Oxford
University Gazette, 22 July 2010: Diary
Tuesday 27 JulyMS SHLOMIT STEINBERG: 'Between the heart and the eye—an Ottoman view of Jerusalem by Vanmour' (lecture), Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean, 5 p.m. (seat reservation recommended: antiquities@ashmus.ox.ac.uk). Wednesday 28 JulyTHE VEN. JULIAN HUBBARD: 'Religion in the European Union' (Christ Church Summer Lectures), North Transept, Cathedral, 4.30 p.m. (admission free, and open to the public; enquiries: cathedral@chch.ox.ac.uk). Wednesday 4 AugustPROFESSOR SARAH FOOT: 'The cloister and the crime: medieval monks in modern murder mysteries' (Christ Church Summer Lectures), North Transept, Cathedral, 4.30 p.m. (admission free, and open to the public; enquiries: cathedral@chch.ox.ac.uk). Wednesday 11 AugustTHE VERY REVD DR CHRISTOPHER LEWIS: 'Is religion in decline?' (Christ Church Summer Lectures), North Transept, Cathedral, 4.30 p.m. (admission free, and open to the public; enquiries: cathedral@chch.ox.ac.uk). Tuesday 17 AugustDR JIM BENNETT: 'Printmaking and the early Royal Society' (lecture), Museum of the History of Science, 7 p.m. Wednesday 18 AugustTHE REVD DR EDMUND NEWELL: 'Chaos theory: theology and the sea' (Christ Church Summer Lectures), North Transept, Cathedral, 4.30 p.m. (admission free, and open to the public; enquiries: cathedral@chch.ox.ac.uk). Wednesday 25 AugustDR GEORGI PARPULOV: 'Sacred faces—icons in Oxford' (Christ Church Summer Lectures—final lecture), North Transept, Cathedral, 4.30 p.m. (admission free, and open to the public; enquiries: cathedral@chch.ox.ac.uk). Tuesday 31 AugustPITT RIVERS MUSEUM: Lower Gallery closed for building works (reopens 11 September). Saturday 4 SeptemberMUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE: a programme of talks, tours, music and film related to the current exhibition 'The pleasures and sorrows of work', 10 a.m.–10 p.m. Saturday 11 SeptemberPITT RIVERS MUSEUM: Open Door—guided forty-minute tours 'behind the scenes', 2 p.m., 2.45 p.m., and 3.30 p.m. (booking essential: tel. (2)70927). Monday 13 SeptemberCONFERENCE: 'Choruses: ancient and modern' (Annual Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama conference), Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies and the Jacqueline du Pré Building. (Continues tomorrow. For information: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/confc horus.html; to register: naomi.setchell@classics.ox.ac.uk). Saturday 18 SeptemberMUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE: 'Words and voices'—a programme of talks presenting Oxford Fellows of the early Royal Society (including John Wilkins, Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke) through their own words, 2–5 p.m. Monday 20 SeptemberCONFERENCE: 'International data sharing' (Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies at Oxford (HeLEX)) (day 1), St Hugh's (for information: http://helix.medsci.ox.ac.uk/data-sharing-international-conference-1). Tuesday 21 SeptemberCONFERENCE: 'International data sharing' (Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies at Oxford (HeLEX)) (day 2), St Hugh's (for information: http://helix.medsci.ox.ac.uk/data-sharing-international-conference-1). Wednesday 22 SeptemberCONFERENCE: 'International data sharing' (Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies at Oxford (HeLEX)) (day 3), St Hugh's (for information: http://helix.medsci.ox.ac.uk/data-sharing-international-conference-1). Saturday 25 SeptemberCONFERENCE: 'Dining and death: interdisciplinary perspectives on the funerary banquet in art, burial and belief', Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies. (Continues tomorrow. Further information at www.arch.ox.ac.uk/dininganddeath.ht ml) Wednesday 29 SeptemberALEXANDER MAITLAND: 'The life of a great explorer' (Beatrice Blackwood Lecture), Pitt Rivers Museum, 6 p.m. Friday 1 OctoberMICHAELMAS TERM begins. Tuesday 5 OctoberCONGREGATION meeting, Convocation House, 12 noon (Oration by the Vice-Chancellor). Sunday 10 OctoberMICHAELMAS FULL TERM begins. |
