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University Gazette, 26 March 2009: Lectures
Inaugural LecturesProfessor of Social AnthropologyPROFESSOR DAVID GELLNER will deliver his Inaugural Lecture at 5 p.m. on Friday, 15 May, in the Examination Schools. Subject: 'The awkward social science? Anthropology on schools, elections, and revolution in Nepal.' Numata Professor of Buddhist StudiesPROFESSOR VESNA WALLACE will deliver her Inaugural Lecture at 5 p.m. on Monday, 18 May, in the Examination Schools. Subject: 'When a Buddha becomes a Mongol.' Montague Burton Professor of International RelationsPROFESSOR ANDREW HURRELL will deliver his Inaugural Lecture at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 19 May, in the Examination Schools. Subject: 'Provincialising Westphalia: the study of global international society in the twenty-first century.' Michael Davys Professor of NeurosciencePROFESSOR JONATHAN FLINT will deliver his Inaugural
Lecture at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 18 June, in the Lecture
Theatre, the Medical Sciences Teaching Centre. Subject: 'The genetic basis of depression.'
Panel Discussion: the future of higher education in the CommonwealthHIS EXCELLENCY MR KAMALESH SHARMA, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, SIR DAVID KING, FRS, Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, and DR NICOLA BREWER, Chief Executive of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights, will take part in this panel discussion, to be held at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 31 March, in the Sheldonian Theatre. The discussion will be chaired by the Rt Hon. Lord Patten of Barnes, Chancellor of the University. The discussion marks five decades of the Commonwealth Scholarships and the fiftieth anniversary of the University's hosting of the first Commonwealth Education Conference. Tickets are required for this event. Those wishing to attend are asked to register their interest by e-mailing to www.ox.ac.uk/events.
HistoryDacre LectureDR NOEL MALCOLM will deliver the Dacre Lecture at 5 p.m. on Monday, 27 April, in the Examination Schools. The lecture is open to all members of the University. Subject: 'The religion of the Patriarchs: ideas about Judaism and natural religion in early modern Europe.'
Mathematical, Physical and Life SciencesPROFESSOR STEVEN N. EVANS, California at Berkeley, will lecture at a colloquium to be held on Friday, 8 May, in the Mathematical Institute. Enquiries may be directed to Petrona Winton (e-mail: winton@maths.ox.ac.uk). Subject: 'Eigenvalues of large random trees.'
Medical SciencesDepartment of Biochemistry: Rodney Porter Memorial LecturePROFESSOR ROGER TSIEN, Nobel Laureate, will deliver the Rodney Porter Memorial Lecture at 4 p.m. on Thursday, 26 March, in the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, the Clarendon Laboratory. Subject: 'Genetically encoded and synthetic molecules for in vivo and clinical imaging.' Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research: The signalling pathways and genetics of cancerThe following seminars will be given at 11 a.m. on Wednesdays in the Ludwig/Jenner Seminar Room, Lower Ground Floor, Old Road Campus Research Building. Convener: Dr Gareth Bond. DR DAVID ADAMS, Sanger Institute, Cambridge PROFESSOR JULIAN DOWNWARD, Cancer Research UK London
Research Institute PROFESSOR BASS HASSAN, WIMM
Social SciencesVisiting Astor LecturePROFESSOR THOMAS RAWSKI, Professor of Economics and History, University of Pittsburgh, will deliver an Astor Lecture at 5 p.m. on Friday, 15 May, in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College. Further information may be found at www.chinacentre.ox.ac.uk. Subject: 'China's economy: past, present, and future.' Israel: historical, political, and social aspectsThe following lectures will held at 8 p.m. on the days shown. Enquiries may be directed to lsi2006@herald.ox.ac.uk, and further information will be found at www.ihps-oxford.co.uk. Convener: Peter Oppenheimer, Christ Church. PROFESSOR SHAI FELDMAN, Brandeis LORD (DAVID) TRIMBLE SHLOMO BROM, Institute for National Security Studies DR ISRAEL FINKELSTEIN, Tel Aviv
Oxford Centre for Late AntiquityELIZABETH ZADORA-RIO, CNRS, Tours, will lecture at 2 p.m. on Monday, 27 April, in the Lecture Room, the Institute of Archaeology. The lecture is held in conjunction with the Medieval Archaeology Seminar. Subject: 'From Roman to early medieval settlement in France: village layout and buildings, c.300–900.'
Bodleian Library and the Oxford University Research ArchiveScholarship, publishing, and dissemination of researchPROFESSOR ROBERT DARNTON, Director, Harvard University Library, will lecture in the first of this planned series at 11 a.m. on Friday, 3 April, in the EPA Lecture Room, Lincoln EPA Science Centre, Museum Road. The lecture will end with a discussion. Enquiries may be directed to Sally Rumsey (e-mail: sally.rumsey@ouls.ox.ac.uk). Subject: 'Open access and other openings.'
Wellcome Unit for the History of MedicineMedicine, surgery, and cultureThe following seminars will be held at 2.15 p.m. on Mondays in the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, 47 Banbury Road. Further details may be found at www.wuhmo.ox.ac.uk. Convener: Dr Margaret Pelling. ANNA MARIE ROOS, Liverpool ALUN WITHEY, Swansea DAVID WRIGHT, McMaster CATHY MCCLIVE, Durham VALENTINA PUGLIANO ELIZABETH HUNTER
Museum of the History of SciencePROFESSOR MARCUS DU SAUTOY will lecture on the making of
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.
Oxford Centre for Islamic StudiesPROFESSOR VARTAN GREGORIAN, President, Carnegie Foundation, New York, will lecture at 5 p.m. on Friday, 24 April, in the Taylor Institution. Subject: 'Encounters between faith and reason in Christianity and Islam.'
Oxford Learning InstituteResearch seminarsThe following seminars will be held at 4 p.m. on Thursdays in the Oxford Learning Institute, Level 2, Littlegate House, St Ebbe's. Further details can be found at www.learning.ox.ac.uk/oli.php?pa ge{eq}138. Those wishing to attend should e-mail to research@learning.ox.ac.uk. Note: a seminar will be held in noughth week. DR KLAUS ZIERER, Munich DR IRIS CHIANG, Edinburgh PROFESSOR LIZ DOHERTY, Sheffield DR LORI BRESLOW, MIT DR ALBERTO AMARAL, Fundaçao das Universidades
Portuguesas PROFESSOR SIR DAVID WATSON, Institute of Education DR LIZ MASTERMAN DR SARA CONNOLLY, East Anglia
All Souls CollegeEvans-Pritchard LecturesSmugglers and Shurafâ: Saharan connectivity and the moral unity of the central SaharaDR JUDITH SCHEELE, Fellow by Examination, Magdalen College, will deliver the Evans-Pritchard Lectures at 5 p.m. on the following days in the Old Library, All Souls College. Tue. 28 Apr.: 'Camel-herders and truckers, caravanserais and garages: preliminary thoughts on Saharan connectivity.' Wed. 29 Apr.: 'Cosmopolitan underbellies: Saharan traders and national morality in the Algerian south.' Tue. 5 May: 'Dates, cocaine, and AK-47s: moral conundrums on the Algero- Malian border.' Wed. 6 May: 'Shurafâ' as cosmopolitans: hierarchy, genealogies, and their contemporary use.' Tue. 12 May: 'Trading in the shari'ah: universalising legal aspirations and the quest for local moral autonomy.' Wed. 13 May: 'Turning movement into place: contemporary Saharan cities and the pitfalls of "hybridity".' Chichele LecturesThe Chichele Lectures will be given at 5 p.m. on Fridays in the Old Library, All Souls College. The lectures are open to all members of the University. DR ANTHONY GERAGHTY, York DR SIMON GREEN, Leeds PROFESSOR COLIN KIDD, Glasgow 19 June: 'The Old-Soules Club: Mercurius and student unrest.' Isaiah Berlin Centennial Seminar on Political ThoughtAn extended seminar will be held on Wednesday, 3 June, in the Old Library, All Souls College, in celebration of the centennial of the birth of Sir Isaiah Berlin. Admission is free but by ticket only. Application should be made to the Fellows' Secretary, All Souls College (telephone: Oxford (2)89109, e-mail: humaira.erfan-ahmed@all-souls.ox.ac .uk). IAN CARTER, Pavia, QUENTIN SKINNER, Cambridge and London,
and HILLEL STEINER, Manchester JOSEPH RAZ, Columbia, TIMOTHY SCANLON, Harvard, and DAVID
WIGGINS
Balliol CollegeLeonard Stein LecturesSIR MAX HASTINGS, FRSL, formerly editor of the Daily Telegraph and the Evening Standard, journalist and author, will give two Leonard Stein Lectures at 5 p.m. on Thursdays in the Saskatchewan Room, Exeter College. 7 May: 'The limits of force in the Middle East: Israel.' 14 May: 'The limits of force in the Middle East: Iraq and Afghanistan.'
New CollegeFiguring lateness: late style, old age, and belatednessThis symposium will be held in New College on Monday, 30 March. The symposium will examine issues related to the idea of 'Lateness'. It will draw on the pivotal approaches to the question of lateness in the work of Theodor Adorno, Edward Said, and Gordon McMullan, but will also attempt to open up debate in new ways beyond the question of an individual's 'late style': by exploring, for example, the relationship between the idea of lateness and genius; lateness and gender; lateness and early death, lateness and philosophies of time or constructions of cultural memory and the link between biographical and epochal lateness or belatedness. Further details and a registration form are available from Maggie Davies (e-mail: maggie.davies@new.ox.ac.uk, telephone: Oxford (2)79552).
St Antony's CollegeOn liberty: the Dahrendorf questionsThis panel discussion, marking the eightieth birthday of Lord Dahrendorf, will be held at 5 p.m. on Friday, 1 May, in the Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College. The participants will JÜRGEN HABERMAS, FRITZ STERN, and TIMOTHY GARTON ASH. Attendance is strictly by prior registration only. Requests for places should be e-mailed to dev.office@sant.ox.ac.uk. Asian Studies CentreCross-cultural communication: effective communication with Chinese people in education, business, and everyday lifeThis workshop will be held on Monday, 30 March, 10.30 a.m.–3.30 p.m., in the Dahrendorf Room, St Antony's College. Enquiries may be directed to Jennifer Griffiths (e-mail: jennifer.griffiths@ sant.ox.ac.uk). MAVIS MACLEAN and RACHEL MURPHY DR MONA CHUNG, Deakin DR MONA CHUNG, Deakin, and PROFESSOR RICHARD INGLEBY,
North China University of Technology DR CATHERINE XIANG, Bristol DR JANETTE RYAN, Monash
St John's College Research CentrePsychoanalysis and the work of Melanie KleinThis workshop, organised jointly with the Melanie Klein Trust, will be held on Saturday, 25 April, 10 a.m.–4 p.m., in the St John's College Research Centre. Abstracts and further details may be found at www.sjc.ox.ac.uk; registration requests, with name, college/department or other university, should be directed to the Trust (e-mail: KleinTrust@aol.com). PRISCILLA ROTH: 'Using projective identification.' RONALD BRITTON: 'Is the truth therapeutic?' BETTY JOSEPH: 'Uses of the past in the psychoanalytic process.'
Oxford Asian Textile GroupThe following lectures will be given at 5.45 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Pauling Centre, 58 Banbury Road. Admission for visitors costs £2. Enquiries may be directed to Rosemary Lee (e-mail: rosemary.lee.t21@btinternet.com). LESLEY PULLEN MICHAEL HITCHCOCK
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