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University Gazette, 5 November 2009: Lectures
Inaugural LecturesHarold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American HistoryPROFESSOR ROBIN KELLEY will deliver his inaugural lecture at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 10 November, in the Examination Schools. Subject: ' "He's got the whole world in his hands": US history and its discontents in the Obama era.' Dr Lee's Professor of Physical ChemistryPROFESSOR CAROL ROBINSON will deliver her inaugural lecture at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 17 November, in the Examination Schools. The subject of the lecture will be announced later. Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of SciencePROFESSOR MARCUS DU SAUTOY will deliver his inaugural lecture at 5.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 25 November, in the Examination Schools. Admission is free, but tickets are required. Visit www.conted.ox.ac.uk/inauguralsimonyi to register. Subject: 'Mathematics: navigating nature's dark labyrinth.'
Clarendon Lectures in EconomicsCancellation of lectures. The Clarendon Lectures in Economics, due to have been held as detailed below (speaker Ernst Fehr), have been cancelled.
Radhakrishnan Memorial LecturesPROFESSOR NIRAJA GOPAL JAYAL will deliver the Radhakrishnan Memorial Lectures at 5 p.m. on Thursdays in the Examination Schools. 12 Nov.: 'Pedagogies of duty.' 19 Nov.: 'Dilemmas of differentiated citizenship.' 26 Nov.: 'Genealogies of rights.'
Mathematical, Physical and Life SciencesGlycobiology Institute: Distinguished Lecture in VirologyPROFESSOR IAN A. WILSON, Hansen Professor of Structural Biology, Scripps Research Institute, will lecture at 4.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 18 November, in Rhodes House, South Parks Road. All members of the University are welcome to attend. Subject: 'Pandemic, avian and swine influenza: antigen structure, receptor specificity and neutralisation.' Materials Modelling Laboratory seminarsThe following seminars will be held at 2 p.m. on Fridays in the Hume-Rothery Lecture Theatre, Department of Materials. DR FILIPPO DE ANGELIS, Perugia DR GEOFFROY HAUTIER, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology DR ARASH MOSTOFI, Imperial College, London PROFESSOR ALAN COCKS DR SCOTT WOODLEY, University College, London
Medical SciencesJoel Mandelstam LecturePROFESSOR JEFF ERRINGTON, Newcastle, will deliver the Joel Mandelstam Lecture at 4 p.m. on Monday, 23 November, in the Lecture Theatre, Medical Sciences Teaching Centre. Subject: 'Spores, antibiotics and the cell cycle.' Oxford Plastic SurgeryPROFESSOR J. STRETCH, Sydney Melanoma Unit, will be the guest speaker at the Academic Meeting for Oxford Plastic Surgery at 12.45 p.m. on Wednesday, 18 November, in Lecture Theatre 1, Tingewick Hall, John Radcliffe Hospital. Subject: 'The ongoing evolution of the Sydney Melanoma Unit: development of the Melanoma Institute Australia and a review of recent developments in management and research opportunities.' Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and MetabolismThe OCDEM seminars will be given at 12.45 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Robert Turner Lecture Theatre, OCDEM, Churchill Hospital. Information about other lectures in the series will be announced. ALBERT BASSON, King's College, London
PhilosophySociety for Applied Philosophy annual lecturePROFESSOR THOMAS POGGE, Yale, will lecture at 5 p.m. on
Friday, 27 November, in the auditorium of the MBI Al Jaber
building, Corpus Christi College. Subject: 'Measuring development, poverty and gender equity.'
Social SciencesOxford Centre for the Study of Inequality and Democracy (OCSID)MICHAEL WOOLCOCK, Development Research Group, the World Bank, will lecture at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, 1 December, in Seminar Room A, Manor Road Building. All are welcome. Subject: 'The past as a foreign country: reconciling contending approaches to understanding the significance of history for development policy.' Lessons in Government seminarsUnless otherwise indicated, the following seminars will be given at 5 p.m. in Lecture Room XI, Brasenose College. Arrangements for the seminar on 19 November differ from those previously published. Conveners: Mr Tom Lubbock and Dr Andrew Stockley. Thur. 19 Nov.: NICK ROBINSON, BBC Thur. 26 Nov.: LORD PHILLIPS, President, Supreme Court of the UK Tue. 1 Dec.: SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR, former US Supreme Court Justice (Venue to be announced) Eastern medicines and religions: medicine and commerceDR IKUMI OKAMOTO, John Fellow Fellow, will lecture at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 11 November, in the School of Anthropology, 61 Banbury Road. Subject: ' "I want to cure cancer by increasing tairyoku (body power)": use of tairyoku by patients and the wellness industry in Japan.'
Ashmolean MuseumWilliam Cohn Memorial LecturePROFESSOR MAGGIE BICKFORD, Professor of Art and Architecture, Brown University, will deliver the forty-first William Cohn Memorial Lecture at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 11 November, in the Hall, the Taylor Institution. Subject: 'Repossessing the past: retrospective painting at the courts of Song Dynasty China.'
Saïd Business SchoolThe following events will take place at the Saïd Business School. For more information or to register for any of the following, please visit www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/centres/e ntrepreneurship/event s/. Oxford Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Speaker SeriesMILES MORLAND, Blakeney Management, an emerging and frontier markets investor, will give a seminar, including a question and answer session and networking reception, at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, 11 November. Oxford at Saïd SeminarSLOAN MAHONE, IAN BROWN and JOHN MORRIS will give the following seminar, at 6 p.m. on Monday, 30 November. Subject: 'Stress.' Oxford Entrepreneurs Speakers SeriesRICHARD REED, Innocent Smoothies, will lecture at 6.30 p.m. on Thursday, 3 December, on the story of his business.
Library ServicesWorkshops in Information Skills and Electronic Research (WISER)The following workshops will be held at 12.30 p.m. on the days shown in the OUCS, 13 Banbury Road. Further details may be found at www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/services/trainin g/wiser/. JULIET RALPH and ISABEL MCMANN JAYNE PLANT
Centre for Socio-legal StudiesInterdisciplinary perspectives on communication and governanceThe following seminars will be given at 4.30 p.m. on Mondays in Seminar Room D, Manor Road Building. MARK STEPHENS, Finers, Stephens and Innocent DR DES FREEDMAN, Goldsmiths, London DR LAWRENCE MCNAMARA, Reading PROFESSOR PAUL CORNISH, Chatham House PROFESSOR IOAN LEWIS, London School of Economics
Green Templeton CollegeInaugural Annual Sir Douglas Hague LectureTHE RT HON. LORD DRAYSON OF KENSINGTON, Minister for Science and Innovation, will deliver the inaugural Annual Sir Douglas Hague Lecture at 6.30 p.m. on Thursday, 19 November, in the Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre, the Saïd Business School. The lecture will expore the links between the academic and entrepreneurial worlds and the leadership challenges they pose. Those wishing to attend should register online at www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/centres/entrepreneurship/events/Pages/SirDouglasHagueLecture.aspx< /a> Enquiries may be directed to Emily Davis, Saïd Business School (telephone: Oxford (2)88845).
St Edmund HallPhilip Geddes Memorial LectureGEORDIE GREIG, Editor, London Evening Standard, will deliver the Philip Geddes Memorial Lecture at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 24 November, in Doctorow Hall, St Edmund Hall. Subject: 'Editing in changing times.'
St John's CollegeLectureANGELA GODFREY-GOLDSTEIN, Advocacy Officer for ICAHD, Jerusalem, will give an illustrated talk at 5 p.m. on Monday, 23 November, in the Auditorium, St John's College. Subject: 'Jerusalem dispossed' (an Israeli considers the matrix of control imposed on Palestinians).
BlackfriarsLecturePROFESSOR EDMUND PELLEGRINO, Emeritus Professor of
Medicine and Medical Ethics, Georgetown, will lecture at 5
p.m. on Friday, 6 November, at Blackfriars. Sponsored by the
Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, the Linacre Centre for
Bio-ethics and the Institute for the Psychological
Sciences. Subject: 'Is (Catholic) bioethics an authentic scholarly discipline?'
Wycliffe HallChavasse LecturesMarkets, money and morals: a vision for capitalism after the crisisLORD GRIFFITHS OF FFORESTFACH, Vice-Chairman of Goldman Sachs, will deliver a series of Chavasse Lectures at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays in the Lower Common Room, Wycliffe Hall. The lecture series will continue in Hilary Term. 3 Nov.: 'The teaching of Jesus and the question of money.' 24 Nov.: 'Hard questions for bruised bankers.'
Oxford Current Affairs SocietyDR ECKHARD LUBKEMEIER, Deputy German Ambassador and Minister Plenipotentiary, will lecture at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, 17 November, in the Gladstone Room, the Oxford Union. The lecture is not a Union event, and is open to all members of the University. Dr Lubkemeier will speak on the consequences of the 2009 Federal Election, and the direction of German politics over the next decade. He will also discuss the twentieth anniversary of reunification, and the sixtieth anniversary of the passing of the Basic Law.
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