Lectures
- Thursday 9 May 2013
- NO. 5024
- VOL. 143
Humanities
Faculty of English Language and Literature
American Literature Research Seminar
The following seminars will be given at 4.30pm in the Seminar Room, Rothermere American Institute. Conveners: Dr M Mendelssohn and Dr L Pratt
Professor Stacey Margolis, Utah
23 May: 'Mass democracy and the self-consuming public: James Fenimore Cooper's The Ways of the Hour'
Professor Sarah Rivett, Princeton
6 Jun: 'The savage sounds of indigenous words in the early American Republic'
Professor Bryan Wagner, Berkeley
13 Jun: 'Fables of moral economy'
Colleges, Halls and Societies
St Antony's
Margaret MacMillan will chair a debate 5–7pm on 13 May in the Sheldonian Theatre. Speakers: Robert Skidelsky, Meghnad Desai, Martin Wolf, and John Redwood, MP. Free and open to all. Co-hosted/funded by St Antony's, the New York Review of Books Foundation, Fritt Ord and Europaeum.
Subject: 'Austerity in the UK and the Eurozone: kill or cure?'
SEESOX
The following seminars will be held at 5pm in the ESC Seminar Room.
SEESOX/PEFM Seminar
Peter Sanfey and Jeromin Zettelmeyer, European Bank of Reconstruction and Development. Chair: Max Watson
15 May: 'Implications for Eastern Europe of reforms in the EU's financial rchitecture'
ESC/SEESOX Seminar
Charles Ellinas, Chairman, Cyprus National Hydrocarbons Company. Chair: Androulla Kaminara
17 May: 'Cyprus and the energy developments in the Eastern Mediterranean'