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WEDNESDay 15 jaNuary 2014 • SuPPLEMENT (2) TO NO 5045 • VOL 144 Gazette Supplement Lectures and Seminars, Hilary term 2014 Academic Administration Physiology, anatomy and Genetics Hindu Studies Division 198 Population Health Islamic Studies Psychiatry reuters Institute for the Study of Careers Service Surgical Sciences Journalism Latin american Centre Humanities 198 Social Sciences 207 Law, justice and Society/Socio-legal Studies TOrCH anthropology and Museum Ethnography Learning Institute Rothermere American Institute/English archaeology Maison Française Classics Saïd Business School Oxford Martin School English Language and Literature Education Population ageing English/History/History of art/Theology/ Smith School of Enterprise and the Music refugee Studies Centre Environment History Geography and the Environment History of art Colleges, Halls and Societies 219 Intellectual Property research Centre Medieval and Modern Languages Interdisciplinary area Studies/Politics All Souls Medieval and Modern Languages/ and International relations Balliol English/History International Development Brasenose Music Internet Institute Green Templeton Oriental Studies Law Keble Theology and religion Politics and International relations Kellogg Social Policy and Intervention Nuffield Mathematical, Physical and Socio-legal Studies St antony’s Life Sciences 203 Sociology St Catherine’s Hume-rothery Memorial Lecture St Hilda’s Chemistry Department for Continuing St john’s Computer Science Education 212 Somerville Earth Sciences Wolfson Kellogg College Centre for Creative Engineering Science Writing Blackfriars Hall Materials rewley House St Benet’s Hall/Campion Hall/Blackfriars Mathematical Institute Hall Physics Institutes, Centres and St Stephen’s House Plant Sciences Museums 212 Zoology Other Groups 223 ashmolean Museum Friends of the Bodleian Medical Sciences 205 Bodleian Libraries Italian Association Botanic Garden Friends of the Pitt rivers Museum Cancer Epidemiology unit Buddhist Studies Pathology COMPaS Pharmacology, anatomical Ethics, Law and armed Conflict/Wolfson Neuropharmacology and Drug Hebrew and jewish Studies Discovery 197 198 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5045 • 15 january 2014 Academic Administration Humanities Faculty of Classics 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,
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