Lectures
- 3 March 2011
- No. 4946
- Vol. 141
Race Equality in Higher Education
Achievements, Future Challenges and Possible Solutions
Conference
Friday, 11 March, St Anne's College, 9.30 a.m.–2 p.m. Half-day conference open to students, staff and academics in the sector and beyond. Designed to support understanding and thinking in the area of race equality. Keynote address by Ms Afua Hirsch and Dr Gurnam Singh. See: http://www.ox.ac.uk/visitors_friends/whats_on/0311_3.html.
Humanities
Medieval and Modern Languages
Elizabeth Fallaize Memorial Lecture
Toril Moi, Duke University, will deliver the Elizabeth Fallaize Memorial Lecture at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 8 March, in the Main Hall, Taylor Institution, St Giles', followed by a reception in Room 2 from 6.15–7 p.m. All welcome.
Subject: 'Knowing oneself, knowing others: love, language and truth in Simone de Beauvoir's The Woman Destroyed.'
Music Faculty
Ethnomusicology Seminar
Professor Aaron Fox, Columbia, will give a seminar at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 3 March, in the North Lecture Room, St John's College. Convenor: Dr Anna Stirr.
Subject: 'Repatriation as ethnography and the ethnography of repatriation: working with indigenous cultural property in the field'.
Music and Linguistics
Workshop
A workshop convened by researchers in Music and Linguistics and sponsored by the Humanities Division will be held on Saturday, 5 March, 9.30 a.m.–6.30 p.m. at the Taylor Institution. Keynote speakers will include: Aaron Fox (Columbia); Eric Clarke; John Coleman; Dave De Roure.
Subject: 'Working with sound: music, language, and beyond (Oxford Sound Day)'.
Theology
Ian Ramsey Centre Seminar
Professor William Carroll will deliver the Ian Ramsey Centre seminar at 8.30 p.m. on Thursday, 10 March, in the Old Dining Room, Harris Manchester College. Free and open to the public. Drinks reception 8.15 p.m.
Subject: 'Cosmology and creation: from Hawking to Aquinas.'
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
Oxford e-Research Centre
Information Security and Privacy Programme
The Rt Hon David Blunkett, MP, will give a seminar at 5 p.m. on Monday, 7 March, in the Access Grid Room, Oxford e-Research Centre. For more information see: www.softeng.ox.ac.uk/infosec.
Subject: 'Balancing security and privacy in an open society'.
Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Mathematical Geoscience Seminars
Cancellation: please note that the seminar by Andrea Rinaldo announced for 11 March has been cancelled. There will be no seminar in that week.
Medical Sciences
Neuroscience Grand Round Guest Lectures
Mr John Elston will lecture at 11.30 a.m. on Friday, 25 March, in Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Block, John Radcliffe Hospital.
Subject: 'Idiopathic intracranial hypertension: can we do better?'
Social Sciences
NOTE: This workshop has been postponed until 14 April from 23 March:
Foundation for Law, Justice and Society/Centre for Socio-legal Studies
Workshop: Regulation, Regulators, and the Crisis of Law and Government series
Professor Alain Jeunemaitre and Giuliano Castellano will give the following seminar at 9.30 a.m. on Thursday, 14 April, at Jesus College. For full details and programme, visit www.fljs.org/events.
Subject: 'Remedies against regulators: legal and other processes'.
Institutes, Centres and Museums
Bodleian Libraries
Oxford Seminars in Cartography: Annual Series
David Fletcher, London Metropolitan, will give a seminar at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 10 March, at the Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road.
Subject: 'The Commission on the Royal Forests 1787–93: maps and parliamentary scrutiny in Britain'.
Maison Française d'Oxford
Early Modern French Seminar
The following seminar will be given at 5.15 p.m. on Thursday, 3 March, at Maison Française. Please note the change of title.
John O’Brien, Royal Holloway
Subject: 'Heart and hearth: some versions of secrecy.'
Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
Michele de Nevers, Visiting Fellow, Global Economic Governance Programme, will lecture at 2.15 p.m. on Monday, 14 March, at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Hayes House, 75 George Street.
Subject: 'Opportunities and challenges for climate finance.'
The following lectures will be given from 11.30-12.30 on Fridays in Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Block, John Radcliffe Hospital
Mr John Elston, Oxford Eye Hospital, West Wing
25 March: 'Idiopathic intracranial hypertension: can we do better'