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Lectures and Seminars, Hilary Term 2013 WEDNESDay 9 jaNuary 2013 • SuPPLEMENT (1) TO NO 5009 • VOL 143 Gazette Supplement Lectures and Seminars, Hilary term 2013 Oxford London Lecture 216 Ludwig Institute for Cancer research Institutes, Centres and Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Museums 229 rheumatology and Musculoskeletal LGBT History Month Lecture 216 Sciences ashmolean Museum Sir William Dunn School of Pathology Bodleian Libraries Cultural Heritage Forum Pharmacology, anatomical university Church Neuropharmacology and Drug Series 216 Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Discovery seminars armed Conflict Department of Physiology, anatomy and Oxford Centre for Hebrew and jewish Genetics Humanities 216 Studies Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences International Gender Studies Centre Humanitas Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Social Sciences 224 Faculty of Classics reuters Institute for the Study of Faculty of English Language and journalism School of anthropology and Museum Literature Ethnography Latin american Centre Faculties of English/History of art/ Saïd Business School Foundation for Law, justice and Society/ Theology/Music Centre for Socio-legal Studies Department of Education Faculty of History Oxford Learning Institute Departments of Education/International History of art Department Development/Social Policy and Social Maison Française Faculty of Medieval and Modern Work Oxford Institute of Population ageing Languages Smith School of Enterprise and the COMPaS Medieval Studies Environment Faculty of Music School of Geography and the Colleges, Halls and Societies 234 Faculty of Oriental Studies Environment Faculty of Philosophy Oxford Intellectual Property research Blackfriars Faculty of Theology and religion Centre Corpus Christi Department of International Green Templeton Development (Queen Elizabeth Keble Mathematical, Physical and House) Kellogg Life Sciences 220 Oxford Internet Institute Mansfield Department of Chemistry Faculty of Law Nuffield Department of Computer Science Oxford Martin School Oriel Department of Earth Sciences Department of Politics and International relations St Antony’s Department of Materials St Catherine’s Mathematical Institute Department for Continuing St Hilda’s Department of Physics Education 228 St John’s Department of Plant Sciences Wolfson Department of Zoology Kellogg College Centre for Creative Writing Other Groups 237 Medical Sciences 222 rewley House research Seminar Series Friends of the Bodleian Sir richard Doll Seminars in Public Health Oxford Intelligence Group and Epidemiology Israel: Historical, Political and Social Oxford Centre for Diabetes, aspects Endocrinology and Metabolism Oxford Italian association 215 216 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5009 • 9 january 2013 Oxford London Lecture Cultural Heritage Forum Humanities Series Professor Paul Newman will give the Humanitas 2013 Oxford London Lecture at 6.45pm The fora will take place on Thursdays at Professor Lorraine Daston, Director, Max on 12 March in the assembly Hall, Church 5pm in radcliffe Humanities. Supported by Planck Institute for the History of Science, House, Westminster. The lecture is given the john Fell OuP research Fund. For more and Inaugural Humanitas Visiting Professor in association with the Guardian. Further information: www.culturalheritage.ox.ac.uk. in the History of Ideas, will deliver the details: www.ox.ac.uk/oxfordlondonlecture. Convener: Professor Donna Kurtz following events which are free and open Tickets: £15 (£8 concessions). Professor Shearer West, Sir Barry Cunliffe, to all, although booking is recommended: Subject: ‘Where are the robots? The Dr Christopher Brown, Dr Chris Fletcher www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/events/ challenges and promise of robotic and Loren Griffith humanitas. Events are 5–6.30pm at Merton, technology in the 21st century’ 24 Jan: ‘What can the university unless otherwise noted. LGBT History Month contribute and how can it benefit?’ Lecture Professor Ed Herzig, Professor Rana Lecture 14 Jan: ‘Nature’s revenge: a history of risk, Mitter, Professor Polly O’Hanlon, responsibility and reasonableness’ Val McDermid, best-selling crime writer, Professor Oliver Watson, Professor will give the 2013 Oxford university Lecture Heather Viles Symposium for LGBT History Month at 6pm on 6 31 Jan: ‘How has globalisation changed 16 Jan: ‘The new history of scientific February at the jacqueline du Pré Music perceptions of cultural heritage?’ experience: observing, experimenting, Building, St Hilda's. attendance is free but collecting, representing and reading Professor Anne Trefethen, Professor booking is essential; to book please visit: in early modern Europe’. Lorraine David de Roure, Dr Wolfram Horstmann, http://oxunilgbt2013.eventbrite.co.uk. Daston, Dr Simon Werrett, uCL, Dr Dr Eric Meyer, Mike Monaghan Subject: ‘a queer-like smell’ Rhodri Lewis, Dr Sachiko Kusukawa, 7 Feb: ‘How has technology transformed Cambridge, and Professor Martin access and dissemination?’ Mulsow, Erfurt. Chair: Professor Professor Ewan McKendrick, Professor Laurence Brockliss Timothy Endicott, Dr Emily Hudson, Conversation Peter Hirtle, Senior Policy advisor, Digital 1–2.30pm, 17 Jan, Department of Scholarship and Preservation Philosophy: ‘Writing the history 14 Feb: ‘What is cultural heritage law?’ of reason’. Chair: Professor Sally Professor Roy Westbrook, Tracey Shuttleworth Camillieri, Dr Pegram Harrison Imogen Cooper, classical pianist and 21 Feb: ‘How can leadership- Inaugural Humanitas Visiting Professor in development and the world of Classical Music and Music Education, will commerce contribute?’ perform a public recital at 5pm on Loren Griffith, Professor Malcolm Airs, 2 February at St john’s. Free and open to Christopher Young, English Heritage, Carol all, although booking is required: www. Ann Scott, ICOM uK, David Thackray, humanities.ox.ac.uk/humanitas. ICOMOS uK, Dr Mechtild Rössler, uNESCO, Programme: Schubert’s 4 Impromptus Chief Policy Section, World Heritage Centre, D899, Sonata in a minor D784; 11 Robert Madelin, Eu Director-General for Ecossaises D781, Sonata in D major D850 Communications Networks, Content and Technology Faculty of Classics 28 Feb: ‘How can the university and cultural organisations collaborate?’ APGRD The following lectures will be given at 2.15pm at 66 St Giles’. Tanya Pollard, Brooklyn College and CuNy 21 Jan, Outreach Room: ‘What’s Hecuba to Shakespeare?’ Pantelis Michelakis, Bristol 4 Feb, Lecture Theatre: ‘Homer and early cinema’ Adrian Noble, theatre director, and Joanne Pearce, actor 25 Feb, Lecture Theatre: ‘Sophocles’ Theban plays at the rSC in 1991’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5009 • 9 january 2013 217 Faculty of English Language and Hazra Medica Professor Ian Green, Edinburgh Literature 7 Feb: ‘ “No dice/ I ain’ go eat lice”: re- 18 Feb: ‘reconfiguring the Lord's Prayer presentations of nation and native in the and Decalogue in early modern English Early modern literature graduate antiguan calypso’ Protestantism’ seminars Dr Neelam Srivastava, Newcastle Hussey Seminar The following seminars will be given at 5pm 21 Feb: ‘ “a new type of conquest”: fascist Dr Andrew Hass, Stirling on Tuesdays in the Breakfast room, Merton. colonialism and the crisis of empire 25 Feb: ‘The poetics of “o” (as nothing)’ Conveners: Dr rhodri Lewis, Professor during the 1935 Ethiopian War’ David Norbrook, Dr Diane Purkiss, Professor Faculty of History Dr Sandra Ponzanesi, utrecht Tiffany Stern 7 Mar: ‘The postcolonial culture industry’ Lecture Professor John Gillies, East anglia Restoration to Reform seminars: 15 Jan: ‘anger and imputation in the Professor Peter Pulzer will deliver a Literature, Culture and History 1660– English revenge play’ Faculty of History Lecture at 5pm on 31 1800 january in the Examination Schools. all Professor Nigel Smith, Princeton The following seminars will be given welcome. 29 Jan: ‘Literature, politics and the Dutch at 5.15pm on Mondays in the Dorfman Subject: ‘30 january 1933: the Nazi republic’ room, St Peter’s. Convenors: Professor ros seizure of power after 80 years’ Professor Jeanne Shami, regina Ballaster, Dr Christine Gerrard, Dr Freya Carlyle lectures 12 Feb: ‘Women and sermon transmission johnston, Dr Kathryn Murphy, Dr Nicole in early modern England: sources, Pohl, Dr abigail Williams LAWS’ EMPIRE. RETHINKING law AND methodologies and problems’ LIFE UNDER ROME, 212–565 AD Dr Paddy Bullard, Kent Professor Mary Nyquist, Toronto 21 Jan: ‘The Scriblerian mock-arts: Dr Caroline Humfress, Birkbeck, will 26 Feb: ‘Satan “at large”: Paradise Lost, pseudo-technical satire in Swift and his deliver the Carlyle Lectures at 5pm on slavery and satanism’ contemporaries’ Wednesdays in the Examination Schools. 30 Jan: ‘Imperial texts and roman legal Literature and Medicine seminars Dr Kate Bennett history’ 4 Feb: ‘john aubrey’s “Inquisitive The following seminars will be given Genius”: the social context of the Brief 6 Feb: ‘ “In the shadow of indigenous at 6.15pm on Thursdays in the Ground Lives’ ordering”. Law and social hierarchies in Floor Graduate Training room, radcliffe the provinces’ Humanities, unless otherwise noted. Dr Bonnie Latimer, Plymouth Convenors: Professor Peter Friend, Professor 18 Feb: ‘Courting dominion: deceit, 13 Feb: ‘ “Legalism from below”? Laurie Maguire, Professor Neil Mortensen, persuasion, and masculinity in Samuel Institutional order and Christian Professor rutger Ploeg, Dr Sophie ratcliffe, richardson and Sarah Scott’ communities’ Dr Marion Turner Dr Hal Gladfelder, Manchester 20 Feb: ‘Local reasoning in late-roman
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