Lectures
- Thursday 3 November 2011
- NO. 4968
- VOL. 142
Humanities
Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages
Modern Greek
The following lectures will take place at 5 pm on Thursdays in the Ground Floor Lecture Room, 47 Wellington Square.
Dr Dimitris Antoniou
3 Nov.: 'The nation's vow: haunting fantasies of the colonels' Greece'. Respondent: Dr Arietta Papaconstantinou
Giorgos Giannakopoulos, Queen Mary
17 Nov.: 'A J Toynbee's frames of war in Asia Minor (1919–22)'. Respondent: Kostas Skordyles
Dr Dimitris Papanikolaou
1 Dec.: 'Trouble in the archive: cultural responses to the Greek crisis'. An illustrated lecture on recent film, literature and art from Greece followed by a roundtable discussion
Department of Philosophy
Oxford Forum Provocations
Dr Constantine Sandis, Reader in Philosophy, Oxford Brookes, will talk at 2.30 pm on 4 November in the Lecture Room, Philosophy Faculty, 10 Merton Street. For more information: Dr Roxana Baiasu, roxana.baiasu@philosophy.ox.ac.uk, or Dr Juliana Cardinale, 020 7955 7539, j.cardinale@lse.ac.uk.
Subject: 'The lion for real: on § 327 of the typescript previously known as Part II of the Philosophical Investigations'
Institutes, Centres and Museums
Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research
Special Lectures
Dr Susan Walker will lecture at 12.45 pm on 8 November at the Ashmolean.
Subject: 'A tour of Byzantium at the Ashmolean'
Professor Pangiotis Agapitos, Cyprus, will lecture at 5 pm on 29 November in the MBI Al Jaber Building, Corpus Christi. Drinks reception until 7 pm.
Subject: 'Late antique or early Byzantine? The shifting beginnings of Byzantine literature'
Latin American Centre
Professor Alan Knight will convene a colloquium on 11 November, 9.30 am–5.15 pm, at the Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, St Antony's. Presentations by Professor David Rock, California at Santa Barbara; Dr Roy Hora, San Andrés; Dr Fernando Rocchi, Torcuato Di Tella; Dr Mariana Llanos, GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies; and Dr Andrés Malamud, Lisbon. All welcome. To register or for information: david.robinson@lac.ox.ac.uk or (2)74484.
Subject: 'Argentine "decline" reconsidered'
Colleges and Halls
Christ Church
Christ Church Association Careers' Talk
Dr Alex Mackinnon and Barnaby Powell will speak at 8.30 pm on 23 November in the Blue Boar Lecture Theatre, Christ Church.
Subject: 'China's one-child policy – gain or gamble?'
Nuffield
Health Policy Seminar
The following seminars will be given at 4.30 pm on Thursdays in the Large Lecture Room, Nuffield. Convener: B McCormick.
Martin Chalkley, York
3 Nov.: 'Productivity: the impact of the tariff'
Rowena Jacobs, York
17 Nov.: 'Do hospitals respond to greater autonomy? Evidence on foundation trusts'
Niall Dickson, General Medical Council
24 Nov.: 'Regulating doctors: is revalidation the answer?'