Oxford
University Gazette, 18 December 2008: 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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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.
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Medical Sciences
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 IAIN WATT, Leiden
9 Jan.: 'OA = ? X + 1 and other paradoxes in
OA.'
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,
Hospital
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.'
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Oriental Studies
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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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
29 Jan.: RICHARD THOMAS, Information
Commissioner
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.: RHODRI MORGAN, AM, First Minister of
Wales
Wed. 11 Mar., 11 a.m.: CHARLES CLARKE, MP,
formerly Education Secretary and Home Secretary
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.'
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.: 'Development and security in post- conflict
state-building.' (Arrangements subject to
confirmation)
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.'
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).
Conveners: Dr David Rodin and Professor Jennifer Wilkinson.
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 CHRIS REUS-SMIT, ANU
16 Feb.: 'Individual rights and the making of the
international system.'
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.'
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.'
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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 wishig to attend should register
at www.sbs.oxford.edu/events/btlecture08
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Subject: 'Innovation at the speed of life.'
New organisational perspectives: design, networks, and
practices
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
22 Jan.: 'Identity issues in knowledge intensive
firms.'
MEHDI BOUSSEBAA
5 Feb.: '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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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 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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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 will be given at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays
in Regent's Park College, Pusey Street, Oxford. The lectures
are open to the public.
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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