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Lectures and Seminars, Hilary term 2014

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Division APGRD public lecture series TORCH The following lectures will be given at Careers Service Interdisciplinary Research Group: What 2.15pm on Mondays in the Lecture Theatre, is women’s writing? Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Studies, except where otherwise noted. seminar series The following events will take place at Everyone welcome; no booking required. 2pm on Fridays in Room 11, Examination The following seminars will be held at 5pm Schools. All are welcome; refreshments Helen Eastman, theatre director, and Alex on Wednesdays in the Centenary Room, will be provided. Conveners: Professor Ros Silverman, composer 56 Banbury Road. Ballaster, Dr Pelagia Goulimari, Dr Cláudia 3 Feb: ‘Two rounds of the Cambridge Jordan Schlipf, Founder Centric Pazos Alonso and Professor Tim Whitmarsh Greek Play’ 22 Jan: ‘Funding’ Gender, Literature and Culture Kate Tempest, performance poet Roy Azoulay, Isis Innovation seminars 24 Feb, Auditorium, Corpus Christi: In 29 Jan: ‘Intellectual property’ conversation 31 Jan: Dr Nina Power, Roehampton Jordan Schlipf, Founder Centric Mary Hart, Curator of Antiquities, J Paul 14 Feb: Professor Morag Shiach, QMUL 5 Feb: ‘Sales’ Getty Museum 28 Feb: Dr Alison Winch, Middlesex 3 Mar: ‘Theatre culture in ancient Greek Jordan Schlipf, Founder Centric art’ 12 Feb: ‘Pitching’ Workshop Dr Kathryn Gleadle, Cindy Aalders and Faculty of English Language and Eve Worth will lead a workshop 2–5pm on Literature 14 March. Subject: ‘Women and ego-writing’ Professor of Poetry Lecture Sir Geoffrey Hill will deliver the Professor Rothermere American Institute/Faculty of Poetry Lecture at 5.30pm on 11 March in of English Language and Literature the Examination Schools. Subject: tbc American Literature research seminar McKenzie Lecture The following seminars will be given at 4.30pm on Thursdays in the Rothermere Dr William Noel, Pennsylvania, will deliver American Institute and Seminar Room A, the 19th annual McKenzie Lecture at English Faculty. Conveners: Dr Michèle 5pm on 20 February in Lecture Theatre 2, Mendelssohn and Dr Lloyd Pratt English Faculty. Subject: ‘Bibliography in bits: the study of Dr Nicole Sierra books in the 21st century’ 6 Feb, RAI: ‘Walking the labyrinths of time: J G Ballard and Robert Smithson’ Oxford tribute to Seamus Heaney Professor Miranda Hickman, McGill There will be a memorial event in tribute to 6 Mar, English Faculty: ‘Modernist the late poet Seamus Heaney to celebrate excavations: rereading H D’s Asphodel’ his life and work at 6.30pm for 7pm on 2 February at the Sheldonian Theatre. Featuring works by the poet chosen and read by Oxford poets and scholars, including Mr James Fenton, Sir Christopher Ricks and Sir Geoffrey Hill. Introduced by Professor Dame Hermione Lee. Tickets £10, available from: www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/ browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1 &deptid=110&catid=2024&prodvarid=685. Concessionary tickets £1 (students, persons receiving a pension, unemployed), from: [email protected]. University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5045 • 15 January 2014 199

Medieval English Research Seminar Restoration and Reform seminar Sukanta Chaudhuri, Jadavpur 18 Feb: ‘The transmission of early The following seminars will be given at The following seminars will be given at modern pastoral poetry’ 5.15pm on Wednesdays in the History of the 5.15pm on Mondays in the Dorfman Room, Book Room, St Cross Building. Everyone St Peter’s. Conveners: Dr Ros Ballaster; Dr Margreta de Grazia, Pennsylvania welcome. Conveners: Daniel Wakelin and Christine Gerrard; Dr Freya Johnston; Dr 4 Mar: ‘The secular Renaissance? Andy Orchard Kathryn Murphy; Dr Nicole Pohl, Oxford Raphael’s Sistine Madonna and Brookes; and Dr Abigail Williams Shakespeare’s Hamlet’ Stuart Lee 22 Jan: ‘From the Somme to the Robert Clark-Majerus, Literary Faculties of English /History/History of Blackwater: J R R Tolkien and The Battle Encyclopaedia Art/Theology/Music of Maldon’ 27 Jan: ‘The politics of Mansfield Park: nobility, evangelicalism and the East Julia Crick, KCL The Bible in Art, Music and Literature India Company charter renewal of 1813’ 29 Jan: ‘The shock of the old: archaising interdisciplinary seminar script in Anglo-Saxon archives’ Kerri Andrews, Strathclyde The following seminars will be given at 5pm 10 Feb: ‘Editing Ann Yearsley: new texts, Helen Appleton on Mondays in the Danson Room, Trinity. new contexts’ 5 Feb: ‘Durham and the cult of Cuthbert’ Convener: Dr C Joynes Ruth Scobie Orietta Da Rold, Cambridge Dr Elizabeth Solopova 24 Feb: ‘Before Byromania: mapping 12 Feb: ‘Paper in the medieval literary 27 Jan: ‘A book for all seasons: celebrity in autumn 1780’ imagination’ introducing the forms of the medieval Anthony Mandal, Cardiff psalter’ Erin Goeres, UCL 10 Mar: ‘From Perthshire walks into the 19 Feb: ‘Poets on the high seas: Normans Professor Yvonne Sherwood, Kent pathless wild: religion and nation in Mary and Saracens in later medieval skaldic 10 Feb: ‘Performing Jeremiah: Bernardino Brunton’s Self-Control (1811)’ verse’ de Sahagun and Stefan Zweig’ Transatlantic Literature in Context Vincent Gillespie Dr Sarah Apetrei 26 Feb: ‘The dark art of poetry and the The following seminars will be given at 24 Feb: ‘Songs of Sion: psalmists for a new medieval sensorium’ 5.15pm on Thursdays in Seminar Room B, St dispensation in 17th-century Britain’ Cross Building. Conveners: Dr Tara Stubbs Denis Renevey, Lausanne Hussey seminar and Dr Stephen Ross 12 Mar: ‘The devotion to the name of Professor Tina Beattie, Roehampton Jesus and late medieval affective piety’ Philip McGowan, Queen’s, Belfast 10 Mar: ‘God in the garden – Mary, 30 Jan: ‘Wallace Stevens in the poetry of Eve and the redemption of women in Postcolonial Writing and Theory R S Thomas’ Christian art’ seminar Edward Clarke The following seminars will be given at Faculty of History 13 Feb: ‘Wallace Stevens’s transatlantic 5.15pm on Thursdays in the Okinaga Room, conversations with Shakespeare, Milton Wadham. Conveners: Professor Elleke Annual Special Faculty Lecture and Wordsworth’ Boehmer and Dr Ankhi Mukherjee Ulinka Rublack, Professor of Early Modern Lee Jenkins, University College, Cork Santanu Das, KCL European History, Cambridge, will deliver 27 Feb: ‘D H Lawrence and American 23 Jan: ‘The colour of memory: the First the 2014 Special Faculty Lecture at 5pm on Studies’ World War and the colonial archives’ 10 February in the Examination Schools. Daniel Katz, Warwick Subject: ‘The politics of Renaissance Robin Fiddian 13 Mar: ‘Translation and the American fashion’ 6 Feb: ‘Reflections on coloniality in modernist novel’ Borges’ Argentina: "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Carlyle Lectures Tertius" (1940)’ Early Modern Literature graduate Power and pleasure, 1513–1776 seminar Ranka Primorac, Southampton David Wooton, Professor of History, York, 20 Feb: ‘Distant reading and Southern The following seminars will be given at will deliver the Carlyle Lectures at 5pm on Africa’ 5.15pm on Tuesdays in the Breakfast Room, the following Thursdays in the Examination Merton. All welcome. Drinks served after Claire Chambers, York Schools: the seminar. Conveners: Dr Rhodri Lewis, 13 Mar: ‘Islamophobia: Orwellian 6 Feb: ‘The Enlightenment Project’ Professor David Norbrook, Dr Diane Purkiss newspeak or racially inflected hatred? and Professor Tiffany Stern 13 Feb: ‘Power (1513: Machiavelli)’ Authors of Muslim heritage in Britain, including Rushdie and Joseph Anton’ Joad Raymond, QMUL 20 Feb: ‘Pleasure (Hobbes)’ 21 Jan: ‘John Milton, European’ 27 Feb: ‘The state (Hume)’ Susan Wiseman, Birkbeck 6 Mar: ‘Happiness (du Châtelet)’ 4 Feb: ‘ “Lecture upon the shadow”: night poetry in George Chapman, John Donne 13 Mar: ‘Self-evidence (1776: Bentham, and Lucy Hutchinson’ Jefferson, Smith)’ 200 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5045 • 15 January 2014

James Ford Lectures in British History Seminar series Christoph Gradmann 14 Feb: ‘The World Health Organisation Internationalism and empire: The following seminars will be given at and antibiotic resistance testing, 1945–75’ British dilemmas, 1919–39 1pm in the Rees Davies Room, History Faculty, unless otherwise noted. Conveners: John Slight, Cambridge Professor Susan Pederson, Columbia, will Johannes Depnering, Kat Hill, Hannah 21 Feb: ‘The European empires and the deliver the James Ford Lectures at 5pm on Murphy, Lyndal Roper, Carla Roth, Joshua Hajj’ the following Fridays in the Examination Teplitsky and Ed Wareham Schools. Rachel Leow, Cambridge 31 Jan: ‘Turning to Geneva’ Josh Teplitsky and Yair Mintzker, 28 Feb: ‘Rethinking Chinese communism Princeton and Berlin in the Malayan emergency’ 7 Feb: ‘Lugard sets the world to rights’ 22 Jan: ‘Outsiders in the inner circle: 3.30pm, 7 Mar, Lecture Theatre: Student 14 Feb: ‘At odds over sovereignty’ Jews, Christians, and courtly politics’ presentations (DPhil) 21 Feb: ‘The racial order in question’ Carla Roth, Anna Linton, KCL, and Adam 2pm, 14 Mar, Lecture Theatre: Student Morton. Chair: Rebekka Habermas, 28 Feb: ‘The chimera of colonial Presentations (MSt) Göttingen appeasement’ 5 Feb: ‘Laughter and tears’ Oxford Centre for Global History 7 Mar: ‘The limits of international turns’ workshop: Latin America in global Annual Special Faculty Lecture history — paradigms and perspectives History of Medicine departmental Professor Ulinka Rublack, Cambridge research seminars 5pm, 10 Feb, Examination Schools: ‘The A workshop will be held 2–5.30pm on politics of Renaissance fashion’ 12 February in the Common Room, History Medicine and media Faculty, followed by a drinks reception. Steven Pfaff, Washington The following seminars will be given Places limited; registration is essential: 18 Feb, Colin Matthews Room: ‘The at 2.15pm on Mondays in the Seminar [email protected] . Information: Protestant Reformation and collective Room, 47 Banbury Road. Coffee from 2pm. http://global.history.ox.ac.uk. Discussants: action’ Conveners: Dr Amelia Bonea and Dr Cressida Professor Alan Knight, Professor Andrew Jervis Read Timothy Wilson Hurrell, Dr John Darwin. Conveners: 26 Feb, Ashmolean: ‘The Welby Professor James Belich, Dr Jan-Georg Dr Andy Williams, Cardiff Collection’ (places limited; book at: Deutsch, Dr Carsten Schulz and Dr Sarah 20 Jan: ‘Bad science? The challenges of [email protected]) Washbrook UK specialist reporting and the future of science, health and environment news’ Erik Midelfort, Virginia Dr Matthew Brown, Bristol: ‘Squaring 12 Mar: ‘Dissidents in Germany: 1670– the circle? Fitting Latin America into Professor Christian Bonah, Strasbourg 1730’ global history paradigms’ 27 Jan: ‘Communicating good health: sanitary propaganda and utility films in Global and Imperial History research Dr Sarah Washbrook and Dr Carsten an international perspective, 1900–50’ seminar Schulz: ‘Latin American perspectives: connections and contributions to global Professor Christoph Gradmann, Oslo The following seminars will be given at 5pm history’ 3 Feb: ‘Exploring the “structural change on Fridays in the Colin Matthew Room, of infections”: anti-infective drug History Faculty, unless otherwise noted. Oxford Architectural History Seminar development at the Bayer Company, Conveners: Professor James Belich, Dr Jan- The following seminars will take place at 1940–80’ Georg Deutsch, Dr Margret Frenz and Dr 5.30pm in the Lecture Room, Turl Street Miles Larmer Dr Aya Homei, Manchester rooms, Lincoln (former Turl Bar, entered 10 Feb: ‘Looking at both directions: the John Y Wong, Sydney from Turl Street). positioning of Japan in family planning in 24 Jan: ‘British imperialism and Chinese James Jago, York Cold War Asia’ nationalism: Sun Yatsen’s search for 3 Feb: ‘Inheritance, identity and national revival’ Dr Emm Johnstone, London “synchronistical necessity”: towards 17 Feb: ‘Advertising cancer: from British Pingtjin Thum a reassessment of reformed English reticence to the rhetoric of vulnerability, 31 Jan: ‘Merger, acquisition or takeover? architecture in the early modern era’ media interest in young sufferers, Singapore’s progressive left, the Neal Shasore 1960–80’ creation of Malaysia and the enduring 3 Mar: ‘The idea of the civic centre in consequences of Operation Coldstore’ Dr Ann Kelly, Exeter interwar Britain’ 24 Feb: ‘Tractors, peasants and parasites: Toby Green, KCL building Africa’s laboratory’ 7 Feb: ‘African states and Atlantic empires: states and diasporas in upper Dr Sara Hodges, Warwick Guinea and West-Central Africa during 3 Mar: ‘The progress of plastic: the long 17th century’ medical garbage and its afterlives in contemporary India’ Dr Adam Burgess, Kent 10 Mar: ‘Looking back at a media risk campaign: the case of mobile phones and masts’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5045 • 15 January 2014 201

History of Art Department Dr Pasi Valiaho, Goldsmiths Lara Gochin-Raffaelli, Cape Town 6 Mar: ‘Kingdoms of shadows: towards 24 Feb: ‘Putting the sex back in pleasure: Slade Lectures in Art History an archaeology of the projected image’ re-translating D’Annunzio’s Il Piacere’

Selves and strangers: Dr Giovanna Vitelli Stefano Jossa, RHUL photographic/filmic encounters 13 Mar: ‘Powhatan’s mantle as object and 3 Mar: ‘Unheroic Italy: presentation of Un in, of and from South Africa context’ paese senza eroi. L’Italia da Jacopo Ortis a Montalbano (Laterza, 2013)’ Tamar Garb, Durning Lawrence Professor Faculty of Medieval and Modern in the History of Art, UCL, will deliver the Fabio Camilletti, Warwick Languages Slade Lectures at 5pm on the following days 10 Mar: ‘The prince and the maiden. in the Mathematical Institute. Leopardi, Hamlet and the art of detour’ Oxford Celtic Seminar 22 Jan: ‘Photo albums and fancy dress: engaging in the African archive’ The following seminars will be given at 3pm Faculties of Medieval and Modern on Thursdays in the Harold Wilson and Languages/English/History 29 Jan: ‘Ethnofantasies: on location in Memorial Rooms, Jesus. Tea from 2.30pm. Zululand’ Seminar: Literature, learning and the Dr Rhiannon Ifans, UWTSD 5 Feb: ‘Sex, savagery, servitude: “maid in social orders in early modern Europe 23 Jan: ‘The Plygain carol-singing South Africa” ‘ tradition in Wales’ The following seminars will be held at 2pm 12 Feb: ‘Curating conundrums: on Wednesdays in the Hovenden Room, All Ms Angela Grant ethics, poetics, politics (an informal Souls. There will be two papers per session. 30 Jan: ‘Intellectual property in the early presentation)’ All welcome. Convener: Neil Kenny 20th century, and how not to defend it: 19 Feb: ‘Of families and men: humanist Gwenogfryn Evans and the case of Evans 22 Jan: photography from the South’ vs Tout and others’ Sarah Hutton, Aberystwyth ‘Negotiating social order – women and 26 Feb: ‘Trauma in the field of vision: Professor Sioned Davies, Cardiff philosophy in the early Enlightenment’ apartheid, Auschwitz and all that’ 6 Feb: ‘Word, image, ideology: the Brian Richardson, Leeds Victorian Mabinogion’ 5 Mar: ‘ “Il etait une foies en Afrique”: a ‘Oral culture and social class in the Italian conversation/discussion with Adrian Ms Jaqueline Bemmer Cinquecento’ Rifkin’ 13 Feb: ‘Debt collection across the border 5 Feb: – the Irish legal idea of cairde’ 12 Mar: ‘Retrotopia: “secretly I will love Rodrigo Cacho, Cambridge you more” ‘ Ms Hanna Hopwood ‘Poetry and the lettered class in early 20 Feb: ‘Shameful beards – the changing modern Spanish America’ Oxford Art History Lectures faces of the cywyddwyr’ Stéphane Van Damme, EUI, Florence The following seminars will be given at ‘Learned passions: revisiting moral and Dr Huw Meirion Edwards, Aberystwyth 5pm on Thursdays in the lecture theatre, social practices in the sciences of the 27 Feb: ‘Y Nant: a new perspective on 2nd Floor, Littlegate House, St Ebbe’s. classical age’ 15th-century Welsh poetry’ Conveners: Dr H Grootenboer, Dr M Leino, 19 Feb: Oxford Brookes, and Dr C Whistler Dr Ali Bonner Clare Bucknell 6 Mar: ‘Important manuscript witnesses Dr Anthony Gardner ‘Meritocratic drama: aspects of social of Pelagius’ Letter to Demetrius’ 23 Jan: ‘Dizzydence and the archive: mobility in eighteenth-century atlas effects in the work of Dan and Lia Dr Christine James, Swansea sentimental comedy’ Perjovschi’ 13 Mar: ‘Battles and bibles: a Welsh poet’s M A Katritzky, Open perspective on the events of 1588’ ‘Performing social outcasts: Samuel Dr Robin Usher, Oxford Brookes Butler’s Hudibras skimmington’ 30 Jan: ‘Thomas Fuller’s Pisgah Sight Italian Department graduate seminars of Palestine (1650) and the earliest 5 Mar: The following seminars will be given at illustrations to English Judaica’ Emma Smith 5pm in Room 10b, Taylor Institution, unless ‘Early readers of Shakespeare’s first Folio’ Dr Anna Lovatt, Manchester otherwise noted. Rowan Tomlinson, Bristol 6 Feb: ‘Drawing degree zero’ Lina Bolzoni, Scuola Normale di Pisa ‘Method, judgement, and social origin: Dr Ben Thomas, Kent 28 Jan, Roy Griffiths Room, Keble: the politics of reading and writing 13 Feb: ‘In defence of marginal anarchy: ‘Memory palaces: the Renaissance and historia in Renaissance France’ Edgar Wind and modern art’ the contemporary world’ Joanna Lowry, Brighton Alina Marazzi, film director 20 Feb: ‘Melancholic thoughts about 3 Feb, Main Hall: ‘The eye and the I’ photography and things’ followed by projection of her recent film Tutto parla di te (Everything speaks of Dr François Quiviger, Warburg Institute you) 27 Feb: ‘Bacchus in Renaissance academies and workshops’ 202 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5045 • 15 January 2014

Faculty of Music Professor Kerry McCarthy, Duke Faculty of Theology and Religion 13 Mar: ‘Sheppard and the English psalm- Research Colloquia motet’ Grinfield Lectures The following colloquia will be given Ethnomusicology Seminars Professor Nicholas de Lange, Cambridge, at 5.15pm on Tuesdays in Denis Arnold will deliver the Grinfield Lectures during The following seminars will be given at Hall. Conveners: Carina Venter and Alexi the week of 24 February. The main lecture 5pm on Thursdays in the Dolphin Room, St Vellianitis will be given at 5pm on 24 February in John’s. Convener: Dr Lobley the Examination Schools. Titles to be Dr Katy Hamilton, Royal College of Music Dr Rachel Mundy, Pittsburgh confirmed. 21 Jan: ‘ “In a small circle of friends”: 23 Jan: ‘Songs on the dissecting table: Brahms’ Vocal Quartets and making Ptarmigan Lecture in Patristics ethnomusicology and the German music at home’ laboratory tradition’ Professor Gillian Clark, Professor Emerita Dr Sarah Hill, Cardiff in Ancient History, Bristol, will deliver the Dr Maria Mendonça, Kenyon College 28 Jan: ‘Sounding digital: technological 2014 Ptarmigan Lecture in Patristics at 5pm 30 Jan: ‘Music in women’s prisons in and aesthetic change in electroacoustic on 18 February in the Examination Schools. England’ music and sound art’ Subject: ‘Words and music: Augustine and the psalms’ Professor Max Paddison, Durham Faculty of Oriental Studies 4 Feb: ‘The perception of musical time: Interdisciplinary seminars in the study critiques of Henri Bergson in Bachelard, Inaugural Lecture of religion: Religion and war Adorno and Deliège’ Professor Julia Bray, Laudian Professor of The following seminars will be given at Professor Reinhard Strohm Arabic, will deliver her inaugural lecture at 5.30pm on Wednesdays in the seminar 11 Feb: ‘A musical nation? 15th-century 5pm on 6 February in the Auditorium, St room, Theology and Religion Faculty Austria and the rest of Europe’ John’s. Open to all. Annexe, 42 St Giles’. Organiser: Torkel Subject: ‘Human chain’ Brekke Professor Tiffany Stern 18 Feb: ‘Shakespeare’s lost music’ Seminar on Jewish History and Adrian Gregory Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period 29 Jan: ‘Religion in WW1’ Professor Judith Weir, Cardiff 25 Feb: tbc The following seminars will be given Nigel Biggar at 2.30pm on Tuesdays in the Oriental 12 Feb: ‘In defence of war?’ Dr Harriet Boyd Institute. Convener: Professor Martin 4 Mar: ‘Futurism on tour c1924’ Monica Duffy Toft Goodman 26 Feb: ‘Religious and nationalist Professor Elizabeth Eva Leach Dr Helen Spurling, Southampton motivation in insurgency’ 11 Mar: ‘Clerical work: finding the motet a 21 Jan: ‘Jewish apocalypticism in the nobler home’ Faisal Devji 7th–8th centuries CE’ 12 Mar: ‘Gandhi on the virtues of war’ Seminar in late-medieval and Amit Gvaryahu, Hebrew Renaissance music — a forum for work McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics 28 Jan: ‘Usurers and other problematic in progress and Public Life professions in tannaitic literature’ The following seminars will be given at 5pm Oh, what a lovely war? Dr Meir Ben Shahar, Hebrew on Thursdays in Wharton Room, All Souls. Reconsidering 1914–18 4 Feb: ‘The rise of historical Convener: Dr Bent consciousness in rabbinic literature: from The following lectures will be given at 5pm Professor Julian Gardner, Warwick the Mishnah to the Babylonian Talmud’ on Tuesdays in the Blue Boar Theatre, Christ 6 Feb: ‘The cardinals’ music. Visual and Church. In association with Christ Church Professor Sacha Stern, UCL other evidence for music and music- Cathedral. Convener: Professor Nigel Biggar 11 Feb: ‘Pirqei de-Rabbi Eliezer and the making in late-13th-century Rome’ origins of the 19-year cycle’ Mr Jeremy Paxman Professor Jessie Ann Owens, California at 21 Jan: ‘Great Britain’s Great War’ Professor David Jacobson, UCL Davis 18 Feb: ‘Hasmonean coinage: some issues Professor Margaret MacMillan 13 Feb: ‘Key, tune and air in Morley’s and fresh insights’ 28 Jan: ‘Accident or choice? The outbreak Introduction’ of the First World War’ Grinfield Lecture Professor Davitt Moroney, California at Professor Nicholas de Lange, Cambridge Professor Gary Sheffield, Wolverhampton Berkeley 25 Feb: ‘Aquila fragments from the 4 Feb: ‘Victorious donkeys? British 20 Feb: ‘Musical gigantismo in 16th- Genizah’ generals and generalship of the First century Florence: reconstructing Stefano World War reconsidered’ Rossetto’s 50-part motet Consolamini, Dr David Taylor consolamini popule meus’ 3 Mar: ‘Jewish exegetical traditions in Professor Nigel Biggar Syriac sources’ 11 Feb: ‘1914–18: was Britain right to fight?’ Professor Rob Wegman, Princeton 27 Feb: ‘A brief history of measurable Dr Peter Stewart Dr Matthew Grimley notation, c1200–c1280’ 11 Mar: ‘The Beth Alpha synagogue 18 Feb: ‘The war and English religion’ mosaic and late antique provincialism’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5045 • 15 January 2014 203

Professor Holger Afflerbach, Leeds Mathematical, Physical Department of Computer Science 25 Feb: ‘ “If you do not want to see God’s and Life Sciences hand in everything, even in the most Oxford Strachey Lecture in Computer unbearable, you are lost.” Experiencing Science Hume-Rothery Memorial Lecture the First World War alongside Kaiser Professor Ehud Shapiro, Harry Weinrebe Wilhelm II’ Professor George Smith will give the Professorial Chair of Computer Science and Conference Hume-Rothery Lecture at 6.30pm on Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, 8 April in Lecture Rooms 1 and 2, Thom will deliver the Strachey Lecture at 2pm on The following conference will begin at 9am Building, Department of Engineering. All 11 February in Lecture Theatre A, Wolfson on 28 February in the Blue Boar Lecture welcome. Building, Department of Computer Science. Theatre, Christ Church. Admission free; Subject: ‘Some atoms I have known: Subject: ‘From DNA sequences to cell first-come, first-served basis. Convener: origins, development and applications of lineage trees: helping cell biology climb Professor Nigel Biggar atom probe tomography’ the data-structures ladder’ Subject: ‘How Much is Enough? The Love of Money and the Case for the Good Life: Department of Chemistry Department of Earth Sciences a discussion of Robert and Edward Skidelsky’s book’ Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Seminars Laboratory Ian Ramsey Centre The following seminars will be given at 2pm Soft Matter, Biomaterials and on Fridays in the Lecture Theatre, Earth Seminars on Science and Religion Interfaces seminars Sciences. Convener: Dr R Katz The following seminars will be given at The following seminars will be given at 4pm Professor Joanna Haigh, Imperial 8.30pm on Thursdays, preceded by drinks on Tuesdays in the John Rowlinson Seminar 24 Jan: ‘The Sun and the Earth’s climate’ at 8.15pm, in the Sutro Room, Trinity, unless Room (PTCL). All welcome. Conveners: Dr R otherwise noted. Free and open to the Professor Eric Calais, Ecole Normale P A Dullens and Professor J Yeomans public. Convener: Dr A Pinsent Superieure Professor Jan Dhont, Germany 31 Jan: ‘From science to action: what are Professor Rafael Vicuña, Pontifical, Chile 28 Jan: ‘Electric-field induced phases we not doing right about earthquakes? 30 Jan: ‘New frontiers of the origin of life: and dynamical states in colloidal Thoughts from the Haiti, January 2010, Atacama Desert and astrobiology’ suspensions’ disaster’ Dr Andrew Pinsent Professor Enzo Orlandini, Italy Professor Melanie Leng, Leicester and BGS 13 Feb: ‘Why matter matters’ 11 Feb: ‘DNA chains in nano-slits and 7 Feb: ‘Oxygen isotopes and diatoms – the Dr Nicholas Saunders, Cambridge and nano-channels’ state of the art’ Brick Court Chambers, London Professor Luca Giomi, Italy Professor Tony Payne, Bristol 27 Feb: ‘Divine action and modern 25 Feb: ‘Active fluids: from liquid crystals 14 Feb: ‘Assessing the future sea level science’ to living systems’ contributions of the Antarctic ice sheet: Professor Hans Halvorson, Princeton modelling challenges and potential 11 Mar: tbc 13 Mar, Danson Room: ‘Does the universe solutions’ need God?’ (joint event with Christians Theoretical Chemistry group Professor Maggie Cusack, Glasgow in Science) seminars 21 Feb: ‘Biominerals – exploration and The following seminars will be given at exploitation’ 4.45pm on Mondays in the John Rowlinson Professor Thorsten Becker, Southern Seminar Room (PTCL). All welcome. California Convener: Dr J P K Doye 28 Feb: ‘Using seismic anisotropy to Professor Maxim Fedorov, Strathclyde unravel regional tectonics’ 27 Jan: tbc Professor Susan Evans, UCL Professor Hirofumi Sato, Kyoto 7 Mar: ‘Madagascar: one hell of a place 10 Feb: tbc for frogs’ Professor Jonathan Yates Dr Liz Cottrell, Smithsonian Institute 24 Feb: tbc 14 Mar: ‘The oxidation state of the oceanic upper mantle: implications for Professor Syma Khalid, Southampton mantle melting’ 10 Mar: tbc 204 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5045 • 15 January 2014

Department of Engineering Science Mathematical Institute Mathematical Biology and Ecology Seminars Solid Mechanics and Materials Computational Mathematics and The following seminars will be given at Engineering Group seminar series Applications seminars 2pm on Fridays in Lecture Room 5, the The following lectures will be given at 2pm The following seminars will be given at Mathematical Institute. Convener: Sara on Mondays in Lecture Room 8, Information 2pm on Thursdays in lecture room L5, Jolliffe ([email protected]) Engineering Building. Mathematical Institute, except on Professor Jaume Casademunt, Barcelona 30 January and 27 February which will be Dr Lucia Scardia, Glasgow 24 Jan: ‘Spontaneous motility of actin- at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory 20 Jan: ‘Multiscale problems in based cell fragments as a free-boundary near Didcot. Website: www.maths.ox.ac. dislocation theory’ problem’ uk/groups/numerical-analysis/seminars. 27 Jan: tbc Conveners: Professor Nick Trefethen and Dr Professor Jeremy Green, London Tyrone Rees, RAL 7 Feb: ‘Periodic patterning and growth Professor Robin Cleveland analysis in the mammalian palate, a 3 Feb: ‘Lithotripsy: role of spall and shear Dr Thomas Maerz landmark-rich Turing system’ in kidney stone fragmentation’ 16 Jan: tbc Dr David Smith, Birmingham Professor David Nowell Professor Luis Nunes Vicente, Coimbra 21 Feb: ‘Fluid mechanics in reproduction 10 Feb: ‘The Kilmore East bushfire’ 23 Jan: ‘Direct search based on and development: from sperm motility probabilistic descent’ 17 Feb: tbc to embryonic symmetry breaking’ Professor Wil Schilders, TU Eindhoven Dr Garth N Wells, Cambridge Professor Pieter Rein ten Wolde, AMOLF 30 Jan, RAL: ‘Recent results regarding the 24 Feb: tbc 7 Mar: ‘The fundamental limit on decomposition of indefinite matrices’ the accuracy of measuring chemical Professor Tiina Roose, Southampton Professor Grady Wright, Boise State concentrations’ 3 Mar: ‘Multiscale modelling in biology’ 6 Feb: ‘Approximation on surfaces with Professor Vadim V Silberschmidt, radial basis functions: from global to local Department of Physics Loughborough methods’ 10 Mar: ‘Fibrous networks: deformation Hintze Lecture Dr Leonardo Figueroa, Universidad de and damage’ Concepción Professor David Charbonneau, Harvard, 13 Feb: ‘Finite element approximation of will deliver the 8th Hintze Lecture at 5pm Department of Materials a quasi-static model of rock detachment’ on 26 February in the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory. Weekly colloquia Professor Hans Petter Langtangen, Simula Subject: ‘The fast track to finding an Research Laboratory The following colloquia will be given at 4pm inhabited exoplanet’ 20 Feb: ‘How to easily implement on Thursdays in the Hume-Rothery Lecture sophisticated tailored algorithms in Particles and Fields seminars Theatre, preceded by tea at 3.30pm. computational turbulence’ The following seminars will be given at Professor Roy Faulkner, Loughborough Dr Dmitry Savostyanov, Southampton 4.15pm on Thursdays in the Dennis Sciama 23 Jan: ‘Nanophase steels and ceramic 27 Feb, RAL: ‘Alternating minimal energy Lecture Theatre, Department of Physics. composites for fusion blanket methods for linear systems in higher Conveners: Dr Brian Feldstein and Professor applications’ dimensions’ Subir Sarkar Professor Andreas Hirsch, Erlangen- Professor Andrew Stuart, Warwick Dr Kai Schmitz, IPMU Tokyo Nurnberg 6 Mar: ‘Kullback–Leibler approximation 23 Jan: ‘The B-L phase transition’ 6 Feb: ‘Chemical functionalisation of of probability measures’ synthetic carbon allotropes’ Dr Emir Gumrukcuoglu, Nottingham Professor Christian Kreuzer, RU Bochum 6 Feb: ‘Massive gravity’ Professor Peter van Aaken, Stuttgart 13 Mar: ‘Instance optimality of an AFEM Center for Electron Microscopy, Max Planck Dr Leonardo Senatore, Stanford with maximum marking strategy’ Institute 13 Feb: ‘Effective theory of inflation’ 20 Feb: ‘Surface plasmon coupling Dr Roman Zwicky, Edinburgh studies through near-field mapping 20 Feb: ‘Strongly coupled gauge theories’ of electromagnetic modes in electron microscopy’ Dr Christoph Englert, Glasgow 27 Feb: ‘The Higgs sector quest’ 13 Mar: tbc Dr Ido Ben-Dayan, DESY Hamburg 6 Mar: ‘Cosmic inhomogeneity’ Dr Keith Hamilton, UCL 13 Mar: ‘Towards event generators for LHC with NNLO accuracy’ Dr Agostino Patella, CERN and Plymouth 20 Mar: ‘The Yang–Mills gradient flow’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5045 • 15 January 2014 205

Oxford Physics Colloquia Professor Miltos Tsiantis, MPIPZ Medical Sciences 27 Feb: ‘The genetic basis for The following lectures will be given at diversification of leaf form’ 4.15pm on Fridays in the Martin Wood Cancer Epidemiology Unit Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory. Professor David Salt, Aberdeen Tea will be served in the Common Room 6 Mar: ‘The genetic architecture of Sir Richard Doll Seminars in Public at 3.45pm. Conveners: J March-Russell, natural ionomic variation in Arabidopsis Health and Epidemiology S Balbus, A Boothroyd and T Palmer thaliana’ The following seminars will be given at Professor Henry Snaith Professor Patrick Hussey, Durham 1pm on Tuesdays in the Lecture Theatre, 31 Jan: ‘From nanostructured materials 13 Mar: ‘Plant membrane–cytoskeleton Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus. All to thin-film perovskite solar cells’ interactions’ welcome. Conveners: Dr D Canoy and Dr F Bragg Professor Richard Gaitskell, Brown Professor Andrew Groover, California at 7 Feb: ‘LUX: NOBLE TRAVAILS: first dark Davis Professor Nish Chaturvedi, London matter search results from the Large 27 Mar: ‘Regulation of woody growth in 21 Jan: ‘Clinical phenotyping – the Underground Xenon Detector’ Populus’ forgotten player in the “omics revolution” ‘ Professor Dr Jörg Schmiedmayer, Department of Zoology Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Professor Jack Cuzick, London Technology 28 Jan: ‘The prevention of breast cancer’ Lectures 14 Feb: ‘Does an isolated quantum Chris Carrigan, National Cancer system relax?’ The following seminars will be given at Intelligence Network 4pm on Mondays in the Lecture Theatre B, Dr Neil Linsday, Defence Science and 4 Feb: ‘Is cancer a good model for world- Tinbergen Building, unless otherwise noted. Technology Lab class public health intelligence?’ Hosts: Professor Timothy Coulson and Dr 21 Feb: ‘The application of systems Cristian Capelli Professor Judith Bliss, Institute of Cancer methods to real-world problems’ Research Professor Gerd Kempermann, Dresden Dr Gilles Chabrier, ENS Lyon, Centre de 11 Feb: tbc 20 Jan: ‘Why are twins so different? Recherche de l’Astrophysique de Lyon New neurons and the neurobiology of Professor Hazel Inskip, Southampton 28 Feb: ‘Star formation and the stellar individuality’ 18 Feb: ‘The Southampton Women’s initial mass function: confronting theory Survey: from observation to with observations’ Professor Pat Nuttall intervention’ 27 Jan: ‘The parasite triangle: how Dr Haida Liang, Nottingham Trent arthropod-transmitted pathogens Professor Martin Tobin, Leicester 7 Mar: ‘Interferometry – from astronomy exploit their hosts’ 25 Feb: ‘Genome variation, lung function to archaeology’ and COPD’ Jenkinson Lecture Department of Plant Sciences Professor Gero Miesenböck Professor Paul Leeson 3 Feb: ‘Lighting up the brain’ 4 Mar: ‘Preeclampsia and predisposition Departmental research seminars to hypertension in mother and offspring’ Professor Anna Di Rienzo, Chicago The following seminars will be given at 1pm 10 Feb: ‘Genetic adaptations to new Professor Theresa Marteau, Cambridge on Thursdays in the Large Lecture Theatre, environments in humans’ 11 Mar: ‘Reducing health inequalities: a Department of Plant Sciences. Convener: behavioural science perspective’ Dr Nathalie Seddon Professor N Harberd 17 Feb: ‘Sexual selection and the cycle of Sir William Dunn School of Pathology Professor Phil Poole speciation in birds’ 23 Jan: ‘Microbes and roots: a sticky Dr Philip Stephens, Durham Seminar programme business’ 24 Feb: ‘Carnivores, prey and The following events will take place at 2pm Professor Ton Bisserling, Wageningen macroecological pattern?’ on Fridays in the Medical Sciences Teaching 30 Jan: ‘The symbiotic interface: the Southwood Lecture Centre, South Parks Road. heart of endosymbiosis’ Professor Sir John Lawton Professor Mike Ferguson, Dundee Professor Johnathan Napier, Rothamsted 3 Mar: ‘Making space for nature and the 24 Jan: ‘Structure, function and Research science–policy interface’ biosynthesis of trypanosomatid 6 Feb: ‘Heterologous synthesis of Jenkinson Lecture glycoproteins: basic research and omega-3 long chain polyunsaturated Professor Alexander Schier, Harvard translational opportunities’ fatty acids in transgenic plants via 10 Mar, Medical Sciences Training iterative metabolic engineering: a Professor Jeffrey Almond, visiting Centre Lecture Theatre: ‘The molecular terrestrial source of fish oils’ professor control of embryogenesis: insights from 31 Jan: ‘Designing human vaccines: an Dr Ian Max Møller, Aarhus zebrafish’ industry perspective’ 13 Feb: ‘Oxidative stress in plant mitochondria’ Professor Gail Taylor, Southampton 20 Feb: ‘The popular biofuel option?’ 206 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5045 • 15 January 2014

Professor Steve Jackson, Gurdon Institute, Department of Physiology, Anatomy Nuffield Department of Population Cambridge and Genetics Health 7 Feb: ‘Cellular responses to DNA damage: molecular insights and potential Newton Abraham Lecture National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit clinical applications’ Seminars in Maternal and Infant Health Professor Chris Miller, Brandeis, will and Care Professor Charles Swanton, London deliver the Newton Abraham Lecture at Research Institute, Cancer Research UK 5pm on 3 March in the University Museum The following lectures will be given at 14 Mar: ‘Intratumour heterogeneity: Lecture Theatre. 10.30am on Mondays in the Lecture causes and consequences’ Subject: ‘Mountebanks, con-men and Theatre, Richard Doll Building, Old Road heretics: an epistemology of scientific Campus, unless otherwise noted. All Pharmacology, Anatomical crackpottery’ welcome. Convener: Dr Rachel Rowe Neuropharmacology and Drug Head of Department seminar series Dr Liz Ormondroyd Discovery 20 Jan: ‘Reproductive decision-making The following seminars will be given at in women at known risk of inherited Seminars 1pm and 1.30pm in the Large Lecture breast/ovarian cancer’ Theatre, Sherrington Building. All welcome. The following seminars will be held at Convener: Dr Deborah Goberdhan Naomi Eisenstadt noon on Tuesdays in the Lecture Theatre, 10 Feb: ‘What have we learned from Department of Pharmacology. 24 Jan Sure Start about policy, delivery and Professor John Wood, Central London: Dr Santina Bruzzone, Genova. Host: Dr evidence?’ ‘Peripheral pain pathways’ Grant Churchill Professor Soo Downe, Central Lancashire 21 Jan: ‘NAD+ and NAD+-converting 31 Jan 2pm, 24 Mar: ‘Sailing in the SHIP trial: enzymes in inflammation and cancer’ Professor Thomas Knoepfel, Imperial: insights from a pragmatic RCT of a ‘Optogenetic tools for mesoscopic-level Professor Zafar Bashir, Bristol. Host: Dr complex intervention in maternity care’ imaging approaches: bridging cellular Liliana Minichiello level and systems physiology’ 28 Jan: ‘Nurr1 and TFEB as targets for Department of Psychiatry neuroprotective therapy in Parkinson’s 7 Feb disease’ Professor Scott Waddell: ‘Cellular Lecture series resolution of dopaminergic reward 4 Feb: tbc The following lectures will be held at signals’ 9.15am on Tuesdays in the Seminar Room, Professor Chris Huang, Cambridge. Host: Dr Kerry Walker: ‘Neural correlates of University Department of Psychiatry, Dr Ming Lei animals’ auditory perception’ Warneford Hospital. 11 Feb: ‘Calcium homeostasis and arrhythmia in murine hearts’ 14 Feb Dr Argyris Stingaris, London Dr Stephanie Cragg: ‘A tale of two 21 Jan: ‘Early-onset mania and irritability: Dr Cyril Herry, INSERM Bordeaux. Host: Dr transmitters: are striatal acetylcholine developmental epidemiology and Marco Capogna interneurons the gatekeepers to neuroscience’ 18 Feb: ‘Neuronal circuits controlling fear dopamine function?’ behaviour’ Dr David Stuckler Jenkinson Seminar 28 Jan: ‘The body economic: why Professor David Attwell, UCL. Host: Dr Dr Deborah Goberdhan: ‘Amino acid austerity kills’ Paolo Tammaro sensing, endolysosomes and cancer – 25 Feb: ‘Brain energy supply – where does Dr Daniel Pearlman, Central and North from flies to patients’ the action begin…and end?’ West London 28 Feb 4 Feb: ‘Does rTMS work? – journal club Dr Nick Platt. Host: Professor Antony Dr Ana Marques: ‘Long intergenic presentation’ Galione noncoding RNAs, contributions to 4 Mar: ‘Regulation of innate immune and Professor Ruth Itzhaki, Manchester homeostasis and phenotype’ inflammatory responses’ 11 Feb: ‘The enemies within: herpes, Dr Yrsa Sverrisdottir: ‘Differentiated APOE4 and Alzheimer’s disease’ Professor Chris Miller, Brandeis. Host: Dr baroreflex modulation of sympathetic Paolo Tammaro Professor Simon Lovestone nerve activity during deep brain 11 Mar: ‘Weird ion, weird ion channel’ 25 Feb: ‘From shaggy to dickkopf; stimulation in humans’ deconvoluting the amyloid cascade in 7 Mar Alzheimer’s disease (and some thoughts Professor Thomas Gudermann, on why mice don’t get dementia but Ludwig-Maximilians: ‘Physiology and killer whales should)’ pathophysiology of kinase-coupled TRP Dr Danny Whiting channels’ 4 Mar: ‘Stigma/public attitudes to mental 14 Mar illness’ – journal club presentation Dr Robert Wilkins: ‘Cellular physiology Professor Brian D’Onofrio, Indiana of articular cartilage’ 11 Mar: ‘Does maternal smoking during Dr Michael Kohl: ‘Hemispheric pregnancy cause offspring disruptive asymmetry of memory processes in behaviour?’ mice’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5045 • 15 January 2014 207

Dr Ritz Ridder Social Sciences Simone Knox, Reading 18 Mar: Case presentation – tbc 14 Feb: ‘British television drama and representations of British–Chinese Professor Elaine Fox School of Anthropology and Museum identities: a multi-methodological 25 Mar: ‘Combining cognitive and Ethnography investigation’ genetic approaches to investigating emotional vulnerability’ Departmental seminar series Chris Evans, Cambridge 21 Feb: ‘Soldiering archaeology: Pitt Dr Rebecca McKnight The following seminars will be given at 11am Rivers and “militarism” ‘ 1 Apr: ‘Coexistence of eating disorders on Fridays in the Lecture Theatre, Pitt Rivers and autistic spectrum disorder, a case Museum, Robinson Close. Conveners: Karl Harrison, Cranfield report’ – journal club presentation Professor S Ulijaszek and Dr I Daniels 28 Feb: ‘The presence and absence of the human form in UK crime scene imagery’ Dr Alvaro Barerra Chris Wilson 8 Apr: Case presentation – 24 Jan: ‘The end of history? What follows Paolo Fortis, Durham ‘Disorganisation, hebephrenia and the demographic transition?’ 7 Mar: ‘General MacArthur among the bizarre behaviour’ Kuna: art, power and shamanism in an Harry Walker, LSE Amerindian society’ 31 Jan: ‘Discovering “justice”: the magic Nuffield Department of Surgical of law in the Upper Amazon’ Oliver Watson Sciences 14 Mar: ‘Collecting and displaying Islamic Timothy Larsen, Wheaton College, Illinois art in the Gulf: the Museum of Islamic Surgical Grand Round lectures 7 Feb: ‘Victor Turner, anthropology and Art, Qatar – a case study’ Christianity’ The following lectures will be given at 8am Unit for Biocultural Variation and on Fridays in Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Morgan Clarke Obesity (UBVO) seminar series Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital. Chair: 14 Feb: ‘The sharia as a vocation: Islam, Professor Freddie Hamdy law and civility in Lebanon’ The following seminars will be given at 1pm on Thursdays at 61 Banbury Road. Dr Laurence Klotz, Toronto Rosie Kay, Rosie Kay Dance Company, and Conveners: Professor S Ulijaszek and Ms A 10 Jan: ‘Active surveillance – current Karin Eli McLennan experience and future prospects’ 21 Feb: ‘Choreographing lived experience: the stories that dancing bodies tell’ Paulina Nowicka, Karolinska Institute Professor James Fawcett, Cambridge 30 Jan: ‘Trying to make sense of child 17 Jan: ‘Repairing spinal cord injuries: Simon Cohn, Cambridge eating behaviours’ where are we, and where are we going?’ 28 Feb: ‘Do not resuscitate orders in a UK hospital: an ethnography of the future- Mario Berguerisse, Imperial, and Amy Daljit Dhariwal, OUH Oxford present’ McLennan 31 Jan: ‘Minimal access salivary gland 6 Feb: ‘Obesity and diabetes conversation surgery’ Rosana Pinheiro-Machado networks on Twitter’ 7 Mar: ‘Intellectual property and informal Professor Charles Vincent, Imperial/NDS economy: a commodity chain from Emma-Jayne Abbots, Wales visiting professor China to Brazil through Paraguay’ 13 Feb: ‘The intimacies of the celebrity 7 Feb: tbc chef industry: affect, effects and the Rebecca Empson, UCL Stuart Winter, OUH mediation of eating’ 14 Mar: ‘Claiming resources, honouring 14 Feb: ‘Ears, nose and throat’ debts: miners, herders and the land Stephanie von Hinke Kessler-Scholder, Larry Fritton masters of Mongolia’ York and Institute for Fiscal Studies, 21 Feb: ‘Emergency department’ London Pitt Rivers Museum research seminars 20 Feb: ‘Getting a healthy start? Nudge 28 Feb: tbc in Visual, Material and Museum versus economic incentives in the Anthropology tbc promotion of healthy eating’ 7 Mar: ‘Major trauma’ The following seminars will be given at 1pm Marisa Wilson, Edinburgh on Fridays in the Lecture Theatre, Pitt Rivers Paul Johnson 27 Feb: ‘Comparative political ecologies Museum, Robinson Close. Conveners: 14 Mar: ‘Paediatric surgery’ of food and diet: systems of provision in Professor M Banks and Dr E Ewart Trinidad and Cuba’ Combined Medical and Surgical Grand Paul Henley, Manchester Round Amanda Lewis 24 Jan: ‘Poetry and participation: Rouch 21 Mar: tbc 6 Mar: ‘Brief interventions for weight and Gardner compared’ management in primary care’ Professor Oliver Traxer, Paris/NDS visiting Carlos Fausto, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro professor Eleanor Bryant, Bradford 31 Jan: ‘In a cultural register: Faustian 28 Mar: tbc 13 Mar: ‘The status of disinhibition and contract in indigenous Amazonia’ its role in predicting eating behaviour’ 4 Apr: tbc Richard Bradley, Reading Greg Sadler 7 Feb: ‘Circular architecture in European 11 Apr: ‘Endocrine service’ prehistory’ Michael Jewett, Toronto 25 Apr: ‘When not to operate on cancer: observations from management of GU cancer’ 208 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5045 • 15 January 2014

International Gender Studies at Saïd Business School Religion, Philosophy and Education Lady Margaret Hall seminars: forum Transformative sexual attraction, Genevieve Bell, Director, Interaction and The following events will be held at 5pm attachment and marriage Experience Research, Intel, will lecture at at the Department of Education, Norham 6pm on 4 February in lecture theatre VI, The following seminars will be given at Gardens. All welcome. Saïd Business School. 2pm on Thursdays in the Old Library, Lady Subject: ‘Magic and technology: or why The Revd Dr John Gay, Dr Janet Orchard, Margaret Hall. Conveners: D Fahy Bryceson, we need to rethink Arthur C Clarke’s Bristol, and Dr Alis Oancea P Heinonen and A Raven-Roberts Third Law’ 14 Jan, Seminar Room J: ‘Influencing Lidia Puigvert, Director, CREA, Barcelona policy? The example of religious 23 Jan: ‘Sex talk: discussing sexual Department of Education education’ relationships with adolescents in Spain’ Professor Patrick Dunleavy, LSE Public seminar programme Charlotte Bruckermann, LSE 24 Feb, Seminar Room A: ‘The impact of 30 Jan: ‘ “Shanxi girls are the most The following seminars will be given at the social sciences’ (joint seminar with precious in China”: mobility and locality 5pm on Mondays in Seminar Room A, the Philosophy of Education Society of in the making of marriages’ Department of Education, 15 Norham Great Britain) Gardens. Priya Lall Professor Gloria Dall’Alba 6 Feb: ‘The impact of marriage practices Professor John Goldthorpe. Convener: 8 Apr, Seminar Room D: ‘A lifeworld on women’s susceptibility to HIV Professor Ken Mayhew perspective on learning for the infection in Andhra Pradesh, India’ 20 Jan: ‘The effects of social origins professions’ (joint event with the and cognitive ability on educational Philosophy of Education Society of Great Colette Harris, SOAS attainment: a British–Swedish Britain) 13 Feb: ‘Boredom, sex and marriage in comparison’ post-Soviet Tajikistan’ Symposium Dr Parvaneh Tavakoli, Reading. Convener: Wendy MacDowall, LSHTM A symposium, supported by the Higher Professor Ernesto Macaro 20 Feb: ‘Changing sexual behaviour in Education Academy and PESGB, will be 27 Jan: ‘Can a single model of task the UK revealed by the National Survey held 9.30am–4pm on 6 March in Seminar complexity differentiate between the of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles Room A, Department of Education. Various difficulty of writing and speaking tasks?’ (Natsal)’ speakers. Booking required; programme and Dr Christian Ydesen, Aalborg. Convener: booking via the HEA website. Conveners: Diana Jeater, West England Professor Jenny Ozga Dr Alis Oancea and David Aldridge, Oxford 27 Feb: ‘Masculinity, marriage and the 3 Feb: ‘Educational testing as an Brookes Bible in early-20th-century Rhodesia’ accountability measure’ Subject: ‘A dialogue between Internal Women’s Day Programme phenomenology and realism in Professor Jason Rothman, Reading. Ma Khin Mar Mar Kyi pedagogical and educational research’ Convener: Dr Victoria Murphy 6 Mar: Film showing of Dreams of Dutiful 10 Feb: ‘Heritage speaker bilingualism: Daughters and filmmaker’s background Smith School of Enterprise and the input issues in grammatical outcomes’ account of the nine young girls from Environment Burma featured in the film who migrated Professor Gillian Schofield, East Anglia. to work in Thailand Convener: Professor Judy Sebba Natural Capital seminar series 17 Feb: ‘Professional foster carers and Special Anniversary Lecture The following seminars will take place at committed parents: the challenges of Patricia Daley 5pm on Wednesdays in the Beckit Room, providing permanence in long-term 13 Mar: ‘Gender, race and neo-liberal OUCE. Conveners: Professor Dieter Helm, foster care’ globalisation: what’s next for black Professor Cameron Hepburn and Professor feminist thought?’ Professor Patrick Dunleavy, LSE. Robert Hahn Convener: Dr Alis Oancea Professor Dieter Helm School of Archaeology 24 Feb: ‘The impact of the social sciences’ 22 Jan: ‘Natural capital policy’ Professor Robert Klassen, York. Convener: Palaeodeserts interdisciplinary Professor Ian Boyd, St Andrews and Chief Dr Lars-Erik Malmberg conference Scientific Advisor, Defra 3 Mar: ‘Can psychological research 29 Jan: ‘The science and science policy An interdisciplinary conference will be held improve selection of teachers?’ dimensions’ 2–4 April at St John’s, to address what we Dr Victoria Murphy. Convener: Professor know about human dispersal, adaptation Professor Cameron Hepburn, INET Harry Daniels and the role of climate change. Keynote 5 Feb: ‘Wealth, markets and natural 10 Mar: ‘Multi-word vocabulary and speakers: HRH Prince Sultan bin Salman capital’ literacy development in children with bin Abdul Aziz, Ali bin Ibrahim al Ghabban, English as an additional language’ Professor Georgina Mace, UCL Rick Potts and Michael Petraglia. For 12 Feb: ‘The scientific basis for natural details see: www.palaeodeserts.com/?page_ capital’ id=2874. Subject: ‘Green Arabia: human prehistory at the cross-roads of continents’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5045 • 15 January 2014 209

Rosie Hails, Centre for Ecology and 4 Feb: London airports: meeting demand School of Interdisciplinary Area Hydrology Studies/Department of Politics and Councillor Daniel Moylan, Royal 19 Feb: ‘Ecological systems and natural International Relations Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and capital’ Transport for London: ‘Where the UK’s Seminar in Modern Israel Studies Professor Kathy Willis, Royal Botanic hub airport will be located in forty years’ Gardens, Kew time: why Heathrow has to move before The following seminars take place 5–7pm in 26 Feb: ‘What can we harm?’ it’s too late’ the ground floor seminar room, 11 Bevington Professor Sveinn Gudmundsson, Road, unless otherwise noted. Convener: Professor Colin Mayer Cranfield: ‘Spillover effects of the Derek Penslar 5 Mar: ‘Accounting for natural capital’ development constraints at Heathrow Rory Miller, KCL Professor Kirk Hamilton, LSE Airport’ 27 Jan: ‘Making the EU matter to Israel– 12 Mar: ‘Sustainability and growth’ 18 Feb: Transport infrastructure investments Palestine peace’ – development or growth? School of Geography and the David Newman, Ben-Gurion Environment Dr John Howe, Consultant, Transport 3 Feb: ‘Rethinking borders and conflict Policy and Planning in Developing resolution in Israel/Palestine’ Inaugural Lecture Countries: ‘Distributional aspects of Motti Golani, Tel Aviv investments in transport infrastructure Professor Danny Dorling, Halford 10 Feb: ‘Dr Chaim Weizmann and his with respect to different social groups’ Mackinder Professor of Geography, will mandarins’ Sue Barrett, European Bank for deliver his inaugural lecture at 5pm on Reconstruction and Development: Sara Hirschhorn 3 February in the Examination Schools. ‘Do infrastructure public–private 17 Feb: ‘Facing Jerusalem and ourselves: Attendance by invitation only; email jan. partnerships work in countries in American Jewry after the 1967 War’ [email protected]. transition?’ Subject: ‘Geography, inequality and Colin Schindler, SOAS Oxford’ 4 Mar: The transport debate 24 Feb: ‘The genesis of the Zionist right’ Power, Space and Theory seminar series Professor Jon Shaw, Plymouth, and Tom Segev Professor Iain Docherty, Glasgow: ‘The 25 Feb, Middle East Centre seminar room, The following lectures will be given at 4pm transport debate: the lack of historic St Antony’s: ‘In search of David Ben- on Tuesdays in the Lecture Theatre, School capital investment in the UK’s transport Gurion’ (co-sponsored with the Middle of Geography and the Environment, for the infrastructure, and the poor value for East Centre) Transformations and Technological Natures money we get for what we do invest’ clusters. All welcome. Convener: Ian Klinke Clive Jones, Durham ([email protected]) 10 Mar: ‘Civil–intelligence relations in Oxford Intellectual Property Research Israel and the question of Iran’ Nigel Clark, Lancaster Centre 28 Jan: ‘Planetary boundaries and the Department of International politics of strata’ Invited Speaker Seminar Series Development (Queen Elizabeth House) Stephen Legg, Nottingham The following seminars will be given at 4 Feb: ‘Subaltern space: power, autonomy 5.15pm on Thursdays in the Dorfman Room, Distinguished Visitor Lecture and action in the subaltern archive’ St Peter’s. Convener: Dr D Gangjee, Dr E Dr Kevin Watkins, Director, Overseas Hudson and Dr R Pitkethly Jason Dittmer, UCL Development Institute, will give a lecture 11 Feb: ‘Diplomatic assemblages and the Mr Frederick Mostert, Chief Legal Counsel, at 5pm on 6 March in Seminar Room 2, Foreign Office’ Richemont Department of International Development. 30 Jan: ‘Hacking back and hot pursuit Subject: ‘Challenges to universal Gail Davies, Exeter to protect IP assets – a scoop on the education ahead of the Millennium 25 Feb: ‘Diagrammatic practices and TradeKey case’ Development Goals’ power: remapping relations between art, science and space’ Dr Will Slauter, Paris Oxford Poverty & Human Development 6 Feb: ‘Who owns the news? Journalism Initiative (OPHI): Lunchtime seminar Transport Studies Unit research and copyright in Britain, 1710–1911’ series seminar series Professor Robert G Burrell, Sheffield The following seminars will be given 12–1pm The following seminars will be given at 4pm 13 Feb: ‘Patents or public rewards? on Thursdays in Seminar Room 3, QEH3 on Tuesdays in the Beckit Room, School of Parliament and innovation in the 18th MansfieldR oad. Complimentary sandwich Geography and the Environment. Convener: and early 19th centuries’ lunch available (first come, first served).A ll C Focas welcome. See: www.ophi.org.uk. Mr Jonathan Griffiths, QMUL 21 Jan: High Speed 2: the spatial implications 20 Feb: ‘Plain packaging legislation and Sabina Alkire Mr Neil Ross, Centro: ‘High speed rail in the right to property in the EU’ 23 Jan: ‘The methodologies of computing the West Midlands’ changes over time in multidimensional Dr Paul Wragg, Leeds Professor Henry Overman, LSE: ‘Will poverty: comparisons and contrasts’ 27 Feb: ‘Judicial approaches to the free HS2 end the North–South divide? The speech/privacy dichotomy: a shift from wider economic impacts of HS2’ balancing to “zonal” protection?’ 210 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5045 • 15 January 2014

Ana Vaz Internews Professor Martti Koskenniemi, Helsinki 6 Feb: ‘Multidimensional poverty and 25 Feb: ‘Internews’s (NGO) applied 6 Feb: ‘International law and the impact evaluation’ research work on information needs emergence of mercantile capitalism: assessments and program design for Grotius to Smith’ Adriana Conconi information and communications’ 13 Feb: ‘Multidimensional poverty in Professor Susan Breau, Reading developing countries: findings from the Dr Dorothea Kleine, Royal Holloway 13 Feb: ‘Do dead civilians have human MPI 2013’ 4 Mar: ‘Technologies, capabilities and rights? International legal obligations choice: co-producing a future research towards civilian casualties in armed Sindu W Kebede, German Institute for agenda’ conflict’ Economic Research 20 Feb: ‘Dynamics and drivers of Professor Tim Unwin, Commonwealth Professor Elies van Sliedregt, Amsterdam consumption and multidimensional Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) 20 Feb: tbc poverty: evidence from rural Ethiopia’ 11 Mar: ‘What hopes for ICT for The Honorable Charles N Brower development?’ Suman Seth 27 Feb: tbc 27 Feb: tbc Philosophy and Technology seminar Professor Malgosia Fitzmaurice, QMUL series Thomas Morgan, Institute of Economics 6 Mar: ‘Whaling: the Gordian knot of and Peace The following seminars will be given at animal rights and cultural diversity’ 6 Mar: ‘Assessing the impact of 12.30pm at the Oxford Internet Institute. Dr Michael Waibel, Cambridge corruption on peace and development: Convener: Professor L Floridi 13 Mar: ‘Are arbitrators political?’ a look at the Global Peace Index and the Professor Min Chen Mexico Peace Index’ Sir Jeremy Lever Lecture 6 Feb: ‘Had Bell invented visualisation, Bouba Housseini he would have said...’ Professor Sir David Edward, former Judge 13 Mar: ‘Social evaluations in a context of the Court of Justice of the European Dr Karen Melham of demographic changes: the case of sub- Union, will deliver a lecture at 5pm on 20 Feb: ‘The nature of dynamic consent’ Saharan Africa’ 14 February in the Gulbenkian Lecture Professor Jonathan Agar, UCL Theatre, St Cross Building. Oxford Internet Institute 6 Mar: ‘Working worlds: perspectives and Subject: ‘Europe – the baseless fabric of a problems’ vision?’ Inaugural Lecture Politics and the Internet Department of Politics and Professor Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Julian Huppert, MP, will lecture at 5pm on International Relations Professor of Internet Governance and 13 February at the Oxford Internet Institute. Regulation, will deliver his inaugural lecture Subject: ‘Privacy in a digital age’ African History and Politics seminar at 5pm on 4 February at the Examination Schools. Followed by a short drinks OII Bellwether Lecture The following seminars will be given at reception. 5pm on Mondays in Seminar Room 2, Professor Rob Kitchin, NUI, will deliver Subject: ‘Internet governance through a Department of International Development, the OII Bellwether Lecture at 5pm on 28 normative lens – a first approximation?’ unless otherwise noted. Conveners: A R February at the Ioannou Centre for Classical Mustapha, Patricia Daley, Nic Cheeseman, ICT4D seminar series and Byzantine Studies. Jan-Georg Deutsch, Miles Tendi and Ricardo Subject: ‘The real-time city? Big data and The following seminars will be given at Soares de Oliveira smart urbanism’ 4.30pm at the Oxford Internet Institute. Luke Patey, Danish Institute of Conveners: Dr Mark Graham, Dr Iginio Faculty of Law International Studies Gagliardone, Dr Giacomo Zanello, Louise 20 Jan: ‘China, India and the global Bloom, Dr Proochista Ariana and Nicholas PIL Lunchtime Discussion Group struggle for oil in Sudan and South Friederici Sudan’ The following lectures will be given at Professor Richard Heeks, Manchester 12.30pm for 12.45pm on Thursdays in the Thomas Hodgkin Memorial Lecture 28 Jan: ‘The post-2015 development Old Library, All Souls. No RSVP necessary. Kingsley Moghalu, Deputy Governor, agenda: implications for ICT4D research’ The meetings are part of the British Branch Central Bank of Nigeria Gregory Asmolov, LSE of the International Law Association 27 Jan, Gateway Pavilion, St Antony’s: 3 Feb: ‘Crowdsourcing and development programme and are supported by the Law ‘Africa, the world economy and the of activity systems: the case of Faculty and OUP. African century of our imagination’ emergency response’ (followed by drinks reception) Mr Qudsi Rasheed, Foreign and Dr Dan McQuillan, Goldsmiths Commonwealth Office Deborah Bryceson, Glasgow 11 Feb: ‘The internet in a post-PRISM 23 Jan: ‘International law and foreign 3 Feb: ‘Prosperity, poverty and precarity world’ policy: some practical questions’ in Tanzanian mining settlements ‘ Professor Kevin J Heller, Melbourne/SOAS Ben Page, UCL 30 Jan: ‘What is an international crime?’ 10 Feb: ‘Daybreak at Udi: legacies of late colonial community development ‘ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5045 • 15 January 2014 211

Catherine Boone, LSE Oxford Spring School Course Centre for Socio-legal Studies 17 Feb: ‘Property and political order in The Oxford Spring School in Quantitative Africa’ St John’s/CSLS Legalism seminar series Methods for Social Research will run a Andreas Mehler, GIGA Hamburg four-day course, 22–25 April, at the Manor The following seminars will be given at 24 Feb: ‘Beyond the horizon: governance, Road Building. Taught by Professor Marco 4.30pm on Tuesdays at the St John’s College legitimacy and representation in Central Steenbergen with a plenary session by Research Centre. Conveners: Dr Hannah African Republic’ Professor Tom Snijders and a practical Skoda and Dr Fernanda Pirie applications session by Dr Sergi Pardos- Carlos Oya, SOAS Professor Chris Wickham Prado. Online registration open by 3 Mar: ‘Pity the state bureaucrat: state 21 Jan: ‘Inventing a judicial tradition: 20 January. See: http://springschool.politics. capacity de-building, aid management reaching judgement in Genoa in the early ox.ac.uk/index.asp. and Ministries of Finance (and Planning) 12th century’ Subject: ‘Modelling multilevel data in Mozambique and Senegal ‘ structures’ Jérôme Bourgon, CNRS Didier Péclard, Swiss Peace Foundation 28 Jan: ‘The principle of legality in the and Basel Department of Social Policy and Chinese legal tradition’ 10 Mar: ‘Culture, modernity and Intervention Dr Ros Faith nationalism: the politics of social 4 Feb: ‘The moral economy of the English imaginaries in 20th-century Angola’ 100 years of social enquiry: Seminar peasantry in the early middle ages’ series celebrating the centenary of Conference Barnett House Dr Javier Lezaun There will be a celebration and critical 11 Feb: ‘Naturally occurring monsters: The following seminars will be given at 5pm evaluation of the work of Mark Philp property law and new biotechnologies’ on Thursdays in the Violet Butler Room, (University Lecturer in Politics and Fellow Barnett House, Department of Social Policy Professor Paul Hyams, Cornell of Oriel, 1983–2013; Professor of History, and Intervention, unless otherwise noted. 18 Feb: ‘Servile taxonomy: slave and serf Warwick, 2013), beginning at 2pm on Convener: Dr Georg Picot before the 12th century’ 22 April in the Manor Road Building. All welcome but pre-registration necessary; Professor Manuel Eisner, Cambridge Dr Justine Firnhaber-Baker, St Andrews information and to register: www.politics. 23 Jan: ‘How to reduce global homicide 25 Feb: ‘Legality and legitimacy in the ox.ac.uk/index.php/event-registration.html. rates by 70%: learning from past French political crisis of 1356–58’ successes to inform future policies’ Centre for International Studies (CIS) Professor Kate Cooper, Manchester Professor Ann Buchanan 4 Mar: ‘Religion and law in late antiquity: Professor John Ikenberry, George Eastman 30 Jan: ‘Recurring themes in the history from compulsion to jurisdiction?’ Professor, Princeton, and Professor Andrew of social work: where to now?’ Hurrell will speak at a workshop 3–6pm on Dr Gijs Kruijtzer, Vienna 24 January in the Lecture Theatre, Manor Professor Noel Whiteside, Warwick 11 Mar: ‘Ways around the proscription of Road Building. Followed by a reception. 6 Feb: ‘Constructing unemployment: usury in the early modern Persianate and Details and registration: www.politics.ox.ac. historical perspectives’ Latinate worlds: a comparison of legal uk/index.php/event-registration.html. strategies and consciousness’ Professor Stephen Scott, KCL Chair: Professor Rosemary Foot. Convener: 13 Feb: ‘Parenting then and now: has Special lecture Professor Andrew Hurrell support policy and practice kept up with Subject: ‘The global liberal order and its Professor Sally Merry, New York, will the evidence?’ future’ deliver a special lecture at 5pm on Professor Jonathan Bradshaw, York, 27 January in the Examination Schools. Book launch Professor Hartley Dean, LSE, Dr Zoe Irving, Subject: ‘The impact of indicators on Dr Nicola Horsburgh, Dr Astrid Nordin, Sheffield, andM s Fran Bennett (Chair) transnational human rights legal orders’ Lancaster, and Professor Shaun Breslin, 20 Feb: Roundtable: ‘Social Policy as an Warwick, will speak at the book launch of academic discipline – looking back and their recently published edited volume looking forward’ Chinese Politics and International Relations: Professor Maurizio Ferrera, Milan Innovation and Invention; date and venue to 27 Feb: ‘The EU and national welfare: the be confirmed. Details: nicola.horsburgh@ shifting boundaries of solidarity’ sant.ox.ac.uk. Dr Patrick Diamond, QMUL Wed, 5 Mar: ‘The politics of social policy in Britain ahead of the 2015 election’ Professor Jochen Clasen, Edinburgh, Professor David Gough, IoE, Dr Patricia Kennett, Bristol, Professor Martin Seeleib- Kaiser (Chair) 13 Mar: Roundtable with journal editors: ‘Trends in social policy and evidence- based policy research’ 212 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5045 • 15 January 2014

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Seminar Series Education Museums The following seminars will be given at Kellogg College Centre for Creative Ashmolean Museum 12.30pm on Mondays in Seminar Room G, Writing Manor Road Building, unless otherwise Research Seminars noted. All welcome. Conveners: Francesco Creative Writing Seminar Series Billari and Michael Biggs The following seminars will be given The following seminars will be given at 1–2pm on Thursdays in the Headley Professor Ralph Schroeder 5.30pm in the Stopforth Metcalfe Room, Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum. Tea 1pm, 20 Jan, Lecture Theatre: ‘Rethinking Kellogg. Refreshments at 5pm; all welcome. and coffee provided; those attending are social theory and globalisation for the welcome to bring sandwiches. Convener: Dr 21st century’ Kerry Young Andrew Topsfield 6 Feb: ‘The art of voice’ Professor Helga de Valk, NIDI and VU Angelamaria Aceto Brussels Jenny Lewis and Adnan al Sayegh 30 Jan: ‘Drawings for prints: the 27 Jan: ‘Children of immigrants: their 4 Mar: ‘Victims of a map: the poetry of discovery of two rare designs and families and futures’ war, exile and hope in Mesopotamia–Iraq’ workshop practice in 17th-century Rome’ Professor Roberto Franzosi, Emory Rewley House Dr Clare Pollard 3 Feb: ‘What things can we do with 6 Mar: ‘Revisiting Hiroshige prints in the words? Answers from Italian fascism Research seminar series Ashmolean’s collection’ (1919–22) and Georgia lynchings (1875– 1930)’ Truth: cross-disciplinary research Bodleian Libraries perspectives Rory Fitzgerald, City 10 Feb: ‘Searching for evidence of A seminar will be given at 4.30pm on Oxford Seminars in Cartography acculturation: attitudes towards 14 February in the Sadler Room, Rewley John Davies, editor, ‘Sheetlines’, will homosexuality amongst migrants House. Details and booking: www.conted. deliver the Hilary term seminar at 5pm on moving from Eastern to Western Europe’ ox.ac.uk/graduateschool/seminars/index. 6 March at the School of Geography and the php?seminar=S14C001AAA. Professor Steve Pfaff, Washington Environment. 17 Feb: ‘The problem of solidarity in Anne Jensen: ‘Truth detection through Subject: ‘Soviet intelligence plans for the insurgent collective action: the Nore manual muscle testing: helpful or hoax?’ British Isles’ Mutiny of 1797’ Rosemary Yallop: ‘Truth in architecture: Authorship, Memory and Manuscript Professor Donatella Della Porta, EUI the Englishman’s home is his castle’ seminars 1pm, 18 Feb, Seminar room A: ‘Eventful Clare Morgan: ‘Truth, lies and literary Dr Anthony Seldon will give the final democratisation: how protests produce fiction’ seminar in the current series at 5pm relations’ on 27 January in the lecture room, Pitt Carl Heneghan: ‘Why all trials?’ Professor Jan van Bavel, Leuven Rivers. Open to all; no booking required. 24 Feb: ‘Recent trends in educational Information: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ assortative mating in Europe’ bodley/finding-resources/special/seminars/ amm2014. Dr Banu Bargu, SOAS Subject: ‘Writing about prime ministers 3 Mar: ‘Fasting unto death: necropolitical from Cameron backwards’ resistance in Turkey’s prisons’ Professor Sara Arber, Surrey Botanic Garden 10 Mar: ‘Towards a sociology of sleep: health, gender and socio-economic Winter Lecture Series: Gardens through inequalities in sleep’ the seasons Professor Frank Furstenberg, The following lectures will be given at 8pm Pennsylvania at the Saïd Business School. Tickets: £12 per 5pm, 14 Mar, Lecture Theatre: ‘Behind the lecture or £54 for whole series (includes academic curtain: how to find success a glass of wine). For a full description, see and happiness with a PhD’ www.botanic-garden.ox.ac.uk/whatson. Edward Parker 30 Jan: ‘Ancient tree hunt: finding the ancient trees of the UK’ Tom Coward 13 Feb: ‘Gardening at Gravetye Manor’ John Massey 27 Feb: ‘Winter into spring’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5045 • 15 January 2014 213

Jo Cobb Professor Mark Freedland and Dr Martin Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish 13 Mar: ‘Concrete and flowers – the story Ruhs Studies of a college garden’ 13 Feb: ‘Domestic servitude under contemporary migration law and David Patterson Seminars Helen Yemm 19th-century master and servant law; 27 Mar: ‘Downsizing without tears’ The following seminars will be given at 8pm some comparative reflections’ and ’The on Wednesdays at the Oxford Centre for political economy of tied migrant labour’ Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Yarnton Manor. Professor Jo Phoenix, Leicester Convener: Professor Martin Goodman The following talks will be given at 5.30pm 20 Feb: ‘Against rescuing the victims of Dr Miri Freud-Kandel on Mondays in Balliol Lecture Room XXIII. human trafficking’ 22 Jan: ‘Belief in a contemporary world: Convener: Professor Richard Gombrich Professor Karen O’Reilly, Loughborough the influence of the Holocaust on the Dr Yu-Shuang Yao, Fo Guang 27 Feb: ‘Precarious outcomes to the theology of Louis Jacobs’ 3 Feb: ‘Japanese influence on Buddhism pursuit of happiness: lifestyle migration Dr Zehavit Stern in modern Taiwan’ and liminality’ 29 Jan: ‘Were there Jewish bards? Yiddish The Ven Dr Mahinda Deegalle, Bath Spa Dr Geetanjali Gangoli, Bristol literature’s myth of origins’ 10 Feb: ‘Bodu Bala Sena’s purification 6 Mar: ‘Forced marriage and immigration Dr Jon Whitman, Hebrew project: controversial Buddhist activism policies: understanding diversity or 5 Feb: ‘The fabulous history of the in contemporary Sri Lanka’ punishing difference?’ talking trees: judging the language of Dr Catherine Cantwell Dr Dimitris Papadopoulos, Leicester scripture (Judges 9:8–15) from antiquity 17 Feb: ‘The Medicinal Accomplishment 13 Mar: ‘After citizenship: the ontology of to modernity’ (sman sgrub) practice in the Dudjom transmigration and mobile commons’ Dr Maria Teresa Ortega Monasterio, CSIC, Meteoric Iron Razor (gnam lcags spu gri) Celebratory event Madrid tradition: reflections on the ritual and 12 Feb: ‘The Hebrew Bible in Spain. meditative practice at a monastery in A public event celebrating a decade of Sephardic manuscripts of the Kennicott Southern Bhutan’ migration at COMPAS will be held on the collection’ evening of 22 February at the Ashmolean Professor Barend Ter Haar Museum. Rabbi Dr Michael Harris, Hampstead 24 Feb: ‘Against the current: the Non- Subject: ‘People on the move’ Synagogue, London School of Jewish Action teachings in late imperial history’ Studies and Cambridge Tenzin Tselek Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and 19 Feb: ‘Nietzsche, Soloveitchikian 3 Mar: tbc Armed Conflict/Wolfson modern orthodoxy and normative ethics’ Professor Peter Harvey, Sunderland Professor Barbara Burrell, Cincinnati Seminar series: Culture, religion and 10 Mar: ‘Reflections on the nature of, and 26 Feb: ’The Promontory Palace at contemporary geopolitics attitudes to, “becoming” (bhava) in the Caesarea Maritima, Israel’ Pali tradition’ The following seminars will be given 2–4pm Professor Hugh Williamson on Tuesdays or Wednesdays. Location to 5 Mar: ‘S R Driver: a centennial COMPAS be announced on the ELAC website. Co- perspective’ conveners: Dr Hugo Slim and Dr Christopher Seminar series: Boundaries of freedom Hancock Dr Monika Czekanowska-Gutman, Adam Mickiewicz The following seminars will be given at Professor Christopher Coker, LSE 12 Mar: ‘Intimate borrowing: the Pietà in 2pm on Thursdays in the Pauling Centre, 28 Jan: ‘Inhabiting the future: the ethical modern Jewish art’ 58a Banbury Road. Convener: COMPAS landscapes of tomorrow’s wars’ Citizenship Cluster Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Dr Christina Hellmich, Reading Studies: On the Word of a Jew: oaths, Professor Julia O’Connell Davidson, 5 Feb: ‘The evil is always and everywhere: testimonies and the nature of trust Nottingham the discursive deployment of ‘Salafis’ in 23 Jan: ‘A matter of convention? Drawing the global war on terror’ The following seminars will be held at lines between slavery and freedom, and 4.30pm on Wednesdays in the Oriental Dr Sean Malloy, Kent between forced and voluntary migration’ Institute, Pusey Lane. There will also be 18 Feb: ‘Kant’s political theology and its a conference 11–12 March; details to be Dr Alexander Betts implications for international relations’ announced. Conveners: Professor Mitchell 30 Jan: ‘Survival migration: failed Dr Jodok Troy, Innsbruck Hart and Professor Nina Caputo governance and the crisis of 26 Feb: ‘Diplomacy as geopolitics: the displacement’ Professor David Feldman, Birkbeck diplomatic service of the Holy See in 22 Jan: ‘Ritual murder in 19th-century Dr Laura Jeffrey, Edinburgh international society’ Britain’ 6 Feb: ‘ “We don’t want to be sent back Professor Ian Linden, Tony Blair Faith and forth all the time’: Chagossian Dr Nicholas Cole Foundation reflections on compulsion and choice 29 Jan: ‘Oaths and evidence: trust, 4 Mar: ‘The geopolitical impact of in the context of forced displacement, superstition and evidence in post- Vatican II’ onward migration, and prospective revolutionary American courts’ return’ 214 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5045 • 15 January 2014

Professor Ronald Schechter, William and Dr Theodor Dunkelgrün, Cambridge Hinduism and theory: critical themes Mary 5 Mar: ‘Against Apion and the problem Dr Jessica Frazier will lecture at 2pm on 5 Feb: ‘Trusting Daniel Mendoza: how of the Hebrew Canon in early modern Fridays. British boxing fans came to believe in the biblical scholarship’ 31 Jan: ‘Hindu approaches to the divine – “fair play” of an 18th-century pugilist’ 12 Mar: Notes session four theories’ Dr Joshua Teplitsky Dr Jan Machielsen: ‘Jewish 14 Feb: ‘Hindu views of the self and its 12 Feb: ‘Death and taxes: oaths and Entanglements: the ancient Essenes and goals – four theories’ communal administration in 18th- the Catholic defence of monasticism’ century Prague’ 28 Feb: ‘Hindu ritual and practice – four Dr Joshua Teplitsky: ‘Reading Josippon theories’ Rachel Furst, Hebrew in 18th-century rabbinic and popular 19 Feb: ‘Constructing credibility: women, culture’ 14 Mar: ‘Hindu arts and literatures – four non-Jews and apostates in the Jewish theories’ Dr Philipp Nothaft, Warburg Institute: courts of medieval Ashkenaz’ ‘Josephus and New Testament An introduction to Vedantic Professor Miri Rubin, QMUL chronology in the work of Scaliger’ hermeneutics: Vedanta Desika’s 26 Feb: ‘Thinking like a Jew: Jewish voice commentary on the Isa Upanisad Lunchtime Seminars in Jewish Studies in The Life and Passion of William of Dr Rembert Lutjeharms will deliver Norwich’ The following seminars will be held at readings from the text at 11am on Mondays, 1pm on Thursdays in Room 314, Oriental Professor Derek Penslar weeks 1–8. Institute. 5 Mar: ‘Politics as an honourable Majewski Lecture vocation? Theodor Herzl’s Zionist Dr Khayke Beruriah Wiegand leadership’ 23 Jan: ‘The Yiddish Bashevis and his Dr Vincenzo Vegiani will deliver the American construct I B Singer: questions Majewski Lecture at 5pm on 10 February in Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish of language, register, translation and Lecture Room 1, the Oriental Institute. Studies: The reception of Josephus in betrayal’ Subject: ‘Panini’s grammar and the the early modern period destiny of Sanskrit around the beginning Dr Zsofia Buda The following seminars will take place of the Common Era’ 20 Feb: ‘Sacrifice in balance. TheAkedah : on Wednesdays at 2.30pm in the Quarrell an eschatological perspective’ Shivdasani Lectures Room, Exeter, unless otherwise noted. Conveners: Dr Joanna Weinberg and Professor Sushil Mittal will deliver the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies Professor Martin Goodman following lectures and seminars at 2pm. 21 Jan: ‘Hinduism and peacebuilding’ Nigel Wilson All events take place at the Oxford Centre for 22 Jan: ‘Observations on the editio Hindu Studies unless otherwise noted. 4 Feb: ‘Communalism, nationalism and princeps and some MSS’ the limits of secularism in India’ Theology and Religion Lectures: Professor Walter Stephens, Johns Hopkins Hinduism 1 18 Feb: ‘Gandhian techniques of conflict Mon, 27 Jan: ‘Pseudo-biblical resolution: satyagraha’ Professor Gavin Flood will lecture at 11am interpretations of Josephus in early at the Examination Schools. 4 Mar: ‘Conceptions of liberation in modern European polemics’ 22 Jan: ‘Introduction and the Vedanta’ classical Indian philosophy’ Dr Meir Ben Shahar, Hebrew 29 Jan: ‘The Vedanta and Vaisnava Lectures 5 Feb: ‘Josephus on Jaddus the High traditions’ Priest and Alexander the Great – fact Professor Wendy Doniger, Chicago, will or fiction?R eligion, politics and 5 Feb: ‘Vaisnava traditions’ lecture at 5pm. historiography in late-17th-century 12 Nov: ‘The politics of sexuality in 12 Feb: ‘Early Saivism and the Pasupatas’ England’ ancient india: the indebtedness of the 19 Feb: ‘Saiva and tantric traditions’ Kamasutra to the Arthasastra’ Dr Joanna Weinberg 12 Feb: ‘Azariah de’ Rossi and Josephus’ 26 Feb: ‘Monistic Saivism’ 14 Nov: ‘The magic ring of memory and forgetfulness in South Asian literature Professor Tessa Rajak 5 Mar: ‘Popular Hinduism’ and folklore’ 19 Feb: ‘Josephus as witness to the 12 Mar: ‘Hinduism and modernity’ punishment of the Jews: the English 19 Nov: ‘How widespread was skepticism translations from Thomas Lodge to Elementary Sanskrit in ancient India? Did the materialists Whiston and his contemporaries’ really exist or were they just straw men?’ Professor Gavin Flood will conduct the Scott Mandelbrote, Cambridge Elementary Sanskrit class at 11am on 26 Feb: ’Josephus and the Septuagint in Mondays and at 10am on Fridays, weeks 1–8. early modern thought’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5045 • 15 January 2014 215

Seminars Classes Media and Politics seminars (with Nuffield) Professor Gavin Flood will present the Qur’anic Arabic following seminars on Thursdays, weeks The following seminars will be given at 5pm Classes will be given in Qur’anic Arabic 1–8. on Fridays in the Butler Room, Nuffield. at 5pm on Fridays during Hilary term at 11am: ‘Readings in the Netra Tantra’ Conveners: James Painter, John Lloyd and the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. Neil Fowler 2pm: ‘Readings in phenomenology’ Registration required. See www.oxcis.ac.uk/ quranicarabic.html. Geoff Hoon, former Labour MP and defence Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies secretary Modern Standard Arabic 24 Jan: ‘The defence business’ Seminars Dr Karima Soutsane and Mrs Amira Mills Stewart Purvis, City will give the following classes in Modern Introducing Islamic Manuscripts 31 Jan: ‘When reporters cross the line... Standard Arabic at the Oxford Centre for with governments over wars’ The following seminars will be given at Islamic Studies. Registration required. See 5pm on Wednesdays at Oxford Centre for www.oxcis.ac.uk/msarabic.html. Kirsty Hughes, CEO, Index on Censorship Islamic Studies, unless otherwise noted, 7 Feb: ‘Politics and press freedom: the Arabic 1a: Tues 5.15–7.15pm in association with the Oriental Faculty. All perils of Leveson and the Royal Charters’ Arabic 1b: Tues 2.30–4.30pm welcome. Arabic 2: Wed 5.15–7.15pm Steven Erlanger, New York Times Professor Jan Just Witkam, Leiden Arabic 3 & 4: Wed 2.30–4.30pm 14 Feb: ‘Reporting the UK, the EU and 22 Jan: ‘Working with manuscripts: France to a US audience in the time of Islamicate vs Latinate’ Reuters Institute for the Study of PRISM and Twitter’ Journalism Dr Muhammad Isa Walley, British Library Sir David Manning, former British 29 Jan: ‘Collections and catalogues’ Ambassador to Washington and Foreign The Business and Practice of Policy Adviser Ms Evyn Kropf, Michigan Journalism seminars 21 Feb: ‘A view of the media from 5 Feb: ‘Materials and technologies’ The following seminars will be given at 2pm Whitehall and Washington’ Dr Marie Legendre and Dr Lucian on Wednesdays in the Barclay Room, Green Adam Boulton, Sky News Reinfandt, Vienna Templeton. Conveners: James Painter, John 28 Feb: ‘Politics and TV: what could 2014 Thurs, 13 Feb: ‘Arabic papyrology’ Lloyd and David Levy mean for 2015?’ Dr Anna Contadini, SOAS Professor Daya Thussu, Westminster Margaret Hodge, Labour MP and Chair, 19 Feb: ‘Ornamentation and illumination’ 22 Jan: ‘Communicating India’s soft Public Accounts Committee power: Buddha to Bollywood’ Professor Konrad Hirschler, SOAS 7 Mar: ‘Good value for money: reflections 26 Feb: ‘Transmission history’ Owen Bennett-Jones, BBC on the Public Accounts Committee’ 29 Jan: ‘Reporting Pakistan and specialist Professor François Déroche, École Pratique 14 Mar: tbc journalism’ des Hautes Études, Paris Oxford Media research seminars 5 Mar: ‘Manuscript production and Ewen Macaskill, the Guardian culture’ 5 Feb: ‘Leaks, Snowden and the Guardian’ The following seminars will be given on Tuesdays in Seminar Room E, Department Professor Wadad Kadi, Chicago, and Dr Dr Adrian Hadland, Stirling of Politics and International Relations. Judith Pfeiffer 12 Feb: ‘How mobile phones are changing Convener: Nael Jebril 12 Mar: ‘The challenges of editing journalism practice in the 21st century’ medieval manuscripts’ Georgi Kantchev Professor Anne Gregory, Leeds 5pm, 28 Jan: ‘Media business models in Special lectures Metropolitan transition: news wires in the online age’ 19 Feb: ‘Could PR be the saviour of The following lectures will be given at 5pm journalism?’ Professor Hannu Nieminen, Helsinki at the Examination Schools. 6pm, 11 Feb: ‘Challenges and confusion Mona Chalabi, the Guardian Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, Sultan in European media and communication 26 Feb: ‘Data journalism and academia: Azlan Shah Fellow and former President of regulation: a four-country comparison’ friend or foe?’ the UK Supreme Court Dr Eva Polonska-Kimunguyi, visiting 12 Feb: ‘The elastic jurisdiction of the Lindsey Hilsum, Channel 4 News fellow European Court of Human Rights’ (in 5 Mar: ‘Attachment, detachment and fear: 6pm, 25 Feb: ‘European broadcasting and association with Mansfield and the reporting revolution in the Arab world’ public diplomacy in Africa: the case of Faculty of Law) Professor Lilie Chouliaraki, LSE Deutsche Welle’ Sir John Jenkins, British Ambassador to 12 Mar: ‘Post-humanitarianism: Zehra Sayed, visiting fellow Saudi Arabia humanitarian communication beyond a 5pm, 11 Mar: ‘Challenges to knowledge 28 Feb: ‘Saudi Arabia and its neighbours’ politics of pity’ transfer within transnational media firms: case study of ThomsonR euters in India’ 216 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5045 • 15 January 2014

Conference Foundation for Law, Justice and Society/ Dr Paula Burkinshaw, Leeds Centre for Socio-Legal Studies 20 Feb: ‘Higher education leadership as Professor Robert Picard will convene communities of practice of masculinities’ a two-day academic conference 26–28 The following events will take place at February at St Anne’s. To book a place, Dr Celia Hunt, Sussex 5.30pm in the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, please visit the Oxford University Online 27 Feb: ‘The pros and cons of Wolfson, unless otherwise noted. To Shop. “Therapeutic Education” with adults: the register: www.fljs.org/events. Subject: ‘Local journalism around the example of creative writing for personal world: professional practices, economic Film screening development’ foundations and political implications’ The Lives of Others will be screened at Henriette Lundgren, Hamburg 7.30pm on 22 January. Introduction by Dr 6 Mar: ‘Testing as reflecting? On the Latin American Centre Andres Guadamuz, Sussex use of personality profiles in workplace learning’ Seminars Book colloquium Professor Louise Morley, Centre for Higher The following seminars will be given at Professor Denis Galligan, Dr Amir Paz- Education and Equity Research, Sussex 5pm on Fridays in the Seminar Room, Fuchs, Sussex, Dr Bettina Lange, and 13 Mar: ‘Lost leaders: women in the Latin American Centre. Glass of wine Frank Vibert, LSE, will participate in a global academy’ served following the discussions. Everyone colloquium on 23 January. welcome. Conveners: Dr Christian Arnold, Subject: ‘The new global rulers: the Maison Française Dr Svitlana Chernykh and Dr Francesca privatisation of regulation in the world Lessa economy’ The following events will take place at the Dr George Meszaros, Warwick Lecture Maison Française d’Oxford, 2–10 Norham 24 Jan: ‘Social movements, law and the Road, unless otherwise noted. Max Watson, formerly of the IMF and politics of land reform: lessons from European Commission, will lecture on Seminars Brazil’ 26 February. In association with the Political Medieval French Seminars Professor Scott Mainwaring, Notre Dame Economy of Financial Markets Programme. 31 Jan: ‘Democracies and dictatorships Subject: ‘Can we save countries from The following seminars will be given on in Latin America: emergence, survival economic crises? Some lessons from IMF alternate Tuesdays at 5.15pm. Conveners: and fall’ and EU experience over three decades’ Daron Burrows, Sophie Marnette and Helen Swift Dr Gian Luca Gardini, Bath Seminar 7 Feb: ‘Towards modular regionalism in Catherine Léglu, Reading Professor Denis Galligan will lead a Latin America?’ 21 Jan: ‘The kings of Britain and England seminar on 5 March. in a medieval Occitan text: questions of Dr Par Engstrom, UCL Subject: ‘Shakespeare and the lower translation and context’ 14 Feb: ‘Brazilian post-transitional justice register of constitutional thought: the and the inter-American human rights historical plays’ Charles L Samuelson, Princeton system’ 4 Feb: ‘Performativity in verse romances Learning Institute and the dits: thinking subjectivity back in Dr Roddy Brett, St Andrews time from Christine de Pizan’s Le Livre du 21 Feb: ‘The Rios Montt trial and the post- Public seminars Duc des Vrais Amans’ conflict legacy of genocide in Guatemala’ The following seminars will take place at Anthony Lodge, St Andrews Dr James Melton, UCL 4pm on Thursdays in the Learning Institute, 18 Feb: ‘Language myths and the 28 Feb: ‘Writing rights in early Latin Level 2, Littlegate House, St Ebbe’s. Open historiography of French.’ Followed by American constitutions’ to all. a drinks reception and presentation of Professor Nicola Miller and Dr Adam ‘On linguistic change in French: socio- Professor Angela Brew, Sydney, and Smith, UCL historical approaches; studies in honour Professor David Boud, Technology, Sydney 7 Mar: ‘Images of the United States in of R Anthony Lodge’ 23 Jan: ‘Experiencing higher education Latin America, 1850–1900’ (joint RAI/ as an academic practitioner: negotiating Keywords in Early Modern French LAC seminar) academic identity’ Culture Seminars Dr Sebastian Dellepiane, Strathclyde Dr Anna Wilson, Stirling The following seminars will be given on 14 Mar: ‘Political economics in hard 30 Jan: ‘Making the development alternate Thursdays at 3.30pm. Conveners: times: revisiting the Argentine crisis of of critical thinking visible in Richard Scholar and Alain Viala 2001/2’ undergraduates’ experiences of research’ Jonathan Patterson Dr Helen Boulton, Nottingham Trent 23 Jan: ‘How to be a miser’ 6 Feb: ‘The changing nature of pedagogy Wes Williams for the 21st-century student’ 6 Feb: ‘How to be a monster’ Dr Richard Bolden, Exeter Alain Viala 13 Feb: ‘Burning the ship for fuel: how 20 Feb: ‘How to be a person of polite university corporatism consumes manners, honnête, galant and so on’ without renewing’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5045 • 15 January 2014 217

Alain Viala Environmental History Seminars Conferences and Study Days 6 Mar: ‘How to be an early modern The following seminars will be given on Conferences quarreler’ Mondays at 4.30pm. Convener: Thomas Le A conference will be held from 2pm to 5pm Early Modern French Seminar Roux, CNRS on 7 February. Conveners: Didier Alexandre, The following seminars will be given on 24 Feb, History Faculty, George Street: Paris-Sorbonne, Alexandre Gefen, CNRS, alternate Thursdays at 5.15pm. Conveners: Toxicants and agriculture (20th century) and Ann Jefferson Emma Claussen, Richard Scholar, Caroline Subject: ‘Pourquoi écrire une vie? Usages, Nathalie Jas, INRA-RITME: ‘Insecti-, Warman and Wes Williams valeurs et fonctions de la biographie pesti-, homi-cides? Public health and littéraire’ Richard Cooper agricultural pesticides in France in the 23 Jan: ‘ “Nos ancêtres les Gaulois”: 1950s and 1960s’ A conference will be held honour of Ian inventing Gallic antiquities in Claas Kirchhelle: ‘Beyond toxic: Britain Maclean beginning at 3.30pm on 31 March at Renaissance France.’ Followed by a book and the challenges of agricultural All Souls and continuing from 9am on 1 and launch and drinks reception antibiotic regulation since 1953’ 2 April at the Maison Française. Conveners: Neil Kenny, Richard Scholar and Wes Victoria Harvey, Cambridge 3 Mar: Toxicants and transnational policies Williams 6 Feb: ‘ “Corps infect et defaict, ame fausse (20th century) Subject: ‘Transforming the early modern et traitresse”: the plague of Vieilles in the Soraya Boudia, Paris-Est-LATTS: Republic of Letters: literature, learning, Receuils satyriques’ ‘Powerless science? Science and politics logic, books’ Daniel Brewer, Minnesota in a toxic world’ Study Days 20 Feb: ‘ “Ma délicieuse île”: picturing Joseph Melling, Exeter: ‘Dangerous other spaces with Rousseau’ trades: a transnational perspective’ A study day will be held from 10.30am to 4pm on Saturday, 15 February. Conveners: Matthew Cheung Salisbury, Julia Hartley, Legal History Seminar: Codifying Bill Pickering and Sondra Hausner. In Michael Hawcroft and David Maskell will the Law – II conjunction with Orientophilia of the lead a roundtable at 3.30pm on 6 March The following seminars will be given at All Faculty of Theology and Religion. following the performances of Esther in the Souls. Conveners: Boudewijn Sirks and Subject: ‘Thinking about religion in chapel of St John’s (27 February–1 March, Soazick Kerneis, Paris Ouest Nanterre France around 1900’ 8pm) Subject: ‘Performing, picturing and Serge Dauchy, CNRS-Lille II-Saint-Louis, A study day will be held in memory of Jean- singing Racine’s Esther’ Brussels Pierre Vernant from 2pm to 6.30pm on 3pm, 5 Feb, Seminar Room: ‘Why did 25 February at the Ioannou Centre. French Modern French Seminars Louis XIV first and foremost codify civil and British doctoral students in Classics The following seminars will be given on procedure?’ will give presentations from 2pm to 5pm alternate Thursdays at 5.15pm. Conveners: followed by a keynote lecture by François Aldo Schiavone, Istituto Italiano di Scienze Nikolaj Lübecker, Ian Maclachlan and de Polignac, EPHE, Paris. Conveners: Umane Jennifer Yee Catherine Darbo-Peschanski, CNRS, and 5pm, 17 Feb, Wharton Room: ‘The Robert Parker David Uhrig, New York and Paris historiography on Roman legal thought Subject: ‘Anthropology and the 30 Jan: ‘Blanchot (1938–39): les années from Fritz Schulz until our time’ “Mediterranean Paradigm”: which insoupçonnables’ Jean-Louis Halpérin, ENS, Paris connections?’ Shirley Jordan, QMUL 5pm, 5 Mar, Hovenden Room: ‘The great A PhD study day will be held from 9.30am 13 Feb: ‘Marie NDiaye: inhospitable codes (end of the 18th century–19th to 6.45pm on 28 February. Conveners: Kate fictions’ century) and the law consolidation Tunstall and Alain Viala, in collaboration movement’ Emma Wilson, Cambridge with the University of Fribourg 27 Feb: ‘Catherine Breillat and L’Origine Ancient History Tuesday Seminar Subject: ‘Formes et pratiques des du monde’ querelles/Quarrels: forms and practices’ Catherine Darbo-Peschanski, CNRS, will Nick Harrison, KCL give a seminar at 5pm on 11 March in the Congress 13 Mar: ‘French lessons: literature and Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre. The 20th International Congress of the the Mission civilisatrice’ Subject: ‘The inside and the outside of the Société d’Histoire et d’Epistémologie des body (medical treatises from Hippocrates Oxford Garden and Landscape Sciences de la Vie (Shesvie) will take place to Galen)’ History Seminars from 9.30am on 19 March, ending on 20 March. Convener: Stéphane Tirard, Yolaine Escande, CNRS-EHESS, Alison Nantes Hardie, Leeds, and Stephen McDowall, Subject: ‘Franco-British exchanges in the Edinburgh, will give the following seminar life sciences during the 19th and 20th on Saturday, 8 March from 10.30am to centuries’ 4.30pm. Chair: Craig Clunas. Supported by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). Convener: Laurent Châtel, Paris-Sorbonne-CNRS Subject: ‘Rustic nature and artistic rusticity in China’ 218 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5045 • 15 January 2014

Lectures Oxford Martin School Oxford Martin School Public Lecture Charlotte Halpern, CEE-Sciences Po, Paris. Mr Andrew Haldane, Executive Director, The following events will take place at Chair: Malek Al-Chalabi Financial Stability at the Bank of England, the Oxford Martin School. All welcome; 5.15pm, 26 Feb: ‘Rescaling light rail will lecture at 3.30pm on 4 February at the registration required: www.oxfordmartin. policies in Europe’ Oxford Martin School. All welcome but ox.ac.uk/events. registration required: www.oxfordmartin. Philippe Roger, EHESS, Paris. Conveners: Seminar series: Blurring the lines: the ox.ac.uk/event/1758. Philippe Roussin and Michael Sheringham changing dynamics between man and Subject: ‘Is the global financial system 2.15pm, 7 Mar: ‘ “Barthes maître de vie”: la machine safe?’ dernière petite mythologie?’ The following seminars will be given at Roger Errera, former member, Conseil Oxford Institute of Population Ageing 3.30pm on Thursdays. Free. Information: d’Etat [email protected] or 01865 1pm, 11 Mar, Institute of European and Art, museums, wellbeing and ageing 287437. Convener: Professor Ian Goldin Comparative Law: ‘The role of the The following seminars will be given at noon judiciary in contemporary democracies: Dr Chris Lintott and Dr Brookes Simmons on Wednesdays in the Oxford Institute of principle, politics and accountability’ 30 Jan: ‘Where next for citizen science? Population Ageing (OIPA), the Museum of Innovative uses for crowd sourcing’ Nicolas Mariot, CNRS-CESSP. Chair: Adrian Oxford and Pitt Rivers Museum. Gregory Dr Fred Hersch and Dr Gari Clifford Dr Andrea Creech, London 5pm, 12 Mar, Mordan Hall, St Hugh’s: 6 Feb: ‘M:Health: smartphones as 22 Jan, OIPA: ‘Active ageing with music: ‘Social encounters in the French saviours?’ supporting wellbeing in the Third and trenches’ Dr Anders Sandberg Fourth Ages’ Sandra Laugier, CNRS. Chair: Anna 13 Feb: ‘Artificial intelligence: examining Dr Helen Chatterjee, UCL Marmodoro the interface between brain and machine’ 29 Jan, OIPA: ‘Museums, health and 2.30pm, 14 Mar, Rainolds Room, tbc wellbeing – exploring the therapeutic Corpus Christi: ‘From self-reliance to 20 Feb: ‘Mapping and identifying potential of museums and cultural disobedience: the question of voice’ biodiversity: using new technology to heritage’ Reading understand our ecosystem’ Andrew Newman, Newcastle Nicole Gore will read extracts from A la Mr Dapo Akande and Dr Alex 5 Feb, OIPA: ‘Engaging with recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust, Leveringhaus contemporary visual art: maintaining with musical interludes by Bruno Guastalla 28 Feb: ‘Drone strikes: ethics and laws of health and wellbeing’ (cello) and Sarah Verney (piano), at 8pm on 21st-century warfare’ Professor Lynn Froggett, Central 12 February. Professor Marta Kwiatkowska and Dr Niki Lancashire Cinema Trigoni 12 Feb, OIPA: ‘Psychosocial containment 6 Mar: ‘Sensors everywhere? Trends and aesthetic experience’ The Maison Française will show four films and challenges for accurate indoor on the subject of World War I at 8pm on Helen Fountain, Museum of Oxford, and localisation’ alternate Tuesdays. All films will be in Gill Munday, Oxfordshire Museum Service French with English subtitles. Dr Carl Frey and Dr Michael Osborne 19 Feb, Museum of Oxford: ‘Making 6 Mar: ‘Replaced by robots? The memories matter’ 28 Jan: La Grande Illusion, Jean Renoir challenges and opportunities of (1937, 117 mins) Steph Mastoris, National Waterfront automation for the workforce’ Museum, Swansea 11 Feb: La Vie et rien d’autre, Bertrand Distinguished Public Lecture 26 Feb, Pitt Rivers: ‘Memory, material Tavernier (1989, 135 mins) culture and identity’ Dr Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director, 25 Feb: La Chambre des officiers, François Greenpeace International, will deliver the Helen Shearn, South London and Dupeyron (2001, 135 mins) Oxford Martin Distinguished Public Lecture Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust 11 Mar: Joyeux Noël, Christian Carion at 5.30pm on 24 February. 5 Mar, Pitt Rivers: ‘Museums and gallery (2005, 116 mins) Subject: ‘Direct action: when and why?’ partnerships in clinical services: our journey so far’ Oxford Martin School and the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Daisy Fancourt, Centre for Performance Future Technology Science 12 Mar, Pitt Rivers: ‘Music and medicine Dr K Eric Drexler, academic visitor, will across the lifespan’ discuss his latest book at 5pm on 22 January. Subject: ‘Radical abundance: how a revolution in nanotechnology will change civilisation’ Professor David Christian will lecture at 4pm on 31 January. Subject: ‘Big history’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5045 • 15 January 2014 219

Seminar series: Fertility and Jason Pobjoy, Blackstone Chambers Colleges, Halls and development 5 Feb: ‘The child in international refugee Societies law’ The following seminars will be given at 12.30pm on Thursdays in the Seminar Jean-Francois Durieux, Research All Souls Room, Oxford Institute of Population Associate, RSC and IUHEID Geneva Ageing, 66 Banbury Road. Convener: 12 Feb: ‘Three asylum paradigms’ The following events will take place at 5pm Professor Sarah Harper in the Old Library, All Souls. Professor Colin Harvey, Queen’s, Belfast Dr Pia Vogler 19 Feb: ‘Global human rights, regionalism Radhakrishnan memorial lectures 2014: 23 Jan: ‘Exploring the political economy and national retreat? Does international the popular origins of academic history of fertility decisions. A participatory refugee law have a future?’ in colonial India research methods approach with ethnic 26 Feb:tbc Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A Kimpton minority youth in Northern Thailand’ Distinguished Service Professor, Chicago, Professor Gregor Noll, Lund Professor Anthony Costello, UCL will deliver the following Radhakrishnan 5 Mar: ‘Creation, imagination, 30 Jan: ‘Women, groups and survival: a Memorial Lectures at 5pm in the Old speculation: age assessment and the meta-analysis of co-operative nurturing’ Library, All Souls. asylum procedure’ 18 Feb: ‘Between the agora and the Dr Sylvie Dubuc Dr Anne Hammerstad, Kent lycaeum: the popular origins of academic 6 Feb: ‘Son preference, fertility decline 12 Mar: ‘The rise and decline of a history in colonial India’ and sex selection’ global security actor: UNHCR, refugee 20 Feb: ‘The imperial aesthetics of Professor Nynke Van den Broek, LSTM protection and security’ nationalist history’ 13 Feb: ‘Maternal and newborn health in International Summer School in Forced developing countries’ 25 Feb: ‘The rise and fall of “character” as a Migration historical category’ John Dunsabe, LSTM The summer school, taking place 7–25 20 Feb: ‘Improving reproductive health Special Lectures July, is aimed at mid-career or senior service uptake in Africa through complex policymakers and practitioners involved The Rt Hon Dr John Redwood will lecture community interventions – a case for with humanitarian assistance and policy- on 31 January. mHealth in Tanzania’ making for forced migrants. The closing date Subject: ‘Why is Europe falling so Dr Melanie Frost for applications is 1 May 2014 except bursary far behind America and Asia in the 27 Feb: ‘The intensification of son candidates where the deadline is 1 March: economic growth stakes?’ preference in Nepal’ www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/study/international- summer-school. Balliol Dr Jennifer Hollowell 6 Mar: ‘Recent trends and inequalities in Refugee Voices Conference Oliver Smithies Lecture infant mortality in England and Wales’ The RSC 2014 international conference, Professor Christian Wieland, Freiburg, Professor Zoë Matthews, Southampton taking place 24–25 March, will explore the will deliver an Oliver Smithies Lecture at 13 Mar: ‘Population-level fertility impacts voices and aesthetic expressions of those 5pm on 27 February in Lecture Room XXIII, of enabling people to exercise their dispossessed, displaced and marginalised by Balliol. reproductive rights’ the pre-eminence of the nation state. Visit: Subject: ‘Water and politics in Europe, www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/rsc2014. 1550–1750’ Refugee Studies Centre Palestine Refugees and International Law Brasenose Public seminar series This two-day non-residential workshop, The following seminars will be given at 5pm John Ackrill Memorial Lecture taking place 14–15 March in Amman, on Wednesdays in Seminar Room 1, QEH, Jordan, places the Palestinian refugee Professor Gail Fine will deliver the 2014 3 MansfieldR oad. Convener: Dr Cathryn case study within the broader context of John Ackrill Memorial Lecture at 5pm on Costello the international human rights regime. 6 March in Lecture Room XI, Brasenose S Chelvan, No5 Chambers Visit: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/palestine- (note change of venue from last year). 22 Jan: ‘At the end of the rainbow: where refugees-2014. Followed by a drinks reception. next for the LGBTI refugee?’ Subject: ‘Knowledge, belief and perception in the Phaedo’ Dr Ana Aliverti, Warwick Law School 29 Jan: ‘Turning wrongful convictions into rights? Asylum seekers and the criminal law’ 220 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5045 • 15 January 2014

Green Templeton Lecture Professor Olle Lundberg 5 Feb: ‘Welfare states and health Professor Walter Stephens will lecture at Green Templeton Lectures: The tyranny inequalities’ 2.30pm on 24 January in the Roy Griffith of the normal Room, Keble. Professor Danny Dorling The following lectures will be given at 6pm Subject: ‘Warping the weft of history: 12 Feb: ‘Living precariously in the UK: on Mondays in the E P Abraham Lecture Orlando furioso, canto 15’ housing, insecurity and ill-health’ Theatre, Green Templeton. ASC Medieval and Renaissance Studies Professor Nan Dirk DeGraaf Adam Mars-Jones Cluster Lectures 19 Feb: ‘Secularisation, cultural 27 Jan: ‘Cinematically challenged’ conservatism and variation in religious The following lectures will take place at 5pm voting’ Professor Nichola Rumsey, West of at Keble. All welcome. England Professor Shelly Lundberg Professor Lina Bolzoni, Scuola Normale di 3 Feb: ‘ “I don’t like the way I look”: 26 Feb: ‘Educational inequality and the Pisa the psychological consequences of returns to skills’ 28 Jan, Roy Griffiths Room: ‘Memory appearance norms’ palaces: the Renaissance and the Dr Aaron Reeves Professor Sara Ahmed, Goldsmiths contemporary world’ 5 Mar: tbc 10 Feb: ‘Feeling norms, feeling normal?’ Dr Jason Peacey, UCL Professor Clare Bambra Peter Keen, Loughborough 25 Feb, Gibbs Room: ‘Fanatics in 12 Mar: ‘Neoliberal epidemics: the 24 Feb: ‘Ordinary people do foreign lands: diplomacy and print in politics of obesity’ extraordinary things: what do the lives seventeenth-century Europe’ of Olympians tell us about the champion St Antony’s in us all?’ Kellogg Book launch Richard Normann Lecture The following seminars will be given at 5pm Dr Ming-chin Monique Chu will speak at Professor Nils Brunsson, Chair in (refreshments) for 5.30pm in the Mawby a book launch at 5pm on 3 March in the Management, Uppsala, will deliver the Room, Kellogg. All welcome. Pavilion Room, St Antony’s. 2014 Richard Normann Lecture at 6pm Dr Ruth Yeoman and Dr Daniel Tischer, Subject: ‘The East Asian computer chip on 5 February in the E P Abraham Lecture Oxford Centre for Mutual and Employee- war’ Theatre, Green Templeton. owned Business Subject: ‘Organising the world’ Latin American History seminars 20 Jan: ‘Contemporary mutualism and Astronomy for All lectures the financial crisis’ The following seminars will be given at 5pm on Thursdays, unless otherwise noted, in The following lectures will be given at 6pm Stephen Wass the Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, on Wednesdays in the E P Abraham lecture 17 Feb: ‘A way with water – resource 1 Church Walk. All welcome. Conveners: Theatre, Green Templeton. management and the creation of an 18th- Mark Petersen and Eduardo Posada-Carbó century park’ Ian Ridpath, editor, Norton’s Star Atlas Esteban Ramirez, IHEID, Geneva 19 Feb: ‘Pictures in the sky’ Nuffield 23 Jan: ‘Armed groups and state building Dr Fraser Clarke in 19th- and early-20th-century Mexico: a 26 Feb: ‘Big telescopes: why size always Oxford Intelligence Group seminars comparative perspective’ matters’ Dr Chris Westcott, Director, BBC Blanca Sánchez Alonso, San Pablo CEU Charles Barclay, Marlborough Monitoring, will lecture at 5.30pm on Wed, 5 Feb: ‘European mass migration 5 Mar: ‘Close encounters – 30 January in the Large Lecture Room, to Latin America: old topics and new misunderstanding comets’ Nuffield. Enquiries: claire.bunce@nuffield. reflections’ ox.ac.uk. Juan Pablo Scarfi, Cambridge Keble Subject: ‘Open source: mysteries and 13 Feb: ‘Legal practices and ideologies secrets in the million channel universe’ in Latin America: a regional approach to Richardson Lecture Sociology Group seminars international law, 1890–1933’ Dr Maria Misra will deliver the Richardson The following seminars will be given at Maria Blanco Lecture at 5.30pm on 7 February in the 5pm in the Clay Room, Nuffield. Conveners: 20 Feb: ‘Mexican popular science and Pusey Room, Keble. Christiaan Monden and David Stuckler modern utopia in José Joaquín Arriaga's Subject: ‘Under Eastern eyes: the Raj in La ciencia recreativa (1871)’ modern Indian memory’ Professor Alexandra (Sasha) Killewald 22 Jan: ‘Whose money matters? Couples’ Natalia Sobrevilla, Kent financial resources and the decision to 27 Feb: ‘The armed forces and state- separate’ building in post-colonial Peru 1800–60’ Professor David Gunnell Anthony Macfarlane, Warwick 29 Jan: ‘Understanding changes in 13 Mar: ‘Wars and independence in national suicide rates: the role of lethal Spanish America’ methods, recession, war and death certification’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5045 • 15 January 2014 221

Modern Polish Studies Seminar Series Professor Jesús Velasco, Tarleton South Asia seminar series 10 Feb, Pavilion Seminar Room: ‘Seducing The following seminars will be given at The following seminars will be given at 2pm America: the relationship between the 5pm on Wednesdays in the Seminar Room, on Tuesdays in the Fellows’ Dining Room, St Mexican government and the American European Studies Centre. Antony’s. Convener: Dr Faisal Devji intellectuals in the 20th and 21st Dr Olga Onuch. Discussant: Professor Anna centuries’ Dr Masooda Bano Reading, KCL 21 Jan: ‘Madrasa reform and the project Professor Andrew Porwancher, Oklahoma 22 Jan: ‘From activists to pragmatic of Islamic modernism: the case of and Alastair Horne Fellow interlocutors: the changing role of Bangladesh’ 24 Feb, Pavilion Seminar Room: ‘ “The journalists in central Eastern Europe. The Devil Himself”: a tale of honor, insanity Dr Matthew Walton case of Poland’ and the birth of modern America’ 28 Jan: ‘Anti-Muslim movements in Sri Dr Agnieszka Kubal. Discussant: Dr Marina Lanka and Myanmar: connections and Professor Philip Kaisary, Warwick Kurkchiyan commonalities’ 3 Mar, Fellows’ Dining Room: ‘The Haitian 29 Jan: ‘Legal culture in the process of revolution in the literary imagination: Dr Sarah Hodges, Warwick integration. Polish post-EU accession radical horizons, conservative 4 Feb: ‘The skin of neoliberalism: moral migrants in the United Kingdom’ constraints’ and material histories of plastic in India’ Dr Karolina Follis, Lancaster. Discussant: Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Dr Humeira Iqtidar, KCL Dr Christopher Moran, Warwick seminars: Russian and East European 11 Feb: ‘Tolerating the tribal: FATA 5 Feb: ‘Between secrecy and exposure: cities between past and present refugees in urban Pakistan’ the politics of accounting for the CIA prison in Poland’ The following seminars will be given at 5pm Dr Rudra Chaudhuri, KCL on Mondays in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, 18 Feb: ‘Forged in crisis: recollecting a Dr Nicolette Makovicky. Discussant: Dr St Antony’s. Conveners: Dr Uilleam Blacker “new” history of the US and India’ Uilleam Blacker and Dr Oliver Ready 12 Feb: ‘Ironic tropes and the poetics of Dr Timothy Daniel Haines, RHUL self: trickster tales from highland Poland’ Dr Andriy Portnov, Humboldt 25 Feb: ‘Contested sovereignty: territory, 20 Jan: ‘ “East European Manchesters”: rivers and Kashmir, 1940s–1960s’ Dr Jim Bjork, KCL. Discussant: Dr Hugo the stories of post-Communist transition Service Dr Professor Ravinder Kaur, Copenhagen of Chemnitz, Dnipopetrovsk, Ivanovo, 19 Feb: ‘Poles and Germans into Silesians: 4 Mar: ‘Lineages of New India: traces, and Łódź’ serial nationalisations in late-20th- aporias and the promise of newness’ century Poland’ Professor Catriona Kelly Dr Rohan Deb-Roy, Cambridge 27 Jan: ‘Between Leningrad and Dr Ella Chmielewska, Edinburgh College of 11 Mar: ‘A Cinchona disease: the Petersburg: the “City on the Neva” then Art. Discussant: tbc production of Burdwan fever’ and now’ 26 Feb: ‘Vectors of looking: reflections on South East Asian seminar series the Luftwaffe’s aerial survey of Warsaw, Dr Jan Fellerer and Dr Robert Pyrah 1944’ 3 Feb: ‘Hybrid cultural identities in 20th- The following seminars will be given at 2pm century East-Central Europe with special on Thursdays in the Dahrendorf Room, St Panel session reference to L’viv (Lwów)’ Antony’s. Convener: Dr Matthew J Walton Antonia Lloyds-Jones, Ursula Phillips and George Gomori. Convener: Mikolaj Kunicki Dr Victoria Donovan, St Andrew’s Dr Danica Salazar 5 Mar: ‘From Kochanowski to Huelle 10 Feb: ‘Communities of “living history”: 23 Jan: ‘The vocabulary of Southeast and beyond: translating Polish literature the kraevedenie revival in the medieval Asian Englishes: a sociolinguistic and before and after 1989’ towns of the Russian northwest’ cultural perspective’ Dr Mikolaj Kunicki. Discussant: Dr Marsha Judy Brown, Cambridge Dr Petra Mahy Siefert, Central European University, 17 Feb: ‘Cultural memory in Sevastopol – 6 Feb: ‘Understanding informal Budapest Ukraine’s “City of Russian Glory” ‘ employment relationships in Indonesia: 12 Mar: ‘Lenses of history: projections a pilot study in restaurants in Yogyakarta’ Edward Saunders, Vienna of communism in Polish contemporary 24 Feb: ‘Renaming Königsberg Dr Giles Ji Ungpakorn, independent cinema’ Kaliningrad: questions of memory scholar North American Studies seminar series beyond a German–Russian dichotomy’ 20 Feb: ‘Is Thai democracy finished?’ The following seminars will be given at 5pm Dr Uilleam Blacker Dr Tu-Anh Vu-Thanh on Mondays in St Antony’s. Convener: Dr 3 Mar: ‘The language of the street? 6 Mar: ‘WTO and the political economy Halbert Jones Writing and reading Ukraine’s cities in of reform in Vietnam’ Russian’ Dr Diego Sánchez-Ancochea 27 Jan, Latin American Centre: ‘Central Sasha Dugdale, editor, Modern Poetry in America’s triple transition and the Translation persistent power of the elite’ 10 Mar: ‘Moscow in the Russian short story’ 222 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5045 • 15 January 2014

Taiwan Studies Programme seminar St Hilda’s Wolfson series Dance Scholarship Oxford (DANSOX) Wolfson Haldane Lecture The following seminars will be given at 5pm on Fridays, unless otherwise noted, An event will be held from 4.30pm on Professor Steven Pinker will deliver the in the Pavilion Room, Gateway Building, St 20 February at the Jacqueline du Pré Music Wolfson Haldane Lecture at 6pm on 27 Antony’s. Convener: Dr Ming-chin Monique Building, St Hilda’s, to celebrate 20th- February in Wolfson. Chu century collaborations in dance, music and Subject: ‘The better angels of our nature: a literature. Speakers: Alastair Macaulay, history of violence and humanity’ Dr Scott L Kastner, Maryland dance critic, New York Times, on Merce 31 Jan: ‘A relationship transformed? The Lecture Cunningham; and Jeri Johnson on Joyce’s prospects for conflict and peace in the Finnegans Wake; followed by a performance Professor Sir Anthony Epstein will deliver Taiwan Strait’ of John Cage’s Circus On with guest a lecture at 6pm on 24 February in the Dr Richard C Bush III, Brookings Institution director Loré Lixenberg. Drinks and light Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson. 28 Feb: ‘The “most sensitive” issue: the refreshments in the interval between the Subject: ‘The origins of Epstein–Barr virus United States, China and Taiwan’ lectures and the performance. All welcome; research: why and how the virus was free but booking essential at www.st-hildas. discovered exactly fifty years ago’ Professor Yun-han Chu, National Taiwan ox.ac.uk/events. With the support of Oxford and Academia Sinica Oxford Centre for Life-Writing University KEISC funding and TORCH. 14 Mar: ‘How East Asians understand Subject: ‘20th-century collaborations: Weinrebe Lectures in Life-Writing: democracy’ Cunningham, Cage, Joyce’ Voicing the self St Catherine’s The following lectures will be delivered St John’s at 5.30pm on Tuesdays in the Leonard Alan Tayler Lecture Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson, unless St John’s College Research Centre: otherwise noted. Professor Alan Newell, Arizona, will Interdisciplinary seminars in deliver the Alan Tayler Lecture at psychoanalysis Blake Morrison 5pm on 27 January in the Bernard 4 Feb: ‘ “The worst thing I ever did”: Psychoanalysis and psychology Sunley Lecture Theatre, St Catherine’s. confession and the contemporary Registration essential: www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/ The following seminars will take place at memoir’ alantayler2014. 8.15pm in the Lecture Room, Research Edward St Aubyn Subject: ‘Phyllotaxis, pushed pattern Centre, 45 St Giles’. Free of charge to Thurs, 13 Feb: In conversation with fronts and optimal packing’ members of the University and mental Professor Dame Hermione Lee health professionals but space is limited. Cameron Mackintosh Lecture To attend it is helpful (but not essential) to Professor Richard Holmes Stephen Fry, Cameron Mackintosh Visiting email [email protected]. Conveners: 18 Feb: ‘The biographer’s other I’ Professor of Contemporary Drama, will Louise Braddock, Richard Gipps and Paul Professor Marina Warner, Essex deliver the Cameron Mackintosh Lecture Tod 25 Feb: ‘Hearing voices, travelling back’ at 5.30pm on 20 February in the Bernard Alessandra Lemma, Tavistock, UCL and Sunley Lecture Theatre, St Catherine’s. Workshop on Literary Letters Essex Attendees to be seated by 5.10pm. 27 Jan: ‘Under the skin: analytic A workshop will be held 5–7pm on Registration essential; strictly limited perspectives on body modification’ 28 January at the Leonard Wolfson availability. Individual registration only, one Auditorium, Wolfson. Speakers: Professor ticket per person: first come, first served: Michael Lacewing, Heythrop, London John Barnard, Professor Pamela Clemit, [email protected] ; 01865 10 Feb: ‘Psychodynamic psychotherapy, Grace Egan, Daniel Hitchens, Priyasha 271760. insight and therapeutic action’ Mukhopadhyay, Dr Mark Pottle, Dr Subject: tbc Richard Gipps Henriette van der Blom and Maria Rita 24 Feb: ‘CBT: a philosophical critique’ Drummond Viana. Information: pamela. [email protected]. Convener: Somerville Professor Pamela Clemit

Work-in-progress seminar Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture OCLW visiting scholar Dr Tracey Potts, Professor Carol Robinson will deliver the Nottingham, and visiting doctoral students Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture at Jeffrey Gutierrez, Brown, Sophie Scott- 5pm on 11 March in the Museum of Natural Brown, ANU, and Maria Rita Drummond History. Viana, Sao Paolo, will discuss their research Subject: ‘Finding the right balance’ at 5.30pm on 19 February in the Haldane Room, Wolfson. University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5045 • 15 January 2014 223

Lecture Aquinas Seminars Other Groups Professor Tom Couser, Hofstra, will lecture The following seminars will be given at 5.30pm on 4 March in the Leonard at 4.30pm on Thursdays in the Aula, Friends of the Bodleian Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson. Followed by Blackfriars Hall. Convener: Dr William a drinks reception; all welcome. Carroll Lunchtime Lecture Series Subject: ‘The work of memoir; or, why Gilles Emery, OP, Fribourg The following lectures will be given at 1pm memoir matters’ 30 Jan: ‘The relation of creation’ in Convocation House, Bodleian Library. Lecture Lydia Schumacher Dr Vivienne Larminie Professor Paul Strohm, Columbia, will 6 Feb: ‘Theological philosophy: a 2 Feb: ‘Royalist Oxford: a city at war lecture at 5.30pm on 6 March in the Thomistic departure from inquiry into 1642–46’ Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson. the rationality of Christian faith’ Dr Frank King, Cambridge Subject: ‘Was there life-writing in the Emmanuel Durand, OP, Institute 11 Mar: ‘Sundials: a brief history of time- middle ages?’ Catholique de Paris reckoning’ life-writing lunch seminar series 13 Feb: ‘The Gospel of prayer and theologies of Providence’ Oxford Italian Association James Hamilton will give an informal seminar at 1pm on 11 March in the Haldane Reinhard Hutter, Duke The following events will be at 7.30pm for Room, Wolfson. Free. Advance registration 20 Feb: ‘What conscience is and why 8pm in the Mary Ogilvie Theatre, St Anne’s, required: www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/clusters/ it matters: perspectives from Thomas unless otherwise noted. Open to the public; life-writing/events/lwlunch. Aquinas and John Henry Newman’ admission charged (students under 30 free). Conference Afifi al-Akiti Lectures 27 Feb: ‘The metaphysics of created There will be a two-day interdisciplinary human freedom in al-Ghazali and Dr Julia Lenaghan conference 20–22 March at Wolfson, in Aquinas’ 4 Feb: ‘Plaster casts of Roman association with the Oxford Centre for architecture at the Royal Academy, the Life-Writing. Convener: Professor Ritchie Andrea Robiglio, Leuven John Sanders Collection’ Robertson. Information: ritchie.robertson@ 6 Mar: ‘Testimony in Aquinas: mod-langs.ox.ac.uk. articulation and implications of a Professor Jim Bennett Subject: ‘Isaiah Berlin’s enlightenment’ philosophical problem’ 19 Feb: ‘Who or what was “The Starry Messenger”?’ oxford dance Symposium St Benet’s Hall/Campion Hall/ David Whittaker The 16th Oxford Dance Symposium will be Blackfriars Hall 6 Mar, Pauling Centre, 58 Banbury Road: held 15–16 April at Wolfson, in association ‘Coryate in Venice’ with the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing. Newman Lecture Information and to register: www.wolfson. Recital Professor Reinhard Cardinal Marx, ox.ac.uk/clusters/life-writing/events/dance Archbishop of Munich and Freising and Mario Merola will give a piano recital on or [email protected]. Conveners: President of COMECE, will deliver the 2014 21 January. Professor Michael Burden and Jennifer Newman Lecture at 5pm on 11 February in Thorp Film screening the Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne’s. Subject: ‘The dancer in celebrity culture Followed by Q&A session and reception. Romanzo di una strage will be shown at 8pm in the long 18th century: reputations, Chair: the Rt Hon Lord Patten of Barnes. All on 31 January in the Tawney Room, Rewley images, portraits’ welcome; advance booking required via: House. [email protected]. Blackfriars Hall Subject: ‘A certain idea of Europe’ Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum Aquinas Lecture St Stephen’s House Lectures Gilles Emery, OP, Fribourg, will deliver the The following lectures will be given at 6pm Aquinas Lecture at 5pm on 29 January in Guest Lecture for 6.30pm on Wednesdays at the Pitt Rivers the Aula, Blackfriars Hall. Dr Ayla Lepine, Nottingham, will deliver New Extension, Robinson Close. Visitors Subject: ‘The presence of the Trinity a lecture at 4.30pm on 30 January in the welcome; entry £2. Website: www. prm. within us: knowing and loving God’ Couratin Room, St Stephen’s House. ox.ac.uk. Subject: ‘The persistence of medievalism: Hugh Rayner modern gothic and high Anglican visual 19 Feb: ‘Early photography in India and culture’ the Himalayas’ Kim Beamish 16 Apr: ‘The tentmakers of Chareh El Khiamiah’ Kenneth Kirkwood Lecture Day Four speakers, to be confirmed, will lecture 10am–4.30pm on 8 March. Subject: ‘Body modification’ 224 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5045 • 15 January 2014