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University Gazette, 1 July 2010: Lectures
Medieval and Modern LanguagesSpanish American Literature and the ScientificThis conference will be held on Monday, 5 July, in St Edmund Hall. The registration fee is £15/£7.50. For more information and to register, contact olivia.vazquez-medina@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk or sarah.roger@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk. Graduate student bursaries are available. The keynote speaker will be PROFESSOR MARCUS DU SAUTOY, Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Professor of Mathematics. Admission to the keynote lecture is free. Professor du Sautoy will discuss a joint project he has been collaborating on with a composer, choreographer and sculptor exploring the mathematical ideas behind Jorge Luis Borges' short story 'The Library of Babel'. Other speakers will be: DR RAUL IANES, Miami University: 'El discurso naturalista en Sab (1841) de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda.' KATIA CHORNIK, Open University: 'Reading music backwards: evolutionary ideas in Alejo Carpentier's essay "The Origins of Music and Primitive Music".' DR PATRICIA NOVILLO-CORVAL<BETA> N, University of Kent: 'Was there a real-life Ireneo Funes?: Jorge Luis Borges and modern medical discourses.' DR MARÍA DEL PILAR BLANCO, University College London: 'Telepathy and transfusions: imaginations of science in Pedro Castera's Querens (1890).' MANUEL FONS (author), Universidad de Guadalajara: 'Science and fantasy from the perspective of a postmodern Mexican storyteller.' DR VICTORIA CARPENTER, University of Derby: ' "¿Dije ya?": Textual fragments and repetitions in Obsesivos días circulares (1969) by Gustavo Sainz.' DR DOMINIC MORAN: to be announced. DR JOANNA PAGE, University of Cambridge: 'Beyond postmodern scepticism: Guillermo Martínez on the uses and abuses of mathematical logic in criminology and literature.'
Social SciencesConstitutions and the classics: Sieyes and de MeistreThis workshop, organised by the Foundation for Law, Justice, and Society in association with the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, will be held on Friday, 2 July, 9.15 a.m.–2 p.m., in Queen's Colege. The speakers will be Professor Denis Galligan, Raymond Kubben (Tilburg), and Mila Versteeg. Further information will be found at www.fljs.org/Events, at which reservations can also be made.
Saïd Business SchoolBT Annual LecturePROFESSOR NASSIM N. TALEB, New York Polytechnic Institute, will deliver the BT Annual Lecture at 5.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 14 July, in the BT Centre for Major Programme Management, the Saïd Business School. Registration is necessary, at www.sbs.oxford.edu/events/taleb. Subject: 'Robustness and fragility.'
Computing ServicesData Management Training in the HumanitiesThis half-day workshop will discuss how institutions might meet growing requirements for training in the management of research data within the humanities. The aim is to learn more about research data management training already taking place at UK universities, plans for such training, relevant scoping studies, and related experiences. The workshop will be held at the Oxford e-Research Centre, from 9.15 a.m. to 2 p.m. (including lunch) on Thursday, 22 July. For further information and registration details, visit http://sudamih.oucs.ox.ac.uk/training_workshop.xml.
Christ ChurchSummer LecturesThe following public lectures will be held at 4.30 p.m. on Wednesdays in the North Transept, the Cathedral. Admission is free. Enquiries may be directed to cathedral@chch.ox.ac.uk. PROFESSOR NIGEL BIGGAR PROFESSOR GEORGE PATTISON THE VEN. JULIAN HUBBARD PROFESSOR SARAH FOOT THE VERY REVD DR CHRISTOPHER LEWIS THE REVD DR EDMUND NEWELL DR GEORGI PARPULOV
Wolfson CollegeOxford Historic Churches Trust/Wolfson College Midsummer LecturePROFESSOR DIARMAID MACCULLOCH will lecture at 3 p.m. on Friday, 2 July, in Wolfson College. Admission by ticket. Details at: www.ohct.org.uk/MacCullochLecture.html. Subject: 'Christian history on a lunatic scale: book and television.'
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