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Lectures and Seminars, Michaelmas Term 2016 WEDNESDAY 5 OCTOBER 2016 • SUPPLEMENT (2) TO NO 5143 • VOL 147 Gazette Supplement Lectures and Seminars, Michaelmas term 2016 Charles Simonyi Lecture 30 Clinical Neurosciences China Centre Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism Hebrew and Jewish Studies Experimental Psychology Islamic Studies Race and the Curriculum in Medicine Reuters Institute for the Study of Oxford Lecture 30 Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Journalism Musculoskeletal Sciences Reuters Institute/Nuffield Romanes Lecuture 30 Pathology Latin American Centre Pharmacology Foundation for Law, Justice and Society Humanities 30 Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics Oxford Martin School Population Health Population Ageing TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in Psychiatry Voltaire Foundation – Besterman Centre the Humanities for the Enlightenment TORCH/Asian Studies Centre/Oxford Social Sciences 38 Centre for Global History/Modern Colleges, Halls and Societies 48 European History Centre/ Maison Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Française Education Green Templeton Rothermere American Institute Geography and the Environment Hertford Classics Blavatnik School of Government Keble English Language and Literature Kellogg English/History/History of Art/Music/ Interdisciplinary Area Studies Theology International Development Lady Margaret Hall History Law Mansfield History of Art Politics and International Relations Nuffield Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics Politics and International Relations/ Queen’s Oriental Studies Interdisciplinary Area Studies St Anne’s Philosophy Social Policy and Intervention St Antony’s Theology and Religion Socio-legal Studies St Catherine’s Sociology St Edmund Hall Mathematical, Physical and St Hilda’s Life Sciences 34 Department for Continuing St John’s Education 44 University College Chemistry Wolfson Earth Sciences Rewley House Blackfriars Hall Engineering Science Graduate Seminar Programme in the Arts Campion Hall Materials and Humanities Regent’s Park Physics MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care Plant Sciences Institutes, Centres and Other Groups 52 Zoology Museums 44 Friends of the Bodleian Medical Sciences 36 Ashmolean Museum Oxford Italian Association Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum Litchfield Lecture Bodleian Libraries Biochemistry Botanic Garden 29 30 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5143 • 5 October 2016 Charles Simonyi Lecture Humanities Book launch Professor Manisha Sinha, Massachusetts Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of 4pm, 17 Oct: The Slave’s Cause: A History of TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in Developmental Psychopathology, Abolition the Humanities Cambridge, and Director, Autism Research Book launch Centre, will deliver the 2016 Charles Nordic Network: Equality, inequality and Dr Cheryl Hudson, Liverpool, and Dr Simonyi Lecture at 5pm on 21 October aesthetics Joanna Williams, Kent. Chair: Anastasia de at the Oxford Playhouse. Introduction Waal, Civitas by Marcus du Sautoy. Tickets: £7 (£5 Dr Peter K Andersson, Lund, and Dr 5pm, 2 Nov: Why Academic Freedom Matters concessions) from www.oxfordplayhouse. Mikkel Zangenberg, Kent, will lecture at com/show/?eventid=3694. 2.30pm on 14 October in the Colin Matthew Panel discussion in collaboration with the Subject: ‘Autism and minds wired for Room, TORCH. All welcome; registration Race and Resistance programme at TORCH science’ not required. More information: eveliina. Lloyd Pratt, Althea Legal-Miller, UCL, [email protected]. Clodagh Harrington, De Montfort, and Race and the Curriculum in Subject: ‘Distinction and vulgarity: Daniel Matlin, KCL. Chair: Imaobong dandyism in late 19th-century Sweden’ Umoren Oxford Lecture (Andersson) and ‘On the politico-aesthetic 12.45pm, 4 Nov: ‘Looking back, looking education of a Nordic, proto-European forward: reflections on the Obamas in office’ Professor Ruth J Simmons, President welfare man; or, how to mobilise Schiller emerita, Brown, will deliver the final Race Panel discussion anew, through reading Holberg’s Erasmus and the Curriculum in Oxford Lecture at Dr Nigel Bowles, Dr Tom Packer and Nina Montanus’ (Zangenberg) 5.30pm on 2 November at the Mathematical Yancy Institute. More information and to register: noon, 9 Nov: ‘US election 2016: interpreting TORCH/Asian Studies Centre/Oxford www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/race-and- the results’ Centre for Global History/Modern curriculum. European History Centre/ Maison American History research seminar Subject: ‘Redefining America: confronting Française the legacy of slavery and injustice’ The following seminars will be held at 4pm on Tuesdays at the Rothermere American Rethinking the contemporary: The world Institute, unless otherwise noted. Romanes Lecture since the cold war Book launch The following events will take place at 5pm Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Dr Rowena Olegario in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s, Asthal, will deliver the 2016 Romanes 11 Oct: A Culture of Credit: Embedding Trust unless otherwise noted. All welcome. Lecture at 5.45pm on 5 December in the and Transparency in American Business Conveners: Faisal Devji, David Priestland, Sheldonian. More information: www.ox.ac. Marilyn Booth Professor Robert Schmuhl, Notre Dame uk/news-and-events/The-University-Year/ 18 Oct: ‘ “Exiled children” and the Easter romanes-lecture. Professor Arjun Appadurai, New York Rising: America and Irish independence’ Subject: tbc 13 Oct: ‘Failure, design and the globalisation of risk’ Professor Vernon Burton, Clemson 25 Oct: ‘Breaking new ground, 1935–53’ (a 10am, 14 Oct, TORCH seminar room, pre-circulated chapter from a forthcoming Radcliffe Humanities: ‘Failure’ book on race and the Supreme Court; Professor Luc Boltanski, EHESS, and contact [email protected] to join Professor Arnaud Esquerre, CNRS circulation list) 17 Nov: ‘The enrichment economy: Dr Matthew Silver, Emek Yezreel narratives, collectibles and heritage as 1 Nov: ‘Exiled from the Americanisation economic resources’ paradigm: the marginalised relationship 10am, 18 Nov, TORCH seminar room, between Zionism and Afrocentrism’ Radcliffe Humanities: ‘The enrichment Dr Althea Legal-Miller, UCL economy’ 8 Nov: ‘ “Not the kind of thing you usually hear”: civil rights activism, sexual violence Rothermere American Institute and pornographic tales, 1960–5’ Special events Professor Alan Taylor, Virginia noon, Wed, 16 Nov: Discussion of The following events will take place at the Harmsworth Lecture in American History Rothermere American Institute. (see listing under Queen’s below) Book reading Dr Tamson Pietsch, Sydney Mark Greif, n+1 magazine and New School 22 Nov: ‘The floating university and the 5pm, 5 Oct: Against Everything. Followed by politics of knowing: interwar America and a conversation with Professor Lloyd Pratt the world’ and the audience University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5143 • 5 October 2016 31 Faculty of Classics Faculty of English Language and 18th-century Literature and Culture Literature seminar APGRD The following seminars will take place Meet the Poet series at Keble The following events will take place at the at 5.15pm on Mondays in the Old Library, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Michael Longley will give a poetry reading Hertford. Conveners: Professor Ballaster, Studies, 66 St Giles’. as part of the Meet the Poet Series at Keble at Professor Gerrard, Dr Johnston, Professor 6.30pm on 20 October in the Pusey Room, Williams PUBLIC LECTURES Keble. Catherine Packham, Sussex Alice Oswald, poet, will give a reading at Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures 17 Oct: ‘Mary Wollstonecraft’s cottage 3.15pm on 17 October in the Lecture Theatre. economics: property, political economy and More information: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/ SHAKESPEARE’S ORIGINALITY the European future’ events/2016/09/alice-oswald. Professor John Kerrigan, Cambridge, Archive workshop Professor Ruth Webb, Charles-de-Gaulle will deliver the Oxford Wells Shakespeare Alice Roques Lille III, will give a public lecture at 2.15pm Lectures at 5.15pm on Wednesdays in East 31 Oct: ‘Tales of the unexpected: working on 28 November in the Lecture Theatre. School, Examination Schools. with the 18th century in a college collection’ More information: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/ 12 Oct: ‘Upstarts’ (followed by drinks events/2016/09/bodies-and-texts-attitudes- reception) Jacob Lloyd and Anna Senkiw towards-tragedy-from-the-second- 14 Nov: ‘Superstition and self-doubt in The 19 Oct: ‘Afoot’ sophistic-to-late. Borderers and The Rime of the Ancyent Subject: ‘Bodies and texts: attitudes towards 26 Oct: ‘/Lear/’ Marinere’ (Lloyd) and ‘The accidental art tragedy from the Second Sophistic to late historian; or, using pictures to understand 2 Nov: ‘Later’ antiquity’ 18th-century theatre’ (Senkiw) Professor of Poetry Lecture SEMINAR SERIES: RECEPTION AND Freya Johnston WORLD LITERATURE Professor Simon Armitage will deliver the 28 Nov: ‘Progress and degeneration: fiction Professor of Poetry Lecture at 5.30pm on in 1817’ The following seminars will take place at 9 November in the Examination Schools. 5pm on Mondays in the First Floor Seminar Romantic Research seminar Room, unless otherwise noted. Conveners: Clarendon Lectures in English The following seminars will take place at Dr Constanze Güthenke, Dr Justine STREET SONGS 5.30pm on Mondays in the Massey Room, McConnell Balliol, unless otherwise noted. Conveners: Professor Daniel Karlin, Bristol, will Ms Rachael White Professor Perry, Professor Stafford deliver the Clarendon Lectures in English 10 Oct: ‘ “It’s a long way to Rome”: David at 5.30pm in Lecture Theatre 2, St Cross Freya
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