Lectures

Thursday 16 February 2012
NO. 4979
VOL. 142

Humanities

Faculty of English Language and Literature and New College

Moving Modernisms conference

An interdisciplinary three–day conference will be held from 5 pm on 21 March at the English Faculty, St Cross Building. Fee £180, including lunch (£100 students). A stand-alone postgraduate day will also take place 9 am–5 pm on 21 March. Organisers: Professor David Bradshaw and Professor Laura Marcus. To register: www.movingmodernisms.org.

Subject: 'Moving modernisms'

Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages

Sub-faculty of German

Susanne Scharnowski, Freie Universität, Berlin, will lecture at 5 pm on 23 February in the Memorial Room, Queen's. Convener: Dr Tom Kuhn.

Subject: 'Literatur für das Anthropozän. Die Ästhetik der berührten Natur in Dieter Bachmanns "Unter Tieren" und Andreas Maiers/Christine Büchners "Bullau. Versuch über Natur" '

Sub-faculty of Spanish

Colloquium on the Bicentenary of the Spanish 1812 Constitution

The following seminars will be given on 9 March between 4 and 6 pm in the Taylor Institution. Introduction by Professor Edwin Williamson. Following the colloquium, HE the Ambassador of Spain will open an exhibition on the 1812 Cadiz Constitution in the Voltaire Room, Taylor Institution.

Dr Frances Lannon

Subject: 'The 1812 Constitución de Cádiz in historical perspective'

Martin Murphy, biographer

Subject: 'Two critics of the constitution: Lord Holland and Blanco White'

Professor Sir John Elliott

Subject: 'Spaniards of both hemispheres: a constitution for an empire'

Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences

Mathematical Institute Colloquium

Professor Dr Stephan Luckhaus, Leipzig, will deliver the Mathematical Institute Colloquium at 4.30 pm on 2 March in Lecture Theatre 2, Mathematical Institute, St Giles'.

Subject: 'Mathematics of phase transitions from PDEs to many particle systems and back?'

Institutes, Centres and Museums

Latin American Centre

Thirtieth Anniversary Lecture for the Bulletin of Latin American Research

Professor James Dunkerley, QMUL, will deliver the BLAR Anniversary Lecture at 5 pm on 24 February at the Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk. A glass of wine will be served following the discussion.

Subject: ' "Where is Carlos Montufar?" Scenes of sensibility in the scientific life of Alexander von Humboldt'

Colleges, Halls and Societies

St Edmund Hall

Philip Geddes Memorial Lecture

Alan Rusbridger, Editor, the Guardian, will deliver the Philip Geddes Memorial Lecture at 5.30 pm on 2 March in Jarvis Doctorow Hall, St Edmund Hall.

Subject: tbc

St Antony's

Russkiy Mir Programme

The Russian Connection

To mark the inauguration of the Russkiy Mir Programme at St Antony’s, the following events will be held on 24 February in the Nissan Lecture Theatre. All welcome, admission free. Further details: oliver.ready@sant.ox.ac.uk. Convener: Dr O J Ready.

2 pm: 'East meets West: a Russian great in London'. Speakers: Robert Harris; Professor Derek Offord, Bristol; Professor Kathleen Parthé, Rochester, NY. Chair: Professor Andrei Zorin.

3.15 pm: 'Between Churchill and Stalin'. Speakers: Professor Gabriel Gorodetsky and Dr Oliver Ready.

4.30 pm: Public lecture by V A Nikonov, Moscow, Executive Director, Russkiy Mir Foundation.

North American Studies Programme

Seminar series

Please note revised date

Professor Emeritus Hal Klepak, Royal Military College of Canada, was to give a seminar on 27 February. This has been rescheduled to 5 pm on 23 February in the Latin American Centre Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk.

Subject: 'A mutually beneficial relationship: Cuba and Canada since the Revolution and today'

The following lecture has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances:

Professor Gerardo Otero, Professor of Sociology, Simon Fraser, will give a seminar at 5 pm on 1 March in the Latin American Centre Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk.

Subject: ‘NAFTA and “food security,” or Mexico’s loss of labour sovereignty’

Other Groups

Oxford University Consulting

Seminar

Caroline Chivers and Robert Renfree, Mills & Reeve Solicitors, will deliver a seminar at 5 pm on 7 March at the Saïd Business School. To register: www.learning.ox.ac.uk/courses.

Subject: 'Acting as an expert witness'