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Lectures and Seminars, Michaelmas Term 2013 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
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