Lectures
- Thursday 27 October 2011
- NO. 4967
- VOL. 142
Humanities
Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages
Portuguese
A workshop will take place at 2–5 pm on 4 November, in Room 2, Taylor Institution. Speakers: Professor Paulo de Medeiros, Dr Rui Goncalves Miranda, Suzette Macedo, Professor António M Feijó and Dr Mariana Gray de Castro. Convenors: Dr Cláudia Pazos Alonso and Dr Mariana Gray de Castro. No conference fee. To register email: mariana.decastro@gmail.com.
Subject: 'Fernando Pessoa'
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
Department of Chemistry
Organic Chemistry Lectures
The following lectures will be given at 4 pm, unless otherwise stated, on Thursdays in the Dyson Perrins Lecture Theatre. Convener: Dr S P Fletcher.
Professor Andrew Turberfield
27 Oct.: 'Synthetic molecular machinery'
RSC Tilden Prize Lecture
Professor John Sutherland, Cambridge
3 Nov.: 'Prebiotic chemistry: a new modus operandi'
Dr Mats Thelin, AstraZeneca
10 Nov.: 'Development and launch of ticagrelor (Brilinta/Brilique)'
Professor John Williams, Bath
17 Nov.: 'Catalytic amide synthesis'
RSC Norman Heatley Award Lecture
Dr David Spring, Cambridge
24 Nov.: 'Search for new antibacterials using diversity-oriented synthesis'
Professor Dr Ruth Gschwind, Regensburg
1 Dec.: 'Enamine and Brønsted acid catalysis – intermediates trapped by NMR'
RSC Pedler Award Lecture
Professor Mark Lautens, Toronto
11 am, 8 Dec.: 'No stain, no gain? Lessons in catalysis'
Social Sciences
Department of International Development, Department of Public Health and School of Geography and the Environment
Health environment and development seminar series
The following seminars will be given at 5 pm on Tuesdays in Seminar Room 2, Department of International Development.
Dr Karen Brown
1 Nov.: 'African knowledge: ideas about livestock diseases and treatments in contemporary South Africa'
Dr Giovanni Leonardi, Health Protection Agency
8 Nov.: 'Public health services facing the twin challenges of climate change and peak oil'
Professor Stanley Ulijaszek
15 Nov.: 'Why obesity is both simple and complex'
Ms Tara Garnett, Food Climate Research Network
22 Nov.: 'Food, climate change and health: exploring the connections'
Dr Deborah Johnston, Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health
29 Nov.: 'What the poor eat: the challenges of measuring the effects of agriculture on health'
Colleges and Halls
Harris Manchester
Professor Douglas J Davies, Durham, will lecture at 5 pm on 31 October in the Old Dining Room, Harris Manchester.
Subject: 'Atonement, evil and the Mormon vision'
St Antony's
Asian Studies Centre seminar series
The following seminars will be given 5 pm on Tuesdays at in the Dahrendorf Room, Founder's Building, St Antony's, unless otherwise stated.
Dr Gerda Wielander, Westminster
1 Nov.: 'Christian values in communist China'
Dr Alessio Patalano, KCL
15 Nov.: ' "Flying Imperial Colours": history, memory and professional identity in the museums of the contemporary Japanese Navy.' Chair: Professor Rana Mitter. Co-hosted with the Leverhulme China's War with Japan Programme.
Dr Stephen Morgan, Nottingham
29 Nov.: 'Getting fat on reform: obesity and nutritional inequality in contemporary China'
Dr Anne Marie Brady, Canterbury, New Zealand
Noon, 13 Dec.: 'The velvet fist in the velvet glove: new approaches to social and political control in China.' Lunchtime brown bag seminar in the Buttery, St Antony's. Feel free to bring your lunch.
South Asian history seminars
The following seminars are held at 2 pm on Tuesdays in the Fellows' Dining Room, Hilda Besse Building, St Antony's.
Dr Louise Tillin, KCL
1 Nov.: 'Changing states: the history of territorial design and federal thought in India'
Professor Radhika Singha, Nehru
8 Nov.: 'Geographies of the Great War: the Indian Labour Corps in France, 1917–18'
Dr Andrew Sartori, New York
15 Nov.: 'Prajas and property: the political economy of Bengali Muslimness'
Dr Jon Wilson, KCL
29 Nov.: 'Law without relationships: suspicion, Haqshafi and the British Empire'