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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

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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

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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 in Iceland: poetry, the forging of commercial, sociable Professor Philip Morgan, Harmsworth paganism and conversion’ nationhood: tracing the 1786 wreck of Visiting Professor of American History, will the Halsewell through print, visual and Dr Kantik Ghosh deliver the Harmsworth Lecture at 5 pm on material culture' 19 Oct.: ‘Logic, scepticism and heresy in the 8 November in the Examination Schools. early 15th century’ Subject: ‘A tale of two Hamiltons: North Professor Michele Cohen, Richmond American–Caribbean crossings' 28 Nov.: ‘Language and conversation Jennifer Barton, York in eighteenth-century nationalism and 26 Oct.: ‘Time and narrative in Amis and Annual special faculty lecture domesticity’ Amiloun’ Professor Julia Smith, Edwards Professor of Literature and Medicine Seminar Thomas Forkin Medieval History, Glasgow, will deliver the Series 2 Nov.: ‘The Pardoner's punishment in the 2011 Special Faculty Lecture at 5 pm on “Canterbury Interlude” ’ 28 November in the Examination Schools. The following seminars will be given at Subject: 'Relics: the making of a tradition in 6 pm on Mondays in the E P Abraham Dr Catherine Karkov, Leeds Latin Christianity' Lecture Theatre, Green Templeton. 9 Nov.: ‘Hagar and Ishmael: the uncanny Conveners: Professor Maguire and Professor and the exile in Anglo-Saxon art’ English musical vernaculars, Friend. 1800–1950 Dr Kate McClune Andrew Cunningham, Cambridge 16 Nov.: ‘ “I sall compact it in ane mass”: The first of a series of workshops sponsored 17 Oct.: 'Come! and see! The theatre of Orlando Furioso in sixteenth-century by the Elgar Society will be given at anatomy' Scotland’ 2–5 pm on 28 October at the History Faculty, George Street. Speakers: Professor Michael James Whitehead, KCL Dr David Clark, Leicester Pickering, Loughborough; Professor 24 Oct.: ‘The pathology of poetry’ 23 Nov.: ‘Alfredian perspectives on Rachel Cowgill, Cardiff;Dr George Revill, friendship’ Philip Shaw, Leicester Open; and Oskar Cox Jensen. If interested, 31 Oct.: ‘Charles Bell: surgery, sentiment Professor Wendy Scase, Birmingham contact David Hopkin at david.hopkin@ and the drama of war’ 30 Nov.: ‘The ‘Data deluge’ and the history.ox.ac.uk or 01865 279459. The Megamanuscript: implications of the second workshop will be held on 3 February. Richard Sugg, Durham Vernon Manuscript Project’ (followed by 7 Nov.: ‘Early modern anatomy and the Early modern Europe seminar Christmas drinks party) physiology of the soul' The following seminars will be given at Faculties of English/History of Art/ Felix Budelmann 5 pm on Tuesdays in the Hovenden Room, Theology/Music 14 Nov.: ‘The representation of pain in All Souls. Conveners: Dr D Parrott and Dr R Greek tragedy’ The Bible in art, music and Briggs. literature seminar series Ben Morgan Jan Hennings 14 Nov.: ‘Shakespeare’s pharmacy: the The following seminars will be given at 5 pm 11 Oct.: ‘Reading between the gestures: emergence of theatrical aesthetics’ in the Danson Room, Trinity, except for Russian diplomacy and the European 31 October and 7 November seminars, which court society’ Tiffany Watt-Smith, London will take place in the Sutro Room, Trinity. 21 Nov.: ‘Monkey F's Flinch: theatrical Joseph Bergin, Manchester Convenor: Dr Christine Joynes. spectatorship and the scientific laboratory, 18 Oct.: ‘Monarchy, ministériat and 1881’ Professor Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, ministers in seventeenth-century France’ Georgetown Charles Gregory 10 Oct.: ‘Jars and tears: how the Magdalene 25 Oct.: ‘The minister who would be regent: embodies the Book of John’ Richelieu, Cinq-Mars and the struggle for France, 1638–42’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4963 • 5 October 2011 25

Rafe Blaufarb, Florida Pascal Eitler, Max Planck Institute, Berlin Mr Peter Ghosh 1 Nov.: ‘The fiscal uses of privileged corps 27 Oct.: ‘An “Age of Conversion”? Political 25 Oct.: ‘Clapham Junction: the place in early modern France’ and private transformation in West of the Protestant ethic in Max Weber’s Germany, 1963–88’ intellectual biography’ Tom Mayer, Illinois 8 Nov.: ‘Trying Galileo’ Maurice Walsh, Kingston Ms Sophie Nicholls 3 Nov.: ‘Ireland, 1918–23: Europe’s 1 Nov.: ‘Locating sovereign power: Bodin Adrianna Catena exceptional revolution?’ and the Catholic League’ 15 Nov.: ‘ “Better than the Best from Barbary”: the Atlantic trade in New World Sebastien Farré, Geneva Professor John Robertson, Cambridge indigo, 1550–1650’ 10 Nov.: ‘The International Committee 8 Nov.: ‘Sociability and sacred history: of the Red Cross and the Death Marches, Neapolitan answers to a Hobbesian David Howarth, Edinburgh Sachsenhausen (Berlin), 1945’ problem’ 22 Nov.: ‘Rubens and the art of friendship’ José Harris Dr Hannah Dawson, Edinburgh Alison Rowlands, Essex 17 Nov.: ‘ “To Russia with love?”: Anglo- 15 Nov.: ‘Locke on the law of nature’ 29 Nov.: ‘Early modern witchcraft’ (title to Russian social, cultural and scientific be confirmed) Professor Robin Blackburn, Essex relations, 1941–5’ 22 Nov.: ‘Marx and Lincoln’ Long nineteenth century seminar: Paul Betts, Sussex place makers and place-making Faculty of History/Social Studies 24 Nov.: ‘Humanity’s new heritage: The following seminars will be given at UNESCO and the rewriting of world Global and imperial history 11.10 am on Mondays in the MacGregor history’ The following seminars will be held at Seminar Room, Oriel. Convenors: Abigail Mark Timpson 5 pm on Fridays in the History Faculty. Green and Oliver Zimmer. 1 Dec.: ‘Holistic approaches to “global” Convenors: James Belich, John Darwin and Jane Hamlett, Royal Holloway unemployment: nutrition, the ILO and the Jan-Georg Deutsch. 17 Oct.: ‘ “None of that rotten effeminate League of Nations in the 1930s’ James Belich stuff here?”: space and material culture in Oxford transnational and global 14 Oct.: ‘Indigenous resistance and schools for middle-class boys in England, history seminar: Religion in global “rebellion” in European settler societies in 1845–1914’ history the nineteenth century’ Daniel DeGroff, Queen Mary, London The following seminars will be delivered Jacob Norris, Cambridge 24 Oct.: ‘The aristocratic foundations at 5 pm on Tuesdays in even weeks in the 21 Oct.: ‘The final stand for Greater Syria: of Breton regionalism, c.1840–1914: an Quarrell Room, Exeter. For additional details reflections on the Palestine revolt, 1936–9’ intergenerational study’ see www.history.ox.ac.uk/transnational. Kim Wagner, Birmingham Anna Geurts Dr Catherine Holmes and Dr John Watts 28 Oct.: ‘Meerut, 10 May 1857: anatomy of 31 Oct.: ‘The right person in the right place: 18 Oct.: 'Towards a global middle ages: an outbreak’ travellers’ freedom in nineteenth-century charter polities, clerical power and beyond. Europe’ Nicholas Draper, UCL A roundtable discussion of a new Oxford 4 Nov.: ‘From respectability to Charlotte Ashby, Birkbeck initiative' transgression? The politics and ethics of 7 Nov.: ‘Our land, our town: making a PD Dr Kisten Rüther, Leibniz British colonial slave-owning on the eve of place for the Finnish-speaking Finn in the 1 Nov.: 'Conversion in Botshabelo, South emancipation’ modern city’ Africa: local religious dynamics in Jeremy Krikler, Essex Jan Hein Furnee, Amsterdam transnational perspective (1861–92)' 11 Nov.: ‘Can rebellions retain their original 14 Nov.: ‘The place to shop: class, gender Dr Noel Malcolm meanings?’ and nation in The Hague’s shopping 15 Nov.: 'Christian converts to Islam in the streets, 1850–90’ Huw Bennett, KCL early modern period' 18 Nov.: ‘Fighting the Mau Mau: Tony Kushner, Southampton Dr John Stuart, Kingston new evidence on the British Army’s 21 Nov.: ‘Searching for a place called home: 29 Nov.: 'British missionaries and "religious decolonisation war in Kenya, 1952–6’ Volga Germans on the move in the late- liberty" in Egypt, 1919–48' nineteenth century’ Justin Willis Faculty of History/Politics 25 Nov.: ‘Going to see the Sultan: Modern European history seminar secessionism and historical memory in History of political thought The following seminars will be given at coastal Kenya’ 5 pm on Thursdays in the History Faculty The following seminars will be given at 5 pm Jan-Georg Deutsch Building, George Street. Convenors: Tom on Tuesdays in the Swire Seminar Room, 2 Dec.: To be confirmed Buchanan and Christian Bailey, Open. University College. Conveners: Ben Jackson, David Leopold, Sarah Mortimer and Marc History of Art Department Christian Bailey, Open Stears. All welcome. 13 Oct.: ‘Law versus love: German–Jewish Departmental research seminar relationships, 1870–1950’ Professor Philip Mirowski, Notre Dame The following seminars will be given at 5 pm 11 Oct.: ‘Everyday neo-liberalism’ Nicholas Stargardt on alternate Tuesdays in the lecture theatre, 20 Oct.: ‘Beyond “coercion” and “consent”: Dr Helen McCabe second floor, Littlegate House, St Ebbes. German society in World War Two’ 18 Oct.: ‘J S Mill and socialism’ Convenor: Dr H Grootenboer. 26 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4963 • 5 October 2011

Professor Karen Lang, Warwick Dr Andrew Koontz-Garboden, Manchester Dr Nina Taylor-Terlecka 11 Oct.: 'Caspar David Friedrich, Gerhard 14 Nov.: ‘Semantic variation and the 18 Oct.: ‘Miłosz and the Lithuanian Richter: painting in the state of becoming' grammar of property concepts’ heritage’ Dr Kate Retford, Birkbeck Professor Bjarke Frellesvig Professor Brigitte Gautier, Lille/Paris 25 Oct.: 'A walk around Wanstead: the 21 Nov.: ‘The verb “to do” (suru) in Old 8 Nov.: ‘Overcoming the burden of history: topography of the conversation piece' Japanese. A corpus-based study’ The poetry of Gajcy, Miłosz and Herbert’ Dr Erna Fiorentini, Academic Visitor, Professor John Whitman, Cornell Seminar conveners History of Art, Oxford (Presented jointly with the Faculty of 22 Nov.: ‘Round table on The Captive Mind/ 8 Nov.: 'Induction of visibility – an attempt Oriental Studies) Zniewolony umysł (1953)’ at the notion of aesthetic–epistemic action' 28 Nov.: To be confirmed Dr Magdalena Heydel, Krakow Chris Dercon, Tate Modern Faculties of Linguistics, Philology and 29 Nov.: ‘ “First, plain speech in the mother 22 Nov.: 'New audiences: how much do we Phonetics and Medieval and Modern tongue”. Czesław Miłosz’s Traktak poetycki really care?' Languages (1957)/A Treatise on Poetry (2001) in English translation’ Research seminar Romance linguistics seminars German research seminar The following seminars will be given at 5 pm The following seminars will be given at on alternate Tuesdays in the lecture theatre, 5 pm in room 16 of the Taylor Institution. The following seminars will be held in second floor, Littlegate House, St Ebbes. Convener: Professor Martin Maiden. Queen’s at 2 pm on Thursdays. Convenor: Convenors: Dr C Payne, Oxford Brookes, Dr J Professor Ritchie Robertson. Franziska Hack Whiteley and Dr A Wright. 27 Oct.: ‘Question formation in Northern Dr Georgina Paul Dr Catherine Whistler, Ashmolean Italy – a case for dialect syntax, typology 13 Oct.: ‘From Despoiled Shore to Malibu 18 Oct.: 'Drawing in Venice: practice and and linguistic theory’ Beach: Eastern German writers at sea in a identity' post-socialist world’ (in Lecture Room A) Dr Andrew Nevins, UCL Dr Margarita Tupitsyn, independent 3 Nov.: ‘Experimental investigations of Dr Betiel Wasihun scholar naturalness biases in Romance inflectional 10 Nov.: ‘Eth(n)ical betrayal: Kleist’s Die 1 Nov.: 'Kandinsky and “The House of morphology’ Verlobung in St Domingo and Philip Roth’s Utopia” ' The Human Stain’ (in Memorial Room) Dr Richard Waltereit, Newcastle Susanna Berger 17 Nov.: ‘Moi je ne sais pas vs Je ne sais pas Italian Sub-faculty graduate 15 Nov.: 'The art of natural philosophy: moi. French disjoint pronouns in the left vs seminar illustrated broadsides and scholastic right periphery’ The following seminars will be given at Aristotelianism in the early–modern Olivia Cockburn, Universidad autónoma, 5 pm in Lecture Room 10b, Taylor period' Madrid Institution. Convener: Dr G Stellardi. Dr Matthew Craske, Oxford Brookes 24 Nov.: ‘The development of the Latin Dr Manuele Gragnolati 29 Nov.: 'A political automaton: the -izare (-idiare) verbal suffix in Spanish’ 17 Oct.: ‘The other and I: multistability in exhibition of the Throne of Gold in the Dr Chiara Cappellaro Pier Paolo Pasolini's Notes for an African museum of Thomas Cox, toyman, 1770– 3' 2 Dec.: ‘Gender asymmetries in the Oresteia’ Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and morphological marking of plurals in Dr Marco Bernini, Edinburgh Phonetics central Ladin’ 31 Oct.: ‘Supersizing narrative theory: Seminars Faculty of Medieval and Modern towards a cognitive approach to form, Languages content, intention and interpretation (with The following seminars will be given at reference to C E Gadda)’ 5.15 pm on Mondays in Room 2, the Taylor Inaugural lecture Institution. Conveners: Dr A Asudeh and Dr Professor Robert Gordon, Cambridge Professor Ritchie Robertson, Taylor S Paoli. 9 Nov.: ‘Auschwitz in 1950s–60s Italy’ Professor of the German Language and Dr Caroline Piercy Literature, will deliver his inaugural lecture Dr Diego Bertelli, Wesleyan University 17 Oct.: ‘Language variation and change in at 5 pm on 20 October in the Main Hall, 28 Nov.: ‘Qualcosa di altrettanto preciso: Dorset English: phonological, processing Taylor Institution, followed by a drinks scrittura privata ed esperienza poetica in and social factors’ reception in the Taylorian. Bartolo Cattafi’ Subject: 'Freemasons versus Jesuits: Dr Linda Wheeldon, Birmingham Conference on Italo Svevo conspiracy theories in Enlightenment 24 Oct.: ‘Sentence production in English Germany' There will be an international conference and Japanese: the advanced planning of on ‘Italo Svevo and his legacy’ at St words and structure’ East and East-Central Europe Hugh’s, Maplethorpe Building, on 16 and seminar: Celebrating Czesław Professor Grev Corbett, Surrey 17 December (9 am–7.30 pm). Admission Miłosz’s 100th birthday 31 Oct.: ‘What is special about morphology free, but those wishing to stay for lunch or on the “mountain of languages”?’ The following seminars will be given at book for accommodation or dinners should 5 pm on Tuesdays in the Ground Floor register in advance. Information: http:// Dr Daniel Rothschild Lecture Room, Modern Languages Faculty, svevo2011.filetap.com/ or svevo2011@ 7 Nov.: To be confirmed 47 Wellington Square. Conveners: Dr Jan gmail.com. Conveners: Dr G Stellardi and Dr Fellerer, Dr Robert Pyrah and Dr Marius E Tandello. Turda. University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4963 • 5 October 2011 27

Faculty of Music Ethnomusicology seminars Faculty of Theology

Research Seminars The following seminars will take place at Ptarmigan Lecture in Patristics 5pm on Thursdays in the North Lecture The following seminars will be given at The Right Revd Dr Kallistos Ware, Room, St John’s. Free and open to all. 5.15 pm on Tuesdays in the Denis Arnold Metropolitan of Diokleia, will lecture at 5 pm Convenor: Professor Martin Stokes. Hall, Faculty of Music. Convenors: Adam on 9 November in the Examination Schools. Harper and Emily MacGregor. Jim Sykes, KCL Subject: ‘ “Following the Holy Fathers”: is 10 Nov.: ‘Malaysia and the South Asian there a future for Patristic Studies?’ Professor Ruth Finnegan, Open modern: Tamil music, coloniality, labour’ 1 Oct.: ‘Rethinking the hidden musicians: Astor Visiting Lectureship reflections on an ethnography of the late Nathan Hesselink, British Columbia Professor Thomas Sheehan, Stanford, will 1980s’ 1 Dec.: ‘Radiohead's “Pyramid Song”: deliver the Astor Visiting Lecture at 5 pm on ambiguity, rhythm and participation’ Professor David Huron, Ohio State 27 October in the Blue Boar Lecture Theatre, 18 Oct.: ‘What is a musical work? Memory Faculty of Oriental Studies Christ Church. Open to the public. and aesthetic identity’ Subject: ‘Easter, Apocalyptic and N T Seminar on Jewish history and Wright’ Dr Ben Winters, Open literature in the Graeco-Roman 25 Oct.: ‘Viewed from the podium: concert period: the Dead Sea Scrolls and Professor Thomas Sheehan, Stanford, will scenes and film narrative’ related topics lead two seminars, on 25 October at 4 pm in the Ryle Room, Faculty of Philosophy, and Dr Grace Eden The following seminars will be given from on 26 October at 5 pm in Lecture Room 1 1 Nov.: ‘Interpreting digital images beyond 2.30 to 4 pm on Tuesdays in the Oriental Christ Church. just the visual: crossmodal practices in Institute. Convenor: Professor Martin Subject: ‘Making sense of Heidegger: being, medieval musicology’ Goodman. clearing, appropriation’ Professor Eric Clarke Dr Joan Taylor, KCL Ian Ramsey Centre seminars 8 Nov.: ‘Sound-space-psyche: musical 11 Oct.: 'Essenes in second- to fourth- proxemics’ century literature' The following public seminars will be given at 8.30 pm in the Old Dining Room, Harris Evan J Beigel Professor George Brooke, Manchester Manchester, preceded by drinks at 8.15 pm. 15 Nov.: ‘Skill sets of today's successful 18 Oct.: 'Reading, searching and blessing: Convener: Dr A Pinsent. music content creators: why it pays a functional approach to the genres of to pursue mastery in composition, scriptural interpretation in the Yahad' Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell production and engineering’ 4 Nov.: ‘Hope in the universe’ Dr Daniel Falk, Oregon Dr Bojan Bujic 25 Oct.: 'Petition and ideology in the Dead Professor Paul Ewart 22 Nov.: ‘Arnold Schoenberg and Egon Sea Scrolls' 17 Nov.: ‘Chaos and the character of God’ Wellesz: some aspects of an uneasy Dr Charlotte Hempel, Birmingham Dr Conor Cunningham, Nottingham friendship’ 1 Nov.: 'The Yahad's table: meals in the 29 Nov.: ‘Darwin’s pious idea’ Dr Katherine Schofield, KCL Serekh tradition' 29 Nov.: ‘Music in colonial transition: Mathematical, Physical and Life Dr Esther Eshel, Bar Ilan “Hindustani airs” through the looking Sciences 8 Nov.: 'The Giant's Regret in a new glass’ fragment of Enoch' Brooke Benjamin Lecture on Fluid Seminar in late medieval and Professor James McLaren, Australian Dynamics Renaissance music – a forum for Catholic work in progress Professor Vladimir Zakharov, Department 15 Nov.: 'Spartans in disguise? Josephus, of Mathematics, Arizona, will deliver The following seminars will be given at Essenes and Qumran' the Brooke Benjamin Lecture on Fluid 5 pm on Thursdays in the Wharton Room, Dr Dorothy Peters, Trinity Western Dynamics at 5 pm on 16 November in All Souls. Convenor: Dr Margaret Bent. 22 Nov.: 'In whose hand the sword? Divine Lecture Theatre 1, Mathematical Institute. Professor Jeremy Johns and human initiatives in the Dead Sea All invited to attend lecture and following 20 Oct.: ‘Musicians and musical Scrolls' reception. To register email: hicks@maths. instruments in the Islamic painted ceilings ox.ac.uk Professor Geza Vermes of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo, Sicily, Subject: 'Theory of wind-driven sea' 29 Nov.: 'The sixtieth anniversary of the c.1140’ first doctorate on the Dead Sea scrolls: the Hume-Rothery Memorial Lecture Paul Kolb history of research' Professor A L Greer, Professor of Materials 3 Nov.: ‘Revenge of the cantus firmus, or: Korean Studies Science, Cambridge, will deliver the biennial what really happened to the motet in the Hume-Rothery Memorial Lecture at fifteenth century’ Professor Wayne Patterson, Professor of 6.30 pm on 18 October in Lecture Room 1, History, St Norbert College, Wisconsin, will Dr Catherine Bradley Thom Building, Department of Engineering lecture at 5 pm on 10 October in Lecture 17 Nov.: ‘Thirteenth-century motet Science. Room 1, Oriental Institute. Convener: Dr J B chronologies’ Subject: ‘Nucleation control in materials Lewis. and biology’ Professor Elizabeth Eva Leach and Dr Subject: ‘Maritime customs and Chinese Nicolette Zeeman, Cambridge imperialism in the 1880s: a new look at 1 Dec.: ‘Gender in fourteenth-century song’ Korea's “Chinese Decade” ’ 28 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4963 • 5 October 2011

Weldon Memorial Prize Lecture Juergen Horbach Dr Gwyndaf Evans, Diamond Light Sources 1 Nov.: ‘From localization transitions to 15 Nov.: ‘Future needs and plans for Professor David Haussler, California micro-rheology: the one-particle dynamics macromolecular crystallography data at Santa Cruz, will deliver the Weldon in glassforming soft-sphere mixtures’ analysis at diamond light sources’ Memorial Lecture at 5 pm on 24 October in Lecture Theatre A, Tinbergen Building, Mustansir Barma Michael Pidd, Sheffield Department of Zoology. 8 Nov.: To be confirmed 22 Nov.: ‘Research with impact: the digital Subject: ‘Cancer genomics’ humanities’ David McGloin Department of Chemistry 15 Nov.: ‘Development of optical control Dr Jerome Lewis, London techniques for aerosols, emulsion droplets 29 Nov.: ‘Extreme citizen science: Physical Chemistry Seminars and microbubbles’ extending participatory sensing and sense The following seminars will be held making’ Peter Keim on Mondays at 2.15 pm in the Physical 22 Nov.: ‘Dynamic arrest in an amorphous Department of Earth Sciences and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory 2D colloidal system’ Lecture Theatre unless otherwise stated. The following seminars will be given on Conveners: Professors G Hancock and D E Andrew Goodwin Fridays at 4 pm in the Seminar Room, Manolopoulos. 29 Nov.: ‘Structure determination of Department of Earth Sciences. disordered materials’ Professor Paul Ewart Astor Lecture 10 Oct.: ‘Laser diagnostics for combustion: THEORETICAL CHEMISTRY GROUP Professor Brad Hacker, California at Santa new light on an old flame’ SEMINARS Barbara 14 Oct.: ‘Differentiation of the continental Professor Christopher Ramsay The following seminars will be given at crust by relamination’ 17 Oct.: ‘Radiocarbon dating: measurement, 4.45 pm on Mondays in the John Rowlinson modelling and applications’ Seminar Room (PTCL). All welcome. Dr Ian Hewitt, British Columbia Convenor: Dr M Wilson. 21 Oct.: ‘Ice on a slippery slope: the role of Professor Alfred Leitenstorfer, Konstanz meltwater beneath glaciers’ 24 Oct.: ‘Ultrafast quantum photonics: Nigel Wilding, Bath single cycles of light and solid-state 17 Oct.: ‘Structure and phase behaviour of Dr Maria Schönbächler, Manchester nanosystems’ highly size-asymmetric fluid mixtures’ 28 Oct.: ‘The making of asteroids and the Earth – clues from the Pd-Ag chronometer’ Professor Sir Richard Friend, Cambridge Elena Bichoutskaia, Nottingham 31 Oct.: ‘Excitons and charge generation in 24 Oct.: ‘Electrostatic analysis of the Professor Katherine Cashman, Oregon molecular semiconductor solar cells’ interactions between charged particles 4 Nov.: ‘Bubbles and bangs: volatile and clusters of dielectric materials’ controls on magma fragmentation and Professor David Chandler, Berkeley grain size distributions’ 7 Nov.: ‘Principles of self-assembly: Chris Pickard, London stability, frustration and relaxation’ 7 Nov.: ‘A theoretical glimpse of the Professor Paul Olsen, Columbia chemistry of dense matter’ 11 Nov.: ‘Empirical mapping of the chaotic Dr David Rowley, UCL evolution of the solar system’ 14 Nov.: ‘Halogen oxide free radicals: in the Fahmi Himo, Stockholm lab and in the atmosphere’ 21 Nov.: ‘Quantum chemical modelling of Dr Jessica Irvine, Cambridge enzymatic reactions’ 18 Nov.: ‘Hemispherical and smaller scale Dr Tuomas Knowles, Cambridge velocity structure in Earth's inner core’ 28 Nov.: ‘Kinetics of protein aggregation’ e-Research Centre Professor Emeritus Stephen Moorbath PHYSICAL AND THEORETICAL The following seminars will be given at 2 pm 25 Nov.: ‘Reminiscences of an Oxford CHEMISTRY LABORATORY on Tuesdays in the Access Grid Room (room isotope geologist 1956–2011’ 277). Soft matter, biomaterials and interfaces Professor Peter Cox seminars Dr Hamish Carr, Leeds 2 Dec.: ‘Will the Amazon rainforest die back 11 Oct.: ‘Continuity in scientific The following seminars will be given at 4 pm under global warming? The answer is in visualisation’ on Tuesdays in the John Rowlinson Seminar the noise’ Room (PTCL) unless otherwise indicated. Dr Andrew Lyall, Cambridge Department of Engineering Science All welcome. Convenors: Dr R P A Dullens 18 Oct.: ‘ELIXIR: A sustainable and Professor R Golestanian. infrastructure for biological information Solid Mechanics and Materials in Europe’ Engineering Group Ho-Young Kim 11.15 am, 11 Oct.: ‘Hydrodynamics of writing Alexander Papaspyrou, Germany The following seminars will be given at with ink’ 25 Oct.: ‘Within code migration 2 pm on Mondays in LR8, IEB Building, methodology for heterogeneous systems’ Department of Engineering Science. Karsten Kruse 18 Oct.: ‘Spontaneous actin waves’ Dr Guillaume Barat, France Professor R D Adams 1 Nov.: ‘Code migration methodology for 17 Oct.: ‘Adhesive bonding; from ancient Roland Winkler heterogeneous systems’ history to current challenges ’ 25 Oct.: ‘Mesoscale hydrodynamic simulation of polymers in flow fields’ Professor Helen Bailey, Bedfordshire D M Williamson, Cambridge 8 Nov.: To be confirmed 24 Oct.: To be confirmed 31 Oct.: To be confirmed University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4963 • 5 October 2011 29

E J Wielewski, Strathclyde Mathematical Biology and Ecology Professor Peter Read 7 Nov.: ‘An experimental investigation into seminars 18 Nov.: ‘Planets in perspective: in search the effects of microstructure and texture of a “big picture” for planetary climate and The following seminars will be given at on the high strain rate behaviour of Ti- atmospheric circulation’ 2 pm on Fridays in Lecture Room 1 at the 6Al-4V’ Mathematical Institute. Convenor: Sara Professor Jan Zannen 14 Nov.: To be confirmed Jolliffe ([email protected]). 25 Nov.: ‘Quantum criticality, high Tc superconductivity and the AdS/CFT Dr C Pinna, Sheffield Dr R Endres, London correspondence of string theory’ 21 Nov.: ‘Effect of strain localisation on 14 Oct.: ‘Signal amplification and precise microstructure evolution in thermo- adaptation in bacterial chemotaxis’ Particles and Fields Seminars mechanically processed metals’ Professor T Newman, Dundee The following seminars will be given at Dr I V Chenchiah, Bristol 28 Oct.: ‘Multicellular modelling using 4.15 pm on Thursdays in the Dennis Sciama 28 Nov.: ‘Surprises in monoclinic-I computers: biomechanical calibration, Lecture Theatre, Department of Physics. martensite’ active processes, and emergent tissue Convener: Professor Subir Sarkar and Dr dynamics’ Mathematical Institute Stefan Zohren. Professor M Lewis, Alberta Computational mathematics and Dr Harvey Meyer, Mainz 11 Nov.: ‘Connecting random walks to applications seminars 13 Oct.: ‘Transport properties of the quark- functional responses’ gluon plasma’ The following seminars will be given at Professor T Hofer, Heidelberg 2 pm on Thursdays in seminar room Dr Thordur Jonsson, Iceland 25 Nov.: ‘Dynamic regulatory networks RI.0.48, Gibson Building, Mathematical 20 Oct.: ‘On the spectral dimension of govern T-cell proliferation and Institute, except for the 3 and 17 November causal triangulations’ differentiation’ lectures, which will be given at 2 pm at the Dr Thomas Schwetz-Mangold, MPI-K Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) near Mathematical Institute Heidelberg Didcot. Conveners: Professor Nick Trefethen colloquium 27 Oct.: ‘Are there sterile neutrinos at the and Dr Sue Thorne, RAL. Professor John Bush, Professor of eV scale?’ Professor Frederic Dias, Dublin and ENS Applied Mathematics, MIT, will deliver the Professor Jan Ambjorn, NBI Copenhagen Cachan Mathematical Institute colloquium at 3 Nov.: ‘Lattice quantum gravity’ 6 Oct.: ‘The numerical computation of 4.30 pm on 4 November in Lecture Theatre violent liquid motion’ 2, Mathematical Institute, St Giles’. Dr Celine Boehm, Durham Subject: ‘Hydrodynamic quantum 10 Nov.: ‘Can we solve the dark matter Dr Peter Richtárik, Edinburgh analogues’ problem if no new physics is discovered 13 Oct.: ‘Efficiency of serial and parallel at LHC?’ block-coordinate descent methods for Department of Physics minimising composite functions’ Professor Luigi Del Debbio, Edinburgh Special lecture 17 Nov.: ‘Discovering technicolor’ Professor Hans Munthe-Kaas, Bergen Dr John Grunsfeld, former Astronaut and 20 Oct.: ‘Multivariate Chebyshev Professor Kari Enqvist, Helsinki Deputy Director of the Space Telescope polynomials; theory and applications’ 24 Nov.: ‘Fluctuations along Science Institute, Baltimore, will deliver supersymmetric flat directions during Professor Jörg Liesen, TU Berlin a special lecture at 5 pm on 30 November inflation’ 27 Oct.: ‘Writing the matrix adjoint as a in the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, rational function in the matrix can be Clarendon Laboratory. This lecture will be Dr Mrinal Dasgupta, Manchester interesting’ ticketed. See: www.physics.ox.ac.uk/astro/ 1 Dec.: ‘Recent progress in QCD calculations Astro_Events/index.htm. for e+e- annihilation and hadron collisions’ Dr Bora Ucar, ENS Lyon Subject: ‘A Hubble story’ 3 Nov. (at RAL): ‘On hypergraph Department of Plant Sciences partitioning based ordering methods for Oxford Physics colloquia The following seminars will be given at 4 pm sparse matrix factorisation’ The following lectures will be given at on Thursdays in the Large Lecture Theatre, Dr Shahrokh Shahpar, Rolls-Royce 4.15 pm on Fridays in the Martin Wood Department of Plant Sciences. Convener: 10 Nov.: ‘SOPHY: an automated, Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory. Professor N Harberd. aerothermal design and optimisation Tea in the Common Room at 3.45 pm. Professor Peter Cook system for aero-engine components’ Conveners: J March-Russell, R Davies and 13 Oct.: ‘A model for all genomes: the role P Radaelli. Professor Nancy Nichols, Reading of RNA polymerases immobilised in 17 Nov. (at RAL): To be confirmed Professor David R Nelson specialised factories’ 21 Oct.: ‘Crystallography on curved Professor Ping Lin, Dundee Dr Silke Robatzek, Sainsbury Laboratory surfaces’ 24 Nov.: ‘Energy-law preserving 20 Oct.: ‘Plants communicating with continuous finite element methods for Professor Joanna Haigh pathogens: membranes in motion and simulation of liquid crystal and multi- 28 Oct.: ‘Solar variability and climate’ cellular responses’ phase flows’ Dennis Sciama lecture Dr Antoine Kremer, Bordeaux Professor Juan Restrepo, Arizona Professor Martin Rees 27 Oct.: ‘Evolutionary responses of 1 Dec.: ‘Climate, assimilation of data and 11 Nov.: ‘Real and counterfactual universes’ European oaks to climate change’ models – when data fail us’ 30 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4963 • 5 October 2011

Professor Gero Steinberg, Exeter Subject: ‘Recent lessons from Listeria Dr John Stingl, CRI, Cambridge 10 Nov.: ‘Motor cooperation in secretion: monocytogenes, a magnificent model in 14 Dec.: ‘Mammary stem and progenitor lessons from a plant pathogen’ infection biology’ cells: understanding the cellular context of breast cancer’ Professor Richard Cogdell, Glasgow Nuffield Department of Clinical 17 Nov.: ‘How purple photosynthetic Medicine Distinguished speaker seminar bacteria harvest solar energy’ Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Professor Chris Marshall, ICR London, will Mary Snow Lecture Endocrinology and Metabolism give a distinguished speaker seminar at 2 pm Professor Deborah Charlesworth, on 18 November at the Richard Doll Building The following seminars will be given at Edinburgh Lecture Theatre. 1 pm on Wednesdays in the Robert Turner 24 Nov.: ‘From butterfly wings to plant sex Lecture Theatre, OCDEM Building, Churchill Cell polarity in health and disease workshop chromosomes: ideas about recombination Hospital. Convener: Professor Stephen and why it is sometimes suppressed’ The Cell polarity in health and disease Gough. workshop will be held on 28 and 29 Dr Jenny McElwain, Dublin Professor Mehul Dattani, UCL November at Lady Margaret Hall. For further 1 Dec.: ‘Impacts of global warming on plant 12 Oct.: ‘Congenital hypopituitarism: the details and to register: www.ludwig.ox.ac. biodiversity and ecosystem function: a plot thickens’ uk. Registration deadline is 31 October. 200 million year old case study from East Greenland’ Dr Mirko Trajkovski, Institute of Molecular Department of Clinical Neurosciences Systembiology, Zurich Department of Zoology Michael Davys Lecture 19 Oct.: ‘MicroRNAs in obesity-induced The following lectures will be given at insulin resistance’ Professor Kenneth Kendler, Professor 4 pm on Mondays in Lecture Theatre and Eminent Scholar in Psychiatry, School Professor Mark Hanson, Southampton B, Department of Zoology. Conveners: of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth, 26 Oct.: ‘Epigenomic influences on Professor K R Foster and Professor A Rogers. will deliver the Michael Davys Lecture in diabetes and obesity’ Neuroscience at 5.30 pm on 28 October in Jenkinson seminar Professor Edward Brown, Brigham and the Goss Lecture Theatre, Medical Sciences Dr Peter Olson, Natural History Museum, Women’s Hospital, USA Teaching Centre, South Parks Road. London 2 Nov.: ‘The calcium-sensing receptor: Convener: Professor Jonathan Flint. 10 Oct.: ‘Development of Hymenolepis guardian of normal calcium homeostasis Subject: ‘The genetic epidemiology of microstoma as a parasitic model in and active participant in disordered psychiatric and substance use disorders: comparative evolutionary biology’ mineral metabolism’ an overview’ Dr Mike Cant, Exeter Professor Frans Schuit, Katholieke Grand Rounds 17 Oct.: ‘Fighting over the kids: University, Leuven reproductive conflict in cooperative The following seminars will be given at 9 Nov.: ‘mRNA expression analysis as basis breeders’ 11.30 am on Fridays in Lecture Theatre 1, for metabolic research in the mouse’ Academic Block, John Radcliffe Hospital. Dr Tommaso Pizzari Professor Thomas Solomon, Centre of 7 Nov.: ‘The evolutionary ecology of Professor Paul Matthews, GSK Clinical Inflammation and Metabolism, Denmark polyandry’ Imaging Centre and Imperial College, 16 Nov.: ‘Glucotoxicity, exercise and type 2 London Professor Chris Thompson, Manchester diabetes’ 14 Oct.: 'Casting light on the dark side: new 14 Nov.: ‘A simple developmental Professor Inês Barroso, Wellcome Trust opportunities with a changing pharma mechanism underlying complex social Sanger Institute, Cambridge model' behaviour’ 23 Nov.: ‘Genetic approaches to metabolic Dr Roger Barker, Cambridge Centre for Brain Dr Rebecca Kilner, Cambridge disease – extreme phenotypes and Repair 21 Nov.: ‘Co-evolution within the family’ common disease’ 18 Nov.: 'The future of cell therapies for Professor Nina Wedell, Exeter 30 Nov.: To be confirmed Parkinson's disease' 28 Nov.: ‘Polyandry and sex ratio drive’ Ludwig Institute for Cancer Professor Patrick Chinnery, Mitochondrial Research Research Group, Newcastle upon Tyne Medical Sciences 9 Dec.: 'More from the magic circle: Signalling Pathways and Genetics of Cancer mitochondrial DNA and complex disease' Department of Biochemistry seminar series Sir William Dunn School of Pathology Joel Mandelstam Lecture The following seminars will be given at 11 am in the Ludwig Institute seminar room, Departmental research seminars Professor Pascale Cossart, Head, Unite ORCRB, Old Road Campus, Headington. des Interactions Bacteries–Cellules, and The following seminars will be given at Director, INSERM Unit, U604, and INRA Professor Vinay Tergaonkar, IMCB, 4 pm on Thursdays in the Lecture Theatre, Unit, USC2020, Pasteur Institute, will Singapore Medical Sciences Teaching Centre. deliver the Joel Mandelstam Lecture at 4 pm 24 Oct.: To be confirmed Professor Mark Pallen, Centre for Systems on 30 November in the Medical Sciences Professor Andrew Turberfield Biology, Birmingham Teaching Centre Lecture Theatre. Entry by 9 Nov.: ‘Molecular machinery from DNA’ 13 Oct.: ‘High-throughput sequencing ticket only, available from: head@bioch. in microbiology: opportunities and ox.ac.uk. challenges’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4963 • 5 October 2011 31

Norman Heatley lecture Department of Primary Health Care Michael Herzfeld, Harvard Dr Alexander Rudensky, Tri-Institutional 2 Dec.: ‘Negotiating space, buying time: Conference Professor at MSKCC, Rockefeller and Cornell, the performance of housing politics in a Memorial Sloan-Ketting Cancer Centre The Monitoring and Diagnosis Oxford Bangkok community under siege’ 27 Oct.: ‘Control of immune homeostasis conference will be held on 11 November at St Institute of Social and Cultural by regulatory T cells’ Anne’s. All welcome. Details: www.madox. Anthropology: Ethnographic film org or [email protected]. Professor Susan Lea screenings: the classics and beyond Subject: ‘Evaluating the evidence for 3 Nov.: ‘Structural thoughts about diagnostic tests. How can we improve The following screenings will be held at pathogens and their hosts’ bench to bedside process?’ 4 pm on Tuesdays in the Lecture Room, Professor Richard E Randall, St Andrews 64 Banbury Road. Convener: Professor M Department of Psychiatry 17 Nov.: ‘Comparisons between how Banks. influenza and paramyxoviruses interact Graham Dunn, Professor of Biomedical 11 Oct.: Kusum (North India). (2000, 69 with the interferon system’ Statistics, Manchester, will deliver the mins.) Director: Jouko Aaltonen Tuesday Evening Guest Lecture at 5 pm Dr David Artis, Pennsylvania on 8 November, in the Seminar Room, 18 Oct.: Nanook of the North (Canadian 24 Nov.: ‘Mechanisms of immune Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Arctic). (1922, 55 mins.) Director: Robert regulation at barrier surfaces’ Hospital. Flaherty Dr Larry Samelson, National Institutes of Subject: 'Efficacy and mechanisms 25 Oct.: Chronique d’un Été (France). (1961, Health, USA evaluation (EME): investigating mediation 87 mins.) Director: Jean Rouch 8 Dec.: ‘Signalling at the T cell antigen in RCTs of psychological interventions' receptor’ 1 Nov.: To Live with Herds (Uganda). (1972, Social Sciences 70 mins.) Directors: David and Judith Department of Physiology, Anatomy MacDougall and Genetics School of Anthropology and Museum 8 Nov.: Trobriand Cricket (New Guinea). The following seminars will be given at Ethnography (1973, 50 mins.) Directors: Gary Kildea and 1 pm on Fridays in the Library, Sherrington The following seminars will be given at Jerry Leach Building, Department of Physiology, 3.30 pm on Fridays in the Lecture Room, Anatomy and Genetics. Convener: Dr 15 Nov.: A Balinese Trance Séance 64 Banbury Road. Conveners: Dr R Parkin Deborah Goberdhan. (Indonesia) and Jero on Jero: A Balinese and Dr M Talib. Trance Séance Observed (Indonesia). (1980, Dr Guillermina Lopez-Bendito, Thomas Kirsch, Konstanz 30 mins. and 16 mins.) Directors: Timothy Universidad Miguel Hernandez 14 Oct.: ‘Spirit in motion: notes on the Asch, Linda Connor and Patsy Asch 14 Oct.: To be confirmed morphology and mobility of the holy spirit 22 Nov.: Forest of Bliss (North India). (1985, Dr Richard Wade-Martins in Africa’ 80 mins.) Director: Robert Gardner 28 Oct.: ‘Molecular insights into the Katy Gardner, Sussex mechanisms of neurodegenerative 29 Nov.: Letter to the Dead (New Guinea). 21 Oct.: ‘The oil company, “partnership” disease’ (2002, 62 mins.) Directors: Andre Iteanu and the moralities of giving and receiving: and Eytan Kapon Dr Buzz Baum, UCL (Jenkinson Seminar) corporate community engagement comes 4 Nov.: To be confirmed to Bangladesh’ Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology Professor Shoumo Bhattachyra, Professor Helene Basu, Münster Seminar Peter Ratcliffe and Dr Daniel Ebner 28 Oct.: ‘Ritual law courts: possession, 11 Nov.: ‘Target Discovery Institute: a mental disorder and the state in The following seminars will be given at program combining high content cellular contemporary India’ 4 pm on mostly alternate Wednesdays phenotyping with genetic and chemical in the Lecture Room, 64 Banbury Road. Judith Okely screens for target and pathway discovery’ Conveners: Professor R Dunbar, K Opie and 4 Nov.: ‘Discovering anthropological E Pearce. Dr John Mitcheson, Leicester practice through fieldwork’ 18 Nov.: ‘Molecular mechanisms Julia Lee-Thorp Marion Demossier, Bath underlying the hERG potassium channel 12 Oct.: ‘It’s not what we thought: new 11 Nov.: 'Beyond terroir: territorial gating and pharmacology’ isotope data provide fresh perspectives on construction, hegemonic discourses and early hominin diets’ Professor Scott Waddell French wine culture' 25 Nov.: ‘Neural control of learned Rogier Mars Holger Jebens, Frobenius Institute, Johann behaviour in the fly brain’ 26 Oct.: ‘Comparative primate functional Goethe University, Frankfurt neuroanatomy using magnetic resonance Professor Alex Verkhratzky, Manchester 18 Nov.: ‘Beyond globalisation and imaging’ 2 Dec.: ‘Physiology and pathophysiology of localisation: pluralism in a Papua New neuroglia’ Guinea village’ Anna Nekaris, Oxford Brookes 2 Nov.: ‘Venom, pollinators and parasites: Claudia Liebelt, Bayreuth how the poisonous slow loris may reveal 25 Nov.: To be confirmed the origins of social grooming amongst primates’ Sallie Burrough 23 Nov.: To be confirmed 32 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4963 • 5 October 2011

Unit for Biocultural Variation and Anika Liversage and Mikkel Rytter, Yousang Baik, Kyunghee Obesity Seminar National Centre for Social Research, 9 Nov.: ‘Qi and li in Neoconfucianism and Denmark and Aarhus Korean traditional medicine’ The following seminars will be given at 21 Nov.: ‘ “A cousin marriage is a forced 1 pm on Thursdays in the Lecture Room, Volker Scheid, Westminster marriage!” Rules, discourses and strategies 61 Banbury Road. Convener: Professor S 23 Nov.: ‘Qi in the genre of Chinese of immigrant cousin marriages in Ulijaszek. formularies (fangjixue)’ Denmark’ Igho Onakpoya Pitt Rivers Museum research Aviad Raz, Ben-Gurion 3 Nov.: ‘Herbal supplements for body seminar in material and visual 28 Nov.: ‘Dor Yesharim and the weight reduction: a critical review’ anthropology reinforcement of stigma: selective Rosie Kay, Rosie Kay Dance Company incorporation of premarital carrier testing The following seminars will be given at 1 pm 10 Nov.: ‘ “5 SOLDIERS – the body is the into traditional matchmaking processes on Fridays in the Lecture Theatre, Pitt Rivers frontline”: embodying soldiers’ physicality among ultra-orthodox Jews in Israel’ Museum. Conveners: A Knight, T Morisawa through research and training and how and Dr A Stevenson. Ethnicity and identity seminar: this approach affected the final production Relatedness through the house Pitt Rivers Museum Staff and audience experience’ 14 Oct.: ‘Current research in the Pitt Rivers The following seminars will be given at Annamaria Carusi Museum’ 11 am on Fridays in the Lecture Room, 17 Nov.: ‘Modelling, simulation and 61 Banbury Road. Conveners: Dr I Daniels Soumhya Venkatesan, Manchester visualisation in computational science: and Professor E Hsu. 21 Oct.: ‘Art, agency and intentionality in perspectives on embodiment’ the production of woven mats in craft Charlotte Bruckermann Jed Hallam, VCCP (Advertising/branding communities in South India’ 14 Oct.: ‘Bringing the house to life in rural agency) north China’ Fiona P McDonald, UCL 24 Nov.: To be confirmed 28 Oct.: ‘Woollen blankets: an ethnography Anna Hoare Fertility and reproduction studies of contemporary art, craft and design in 21 Oct.: ‘The site, the common, the house group seminar: Cousin marriages Aotearoa/New Zealand and Pacific North and the body: re-reading Bourdieu’s and the medicalisation of spouse West of North America’ “habitus” and “field” from theT raveller selection site’ 4 Nov.: To be confirmed The following seminars will be given at Tom McDonald, UCL Udi Butler, Bristol 11 am on Mondays in the Lecture Room, 28 Oct.: ‘From the soil: relations between 11 Nov.: ‘The role of the visual in public 61 Banbury Road. Conveners: Dr A Shaw, floors and persons in theC hinese home’ anthropology’ Professor A Raz and Dr P Kreager. Elisabeth Hsu Chiara de Cesari, Cambridge Saskia Walentowitz, Berne 4 Nov.: ‘The Shuhi house: historically 18 Nov.: ‘Memory voids and the 10 Oct.: ‘ “We are like gold: without alloys, grown, different cultural layers of transnational heritage of Europe’ we won’t stand upright”: siblingship, close- relatedness in Southwest China’ kin marriage and the autopoïetic dynamics Stephanie Moser, Southampton of Tuareg kinship’ 11 Nov.: To be confirmed 25 Nov.: ‘Designing antiquity: ancient Egypt at the Crystal Palace, 1854’ Dawn Chatty and Nisrine Mansour Margherita Margiotti, Bristol 17 Oct.: ‘ “They aren’t all first cousins”: 18 Nov.: ‘Bodies, relatedness and density: a Kala Shreen, Madras Bedouin marriage in Lebanon’ view from the Kuna house’ 2 Dec.: ‘Tracing the trajectory of artefacts and crafts of Tamilnadu’ Alison Shaw Inge Daniels 24 Oct.: ‘Why does British Pakistani cousin 25 Nov.: ‘The ‘untidy’ house – tensions and Workshops marriage persist despite an established blockages inside contemporary Japanese The Institute of Social and Cultural discourse of genetic risk?’ homes’ Anthropology and Department of Education Claire Beaudevin, Paris Descartes Erik de Maaker, Leiden will hold a workshop from 8.30 am to 31 Oct.: ‘Composite proximity, genetic 2 Dec.: ‘Houses, land and legitimacy in 2 pm on 19 November at 64 Banbury Road. burden and social value: cousin marriage northeast China’ Fee (including lunch) £12. Register by and inherited blood disorders in the 1 November at: [email protected]. ARGO-EMR anthropology research Sultanate of Oman’ Subject: ‘Teaching in the field: investigating group: Eastern Medicines and the ethics of education in ethnographic Laila Prager, Münster Religions: Polysemic Qi research’ 7 Nov.: ‘From shared “blood” to “religious The following seminars will be given at genes”: modern bio-medical discourses The Unit for Biocultural Variation and 5 pm on alternate Wednesdays in the and changing practices of cousin marriage Obesity will hold a workshop from Pauling Centre, 58A Banbury Road. in southeastern Turkey’ 9.30 am to 5.30 pm on 9 November at St Convener: Professor E Hsu. Anne’s. To register: http://tinyurl.com/ Edien Bartels, Oka Storms, Marieke Hans-George Moeller, Cork UBVOworkshopNOV11. Teeuw, Pascal Borry and Leo ten Kate, Vrije 12 Oct.: ‘Qi in pre-Qin China’ Subject: ‘Obesity, eating disorders and the University/VU University Medical Center, media’ Amsterdam Elisabeth Hsu 14 Nov.: ‘Genetic risk and its influence on 26 Oct.: ‘Qi in early Chinese pulse partner choice: the views of Turks and diagnostics’ Moroccans in the Netherlands’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4963 • 5 October 2011 33

Saïd Business School Department of Economics Professor Richard Noss, London Knowledge Lab, UCL Clarendon Lectures in finance – Economic and Social History 7 Nov.: ‘Changing the subject: some Dynamic financial contracting research seminar fundamental roles for technology in Peter M DeMarzo, Mizuho Financial Group The following seminars will be given at learning’ (Convener: Professor Terezinha Professor of Finance, Stanford Graduate 5 pm on Tuesdays in the Wharton Room, All Nunes.) School of Business, will deliver the following Souls. Conveners: Professor J Humphries, Professor Roger Brown, Liverpool Hope lectures at 5.30 pm in Lecture Theatre 5, Professor K O’Rourke and Dr D Oxley. 14 Nov.: ‘Markets rule, ok? The coalition Saïd Business School. The first lecture Professor Alex Field, Santa Clara government’s reform programme in will be followed by a drinks reception. All 11 Oct.: ‘A great leap forward: 1930s context’ (Convener: Dr Hubert Ertl.) lectures free and open to the public. More depression and US economic growth’ information: [email protected]. Professor Harvey Goldstein, Centre for 26 Oct.: ‘Compensation and investment Dr Jane Gray, NUI Multilevel Modelling, Bristol dynamics in discrete-time models’ 18 Oct.: ‘The circulation of children in early- 21 Nov.: ‘Francis Galton, measurement, twentieth-century Ireland’ psychometrics and social progress’ 27 Oct.: ‘Continuous-time contracting, (Convener: Professor Pam Sammons.) optimal capital structure, and the Q-theory Professor Mark Casson, Reading of investment’ 25 Oct.: ‘Population growth in nineteenth- Dr David Mills, Dr Nick Hopwood and century Oxfordshire: modelling the role of Professor Lynn McAlpine 28 Oct.: ‘Learning and risk-taking in local markets’ 28 Nov.: ‘The future of doctoral education?’ optimal contracts’ (Convener: Professor Ingrid Lunt.) Dr Sibylle Lehmann, Cologne Global Peace Index lecture 1 Nov.: ‘Taking firms to the stock market: Oxford University Centre for Steve Killelea, Chairman and Founder, IPOs and the importance of universal Educational Assessment seminar Integrated Research Ltd, will lecture at banks in imperial Germany 1896–1913’ series on the public understanding 5.15 pm on 18 October in Seminar Room A, Professor Simon Szreter, Cambridge of assessment Saïd Business School. 8 Nov.: ‘The Royal Commission on Subject: ‘Global Peace Index: economics The following seminars will be given at Venereal Disease 1913–16: a reappraisal of and business development as drivers of 5 pm on Wednesdays in Seminar Room its evidence on the prevalence of VD’ peace’ A, Department of Education. Convener: Dr Tim Leunig, LSE Professor Jo-Anne Baird. Novak Druce seminar on 15 Nov.: ‘Spinning welfare, driving professional service firms Anastasia de Waal, Professor Roger progress: why process innovations are as Murphy and Warwick Mansell Dr Claudia Jonczyk, ESCP Europe, will important as new products’ 16 Nov.: ‘Public and media perceptions of lecture at 2.30 pm on 7 November in Dr Nick Snowdon, Lancaster assessment’ Seminar Room 13, Saïd Business School. 22 Nov.: ‘The Great Crash: early diagnoses Subject.: ‘Networking in professional Baroness Onora O’Neill and Dr Suzanne in the light of the Lehman collapse’ service firms’ Chamberlain Professor Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck 18 Jan.: ‘Perceptions of the dependability IBM Centennial Lecture 29 Nov.: ‘Rhetorics of pain: historical of assessment’ Linda Sanford, Senior Vice President, reflections 1760 to the present’ Lord Paul Bew and John Bangs, DfE Enterprise Transformation, IBM, will deliver Department of Education representative (tbc) the IBM Senior Executive Centennial 7 Mar.: ‘Policy-related perceptions of Lecture at 6.30 pm on 4 November at the Public seminar programme assessment’ Saïd Business School. To register: http:// The following seminars will be given at sbsibmcentenniallecture.eventbrite.com. Dr Paul Newton, Sir Michael Barber and 5 pm on Mondays in Seminar Room A, Subject: ‘Reinventing the modern Professor Val Klenowski Department of Education, 15 Norham corporation’ 25 Apr.: ‘Perceptions of the purposes of Gardens. assessment’ Exeter at Saïd seminar Professor Jo-Anne Baird Philosophy of Education Dr Ralf Speth, CEO, Jaguar Land Rover, will 17 Oct.: ‘Fast policy with PISA: will our Society of Great Britain (Oxford deliver a seminar at 5.30 pm on 3 November children get their slice of the knowledge Branch) Seminars, hosted by the at the Saïd Business School, followed economy?’ (Convener: Professor Anne Department of Education by a drinks reception. To register: http:// Edwards.) sbsspeth.eventbrite.com. The following seminars will be given at Professor Madeleine Grumet, North Subject: To be confirmed 5 pm in Seminar Room D, 15 Norham Carolina at Chapel Hill Gardens. Conveners: Dr Alis Oancea, Dr Distinguished Speaker seminar 24 Oct.: ‘Already at work in the world: Lorraine Foreman-Peck and Janet Orchard, fictions of experience in the education of Dick Olver, Chairman, BAE, will deliver a Bristol. teachers’ (Convener: Dr Viv Ellis.) Distinguished Speaker Seminar at 6 pm on Dr Lorraine Foreman-Peck 10 November at the Saïd Business School, Dr Frances Gardner 25 Oct.: ‘The education of teachers: taking followed by a drinks reception. To register: 31 Oct.: ‘Parenting interventions: effective the long view’ http://sbsolver.eventbrite.com. for preventing problem behaviour and Subject: To be confirmed improving child wellbeing?’ (Convener: Dr Colin Wringe, Keele Professor Kathy Sylva.) 1 Nov.: ‘Learning to teach and becoming a teacher: techne and phronesis’ 34 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4963 • 5 October 2011

School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies Department of International Elena Fiddian Qasmiyeh and Nando Development Sigona AFRICAN STUDIES CENTRE 12 Oct.: ‘Stateless diasporas and Contemporary South Asia seminar The following seminars will be given at 5 pm immigration and citizenship regimes in in the Fellows Dining Room, St Antony’s, The following seminars will be given at the EU’ unless otherwise specified. Enquiries: 2 pm, Seminar Room 2, Queen Elizabeth Laura van Waas, Tilburg Law School, the [email protected]: House, 3 MansfieldR oad. Conveners: Dr Netherlands Professor William Beinart. Clarinda Still and Dr Kate Sullivan. 19 Oct.: ‘International law and statelessness Dr Julie Archambault Dr Geert De Neve and Dr Grace Carswell, in the twenty-first century’ 13 Oct.: ‘Cruising through uncertainty: Sussex Alexandra McDowall, UNHCR mobile phone practices and the politics of 13 Oct.: ‘The changing face of caste politics 26 Oct.: ‘Statelessness and UNHCR’ respect in Southern Mozambique’ in Western Tamil Nadu’ Nick van Hear Dr Miles Tendi Anup Surendranath 2 Nov.: ‘Stateless or over-stated? The Tamil 20 Oct.: ‘ “The party commands the gun”: 20 Oct.: ‘Normative considerations and diaspora since the end of the war in Sri Robert Mugabe's relationship with the judicial confusion: constituent assembly Lanka’ Zimbabwe military’ debates and the Indian Supreme Court on reservations’ Janroj Keles, London Metropolitan Various 9 Nov.: ‘The re-invention of the 27 Oct. (St John’s): College Colloquium on Dr Mangesh Kulkarni, Pune Kurdishness through the transnational Environmental Conflict and itsR esolution 27 Oct.: ‘Politics of mobilised masculinities Kurdish media’ (joint event with Oxpeace and Human in contemporary India’ Sciences) Bridget Wooding, Observatorio Migrantes Dr Mallika Shakya Dr Karen Witsenburg, ENDS and Max del Caribe, Santo Domingo 3 Nov.: ‘Marwari traders between Hindu Plank Institute for Anthropology 23 Nov.: ‘Caribbean diasporas and neoliberalism and democratic socialism 'Ethnic violence, water scarcity and statelessness’ in Nepal’ managing resources to promote peace' Jelka Zorn, Ljubljana Harry Verhoeven Dr Subhir Sinha, SOAS 30 Nov.: ‘The resistance of the erased: “You ‘Climate change and conflict in Sudan: 10 Nov.: ‘The new debate on primitive cannot fight the system alone” ’ what if development is not the answer to accumulation and development in India: save Darfur?’ outline of an intervention’ Israel: historical, political and Dr Andrew Loveridge social aspects Professor Judith Heyer 'The ecology of conflict: human-wildlife 17 Nov.: ‘Social policy and labour standards: The following lectures will be given at conflict on the Hwange National Park a South Indian case study’ 8 pm in the Oakeshott Room, Lincoln, and boundary, Zimbabwe' are open to the public. Convener: Peter Professor Anatole Lieven, KCL Phillan Zamchiya Oppenheimer. 24 Nov.: ‘The relationship between the 3 Nov.: ‘Zimbabwe's fast track land reform: Pakistani military, society and the state’ Professor Michael Birnhack, Tel Aviv politics, production and accumulation’ 27 Oct.: ‘Technological challenges to the Professor Sonia Bhalotra, Bristol Dr Karen Brown and Professor William right to privacy: the Israel case’ 1 Dec.: ‘Health and the political agency of Beinart women in India’ Dr Emanuele Ottolenghi, Foundation for 10 Nov.: ‘African local knowledge: natural, Defence of Democracies biomedical and supernatural ideas about Refugee Studies Centre 3 Nov.: ‘Iranian nuclear ambitions: where livestock health’ Annual Harrell-Bond lecture are we now?’ Dr Chris Low Mr Filippo Grandi, United Nations Relief Professor Michael Yudkin 10 Nov.: ‘Potency and the role of the and Works Agency, will lecture at 5 pm on 17 Nov.: ‘The ethics of academic boycotts’ environment in KhoeSan medicine’ 16 November in the Examination Schools. Professor Raphael Cohen-Almagor, Hull Dr Jonny Steinberg The lecture will be followed by a drinks 24 Nov.: ‘A shattered dream: what is left 17 Nov.: 'The role of ideas in the politics of reception. RSVP to Heidi El-Megrisi or Erol from the Oslo breakthrough?’ H F Verwoerd' Canpunar at 01865 281729 or rsc-outreach@ qeh.ox.ac.uk. Faculty of Law Andrew Feinstein Subject: 'Waiting for solutions in uncertain 24 Nov.: 'The Killing Fields: the impact of Centre for Socio-Legal Studies times: Palestine refugees in the Middle the global arms trade on Africa' (followed seminar series East context' by book launch) The following seminars will be given at Public Seminar Series Dr Laura Hammond, SOAS 4.30 pm on Mondays in Seminar Room 30 Nov.: 'How famine in Somalia was The following seminars will be given at D, Manor Road Building, Manor Road. allowed to happen' 4 pm on Wednesdays in Seminar Room 1, Convenor: Professor Denis Galligan. Queen Elizabeth House, Department of Dr Chris Morton and Professor Darren Dr David Erdos International Development, 3 Mansfield Newbury, Birmingham City 10 Oct.: Symposium: ‘Delegating rights Road. Convenors: Elena Fiddian Qasmiyeh 7 Dec. (Pitt Rivers Museum): 'Workshop on protection’ and Nando Sigonad in association with the African photographies' Oxford Diasporas Programme. University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4963 • 5 October 2011 35

Dr Marina Kurkchiyan Various Centre for Socio-Legal Studies/ 17 Oct.: ‘Civil courts in Ukraine: window 14 Nov. (European Studies Centre): Foundation for Law, Justice and into society’ Book Launch: ‘From peace to shared Society political identities: exploring pathways in Dr Maris Kopcke Tinture Panel discussion contemporary Bosnia-Herzegovina’ 24 Oct.: ‘What is law’s function?’ A panel discussion, in cooperation with the Dr Francesca Lessa and Christopher Hall, Professor Christopher Hodges British Safety Council, will take place at Amnesty International 31 Oct.: ‘Bounty hunters again? CFAs, 5.30 pm on 12 October in the Haldane Room, 22 Nov. (Seminar Room D): ‘Uruguay: contingency fees, and third party funders Wolfson. Speakers: Professor Denis Galligan; struggles against impunity and barriers to in civil litigation’ Professor Ragnar Lofstedt, KCL; Judith justice for crimes under international law’ Hackitt, Health and Safety Executive; Mark Dr Erica Charters Dr Gabrielle Lynch, Leeds Tyler, Shook, Hardy and Bacon; and Lynda 7 Nov.: ‘Laws of war in practice: the 29 Nov. (Seminar Room D): ‘The search Armstrong, British Safety Council. RSVP: evolution of prisoners of war in the for truth and justice: the experience of [email protected] (limited eighteenth century’ Kenya’s truth, justice and reconciliation spaces available). Dr Vuk Radmilovic commission’ Subject: ‘Risk versus hazard: hypocrisy in 14 Nov.: To be confirmed policy’ Conference Dr Iginio Gagliardone Department of Politics and Professor Christopher Hodges will organise 21 Nov.: ‘The politics of technology in International Relations a conference from 9 am to 5 pm on contemporary Ethiopia’ 28 October at the Ship Street Centre, Jesus. The Changing Character of War Dr Lisa Ford, New South Wales To register: [email protected]. Programme and the Centre for 28 Nov.: ‘The King’s colonial peace: Subject: ‘The hidden world of consumer International Studies seminar magisterial jurisdiction and the ADR: redress and behaviour’ series: Post-9/11 interventions: transformation of the British Empire after lessons learned Oxford Intellectual Property 1800’ Research Centre The following seminars will be given at Oxford Transitional Justice 5.15 pm on Tuesdays in Seminar Room A, Invited Speaker seminar series Research Seminar Series Department of Politics and International The following seminars will be given at Relations. Convener: Emma Sky. The following seminars will be given at 5 pm 5.15 pm on Thursdays in the Dorfman Room, on Tuesdays in Seminar Room D and the Emma Sky, former political adviser to US St Peter’s. Convener: Professor G Dinwoodie Lecture Theatre, Manor Road Building, and military and Dr R Pitkethly. the European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock 11 Oct.: Introduction Road. Convenor: Nicola Palmer. Professor Stacey Dogan, Boston Jason Burke, Guardian and Observer 20 Oct.: ‘Functionality’ Dr Hannah Tonkin, UN International correspondent, author Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Dr Mireille van Eechoud, Amsterdam 18 Oct.: 'Al-Qaeda' 10 Oct. (Lecture Theatre, 1 pm): Book 27 Oct.: ‘Pivotal concepts long overlooked? Lt General Sir Graeme Lamb Launch: ‘State control over private military The work and authorship in EU copyright 25 Oct.: 'Talking with terrorists' and security companies in armed conflict’ law’ Lindy Cameron, former head of office in Courtenay Griffiths, Queen’s Counsel George Chondrakis Iraq and Afghanistan 11 Oct. (Lecture Theatre): ‘The politics of 3 Nov.: ‘How idiosyncratic is patent 1 Nov.: 'Fragile states – can we fix them?' international criminal law’ value? Exploring the importance of firm characteristics in patent valuation’ Lt General Sir Paul Newton, Commander Various Force Development and Training 18 Oct. (Seminar Room D): OTJR Professor Aurora Plomer, Sheffield 8 Nov.: 'The utility of force' information and drinks evening 10 Nov.: ‘EU accession to the ECHR: implications for European patent law’ Chief Constable Richard Thompson Various 15 Nov.: 'Intelligence and the global war on 25 Oct. (Lecture Theatre, 2.30–7.30 pm; Dr Jennifer Davis, Cambridge, and terror' registration required): Symposium: ‘The Professor Alan Durant, Middlesex 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran: 17 Nov.: ‘To protect or not to protect? The Ambassador Murat Ozcelik, Turkish a quest for justice’ eligibility of commercially used short Ambassador to Iraq verbal texts for copyright and trade mark 22 Nov.: 'Iraq and Iran – a Turkish Professor Thongchai Winichakul, protection’ perspective' Wisconsin-Madison 1 Nov. (Seminar Room D): ‘The virtuous Dr Greg Taylor Ambassador Sir John Jenkins, Her silence? Buddhism and the unforgetting of 24 Nov.: ‘The informativeness of online Majesty’s Ambassador to Libya, and former the 1976 massacre in Bangkok’ advertising’ Ambassador to Iraq 29 Nov.: 'Do Arab revolutions demand Dr Stef Vandeginste, Antwerp international intervention?' 8 Nov. (Seminar Room D): ‘Effectiveness of the international prohibition on amnesty for serious human right crimes: the case of Burundi’ 36 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4963 • 5 October 2011

Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law Sabina Alkire and Armed Conflict (ELAC) and and Armed Conflict (ELAC) topical 17 Oct.: ‘Multidimensional Poverty Index the Oxford Programme on the seminar 2011: new country results, changes over Changing Character of War (CCW) time and sub-national decompositions’ Professor Jennifer Welsh, Dr David Rodin lunchtime seminars and Dapo Akande will present a special Jose Manuel Roche The following seminars will be given at lunchtime panel seminar at 5 pm on 10 24 Oct.: ‘Beyond headcount: measures that 1 pm on Tuesdays in Seminar Room October in seminar room G, Manor Road reflect the breadth and components of G, Manor Road Building. Free and no Building. All welcome. No registration child poverty’ registration required. Light sandwich lunch required. Details: www.elac.ox.ac.uk, Suman Seth served. Details: www.elac.ox.ac.uk, [email protected] or 01865 31 Oct.: ‘Identifying Below Poverty Line [email protected] or 01865 285986. (BPL) households in India: a comparison of 285986. Conveners: Professor Jennifer Subject: ‘Ethics, law and armed conflict: the methods’ Welsh, Dr David Rodin, Dapo Akande and legacy of 9/11’ Professor Hew Strachan. Gaston Yalonetzky, Leeds University Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law Business School Joshua E S Phillips, journalist and Armed Conflict (ELAC) film 7 Nov.: ‘Conditions for the most robust 11 Oct.: ‘None of us were like this before: screening and discussion poverty comparisons using counting American soldiers and torture’ Mrs Fatou Bensouda, Deputy Prosecutor measures’ Commodore Steve Jermy, Royal Navy of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Markus Haacker, Academic Visitor, Centre 18 Oct.: ‘Strategy for action: using force and Dapo Akande will lead a discussion for the Study of African Economies wisely in the twenty-first century’ on the work of the ICC to follow a special 14 Nov.: ‘Contribution of increased life screening of the filmThe Prosecutor Professor Chandra Sriram, SOAS expectancy to living standards’ (2010, Barry Stevens) at 5 pm on 17 25 Oct.: ‘The shadow of the ICC: positive November in the Auditorium, Magdalen. Caser Calvo, Director, Economics and complementarity and the situation in All welcome. Details: www.elac.ox.ac.uk, Finance Program, Universidad de Piura Kenya’ [email protected] or 01865 21 Nov.: ‘Vulnerability to individual Peter Wilson, Chief Operating Officer, 285986. poverty and vulnerability to aggregate Coffey International Development Ltd poverty’ Centre for International Studies 1 Nov.: ‘Security sector reform – how does lectures Diego Zavaleta it contribute to development, national 28 Nov.: ‘Social connectedness: a proposal security and democracy?’ Dr Erica Chenoweth, Wesleyan University, for internationally comparable indicators will lecture at 5 pm on 18 October in the Professor Michael Boylan, Marymount on isolation, shame and humiliation’ Department of Politics and International 8 Nov.: ‘Does war have a meaning?’ Relations. Response by Professor Andrew Smith School of Enterprise and the Etienne De Durand, Security Studies Hurrell. Chair: Professor Sir Adam Roberts. Environment Centre, Institut Francais des Relations Subject: ‘Civil resistance: an under- Sustainability seminar series: Internationales (IFRI Paris) investigated phenomenon in international Gorillas in our midst: telling 15 Nov.: ‘Does COIN have a future?’ relations’ business about climate change’s Professor George Lucas, United States Professor John Tirman, MIT, will lecture at unmentionable secrets Naval Academy 5 pm on 15 November in the Department of Seminars will take place at 5 pm at SSEE, 22 Nov.: ‘Permissible preventive cyberwar: Politics and International Relations. Hayes House, George Street. Convener: Dr restricting cyber conflict to justified Subject: ‘The deaths of others: the fate of Mick Blowfield. targets’ civilians in America's wars’ Mark Campanale Professor George Fletcher, Columbia Law International Relations research 12 Oct.: ‘Unburnable carbon: the London School colloquium Stock Exchange and its love-in with the 29 Nov.: ‘The law of war and its Professor Andrew Hurrell and Dr Adam fossil fuel industry’ pathologies’ Humphreys will lecture at 12.30 pm on Nick Robins, HSBC Global Climate Change Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law Thursdays in Seminar Room G, Department Excellence and Armed Conflict (ELAC) and of Politics and International Relations, 25 Oct.: ‘Can financial markets ever be Oxford Transitional Justice Manor Road Building. sustainable?’ research event Subjects: To be confirmed Anne Augustine, Jeremy Bentham and Leo Dr Phil Clark, SOAS, and Dapo Akande Oxford Poverty and Human Johnson will co-host a book launch with author Dr Development Initiative (OPHI) 8 Nov.: ‘Innovators and incumbents: the Hannah Tonkin, UN International Criminal Lunchtime seminar series next wave of growth?’ Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania, at 1 pm on 10 October in the lecture theatre, The following seminars will be given at Mike Peirce, Cambridge Programme for Manor Road Building. All welcome. No 1 pm on Mondays in Seminar Room 3, Queen Sustainability Leadership registration required. Details: www.elac. Elizabeth House. Convener: Dr Suman Seth. 22 Nov.: ‘Making sense of climate change: ox.ac.uk, [email protected] the limits of education’ Speaker to be confirmed or 01865 285986. 10 Oct.: ‘Introduction to OPHI’ Subject: ‘State control over private military and security companies in armed conflict’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4963 • 5 October 2011 37

Smith School seminar Dr Lucie Cluver Bodleian Libraries 29 Nov.: ‘Spies, gangsters and ambassadors’ James W Murray, SSEE Visiting Fellow, will tea parties: Getting HIV research into Lectures to accompany the Treasures talk at 4 pm on 5 October at SSEE, Hayes policy in Southern Africa’ exhibition House, George Street. Subject: ‘Peak oil, peak coal and Department of Sociology/Oxford The following lectures will be given at uncertainties of climate change’ Network for Social Inequality Research 1–1.30 pm in the Convocation House, Old Bodleian Library. Department of Social Policy and Departmental research seminar Intervention Professor Jon Stallworthy The following seminars will be given at 20 Oct.: ‘Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Dead Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture 12.30 on Mondays in Seminar Room G, [Doomed] Youth’ Manor Road Building. All welcome. For Professor Mark Lipsey, Director, Peabody more information see: www.onsir.ox.ac.uk. Dr Emma Smith Research Institute, Vanderbilt, will deliver Convenor: Tak Wing Chan. 27 Oct.: ‘William Shakespeare, First Folio’ the Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture at 5 pm on 9 November in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, Mads Meier Jaeger, Aarhus Dr William Poole St Antony's, to be followed by a reception. To 10 Oct.: ‘A dynamic model of cultural 3 Nov.: ‘Robert Hooke, Micrographia’ attend, contact: [email protected]. reproduction’ Professor Richard Sharpe Subject: ‘Evidence-based interventions in Ted Gerber, Wisconsin 18 Nov.: ‘Magna Carta’ juvenile justice: concept, research, practice 17 Oct.: ‘Ethnic, socioeconomic, linguistic and frontiers’ Lecture and political sources of ideational Centre for Evidence-Based cleavage: history wars in contemporary To celebrate the acquisition of Franz Intervention (CEBI), and Centre for Estonia’ Kafka’s letters to his sisterO ttla, made AIDS Interdisciplinary Research in partnership with the Deutsches Tak Wing Chan (CAIRO) Literaturarchiv in Marbach, the Bodleian 24 Oct.: ‘Social mobility over three Libraries will present at 4 pm on 24 October The following seminars will be given at 5 pm generations in Britain’ in the Sheldonian Theatre: A reading of Act I, on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Violet Luis Miller, University of the Basque Scene I from Alan Bennett’s play Kafka’s Dick Butler Room, Department of Social Policy Country and ‘Kafka's Writings: PrivateC onfessions and Intervention, Barnett House, Wellington 31 Oct.: ‘Individual notions of distributive or Public Property?’, a lecture given by Square (except 25 November which will be justice and relative economic status’ Professor Ritchie Robertson, Taylor held at Wolfson, noon–5 pm). Convenors: Professor of the German Language and Professor Frances Gardner and Dr Lucie Christiane Hellmanzik, Hamburg Literature, followed by a panel discussion Cluver. 7 Nov.: ‘Peer effects, mobility and chaired by Professor Katrin Kohl. innovation: evidence from the superstars Professor Chris Bonell of modern art’ Centre for the Study of the Book: 27 Oct.: ‘Final results of RCT of an Medieval manuscripts masterclasses intervention combining youth Glenn Firebaugh, Pennsylvania State development and mentoring a toddler 14 Nov.: ‘A new method for determining The following classes will be given at to prevent teenage pregnancy in at-risk why length of life is more unequal in some 2.15 pm on Mondays in the Lecture Theatre, young women in England’ societies than in others’ Pitt Rivers Museum. Conveners: Professor Richard Sharpe and Dr Martin Kauffmann. Professor Manuel Eisner, Cambridge Ineke Maas, Utrecht Institute of Criminology 21 Nov.: ‘Social mobility during the Dr James Willoughby 3 Nov.: ‘When independent trials cannot industrial revolution’ 24 Oct.: ‘Second-hand books in the replicate intervention effects: a systematic fifteenth century: the case of St George’s Mario Small, Chicago review and examples from a randomised Chapel, Windsor’ 28 Nov.: ‘Rethinking social capital’ trial of a family intervention’ Dr David Butterfield, Cambridge Dr Jonny Steinberg, Cape Town Institutes, centres and 7 Nov.: ‘Simplicity and subtlety in the 8 Nov.: ‘At first blush: the consequences of Oxoniensis of Catullus (MS. Canon. Class. how biomedical treatment of AIDS arrives' museums Lat. 30)’ Dr Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch, Director, Ashmolean Museum Professor Anthony Edwards, De Montfort Global Drugs Policy Program, OSI 21 Nov.: ‘The evolution of the Middle 15 Nov.: ‘Illicit drug policies and the HIV William Cohn Memorial Lecture English poetic manuscript’ epidemic’ Professor Vidya Dehejia, Barbara Stoler Dealing meaning: masterclasses on Dr Justin Parkhurst, London School of Miller Professor of Indian and South Asian literary manuscripts and the market Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Art, Columbia, will deliver the William Cohn The following classes will be given at 22 Nov.: 'Addressing the social and Memorial Lecture at 5 pm on 8 November in 2.15 pm on Mondays in the Lecture Theatre, structural drivers of HIV: the need for an the Main Lecture Theatre, Taylor Institution. Pitt Rivers Museum. Conveners: Professor explicit normative framework to guide Subject: ‘The body adorned: to the divine Kathryn Sutherland and Dr Chris Fletcher. intervention and action’ through beauty’ Joan Winterkorn, Bernard Quaritch, Ltd Professor Sarah Rowland Jones (Keynote 17 Oct.: ‘The business of archives: handling speaker) the remains of Shelley and Larkin’ noon, 25 Nov.: ‘Oxford Student HIV/AIDS Research Day’ (Wolfson) 38 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4963 • 5 October 2011

Rick Gekoski, Gekoski Rare Books and 14 November Professor Carl Wunsch, MIT Manuscripts 11 Oct.: 'Ocean memory and prediction of Angela Carritt and Kerry Webb 31 Oct.: ‘Literary archives and monkfish: climate' (Environmental Change Institute) 10 am: ‘WISER: finding stuff – books etc on valuing Graham Greene and others’ SOLO’ Professor Sir David King, Cambridge Ed Maggs, Maggs Brothers 13 Oct.: 'Climate change as a global shifting 10.45 am: ‘WISER: finding stuff – journal 14 Nov.: ‘Playing the fame game: force' (Clarendon Laboratory) articles’ T E Lawrence, Hardy and the canonic Sam Bickersteth, Climate and Development manuscript’ Sue Bird and James Shaw Knowledge Network 12.30 pm: ‘WISER: finding stuff – Kevin Begos, Publisher and donor of the 14 Oct.: 'Designing and delivering climate conferences’ archive of Agrippa (a book of the dead) compatible development' (Environmental 28 Nov.: ‘Agrippa: assessing the value of a 16 November Change Institute) self-destructing text’ Ljilja Ristic, Oliver Bridle and Angela Europaeum Friends of the Bodleian Carritt 2 pm: ‘WISER: tech tools – reference The following lectures will be given at Professor K Krause, Professor of management’ 1 pm on Tuesdays in Convocation House, International Relations, Geneva Bodleian Library. 21 November Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, will lecture at Dr Felicity Heal Sally Rumsey 5.15 pm on 7 November in the Lecture 8 Nov.: ‘Editing “Hugh Holinshed” for the 9.30 am: ‘WISER: your thesis, copyright Theatre, MBI Building, Corpus Christi. twenty-first century’ and ORA’ Convenor: Dr Paul Flather, the Europaeum. Dr Emma Smith Jane Rawson and Emma Lewis Subject: ‘The end of war: political violence 22 Nov.: ‘Lost and found: the Bodleian 10.45 am: ‘WISER: getting organised on in the 21st century’ Shakespeare Folio’ the web’ Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies WISER Workshops 25 November The following workshops will take place at Valerie Lawrence and Angela Carritt Majewski Lecture Oxford University Computing Services, 9.15 am: ‘RefWorks for Humanities’ Professor John Brockington will lecture 13 Banbury Road. Sally Rumsey at 5 pm on 24 October in Lecture Room 1, 24 October 12.30 pm: ‘WISER: your thesis, copyright Oriental Institute. and ORA’ Subject: ‘How japa changed between Angela Carritt and Kerry Webb the Vedas and the bhakti traditions: the 9.15 am: ‘WISER: finding stuff – books etc 28 November evidence of the Jāpakopākhyāna (Mbh on SOLO’ Sally Rumsey 12.189–93)’ Kerry Webb and Angela Carritt 9.15 am: ‘Research: maximising visibility Shivdasani Lectures 10 am: ‘WISER: finding stuff – journal using ORA’ articles’ Professor Purushottama Bilimoria, Deakin, 2 December will give the following lectures at 2 pm on Sue Bird and Angela Carritt Kate Williams and Nia Roberts Mondays in the OCHS Library. 11 am: ‘WISER: finding stuff – theses and 9.15 am: ‘RefWorks for Sciences and Social dissertations’ 17 Oct.: ‘The problem of evil and western Sciences‘ theodicy: but what says Indian theism and 28 October non-theism to the challenge?’ Environmental Change Institute Angela Carritt 31 Oct.: ‘Hinduism’s transnational 9.30 am: ‘WISER: finding stuff – books etc Inaugural Lecture diasaporias *: the view from Oceania’ on SOLO’ (*aporias of diaspora) Professor Myles Allen, Professor of Jane Rawson and Penny Schenk Geosystem Science, will deliver his 14 Nov.: ‘The logical illumination of 10.45 am: ‘WISER: getting information to inaugural lecture at 5 pm on 24 November in Mīmāmsā and Nyāya (to Navyanyāya): come to you’ . the Examination Schools. evolution of thinking, metaphysics and 2 November Subject: 'The People's Planet: reconnecting theology (apaurus. eya, apūrva, padārthas, climate science, climate policy and reality' Īśvara, vādavivāda, hetutarka)’ Hilla Wait 2 pm: ‘WISER: e-books’ Climate Week Lectures 28 Nov.: ‘Indian practical ethics: law, gender, justice, ecological and bioethical 3.15 pm: ‘WISER: e-book readers’ The following lectures will be given at 4 pm challenges’ during week 1 of Michaelmas term in the 9 November Environmental Change Institute and the Concepts of God seminar Juliet Ralph and Angela Carritt Clarendon Laboratory. Convener: Dr J Hall. Dr Ulrike Roestler will lecture at 2 pm on 2 pm: ‘WISER: bibliometrics I – who's citing Professor Samuel Fankhauser, Grantham 7 November in the OCHS Library. you?’ Research Institute on Climate Change and Subject: ‘ “Which wise man would worship 3.15 pm: ‘WISER: bibliometrics II – the black the Environment, LSE beings who are tormented by sorrow and art of citation ranking’ 10 Oct.: 'The economics of adaptation' fear?” Powers and weaknesses of gods in (Environmental Change Institute) Buddhist literature’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4963 • 5 October 2011 39

International Gender Studies Centre 19 Oct.: ‘Challenges and opportunities for 11 Nov.: ‘Growth and fluctuations’ foreign policy’ 18 Nov.: ‘Structural adjustment in the Gender, cyber ethnography and HE Mr Mohammed Benaissa, Secretary Middle East: success or failure?’ digital technology: cross-disciplinary General Assilah Forum; former Foreign approaches 25 Nov.: ‘Themes in poverty and Minister of the Kingdom of Morocco inequality’ The following seminars will be given at 2 pm 26 Oct.: ‘The economic and political causes on Thursdays in the Jerwood Room, Lady of change’ 2 Dec.: ‘Labour markets and migration’ Margaret Hall. 2 Nov.: To be confirmed Introduction to Islam (Islam I) Dr Anna Piela, York HRH Raja Dr Nazrin Shah, Crown Prince of Dr Afifi Al-Akiti, KFAS Fellow, will lecture 13 Oct.: ‘Sisterhood, new media, and Perak, Malaysia (Special Lecture) at 2 pm on Mondays at the Oxford Centre empowerment – Muslim women’s online 9 Nov.: ‘Islam, Muslims and human rights’ for Islamic Studies. Open to matriculated interpretations of Islamic texts’ members of the university. Sir John Holmes, Director, Ditchley Dr Dimitrina Spencer Foundation (formerly UNUSG for 10 Oct.: ‘The prophethood of Muhammad’ 20 Oct.: ‘The interior curiosity of the child: Humanitarian Affairs) Facebook's gendered performances’ 17 Oct.: ‘Muslim scripture I: the Qur'an’ 16 Nov.: ‘The international response’ Dr Steve Spittle, Liverpool John Moores 24 Oct.: ‘Muslim scripture II: the Hadith’ Lord (Michael) Williams, UN Special 27 Oct.: ‘Defending masculinity: men, Coordinator for Lebanon 31 Oct.: ‘The nature of Shi'ism’ women and violence in the horror video 23 Nov.: ‘A view from Lebanon’ game’ 7 Nov.: ‘Classical Islamic theology (Kalam)’ 30 Nov.: To be confirmed Dr Nadia Aghtaie, Bristol 14 Nov.: ‘Islamic law (Shari'a) and its 3 Nov.: ’The transgression of the rules of Political Economy of Institutions and sources’ patriarchy by Iranian women through Development 21 Nov.: ‘Mystical dimensions of Islam cyberspace’ Dr Adeel Malik, Globe Fellow, will lecture (Sufism)’ Elinor Bastin at 3 pm on Thursdays at the Oxford Centre 28 Nov.: ‘Islam and Christianity’ 10 Nov.: ‘Altruism in cyberspace? An for Islamic Studies. Open to matriculated exploration of an online community for members of the university. Anthropology of Islam, Knowledge and women and men with bipolar disorder’ Transmission 13 Oct.: ‘Conceptualising institutions’ Dr Soraya Tremayne, ISCA Dr Mohammad Talib, Sultan bin Abdul Aziz 20 Oct.: ‘Foundations of new institutional 17 Nov.: ‘The “downside” of assisted Fellow, will lecture at 2 pm on Mondays at economics I’ reproductive technologies: third-party the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. Open donation and the “happy family” rhetoric 27 Oct.: ‘Foundations of new institutional to matriculated members of the university. in Iran’ economics II’ 17 Oct.: ‘Madrassahs in recent history and Dr Denise Carter, Hull 3 Nov.: ‘The political economy of rent politics’ 24 Nov.: ‘Coming of age and internet safety: seeking and corruption’ 31 Oct.: ‘Studies on Madrassahs (2001–9): the case study of a Bulgarian school’ 10 Nov.: ‘Institutions and development’ themes and perspectives I’ Joint seminar 17 Nov.: ‘Deeper causes: the evolution and 14 Nov.: ‘Studies on Madrassahs (2001–9): Dr Paula Gilbert, George Mason persistence of institutions I’ themes and perspectives II’ 1 Dec.: ‘Narrating female lies: human rights 24 Nov.: ‘Deeper causes: the evolution and 28 Nov.: ‘Studying Madrassahs between violations against women and girls’ persistence of institutions II’ local and global context’ Lionel Brossi, Barcelona 1 Dec.: ‘Analytical narratives on institutions Qur’anic Arabic 1 Dec.: ‘Intersex narratives: an exploration and development’ of the variable ways in which norms Mr Steven Styer will give classes in Qur’anic circumscribe our bodies’ Political Economy of Middle East and Arabic at 5 pm on Fridays at the Oxford North Africa Centre for Islamic Studies. All welcome. Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Registration required. See www.oxcis.ac.uk Dr Adeel Malik, Globe Fellow, will lecture for details. at 10 am on Fridays at the Oxford Centre Seminar Series: Arab Spring for Islamic Studies. Open to matriculated Modern Standard Arabic The following seminars will be held at 5 pm members of the university. Mr Yousif Qasmiyeh will give the following on Wednesdays in the Examination Schools, 14 Oct.: ‘Introduction to the political classes in Modern Standard Arabic at the unless otherwise stated. All welcome. economy of the Middle East’ Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. Courses HE Osama Al-Nujaifi, Speaker of the Iraqi run in association with the Department 21 Oct.: ‘Concepts and perspectives for an Parliament (Special Lecture) of Continuing Education. Registration analytical framework I’ Tues. 11 Oct.: ‘Iraq: challenges and required. See www.oxcis.ac.uk for details. prospects’ 28 Oct.: ‘Concepts and perspectives for an Arabic 1a: Monday 5.15–7.15 pm analytical framework II’ Sir Geoffrey Adams, Director General Arabic 1b: Tuesday 2.30–4.30 pm (Political), Foreign and Commonwealth 4 Nov.: ‘State-business relationship in the Office Middle East’ Arabic 2: Tuesday 5–7 pm 40 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4963 • 5 October 2011

Arabic 3: Wednesday 5–7 pm Nima Elbagir, CNN International Laura Gómez-Mera, Miami 16 Nov.: ‘Reports of the death of traditional 1 Nov.: ‘The politics of overlapping trade Arabic 4: Tuesday 10 am–noon media are greatly exaggerated’ agreements in the Americas’ Fiqh al ibadat Tom Standage, The Economist Andrés Malamud, Lisbon Dr Mohammad Akram will hold classes on 23 Nov.: ‘News in the digital age, and how 8 Nov.: ‘Leading from the sidelines: Brazil's rituals of worship (Fiqh al ibadat) at 5 pm on The Economist fits in’ covert quest for leadership and Latin Tuesdays at the Oxford Centre for Islamic American responses’ Richard Peppiatt, media commentator; Studies. All welcome. Registration required. former reporter, Daily Star Peter Houtzager, Sussex See www.oxcis.ac.uk for details. 30 Nov.: ‘Personal experiences of UK 15 Nov.: ‘Where have all the professionals Understanding Islam and the Muslims tabloid culture’ gone? Reforming health and social assistance in São Paulo, Brazil (1990– Dr Afifi Al-Akiti, KFAS Fellow, will lecture Nuffield Media and Politics Seminars 2008)’ at 5.15 pm on Thursdays. Course run The following seminars will be given at 5 pm in association with the Department of Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, WZB Berlin on Fridays. Continuing Education. See www.oxcis.ac.uk 22 Nov.: ‘Bringing the right back in: the for details. Gus O’Donnell, Cabinet Secretary and Head, right and democracy in contemporary UK Civil Service Latin America’ 6 Oct.: ‘Terminology and sources’ 21 Oct.: ‘Tough love at a time of austerity – Emelio Betances, Gettysburg College 13 Oct.: ‘History of the Muslim prophet’ transforming the civil service’ 29 Nov.: ‘Social movements and the 20 Oct.: ‘Muslim theology (Tawhid)’ Tom Patterson, Harvard struggle for democracy in the Dominican 28 Oct.: ‘Knowledge-based reporting: Republic’ 27 Oct.: ‘The creed of al-Ghazali’ would it improve the quality of the US Brazilian Studies Programme 3 Nov.: ‘Islamic law (Fiqh)’ media's coverage of politics?’ There will be a special seminar at 5 pm on 10 Nov.: ‘The Muslim family’ Ric Bailey, chief political adviser, BBC 14 October in the Latin American Centre 4 Nov.: To be confirmed 17 Nov.: ‘Various legal topics’ Seminar Room. Luke Harding, the Guardian 24 Nov.: ‘Muslim spirituality (Sufism)’ Subject: ‘Conversation with Walter 11 Nov.: To be confirmed Feldman’ (in Portuguese) 1 Dec.: ‘Various Muslim mystics’ Justin Webb, BBC presenter, The Today Film series: transitional justice and 8 Dec.: ‘Summa Islamica: the Archangel’s Programme human rights in Latin America hadith on Islam, Iman and ihsan’ 18 Nov.: ‘Them and us: culturally, socially and politically – what is the future for US/ All films subtitled in English. Screenings Reuters Institute for the Study of British relations?’ take place in the Latin American Centre Journalism Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, from 5 pm. Shami Chakrabarti, Director, Liberty 25 Nov.: ‘Campaigning for civil liberties in 12 Oct.: Machuca (2004) Director: Andrés Seminars parliament and the press’ Wood. Introduced by Alan Angell. The following seminars will be given at 2 pm Michael Traugott, Michigan; visiting fellow 19 Oct.: Dawson Isla 10 (2009) Director: on Wednesdays in the Barclay Room, Green 2 Dec.: ‘The media’s role as king makers in Miguel Littín. Introduced by Alan Angell. Templeton. Enquiries: kate.hanneford- the 2012 US presidential nominations’ [email protected]. 26 Oct.: Los Rubios (The Blonds) (2003) Director: Albertina Carri. Introduced by Nic Newman, visiting fellow; former head of Latin American Centre Francesca Lessa and Gabriel Pereira. product development, BBC News 12 Oct.: ‘Networked journalism and the age General seminars programme 2 Nov.: Lixo Extraordinário (Waste Land) of social discovery’ (2010) Directors: Lucy Walker, João Jardim The following seminars will be given at 5 pm and Karen Harley. Introduced by Juliana Professor Robert Picard on Tuesdays in the Latin American Centre Bertazzo. 19 Oct.: ‘Business models and their uses in Seminar Room. Convenor: Dr Timothy media companies’ Power. 9 Nov.: La Teta Asustada (The Milk of Sorrow) (2009) Director: Claudia Llosa. John Owen, Executive Producer at large, Al Halbert Jones III Introduced by John Crabtree. Jazeera English 11 Oct.: ‘The war has brought peace 26 Oct.: ‘Has Al Jazeera broken the mould to Mexico: the politics of Mexican 16 Nov.: Impunity (2010) Directors: of 24-hour TV news?’ participation in World War II’ Juan José Lozano and Mollman Morris. Introduced by Diana Flórez. Deborah Davies, Channel 4 Dispatches Martín Castro, CONICET/UNTREF (Buenos 2 Nov.: ‘Politicians and journalists: friends Aires) 21 Nov.: Granito: How to Nail a Dictator or foes?’ 18 Oct.: ‘Political Catholicism and (2009) Director: Pamela Yates. Introduced nationalism in Argentina, 1900–20’ by Emily Braid. Jodie Ginsberg, Reuters Bureau Chief, UK and Ireland Jeff Garmany, KCL 23 Nov.: Destino Final (Final Destination) 9 Nov.: ‘Feeding the financial beast: 25 Oct.: ‘Governance without government: (2008) Director: Mateo Gutiérrez. challenges of reporting in rumour-hungry understanding order in a Brazilian favela’ Introduced by Francesca Lessa. markets’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4963 • 5 October 2011 41

Professor Guy Houlsby Oxford Learning Institute Jean-Benoît Puech, Orléans, will deliver the 3 Nov.: ‘Scarce resources – problems and following lecture at 5.15 pm on 26 October. solutions’ Public seminar series Convener and Chair: Michael Sheringham. Professor Robyn Norton Subject: ‘Benjamin Jordane: de la The Learning Institute runs a regular 10 Nov.: ‘Safe, effective and affordable supposition d’auteur à l’autobiographie’ seminar programme every Thursday in healthcare for a bulging population’ term time at 4 pm in the Seminar Room of Jean-Benoît Puech, Orléans, will deliver the Littlegate House, St Ebbe’s Street. Open to Professor Sir Tony Atkinson following lecture at 5.15 pm on 28 October. anyone interested in research into higher 17 Nov.: ‘Population, inequality and global Convener and Chair: Michael Sheringham. education. Abstracts at www.learning.ox.ac. justice’ Subject: ‘Petite fabrique d’écrivains plus ou uk/courses/public. To attend seminars moins imaginaires’ Professor Sarah Harper contact: [email protected] or 24 Nov.: ‘Exploring the demographic André Charrak, Paris I, will deliver the (2)86811. transition in the twenty-first century’ following lecture at 5.15 pm on 15 November. Dr Jen de Vries, Western Australia Chair: Nicholas Cronk. Convener: Martine Professor Paul Collier 13 Oct.: ‘A “bifocal makeover”: women- Pécharman. 1 Dec.: ‘Are there limits to growth?’ only programs as strategic interventions Subject: ‘Rousseau philosophe: la question for building more gender equitable de la méthode’ Maison Française workplaces’ Julian Jackson, Queen Mary, London, will Professor Paul Trowler, Lancaster The following events will take place at deliver the following lecture at 3 pm on 20 Oct.: ‘Tribes and territories for the the Maison Française, unless otherwise 24 November followed by a presentation: twenty-first century’ indicated. Email: [email protected]. ‘The secret first steps towards the creation of Lectures and conferences with English titles the Maison Française’ by Laurent Douzou, Professor David James, West of England will be in English. Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Lyon-Maison 27 Oct.: ‘Judas, Job or Janus? Academics, Française d’Oxford. Conveners: Laurent learning cultures and HE pedagogy in neo- Single lectures Douzou and Luc Borot, MFO. liberal times’ Jon Whiteley, curator of the exhibition Subject: ‘De Gaulle before Oxford, Professor Melanie Walker, Nottingham ‘Claude Lorrain: the enchanted landscape’ 25 November 1941’ 3 Nov.: ‘Universities, professional at the Ashmolean, will deliver the following Conferences education and the public good’ lecture at 5.15 pm on 4 October. Convener and Chair: Luc Borot, MFO. Martine Pécharman, CNRS-MFO and Dana Dr Richard Race, Roehampton Subject: ‘The Frenchness of Claude Lorrain’ Jalobeanu, Warburg Institute, London/New 10 Nov.: ‘ “Still too obvious, yet at the Europe College, Bucharest, will organise the same time elusive”: reflections on Gisèle Sapiro, Director of Centre Européen following conference from 9.30 am on multiculturalism and education’ de Sociologie et de Science Politique, 11 November until 4 pm on 12 November. EHESS, will deliver the following lecture at Professor James Arthur, Birmingham Subject: ‘Francis Bacon’s arts of discovery 5.15 pm on 12 October. Convener and Chair: 17 Nov.: ‘Values and character and the cultivation of the mind’ Michael Sheringham. development in university education’ Subject: ‘Authorship and responsibility: Laurent Douzou, Institut d’Etudes Professor Keith Grint, Warwick literary trials and the ethics of writing, Politiques de Lyon-MFO and Anne-Marie 24 Nov.: ‘Leadership and the sacred’ France, 19th to 21st centuries’ Granet, Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble, will organise the following conference from Professor Ian Stronach, Liverpool John Gisèle Sapiro, Director of Centre Européen 10 am on 21 November until 1 pm on Moores de Sociologie et de Science Politique, 22 November. 1 Dec.: ‘ “Rigour mortis”: professionalism, EHESS, will deliver the following seminar Subject: ‘Fear(s), silence(s): subjects or audit and the future’ at 2 pm on 13 October. Convener and Chair: obstacles for history?’ Michael Sheringham. Oxford Martin School Subject: ‘The circulation of literary works Julian Jackson, London, Robert Gildea, between cultures: social conditions and Sudhir Hazareesingh and Laurent Douzou Seminar series: Is the planet full? obstacles’ will deliver the following conference from 10 am to 4 pm on 25 November. The following seminars will be given at Gérard Lahouati, Pau, will deliver the Subject: ‘De Gaulle in 1941: the Oxford 3.30 pm on Thursdays in Seminar Room 1, following lecture at 4 pm on 18 October, moment’ Oxford Martin School, Old Indian Institute followed by a round table. Conveners: Building, corner of Catte and Broad Street. Nathalie Ferrand and Nicholas Cronk. Martine Pécharman, CNRS-MFO and Convener: Alison Stibbe. Subject: ‘Le long travail: Casanova Philip Beeley will organise the following autographe’ conference from 9.30 am on 28 November Dr Toby Ord until 4 pm on 29 November. 13 Oct.: ‘Overpopulation or Thomas Römer, Collège de France, will Subject: ‘Across the Channel. Intellectual underpopulation?’ deliver the following lecture at 5.15 pm on relations between England and France in 21 October. Professor Mark New the early modern period’ Subject: ‘Abraham’s righteousness and 20 Oct.: ‘Water scarcity: a shortage of water sacrifice. How to understand and translate Martine Pécharman, CNRS-MFO and or a shortage of ideas?’ Genesis 15 and 22’ François Récanati, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris Professor Charles Godfray and St Andrews, will organise the following 27 Oct.: ‘How can 9–10 billion people be fed conference from 9.30 am on sustainably and equitably by 2050?’ 2 December until 4 pm on 3 December. Subject: ‘Analytic philosophy of mind and language: French–British dialogue(s)’ 42 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4963 • 5 October 2011

Seminars Timothy Adès, Translator-Poet Dr Sadie Wearing, LSE 3 Nov.: ‘Translating the poetry of Desnos, 1 Dec.: ‘Representation of ageing in Medieval French Seminar Cassou and Hugo’ literature and cultre: affect, aesthetics and The following seminars will be given at ethics’ Nikolaj Lübecker 5.15 pm on alternate Tuesdays. Conveners: 17 Nov.: ‘Saints and idiots in contemporary Sophie Marnette and Helen Swift. COMPAS French film’ Leah Tether, East Anglia Andrew Counter, Cambridge A chrysalis for every kind of criminal? 11 Oct.: ‘Reading digitised Medieval French 1 Dec.: ‘Sentimentalism and child-abuse in Mobility, crime and citizenship manuscripts as paratexts’ the later Zola’ The following seminars will be given at 2 pm Philip Bennett, Edinburgh History of Science Seminar on Thursdays in the Seminar Room, Pauling 25 Oct.: ‘Rainouart, Mahomet and the Centre, 58a Banbury Road. Convener: crucifix: art, life and religion in theMoniage Thomas Le Roux, CNRS-MFO, will lecture at COMPAS Citizenship and Belonging Cluster. Rainouart’ 4 pm on 7 November. Subject: ‘Environmental history in France Dr Dario Melossi, Bologna Michelle Szkilnik, Paris III, will chair a and Great Britain: methodology, new 13 Oct.: ‘Punishment and migration round-table discussion workshop. perspectives, common ground’ between Europe and the United States: a 8 Nov.: ‘Christine de Pizan revisited: on globalised "less eligibility”?’ editing the Jouvencel’ Cinema Professor Mary Bosworth Jane Bliss, Independent Scholar Homage to the French actress Simone 20 Oct.: ‘Ambivalence and detention’ 22 Nov.: ‘Translators note! Puzzles in the Signoret (1921–85). Films will be at 8 pm on twelfth-century nun’s Life of Edward’ alternate Tuesdays, in French with English Fran Webber, Institute of Race Relations subtitles. Seats are allocated on a first-come, 27 Oct.: 'No rights for the wicked: human Early Modern French Seminar first-served basis. rights and foreign national prisoners' The following seminars will be given at 18 Oct.: La Ronde (1950, 97 mins.) Director: Dr Liz Hales, Cambridge 5.15 pm on alternate Thursdays. Conveners: Max Ophüls 3 Nov.: ‘Crime or survival? – the Jessica Goodman, Richard Parish, Caroline management of victims of trafficking, Warman and Wes Williams. 1 Nov.: Casque d’Or (1951, 96 mins.) smuggling and enforced labour through Director: Jacques Becker Dorothée Lintner, Paris III the criminal justice and immigration 13 Oct.: ‘Avatars de l’épopée dans la geste 15 Nov.: Les Diaboliques (1955, 114 mins.) systems’ rabelaisienne et les histoires comiques du Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot Professor David Glover, Southampton XVIIe siècle’ 29 Nov.: L’Armée des ombres (1969, 140 10 Nov.: ‘ "Where's your bloody pigtail?": Marine Roussillon mins.) Director: Jean-Pierre Melville liberalism, empire, and the Chinese labour 27 Oct.: ‘Plaisir et pouvoir. Usages des récits question' chevaleresques à l’âge classique’ Oxford Institute of Population Ageing Dr Ilsen About, IRIS, EHSS Richard Scholar 17 Nov.: ‘Distant identification and mobility Seminar series: The question of gender 10 Nov.: ‘Utopian marginals in More, control: police sciences, technology, and within an ageing society Rabelais and Montaigne’ international cooperation in West Europe, The following seminars will be held at 1900–30’ Key Words in Early Modern France 12.30 pm on Thursdays in the Seminar Seminar Professor David Feldman, Birkbeck Room, Wolsey Hall, 66 Banbury Road. 24 Nov.: ‘Immigration and welfare The following seminars will be given at Dr Sondra Hausner chauvinism: Britain since 1800’ 11.30 am on Fridays. Conveners: Alain Viala 20 Oct.: ‘Gender, mobility and belonging: and Richard Scholar. Professor Nicholas de Genova, Goldsmiths Nepali care workers in Great Britain’ 1 Dec.: ‘Cities, citizenship, and the migrant Alain Viala Professor Emerita Ursula King, Bristol metropolis: life within and against the 18 Nov.: ‘La première modernité: éléments 27 Oct.: ‘Spirituality, ageing and gender’ spaces of the law’ d’histore et d’histoire culturelle’ Professor Julia Twigg, Kent Panel Workshop Richard Scholar 3 Nov.: ‘Clothing and the embodiment of 2 Dec.: ‘Two forays into early modern A panel workshop will be held at 4 pm on age’ language and culture’ Thursday, 1 December, at 64 Banbury Road. Dr Almudena Sevilla-Sanz Modern French Seminar Subject: ‘The politics and practice of justice, 10 Nov.: ‘Declining marriage and fertility immigration and crime: practitioners’ The following seminars will be given at rates in OECD countries: the role of men’s perspectives’ 5.15 pm on alternate Thursdays except home production’ where otherwise indicated. Conveners: Ian Dr Katharine Morris University Church Maclachlan and Michael Sheringham. 17 Nov.: ‘The age of beauty and the beauty Peter Read, Kent of age; age, gender and “beauty practices” ’ The following lectures will be given on Wed. 19 Oct.: ‘ “Au rendez-vous des poètes”: Wednesdays at the University Church. Dr Joanne Cook, Hull Picasso’s art and literary contacts during 24 Nov.: ‘Intergenerational transmission Dr Conor Cunningham and Professor his early years in Paris’ and gender relations in African Simon Conway-Morris families post migration’ 6.30 pm, 9 Oct.: ‘Evolution and the praise of God’ (with music from the choirs of Queen’s, Merton and Worcester) University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4963 • 5 October 2011 43

Leo Benedictus and Naomi Wood Adam Boulton, Political Editor, Sky News Mr Frank Schwalba-Hoth, founder 7 pm, 19 Oct.: ‘Do novels make us better 8 Nov.: ‘ “Above all liberties”: media member, German Green Party people?’ freedom in the digital age’ 5.15–6.15 pm: ‘Making connections: assessing environmental politics and Voltaire Foundation – Besterman Green Templeton policy interface across the European Centre for the Enlightenment Union’ Future of Work Programme Besterman Lecture Dr Fabio Carrera, Worcester Polytechnic Professor Richard Freeman, Herbert Institute Dr Katie Scott, Courtauld Institute of Ascherman Chair in Economics, Harvard, 7.15–9 pm: ‘Vanishing Venice: sustainable Art, will deliver the Besterman Lecture and Director, National Bureau of Economic strategies for a “sinking” city’ at 5.15 pm on 24 November at the Taylor Research (EBER), will deliver a Future of Institution, Room 2. Enquiries: email@ Work Lecture at 5 pm on 19 October, in Bynum Tudor lecture voltaire.ox.ac.uk. the EP Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green Lady Jay (Sylvia), Chairman, L'Oréal UK Subject: ‘Emulation: anxieties of influence Templeton. Ltd, will deliver the Bynum Tudor Lecture and the progress of plagiarism in Subject: ‘The new world of team-work’ at 5 pm for 5.30 pm on 10 November in the eighteenth-century French art’ Mawby Room, Kellogg. Keble Subject: ‘Learning and development in Colleges and halls the public and private sectors – is there a Richardson Lecture difference?’ Balliol Professor Richard Darton, Senior Research Fellow and Tutor in Chemical Engineering at Magdalen Interdisciplinary Institute Keble, will deliver the Richardson Lecture at 5.30 pm on 11 November in the Pusey Room, Centre for the History of Childhood The evolution of business Keble. ecosystems: models, metaphors and Professor George Rousseau, Co-Director, Subject: ‘Engineering without wheels: a life myths Centre for the History of Childhood, will in oil and water’ interview A S Byatt at 5 pm on 3 November The following seminars will be given at in Magdalen Auditorium. RSVP by 5.30 pm on alternate Thursdays in the Kellogg 27 October to development.office@magd. Master’s Dining Room, Balliol. RSVP: ox.ac.uk or 01865 276082. [email protected]. Centre for Creative Writing Subject: ‘The Children’s Book: George Conveners: Sophie Marnette and Theodore The following seminars will be given on Rousseau in conversation with A S Byatt’ Piepenbrock, LSE. Tuesdays at 4.45 pm (refreshments) for Dr Thomas Noe 5.15 pm in the Stopforth Metcalfe Room, Mansfield 17 Nov.: ‘Inclusive fitness, agency conflicts Kellogg. All welcome. and the family firm' Adam von Trott Memorial Lecture Professor Patrick MacGuinness Dr John Odling-Smee 25 Oct.: ‘Political fiction: the last hundred Professor Michael Freeden will deliver the 1 Dec.: ‘Niche construction theory: bridging days’ Adam von Trott Memorial Lecture at 5 pm evolutionary biology and ecosystem on 27 October at Mansfield. Dr Nicoletta Demetriou ecology' Subject: 'Supporting a state: the 22 Nov.: ‘Reflections on biography as peculiarities of political commitment' autobiography’ Christ Church Lecture series Centre for the Study of Religion and Gorbachev Lecture Series on Press Public Life seminar series The following lectures will be given at Freedom 5 pm, except where noted, on Fridays in The following seminars will be given at 4 pm the Chapel, Mansfield.C onvener: Baroness The following talks will be given at 5 pm on for 4.30 pm in the Stopforth-Metcalfe Room, Helena Kennedy. Tuesdays in the Blue Boar Lecture Theatre, Kellogg. Christ Church. Contact: galina.miazhevich@ Nawal al Sadawi, Egyptian novelist and The Revd Canon Dr Vincent Strudwick ria.ox.ac.uk. Further information: www. campaigner 12 Oct.: ‘God and the Big Society’ chch.ox.ac.uk/general-information/ 4 pm, 14 Oct.: ‘The Arab Spring and the gorbachev-press-lectures. Dr Joseph Prudhomme, Washington political weather’ College, Maryland Mark Thompson, Director-General, BBC Jon Snow, Channel 4 News 7 Nov.: ‘Teaching the Bible in state- 11 Oct.: ‘Why quality journalism still 21 Oct.: ‘The information revolution – a new supported schools: surveying the debate; matters in a digital age, or, who can you age in journalism’ lessons from the United States’ believe these days?’ Baroness Shirley Williams, former Cabinet Lectures Sir Christopher Meyer, former Chairman, minister Press Complaints Commission The following lectures will be given on 28 Oct.: ‘Why I am still a liberal’ 18 Oct.: ‘The regulator’s tale’ 20 October at Kellogg. Roger Graef, filmmaker Max Mosley, former President, Fédération 4 Nov.: ‘The ethics of making documentary Internationale de l'Automobile films’ 25 Oct.: ‘Privacy in an open society: getting the balance right’ 44 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4963 • 5 October 2011

Bianca Jagger, human rights campaigner SEESOX seminar series Professor Eckart Conze, Marburg, Dr 11 Nov.: ‘Human rights and human wrongs’ Holger Nehring, Sheffield,Professor Neil The following seminars will be given at Gregor, Southampton, and Professor Jane Professor Lisa Jardine 5 pm on Mondays. Convener: Dr Othon Caplan 18 Nov.: ‘The alchemy of art and science’ Anastasakis. 15 Nov.: ‘ “Das Amt”: The German Foreign Sandi Toksvig, broadcaster, author and Dr Milos Damnjanovic Office, the Holocaust, and the politics of comedienne 10 Oct.: ‘Twenty years of transition in memory’ 25 Nov.: ‘Have I got bad news for you’ Serbia and Croatia: false starts and delayed Professor Didier Bigo, KCL democratisation’ 22 Nov.: ‘Security, surveillance and Nuffield Mr Štefan Füle, European Commissioner for democracy in Europe’ Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Sociology seminar Seminar series on higher education Policy in Europe: recent reform and its The following seminars will be given at 5 pm 18 Oct.: ‘From EU enlargement to impact on research, quality and on Wednesdays in the Clay Room, Nuffield. neighbourhood policy’ equity Conveners: Dr C Monden and M Biggs. Dr Fikret Cauševic The following seminars will be given at Dr Robin Archer, London 31 Oct.: ‘Economic liberalisation and 5 pm on Thursdays. Co-conveners: Dr Paola 12 Oct.: ‘The party of order and the fear competitiveness of the western Balkan Mattei, Dr Claire Dupuy, Professor David of freedom: American conservatism and countries’ Phillips and Dr Hubert Ertl. state violence’ Professor Norman Davies Mr Thomas Estermann, European Professor Judy Wajcman, London 7 Nov.: ‘Montenegro, 1918: international University Association, Brussels, Dr Claire 19 Oct.: ‘Constant connectivity; rethinking crime or democratic choice?’ Dupuy and Professor Roger Goodman the rhythms of work and life’ Dr Sylvie Ramel, Geneva 13 Oct.: ‘Financially sustainable Professor Ruud Koopmans, Berlin 14 Nov.: Book launch and panel discussion: universities: challenges and strategies in 26 Oct.: ‘Bystander responses, trickle-down ‘From peace to shared political identities: times of austerity’ politics, and xenophobic mobilisation’ exploring pathways in contemporary Professor Jadwiga Koralewicz, Collegium Bosnia’ Dr Rebecca Sears, Durham Civitas, Warsaw, Professor Jan Zielonka and 2 Nov.: ‘Is bigger always better? How height Dr Katerina Dalacoura, LSE Dr Paola Mattei affects marriage, reproduction and death 21 Nov.: ‘Turkey, Iran and the Arab 20 Oct.: ‘Privatisation of higher education in cross-cultural perspective’ uprisings: the failure of political Islam and in Central and Eastern Europe’ post-ideological politics’ Professor Clare Saunders, Southampton Professor Jan O Jonsson, Stockholm, Dr 9 Nov.: ‘Catching people in the act of HE Mr Ünal Çeviköz, Turkish Ambassador Vikki Boliver, Durham, and Dr Claire Dupuy protest: explaining commitment to to the UK 27 Oct.: ‘Class and ethnic inequality in protest’ 28 Nov.: To be confirmed educational outcomes in an international perspective’ Dr Daniel Stegmüller Core seminar 16 Nov.: ‘The microdynamics of Professor Ulrich Teichler, Kassel, Professor The following seminars will be given at redistribution preferences’ Ingrid Lunt and Professor Martin Seeleib 5 pm on Tuesdays. Convener: Professor Jane Kaiser Professor Sarah Soule, Stanford Caplan. 3 Nov.: ‘The value of temporary study 23 Nov.: ‘Social movement organisational Professor Anthony Glees, Buckingham abroad: The ERASMUS experience’ collaboration: networks of learning and the 18 Oct.: ‘Keeping a watch on democracy: diffusion of protest tactics, 1960–95’ Professor Jeroen Huisman, Bath, Professor intelligence gathering and civil liberties in Anne Deighton and Dr Paola Mattei Professor Rene Veenstra, Groningen Europe since 1990’ 10 Nov.: ‘Europeanisation and higher 30 Nov.: ‘The important role of teachers in Professor Jane Caplan, Professor Edward education: comfortable bedfellows?’ bullying intervention’ Higgs, Essex, and Dr Radhika Singha, Professor Jan Sadlak, IREG, Brussels, Dr New Delhi. Convener: Professor Kalypso St Antony’s David Mills and Professor Peter Kemp Nicolaïdis. 17 Nov.: ‘University rankings: the 25 Oct.: ‘The history of identification and Dahrendorf Lecture manifestation and driver of competition the monitoring of citizens: comparative for excellence within the new higher Professor Timothy Garton Ash will lead a national and imperial perspectives’ education landscape’ discussion at 4.30 pm on 14 November in Mr Max Watson, Central Bank of Ireland the Sheldonian Theatre. Professor Jerome Aust, Sciences Po, Dr (speaking on a personal basis) Subject: ‘Freespeechdebate.com: debating Marie Louise Kearney, OECD, and Dr Claire 1 Nov.: ‘The EU sovereign debt crisis: how global free speech in the age of mass Dupuy did we get here and how can the Euro migration and the internet’ 24 Nov.: ‘Reforming under pressure. Higher survive?’ education reforms in France (2006–10)’ European Studies Centre Professor Norman Davies and Professor Unless otherwise indicated, all events will Robert Evans take place in the Seminar Room, European 8 Nov.: ‘Vanished kingdoms. The history of Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road. half-forgotten Europe ’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4963 • 5 October 2011 45

1 Dec.: Roundtable Professor Stephen Lovell, KCL St Cross Yehuda Elkana, Budapest, and Hubert 14 Nov.: ‘Perestroika: what we now know’ Ertl: ‘The university of the 21st century: Colloquia Professor Rosalind Marsh, Bath contents and curricula’ 21 Nov.: ‘Perestroika and the cultural The following colloquia will be given at Peter Maassen and Kalypso Nikolaidis, dimension’ 5.30 pm on Tuesdays in the St Cross Room. DPIR: ‘Global pressures and local realities. Open to all and intended to be accessible to European universities at a crossroads’ Dr Alex Pravda anyone with an enquiring mind whatever 28 Nov.: ‘Gorbachev's foreign policy and Seminar their discipline. the end of the Soviet Union’ Professor Per Laegreid, Bergen, will lecture Professor Michael Sharpe Elliott Lecture at 5 pm on 25 November. 18 Oct.: 'Psychiatry and medicine: lessons Subject: ‘The reorganisation of internal Dr Mart Laar, Estonian Minister of Defence, from the PACE trial of treatments for security and crisis management in in conversation with Professor Robert chronic fatigue syndrome' Norway’ Service, at 5 pm on 4 November in the Dr Blanca Rodriguez Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s. SEESOX lunch seminar 25 Oct.: To be confirmed Subject: ‘Eliminating the Communist Mr Boris Begovic, Centre for Liberal- heritage’ Dr Nick van Hear Democratic Studies, Belgrade, will give a 1 Nov.: 'Long distance nationalists? The Film screening lunch seminar at 12.45 pm on 1 December. Tamil diaspora since the end of the civil Subject: ‘Religion and economic growth: Henry Marsh will answer questions after war in Sri Lanka' some theoretical issues’ the screening of this film at 5 pm on Dr Camilla Toulmin 14 October in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Graduate workshop 8 Nov.: 'Whose food – whose farm?' Antony’s. Professor Jane Caplan and Dr Julia Moses Title: The English Surgeon Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch will hold a workshop on 15 December. 15 Nov.: 'How to reconfigureC hristian Lunchtime seminars Attendance by registration only. Contact: history for academe and the public' [email protected]. Convener: Dr Paul Chaisty. Dr Ben Bradford Subject: ‘Transnationalism and state Dr Anna Matveeva will give the following 22 Nov.: 'Institutional legitimacy and sovereignty postgraduate workshop’ seminar at 1 pm on 20 October in the offending behaviour: do police actions Workshop: Reforming the Nordic Dahrendorf Room, St Antony’s. affect the contexts within which people and German welfare states Subject: ‘Kyrgyzstan: balancing on the edge think about crime?' of stability’ Dr Paola Mattei and Professor Per Lagreid, Sir Mark Jones Bergen, will hold a workshop on 16 and 17 Dr Cameron Ross will give the following 29 Nov.: To be confirmed December. Attendance by invitation only. seminar at 1 pm on 2 November in the RESC Contact: [email protected]. Library Reading Room, St Antony’s. St John’s Subject: ‘Researching accountability: Subject: ‘Political parties in Russia: the conceptual and methodological regional dimension’ Research Centre challenges’ Dr Javier Morales will give the following Professor Colin Blakemore, Professor Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre seminar at 12.45 pm on 7 November in the of Neuroscience, will deliver the second Dahrendorf Room, St Antony’s. Research Centre Annual Lecture at 5 pm on Perestroika: twenty years after Subject: ‘Ideational threats in Russia–NATO 20 October in St John’s College auditorium. The following seminars will be given at 5 pm relations’ Open to all. on Mondays in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, Subject: ‘What is special about the human St Antony’s College. Convener: Professor St Catherine’s brain?’ Robert Service. Interdisciplinary seminars in Sir Patrick Nairne Lecture Canon Michael Bourdeaux, Keston College Psychoanalysis 10 Oct.: ‘Breaking the bonds: Gorbachev Ambassador Peter Galbraith will deliver Literature and anthropology and the Church’ the Sir Patrick Nairne Lecture at 5 pm on 16 November in the Bernard Sunley Theatre, The following seminars will be given at Professor Robert Service St Catherine’s. Booking essential: 01865 8.15 pm on Mondays in the Seminar Room, 17 Oct.: ‘Perestroika: the American 271762. St John’s Research Centre, 45 St Giles’. dimension’ Subject: ‘The future of intervention and Conveners: Louise Braddock, Richard Gipps, Professor Archie Brown nation-building: lessons from costly Paul Tod. Free to members of the university 24 Oct.: ‘Mikhail Gorbachev: confused failures and modest successes’ and mental health professionals but space Leninist, reform Communist or Social is limited. To attend it is helpful (but not Alan Tayler Lecture Democrat?’ essential) to email: [email protected]. Professor John Ockendon will deliver the Dr Andrew Wilson, UCL-SSEES Louise Braddock, Cambridge Alan Tayler Lecture at 5 pm on 21 November 31 Oct.: ‘Ukraine and Perestroika: who 17 Oct.: ‘Imagining and identifying: in the Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre, St killed the USSR?’ Leonardo and Narcissus’ Catherine’s. Professor Alan Smith, UCL-SSEES Subject: 'Mathematical modelling – under David Bell, British Psychoanalytical Society 7 Nov.: ‘Perestroika and the difficulties of the bonnet’ 31 Oct.: ‘Hamlet: Shakespeare’s meditation economic reform’ on the problem of being’ 46 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4963 • 5 October 2011

Olivier Tonneau, Cambridge 12 Dec.: also co-sponsored by the Catholic Oxford Centre for Life-Writing 14 Nov.: ‘The letter and the spirit: ethics as Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales. Kulturarbeit’ Michael Wood, Professor of English and Speakers: Professor Margaret Archer, Comparative Literature, Princeton, will Lausanne; Professor David Robertson; Dr Holly High, Sydney and Cambridge deliver a lecture at 6 pm on 15 November in Richard Finn, OP; Dr Stratford Caldecott; 28 Nov.: ‘Desire and the ethnography of the Hall, Wolfson. Dr Michael Black; Mr Ben Andradi; and Southeast Asia’ Subject: ‘All about his mother: reading Mr Hugo Slim. Further details: www. Proust’s letters’ bfriars.ox.ac.uk/events.php. To request an Somerville invitation: [email protected]. Lectures Subject: ‘The logic of the gift’ Monica Fooks Memorial Lecture Siobhan Davies, CBE, will talk about Professor David Nutt, Edmund J Safra working with visual art and the new Aquinas Institute colloquium Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology and ‘Commissions’ exhibition with Mark The following one-day colloquium will Director of the Neuropsycho-pharmacology Rowan-Hull, Wolfson Creative Arts Fellow, be held at 10 am–5.30 pm on 5 November Unit, Division of Experimental Medicine, and Michael Stanley, Director, Modern Art at Blackfriars, sponsored by the Las Casas Imperial College, London, will deliver the Oxford, at 6 pm on 21 October in the Haldane Institute in honour of Fergus Kerr, OP, on his Monica Fooks Memorial Lecture at 5 pm on Room, Wolfson. eightieth birthday. Speakers: John Webster; 23 November at the University Museum of Subject: ‘Correspondences between the John Cottingham; Jeff Green; Denis Ngien; Natural History. arts’ Peter Hunter, OP; and Fergus Kerr, OP. To Subject: ‘How can we get the media to tell Cindy Keefer, Director, Centre of Visual request an invitation: [email protected]. the truth about drugs?’ Music, Los Angeles, will present a lecture uk. introduced by Mark Rowan-Hull, Wolfson Subject: ‘The gift of desire and the fear of University College Creative Arts Fellow, at 6 pm on 1 November loss: psychological, philosophical and in the Haldane Room, Wolfson. theological perspectives’ Clement Attlee memorial lecture Subject: ‘Preserving visual music’ Dr Jon Cruddas, MP, will deliver the St Stephen’s House Sir Anthony Caro will be in conversation Clement Attlee memorial lecture at 5 pm on with Tim Marlow, Director, White Cube, at 28 October in the Lecture Room, 90 High Guest lecture 6 pm on 2 November in the Hall, Wolfson. Street, University College All welcome. This term’s guest lecture will take place Subject: ‘Attlee, the ILP and the romantic Blackfriars at 4.30 pm on 20 October in the Couratin tradition’ Room, St Stephen’s House. Open to all Attlee seminar in labour history Anscombe Memorial Lecture members of the university. Subject: To be confirmed Dr Jon Cruddas, MP, will give the Attlee Professor Robert P George, McCormick seminar in labour history at 11 am on Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton, will Scott Holland Trust Lecture 7, 14 and 21 November in the Swire Seminar deliver the Anscombe Memorial Lecture The Rt Hon Mr Frank Fields, MP, will Room, University College. All welcome. at 5 pm on 21 October in the Garden Quad deliver two lectures at the Scott Holland Conveners: Ben Jackson and Marc Stears. Auditorium, St John’s. To reserve a place Trust Lecture at 10.30 am on 5 November Subject: ‘Patriotism, fellowship and the left: email: [email protected]. in the Church of St John the Evangelist, St explorations in British labour history’ Subject: ‘Science, philosophy and religion Stephen's House. For more information see in the embryo debate’ www.scotthollandtrust.org.uk. Wadham Las Casas conferences Subjects: ‘Henry Scott Holland’s influence on radical politics and the Christian Screenings of early Russian and Soviet The following one-day conferences, co- socialist tradition’ and ‘Poverty and policy cinema sponsored by the Las Casas Institute, will be – a century of debate and need; a personal held at Blackfriars. Screenings of early Russian and Soviet perspective’ cinema, preceded by a brief introductory 22 Oct. from 9.30 am: also co-sponsored talk, will take place at 7 pm on Tuesdays by the Christian-Muslim Forum. Speakers: Other groups (weeks 1–6) in the Old Seminar Room, Professor Richard Pring; Dr Musharraf Wadham. Seating is limited. All films will be Hassain Al-Azhari, Karimia Institute; Oxford Architectural History Seminar shown with English subtitles. Shaykh Abdul Mubad, Islamic Academy; Maurice Irfan Coles; Dr Liam Gearon; and The following seminars will be held at Wolfson Dr Julia Ipgrave, Warwick. To book: http:// 5.30 pm in the EPA Lecture Theatre, Lady christianmuslimforum.org/index/php/ Abraham House (Lincoln College), Museum Ronald Syme Lecture events/event-listing/623/. Road. Subject: ‘A place for faith schools?’ Denis Feeney, Professor of Classics, Allan Doig Princeton, will deliver the Ronald Syme 29 Oct., 9.30 am–5 pm: Speakers: Professor 24 Oct.: ‘Charlemagne's palace chapel at Lecture at 6 pm on 3 November in the Hall, Julian Rivers; Professor Christopher Aachen’ Wolfson. McCrudden; Dr Joan Lockwood Subject: ‘The contact zone: the creation of a O’Donovan; Dr Jon Cruddas, MP; and Rosemary Yallop Roman literature’ Professor Bernd Wannenwetsch. To 21 Nov.: ‘The Claudian trio: Italy, Shropshire request an invitation: pa-lascasas@bfriars. and Mr Nash' ox.ac.uk. Subject: ‘The modern state and the kingdom of God’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4963 • 5 October 2011 47

24 Nov.: Education and cultural imperialism 16 Nov.: Dr Simon Curtis will give an Oxford Asian Textile Group Ankhi Mukherjee: 'Education and post- informal talk on reflections on working as Aurelie Samuel, Guimet Museum, will colonialism' a GP in the UK and Tuscany, in the Pauling lecture at 6.15 pm on 9 November at the Jo Quinn: 'The cultural politics of the Centre for Human Sciences, 58 Banbury Pauling Centre, 58 Banbury Road. tutorial system' Road, at 7.30 for 8 pm. Subject: ‘Dottore, ho preso un colpo d’aria’ Subject: ‘Krishna Riboud, a one-of-a-kind 1 Dec.: Education for the professions collector of outstanding Asian textiles’ Peggy Frith: 'The idea of doctor in Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum consumerist society' The University Assessor in association Paul Franklin: 'Education for the public The following lectures will take place at with Oxford University Student Union services' 6.30 pm in the seminar room, Pitt Rivers Eamonn Molloy: 'The business of Museum extension, South Parks Road Beyond consumerism? Learning and education' (entrance via Robinson Close). Visitors teaching in the 21st-century university welcome (£2). Refreshments from 6 pm. Oxford Intelligence Group seminars The following seminars will be held at 5 pm Dr Beatrice Clayre, Winchester Research on Thursdays in the Examination Schools. The following seminars will be given at Unit University members contributing to these 5.30 pm in the Large Lecture Room at 12 Oct.: ‘Sarawak in the 1960s and today’ seminars range from undergraduates to Nuffield. Enquiries may be directed to: Megan Price, Education Officer, Marcham- professors and heads of house to heads [email protected]. of division. All welcome. Queries: Teresa Frilford Excavations Morgan at [email protected]. Paul Rimmer, Chief, Cabinet Office 2 Nov.: ‘Excavation at Marcham-Frilford: Assessments Staff, and member, Joint the ultimate dig' 13 Oct.: The marketisation of higher Intelligence Committee education 20 Oct.: ‘Getting intelligence right for Helen Carasso: 'The language of the government: challenges for assessment’ market in the national debate about higher education' Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, International Talib Mohammed: 'Education: public Business Development Director, BAE good or private purchase' Systems 1 Dec.: ‘Intelligence and diplomacy’ 20 Oct.: Teaching and learning at Oxford Shearer West: 'Preparing students for the Oxford Italian Association wider world' Andreas Willi: 'Sharing the blame, or, Dorothy Rowe Memorial Lecture what's wrong with "us"?' Professor Robert Tavernor, Emeritus 27 Oct.: Approaches to learning and teaching: Professor of Architecture and Urban perspectives from different disciplines I Design, LSE, will deliver the Dorothy Rowe Gillian Evans: 'What might students have Memorial Lecture at 5 pm on 14 October in to complain about?' Magdalen Auditorium. Christopher Palmer: 'Tutorial teaching in Subject: ‘From L B Alberti to Richard Physics – then and now' Rogers: the Italian connection and the new Sarah Randolph: 'Learning to think as a Renaissance in London’ biologist' Events, lectures and discussions 3 Nov.: Approaches to teaching and learning: perspectives from different disciplines II The Oxford Italian Association will present Melissa Highton: 'Choosing technology the following events during Michaelmas for teaching and learning' term. Non-association members will usually Kevin Hilliard: 'Literature and the tutorial be charged £5 at the door; students under 30 system' attend free. Sophie Kershaw: 'Mathematics: the music 7 Oct.: Film: Mine vaganti (Loose cannons), of reason' 8 pm, Rewley House Lecture Theatre. 10 Nov.: The globe-trotting tutor Subtitles. Admission free. Christoph Haase: To be confirmed 25 Oct.: Richard Owen will lead a discussion Aadya Shukla: To be confirmed in the Mary Ogilvie Theatre, St Anne’s, 7.30 Gavin Williams: 'Questions and not for 8 pm. answers create knowledge' Subject: ‘The end of an era: some reflections 17 Nov.: Graduate panel: the experience of on the recent political situation in Italy’ learning around the globe 9 Nov.: Dr Cathy Oakes will lecture at 8 pm Michelle Fernandes: 'The globe-trotting in the Mary Ogilvie Theatre, St Anne’s. graduate' Subject: ‘Romanesque art and architecture Deeksha Sharma: 'Adapting to Oxford: a in the Abruzzi’ lawyer's perspective' Seán Williams: 'Exporting the German seminar'