Lectures
- Thursday 17 May 2012
- NO. 4989
- VOL. 142
Medical Sciences
Oxford Developmental Biology Seminar
A seminar will be held at 4 pm on 13 June in the Lecture Theatre, Le Gros Clark Building. Host: Jo Begbie. Supported by the J W Jenkinson Memorial Fund.
Alexandra Smith: 'Characterising placodal neuron migration in the developing cranial sensory ganglia'
Andy Furley, Sheffield: 'Modulation of critical signalling by neural adhesion molecules during neurogenesis and axon pathfinding'
Social Sciences
Saïd Business School
Novak Druce Seminar Series on Professional Service Firms
The following seminars will be given at 2.30 pm at the Saïd Business School.
Professor Henry Chesbrough, Haas School of Business, Berkeley
24 May, Seminar Room 13: 'Open services innovation'
Dr Susie Pak, St John's University, New York
11 Jun, Andrew Cormack Seminar Room: 'Reputation and private banking: J P Morgan & Co and the social foundations of elite identity'
Institutes, Centres and Museums
Ashmolean Museum
Roger Moorey Memorial Lecture
Dr Harriet Crawford, Cambridge and UCL, will deliver the eighth annual Roger Moorey Memorial Lecture at 5.30 pm on 30 May at Wolfson.
Subject: 'A short prehistory of the Persian Gulf'
Europaeum
Graduate Workshop
A Europaeum Graduate Workshop will be held 25–27 May in the Voltaire Building, 99 Banbury Road, to mark Rousseau's 300th birth anniversary and to examine republican ideas. Speakers include: Professor Peter Pulzer, Dr Mark Philp, Dr Robert Harris and Dr David Rundle. Please apply via euroinfo@europaeum.ox.ac.uk. More information about the event can be found at www.europaeum.org/europaeum/?q=node/1658.
Subject: 'Rousseau and republican traditions in Europe'
Oriental Studies
Korean Studies
Dr Andrew Jackson will lecture at 5 pm on 23 May in Lecture Room 1 at the Oriental Institute. Convener: Dr J B Lewis
Subject: 'Cinematic representations of the Korean War in Pak Kwangsu's To the Starry Island and Yi Kwangmo's Spring in my Hometown: a re-evaluation'
Oxford–Man Institute
David Aikman, Senior Manager, Bank of England Prudential Policy Division, and Sujit Kapadia, Policy Adviser, Bank of England Financial Policy Committee, will lecture at 5.30 pm on 23 May in the AHL Lecture Theatre, Oxford–Man Institute, in Eagle House, Walton Well Rd. All members of the University are welcome.
Subject: 'Instruments of macroprudential policy'
Colleges, Halls and Societies
Corpus Christi
Society for Applied Philosophy Annual Lecture
Professor Joseph Raz, Thomas M Macioce Professor of Law, Columbia, will deliver the Society for Applied Philosophy Annual Lecture at 5 pm on 22 May in the Music Building, Corpus Christi.
Subject: 'Death in our life'
Kellogg
The Very Reverend Dr Jane Shaw, Dean of Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, and former Dean of Divinity and Fellow of New College, will deliver the second Vincent Strudwick Lecture at 5.30 pm (tea from 5 pm) on 8 June at Kellogg. Chair: The Bishop of Dorchester. For further information and bookings please contact Ana Pastega (ana.pastega@kellogg.ox.ac.uk).
Subject: 'Cultivating a moral imagination: religion, art and the humanities in the public sphere'
Lincoln
John Wesley Lecture
Professor Isabel Rivers, Professor of Eighteenth-century English Literature and Culture, QMUL, will deliver the John Wesley Lecture at 5 pm on 24 May in the Oakeshott Room, Lincoln. All welcome.
Subject: 'Thomas Jackson (1783–1873), Methodist editor, biographer and tutor'
Mansfield
Mansfield Lecture Series
Change of speaker
Mr Philip Blond will be unable to deliver his planned lecture on 18 May. Instead, Professor Lord Meghnad Desai, LSE, will speak at 5 pm on 18 May in Mansfield chapel.
Subject: 'Is capitalism in crisis?'