Lectures and Seminars Michaelmas Term 2011
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WEDNESDay 5 octobEr 2011 • SUPPLEMENt (1) to No. 4963 • VoL 142 Gazette Supplement Lectures and seminars, Michaelmas term 2011 romanes Lecture 23 Social Sciences: School of anthropology and Museum Ethnography 31 Divisions, departments and faculties Saïd business School 33 Department of Economics 33 Humanities: Department of Education 33 Faculty of classics 23 School of Interdisciplinary area Studies 34 Faculty of English Language and Literature 23 Department of International Development 34 Faculties of English/History of art/theology/Music 24 Faculty of Law 34 Faculty of History 24 Department of Politics and International relations 35 Faculty of History/Politics 25 Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment 36 Faculty of History/Social Studies 25 Department of Social Policy and Intervention 37 History of art Department 25 Department of Sociology/oxford Network for Social Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics 26 Inequality research 37 Faculties of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics and Medieval and Modern Languages 26 Institutes, centres and museums Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages 26 Faculty of Music 27 ashmolean Museum 37 Faculty of oriental Studies 27 bodleian Libraries 37 Faculty of theology 27 Environmental change Institute 38 Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences: Europaeum 38 brooke benjamin Lecture on Fluid Dynamics 27 oxford centre for Hindu Studies 38 Hume-rothery Memorial Lecture 27 International Gender Studies centre 39 Weldon Memorial Prize Lecture 28 oxford centre for Islamic Studies 39 Department of chemistry 28 reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism 40 e-research centre 28 Latin american centre 40 Department of Earth Sciences 28 oxford Learning Institute 41 Department of Engineering Science 28 oxford Martin School 41 Mathematical Institute 29 Maison Française 41 Department of Physics 29 oxford Institute of Population ageing 42 Department of Plant Sciences 29 coMPaS 42 Department of Zoology 30 University church 42 Medical Sciences: Voltaire Foundation – besterman centre for the Department of biochemistry 30 Enlightenment 43 Nuffield Department ofc linical Medicine 30 Department of clinical Neurosciences 30 Sir William Dunn School of Pathology 30 Department of Physiology, anatomy and Genetics 31 Department of Primary Health care 31 Department of Psychiatry 31 21 22 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4963 • 5 october 2011 Colleges and halls balliol 43 christ church 43 Green templeton 43 Keble 43 Kellogg 43 Magdalen 43 Mansfield 43 Nuffield 44 St antony’s 44 St catherine’s 45 St cross 45 St John’s 45 Somerville 46 University college 46 Wadham 46 Wolfson 46 blackfriars 46 St Stephen’s House 46 Other groups oxford architectural History Group 46 oxford asian textile Group 47 the University assessor in association with oxford University Student Union 47 oxford Intelligence Group 47 oxford Italian association 47 Friends of the Pitt rivers Museum 47 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4963 • 5 october 2011 23 Romanes Lecture Liz Lucas TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST 21 Nov.: 'Pericles in the US congress' CENTURY SEMINAR Professor Lord Rees of Ludlow, Master of Sara Monoson, Northwestern trinity college and Professor of cosmology the following seminars will be given at 28 Nov.: 'recollections of combat trauma 5.15 pm, except where noted, on and astrophysics, cambridge, will deliver in the dialogues of Plato' the romanes Lecture at 5.45 pm on 2 Wednesdays in the Senior common room, English Faculty. conveners: Professor November in the Sheldonian theatre. No Faculty of English Language and Marcus, Professor bush and Dr beasley. tickets required. Places on first-come-first- Literature served basis. Nick Royle, Sussex ClarENDON LECTURES: ROCOCOPHILIA: Subject: ‘the limits of science’ 19 Oct.: ‘Veering: a theory of the novel’ THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY AND BRITISH MODERNISM Charles Altieri, berkeley Divisions, departments and 2 Nov.: ‘What theory can learn from new Professor Terry Castle, Walter a Haas directions in contemporary american faculties Professor in the Humanities, Stanford, poetry.’ respondents: ron bush, reena will deliver the clarendon Lectures on the Sastri. Humanities following days at 5.15 pm in Lecture theatre 2, English Faculty. Katherine Mullin, Leeds Faculty of Classics 5.30 pm, 16 Nov.: ‘reading barmaids, 1 Nov.: ‘rococophilia: an introduction’ APGRD LECTURES 1880–1920’ 3 Nov.: ‘Dugouts and grottos: Pope in the POSTCOLONIAL WRITING AND THEORY the following lectures will be given on 1920s’ Mondays at 2.15 pm at 66 St Giles’ (the first in SEMINAR 8 Nov.: ‘the rape of clarissa’ the First Floor Seminar room and the final the following seminars will be given at two in the Lecture theatre). 10 Nov.: ‘rex Whistler: a mock-heroic life’ 5.15 pm on thursdays in the old Seminar room, Wadham. conveners: Professor Professor Kate Bosher, Northwestern EARLY MODERN LITEraTURE gradUATE boehmer and Dr Mukherjee. 17 Oct.: 'Dionysus vs Demeter: gods and SEMINAR theatre in ancient Greek Sicily' Josephine McDonagh, KcL the following seminars will be given at 20 Oct.: 'rethinking provincialism in Zachary Mason, author, Lost Books of the 5 pm on alternate tuesdays in the breakfast mid-nineteenth-century narrative fiction: Odyssey room, Merton. conveners: Dr Sharon Villette from our village' 7 Nov.: ‘the lost books of the Odyssey’ achinstein, Dr Paulina Kewes, Professor David Norbrook, Dr Emma Smith and Dr David Palumbo-Liu, Stanford James Methven and Maureen Almond, bart van Es. 3 Nov.: ‘Method and congruity: the odious poet business of comparative literature’ 14 Nov.: ‘translating Latin poetry’ Dr Edward Paleit, Exeter 11 Oct.: ‘False ones? Playwrights, politics Elleke Boehmer in discussion with Zoe RECEPTION AND POLITICS and the classics in early modern England’ Norridge,york the following seminars will be given at 10 Nov.: ‘of memory and monsters’ Dr Sebastiaan Verweij 5 pm on Mondays in the first-floor Seminar 26 Oct.: ‘ “the Eye of any Deliberate Pheng Cheah, berkeley room, Ioannou centre for classical and reader”: Donne and the early printed 22 Nov.: ‘Postcolonial literature as world byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles. conveners: book’ (in association with the Merton literature’ Dr F Macintosh and Dr t rood. college History of the book Group) Ziad Elmarsafy, york Oswyn Murray Dr Adam Smyth, birkbeck 1 Dec.: ‘the literature and culture of the 10 Oct.: 'the democratic tradition from 10 Nov.: ‘ “Shreds of holinesse”: cutting up new Egypt’ Montesquieu to Grote' bibles at Little Gidding’ AMERICAN LITEraTURE RESEARCH Barbara Goff, reading Professor Katherine Duncan-Jones SEMINAR 17 Oct.: 'Power and paradigms: classics 22 Nov.: ‘thriving by foolery in familiar the following seminars will be given at in the autobiographies of West african letters’ nationalists' 5.15 pm on thursdays in the rothermere CENTRE FOR EARLY MODERN STUDIES: american Institute. conveners: Dr Sastri and Phiroze Vasunia, reading UNIVERSITIES IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT Dr taylor. 24 Oct.: 'athens in calcutta: the Hellenism the following seminars will be held at Professor Charles Altieri, berkeley of Henry Derozio' 1 pm on thursdays in the breakfast room, 3 Nov.: 'What Pound and Stevens share: William Fitzgerald, KcL Merton. convener: Professor David the break from epistemic views of value in 31 Oct.: 'Is "diversity" an aesthetic concept? Norbrook. modernist american poetry’ reflections on the history of variety' Professor Laurence Brockliss Professor Susan Manning, Edinburgh Simon Caney 3 Nov.: ‘the idea of the university: early 22 Nov.: ‘ "Floating fragments of a 7 Nov.: 'contemporary political philosophy modern and modern’ wrecked renown": representative men, and the ancients' characterless women and nineteenth- Professor Howard Hotson century transatlantic writing’ Katherine Earnshaw 24 Nov.: ‘Markets, choice, efficiency 14 Nov.: 'Lucan in the long eighteenth and educational revolution in early century' modern German and neoliberal English universities: a strange instance of policy “impact” for early modern research?’ 24 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4963 • 5 october 2011 RESTOraTION TO REFORM SEMINAR OLD NORSE IN OXFORD RESEARCH Mr Ian Boxall SEMINAR 17 Oct.: ‘Picturing John’s island: visual the following seminars will be given at interpretations of Patmos’ 5.15 pm on Mondays in the Dorfman room, the following seminar will be given at St Peter’s. conveners: Dr ros ballaster, Dr 5 pm on tuesday in the turville-Petre Hussey Seminar christine Gerrard, Dr Freya Johnston, Dr room, English Faculty. convener: Dr Dr Eyal Poleg, Edinburgh Kathryn Murphy, Dr Nicole Pohl and Dr Larrington. 31 Oct.: ‘beyond search engines: the abigail Williams. medieval bible in liturgy and preaching’ Dr Massimiliano Bampi, Venice Dr Karin Kukkonen 15 Nov.: ‘Generic hybridity in saga Professor Michelle Brown, London 17 Oct.: ‘Why colley cibber throws a literature: patterns and dynamics’ 7 Nov.: ‘bibles before the year 1000: issues tantrum – Samuel richardson and the of materiality’ MEDIEval ENGLISH RESEARCH SEMINAR problem of poetic justice’ Dr Susanne Sklar, Northwestern the following seminars will be given at Dr Nicholas Seager, Keele 21 Nov.: ‘Erotic spirituality and blake’s “Last 5.15 pm on Wednesdays in the History of the 31 Oct.: ‘Gulliver's Travels serialised and Judgement”’ book room, English Faculty. conveners: continued’ Professor Gillespie and Dr o’Donoghue. Faculty of History Dr Carl Thompson, Nottingham trent Dr Siân Grönlie SPECIAL LECTURE 14 Nov.: ‘Sentiment, sensation and 12 Oct.: ‘caedmon