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University Gazette, 12 November 2009: Lectures
Inaugural LecturesDr 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.Subject: 'Vacuum-packed proteins—a new phase for structural biology?' 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.'
Cyril Foster LectureAMBASSADOR WILLIAM J. BURNS, US State Department, will deliver the Cyril Foster Lecture at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 26 November, in the Examination Schools. This lecture is open to the public. Admission with University card; non-University card holders please provide photographic ID. Please do not bring large bags. Subject: 'America and the world in a new era.'
HistoryEarly modern history seminarJAKOB SEERUP, Copenhagen, will lecture at 2.15 p.m. on Friday, 20 November, in the Rees Davies Room, History Faculty, George Street. Subject: 'Flogging, keelhauling, and crime in the Danish Navy in the Age of Sail— the creation of the Danish naval articles of 1752.'
Medical SciencesOxford Forum for Medical HumanitiesThe following lectures will be given at 6 p.m. on Mondays in the Mure Room, Merton College. PROFESSOR IRVING KIRSCH, Hull DR SIMON SINGH, journalist Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and MetabolismThe following seminars will be given at 12.45 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Robert Turner Lecture Theatre, OCDEM, Churchill Hospital. Additional lectures have been added to those previously published. DR ANNE CLARK PROFESSOR ALBERT BASSON, Kings College, London PROFESSOR SOLOMON TESFAYE, Sheffield
Medieval and Modern LanguagesMedieval Hispanic manuscript and text seminar: Introduction to the manuscripts of the Cantigas de Santa MariaThe following inaugural meeting will be held at 3 p.m. on Thursday, 26 November, in the Theberge Room, St Peter's College. Conveners: Dr Stephen Parkinson and Dr Juan-Carlos Conde. DEIRDRE JACKSON, British Library: 'The miniatures of the Códices Ricos.' STEPHEN PARKINSON: 'Pagemakers: layout in the CSM manuscripts.' DAVID WULSTAN, Aberystwyth: 'The CSM as a musical Rosetta Stone.'
Social SciencesRefugee Studies Centre: Harrell-Bond LectureJAN EGELAND, former UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, will deliver the Harrell-Bond lecture at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 18 November in the Museum of Natural History. Subject: 'Beyond blankets: in search of political deals and durable solutions for the displaced.' Oxford transitional justice research seminarsThe following lectures will be given at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays in Seminar Room D, Social Science Building, Manor Road. Conveners: Dr Phil Clark and Nicola Palmer. DR ALEX JEFFREY, Newcastle DR ZOE NORRIDGE and PIOTR CIEPLAK, Cambridge PAR ENGSTROM, London
TheologyInterdisciplinary seminar in the study of religionsDAVID GELLNER and BAL GOPAL SHRESTHA will lecture at 8 p.m. on Monday, 16 November, at the Dorfman Centre, St Peter's College. Chair: Sondra Hausner. Subject: 'Nepali religion in diaspora: preliminary notes from the field.'
Bodleian Library (centre for the Study of the Book) and Merton CollegeSymposium: Taking sides: the printed broadside, 1450–1850This symposium will take place 9.30 a.m.–5.30 p.m. on Saturday, 14 November, in the Mure Room, Merton College. Event is free but please register by e-mail at: bookcentre@bodley.ox.ac.uk. For further information see: www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/csb/calendar1.ht m.
Smith School of Enterprise and the EnvironmentSeminarThe lecture by DAVID KEITH, environmental scientist, which was previously announced, has been postponed. It will now be given at 4 p.m. on Thursday, 3 December, in the seminar room at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. Subject: 'The case for geo-engineering research.'
Reuters Institute for the Study of JournalismSeminar seriesThe following seminars will be given at 12 noon on Wednesdays in the Barclay Room, Green Templeton College. Arrangements for the seminar on 18 November differ from those previously published. ZOE SMITH, journalist PAOLO MANCINI, Perugia KEVIN MARSH, BBC College of Journalism Web site
Library ServicesWorkshops in Information Skills and Electronic Research (WISER)The following workshops will be held at 12.30 p.m. on the days shown at Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road. Further details may be found at www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/services/training /wiser. LJILJA RISTIC and LINDA ATKINSON JOHANNEKE SYTSEMA and KATE PETHERBRIDGE GILLIAN BEATTIE KAREN LANGDON and PENNY ROBERTS ISABEL HOLOWATY and ELIZABETH CROWLEY
All Souls CollegeChichele LecturePROFESSOR J. MORDAUNT CROOK will deliver the Chichele Lecture at 5 p.m. on Friday, 20 November, in the Old Library, All Souls College. Subject: 'G.M. Young: fifty years on.'
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/SirDouglasHagueLect ure.aspx Enquiries may be directed to Emily Davis, Saïd Business School (telephone: Oxford (2)88845).
Keble CollegeKeble Lectures for ArchaeologyPROFESSOR IAN HODDER, Stanford, will lecture at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, 3 December, in the O'Reilly Lecture Theatre, Keble College. Subject: 'Science and multivocal practice at Catalhoyuk.'
Kellogg CollegeCentre for the Study of Religion in Public LifePROFESSOR ROGER TRIGG will deliver the following lectures
at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays at Kellogg College. 1 Dec.: 'A Christian heritage and a multicultural society?'
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).
Somerville CollegeMonica Fooks Memorial LectureELLEN LEIBENLUFT, National Institute of Mental Health, Maryland, will deliver the Monica Fooks Memorial Lecture at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 18 November, in the Lecture Theatre, the Medical Sciences Teaching Centre. Subject: 'Diagnosing bipolar disorder in youth.'
Oxford University Newman SocietyThomas More Lectures: Religion in the public squareTHE RT REVD JOHN ARNOLD, Diocese of Westminster, and THE HON. DR EVAN HARRIS, MP, will debate the place of Christianity in the British Constitution at 5 p.m. on Monday, 30 November, in the Catholic Chaplaincy, the Old Palace, Rose Place. Further information is available at www.newmansociety.org.uk.
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