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University Gazette, 27 May 2010: Lectures
Astor Visiting LecturePROFESSOR ROBERT E. COHEN, MIT, will deliver the Astor Visiting Lecture at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 3 June, in the Thom Building. Subject: 'Designing robust omniphobic surfaces.'
Hussey Lecture on the Church and the ArtsJAMES MACMILLAN, composer and conductor, will deliver the Hussey Lecture on the Church and the Arts at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 9 June, in the Blue Boar Lecture Theatre, Christ Church. Space is limited and will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. Subject: 'Music, modernity and the sacred.'
Cherwell–simon Memorial LecturePROFESSOR SIR MICHAEL PEPPER, Pender Professor of Nanoelectronics, University College, London, will deliver the Cherwell–Simon Memorial Lecture at 4.30 p.m. on Friday, 28 May, in the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory. Subject: 'Semiconductor nanostructures—the engineering of physics.'
Clarendon Lectures in FinanceLabour and FinanceMARCO PAGANO, Naples, will deliver the Clarendon Lectures in Finance at 5.30 p.m. in the Saïd Business School. The lectures are free and open to the public. Thurs. 3 June: 'Finance, growth and job reallocation.' Fri. 4 June: 'Workers, corporate debt and bankruptcy law.' Sat. 5 June: 'Workers, corporate control and risk sharing.'
Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of European Comparative LiteratureTextual trajectories in early modern EuropePROFESSOR ROGER CHARTIER, writer and academic, Directeur d'Etudes, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, will give the following lectures at 5.30 p.m. in the Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College. Tues. 1 June: 'From manuscript to book: the author's hand.' Wed. 2 June: 'From copy to print: the printer's mind.' Fri. 4 June: 'From book to stage—a case study: Don Quixote for puppets (Lisbon, 1733).' SeminarPROFESSOR CHARTIER will hold the following seminar at 2 p.m. on Thursday, 3 June, in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, Room 2, Taylor Institution. Subject: 'Textual recycling: the history of Cardenio.'
English Language and LiteratureLecturePROFESSOR THOMAS PFAU, Duke University, will lecture at 5.15 p.m. on Thursday, 10 June, in the MacGregor Room, Oriel College. Subject: ' "All is leaf": Goethe's dynamic form and the beginnings of phenomenology.'
Oriental StudiesKorean Studies lectureDR TOMAS HORAK, Prague, will lecture at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 1 June, in Lecture Room 2, the Oriental Institute. Convener: Dr J. Kiaer. Subject: 'Explaining some aspects of the Korean language structure from a functional perspective.'
Social SciencesOxford Institute of Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC)/Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of War: Ethics under firePROFESSOR HENRY SHUE and DAPO AKANDE will introduce a screening of footage of US troops in Baghdad attacking a group of suspected insurgents, later found to include journalists and children. A discussion will follow. The event will take place at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 8 June, in the Old Library, All Souls College. Pre- registration required to secure a place by e-mailing: lucy.crittenden@politics.ox.ac.uk. African Studies annual lectureDR JONNY STEINBERG, South African writer and scholar, will deliver the African Studies annual lecture at 5 p.m. on Friday, 11 June, in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College. Subject: 'Development as an alien culture: the purposes of governance in South Africa.' Law Faculty Human Rights Discussion GroupPUSHPINDER SAINI, QC, Blackstone Chambers, will lecture at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 8 June, in the senior common room, Law Faculty Building. Subject: 'The Smith case: extra-territoriality and the right to life under the ECHR.' Israel: historical, political and social aspectsPROFESSOR FRANCES RADAY, Hebrew University, will lecture at 5 p.m. on Monday, 19 July, in the senior common room, Law Faculty Building. Co-hosted by the Law Faculty Human Rights Discussion Group. Subject: 'Pluralism in Israel—religious, ethnic and gender equality through the looking glass of Israel's Supreme Court.' Extra-legal Governance Institute: Codes of the underworld: applying signalling theory to criminal communicationThe following seminar will be given on Friday, 25 June, in Seminar Room C, Manor Road Building. For information, contact: liz.davidbarrett@sociology.ox.ac.uk. 2 p.m.: PROFESSOR AVINASH DIXIT, Princeton, and GARRY RUNCIMAN, Cambridge. 4.15 p.m.: ALEX MCBRIDE, criminal barrister and author, and PROFESSOR DIEGO GAMBETTA.
TheologyIan Ramsey CentreSARAH COAKLEY, Cambridge, will lecture at 8.15 for 8.30 p.m. on Thursday, 3 June, in the Old Dining Room, Harris Manchester College. Further details may be found at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~theo0038 /seminar.html. Subject: 'Evolution and the problem of divine providence.'
Ashmolean MuseumAndrew Sherratt Memorial LectureDR JOHN CHAPMAN, Durham, will deliver the Andrew Sherratt Memorial Lecture at 6 p.m. on Thursday, 27 May, in the Temporary Exhibition Galleries in the Ashmolean Museum. Free, but booking is required at: antiquities@ashmus.ox.ac.uk. Subject: 'Ancestors, hierarchies and urban growth in Balkan prehistory.' Roger Moorey Memorial LecturePROFESSOR STURT MANNING, Cornell, will deliver the Roger Moorey Memorial Lecture at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday, 29 May, in Wolfson College. Free, but booking is required at: antiquities@ashmus.ox.ac.uk. Subject: 'Time as the measure of all things: synchronising ancient civilisations in the Near East and east Mediterranean, 2000–1000 bc.'
Bodleian LibrariesWorkshops 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. ISABEL HOLOWATY ANNE MANUEL
Oxford Centre for Islamic StudiesTwenty-fifth anniversary lectureHRH THE PRINCE OF WALES will deliver a lecture to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the Centre at 2.45 p.m. on Wednesday, 9 June, in the Sheldonian Theatre. Entry by ticket. For tickets and further information, e-mail: academic.office@oxcis.ac.uk or telephone: Oxford (2)78730. Subject: 'Islam and the environment.'
James Martin Twenty-first Century SchoolSeminarsSEAN KIDNEY, Climate Bonds Initiative, and CHRISTOPHER FLENSBORG, Swedish Bank, SEB, and designer of the World Bank's Green Bonds programme, will be lead presenters for the following seminar at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, 2 June, in Seminar Room A, the Saïd Business School. Subject: 'Green bonds in climate finance: the key financial instrument to pay for global decarbonisation?' JAKOB VON UEXKÜLL, Right Livelihood Awards and World Future Council, will be lead presenter for the following seminar at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, 8 June, in the Old Indian Institute. Subject: 'Can the IMF create the money needed to save the world? A possible role for IMF Special Drawing Rights in developing country climate finance.'
All Souls CollegeChichele LectureWILLIAM ROGER LOUIS will deliver the Chichele Lecture at 5 p.m. on Friday, 11 June, in the Old Library, All Souls College. Subject: 'A troubled Oxford in the 1960s: the case of Oxford University Press and the Waldock Report of 1970.'
Exeter CollegeLectureDR EZEKIEL (ZEKE) EMANUEL will lecture at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 1 June, in the Saskatchewan Room, Exeter College. Open to University members only. Subject: 'Lessons learned: health reform in the United States.'
Green Templeton CollegeAlan Emery LecturePROFESSOR ANDREW HATTERSLEY, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, will deliver the Alan Emery Lecture at 6 p.m. on Thursday, 10 June, in the E.P. Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green Templeton College. Subject: 'From base change to better care in diabetes.'
Harris Manchester CollegeMichael Argyle Forum for Psychology and ReligionDR HUMAN-FRIEDRICH UNTERRAINER, Graz, will lecture at 6 p.m. on Thursday, 10 June, in the Charles Wellbeloved Room, Harris Manchester College. Subject: 'Dimensions of religious/spiritual well-being as research topics in clinical psychology: current results and perspectives.'
Oriel CollegeLee Seng Tee LectureDR JOHN STEVENSON will deliver the Lee Seng Tee Lecture at 5 p.m. on Friday, 28 May, in the Senior Library, Oriel College. Subject: 'Oriel's Great War: "Going strong so far".'
St Antony's CollegeAsian Studies CentreSeminarXU YING, ANU, will give the following seminar at 1.15 p.m. on Wednesday, 9 June, in the Deakin Room, Founder's Building, St Antony's College. Convener: Dr Jenny Corbett. Subject: 'Foreign entry and its impact on China's banking performance: some new evidence.' European Studies CentreChancellor's seminarLORD PATTEN will be in conversation with LORD HANNAY and SIR STEPHEN WALL at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 15 June, in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College. Convener: Jane Caplan. Subject: 'British EU policy after the election.' SeminarJEREMY WALDRON, New York, AGNES CALLAMARD, Article 19, and JAMES WEINSTEIN, Arizona State, will give the following seminar at 5 p.m. on Friday, 4 June, in the Dahrendorf Room, St Antony's College. Convener: Professor Timothy Garton Ash. Subject: 'Free speech: old principles, new circumstances.'
St Edmund HallA.B. Emden LecturePROFESSOR ARNE WESTAD, London School of Economics, will deliver the A.B. Emden Lecture at 5 p.m. on Friday, 25 June, in the Doctorow Hall, St Edmund Hall. Free and open to all University members. Subject: 'The globalisation of Cold War history.'
St John's College Research CentreWorkshop: Conspiracy theories and secret historiesThe following workshop will be held from 11 a.m. on Saturday, 29 May, in the New Seminar Room, St John's College. To reserve a place, e-mail: ritchie.robertson@sjc.ox.ac.uk. NICHOLAS PURCELL PETER BURKE, Cambridge RITCHIE ROBERTSON DANIEL PICK, Birkbeck, London
Wolfson CollegeWar and civilisation series: War and medical scienceThis seminar will be given at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 3 June, in the Buttery, Wolfson College. All welcome. For more information, contact: erica.charters@history.ox.ac.uk. PROFESSOR MARK HARRISON: 'War and medicine.' MR JOHN BEAVIS, orthopaedic and trauma surgeon: 'War and surgery.' PROFESSOR SIMON WESSELY, King's College, London: 'War and mental health.' Oxford 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/MacCullochLectu re.html. Subject: 'Christian history on a lunatic scale: book and television.' Isaiah Berlin LecturePROFESSOR ROY FOSTER will deliver the Isaiah Berlin Lecture at 6 p.m. on Thursday, 27 May, in the Hall, Wolfson. Subject: 'Senses of reality: writing the biography of a revolutionary generation.'
Friends of the Pitt Rivers MuseumLecturePATRICK HASE, immediate past president of the Royal Asiatic Society, Hong Kong Branch, and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, will lecture at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, 16 June, in the lecture theatre of the new Pitt Rivers Museum extension (access by Robinson Close). Visitors welcome, but are asked to make a £2 contribution. Subject: 'Fung shui in principle and practice.'
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