabeth de Michelis.
26 Jan.: Judaism—Everything is
Illuminated (film, 2005). A young Jewish American man
endeavours to find the Ukrainian woman who saved his
grandfather during WW II. He and his guides discover more
than they expected. See
wip.warnerbros.com/everythingisilluminated. Presenter: Dr
Jordan Finkin.
9 Feb.: Judaism—In Her Own
Time (documentary, 1985). Subtitled 'the final
fieldwork of Barbara Myerhoff', this profound documentary
describes an anthropologist;s exploration of life and death
in the context of Judaism. See
http://directcinema.com/dcl/title.php?id=225.
Presenter: Dr Miri Freud-Kandel.
23 Feb.: Buddhism—The Burmese
Harp (film, 1956). A soldier, thought to be dead,
disguises himself as a Buddhist monk and stumbles upon
spiritual enlightenment. In lyrical black and white, this is
a classic anti-war film. See
www.imdb.com/title/tt0049012. Presenter: Representative of Oxford Buddha
Vihara.
Ian Ramsey Centre
The following seminars will be held at 8.15 for 8.30 p.m.
on Thursdays in the Old Dining Room, Harris Manchester
College. Full details may be found at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~theo0038/semin
ar.html.
Enquiries may be directed to Dr David Leech (e-mail: david.leech@theology.ox.ac.uk).
PROFESSOR TINA BEATTIE
29 Jan.: 'Science, religion, and the human
condition: what really matters in the God debates.'
DR ARD LOUIS
12 Feb.: 'The evolution of biological complexity: a
physicist's point of view.'
PROFESSOR KEITH WARD
26 Feb.: 'Are there limits to scientific
explanation?'
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Oxford Institute of Ageing
Ageing and ethnic diversity
The following seminars will be held at 12.30 p.m. on
Thursdays in Seminar Room G, the Manor Road Building.
Conveners: Dr Robin Mann and Susan Marcus.
PROFESSOR NAINA PATEL, Central Lancashire
22 Jan.: 'Age, enterprise, and change.'
DR CHIH HOONG SIN, Office for Public Management,
London
29 Jan.: 'Ageing, ethnicity, and "the other":
challenges for inclusive research.'
PROFESSOR MARK JOHNSON, De Montfort
5 Feb.: 'An ageing minority cohort: challenges for
care services?'
PROFESSOR PHILIP REES, Leeds
12 Feb.: 'Ageing for Britain's ethnic groups: the
national and local picture to mid-century.'
DR YASMIN GUNARATNAM, Central Lancashire and London
19 Feb.: 'Narrative methods in researching ageing
and ethnicity: methods, emotions, and ethics.'
DR ALISON SHAW
26 Feb.: 'The negotiation of care for the elderly in
transnational Pakistani families.'
DR SANDRA TORRES, Linkoping, Sweden
5 Mar.: 'Cross- cultural interactions in the context
of Swedish elderly care: preliminary findings from an ethnographic study.'
PROFESSOR CHRISTINA VICTOR, Reading, and DR WENDY MARTIN,
Reading
12 Mar.: 'Families and caring in south Asian
communities.'
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Saïd Business School
BT Annual Lecture
MATT BROSS, CEO BT Innovate and BT Group Chief Technology
Officer, will deliver the first annual BT Lecture at 5.45
p.m. on Tuesday, 20 January, in the Saïd Business
School. The lecture will be open to the public. Those wishing
to attend should register at www.sbs.oxford.edu/events/btlecture08
).
Subject: 'Innovation at the speed of life.'
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.
MATS ALVESSON, Lund
Tue. 20 Jan., Seminar Room 13: 'Identity issues in
knowledge intensive firms.'
MEHDI BOUSSEBAA
5 Feb.: 'Managing across national borders:
the case of global projects in professional service firms.'
ANDREW PETTIGREW, Bath
26 Feb.: 'Leading global professional service firms:
preliminary thoughts for a research project.'
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International Gender Studies Centre
Gypsies, Travellers, and Roma throughout Europe
The following seminars will be held at 3.30 p.m. on
Thursdays in Seminar Room 1, Queen Elizabeth House.
Details will be announced later of events to be held on
International Women's Day, 12 March.
Conveners: Professor Judith Okeley and Dr Lidia
Sciama.
PROFESSOR JUDITH OKELEY and DR MARCELO FREDIANI,
Paris
29 Jan.: 'New (Age) and Gypsy travellers in
England—change and continuities.'
PROFESSOR TOMMASO VITALE, Milan
5 Feb.: 'Continuous persecution of Gypsies in Italian local
societies? De-historicisation and an
historical–ethnographic link.'
LIVIA JAROKA, MEP
12 Feb.: 'The situation of Romani women in the
European Union.'
DR IULIA HASDEU, Geneva
19 Feb.: 'Gender in Roma migration patterns in
Belgium.'
DR COLIN CLARK, Strathclyde
26 Feb.: 'The 2008 legal recognition of Scottish
Travellers as an ethnic group.'
DR MAREK JAKOUBEK and LENKA BUDILOVA, West Bohemia
University, Pilsen
5 Mar.: 'Ritual im/purity: new perspectives from
Czecho/Slovakia.'
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Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine
Local and global perspectives in the history of
medicine
The following seminars will be held at 2.15 p.m. on
Mondays in the Wellcome Unit, 47 Banbury Road. Further
details may be found at www.wuhmo.ox.ac.uk.
Convener: Dr Sloan Mahone.
SLOAN MAHONE
19 Jan.: ' "A beautiful case of catatonia": the
photography of movement disorders in colonial Kenya.'
NIKLAS THODE JENSEN, Copenhagen
26 Jan.: 'Disease, medicine, and the struggle for
power among the enslaved population in the Danish West
Indies, 1803–48.'
MATTHEW SAVELLI
2 Feb.: 'Was there a Communist psychiatry?'
MATTHEW THOMSON, Warwick
9 Feb.: 'Geoffrey Gorer and the "social science" of
modern sexuality.'
SEBASTIAO SILVA
16 Feb.: 'Portuguese planters and British
humanitarians: international politics and the sleeping
sickness epidemic in Principe.'
SABINE CLARKE
23 Feb.: 'New uses for sugar: the search for medical
products from Caribbean resources, 1940–60.'
JONATHAN REINARZ, Birmingham
2 Mar.: 'From rowdy youths to marginal men: a social
history of medical students in provincial England,
c.1825–1939.'
REBEKAH LEE, Goldsmiths College, London
9 Mar.: 'Mobility, migration, and the management of
death in South Africa.'
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Museum of the History of Science
Telescopes now: real stories of astronomy today
The following lectures will be given at 7 p.m. on Tuesdays
in the Museum of the History of Science. Admission is free
and open to the public.
PROFESSOR ALEXANDER BOKSENBERG, Cambridge
3 Feb.: 'The William Herschel telescope.'
PROFESSOR PHIL DIAMOND, Manchester
10 Feb.: 'Jodrell Bank, the Lovell telescope, and e-
MERLIN.'
PROFESSOR ROGER DAVIES
17 Feb.: 'The Gemini telescopes.'
PROFESSOR ALAN WATSON, Leeds
24 Feb.: 'The Pierre Auger Observatory.'
Other lectures
DR JIM BENNETT will lecture at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, 20
January, in the Museum of the History of Science. Admission
is free and open to the public.
Subject: 'Longitude revisited: James Short and
John Harrison.'
PROFESSOR MARCUS DU SAUTOY will discuss his television
series, The Story of Maths, at 7 p.m. on
Tuesday, 31 March, in the Museum of the History of Science.
Admission is free and open to the public.
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Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals: strategies of central
power
The following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on
Wednesdays in the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, George
Street.
PROFESSOR CHARLES MELVILLE, Cambridge
21 Jan.: 'History and its illustration in the early
Safavid period.'
DR COLIN IMBER, Manchester
28 Jan.: 'Who owned the land? Land tenure in the
Ottoman empire.'
PROFESSOR POLLY O'HANLON
4 Feb.: To be announced.
DR KATHERINE BROWN, King's College, London
11 Feb.: 'Sense and sensibility: the domain of
pleasure and the place of music in Mughal society.'
DR ANDREW NEWMAN, Edinburgh
18 Feb.: 'Shahs and subalterns: the response of the
Safavid court to "voices from below".'
PROFESSOR EDMUND HERZIG
25 Feb.: 'Messing with the market: Safavid trade
policy under Abbas I and his successors.'
SUSAN STRONGE, Victoria and Albert Museum
4 Mar.: 'Portraits of power at the Mughal
court.'
DR EVRIM BIN BAS, Chicago
11 Mar.: 'The constitutional crisis of the fifteenth
century and the Timurid antecedents of the early modern
Islamic discourse on the absolute monarch.'
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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
The following seminars will be held at 12 noon on
Wednesdays in the Barclay Room, Green Templeton College.
Enquiries shoudl be directed to Kate Hanneford-Smith (e-mail:
kate.hanneford-smith@politics.ox.ac.u
k).
For details of this term's Media and Politics seminars,
see under 'Nuffield College' below.
DAVID LEIGH, Investigations Editor, the
Guardian
21 Jan.: 'The future for investigative
journalism.'
RAGEH OMAAR, Middle East Correspondent, Al-Jazeera News
UK
28 Jan.: 'Al- Jazeera and the media in the Middle
East.'
RUTH GLEDHILL, Religion Correspondent, The
Times
4 Feb.: 'Muslims in the media.'
JOHN BRIDCUT
11 Feb.: 'Impartiality.'
STRYKER MCGUIRE, London Bureau Chief,
Newsweek
18 Feb.: 'Barack Obama and the US media.'
ANDREW CURRAH, Research Associate, Oxford Internet
Institute
25 Feb.: 'Business models for the media.'
STEPHEN WHITTLE, expert adviser to the Council of Europe
and formerly BBC Controller of Editorial Policy
4 Mar.: 'Private privacy or the public's right to
know.'
RICHARD DOWDEN
11 Mar.: 'The state of journalism in Africa.' (Arrangements subject to
confirmation)
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Latin American Centre
The following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays
in the Latin American Centre.
Convener: Dr Diego Sánchez-Ancochea.
DANIELA DI PIRAMO, Griffith University
20 Jan.: ' "I am not Evita": symbolic reincarnation,
political memory, and charisma in Argentina.'
DAVID LEHMANN, Cambridge
27 Jan.: 'From multiculturalism to
interculturidad.'
TONY KAPCIA, Nottingham
3 Feb.: 'Cuba at fifty: balancing necessary
continuity and urgent change?'
JEAN DAUDELIN, Carleton University
10 Feb.: 'Frontier violence, property rights
regimes, and Latin America's new civil war.'
LEWIS TAYLOR, Liverpool
17 Feb.: 'How did the peasants vote? The
implications for Peruvian democracy of the 2006 elections in
rural Cajamarca.'
LUCIO RENNÓ ;, Brasília
24 Feb.: 'Electoral systems and political
information in Latin America.'
DUNCAN GREEN, Oxfam
3 Mar.: 'From poverty to power: Oxfam's new
narrative on development—presentation and some lessons
for Latin America.'
SARAH RADCLIFFE, Cambridge
10 Mar.: 'Re-mapping the nation: cartography,
geographical knowledge, and Ecuadorian multiculturalism.'
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Oxford Learning Institute
Research seminars
The following seminars will be held at 4 p.m. on Thursdays
in the Oxford Learning Institute, Level 2, Littlegate House,
St Ebbe's.
The full programme is available at
www.learning.ox.ac.uk/oli.php?page=138.
Those wishing to attend should first contact the OLI
(telephone: Oxford (2)86811, e-mail: research@learning.ox.ac.uk).
DR CLAIRE STOCKS
22 Jan.: 'Does linking teaching with research add
value? The view from a research-intensive university.'
PROFESSOR ROSEMARY DEEM, Bristol
29 Jan.: 'Valuing leadership and leadership
development in England's universities: a route to
isomorphism?'
PROFESSOR ALAN JENKINS, Oxford Brookes
5 Feb.: 'Delivering undergraduate research for all
students? International perspectives.'
DR BARRY STIERER, Westminster
12 Feb.: 'An analysis of "hybrid" scholarly
journals: new spaces for developing distinctive ways of
knowing?'
PROFESSOR GRAHAM GIBBS, formerly Director of the Oxford
Learning Institute
19 Feb.: 'Characteristics of excellent teaching
departments, and the role of leadership of teaching, in elite
research universities.'
PROFESSOR BRUCE MACFARLANE, Portsmouth
26 Feb.: 'Researching with integrity: exploring the
role of character.'
PROFESSOR SANDRA ACKER, Toronto
5 Mar.: 'Tears and fears: Canadian tenure reviews
and gender equity.'
DR ALAN SKELTON, Sheffield
12 Mar.: 'Too good to be true? Teaching excellence
in higher education.'
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Library Services
WISER: Workshops in Information Skills and Electronic
Resources
The following one-hour workshops, delivered by subject
librarians, will be held at 12.30 p.m. in the Oxford
University Computing Services or the Radcliffe Science
Library (the seminars held in the RSL are indicated below).
Places on the OUCS seminars should be booked online through
www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/wiser,
where further information will also be found. Booking is not
needed for the seminars held in the RSL.
The workshops provide an opportunity to gain understanding
of specialist information resources. Attendance is free.
JUDY READING and ANGELA CARRITT
Mon. 26 Jan.: 'Key search tools.'
MAT ANDREWS
Fri. 30 Jan.: 'Theses and dissertations.'
JULIET RALPH
Mon. 2 Feb.: 'Doing a literature search in
biomedicine.'
KARL HARRISON and LJILJA RISTIC
Wed. 4 Feb., RSL: 'Chemistry and materials
science.'
DINAH MANISTY
Fri. 6 Feb.: 'Middle East and Islamic studies.'
ROGER MILLS and JULIET RALPH
Mon. 9 Feb.: 'The Ovid databases.'
LJILJA RISTIC and RACHEL TUCKER
Wed. 11 Feb., RSL: 'Engineering and technology:
reference management.'
SUE BIRD and ROGER MILLS
Fri. 13 Feb.: 'Google Scholar—pros and
cons.'
LJILJA RISTIC
Mon. 16 Feb.: 'Physics, engineering, and computing:
key databases.'
ISABEL MCMANN and PENNY ROBERTS
Wed. 18 Feb., RSL: 'SCOPUS for science and
medicine.'
KATE WILLIAMS
Fri. 20 Feb.: 'Education.'
SUE BIRD and JUDITH PINFOLD
Mon. 23 Feb.: 'Resources for geography and the
environment.'
ROGER MILLS and JULIET RALPH
Wed. 25 Feb.: 'Biosciences: reference
management.'
HILLA WAIT and KATE ALDERSON-SMITH
Fri. 27 Feb.: 'Resources for research in
theology.'
CHRIS FLEGG
Mon. 2 Mar.: 'Management and business
literature.'
NICK HEARN
Fri. 6 Mar.: 'French language and literature:
research resources.'
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Pitt Rivers Museum
Research seminar in material and visual anthropology:
Re-visiting Victorian anthropology?
The following seminars will be held at 1 p.m. on Fridays
in the Pitt Rivers Museum Lecture Theatre (entrance via
Robinson Close).
Conveners: Christopher Wingfield and Alison
Petch.
ALISON PETCH
23 Jan.: 'Total immersion or paddling? The different
methods of fieldwork in Victorian anthropology.'
HILDE NIELSSEN, Bergen
30 Jan.: 'James Sibree and Lars Dahle: Norwegian and
British missionary ethnography as a transnational and
national activity.'
OLIVER DOUGLAS, Museum of English Rural Life, University
of Reading
6 Feb.: 'Upstairs, downstairs: the materialisation
of Victorian folklore studies.'
FRANCES LARSON, Durham
13 Feb.: 'The politics of theory at the Pitt Rivers
Musem 1885–1900.'
EMMA COHEN
20 Feb.: 'Animism and the "Tylorian echoes" of
cognitive anthropology.'
KATHERINE COOPER, Cambridge
27 Feb.: 'Hopelessly entwined? Alpine lake dwellings
and the relationship of anthropology to archaeological
reconstructions of the prehistoric past in the later
nineteenth century.'
SARAH BYRNE, University College London
6 Mar.: 'Rethinking the relationship between
museums, archaeology, and anthropology: are Victorian
perspectives valid today?'
CHRISTOPHER WINGFIELD
13 Mar.: 'Back to the future? Locating and re-
locating England.'
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James Martin Twenty-first Century School
Global governance challenges
The following seminars will be held at 3.30 p.m. on
Thursdays in the James Martin Institute, the Old Indian
Institute, corner of Broad Street and Catte Street.
Reservation is not required. Enquiries may be directed to
events@21school.ox.ac.uk.
DR EDWARD LUCK, Senior Adviser to UN Secretary General
22 Jan.: 'Building global norms: the curious case of
responsibility to protect (RtoP).'
DR AUGUSTO LOPEZ-CLAROS, Director, EFD—Global
Consulting Network, Spain
29 Jan.: 'What would a new Bretton Woods Conference
mean for the world's financial system?'
PROFESSOR JONATHAN WEBER, Imperial College, London
'Can a pandemic infection be controlled without a
vaccine?' PROFESSOR ALLEN BUCHANAN, Duke University 12
Feb.: 'Innovation and inequality.'
DR KHALID KOSER, Geneva Centre for Security Policy
19 Feb.: 'International migration and the global
financial crisis.'
DR IAN BROWN
26 Feb.: 'Faraday cages, marbled palaces, and Humpty
Dumpty: the reality of Internet governance.'
PROFESSOR BEN CASHORE, Yale
5 Mar: 'Sustainable businesses in the global era:
can market driven certification systems reward responsible
behaviour?'
DR ANDREW MAYNARD, Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars
12 Mar.: 'Rethinking science and technology
innovation for the twenty-first century: a nanoscale
perspective.'
Distinguished Public Lecture
PROFESSOR LORD (MARTIN) REES, President of the Royal
Society, will lecture at 5 p.m. on Monday, 23 February, in
the Sheldonian Theatre. Registration is required: see
www.21school.ox.ac.uk/registration
,
or e-mail: events@21school.ox.ac.uk.
The lecture is open to the public.
Subject: 'The world in 2050.'
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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
centuryThe 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 Merry
Donati (e-mail: merry.donati@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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Linacre College
Linacre Lectures
Societies in transition
The Linacre Lectures will be given at 5.30 p.m. on
Thursdays in the OUCE Main Lecture Theatre, the Dyson Perrins
Building.
The lectures are arranged in conjunction with the
Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art,
and are supported by Tetra Laval. The series organiser is
Professor Mark Pollard.
PROFESSOR CHRIS STRINGER, Natural History Museum
22 Jan.: 'The Neanderthal–modern human
transition.'
PROFESSOR GRAEME BARKER, Cambridge
29 Jan.: 'Footsteps, clearings, and fields:
transitions to farming in island south-east Asia.'
PROFESSOR DAVID KILLICK, Arizona
5 Feb.: 'Did metals matter? An examination of the
contexts of early metallurgy around the world.'
PROFESSOR STURT MANNING, Cornell
12 Feb.: 'The volcanogenic context of Europe's first
state-level civilisation: Santorini, Crete and the origins
of the classical world.'
PROFESSOR CHRIS GOSDEN
19 Feb.: 'Becoming Roman in Britain: imperial
impositions and indigenous agency.'
DR BRYAN WARD-PERKINS
26 Feb.: 'The end of Roman civilisation: a man-made
disaster?'
PROFESSOR MARILYN PALMER, Leicester
5 Mar.: 'Industrial transformation: innovation,
diffusion, and continuity.'
PROFESSOR STEVE RAYNER
12 Mar.: 'Technology and transition in the
twenty-first century.'
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Nuffield College and the Reuters Institute for the Study
of Journalism
Media and Politics seminars
The following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Fridays
in the Seminar Room, Nuffield College. Undergraduates are
welcome to attend.
For details of this term's RISJ seminars, see under
'Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism' above.
Conveners: David Butler and John Lloyd.
SIR JEREMY GREENSTOCK, formerlu Ambassador to the UN and
Special Representative in Iraq
23 Jan.: 'Diplomacy and the media.'
SIR JULIAN PRIESTLEY, Secretary General, European
Parliament, 1998–2008
30 Jan.: 'The media and Europe.'
SIR CHRISTOPHER MEYER, Chairman, Press Complaints
Commission, 2003–8
6 Feb.: 'Can the press be regulated?'
ANDREW MILLER, author of 'Bagehot' column, The
Economist
13 Feb.: 'Analysing the political scene.'
MICHAEL WHITE, political writer, the
Guardian
20 Feb.: 'Lobby journalism.'
JOHN BURNS, Head of London Bureau, New York
Times
27 Feb.: 'Being a foreign correspondent.'
CHRIS HUHNE, MP
6 Mar.: 'Fair play for politicians?'
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St Antony's College
Visiting Parliamentary Fellows Seminar:
Democracy: who
wants it?
The following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays
in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College.
Conveners: Professor David Marquand, Professor
Robert Service, Gisela Stuart, MP, and John Horam, MP.
THE RT HON. LORD HURD, PROFESSOR MARGARET MACMILLAN, and
PROFESSOR ADAM ROBERTS
20 Jan.: 'The historical setting.'
PROFESSOR RANA MITTER, DR STEVE TSANG, and GEORGE WALDEN,
former diplomat and MP
27 Jan.: 'China.'
DR VLADIMIR BULDAKOV, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow,
THE RT HON. LORD OWEN, and PROFESSOR LORD SKIDELSKY,
Warwick
3 Feb.: 'Russia.'
THE RT HON. DAVID CURRY, MP, PROFESSOR DAVID MARQUAND, and
GISELA STUART, MP
10 Feb.: 'The European Union.'
SIR MARK LYALL-GRANT, Political Directorate, FCO, DR YUNAS
SAMAD, Bradford, and DR S. AKBAR ZAIDI, Karachi
17 Feb.: 'Pakistan.'
CHRISTOPHER BREWIN, Keele, IHSAN DAGI, Ankara, and MICHAEL
LEIGH, European Commission
24 Feb.: 'Turkey.'
DR DAVID JOHNSON, PROFESSOR PETER LAWRENCE, Keele, and a
third speaker, to be announced
3 Mar.: 'Southern Africa.'
PROFESSOR JOHN DUNN, Cambridge, JOHN HORAM, MP, and
CONSTANZA STELZENMÜLLER, German Marshall Fund of the
US
10 Mar.: 'Democracy: who wants it?'
Fifty years of revolution: politics, economics, and
value(s) in the Cuba of today and tomorrow
This seminar will be held on Thursday, 19 February,
1–5 p.m., in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's
College. Attendance is free.
The seminar will be chaired by Dr Laura Rival and Mr
Laurence Whitehead.
The speakers will include: Dr Tony Kapcia, Head of the
Hispanic and Latin American Studies Department and Chair of
the Cuba Research Forum, Nottingham University; Emily Morris,
Senior Research Fellow, International Institute for the Study
of Cuba (IISC) of London Metropolitan University and former
country editor for Cuba of the Economist Unit; Stephen
Wilkinson, Assistant Director of the IISC, London
Metropolitan University; Marisa Wilson, D.Phil candidate in Social Anthropology,
St Antony's College; Dr George Lambie, Professor of Public
Policy, De Montfort University and Director of the Cuba
Financial Reform Group (responsible for the delivery of a
major EU project in Cuba).
Enquiries may be directed to Marisa Wilson (e-mail:
marisa.wilson@sant.ox.ac.uk).
Asian Studies Centre
South-east Asian studies seminars
The following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Thursdays
in the Deakin Room, Founder's Building, St Antony's College.
Enquiries may be directed to asian@sant.ox.ac.uk.
Convener: Dr Eva-Lotta Hedman.
PROFESSOR GREG BANKOFF, Hull
5 Feb.: 'Cultures of disaster, cultures of coping:
hazard as a frequent life experience in the Philippines.'
DR CLAUDIA MERLI, Durham
12 Feb.: 'Traditional midwives in southern Thailand
and the hybridisation of birth cosmology.'
DR FILOMENO ABEL
26 Feb.: 'East Timor: "Like there is no
tomorrow".'
Contemporary China seminars
The following seminars, arranged with the Oxford China
Centre, will be held at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays in the Oxford
China Centre, 74 Woodstock Road. Enquiries may be directed to
Veronique Cubilie-Ratio (e-mail:
veronique.cubilie-ratio@area.ox.ac.uk).
Conveners: Dr Rachel Murphy and Dr Eileen
Walsh.
DR FRANK PIEKE
20 Jan.: 'The production of rulers: Communist Party
schools and the transition to neo-socialism in contemporary
China.'
DR EMILY HANNUM, Pennsylvania
27 Jan.: 'Educational stratification by ethnic group
in China.'
DR XIANG BIAO
3 Feb.: 'Shijie: Chinese notions of the world.'
DR YIK CHAN CHIN
10 Feb.: 'Media policy processes and the role of the
province in China.'
DR AARON MOORE
17 Feb.: 'Physical dimensions of self: language,
experience, and the diary as a material object in modern east
Asian armed forces.'
DR JIANXIANG BI, West of England
24 Feb.: 'Search for security: China's space
projects.'
DR MARIA CSANADI, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
3 Mar.: 'Globalisation, transformation dynamics, and
political change in China.'
DR JAKOB KLEIN, SOAS
10 Mar.: 'Ecologically based foods and household
food strategies in urban south-west China.'
Pluscarden Programme for the Study of Global Terrorism
and Intelligence
Seminars
The following seminars will be held at 6 p.m. on Thursdays
in the Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College. The seminars are
open to members of the University on production of their
university card. Enquiries may be directed to
pluscarden.programme@sant.ox.ac.uk.
Convener: Professor Steve Tsang.
DR JACK CARAVELLI, formerly US Deputy Assistant Secretary
for Energy
5 Feb.: 'Iran: a memo to President Obama.'
ROBERT HANNIGAN, Security Adviser to the Prime
Minister
12 Feb.: 'Coordinating responses to the threats of
transnational terrorism.'
REAR-ADM. CHRIS PARRY, formerly Head, Development,
Concepts, and Doctrine Centre, the Ministry of Defence
5 Mar.: 'Future shock or future proof? What do we
know and what don't we know?'
Half-day workshop: Conflict economics, underdevelopment,
and counter-terrorism
This workshop will be held on Wednesday, 25 February,
2–6.30 p.m., in the Dahrendorf Room, Founder's
Building, St Antony's College. The workshop is open
to members of the University on production of their
university card. Enquiries may be directed to
pluscarden.programme@sant.ox.ac.uk.
Convener: Professor Steve Tsang.
PROFESSOR PAUL COLLIER: 'Framework for
understanding conflict economics, underdevelopment and
terrorism.'
PROFESSOR KRISTIAN SKREDE GLEDITSCH, Essex:
'Failure of states: what drives them? What can be done to
arrest state failure?'
DR ANKE HOEFFLER: 'Lack of security and
underdevelopment: how to break the vicious circle?'
Speaker to be confirmed: 'Counter-terrorism as
driver behind development aid: the wrong paradigm?'
Conference: Countering home-grown terrorism
This conference will be held in the Lecture Theatre, St
Antony's College, on 23 March (from 9.30 a.m) and 24
March.
Fees are as follows:
Standard rate: £590
British Government concessionary rate (to include members of
the armed forces): £150
Non-Oxford University academic and student concessionary
rate: £80
Oxford University student concessionary rate (maximum of
five): £25
Enquiries and registration requests may be directed to
Jennifer Griffiths (e-mail:
jennifer.griffiths@sant.ox.ac.uk).
Convener: Professor Steve Tsang.
ORLA LYNCH, St Andrews
Mon., 23 Mar., 10.10 a.m.: 'Home-grown terrorists:
who are they and what drives them?'
SHEIKH MUSA ABUBAKER ADMANI, London Metropolitan
University
11.50 a.m.: 'The preaching and understanding of
Islam.'
MAAJID NAWAZ, Quilliam Foundation
2.30 p.m.: 'Identity, loyalty, and other social
factors.'
SARA THORNTON, Thames Valley Police
3.45 p.m.: 'Policing, counter-terrorism tactics and
government policies.'
PROFESSOR BRUCE HOFFMAN, Georgetown
5.25 p.m.: 'The external links, leadership, and
support network.'
MAJ.-GEN. (RETD) TIM CROSS, Staff College
Tue., 24 Mar., 9.05 a.m.: 'Can adopting the
"comprehensive approach" in Afghanistan and elsewhere help to
combat home-grown terrorism?'
DR EMILE NAKHLEKH, CIA (retd)
10.20 a.m.: 'Engaging with the Islamic world at home
and abroad in countering home-grown terrorism.'
CHARLES ALLEN, US Department of Homeland Security
11.50 a.m.: 'Home-grown terrorism in the USA: why is
it a lesser threat than in Europe?'
A senior British official
2.30 p.m.: 'Countering home-grown terrorism in the
UK: how to strike the right balance?'
Russian and East European Studies Centre
Society and economy of post-Communist countries
The following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Mondays
in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College. Further
information may be obtained from the Centre (telephone:
Oxford (2)84728, e-mail: richard.ramage@sant.ox.ac.uk).
Conveners: Dr Carol Scott Leonard and Dr Judith
Pallot.
DR JUDITH PALLOT
19 Jan.: 'Remembering the past to secure the future:
patriotic discourses in Russia's penal peripheries.'
GALINA MYAZHEVICH, Gorbachev Fellow in Global Media, RAI,
Oxford
26 Jan.: 'Moderating the extreme: the role of
Vladimir Pozner's Vremena in mediating
xenophobia in Russia.'
ANNA BADYNA, Economic Commission for Europe, Committee on
Housing and Land Management
2 Feb.: 'Informal settlements in Russia and Eastern
Europe: challenges and policy responses.'
DR DAVID STUCKLER
9 Feb.: 'Transition policies and the post- Communist
mortality crisis.'
CRAIG YOUNG, Manchester Metropolitan, and DUNCAN HOPE,
Liverpool Hope
16 Feb.: 'Media representations of post-accession
migrants in the UK and Romanian press.'
CAMERON ROSS, Dundee
23 Feb.: 'Federalism and local politics in
Russia.'
DANA BROWN
2 Mar.: 'The investment environment in Russia.'
TINA JENNINGS
9 Mar.: 'Big business in Russia under Putin and
Medvedev.'
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Trinity College
Richard Hillary Memorial Lecture
COLM TÓIBÍN will deliver the Richard Hillary
Memorial Lecture at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 27 January, in the
Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre, the St Cross Building.
Subject: 'The art of losing: on grief and reason
in the poetry of Thom Gunn and Elizabeth Bishop.'
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Wolfson College
Translation seminar
PROFESSOR MANANA GELASHVILI, PROFESSOR DONALD RAYFIELD,
and PROFESSOR JON STALLWORTHY will discuss Georgian poetry in
English translation (Galaktion Tabidze), at 7.30 p.m. on
Monday, 26 January, in the Haldane Room, Wolfson College.
Enquiries may be directed to Carmen Bugan (e- mail: carmen.bugan@wolfson.ox.ac.uk).
Public lecture
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.'
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Regent's Park College
Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture
Darwin reconsidered: marking the 150th anniversary of
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural
Selection
The following lectures, which are open to the public, will be given at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays
in Regent's Park College.
PROFESSOR STEPHEN FULLER, Warwick
20 Jan.: 'Darwin's original sin: the rejection of
theology's claims to knowledge.'
PROFESSOR JOHN HEDLEY BROOKE, Durham
27 Jan.: 'Darwin on nature and God.'
DR THOMAS DIXON, Queen Mary, London
3 Feb.: 'Darwin and ethics: morals from
history.'
PROFESSOR CELIA DEANE-DRUMMOND, Chester
10 Feb.: 'Beyond separation or synthesis: Christ and
evolution as theodrama.'
DR JUSTIN BARRETT
17 Feb.: 'From Homo erectus to Homo religiosus:
cognitive evolution and religion.'
PROFESSOR JOHN LENNOX
24 Feb.: 'Darwin and secularism.'
DR CONOR CUNNINGHAM, Nottingham
3 Mar.: 'Darwin contra Darwinism: the
anti-evolutionary thinking of some recent Darwinists.'
DR JOHN WEAVER, President, Baptist Union of Great
Britain
10 Mar.: 'The challenge of evolutionary theory for
the twenty-first century Church.'
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Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies
Hinduism II: Hindu ideas of liberation (Paper 21)
PROFESSOR GAVIN FLOOD will lecture at 11 a.m. on
Wednesdays in the Seminar Room, the Theology Faculty
Centre.
21 Jan.: 'Introduction: the question of soteriology
in India.' 28 Jan.: 'The Samkhya and Yoga.'
4 Feb.: 'Yoga-sutras of Patanjali.'
11 Feb.: 'Bhakti and Yoga in the
Bhagavad-gita and its interpreters.'
18 Feb.: 'Bhakti literatures and ritual
texts.'
25 Feb.: 'The Sant tradition: Kabir,
Mirabai.'
4 Mar.: 'The Pancaratra.'
11 Mar.: 'Monistic Saivism.'
The importance of religion
PROFESSOR GAVIN FLOOD will lecture at 10 a.m. on Fridays
in the Library, the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies.
23 Jan.: 'Religion and spirituality.'
30 Jan.: 'Religion and literature.'
6 Feb.: 'Religion and music.'
Religious experience in psychology, anthropology, and
sociology
DR JESSICA FRAZIER will lecture at 10 a.m. on Fridays in
the Library, the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies.
13 Feb.: 'Anthropology of religion and the religious
imagination.'
27 Feb.: 'Psychology of religion and the
cartography of belief.'
6 Mar.: 'Sociology of religion and the
force of the individual.'
Hindu understandings of God
The following lectures will be given at 2 p.m. on
Thursdays in the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies.
DR JESSICA FRAZIER
29 Jan.: 'Ideas of God in Hinduism.'
PROFESSOR KEITH WARD
12 Feb.: 'The theology of Ramanuja.'
DR REMBERT LUTJEHARMS
26 Feb.: 'The theology of Jiva Gosvami.'
PROFESSOR GAVIN FLOOD
12 Mar.: 'The theology of Utpaladeva and the
monistic Shaivas.'
Readings in the Jayakhya-samhita
Lectures on this subject will be held at 10 a.m. on
Mondays, weeks 2–8, in the Library, the Oxford Centre
for Hindu Studies.
Convener: Professor Gavin Flood.
Reading in phenomenology
Lectures on this subject will be held at 10 a.m. on
Thursdays, weeks 2–8, in the Library, the Oxford Centre
for Hindu Studies.
Convener: Professor Gavin Flood.
Other lectures
DR THOMAS DAFFERN will lecture at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 5
February, in the Library, the Oxford Centre for Hindu
Studies.
Subject: 'Hinduism, non-violence, and the costs
of terrorism: towards an Indian mediation service?'
DR MAYA WARRIER, University of Wales, Lampeter, will
lecture at 5 p.m. on Monday, 16 February, in the Faculty
Room, the Oriental Institute.
Subject: 'Bovine slaughter, media
representations, and the construction of Hindu identity in
Britain' (Majewski Lecture)
BJARNE WERNICKE OLESEN will lecture at 2 p.m. on Thursday,
5 March, in the Library, the Oxford Centre for Hindu
Studies.
Subject: 'The origins and development of
Shaktism.'
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Oxford Italian Association
Lectures
The following lectures will be given as shown. Admission
costs £1 for members, £3 for non-members;
students under thirty are admitted free.
For further information about the Association, e-mail
pmilner@clara.net, or
telephone Oxford 377479.
FERDINANDO GIUGLIANO Wed. 21 Jan., 7.30 p.m., Pauling
Centre, 58 Banbury Road: 'Lapdog or watchdog: politics and
the Italian press.'
PROFESSOR MARK ROBINSON
Thur. 5 Feb., 7.30 p.m., Mary Ogilvie Theatre, St
Anne's: 'Recent excavations of Roman gardens at
Pompeii.'
DR THIERRY MOREL
Tue. 17 Feb., 5 p.m., Oriel: 'Sixth among such
mighty minds: Vasari's painting of Dante and His Peers.'
(To attend, telephone the Secretary: Oxford
377479)
Other events
Fri. 16 Jan., Rewley House: showing of film Le Fate
Ignoranti,
Ferzan Ozpetek, 106 minutes, sub-titles. Admission free.
Wed. 11 Feb.: 'Facciamo quattro chiacchiere
insieme', for members and guests only. For further
information, telephone Oxford 377479.
Tue. 3 Mar.: Wine-tasting, for members and guests
only. This is a ticketed event.
Exhibition
From Monday, 19 January, for two weeks, exhibition of paintings: `Mediterranean fishes',
by Antonio De Rosa, in collaboration with Wolfson College. Open daily, 10 a.m.--4 p.m.,
Wolfson College, Linton Road. Intending visitors should telephone the college beforehand
(Oxford (2)74100). Admission free.
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