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Lectures and Seminars, Hilary Term 2015 WEDNESDay 14 jaNuary 2015 • SuPPLEMENT (1) TO NO 5081 • VOL 145 Gazette Supplement Lectures and Seminars, Hilary term 2015 Humanities 200 Social Sciences 208 Colleges, Halls and Societies 217 TOrCH | The Oxford research Centre in anthropology and Museum Ethnography all Souls the Humanities anthropology and Museum Brasenose rothermere american Institute Ethnography/International Gender Corpus Christi Studies Classics Green Templeton anthropology and Museum Ethnography/ English Language and Literature Hertford GTC Medical anthropology English/History/History of art/Theology/ Nuffield Music Saïd Business School St antony’s History Economics St Cross History of art Education St john’s Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics Geography and the Environment Somerville Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics/ Interdisciplinary area Studies Trinity Medieval and Modern Languages International Development university College Medieval and Modern Languages Oxford Internet Institute Wolfson Oriental Studies Law Blackfriars Hall Theology and religion Social Policy and Intervention St Stephen’s House Socio-legal Studies Mathematical, Physical and Sociology Other Groups 222 Life Sciences 204 Department for Continuing andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture Chemistry Education 213 Friends of the Bodleian Earth Sciences Oxford Italian association Engineering Kellogg College Centre for Creative Friends of the Pitt rivers Museum Mathematical Institute Writing Physics Institutes, Centres and Plant Sciences Museums 213 Zoology ashmolean Museum Medical Sciences 206 Bodleian Libraries Clinical Neurosciences Buddhist Studies Pathology Hebrew and jewish Studies Pharmacology Museum of the History of Science/ Museum of Natural History Physiology, anatomy and Genetics Islamic Studies Population Health reuters Institute for the Study of Psychiatry journalism Learning Institute Maison Française Oxford Martin School Population ageing 199 200 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5081 • 14 january 2015 Humanities Faculty of Classics Americanist Criticism Reading Group seminars APGRD free public lectures TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in The group will meet at 5pm on Thursdays the Humanities The following free public lectures will be of weeks 2, 4 and 6 in Seminar room a, St given at 2.15pm on Mondays in the Lecture Cross Building. Convener: Dr Malkin Annual Headline Event Theatre, Ioannou Centre for Classical and American Literature Research seminar Byzantine Studies. The 2015 TOrCH headline event will be held Seminars will be given at 5pm on Thursdays at 5pm on 20 january at the Mathematical Dr Henry Power, Exeter of weeks 1, 3, 5 and 7 in the rothermere Institute. Marcus du Sautoy will argue that 26 Jan: ‘Henry Fielding’s Homer’ american Institute. Conveners: Dr Malkin mathematical proofs are not just number Helen McCrory in conversation with et al based, but also a form of narrative; Ben Professor Edith Hall, KCL Okri, Roger Penrose and Laura Marcus Early Modern Literature seminar 16 Feb: ‘On Medea at the National Theatre will consider how narrative shapes the (2014)’ The following seminars will be given at sciences as well as the arts. Chair: Elleke 5.15pm on Tuesdays in the History of the Boehmer. Followed by audience discussion Gwyneth Lewis, first Poet Laureate of Book room, St Cross Building. Conveners: and a drinks reception. Free and open to all, Wales Professor rhodri Lewis, Professor Tiffany but registration recommended. See www. 9 Mar: ‘On Clytemnestra’ Stern torch.ox.ac.uk/narrativeandproof for more information. Organised in collaboration Faculty of English Language and Andrew Hadfield, Sussex with the Mathematical Institute. Literature 20 Jan: ‘a red herring: fishing, god and Subject: ‘Narrative and proof’ polemic in Elizabethan England’ Inaugural Lecture Women and the humanities: Gender, Daniel Starza Smith literature and culture seminars Professor Andy Orchard, rawlinson and 3 Feb: ‘ “Was hit soo? or ys hit but a Bosworth Professor of anglo-Saxon, will dreame?” The epistolary romance of Sir The following seminars, followed by an deliver his inaugural lecture at 5.15pm john Conway and Elizabeth Bourne, end-of-term workshop, will be held at 2pm on 25 February in Lecture Theatre 2, c1570–90’ on Thursdays in room 11, Examination English Faculty. Gowns should be worn by Schools, unless otherwise noted. all Pavel Drábek, Hull members of the university. welcome; refreshments provided. 17 Feb: ‘ “One auspicious, and one Subject: ‘The craft and cunning of anglo- Conveners: Professor ros Ballaster, Dr Dropping eye”: frivolous drama in early Saxon verse’ Pelagia Goulimari, Dr Cláudia Pazos alonso modern Europe’ Professor of Poetry Lecture Professor Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly Debora K Shuger, uCLa 5 Feb: ‘Early modern foreign queens Professor Sir Geoffrey Hill will deliver the 3 Mar: ‘The death of archbishop Laud’ consort – agents of cultural transfer’ Professor of Poetry Lecture at 5.30pm on Literature and Science seminar 10 March in the Examination Schools. Professor Susan David Bernstein, The following seminars will be given at 2pm Wisconsin Meet the Poet Series on Fridays in Seminar room a, St Cross 19 Feb: ‘Library acts: rewriting gender in The following poetry readings will be given Building. Convener: Dr Michael Whitworth Victorian reading spaces’ in the Pusey room, Keble. Laura Ludtke and Natasha Ryan Professor Angela McRobbie, Goldsmiths 5.30pm, 13 Feb: Alice Oswald 6 Feb: ‘Interwar London in an artificial 3pm, 4 Mar: ‘The tyranny of the perfect: light’ competitive femininity in neo-liberal 6pm, 26 Feb: Peter Robinson and Jamie times’ McKendrick Dr Natalia Cecire, Sussex 20 Feb: tbc Richard Hillary Memorial Lecture Rothermere American Institute Anja A Drautzburg and Franziska Kohlt Professor Simon Armitage will deliver the 6 Mar: Graduate forum: titles tbc American Literature research seminar richard Hillary Memorial Lecture at 5pm on 2 March in the Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre, Dr Charlotte Sleigh, Kent The american Literature research seminar St Cross Building. 20 Mar: ‘Engineering fiction: literature will be held at 5pm on Thursdays of weeks and science in interwar Britain’ 1, 3, 5 and 7 at the rothermere american The Poet’s Essay Institute. Details: www.rai.ox.ac.uk. Medieval English research seminar Adam Phillips, psychotherapist and Conveners: Dr Lloyd Pratt, Dr rachel Malkin, essayist, will give his second seminar of the Seminars will be given at 5.15pm on jurrit Daalder, Michael Walsh series at 4.30pm on 4 March in the Pusey Wednesdays in the History of the Book room, Keble. Free and open to all. room, St Cross Building. all welcome. Conveners: Professor andy Orchard, D F McKenzie Lecture Professor Daniel Wakelin Professor Sheldon Pollock, Columbia, will deliver the 20th annual D F McKenzie Lecture at 5pm on 12 March in Lecture Theatre 2, St Cross Building. Subject: ‘Editing in India: the first 1,500 years’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5081 • 14 january 2015 201 Postcolonial Writing and Theory Victorian Literature Graduate seminar James Ford Lectures in British History seminar The following seminars will be given at THE ENGLISH PEOPLE at war IN THE age The following seminars will be given at 5.15pm on Mondays in the History of the OF HENRY VIII 5.15pm on Thursdays in the Okinaga room, Book room, St Cross Building. Drinks Dr Steven Gunn will deliver the james Ford Wadham. Conveners: Professor Elleke reception after each seminar. all welcome. Lectures at 5pm on the following Fridays in Boehmer, Dr ankhi Mukherjee Conveners: Professor Shuttleworth et al the Examination Schools. Linda McDowell Christine Ferguson, Glasgow 30 Jan: ‘Wars and rumours of wars’ 22 Jan: ‘The construction of difference 26 Jan: ‘Eleusis on Fleet Street: arthur 6 Feb: ‘Towns and villages’ and management of labour in post- Machen, a E Waite and the occult rituals imperial Britain’ of popular fiction’ 13 Feb: ‘Noblemen and gentlemen’ Maria Blanco Angelique Richardson, Exeter 20 Feb: ‘Trade and tillage’ 12 Feb: ‘Latin american literature and 9 Feb: ‘Victorian monism: mind and body 27 Feb: ‘Killing and dying’ science’ in Hardy’ 6 Mar: ‘Kings and peoples’ Christopher Warnes, Cambridge Sandra Mayer 26 Feb: ‘Popular fiction and political 23 Feb: ‘The prime minister as celebrity Centre for Gender, Identity and economy in post-apartheid South africa’ novelist: Lothairmania and Disraeli’s Subjectivity seminar “double consciousness” ’ Neil Lazarus, Warwick Professor Carmen Sarasúa, autònoma de 12 Mar: ‘The postcolonial unconscious: a 9 Mar: tbc Barcelona, will deliver a seminar at 2pm on discussion’ 21 january in the Colin Matthews room, Faculties of English/History/History of History Faculty. Restoration to Reform seminar Art/Theology/Music Subject: ‘Women’s work and structural The following seminars will be given at change. rural manufactures in 18th- 5.15pm on Mondays in the Dorfman Centre, The Bible in Art, Music and Literature century Spain’ St Peter’s. Conveners: Professor Ballaster, interdisciplinary seminar Gender, Women and Culture seminar Professor Gerrard, Dr johnston, Dr Murphy, The following seminars will be given at 5pm series Dr Williams on Mondays in the Danson room, Trinity. WAR, State AND Governance Mary Fairclough, york Convener: Dr C joynes 26 Jan: ‘Frankenstein, electricity and The following seminars will be given at Dr John Ashton revolutionary chemistry’ noon on Tuesdays in the rees Davies room, 26 Jan: ‘Caravaggio at Emmaus’ History Faculty, unless otherwise noted. Helen Williams, Northumbria Professor Martin Kemp Conveners: Dr
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