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

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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 Christina de Bellaigue, Dr 9 Feb: ‘Local satire and literary heritage: 9 Feb: ‘Leonardo and Christ’ Kathryn Gleadle, Dr Senia Paseta, Dr Selina mapping the Good Humour Club with Todd, Dr Naomi Pullin the Laurence Sterne Trust’ Dr Michael Snape, Birmingham 23 Feb: ‘The Bible, the British and the Professor Arianne Chernock, Boston James Vigus, QMUL First World War’ 27 Jan: ‘From right to rule to the right 23 Feb: ‘Henry Crabb Robinson’ to reign: politics of queenship in 19th- Dr Paul Kerry, Brigham Young David Taylor, Warwick century Britain’ 9 Mar: ‘What George Bancroft learned 9 Mar: ‘Gillray’s Gulliver’ at the University of Göttingen about the Professor Susan Grayzel, Mississippi Romantic Research seminar Bible’ 24 Feb, Lodgings Drawing Room, Exeter: ‘Did women have a Great War?’ Dr Timothy Michael will deliver the Faculty of History following seminars at 5.30pm on Mondays Dr Matthew Stevens, Swansea at Lincoln. All welcome. Conveners: 10 Mar: ‘Married women and the law in Carlyle Lectures Professor Stafford, Professor Halmi late-medieval northern Europe’ 19 Jan: ‘The government of the tongue: ‘The grim regalia of destruction’: Transnational and Global History Godwin’s linguistic turns’ points of tension between sacred seminar and secular authority in Christian 2 Feb: tbc Europe c400–c1100 The following seminars will be given at 5pm 16 Feb: tbc on Tuesdays in the Frankel Room, Corpus Dr Stuart Airlie, Glasgow, will deliver the Christi. Conveners: Arthur Asseraf, Roshan 2 Mar: tbc Carlyle Lectures at 5pm on Wednesdays in Allpress, Brant Moscovitch, Kate Kennedy, the Examination Schools. Transatlantic Literature in Context Benjamin Mountford 4 Feb: ‘Rulers, martyrs and questionings Seminars will be given at 5.15pm on of authority’ Professor Stephen Tuck Thursdays in weeks 2, 4, 6, and 8 in Seminar 27 Jan: ‘The night Malcolm X spoke at 11 Feb: ‘ “As a roaring and ravening lion”: Room B, St Cross Building. Convener: Dr the Oxford Union: the transatlantic civil heretical and wicked rulers 400–700’ Stubbs rights movement’ 18 Feb: ‘Holy men in times of trial’ Arun Kumar, Göttingen 25 Feb: ‘Ordering the Carolingian world I’ 10 Feb: ‘The great fears of modern societies: industrial and reformatory 4 Mar: ‘Ordering the Carolingian world II’ schools in colonial settings’ 11 Mar: ‘Towards Canossa’ 202 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5081 • 14 January 2015

Dr Alex Middleton Oxford Centre for Global History Slade Lectures 24 Feb: ‘The afterlives of Rajah Brooke: and Rothermere American Institute The print before photography: the Victorian political argument and global conference European print in the age of the history’ A conference will be held 16–17 April copper plate and wooden block Professor Margaret MacMillan at the Rothermere American Institute. Professor Antony Griffiths, former Keeper, 10 Mar: ‘The transnational origins of the Keynote speakers: Professor James Belich, Department of Prints and Drawings, British First World War’ Professor Mae Ngai, Columbia. Panels: Museum, will deliver the Slade Lectures Professor Elliot West, Arkansas, Professor Global and Imperial History Research at 5pm on the following days in the David Goodman, Melbourne, Dr Benjamin Seminar Mathematical Institute. Mountford, Dr Jan-Georg Deutsch, Dr 21 Jan: ‘The technology and its The following seminars will be given at Cassandra Mark-Thiesen, Basel, Professor implications’ 5pm on Fridays in the Colin Matthew Ian Phiminster, Sheffield/Free State,Dr Room, History Faculty, unless otherwise Stephen Tuffnell, Professor Keir Reeves, 28 Jan: ‘The world of the print: engravers noted. Conveners: Professor James Belich, Federation, Professor Andrew Isenberg, and designers’ Professor John Darwin, Dr Jan-Georg Temple. Closing remarks: Professor 4 Feb: ‘The publisher: finance, Deutsch, Dr Miles Larmer John Darwin. Conveners: Dr Benjamin distribution and marketing’ Mountford, Dr Stephen Tuffnell. Free but Saul Dubow, QMUL places limited. Registration essential: www. 11 Feb: ‘The role of the state: copyright, 23 Jan: ‘Mandela, Verwoerd and the rai.ox.ac.uk/goldrush. Enquiries: global@ censorship and patronage’ politics of Sharpeville-Langa, 1960’ history.ox.ac.uk. 18 Feb: ‘Buyers, collectors and Martin Thomas, Exeter Subject: ‘Gold rush imperialism: gold connoisseurs’ 30 Jan: ‘From Sétif to Moramanga: mining and global history in the age of identifying insurgents and ascribing guilt imperialism, c1848–1914’ 25 Feb: ‘The cheap print’ in the French colonial postwar’ 4 Mar: ‘The print and the art historian’ History of Art Department Hannah-Louise Clark 11 Mar: ‘Misunderstanding prints’ 6 Feb: ' "Preserving and conserving the Oxford Art History Research Seminar Muslim body": medical auxiliaries and Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and the politics of health in 20th-century The following seminars will be given at 5pm Phonetics colonial Algeria' on Tuesdays in the Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities. Conveners: Dr M Leino, Nicholas Owen General Linguistics Seminar Oxford Brookes, Dr M Walker, Professor T 13 Feb: ‘Knowing and not-knowing: Wilson The following seminars will be given at peripheral violence and metropolitan 5.15pm on Mondays. Please refer to the knowledge' Dr Barbara Penner, UCL faculty website for details of venues where 20 Jan: ‘X is for an expert on bathrooms: Yasmin Khan they are not given. Conveners: Professor A Alexander Kira and Peter Greenaway’s 26 20 Feb: 'The Raj at war: India, 1939–45' Lahiri, Dr A Asudeh, Dr S Paoli bathrooms’ Niels Petersson, Sheffield Hallam Professor Frans Plank, Konstanz Dr Jennifer Johnson 27 Feb: ‘Global history in a box: work, 19 Jan, Flora Anderson Hall, Somerville: 27 Jan: ‘ “Noli me tangere”: on not ships and the transformations of the ‘Time for change’ touching and not knowing in Georges 1970s’ Rouault’s modernism’ Dr Kerstin Hoge Graduate student presentations 2 Feb: tbc Dr Mirjam Brusius time tbc, 6 Mar and 13 Mar, Lecture 3 Feb: ‘Beyond orientalism. Photography 9 Feb: tbc Theatre: ‘Global and imperial history’ and the Middle East’ Dr Louise Esher Oxford Centre for Global History and the Dr Marta Cacho Casal, Oxford Brookes 16 Feb: tbc Modern European History Centre 10 Feb: ‘Locating artists’ libraries in early Dr Peter Barber A workshop will be held 11am–4pm (with modern Spain and Italy’ 23 Feb: ‘Analogy, asymmetry and lunch) on 12 February in the Lecture Dr Alexander Marr, Cambridge underspecification: evidence from Theatre, History Faculty. Places limited; 17 Feb: ‘Dürer, instruments and the ancient Greek’ for information and to register: global@ aesthetics of “non-art” images’ history.ox.ac.uk . Panel: Professor Paul Professor David Adger, QMUL Betts, Professor Tom Buchanan, Professor Dr Tim Hunter, fine art consultant 2 Mar: tbc Patricia Clavin, Dr John-Paul Ghobrial, 24 Feb: ‘Collecting paintings in late- Professor William Labov, Pennsylvania Professor Abigail Green, Professor Ruth Victorian and Edwardian England: the 9 Mar, Taylorian Lecture Theatre: ‘Sound Harris. Convenors: Professor John Darwin, Brocklebank family and the story of their change in Philadelphia: replacing system Professor Paul Betts art collection’ A with system B’ Subject: ‘The global history of Europe’ Professor Michael White, York 3 Mar: ‘Theorising abstraction and sculpture before 1914’ Dr Peter Dent, Bristol 10 Mar: ‘ “Sum quia pictura”: the garrulous image in the early Renaissance’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5081 • 14 January 2015 203

Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Ms Manon Wynn Davies, Aberystwyth Jessica Keady, Manchester Phonetics/Faculty of Medieval and 5 Feb: ‘Sparks and embers: the 1979 17 Feb: ‘Masculinity studies and the Modern Languages Welsh referendum in modern Welsh men of the Dead Sea communities: poetry’ an interdisciplinary reading of purity/ Romance Linguistics seminar impurity in the Rule of the Community Ms Kristyna Syrova and the War Scroll’ The following seminars will take place at 12 Feb: ‘A boar hunting motif in the 5pm on Thursdays in room 3, Faculty of Dindshenchas’ Dr Katharina Keim, Manchester Medieval and Modern Languages, unless 24 Feb: ‘The exposition of scripture in Ms Catrin Williams otherwise noted. Convener: Professor Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer’ 12 Feb: ‘Modern medievalism’ Martin Maiden Grinfield Lecture Ms Ffion Williams Dr Paul O’Neill, Sheffield Professor Nicholas de Lange, Cambridge 12 Feb: ‘The Twrch Trwyth as a symbol of 5 Feb: ‘Diachronic contributions to 3 Mar: ‘Greek Jewish bible translations in man’ synchronic theories of morphology: medieval Judaism: the ancient roots of evidence from Romance verb Ms Hanna Hopwood the medieval translations’ morphology’ 19 Feb: ‘ “Os aml ei wallt, moes imi/os Dr Alexander Panayotov, Aarhus moel, na ddangos i ni”: the relationship Dr Louise Esher 10 Mar: ‘Jewish everyday life in the late- between hair and identity in medieval 19 Feb: ‘Romance perspectives on Roman and early-Byzantine Balkans’ Welsh literature’ morphome ecology and evolution’ Mr Benjamin Sadler Faculty of Theology and Religion Professor Cecilia Poletto, Frankfurt 19 Feb: ‘Admiring Tenby through the 5.30pm, 5 Mar: ‘Non and its companions: centuries: the textual transmission of Wilde Lectures in Natural and on the big NegP hypothesis’ “Edmyg Dinbych” ’ Comparative Religion Dr Iris Bachmann, Manchester Dr Alison Bonner Spiritual traditions and human 12 Mar: ‘Changing conceptions of 26 Feb: ‘Bede and Pelagius’ possibilities: learning from the Portuguese (and other languages) in the past about how to live well in the digital age’ Mr Cynan Llwyd, Cardiff present 12 Mar: ‘ “O’er those gloomy hills of Faculty of Medieval and Modern darkness”: Pantycelyn and the roots of Professor Mark Wynn, Leeds, will Languages the missionary movement’ deliver the Wilde Lectures in Natural and Comparative Religion at 5pm on Mondays Roundtable Inaugural Lecture in the Examination Schools, unless A roundtable will be held at 5pm on otherwise noted. Phillip Rothwell, King John II Professor 27 January in Room 2, Taylor Institution. 19 Jan: ‘Philosophy as a way of life’ of Portuguese, will deliver his inaugural Panellists: Claire Williams, Dimitris lecture at 5pm on 26 January in the Main 26 Jan: ‘Religious and secular Papanikolaou, Yeon-Soo Kim, Rutgers, and Hall, Taylor Institute. conceptions of the human good’ Juan José Adriasola, Alberto Hurtado, Chile. Subject: ‘Why Camões still counts: copies Part of the EHRC’s European Languages in 2 Feb: ‘Metaphysics and experience’ in search of originals’ Translation project, financed by theJ ohn 9 Feb: ‘Enacted example in the spiritual Ilchester Lecture Fell OUP research fund. life’ Subject: ‘Translating European languages: Professor Julie Cassiday, Williams College, on crisis’ 16 Feb: ‘The epistemic significance of will deliver an Ilchester Lecture at 5pm on tradition’ 19 February in Room 2, Taylor Institution. Faculty of Oriental Studies Subject: ‘Glamazons en travesti: drag Thurs, 26 Feb: ‘The nature of faith’ queens in Putin’s Russia’ Seminar on Jewish history and 2 Mar: ‘The existential dimension of Oxford Celtic Seminar literature in the Graeco-Roman period religious thought’ The following seminars will be given at 3pm The following seminars will be held at 9 Mar: ‘Understanding spiritual on Thursdays in the Habakkuk Room, Jesus. 2.30pm on Tuesdays at the Oxford Centre traditions and leading the spiritual life’ Tea from 2.30pm. for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Clarendon Institute Building, Walton Street. Convener: Professor Patrick Sims Williams, Professor Martin Goodman Aberystwyth 22 Jan: ‘Kenneth Jackson and the dating Lindsey Askin, Cambridge of early Welsh poetry’ 20 Jan: ‘Ben Sira’s scribalism’ Dr Andy Seaman, Canterbury Christ Dr T Michael Law, St Andrews Church 3 Feb: ‘Revealed wisdom in 29 Jan: ‘Aaron and Julius, “citizens of 4QInstruction, the Wisdom of Solomon Caerleon”: Wales’ Roman martyrs?’ and Hellenistic philosophy’ Dr Helen Jacobus, UCL 10 Feb: ‘Zodiac calendars in the Dead Sea scrolls’ 204 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5081 • 14 January 2015

Bampton Lectures Fennella Cannell, LSE Mathematical, Physical 11 Mar: ‘Bodies in the snow: Mormon Daring spirit: John’s gospel now martyrdom and the limits of narrative’ and Life Sciences Professor David F Ford, Cambridge, will McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics deliver the Bampton Lectures at 5pm on the Department of Chemistry and Public Life following days in the University Church. 20 Jan: ‘ “In the beginning was the Seminar on the Formation of Moral Organic Chemistry departmental Word…” – theology at full stretch’ Character research seminar 21 Jan: ‘Reading John as John reads – The following seminars will be given at 4pm The following seminars will be given at improvising then and now’ on Tuesdays in the South West Lodgings, 2pm on Thursdays in the Dyson Perrins Christ Church. Major-General (ret’d) Tim Lecture Theatre, unless otherwise noted. 27 Jan: ‘ “Into all the truth” – a community Cross will offer a formal response on both Conveners: Professor H Anderson, Professor of learners’ occasions. Convener: Professor Nigel Biggar M Moloney 28 Jan: ‘The literary John – above all Dr Stephen Deaking, Royal Military Professor Miquel A Pericàs, Spain dramatic’ Academy, Sandhurst 4pm, 15 Jan: ‘Catalytic asymmetric flow Grinfield Lectures on the Septuagint 27 Jan: ‘Education in an ethos at the processes with supported systems’ Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst’ Japheth in the Tents of Shem: Greek Dr Tom Heightman, Cambridge Bible translations in medieval Dr Patrick Mileham 22 Jan: ‘Fragment-based drug discovery Judaism 24 Feb: ‘ “Moral Forces”: the search – less is more’ for “integrity” in professional military Professor Nicholas De Lange, Cambridge, Professor Gwilherm Evano, Belgium development’ will deliver the Grinfield Lectures on the 29 Jan: ‘Hetero-substituted alkynes: from Septuagint at 5pm in the Oxford Centre synthesis to applications’ for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Clarendon Professor Don Hilvert, Switzerland Institute, unless otherwise noted. 5 Feb: ‘Building better enzymes’ 2 Mar, Examination Schools: ‘The age of the Genizah, c1000–c1200’ Professor Rachel K O’Reilly, Warwick 12 Feb: ‘New directions in chemistry – 2.30pm, 3 Mar: ‘The ancient roots of the taking inspiration from biology’ medieval translations’ Professor Martin D Smith 4 Mar: ‘After the Latin conquest’ 19 Feb: ‘Asymmetric counterion-directed Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Study reactions’ of Religion – Religion in Text, Practice, Dr Matthew J Fuchter, London Theory 26 Feb: ‘Harnessing helicity; from The following seminars will be given at helically chiral aromatics to circularly 5pm on Wednesdays in the Latner Room, polarised light and back again’ St Peter’s, unless otherwise noted. Professor Richard J Whitby, Southampton Morgan Clarke 5 Mar: ‘Synthesis and properties 28 Jan: ‘Integrity and commitment in the of extended aromatic systems and anthropology of Islam’ endofullerenes’ Bihani Sarkar Dr Ian Lewis, Switzerland 4 Feb: ‘Toward a history of the Navarātra, 12 Mar: ‘SOM230: a new therapeutic the Autumnal Festival of the Goddess’ modality for Cushing’s disease’ Derek Penslar Department of Earth Sciences 11 Feb: ‘Judaism and Zionism: a re-appraisal’ Departmental seminars Sondra Hausner The following seminars will be given at noon Thurs, 19 Feb, Oriental Institute: ‘Ritual, on Fridays in the Lecture Theatre, Earth inversion and hierarchy at the Kumbh Sciences Department. Convener: Dr R Katz Mela, the great festival of India’ Dr Zoe Leinhardt, Bristol Donovan Schaefer 23 Jan: ‘Is the Earth's composition just 25 Feb: ‘Beautiful facts: secularism, skin deep?’ religion and the desire for text’ Professor John Hutchinson, Royal Inge Daniels Veterinary College 4 Mar: ‘Dolls are scary: material religion 30 Jan: ‘Six-toed elephants and knobbly in contemporary Japan’ kneed birds! Case studies in the evolution of limb sesamoid bones’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5081 • 14 January 2015 205

Dr Ruza Ivanovic, Leeds Mathematical Institute Particles and Fields seminars 6 Feb: ‘Simulating abrupt climate The following seminars will be given at changes in the last deglaciation (21–9 ka)’ Mathematical Biology and Ecology 4.15pm on Thursdays in the Dennis Sciama seminars Professor Eric Rignot, California at Irvine Lecture Theatre, Department of Physics. and Jet Propulsion Laboratory The following seminars will be held at 2pm Conveners: Dr Markus Rummel, Professor 13 Feb: tbc on Fridays in Lecture Room 2, Mathematical Subir Sarkar Institute. Convener: Sara Jolliffe (cmb@ Dr Mathilde Cannat, Paris VII Dr Simone Marzani, MIT maths.ox.ac.uk) 20 Feb: ‘Exhumation and 15 Jan: ‘Jet substructure: a QCD serpentinisation of mantle-derived Professor Pieter Rein ten Wolde, AMOLF viewpoint’ peridotites at mid-ocean ridges’ 23 Jan: ‘The fundamental limit on Mr James Edwards, Durham the accuracy of measuring chemical Dr Sally Gibson, Cambridge 22 Jan: ‘Delta-function interactions for concentrations’ 27 Feb: ‘On the nature and causes of the bosonic and spinning strings: the ocean-island volcanism: geochemical Dr Andrew Angel generation of Abelian gauge theory’ and geophysical constraints from 6 Feb: ‘Modelling temperature Dr Sandeepan Gupta, Weizmann Institute, Galapagos’ registration in vernalisation’ Tel Aviv Dr Jennifer Pike, Cardiff Dr Andrea Sottoriva, London 29 Jan: ‘Beyond the standard model: the 6 Mar: ‘Holocene Antarctic diatoms, 20 Feb: ‘Cancer genomics and complete set of predictions from the isotopes and icebergs’ mathematical modelling: handling the dim-6 BSM Lagrangian’ complexity’ Dr Cloe Michaut, Paris VII Professor Volodya Braun, Regensburg 13 Mar: ‘Periodic activities at silicic Professor Sergei Fedotov, Manchester 5 Feb: ‘Uses of conformal symmetry in volcanoes’ 6 Mar: ‘Non-Markovian random walk QCD’ models and non-linear fractional PDE’ Professor Cliff Burgess, Perimeter Institute, Department of Engineering Waterloo Department of Physics The following seminars will be given at 2pm 12 Feb: ‘Open effective field theories’ in the IEB, Department of Engineering. Colloquia Dr Jonas Lindert, Zurich 19 Feb: ‘Next-to-leading-order EW and Dr Robert Style The following lectures will be given at QCD corrections with OpenLoops’ 26 Jan: ‘The mechanics of soft solids – 4.15pm on Fridays in the Martin Wood breaking classical laws’ Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory. Tea Professor Dominik Stoeckinger, TU served in the Common Room at 3.45pm. Dresden Dr Lisbeth Garbrecht Thygesen, Conveners: J March-Russell, S Balbus, A 26 Feb: ‘g-2 of the muon’ Copenhagen Boothroyd, T Palmer 2 Feb: ‘Dislocations in plant cell walls’ Professor Valya Khoze, IPPP Durham Professor Chris Lintott 5 Mar: ‘Scale of new physics from multi- Professor Paul Wilcox, Bristol 30 Jan: ‘Science with a crowd: the H,W’ 9 Feb: tbc Zooniverse from Galaxy Zoo to LSST’ Professor Ernest Ma, California at Riverside 16 Feb: tbc Professor Immanuel Bloch, Max-Planck 12 Mar: ‘Dark matter from Higgs decay’ Professor Alba Sofi, Mediterranea of Reggio Institute for Quantum Optics Calabria 6 Feb: ‘Controlling and exploring Department of Plant Sciences 23 Feb: ‘Analysis of structures with quantum matter at the single atom level’ uncertain parameters modelled as Departmental research seminars Professor Daniela Bortoletto interval variables’ 13 Feb: ‘The Higgs boson and particle The following seminars will be given at 1pm Dr Debdulal Roy, National Physical physics at the LHC: a progress report and on Thursdays in the Large Lecture Theatre, Laboratory, London plans for the future’ Department of Plant Sciences. Convener: Dr 2 Mar: tbc I Moore Professor Jo Dunkley Dr Arnaud Marmier, Exeter 20 Feb: ‘Cosmology from the microwave Professor Sir Ghillean Prance 9 Mar: ‘Negative Poisson’s ratio and other background’ 22 Jan: ‘That glorious forest: 50 years unusual elastic properties in pure silica exploring the Amazon rainforest’ Professor Bernhard Keimer, Max-Planck zeolites: a DFT and force field study’ Institute for Solid State Research Professor Salomé Prat, CSIC 27 Feb: ‘High-temperature 29 Jan: ‘Potato as a model system for superconductivity: new insights and storage organ formation’ perspectives’ Professor Sue Hartley, York Professor Robert Fosbury, European 5 Feb: ‘Grasses bite back! The role of Southern Observatory silicon-based defences in the interactions 6 Mar: ‘Colours from Earth: preparing for between plants and herbivores’ exo-earth characterisation’ Professor Simon Newstead 12 Feb: ‘Structural basis for transport and regulation in the PTR/NRT1 family of peptide/nitrate transporters’ 206 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5081 • 14 January 2015

Professor Renier Van der Hoorn Medical Sciences Professor Arturo Zychlinsky, Max Planck 19 Feb: ‘Apoplastic enzymes and defence: Institute for Infection Biology from secreted immune proteases to 6 Mar: ‘NETs – the second function of Nuffield Department of Clinical activity-based proteomics’ chromatin’ Neurosciences Professor Paul Dupree, Cambridge Professor Matthias Merkenschlager, MRC 26 Feb: ‘The biosynthesis and molecular Seminars Clinical Sciences Centre, London architecture of plant cell walls’ 13 Mar: ‘A role for cohesion in regulating The following seminars will be given at 1pm enhancer interactions and enhancer- Professor Daniel Zilberman, Berkeley on Thursdays in Seminar Rooms A/B, Level proximal genes’ 5 Mar: ‘Molecular co-evolution of 6, West Wing, John Radcliffe Hospital. genomes and chromatin’ Professor Stephen West, London Research Dr James Rowe, Cambridge Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories, Cancer Professor Dorian Fuller, UCL 29 Jan: ‘Magnetoencephalographic Research UK 12 Mar: ‘Parallel evolution of insights into frontotemporal dementias: 20 Mar: ‘DNA strand break repair and domesticated crops: global comparisons from network reorganisation to potential links to human disease’ from archaeobotany’ new treatment’ Professor Anke Ehlers Department of Pharmacology Department of Zoology 26 Feb: ‘Post-traumatic stress disorder: studies of flashback memories and their Pharmacology, Anatomical Seminar series treatment’ Neuropharmacology and Drug The following seminars will be given at Discovery seminars Professor John Hardy, UCL 4pm on Mondays in Lecture Theatre B, 26 Mar: ‘Genetic dissection of The following seminars will be held at Department of Zoology. Organisers: Dr D neurodegenerative disease’ noon on Tuesdays in the Lecture Theatre, Biro, Dr A Daley Department of Pharmacology, unless Public event: Tackling brain diseases Professor Fritz Vollrath otherwise noted. 19 Jan: ‘Elephants and ivory’ Dr Claire Sexton, Dr Arjune Sen, Dr Professor S R Wayne Chen, Calgary (host: Michele Hu and Dr Sarah Pendlebury will Professor Emily Rayfield, Bristol Professor Rebecca Sitsapesan) lecture at an event at 5.30pm on 18 March in 26 Jan: ‘Jaws, beaks and birds: cranial Mon, 19 Jan: ‘Ryanodine receptor store the Mathematical Institute. evolution and function in dinosaurs and Ca2+ sensing gate, Ca2+ waves and Ca2+- Subjects: ‘Exercise and cognition’, birds’ triggered arrhythmias’ ‘Epilepsy’ and ‘Cerebrovascular disease Southwood Lecture and dementia’ Professor Stephen Faulker (host: Associate Dr Jason Chapman, Rothamsted Research Professor Paolo Tammaro) 2 Feb: ‘Chasing the high fliers: recent Sir William Dunn School of Pathology 20 Jan: ‘Developing lanthanide probes insights from radar studies of insect responsive to ions, pH and oxygen’ migration’ The following seminars will take place at 2pm on Fridays in the Medical Sciences Dr Ashraf Kitmitto, Institute of Professor Paula Murphy, Dublin Teaching Centre. Cardiovascular Sciences, Manchester (host: 9 Feb: ‘Patterns and shapes in the Professor Rebecca Sitsapesan) vertebrate embryo: integrating Professor Victor Tybulewicz, MRC 27 Jan: ‘Molecular and cellular targets for mechanical stimulation, gene expression National Institute for Medical Research, novel heart failure therapy: nano-scale and morphology’ London imaging techniques bridge the gap’ 23 Jan: ‘Signals controlling B cell survival Professor Arkhat Abzhanov, Harvard Associate Professor James D Johnson, and T cell adhesion’ 16 Feb: ‘Development and evolution British Columbia (host: Professor Antony of the animal face: from principles to Professor Bart De Strooper, Leuven and Galione) mechanisms’ UCL 3 Feb: ‘Autocrine insulin signalling and 6 Feb: ‘Specificity and diversity of insulin receptor trafficking in pancreatic Dr George McGavin gamma-secretases in intramembrane beta-cells’ 23 Feb: ‘Tales from television: bringing proteolysis’ the natural world to your front room’ Professor Ruediger Klein, Director, Max- Professor Rob Klose Planck-Institute of Neurobiology (host: Dr 2 Mar: Peter Medawar centenary 13 Feb: ‘A new logic for polycomb Liliana Minichiello) celebration chromatin domain formation’ 10 Feb: ‘How to build a complex nervous Jenkinson Memorial Lecture system with a small vocabulary of Professor Claudio Joazeiro, Scripps Sir John Gurdon, Cambridge guidance cues’ Research Institute 9 Mar: ‘From nuclear transfer to 20 Feb: ‘The E3 ligase listerin/Ltn1 links Professor Sian Harding, Imperial (host: prospects for cell replacement’ co-transalational protein quality control Associate Professor Ming Lei) and neurodegeneration’ 17 Feb: ‘Gene vs stem cell therapy for heart failure’ Professor K J Patel, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Professor David J Thornton, Manchester 27 Feb: ‘Protecting our genomes against (host: Associate Professor Ming Lei) toxic metabolism’ 24 Feb: tbc University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5081 • 14 January 2015 207

11th David Smith Lecture in Anatomical Nuffield Department of Population Dr Geraldine Strathdee, Mental Health Neuropharmaclogy Health NHS England Professor Jean-Marc Fritschy, Institute of 3 Feb: ‘Mental health time has come: the Pharmacology and Toxicology, Zurich (host: Sir Richard Doll Seminars in Public role of the leaders in delivering the next Professor Peter Somogyi) Health and Epidemiology five years’ vision’ 3 Mar: ‘Plasticity of GABAergic synapses: The following seminars will be given at 1pm Professor Willem Kuyken mechanisms and implications’ on Tuesdays in the Lecture Theatre, Richard 10 Feb: ‘Mindfulness or medications? 10 Mar: tbc Doll Building. All welcome. Conveners: Dr D Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Canoy, Dr W Herrington mindfulness-based cognitive therapy Department of Physiology, Anatomy compared with maintenance anti- Professor Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Bristol and Genetics depressant treatment in the prevention 20 Jan: ‘The epidemiology of the of depressive relapse/recurrence’ hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis: a life Head of Department seminar series course approach’ Dr Elizabeth Tunbridge The following seminars will be given at 24 Feb: ‘Of mice and men: the influence Professor Judith Bliss, Institute of Cancer 1pm and 1.30pm in the Large Lecture of human genetic variation on cognitive Research Theatre, Sherrington Building. All welcome. function’ 27 Jan: ‘Breast cancer trials – Convener: Dr Deborah Goberdhan contemporary issues in design’ Professor Julian Savulescu 30 Jan 3 Mar: ‘Time to rethink the future of Professor Debbie Jarvis, Imperial Professor Peter Robbins: ‘Iron, oxygen psychiatry and medicine’ 3 Feb: ‘Asthma and allergy in Europe: and the pulmonary circulation’ the European Community Respiratory Dr Oliver Howes, London Dr Tim Vogels: ‘The dance of excitation Health Survey’ 10 Mar: ‘Dopamine or glutamate: which and inhibition, and other interesting is the psychotic fire-starter?’ Professor Martin Björck, Uppsala stories’ 10 Feb: ‘Cohort studies in Sweden: Dr Rupert McShane 6 Feb studying risk factors for abdominal aortic 17 Mar: ‘ECT and ketamine: an update’ Professor Paul Riley: ‘En route to aneurysms and optimising screening’ mending a broken heart’ Professor Douglas Easton, Cambridge Dr Anna Hoerder-Suabedissen: 17 Feb: ‘Twenty years of breast cancer ‘Development and evolution of genetics – what have we learnt and where neocortical subplate neurons’ next?’ 13 Feb Professor Julian Gold, New South Wales Professor Esther Stoeckli, IMLS: ‘To 24 Feb: ‘Human endogenous cross, or not to cross – axon guidance retroviruses: an epidemiological mechanisms at choice points’ (host: perspective on the enemy within’ Professor Zoltán Molnár) Professor Terence Dwyer 27 Feb 3 Mar: ‘Constructing supersized birth Professor James Johnson, British and child cohort studies to investigate Columbia: ‘In vivo control of heart rate health problems in early life’ and cardiomyocyte metabolism by Ryr2- Professor Helen Colhoun, Dundee mediated calcium flux’ (host: Professor 10 Mar: ‘Using high dimensional datasets David Paterson) in the study of diabetic complications’ 6 Mar Dr Rhys Evans: ‘Substrate selection Department of Psychiatry by the myocardium: the role of triacylglycerols in cardiac energy Meetings provision’ The following lectures will be held at Dr Natalie Connor-Robson: ‘Integrating 9.30am on Tuesdays in the Seminar Room, data from iPSC and transgenic rodent Department of Psychiatry, Warneford models’ Hospital. 13 Mar Dr Yousef Rahimi and Dr Rex Haigh, Professor Amanda Fisher, Imperial: tbc Reading (host: Professor Dame Kay Davies) 20 Jan: ‘Complexities of a mental health programme: Afghanistan experience’ Professor Navneet Kapur, Manchester 27 Jan: ‘Health services and suicide: clinical perspectives on prevention’ 208 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5081 • 14 January 2015

Social Sciences Gwyneira Isaac, Smithsonian Institution Medical Anthropology Research 6 Feb: ‘Replicating relations: repatriation Seminar: Ethnography in focus and the use of digital 3D technology at School of Anthropology and Museum The following seminars will be given at the Smithsonian’ Ethnography 11am on Mondays in the Lecture Room, 61 Sara Asadulla, InsightShare Banbury Road. Conveners: Professor E Hsu, Departmental seminar series 13 Feb: ‘Recalling the past using Dr A McLennan participatory video in the East Khasi The following seminars will be given at Rene Gerrets, Amsterdam Hills, Meghalaya’ 3.30pm on Fridays in the Lecture Theatre, 19 Jan: ‘The social life of malaria Pitt Rivers Museum, Robinson Close. Alicia Blum-Ross, LSE indicators in global health governance’ Conveners: Professor M Banks, Dr H Neveu- 20 Feb: ‘Making media matter? Parenting Janelle Lamoreaux, Cambridge Kringelbach and educating for a digital future’ 26 Jan: ‘What if the environment is a Claudio Sopranzetti Laura Haapio-Kirk, independent researcher person? Epigenetic lineages and birth 23 Jan: ‘Moving the cracks: motorcycle 27 Feb: ‘Live photo sharing in the defect research in China’ taxis, politics and the fragility of power in museum’ Rebecca Marshland, Edinburgh Bangkok’ Rhiannedd Smith, Reading 2 Feb: ‘Living in a hive: the rational bee, Emmanuelle Kadya Tall, CNRS/IMAF Paris 6 Mar: ‘Monks, myths and multi-vocality: the urban bee and the natural bee’ 30 Jan: ‘On representation and power: interpreting the ruins of Glastonbury Vanessa Grotti portrait of a vodun leader in present-day Abbey’ 9 Feb: ‘Undoing the other: sociality and Benin’ Lynette Russell, Monash Indigenous healing in the medical missions among Layla Renshaw, Kingston, London Centre the Trio of Suriname and Brazil’ 6 Feb: ‘Lost objects, imaginary 13 Mar: ‘ “The greatest delight to all David Napier, UCL assemblages and the mass graves of the present”: public engagement with 16 Feb: ‘Vulnerability and obesity: the Spanish Civil War’ Aboriginal performances and displays in case of type 2 diabetes’ Victoria, 1836–1914’ Martin Stokes, KCL Daniel Dolley 13 Feb: ‘What is a sentimental voice?’ Unit for Biocultural Variation and 23 Feb: ‘The art of giving and receiving: Obesity (UBVO) seminar series Emma-Jayne Abbots, Wales Trinity some reflections on fieldwork among the 20 Feb: ‘The agency of eating: mediation, The following seminars will be given at Tsachila of western Ecuador’ food and the body in highland Ecuador’ 1pm on Thursdays in 61 Banbury Road. Anna Lavis, Birmingham Convener: Professor S Ulijaszek Andrée Grau, Roehampton 2 Mar: ‘Coexistence, “gambling” 27 Feb: ‘Anthropology, ethnomusicology, Sebastiano Collino, Nestlé Institute Health and inbetweenness: exploring the anthropology of dance: same Sciences lived experiences of antipsychotic difference?’ 12 Feb: ‘Health ageing, longevity and medications’ stratified intervention for the elderly Christian Groes-Green, Roskilde Alexandra Pillen, UCL population’ 6 Mar: ‘Obsessed by love: erotic magic, 9 Mar: ‘Acoustic indirection: the delirious love and female power in Vickie Curtis, Open intonation of painful injustice in the Mozambique’ 19 Feb: ‘Citizen science: who, why and Kurdish community of London’ how?’ Dimitris Papadopoulos, Leicester ARGO-EMR: Anthropology Research 13 Mar: ‘Stacking ontologies: mundane Julian Savulescu Group at Oxford on Eastern Medicines technoscience in the Silk Mill’ 26 Feb: ‘Obesity, responsibility and ethics’ and Religions

Pitt Rivers Museum Research Seminar Osea Giuntella Tea tasting and well-being in Visual, Material and Museum 5 Mar: ‘Are tacos healthier than burgers? The following seminars will be given at 5pm Anthropology Migration, food diversity and health on Wednesdays in the Pauling Centre, 58a gains from variety’ The following seminars will be given at Banbury Road. Conveners: Professor E Hsu, 1pm on Fridays in the Lecture Theatre, Pitt Line Hillersdal and Jonas Winther, K Xiao Rivers Museum, Robinson Close. Convener: Copenhagen Kunbing Xiao, Southwest University for Professor L Peers 12 Mar: ‘Local models of obesities: Nationalities modelling obesity in collaborative Fran Larsen, independent researcher 21 Jan: ‘Tea tasting and bodily research practices’ 23 Jan: ‘ “Head belong dead man”: how perception: the embodied social some people’s heads become other structure in Bohea’. With tea tasting led people’s things’ by Bethan Thomas Vanessa Grotti, Marc Brightman and Kristin Surak, SOAS Carlos Fausto 4 Feb: ‘What is behind “peacefulness 30 Jan: ‘Owning things, owning people: through a bowl of tea” ’ property relations in native Amazonia’ 18 Feb: tbc Alan Mcfarlane, Cambridge 4 Mar: ‘The mystery of tea’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5081 • 14 January 2015 209

Language and Anthropology seminar School of Anthropology and Professor Ewout Frankema, Wageningen series Museum Ethnography/GTC Medical 24 Feb: ‘African commodity trade, Anthropology Film and Discussion 1782–1939: the economic rationale of the The following seminars will be given at Group scramble’ 2pm on Thursdays in the New Seminar Room, 51–53 Banbury Road. Convener: Dr S The following films and discussions for Dr Fabian Waldinger, Warwick Leonard an interdisciplinary audience will take 3 Mar: tbc Brian Street, KCL place at 4pm on Tuesdays in the Barclay Dr Jessica Bean, Denison 29 Jan: ‘Building “literacy as social Room, Green Templeton. Convener: Dr A 10 Mar: tbc practice” on the social turn in McLennan anthropology and language’ Department of Education 27 Jan: Ethnographic film and discussion: Tim Jenkins, Cambridge Descending with Angels Public Seminar Programme 12 Feb: ‘Language ideologies and the 10 Feb: Documentary: iSalud! study of a flying saucer cult’ The following seminars will be given at 24 Feb: Film: Dallas Buyers Club 5pm on Mondays in Seminar Room A, Rupert Stasch, Cambridge Department of Education. 26 Feb: tbc 10 Mar: Documentary: Jungle Trip Professor Theodoros Marinis, Reading School of Anthropology and Museum Saïd Business School (convener: Professor Victoria Murphy) Ethnography/International Gender 19 Jan: ‘Production tasks underestimate Studies at Lady Margaret Hall Distinguished Speaker seminar the grammatical abilities of sequential bilingual children’ Urs Rohner, Credit Suisse Group, will give Seminars: Masculinities and Class in a a seminar at 5pm on 26 February at the Professor Hugh Lauder, Bath (convener: Global Perspective Saïd Business School. To register: www. Professor Harry Daniels) The following seminars will be given at distinguishedursrohner.eventbrite.com. 26 Jan: ‘The death of human capital – 2pm on Thursdays in the Talbot Hall, Lady Subject: ‘Disruptive innovation in why there are no exceptions’ Margaret Hall. Conveners: J Hayns, Dr L banking: from periphery to core Dr Melanie Ehren, UCL (convener: Volcan business’ Professor Pam Sammons) Dr Nancy Lindisfarne, SOAS Responsible Leadership seminar 2 Feb: ‘Modalities and mechanisms of 22 Jan: ‘Sexism: the deep connection effective school inspections’ Lord Green will give a seminar at 5.30pm between class and gender’ on 22 January at the Saïd Business School, Professor Fred Genesee, McGill (convener: 29 Jan: tbc followed by a drinks reception. To register: Professor Victoria Murphy) www.responsiblelordgreen.eventbrite.com. 9 Feb: ‘Rethinking early childhood Professor Diana Jeater, Goldsmiths Subject: ‘Brand, value and culture: education for English language learners’ 4 Feb: ‘Neoliberalism and the hardening business in society’ of Pentecostal masculinities in Dr Niall Winters (convener: Dr Rebecca Zimbabwe’ Eynon) Department of Economics 16 Feb: ‘Mobile learning in global health Professor Tobe Levin, Harvard training: what about social justice?’ 12 Feb: ‘No, it isn’t “circumcision”: synergy Economic and Social History Tuesday and tensions in campaigns for human seminar Professor Neil Mercer, Cambridge genital integrity’ (convener: Professor Harry Daniels) The following seminars will be given at 23 Feb: ‘Education, language and the Dr Selin Akyuz 5pm on Tuesdays in the Wharton Room, All social brain’ 19 Feb: ‘ “Face me if you are a man!”: Souls. Convener: Dr J Fenske an analysis of Turkish political Professor Janet Boddy, Sussex, and Professor Bruce Campbell, Queen’s Belfast masculinities’ Professor Donald Forrester, Bedfordshire 20 Jan: ‘The slow rise of a lagging (convener: Professor Judy Sebba) Adom Philogene Heron, St Andrews economy: British economic growth 2 Mar: ‘Does being in care provide 26 Feb: ‘Men, mothers, metonyms and 1270–1870’ protection or increase risk? metaphors: the protean figure of the Professor Giovanni Federico, Pisa Understanding the outcomes of children father in the Antilles’ 27 Jan: ‘A tale of two globalisations: world in care’ Shannon Philip trade and openness 1800–2007’ Professor Walter Van Heuven, Nottingham 5 Mar: ‘Challenging masculinities: the sex Dr Tyler Beck Goodspeed (convener: Dr Xin Wang) workers of Calcutta’ 3 Feb: tbc 9 Mar: ‘Automatic translation in bilingual Oxford International Women’s Festival processing’ Dr Bruno Rocha, Cambridge 2015: Women crossing borders 10 Feb: ‘The effect of inter-war banking 12 Mar: ‘Contestations around female crises’ genital mutilation in the UK and Professor Alison Bashford, Cambridge elsewhere: publications, discussions, 17 Feb: ‘Malthus and emigration’ exhibitions’ (details tbc) 210 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5081 • 14 January 2015

Religion, Philosophy and Education Transport Studies Unit Department of International Forum/Philosophy of Education Development Research seminar series Society of Great Britain – joint seminar programme The following seminars will be given at Olof Palme Memorial Lecture 4pm on Tuesdays in the Herbertson Room, The following seminars will be given at Amitav Ghosh, 2008 Booker Prize short- School of Geography and the Environment. 5pm on Tuesdays in Seminar Room D, listed novelist, will deliver the Olof Palme Conveners: T Schwanen, K Anderton Department of Education, 15 Norham Memorial Lecture at 5pm on 20 March in Gardens, unless otherwise noted. All Mark Major, Directorate-General for the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s. welcome. Enquiries: alis.oancea@ Mobility and Transport, European Contact: [email protected]. education.ox.ac.uk. Commission, and Anne Shaw, Birmingham Subject: ‘The Earth as literary critic: City Council climate change and the limits of Professor Richard Pring 20 Jan: ‘EU’s sustainable urban mobility imagination’ 20 Jan: ‘Am I a critical realist?’ plans: whose politics?’ Oxford Poverty and Human Dr Ben Kotzee, Birmingham Jack Snape, Committee on Climate Change Development Initiative 27 Jan: ‘From critical thinking to 3 Feb: ‘Delivering low-carbon intellectual virtue’ Lunchtime seminar series transport across the UK’s devolved Dr Mark Chater, Culham St Gabriel’s Trust administrations’ The following seminars will take place 10 Feb: ‘Late have I loved you: beauty, at 1pm on Mondays in seminar room 3, Nigel Tipple, Oxfordshire Local Enterprise truth and goodness in the design of Queen Elizabeth House. Everyone is Partnership, and Tim Schwanen learning: St Augustine as curriculum welcome. Complimentary sandwich lunch 17 Feb: ‘Politics of infrastructure: designer for the postmodern era?’ available on first-come, first-served basis. spineless development?’ Information: www.ophi.org.uk. Dr Steve Thornton Justin Spinney, Cardiff, andMartin Cassini, 4.30pm, 24 Feb, Seminar Room G: ‘Good Ana Vaz Equality Streets habits of the mind: investigating the 26 Jan: ‘Measuring women’s autonomy 3 Mar: ‘Politics of roadspace’ normative role for intellectual virtue in in Chad and its associations with mathematics education’ breastfeeding practices’ School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies Professor Meira Levinson, Harvard Gisela Robles Aguilar 10 Mar: tbc Seminar in Modern Israel Studies 2 Feb: ‘An exploration of the multidimensional poverty of women at The following seminars will be given at School of Geography and the household and individual level’ 5pm on Tuesdays in the Ground Floor Environment Room, School of Interdisciplinary Area Professor Brian Nolan Studies. All welcome. To register: susannah. 9 Feb: ‘Inequality, growth and living Oxford University Centre for the [email protected]. Conveners: standards in the OECD’ Environment Derek Penslar, Sara Hirschhorn, Sharon 16 Feb: tbc Oxford Water Network/CIWEM Weinblum lecture Bouba Housseini Ron Zweig, NYU 23 Feb: ‘Economic growth, inequality Professor Jim Hall and Dr Helen Gavin, 20 Jan: ‘Israeli policy on Palestinian and multidimensional poverty: evidence Atkins, will lecture at 6pm on 3 February in refugees, 1949–67’ from a panel of countries’ the HO Beckit Room, School of Geography David Tal, Sussex and the Environment. Suman Seth 27 Jan: ‘The failure to reach Israeli– Subject: ‘Water scarcity and drought 2 Mar: ‘Identifying the destitute: an Egyptian peace, 1971–3: who was management’ ordinal approach for identifying linked responsible?’ subset of multidimensionally poor’ Panel discussion Hizky Shoham, Bar Ilan Sabina Alkire An Oxford Water Network and Foundation 10 Feb: ‘Bar and bat mitzvah of Israeli 9 Mar: ‘A multidimensional poverty for Water Research panel discussion and Jews: a temporalisation of Israeli index in the sustainable development book launch will be held at 5pm on identity?’ goals – interim reflections’ 20 January in the Blue Boar Lecture Theatre, Adriana Jacobs Christ Church, with speakers from Oxford Refugee Studies Centre 17 Feb: ‘A difficult distance: Israeli poetry University, the Centre for Ecology and about Gaza’ Public seminar series: The history Hydrology, Atkins, the Environment Agency of refuge and the Foundation for Water Research. Peter Beinhart, CUNY Subject: ‘Regulation for water 24 Feb: ‘Field notes from the American The following seminars will be given at management’ Jewish civil war over Israel’ 5pm on Wednesdays in Seminar Room 1, Department of International Development. Clive Jones, Durham Convener: Dr J Olaf Kleist 3 Mar: ‘Israel’s security nexus as strategic restraint: the case of Iran, 2009–12’ Professor Peter Heather, KCL 21 Jan: ‘Refugees and the Roman Empire’ Michael Berkowitz, UCL 10 Mar: ‘Zionist leadership after Herzl’s death: the case of Moses Gaster’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5081 • 14 January 2015 211

Professor Dawn Chatty OII Bellwether Lecture Professor Brian Nolan, DSPI/INET 28 Jan: ‘Refuge and protection in the late 29 Jan: ‘Why should we worry about Professor Ross Anderson, Cambridge, will Ottoman Empire’ rising income inequality?’ deliver the OII Bellwether Lecture at 5pm Associate Professor Yasmin Kahn on 27 February at the Ioannou Centre for Professor Christian Albrekt Larsen, 11 Feb: ‘The arrival of refugees and the Classical and Byzantine Studies. Aalborg making of India and Pakistan in 1947’ Subject: tbc 5 Feb: ‘The rise and fall of social cohesion: the construction and deconstruction of Dr Benjamin Gray, Edinburgh Lecture social trust in the US, UK, Sweden and 18 Feb: ‘Exile, refuge and the Greek polis: Professor Judy Wajcman, LSE, will lecture Denmark’ between justice and humanity’ at 5pm on 5 March at the Oxford Internet Professor Martin Ruhs Dr Tom Lambert Institute. 12 Feb: ‘Is unrestricted immigration 25 Feb: ‘Hospitality, protection and refuge Subject: ‘Pressed for time: the compatible with inclusive welfare in early English law’ acceleration of life in digital capitalism’ states? The (un)sustainability of EU Professor Peter Gatrell, Manchester exceptionalism’ Faculty of Law 4 Mar: ‘Refugees – what’s wrong with Professor Jochen Clasen, Edinburgh history?’ Oxford Intellectual Property Research 19 Feb: ‘Income security during sickness – Dr Gerhard Wolf, Sussex Centre what do British middle classes do?’ 11 Mar: ‘Out with the “international IP Speaker Series Professor Traute Meyer, Southampton problem children”! US migration plans, 26 Feb: ‘Will current EU migrants return settlement fantasies and the pacification The following lectures will be given at home on retirement? Expectations, of Europe’ 5.15pm on Thursdays in the Dorfman evidence and reflections on how to Room, St Peter’s. Refreshments provided, International Summer School in measure the future’ all welcome (registration not required). Forced Migration Enquiries: [email protected]. Dr Jane Gingrich The International Summer School in Forced uk. Conveners: Graeme Dinwoodie, Dev 5 Mar: ‘Changing preferences for welfare? Migration will be held 6–24 July to foster Gangjee, Robert Pitkethly An empirical investigation of policy dialogue between academics, practitioners change and attitudinal change’ Dr Andreas Rahmatian, Glasgow and policymakers working to improve the 29 Jan: ‘Make the butterflies fly in Professor Danny Dorling situation of refugees and forced migrants. formation? Management of copyright 12 Mar: ‘Inequality and Europe: images Registration now open. Information: www. created by academics in UK universities’ from a new social atlas of Europe’ rsc.ox.ac.uk/summer-school2015. Dr Michael Jewess, former Chief Counsel, Centre for Evidence-based Intervention Oxford Internet Institute IP, BAE Systems, and Head of IP, BT Guest Lecture 5 Feb: ‘What’s in a name? Branding in law Professor Susan Michie, UCL, will lecture ICT4D seminar series and practice’ at 5pm on 3 February in the Violet Butler The following seminars will be given at Mr Justice Richard Arnold, High Court of Room, 32 Wellington Square. 4.30pm at the Oxford Internet Institute. Justice Subject: ‘Developing behaviour change Conveners: Dr Mark Graham, Dr Iginio 12 Feb: ‘Website blocking injunctions’ interventions: a systematic approach’ Gagliardone 19 Feb: tbc Centre for Socio-legal Studies Mariam Memarsadeghi, Tavaana, Director Professor Estelle Derclaye, Nottingham E-Learning Institute for Iranian Civil Society 26 Feb: ‘Internet and IPR: a happy CSLS/St John’s College Legalism 27 Jan: ‘ICT, civic education and civil combination?’ seminar series society capacity building in Iran’ Professor Jens Schovsbo, Copenhagen The following seminars will be given at Dr Jenny Chan 5 Mar: tbc 4.30pm on Tuesdays in Seminar Room D, 3 Feb: ‘Dying for an iPhone: the hidden Manor Road Building. Conveners: Thomas struggle of China’s workers’ Department of Social Policy and Lambert, Fernanda Pirie, Hannah Skoda Amy O’Donnell, Oxfam Intervention Ting Xu, Queen’s Belfast 10 Feb: ‘Ethical treatment of data in 20 Jan: ‘Legalising property in post-Mao new digital landscapes – bringing Oxford Institute of Social Policy China’ development practitioners and seminar series academics together’ Susan Reynolds, Institute of Historical The following seminars will be given at 5pm Research, London Dr Vivek Srinivasan, Stanford on Thursdays in the Violet Butler Room, 27 Jan: ‘Tenure and property in medieval 24 Feb: ‘Combatting corruption with 32 Wellington Square. Convener: Martin England’ mobile phones’ Seeleib-Kaiser Jonathan Herring and Simon Douglas Dr Padraig Carmody, Trinity Dublin Professor Evelyne Huber, North Carolina 3 Feb: ‘The law and bodies’ 3Mar: ‘Africa’s information revolution: 22 Jan: ‘Social investment in Latin rhetoric and reality’ America’ Hannah Skoda 10 Feb: ‘People as property: slavery in medieval Dubrovnik’ 212 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5081 • 14 January 2015

William Wheeler, Goldsmiths Ronen Perry and Tal Zarsky, Haifa Professor Suzanne Y P Choi, Chinese 17 Feb: ‘Water and fish as forms of 26 Feb: ‘Non-conventional resource University of Hong Kong property in an Aral Sea fishing village’ allocation methods’ 16 Feb: ‘Nominal marriage: family and sexuality in post-socialist China’ Judith Scheele Dave Cowan, Bristol 24 Feb: ‘Cows and the sharí’ah in the 5 Mar: ‘Making sense of shared Professor Andrew Walder, Stanford Abéché customary court (eastern Chad)’ ownership: tales from the field’ 23 Feb: ‘The dynamics of regime collapse: China’s intra-bureaucratic insurgencies Eduardo Manzano Moreno, Consejo Florence Seemungal of 1967’ Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 12 Mar: ‘Prison as a controlled social Madrid system: risk and protective factors when Neil Ketchley 3 Mar: ‘Why were Islamic medieval prisoners are released into the open 2 Mar: ‘When regimes attack: the institutions so different from Western social system of the community’ repression of protest after the Egyptian medieval institutions?’ coup of July 2013’ Public lecture Walter Rech, Erik Castrén Institute of Professor Melinda Mills Professor Denis Galligan will deliver a International Law and Human Rights, 9 Mar: ‘Gender inequalities in the public lecture at 5.30pm on 19 January in Helsinki transition from school to work in Europe’ Seminar Room C, Manor Road Building. 10 Mar: ‘Defining Barbary warfare: Subject: ‘Concepts: the currency of social pluralist approaches to the laws of war, understanding’ 1576–1758’ Islamic Law and Society Discussion Workshop Group There will be a Regulation Discussion Group The following seminars will be given at workshop beginning at 2pm on 26 January 12.30pm on Wednesdays in Seminar Room in the Haldane Room, Wolfson. Further B, Manor Road Building. Conveners: Dr Petra information: www.csls.ox.ac.uk/documents/ Mahy, Sajjad Khoshroo. ProgrammeofDataProtectionWorkshop. pdf. Conveners: Dr Bettina Lange, Dr Asma Ayesha Khan, Harvard Vranaki, QMUL, Janet Hui Xue, Macquarie 21 Jan: ‘Islam and government: Subject: ‘Balancing business innovation democracy, minorities and with data protection? Regulating the multiculturalism under Islamic law’ digital age’ Professor Habib Ahmed, Durham Socio-legal Discussion Group 4 Feb: ‘Civil laws and Islamic finance’ The following seminars will be given at Yaser Mirdamadi, Edinburgh 1pm on Thursdays in Seminar Room D, 18 Feb: ‘Is “Islamic state” possible? A Manor Road Building. Conveners: Dr Naomi philosophical critique’ Creutzfeldt, Dr Iginio Gagliardone, Friso Vishal Vora, SOAS Jansen, Ling Zhou 4 Mar: ‘The effects of unregistered Ned Dostaler Muslim marriage and the law of England 22 Jan: ‘Politics, materiality and alcohol and Wales: the Islamic marriage as a “disease of the will”: an ethnographic conundrum’ study in Tamil Nadu, India’ Department of Sociology Ying Yu 29 Jan: ‘Best practices in consumer The following seminars will be given at redress’ 12.30pm on Mondays in Seminar Room G, Ben Zevenbergen Manor Road Building. All welcome. 5 Feb: ‘Establishing community ethics Conveners: Heather Hamill, Man Yee Kan in internet and networked systems Professor Xiangang Wu, Hong Kong research’ 19 Jan: ‘Fertility decline and gender Wang Jufang, CRI Online News inequality in education in China’ 12 Feb: ‘From intermediary to Professor Paul Lambert, Stirling stakeholder? Comparing the roles of 26 Jan: ‘Social interactions between Tencent in China and Google in the west occupations and social reproduction’ regarding personal data regulation’ Professor Gina Neff, Washington Varvara Andrianova 2 Feb: ‘Venture labor for the social media 19 Feb: ‘Perceptions of justice through era: entrepreneurship as an employment the lens of personal experience: strategy’ comparative study in English and Russian lower courts’ Professor Carlo Morselli, Montreal 9 Feb: ‘Experiences and perceptions in Quebec's illegal firearm market’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5081 • 14 January 2015 213

Department for Continuing Institutes, Centres and Ms Natasha Mann, traditional Moroccan painter and Radcliffe Trust grantee Education Museums 2pm, 13 Feb, Education Centre, Ashmolean: ‘Moroccan Zouaq painting: Kellogg College Centre for Creative Ashmolean Museum a demonstration’ (sponsored by the Writing Radcliffe Trust) Research seminars Creative Writing seminar series Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies The following seminars will be given at The following seminars will be given at 1pm on Thursdays in the Headley Lecture Lecture series 5.30pm in the Mawby Room, Kellogg. Theatre, Ashmolean. Tea and coffee Refreshments at 5pm. All welcome. provided; attendees welcome to bring The following lectures will be given at sandwiches. Convener: Mark Norman 5.30pm in the Dorfman Centre, St Peter’s. Alice Jolly Details: www.ocbs.org. 5 Feb: ‘Narrative and anti-narrative in the Ashmolean Conservators with Dr Andrew short story and the novel’ Shortland and Dr Kelly Domoney, Cranfield Dr Hiroko Kawanama, Lancaster Forensic Institute 2 Feb: ‘From a research question to an Emma Jones 29 Jan: ‘Seeing objects in a new light – impact case: the study of Buddhist 5 Mar: tbc recent research on the collections’ nunnery schools in Myanmar’ Mallica Kumbera Landrus Dr Camillo Formigatti, Cambridge 5 Mar: ‘Bengal and modernity: early- 16 Feb: tbc 20th-century art in India’ Mr Chris Jones 2 Mar: ‘Shadows of a former self: the “true Bodleian Libraries self” taught by the Tathāgatagarbha literature’ Oxford Seminars in Cartography Joe Gerlach will deliver a seminar at Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish 5pm on 29 January in the Centre for the Studies Environment, South Parks Road. Subject: ‘Retracing the lines between David Patterson Lectures mapping and geopolitics in Andean Latin The following lectures will be given at America’ 7.15pm on Mondays at Oxford Centre for Centre for the Study of the Book Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Clarendon Institute Building, Walton Street. Convener: Dr Oren Margolis will lecture at 5.30pm on Dr Alison Salvesen 6 February in Convocation House, Bodleian Library. Professor Shlomo Berger, Amsterdam Subject: ‘Printing, sculpture and the 19 Jan: ‘Amsterdam–London–Dublin: Hypnerotomachia Poliphili’ Irish reading Hebrew books’ Exhibition lectures Professor Naomi Seidman, Graduate Theological Union The following lectures to accompany the 26 Jan: ‘Tevye’s dream and the fiction of exhibition Remembering Radcliffe: 300 the past’ years of science and philanthropy will be given at 1pm in the Lecture Theatre, Weston Dr James Aitken, Cambridge Library, unless otherwise noted. Free; all 2 Feb: ‘Jewish education in Hellenistic welcome but places limited and advance Egypt’ booking essential: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ Dr Willem Smelik, UCL whatson. 9 Feb: ‘Why Aramaic in the Yerushalmi?’ Professor David Cranston Professor Lucia Raspe, Goethe 21 Jan: ‘The life and legacy of Dr John 16 Feb: ‘Vaybertaytsh revisited: on the Radcliffe’ uses of Yiddish liturgy in early modern Dr Stephen Johnston Ashkenaz’ 28 Jan: ‘Founding the Radcliffe Dr Norman Solomon Observatory’ 23 Feb: ‘Revised edition. Revisiting the Dr Geoffrey Tyack sins of youth’ 4 Feb: ‘The architecture of the Radcliffe Professor Nicholas de Lange, Cambridge Camera’ 2 Mar: ‘The Jewish contribution to Professor George Rousseau Byzantine civilisation’ 11 Feb: ‘Dr John Radcliffe amidst the Augustan literary wits’ 214 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5081 • 14 January 2015

Dr Ruchama Johnston Bloom, New York Museum of the History of Science/ Azlan Shah Public Lectures 9 Mar: ‘Notes on the German-Jewish Museum of Natural History The Rt Hon the Lord Woolf will lecture at Muhammad: reading Gustav Weil’s 1843 5pm on 10 February in the Examination Biography of the Prophet’ Public Lectures Schools. Oxford Seminars in Advanced Jewish The following lectures will be given at 7pm Subject: ‘The rule of law as the foundation Studies in the Museum of the History of Science of good inter-faith relations’ (MHS) or the Museum of Natural History Jewish books in Amsterdam 1600– Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers will (MNH), as noted. 1850: authors, producers, readers lecture at 5pm on 24 February in the and the construction of Jewish Professor Alex Halliday Examination Schools. worlds 27 Jan, MHS: ‘Where did the Moon come Subject: ‘International conventions from?’ against corruption: do they make a The following seminars will be held at 2pm difference?’ on Tuesdays in the Weston Library, unless Lizzie Croose, Vincent Wildlife Trust otherwise noted. Conveners: Professor 9 Feb, MNH: ‘The pine marten and the Lecture series Shlomo Berger, Dr César Merchán-Hamann pole cat’ Professor Justin Jones will lecture at Professor Shlomo Berger, Amsterdam, and Professor Alan Wells, Leicester 4pm on Mondays. Lectures are open to Dr César Merchán-Hamann 24 Feb, MHS: ‘Returning to the Moon’ matriculated members of the University. 20 Jan: ‘Why “history of the book” and Subject: ‘Islam in the classical period’ Lucy Lush, Thames Valley Environmental why history of the Amsterdam Jewish Records Centre Dr Mohammad Talib will lecture at noon Book 1650–1850?’ 9 Mar, MNH: ‘Brown hares vs rabbits’ on Thursdays. Professor Myriam Silvera, Studi di Roma Subject: ‘Anthropology of Muslim Dr James Edwards Tor Vergata societies’ 16 Mar, MNH: ‘Changing bones: how our 27 Jan: ‘From manuscripts to books: the skeleton adapts through life’ Dr Mohammad Talib will lecture at 11.30am comparison between the manuscript on Monday of weeks 2, 4, 6 and 8. tradition of a work by Isaac Orobio de Professor Zoltán Molnár Subject: ‘Study of qualitative data in field Castro and the printed version of the 19 Mar, MHS: ‘Neuroscience in Oxford: research’ same’ four centuries of discovery’ Classes Dr Bart Wallet, VU Amsterdam Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies 3 Feb: ‘Towards a Dutch Jewish library: Qur’anic Arabic language politics and the Amsterdam The following events will be held at the Classes in Qur’anic Arabic will be given at Jewish book, 1795–1848’ Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, George 2pm on Fridays. All welcome; registration Dr Lucia Raspe, Goethe Street, unless otherwise noted. required: www.oxcis.ac.uk/shortcourses. 10 Feb: ‘A Sephardic minhagim book from html. Seminar series: Muslim Thinkers Amsterdam’ Modern Standard Arabic The following seminars will be held at 5pm Dr Avriel Bar-Levav, Open University, Israel on Wednesdays. All welcome. Classes in Modern Standard Arabic will be 17 Feb: ‘The meaning of order: Siftei given as follows: Yeshenim (Amsterdam 1680), the first Dr Harith Ramli, Cambridge Muslim printed Hebrew bibliography and its College Arabic 1a: Tuesdays, 5.15–7.15pm cultural implications’ 21 Jan: ‘Rabia Basri’ Arabic 1b: Tuesdays, 2.30–4.30pm Arabic 2: Wednesdays, 5.15–7.15pm Dr Theo Dunkelgrün, Cambridge Dr Mustapha Sheikh, Leeds Mon, 23 Feb: ‘Samuel de Casseres 28 Jan: ‘Ibn Taymiyya’ Registration required. See www.oxcis.ac.uk/ (d 1660) and the Spanish and Hebrew shortcourses.html for further details. Professor Charles Butterworth, Maryland Bibles of Amsterdam 1661’ 4 Feb: ‘al-Farabi’ Reuters Institute for the Study of Professor Marion Aptroot, Heinrich-Heine Professor Eric Ormsby, Institute of Ismaili Journalism 3 Mar: ‘Yiddish ephemera printed in Studies Amsterdam’ 11 Feb: ‘al-Ghazali’ Seminars: The business and practice of Dr Javier Castaño, Spanish National journalism Professor Catarina Belo, American Research Council University of Cairo The following seminars will be given at 10 Mar: ‘Laying the foundation for a new 18 Feb: ‘Ibn Rushd’ 2pm on Wednesdays, in the Barclay Room, tradition: a Baroque reading of Hispano- Green Templeton, unless otherwise noted. Jewish classics’ Dr Ahmed El Shamsy, Chicago Conveners: James Painter, David Levy 25 Feb: ‘Imam Shafi’i’ Belinda Goldsmith, Thomson Reuters Professor Marcia Hermansen, Loyola Foundation, and Timothy Large, Thomson 4 Mar: ‘Shah Wali Allah’ Reuters Foundation Dr George Malagaris 21 Jan, 13 Norham Gardens: ‘Reporting 11 Mar: ‘al-Biruni’ the unreported’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5081 • 14 January 2015 215

Juan Señor, Innovations Media Oxford Learning Institute Study days 28 Jan: ‘The seventh medium – how The Jean-Pierre Vernant Study Day will mobile has forever changed journalism’ Public seminars take place 2–6.30pm on 17 February at the Andrew Jack, FirstFT The following seminars will be held at 4pm Ioannou Centre. Presentations by doctoral 4 Feb: ‘The top five dilemmas of news on Thursdays on level 2, Littlegate House, students will be followed at 5pm by the aggregation’ St Ebbe’s. Open to anyone interested in keynote lecture by William Van Andringa, research into higher education; no booking Lille 3. In collaboration with the Faculty Tom Thomson, Herald and Times Group, required. Please ring the intercom for Suite of Classics. Conveners: Robert Parker, Glasgow 3 on arrival. Catherine Darbo-Peschanski 11 Feb: ‘A little piracy can be a good Subject: ‘Pagan gods changing in the thing: what the press can learn from Dr Alis Oancea Roman West (IIIrd–Vth century AD). Hollywood’ 22 Jan: ‘Impacts and knowledge: research Archaeology and religious changes in late governance and the dynamics of value’ Richard Sambrook, Cardiff School of antiquity’ Journalism Clive Lewis, Globis Mediation Group A study day will be held 9.15am–4pm on 18 Feb: ‘The future of television news’ 5 Feb: ‘Difficult conversations: 10 steps to 18 February at Corpus Christi. Conveners: becoming a tackler not a dodger’ Dr Sam Geall, Sussex Catherine Darbo-Peschanski, John Ma 25 Feb: ‘Environmental journalism and Professor Mustafa Özbilgin, Brunel Subject: ‘Ancient Greek politics. New sustainable development in China’ 19 Feb: ‘Accounting for diversity: approaches in debate’ challenges for leadership’ Gill Penlington, CNN Workshops 4 Mar: ‘Beyond borders: which news Professor Patricia Thomson, Nottingham A workshop and debate will be held stories resonate for an international 5 Mar: ‘Social media and academic 2–6.30pm on 5 February. Convened by audience?’ publishing’ EUK@Ox (The Oxford Debate on the UK in Helen Boaden, BBC Radio Europe). Maison Française 11 Mar: tbc Subject: ‘Does the Brussels eurocrat still matter?’ Reuters Institute/Nuffield College The following events will take place at the Media and Politics seminars Maison Française d’Oxford, 2–10 Norham An Oxford Garden and Landscape History Road, unless otherwise noted. workshop will be held 10.30am–4pm on The following seminars will be given at 5pm Saturday, 14 February, in collaboration on Fridays in the Butler Room, Nuffield. Single lectures with TORCH, Hestercombe Gardens and Conveners: Neil Fowler, James Painter, Antoine Lilti, EHESS, will lecture at 5.15pm the Oxfordshire Gardens Trust. Convener: David Levy on 21 January in collaboration with TORCH Laurent Châtel, Paris IV Professor Jane Green, British Election Enlightenment Programme, Besterman Subject: ‘The people’s garden: urban Survey and Manchester Centre for the Enlightenment and Warwick. gardening then and now’ 23 Jan: ‘The general election – how is Conveners: Nicholas Cronk, Anne Simonin A workshop will be held 2.30–6pm on voting going to change?’ Subject: ‘Public life, private lives: the 6 March in the Rees Room, Faculty of invention of celebrity in the 18th century’ Bridget Kendall, BBC History. Conveners: Fabien Girard, Grenoble, 30 Jan: ‘The challenges of reporting the Laurent Jenny, Geneva, will lecture at Laurent Châtel, Paris IV, Nathalie Berny, Russia/Ukraine conflict’ 5.15pm on 4 March. Conveners: Philippe Centre Emile Durkheim Roussin, Michael Sheringham Subject: ‘Governance of biodiversity’ Lindsey Hilsum, Channel 4 News Subject: ‘La photo contre l’image (de 6 Feb: ‘Time present and time past: how A French law moot will be held in French Baudelaire à Hervé Guibert)’ everyone wants journalists to see history 10am–6pm on 16 March at the Law Faculty, their way’ Conferences St Cross Building. Conveners: Geneviève Helleringer, Stefan Vogenauer Lord Guy Black, the Telegraph and Ipso An international conference will be held 13 Feb: ‘Media freedom in 2015 – the 9am–5pm on 30 and 31 January. Conveners: Seminar series aftermath of Leveson and beyond’ Arash Arminian Tabrizi, Kate Kirkpatrick, Medieval French seminar Marieke Mueller Luke Harding, the Guardian Subject: ‘Thinking with Sartre today: new The following seminars will be given on 20 Feb: ‘Nothing is true: the Kremlin’s approaches to Sartre studies?’ Tuesdays at 5.15pm, unless otherwise global information war and the Russian noted. Conveners: Daron Burrows, Sophie media’ An international conference will be Marnette, Helen Swift held 9am–5pm on 13 and 14 March 27 Feb: tbc in collaboration with ANR DIFDEPO. Maureen Boulton, Notre Dame Andrew Tyrie, MP, and Chair, Treasury Conveners: Philippe Roussin, Michael 20 Jan: ‘Devotion at the 15th-century Select Committee Sheringham courts of France’ 6 Mar: tbc Subject: ‘Roubaud multiple’ Jane Gilbert, UCL Dr Matthew Goodwin, Nottingham 3 Feb: tbc 13 Mar: ‘What impact will UKIP have at the 2015 general election?’ 216 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5081 • 14 January 2015

Mattia Cavagna, Catholique de Louvain 12 Feb: ‘The good bodily mixture, hygiene Professor Jim Hall 17 Feb: ‘Traduire une encyclopédie latine and virtue (I)’ 5 Mar: ‘Global water risks and the climate au XIVe siècle: un laboratoire d’écriture. adaptation challenge’ 19 Feb: ‘The good bodily mixture, Le making-of du Miroir historial à travers hygiene and virtue (II)’ Dr Nathalie Seddon ses témoins manuscrits’ 12 Mar: ‘Biodiversity and climate change: 26 Feb: ‘The body and politics: singleness, Interdisciplinary Seminar what happens when we turn up the heat autonomy and relationships with others’ Sarah Kay, New York on nature’ 5pm, 2 Mar, Taylor Institution: ‘Cutting Lydia Matthews Public lectures the skin, from sacrifice to slaughter in 5 Mar: ‘Making deviance medical: male medieval bestiaries’ passivity in ancient medical authors’ The following lectures will be given at 5pm at the Oxford Martin School, followed by a Keywords in Early Modern French Sarah Hitch drinks reception. Registration required. Culture seminar 12 Mar: ‘The divine body’ Professor Molly Jahn The following seminars will be given at Cinema 21 Jan: ‘Feeding the world: getting 3.30pm on Thursdays. Conveners: Richard The following films will be shown at 8pm on the data right for decision-making’ Scholar, Alain Viala Tuesdays. All films will be in French, with (register: www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/ Wes Williams French or English subtitles. event/2043) 22 Jan: ‘What is the “Renaissance”?’ 27 Jan: Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot, Professor Chris Lintott Richard Parish Jacques Tati, 1953, 84 mins 24 Feb: ‘Philae at the comet: a scientific 5 Feb: ‘What is a classical tragedy?’ adventure’ (register: www.oxfordmartin. 10 Feb: L’Argent de Poche, François ox.ac.uk/event/2044) Edward Nye Truffaut, 1976, 101 mins 19 Feb: ‘Two keywords: “Neo-Classicism” Panel discussion 24 Feb: On connaît la chanson, Alain and “Pre-Romanticism” ’ Resnais, 1997, 120 mins Baroness Falkner of Margravine, Areeq Richard Scholar Chowdhury, Professor Helen Margetts 10 Mar: Tanguy, Etienne Chatiliez, 2001, 5 Mar: ‘Keywords in action’ and Tim Marshall will participate in a 105 mins panel discussion at 5.30pm on 20 January Early Modern French seminar at the Oxford Martin School. Followed by Oxford Martin School The following seminars will be given at a drinks reception for members of IRSoc. 5.15pm on Thursdays. Conveners: Suzanne Membership available on the night. All Seminar series: Creating a climate for Jones, Jennifer Oliver, Caroline Warman, welcome. Registration required: www. change: what’s at stake in global climate Wes Williams oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/event/2050. negotiations Subject: ‘Do we only care about the vote Robert Descimon, EHESS The following seminars will be given at when we don’t have it?’ 22 Jan: ‘Les incertitudes des structures 5pm on Thursdays in the Oxford Martin hiérarchiques de la société française et le Institute for Science, Innovation and School. Free and open to all. Booking statut des “écrivains” au 16e siècle’ Society recommended. Information: www. Cinthia Meli, Geneva oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/event/2030, Seminars 5 Feb: ‘Le canon en débat? Malherbe, [email protected] or 01865 The following seminars will be held at 1891–1904’ 287437. Convener: Professor Ian Goldin 2.30pm on Tuesdays in the Wharton Room, University of Oxford doctoral students Professor Yadvinder Malhi All Souls. 19 Feb: Graduates in conversation 22 Jan: ‘The metabolism of a human- Antonia Layard, Bristol dominated planet’ Jan Miernowski, Wisconsin 20 Jan: ‘Six imaginaries of public space’ 5 Mar: ‘La beauté de la haine: entre le Professor Tim Palmer Le Yin Zhang, UCL tragique et le sublime’ 29 Jan: ‘Climate change: dealing with 3 Feb: ‘State-led low-carbon transitions in uncertainty’ The body in ancient Greece and urban China: the case of Qingdao’ Rome: history of medicine and Professor Myles Allen and Dr Nick Eyre 17 Feb: tbc philosophy 5 Feb: ‘Climate change: what science and the IPCC report have to say’ Austin Zeiderman, LSE The following seminars will be given at 3 Mar: ‘Endangered city: the politics of noon on Thursdays at in the Seminar Room, Dr Rob Bellamy security in Bogotá’ Corpus Christi. Convener: Catherine Darbo- 12 Feb: ‘Hopes and fears: why people Peschanski disagree about how to tackle climate’ Catherine Darbo-Peschanski Professor Gideon Henderson and 29 Jan: ‘The inside bodily geography: Professor David Marshall parts, “Sympatheia”, the circulation of 19 Feb: ‘Climate change and our oceans’ body fluids. Territory or organism?’ Professor Sir John Beddington 5 Feb: ‘Elements and qualities: the body 26 Feb: ‘The “perfect storm” revisited: and the physical environment. Balance food, energy and water security in the and homeostasis’ context of climate change’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5081 • 14 January 2015 217

Film Series Seminar series: Norms, values and Colleges, Halls and theories The following films will be shown at 5.30pm Societies on Tuesdays in the Old Library, All Souls. The following seminars will be held at 12.30pm on Wednesdays in the Seminar All Souls 27 Jan: Riot Reframed (director will be Room, 66 Banbury Road. Convener: Mr present) Kenneth Howse Lee Lecture in Political Science and 10 Feb: Le Mani sulla Citta (The Hands on Government Professor Jonathan Herrin the City) 21 Jan: ‘Dementia and the Mental Professor Alasdair Roberts, Suffolk, 24 Feb: Au Lugar Ao Sol (High-rise) Capacity Act’ Massachusetts, will deliver the 12th Lee Lecture at 5pm on 26 February in the Old 10 Mar: Sacro GRA Dr Harry Lesser, Manchester Library. 28 Jan: ‘What can we learn from Cicero?’ Subject: ‘Four crises of democracy’ Oxford Institute of Population Ageing Dr Anthony Farrant, Bedfordshire Neill Lecture 4 Feb: ‘Equality, justice and living longer’ Seminar series: Drivers and Baroness Helena Kennedy, QC, will deliver consequences of population ageing in Dr Chris Gilleard, UCL the 2015 Neill Lecture at 5pm on 13 January central and eastern Europe 11 Feb: ‘Theorising a fourth age’ in the Examination Schools. The following seminars will be held at Dr Liz Lloyd, Bristol Subject: ‘Securing justice in a complex 12.30pm on Thursdays in the Seminar 18 Feb: ‘Identity in the 4th age’ world’ Room, 66 Banbury Road. Convener: Dr Katia Mr Theodore Cosco, Cambridge Seminar series: The relation of Padvalkava 25 Feb: ‘Successful ageing’ literature and learning to social Dr Julie Vullnetari, Southampton hierarchy in early modern Europe Dr Helen Emmott, KCL 22 Jan: ‘Who cares? Migration, “global 4 Mar: ‘Ageing and identity: why it is The following sessions will be held at 2pm in care chains” and older people in Albania’ important to study history’ the Wharton Room, unless otherwise noted. Professor Christopher Davis There will normally be two papers per Dr Simona Giordano, Manchester 29 Jan: ‘The dynamics of the human session. All welcome. Convener: Neil Kenny 11 Mar: ‘Is a grey world desirable overall?’ capital of the elderly in Russia, 1990– ([email protected]) 2020: from burden to benefit?’ 12.30pm, 21 Jan, Colin Matthews Room, Professor Rebecca Kay, Glasgow History Faculty: 5 Feb: ‘(In)securities and resilience in the Robert Descimon, EHESS: ‘L’hiérarchie lives of Russian rural elders’ sociale en France sous l’Ancien Régime’ (in French; sandwiches provided on first- Dr Hill Kulu, Liverpool come, first-served basis) 12 Feb: ‘Immigrant and ethnic minority families in Europe: what do we learn 28 Jan: from comparative research?’ Warren Boutcher, QMUL: ‘16th-century vernacular renaissances and social Dr Olena Fedyuk, Strathclyde hierarchies’ 19 Feb: ‘Immigration, ageing and carework in the EU: triangle of demand, Robert Black, Leeds: ‘Languages and fear and exploitation’ society in Renaissance Florence’ Dr Irina Lapshyna, Lviv Academy of 9 Feb, Old Library: Commerce, Ukraine Colin Burrow: ‘Poetry and social status in 26 Feb: ‘Emigration from Ukraine: early modern England’ individual perceptions, migration Tim Chesters, Cambridge: ‘Stealth tax in aspirations and culture of migration’ a love poem by Étienne de La Boétie’ Dr John Round, Birmingham 25 Feb: 5 Mar: ‘The impact of outwards migration Abigail Brundin, Cambridge: ‘“Prayerful on ageing in Central Asia’ reading”: hierarchies of devotional reading in the early modern Catholic home’ Martin McLaughlin: ‘Alberti’s humanism: the family, cobblers and renaissance men’ 218 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5081 • 14 January 2015

11 Mar: GTC Management in Medicine Political Science seminars Giora Sternberg: ‘Writing social Programme workshops The following seminars will be given at 5pm hierarchy: ceremonial records in early The following workshops will be held on Tuesdays in the Clay Room. Organisers: modern France’ 9.30am–1pm on Saturdays. Registration Geoff Evans,R ay Duch, Steve Fisher, Sergi Mark Greengrass, Sheffield:A ‘ ntoine essential: mim.gtc.ox.ac.uk. The programme Pardos, James Tilley, Catherine De Vries de Laval’s Dessein des professions nobles is primarily for doctors in training, including Professor Larry Jacobs, Minnesota (1605) and the taxonomy of élites’ medical students, to develop management 20 Jan: ‘Segmented representation: and leadership skills. American politics in action’ Brasenose John Drew, McKinsey Hospital Institute Dr Robert Ford, Manchester 24 Jan: ‘Creating flow in hospital John Ackrill Memorial Lecture 27 Jan: ‘Diversity and political conflict in processes and relationships: a case Britain: immigration, welfare and UKIP’ Professor Gabor Betegh, Cambridge, example’ will deliver the 7th annual John Ackrill Dr Adam Saunders Dr Keith Ruddle Memorial Lecture at 5pm on 12 March in 3 Feb: ‘Quantifying human capital: 21 Feb: ‘Making service improvements’ Lecture Room XI. applications to the study of comparative Subject: ‘Colocation’ Richard Canter, Severn School of Surgery political economy’ 28 Mar: ‘Effecting change: an Professor Amber Wichowsky, Marquette Corpus Christi introduction to management and 10 Feb: tbc leadership skills in healthcare’ F W Bateson Memorial Lecture Professor Lanny Martin, Rice Hertford 17 Feb: tbc Jenny Uglow, biographer, critic and publisher, will deliver the 2015 F W Bateson Dr Lucas Leeman, UCL John Donne Lecture Memorial Lecture at 5pm on 11 February in 24 Feb: tbc the MBI Al Jaber Auditorium. Shami Chakrabati, Director, Liberty, and Professor Joost van Spanje, Amsterdam Subject: ‘ “Not romance-bit about nature”: Chancellor, Oxford Brookes, will deliver 3 Mar: ‘Controlling the electoral tourism, landscape and industry in the John Donne Lecture at 5pm on 10 April marketplace: how established parties Britain at the start of the 19th century’ in the Sheldonian. Free and open to all. ward off competition’ Seats will not be allocated; doors open from Green Templeton 4.30pm. Dr Anke Hoeffler Subject: ‘On liberty’ 10 Mar: tbc Lectures: The world’s child Sociology seminars Nuffield The following lectures will be given at 6pm The following seminars will be given at 5pm on Mondays in the E P Abraham Lecture Centre for Experimental Social Sciences on Wednesdays in the Clay Room. Organiser: Theatre. Registration essential: events@gtc. Melinda Mills ox.ac.uk. The following seminars will be given at 5pm on the following dates. Information: http:// Professor Karl Ulrich Mayer, Max Planck Dr Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for cess-web.nuff.ox.ac.uk/calendar/seminars. Institute of Human Development Human Rights, 2008–14 21 Jan: ‘On motives and purposes of 26 Jan: ‘Children, war, insecurity and Karine Van Der Straeten, Toulouse School science. From Max Weber’s “Science as a conflict’ of Economics Vocation” (1917) to “Horizon 2020” ’ 11 Feb: ‘Why citizens like voting rules? Professor Sonia Livingstone, LSE Self-interest, sincerity and ideology’ Professor Werner Raub Utrecht 2 Feb: ‘Children and the internet’ 28 Jan: ‘Trust in social environments. Catherine Hafer, New York Dr Karen Wells, Birkbeck Complementary designs for repeated 25 Feb: ‘Majoritarian debate’ 9 Feb: ‘Global childhoods’ tests of predictions’ Dimitri Landa, New York Professor David Rudd, Roehampton Professor Paul Anand, Open 3 Mar: ‘Selection incentives and 23 Feb: ‘Children’s worlds through 4 Feb: ‘Multi-dimensional life quality for accountability traps’ children’s literature’ the assessment of progress’ Joshua Miller, Bocconi Astronomy for All lectures Professor Glen H Elder Jr, North Carolina 10 Mar: ‘A cold shower for the hot hand 11 Feb: ‘Studying lives in changing times: The following lectures will be given at 6pm fallacy’ a life-course journey’ on Wednesdays in the E P Abraham Lecture Noam Lupu, Wisconsin Theatre. Professor Kelly Musick, Cornell 17 Mar: ‘Party stability and vote choice 18 Feb: ‘Trends in couples’ work patterns Charles Barclay in hard times: evidence from post-crisis after childbirth and implications for 18 Feb: ‘Darkness and dragons – the elections in Latin America’ social inequality’ importance of eclipses’ Professor Tak Wing Chan, Warwick Dr Martin Bureau 25 Feb: ‘The social gradients of autism 25 Feb: ‘Weighing black holes’ spectrum disorders in England’ Professor Mike Edmunds, Cardiff 4 Mar: ‘The Antikythera mechanism’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5081 • 14 January 2015 219

Professor Maria-Giovanna Merli, Duke Tom Stammers (chair: Paul Betts) Adam Bodnar, Helsinki Foundation for 4 Mar: ‘The new face of Chinese 18 Feb: ‘French, European or global? Human Rights international migration: heterogeneity Writing revolutionary history in the 20th 16 Feb: tbc of China’s human presence in Africa – century’ Andrzej Polus, Wrocław. Discussant: evidence from Tanzania’ Eirini Karamouzi (chair: Othon Patrick Kimunguyi, Monash Professor Robert Erikson, Stockholm Anastasakis) 23 Feb: ‘Polish–African economic and 11 Mar: ‘Happiness or resources? On 25 Feb: ‘Mr Papambiguous: Greek political relations after 1989’ quality-of-life measures for official use’ socialists and European integration’ Dariusz Gawin, Warsaw Uprising Museum Vincent Druliolle (chair: Cathryn Costello) 2 Mar: tbc St Antony’s 4 Mar: ‘Politics of victimhood in Anna Gwiazda, KCL. Discussant: Radosław contemporary Spain’ Comparative Education and Zubek Interdisciplinary Area Studies seminar João Pereira Coutinho, Catholic University 9 Mar: ‘Democracy in Poland: series of Portugal (chair: tbc) representation, participation, 11 Mar: ‘The problem of the two Burkes: a competition and accountability since Politics, policy and persuasion in critical re-appraisal’ 1989’ education Other events POMP Annual Kolakowski Lecture The following seminars will be given at 5pm on Tuesdays in the Pavillion Room. Akis Psygkas, Bristol, will lecture at noon Dariusz Stola, Museum of the History of Convener: David Johnson on 26 January. Chair: Kalypso Nicolaïdis Polish Jews, will present the POMP Annual Subject: ‘ “Democratic deficit” to a Kolakowski Lecture at 5pm on 4 February Milissa Jogie, ANU “democratic surplus”: constructing in the Nissan Theatre. 20 Jan: ‘Too pale and stale: the politics administrative democracy in Europe’ Subject: ‘One century, three Polands: the of prescribed texts in the teaching of Second Republic, People’s Poland and culturally diverse students in Australia John Naughton, Cambridge, and the Third Republic’ and England’ respondent Turi Munthe, Founder, Demotix, will present a seminar for the Latin American Centre seminar series Professor Mariam Memarsadeghi Dahrendorf Programme for the Study of 27 Jan: ‘Why civic education matters for The following seminars will be given at Freedom at 5pm on 10 February. Organised democratic transition: a discussion about 5pm on Tuesdays in the Seminar Room, by the Free Speech Debate Project. Chair: the cultivation of liberal knowledge Latin American Centre. A glass of wine will Timothy Garton Ash and values in Iran and other repressive be served following the discussions. All Subject: ‘NETWORKED! How we got here, regimes’ welcome. Convener: Professor Eduardo and where the internet might be headed’ Posada-Carbó Takehiko Kariya Brighid Laffan, EUI, will lecture at 12.30pm 3 Feb: ‘Lost decades in Japan’s education: Joint seminar: Latin American Centre and on 23 February. Co-sponsored by the Centre impacts of the narrative of “playing Sub-faculty of Spanish for International Studies, Oxford. Chair: catchup with the West” ’ Professor Diamela Eltit, Cambridge Kalypso Nicolaïdis 20 Jan: ‘Escribir bajo Pinochet: Memorias Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi Subject: ‘Economic governance: the en tiempos de dictadura’ (in Spanish) 10 Feb: ‘Education in Sudan: past and advent of coercive Europeanisation’ present’ Dr Timothy Power and Dr Lucio Rennó, POMP Seminar Series: Who are the Brasília European Studies Centre Poles and where’s Poland? Ethnic, 27 Jan: ‘The Brazilian general election of civic and cultural identities and All events will take place in the Seminar 2014 and the prospects for Dilma 2.0’ frontiers in modern Poland Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Professor Julia Buxton, Central European Woodstock Road, unless otherwise noted. The following seminars will be given at 5pm. 3 Feb: ‘The development dimensions of ESC Visiting Fellows’ seminar series Łukasz Krzyżanowski, Warsaw. Discussant: Latin America’s drug wars’ Tim Cole, Bristol The following seminars will be given at Professor Peter Wade, Manchester 19 Jan: ‘ “To the Germans went the guilt 12.30pm. 10 Feb: ‘Genetic belonging, citizenship and the crime; to us the keys and the and mixed nations in Latin America’ Joao Espada, Catholic University of cashbox”: restitution of private Jewish Portugal (chair: Kalypso Nicolaïdis) property in Polish courts (1945–8)’ Dr Iñaki Sagarzazu, Glasgow 21 Jan: ‘Euroscepticism v 17 Feb: ‘The drivers of the political agenda Urszula Chowaniec, UCL. Discussant: euroenthusiasm: the missing debate’ in Venezuela, 1998–2008: the public, the Ursula Phillips, UCL media, the politicians?’ Peter Vis (chair: David Buchan) 2 Feb: ‘Gendering migration: women’s 28 Jan: ‘EU climate change policy: after writing, displacement and melancholy: Dr Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocanto 10 years of trying, is the EU’s greenhouse lecture on selected aspects of Polish 24 Feb: ‘Carrots and sticks: experimental gas emissions trading system fit for contemporary literature’ evidence of vote buying and voter purpose?’ intimidation in Guatemala’ Anne White, UCL. Discussant: Bridget Gijs De Vries (chair: tbc) Anderson Professor Nancy Bermeo 11 Feb: ‘The EU budget: value for money?’ 9 Feb: ‘Polish return migration and 3 Mar: ‘Internal conflict and party politics transnational identities’ in Latin America’ 220 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5081 • 14 January 2015

Mr Malcolm Deas Dr Daniel Beer, RHUL Taiwan Studies Programme 10 Mar: ‘Colombia: peace and history’ 2 Mar: ‘ “Vae victis!” Siberian exile as a The following seminars will be given at revolutionary battleground, 1880–1905’ North American Studies Programme 5pm in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, unless seminars Nathalie Moine, Centre d’études des otherwise noted. Convener: Feng-yi Chu mondes russe, caucasien et centre- The following seminars will be given at 5pm Professor Tsai Yuan-Lin, National européen on Mondays in the Pavilion Seminar Room. Chengchi 9 Mar: ‘Soviet doctors facing liberation: Convener: Dr Halbert Jones 29 Jan: ‘Taiwan and Palestine: eyewitnesses, experts and collaborators’ comparison in cultural and political Mr Paul Ashby, Kent South Asian seminar series terms’ 26 Jan: ‘NAFTA-Land security: the Mérida initiative, North American The following seminars will be given at Professor John MacInnes, Edinburgh integration and US security projection in 2pm in the Fellows Dining Room, unless 6 Feb, Pavilion Room: ‘National identity: Mexico’ otherwise noted. Convener: Dr Faisal Devji personal journey or political strategy’ Dr David Howard Justin Jones Film screening with Q&A from Director 9 Feb: ‘Sustainable urban development in 20 Jan: ‘Making the Muslim judge: laws, Chiang Wei-hua and talk from student a Caribbean context: perspectives from lives and legalities in 20th-century leader (Sunflower Movement)Chang Jiho Kingston, Jamaica’ Indian Islam’ 13 Feb: The Right Thing Dr Kate Quinn, UCL Daya Thussu, Westminster Film screening 23 Feb: ‘Black power in Caribbean 27 Jan: ‘Mapping India’s soft power: 20 Feb: Banana Paradise context’ Buddha to Bollywood’ Dr Malte Philipp Kaeding, Surrey Dr Benjamin Smith, Warwick Margret Frenz 26 Feb: ‘New waves of student 9 Mar: ‘Mexican conservatism, 1800– 3 Feb: ‘Goans abroad. A history of movement in East Asia’ 2000’ migration across the Indian Ocean’ Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Amit Chaudhuri, UCL seminar series: Can the centre hold 5 Feb: Book launch: Odysseus Abroad and why does it matter? Democratic Monday seminars: Outsiders in challenges and central power in the 21st Russia Farzana Shaikh, Chatham House century 10 Feb: ‘Muhammad Iqbal and the The following seminars will be given at 5pm “modern” Muslim mentality’ The following public seminars will take on Mondays in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, place at 5pm on Tuesdays in the Nissan unless otherwise noted. Conveners: Neilesh Bose, St John’s University Lecture Theatre. Queries: adelebiagi@ Professor Dan Healey and Dr Jon Waterlow 17 Feb, Pavilion Room: ‘Concepts of hotmail.co.uk. Conveners: Baroness Pakistan and facets of decolonisation: Dr Claire Shaw, Bristol Andrews (Labour), Lord Inglewood Bengal and the 20th century’ 19 Jan, Pavilion Room: ‘Outsiders (Conservative), Professor Robert Service in a hearing world? Sound, speech Student Presentations David Marquand and Konrad Schiemann and marginality in the Soviet deaf 24 Feb: tbc 20 Jan: ‘The new politics: is the power of community, 1917–85’ Gautam Ghosh, Otago the centre sustainable?’ Mark Vincent, East Anglia 25 Feb: ‘Division of grandeur: nation, David Trimble, Robert Lisvane and Ken 26 Jan: ‘ “The cult of the urka”: writing partition and representation in Bengal’ Morgan criminal subculture into Soviet Student Presentations 27 Jan: ‘Devolution and the threat to historiography’ 3 Mar: tbc Britishness’ Dr Francesca Stella, Glasgow Gunnel Cederlöf, Uppsala Norman Davies and Roger Liddle 2 Feb: ‘Stigma, in/visibility and 10 Mar: ‘Governing monsoon landscapes: 3 Feb: ‘Regional insurgencies inside the the everyday experiences of non- East India Company expansion on its EU’ heterosexual women in Russia: north-eastern frontier in the early 19th interrogating “the global closet” ’ Robert Skidelsky, Raymond Asquith and century’ Robert Service Dr Juliane Fürst, Bristol Southeast Asian seminar series 10 Feb: ‘Moscow and Kiev: overambitious 9 Feb: ‘Liberating madness – punishing central powers?’ insanity: Soviet hippies, socialist The following seminars will be given at psychiatry and the politics of craziness’ 2pm on Wednesdays in the Deakin Room. William Ehrman, Richard Graham MP and Convener: Dr Matthew J Walton Steve Tsang Professor Julie Cassiday, Williams College 17 Feb: ‘China and its territorial 16 Feb: ‘Camp, kitsch or travesty? Gender Dominik Mueller, Goethe discontents’ and performance in the Putin era’ 4 Feb: ‘Faith control and the politics of exorcism in Brunei Darussalam’ Avi Shlaim and David Triesman Dr Robert Dale, Nottingham Trent 24 Feb: ‘Nation-building and “enemy” 23 Feb: ‘ “Discarded on the edge of life” or Juliette Koning, Oxford Brookes minorities in the Middle East’ establishment figures? Leningrad’sR ed 18 Feb: ‘Pentecostalism in Indonesia’ Army veterans as insiders and outsiders’ Su Lin Lewis, Warwick 4 Mar: ‘Cosmopolitan publics in divided societies: inter-ethnic interactions in Penang, Rangoon and Bangkok, 1920–40’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5081 • 14 January 2015 221

Kay Andrews, Margaret MacMillan and Somerville Event Graham Avery Claire Harman will lecture at 5.30pm 3 Mar: ‘Not a state but a nation: cultural James Bryce Memorial Lecture on 24 February in the Leonard Wolfson nationalism and its discontents’ Baroness Hale of Richmond, Deputy Auditorium. Simon Jenkins and Anthony Barnett President, Supreme Court of the UK, will Subject: ‘The suspicions of Mrs Gaskell’ 10 Mar: ‘Is devolution really the answer deliver the biennial Bryce Lecture at 5pm Lunch seminar to the democratic deficit?’ on 5 February in the University Museum of Natural History. Frances Larson will speak from her St Cross Subject: ‘The Supreme Court in the biographical work on Henry Wellcome at United Kingdom constitution’ 1pm on 10 March in the Haldane Room. St Cross College Centre for the History Free and open to all. Places limited; advance and Philosophy of Physics Trinity registration required: www.wolfson.ox.ac. uk/clusters/life-writing/events/lwlunch. Conference Richard Hillary Memorial Lecture A conference will be held on 28 February Blackfriars Hall Professor Simon Armitage will deliver the at St Cross. Free. Details and registration: Richard Hillary Memorial Lecture at 5pm on www.stx.ox.ac.uk/happ/events/voltaire- Aquinas Lecture 2 March in the Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre, and-newtonian-revolution-one-day- St Cross Building. Details: ulli.parkinson@ Thomas Joseph White, OP, will deliver the conference. trinity.ox.ac.uk. Aquinas Lecture at 5pm on 27 January. Subject: ‘Voltaire and the Newtonian Subject: tbc Subject: ‘Aquinas on divine simplicity’ revolution’ Aquinas Seminar University College St John’s The following seminars will be given at Roundtable on the Scottish referendum 4.30pm on Thursdays. Convener: The Revd St John’s College Research Centre: Dr Richard Conrad, OP Interdisciplinary Seminars in Dr Gerry Hassan, West of Scotland, Dr Ben Psychoanalysis Jackson, Adam Ramsay, Open Democracy, Rupert Mayer, OP, International and David Torrance, The Herald, will hold a Theological Institute, Austria The following seminars will take place roundtable discussion at 5pm on 23 January 29 Jan: ‘The question of being: a at 8.15pm in the Lecture Room, 45 St in the Swire Seminar Room. All welcome. confrontation of Aquinas and Heidegger’ Giles’. Free to members of the University Subject: ‘The Scottish independence and mental health professionals. Space James Brent, OP, Catholic University of referendum: what happened and what is limited; to attend it is helpful (but not America next?’ essential) to email [email protected]. 5 Feb: ‘Aquinas, God and order’ Conveners: Louise Braddock, Richard Gipps, Wolfson Bernhard Blankenhorn, OP, Pontifical Paul Tod University of St Thomas Aquinas, Rome Michael Lacewing, Heythrop College Wolfson Haldane Lecture 12 Feb: ‘Aquinas and the gift of wisdom’ 26 Jan: ‘Gratitude for life: a Professor Chris Stringer will deliver the Professor Tianyue Wu, Peking psychodynamic guide for non-believers’ Wolfson Haldane Lecture at 6pm on 19 Feb: ‘Are first movements venial sins? Astrid Gessert, Centre for Freudian 5 March in the Hall. Augustinian doctrine and Aquinas’s Analysis and Research Subject: ‘The origin of our species’ reinterpretation’ 9 Feb: ‘Hysteria and obsession: a Oxford Centre for Life-Writing Professor Pasquale Porro, Paris IV Lacanian perspective’ 26 Feb: ‘Aquinas and determinism’ Weinrebe Lectures in Life-Writing: Lucia Corti, Middlesex and Centre for Political history and life-writing Professor Lee Yearley, Stanford Freudian Analysis and Research 5 Mar: ‘Virtues and vices: Thomas 23 Feb: ‘The Lacanian subject and the The following lectures will take place Aquinas in conversation with classical field of the Other’ at 5.30pm on Tuesdays in the Leonard Chinese philosophy’ Wolfson Auditorium. Joel Backström, Åbo Akademi Aquinas Colloquium 2 Mar: ‘Love, fear and the mind’s moral Professor Roy Forster dynamics: on how (not) to understand 27 Jan: ‘The making of saints: politics, Professor John O’Callaghan, Notre Dame, the “drives” and “ambivalence” ’ biography and hagiography in modern Professor John Haldane, St Andrews, Irish history’ Professor Reinhard Hütter, Duke, and Lesley Caldwell, British Psychoanalytical Professor Jeremy Wilkins, Regis, Toronto, Association and UCL Professor Peter Hennessy, QMUL will lead the Aquinas Colloquium 10am– 9 Mar: ‘Donald Winnicott, Melanie 3 Feb: ‘The importance of being personal’ 5pm on 7 March. Klein and the shape of post-war British Professor Anne Deighton Subject: ‘Thomas and Thomisms’ psychoanalysis’ 10 Feb: ‘The value-added of political life- writing: Ernest Bevin (1880–1951)’ Professor Margaret MacMillan 17 Feb: ‘Sometimes it matters who is in power’ 222 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5081 • 14 January 2015

Seminars Other Groups Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum The following seminars will be given Evening lectures at 8.30pm on Thursdays, preceded by Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture refreshments at 8.15pm, in the Aula. Free The following lectures will be given at 6pm and open to the public. Conveners: Dr A Professor Frank Wilczek, MIT, will deliver for 6.30pm on Wednesdays in the Pitt Rivers Pinsent, M Sławkowski-Rode, R Weir the 2015 Andrew Chamblin Memorial New Extension, Robinson Close. Visitors Lecture at 5pm on 10 March in Lady welcome: £2. Lord Stewart Sutherland, former Vice- Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge. Chancellor, University of London Menno Fitski, Rijksmuseum Admission free but ticket required. To book: 29 Jan: ‘Greed: from Gordon Gecko to 18 Jan: ‘The Temple Guardians of the https://csf2015chamblinlecture.eventbrite. David Hume’ Rijksmuseum: the power of Japanese co.uk. sculpture’. To be followed by launch Professor Zofia Rosinska, Warsaw Subject: ‘Colour, new dimensions and the of the children’s book The Temple 12 Feb: ‘The place of questioning in geometry of physics’ Guardians by Harriet Impey and Katie fidelity’ Pickwood. Friends of the Bodleian Professor Agata Bielik-Robson, Elizabeth Gowing Nottingham The following lectures will be given at 18 Feb: ‘Edith and I: on the trail of an 26 Feb: ‘The infinite and the finite: 1pm on Tuesdays in Convocation House, Edwardian traveller in Kosovo’ human life as living contradiction in Bodleian Library. Hegel, Freud and Rosenzweig’ Kenneth Kirkwood Memorial Lecture Professor Mirjam Foot, Emeritus Professor, Day Professor David Brown, St Andrews UCL 12 Mar: ‘Art’s critique of theology’ A lecture day looking at transgender 27 Jan: ‘The life of a bookbinder in the questions will be held 10am–4pm on 17th and 18th centuries’ St Stephen’s House 7 March in the Pitt Rivers New Extension, Anne Lawrence Robinson Close. Advance booking required. Guest Lecture 10 Mar: ‘Women worth their salt: a Subject: ‘To be he or she?’ history of the employment of women at Michael Hall, architectural historian, will the Bodleian Library’ deliver a Guest Lecture at 4.30pm on 29 January in the Church of St John the Oxford Italian Association Evangelist, 109 Iffley Road. Subject: ‘G F Bodley and the Society of St The following events will take place at 8pm. John the Evangelist’ Admission to lectures is £2 to members and £5 to non-members; students under 30 admitted free. The filmIl capitale umano (Paolo Virzi) will be shown on 23 January in the Sadler Room, Rewley House, Wellington Square. Admission £2.

Professor Helen King will lecture on 28 January in the Mary Ogilvie Theatre, St Anne’s. Subject: ‘Leonardo da Vinci in the history of dissection’ Robert Andrews will lecture on 18 February in the Pauling Centre for Human Sciences, 58a Banbury Road. Subject: ‘An introduction to Sardinia’ Dr Nicola Gardini and Nicolas Moureaux will give poetry readings in Italian with music on 26 February in the Pauling Centre for Human Sciences, 58a Banbury Road. Subject: ‘Per ogni cosa un nome’