WEDNESday 22 april 2015 • SUPPLEMENT (2) TO No 5092 • Vol 145 Gazette Supplement

Lectures and Seminars, Trinity term 2015

Romanes Lecture 462 Experimental Psychology Buddhist Studies Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and COMPAS Musculoskeletal Sciences Hebrew and Jewish Studies University Administration Pathology Hindu Studies and Services 462 Pharmacology Museum of the History of Science Disability Lecture Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics Islamic Studies Population Health Reuters Institute for the Study of Humanities 462 Psychiatry Journalism Foundation for Law, Justice and Society TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in Social Sciences 470 the Humanities Learning Institute Maison Française Rothermere American Institute Interdisciplinary Research Methods Oxford Martin School Classics Sanjaya Lall Memorial Trust Population Ageing English Language and Literature Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Ian Ramsey Centre History Saïd Business School Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics Economics Colleges, Halls and Societies 482 Medieval and Modern Languages Education Music Interdisciplinary Area Studies All Souls Oriental Studies International Development (Queen Balliol Philosophy Elizabeth House) Green Templeton Theology and Religion Oxford Internet Institute Keble Law Lady Margaret Hall Mathematical, Physical and Politics and International Relations Linacre Life Sciences 466 Social Policy and Intervention Lincoln Socio-legal Studies Chemistry Magdalen Sociology Computer Science Mansfield Nuffield Earth Sciences Department for Continuing Queen’s Engineering Science Education 476 e-Research Centre St Antony’s Materials Kellogg College Centre for Creative St Cross Writing Mathematical Institute Wolfson Rewley House Research Seminar Series Physics Blackfriars Hall Plant Sciences Regent’s Park Institutes, Centres and Zoology St Stephen’s House Museums 476 Other Groups 487 Medical Sciences 468 Ashmolean Museum

Biochemistry Bodleian Libraries Friends of the Bodleian Clinical Neurosciences Botanic Garden Oxford Italian Association Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum

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Romanes Lecture TORCH, Museum of the History of Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic Science and Museum of Natural History History debate Mervyn King, former Governor of the Andrew O'Shaughnessy, Virginia, will Bank of England, will deliver the 2015 David Wootton, York, and Michael Hunter, lecture at 4pm on 26 May. Romanes Lecture at 5.45pm on 12 May at Birkbeck and Robert Boyle’s biographer, Subject: ‘The British Empire and the the Sheldonian Theatre. Free to attend, but will review the controversial dispute outbreak of the American Revolution’ booking essential. More information: www. between Thomas Hobbes and Robert Boyle American Literature research seminar ox.ac.uk/romanes. at 5.30pm on 1 May in the Lecture Theatre, Subject: ‘A disequilibrium in the world Museum of Natural History. Chair: Professor The following seminars will be held at economy’ Ritchie Robertson 5pm on Thursdays. Further details: www. Subject: ‘Leviathan and the Air Pump: rai.ox.ac.uk. Conveners: Dr Lloyd Pratt, Dr University Administration 30 years on’ Rachel Malkin, Jurrit Daalder, Michael Walsh and Services Book at Lunchtime series Kasia Boddy, Cambridge 30 Apr: ' “You believe the census, Nick?”: The following book discussions will take the Great American Novel and the Disability Lecture place at 1pm on Wednesdays in the Seminar “fiction of the census” ' Room, Radcliffe Humanities Building. Hilary Lister, first disabled woman to Lunch available from 12.45pm. Convener: Martin Jay, Berkeley sail solo around Britain, will deliver the Professor S Tuck 14 May: ‘Washington's cherry tree: the University’s first DisabilityL ecture at 6pm American allergy to political hypocrisy’ on 5 May in the MBI Al Jaber Building, Author: Dr Jamie Lorimer. Commentators: Corpus Christi. To register: https:// Professor William Beinart, Professor Jurrit Daalder eventbrite.co.uk/event/16038134492. Nikolaj Lübecker and Professor Daniel 28 May: ' “A place to fear and love”: David Grimley Foster Wallace's views on the American 29 Apr: ‘Wildlife in the Anthropocene: interior’ Humanities conservation after nature’ Nicholas Gaskill, Rutgers Author: Professor Jim Reed. 11 Jun: ‘On feeling colourful and coloured TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in Commentators: Dr Kevin Hilliard, in the Harlem Renaissance’ the Humanities Professor Joachim Whaley, Cambridge, and Professor Ritchie Robertson Faculty of Classics Unconscious Memory seminars 6 May: ‘Light in Germany: scenes from an The following seminars will be given on unknown enlightenment’ The following events will take place in the Mondays in the Radcliffe Humanities Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Author: Professor Anna Marmodoro. Building. Papers will be presented Studies, 66 St Giles’. Commentators: Professor Rowland Stout, consecutively followed by drinks and Dublin, Professor Richard Sorabji and Dr Sybille Haynes Lecture discussion. Convener: Sowon S Park Ophelia Deroy, School of Advanced Study Professor Jean Turfa, University of 4.30pm, 27 Apr: Neuroscience and 13 May: ‘Aristotle on perceiving objects’ Pennsylvania Museum, will deliver the psychoanalysis. Chair: Laura Marcus Author: Dr Kirsten Shepherd-Barr. Haynes Lecture at 5pm on 6 May. Professor Mark Solms, Cape Town: ‘A Commentators: Mr Michael Billington, Subject: ‘Pirates of Populonia? The myth neuropsychoanalytical perspective on the Guardian, Professor Laura Marcus and of Etruscan piracy in the Mediterranean’ consciousness and the unconscious’ Professor Morten Kringlebach Don Fowler Memorial Lecture 20 May: ‘Theatre and evolution from Professor Richard Brown, Dalhousie: Ibsen to Beckett’ Professor Catharine Edwards, Birkbeck, ‘Multiple memory systems in the brain: will deliver the Don Fowler Memorial integrating conscious and unconscious Rothermere American Institute Lecture at 5pm on 14 May. memory pathways’ Subject: ‘The philosopher as epic hero: noon, 11 May: Proustian memory. Chair: The following events will be held at at the Augustan poetry in Seneca’s letters’ Sowon S Park Rothermere American Institute. David Lewis Lecture Professor Gordon Shepherd, Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in Professor Carmine Ampolo, Scuola Yale: ‘Reassessing mechanisms of American Arts and Letters Normale, Pisa, will deliver the David Lewis autobiographical memory’ Jennifer Egan, novelist, will lecture at 5pm Lecture at 5pm on 27 May. Kirsten Shepherd-Barr: ‘Madeleines and on 5 May. Subject: ‘The Achaians in the West and neuromodernism’ Subject: ‘Experimental fiction: Zeus in the agora (VI–V centuries BC). confessions of a reluctant practitioner’ An epigraphical approach with new documents’ Ambassador John J Louis Lecture in Anglo-American Relations Lord Patten of Barnes will lecture at 5pm on 21 May. University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5092 • 22 April 2015 463

Gaisford Lecture The Poet’s Essay 20th- and 21st-century literature graduate seminar Professor Edith Hall, KCL, will deliver the Adam Phillips, internationally renowned Gaisford Lecture at 5pm on 4 June. psychotherapist and essayist, will give a The following seminars will be given at Subject: ‘Pearls before swine? The past seminar as part of the Poet’s Essay seminar 5.30pm on Wednesdays in the New Seminar and future of Greek’ series at 4.30pm on 3 June in the Pusey Room, St John’s. Conveners: Dr Hayes, Dr Room, Keble. McLoughlin APGRD free public lectures Science, medicine and culture in the Ann-Marie Einhaus, Northumbria The following free public lectures will be 19th century 20 May: ‘Experience, memory and First given at 2.15pm on Mondays. World War short fiction’ The following seminars will be given at Helen McCrory in conversation with 5.30pm on Wednesdays in Seminar Room 3, Terry Gifford, Bath Spa/Alicante Professor Edith Hall, KCL St Anne’s. All welcome; no booking required. 3 Jun: ‘How did the English countryside 11 May: ‘On Medea at the National Theatre Enquiries: [email protected]. turn into the environment? Nature (2014)’ Convener: Professor S Shuttleworth writing 1960–80’ Dr Maarten De Pourcq, Radboud Lee Macdonald, Leeds Kate McLoughlin 18 May: ‘Tragedy in the trenches: 13 May: ‘ “The magnificent services which 17 Jun: ‘Veteran detectives: experience Classics, the First World War and the rise it has rendered to science”: astronomy and problem-solving in fiction by Sir of Flemish culture’ and meteorology at Kew Observatory’ Arthur Conan-Doyle, Dorothy L Sayers APGRD and DANSOX lecture/ and J K Rowling’ Matthew Paskins, Leeds and Open demonstration 27 May: ‘ “For the sake of a dibbling stick”: American literature research seminar Cathy Marston, choreographer, will lead a the Society for the Encouragement of These seminars will be given at 5pm on lecture/demonstration with professional Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, and Thursdays in the Rothermere American dancers at 5pm on 5 June. inventive communities 1800–30’ Institute. Conveners: Dr Pratt, Dr Malkin, Subject: ‘Choreographing the Katabasis’ Professor Rachel Bowlby, Princeton Jurrit Daalder, Michael Walsh 10 Jun: ‘Commuters: from the 19th Faculty of English Language and Early modern literature seminar century to now’ Literature The following seminars will be given at Gender, literature and culture seminar 5.15pm on Tuesdays in the History of the Weidenfeld Visiting Professor in The following seminars will be given at Book Room, St Cross Building. Conveners: Comparative European Literature 2pm in the C Day-Lewis Room, Wadham. Professor Lewis, Professor Stern Lectures All welcome. Conveners: Professor Ros Seth Lerer, California at San Diego Javier Cercas will lecture at 5.30pm in the Ballaster, Dr Pelagia Goulimari, Dr Claudia 28 Apr: ‘An elegy for Ariel: music, myth Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne’s. Pazos-Alonso and ravishment in John Dowland and Free and open to all; no booking required. Dr Sylvie Gambaudo, Durham The Tempest’ Seats allocated on a first-come, first-served 1 May: ‘Julia Kristeva’s (controversial) basis. More information: www.torch.ox.ac. Ceri Sullivan, Cardiff contribution to identity politics: the case uk/humanitas. 12 May: ‘Private prayer in Shakespeare’s of “woman’s primary homosexuality” ’ 12 May: ‘The third truth (Part 1)’ followed histories’ by a drinks reception Professor Françoise Barret-Ducrocq, Paris- Katherine Hunt Diderot Sorbonne, Sylvina Boissonnas and 14 May: ‘The third truth (Part 2)’ 26 May: ‘Deep intricacy: numbers, bells Michèle Idels, Éditions des femmes and writing in 17th-century England’ 19 May: ‘Vargas Llosa’s question’ 7 May: ‘ “There are two sexes”: on the thought and commitments of Antoinette Molly Murray, Columbia 21 May: ‘The blind spot’ Fouque’ 9 Jun: ‘From the closed cell to the infinite 26 May: ‘The man who says no’ universe: prison projects and the Ralegh Professor Jean Wyatt, Occidental College, Circle’ 4 Jun: Javier Cercas, Professor Timothy California Garton Ash and Professor Patrick 14 May: ‘On Toni Morrison and love’ Literature and medicine seminar McGuinness: ‘European literature, English Graduate Conference lecture The following seminars will be given at 6pm politics and historical memory’ followed on Thursdays in the E P Abraham Lecture by a drinks reception. Chair: Tim Gardam Professor Mark McGurl will lecture at the Theatre, Green Templeton. Conveners: English Graduate Conference at 5pm on Professor of Poetry Lecture Professor Maguire, Professor Friend 5 June in Lecture Theatre 2, St Cross Professor Sir Geoffrey Hill will deliver the Building. Edward Petherbridge Professor of Poetry Lecture at 5.30pm on Subject: ‘Scaling the novel, scaling the 30 Apr: ‘My perfect mind’ 5 May in the Examination Schools. human’ Dr Ben Parsons, Leicester O’Donnell Lecture 28 May: ‘Drinking well, thinking well and being well: medicine and pedagogy in the Professor Paul Russell will deliver the late middle ages’ O’Donnell Lecture at 5pm on 15 May in Lecture Theatre 2, St Cross Building. Subject: ‘Between Ogam and Runes: the so-called Alphabet of Nemnivus’ 464 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5092 • 22 April 2015

Literature and science seminar Postcolonial writing and theory Dr Emily Mayhew, Imperial, and Major seminar Daffyd Edwards, Centre for Blast Injury The following seminars will be given at 2pm Studies, Imperial on Fridays in Seminar Room A, St Cross The following seminars will be given at 11 May: ‘From the Western Front to Building. Convener: Dr Whitworth 5.15pm on Thursdays in the Okinaga Room, Field Hospital Camp Bastion: how the Wadham. Conveners: Professor Boehmer, Dr Dr Christopher Pittard, Portsmouth foundations of military medicine in the Mukherjee 1 May: tbc 21st century were laid in the Great War’ Jonny Steinberg Dr Natalia Cecire, Sussex Dr Roderick Bailey 30 Apr: The author of Three Letter Plague, 8 May: ‘Faces in the crowd: Flash’s 18 May: ‘Permanent make-up: body Thin Blue and other books on the South figuration’ modification and wartime disguise, African transition gives his last reading in 1939–45’ Dr Ralph O’Connor, Aberdeen Oxford before returning to South Africa 15 May: tbc Professor Ulf Schmidt, Kent Justine McConnell 1 Jun: ‘Secret science: a century of poison Dr John Holmes, Reading 21 May: ‘Telling tales: mythography and warfare and human experiments’ 22 May: ‘Science in modernist epic oral poetics in ancient Greece and the poetry’ contemporary Caribbean’ Ms Hazel Croft, Birkbeck 8 Jun: ‘ “It would frighten you to see the 29 May: tbc Asha Rogers people sent to this place”: why did the 18 Jun: ‘What’s postcolonialism got to do Medieval English research seminar emotional and nervous states of women with this?’ factory workers provoke such concern in The following seminars will be given at Romantic research seminar Britain in the Second World War?’ 5.15pm on Wednesdays in the History of the Book Room, St Cross Building. Conveners: These seminars will be given at 5.30pm on Dr Sam Alberti, Royal College of Surgeons Professor Orchard, Dr Turner Mondays of weeks 1, 3, 5 and 7 at Lincoln. 15 Jun: ‘Drawing bodies: British medical Conveners: Professor Stafford,P rofessor art in the early 20th century’ Richard Dance, Cambridge Halmi 29 Apr: ‘Sir Gawain and the Vikings: Oxford Centre for Global History Special adventures in etymology’ Victorian seminar Lecture Laura Saetveit Miles, Bergen These seminars will be given at 5.15pm Professor John MacKenzie, Emeritus, 6 May: ‘Christine de Pizan and Julian of on Mondays of weeks 2, 4, 6 and 8 in the Lancaster, will lecture at 5pm on 6 May Norwich in conversation’ History of the Book Room, St Cross Building. in the Examination Schools. Enquiries: Conveners: Professor Shuttleworth, Dr [email protected]. Hannah Bailey Evangelista, Dr Abberley, Dr Barnes Subject: ‘British culture goes global: 13 May: ‘Bright beacons in Beowulf and the cultural dimensions of imperial Genesis’ Faculty of History globalisation’ Rita Copeland, Pennsylvania Oxford Centre for Global History and 20 May: ‘Why does emotion reside in Modern European History Research the Wellcome Unit for the History of style? An etiology’ Centre Annual Special Lecture Medicine Daniel Thomas Professor Ute Planert, Bergische Workshop 27 May: ‘Landes to fela: geography, Universität Wuppertal, will deliver the topography and place in The Battle of MEHRC Annual Special Lecture at 5pm on A workshop will be held 9am–5.30pm on Maldon’ 5 May in the Lecture Theatre, History 22 May in the Large Lecture Room, Nuffield. Faculty Building. Preceded by a drinks Speakers include Professor Nils Christian Anke Bernau, Manchester reception at 4.30pm in the Common Room. Stenseth, Oslo, Dr Boris Schmid, Oslo, 3 Jun: ‘Being curious in late medieval Subject: ‘The limits of German Professor James Belich, Dr Rohan Deb England’ nationalism in the age of Napoleon and Roy, Max Planck, Dr Christos Lynteris, Interdisciplinary seminar beyond’ Cambridge, Professor Mark Harrison, Dr Mark Honigsbaum, QMUL, Professor Seth Lerer, California at San Diego, will History of medicine research seminar Alison Bashford, Cambridge. Free but give a seminar at 5pm on 8 June in the Hall, series registration essential: [email protected]. Taylor Institution. The following seminars will be held at uk. Conveners: Professor James Belich, Subject: ‘What was late-medieval English 2.15pm on Mondays in the Seminar Room, Professor John Darwin, Professor Mark poetry?’ 47 Banbury Road. Convener: Dr Roderick Harrison Bailey Subject: ‘Disease and global history’ Mr Ben Shephard, Bristol 27 Apr: ‘Culture, politics or biology? How does American PTSD relate to European war trauma?’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5092 • 22 April 2015 465

Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Claire Holden Khalili Research Centre Special seminar Phonetics 26 May: tbc The Dark Ages’ Dirty Secret? Pieter van den Toorn, California at Santa Medieval slavery from the British General Linguistics seminars Barbara Isles to the Eurasian steppes and The following seminars will be given at 2 Jun: ‘The Rite of Spring briefly revisited: the Mediterranean world 5.15pm on Tuesdays in the Lecture Theatre, thoughts on Stravinsky’s stratifications, The following seminars will be given at 5pm Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and the psychology of meter and African on Tuesdays in the Khalili Research Centre, Phonetics, Clarendon Institute Building, polyrhythm’ 3 St John Street. Convener: Dr Jonathan unless otherwise noted. Please note this Scott Burnham, Princeton Shepard change of venue from previous seminars. 9 Jun: ‘Beethoven, Schubert and “the Conveners: Professor A Lahiri, Dr A Asudeh, Professor Jeremy Johns movement of phenomena” ‘ Dr S Paoli 28 Apr: ‘Eunuchs and slaves in the court Chris Wiley, Surrey of Norman Sicily’ Professor Judith Tonhauser, Ohio State/ 16 Jun: ‘National trends in musical ZAS, Berlin Janel Fontaine, KCL biography’ 28 Apr: ‘ “She wasn’t stupid to buy 5 May: ‘The archaeology of slavery: that computer.” On the semantics and Ethnomusicology seminars comparing methods in the British Isles pragmatics of evaluative adjectives’ and Slavic East Central Europe’ The following seminars will be given at 5pm Dr Lior Laks, Bar-llan at Ertegun House, 37A St Giles’, followed Dr David Wyatt, Cardiff 5 May: ‘The formation of morphological by a drinks reception. Convener: Professor 12 May: ‘An enslaved Irish princess in doublets in Hebrew’ Jason Stanyek Norway – sagas, historiography and the traffic in women in the northern world Professor Bas Aarts, UCL Karin Bijesterveld, Maastricht c950–1200’ 12 May: ‘For–to constructions in English’ 7 May: ‘Sound and safe: a history of listening behind the wheel’ Dr James Howard-Johnston Dr Stephen Parkinson 19 May: ‘Trading in fur in the early middle 19 May, Flora Anderson Hall, Somerville: Gascia Ouzounian, Queen’s Belfast ages’ ‘Portuguese into Bengali: loanwords and 28 May: ‘Hearing with two ears at once’ lexicography’ Professor Günter Prinzing, Johannes Faculty of Oriental Studies Gutenberg Faculty of Medieval and Modern 26 May: ‘Slavery in Byzantium: the legal Languages Seminar on Jewish history and framework, with some observations on literature in the Graeco-Roman period life as lived by slaves c641–1204’ Zaharoff Lecture The following seminars will be held at Dr Ahmad Khan Professor Dominique Rabaté, Paris VII, 2.30pm on Tuesdays at the Centre for 2 Jun: ‘Slavery in early Islamic law: a brief will deliver the Zaharoff Lecture at 5pm on Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Clarendon survey’ 13 May in the Main Hall, Taylor Institution, Institute, Walton Street. Convener: Professor Dr Marie Favereau and Dr Irina Shingiray followed by a drinks reception. Tessa Rajak 9 Jun: ‘The captive, the currency and Subject: ‘Figures de la disparition dans le Maureen Attali, Paris IV the gift in the Khazar and Golden Horde roman français contemporain’ 28 Apr: ‘Jewish feasts in Egypt during empires’ the Hellenistic era: a case study of inter- Faculty of Music Dr Andrew Roach, Glasgow religious meal-sharing’ 16 Jun: ‘The dynamics of the drug trade: a Research colloquia David Friedman template for medieval slavery?’ 5 May: ‘Liberty in Josephus’ The following seminars will be given at Faculty of Philosophy 5.15pm in the Denis Arnold Hall, Faculty of Dr Laliv Clenman, Leo Baeck College Music. 12 May: ‘Virginity claims in Massekhet John Locke Lectures Ketubot’ Errollyn Wallen Accommodating injustice 28 Apr: tbc Esther Schneidenbach, Ludwig- Maximilians Rae Langton, Cambridge, will deliver Anna Morcom, RHUL 19 May: ‘Revisiting the Jewish epitaphs the 2015 John Locke Lectures at 5pm on 5 May: ‘Illicit worlds of Indian dance’ from the city of Rome’ Wednesdays in weeks 1 to 6 at the Grove Robert Sholl, West London Auditorium, Magdalen. 12 May: ‘The ageing of 9/11: Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 and Arvo Pärt’s Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten as soundtrack of an age’ Lawrence Kramer, Fordham 19 May: ‘From clockwork to pulsation: music and virtual life’ 466 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5092 • 22 April 2015

Faculty of Theology and Religion McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics Mathematical, Physical and Public Life Bampton Lectures and Life Sciences Conference Daring spirit: John’s gospel now A conference will take place on 21 and Department of Chemistry Professor David F Ford, Cambridge, will 22 May at Christ Church. Speakers include: deliver the Bampton Lectures at 5pm on the Nigel Biggar; Lord Brown, former Justice of Organic Chemistry departmental following days in the University Church of the Supreme Court; Pierre Hazan, Geneva; research seminars St Mary the Virgin. Nicholas Mercer, Liberty Human Rights The following seminars will be given at 2pm 27 Apr: ‘Love life – God, community, Lawyer of the Year 2011–12; John Milbank, in the Halford Mackinder Lecture Theatre, practices’ Nottingham; Onora O'Neill, Chair, Equality School of Geography and the Environment. and Human Rights Commission; Esther 29 Apr: ‘The Jews and other others’ Conveners: Professor H Anderson, Professor Reed, Exeter; Julian Rivers, Bristol; David M Moloney 5 May: ‘Uplift – footwashing, crucifixion Tombs, Otago; Tom Tugendhat, former and resurrection’ Principal Adviser to the Chief of the Defence Professor Guy Lloyd-Jones, Edinburgh Staff; andPaul Yowell. Fee, including 5 May: ‘Reagent provocateur’ 6 May: ‘Doing greater things – the drama lunch: £60 (£30 students). To register: of Jesus now’ 7 May: ‘What goes around, comes around’ www.mcdonaldcentre.org.uk. Convener: Ptarmigan Lecture in Patristics Professor Nigel Biggar Professor Wilfred van der Donk, Illinois Subject: ‘What’s wrong with rights?’ 29 May: ‘Biosynthesis of cyclic peptide Andrew Louth, Professor Emeritus of antibiotics’ Patristic and Byzantine Studies, Durham, will deliver the Ptarmigan Lecture Soft Matter, Biomaterials and Interfaces in Patristics at 5pm on 15 May in the seminars Examination Schools. The following seminars will be held at 3pm Subject: ‘Pseudonymity and secret on Tuesdays in the John Rowlinson Seminar tradition in early Christianity: some Room, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry reflections on the development of Laboratory. All welcome. Conveners: Dr Mariology’ R P A Dullens, Professor J Yeomans Astor Visting Lectures Professor Frencesc Sagues, Barcelona Professor Amy Hollywood, Harvard, will 5 May: ‘Liquid crystals for conditioning deliver the 2015 Astor Visting Lectures. actuated or active soft matter’ Organiser: [email protected]. Professor Andreas Zoettl, Berlin uk. More information: www.torch.ox.ac.uk/ 19 May: ‘Micro-swimmers in memm. confinement and in flow’ 3pm, 1 Jun, Sheldonian Theatre: ‘Reading Derrida reading’. Convener: Sondra Professor Munstansir Barma, Mumbai Hausner; respondents: Fernanda 2 Jun: ‘Aggregation-dominated transport: Bernardo Coimbra and Graham Ward. phase transitions and intermittency’ Followed by a performance of John Dr Phil Jones, UCL Schad and Fred Dalmasso’s Last train to 16 Jun: ‘Optical pendula, optical chains Oxford and optical stretching’ 5.15pm, 2 Jun, Radcliffe Humanities: ‘The real, the true and critique: mysticism in Department of Computer Science the study of religion’. Convener: Pamela Sue Anderson; respondents: Vincent Oxford Strachey Lectures in Computer Gillespie, Joana Serrado Science 5.15 pm, 3 Jun, Lady Margaret Hall: Professor Peter O’Hearn, UCL and ‘Henry Adams, Henry James and Minnie Engineering Manager, Facebook, will deliver Temple: the pursuit of the real at the turn the Strachey Lecture at 2pm on 19 May in of the 20th century’. Conveners: Maria Lecture Theatre B, e-Science Building. Jashok, Sophie Ratcliffe Subject: ‘Denotational semantics to Facebook engineering’ 5.15 pm, 4 Jun, Radcliffe Humanities: ‘The unspeakability of trauma, the unspeakability of joy: the pursuit of the real at the turn of the 21st century’. Conveners: Johannes Depnering, Louise Nelstrop; respondent: Kate Kirkpatrick 3pm, 5 Jun, Radcliffe Humanities: ‘25 years of The Soul as Virgin Wife: Eckhart and the Beguines’. Conveners: Ben Morgan, Johannes Depnering University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5092 • 22 April 2015 467

Department of Earth Sciences Professor Marco Sebastiani, Studi Roma Professor Stephen R Elliot, Cambridge Tre 7 May: tbc Departmental seminars 11 May: ‘Measurement of fracture Professor Peter Bruce toughness by nanoindentation methods: The following seminars will be given at 14 May: tbc recent advances and future challenges’ noon on Fridays in the Lecture Theatre, Professor Dr Eduard Artz, Saarland and Department of Earth Sciences. Convener: Professor Stefan Hiermaier, Fraunhofer INM-Leibniz Institute for New Materials Dr R Katz Institut für Kurzzeitdynamik 21 May: tbc 18 May: ‘Material dynamics – ongoing Professor Paul Tackley, ETH Zurich research on strain rate dependencies and 1 May: ‘The dynamics and evolution of Mathematical Institute shock wave effects’ terrestrial planets in our solar system and beyond’ Dr Alexei Maznev, MIT Mathematical Biology and Ecology 28 May: ‘Non-diffusive thermal Seminars Professor Daniel Schrag, Harvard transport and THz ultrasonics at room 8 May: ‘History of the global carbon cycle The following seminars will be given at 2pm temperature: in search for the phonon and the rise of atmospheric oxygen’ on Fridays in Lecture Room 2, Mathematical mean free path’ Institute. Convener: Sara Jolliffe (cmb@ Professor Jean-Philippe Avouac, Dr Jia Min Chin, Hull maths.ox.ac.uk) Cambridge 1 Jun: ‘Mixing work and play – metal- 15 May: ‘Creep or stick? What can geodesy Dr Paul Kirk, Cambridge organic framework functionalised tell us about fault dynamics and future 1 May: ‘Biological modelling: how to cope materials and beyond’ earthquakes?’ with always being wrong’ Dr Gianfelice Cinque, Diamond Light Professor Donna Whitney, Minnesota Professor Stefan Engblom, Uppsala Source, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory 22 May: ‘Crustal flow and exhumation of 15 May: ‘Towards consistent and effective 8 Jun: ‘Multimode infrared imaging and the deep crust’ modelling in the stochastic reaction- microspectroscopy at the Diamond diffusion framework’ Dr Laura Robinson, Bristol Synchrotron’ 29 May: ‘Ocean controls on abrupt Dr Alexandre Kabla, Cambridge Professor Yiannis Ventikos, UCL climate change during the last 29 May: ‘Dynamics of large cell 15 Jun: ‘Multiscale modelling of transport deglaciation: evidence from deep-sea populations’ phenomena in the brain: from ventricles corals’ to aquaporins’ Dr Jun Jie Wu, Durham Professor Tim Stern, Victoria, New Zealand 12 Jun: tbc 5 Jun: ‘A seismic image for the base of an e-Research Centre oceanic plate from high-resolution, shot- Department of Physics generated, seismic reflection waves’ The following lectures will take place at 3pm in Room 277 2, e-Research Centre, 7 Keble Hintze Lecture Series Professor Francis Nimmo, California at Road. Santa Cruz Professor Hitoshi Murayama, Tokyo, will 12 Jun: ‘Looking inside moons using Dr Neil Ashton deliver the 10th Hintze Lecture at 5.30pm gravity and topography’ 1 May: ‘Towards an entirely virtual on 5 May in the Martin Wood Lecture engineering design process: the Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory. Professor Peter Burgess, RHUL challenge for turbulence modelling’ Subject: ‘The quantum universe’ 19 Jun: ‘What did numerical stratigraphic modelling ever do for us?’ Saad Jbabdi Colloquia and special lectures 15 May: ‘Mapping human brain The following lectures will be given at Department of Engineering Science connections with MRI’ 4.15pm on Fridays in the Martin Wood Professor Neil Bourne Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory, Maurice Lubbock Memorial Lecture 29 May: ‘EXTINCTION: impact physics unless otherwise noted. Tea will be Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte, Sydney, and life on Earth’ served in the Common Room at 3.45pm. will deliver the 41st Maurice Lubbock Conveners: J March-Russell, S Balbus, A Markus Luczak-Rösch Memorial Lecture at 4.45pm on 14 May Boothroyd, T Palmer 12 Jun: ‘From coincidence to purposeful in Lecture Room 1, Mathematical Institute. flow?P roperties of transcendental 11th Dennis Sciama Memorial Lecture Free. Registration required: https:// information cascades’ Professor Philip Candelas lubbock2015.eventbrite.co.uk. 5pm, Weds 29 Apr: ‘Simple Calabi–Yau Subject: ‘Rise of the machines’ Department of Materials manifolds and the landscape of string SMMEG Group vacua’ Weekly colloquia The following seminars will be given at 2pm Professor José Latorre, Director, Benasque in the IEB, Department of Engineering. The following colloquia will be given at 4pm Centre for Science, Spain on Thursdays in the Hume Rothery Lecture 8 May: presentation of documentary Professor Moritz Riede Theatre, preceded by tea at 3.30pm. That’s the Story in which Professor Roy 27 Apr: ‘Flexible solar power ‘ J Glauber remembers the making of the Dr Steve Fitzgerald Professor Philip Withers, Manchester atomic bomb 30 Apr: ‘Modelling radiation damage at 5 May: ‘Correlative tomography – the mesoscale’ spanning length and timescales ‘ 468 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5092 • 22 April 2015

Cherwell–Simon Memorial Lecture Department of Plant Sciences Medical Sciences Professor Charles Kane, Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor, Pennsylvania Departmental research seminars Department of Biochemistry 4.30pm, 15 May: ‘Topological boundary The following seminars will be held at 1pm modes from quantum electronics to on Thursdays in the Large Lecture Theatre, Rodney Porter Memorial Lecture classical mechanics’ Department of Plant Sciences. Convener: Professor Dame Carol Robinson will Professor Jo Dunkley Dr I Moore deliver the 17th Rodney Porter Memorial 22 May: ‘Cosmology from the microwave Professor Paul Dupree, Cambridge Lecture at 4pm on 28 May in the background’ 30 Apr: ‘The biosynthesis and molecular Department of Biochemistry. Professor Cary Forest, Wisconsin architecture of plant cell walls Subject: ‘Two decades of structural 29 May: ‘Chasing fast dynamos in the biology in the gas phase’ Professor Georgina Mace, UCL plasma lab’ 7 May: ‘Valuing nature: past, present and Louise Johnson Memorial Lecture Professor Stephen Briggs, European Space future’ Professor John Kuriyan, Berkeley, will Agency, Harwell Dr Tonya Lander deliver the second Louise Johnson 5 Jun: ‘Climate observations from space’ 14 May: ‘Pollination in human-modified Memorial Lecture at 4pm on 19 May in the Halley Lecture landscapes: the pollinator’s perspective’ Department of Biochemistry. Professor Peter Webster, Georgia Institute Subject: ‘Allosteric mechanisms in Dr Neil Dalchau, Cambridge of Technology protein kinase regulation’ 21 May: ‘Engineering orthogonal cell-cell 4.30pm, 19 Jun: ‘Understanding the communication pathways in bacteria’ monsoon’ Nuffield Department of Clinical Dr Richard Smith, Max Planck Institute Neurosciences Particles and fields seminars 4 Jun: ‘MorphoGraphX: a platform for The following seminars will be given at quantifying morphogenesis in 4D’ Departmental Seminars 4.15pm on Thursdays in the Dennis Sciama Dr Olivier Hamant, Cambridge The following seminars will be given at 1pm Lecture Theatre, Department of Physics. 11 Jun: ‘How do plants read their own on Thursdays in Seminar Rooms A/B, Level Conveners: Dr Markus Rummel, Professor shape?’ 6, West Wing, John Radcliffe Hospital. Subir Sarkar Dr Robert Scotland Professor Hugh Perry, Southampton Professor Ben Allanach, DAMTP 18 Jun: ‘Big data, little data: accelerating 30 Apr: ‘Microglia, cytokines and Cambridge the pace of taxonomy’ synapses in chronic neurodegeneration’ 30 Apr: ‘LHC Run II anomalies with leptons and jets... and new physics’ Professor Matthew Wood Department of Zoology 28 May: ‘Oligonucleotide therapies for Professor Liam McAllister, Cornell (tbc) neuromuscular disease’ 7 May: tbc Seminars Professor Zoltan Molnar Dr Simon Badger, Edinburgh The following seminars will be given at 25 Jun: ‘Translational neuroscience of the 14 May: ‘Automating QCD amplitudes for 4pm in Lecture Theatre B, Department of developing cerebral cortex’ the LHC’ Zoology. Organisers: Dr D Biro, Dr A Daley Dr Timo Weigand, Heidelberg Professor David Sumpter, Uppsala Department of Experimental 21 May: ‘Towards the standard model in 27 Apr: ‘Explaining collective animal Psychology F-theory’ behaviour with football and maths’ Departmental seminar series Dr Pat Scott, Imperial Professor Phyllis Lee, Stirling 28 May: ‘Asymmetric dark matter in the 5 May: ‘Life history strategies among Professor Heidi Feldman, Stanford, will sun’ African elephants’ lecture at noon on 30 April in Lecture Theatre C, Tinbergen Building, 9 South Dr Mustafa Amin, Institute of Astronomy, Professor Manjunatha Kini, NU Singapore Parks Road. Abstract: www.psy.ox.ac.uk/ Cambridge 11 May: ‘Venoms and toxins: a source of events. 4 Jun: ‘CMB spectral constraints on the inspiration’ Subject: ‘Variations in the neurobiology of early universe’ Dr Beth Shapiro, California at Santa Cruz reading: children born preterm’ Dr Paul McFadden, Imperial 18 May: ‘The evolutionary consequences 11 Jun: ‘Soft limits in holographic of interspecies hybridisation’ cosmology’ Tinbergen Lecture Professor Biagio Lucini, Swansea Professor Hanna Kokko, Zurich 18 Jun: ‘Non-perturbative determinations 5 Jun: ‘Males exist. Does it matter?’ of the spectrum and anomalous dimensions in near-conformal gauge theories’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5092 • 22 April 2015 469

Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Dr Peter McCormick, East Anglia. Host: 22 May Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Professor Grant Churchill Dr Sarah De Val: ‘Transcriptional Sciences 12 May: ‘Differentiating the highs and pathways controlling blood vessel lows of THC’ development and differentiation’ (host: Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit Professor Paul Riley) Dr Nuno Raimundo, Göttingen. Host: EQUATOR/OCTRU seminar series Professor Fran Platt 12 Jun 19 May: ‘Mitochondria and lysosomes – Professor Oscar Marin, MRC Centre Dr Sophie Staniszewska, RCN Research the social life of organelles’ for Developmental Neurobiology, Institute, Warwick, will lecture at 1pm on KCL: ‘Molecular regulation of cortical 13 May in the Lecture Theatre, Richard Doll 26 May: tbc interneuron diversity and plasticity’ Building. Free, but please reserve a place by Professor Joseph Wu, Stanford. Host: (host: Professor Zoltán Molnár) emailing [email protected]. Professor Ming Lei Subject: ‘Developing the evidence base of 19 Jun 1 Jun: ‘Cardiac iPSCs for disease patient and public involvement in health Professor Anna Gloyn: ‘Unravelling modelling and drug discovery’ research’ causal mechanisms for diabetes Professor Neil McNaughton, Otago. Host: pathogenesis’ (host: Professor Kieran Sir William Dunn School of Pathology Professor Peter Somogyi Clarke) 2 Jun: ‘From rat hippocampal Œtheta to Seminars human prefrontal rhythmicity: the first Nuffield Department of Population anxiety syndrome biomarker?’ Health The following seminars will take place at 2pm on Fridays in the Medical Sciences Professor Nikita Gamper, Leeds. Host: Sir Richard Doll Seminars in Public Teaching Centre, South Parks Road. Professor Paolo Tammaro Health and Epidemiology 9 Jun: ‘Activation of ANO1 channels Dr Adele Marston, Edinburgh by localised Ca2+ signals in sensory The following seminars will be given at 24 Apr: 'Pericentromeres and neurons’ 1pm on Tuesdays in the Lecture Theatre, chromosome segregation in mitosis and Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus. meiosis’ 16 Jun: tbc All welcome. Conveners: Dr D Canoy, Dr W Professor Elly Tanaka, TU Dresden Herrington Department of Physiology, Anatomy 8 May: ‘Conserved and non-conserved and Genetics Dr Roel Vermeulen, Utrecht pathways underlying vertebrate limb 28 Apr: ‘The future of investigative regeneration’ Head of Department seminar series technologies and the exposome in Dr Jan Rehwinkel occupational health’ The following seminars will take place 15 May: ‘Sensing and restricting: innate at 1pm and 1.30pm on Fridays in the Professor Cathie Sudlow, Edinburgh immune control of HIV’ Sherrington Lecture Theatre. 5 May: tbc Dr Elena Levashina, Max-Planck-Institute 1 May Professor Liam Smeeth, LSHTM for Infection Biology Professor Aziz Aboobaker: 12 May: ‘Getting the best out of electronic 29 May: ‘Mosquito complement-like ‘Understanding stem cells and health records’ system in reproduction and immunity’ regeneration using the planarian model Professor Barbara Casadei Professor Arup K Chakraborty, MIT system’ 19 May: ‘Do pleiotropic effects of 5 Jun: ‘How to hit HIV where it hurts’ 8 May statins matter? Lessons from trials of Dr Keith Buckler: ‘Mechanisms perioperative statin therapy in cardiac Department of Pharmacology of oxygen sensing in arterial surgery’ chemoreceptors’ Pharmacology, Anatomical Professor Karl Claxton, York Neuropharmacology and Drug Dr Melissa Bowerman: ‘Spinal muscular 26 May: ‘Which health technologies, at Discovery seminars atrophy: more than just a motoneuron what price and for whom: estimating the pathology’ cost-effectiveness threshold for NICE The following seminars will be held at noon and the NHS’ in the Lecture Theatre, Department of 15 May Pharmacology, MansfieldR oad. Professor Victoria Bajo Lorenzana: Dr Nita Forouhi, Cambridge ‘Practice makes perfect – neural circuits 2 Jun: ‘Diet and type 2 diabetes – where Professor Henggui Zhang, Manchester. for auditory plasticity’ we are now’ Host: Professor Ming Lei 28 Apr: ‘Development of the virtual heart Professor Simon Lovestone: Professor Gary Fraser, Loma Linda for testing the safety of drugs’ ‘Deconvoluting the amyloid cascade 9 Jun: ‘Challenges in nutritional in Alzheimer’s disease: the role of epidemiology and selected results from Dr Florian Gantner, Boeringer Ingelheim. wnt signalling’ (host: Professor Zoltán Adventist Health Study-2’ Host: Professor Paolo Tammaro Molnár) 5 May: ‘Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis Professor Harry Hemingway, UCL – a debilitating lung disease and the 16 Jun: ‘Big data and connected discovery of a treatment option’ challenges in health: examples in cardiovascular diseases’ 470 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5092 • 22 April 2015

Department of Psychiatry Social Sciences School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Litchfield Lecture Interdisciplinary Research Methods Departmental seminar series Professor John Ioannidis, Stanford University School of Medicine, will deliver Seminar series The following seminars will be given the Litchfield Lecture at 4pm on 1 June at at 3.30pm on Fridays in the Lecture An interdisciplinary training seminar series the Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Richard Doll Theatre, Pitt Rivers Museum, Robinson led by doctoral students and early career Building. Close. Conveners: Dr D Dzenovska, Dr C academics will be held at 12.30pm on Subject: ‘How to improve research’ Sopranzetti Fridays from week 3 of Trinity term onwards Departmental lectures at the Department of Education, and will Hannah Knox, UCL cover a range of qualitative, quantitative and 8 May: ‘Collaboration as response? The following lectures will be held at mixed research methods. More information: Ethnographic interventions in/on 9.30am on Tuesdays in the Seminar Room, www.researchtraining.socsci.ox.ac.uk or climate change in the UK’ Department of Psychiatry, Warneford [email protected]. Hospital. Paloma Gay y Blasco, St Andrews 15 May: ‘The limits of collaboration: Professor John Gallacher Sanjaya Lall Memorial Trust attempting a reciprocal Gypsy/Roma life 28 Apr: ‘Introducing the MRC Dementias story’ Platform UK’ Public panel events Jamie Cross, Edinburgh Professor Anne Duffy, Alberta A public panel discussion will be held 5–7pm 22 May: ‘Ethnograms’ 5 May: ‘Indicators of risk for developing on 14 May in the Nelson Mandela Lecture recurrent mood disorders: focus on Theatre, Saïd Business School, to welcome Lauren Greenwood, Sussex refining the clinical and psychological Professor Paul Krugman as Distinguished 29 May: ‘Negotiating enemy lines: the phenotype’ Sanjaya Lall Fellow. The event is co- complexities of collaboration with the sponsored by the Department of Economics British military’ Professor Noel Buckley and the Sanjaya Lall Memorial Trust, and 12 May: ‘Transcriptional and epigenetic Marett Memorial Lecture will be followed by a reception. Panellists: signatures of neural stem cells: what do Professor Paul Krugman, Nobel Laureate Professor Joel Robbins, Cambridge, will they tell us?’ and New York Times op-ed columnist; deliver the 2015 Marett Memorial Lecture at Professor Robin Jacoby Professor Sir David Hendry; and Martin 5pm on 1 May in the Saskatchewan Room, 19 May: ‘Psychiatric medicine has come a Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator, Exeter. Convened by Exeter in association long way since 1870 (Lord Justice Briggs): Financial Times. with the School of Anthropology and recent trends in testamentary capacity’ Subject: ‘The economic possibilities for Museum Ethnography. the new government’ Subject: ‘What is the matter with Professor Glyn Lewis, London transcendence? On the place of religion 2 Jun: ‘Psychological vulnerability, A public panel discussion will be held in the new anthropology of ethics’ biology and depression’ 5.30–7.30pm on 19 May in the Mathematical Institute to welcome Professor Abhijit Institute for Science, Innovation and Professor David Baldwin, Southampton Banerjee as Sanjaya Lall Visiting Professor. Society (InSIS) Special Lecture 2015 9 Jun: ‘Antidepressant drugs and sexual The event is co-sponsored by the dysfunction’ Rohan Hamden, director, Rohan Hamden Department of Politics and the Sanjaya Lall and Associates, will lecture at 4pm on Professor Michael Sharpe Memorial Trust, and will be followed by 27 April in the Lecture Theatre, 64 Banbury 16 Jun: ‘In pursuit of integration: the a reception. Panellists: Professor Abhijit Road. Convened by InSIS and Rohan Psychological Medicine Service in Banerjee, Ford Foundation International Hamden and Associates. Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust’ Professor of Economics, Co-founder Subject: ‘Competing leaders working and Director of Poverty Action Lab, MIT; Professor Jeffrey Swanson, North Carolina together to deliver climate action’ Professor Vincent Crawford; and Professor 30 Jun: ‘Thinking differently about gun Roger Myerson, Nobel Laureate, Chicago. Astor Visiting Lecture violence and mental illness: an American Subject: ‘Information, voting and the public health law perspective’ Associate Professor Jennifer Johnson- quality of governance’ Hanks, Berkeley, will deliver the 2015 Astor Visiting Lecture at 5pm on 11 May in the Lecture Theatre, Pauling Centre, 58a Banbury Road. Subject: ‘Where the “wages of sin” is death: premarital sex and infant mortality in Africa’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5092 • 22 April 2015 471

Mary Douglas Memorial Lecture Workshop Evans-Pritchard Lectures

Professor Jeffrey Alexander, Yale, will A workshop will be held 1.30–5.30pm on Transnational intimacies and the deliver the 2015 Mary Douglas Memorial 11 June at St Cross. To register: http://goo.gl/ reconfiguration of relatedness in Lecture at 6pm on 3 June in the Mary forms/J7TISWHHDA. Senegal Olgilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne’s, Subject: ‘Food systems advocacy: from Dr Hélène Neveu Kringelbach will deliver preceded by a reception. Convened by platforms to policy’ the 2015 Evans-Pritchard Lectures at 5pm the School of Anthropology and Museum Ecologies of Expertise in the Old Library, All Souls. Ethnography, UCL, the RAI and St Anne’s. 20 May: ‘Histories and memories of Advance registration required: stacey. Seminars: Whom do we trust? marriage to “strangers” in Senegal’ [email protected]. The following seminars will be given at Subject: ‘The societalisation of social 26 May: ‘ “Marrying out” for love: 3pm on Tuesdays in the Lecture Theatre, problems: recent social crises and the women’s narratives of polygyny 64 Banbury Road. Conveners: InSIS, Oxford civil sphere’ and alternative marriage choices in Martin School contemporary Senegal’ Pitt Rivers Museum Research Seminar Darryl Stellmach in Visual, Material and Museum 27 May: ‘The paradox of parallel lives: 5 May: ‘Technocracies of care: facts Anthropology immigration policy and transnational and values in the practice of medical polygyny between Senegal and France’ The following seminars will be given at 1pm humanitarian emergency’ on Fridays in the Lecture Theatre, Pitt Rivers 2 Jun: ‘Creolised futures or the appeal Arthur Petersen, UCL Museum, Robinson Close. Conveners: Dr C of purity? Processes of transmission in 12 May: ‘The ethos of science advice’ Morton, VMMA postgraduate students Euro-Senegalese families’ James Palmer Sidney Kasfir, Emory Future of Cities 19 May: ‘The politics of advisory 1 May: ‘The construction of Samburu expertise: chief scientific advisers in UK Seminar series masculinity through weaponry, body arts government, 1990–2010’ and “warrior theatre” ‘ The following seminars will be given at Signe Howell, Oslo 2.30pm on Tuesdays in the Wharton Room, Laura Haapio-Kirk, independent writer and 26 May: ‘Different knowledge regimes All Souls. Convener: Dr C Sopranzetti illustrator and some consequence for sustainability’ 8 May: ‘Live sharing in the museum’ Shahana Chattaraj Karen Henwood and Nick Pidgeon, Cardiff 5 May: ‘Governing the informal city: the Martin Hall, Salford 2 Jun: ‘Gender, epistemic positioning and “Jugaad” state in Mumbai’ 15 May: ‘Circulating objects’ nuclear power’ Lorenzo Pezzani, Goldsmiths Marcus Banks David Demortain, Laboratoire 19 May: ‘Liquid traces, mobile subjects: 22 May: ‘Visual practices in forensic Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations the governance of mobility and control at science’ Sociétés the maritime borders of the EU’ Unit for Biocultural Variation and 9 Jun: ‘Thinking about expertise Paul Gilroy,KCL Obesity (UBVO) differently: GM risk assessment as an 2 Jun: tbc ecology of regulatory knowledge’ Seminar series: Qualitative Film screenings research perspectives on eating Diaspora and Labour in/from South Asia disorders The following film screenings will take place Film showings at 5pm in the Wharton Room, All Souls, The following seminars will be given at The following documentary films by unless otherwise noted. Convener: Dr C 1pm on Thursdays at 61 Banbury Road. director Kesang Tseten about migrant Nepali Sopranzetti Conveners: Dr K Eli, Dr E Bryant workers in the Gulf will be shown in the 29 Apr: The Square ( dir Jehane Noujaim) Anita Jansen, Maastricht Lecture Room, 61 Banbury Road. Convener: 30 Apr: ‘A cognitive profile of obesity Professor D Gellner 12 May, Old Library: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth; and its translation into new cognitive– an Urban History (dir Chad Freidrichs) 4pm, 12 May: In Search of the Riyal behavioural health care interventions’ 26 May: Of Stain, Scraps and Tires (dir 4pm, 14 May:The Desert Eats Us Emily Troscianko Sebastian Brameshuber) and Foreign 7 May: ‘How literary studies can help us 2.30pm, 19 May: Saving Dolma Parts (dir Verena Paravel, J P Sniadecki) understand eating disorders’ Roundtable Discussion Tibetan and Himalayan art in the Oxford Anna Lavis, Birmingham collections There will be a roundtable discussion 14 May: ‘Anorexia as self-care: desire, 4–6pm on 19 May in the Lecture Room, Jeff Wyatt, director, Himalayan Art stasis and not eating’ 61 Banbury Road. It will reflect on the Resources website, New York, will conduct Ulla Räisänen two most recent special issues of Himal two one-hour sessions on Tibetan and 21 May: tbc Southasian (copies available at himalmag. Himalayan art in the Oxford collections on org).Participants: Kanak Mani Dixit, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 4pm (weeks Karin Eli founding editor of Himal Southasian, 2–5) in Lecture Room 2, Oriental Institute. 28 May: ‘Strategic ambivalence: liminal Aunohita Majumdar, editor, David Gellner, Convener: Dr S G FitzHerbert patienthood on an eating disorders ward’ Alison Shaw, Ethox, Nick Van Hear and Hiranthi Jayaweera. All welcome. 472 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5092 • 22 April 2015

Saïd Business School Professor Marc Flandreau, Graduate Quantitative Methods Hub seminar Institute programme Distinguished Speaker Series 12 May: ‘The rise of anthropology: an The following seminars will be given at economic history’ Peter Thiel, Silicon Valley entrepreneur and 12.15pm on Mondays in Seminar Room D, investor, will lecture at 12.30pm on 30 April Dr Christopher Colvin Department of Education. at Saïd Business School. To register: www. 19 May: ‘From famine to feast? Alex Baron peterthiel.eventbrite.com. Anthropometric living standards in 19th- 27 Apr: ‘Parenting practices predictive of Subject: ‘Developing the developed century Ireland’ children’s self-regulation development: world’ Professor Andrew Wilson evidence from the UK’ Silicon Valley comes to Oxford 26 May: ‘Before the pin factory: division Vikki Boliver, Durham of labour and mass production in the The following event will begin at 9.30am on 11 May: ‘Are there distinctive clusters of Roman economy’ 17 May at Saïd Business School. To register: higher- and lower-status universities in www.siliconvalley2015.eventbrite.com. the UK?’ Department of Education Subject: ‘What it takes to start, scale and Daniel Caro and Jenny Lenkeit run high growth companies’ Centre for Educational Assessment 18 May: ‘Evaluating effectiveness of Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford Union Annual Lecture education systems and instructional Debate approaches with PISA data’ Professor Gordon Stobart, IOE, will deliver The following debate will begin at 5pm on the OUCEA Annual Lecture at 5pm on Katy Sivyer 17 May at the Oxford Union. To register: 12 May in St Anne’s. 1 Jun: ‘Studying how psychological https://siliconvalley2015debate.eventbrite. Subject: ‘What kind of learning do treatments work using structural com. we want? 21st-century learning, the equation modelling’ Motion: ‘This house believes the standards agenda and expert learners’ Ulrike Deetjen augmentation of technology with Qualitative Research Methods SIG 8 Jun: ‘Internet use and health: humanity creates a better world’ using secondary data for spatial The following seminars will be given at Conference microsimulation’ 12.30pm on Thursdays in Seminar Room B, A conference will be held on 25 July at the Department of Education. All welcome to David Kaplan, Wisconsin Holywell Music Room. Panel speakers: Ted bring a packed lunch and join the discussion. 15 Jun: ‘Bayesian model averaging over Malloch; John Williams, Santander; Funda directed acyclic graphs with implications Trevor Mutton and Dr Katharine Burn Ustek, London; Anulika Ajufo; Adam for the predictive performance of 7 May: ‘Always going back to the O’Boyle, Oxford Hub; Zelga Anderson; Scott structural equation models’ transcripts: the strengths and limitations Huish, High Street Advisor; Ruth Yeoman; of a grounded approach to analysing Impact and Knowledge Exchange in Dana Brown; Andreas Ernst, UBS; Geetha qualitative data’ an Evolving Research Environment Tharmamaratnam, Abraaj Group; Sarah seminar series Fisher, J&J; Peter Hinton; Bill Conner; Helen Campbell Pickford Anton Chernakov, Exponentials; John 14 May: ‘Expert knowledge and policy’ The following seminars will be given Hoffmire. Free but places limited; to register at 4.45pm for 5pm at Nuffield, unless Dr Sarah Olive, York (by making a reimburseable donation of otherwise noted. More information and to 21 May: ‘Using Twitter as a source of $30) : www.progressthroughbusiness.org. register: sanja.djerasimovic@education. qualitative research data’ Contact: [email protected]. ox.ac.uk. Conveners: Professor Roger Subject: ‘Business and poverty’ Dr Rosamund Snow, PHC Goodman, Dr Alis Oancea 28 May: ‘Are you an insider or an Professor James Wilsdon, Sussex Department of Economics outsider? Using your own experience as 6 May, Saïd Business School: ‘In metrics data’ we trust? Impact, indicators and the Economic and Social History seminars Yvonne Guest, West of England prospects for social science over the next The following seminars will be held at 5pm 4 Jun: ‘Trauma and resilience’ five years’ on Tuesdays in Lecture Room XI, Brasenose, Dr Abby Loebenberg, Arizona State 13 May: tbc unless otherwise noted. Convener: Dr R 11 Jun: ‘Simulation as a scaffold for Esteves Dr Steven Hill, HEFCE creative learning: incorporating open- 20 May: ‘Understanding research impact: Professor Avner Greif, Stanford ended course elements as part of higher- analysis of the REF impact case studies’ Thurs, 30 Apr, Faculty of History: ‘The education pedagogy’ clan and the city: sustaining cooperation Dr Eleonora Belfiore, Warwick Dr Maia Chankseliani in China and Europe’ 27 May: ‘What was I thinking?!’: being an 18 Jun: ‘WorldSkills competitors and academic in the age of impact’ Dr Costanza Biavaschi, Reading entrepreneurship: strengths and 5 May: ‘The economic payoff of name limitations of the study design, data Professor Paul Wouters, Leiden Americanisation’ analysis and findings’ 3 Jun: ‘Competing for excellence: perverse and constructive effects of evaluation machines in academia’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5092 • 22 April 2015 473

Dr Simon Kerridge, Kent and ARMA School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 10 Jun, Saïd Business School: ‘Approaches Professor Miriam Ticktin, New School for to facilitating research impact’ Seminar in Modern Israel Studies Social Research 10 Jun, Room 3: tbc 17 Jun, Saïd Business School: Panel debate The following seminars will be held at 5pm on Tuesdays in the Ground Floor Room, International Summer School in Public Seminar Programme School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Forced Migration The following seminars will be given at 11 Bevington Road. All welcome. To register: The International Summer School in Forced 5pm on Mondays in Seminar Room A, [email protected]. Migration will be held 6–24 July to foster Department of Education. Conveners: Derek Penslar, Sara Hirschhorn, dialogue between academics, practitioners Sharon Weinblum Professor Dorothy Bishop. Convener: and policymakers working to improve the Professor Victoria Murphy Fiona Wright, Cambridge situation of refugees and forced migrants. 27 Apr: ‘What is educational 5 May: ‘ “Not in my name”: vulnerability, Registration now open. More information: neuroscience?’ complicity and responsibility in Jewish www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/summer-school2015. left-wing activism’ Application deadline: 1 May. Dr Alis Oancea. Convener: Professor Harry Daniels Sagit Yehoshua, KCL International Migration Institute 11 May: ‘The cultural value of research: 12 May: ‘Palestinians in Israeli prisons: Seminar Series “widening of horizons” or “rhetorical profiling and treatment’ moment”?’ The following seminars will be given at Jonathan Gribetz, Princeton 1pm on Wednesdays in Seminar Room 2, Karl Heinz Gruber, Vienna. Convener: Dr 19 May: ‘Zionism, the Talmud and the Department of International Development. Katharine Burn PLO Research Centre’ More information: www.imi.ox.ac.uk/ 18 May: ‘The comprehensive school Menachem Klein, Bar Ilan events. Conveners: Marie-Laurence (die Gesamtschule) – the anatomy and 26 May: ‘Lives in common: Arabs and Flahaux, Yasser Moullan pathology of secondary school reform in Jews in Jaffa, Jerusalem and Hebron’ Germany and Austria’ Richard Curtain, ANU 29 Apr: ‘The seasonal worker Dr Susan James. Convener: Dr Alis Oancea Department of International programmes of Australia and New 1 Jun: ‘Higher education expansion Development (Queen Elizabeth House) Zealand: a study in contrasts’ and social mobility: is this the UK government’s vision?’ Refugee Studies Centre Linessa Dan Lin, Chinese University of Hong Kong Professor Harry Daniels and Hau Ming Public seminar series: Global 6 May: ‘Remaining “attached strangers”: Tse. Convener: Professor Ernesto Macaro refugee policy encounters, relationships and the future 8 Jun: ‘Design and practice: a study of The following seminars will be given at of African migrants in China’ the design, build and occupation of new 5pm on Wednesdays in Seminar Room 1, schools’ Belinda Dodson, Western Ontario Department of International Development, 13 May: ‘Applying a gender lens to Professor Gert Biesta, Luxemburg and unless otherwise noted. More information: migration and development: insights Brunel . Convener: Dr Rebecca Eynon www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/trinity-2015. from research in Southern Africa’ 15 Jun: ‘The rediscovery of teaching: in Dr James Milner, Carleton search of a progressive argument’ Marieke van Houte 29 Apr: ‘Understanding global refugee 20 May: ‘Time lines in autobiographical Religion, Philosophy and Education policy: the case of naturalisation in migration research: lessons from an Forum/Philosophy of Education Tanzania’ Afghan case study’ Society of Great Britain – joint seminar Dr Jeff Crisp, independent consultant, and programme Sharon Weinblum MaryBeth Morand, UNHCR 27 May: ‘Re-constructing the boundaries The following seminars will be given at 6 May: ‘Better late than never? The of the nation-state: the Israeli political 5pm in Seminar Room D, Department of evolution and implementation of discourse on African non-Jewish Education. All welcome. Enquiries: alis. UNHCR’s urban refugee policy’ migrants’ [email protected]. Dr Marion Fresia, Neuchâtel Nicolas Zorzin, Paris I James Robson 13 May: ‘Ethnographic understandings of 3 Jun: ‘What archaeological data tell us 28 Apr: ‘Being a religious education global refugee policy: looking at policy in about the movement of populations in teacher in the digital age: professional practice’ the last millennia? An anthropological/ identity in online social space’ Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill distant perspective on migrations’ Abdurrahman Hendek 20 May: ‘UNHCR’s protection guidelines: Florence Jusot, Paris-Dauphine 5 May: ‘England and Turkey: a what role for external voices?’ 10 Jun: ‘Does a north–south gradient comparative study of religious education’ Dr Phil Orchard, Queensland exist for “healthy immigrant effect” in Adrian Hilton 27 May: ‘Global policy for IDPs: a parallel Europe?’ 9 Jun: ‘Conservative education policy on process?’ Julien Brachet free schools’ 17 Jun: ‘International mobility, local Linda Bakkum economics and European cooperation 16 Jun: ‘Developing citizenship policies in the Central Sahara’ education in England’ 474 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5092 • 22 April 2015

South Asia Day Faculty of Law Department of Politics and International Relations South Asia Day 2015 will take place 9.30am– Oxford Intellectual Property Research 5.30pm on 28 May to discuss the emerging Centre Oxford Fulbright Distinguished Lecture analytic approaches to investigating in International Relations membership in the political community in IP speaker series the South Asian region. Speakers include: Ambassador Jack Matlock, former United The following lectures will be given at Faisal Devji; Nicolas Jaoul, CNRS; Uditi States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, will 5.15pm on Thursdays in the Dorfman Sen, Hampshire College; Subhasis Dey, deliver the fifth Annual Oxford Fulbright Room, St Peter’s. Refreshments provided. Manchester; Maidul Islam, Presidency, Distinguished Lecture in International All welcome; registration not required. Kolkata; Prabhsharandeep Sandhu; Relations at 5pm on 12 June at the Pichette Enquiries: [email protected]. Muhammad Jan; Rajesh Venugopal, LSE; Auditorium, Pembroke. uk. Conveners: Graeme Dinwoodie, Dev Ina Zharkevich; Ashraful Hoque, UCL. Subject: ‘Managing the crises in Ukraine Gangjee, Robert Pitkethly Enquiries: [email protected]. and elsewhere: lessons for leadership’ Subject: ‘Meanings of citizenship in South Alison Slade, Brunel Africa politics and history seminar Asia’ 7 May: ‘User-generated content and series copyright law: a business-led solution’ Book discussion This seminar series will run at 5pm on Professor Dan Burk, California Following the main event, Dr Maidul Islam Mondays of weeks 1–4 in Seminar Room 1, 14 May: ‘Patents as data aggregators in will discuss his new book 4.30–5.30pm. Queen Elizabeth House. Programme to be personalised medicine’ Title: Limits of Islamism: Jamaat-e-Islami confirmed.A ll welcome. More information: in Contemporary India and Bangladesh Public International Law Discussion www.politics.ox.ac.uk/events.html. Group Convener: Ricardo Soares de Oliveira AALIMS (Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Lunchtime Series Political theory research seminar series Societies) The following meetings of the discussion The following seminars will take place at Conference group will be held at 12.30pm on Thursdays 12.15pm on Thursdays in Seminar Room A, in the Old Library, All Souls, unless Department of Politics and International A conference will be held from 8.30am otherwise noted. No RSVP required. Part of Relations. All welcome. Conveners: Jesse on 15 and 16 May at the Department of the programme of the British Branch of the Tomalty, JanaLee Cherneski International Development and includes a International Law Association; supported half-day graduate student workshop. More 30 Apr: Uri Gordon, Loughborough by the Faculty of Law and OUP. Conveners: information: http://aalims.org; to register: Ryan Manton, Kate Mitchell 7 May: Lois McNay [email protected]. Convener: Professor Masooda Bano Jessica Gladstone, Debevoise & Plimpton 14 May: Gabriel Wollner, Humboldt Subject: ‘The political economy of Islam LLP University Berlin and Muslim societies’ 30 Apr, Wharton Room, All Souls: 21 May: Bernardo Zacka, Cambridge ‘Disputes with states: policies, politics Oxford Internet Institute and the rule of law’ 28 May: tbc Sarah Nouwen 4 Jun: Miriam Ronzoni, Manchester Lectures 7 May: tbc 11 Jun: Ben Jackson OII Bellwether Lecture Surya Subedi, Professor of International Professor Dan L Burke, California at Irvine, 18 Jun: Marc Philp, Warwick, and Adam Law, Leeds, and UN Special Rapporteur for will deliver the OII Bellwether Lecture at Swift, Warwick Human Rights in Cambodia 5pm on 8 May at the Ioannou Centre for 14 May: ‘The UN Human Rights Special Workshop Classical and Byzantine Studies. Rapporteurs and the impact of their Subject: ‘Copyright, culture and Professor Andrew Hurrell will convene a work: some reflections of the longest- community in virtual worlds’ workshop as part of the Marie Curie Initial serving UN Special Rapporteur for Training Network Programme: Power and Tom Standage, the Economist, will lecture Cambodia’ Region in a Multipolar Order (PRIMO) at 5pm on 20 May at the Oxford Internet Charlotte Peevers, Sydney UT 2–7.30pm on 11 May and 9–11am on 12 May Institute. 21 May : tbc in the JCR Theatre, St Catherine’s, and Subject: ‘What can history tell us about 11am–4.30pm in the Lecture Theatre, Manor the future of the internet?’ Road Building. Oxford faculty, postdocs and students are welcome. Register by 4 May: www.politics.ox.ac.uk/departmental/how- to-study-global-ir.html. Subject: ‘How to study global IR’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5092 • 22 April 2015 475

Conference Panel discussion Workshop Udit Bhatia and Bruno Leipold will Professor Richard Caplan, Dr Scilla A workshop will be held from 9am on convene the fourth Oxford Graduate Elworthy and Dr Rama Mani will speak 24 June at Nuffield. Free; includes lunch Political Theory Conference 9am–7pm on at 5pm on 30 April in Seminar Room A, and refreshments. Participants accepted on 8 May in the Manor Road Building. Keynote Manor Road Building, on Dr Elworthy’s a first-come, first-served basis. To register: addresses: Dr Humeira Iqtidar, KCL, and book Pioneering the Possible: Awakened [email protected]. Convener: Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias, UCL. Register Leadership for a World That Works and Stuart Basten by 4 May (and more information): https:// the Oxford launch of Rising Women Rising Subject: ‘Sex ratios and family formation’ oxfordpoliticaltheory.wordpress.com. World. Chair: Professor Kalypso Nicolaïdis Subject: ‘Political theory at the margins’ Subject: ‘A conversation on the role of Centre for Socio-legal Studies women in transforming conflict in the Centre for the Study of Social Justice 21st century’ The following events will take place in the Seminar Manor Road Building. Lectures Professor Andreas Føllesdal, Oslo, Annual Socio-Legal Lecture The following lectures will be given at 5pm Professor Sheldon Leader, Essex, unless otherwise noted. Professor Abdullahi A An-Nai’m, Emory, Professor Rosa Maria Lastra, QMUL, and will deliver the Annual Socio-Legal Lecture Associate Professor Jernej Letnar Cernic, Nora Fisher Onar at 4.30pm on 20 May in the Lecture EUI, will discuss their contributions to a 12 May, Seminar Room A, Manor Road Theatre. new edited volume at 11am on 9 June in the Building: tbc Subject: ‘Sharia and constitutionalism Lecture Theatre, Manor Road Building. Brad Blitz in Islamic societies: dialectics of legality Subject: ‘Making sovereign finance and 13 May, Seminar Room C, Manor Road and normativity’ human rights work’ Building: tbc CSLS/St John’s legalism seminar series Oxford–Sciences Po Programme Antonio Missiroli The following seminars will be held at Seminar: Call for papers 2pm, 26 May, Seminar Room, European 4.30pm on Tuesdays in Seminar Room D. Studies Centre: ‘The EU’s strategic review’ There will be a joint doctoral Migrations Conveners: Thomas Lambert, Fernanda seminar, convened by Professor Gwen Sasse Beate Hintzen Pirie, Hannah Skoda and Professor Mirna Safi, SciencesP o, on 8 Jun, location tbc: ‘Sleepwalking again: Edward Harris, Durham/Edinburgh 23 June in Oxford. Europe and the end of the Pax Americana 28 Apr: ‘Ancient Greece: property records 1914–2014’ Conference and the development of market relations’ University Lecturer Nicolas Rousselier, Department of Social Policy and Alain Pottage, LSE Sciences Po, and Dr Scot Peterson will Intervention 5 May: ‘Play as property’ convene a conference 1.30–6pm on 14 May Georgy Kantor and 9am–3.30pm on 15 May in Seminar Annual Zola Skweyiya Lecture 12 May: ‘Property in land in Roman Room F, Manor Road Building. Keynote: Professor Colin Bundy will deliver the provinces: problems of interpretation’ Professor Sandy Levinson, Texas. Annual Zola Skweyiya Lecture at 5pm on 13 Participants: Professor Iain MacLean, Dr Mónica García-Salmones, Helsinki May in the Violet Butler Room, Department Scot Peterson, Professor David Klemperer, 19 May: ‘Late medieval theology and of Social Policy and Intervention. Professor Richard Toye, Exeter. Sciences legalistic thinking’ Subject: ‘Social protection in South Africa: Po participants: University Lecturer the evolution of welfare policy and Tom Johnson, Birkbeck Nicolas Roussellier, Professor Jean provision’ 26 May: ‘The rage of the sea: the remaking Garrigues, Professor Alain Laquièze, Jean- of property during environmental Félix de Bujadoux. Lectures change in late-medieval England’ Subject: ‘Broken constitutions? Towards a The following lectures will be held in the cooperation of constitutionalists (France, Islamic law and society discussion Violet Butler Room, Department of Social UK, US)’ group Policy and Intervention. Centre for International Studies The following seminars will be given at Geertjan Overbeek, Amsterdam 12.30pm on Wednesdays in Seminar Public Lecture 4pm, 14 May: ‘Gene-based differential Room B. Conveners: Sajjad Khoshroo, Petra susceptibility to parenting? An Federico Fabbrini will lecture at 12.30pm Mahy examination based on a randomised trial on 24 April in the Seminar Room, European of Incredible Years’ Adam Ng Studies Centre, on his book manuscript. 13 May: ‘Social capital and risk sharing’ All welcome. A book manuscript workshop Dr Mary McKay, NYU will follow at 2pm. Register to attend the 5pm, 21 May: ‘It takes a village: meeting Dominik Müller, Goethe University workshop: matthew.kennedy@politics. the complex needs of poverty-impacted Frankfurt ox.ac.uk. youth and their families, locally and 27 May: ‘Bureaucratisation of Islam and Subject: ‘Economic governance in globally’ its socio-legal consequences in Brunei Europe: comparative paradoxes and Darussalam’ Professor Philippe Van Parijs, Louvain constitutional challenges’ 5pm, 2 Jun: ‘1516–2016: a very short Professor Shaheen Sardar Ali, Warwick historical introduction to basic income’ 10 Jun: ‘Islamic constitutionalism: myth or reality?’ 476 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5092 • 22 April 2015

Workshops Department for Continuing Institutes, Centres and Professor Denis Galligan will lead a Education Museums workshop from 4pm on 11 May in Seminar Room D. Workshop Ashmolean Museum Subject: ‘Two concepts of jurisprudence: The following workshop will be held interplay between theory building and 9am–5pm on 8 June in the Seminar Room, Research seminar empirical evidence’ 64 Banbury Road. Free. Supported by Philippa Walton will present a seminar An Islamic law and society discussion group the John Fell Fund, the African Studies at 1pm on 11 June in the Headley Lecture book workshop will be held from 10am on Centre, the Oxford Programme for the Theatre, Ashmolean Museum. Tea and 19 May in Seminar Room E. Convener: Dr Future of Cities and the Department for coffee provided; attendees are welcome to Petra Mahy Continuing Education’s Sustainable Urban bring sandwiches. Conveners: Bert Smith, Title: The Sociology of Shari’a: Case Development Programme. To register: bit. Milena Melfi Studies from Around the World, ed Adam ly/africandreams or (2)86938. Convener: Dr Subject: ‘Ritual river or military highway? Possamai, James T Richardson, Bryan S Idalina Baptista Interpreting an assemblage of Romano- Turner; Springer, 2015 Subject: ‘African dreams: imaginations of British finds from theR iver Tees at urban life and infrastructure’ A CSLS/Cambridge University Press early Piercebridge, County Durham’ career workshop will be held 29–30 June in Kellogg College Centre for Creative Centre for the Study of Collecting Seminar Room B. More information: www. Writing csls.ox.ac.uk/documents/Flyer.pdf. Public lecture series Subject: ‘Law in context’ Creative Writing Seminar Series The following lectures will be given at 5pm on Wednesdays in the Headley Lecture Department of Sociology Belinda Jack will give a seminar at 5.30pm Theatre, Ashmolean Museum, to be on 14 May in the Mawby Room, Kellogg. followed by a reception. Booking: www. The following seminars will be given at Refreshments at 5pm; all welcome. oxfordplayhouse.com/ticketsoxford or 12.30pm on Mondays in Seminar Room G, Subject: ‘Cliché: the nemesis of exciting 01865 305305. Contact: Dr C Anderson Manor Road Building, unless otherwise writing’ noted. All welcome. Conveners: Man Yee James Stourton, author and biographer Kan, Heather Hamill Rewley House Research Seminar Series 29 Apr: ‘Kenneth Clark and Oxford’ 27 Apr: tbc Dr Christina Anderson Fear: cross-disciplinary research 13 May: ‘The King, the Duke and the Simonetta Longhi, Essex perspectives Flemish Merchant of Venice: the 1627–8 11 May: ‘Why are ethnic wage gaps larger The following seminar will be given at sale of the Gonzaga Art Collection’ in urban areas?’ 4.30pm on 22 May in the Pickstock Room, Peter Harris, art consultant Jennifer Johnson Hanks, Berkeley Rewley House. More information and to 17 Jun: ‘From behind closed doors: 2.15pm, 13 May: ‘Aggregation problems’ register: www.conted.ox.ac.uk/rhrsfear. unlocking the world of corporate Peter Brandon, SUNY Albany Angela Flynn: ‘Repression and fear in collecting’ 18 May: ‘Does family structure elicit Madrid’s republican rearguard’ gender neutral time allocations?’ Bodleian Libraries Alistair Beecher: ‘Fear and faith: Maria Iacovou, Cambridge Anglican strength in Alresford in the 19th The following events will be held in the 1 Jun: ‘Housework share between century’ Lecture Theatre, Weston Library, unless partners: experimental evidence on Cathy Oakes: ‘Timor and terror – the otherwise noted. gender identity’ god-fearing and the damned in western Exhibition lectures Carmel Hannan, Limerick medieval visual culture’ 8 Jun: ‘The class divide in Irish marriage: The following lectures to accompany the evolution and consequences’ exhibition Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries Laurent Lesnard, Sciences Po will be given at 1pm on Wednesdays. Free; all 15 Jun: ‘Sunday work and sociability loss: welcome but places are limited and advance a France–US comparison’ booking recommended via www.bodleian. ox.ac.uk/whatson. Dr Cristina Dondi 29 Apr: ‘The trade in printed books: an ingenious innovation that changed the Western world’ Mr David Helliwell 6 May: ‘Four centuries of Chinese book collecting’ Dr Dirk Obbink 13 May: ‘New Sappho and new libraries’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5092 • 22 April 2015 477

Dr Stuart Lee Centre for the Study of the Book seminar 10.45am–12.15pm, 5 Jun: ‘E–book readers’ 20 May: ‘Writing The Hobbit: a perilous Kabe Wilson will give a seminar at 5.30pm 10–11am, 9 Jun, Ship Street Centre: ‘Your quest!’ on 6 May in the Visiting Scholars’ Centre, thesis, copyright and ORA’ Mr Clive Hurst Level 2, Weston Library. Convener: Dr noon–1pm, 10 Jun, Ship Street Centre: 27 May: ‘Mr Douce steps into the nursery Dennis Duncan ‘Open access Oxford – what’s happening?’ and lingers…’ Subject: ‘ “Of One Woman or So”: Virginia Woolf remixed’ 10am–noon, 11 Jun: ‘Parliamentary and Mr Richard Mulholland government papers’ 3 Jun: ‘Painting by numbers: decoding Symposia Ferdinand Bauer’s Flora Graeca colour 2–4pm, 18 Jun: ‘Sources for medievalists’ A symposium will be held from 10am on code’ 16 June. To register: www.bodleian.ox.ac. Botanic Garden Dr William Poole uk/csb/events. Conveners: Professor Robert 10 Jun: ‘The Savile Library’ Fox; Professor Graeme Gooday, Leeds; Dr Summer lectures Elizabeth Bruton Mr Peter Ward-Jones Subject: ‘Space, place and landscape in The following lectures will be given at 17 Jun: ‘Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy – the history of communications since 6.30pm in the Daubeny Lecture Theatre more than just a composer’ 1700’ (at the front of the Botanic Garden) and will Ms Julie-Anne Lambert comprise part talk and part guided walk A symposium will be held from 9am on 24 Jun: ‘Pieces of the jigsaw: history around the Botanic Garden. Please come 26 June. To register: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ through the John Johnson Collection of dressed for the outside as well as inside. csb/events. Presented by the Yale Program Printed Ephemera’ Tickets: £8 per talk or £29 for the series via in the History of the Book, the Bodleian www.botanic-garden.ox.ac.uk/whatson. Mr Dana Josephson Library and University College. Conveners: 1 Jul: ‘Marks on canvas, stone, wood and Dr Kathryn James, Yale, Dr Stephen Bernard Judy Webb, Oxfordshire Flora Group paper: the genius of the Bodleian portrait Subject: ‘Marginal Malone: the lives and 22 May: ‘The special flowers of Oxford collection’ afterlives of Edmond Malone’s critical meadows’ readings of English literature’ Mr Andrew Robinson Karen Lee, John Innes Centre 8 Jul: ‘Distinguishing marks of genius’ iSkills workshops 4 Jun: ‘Getting inside carnivorous plants’ Oxford Seminars in Cartography The following Bodleian iSkills workshops Peter Ayres, Emeritus Professor, Lancaster will take place at IT Services, 13 Banbury 11 Jun: ‘War and the Oxford Medicinal Imre Josef Demhardt, Texas at Arlington, Road, unless otherwise noted. To register: Plants Scheme, 1941–52’ will give a seminar at 5pm on 11 June. http://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ Subject: ‘From cosmopolitan exploration Katherine French workshopsbydate. Convener: Angela Carritt to colonial penetration: Germany and the 18 Jun: ‘Biodiversity on the margins: colonial turn in the cartography of Africa’ 2–5pm, 27 Apr: ‘Scholarly literature for minor crops from around the world and your research’ closer to home’ Lyell Lectures 9.15–10.30am, 1 May: ‘Online resources The reach of bibliography: looking Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies for historians’ beyond letterpress in 18th-century texts 10.45am–12.15pm, 1 May: ‘Sources for US Lecture series history’ Michael F Suarez SJ, Virginia, will deliver The following lectures will be given at the Lyell Lectures at 5pm on the following 9.15am–12.15pm, 8 May: ‘Reference 5.30pm on Mondays in the Dorfman Centre, days. To register: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ management’ St Peter’s. More information: www.ocbs.org. csb/events. 9.30am–12.30pm, 13 May: ‘RefWorks for Dr Tatsuma Padoan, SOAS 28 Apr: ‘Engraved throughout: Pine’s sciences and social sciences’ 27 Apr: ‘ “Under the walking steps of the Horace (1733) as a bibliographical object’ ascetic”: memory and place-making in 9.15–10.45am, 15 May: ‘Getting 30 Apr: ‘True colours: a natural history of the Japanese pilgrimage of Katsuragi’ information to come to you’ Louis Renard’s Poissons (1719)’ Professor Richard Gombrich 11am–12.30pm, 15 May: ‘Information 5 May: ‘Proliferating images: diagrams of 11 May: ‘The imaginary mass murderer sources for African Studies’ the slave ship Brookes (1789)’ who owes his existence to ignorance of 2–3.30pm, 26 May: ‘Newspapers and Pali’ 7 May: ‘Singular multiples: other online news sources from the comprehending the General Evening Post 17th–20th centuries’ (1754–86)’ 9.30am–12.15pm, 2 Jun: ‘Mendeley for 12 May: ‘Naming names: underwriting reference management’ patronage in Tonson’s Cæsar (1712)’ 10.30am–noon, 3 Jun, Radcliffe Science 14 May: ‘Abridging histories: Capt James Library: ‘Research impact – citation Cook and the voyages of reading (1784–)’ analysis tools’ 2–5pm, 3 Jun: ‘RefWorks for humanities’ 9.15–10.30am, 5 Jun: ‘E–books’ 478 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5092 • 22 April 2015

COMPAS Professor Irene Zwiep, Amsterdam Seminars 15 Jun: ‘Thinking Jewish after Darwin The following seminars will be given at the Seminar series: Immigration and and Nietzsche: the curious case of Moritz Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. democracy in the UK today Steinschneider’ Dr Kiyokazu Okita, Kyoto, will present The following seminars will be given at 2pm Oxford Seminars in Advanced Jewish seminars at 10am on Wednesdays of weeks on Thursdays in the Pauling Centre, 58a Studies 1–4. Banbury Road. Convener: Robert McNeil Jewish Books in Amsterdam 1600– Subject: ‘Hindu theology for a king: Dr Scott Blinder, Massachusetts 1850: Authors, Producers, Readers Baladeva Vidyābhūșaņa’s Tattvadīpikā’ 30 Apr: ‘Damaged trust and a changing and the Construction of Jewish Professor Gavin Flood will present electorate? Migration as a contemporary Worlds seminars at 10am on Thursdays of weeks political issue in the UK’ The following seminars will be held at 1–8. Dr Osea Giuntella, Dr Catia Nicodemo and 2pm on Tuesdays in the Weston Library. Subject: ‘Readings in the Netra Tantra’ Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva Conveners: Professor Shlomo Berger and Dr Professor Gavin Flood will present 14 May: ‘Immigration and the NHS’ César Merchán-Hamann seminars at 11am on Thursdays of weeks Dr Robert Ford, Manchester Professor Emile Schrijver, Amsterdam 1–8. 21 May: ‘The politics of immigration after 28 Apr: ‘Handwritten and printed: Subject: ‘Readings in phenonomenology 2015’ knowledge transmission and – Levinas’ Totality and Infinity’ multilingualism, sobriety and opulence’ Panel discussion: James Slack, Daily Mail, Museum of the History of Science Helen Warrell, Financial Times, and others. Professor Jean Baumgarten, CNRS, EHESS, Chair: Robert McNeil CRH and CEJ, Paris Public lecture 28 May: ‘Migration in the British news 5 May: ‘Text and context in Yiddish media. Selling papers and making narrative collections printed in Dr Neil Todd, Manchester, will deliver programmes: public attitudes and policy Amsterdam (17th–18th century)’ a public lecture at 7pm on 2 June at the ramifications’ Museum of the History of Science. Dr Benjamin Fisher, Towson Subject: ‘Moseley and Manchester 12 May: ‘From chests and closets to the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish science’ bibliotheca: the construction of a Jewish Studies library and its readers, 1620–70’ Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies David Patterson Lectures Dr David Sclar, Toronto 19 May: ‘Rabbinic piety and Hebrew Seminar series: Perspectives on the The following lectures will be given at printing in 18th-century Amsterdam’ contemporary Muslim world 7.15pm on Mondays at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Clarendon Professor Irene Zwiep, Amsterdam The following seminars will be held at 5pm Institute, Walton Street. Convener: Dr Alison 26 May: ‘Creating the good Jew. Text and on Wednesdays at the Oxford Centre for Salvesen “illustration” in Dutch Jewish edifying Islamic Studies, unless otherwise noted. All literature, 1795–1860’ welcome. Professor David Cesarani, RHUL 27 Apr: ‘Benjamin Disraeli or the genius Dr Piet van Boxel Dr Sundas Ali, Professor Anthony Heath, of Judaism’ 2 Jun: ‘Jewish hermeneutics in Professor Alison Shaw and Dr Asma Amsterdam: Surenhusius’ edition of the Mustafa Dr Yaacov Shapira, Hebrew Mishnah’ 29 Apr: ‘Muslims in Britain: a view from 4 May: ‘Can the Halakha be expressed the census’ through a literary narrative? The Dr Yaacov Shapira, Hebrew narrative ruling as opposed to normative 9 Jun: ‘The book Leket Hakemah as a Professor Avi Shlaim ruling’ reflection of the social reality in the 6 May: ‘Israel’s elections: retrospect and Jewish communities of Amsterdam and prospect’ Dr Shira Klein, Chapman Livorno’ 11 May: ‘Holocaust memory in Italy’ Professor Abdul Raufu Mustafa 15–16 Jun: Conference (details tbc) 13 May: ‘Understanding Boko Haram’ Dr Ben Williams 18 May: ‘More than one way to read a Dr Marc Shiffbauer, World Bank Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies Midrash – Aaron Hasson and Edward 20 May: ‘Unlocking the employment Pococke study Midrash Rabba’ potential in the Middle East’ Majewski Lecture Dr Joseph E David Dr Ahmad Galal, former Minister of Dr Ankur Barua, Cambridge, will deliver 1 Jun: ‘Jurisprudence and theology in Finance, Egypt, Dr Ishac Diwan, Sciences- the Majewski Lecture at 5pm on 21 May in Jewish thought’ Po, Paris, and Dr Kevan Harris, Princeton Lecture Room 1, Oriental Institute. Thurs, 28 May: ‘Varieties of crony Professor Jean Baumgarten, CNRS, EHESS, Subject: ‘Is it “intolerant” to “convert” capitalism in the Middle East’ CRH and CEJ, Paris other people?’ 8 Jun: ‘Jewish mysticism in 17th–18th- Sir Richard Dalton, former HM Ambassador century Ashkenazi society: translating to Libya and Iran the Zohar in Yiddish for men and women’ 3 Jun: ‘Iran and new geo-political order in the Middle East’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5092 • 22 April 2015 479

Dr Masooda Bano and Dr Mohammad Dr Halla Diyab, Liberty Media Productions Oxford Learning Institute Talib 17 Jun: ‘Reporting Syria: the media 10 Jun: ‘Reflections on madrassah reform’ representation of the conflict’ Public seminars Dr Harry Verhoeven, George Washington Reuters Institute/Nuffield College The following seminars take place at 4pm 17 Jun: ‘The political economy of Islam Media and Politics seminars on Thursdays on Level 2, Littlegate House, in Sudan’ St Ebbe’s Street. Open to anyone interested The following seminars will be given at 5pm in research into higher education; no Qur’anic Arabic on Fridays in the Butler Room, Nuffield. booking required. Please ring the intercom Conveners: Neil Fowler, James Painter, Classes in Qur’anic Arabic will be given for Suite 3 on arrival. David Levy at 2pm on Fridays during Trinity term at Dr Søren Smedegaard Bengtsen, Aarhus the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. All Professor Ivor Gaber, Sussex, Dr Maya 30 Apr: ‘The darkness of doctoral welcome. Registration required: www.oxcis. Even, visiting fellow supervision: researching the non-formal ac.uk/shortcourses.html. 8 May: ‘Reflections on the general aspects of the PhD as a potential for a new election and the media: two perspectives’ Modern Standard Arabic doctoral pedagogy’ Anthony Barnett, openDemocracy The following classes in Modern Standard Dr David Hay, KCL 15 May: ‘New forms of media, new forms Arabic will be given at the Oxford Centre 14 May: ‘Teaching through research of democracy? Some reflections on new for Islamic Studies, weeks 1–5. Registration of scientific image-making practice: media and the election drawing on the required: www.oxcis.ac.uk/shortcourses. theory and case studies of the leukocyte experience of openDemocracy’ html. cascade’ Dame Margaret Beckett, MP for Derby Arabic 1a: Tuesdays, 5.15–7.15pm Dr Janice Malcolm, Kent South and former foreign secretary 28 May: ‘Discipline and workplace Arabic 1b: Tuesdays, 2.30–4.30pm 22 May: ‘Politicians and the media – a learning in practice: an exploratory study 40-year view’ Arabic 2: Wednesdays, 5.15–7.15pm of academic work’ Sir Nicholas Macpherson, permanent Professor Dr Bernadette Dilger, St Gallen Reuters Institute for the Study of secretary to the Treasury 11 Jun: ‘Design-based research in higher Journalism 29 May: ‘The UK post the election – what education’ does it mean for the Treasury?’ The business and practice of journalism Michael Crick, Channel 4 News Maison Française seminars 5 Jun: ‘The changing face of elections and The following seminars will be given at 2pm television’ The following events will take place at the on Wednesdays in the Barclay Room, Green Maison Française d’Oxford, 2–10 Norham Templeton. Conveners: James Painter, Foundation for Law, Justice and Society Road, unless otherwise noted. David Levy Conferences, study days and workshops Film screening Jonathan Bright A doctoral workshop will be held from 29 Apr: ‘The spread of news in the age of Leviathan will be screened at 7pm on 2.30pm on 23 April to 4pm on 25 April. social media’ 29 April in the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Conveners: Europaeum, History Faculty Wolfson. Free. To register: www.fljs.org/ Laurie Benson, Upnexxt Subject: ‘War-mongering and peace- leviathan. 6 May: ‘New publishing models for a making: lessons from European history’ modern world: a legacy brand re-invents Colloquium A workshop will be held 9am–5pm on itself’ A panel of experts (tbc) will take part in a 25 April at All Souls, as part of the ‘Voix du Kevin Sutcliffe, Vice News book colloquium at 5pm on 5 May in the Monde Arabe’ series. Conveners: Marina 13 May: ‘The battle for authenticity – Haldane Room, Wolfson. To register: www. Warner, Philip Kennedy the future of news, current affairs and fljs.org/Snowden. Subject: ‘A corpus not a canon: a documentary’ Subject: ‘No place to hide: Edward workshop on the library of Arabic Snowden, the NSA and the US literature’ Tom Standage, the Economist surveillance state’ 20 May: ‘News in the digital age, and how A panel discussion will be held 4–7pm on the Economist fits in’ Workshop 27 April. Chair: Guy Goodwin-Gill. Convener: EUK@Ox Anna Doble, Newsbeat, BBC Radio 1 A workshop will be held from 10.30am on Subject: ‘Freedom of movement in the 27 May: ‘Making news for young adults’ 20 May in the Haldane Room, Wolfson. European Union: costs and benefits?’ To register: www.fljs.org/images-and-law. Bronwen Maddox, Prospect magazine Conveners: Dr Maksymillian Del Mar, A conference will be held from 9am on 1 May 3 Jun: ‘How to make serious magazine Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott at Magdalen, continuing from 9am on 2 May journalism pay’ Subject: ‘Images and imagination in at the Maison Française. Conveners: Toby Brigitte Alfter, journalist, lecturer and theorising about law’ Garfitt,P hilippe Roussin, Nicolas Bianchi, author ENS Lyon 10 Jun: ‘Cross-border journalism – a new Subject: ‘How to write the Great War. method of collaborative reporting’ Francophone and Anglophone poetics during the war and its aftermath’ 480 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5092 • 22 April 2015

A conference will be held 10.30am–5pm on A conference will be held from 9.30am on Nacer Khemir, film director, writer and 2 May at Magdalen. Convener: Reidar Due 23 June to 1pm on 24 June at Corpus Christi. storyteller, will respond to questions Subject: ‘Liberal limits of liberalism’ Convener: Anna Marmodoro following the showing of his film at 8pm Subject: ‘Metaphysics of the Stoics: on 16 June, as part of the ‘Voix du Monde A conference will be held from 2pm on causes, principles and mereology’ Arabe’ series. Chair: Marina Warner 7 May to 1pm on 9 May. Conveners: Title: ‘Bab’ Aziz: Le Prince qui Catherine Darbo-Peschanski, Cristina Viano, A workshop will be held from 10am on contemplait son âme’ CNRS-Centre Robin-Université Paris IV, 26 June to 27 June at Ertegun House. Carlo Natali, Ca Foscari, Venice Conveners: Andrew Kahn, Kelsey Rubin- Edith Heard, Collège de France, will lecture Subject: ‘Actions and passions in Ancient Detlev at 1pm on 22 June at the Department of Greece’ Subject: ‘Enlightenment Biochemistry. Conveners: Mark Sansom, correspondences’ Francis Barr A conference will be held from 1.30pm on Subject: ‘Epigenetics dynamics 14 May to 3.30pm on 15 May at the A conference will be held 29–30 June at in development and disease: the Department of Politics and International the Bodleian Library. Convener: Clarisse x-inactivation paradigm’ Relations, Manor Road Building, Room F. Berthezène, Paris VII Conveners: Scot Peterson; Nicolas Subject: ‘Women, gender and the Seminar series Roussellier, Sciences Po–OXPO Programme Conservative Party, 1880s to the present’ Medieval French seminar Subject: ‘Broken constitutions? An Oxford garden and landscape history The French, British and American The following seminars will be given at workshop will be held 2–6pm on 3 July in constitutions in jeopardy’ 5.15pm on alternate Tuesdays, unless collaboration with TORCH, Hestercombe otherwise noted. Conveners: Daron A study day will be held 9am–7pm on Gardens and the Oxfordshire Gardens Trust. Burrows, Sophie Marnette, Helen Swift 15 May. Conveners: Jean-Alexandre Perras, Convener: Laurent Châtel, Paris-Sorbonne Marine Ganofsky, St Andrews Subject: ‘Le fameux Wild Garden (1870): Richard Trachsler, Zurich Subject: ‘Le siècle de la légèreté: the reception of William Robinson’ 28 Apr: ‘Comment naît un auteur émergences d’un paradigme du XVIIIe médiéval: le cas de Marie de France’ A conference will be held from 3pm on siècle français’ 9 July to 1pm on 11 July. Conveners: Laetitia Tabard, Maine An international conference will be held Jonathan Patterson; Emilia Wilton- 12 May: ‘L’énigme du débat’ 9.30am–6pm on 22 May. Conveners: Ann Godberfforde, Cambridge Edward Mills and Charles Roe Jefferson; DidierA lexandre, Labex Obvil/ Subject: ‘Vile beings, bodies and objects in 26 May: Presentation of research by MSt Paris Sorbonne early modern France (1500–1700)’ students Subject: ‘Vie privée et littérature/ Single lectures and readings literature and private life’ Interdisciplinary seminar Abdelfattah Kilito, writer and ancient Arab Seth Lerer, California at San Diego A workshop will be held 10am–12.30pm literature specialist, will give a reading at 5pm, 8 Jun, Taylor Institution: ‘What was on 27 May, funded by the Society for the 6pm on 28 April as part of the ‘Voix du late-medieval English poetry?’ History of Alchemy and Chemistry. Monde Arabe’ series. Respondent: Jane Subject: ‘Alchemical melodies’ Early modern French seminar Hiddleston. Chair: Michael Sheringham A conference will be held from 2.30pm on Subject: ‘L’équation du Chinois dans The following seminars will be given on 5 June to 3.30pm on 6 June. Conveners: Dites-moi le songe’ alternate Thursdays at 5.15pm. Conveners: Fabien Girard, Grenoble; Simone Glanert, Suzanne Jones, Jennifer Oliver, Caroline Denis Hollier, NYU, will lecture at Kent Warman, Wes Williams 5.15pm on 29 April. Conveners: Michael Subject: ‘Law’s hermeneutics: other Sheringham, Philippe Roussin Andrew Curran, Wesleyan investigations’ Subject: ‘Michel Leiris: de l’identité 30 Apr: ‘The religious Diderot’ A study day will be held 2.15–6pm on 8 June. autobiographique’ Wilda Anderson, Johns Hopkins Conveners: Michael Sheringham, Philippe Professor J B Shank will lecture at 2.30pm 14 May: ‘Conjecture versus hypothesis’ Roussin on 14 May. Convener: Nicholas Cronk Subject: ‘L’après-midi de Patrick Modiano’ 28 May: tbc Subject: ‘Emilie du Châtelet: philosopher A conference will be held from 9am on and encyclopédist’ 11 Jun: Graduate showcase 15 June to 6pm on 16 June. Conveners: Hoda Barakat, writer, will give a reading Modern French Seminar Catherine Darbo-Peschanski, Martin at 6pm on 3 June as part of the ‘Voix du Goodman, Katell Berthelot, GDRI: The following seminars will be given at Monde Arabe’ series. Chair: Mohamed-Salah JUDROME 5.15pm on alternate Thursdays. Conveners: Omri Subject: ‘Legal pluralism within the Nikolaj Lübecker, Ian Maclachlan, Jennifer Subject: ‘Ecrire dans une langue, vivre Roman empire and the perception of the Yee dans deux’ laws of the other’ Jane Hiddleston Pascal Durand, Liège, will lecture at 5.15pm A conference will be held from 2pm on 21 May: ‘Writing after postcolonialism: on 5 June. Conveners: Michael Sheringham, 18 June to 5.30pm on 19 June at TORCH, Francophone literature in North Africa Philippe Roussin Radcliffe Humanities Building. Conveners: since 1980’ Subject: ‘Mallarmé à Oxford: fiction des Nathalie Berny; Chris Rootes, Kent "Lettres" et réflexivité sociale’ Subject: ‘Learning from the past: environmental NGOs at a crossroads’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5092 • 22 April 2015 481

Alain Vaillant, Paris-Ouest Nanterre Cinema Public lectures 4 Jun: ‘Idéalisme ou matérialisme ? Les Films will be shown at 8pm on alternate All are welcome at the following events but paradoxes du romantisme français’ Tuesdays as part of the ‘Voix du Monde registration is required. 18 Jun: Graduate roundtable convened Arabe’ series. All films will be in French, with Thomas L Friedman, Pulitzer Prizewinning by Ed Still and Kate Etheridge French or English subtitles. New York Times journalist, will lecture Oxford history of alchemy and 5 May: Persepolis (cartoon film), Marjane on 27 April at the Sheldonian. To register: chemistry seminar Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, 2007, www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/event/2122. 91 min Subject: ‘The world is fast’ The following seminars will be given at 3pm on Wednesdays. 19 May: Azur et Asmar (cartoon film), Javier Garcia Martinez will lecture on Michel Ocelot, 2006, 95 min 5 May, followed by a drinks reception. 27 May: 17th-century alchemy. Chair: John To register: www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/ Christie 2 Jun: The Adventures of Prince Achmed event/2130. (cartoon film),L otte Reiniger, 1926, Georgiana Hedesan: ‘Quintessence and Subject: ‘Nanotechnology for energy: an 81 min the fire of nature: the alchemical roots of entrepreneurial perspective’ the “universal solvent” alkahest’ 16 Jun: Bab’ Aziz: Le Prince qui Major General (Rtd) Jonathan Shaw will contemplait son âme, followed by Q&A Judith Mawer, Goldsmiths: ‘The theo- lecture at 7.30pm on 12 May, followed by with the film’s director, Nacer Khemir magical roots of Thomas Vaughan's a drinks reception for members of IRSoc alchemy, as expounded in his Magia (membership is available on the night). Oxford Martin School Adamica or The Antiquitie of Magic To register: www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/ (1650)’ event/2129. The following events will take place at 5pm Subject: ‘The executive deficit at the heart 3 Jun: 17th–18th-century chemistry. Chair: in the Oxford Martin School, corner of Catte of Whitehall: the systemic failings of UK Margaret Pelling and Holywell Streets, unless otherwise government’ noted. Anna Marie Roos, Lincoln: ‘The Connie Hedegaard, former European chymistry of Francis Willughby (1635– Seminar series: Creating a climate for Commissioner for Climate Action, will 72): the Trinity College, Cambridge change: what’s at stake in global climate lecture on 18 May, followed by a drinks community’ negotiations reception. To register: www.oxfordmartin. Michael Bycroft, Warwick: ‘Rococo The following seminars are free and open ox.ac.uk/event/2120. science? Academic chemists and the to all but booking is recommended. More Subject: ‘Inside climate negotiations: a decorative arts in Paris, c1700–50’ information: www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/ personal perspective’ event/2030, [email protected]. 10 Jun: 20th-century chemistry. Chair: John Chris Woods, author, will lecture on 27 May, uk or 01865 287437. Convener: Professor Ian Perkins, Oxford Brookes followed by a drinks reception. To register: Goldin www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/event/2107. Linda Richards, Oregon State: ‘Frederick Professor Simon Caney Subject: ‘Sudden justice: America’s secret Soddy, alchemy and an atomic 30 Apr: ‘Realising human rights in a drone wars’ interpretation of human rights’ warming world’ Panel discussion Juan Andres Leon, Chemical Heritage Professor Steve Rayner Foundation: ‘The toxic mutants and Professor Brian Nolan, Dr Max Roser, 7 May: ‘Top-down or bottom-up: getting maritime creatures of the Gowanus: Dr Anders Sandberg and Professor traction on climate change’ urban topography, chemical Robert Walker will participate in an panel contamination and 21st-century Professor Richard Darton and Professor discussion on 11 May, followed a drinks environmental citizenship’ Steve Rayner reception. To register: www.oxfordmartin. 14 May: ‘Engineering a cooler planet: ox.ac.uk/event/2124. 17 Jun: 18th- and 19th-century chemistry. could we? Should we?’ Subject: ‘ “We’ve never had it so good” – Chair: Pietro Corsi how does the world today compare to Professor David Banister and Dr Malcolm Carolyn Cobbold, Cambridge: ‘The silent 1957?’ McCulloch introduction of synthetic dyestuffs into 21 May: ‘Sustainable transport: electric 19th-century food’ Oxford Institute of Population Ageing dreams vs carbon reality’ Julia Carr-Trebelhorn: ‘Vital networks Professor Cameron Hepburn Seminar series: Historical demography – and fulfilled expectations: tracing 28 May: ‘A wealthy, healthy planet: a place in modern demography Alexandre Brongniart’s path to the Sèvres creating green economic growth’ porcelain manufactory (1770–1800)’ The following seminars will be held at 2pm on Thursdays in the Seminar Room, 66 Banbury Road. Convener: Dr George Leeson Dr Siegfried Gruber, Graz 30 Apr: ‘Recovering surviving census records to reconstruct population, economic and cultural history of Europe’ 482 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5092 • 22 April 2015

Professor Tommy Bengtsson, Lund Colleges, Halls and Dr John O’Leary, Intel Corporation USA, 7 May: ‘Life under pressure: mortality Societies will deliver two Oliver Smithies Lectures. and living standards in Europe and Asia, 5pm, 11 May, Praefectus’s Study, 1700–1900?’ Holywell Manor, Manor Road: ‘Chips All Souls with confidence: computer science, Professor Andrew Chamberlain, electronics engineering and correct Manchester Orienting fiction: writers’ talks and designs’ 14 May: ‘Peopling the past: current seminar series studies in paleodemography’ 11am, 13 May, Lecture Room B, Wolfson The following seminars will be given at 5pm Building, Department of Computer Professor Simon Szreter, Cambridge in the Old Library, unless otherwise noted. Science: ‘Verification research + X = 21 May: ‘How much venereal disease Supported by Maison Française d’Oxford, impact’ was there in Georgian London? Can we Mohammed-Salah Omri and St John’s. estimate the population prevalence of Convener: Marina Warner Professor Elliott Horowitz, Bar Ilan, will STIs before the 20th century?’ deliver two Oliver Smithies Lectures at Professor Abdelfattah Kilito, Mohammad 5pm on the following Thursdays in Lecture 28 May: tbc V, Rabat Room XXIII. 3pm, 30 Apr, Hovenden Room: ‘Story- Dr Saskia Hin, Leuven 14 May: ‘An Anglican divine in the lands bearers: Dante and Sindbad’ 4 Jun: 'Marriage in crisis: WWI and of the Bible I: Thomas Shaw (1694–1751)’ behavioural change in Belgium’ Professor Marina Warner 28 May: ‘An Anglican divine in the lands 7 May: ‘Stories in motion/ways of Dr Noël Bonneuil, French National of the Bible II: William Jowett (1787– dwelling’ Institute for Demographic Studies 1855)’ 11 Jun: ‘Learning hygiene: mortality Professor Marina Warner patterns by religion in the Don Army 14 May: ‘ “The wondrous flitting” of the Green Templeton territory (Southern Russia), 1867–1916’ Holy House: Mary in England’ Archie Cochrane Lecture 2015 Professor Michel Oris, Geneva Professor Ibrahim al-Koni, novelist, Libya 18 Jun: ‘The history of migration as a 3pm, 21 May, Hovenden Room: ‘Vagabond Professor Nicholas J White will deliver the chapter in the history of the European homelands’ Archie Cochrane Lecture at 6pm on 11 June rural family’ in the E P Abraham Lecture Theatre. Professor Marina Warner Subject: ‘Malaria control: past, present 28 May: ‘Elissa the Wanderer: Dido in Ian Ramsey Centre and future’ Carthage’ GTC Future of Work (FoW) Seminar Ian Ramsey Centre/Humane Professor Hoda Barakat, novelist, Lebanon Series Philosophy Project seminar 3pm, 4 Jun, Hovenden Room: ‘La narration dangereuse: nos personnages The following lectures will be given at The following seminars will be given et la mise-en-abîme’ 12.30pm on Thursdays in the Barclay Room. at 8.30pm on Thursdays (preceded by refreshments at 8.15pm) at the Professor Nacer Khemir, writer, storyteller Peter Glover, UK Commission for Mathematical Institute, unless otherwise and film-maker, Tunisia Employment and Skills noted. Free and open to the public. 12 Jun: ‘Les deux labyrinthes: le récit des 7 May: ‘The future of work: jobs and skills Conveners: Dr A Pinsent, M Sławkowski- Mille et Une Nuits et la ville arabe’ in 2030’ Rode, R Weir Professor Marina Warner Michael Smets Professor Michal Heller, Pontifical 18 Jun: ‘A riddle princess: Turandot in 21 May: ‘The future of leadership: University of John Paul II Paris’ embracing the paradoxes of leadership 7 May, Blackfriars Aula: ‘From the Big and harnessing the power of doubt’ Bang to the gulag: how to justify the Balliol Tim Morris history of the universe’ 28 May: ‘Changing career structures and Oliver Smithies Lectures Sir Roger Penrose innovation in professional firms’ 14 May: ‘Consciousness and the Professor Keith Krause, Institute of Mark Graham foundations of physics’ International Studies and Development, 4 Jun:’Digital labour and development: Geneva, will deliver an Oliver Smithies Professor Hubert Dreyfus, Berkeley new knowledge economies or digital Lecture at 5pm on 28 April at the 4 Jun: ‘Dostoyevsky on how to save the sweatshops?’ Department of Politics and International sacred from science’ Relations. Hiram Samel Subject: ‘War, violence and the state: 11 Jun: ‘Volatility, organisational design between predation and protection’ and the global division of innovative labour’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5092 • 22 April 2015 483

Oxford Health Experiences Institute GTC Care Initiative IGS Annual Commemorative Lecture (HEXI) lecture Professor Naila Kabeer, LSE Conversation on Care 5pm, Weds 13 May, Simpkins Lee Lecture Ann McPherson Memorial Lecture The next Conversation on Care will be held Theatre: ‘Women’s empowerment and 2015 at 6pm on 3 June in the E P Abraham Lecture gender justice: contributing to locally Professor Ann Oakley, London, will deliver Theatre. Registration required: donna. grounded theories of social change’ the Ann McPherson Memorial Lecture at [email protected]. Dr Caroline Osella, SOAS, and Dr Jane 5pm on 11 May in the E P Abraham Lecture Subject: ‘Conversation on care and the Bristol-Rhys, Zayed Theatre. Registration required: yoland. market’ 21 May: ‘Asian, migrant, woman, queer: [email protected]. thinking beyond intersectionality’ Subject: ‘Voices of experience: reflections Keble on four decades of women’s health Dr Derek Hird, Westminster research’ Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture 28 May: ‘Discordant masculinities and the rise of China: transnational HEXI/MiM speaker series The Revd Lucy Winkett, Rector of St professionals in the UK’ James’s Piccadilly, will deliver the Eric Professor Tim Hoff, Northeastern, will Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture at 5.30pm Dr Silvia Posocco, Birkbeck lecture at 6pm on 18 May in the on 22 May in the chapel. 4 Jun: ‘On the queer necropolitics of E P Abraham Lecture Theatre. Registration Subject: ‘Blessed are the hypocrites? transnational adoption in Guatemala’ required: [email protected]. Saying sorry in a tell-all age’ Subject: ‘The patient as consumer: why Dr Gianfranco Rebucini, Brunel what’s good for health care business Advanced Studies Centre 11 Jun: ‘Masculinities and homoerotic might be bad medicine’ politics amongst Moroccan men’ Termly lecture Professor Richard Osborne, Deakin, Dr Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Cambridge Professor Tom Gilbert, Copenhagen, will will lecture at 5pm on 16 June in Lecture 18 Jun: ‘Exercising in comfort: the lecture at 5pm on 27 April in the O’Reilly Theatre 3, Mathematical Institute. Islamicate culture of mahremiyet in Lecture Theatre. Registration required: ruth.loseby@gtc. Turkish everyday life’ Subject: ‘The avian genome explosion ox.ac.uk. (3 ways to publish a pigeon)’ Subject: ‘Optimising health literacy Linacre (Ophelia): generating fit-for-purpose, Medieval Cluster lecture equitable health care service Tanner Lecture on Human Values Professor Ronald Hutton, Bristol, will improvements’ lecture at 5pm on 6 May in the Pusey Room. Professor Peter Singer, Ira W DeCamp Management in Medicine Programme Subject: ‘The wild hunt and the witches’ Professor of Bioethics, Princeton, will Workshops deliver the Tanner Lecture at 5.30pm on Networks Cluster lecture 9 June in the Andrew Wiles Building. To Professor Tim Hoff, Northeastern, will lead Alan Whitmore will lecture at 5pm on register: [email protected]. a workshop 9.30am–1pm on 16 May in the 18 June. Subject: ‘From moral neutrality to E P Abraham Lecture Theatre. To register: Subject: ‘What is network effective altruism: the changing scope [email protected]. pharmacology?’ and significance of moral philosophy’ Subject: ‘Building a high-performing health workforce: lessons from the US’ Lady Margaret Hall Lincoln Health Economics and Policy Seminar Series International Gender Studies seminars: John Wesley Lecture Global sexualities, queer ambiguities The following seminars will be given at Professor Jonathan C Clark, Hall 4.30pm on Thursdays in the Barclay Room, The following seminars will be given at Distinguished Professor of British History, unless otherwise noted. Hosted by the 2pm on Thursdays in the Talbot Hall, unless Kansas, will deliver the John Wesley Global Health Policy Programme, Green otherwise noted. Conveners: J Zubillaga- Lecture at 5pm on 26 May in the Oakeshott Templeton and the Blavatnik School of Pow, Dr A Raven-Roberts, Dr L Volcan, Dr J Room. All welcome. Government. Davies Subject: ‘John Wesley and Jacobitism’ Professor Rachel Griffiths, Manchester Dr Louise Livesey, Ruskin College Magdalen 7 May: ‘Gluttony and sloth in the UK: 30 Apr: ‘Conservatives, neoliberals patterns of food consumption and and queers: antagonisms in the British Bletchley Park Code Breakers energy expenditure over the past three academia’ decades’ Sir John Scarlett, former head, MI6, and Dr Paul Boyce, Sussex Chairman, Bletchley Park Trust; Ben Jishnu Das, World Bank 7 May: ‘Modernity, method and MSM: Macintyre, historian and author; and 21 May: ‘Quality and accountability in the Indian sexual subject as intangible Dr Andrew Hodges, author, will speak healthcare delivery: audit evidence from object’ 2.30–6pm on 6 June in the Auditorium. primary care providers in India’ Tickets £10. More information: www.magd. Professor Owen O’Donnell, Erasmus ox.ac.uk/alumni-event/code-breakers-at- 18 Jun, Board Room, Blavatnik School of bletchley-park. To register: anna.norman@ Government: ‘Measurement of medical magd.ox.ac.uk. expenditure risk’ Subject: ‘Code breaking at Bletchley Park’ 484 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5092 • 22 April 2015

Mansfield Professor Irena Kogan, Mannheim Dr Sara Kamali 3 Jun: tbc 25 May: ‘The real terrorism threat facing Adam von Trott Memorial Lecture the West and what to do about it’ Queen’s The Revd Dr Donald Norwood, United Dr Maya Collombon, Sciences Po Lyon Reformed Church, will deliver the Adam 8 Jun: ‘The Nicaragua canal project’ Book reading von Trott Memorial Lecture at 5pm on Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre 4 June. Professor Caryl Phillips, Yale, will read Subject: ‘Embattled beliefs’ from and discuss his new novel at 5.30pm Monday seminars: Religion in post- on 28 April in the Shulman Auditorium. To Soviet society and culture Nuffield register: [email protected] or The following seminars will be given at 5pm (2)79125. on Mondays in the Nissan Lecture Theatre. Political Science Seminars Title: The Lost Child Convener: Dr Oliver Ready The following seminars will be given at 5pm St Antony’s Dr Natascha Drubek, FU Berlin on Tuesdays in the Clay Room, Nuffield. 27 Apr: ‘Sacralising cinema: the timing of Organisers: Geoff Evans, SergiP ardos, James East Asia Seminar Series recent Russian film premieres’ Tilley The following seminars will be given at Professor John Garrard and Carol Garrard, Professor Sara Hobolt, LSE 5pm in the Dahrendorf Room, Founder’s Arizona 28 Apr: ‘Government responsiveness in Building, unless otherwise noted. Convener: 4 May: ‘Faith and fatherland: Russia’s the council of the European union’ Professor Rosemary Foot Christian warriors’ Professor Larry Bartels, Vanderbilt Book launch Professor Geoffrey Hosking, UCL SSEES 5 May: ‘The social welfare deficit: Nicola Horsburgh 11 May: ‘Forced secularisation and its preferences and policy in affluent 8 May: ‘China and the global nuclear consequences: religion in post-Soviet democracies’ order: from estrangement to active Russia’ Dr Adam Saunders engagement’ Hamid Ismailov, BBC 12 May: ‘Estimating the asset specificity Jennifer Hsu 18 May: ‘Islamic radicalisation as a theme of human capital: applications to the 19 May, Pavilion Room: ‘Opportunities in Uzbek literature, art and cinema’ study of comparative political economy’ and constraints for the expansion of Dr Anya Bernstein, Harvard Dr Chris Hanretty, East Anglia Chinese NGOs in sub-Saharan Africa: a 25 May: ‘Caution, religion! Iconoclasm, 19 May: ‘Appeals courts make judges case study of Ethiopia and Malawi’ secularism and ways of seeing in the work harder (and biased judges work Xi Hu post-Soviet art wars’ harder still)’ 26 May: ‘Exploring the drivers of Edmund Griffiths Professor Eva Anduiza, Autònoma de infrastructure development in China’ 1 Jun: ‘Can Aleksandr Dugin be called a Barcelona Thomas J Christensen, William P Bosworth religious thinker?’ 26 May: tbc Professor of World Politics of Peace and South Asia Seminar Series Sociology Seminars War and Director of China and the World Programme, Princeton The following seminars will be given at 2pm The following seminars will be given at 1pm, 11 Jun: ‘The China challenge: in the Fellows’ Dining Room, Hilda Besse 5pm on Wednesdays in the Clay Room, shaping the choices of a rising power’ Building. Convener: Dr Faisal Devji Nuffield. Organisers: MathieuI chou, Joseph Workman North American Studies Programme Prashant Keshavmurthy, McGill Seminar Series 28 Apr: ‘Translating Rāma as a proto- Professor Andrew Abbott, Chicago Muhammadan prophet: Mullāh Masih’s 29 Apr: ‘The problematic concept of The following seminars will be held Masnavi-ye Rām va Sitā’ inequality’ 5–6.30pm on Mondays in the Pavilion Seminar Room, Gateway Building, unless Mary King, Professor of Peace and Conflict Professor Lucinda Platt, LSE otherwise noted. All welcome. Convener: Dr Studies, UN-affiliated University for Peace, 6 May: tbc Halbert Jones Costa Rica Professor Doug Downey, Ohio State 5 May: ‘The 1924–5 Vykom Satyagraha, Dr Iván Farías, Oxford Brookes 13 May: tbc “conversion” and mechanisms of change’ 4 May, Syndicate Room: ‘The limits of Professor Heike Sola (with Jan Paul the dispute settlement mechanisms in Jan-Peter Hartung, SOAS Heisig), FU Berlin NAFTA’ 12 May: ‘Networks of faith and action: 20 May: ‘Skills gaps by educational making sense of frontier Deobandiyyat’ Professor Susan Pozo, Western Michigan degrees and their impact on labour 11 May: ‘Immigration enforcement, J B P More, Paris market allocation: an international parent–child separations and intent 19 May: ‘Origin and foundation of Madras: comparison’ to remigrate by Central American the first modern city ofI ndia’ Dr Laurence Lessard-Phillips, Manchester deportees’ George Malagaris 27 May: ‘Post-graduation employment Professor Pamela Starr, Southern 26 May: ‘The Ghaznavids: medieval outcomes of ethnic minorities in British California realities and modern myths’ elite universities: is “getting in” enough?’ 18 May: ‘Bringing energy into NAFTA’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5092 • 22 April 2015 485

Kama Maclean, New South Wales Thomas Gold, Berkley Norman Davies, Taja Vovk van Gaal, 2 Jun: ‘Non-violence, anti-colonial 16 Jun, Pavilion Room: ‘China in the fields House of European History, Brussels, and violence and communal violence: of Taiwan’ Kalypso Nicolaïdis exploring the dialectic’ 26 May: ‘European stories after the crisis: European Studies Centre (ESC) what narrative?’ Suryakant Waghmore, Tata Institute of The following seminars will be held at 5pm Social Science Professor Timothy Garton Ash; Professor in the Seminar Room, ESC, 70 Woodstock 9 Jun: ‘On the banality of caste violence: Paul Betts; Professor Ian Brown; Dr Faisal Road, unless otherwise noted. Admission is why hierarchy is far from over for Dalits Devji; Dr Leslie Dunton-Downer, American free and no registration required. in Marathwada’ Academy in Berlin; and Dr Kristoffer Professor Craig Calhoun, Director, LSE Gansing, Artistic Director, transmediale, Sanghamitra Choudhury 1 May, Nissan Lecture Theatre: ‘The Berlin 16 Jun: ‘Women in conflict situations: dream of a democratic public in Britain 5 Jun: ‘Surveillance culture: Berlin, the a study of north-east India focusing on and Europe’ Cold War and the post-Snowden era’ Assam’ James Dennison Conference Southeast Asia Seminar Series 12.30pm, 4 May: ‘Still strategic A conference will be held from 8.30am on The following seminars will be given at Eurosceptics and polite xenophobes? 19 June to 2pm on 20 June in the Seminar 2pm on Wednesdays in the Deakin Room, UKIP voters in European elections and Room, European Studies Centre. Speakers: Founder’s Building, unless otherwise general elections compared’ Paul Betts; Jan Eckel, Freiburg; Ilana noted). Convener: Dr Matthew J Walton Danijela Dolenec, Zagreb Feldman, George Washington; Suzanne Matt Schissler, independent scholar, 6 May: ‘Democratisation in southeast Franks, City; Valérie Gorin, Geneva; Rose Myanmar Europe – without class conflict?’ Holmes, Sussex; Maria Kyriakidou, East 29 Apr: ‘Rumors, riots and taxis: the Anglia; Patrick Merziger, Leipzig; Daniel Peter Montagnon, Director, Institute of politics of Myanmar’s new media Palmieri, ICRC, Geneva; Hilary Roberts, Business Ethics infrastructure’ Imperial War Museum; Jean Seaton, 11 May: ‘Rebuilding trust in banks: Westminster; Katharina Stornig, Mainz; Juliette Koning, Oxford Brookes beyond regulation and governance’ Ulrike Weckel, Gießen; Tobias Weidner, 13 May: ‘Pentecostalism in Indonesia: Patrick Honohan, Governor, Central Bank Göttingen; Heike Wieters, Berlin stories about conversion, experience, of Ireland Subject: ‘Humanitarianism and the prosperity and belonging’ 12 May: ‘The political economy of the media, 1900–2015’ Adam Ng Irish “bailout” ’ Programme on Modern Poland 20 May, Syndicate Room: ‘Transforming Jeromin Zettelmeyer, Director-General, the Islamic finance landscape in The following seminars will be held in the Economic Policy, Federal Ministry of Malaysia: contribution of policymakers’ Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Economic Affairs, Germany Woodstock Road, unless otherwise noted. Phylls Ferguson, Oxford Transitional 14 May: ‘Policy options for raising public Free; no registration required. Justice Research investment in Germany’ 27 May: ‘Revisiting women’s politics and Professor Piotr Kosicki, Maryland, will Vicky Price, Chief Economic Adviser, CEBR the rule of law in Timor-Leste’ lecture at 1pm on 11 May. 15 May: ‘Saving the economy: what Subject: ‘Tadeusz Mazowiecki (1927– Lorraine Paterson, visiting scholar should Greece do next?’ 2013): the life and death of the Catholic 10 Jun: ‘The alchemist of exile: writing Matteo Garavoglia, Centre for International third way’ the life of Vietnamese political deportee’ Studies Professor Leszek Jesien, Institute of Taiwan Studies Programme 12.30pm, 18 May: ‘EU election International Relations and Sustainable observation missions: a supranationalist Film Screening Development, Collegium Civitas, Warsaw; opportunity for Europe's foreign policy?’ and Dr Michał Kurtyka, Warsaw, will The following films will be shown at 2pm Peter Taylor lecture at 5pm on 28 May. Discussant: Peter in the Nissan Lecture Theatre. Convener: 18 May: ‘The insurance market: ensuring Vis. Feng-yi Chu performance, reputation and trust’ Subject: ‘Electricity. Poland's contribution 31 May: The right thing to European energy doctrine’ Tariq Ramadan 7 Jun: The will the power 19 May, Nissan Lecture Theatre: ‘Muslim Tomasz Rozycki will read his poems at democrats after Charlie’ 5pm on 5 June in St Anne’s. Free; tickets/ Seminars programmes available from main lodge one Sarah Snyder, American University The following seminars will be given at 5pm week before the performance. 20 May: ‘ “Causing us real trouble”: the in the Syndicate Room, unless otherwise 1967 coup in Greece’ A students’ conference will be held noted. Convener: Feng-yi Chu beginning at 10am on 11–12 June. Convener: 2pm, 21 May: Graduate student workshop Michelle Hsieh, Taiwan Academia Sinica Dr Mikolaj Kunicki 9 Jun: ‘Miracle or mirage? Taiwanese Richard Bessel, York Subject: ‘Modernities, transformations SMEs in the new millennium’ 4pm, 22 May: ‘20th-century European and evolving identities in post-1945 violence’ Poland’ Shu-mei Shih, UCLA 15 Jun: ‘Comparatising Taiwan’ 486 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5092 • 22 April 2015

St Cross Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, renowned politician, Interdisciplinary colloquium diplomat, and former president of Latvia There will be an interdisciplinary Lorna Casselton Memorial Lecture (1999–2007), will talk autobiographically colloquium 10.30am–6pm on Saturday, about her life and career at 5.30pm on Professor Sir Paul Nurse, President of the 30 May. Speakers: Dr Nicholas Allen, Dr 29 May in the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium. Royal Society and Nobel Laureate, will Martin Henig, Dr Judith McKenzie, Dr deliver the 2015 Lorna Casselton Memorial Lyndsey Jenkins will speak about her new Christopher Metcalf, Julia Nikolaus, Lucia Lecture at 5pm on 15 May in Lecture book at 5.30pm on 2 June in the Buttery, Nixon, Dr Nicholas Ray, Dr Alan Ross, Theatre 1, Mathematical Institute. Free followed by a drinks reception. Dublin, Dr Susan Walker and Professor admission but ticket required: www.stx. Subject: ‘The hunger games: Constance Barbara Borg, Exeter. Free for members of ox.ac.uk/lorna-casselton-memorial-lecture- Lytton, Jane Warton and the suffragettes’ the research cluster, £34 for others for full booking-form. day including lunch; half day £14.50. Details: Victoria van Hyning will introduce, play Subject: ‘Science as revolution’ www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/clusters/ancient- and lead a discussion on Anne Sexton’s last world. Convener: Dr Peter Barber public reading in 1974 at 5.30pm on 9 June Wolfson Subject: ‘Landscapes and culture’ in the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium. Subject: ‘Re-reading with Anne Sexton’ Wolfson Berlin Lecture Blackfriars Hall The author in the popular imagination Dr Henry Hardy will deliver the Wolfson seminar Lecture series Berlin Lecture at 6pm on 28 May. Ann Jefferson and Geoffrey Wall, York, Subject: ‘The genius and the pedant: The theology of corporate finance will lead the third session in this series at working with Isaiah Berlin’ 5.30pm on 15 June in the Haldane Room. Dr Michael Black, former Managing Public Lecture Organiser: Joanna Neilly Director, American Stock Exchange, will Subject: ‘The author in the medical deliver a series of 8 lectures on the moral Professor Bryan Sykes will lecture at imagination’ theology of corporate finance at 11am on 6pm on 21 May in the Leonard Wolfson Wednesdays throughout Trinity term in the Auditorium. Life-Writing Lunch Aula. Subject: ‘The nature of the beast: genetic Joanna Kavenna will speak at a lunch evidence for Yeti, Bigfoot and other event at 1pm on 16 June in the Haldane Regent’s Park mystery creatures’ Room. Free entry. To register: www. oxforduniversitystores.co.uk (via product Oxford Centre for Life-Writing Oxford Centre for Christianity and catalogue, select ‘Oxford Centre for Life- Culture John Bak, Lorraine Paterson and Jennifer Writing’; event is listed under seminars). A Cooke, visiting scholars, will present their sandwich lunch will be provided. Public lecture series: Where current life-writing projects at 5.30pm on theology meets pedagogy Ancient World Research Cluster 7 May in the Florey Room. The following lectures will be given at 5pm Subjects: ‘Editing Tennessee Williams’ Lectures on Tuesdays in the Collier Room. Conveners: ur-memoirs’ (Bak); ‘ “The alchemist ¸ The following lectures will be given in Dr Elina Write, Dr Mark Chater of exile”:the life of Nguyê˜n Văn Câm Wolfson. Convener: Dr Peter Barber (a political prisoner from northern Professor John Sullivan, Liverpool Hope Vietnam)’ (Paterson); ‘The new audacity: Dr Mark Merrony 28 Apr: ‘Living tradition and learning contemporary women’s life-writing and 5.30pm, 6 May: ‘Archaeologists, collectors agency: interpreting the score and the politics of intimacy’ (Cooke) and museums: redressing the ethical personal rendition’ divide’ Siddartha Bose will be discussing his work Dr Maria James, Teaching Fellow, St Mary’s in poetry, film and theatre at 5.30pm on Dr Michael Macdonald 12 May: ‘Theopraxis – a moral and 14 May in the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium. 5.30pm, 22 May: ‘Leaving one’s mark: theological practice in education?’ Subject: ‘Memory as imagination in a writing and drawing around an Arabian Dr Mark Chater, Culham St Gabriel’s globalised world’ oasis from the Babylonians to the present 19 May: ‘ “All the people hung upon his day’ A full-day workshop, beginning at 10am word”: was Jesus a good teacher?’ on 16 May, will focus on the challenges Professor Barbara Borg, Exeter Professor Andrew Wright, IOE contradictory accounts about their 5pm, 30 May: ‘Mapping the social history 2 Jun: ‘Kierkegaard, justification and the subjects’ lives pose to life-writers. Tickets: of Rome: a topographical approach to integrity of Christian education’ £70 (£55 unwaged). Led by Hermione action and interaction in an ancient Lee, Elleke Boehmer, Rebecca Abrams, mega-city’ Dr Andrew Moore Kate McLoughlin and Jacob Dahl. 9 Jun: ‘Theology and the conflict of the Professor Jas' Elsner More information and to register: www. faculties’ 5pm, 11 Jun: ‘Relic, icon and architecture: oxforduniversitystores.co.uk (select the material articulation of the holy in Professor Trevor Cooling, Canterbury ‘Oxford Centre for Life-Writing’ under east Christian art’ Christ Church product catalogue; event is listed under 16 Jun: ‘What would Jesus do? Jesus, ‘workshops’). the kingdom of God and the school Subject: ‘Disputed lives’ community’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (2) to No 5092 • 22 April 2015 487

St Stephen's House Other Groups Beatrice Blackwood Evening William Dalrymple and Vidya Shah will Oxford Summer School lecture at 5.45pm for 6.15–9pm on 5 June Friends of the Bodleian in the Museum of Natural History Lecture A summer school will be held 26–29 July Theatre and Pitt Rivers Museum Court. on the ethics of animal experimentation. Lectures Entry via Museum of Natural History. Speakers include: The Revd Professor The following lectures will be given at 1pm Tickets: £16 from Oxford Playhouse or Pitt Adrian McFarlane, International at the Bodleian Library. Rivers Museum shop. University of the Caribbean; Dr Kay Subject: ‘The last Mughal’ Peggs, Portsmouth; Professor Kurt Dr Derek McCulloch, translator, Remele, Graz; Dr Les Mitchell, Fort Hare; musicologist and proprietor, Café Mozart Professor Lisa Isherwood, Winchester; 26 May, Convocation House: ‘The Dr Kenneth Valpey; The Ven Professor “German Erato” revisited’ Alex Bruce, ANU; Dr Linda Johnson, A E Dick Howard, Virginia Michigan-Flint; Professor Stephen 5 Jun, Lecture Theatre, Weston Library: Eisenman, Northwestern; and Professor ‘Magna Carta’s American journey’ Gary Comstock, North Carolina State. More information and to register: www. Oxford Italian Association oxfordanimalethics.com/what-we-do/ summer-school-2015. Clara Florio Cooper Memorial Lecture Subject: ‘The ethics of using animals in research’ Professor Carlo Caruso, Durham, will deliver the Clara Florio Cooper Memorial Lecture at 5pm on 14 May in the Main Hall, Taylor Institution. Admission free. Subject: ‘War, hunger and censorship: Italian as seen through the letters of Italian POWs in the Great War’ Lectures The following lectures will be given at 8pm on Wednesdays. Admission: members £2, non-members £5, students under 30 free. Paolo Gheri will lecture on his watercolours on 20 May in the Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne’s. The pictures will be on display in the Foyer Gallery of the lecture theatre 20 May–2 June. Professor John Foot will lecture on 10 June in the Pauling Centre for Human Sciences, 58a Banbury Road. Subject: ‘Football and national identity: the 1982 World Cup’ Film The filmLa mafia uccide solo d’estate (Diliberto) will be shown at 8pm on 1 May at Rewley House. Admission £2.

Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum

Professor Robin Dunbar will lecture at 6pm for 6.30–7.45pm on 13 May in the Pitt Rivers Museum New Extension, Robinson Close, South Parks Road. Subject: ‘How we came to be human’