WEDNESday 9 october 2013 • SUPPLEMENT (1) TO No 5035 • Vol 144 Gazette Supplement

Lectures and Seminars, Michaelmas term 2013

Charles Simonyi Lecture 34 Pathology Hindu Studies Pharmacology, Anatomical International Gender Studies Centre Neuropharmacology and Drug Islamic Studies University Administration Discovery Seminars Reuters Institute for the Study of and Services 34 Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics Journalism Population Health Latin American Centre Humanities 34 Psychiatry Foundation for Law, Justice and Society/ Surgical Sciences Wolfson/Socio-legal Studies TORCH Oxford Learning Institute Classics Social Sciences 45 Maison Française English Language and Literature Oxford Martin School Anthropology and Museum Ethnography English/History/History of Art/Theology/ Population Ageing Music Saïd Business School Transitional Justice Research Group History Education Education/International Development/ Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics/ Colleges, Halls and Societies 56 Medieval and Modern Languages Social Policy and Intervention Medieval and Modern Languages Geography and the Environment Balliol Music Oxford Intellectual Property Research Christ Church Centre Oriental Studies Green Templeton Interdisciplinary Area Studies/Politics Theology and Religion Keble and International Relations Kellogg International Development Mathematical, Physical and Mansfield Law Life Sciences 40 Nuffield Politics and International Relations St Anne’s Chemistry Social Policy and Intervention St Antony’s e-Research Socio-legal Studies St Catherine’s Earth Sciences Sociology Engineering Science St Edmund Hall Materials Department for Continuing St Hilda’s Mathematical Institute Education 50 St John’s Physics Somerville Kellogg College Centre for Creative Wolfson Plant Sciences Writing Zoology Regent’s Park Institutes, Centres and St Stephen’s House Medical Sciences 43 Museums 50 Other Groups 60 Sir Richard Doll Seminars in Public Health Ashmolean Museum and Epidemiology Architectural History Group Bodleian Libraries Biochemistry Israel: Historical, Political and Social Botanic Garden Clinical Neurosciences Aspects Buddhist Studies Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism Italian Association COMPAS Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum Musculoskeletal Sciences Hebrew and Jewish Studies 33 34 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5035 • 9 October 2013

Charles Simonyi Lecture Faculty of Classics Professor Shane Butler, Bristol 25 Nov: ‘The tragic phonograph’ APGRD Ian Lipkin, John Snow Professor of Dr Genevieve Liveley, Bristol Epidemiology, Professor of Neurology and All events take place at the Ioannou Centre 2 Dec: ‘White noise: the modern/Roman Pathology, Director, Center for Infection for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St elegy’ and Immunity, Columbia, and scientific Giles’, unless otherwise noted. All welcome. consultant on the filmContagion , will Faculty of English Language and APGRD public lecture series give the 2013 Charles Simonyi Lecture Literature on 8 November at 5pm at the Oxford The following lectures will be given at Playhouse. Introduction by Marcus du 2.15pm in the Lecture Theatre. Professor of Poetry Lecture Sautoy, Simonyi Professor for the Public Jonathan Kent Sir Geoffrey Hill will deliver the Professor of Understanding of Science. Tickets: £6 (£4 21 Oct, Garden Quad Lecture Theatre, St Poetry Lecture on 3 December at 5.30pm in concessions). Information and booking: John’s: ‘In conversation’ Examination Schools. www.oxfordplayhouse.com/theatre/3045/ The-Annual-Charles-Simonyi-Lecture/ Roderick Beaton, KCL Clarendon Lectures in English Friday-8-November/Main-Stage. 4 Nov: ‘Rewriting ancient Greek tragedy, How words make things happen Subject: ‘Of microbes and men: tales of reinventing ancient Greece: Shelley’s the small game hunter’ “Hellas” in literary and political context’ Professor David Bromwich, Yale, will deliver the Clarendon Lectures in English Stephen Langridge at 5.15pm in Lecture Theatre 2, St Cross 28 Nov: ‘Theseus operas’ University Administration Building. and Services Event 22 Oct: ‘Does persuasion occur? (Aristotle, Cicero, Austin)’ (followed by APGRD will host an exhibition and event on Roundtable discussion drinks reception) Saturday, 23 November at 5pm, to celebrate Professor Nicholas Steneck, Michigan, the 25th anniversary of the performance 24 Oct: ‘Speakers who convince Professor Valpy Fitzgerald and Dr Patricia of Tony Harrison’s The Trackers of themselves (Shakespeare, Milton, Kingori will lead a seminar on 11 November Oxyrhynchus at Delphi. Speakers: Tony James)’ at 12.30pm in the Pickstock Room, Harrison, playwright, Jack Shepherd, 29 Oct: ‘Pledging emotion for conviction Rewley House, Department of Continuing original cast, Barrie Rutter, original cast, (Burke, Lincoln, Bagehot)’ Education. Professor Peter Parsons and Professor Subject: ‘Ethics and integrity issues in Oliver Taplin. Followed by re-creation of the 31 Oct: ‘Persuasion and responsibility cross-boundary collaborative research’ satyr chorus performance. Free but advance (Yeats, Auden, Orwell)’ (followed by booking required: naomi.setchell@classics. drinks reception in OUP Bookshop) ox.ac.uk. Accompanied by exhibition of Public seminar Humanities materials from the production (open from noon on 23 November). Professor Ros Ballaster with Abigail TORCH Interdisciplinary Research Anderson, Sam Caird and Lizzie Nunnery Reception and Genre seminar series Group will give a seminar discussion on The following seminars will be given on 26 October at 2.30–6.30pm in Mansfield. What is women's writing? Gender, Mondays at 5pm in the First Floor Seminar Subject: 'The arts of literary adaptation: literature and culture Room. Conveners: Dr Fiona Macintosh and stage, screen and audio’ Dr Tim Whitmarsh The following seminars, followed by an end- Public lecture of-term workshop, will be given on Fridays Dr Laura Swift, Open Alan Garner, children's author, will give a at 2pm in Room 11, Examination Schools. All 14 Oct: ‘Archilochus’ “Cologne Epode” special talk to complement the Bodleian welcome; refreshments will be provided. and the transformation of an epic type- exhibition Magical Tales on 25 October at Convenors: Professor Ros Ballaster, Dr scene’ 6pm in the Auditorium, Magdalen. Tickets Pelagia Goulimari, Dr Cláudia Pazos Alonso Dr Ingo Gildenhard, Cambridge £12. Contact: [email protected]. and Professor Tim Whitmarsh 21 Oct: ‘Genre, ideology, archetype: the uk. 25 Oct: Dr Clare Morgan case of tragedy’ Subject: ‘A bull on my tongue’ 8 Nov: Professor Ana Luísa Amaral, Dr Georgina Paul CEMS Neo-Latin seminar Oporto 28 Oct: ‘Epic to lyric in Oswald and The following seminars will be given at 1pm 22 Nov: Professor Carol Watts, Birkbeck Köhler’ in the Breakfast Room, Merton. Conveners: 6 Dec: Professor Karen Leeder Professor Laura Marcus David Norbrook and Stephen Harrison (workshop) 4 Nov: ‘ “Eleusinian mysteries”: H D’s film Professor Sukanta Chaudhuri writing and film performance’ 21 Oct: ‘Scholars and texts: humanist Dr Jaś Elsner views and practices’ 11 Nov: ‘Genres of reception in Professor David Norbrook Philostratus’ 4 Nov: ‘Marvell in praise of absolutism? Professor Chris Pelling The poems on the Louvre’ 18 Nov: ‘Tragedy, history and biography’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5035 • 9 October 2013 35

Professor Stephen Harrison American Literary Criticism Reading Professor Linne Mooney, York 18 Nov: ‘Milton: In Quintum Novembris’ Group 6 Nov: ‘John Carpenter, the clerks of the guildhall and Middle English literature’ Kalina Slaska-Sapala The following meetings will take place on 2 Dec: ‘Lucretian beginnings, Vergilian Mondays at 4.30pm in Peter Riley’s office Professor Nicholas Havely, York ends: the allusive opening of Marco and the small seminar room, Rothermere 13 Nov: ‘Dante around Chaucer: clerical Girolamo Vida's Christiad’ American Institute. Please email peter. connections’ [email protected] to receive the relevant Postcolonial Writing and Theory Dr Daniel McCann scanned reading materials. seminar 20 Nov: ‘Medicine of words: purgation, 21 Oct: Lisa Siraganian, Modernism’s grammar and affect inR ichard Rolle’ The following seminars will be given on Other Work: The Art Object’s Political Life Thursdays at 5.15pm in the Okinaga Room, Professor Julia Boffey, QMUL (Oxford: OUP, 2012): Introduction and Wadham. Conveners: Professor Elleke 27 Nov: ‘Writing the times in London Chapter 5 Boehmer and Dr Ankhi Mukherjee c1500’ 4 Nov: Amy Hungerford, 'On the Period Madina Tlostanova, People’s Friendship Professor Andy Orchard Formerly Known as Contemporary', University of Russia 4 Dec: ‘ “Eat, drink and be merry:” American Literary History, 20.1–2 (2008), 17 Oct: ‘Postcolonial theory, de-colonial boozers, users and losers in the Anglo- 410–419, and David J Alworth, ‘Pynchon's aesthesis and contemporary fiction and Saxon riddle tradition’ (followed by Malta’, Post45: Peer Reviewed (internet, art’ Christmas drinks party) 2012) Andrew van der Vlies, QMUL Victorian graduate seminar series 18 Nov: Alex Houen, Powers of Possibility: 24 Oct: ‘On loose ends: bodies politic, Experimental American Writing since the The following seminars will be given on disappointment and futurity in post- 1960s (Oxford: OUP, 2012): Introduction Mondays at 5.15pm in History of the Book apartheid South African literature’ and Chapter 3 Room, St Cross Building. All welcome. Thomas Glave, SUNY/Cambridge Conveners: Stefano Evangelista and Sally 2 Dec: An article from the latest issue of 7 Nov: The Caribbean poet and gay rights Shuttleworth either American Literature or PMLA (tbc) activist will read from and discuss his Delia da Sousa Correa, Open work Literature and Medicine seminar series 21 Oct: ‘George Eliot: “The great Handel Tamara Moellenberg The following seminars will be given on chorus” or Purcell’s “Wild passion and 21 Nov: ‘Unhomely child: new narratives Thursdays at 6pm in the Abraham Lecture fancy”?’ of a global gothic' Theatre, Green Templeton. All welcome. Jane Thomas, Hull Conveners: Peter Friend, Laurie Maguire, Nicole King, Higher Education Academy 4 Nov: ‘The new sculpture and Sophie Ratcliffe and MarionT urner 5 Dec: ‘Racial authenticity, African democratic art: Hamo Thornycroft’s “The American literature and Postcolonial Professor Janet Radcliffe Richards Mower” ’ Studies’ 17 Oct: ‘Patient rights, doctors’ duty: the Gowan Dawson, Leicester nature and limits of medical expertise’ Transatlantic Literature in Context 18 Nov: ‘ “Working the Public up for Dr Timothy Cutler, Chelsea Physic Garden science”: Thomas Henry Huxley and the The following seminars will be given on 14 Nov: ‘Medicinal herb gardens and their problems of popularisation’ Thursdays at 5.15pm in Seminar Room B, St relevance to modern medicine’ Cross Building. Conveners: Dr Tara Stubbs Tatiana Kontou, Oxford Brookes and Dr Stephen Ross Dr Andy Kesson, Roehampton 2 Dec: ‘Florence Marryat’s Kore: 28 Nov: ‘ “Comes she thus disabled?” spiritualist and literary influences’ Tom Wright, Sussex Discovering disability on the early 24 Oct: ‘Voicing the essay in Emerson and Romantic Realignments seminar series modern stage’ Carlyle’ The following seminars will be given on Medieval English research seminar Will May, Southampton Thursdays at 5.15pm in Seminar Room A, 21 Nov: ‘Eccentric traditions: Americans The following seminars will be given on St Cross Building, unless otherwise noted. reading whimsy’ Wednesdays at 5.15pm in the History of the Conveners: Katherine Fender, Sarah Goode Book Room, St Cross Building. All welcome. and Honor Rieley Peter Riley Conveners: Vincent Gillespie and Daniel 28 Nov: ‘American work and transatlantic Daniel Cook, Dundee Wakelin studies’ 17 Oct: ‘Wordsworth’s Chatterton’ Dr Philippa Semper, Birmingham Louise Walsh, Dublin, Alex Runchman, David Bromwich, Yale 16 Oct: ‘ “Leoht”, “beorht” and “torht”: the Dublin, Jo Pawlik, Manchester. Chair: Frank Wed, 23 Oct: ‘Romanticism, justice and sunny skies of Old English poetry’ Hutton-Williams the idea of the nation’ 5 Dec: ‘Early career roundtable: the Professor Helen Cooper, Cambridge Octavia Cox transatlantic turn in literary studies’ 23 Oct: ‘Right naming in Piers Plowman 24 Oct: ‘Pope, Cowper and the epic’ and the romances’ Joseph Crawford, Exeter Dr Elizabeth Solopova 31 Oct: ‘ “Behindhand with their 30 Oct: ‘From Bede to Wyclif: did the countrymen”: the literary culture of 18th- translators of the WycliffiteB ible use Old century Exeter’ English sources?’ 36 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5035 • 9 October 2013

Alexander Freer, Cambridge Biblical Boundaries series Dr Alexander Lingas 7 Nov: ‘Wordsworth, Coleridge and the Dr Scott Mandelbrote, Cambridge 3 Dec: ‘Byzantium, Islam and the untranslatable’ 18 Nov: ‘From Alexandria to Urbino: The development of a common musical Letter of Aristeas, biblical translation and inheritance’ Céline Sabiron the Renaissance court’ 14 Nov: ‘Writing the border: Walter Scott Early Modern World seminar series and the travel narrative’ Dr Lesley Smith The following seminars will be given 2 Dec: ‘The Ten Commandments in the Paul Whickman, Nottingham on Wednesdays at 11.15am in the Old medieval schools’ 21 Nov: ‘The Promethean conqueror, the Common Room, Balliol, unless otherwise Galilean serpent and the Jacobin Jesus: noted. Conveners: John-Paul Ghobrial, Jan Faculty of History Shelley’s interpretation(s) of Jesus Christ’ Machielsen, Natalia Nowakowska, Lyndal Roper, Giora Sternberg and Alan Strathern Murdo Macdonald, Dundee Harmsworth Lecture 28 Nov: ‘The significance of James Rui Esteves Professor Richard Blackett, Harmsworth Macpherson's Ossian for the art of J M W 16 Oct: ‘Archomania: the place of venality Professor of American History, will deliver Turner’ in French private and government the Harmsworth Lecture on 12 November at finances’ Rebecca Shuttleworth, Leicester 5pm in Examination Schools. 5 Dec: ‘Rationality, religion and female Subject: ‘The Underground Railroad and Giora Sternberg dissent: Elizabeth Heyrick (1769–1831)’ the struggle against slavery’ 23 Oct: ‘The power of writing in the Ancien Régime: the case of ceremonial Early Modern Literature graduate Byzantium and Islam: ideas and objects records’ seminar on the move Katharina Reinholdt, Erfurt The following seminars will be given on The following seminars will be given on 30 Oct: ‘ “Nonesense” and “stupid Tuesdays at 5pm in the Breakfast Room, Tuesdays at 2.30pm in the Jameel Centre, pamphlets” from a Strasburg gardener. Merton. Conveners: Rhodri Lewis, David Ashmolean Museum. Supported by the Apocalypticism and religious deviance in Norbrook, Diane Purkiss and Tiffany Stern History Faculty, the Ashmolean University 16th-century Strasburg’ Engagement Programme (funded by the Professor John Kerrigan, Cambridge Andrew W Mellon Foundation) and the Regina Grafe, Florence 15 Oct: ‘Knots, charms, riddles: Macbeth Eastern Art Department. Arrive early; 6 Nov: ‘Polycentric rule and stakeholder and All’s Well’ maximum 15 people can be accommodated. interests: explaining the success of the Professor Jeff Dolven, Princeton Further queries: mallica.kumberalandrus@ Spanish Empire’ 29 Oct: ‘Skill, style and freedom: Sidney's ashmus.ox.ac.uk. Conveners: Dr Elena Daniel Jütte, Harvard Arcadias’ Draghici-Vasilescu and Dr Mallica Kumbera 13 Nov, Russell Room, Balliol: ‘A new Landrus Professor Katie Larson, Toronto window on windows: defenestrations 12 Nov: ‘Embodying song in early modern Dr Dionysios Stathakopoulos, KCL and political culture in early modern England’ 15 Oct: ‘The status of physicians in the Europe’ Byzantine Empire and the Islamic world Dr Zachary Lesser, Pennsylvania Virginia Dillon and Mara van der Lugt in the late middle ages’ 26 Nov: ‘ “Enter the ghost in his night 20 Nov: ‘Jesuits, baptisms, Arians gowne”: Hamlet after Q1’ Dr Evanthia Baboula, Victoria and windmills: religion in the news 22 Oct: ‘Gold use and the gold supply in of Transylvania, 1604–58’ (V D) and Faculties of English/History/History of Byzantium and the Islamic world’ ‘Why God would not send his sons to Art/Theology/Music Oxford: Pierre Bayle on suffering and the Professor Jeremy Johns problem of evil’ (M v d L) 29 Oct: ‘Painted muqarnas ceilings The Bible in Art, Music and Literature between Byzantium and Islam’ Leslie Theibert interdisciplinary seminar 27 Nov: ‘ “The bravest and richest Professor Ian Freestone, UCL The following seminars will be given on conquest in the world”: ideology and 5 Nov: ‘Byzantine and Islamic glass Mondays at 5pm in the Danson Room, Anglo-Spanish imperial conflict in the technology’ Trinity. Convener: Dr C Joynes 17th-century Caribbean’ Dr Nikolaos Karydis, Kent Hussey Seminar Christian Wieland 12 Nov: ‘Architectural encounters Dr Chloe Reddaway, Cambridge 4 Dec: ‘Water, bureaucracies and the art between Byzantium and Islam from the 21 Oct: ‘Inhabiting vocation: integration, of engineering in 17th-century Europe. A 10th to the 13th century’ incorporation and incarnation at the comparative perspective’ Convent of San Marco, Florence’ Dr Mark Whittow Seminar in Economic and Social History 19 Nov: ‘Byzantine objects on the move’ Dr Mette Bundvad, Göttingen The following seminars will be given on 4 Nov: ‘In my beginning is my end: the Dr Francesca Leoni Tuesdays at 5pm in the Wharton Room, All reception of Ecclesiastes in T S Eliot’s 26 Nov: ‘Impact of Byzantine manuscript Souls. Conveners: Jane Humphries, Julie poetry’ illustration on early Arab manuscript Marfany and Kevin O’Rourke painting, 12th–14th century’ Karine van der Beek, Ben-Gurion 15 Oct: ‘Market forces shaping human capital in 18th-century London’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5035 • 9 October 2013 37

Morgan Kelly, Dublin Professor Rebecca Earle, Warwick Dr Will Poole 22 Oct: ‘Living standards and plague in 21 Oct: ‘Casta paintings and the colonial 28 Nov: ‘Early theories of megaliths’ London, 1560–1665’ body: embodying race in Spanish Dr Kirsten Shepherd-Barr America’ Walter Scheidel, Stanford 5 Dec: ‘Mediation and the contemporary 29 Oct: ‘Always follow the money: what Dr Claire Jones, Leeds “science play” ’ public revenue and expenditure tell us 28 Oct: ‘Selling medicine to professionals, History of Political Thought seminar about the nature of the Roman Empire’ professionals selling medicine: examining the relationship between The following seminars will be given on Patricia Clavin market and medic in late-19th- and early- Tuesdays at 5pm in the Goodhart Seminar 5 Nov: ‘The mission of economic 20th-century Britain’ Room, University College. All welcome. internationalism after the First World Conveners: Ben Jackson, David Leopold, War’ Dr Clare Griffin, Cambridge Sarah Mortimer and Jon Parkin 4 Nov: ‘The Russian state and the early Anne Winter, VU Brussels modern drug trade’ Gareth Stedman Jones, QMUL 12 Nov: ‘An old poor law in Flanders? Poor 15 Oct: ‘The rise and fall of “class struggle” taxes and local conflict in 18th-century Mr Seth LeJacq, Johns Hopkins in England and France, 1789–1850’ Flanders in a comparative perspective’ 11 Nov: ‘Reading the sodomitical body: medical and lay body evidence in English Richard Billinge Jennifer Aston, IHR homosexual sex crimes trials, 1700–1850’ 22 Oct: ‘Locke, toleration and conformist 19 Nov: ‘A risky business? Reassessing thought’ female entrepreneurship in Victorian Dr Roderick Bailey and Edwardian England and Wales’ 18 Nov: ‘ “My Oath! My Oath! I can’t do Katrina Forrester, Cambridge that kind of thing!” – doctors and the 29 Oct: ‘The Vietnam War and the origins Roderick Floud, Gresham Special Operations Executive: a case of international ethics in American 26 Nov: ‘The business of gardening in the study of medicine and clandestine political philosophy’ UK, 1660 until today’ warfare’ Sophie Nicholls Blanca Sánchez-Alonso, San Pablo-Ceu Dr Sophie Vasset, Paris Diderot/Paris 7 12 Nov: ‘Being frank and free: ideas of 3 Dec: ‘Immigration in Latin America 25 Nov: ‘Queen Anne's 17 pregnancies and political community in late-16th-century revisited, 1870–1930’ her treatment for barrenness’ France’ Lyell Special Lectures Dr Vanessa Grotti Christopher Meckstroth, Cambridge English Humanist Scripts up to c1509 2 Dec: ‘Sociality and healing within the 19 Nov: ‘Kant on rebellion and the mere medical missions among the Trio of idea of popular rule’ Dr David Rundle, Essex and Oxford, will Suriname and Brazil, 1959–80’ deliver a series of lectures on Thursdays at Alex Barker 5pm in Examination Schools. Histories of science at Oxford 26 Nov: ‘John Bellers: profit and the 17 Oct: ‘Humanism and script, humanism public good’ The following seminars will be given on and England’ Thursdays at 3pm in the Colin Matthew Tim Stanton, York 24 Oct: ‘English humanism avant la Room, Faculty of History, George Street. 3 Dec: ‘Hobbes, Cicero and the problem lettre: the first decades of humanist book Convener: Professor Pietro Corsi of society’ production in England, up to 1455’ Professor John Heilbron Centre for the Study of Book, Bodleian 31 Oct: ‘British barbarians in Rome, and 17 Oct: ‘The extra-scientific in scientific Library Scotland’s first humanist’ creativity: Galileo’s mechanics and Bohr’s Seminar on the History of the Book quantum atom’ 7 Nov: ‘The Dutch connexion: the 1450–1830 significance of LowC ountries scribes Dr John Perkins The following seminars will be held on from Theoderic Werken to Pieter 24 Oct: ‘Lavoisier and the ten thousands: Fridays at 2.15pm in the Wharton Room, All Meghen’ the chemical revolutions in France, Souls. Convener: Professor I W F Maclean 1750–90’ 14 Nov: ‘The Butcher of England and Dr Juan Carlos Conde the reform of learning: the circle of John Dr Rene Sigrist 18 Oct: ‘A neglected old Spanish biblical Tiptoft, Earl of Worcester’ 31 Oct: ‘Chemistry as a collective translation: the Biblia de Alonso Ximénez’ undertaking (17th–19th centuries)’ 21 Nov: ‘The victory of italic in English Dr David Pearson, Director of Culture, diplomatic correspondence’ Professor John Christie Heritage and Libraries, City of London 7 Nov: ‘Natural knowledge and early History of Medicine seminar series 25 Oct: ‘Patterns of book ownership in modern historical consciousness’ 17th-century England: an update’ Structures of medical knowledge Dr Philip Beely Dr Julia Walworth The following seminars will be given on 14 Nov: ‘Observation, experiment and 1 Nov: ‘A Vatican press? A proposal Mondays at 2.15pm in the Seminar Room, scientific discourse: recent work on the from the 1570s in the archive of the 47 Banbury Road. Conveners: Dr Erica history of the early Royal Society’ Congregatio Concilii’ Charters and Dr Elise Smith Dr Sloan Mahone Professor Ian Maclean Dr Laura Dawes, Cambridge 21 Nov: ‘Trauma, trepanation and the 8 Nov: ‘The Latin trade in Europe before 14 Oct: ‘Childhood obesity in America: history of medicine’ and after the Thirty Years’ War (1600– biography of an epidemic’ 1750): the case of law’ 38 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5035 • 9 October 2013

Professor Dominique Varry, ENSSIB, Lyon James McDougall Cultures of Knowledge 15 Nov: ‘Lyon in the eighteenth century: 22 Nov: 'Settler genocide? Demography, Lunchtime seminar series: official production, counterfeits and catastrophe and resilience in 19th- Negotiating networks piracies’ century Algeria' Seminars will be given every Thursday Mr Della Rocca De Candal Duncan Bell, Cambridge at 1pm from 31 October to 5 December in 22 Nov: ‘On pre-Aldine Greek editions’ 29 Nov: 'Before the democratic peace: the Conference Room, e-Research Centre, racial utopianism, empire and the Dr Adalbert Roth, Vatican Library Keble Road (except 21 November seminar abolition of war' 29 Nov: ‘On some liturgical incunabula in which will be in Room 8, St Anne’s). Lunch the Vatican Library’ Kevin Fogg provided (first come, first served); all 6 Dec: ‘Romanisation, nationalisation, welcome. See: www.culturesofknowledge. Dr David Rundle secularisation: script reform as social org/?page_id=1270. 6 Dec: ‘Transfer, transmission and upheaval’ Subject: ‘Early modern letters, networks reception: thoughts from the 15th and the digital humanities’ century on how ideas (fail to) spread’ Oxford Centre for Global History seminar Transnational and Global History Faculties of Linguistics, Philology graduate research seminar Professor Jacques Frèmeaux, Paris- and Phonetics/Medieval and Modern Sorbonne, will deliver a seminar on Languages The following seminars will be given on 18 October at 11.30am in the Colin Matthew Tuesdays at 5pm in Corpus Christi, unless Room, History Faculty. General Linguistics seminar otherwise noted. Conveners: Roshan Subject: ‘From microcosm to macrocosm: Allpress, Kate Kennedy and Dr Benjamin The following seminars will be given on the bureau arabe as a viewpoint on the Mountford Mondays at 5.15pm in Room 2 of the Taylor Oriental question in the 19th century’ Institution. Conveners: Professor A Lahiri, Professor Timothy Snyder, Yale Oxford Centre for Global History Dr A Asudeh and Dr S Paoli 22 Oct: ‘Is the Holocaust a global history?’ workshop Professor Bencie Woll, UCL Professor Stephen Howe, Bristol Professor Pekka Hämäläinen and 21 Oct: ‘What can research on atypical 5 Nov, Rothermere American Institute: Professor James Belich will speak at a signing tell us about linguistics?’ ‘The idea of internal colonialism: theory, workshop held on 6 November at 2–5.30pm race and politics, American and global’ Dr Dag Haug, Oslo in the Common Room, History Faculty, 28 Oct: ‘Backward control in Ancient Dr Patrick Finney, Aberystwyth followed by a drinks reception. Discussants: Greek’ 19 Nov: ‘Remembering the Second World Professor Chris Wickham and Professor War: global transnational transactions’ Samuel Truett, New Mexico. Places limited; Professor Paula Fikkert, Radboud registration essential: [email protected]. 4 Nov: ‘Phonological features in Dr Sujit Sivasundaram, Cambridge uk. Information: http://global.history.ox.ac. acquisition’ 3 Dec: ‘Islanded: Britain, Sri Lanka and the uk/?page_id=1409. Conveners: Professor bounds of an Indian Ocean colony’ Professor Kim Plunkett James Belich, Dr John Darwin, Dr Jan-Georg 11 Nov: ‘The Whorfian infant’ Global and Imperial History research Deutsch and Professor Chris Wickham seminar Subject: ‘Kinetic empires’ Professor Mary Dalrymple 18 Nov: ‘The go-to construction’ The following seminars will be given on Oxford Centre for Global History/ Fridays at 5pm in the Colin Matthew Room, Changing Character of War Project/ Professor Wolfgang Klein, Max Planck History Faculty. Conveners: Professor James Maison Française conference Institute for Psycholinguistics Belich, Dr Jan-Georg Deutsch and Dr Miles 25 Nov: ‘The present perfect puzzle A conference will be held 9–10 January at Larmer revisited’ the Maison Française. Speakers include William Beinart Professor Patrick O’Brien, Professor Professor Maggie Snowling 18 Oct: ‘Mines, migrancy and Marikana: Margaret MacMillan, Professor Dominic 2 Dec: ‘Language skills and learning to popular politics in an unsettled South Lieven, Professor Jos Gommans, Professor read: evidence from children at risk of Africa’ Georges-Henri Soutou, Professor dyslexia’ Douglas Porch, Professor Martin Ceadel, Sally Percival Wood, Melbourne Romance Linguistics Seminar: Number Professor Stig Förster and Professor Hervé 25 Oct: ‘Unsettled societies: Australia and (and numbers) in the Romance Drévillon. Conveners: Professor Sir Hew New Zealand brace for the Asian–African languages Strachan and Professor James Belich. Places Conference at Bandung, 1955’ limited. Details and to register: http://global. The following seminars will take place on Oliver Murphy history.ox.ac.uk/?page_id=1145 or global@ Thursdays at 5pm at 47 Wellington Square, 1 Nov: tbc history.ox.ac.uk. Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages. Subject: ‘The Great War and global Convener: Professor Martin Maiden Paul McHugh, Cambridge history’ 8 Nov: ‘Litigating the imperial past’ Professor Martin Maiden 31 Oct: ‘Some singular ways of marking Andrew Dilley, Aberdeen plural’ 15 Nov: ‘Business, the Commonwealth and the end of empire: the Federation of Commonwealth Chambers of Commerce, 1945–74’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5035 • 9 October 2013 39

Mr John Charles Smith Dr Mark Williams Faculty of Music 7 Nov: ‘Exponence of plurality and 24 Oct: ‘ “…aut deorum terrenorum”: the plurality of exponence: noun number in áes síde at the end of the seventh century’ Research colloquia Gallo-Romance’ Dr Elaine Pereira Farrell, Dublin The following seminars will be given on Dr Chiara Cappellaro 31 Oct: ‘Penitential literature and Tuesdays at 5.15pm in the Denis Arnold 14 Nov: ‘Observations on number Christian conversion in early medieval Hall, Faculty of Music. Conveners: Ms Carina marking in Italo-Romance’ Ireland’ Venter and Ms Solfa Carlile Professor Anna Maria Thornton, Aquila Dr Alderik Blom Patrick Valiquet 21 Nov: ‘The non-canonicity of the 7 Nov: ‘Reading the psalms in early 22 Oct: ‘Sounding digital: technological Italian type braccio/bracci/braccia: medieval Ireland: form and function of and aesthetic change in electroacoustic overabundance, defectiveness or vernacular and Latin glossing’ music and sound art’ overdifferentiation?’ Professor Dafydd Johnston, Wales Professor Jonathan Cross Professor John Aston, Cambridge, and 14 Nov: ‘Guto’r Glyn, Rhys ap Thomas and 29 Oct: ‘Stravinsky in exile’ Professor John Coleman the death of Richard III’ Maria Kallionpaa 5 Dec: ‘Experiments in modelling Dr Alice Taylor, KCL 5 Nov: ‘Beyond the piano; the super acoustic-phonetic variation across space 21 Nov: ‘Was Leges inter Brettos et Scottos instrument. Widening the instrumental and time in some Romance numerals’ really an early-11th-century law held capacities in the context of the piano among the Britons of Strathclyde and the music of the 21st century’ Faculty of Medieval and Modern Scots of Alba?’ Languages Wyndham Thomas, Bristol Professor Christophe Archan, Paris West 12 Nov: ‘Concepts of time, travel and Dorothy Rowe Lecture 28 Nov: ‘From the Cauldron of Truth to tonality in Saxton's dramatic works’ the third Collar of Morann: ordeal by fire Professor Martin Kemp will deliver the Dr Susan Rutherford, Manchester in Medieval Ireland’ 2013 Dorothy Rowe Lecture on 18 October 9 Nov: ‘Vibrato and the Victorians: at 5pm in the Auditorium, Magdalen. Ms Hanna Hopwood passion and “trembling” on the 19th- Subject: ‘Leonardo and the history of the 5 Dec: ‘Shameful beards – the changing century British operatic stage’ earth: from fossils to the Mona Lisa’ faces of the cywyddwyr’ Dr Dave O’Brien, City European Humanities Research Centre Symposium 26 Nov: ‘Managing and valuing music: a (EHRC) Translation workshop cultural policy perspective’ Dr Tom Kuhn, Dr David Constantine, The first of three annual EHRC Workshops Professor Stephen Parker, Manchester, Dr Juniper Hill, Cambridge on Translation will take place 1–2 November Dr David Barnett, Sussex, and Professor 3 Dec: ‘Social and cultural influences on in the Seminar Room, TORCH, Woodstock Steve Giles, Nottingham, will lecture on creative potential’ Road. Keynote speakers: Professor 15 November at 2pm in the Maplethorpe Seminar in late medieval and Mona Baker, Manchester, Professor Seminar Room, St Hugh’s. A Bertolt Brecht Renaissance music – a forum for work in Theo Hermans, UCL, and Professor song and poetry recital, ‘Songs of Exile and progress Raquel Merino-Álvarez, Basque Country. War’, will follow at 7pm (tickets required). Conveners: Professor Martin McLaughlin To register: [email protected]. The following seminars will be given on and Dr Javier Muñoz-Basols uk. Thursdays at 5pm in the Wharton Room, All Subject: ‘Translating European languages: Subject: ‘Writing Brecht’ Souls. Convener: Dr Margaret Bent history, ideology and censorship’ Italian Department graduate seminars Dr Barbara Haggh-Huglo, Maryland Machiavelli conference 24 Oct: ‘Gilles Carlier and Guillaume Du The following seminars will be given on Fay's Marian officium for Cambrai’ A conference on Machiavelli’s Prince (1513) Mondays at 5pm in Room 10b, the Taylorian. will be held 22–23 November at Keble. Professor David Hiley, Regensburg Jiri Spicka, Palacký Keynote speakers: Professor Robert 31 Oct: ‘ “Collatum miseris”: a little-known 21 Oct: ‘Petrarch and politics’ (in Italian) Black, Leeds, Professor Riccardo Fubini, English liturgical office for St James. Florence, Professor Giorgio Inglese, La Paola Cori, Birmingham Politics and plainchant in the time of Sapienza, and Professor Ritchie Robertson. 4 Nov: ‘Leopardi as master and student in Henry II’ Conveners: Dr Nicola Gardini and Professor the Zibaldone’ David Catalunya, Würzburg Martin McLaughlin Alessandro Carlucci 7 Nov: ‘New clues on the development of Subject: ‘Machiavelli’s Prince: tradition 18 Nov: ‘Gramsci and languages: mensural music in Spain c1300–50’ and translation’ unification, diversity, hegemony’ Henry Hope Oxford Celtic seminar 21 Nov: ‘Walther von der Vogelweide's The following seminars will be given on “Palästinalied” ’ Thursdays at 5pm in the Harold Wilson and Dr Alexander Lingas, City Memorial Rooms, Jesus. Tea from 4.30pm. 5 Dec: ‘Byzantine chant and the Latin Professor Thomas Charles-Edwards West: a re-evaluation in the light of recent 17 Oct: ‘Fourteenth-century Welsh research’ grammar on phonology: textual history and background’ 40 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5035 • 9 October 2013

Ethnomusicology seminar McDonald Lectures Mathematical, Physical The following seminars will be given on Meditations from purgatory: Kant, and Life Sciences Thursdays at 5pm in St John’s. Convener: Dr Freedom and Happiness Noel Lobley and Dr Jason Stanyek Department of Chemistry Professor Christopher Insole, Durham, Dr Bob W White, Montreal will give the following lectures at 5pm at Physical and Theoretical Chemistry 24 Oct: ‘Listening to the aesthetics of Examination Schools. Laboratory popular culture’ 29 Oct: ‘ “I am from eternity to eternity”: God in Kant’s early thought’ Physical Chemistry seminars Dr Rachel Beckles Willson, RHUL 21 Nov: ‘Orientalism and musical mission’ 30 Oct: ‘ “Whence then am I?”: God in The following seminars will be given on Kant’s later thought’ Mondays at 2.15pm in PTCL Lecture Theatre. Faculty of Oriental Studies All welcome. Conveners: Dr G A D Ritchie 5 Nov: ‘Kant’s “only unsolvable and Dr C Vallance metaphysical difficulty”: created Seminar on Jewish History and freedom’ Professor Carl Lineberger, Colorado Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period 21 Oct: ‘Structure and dynamics in time 6 Nov: ‘Creating freedom: Kant’s The following seminars will be given on and frequency domains: biradicals, theological solution’ Tuesdays at 2.30pm in the Oriental Institute. transition states and electron transfer’ 12 Nov: ‘The dancer and the dance: divine Professor Chris Rowland Professor Tony Wilson action, human freedom’ 15 Oct: 'The Open Heaven revisited’ 4 Nov: ‘Making light work in microscopy’ 13 Nov: ‘Becoming divine: autonomy and Dr David Noy, Wales Professor Hagan Bayley the beatific vision’ 22 Oct: 'Jews in the western provinces of 18 Nov: ‘Polymers through pores: single- the Roman Empire' Book launch seminar molecule experiments with nucleic acids, polypeptides and polysaccharides’ Professor Martin Goodman Professor Gillian Clark, Bristol, Professor 29 Oct: 'Jewish communal identities in Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor Karla Professor Andrew Orr-Ewing, Bristol the Graeco-Roman period' Pollmann, Kent, Professor Graham Ward, 2 Dec: ‘Chemical reaction dynamics in Dr Lydia Schumacher and Dr Johannes liquid solutions’ Dr Ruth Sheridan, Charles Sturt Zachhuber will give brief presentations on 5 Nov: 'Tannaitic conceptions of the Soft Matter, Biomaterials and various aspects of Augustine’s historical zekhut avot' Interfaces seminars reception followed by open question and Aron Sterk, Manchester discussion time on 13 November at 4.30pm The following seminars will be given on 12 Nov: 'Jews in the Latin West in Late (reception from 6pm) in the Danson Room, Tuesdays at 4pm in the John Rowlinson Antiquity: forgotten communities and Trinity. Seminar Room (PTCL). All welcome. texts' Title: The Oxford Guide to the Historical Conveners: Dr R P A Dullens and Professor Reception of Augustine J Yeomans Dr Susan Walker 19 Nov: 'Jewish gold-glass and funerary Ian Ramsey Centre Dr Yongxiang Gao inscriptions from Vigna Randanini' 22 Oct: ‘Probing large-scale structural Seminars on science and religion dynamics of spinodal decomposition en Marton Ribary, Manchester The following seminars will be given on route to colloidal gelation’ 26 Nov: 'Tannaitic counter-identity and Thursdays at 8.30pm, preceded by drinks at changes of the “digital halakhah” ' Dr Dominic Vella 8.15pm, in the Sutro Room, Trinity. Free and 5 Nov: ‘Elasticity and attraction (from Dr Lutz Doering, Durham open to the public. Convener: Dr A Pinsent elastocapillarity to magnetoelasticity)’ 3 Dec: 'Fictive kinship terminology Dr Olli-Pekka Vainio, Helsinki in Jewish texts of the Graeco-Roman Professor Sigurdur Thoroddsen, King 7 Nov: ‘Belief-formation in the desert of period' Abdullah University of Science and the real’ Technology Faculty of Theology and Religion Dr Ignacio Silva 19 Nov: ‘Using drop impacts to study 21 Nov: ‘Science and religion in Latin the breakup of submicron liquid and air Special Lecture (in association with St America’ sheets’ Benet’s Hall) Dr Andrew Pinsent Dr Benoit Loppinet, Foundation for William Simon, Visiting Professor of Law, 5 Dec: ‘A Christmas carol: the Research and Technology, Hellas UCLA, will deliver a Special Lecture on prosopagnosia of avarice and its cure’ 3 Dec: ‘Polydienes solutions and soft 7 November at 5pm at Examination matter non linear optics’ Schools. Theoretical Chemistry Group Subject: ‘American Catholicism: seminars contemporary challenges and opportunities’ The following seminars will be given on Mondays at 4.45pm in the John Rowlinson Seminar Room, PTCL. All welcome. Convener: Dr J P K Doye University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5035 • 9 October 2013 41

Dr Feliciano Giustino Astor Lecture Department of Materials 21 Oct: ‘Atomistic modelling of Professor Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Carnegie nanostructured solar cell interfaces: the Institution Weekly colloquia steep path to rational design’ 25 Oct, Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, The following colloquia will be given on Clarendon Laboratory: ‘Building Earth- Dr Stefano Leoni, Cardiff Thursdays at 4pm, in the Hume Rothery like planets: from gas and dust to ocean 4 Nov: ‘Materials for energy: challenges Lecture Theatre, unless otherwise noted. worlds’ and opportunities for computational Preceded by tea at 3.30pm. chemistry’ Professor Monica Grady, Open Professor Dilano K Saldin, Wisconsin 1 Nov: ‘Mars, martian meteorites and Dr Fernando Bresme, London Fri, 18 Oct: ‘Biology with x-ray lasers: prospects of life on Mars’ 18 Nov: ‘Temperature gradients at solving structures of uncrystallised small scales: from thermo-molecular Dr Alexandre Schubnel, École Normale biomolecules and viruses’ orientation to thermal nanomachines’ Supérieure Professor Gian-Marco Rignanese, UC 8 Nov: ‘Rock fracture in the laboratory: Dr Adam Kirrander, Edinburgh Louvain from quasi-static to supershear’ 2 Dec: ‘Ultrafast imaging of quantum 31 Oct: ‘Accelerating materials discovery dynamics’ Dr Eleonora Rivalta, Hamburg with ab initio methods through high- 15 Nov: tbc throughput and data mining’ e-Research Centre Professor Lars Stixrude, UCL Dr Stephanie Simmonds 22 Nov: tbc 7 Nov: tbc Seminar series Professor Rachel Mills, Southampton Professor Colin Lambert, Lancaster The following seminars will take place at 29 Nov: ‘The impact of volcanic activity 5 Dec: tbc 2pm in Room 277, e-Research Centre, 7 on ocean biogeochemistry’ Keble Road. Mathematical Institute Dr Stephanie Pierce, Royal Veterinary Ken Kahn College 15 Oct: ‘Agent-based modelling in Computational Mathematics and 6 Dec: ‘Unravelling the evolution of education, public engagement, Applications seminars tetrapodomorph movement’ policy-making, discussions, art and The following seminars will be given on entertainment. Oh, and research!’ Department of Engineering Science Thursdays at 2pm in lecture room L5, Professor Antonio Sgamellotti Mathematical Institute, unless otherwise 21 Oct: ‘Non-destructive analysis’ Solid Mechanics and Materials noted. Seminar website: www.maths.ox.ac. Engineering Group seminar series uk/groups/numerical-analysis/seminars. Professor Simon Hands Conveners: Professor Nick Trefethen and 22 Oct: ‘Graphene – relativity in a pencil- Professor Martyn Pavier, Bristol Dr Tyrone Rees, Rutherford Appleton stroke’ 21 Oct: ‘Failure of cast iron railway Laboratory bridges’ Dr Lee Margetts Dr Gabriel Peyre, Paris Dauphine 12 Nov: tbc Dr Tuncay Yalcinkaya 17 Oct: ‘Model selection with piecewise 28 Oct: ‘Deformation patterning and James Brown regular gauges’ grain boundary modelling through strain 3 Dec: ‘Amazon Web Services – common gradient crystal plasticity’ Dr Martin Lotz, Manchester use-cases inside and outside academia’ 24 Oct: ‘A geometric theory of phase Professor Bill Clyne, Cambridge David Fergusson transitions in convex optimisation’ 4 Nov: ‘Thermo-mechanical stability of 10 Dec: ‘Scientific computing at the plasma sprayed thermal barrier coatings Professor Folkmar Bornemann, TU Francis Crick Institute – building flagship in gas turbines’ Munich research computing in biomedicine’ 31 Oct: ‘Don't be afraid of the 1001st Professor Ritesh Agarwal, Pennsylvania (numerical) derivative’ Department of Earth Sciences 8 Nov: ‘Probing size-dependent light– matter interactions and structural phase Professor Tim Davis, Florida The following seminars will be given on change properties with nanowires’ 7 Nov, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Fridays at 2pm in the Lecture Theatre, Earth nr Didcot: ‘Sparse multifrontal QR Dr Alessandro Mottura, Birmingham Sciences, unless otherwise noted. factorisation on the GPU’ 11 Nov: ‘From Ni-based to Co-based Professor Mark Behn, Woods Hole superalloys: planar faults energies to Professor Philippe Toint, Namur Oceanographic Institute order’ 14 Nov: ‘Range space Krylov methods for 18 Oct: ‘Dynamic response(s) of the data assimilation in meteorology and Professor Toshimitsu Yokobori, Tohoku Greenland Ice Sheet to supra-glacial lake oceanography’ 18 Nov: ‘Potential driven particle drainage’ diffusion theory and its application to Dr Rémi Gribonval, INRIA Rennes engineering problems’ 21 Nov: ‘Sparse dictionary learning in the presence of noise and outliers’ Dr Fehmi Cirak, Cambridge 25 Nov: tbc 42 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5035 • 9 October 2013

Dr Amal Khabou, Manchester Dr Raphael Flauger, IAS, Princeton, and Professor Harvey Millar, Western Australia 28 Nov, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory CCAPP, New York 31 Oct: ‘Tracking specific protein turnover nr Didcot: ‘Block LU factorisation with 14 Nov: ‘A new particle on the worldsheet rates in plant cells and intact plants: a panel rank revealing pivoting and its of the QCD flux tube' new frontier is understanding assembly, communication avoiding version’ flux and the energy efficiency of plant Dr Gavin Salam, CERN growth’ Dr Gabriel Barrenechea, Strathclyde 21 Nov: ‘Towards an understanding of jet 5 Dec: ‘Certified upper and lower bounds substructure' Mary Snow Lecture for the eigenvalues of the Maxwell Professor Pamela Ronald, California at Dr Urs Wenger, Bern operator’ Davis 28 Nov: ‘Spontaneous supersymmetry 7 Nov: ‘Engineering rice for tolerance to Mathematical Biology and Ecology breaking on the lattice' stress and resistance to disease' seminars Dr Subodh Patil, CERN Professor Andrew Hector The following seminars will be given on 5 Dec: ‘Heavy fields, decoupling and the 14 Nov: ‘The stability of forest alternate Fridays at 2pm in Lecture Room 1 effective theory of inflation' ecosystems’ at the Mathematical Institute. Convener: Oxford Physics colloquia Sara Jolliffe ([email protected]) Professor Uta Paszkowski, Cambridge The following colloquia will be given on 21 Nov: ‘The art and design of harmony: Dr Kieran Sharkey, Liverpool Fridays at 4.15pm in the Martin Wood molecular genetics of arbuscular 18 Oct: ‘Exact representations of Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory, mycorrhizal symbiosis in cereals’ susceptible-infectious-removed (SIR) unless otherwise noted. Tea served in the epidemic dynamics on networks’ Professor Pat Heslop-Harrison, Leicester Common Room at 3.45pm. Conveners: J 28 Nov: ‘Genome evolution, Professor David Rand, Warwick March-Russell, R Davies, A Boothroyd and chromosomes and superdomestication’ 1 Nov: ‘Design principles and dynamics in T Palmer clocks, cell cycles and signals’ Professor Gerhard Leubner, RHUL First Lobanov Lecture in Planetary Geology 5 Dec: ‘Molecular mechanics and stress Professor Tim Elston, North Carolina (Joint Physics/Earth Sciences Colloquium) biology of seed germination’ 15 Nov: ‘Mathematical models of cell Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Astor Visiting polarisation and migration’ Lecturer/Carnegie Institution, Washington Department of Zoology 4pm, 25 Oct: ‘Building earth-like planets: Dr Eric Lauga, Cambridge from gas and dust to ocean worlds’ 29 Nov: ‘The hydrodynamics of cilia: Departmental seminar series modelling and optimisation’ Professor Dr Roderich Moessner, Max The following lectures will be given on Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Mondays at 4pm in the Lecture Theatre, Department of Physics Systems, Dresden Tinbergen Building, Department of Zoology. 1 Nov: ‘Magnetic monopoles in spin ice’ Hintze Lecture Dr Trenton Garner, Zoological Society Professor Sir Christopher Llewellyn Smith London Professor Christopher Reynolds, 8 Nov: ‘Waiting for Higgs’ 28 Oct: ‘Is host adaptation the road to Maryland, will deliver the seventh Hintze Dr Julia Collins, Edinburgh recovery for amphibian populations Lecture on 22 October at 5pm in the 15 Nov: ‘A knot's tale ("Three great men, declining due to infectious disease?’ Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon two smoking boxes, one brilliant wrong Laboratory. Professor Michael Stumpf, Imperial idea...")’ Subject: ‘The role of black holes in galaxy 4 Nov: ‘The ecology of blood: evolution’ Professor Zhi-Zun Shen, Stanford haematopoiesis, bone marrow and the 22 Nov: tbc dynamics of leukaemia’ Particles and Fields seminars 29 Nov: tbc Dr Luca Börger, Wales The following seminars will be given on 11 Nov: ‘From local movements to annual Thursdays at 4.15pm in the Dennis Sciama Department of Plant Sciences routines: understanding the behavioural Lecture Theatre, Department of Physics. ecology of animal movements’ Conveners: Dr Brian Feldstein and Professor Departmental research seminars Subir Sarkar Dr Joseph Tobias The following seminars will be given on 18 Nov: ‘Species interactions: from Particle Theory Group, Oxford Thursdays at 1pm in the Large Lecture microevolution to macroevolution’ 17 Oct: Introduction to the group Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences. Professor Francois Balloux, UCL Dr Tobias Huber, Siegen Convener: Professor N Harberd 25 Nov: ‘Should we blame agriculture on 24 Oct: ‘Recent multi-loop results in Dr Amy Bogaard all our ills’ supersymmetric gauge theories' 24 Oct: ‘Current archaeological Dr Rebecca Kilner, Cambridge Dr Veronica Sanz, Sussex approaches to the nature and role of early 2 Dec: ‘Life after death: social evolution 31 Oct: ‘The Higgs is here, and now what?' farming in Western Asia and Europe’ in a grave’ Professor Daniel de Florian, Buenos Aires 7 Nov: ‘Double Higgs production at NNLO’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5035 • 9 October 2013 43

Medical Sciences Unither Baruch Blumberg Lecture Professor Raoul Hennekam, Amsterdam 27 Nov: ‘Next generation sequencing Dr Antony S Fauci, Director, National demands next generation phenotyping’ Sir Richard Doll Seminars in Public Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Health and Epidemiology NIH, will deliver the eighth Unither Baruch Dr Louise Goff, KCL Blumberg Lecture on 13 November at 4 Dec: tbc The following seminars will be given on 6pm in the Randolph Sculpture Gallery, Professor Denis Noble Tuesdays at 1pm in the Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean. Followed by champagne 11 Dec: tbc Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus. All reception. Admission by ticket only. welcome. Conveners: Dr D Canoy and Dr F Booking: https://eventbookingonline.com/ Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Bragg oxford/fauci. Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Subject: ‘Ending the HIV/AIDS pandemic: Professor Gordon C S Smith, Cambridge Sciences from scientific advances to public health 15 Oct: ‘Understanding the relationship implementation’ between advanced maternal age and Botnar Research Centre seminars pregnancy outcome’ Nuffield Department of Clinical The following seminars will be given on Kath Moser and Professor Dame Valerie Neurosciences Tuesdays at 12.30pm in the G54/38 seminar Beral room, Botnar Research Centre. Convener: Dr 22 Oct: ‘Screening for breast cancer and Grand Rounds James R Edwards the NHSBSP Age Extension Trial’ The following seminars will be given on the Dr Miranda Armstrong Professor Paul Elliott, Imperial following Fridays at 11.30am after the Grand 22 Oct: ‘Breaking in with big numbers: 29 Oct: ‘Diet, blood pressure and the Rounds in Lecture Theatre 1, Academic fractures in the Million Women Study’ metabolome’ Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital. Dr Nathaniel Szewczyk, Nottingham Professor Stephen Duffy, London Dr Gwen Douaud 29 Oct: ‘What worms in space have taught 5 Nov: ‘What would screening for lung 18 Oct: ‘Predicting progression to us about muscle on Earth’ cancer in the UK look like?’ Alzheimer's and capturing treatment Dr Fraser Coxon, Aberdeen effects in MCI: what can be gained from Professor Hans Lilja 5 Nov: ‘Vesicular trafficking defects in using MRI?’ 12 Nov: ‘Long-term risk of lethal prostate bone disease’ cancer by prostate-specific antigen (PSA) Professor Joanna Wardlaw, Edinburgh Dr Linda Keller, Munich and related markers in blood at age 40 15 Nov: ‘Small vessel disease’ 12 Nov: ‘Overcoming obstacles in Western to 60’ Professor Michael Strupp, Munich blotting – obtain high-quality data from Professor Peter Burney, Imperial 6 Dec: ‘Diagnosis and current treatment every Western blot you run’ 19 Nov: ‘Is COPD really such a boring of vertigo, dizziness and nystagmus’ Dr Clive Metcalfe disease? The global epidemiology of 19 Nov: ‘Controlling immune cell chronic lung disease’ Oxford Centre for Diabetes, activation through disulfide bond Endocrinology and Metabolism Professor Erik Ingelsson, Uppsala switching at the cell surface’ 26 Nov: ‘Cardiovascular molecular The following seminars will be given on Dr Itzik Golan, Swansea epidemiology: large-scale methods to Wednesdays at 1pm in the Robert Turner 26 Nov: ‘The role of CD44 and its ligand link genomics, clinical medicine and Lecture Theatre, OCDEM Building, Churchill galectin-8 in the induction of apoptosis molecular biology aiming to advance Hospital. Convener: Professor Fredrik Karpe in arthritic joints: routes to new therapies cardiovascular medicine’ for autoimmune and cancer diseases’ Professor Patrik Rorsman Professor Clive Osmond, Southampton 16 Oct: ‘Pancreatic islets: more than the Professor Tonia Vincent 3 Dec: ‘The catch-up dilemma in low and sum of the parts?’ 3 Dec: ‘Shifting paradigms in middle income countries’ osteoarthritis pathogenesis’ Professor Timo Otonkoski, Helsinki Department of Biochemistry 23 Oct: ‘New approaches for beta-cell Professor Jonathan Reeve protection and modelling of monogenic 10 Dec: ‘The multi-tasking, small-scale Joel Mandelstam Lecture diabetes’ networking osteocyte: guilty or innocent of hip fragility in old age?’ Dr Gisela Storz, NICHD, NIH, will deliver Dr Mark Cleasby, London the 5th Joel Mandelstam Lecture on 30 Oct: ‘Endocrine and paracrine 26 November at 4pm in the Seminar Room, mediators of insulin sensitivity in New Biochemistry. skeletal muscle’ Subject: ‘The genes that were missed: an Dr Shamima Rahman, UCL expanding universe of small RNAs and 6 Nov: tbc small proteins’ Professor Carolyn Deacon, Copenhagen 20 Nov: ‘Development and clinical application of DPP4 inhibitors for the treatment of type 2 diabetes’ 44 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5035 • 9 October 2013

Sir William Dunn School of Pathology Dr Barry Boland, Cork. Host: Professor Fran Dr Deborah Goberdhan: ‘Amino acid Platt sensing, endolysosomes and cancer – The following events will take place in the 19 Nov: ‘Involvement of impaired from flies to patients’ Medical Sciences Teaching Centre, South lysosomal flux in neurodegenerative 6 Dec: Parks Road. diseases’ Professor Frances Ashcroft: tbc Norman Heatley Lecture 26 Nov: tbc Dr Maike Glitsch: ‘Proton-dependent Dr Susan Lindquist, Whitehead Institute, Dr Nicoletta Tekki-Kessaris, UCL. Host: Dr signalling in brain cells’ will deliver the annual Norman Heatley Peter Magill Lecture on 28 October at 4pm. 3 Dec: ‘Building cortical inhibitory Nuffield Department of Population Subject: ‘From yeast cells to patient networks: a genetic approach’ Health neurons: a powerful discovery platform for Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease' Department of Physiology, Anatomy George Institute for Global Health and Genetics Seminar programme Conference The following seminars will take place at Head of Department seminar series A conference will be held on 22 and 23 2pm, unless otherwise noted. November at the Saïd Business School. The following seminars will be given at 1pm For information and to register, see www. Dr David Adams, Wellcome Trust Sanger and 1.30pm in the Large Lecture Theatre, georgeinstitute.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/ Institute Sherrington Building, off South Parks big-change-2013. 18 Oct: 'Genetic screens in the mouse: the Road. All welcome. Convener: Dr Deborah Subject: ‘Big change: sustainable identification of regulators of genomic Goberdhan healthcare for the 21st century’ instability and tumorigenesis' 18 Oct: Professor Gillian Griffiths, Cambridge Dr Kristine Krug: ‘Changing perception – Department of Psychiatry Institute for Medical Research causal interference in neuronal circuits of 4pm, 24 Oct: 'The immunological the awake macaque’ The following lectures will be held on synapse, secretion and cilia' Tuesdays at 9.15am in the Seminar Room, Dr Thomas Smith, Professor Peter Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Dr Mark Greene, Perelman School of Robbins and Dr Keith Dorrington’s Hospital. Medicine, Pennsylvania group: ‘Hypoxia physiology and air 12 Nov: tbc travel’ Dr Owen Bowden-Jones, Central and North West London Professor Julie Ahringer, Gurdon Institute, 25 Oct: 15 Oct: ‘The impact of a competitive Cambridge Professor Andrew Parker: ‘So just how market on addiction services: what it 29 Nov: tbc good is stereo vision?’ could mean for the rest of psychiatry?’ Dr Gil Bub: ‘New approaches for high- Pharmacology, Anatomical Dr Kate Stein speed, high-resolution imaging of Neuropharmacology and Drug 22 Oct: ‘Childhood conversation excitable cells’ Discovery Seminars disorders’ (journal club presentation) 8 Nov: Dr Rebecca McKnight, Oxford Health The following seminars will be held at noon Dr Jeff Donlea and Professor Gero 29 Oct: ‘The cardiac effects of citalopram’ in the Lecture Theatre, Department of Miesenböck’s group, CNCB: ‘Neuronal (journal club presentation) Pharmacology, MansfieldR oad. machinery of sleep homeostasis in Drosophila’ Dr Angelica Ronald, London Dr Alicia Hidalgo, Birmingham. Host: Dr 5 Nov: ‘What can studying 5,000 16-year- Liliana Minichiello Dr Esther Becker: ‘Deciphering the old twin pairs teach us about the genetic 15 Oct: ‘Of genes and brains: molecular mechanisms linking autism and environmental causes of psychotic neurotrophism in Drosophila’ and the cerebellum’ experiences?’ Dr George Dragoi, MIT. Host: Dr David 15 Nov: Dr Robert Stewart, London Dupret Dr Samira Lakhal-Littleton: ‘Role 12 Nov: ‘Using electronic health records 22 Oct: ‘Internal representation of spatial and regulation of iron homeostasis in for research: the next generation of information by hippocampal cellular systems pathophysiology’ psychiatric case registers’ assemblies’ Professor Richard Vaughan-Jones: Professor Gero Miesenböck Ninth David Smith Lecture ‘Spatial Ca2+/H+ coupling in the heart: a 19 Nov: ‘Light sleep’ Professor Anders Björklund, Lund. Host: potential controller of arrhythmogenesis’ Professor Paul Bolam Dr Matthew Gee 22 Nov: G L Brown Lecture 29 Oct: ‘Use of stem cells for dopamine 26 Nov: ‘New findings in psychotherapy Professor Anant Parekh (50 mins) cell replacement in Parkinson’s disease’ research’ (journal club presentation) 29 Nov: Jenkinson Seminar Dr Tim Curtis, Belfast. Host: Professor Chris Professor Ray Fitzpatrick Dr Megan C Neville and Dr Stephen Garland 3 Dec: ‘PROMS’ Goodwin’s group: ‘Male-specific fruitless 5 Nov: tbc isoforms target neurodevelopmental Dr Cesare Terracciano, Imperial. Host: genes to specify a sexually dimorphic Professor Rebecca Sitsapesan nervous system’ 12 Nov: tbc University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5035 • 9 October 2013 45

Nuffield Department of Surgical Henrike Donner, Oxford Brookes Inge Daniels Sciences 1 Nov: ‘Of untold riches and unruly 29 Nov: ‘Experiments in living homes: gender and property in neoliberal ethnography: “At home in Japan” in Surgical Grand Round lectures middle-class Kolkata’ London’ The following lectures will be given Dimitris Xygalatas, Aarhus and Masaryk Rosie Thomas, Westminster on Fridays at 8am in Lecture Theatre 1, 8 Nov: ‘Experimenting with field 6 Dec: ‘On booted females flogging Academic Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital. experiments: moving the lab into the gangsters: visceral cosmopolitanism in For updates: www.nds.ox.ac.uk. Chair: field in ethnographic research’ 1930s Bombay action films’ Professor Freddie Hamdy Asifa Majid, Radboud and MPI for The Unit for Biocultural Variation and Ashok Handa Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen Obesity (UBVO) seminar series 11 Oct: ‘Surgical education and training: 15 Nov: ‘Semantics across cultures’ The following seminars will be given on do we have a problem?’ Andrew Irving, Manchester Thursdays at 1pm in 61 Banbury Road. David Murray and Hemant Pandit 22 Nov: ‘New York stories: the lives of Convener: Professor S Ulijaszek 18 Oct: ‘Unicompartmental knee other citizens’ Alexandra Brewis, Arizona State replacement’ Alex Alvergne 17 Oct: ‘Biocultural perspectives on John McMaster 29 Nov: ‘The adoption of modern globalising fat stigma’ 25 Oct: ‘Major trauma’ contraception in rural Ethiopia: a Michèle Belot, Edinburgh biocultural approach’ Robert Sayers 24 Oct: ‘Behavioural economics and 1 Nov: NDS visiting speaker in the area of Victor Toom, Newcastle eating habits’ vascular surgery 6 Dec: ‘Identifying the World Trade Bea Prentiss, Belfast Center victims: the involvement of Edward Black 31 Oct: ‘Managing weight loss on the victims’ families in disaster victim 8 Nov: Thoracic surgery: ‘Lung cancer internet: two popular calorie database identification practices’ surgery: the scandals and the solutions’ websites compared’ Pitt Rivers Museum Research Seminar Alastair Thompson Harry Rutter, LSHTM in Visual, Material and Museum 15 Nov: NDS visiting professor in the area 14 Nov: ‘Obesity, systems and complexity’ Anthropology of oncology Annalijn Conklin, Cambridge The following seminars will be given on Jonathan Sackier 21 Nov: ‘Financial hardship, weight Fridays at 1pm in the Lecture Theatre, 22 Nov: NDS visiting professor in the area gain and obesity: rethinking economic Pitt Rivers Museum, Robinson Close. of laparoscopic surgery determinants’ Conveners: Dr C Harris and Dr L Peers David Jayne Jean-Michel Oppert, Paris Chris Morton 29 Nov: NDS visiting professor in the 28 Nov: ‘Obesity and physical activity: 18 Oct: ‘Researching and returning area of laparoscopic and minimal access from behaviour to environment’ Australian aboriginal photographs from surgery the Pitt Rivers Museum’ Fertility and Reproduction seminars: Dr John Griffiths and Dr James Day Generational change in reproductive Elizabeth Hallam 6 Dec: Intensive care: ‘Cardiopulmonary cycles 25 Oct: ‘Trees of life: making and growing exercise testing’ anatomy’ The following seminars will be given on 12 Dec: Combined Surgical/Medical Mondays at 11am in the Lecture Room, 64 Noel Lobley Grand Round Banbury Road. Organised by the Institute 1 Nov: ‘Sound objects, sound cultures: the of Social and Cultural Anthropology and art, anthropology and curation of sound Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group. and music’ Social Sciences Conveners: Dr K Qureshi and Dr S Pooley Hildegard Diemberger, Cambridge Angela Davis, Warwick School of Anthropology and Museum 8 Nov: ‘From palm-leaf to digital dharma: 14 Oct: ‘Generational change and Ethnography exploring the materiality of Tibetan book continuity amongst British mothers: culture and its transformations’ the sharing of beliefs, knowledge and Departmental seminar series Ngahuia Te Awekotuku and Waimarie practice, c1940–90’ The following seminars will be given on Nikora, Waikato Charlotte Faircloth and Ellie Lee, Kent Fridays at 11am in the Lecture Theatre, 15 Nov: ‘Māori ways of death and 21 Oct: ‘Contextualising the “new Pitt Rivers Museum, Robinson Close. mourning’ parenting culture”: historical and Conveners: Professor M Banks and Dr E Wipaki Peeti, Haimona Rzoska, Hera sociological perspectives on adult–child Cohen Pēina, Luana Tawaroa, Sister Makareta relations’ Laura Fortunato Takahia Tawaroa, Katrina Hawira, Val Gillies, London South Bank, and 18 Oct: ‘Evolution and the human family’ Teresa Peeti, Ngā Paerangi, with Michelle Rosalind Edwards, Southampton Horwood, Victoria Dace Dzenovska 28 Oct: ‘Historical comparative analysis of 22 Nov: ‘Reawakening legacies: 25 Oct: ‘Diagnosing intolerance: family and parenting: exploring changing reconnecting with our ancestors – the knowledge practices in post-socialist meanings and experiences’ Charles Smith Collection’ Europe’ 46 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5035 • 9 October 2013

Elizabeth Rahman Department of Education Public seminar with PESGB 4 Nov: ‘Caring and being cared for in Professor Paul Smeyers, KU Leuven Northwestern Amazonia’ Public seminar programme 18 Nov: ‘The attraction of psychology and the rhetoric of neuroscience: Punita Chowbey, Sheffield Hallam The following seminars will be given on on “knowing how to go on” in the 11 Nov: ‘ “Feed them nuggets of gold, Mondays at 5pm in Seminar Room A, educational field’ but watch them with the eye of a tiger!”: Department of Education, 15 Norham British South Asian fathers talking about Gardens. The Revd Dr John Gay, Dr Janet Orchard, memories of their own fathers’ Bristol, and Dr Alis Oancea Professor Walter Doyle, Arizona. Convener: 26 Nov, Seminar Room E: ‘Influencing Robert Pralat, Cambridge Dr Ian Thompson policy? The example of religious 18 Nov: ‘ “Don’t worry, you’ll be a 21 Oct: ‘Doing practical work: rationality education’ grandmother soon!”: how non- and heuristics in teaching’ heterosexual people talk about DPhil Symposium Dr Claire Donovan, Brunel. Convener: Dr parenthood with their own parents’ Adrian Hilton, Linda Bakkum and Alis Oancea Abdurrahman Hendek Ekaterina Hertog 28 Oct: ‘Moral panic and the impact 3 Dec: ‘Interviewing the powerful and 25 Nov: ‘ “I did not know how to tell my agenda’ elites’ parents, so I thought I would have to Professor Herb Marsh. Convener: Professor have an abortion”: intergenerational Steve Strand Departments of Education/ negotiations of premarital pregnancies 4 Nov: ‘Student evaluations of university International Development/Social in Japan’ teaching: recommendations for policy Policy and Intervention Adom Philogene Heron, St Andrews and practice’ 2 Dec: ‘Grandfatherhood in the Antilles: A century of social enquiry: seminar Professor Amy Stambach. Convener: kinship, senescence and the inward series celebrating the centenary of Professor Ernesto Macaro journey of the elder man’ Barnett House 11 Nov: ‘Learning Chinese in OxDEG – Oxford Digital Ethnography Africa: toward new ethnographic The following seminars will be given on Group understandings of trade, aid and Thursdays at 5pm in the Violet Butler Room, education’ Barnett House, Department of Social Policy The following seminars will be held on and Intervention. Convener: Dr Georg Picot Mondays at the times and venues shown. Professor Paul Smeyers, Ghent and KU Convener: S Walton Leuven. Convener: Dr Alis Oancea Professor Bernard Harris, Strathclyde 18 Nov: ‘The attraction of psychology 17 Oct: ‘Lessons from history? Charity, Bradley Garrett and the rhetoric of neuroscience: mutual aid and the origins of the “Big 5pm, 14 Oct, ISCA: Talk and book launch: on “knowing how to go on” in the Society” ’ Glorious Backfires in Digital Ethnography: educational field’ Becoming an Urban Explorer Mr George Smith, Ms Teresa Smith and Dr Professor Constant Leung, KCL. Convener: Elizabeth Peretz OxDEG Dr Catherine Walter 24 Oct: ‘Barnett House: a hundred years noon, 28 Oct, OII: ‘Digital visual 25 Nov: ‘English as an additional of research, policy and practice’ ethnography’ language: talking to learn?’ Professor Jose Harris OxDEG Professor Harry Daniels. Convener: 31 Oct: ‘The “tin can” versus the “golden noon, 11 Nov, OII: ‘Technology and Professor Ernesto Macaro staircase” models of social reform: some fieldwork’ 2 Dec: ‘A sociocultural imagination: new light on the making of the Beveridge Speaker tbc speculations on an alternative Plan of 1942’ 5pm, 25 Nov, ISCA: tbc perspective on research’ Professor Carole Torgerson, Durham Religion, Philosophy and Education 7 Nov: ‘A brief history of randomised Saïd Business School forum controlled trials in education research (over the last 100 years)’ Novak Druce Centre for Professional The following seminars will be given at Service Firms seminar 6.30pm in Seminar Room A, 15 Norham Professor Herbert Obinger, Bremen Gardens, unless otherwise noted. All 14 Nov: ‘Warfare and the welfare state: Michel Lander, HEC Paris, will lecture on welcome. Conveners: The Revd Dr John Gay, casual mechanisms and effects’ 30 October at 12.30pm in the Boardroom, Dr Liam Gearon and Dr Alis Oancea Saïd Business School. Sandwich lunch Professor Eileen Munro, LSE provided. The Revd Dr Ralph Waller 21 Nov: ‘Knowledge and humility in social Subject: ‘Hybrid power? A qualitative 10 Oct: ‘The pattern never lasts long in work: learning from past mistakes’ comparative analysis of organizational education: one man’s vision to improve Ms Ceridwen Roberts outcomes under institutional society through the Farmington Trust’ 28 Nov: ‘Using social science research to complexity’ Public seminar with PESGB influence policy: the case of the family Dr Claire Donovan, Brunel justice system’ 28 Oct: ‘Moral panic and the impact agenda’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5035 • 9 October 2013 47

Panel discussion Guest lectures School of Interdisciplinary Area Professor Jonathan Bradshaw, York, Dr Studies/Department of Politics and Dr Jamie Pittock, ANU, will lecture on Zoë Irving, Sheffield,Professor Jane Millar, International Relations 15 October at 1pm in the A J Herbertson Bath, and Professor Robert Walker (chair) Room, School of Geography and the 5 Dec: ‘Social policy as an academic Modern Israel Studies Environment. discipline – looking back and looking Subject: ‘Dams on the Mekong: The following seminars will take place forward’ unanticipated effects on nutrition and 5–7pm in the ground floor seminar room, food trades’ 11 Bevington Road, unless otherwise noted. School of Geography and the Convener: Derek Penslar Environment Professor John Briscoe, Harvard, will lecture on 21 October at 5pm in the Blue Yael Zerubavel, Rutgers Water: perspectives from science and Boar Lecture Theatre, Christ Church. 21 Oct: ‘The desert, the island and the industry Subject: ‘Water security in a changing wall: space metaphors in Israeli culture’ world’ The following seminars will be given on Sharon Weinblum and Reuven Ziegler, Wednesdays at 5pm in the Blue Boar Lecture Professor Dale Whittington, North Reading Theatre, Christ Church, followed by a drinks Carolina, will lecture on 25 October at 4 Nov: ‘African asylum seekers in Israel: reception. To register: https://bookwhen. noon in the H O Beckit Room, School of the security–demography nexus’ com/7seqd. Geography and the Environment. Noa Schonmann Subject: ‘Water development paths, 23 Oct: 11 Nov: ‘Small state thinking big: Israel’s climate change and sustainable Matt Cullen, Association of British periphery pact in the Middle East’ economic growth’ Insurers: ‘The future of UK flood Johannes Becke insurance’ Oxford Intellectual Property Research 18 Nov: ‘The ghost of statehood past: the Professor Edmund Penning-Rowsell: Centre one-state-solution, the Alawite State and ‘Adaptation to climate change: the role of the Rif Republic’ insurance in flood risk management’ Invited Speaker Seminar Series Moshe Behar, Manchester, and Avi Shlaim 30 Oct: The following seminars will be given on 26 Nov, Middle East Centre Seminar Dr Jon Wicks, CH2M HILL: ‘Is climate Thursdays at 5.15pm in the Theberge Room, Room: ‘Zionism in modern Middle change science a barrier to flood St Peter’s. Convener: Dr D Gangjee, Dr E Eastern Jewish thought’ management decision making?’ Hudson and Dr R Pitkethly Nicholas de Lange, Cambridge Professor Jim Hall: ‘What is the risk of Professor Maurizio Borghi, Bournemouth 2 Dec: ‘Translating a neglected Israeli drought in the Thames basin?’ 24 Oct: ‘Mass-digital copyright’ classic: S Yizhar's Days of Ziklag’ 13 Nov: Professor Christine Greenhalgh Department of International Alex Money: ‘Corporate water risk – 31 Oct: ‘Innovation and IP in India – new Development (Queen Elizabeth House) confusion and ambiguity’ directions and prospects’ Cate Lamb, Carbon Disclosure Project: Professor Philip Johnson, Dublin Symposium ‘Corporate water risk – clarity and 7 Nov: ‘Invalid legislation: the persistent The following symposium will be held consistency’ challenges to the implementation of on 7 December at 9am–1pm in the copyright legislation in the United 20 Nov: Old Dining Room, Harris Manchester. Kingdom’ Dr Bettina Lange: ‘Developing eco-socio- Speakers: Professor Ernest Aryeetey, legal accounts of changing conceptions Dr Emily Hudson Vice-Chancellor, Ghana at Legon; Dr of rights to water’ 14 Nov: ‘Implementing fair use in Gyanendra Badgaiyan, UNU-WIDER, copyright law: the why and the how’ Helsinki; Professor Stefan Dercon, Chief Darren Lumbroso, HR Wallingford: Economist, DFID; Dr George Gray Molina, ‘Stakeholders’ responses to the use of Mr Gavin Millar, QC, Doughty Street Chief Economist, UNDP; Dr Edward Lim, innovative water trading systems in East Chambers Director, China Economic Research and Anglia’ 21 Nov: ‘Publishing the Snowden secrets Advisory Programme; Professor William – the Guardian, the government and the 27 Nov: Lyakurwa, Chair, Board of Directors, people’ Professor Robert Field: ‘Membrane Tanzania Investment Bank Ltd; Dr N C filtration: from critical to threshold flux Dr Catherine Ng, Aberdeen Saxena, National Advisory Council of India; systems in East Anglia’ 28 Nov: ‘Drawing on a t-shirt – some and Dr Miguel Szekely, Director, Institute thoughts on Fenty v Arcadia Group for Innovation in Education, Tecnológico Dr Graeme K Pearce, Membrane Brands’ de Monterrey, Mexico. Entry free but Consultancy Associates: ‘An energy registration required: denise.watt@qeh. cost analysis of membranes in water ox.ac.uk. Chairs: Professor Ian Walmsley and treatment from alternative sources; Professor Roger Goodman will improvements to water security be Subject: ‘Interface of academic research sustainable?’ and government policy in developing countries’ 48 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5035 • 9 October 2013

Health, Environment and Development Sindu W Kebede, German Institute for Madeline V Garlick, Head, Policy and (HED) interdivisional research seminar Economic Research Legal Support Unit, UNHCR’s Bureau for 21 Nov: ‘Dynamics and drivers of Europe, will give a special lecture at 5pm The following seminars will take place consumption and multidimensional on 24 October in Seminar Room 3, Queen on Tuesdays at 5pm in Seminar Room 2, poverty: evidence from rural Ethiopia’ Elizabeth House. Department of International Development Subject: ‘Displacement from Syria: (QEH). Convener: Dr Peter Wynn Kirby Gaston Yalonetzky, Leeds putting the Common European Asylum 28 Nov: ‘Female autonomy in India: Professor Charles Godfray System to the test?’ a comparison across states based on 15 Oct: ‘The challenge of feeding ~10 stochastic dominance’ Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture billion people sustainably and equitably’ China Mills Professor Yakin Ertürk will deliver the Dr Vanessa Grotti 5 Dec: ‘ “If you’re poor then you can’t Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture on 5 Nov: ‘Giving birth in an Amazonian be my friend”: intersections of shame, 20 November at 5pm at the Museum of gold rush: indigenous and tribal peoples, humiliation, isolation and poverty in Natural History. migration and healthcare policy in South Africa and Mozambique’ Subject: ‘Refugee rights: beyond the 1951 Suriname and French Guiana’ Convention’ Refugee Studies Centre Dr David Brown, ODI, London Call for papers 12 Nov: ‘Health and development issues Public seminar series in the African bushmeat trade’ The RSC International Conference deadline The following seminars will be given on for abstract submissions is 31 October. See: Professor Kate Hill, Oxford Brookes Wednesdays at 5pm in Seminar Room 1, www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/rsc-international- 26 Nov: ‘Problem animals leave but Queen Elizabeth House. Conveners: Dr conference-2014. the “conflict” persists: people–wildlife Alexander Betts and Dr Matthew J Gibney narratives and people–wildlife Dr Alexander Betts Faculty of Law interactions’ 16 Oct: ‘Survival migration: failed Dr Doreen Montag, Andina Simón Bolívar, governance and the crisis of PIL Lunchtime discussion group Ecuador displacement’ The following lectures will be given on 3 Dec: ‘Development illusions: how Professor Ian Clark, Aberystwyth Thursdays at 12.30pm for 12.45pm in diseases are used to sell oil extraction in 23 Oct: ‘Human movement and the the Hovenden Room, All Souls. No RSVP Yasuní-ITT’ vulnerable’ necessary. The meetings are part of the Oxford Poverty and Human British Branch of the International Law Professor Susan Kneebone, Monash Development Initiative (OPHI): Association programme and are supported 30 Oct: ‘Regional engagement and Lunchtime seminar series by the Law Faculty and OUP. Conveners: effective protection: theA ustralian way’ Anna Begemann and Michail Risvas The following seminars will be given on Professor Vicki Squire, Warwick Thursdays at noon in Seminar Room 3, Professor J Viñuales, Cambridge 6 Nov: ‘Forced migration as illegal Queen Elizabeth House. Complimentary 17 Oct: ‘Sovereignty in foreign investment migration’ sandwich lunch available (first come, first law’ served). All welcome. Ewen Macleod, UNHCR Dr Devika Hovell, LSE 13 Nov: ‘Afghan refugees, mobility and Sabina Alkire 24 Oct: ‘The Security Council in global the role of UNHCR’ 17 Oct: An introduction to the Oxford public law: the case for the international Poverty and Human Development Claire Higgins ombudsperson’ Initiative 27 Nov: ‘Political influences on refugee Professor M Mendelson, QC, Blackstone status determination in Australia, 1978 Sameen Zafar, Nottingham Chambers to 1983’ 24 Oct: ‘Multidimensional poverty in 31 Oct: ‘An Argentine warship in the Punjab, Pakistan’ Dr Martin Ruhs Ghanaian courts: a drama of state 4 Dec: ‘The price of rights: regulating immunity and public policy’ Sabina Alkire international migration’ 31 Oct: ‘Choosing indicators, cut-offs and Dr D Guilfoyle, UCL values for multidimensional poverty Special seminars and lectures 7 Nov: ‘Communicative justice and measures: normative and technical international criminal law: re-thinking Ambassador-at-Large Luis CdeBaca, considerations’ the rationale for international criminal Director, Office to Monitor and Combat justice and jurisdiction’ Suman Seth Trafficking in Persons, US Department 7 Nov: ‘Multidimensional poverty of State, will give a special lecture on Professor R McCorquodale, BIICL/ measurement methodologies’ 14 October at 5.30pm in Seminar Room 3, Nottingham Queen Elizabeth House. 14 Nov: ‘Business and human rights: Yadira Diaz, Institute of Social and Subject: ‘Failed migration no more: voluntary expectations or legal Economic Research confronting the scourge of modern obligations?’ 14 Nov: ‘Decentralisation in Colombia: a slavery’ search for equity in a bumpy economic Dr Veronika Fikfak, Cambridge geography’ 21 Nov: tbc University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5035 • 9 October 2013 49

Dr Philippa Webb, KCL Dr Nic Cheeseman and Diane de Gramont Dr Nicole Stremlau 28 Nov: ‘Factors that explain integration 11 Nov: ‘Taxing Lagos: public goods and 21 Oct: ‘Somalia: media law in the absence and fragmentation among international the emergence of a social contract in of state’ courts’ Nigeria’ Professor Laurence Lustgarten Professor William Schabas, Middlesex Dr Hazel Gray, LSE 28 Oct: ‘Controlling the arms trade: some 5 Dec: ‘The contemporary significance 18 Nov: ‘Tanzania and the limits fundamental questions’ of the Universal Declaration of Human of institutional analysis: political Dr Petra Mahy Rights’ settlements and economic development’ 4 Nov: ‘What regulates labour in the Book launch Dr Ian Cooper informal economy? A pilot study in 25 Nov: 'Presidential succession crises in restaurants in Yogyakarta, Indoniesa’ A book launch and reception, hosted by the South Africa and Namibia' Public International Law Discussion Group, Dr Rebecca Money-Kyrle will be held on 11 November at 5.30pm in Dr Cherry Leonardi, Durham 11 Nov: tbc the Cube, Law Faculty, for The Law of State 2 Dec: ‘Claims on the state: chiefship and Dr Paolo Cavaliere Immunity (3rd ed) by Lady Fox, QC, and citizenship in South Sudanese history’ 18 Nov: ‘Redefining public service Dr Philippa Webb. With Dapo Akande OXPO broadcasting: challenges and directions (discussant). in the digital era’ Book launch Department of Politics and Professor Lynn Welchman, SOAS Sophie Duchesne, CNRS/ISP Nanterre, International Relations 25 Nov: ‘Authority and guardianship in will present the book Citizens’ Reactions Muslim family laws: Middle Eastern to European Integration Compared: Cyril Foster Lecture arguments’ Overlooking Europe on 28 October at Professor Samuel Moyn, James Bryce 4.30pm at Maison Française. The book will Dr Amir Paz-Fuchs Professor of European Legal History, be discussed by Elizabeth Monaghan, Hull, 2 Dec: ‘What a sham: public service Columbia, will deliver the Cyril Foster and Chris Rumford, RHUL. outsourcing and the limits of the law’ Lecture on 28 November at 5pm in Workshop and conference Socio-legal discussion group Examination Schools. Subject: ‘The political origins of global Desmond King and Patrick Le Galès, The following seminars will be given on justice’ Sciences Po, CEE, are convening an Thursdays at 1pm in Seminar Room F, international workshop 12–14 December at Manor Road Building. Conveners: Dr Naomi Centre for International Studies (CIS) Nuffield and Maison Française. Creutzfeldt, Dr Iginio Gagliardone and Nbyen Dan Hkung Awng, Charles Wallace Subject: ‘Reconceptualising the state: Matilde Gawronski Trust Visiting Research Fellow, will speak restructuring in Europe, the American 17 Oct: Introduction to the socio-legal on 21 October at 1pm in the Lecture Theatre, state and empirical trends’ discussion group Manor Road Building. Subject: ‘ “A torch of fire, a cup of water”: Department of Social Policy and Katherine Saunders-Hastings Myanmar between democratisation and Intervention 24 Oct: ‘How is the Mara like a Cyclops? ethnic war’ Changing codes and community Zola Skweyiya Lecture on South African experience in a Guatemalan gang African History and Politics seminar Social Policy territory’ The following seminars will be given on Mr Vusimuzi Madonsela, Director-General, Matilde Gawronski Mondays at 5pm in Seminar Room 2, Department of Cooperative Governance, 31 Oct: ‘First impressions from the Department of International Development. Republic of South Africa, will deliver the field: taking stock of a year spent doing Convener: A R Mustapha and others Zola Skweyiya Lecture on 23 October at research at the International Criminal Dr Emily Jones 5pm at the Oxford Institute of Social Policy. Court’ 14 Oct: ‘The weak vs the strong: Followed by drinks reception. All welcome. Rosario Garcia Mahamut the politics of Africa–Europe trade Subject: 'Current issues in South 7 Nov: ‘Elections, new technologies and negotiations (1960–2010)’ African social policy: the role of local data protection’ government’ James Esson, Loughborough Dr Stanislaw Burdziej 21 Oct: ‘Playing by force: the socio- Centre for Socio-legal Studies 14 Nov: ‘Legitimacy and accountability of temporal development of Ghanaian the judiciary in late modernity – the case football’ Seminar series of Poland’ Dr Emma Whyte Laurie, Glasgow The following seminars will be given on Po-Hsiang Ou 28 Oct: ‘Framing violence: realising the Mondays at 4.30pm in Seminar Room 21 Nov: ‘Building the Eurozone with(out) right to health in Tanzania’ D, Manor Road Building. Convener: Dr risks: a case study of inter-expert risk Dr Claire Mercer, LSE Fernanda Pirie communication’ 4 Nov: ‘Middle class construction: Dr Bettina Lange Dr Rebecca Money-Kyrle domestic architecture, aesthetics and 14 Oct: ‘Understanding environmental 28 Nov: ‘Presentation skills’ anxieties in post-socialist Tanzania’ regulation through the lens of economic sociology of law’ 50 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5035 • 9 October 2013

Asma Vranaki Institutes, Centres and Masterclasses 5 Dec: ‘The Irish Facebook audit: a tale of Museums Medieval Manuscripts power and relations’ The following classes will be given on Ashmolean Museum Department of Sociology Mondays at 2.15pm in the Lecture Room, Pitt Rivers Museum. All welcome. Conveners: Research seminars The following seminars will be given on Professor R Sharpe and Dr M Kauffmann Mondays at 12.30pm in Seminar Room The following seminars will be given on Jean-Pascal Pouzet, Limoges G, Manor Road Building. All welcome. Thursdays at 1pm in the Headley Lecture 21 Oct: ‘Describing codicological Convener: Francesco Billari Theatre, Ashmolean. Tea and coffee structures in western medieval provided. Attendants welcome to bring Dr Valeria Bordone, Vienna University of manuscripts’ sandwiches. Convener: Dr Andrew Topsfield Economics and Business Orietta Da Rold, Cambridge 14 Oct: ‘Intergenerational relationships?: Dr Julia Lenaghan 4 Nov: ‘Codicology and localisation in Does grandparental childcare pay off?’ 24 Oct: ‘The architectural casts of the medieval English manuscripts’ Royal Academy: an overview of their Dr Aaron Reeves impact and value, then and now’ David Rundle, Essex 21 Oct: ‘National minimum wage and 18 Nov: ‘There and back: travels between health outcomes: evidence from a UK Dr Andrew Topsfield gothic and humanist scripts in 15th- natural experiment’ 28 Nov: ‘Instant karma: the Indian game century England’ of Snakes and Ladders’ Professor Avner Offer Early Modern Books 28 Oct: ‘Obesity and welfare regimes’ Bodleian Libraries The following classes will be given on Dr Geoff Nicholls Mondays at 2.15pm in the Group Study 4 Nov: ‘Inferring the time-evolving Lectures Room, Level 3, Radcliffe Science Library. hierarchy of 13th-century bishops from The following lectures will be given at 1pm Convener: Dr W Poole witness lists on Royal Acta: Bayesian in Convocation House, Bodleian Library, inference for a partial order from random Louisiane Ferlier unless otherwise noted. All welcome, linear extensions’ 14 Oct: ‘John Wallis and the Bodleian: the admission free. Please note that places quest for a "universal library" ’ Dr Emanuele Ferragina are limited to 100; advance booking 11 Nov: ‘Children's sleep duration and recommended via: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ Kasper van Ommen, Leiden cognitive outcomes’ whatson. 28 Oct: ‘Annotated books from Scaliger’s library in Oxford’ Professor Allan G Hill and Professor Dr Carolyne Larrington Claudine Sauvain-Dugerdil 23 Oct: ‘Wolves and winter: Old Norse Dunstan Roberts, Cambridge 18 Nov: tbc myth and children’s literature’ (to 11 Nov: ‘Henrician Sammelbände’ accompany exhibition Magical Books: Dr Tak Wing Chan Materials and Records from the Middle Ages to Middle-earth) 25 Nov: ‘Understanding cultural The following classes will be given on omnivores: social and political attitudes' Mr Conrad Keating Mondays at 2.15pm in the Group Study 27 Nov: ‘Oxford medical firsts: celebrating Dr Brienna Perelli-Harris, Southampton Room, Level 3, Radcliffe Science Library. 800 years of Oxford medicine’ (to 2 Dec: ‘Universal or unique? accompany exhibition Great Medical Nicole Gilroy and Andrew Honey Understanding diversity in family Discoveries: 800 years of Oxford 25 Nov: ‘Bookbindings at the Bodleian formation across Europe and the United Innovation) Library: useful evidence from bindings States’ on early modern books’ Dr David Howlett 4.30pm, 12 Dec: ‘Making the dictionary’ Sarah Wheale and Alexandra Franklin Department for Continuing (to accompany the display Latin in 2 Dec: ‘Beyond SOLO: finding resources Education Medieval Britain) for the history of early printed collections’ Lectures Kellogg College Centre for Creative Oxford Seminars in Cartography Writing The following lectures will be given in Convocation House, Bodleian Library. Dan Terkla, Illinois Wesleyan, will deliver Creative Writing seminar series the Michaelmas term seminar on Ms Brooke Palmieri, UCL 21 November at 5pm at the School of The following seminars will be given at 5pm, 28 Oct: ‘Collectanomics: how book Geography and the Environment. 5.30pm in the Mawby Room, Kellogg. collecting impacts the way we value Subject: ‘Medieval English Refreshments at 5pm. All welcome. books’ mappaemundi: Victorine model and Elanor Dymott Dr Katherine R Larson, Toronto idiosyncratic copies’ 29 Oct: ‘On writing in place and in time’ 1pm, 22 Nov: ‘Embodying song in early modern England’ Rebecca Abrams 26 Nov: ‘Writing historical fiction’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5035 • 9 October 2013 51

Botanic Garden Dr Wendi Adamek, Calgary Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish 11 Nov: 'The “agency of relations” at a Studies Special lecture medieval Chinese Buddhist site' David Patterson Seminars Dr Henry Oakeley, Royal College of Dr Vincent Tournier, SOAS Physicians, will deliver a special pre- 18 Nov: 'Donors and their religious The following seminars will be given on Christmas lecture on 28 November at 8pm aspirations in 5th–6th-century India: Wednesdays at 8pm at Oxford Centre for in the T S Eliot Lecture Theatre, Merton gleanings from Ajan. t.ā and Bodhgayā' Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Yarnton Manor. (accessed off Rose Lane). Tickets: £12 Convener: Professor Martin Goodman Dr Jan Westerhoff including glass of wine after the talk. Book: 25 Nov: 'Is Madhyamaka a form of Professor Martin Goodman, Dr Joseph E www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk. nihilism?' David, Dr Corinna R Kaiser, and Dr Simon Subject: 'Doctors in the medicinal garden: Levis Sullam plants named after physicians' COMPAS 16 Oct: Book launch: Toleration within Science lecture series: Pest and disease Judaism control research in the 21st century Michaelmas seminar series Professor Yael Zerubavel, Rutgers The following lectures will be given The following seminars will be given on 23 Oct: ‘The “return to the Bible” in on Mondays at 7.30pm in the Daubeny Thursdays at 2pm in the Pauling Centre, popular Israeli culture’ Laboratory Lecture Theatre, adjacent to 58a Banbury Road. Convener: Dr Dace Dr Jonathan Goldstein, West Georgia the Botanic Garden. Open to the public; £8 Dzenovska 30 Oct: ‘Japan and Israel: from erratic per talk or £36 for the series. Book places at Professor Madina Tlostanova, Russian contact to boycott to normalisation’ www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk. Presidential Academy of National Economy Dr Dani Rabinowitz Dr Gail Preston and Public Administration 6 Nov: ‘The disproportionality of justice 21 Oct: 'Armoured plants: the role of 17 Oct: ‘Post-socialist subject as a new in Maimonides’ heavy metal in defence against plant other: global coloniality, border thinking disease' and decolonial option’ Dr Adriana Jacobs 13 Nov: ‘Contemporary Israeli poetry and Professor Sarah Gurr, Exeter Dr Laura Morosanu, Sussex the economy of translation’ 28 Oct: 'Global food security: food, famine 24 Oct: ‘People like us? Shared ethnicity and fungi' in the local and transnational ties of Dr Sara Hirschhorn Romanians in London’ 20 Nov: ‘The origins of the redemption in Dr David Boshier occupied suburbia? Rabbi Shlomo Riskin 4 Nov: 'Ash dieback – what next?' Dr Deema Kaneff, Birmingham and the Jewish–American makings of the 31 Oct: ‘Migration and the repositioning Professor Charles Godfray West Bank settlement of Efrat’ of rural places globally: perspectives from 11 Nov: 'The challenge of feeding ten Bulgaria’ Professor Glenda Abramson billion people sustainably and equitably' 27 Nov: Book Launch: Soldiers’ Tales. Dr Karolina Follis, Lancaster Dr Dianne Irwin, Syngenta Ltd Two Palestinian Jewish Soldiers in the 7 Nov: ‘Post-territorial surveillance: 18 Nov: 'Plant products for crop Ottoman Army during the First World new technologies of vision in European protection: historic perspectives and War border management’ improvements on nature' Dr Dorit Yerushalmi, Haifa Dr Stef Jansen, Manchester 4 Dec: ‘Staging the Zionist Utopia: King Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies 14 Nov: ‘A suburban genealogy of a Solomon and Shalmai the Cobbler (Tel- Sarajevo border’ Aviv, 1943)’ Michaelmas lectures Dr Xiang Biao Seminar in Advanced Jewish The following talks will be given on 21 Nov: ‘The would-be migrants: the case Studies: ‘On the word of a Jew’: oaths, Mondays at 5.30pm in Lecture Room of China’ testimonies and the nature of trust XXIII, Balliol. Convener: Professor Richard Professor Caroline Humphrey, Cambridge Gombrich The following seminars will be held on 28 Nov: ‘Everyday practices at the Russia– Wednesdays at 3pm in the Oriental Institute. Dr Lucia Dolce, SOAS China–Mongolia border’ Conveners: Professor Mitchell Hart and 14 Oct: 'The tantric Lotus Sutra: another Dr Madeleine Reeves, Manchester Professor Nina Caputo interpretative tradition of the Lotus in 5 Dec: ‘Roads of separation: infrastructure Japan' Professor Mitchell Hart, Florida politics, “creeping migration” and de facto 23 Oct: ‘Trust a Jew? The ambiguities of Dr Alexandra Green, British Museum delimitation in rural Central Asia’ an oath' 21 Oct: 'East and West in late Burmese TurkMiS Workshop Buddhist wall paintings' Professor Sara Lipton, SUNY at Stony TurkMiS at COMPAS and South East Brook Dr Richard Fynes, De Montfort European Studies will host a workshop on 30 Oct: ‘Jew, oath, text in the art of 28 Oct: 'Cash and karma' 25 November at 9.15am–5.15pm in Ertegun Chartres Cathedral: can the eyes be Dr Matthew Walton House, 37a St Giles’. trusted?’ 4 Nov: ‘Buddhist narratives of peace and Subject: ‘Towards new migration conflict in Myanmar' systems, patterns and policies in Eurasia: the case of Turkey and the Russian Federation’ 52 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5035 • 9 October 2013

Dr Adam Sutcliffe, KCL Lectures Tina Managhan, Oxford Brookes 6 Nov: ‘Jewish finance and the politics 24 Oct: ‘Grieving dead soldiers, Professor Wendy Doniger, Chicago, will of trust: Ludwig Boerne (1831), Werner disavowing loss: Cindy Sheehan and the give the following lectures at 5pm in the Sombart (1911), Abraham Foxman im/possibility of the American anti-war Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. (2008)’ movement’ 12 Nov: ‘The politics of sexuality in Dr Robert Kawashima, Florida ancient India: the indebtedness of the Lilian Volcan, International Coffee 13 Nov: ‘On the word of an Israelite: oaths Kamasutra to the Arthasastra’ Organisation and testimonies in the Bible’ 31 Oct, Mary O’Brien Room, LMH: 14 Nov: ‘The magic ring of memory and ‘Producing coffee and reproducing Professor Todd Endelman, Michigan forgetfulness in South Asian literature gender: challenging inequalities and 20 Nov: ‘Could an English Jew be a late- and folklore’ injustices’ Victorian gentleman?’ 19 Nov: ‘How widespread was skepticism Karenjit Clare Professor Nina Caputo, Florida in ancient India? Did the materialists 7 Nov: ‘Creative labour: precarity, 27 Nov: ‘The voice of a Jew? Petrus really exist or were they just straw men?’ exploitation and unspeakable Alfonsi's “Dialogi contra judaeos” and the Seminars inequalities’ question of true conversion’ Professor Gavin Flood will present two Baroness Helena Kennedy, QC Dr Marco di Giulio, Franklin and Marshall seminars on 25 October and 8 November at 2.30pm, Wed, 13 Nov, Simpkins Lee College 2pm in the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies Theatre, LMH: ‘The women’s movement – 4 Dec: ‘Trustworthy educators of a Library. 30 years on: “Did the Earth move?” ’ new nation: Jewish academics in post- Subject: ‘The nature of the self in the unification Italy’ Marie Lall, London Bhagavad Gita’ 21 Nov: ‘Reflections on the role of women Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies Professor Gavin Flood will present the in education and the peace process, in following seminars at 11am on Thursday of light of Myanmar’s reforms’ Majewski Lecture weeks 1–8 in the Oxford Centre for Hindu Mandy Sadam, London Studies. Dr Faisal Devji will deliver the Majewski 28 Nov: ‘Women, conflict and identity: Subject: ‘Readings in the Netra Tantra’ Lecture on 4 November at 5pm in the exploring women’s economic roles in Oriental Institute, Lecture Room 1. Hindu Theology seminars the Kachin region of northern Burma/ Subject: ‘Politics in action: Gandhi, the Myanmar’ The following seminars will be presented on Gita and modern times’ Thursdays at 2pm. Dawn Chatty Shivdasani Lectures 5 Dec: ‘A curious twist: development, Ramesh Pattni power and gender relations in the Jiddat Professor Harunaga Isaacson, Hamburg, 31 Oct: ‘Suffering’ il-Harasiis, Oman’ will give a series of lectures on 14, 15, 21 and Professor Gavin Flood 22 October at 2pm in the Oxford Centre for 7 Nov: ‘Hindu theology: the embodiment Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Hindu Studies Library. of God’ Subject: ‘Conceptions of liberation in Centre seminars: Islam and nation classical Indian philosophy’ Elementary Sanskrit The following seminars will be held on Theology and Religion lectures: Professor Gavin Flood will conduct the Wednesdays at 5pm at the Oxford Centre for Hinduism 1 Elementary Sanskrit class at 11am on Islamic Studies, George Street. All welcome. Mondays and 10am on Fridays in Oxford Professor Gavin Flood will deliver Centre for Hindu Studies Library. The classes Dr Surin Pitsuwan, former Secretary- the Hinduism 1 lectures at 11am on the run from weeks 1–8. General, ASEAN following days in Room 8, Examination 23 Oct: ‘Islam and ethnicity as articulating Schools. International Gender Studies Centre principles of grievance among the Malay 16 Oct: ‘Introduction: what is Hinduism?’ Muslims of southern Thailand’ 23 Oct: ‘The Veda and vedic traditions’ Gender and leadership, power and Dr Hilary Kalmbach, Sussex authority from urban, peri-urban and 30 Oct: ‘Dharma, society and gender’ 30 Oct: ‘Religious knowledge and cultural rural perspectives politics in Egypt’ 6 Nov: ‘Ascetic traditions’ The following seminars will be given on Professor Francis Robinson 13 Nov: ‘The Epics and the Bhagavad Gita’ Thursdays at 2pm in the Old Library, Lady 6 Nov: ‘Maulana Jamal Mian Farangi Margaret Hall, unless otherwise noted. 20 Nov: ‘Liberation through yoga’ Mahalli and Pakistan’ Conveners: Dr J Davies and Dr M Jaschok 27 Nov: ‘Introduction to Hindu Professor Kees van Dijk, Leiden First anniversary guest lecture philosophy’ 13 Nov: ‘Muslims in Southeast Asia and Davina Cooper, Kent Law School the symbols of the nation state’ 4 Dec: ‘A Hindu philosophy of language’ 17 Oct: ‘Conceptualising the embodied state: a feminist approach to Professor Amidu Sanni, Lagos State conservative Christian refusal’ 20 Nov: ‘The power of authority and the authority of power in Muslim West Africa: a narrative from Nigeria’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5035 • 9 October 2013 53

Professor Ali Ansari, St Andrews Reuters Institute for the Study of Lord (David) Hunt, chairman, Press 27 Nov: ‘History, myth and nationalism in Journalism Complaints Commission modern Iran’ 1 Nov: 'The future of press regulation in Seminars: The business and practice of the United Kingdom' Dr Justin Jones, Exeter journalism 4 Dec: ‘ “The Islamic Emirate of Lord (Stewart) Wood, Shadow Minister Hindustan”: law, nation and Muslim The following seminars will be given on without Portfolio and adviser to Ed sovereignty in pre-independence eastern Wednesdays at 2pm in the Barclay Room, Miliband India, c1920–47’ Green Templeton, unless otherwise noted. 8 Nov: 'Labour and the media since the Conveners: James Painter and John Lloyd 2008 crash' Special lectures Dr Rasmus Kleis Nielsen Lord (Ian) Blair, former Chief, Metropolitan The following lectures will be held at 5pm 16 Oct, 13 Norham Gardens: ‘Ten years Police at Examination Schools unless otherwise that shook the media world’ 15 Nov: ‘Voltaire’s deathbed: urging media noted. reform’ David Hoffman, Founder/President HE Dr Abdulaziz Othman Alwaijiri, Emeritus, Internews Kirsty Hughes, CEO, Index on Censorship Director General, ISESCO 23 Oct, 13 Norham Gardens: ‘The global 22 Nov: ‘Politics and press freedom: the 22 Oct: ‘Towards authentic renewal of citizens movement and the role of perils of Leveson and the Royal Charters’ Muslim thinking’ independent journalists’ Dr Colette Bowe, Chair, Ofcom HE Mr Bakir Izetbegović, Member of the Ben Judah, author 29 Nov: ‘Reflections on regulating Presidency, Bosnia and Herzegovina 30 Oct: ‘Moscow is not Russia – reporting communications’ 3pm, 28 Oct: ‘The quest for dignity, Russia's outback’ freedom and democracy in the Islamic Sir Simon Jenkins, Guardian columnist world: a Bosnian Muslim's perspective’ Nic Newman, former Future Media 6 Dec: tbc Controller, BBC HE Mr Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Vice Oxford Media research seminars 6 Nov: ‘Future media trends and President of India changing audience behaviour’ The following seminars will be given on 1 Nov, Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre, Tuesdays at 5.30pm in Seminar Room E, Saïd Business School: ‘Identity and Alejandro Quesada, former director of El Department of Politics and International citizenship’ (NB – entry by ticket from: Comercio (Lima), and president, Inter- Relations, Manor Road Building, unless [email protected]) American Press Association (SIP) otherwise noted. Conveners: Dr Nael Jebril 13 Nov: ‘A life in a treacherous journalistic Ms Inger Andersen, Vice President, World and Dr Rasmus Kleis Nielsen environment’ Bank Professor Robert Picard, Michael Starks, 21 Nov: ‘From political to economic Jake Lynch, Sydney, and Director, Centre author and Associate of PCMPLP, and Dr awakening’ for Peace and Conflict Studies Mark Thompson, Editor, Open Society 20 Nov: ‘A global standard for reporting HE Mr Nasser Judeh, Minister of Foreign Foundations. Chair: Rasmus Kleis Nielsen conflict’ Affairs, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan 5pm, 15 Oct, Seminar Room A: Panel 25 Nov: tbc Keith Somerville, Kent, and editor, discussion and book launch: ‘The switch AfricanArguments to digital television: is it a revolution? Classes 27 Nov, 13 Norham Gardens: ‘Framing Does it enhance democracy? Does it spell Qur’anic Arabic death – how journalists report the death the end of our media regulation system?’ of public figures’ Classes will be given in Qur’anic Arabic on Ravi Narasimhan Fridays at 5pm during Michaelmas term at Jamie Bartlett, Director, Centre for the 29 Oct: ‘Media self-regulation in South the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. All Analysis of Social Media, Demos Asia’ welcome; registration required. See www. 4 Dec: ‘The strengths and weaknesses of Dr Catriona Bonfiglioli oxcis.ac.uk/quranicarabic.html for details. social media’ 12 Nov: ‘Framing obesity: investigating Modern Standard Arabic Reuters Institute/Nuffield Media and the role of the news media in the obesity Politics seminars epidemic’ Dr Karima Soutsane and Mrs Amira Mills will give classes in Modern Standard Arabic The following seminars will be given Dr Helen Caple and Dr Monika Bednarek at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. on Fridays at 5pm in the seminar room, 26 Nov: 'Language, image and the Registration is required. See www.oxcis. Nuffield.C onveners: Neil Fowler, James construction of newsworthiness’ ac.uk/msarabic.html for details. Painter, John Lloyd and David Levy Latin American Centre Arabic 1a: Tues, 5.15–7.15pm Rose Wild, Feedback editor, the Times Arabic 1b: Tues, 2.30–4.30pm 18 Oct: ‘Press complaints in practice’ Seminars Arabic 2: Wed, 5.15–7.15pm John Lloyd, author, with Ferdinando Arabic 3 and 4: Wed, 2.30–4.30pm The following seminars will be given on Giugliano, leader writer, Financial Times Tuesdays at 5pm in the Seminar Room, 25 Oct: 'Media and politics in the Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk. Berlusconi era' Convener: Dr Timothy Power 54 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5035 • 9 October 2013

Mr Alan Angell, Professor Cath Collins, Oxford Learning Institute Seminar series Ulster, and Professor Scott Mainwaring, Medieval French seminar Notre Dame Public seminar series 15 Oct: Roundtable: ‘The Chilean coup of The following seminars will be given on The following seminars will be given on 1973, forty years on’ alternate Tuesdays at 5.15pm. Conveners: Thursdays at 4pm in the Seminar Room, Daron Burrows, Sophie Marnette and Helen Dr Faisal Ahmed, Dr David Doyle, Dr Isabel Littlegate House, St Ebbe’s. Convener: Swift Ruiz and Dr Diego Sánchez-Ancochea Oxford Learning Institute 22 Oct: Roundtable: ‘The political Workshop led by current graduate Professor Sally Brown, Leeds Metropolitan economy of remittances in Latin students 17 Oct: ‘Changing the experiences America’ 15 Oct: New research showcase of Master’s-level learning through Professor Mario Tello, Pontifícia improving assessment’ Helen Swift Universidad Católica del Perú/CAF Visiting 29 Oct: ‘Going in circles: the Puy d’Amour Dr David Lewin, Liverpool Hope Fellow as poetic device’ 24 Oct: ‘Behold: silence and attention in 29 Oct: ‘Poverty, growth, structural education’ Keith Busby, Wisconsin change, and social inclusion programs: a 12 Nov: ‘Medieval francophonia: the regional analysis for Peru, 2002–10’ Malcolm Fialho, Western Australia western periphery’ 31 Oct: ‘Deepening the conversation: Professor James McGuire, Wesleyan privilege, power and racial unconscious David Trotter, Aberystwyth 5 Nov: ‘Conditional cash transfers in bias’ 26 Nov: ‘Anglo-Norman and English: Bolivia: origins, impact and universality’ dialect and place-names’ Professor Charlotte Rees, Dundee Dr Bert Hoffmann, German Institute of 7 Nov: ‘Language matters: analysing talk Early Modern French seminar Global and Area Studies to understand student–patient–teacher 12 Nov: ‘Civil society 2.0? How the The following seminars will be given on relationships within medical education’ internet changes politics and the public Thursdays at 5.15pm. Conveners: Emma sphere in Cuba’ Dr Rebecca Turner, Plymouth Claussen, Richard Scholar, Caroline Warman 14 Nov: ‘About writing – fear of the and Wes Williams Dr Irma Méndez de Hoyos, FLACSO, unknown? fear of criticism? An Mexico Nathalie Grande, Nantes exploration of writing development for 19 Nov: ‘The quality of elections in Latin 17 Oct: ‘Cibles galantes: quand les fictions professional academics’ America: malpractices in presidential galantes passent à l’attaque’ elections, 2006–12’ Professor Shireen Davies, Glasgow Kathy Eden, Columbia 21 Nov: ‘Developing a strategic leadership Dr Tasha Fairfield, LSE 14 Nov: ‘Montaigne’s acclaim’ programme for BME staff in Scottish 26 Nov: ‘The politics of tax policy in Latin universities’ Jonathan Patterson America’ 28 Nov: ‘Rabelais’s uncommon villains: a Professor Allison Littlejohn, Glasgow Professor Alan Knight reinterpretation of Quart Livre, Chapters Caledonian 3 Dec: ‘Challenging frontiers: on the 45–47’ 28 Nov: ‘Technology-enhanced making – and unmaking? – of Latin professional learning: a new domain for Modern French seminar American nations (especially Mexico)’ learning’ The following seminars will be given on Foundation for Law, Justice and Dr David Mills alternate Thursdays at 5.15pm. Conveners: Society/Wolfson/Centre for Socio-legal 5 Dec: ‘Lively bureaucracy: the ESRC, UK Nikolaj Lübecker, Ian Maclachlan and Studies universities and doctoral training’ Jennifer Yee Jeanyves Guérin, Sorbonne Nouvelle- The following events will take place in the Maison Française Paris 3 Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson. To 24 Oct: ‘Camus: portrait de l’artiste en register: www.fljs.org/events. The following events will take place at the citoyen’ Maison Française d’Oxford, 2–10 Norham Film screening Road, unless otherwise noted. Emma Wagstaff, Birmingham The filmHotel Rwanda will be screened on 7 Nov: ‘Poetry and translation: the work Besterman Lecture 23 October at 7.30pm. Introduced by Dr Phil of André du Bouchet’ Clark, SOAS. Céline Spector, Bordeaux 3, will deliver the Bradley Stephens, Bristol Besterman Lecture on 31 October at 5.15pm. Panel discussion 21 Nov: ‘Les Misérables: a bible of Enquiries: [email protected]. adaptation’ A panel discussion on law and international Subject: ‘Civilisation et empire: la development will be held on 16 October dialectique négative de l'Europe au siècle Áine Larkin, Aberdeen at 5pm. Participants: Michael Woolcock, des Lumières’ 5 Dec: ‘Meaning(s) in motion: dance Harvard and World Bank, Dr Masooda Bano in modern and contemporary French and Samuel Clark. literature’ Subject: 'How do institutions change? The prospects for law and justice priorities in the post-2015 international development agenda' University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5035 • 9 October 2013 55

Environmental History seminar Dario Mantovani, Pavia, and Boudewijn A conference will be held from 8.30am on Sirks 18 November to 19 November in the Faculty The following seminars will be given on 21 Nov: ‘Justinian and the “delegislation” of Law, St Cross Building. Conveners: Mondays at 4.30pm. Convener: Thomas Le of Roman law. A reappraisal of leges Raphaëlle Nollez-Goldbach, Paris Ouest- Roux, CNRS-MFO publicæ’ (D M) and ‘Magisterium vitæ: Nanterre, and Pavlos Eleftheriadis 14 Oct: ‘Desert fortresses and their was Theodosius’ code really a guidance Subject: ‘The theory and philosophy of environment (19th–20th centuries)’ of life?’ (B S) globalisation of law’ Berny Sèbe, Birmingham: ‘How green Norman Solomon A study day will be held from 9am to 6pm was Fort Zinderneuf? An environmental 27 Nov: ‘The Talmud and the codification on 22 November. Conveners: Anne Simon, appraisal of French fortresses in the of biblical law’ CRAL, EHESS, Philippe Roussin, CNRS-MFO Sahara (1830s–today)’ and Michael Sheringham Single lectures Alexander Morrison, Liverpool: ‘The Subject: ‘Proust : la pensée, l’émotion, fortresses of the Steppes and their Matthias Armgardt, Konstanz. Convener: l’écriture’ environment in Kazakhstan (1830s– Soazick Kerneis, Paris Ouest Nanterre-MFO A conference will be held from 9am on today)’ 5pm, 3 Oct: ‘Leibniz as legal scholar’ 29 November to 1pm on 30 November. 18 Nov, History Faculty, George Street: Celebrating Ten Years of the OXPO Convener: Silvia Sebastiani, EHESS, Paris ‘Water and river management (16th–18th Programme Subject: ‘The French E P Thompson’ centuries)’ Sophie Duchesne, ISP, Nanterre A conference will be held from 2pm on Raphaël Morera, CNRS- Rennes 2: 4.30pm, 28 Oct: ‘Citizens’ reactions 12 December to noon on 14 December at ‘Managing an industrial river in early to European integration compared: Nuffield.C onveners: Des King and Patrick modern France. The case of the Bièvre, overlooking Europe’ (followed by drinks Le Galès Paris’ reception at 6.30pm) Subject: ‘Reconceptualising the state: Joshua Getzler: ‘Water, law, environment Laurent Binet, writer. Convener: Daniel Lee restructuring in Europe, the American and technology after Marc Bloch’ 5pm, 30 Oct, Mordan Hall, St Hugh’s: state and empirical trends’ ‘Does fiction enhance history?T he Oxford Garden and Landscape A conference will be held 9–10 January in Heydrich case’ History seminar collaboration with the Changing Character Claudine Tiercelin, Collège de France. of War Programme and the Centre for Global Convener: Laurent Châtel, Paris-Sorbonne- Convener: Anna Marmodoro History: see p38. CNRS-MFO 4.30pm, 13 Nov, Corpus Christi: ‘Is Subject: ‘The Great War and global Sally O’Halloran, Sheffield,Susanne there such a thing as metaphysical history’ Seymour and Sarah Law, Nottingham, will knowledge?’ Cinema give the following seminar on Saturday, Language of Science lecture series 23 November, at 10.30am–4.30pm. Four films by award-winning film director Alain Prochiantz, Collège de France. Subject: ‘The figure in the estate: the Jacques Audiard will be shown on alternate Convener: Christopher Frith rôle of gardeners and stewards in the Tuesdays at 8pm. In French with English 5.15pm, 20 Nov: ‘The many languages of designing of landscapes’ subtitles. human knowledge’ Marion Harney, Bath, Charles Mynors, 22 Oct: Regarde les hommes tomber, 1994, Conferences and study days Francis Taylor Building, Adrian Phillips, 90 mins International Union for Conservation A conference will be held on Saturday, 5 Nov: Sur mes lèvres, 2001, 115 mins of Nature, Fridy Duterloo-Morgan and 12 October, at 9.30am–5pm in the Old Jenifer White, English Heritage, will give Library, All Souls. Conveners: Alexander 19 Nov: Un Héros très discret, 1996, 107 the following seminar on Saturday, Morrison, Liverpool/All Souls, and Berny mins 7 December, at 10.30am–6pm. Sèbe, Birmingham 3 Dec: Le Prophète, 2009, 155 mins Subject: ‘The perception and protection Subject: ‘Strategies of imperial control of gardens and landscapes in Britain (I)’ in arid and semi-arid environments: the Oxford Martin School Steppe and the Sahara’ Legal History seminar: Codifying the law – I A conference will be held from 9am on All events take place at the Oxford Martin 1 November to 6pm on 2 November. School, corner of Catte and Broad Streets, The following seminars will be given at Conveners: Philippe Roussin, CNRS-MFO, unless otherwise noted. All welcome; 5pm in the Hovenden Room, All Souls. Mike Holland, Philippe Daros, Sorbonne registration required. For information: www. Conveners: Boudewijn Sirks and Soazick Nouvelle, Sebastian Veg, EHESS-CEFC, oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events. Kerneis, Paris Ouest Nanterre-MFO Hong Kong, and Annick Louis, Reims-CRAL- Seminar series: Democracy and Sophie Demare-Lafont, Paris 2-EPHE EHESS decision making: overcoming gridlock 16 Oct: ‘Did the Mesopotamians also Subject: ‘Littérature, espaces publics et and short termism invent the Codes of Laws?’ démocratie’ The following seminars will be given on A study day will be held from 9.30am to Thursdays at 3.30pm. Contact: events@ 6pm on 15 November. Conveners: Ann oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk or Oxford 287437. Jefferson and Jean-Alexandre Perras Convener: Professor Ian Goldin Subject: ‘Penser le génie à travers ses usages/Genius and its uses’ 56 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5035 • 9 October 2013

Professor Ian Goldin Oxford Institute of Population Ageing Lorena Balardini 24 Oct: ‘Global transitions: rethinking 22 Oct: ‘Measuring criminal power and politics in the 21st century’ Demography, Agriculture and Food accountability for past human rights seminar series violations in the South Cone: databases Mr Will Hutton on judicial activity in Argentina, Chile 7 Nov: ‘The future of work: jobs and The following seminars will be given on and Peru’ inequality in the 21st century’ Thursdays at 12.30pm in Seminar Room 1, Oxford Martin School, unless otherwise Dr Akin Akinwumni, Simon Fraser Professor Kathy Willis, Professor Jim Hall noted. Convener: Professor Sarah Harper 29 Oct: ‘Making sense of past atrocities: and Dr Tara Garnett toward methodologies of haunting’ 14 Nov: ‘Resource futures: reconciling Professor Dominic Kniveton, Sussex human and planetary needs’ 17 Oct, 66 Banbury Road: ‘Tackling Dr Michael Gibb climate change and variability in Africa 5 Nov: ‘Transitional justice in transitional Professor Simon Caney with local, indigenous and scientific Libya’ 21 Nov: ‘Can transparency triumph? knowledge’ Governance norms in a globalised age’ Mark Kersten, LSE Dr Mary Brennan, Newcastle 12 Nov: ‘An agenda for peace in the “peace Professor Adrian Hill, Dr John Frater and 24 Oct: ‘Food lives – tales from behind the versus justice” debate’ Professor Andrew Pollard kitchen door’ 28 Nov: ‘In sickness and in health: Dr Gerhard Anders, Edinburgh developing effective and equitable global Professor Andy Morse, Liverpool 19 Nov: ‘Constructing legal authority and health systems’ 31 Oct: ‘Driving disease transmission criminal responsibility at the Special models with climate models…where Court for Sierra Leone’ Professor Sir John Beddington and Martin angels fear to tread?’ Rees, Lord Rees of Ludlow Xabier Agirre 5 Dec: ‘Now for the long term: the Kenneth Howse 26 Nov: ‘Sexual violence in armed outcomes of the Oxford Martin 7 Nov: ‘The effects of an ageing farm conflict and conflicting interpretation Commission for future generations’ workforce in Vietnam’ paradigms’ Distinguished public lectures Professor Doug Gollin Lecture 14 Nov: 'Food prices and agricultural The following lectures take place at 5.30pm. James Stewart, Deputy Prosecutor, development strategies in Africa' International Criminal Court, will deliver a Professor Edmund Phelps, Nobel Prize- Dr Michael Bonsall lecture on 19 October at 3pm in the Manor winning economist, and A C Grayling, 21 Nov: ‘Fundamental population Road Lecture Theatre. Master, New College of the Humanities, in dynamics and its implications for Subject: ‘Peace through international discussion understanding agricultural systems and criminal justice’ 17 Oct, Sheldonian Theatre: ‘Mass technologies’ flourishing: how it was gained and how it was lost’ Emma Visman, KCL Colleges, Halls and 28 Nov: ‘Making climate science usable: The Hon Al Gore, Chairman, Generation Societies linking sources of risk knowledge and Investment Management strengthening capacities to appropriately 31 Oct, Examination Schools: ‘The future: Balliol act on risk’ six drivers of global change’ Dr Jeroen Warner, Wageningen David Holt Lecture Seminars 5 Dec: ‘Security from floods, food and the Professor Sonu Shamdasani, UCL, will Nik Gowing, presenter and journalist, BBC aged: insights from the Netherlands and deliver the David Holt Lecture on 4pm, 30 Oct: ‘Acute new vulnerabilities Japan’ 26 October at 2pm in Lecture Room 23, for power, politics and systems in the Balliol. new public information space’ Oxford Transitional Justice Research Subject: 'Jung, divine madness and Group Professor Sir Mark Walport, Chief prophecy' Scientific Adviser to HM Government Seminar series 5pm, 3 Dec: ‘Making sense of big data’ Christ Church The following seminar will be given on Film screenings Tuesdays at 5pm in Seminar Room D, Manor Anonymous Society of Poets and The following take place at 5pm. Road Building. Writers 22 Oct: Short filmDrone , followed by Professor Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Frederick Turner will lecture on 18 October panel discussion with Daniel Jewel, Marsburg at 5pm in the Blue Boar Lecture Theatre, writer, director and producer, Ateh 15 Oct: ‘Of other spaces: analysing Christ Church. Jewel, associate director, and Dr Alex memorials to mass violence through Subject: ‘Epic: the monster that won’t stay Leveringhaus Foucault's notion of heterotopia’ dead’ 12 Nov: Short filmPandora’s Promise, followed by discussion with Robert Stone, director University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5035 • 9 October 2013 57

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Management in Medicine Programme Richardson Lecture Adam von Trott Memorial Scholarship workshop appeal seminar Professor Stephen Faulkner will deliver Dominic Tkaczyk, consultant, Interim the Richardson Lecture on 15 November at A seminar will be held on 7 November at Finance Director Services for the NHS, will 5.30pm in the Pusey Room, Keble. 11am–5pm at Rhodes House. Speakers hold a workshop on 12 October at 9.30am– Subject: ‘Boxing clever, or just boxed include Lord Hannay of Chiswick, former 12.45pm in the E P Abraham Lecture in? Developing metal complexes for British Ambassador to the EU, Thomas Theatre, Green Templeton. Registration biological imaging’ Kielinger, London correspondent, Die essential: [email protected]. Welt, and Professor Kalypso Nicolaidis. Subject: ‘Financial skills for healthcare’ Kellogg Admission free; to obtain a ticket apply by 1 November to: alumni.officer@mansfield. Health Experiences Institute and the Seminars ox.ac.uk. Management in Medicine Programme Subject: ‘Britain and Germany in Europe: seminar The following seminars will be given at 5pm what prospects?’ (refreshments) for 5.30pm in the Mawby Professor Michael Barry, Harvard Medical Room, Kellogg. All welcome. Mansfield lecture series School, Professor Martin Haerther, Hamburg, and Professor Trudy van der Seumas Milne, Associate Editor, Guardian The following lectures will be given on Weijden, Maastricht, will give a seminar 16 Oct: ‘The revenge of history – the battle Fridays at 5pm in the Junior Common on 7 November at 5pm. Hosted by Green for the 21st century’ Room, Mansfield.C onvener: Baroness Templeton. Registration essential: ruth. Helena Kennedy, QC Dr Tara Stubbs and Dr Jonathan Healey [email protected] 31 Oct: ‘Two spooky lectures: ghosts, Misha Glenny, writer and broadcaster Subject: ‘Shared decision-making in witches and other scary Halloween 25 Oct: ‘From cybercrime to healthcare’ things’ cyberwarfare: the struggle for control of Barclay Lecture 2013 the internet’ Philip Wilson, CEO, Ecofiltro Dame Helen Alexander, Chairman, UBM 1 Nov: ‘Delivering clean water sustainable Heather Rabbatts, former barrister plc, Port of London Authority and Incisive to the BOP in Guatemala’ 1 Nov: ‘Leap and the net will appear’ Media, will lecture on 13 November at 6pm Bynum Tudor Lecture John Grieve, Chair, John Grieve Centre for in the E P Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green Policing and Community Templeton. Registration essential: events@ Sir Hector Sants, Head, Compliance and 8 Nov: ‘Leading the police in a changing gtc.ox.ac.uk or Oxford 284550. Government and Regulatory Relations, society’ Subject: ‘In real life the tortoise loses: Barclays, will deliver the Bynum Tudor leading an international media business Lecture on 21 November at 5.30pm in the Edward Stourton, news correspondent in the 21st century’ Mawby Room, Kellogg. Booking required. 15 Nov: ‘Spin control: why accuracy Subject: ‘Is it possible to have a good bank matters more than truth in journalism’ McGovern Lecture 2013 which is trusted by all in society and Margaret Hodge, MP for Barking Professor Christoph Gradmann, Oslo, generates real value for the communities 22 Nov: ‘Who pays and who gains. will lecture on 21 November at 6pm in it serves?’ Accountability of the state’ the E P Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green Migration lecture and panel discussion Templeton. All welcome. Bob Marshall Andrews, QC, barrister, Subject: ‘A spirit of scientific rigour: Koch’s Professor Paul Collier, Professor Ian author and former MP postulates and 20th-century medicine’ Goldin, Cathryn Costello, Dr Martin Ruhs 29 Nov: ‘Off message.A political and Emeritus Professor Robin Cohen will lamentation’ Research in Specialist and Elderly Care take part in a panel discussion on seminar Carmen Callil, critic, writer and former 29 November at 5pm in the Lecture publisher The following seminars will be given at 5pm Theatre, Museum of Natural History. 6 Dec: ‘Reading, writing and the joy of in the Barclay Room, Green Templeton. Booking required. books’ Subject: ‘The global governance of Laurel L Hixon and Yun-Hee Jeon international migration: what next?’ 14 Oct: ‘Elderly care – the current position Nuffield and key issues in Australia’ Centre for the Study of Corruption and Transparency Sociology seminars Professor Trish Morris-Thompson, Buckinghamshire and Barchester Alexandra Wrage, President, TRACE The following seminars will be given on Healthcare International, will present the following Wednesdays at 5pm in the Clay Room, 9 Dec: ‘The quality of care – does the seminar on 14 November at 5pm Nuffield.C onveners: Nan Dirk deGraaf and business model make a difference?’ (refreshments) for 5.30pm in the Mawby Professor John Ermisch Room, Kellogg. All welcome. Professor Clara H Mulder Subject: tbc 16 Oct: ‘Distance to family, migration and well-being’ 58 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5035 • 9 October 2013

Professor Alissa Goodman Professor Markus Wagner Huang Hsing Foundation Chun-tu 23 Oct: ‘Long-term effects of childhood 12 Nov: ‘What do voters want from their Hsueh Lecture mental and physical health conditions’ representatives: evidence from conjoint Professor Deborah Davis, Professor of analyses’ Dr David Pettinicchio Sociology, Yale, will deliver the Huang 30 Oct: ‘How government creates Professor Michael Marsh Hsing Foundation Chun tu Hsueh Lecture political constituencies: agenda-setting 19 Nov: ‘EU referendums in Ireland’ on 25 October at 5pm in the Buttery, St and organisational adaptation within the Antony's. Professor Byron Shafter disability non-profit sector’ Subject: ‘Post-socialist marriage in 26 Nov: ‘The American political contemporary China’ Dr Paolo Campana landscape: a new technique for mapping 6 Nov: ‘Cooperation in criminal the political landscape for electoral Special lecture organisations: kinship and violence as politics, and the understanding of Professor Stein Ringen will lecture on credible commitments’ political strategy that follows from it’ 26 November at 5pm in the Dahrendorf Professor John Ermisch Professor Herbert Kitschelt Room, Founder’s Building, St Antony's. 13 Nov: ‘Couples’ decisions and family 28 Nov: ‘What’s wrong with America?’ Subject: 'Three hypotheses about the geography’ Chinese state' St Anne’s Professor Jochem Tolsma Taiwan Studies Programme 20 Nov: ‘Introducing spatial thinking Lecture The following seminars will be given on into the debate on the impact of ethnic Fridays at 5pm in the Dahrendorf Room, diversity for social cohesion’ Professor David Andrich, Visiting Plumer Founder’s Building, St Antony's, unless Fellow, will lecture on 23 October at 5pm in Professor Marco Francesconi otherwise noted. Convener: Dr Ming-chin the Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, St Anne’s. 27 Nov: ‘Cultural change, the pill and the Monique Chu Subject: ‘Controversy in constructing rise of women’s economic power’ measurements in the social sciences’ Dr James Ker-Lindsey, LSE Dr John Jerrim 1 Nov: ‘Taiwanisation and the foreign 4 Dec: ‘Cross-country comparisons of St Antony’s policy of counter secession: preventing intergenerational income mobility: are the legitimisation of contested states’ the measures used robust?’ Asian Studies Centre Professor Emerson Niou, Duke Oxford Intelligence Group seminars China and East Asian Security 8 Nov: ‘The China factor in Taiwanese seminar series politics’ Colonel Nick Baker and Major Simon Puxley, Intelligence Corps, Defence The following seminars will be given on Dr Barak Kushner, Cambridge Intelligence and Security Centre, Tuesdays at 5pm in the Dahrendorf Room, 15 Nov: ‘Imperial dissolution and Chicksands, will give a seminar on Founder’s Building, St Antony's. Convener: colonial crimes: Taiwan and the post-war 31 October at 5.30pm in the Large Lecture Professor R Foot dilemma of Japanese war crimes’ Room, Nuffield, outlining recent experience, Dr Katherine Morton, ANU Professor Douglas Fuller, Zejiang with particular reference to intelligence 15 Oct: ‘China's maritime power and the Weds, 27 Nov: ‘The Taiwan–US–China support of Task Force Helmand and in South China Sea’ technology triangle: the end of an era?’ Mali, and will discuss current and future developments. Enquiries to: claire.bunce@ Dr Todd Hall Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre nuffield.ox.ac.uk. 22 Oct: ‘A past still relevant? The lessons Monday seminars of WWI for contemporary East Asia’ Political Science seminars Post-Soviet politics Professor Rana Mitter The following seminars will be given on The following seminars will be given on 29 Oct: ‘China's war with Japan 1937–45: Tuesdays at 5pm in the Clay Room, Nuffield. Mondays at 5pm in the Nissan Lecture the struggle for survival’ Conveners: Geoff Evans,R ay Duch, Steve Theatre, St Antony’s. Convener: Dr Paul Fisher, James Tilley, Catherine De Vries and Professor Jessica Weiss, Yale Chaisty Sergi Pardos-Prado 5 Nov: ‘China's management of anti- Professor Regina Smyth, Indiana Japanese protests, 1985–2013’ Professor Neil Malhotyra 14 Oct: ‘Two models of mobilisation: 22 Oct: ‘Why do Asian Americans identify Dr Nicola Horsburgh the organisation of pro- and anti-regime as Democrats? Testing theories of social 12 Nov: ‘Chinese participation in the street actions in Russia’ exclusion and group solidarity’ global nuclear order: from regional Dr Olga Onuch proliferation challenges to multilateral Dr David Doyle 21 Oct: ‘Regions and islands of social arms control’ 29 Oct: ‘The relationship between mobilisation: the making of a civil society remittances and social spending in Latin Dr Amy King, ANU in Ukraine’ America’ 19 Nov: ‘China and the idea of "economic Professor Alena Ledeneva, London security” ’ Professor Daniel Oesch 28 Oct: ‘Exit from sistema in Putin’s 5 Nov: ‘The class basis of the cleavage Dr Enze Han, SOAS Russia: why, where, what for?’ between the New Left and the Radical 3 Dec: ‘Contestation and adaptation: the Dr Alexey Bessudnov, Moscow Right. Evidence from a few European politics of national identity in China’ 4 Nov: ‘Public attitudes to immigrants in countries’ Russian regions’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5035 • 9 October 2013 59

Dr Edwin Bacon, London Lecture Somerville 11 Nov: ‘Writing Russia’s future: forecasts, Simon Winchester, author and journalist, paradigms and imaginings’ Monica Fooks Memorial Lecture will lecture on 26 November at 5.30pm at Bruce Etling St Catherine’s. Attendees to be seated by Professor Nicholas Craddock, Cardiff, will 18 Nov: ‘Networked mobilisation in 5.20pm. Registration essential; admission deliver the Monica Fooks Memorial Lecture Russia: assessing the role of the internet strictly ticketed. For details: www.stcatz. on 22 November at 5pm in the University in the election protest movement’ ox.ac.uk. Museum. Subject: ‘The men who united the States’ Subject: ‘Bipolar disorder: the future for Dr Rico Isaacs, Oxford Brookes diagnosis and treatment’ 25 Nov: ‘Beyond neopatrimonialism – St Edmund Hall re-assessing the formal and informal Wolfson in the study of Central Asian regimes, OXCEP distinguished speaker series parties and institutions’ Ronald Syme Lecture Professor Richard Easterlin, Southern Dr Luke March, Edinburgh California, will lecture on 17 October at Professor Walter Scheidel will deliver 2 Dec: ‘Between anti-globalism and 5pm in the Doctorow Lecture Theatre, St the Ronald Syme Lecture on 31 October at Stalinism – the left and the Russian Edmund Hall. Chair: John Knight 6pm in the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, opposition today’ Subject: ‘Growth, transition and life Wolfson. Russkiy Mir Programme in Russian satisfaction: China, Eastern Europe and Subject: ‘The first fall of theR oman Culture the world’ Empire’ The following talks and readings will be Presentation St Hilda’s given at 5pm in the RESC Library Reading Robin Partington, director responsible for Room, St Antony’s. Lady English Lecture 30 St Mary Axe (the Gherkin), will give a Ms Katherine Dovlatov, Professor Andrei presentation on 7 November at 6pm in the Melissa Benn, journalist, will deliver Zorin and Dr Oliver Ready Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson. the Lady English Lecture on 30 October 30 Oct: ‘Sergei Dovlatov’s Pushkin Hills Subject: ‘The Gherkin: made by hand’ at 5.30pm in the Jacqueline du Pré (Zapovednik): the first translation’ Music Building, St Hilda's. Followed by a Oxford Centre for Life-Writing Ms Vera Pavlova roundtable discussion chaired by Dr Selina Lecture 12 Nov: Poetry readings and commentary Todd in Russian, followed by some translations Subject: 'What should we tell our Professor Kathryn Hughes, East Anglia, into English by Steven Seymour daughters? Equality and feminism in the will lecture on 22 October at 5.30pm in the 21st century' Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson. Ms Lesley Chamberlain Subject: ‘George Eliot’s milk churn’ 6 Dec: ‘The good man in Russia’ St John’s In conversation South East European Studies Centre St John’s College Research Centre: Professor Dame Hermione Lee and Ayca Abakan, BBC, Renée Hirschon, Interdisciplinary seminars in Professor Ray Monk, Southampton, will be Michael Llewellyn Smith and Victoria psychoanalysis in conversation on 24 October at 5.30pm in Solomonides, KCL, will screen the the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson. documentary Twice a Stranger followed by The following seminars will take place Subject: ‘Robert Oppenheimer: inside the a panel discussion on 31 October at 4.30pm at 8.15pm in the Lecture Room of the centre’ in the Seminar Room, European Studies Research Centre, 45 St Giles’. Free and open Centre, St Antony's. Co-organised with to University members and mental health Workshop the Sub-faculty of Byzantine and Modern professionals but space limited. To attend There will be a workshop on 29 October Greek. it is helpful (but not essential) to email from 5pm in the Haldane Room, Wolfson. Subject: ' “Unmixing Peoples”: an [email protected]. Conveners: Louise Speakers: Neil George, producer, BBC Radio assessment of the 1923 Treaty of Braddock, Richard Gipps and Paul Tod 4; Martin Rowson, cartoonist and writer; Lausanne' Chris Mawson, British Psychoanalytical Dr Laurence Goldman, editor, Dictionary Society of National Biography; Professor Shearer St Catherine’s 21 Oct: ‘Introducing Bion’ West; and Harry de Quetteville, obituary editor, Daily Telegraph. Registration not Cameron Mackintosh Lecture William Halton, organisational consultant necessary. Convener: Professor David 4 Nov: ‘Bion and groups: the field of Sir Michael Boyd, Cameron Mackintosh Zeitlyn organisation studies' Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre Subject: ‘From life-writing to death and former Artistic Director, RSC, will give Denis Flynn, British Psychoanalytical notices: obituary, portraiture and the Cameron Mackintosh Lecture on Society commemoration’ 2 December at 5.30pm in the Bernard 18 Nov: 'Bion in clinical work: on the Sunley Lecture Theatre, St Catherine’s. “correlation” and disruption of knowing’ Attendees to be seated by 5.20pm. Louise Braddock, Cambridge Registration essential; admission strictly 2 Dec: ‘Bion and philosophy’ ticketed. Details: www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk. Subject: ‘In conversation’ 60 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5035 • 9 October 2013

Seminar Dr Bill Prosser Oxford Italian Association 26 Nov: ‘ “Rarely pure and never simple”: There will be a seminar on 13 November at truth in the visual arts’ The following events are open to the public 5.30pm in the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, and will be given at 8pm, unless otherwise Wolfson. Conveners: Dr Kate McLoughlin, Dr Joshua Hordern noted. Admission unless stated: members Birkbeck, and Professor Celeste-Marie 3 Dec: ‘The good, the right and the £2, non-members £5, students under 30 Bernier, Nottingham beautiful: the shape of Christian moral free. Information: [email protected]. Subject: ‘War veterans: memory and reasoning’ storytelling’ Lectures St Stephen’s House Lecture Dorothy Rowe Memorial Lecture Professor Martin Kemp Professor David Amigoni, Keele, will Guest lecture 5pm, 18 Oct, Magdalen Auditorium: lecture on 19 November at 5.30pm in the Dr Brandon Gallaher, British Academy ‘Leonardo and the history of the earth – Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson. Postdoctoral Fellow, will deliver the Guest from fossils to the Mona Lisa’. Admission Subject: ‘Writing lives, inscribing familial Lecture on 24 October at 4pm in the free. distinction: inheritance, science and Couratin Room, St Stephen’s House. culture in life writings by the Darwins, Dr Susan Walker Subject: ‘Reinventing the wheel?: The re- the Huxleys and the Batesons’ 31 Oct, Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St envisioning of "neo-patristic synthesis" Anne’s: ‘Saints and salvation: Charles Conference in contemporary orthodox theology' Wilshere’s gold glass from the Catacombs There will be a one-day conference on of Rome’ 29 November at Wolfson. Conveners: Dr Other Groups Dr Patrick Doorly Lee-Von Kim and Christine Fouirnaies. To 13 Nov, Tsuzuki Theatre, St Anne’s: ‘The register: [email protected]. Oxford Architectural History Group significance of “Virtu” in Vasari’s Lives of Subject: ‘Intimate archives: photography the Artists’ and life-writing’ Seminar Alison Goldingham Seminar The following lectures will be given at 20 Nov, St Margaret’s Institute, Polstead There will be an informal seminar, as part of 5.30pm in the Lecture Room, Turl Street Road: ‘How to become an accidental olive OCLW’s life-writing lunch series, on rooms, Lincoln (formerly Turl Bar, entered farmer in Abruzzo’ 3 December at 1pm. Speaker: Marcus Ferrar, from Turl Street). Film author. To register: www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/ Professor Martin Kemp clusters/life-writing/events. 4 Oct, Rewley House: Il Rosso e il Blu 29 Oct: ‘The chapel of Trinity College, (English subtitles). Admission £2. Oxford’ Regent’s Park Werner de Saeger Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum Oxford Centre for Christianity and 25 Nov: ‘The Constantinian Basilica’ Culture The following lectures take place on Israel: Historical, Political and Social Wednesdays at 6pm for 6.30pm at the Pitt Public lectures: Truth and Aspects Rivers New Extension, Robinson Close, uncertainty South Parks Road. Visitors welcome (tickets: The following lectures will be given on Conference £2). Tuesdays at 5pm at Regent’s Park. A conference will be held on Sunday, Carlotta Gardner Professor John Cottingham, Reading 3 November, at 8pm in the Saskatchewan 16 Oct: ‘Reinvigorating the English 22 Oct: ‘The philosophical search for Room, Exeter. Speakers include Professor Archaeological Founding Collection at truth’ Sir Adam Roberts, Dr John Lloyd, Ghanem the Pitt Rivers Museum’ Nuseibah, Professor Asher Susser and Professor John Stein Mary Kelly others. To register: www.imec-oxford.co.uk. 29 Oct: ‘The discovery of scientific truth’ 20 Nov: ‘A tour through the Aboriginal Convener: Peter Oppenheimer and Torres Strait Island Collection at Professor John Roe, Pennsylvania State Subject: ‘Israel and the changing the National Gallery of Art, Canberra, 5 Nov: ‘Mathematical truths’ Middle East: today and tomorrow. Australia’ Israeli, Palestinian and international The Revd Dr Andrew Moore perspectives’ 12 Nov: ‘Truth and uncertainty in religious belief’ Mr Kevin Marsh, former BBC Executive Editor, Today 19 Nov: ‘Politics and “economy with the truth” ’