Lectures and Seminars Hilary Term 2012
WEDNESday 11 january 2012 • SUPPLEMENT (1) TO No. 4973 • Vol 142 Gazette Supplement
Lectures and seminars, Hilary term 2012
Humanities Social Sciences
Faculty of Classics 183 School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography 190 Faculty of English Language and Literature 183 Sub-faculty of Archaeology 192 Faculties of English, History of Art, Music and Theology 184 Saïd Business School 192 Faculty of History 184 Department of Economics 192 Faculties of History and Modern Languages and the Centre Department of Education 192 for the Book, Bodleian Library 184 School of Geography and the Environment 193 History of Art Department 185 School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies 193 Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics 185 Department of International Development 193 Faculties of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics and Faculty of Law 194 Medieval and Modern Languages 185 Department of Politics and International Relations 195 Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages 185 Department of Social Policy and Social Work 196 Faculty of Music 186 Department of Sociology and Oxford Network for Social Faculty of Oriental Studies 186 Inequality Research 196 Faculty of Philosophy 186 Faculty of Theology 186 Institutes, Centres and Museums
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Rothermere American Institute 197 Bodleian Libraries 197 Department of Chemistry 187 Botanic Garden and Harcourt Arboretum 198 Department of Engineering 188 Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies 198 Department of Materials 188 Hebrew and Jewish Studies Unit 198 Mathematical Institute 188 Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies 198 Department of Physics 188 Museum of the History of Science 199 Department of Plant Sciences 188 International Gender Studies Centre 199 Department of Zoology 189 Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies 199 Latin American Centre 199 Medical Sciences Oxford Learning Institute 200 Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism 189 McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics and Public Life 200 Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences 189 Maison Française 200 Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics,R heumatology and Oxford Martin School 201 Musculoskeletal Sciences 189 Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) 202 Sir William Dunn School of Pathology 189 Oxford Institute of Population Ageing 202 Department of Pharmacology 190 Institute for Science, Innovation and Society 202 Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics 190 Centre for Socio-Legal Studies 202 Department of Psychiatry 190
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Colleges and Halls
All Souls 203 Balliol 203 Hertford 203 Keble 203 Kellogg 203 Lady Margaret Hall 203 Linacre 203 Mansfield 204 Nuffield 204 St Antony’s 204 St Catherine’s 206 St John’s College Research Centre 206 Somerville 206 Trinity 206 Wolfson 206 Campion Hall 207
Other Groups
Oxford Asian Textile Group 207 University Assessor in association with Oxford University Student Union 207 Oxford Intelligence Group 207 Oxford Italian Association 207 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4973 • 11 January 2012 183
Professor Robert Rouse, British Columbia Humanities Virginia Woolf Seminar 7 Mar.: ‘ “ful of riche spicerie”: narrating the Dr Sowon S Park will give the following late-medieval English mercantile world’ Faculty of Classics seminar at 5.15 pm on 30 January in the Habakkuk Room, Jesus. Convener: Oren Twentieth and Twenty-First APGRD lectures Goldschmidt. Century Seminar The following lectures will be given at Subject: ‘Virginia Woolf and cognitive The following seminars will be given at 5 pm on Mondays in the Auditorium, Corpus science’ 5.15 pm on Wednesdays in the Senior Christi, unless otherwise noted. Early Modern Literature Graduate Common Room, English Faculty. Conveners: Peter Brown Seminar Dr Beasley, Professor Bush and Dr Marcus. 23 Jan.: 'Terence's Andria from Machiavelli The following seminars will be given at 5 pm Wim Van Mierlo, London to Thornton Wilder' on Tuesdays in the Breakfast Room, Merton. 25 Jan.: ‘The making of the Waste Land’ Conveners: Sharon Achinstein, Paulina Robert Crawford, poet Delia De Sousa Correa, Open Kewes, David Norbrook, Emma Smith and 6 Feb.: 'Simonides and the war on 8 Feb.: ‘Literature and music: listening to Bart van Es. terror'. Accompanied by an exhibition of Katherine Mansfield’ photographs by Norman McBeath. Raphael Lyne, Cambridge John McCourt, Trieste 17 Jan.: ‘Attention, performance, and the Jonathan Bate 22 Feb.: tbc 2.15 pm, 20 Feb., Lecture Theatre, 66 St early modern stage ghost’ Postcolonial Writing and Theory Giles': 'Ted Hughes and Greek tragedy' Martin Dzelzainis, Leicester Seminar 31 Jan.: 'Marlowe's Massacre at Paris: inside Faculty of English Language and the "royal cabinet" ' The following seminars will be given at Literature 5.15 pm on Thursdays in the Old Seminar 14 Feb.: Discussion of Stephen Greenblatt’s Room, Wadham. Conveners: Professor The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began Special Lecture Boehmer and Dr Mukherjee. (in anticipation of CEMS conference with Professor Judith Baumel will deliver the Professor Greenblatt, 15–16 May) Stephanie Newell, Sussex following lecture at 5 pm on 30 January in 26 Jan.: ‘ “Mr Wallace Johnson pure and Victoria Moul, KCL Lecture Theatre 2, English Faculty. simple?”: an absurd performance of 28 Feb.: tbc Subject: ‘Posthumously prolific: Elizabeth colonial identity in the British West African Bishop at 100’ Medieval English Research Seminar courts’ McKenzie Lecture The following seminars will be given at Clare Barker, Birmingham 5.15 pm on Wednesdays in the History of the 9 Feb.: ‘Postcolonial interdisciplinarity and Professor John B Thompson, Professor Book Room, English Faculty. Conveners: Dr Disability Studies’ of Sociology, Cambridge, will deliver the Ashe and Professor Gillespie. McKenzie Lecture at 5 pm on 8 February in Ziad Elmarsafy, York Convocation House, Bodleian Library. Professor Martin Camargo, Illinois 1 Mar.: ‘The literature and culture of the Subject: ‘Merchants of culture’ 18 Jan.: ‘Chaucer and the Oxford New Egypt’ renaissance of Anglo-Latin rhetoric’ Seminars Christian Thompson Professor Catherine Clarke, Swansea and 8 Mar.: The leading Aboriginal Australian Restoration to Reform Research Southampton artist and interrogator of the colonial Seminar 25 Jan.: ‘Place, text, fragment: illuminating archive will talk about his work St John’s, Chester’ The following seminars will be given at American Literature Research 5.15 pm on Mondays in the Dorfman Room, Dr Helen Brookman Seminar St Peter’s. Conveners: Dr Christine Gerrard, 1 Feb.: ‘ “Perhaps Miss Jessie is not an The following seminars will be given at Dr Freya Johnston, Dr Abigail Williams, Dr expert in these matters”: the Arthurian 5.15 pm on Thursdays in the Rothermere Kathryn Murphy, Professor Ros Ballaster arguments of Jessie L Weston and Robert American Institute. Conveners: Dr Reena and Dr Nicole Pohl. Steele’ Sastri and Dr Julie Taylor. William Gibson Professor Renée Trilling, Illinois and KCL Dr Julie Taylor 23 Jan.: ‘The greatest literary endeavour of 8 Feb.: ‘Selfhood and the embodiment of 2 Feb.: ‘ “Not much of any other State”: the age: sermons in Britain 1689–1830’ the Anglo-Saxon soul’ Djuna Barnes and the ubiquity of Natalie Zimpfer Professor Helen Fulton, York happiness’ 6 Feb.: ‘Theology and literature in the long 15 Feb.: ‘Uses of Troy in the legendary Dr Michael Snediker, Queen’s, Canada eighteenth century’ history of Britain’ 16 Feb.: ‘ “The Other House” and The Other Freya Johnston Dr Neil Cartlidge, Durham House: Henry James and the trans-generic’ 20 Feb.: ‘Thomas Love Peacock: the end of 22 Feb.: ‘Devils in silk: using and abusing Professor Michael Schmidt, Glasgow history’ the law in late medieval literature’ 1 Mar.: ‘Spectrum: the American poetry Mary Favret Professor A S G Edwards, De Montfort wars and transatlantic reception’ 5 Mar.: ‘Number, scale, feeling: 29 Feb.: ‘The present state of Middle representing the war dead from the Seven English Manuscript Studies’ Years’ War to the wars with Napoleon’ 184 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4973 • 11 January 2012
Literature and Medicine Seminar Hussey Seminar Professor Aleksander Fiut, Krakow Series Dr Eyal Poleg, Edinburgh 24 Jan. (Modern Languages Faculty, 20 Feb.: ‘Beyond search engines: the Ground Floor Lecture Room, 47 Wellington The following seminars will be given at medieval Bible in liturgy and preaching’ Sq): ‘Czesław Miłosz: Gulliver of the 20th 6.15 pm on Thursdays in the E P Abraham century’ Lecture Theatre, Green Templeton. Michael Sommer Conveners: Professor Friend and Professor 5 Mar.: ‘The theology of Bach's Richard Butterwick, London Maguire. Johannespassion’ 31 Jan.: ‘The Polish revolution and the Catholic Church, 1788–92: a problem in Dr M A Katritzky, Open Faculty of History political history’ 19 Jan.: ‘Magical impotence on the Jacobean stage’ Robert Frost, Aberdeen Harmsworth Lecture 7 Feb.: ‘On unions’ Dr Joanne Winning, Birkbeck Philip Morgan, Harry C Black Professor 2 Feb.: ‘Understanding communication Daniel C Waugh, Washington of History, Johns Hopkins, will deliver the in the clinical encounter (via Margaret 14 Feb.: ‘Foreign news and intelligence Harmsworth Lecture at 5 pm on 30 January Edson’s wit)’ networks in 17th-century Muscovy’ in the Examination Schools. Eleanor De Camp Subject: ‘A tale of two Hamiltons: North Samuel Feinauer, Stuttgart 16 Feb.: ‘Representing barber–surgeons on American–Caribbean crossings’ 21 Feb.: ‘The Toruń Tumult of 1724: the Shakespearean stage’ reactions in European diplomacy and James Ford Lectures in British History media’ Dr Andrew Blades Making a revolution in Ireland, 1 Mar.: ‘ “Cell by cell”: James Merrill, AIDS, Oxford Architectural History Seminar c.1890–1916 and the poetry of the body’ The following seminars will be held at Professor Roy Foster will deliver the James Centre for Early Modern Studies 5.30 pm on Mondays in the EPA Lecture Ford Lectures at 5 pm on the following days Theatre, Lady Abraham House (Lincoln), Representing the Early Modern in the Examination Schools. Museum Road. Professor Peter Mack, Director, Warburg 20 Jan.: ‘Growing: becoming a John Goodall, Architectural Editor, Country Institute, will lecture at 1 pm on 9 February revolutionary generation’ Life in the Hawkins Room, Merton. 27 Jan.: ‘Learning: education and 30 Jan.: ‘A forgotten cathedral: Thornton Subject: ‘The library and photographic politicisation’ Abbey, Lincolnshire’ collection of the Warburg Institute as 3 Feb.: ‘Playing: theatre and radicalisation’ research instruments’ 10 Feb.: ‘Loving: networks of affection’ David Lewis 17 Feb.: ‘Writing: propaganda, polemic and 27 Feb.: ‘Giles Scott and the search for Universities in Historical Context debate’ universal architecture’ The following seminars will be given on 24 Feb.: ‘Fighting: volunteering, organising Thursdays at 1 pm in the Hawkins Room, and dying’ Faculties of History and Modern Merton. Languages and the Centre for the Book, Carlyle Lectures Bodleian Library Professor G R Evans, Cambridge A republican political philosophy: 26 Jan.: 'Dumbing down? Did that happen Cicero and Rome Seminar on the History of the Book in early modern universities?' 1450–1800 Malcolm Schofield, Professor of Ancient Professor Robin Briggs Philosophy, Cambridge, will deliver the The following seminars will be held at 1 Mar.: 'Academic freedom, past and Carlyle Lectures at 5 pm on the following 2.15 pm on Fridays in the Wharton Room, All present' days in the Examination Schools. Souls. Convener: Professor I W F Maclean. Faculties of English, History of Art, 18 Jan.: ‘The idea of liberty’ Dr William Poole Music and Theology 25 Jan.: ‘Governing a commonwealth’ 20 Jan.: ‘John Fell’s New Year books’ 1 Feb.: ‘Law, justice, empire and Mr Mark Purcell, National Trust The Bible in Art, Music and Literature cosmopolitanism’ 27 Jan.: ‘The private library in Ireland seminar series 8 Feb.: ‘The right and the expedient: before the Union’ tyrannicide and other decisions’ The following seminars will be given at 5 pm 15 Feb.: ‘Republican virtues’ Professor Nicholas Cronk in the Danson Room, Trinity. Conveners: Dr 22 Feb.: ‘Philosophy and politics: Cicero's 3 Feb.: ‘The problem of “complete works”: Susanne Sklar and Dr Christine Joynes. noble lie’ the case of Voltaire’ Professor J Cheryl Exum, Sheffield East and East-Central Europe Seminar Professor Jane Everson, Royal Holloway 23 Jan.: ‘Art and the exegete’ – Remapping Early Modern Europe: A 10 Feb.: ‘The Italian Academies 1525–1700: Professor Philip Esler, St Mary’s, Focus on Central and Eastern Europe a themed collection database and its London research applications’ The following seminars will be given at 6 Feb.: ‘Pacino di Bonaguida’s “Tree of 5 pm on Tuesdays in the Trevor-Roper Professor Raphaële Mouren, Lyon-ENSSIB Life”: interpreting the Bible in paint in early Room, History Faculty, except where noted. 17 Feb.: ‘The humanist editor as author’ fourteenth-century Italy’ Conveners: Virginia Dillon and Christian Preusse. University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4973 • 11 January 2012 185
Professor Mario Infelise, Venice 18 Jan.: ‘The perfect gift’ Dr Elinor Payne 24 Feb.: ‘ “Masters of Books”: state 25 Jan.: ‘Gifts to (and from) God’ 1 Mar.: ‘The acquisition of prosodic timing censorship in Venice during the Counter- 1 Feb.: ‘The sovereign gift’ in Spanish and Catalan’ Reformation’ 8 Feb.: ‘The objects of gift (1)’ Dr Sandra Paoli 15 Feb.: ‘The objects of gift (2)’ Ms Gaye Morgan 8 Mar.: ‘Emergence and loss: a case study 22 Feb.: ‘Gifts, treasures, rarities’ 2 Mar.: ‘Bookbinding in Oxford in the long of Romance object clitics’ 29 Feb.: ‘The afterlives of gifts: entropy and sixteenth century’ rebranding’ Faculty of Medieval and Modern Ms Susanna Berger 7 Mar.: ‘Gifts in theory, gifts in practice’ Languages 9 Mar.: ‘Early Modern French and Italian illustrated philosophical thesis prints and Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Italo Svevo Film Festival broadsides’ Phonetics To mark the 150th anniversary of Italo History of Art Department General Linguistics Seminar Svevo's birth, the following films based on the work or life of the Triestine writer The following seminars will be given at 5 pm Departmental Research Seminar will be shown on Wednesdays at 7.30 pm on Mondays in Room 2, Taylor Institution. in the Lecture Theatre, Rewley House. All The following seminars will be given at Conveners: Dr A Asudeh, Dr S Paoli. welcome, admission free. Further details: 5 pm on Tuesdays in the lecture theatre, 2nd Dr Adam Ledgeway, Cambridge [email protected]. Conveners: Dr G Floor, Littlegate House, St Ebbes. Convener: 16 Jan.: ‘From Latin to Romance: changing Stellardi and Ms M Deganutti. Dr H Grootenboer. patterns of configurationality’ 18 Jan.: L’assassinio di Via Belpoggio, dir. Dr Sarah Monks, East Anglia Dr Kerstin Hoge Alberto Guiducci, 2004, 25 min., Italian with 31 Jan.: ‘ “Slippery Blisses”: same-sex desire 23 Jan.: ‘Wh-acquisition in German’ English subtitles in Thomas Lawrence’s portraiture ‘ La conscience de Svevo, dir. Nathalie Combe Dr S J Hannahs, Newcastle Professor Joanna Woodall, Courtauld and Yann Sinic, 2000, 42 min., French with 30 Jan.: ‘The importance of Welsh feet’ 14 Feb.: ‘Hendrick Goltzius’s Herculean Italian subtitles body‘ Dr Ayesha Kidwai, New Delhi Italo Svevo – Ricordi, dir. Livio Manzin, 6 Feb.: ‘Hindi and Bangla finite 19 min., in Italian Professor Michael Lobel, SUNY Purchase complements: extraposition, scrambling Guarire dalla cura. Italo Svevo e la medicina, 28 Feb.: ‘Impasse des Deux Frères: Van and Wh-construal’ by Riccardo Cepach and Francesco Gogh on Montmartre’ Montenero, 2008, 33 min., in Italian Mr John Lowe Art History Research Seminar 13 Feb.: ‘Second position clitics: explaining 25 Jan.: Senilità, dir. Mauro Bolognini, 1962, The following seminars will be given at their “movement” ’ 1 hr 47 min., in Italian 5 pm on Tuesdays in the lecture theatre, Dr Eleanor Coghill, Konstanz 1 Feb.: La coscienza di Zeno, dir. Luigi 2nd Floor, Littlegate House. Conveners: Dr 20 Feb.: ‘The rise and fall of ergativity in Squarzina and Daniele D’Anza, with Alberto C Payne, Oxford Brookes, Dr C Whistler and Aramaic’ Lionello, 1966, 1 hr 45 min., in Italian (Part 1). Dr A Wright. Dr Luisa Marti, QMUL (with Klaus Abels, 8 Feb.: La coscienza di Zeno, dir. Luigi Dr Michelle O’Malley, Sussex UCL) Squarzina and Daniele D’Anza, with Alberto 24 Jan.: ‘Quality choices and management 27 Feb.: ‘Syntactic deficiencies of Lionello, 1966, 1 hr 45 min., in Italian (Part 2) in the workshop: the case of Botticelli’ propositional quantification’ 15 Feb.: La coscienza di Zeno, dir. di Sandro Dr Jaś Elsner Professor Hagit Borer, QMUL Bolchi, with Johnny Dorelli, 1988, 2 hrs 7 Feb.: ‘Green curtains and picture covers: 5 Mar.: ‘Roots and categories’ 55 min., in Italian towards an archaeology of the pictorial closet’ 22 Feb.: Il seduttore filantropo, dir. Gianni Faculties of Linguistics, Philology and Lepre, 1986, 1 hr 25 min., in Italian Professor Bernard Richards Phonetics and Medieval and Modern 21 Feb.: ‘Pictorial intertextuality: allusive Languages 29 Feb.: Un marito, dir. Gianfranco De Bosio, references to paintings in paintings’ with Aroldo Tieri, 1983, 1 hr 50 min., in Romance Linguistics Seminars Italian Dr Caroline Palmer 6 Mar.: ‘The “Light of Heaven” in the The following seminars will be given on 7 Mar.: Ein Leben, dir. Eberhard Itzenplitz, Louvre: women, art and religion in the Thursdays as shown at 5 pm in the Taylor 1973, 1 hr 30 min., in German early nineteenth century’ Institution. Convener: Professor Martin Sub-faculty of Italian and the Oxford Maiden. Slade Lectures Italian Association lectures Louise Esher The empire of things: gifts and gift The following lectures will be given on 26 Jan.: ‘What's exciting about Occitan exchange in Byzantium, Early Islam, Tuesdays at 5 pm in the Main Hall, Taylor verbs?’ and beyond Institution. Convener: Professor Martin Dr Silvio Cruschina, Manchester McLaughlin. Professor Anthony Cutler, Evan Pugh 23 Feb.: ‘Existential constructions and the Professor of Art History, Pennsylvania State, A N Wilson dialects of Italy’ will deliver the Slade Lectures at 5 pm on the 7 Feb.: ‘Dante in love’ following days in the University Museum of Natural History. 186 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4973 • 11 January 2012
Andrew Graham-Dixon Professor Richard Wistreich, Royal James Martin Advanced Research 28 Feb.: ‘Caravaggio’ Northern College of Music Seminars 8 Mar.: ‘An anatomy of singing: early Seminar The following seminars will be given at modern European constructions of the 2 pm on Tuesdays in the Seminar Room 1, Professor Jim Reed will give the following voice and individual vocal identity’ Oxford Martin School, Old Indian Institute. seminar at 2 pm on 16 February in the Convener: Dr B Foddy. Abstracts: www.ise. Memorial Room, Queen’s. Faculty of Oriental Studies ox.ac.uk/seminars. Subject: ‘Light in Germany’ Seminar on Jewish History and Professor Brunello Stancioli, Minas Gerais Faculty of Music Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period 17 Jan.: ‘From the necessity of being human to the possibility of being whatever The following seminars will be held from Research seminars you want: human enhancement as basic 2.30 to 4.30 pm on Tuesdays in the Oriental right’ The following seminars will be given at Institute. Convener: Professor Martin 5.15 pm on Tuesdays in the Denis Arnold Goodman. Dr Francesca Minerva, Melbourne Hall, Faculty of Music. Conveners: Adam 24 Jan.: ‘Human enhancement and Professor Tessa Rajak Harper and Emily MacGregor. allocation of public health resources’ 17 Jan.: ‘The synagogue paintings of Dura Professor Will Kaufman, Central Lancashire Europos: triumphalism and competition’ Professor Richard Ashcroft, QMUL 17 Jan.: ‘Woody Guthrie: “The communist 31 Jan.: ‘Behaviour change: moving the Dr Holger Zellentin, Nottingham Joe Hill”?’ debate on from coercion’ 24 Jan.: ‘The Byzantine context of the Professor Rhian Samuel, City University, Yerushalmi’ Mr Brian Earp London 7 Feb.: ‘What ethics can learn from Dr Dennis Mizzi, Malta 24 Jan.: ‘Developing structures: recent evolution – and what it cannot: on 31 Jan.: ‘Ritual purity at Qumran and in the works of Rhian Samuel’ (with Jennifer Lee, teen sex, the war on drugs, and Dead Sea Scrolls’ piano) the neuroenhancement of human Dr David Lincicum relationships’ Jonathan Hicks 7 Feb.: ‘Philo and the physiognomic 31 Jan.: ‘Composing the quotidian: Erik Dr Joanna Burch Brown tradition’ Satie and the poetics of circulation’ 28 Feb.: tbc Dr James Aitken, Cambridge Graham Wells, Galpin Society Oxford Forum 14 Feb.: ‘The significance of Greek 7 Feb.: ‘The Northumbrian small-pipes: a translations of non-canonical works’ The following will be given at 2 pm on missed opportunity?’ Fridays at the Examination Schools. For Dr Juha Pakkala, Helsinki Dr Nanette Nielsen, Nottingham information contact: roxana.baiasu@ 21 Feb.: ‘Omissions in the textual 14 Feb.: ‘Ernst Krenek’s “problem of philosophy.ox.ac.uk or Dr Juliana Cardinale: transmission of the Hebrew Bible’ freedom” in Jonny Spielt Auf’ 020 7955 7539, [email protected]. Professor Tim Whitmarsh Dr Benedict Taylor Panel discussion 28 Feb.: ‘Adventures of the Solymoi’ 21 Feb.: ‘Temporality in Beethoven’s Late Professor Christine Battersby, Warwick, Piano Sonatas, Opp. 109–111’ Dr Michael Law Dr Rachel Jones, Dundee, and Dr Stella 6 Mar.: ‘The many portraits of Solomon’ Dr Adeline Mueller Sandford, Kingston, will engage in a 28 Feb.: ’The exoticised child in conversation. Chair: Dr Pamela S Anderson. Faculty of Philosophy eighteenth-century Kindertruppen’ 10 Feb.: ‘Re-appropriating Kant for feminism’ Dr Ruth Davis, Cambridge Isaiah Berlin Lectures 6 Mar.: tbc Provocations ‘A New World’ – Philosophical Seminar in Late Medieval and idealism in America Professor Wayne Martin, Essex Renaissance Music – a Forum for Work 2 Mar.: ‘Ubi Inletabilitas Ibi Virtus. Kenneth Winkler, Professor of Philosophy, in Progress Melancholy, virtue and self-consciousness’ Yale, will deliver the Isaiah Berlin Lectures The following seminars will be given at at 5 pm on Mondays at the Gulbenkian Faculty of Theology 5 pm on Thursdays in the Wharton Room, Theatre, St Cross Building, Manor Road. All Souls. Convener: Dr Margaret Bent. 17 Jan.: ‘Jonathan Edwards's early proofs of Speakers Lectures in Biblical Studies Dr Barbara Eichner, Oxford Brookes immaterialism’ Professor Mary Carruthers will deliver 26 Jan.: ‘Faithfully yours: monastic music 24 Jan.: ‘Edwards and continuous creation’ the Speakers Lectures at 10 am on and its patrons’ 31 Jan.: ‘Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature’ 23 and 25 January, and 6 and 8 February, 7 Feb.: ‘Henry David Thoreau’ Dr Christian Leitmeir, Bangor at the Examination Schools. 14 Feb.: ‘Josiah Royce and the argument 9 Feb.: ‘Flower power: a Cistercian concept from error’ of ars nova polyphony and its roots’ 21 Feb.: ‘Personalism, from Bowne and Dr John Milsom, Liverpool Hope Howison to Martin Luther King’ 23 Feb.: ‘The making of Thomas Morley's A plaine and easie introduction to practicall musicke (1597)’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4973 • 11 January 2012 187
Wilde Lectures in Natural and Mathematical, Physical Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Comparative Religion and Life Sciences Laboratory Divine command Physical Chemistry Seminars Department of Chemistry Professor John Hare, Yale, will deliver the The following seminars will be given Wilde Lectures at 5 pm on the following on Mondays at 2.15 pm in PTCL Lecture Newton Abraham Public Lecture Wednesdays in the Examination Schools. Theatre, unless otherwise noted. All There will be a reception after the first Professor Andrew Holmes, Melbourne, will welcome. Conveners: Professor G Hancock lecture in Oriel's Large Senior Common deliver the Newton Abraham Public Lecture and Professor D E Manolopoulos. Room. at 5.30 pm on 6 February at the Natural Professor Katharine Reid, Nottingham History Museum. 1 Feb.: 'Three arguments for the 16 Jan.: ‘Quantum beats as a probe of Subject: ‘Organic electronic materials: a dependence of morality upon God' molecular structure’ licence to print money’ 8 Feb.: 'What is a divine command?' Professor Pete O’Connor, Warwick 15 Feb.: 'Morality and happiness I: Aquinas' Organic Chemistry 23 Jan.: ‘On the uses of advanced mass 22 Feb.: 'Morality and happiness II: Professor John Vederas, FRS, Alberta spectrometers in the analysis of protein Epicureans and Stoics' 12 Jan.: ‘Natural product biosynthesis by post-translational modifications’ 29 Feb.: 'Morality and human nature' fungal polyketide synthases’ Professor David Klenerman, Cambridge Grinfield Lectures on the Septuagint Professor Dr Jérôme Lacour, Geneva 30 Jan.: ‘New biological insights from The language of the Septuagint 19 Jan.: ‘Investigations in stereoselective single molecule studies’ synthesis and catalysis’ Dr John A Lee, St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Dr Marina Kuimova, Imperial Theological College, New South Wales, will Professor Virginie Vigal, Paris 6 Feb.: ‘Molecular rotors image intracellular deliver the Grinfield Lectures at 5 pm on 24 Jan.: ‘Asymmetric catalysis: from viscosity’ 20, 22 and 23 February at the Examination laboratory scale to scale up development’ Professor Miles Padgett, Glasgow Schools. Professor Andrew Holmes, FRS, Melbourne 13 Feb.: ‘The twist in light’s tail’ Ian Ramsey Centre 26 Jan.: ‘Inositol phosphates as tools for Professor Jeffrey Penfold, STFC probing intracellular signal transduction’ Seminars on Science and Religion 27 Feb.: ‘Towards biosustainable Robert Robinson Memorial Lectures products: adsorption and self-assembly The following seminars will be given at Professor Dr François Diederich, ETH of biosurfactants studied by neutron 8.30 pm on Thursdays in the Danson Room, Zurich scattering’ Trinity, preceded by drinks at 8.15 pm. 1 Feb.: ‘Opto-electronic and chiroptical Seminars are free and open to the public. RSC Boys Rahman Lecture advanced materials by new acetylene Convener: Dr A Pinsent. Professor Mike Klein, Temple chemistry’ 5 Mar.: ‘Computational chemistry and the Dr Christián C Carman, Quilmes 2 Feb.: ‘Molecular recognition at enzyme nano-bio-med frontier’ 26 Jan.: ‘The antikythera mechanism: active sites’ orbits, gods and gears’ Soft matter, Biomaterials and Vertex Lecture Interfaces seminars Dr Andrew Robinson, Exeter Professor Dr Jeffery Bode, ETH Zurich 9 Feb.: ‘Fingerprints of the Trinity? The 9 Feb.: ‘Synthetic chemistry: taking NO for The following seminars will be given on neglected doctrine of ‘Vestiges’ and the an answer’ Tuesdays at 4 pm in the John Rowlinson new science of signs’ Seminar Room (PTCL). All welcome. Dr Ruben Martin, Terragona Conveners: Dr R P A Dullens and Professor Professor John Cottingham, Reading 16 Feb.: ‘Metal-catalysed activation of inert R Golestanian. 23 Feb.: ‘Confronting the cosmos: scientific molecular bonds’ rationality and human understanding’ Professor Daniel Beysens, CEA and ESPCI, Professor Dr Stefan Hecht, Humboldt Paris Dr Adam Green, Innsbruck, and Dr Andrew Berlin 17 Jan.: ‘Dew’ Pinsent 23 Feb.: ‘Making functional molecular 8 Mar.: ‘Neurotheology and the social nanostructures: from solution to surface Professor Dusan Babic, Ljubljana brain’. This event will also be a book confinement’ 24 Jan.: ‘Colloidal structures of low launch: Pinsent’s The Second-Person dimensionality’ Professor Barry Carpenter, Cardiff Perspective in Aquinas’s Ethics: Virtues and 1 Mar.: ‘Do we really understand what Dr Enkeleida Lushi, Imperial Gifts. controls selectivity in chemistry?’ 31 Jan.: ‘The importance of hydrodynamic interactions in the colonial dynamics of Andy Derome Memorial Lectures micro-organisms’ Professor Scott Miller, Yale 6 Mar.: ‘Natural products, synthetic Professor Olivier Martin, Paris catalysts, unnatural products’ 7 Feb.: ‘Biological networks: from function 8 Mar.: ‘Enduring challenges in to structure’ biomimetic catalysis’ Professor Tom Duke, UCL 14 Feb.: ‘Force generation in the lamellipodia of crawling cells’ 188 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4973 • 11 January 2012
Professor Roberto Piazza, Milan Mathematical Institute Dr P Gerlee, Gothenburg 21 Feb.: ‘What is buoyancy? Surprises and 17 Feb.: ‘The impact of phenotypic puzzles in sedimentation’ Computational Mathematics and switching on gliobastoma growth and Applications seminars invasion’ Professor Georg Maret, Konstanz 6 Mar.: ‘KTHNY in two-dimensional The following seminars will be given at Professor T Hofer, Heidelberg colloidal crystals’ 2 pm on Thursdays in seminar room RI.0.48, 2 Mar. (MSTC Lecture Theatre, William Gibson Building, Mathematical Institute, Dunn School of Pathology): ‘Dynamic Theoretical Chemistry Group Seminars unless otherwise noted. Conveners: regulatory networks govern T-cell The following seminars will be given on Professor Nick Trefethen and Professor Nick proliferation and differentiation’ Mondays at 4.45 pm in the John Rowlinson Gould, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Seminar Room, PTCL, unless otherwise Seminar website: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/ Department of Physics stated. All welcome. Convenor: Dr M Wilson. groups/numerical-analysis/seminars. Oxford Physics Colloquia Dr Andrew Goodwin Dr Timo Betcke, UCL 23 Jan.: ‘Frameworks, flexibility and 12 Jan.: ‘Spectral decompositions and The following lectures will be given at frustration’ nonnormality of boundary integral 4.15 pm on Fridays in the Martin Wood operators in acoustic scattering’ Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory. Tea 6 Feb.: tbc served in the Common Room at 3.45 pm. Dr Jennifer Scott, Rutherford Appleton Dr Robert Paton Conveners: J March-Russell, R Davies and P Laboratory 20 Feb. (Lecture Theatre, PTCL): ‘Model, Radaelli. 19 Jan. (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory): make, measure: computer-aided organic ‘Antibandwidth maximisation: a graph Professor Dr Laura Baudis, Zurich structure elucidation and synthesis’ colouring problem’ 27 Jan.: ‘Direct detection of particle dark Dr Leonardo Bernasconi, STFC Rutherford matter – where do we stand, and where are Speaker tbc Appleton Laboratory we going?’ 26 Jan.: tbc 5 Mar.: ‘Time-dependent density- Professor Ellen Williams functional theory for extended systems’ Dr Coralia Cartis, Edinburgh 3 Feb.: ‘Science in the energy industry’ 2 Feb.: ‘Optimal Newton-type methods Department of Engineering for nonconvex smooth optimisation Professor Julia Slingo problems’ 17 Feb.: ‘Met Office science to service’ Inaugural Lecture Dr Yuji Nakatsukasa, Manchester Dr Andrei Nomerotski Professor Constantin-C Coussios, Professor 9 Feb. (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory): 24 Feb.: ‘Fast imaging: from speed trains to of Biomedical Engineering, will deliver his ‘Efficient, communication-minimising mass spectrometry to colliders’ Inaugural Lecture at 5 pm on 17 January algorithms for the symmetric eigenvalue Professor Carl Wunsch in the Examination Schools. RSVP to eva. decomposition and the singular value 2 Mar.: ‘The ocean circulation and climate [email protected]. decomposition’ change’ Subject: ‘Engineering non-invasive therapy Professor Spencer Sherwin, Imperial and drug delivery’ 16 Feb.: tbc Department of Plant Sciences Department of Materials Dr Stephen Langdon, Reading Departmental research seminars 23 Feb.: ‘High frequency scattering by non- Weekly colloquia convex polygons’ The following seminars will be given at 4 pm on Thursdays in the Large Lecture Theatre, The following colloquia will be given on Professor Paul Houston, Nottingham Department of Plant Sciences. Convener: Thursdays at 4 pm in the Hume Rothery 1 Mar.: tbc Professor N Harberd. Lecture Theatre preceded by tea at 3.30 pm. Professor Rosie Renaut, Arizona State Keith Kirby, Natural England Professor Peter Leek 8 Mar.: tbc 19 Jan.: ‘Where have all the flowers gone?: 26 Jan.: ‘Cavity quantum electrodynamics Mathematical Biology and Ecology changes in British woodland flora over the with electrical circuits’ seminars last half century’ 2 Feb.: tbc The following seminars are given at 2 pm on Gary J Loake, Edinburgh Dr Vincent Dupuis, Paris Fridays in Lecture Room 1, Mathematical 2 Feb.: ‘Plant immunology: cracking the 9 Feb.: ‘Magnetic nanoparticles: from Institute, unless otherwise noted. Convener: redox code’ synthesis to application’ Sara Jolliffe ([email protected]). Alex Halliday 16 Feb.: tbc Professor J Gunawardena, Harvard Medical 9 Feb.: ‘The origins of Earth-like planets’ School Professor Rik Brydson, Leeds Oliver Ebenhoeh, Aberdeen 20 Jan. (EPA Seminar Room, William Dunn 23 Feb.: ‘Probing the nanoscale interactions 16 Feb.: ‘The role of mixing entropy in School of Pathology): ‘Systems approaches between inorganic and organic materials carbohydrate metabolism’ to biochemical complexity’ using electron microscopy’ Robbie Waugh, James Hutton Institute Professor B Jones Dr Erik Gauger 23 Feb.: ‘Exploiting natural and induced 3 Feb.: ‘Relative biological effects of 8 Mar.: ‘The real world according to genetic variation for trait dissection in different qualities of radiation used in quantum nanostructures’ cultivated barley’ oncology’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4973 • 11 January 2012 189
Jessica Metcalfe Medical Sciences Dr Klaus Schmierer, Barts and the London 1 Mar.: ‘When should you flower if School of Dentistry flowering kills you? Life history evolution 16 Mar.: 'Understanding and treating Oxford Centre for Diabetes, in a model system’ disease progression in multiple sclerosis' Endocrinology and Metabolism Magnus Nordborg, GMI Vienna Professor Paul Griffiths, Sheffield 8 Mar.: ‘Studying the genotype-phenotype The following seminars will be given at 30 Mar.: ‘Fetal MR of the CNS in 2012’ map in Arabidopsis’ 1 pm on Wednesdays in the Robert Turner Lecture Theatre, OCDEM Building, Churchill Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Department of Zoology Hospital. Convener: Professor Stephen Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Gough. Sciences The following lectures will take place on Professor Erik Ingelsson, Karolinska Mondays at 4 pm in Lecture Theatre B Institutet Botnar Research Centre seminars unless otherwise noted. 18 Jan.: ‘Genetics of cardiovascular disease The following seminars will be given at Dr Sascha Hooker, St Andrews and associated conditions: past, present 12.30 pm on Tuesdays, unless otherwise 16 Jan.: ‘Marine mammal foraging, and future’ noted, in the G54/38 Seminar room, Botnar physiology and ocean conservation’ Professor Jonathan Seckl, Queen’s Medical Research Centre. Dr Amy Pedersen, Edinburgh Research Institute, Edinburgh Professor Peter Taylor 23 Jan.: ‘A systems approach to host– 25 Jan.: ‘Developmental programming: the Mon. 16 Jan.: ‘New targets in parasite interactions in the wild: from glucocorticoid hypothesis put in its place’ musculoskeletal disease and an update on simple dynamics to complex interactions’ Professor Per-Olof Berggren, Karolinska translational research’ Professor Charles Sheppard, Warwick Institutet Professor Jillian Cornish, Auckland 30 Jan.: ‘Role of marine protected area in 1 Feb.: ‘The pancreatic islet as a signalling 31 Jan.: ‘Cellular and molecular responses a changing ocean: ecological, political and hub’ in skeletal cell regeneration’ economic issues, and the example of the Dr Susan Ozanne, Cambridge Chagos MPA’ Professor Hill Gaston, Cambridge 8 Feb.: ‘Mechanisms underlying the 7 Feb.: ‘IL-23 – a critical cytokine in Loeske Kruuk, Wild Evolution Group, developmental origins of type 2 diabetes’ spondyloarthritis’ Edinburgh Professor Kevin Docherty, Aberdeen 6 Feb.: ‘Evolutionary constraints in a wild Professor Udo Oppermann 15 Feb.: ‘The role of mesenchymal red deer population’ 28 Feb.: tbc to epithelial transitioning (MET) in Professor John Parkes, Cardiff reprogramming towards beta cells’ Dr Nicole Horwood 13 Feb.: ‘Microbial life in the deep 13 Mar.: tbc Dr Arne Ring biosphere: a large but extreme habitat’ 22 Feb.: ‘The impact of QTc prolongation Sir William Dunn School of Pathology J W S Pringle Centenary Seminar on drug development Professor Adrian Thomas and Dr Henry Dr Rory McCrimmon, Ninewells Hospital Research seminars Bennet-Clark and Medical School The following seminars will be given at 4 pm 20 Feb. (Lecture Theatre A): ‘Muscles, 29 Feb.: ‘Hypoglycaemia tolerance: the on Thursdays in the MSTC Lecture Theatre, flight and the diversification of zoological development of defective hypoglycaemia South Parks Road. research in Oxford’ counter regulation in diabetes’ Professor Mike White, Liverpool Professor Simon Jennings, East Anglia and Professor Berenice Mendonca, São Paulo 19 Jan.: ‘Dynamics and function of the CEFAS 14 Mar.: tbc NF-kB signalling system’ 27 Feb.: ‘Assessment and management of fishing impacts’ Dr Kevin Maloy Nuffield Department of Clinical 26 Jan.: ‘Innate immune pathways in Dr Rachel Kendal, Durham Neurosciences intestinal homeostasis’ 5 Mar.: ‘Investigating social learning strategies and cumulative culture in Grand Rounds Dr Julian Lewis, CRUK London human, and non-human, animals’ 2 Feb.: ‘Notch signalling and the control of The following seminars will be given at developmental timing’ 11.30 am on Fridays in Lecture Theatre 1, Academic Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital. Dr Steven J Smerdon, NIMR Mill Hill 23 Feb.: ‘Phospho-dependent molecular Dr John Leigh, Case Western Reserve, and assemblies in DNA-damage signalling: you Dr David Zee, Johns Hopkins Hospital cannot pSer-ious!’ 27 Jan.: 'Clinicians as scientists: using eye movement disorders to discover how the Dr Shona Murphy brain works' 1 Mar.: ‘Human snRNA genes and the pol II CTD code’ Professor Sanjay Sisodiya, UCL 24 Feb.: 'Epilepsy: genotypes, phenotypes Professor Penny Handford and what else?' 8 Mar.: ‘Dissecting the Notch-ligand interaction and its regulation by glycosylation’ 190 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4973 • 11 January 2012
Department of Pharmacology Jenkinson Seminar Social Sciences Professor Alfonso Martinez-Arias, Pharmacology, Anatomical Cambridge School of Anthropology and Museum Neuropharmacology and Drug 10 Feb.: ‘The role of beta-ctenin in the Ethnography Discovery Seminars maintenance and resolution of transition states in mouse ES cell populations’ The following seminars will be held from Seminars and special events noon in the Lecture Theatre, Department of Professor Paul Lehner, Cambridge School of Anthropology Pharmacology. 17 Feb.: ‘Regulation of cell surface Departmental Seminar transporters – lessons from viruses’ Professor David Rubinsztein, Cambridge The following seminars will be given at (host: Professor Antony Galione) Dr Heiko Luhmann, Johannes Gutenberg 3.30 pm on Fridays in the Lecture Theatre, 17 Jan.: ‘Autophagy and 2 Mar.: ‘Immature cortical circuits: not so Pitt Rivers Museum (entrance via Robinson neurodegeneration’ immature after all’ Close). Conveners: Dr D Pratten and Dr C Dr Alex Bullock (host: Dr Angela Russell) Dr Caleb Webber Harris. 24 Jan.: ‘Small molecule targeting of BMP 9 Mar.: ‘Mouse functional genomics Julie Archambault receptor kinases at SGC’ approaches to human genetic disease’ 20 Jan.: ‘ “Travelling while sitting Dr John Isaac, Eli Lilly and Co (host: Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre down”: mobile phones, mobility and the Professor Nigel Emptage) seminar series communication landscape in Inhambane, 31 Jan.: ‘Experience, spines, silent Mozambique’ The following seminars will be given at synapses and the development of cortical 4 pm in the Lecture Theatre, Le Gros Clark Laura Peers network architecture’ Building, Department of Physiology, 27 Jan.: ‘ “Ceremonies of renewal”: visits, Dr Jean Christophe Poncer, INSERM Anatomy and Genetics. Convener: Dr relationships, and healing in the museum Institut du Fer à Moulin, Paris (host: Dr Karri Richard Wade-Martins. space’ Lamsa) Professor Tamas Revesz, UCL Dinah Rajak, Sussex 7 Feb.: ‘The K-Cl co-transporter KCC2: 17 Jan.: ‘Progression of neuropathology in 3 Feb.: 'In good company: the market, the swiss army knife of inhibitory and Parkinson’s Disease’ morality and corporate social excitatory synapses’ responsibility in a multinational mining Dr Oliver Bandmann, Sheffield Professor Martin Biel, LMU München (host: company’ 7 Feb.: ‘New strategies to identify disease Professor Antony Galione) – modifying treatment for Parkinson’s Sandra Dudley, Leicester 14 Feb.: ‘Ca2+ signalling via two pore Disease’ 10 Feb.: ‘Everyday aesthetics in forced channels’ displacement: material culture and Dr Huaibin Cai, National Institute on Professor Carlos Dieguez, Santiago de Karenni forced migrants in a Thai–Burma Ageing, NIH, USA Compostela (host: Dr John Parrington) border camp’ 12 Mar.: ‘Molecular determinants of 21 Feb.: ‘New drug targets for obesity’ dopaminergic neuron loss in Parkinson’s Karin Barber, Birmingham Professor Tim Cox, Cambridge (host: Disease’ 17 Feb.: 'Politics, prostitution and the Professor Fran Platt) emergence of a new popular reading public 28 Feb.: ‘Brain chemistry and disease from Department of Psychiatry in 1920s Lagos' the lower metropolitan depths’ Ann Gold, Syracuse Tuesday evening guest lecture David Smith Lecture 24 Feb.: ‘Sweetness and light: ordinary Professor Ivan Soltesz, California at Irvine Professor Geraint Rees, UCL Institute of pluralisms in a North Indian town’ (host: Professor Jozsef Csicsvari) Cognitive Neuroscience, will deliver the Mattia Fumanti, St Andrew's 6 Mar.: ‘Cell-type specific regulation of Tuesday evening guest lecture at 5 pm on 2 Mar.: '(Multi)cultural citizenship and interneuronal microcircuits in the cortex’ 24 January in the Seminar Room, migration: virtue and intimacy in the Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Ghanaian diaspora’ Department of Physiology, Anatomy Hospital. and Genetics Subject: ‘Decoding consciousness’ Elizabeth Edwards, de Montfort 9 Mar.: ‘Memorialising impulses: Departmental seminar series photography, ethnography and a record of Europe’ The following seminars will be given at 1 pm on Fridays in the Library, Sherrington Eastern Medicines and Religions Building, Department of Physiology, (ArgO-EMR) Seminar: Managing Anatomy and Genetics. Convener: Dr D malaria and other epidemics in pre- Goberdhan. modern China Professor Mark Cannell, Bristol The following seminars will be given at 20 Jan.: ‘Looking at the problem of cardiac 5 pm on Wednesdays as shown in the signal transduction with biophotonics’ Pauling Centre, 58a Banbury Road. Conveners: Professor E Shu and Mr J Professor John Wood, UCL Johnson. 27 Jan.: ‘Peripheral pain mechanisms’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4973 • 11 January 2012 191
Elisabeth Hsu Margaret Sleeboom-Faulker, Sussex Mohita Bhatia, Cambridge 18 Jan.: ‘The herbal antimalarial qinghao in 23 Jan.: ‘Lineage enhancement and pre- 2 Feb.: ‘Caught in the conflict: border the materia medica (bencao)’ marital testing among rural households in regions and the ambivalence of the Hindu Mainland China’ community in the Jammu region’ Wu Zhongping, Shanghai TCM University; Visiting Scholar with ArgO-EMR Christine Hauskeller, Exeter Nicholas J Wheeler, Birmingham, and Kate 1 Feb.: ‘The polypharmacy of qinghao in the 30 Jan.: ‘Genomics and the politics of Sullivan formulary literature (fangji)’ identity’ 9 Feb.: ‘Trustworthy nuclear sovereigns? India and Pakistan after the 1998 tests’ Chen Yunju Paul Martin, Nottingham 15 Feb.: ‘The threat of accumulations and 6 Feb.: tbc Jens Lerche, SOAS blockages causing epidemics in urban 16 Feb.: ‘After the agricultural crisis: Gisli Palsson, Iceland Song China (960–1279)’ agrarian questions for labour and farmers 13 Feb.: ‘Genomic anthropology: human in India’ Marta Hanson, Johns Hopkins relations and human variation’ 7 Mar.: ‘Epidemiological crises, Supriya Garikipati, Liverpool Amade M’Charek, Amsterdam epistemological divisions: the new 23 Feb.: ‘Microcredit and women’s 20 Feb.: ‘Making faces: on race and race discourse on epidemics in 17–18th century empowerment: through the lens of time differences in forensic identification’ China’ use data from rural India’ Bernhard Hadolt, Vienna Ethnicity and identity seminars: Rashid Amjad, Pakistan Institute of 27 Feb.: ‘How genomics reshapes “good Managing disasters and Development Economics genetic counselling” ’ misfortune 1 Mar.: tbc 5 Mar.: tbc The following seminars will take place on Assa Doron, ANU Fridays, 11 am–12.30 pm, at 61 Banbury Road. Green Templeton College Academic 8 Mar.: ‘The limits of capitalism and Convenors: Shirley Ardener, Ian Fowler, Initiative Seminars: Genomics and “throwaway” society: repair economies in Elisabeth Hsu and Lidia Sciama. the Medical World India's mobile phone industry’ Wendy James The following seminars will be given at Pitt Rivers Museum Research Seminar 20 Jan.: ‘Again and again: the wrong place 4 pm on Mondays in the E P Abraham in Material and Visual Anthropology and the wrong time for the peoples of Lecture Theatre, Green Templeton. The following seminars will be given at 1 pm Sudan's borders’ Conveners: Ms N Levin and Professor E Hsu. on Fridays in the Lecture Theatre, Pitt Rivers Glen Dudbridge Margaret Sleeboom-Faulker, Sussex Museum. Conveners: Professor M Banks and 27 Jan.: ‘Disasters public and private in 23 Jan.: ‘Biobanking and society in China’ Professor D Zeitlyn. tenth-century China’ Christine Hauskeller, Exeter Kasia Cwiertka, Leiden Eric Edwards 30 Jan.: ‘Should (direct-to-consumer) 20 Jan.: ‘The spirits of the time: alcohol 3 Feb.: ‘The self-management of genetic testing be regulated?’ consumption in wartime Japan’ misfortune by use of amulets and charms’ Paul Martin, Nottingham Glenn Bowman, Kent at Canterbury David Parkin 6 Feb.: tbc 27 Jan.: ‘Sharing the Sacra: imaging inter- 10 Feb.: ‘Trust in crisis: on the place of communal mixing around shrines in Gisli Palsson, Iceland confidence in uncertain life-courses’ Palestine and Macedonia’ 13 Feb.: ‘Bodies and contexts: personal Janette Davies genomics and environmental epigenetics’ Renee Mussai, Autograph ABP 17 Feb.: ‘Frail elders and the misfortune of 3 Feb.: ‘The Autograph ABP Photographic Amade M’Charek, Amsterdam dementia’ Archive and cultural identity’ 20 Feb.: tbc Chandrika Parmar Leon Wainwright, Open Bernhard Hadolt, Vienna 24 Feb.: ‘Translating disasters: 10 Feb.: ‘On being timed out: art history 27 Feb.: ‘The ethical framing of genetic organisations as “epistemic middlemen” ’ after the “global turn” ’ testing for complex diseases’ Joy Hendry, Oxford Brookes Peter Hamilton, GEMASS, Paris 5 Mar.: tbc 2 Mar.: ‘Learning that emerges in times of 17 Feb.: ‘The unconscious material culture trouble: a few cases from Japan’ Contemporary South Asia seminar of photography: some reflections from the series field’ Tara Kelly 9 Mar.: ‘Responding to “Nchek Eyfim”: The following seminars will be given at 2 pm Julie Archambault chronic illness as recurring misfortune on Thursdays in Seminar Room 2, Queen 24 Feb.: ‘Secrecy, mobile phones and other (Oku, Cameroon)’ Elizabeth House. Conveners: Dr K Sullivan facades in Inhambane, Mozambique’ and Dr C Still. Medical Anthropology Research Terry Wright, Ulster Seminars: The Anthropology Barbara Harriss-White 2 Mar.: ‘Image, memory and narrative’ of Genomics and Biomedical 19 Jan.: ‘Capitalism and the common man’ Paul Henley, Manchester Technologies David Geary 9 Mar.: ‘Bateson and Mead’s Bali films’ The following seminars will be given at 26 Jan.: ‘Incredible India in a global age: 11 am on Mondays in the Lecture Room, the cultural politics of tourism branding 61 Banbury Road. Conveners: Ms N Levin in India’ and Professor E Hsu. 192 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4973 • 11 January 2012
Sub-faculty of Archaeology Peter Sands, Group Chief Executive, Dr Debin Ma, LSE Standard Chartered, will deliver a 28 Feb.: 'Money and prices of the northern Dr Susan Walker, Keeper of Antiquities, Distinguished Speaker Seminar at 6 pm Chinese economy on the eve of Opium Ashmolean Museum, will deliver a lecture on 13 March, at the Saïd Business School, War: evidences from Tong Taisheng at 5 pm on 26 January in the Garden Quad followed by a drinks reception. To register: Account Books (1800–50)' Auditorium, St John's. Lecture supported by http://sbssands.eventbrite.com. Associate Professor Hamish Maxwell- Oxford University Press. Subject: tbc Subject: ‘After Egypt: a new era of Stewart, Tasmania 6 Mar.: 'Morbidity and mortality on archaeological display at the Ashmolean’ Department of Economics convict voyages to nineteenth-century Australia' Saïd Business School Clarendon Lectures in Economics
Private and public saving in an Department of Education Seminar ageing society Philip Coggan, Buttonwood columnist and Centre for Educational Assessment James Poterba, Mitsui Professor of capital markets editor, The Economist, will Seminar Series on the Public Economics, MIT, and President, National deliver a seminar at 6 pm on Wednesday, Understanding of Assessment Bureau of Economic Research, will deliver 1 February, at the Saïd Business School, the Clarendon Lectures in Economics at The following seminars will be given followed by a drinks reception. To register: 5.30 pm as listed below. A drinks reception at 5 pm on Wednesdays in Seminar http://sbscoggan.eventbrite.co.uk. will follow the first lecture at 6.45 pm. Room A, Department of Education. Subject: ‘Paper promises: money, debt and Convener: Professor Jo-Anne Baird. the new world order’ 30 Jan. (Gulbenkian, St Cross Building): ‘Population ageing and the evolving nature Baroness Onora O’Neill, Dr Suzanne Novak Druce Centre for Professional of public pension systems’ Chamberlain and Professor Peter Tymms Service Firms seminar series 31 Jan. (Department of Economics): ‘Public 18 Jan.: ‘Perceptions of the dependability The following seminars will be given at policy, personal saving and retirement of assessment’ 2.30 pm on Mondays in Seminar Room 13 at security’ Lord Paul Bew, John Bangs, DfE the Saïd Business School. 1 Feb. (Department of Economics): representative (tbc), Alison Peacock ‘Longevity risk, annuity markets and the Professor Erik Jones, Johns Hopkins 7 Mar.: ‘Policy-related perceptions of "decumulation" of retirement wealth’ 30 Jan.: ‘When European financial assessment’ integration worked too well: financial Economic and Social History Tuesday Dr Paul Newton, Sir Michael Barber and services and the European sovereign debt Seminar Professor Val Klenowski crisis’ The following seminars will take place on 25 Apr.: ‘Perceptions of the purposes of Professor David Brock, Ben Gurion Tuesdays at 5 pm in the Wharton Room, All assessment’ 5 Mar.: ‘Understanding professional Souls. Convener: Dr J Fenske. Public seminar programme service firms: what's hot and what's not’ Dr Alexander Moradi, Sussex The following seminars will be given at Exeter at Saïd seminar 17 Jan.: 'Revolutionising transport: 5 pm on Mondays in Seminar Room A, modern infrastructure, agriculture and Richard Elman, Chairman and Executive Department of Education, 15 Norham development in Ghana' Director, the Noble Group, will deliver a Gardens. seminar at 5.30 pm on 16 February at the Professor Sonia Bhalotra, Bristol Dr Margaret Arnott, Glasgow Caledonian Saïd Business School, followed by a drinks 24 Jan.: 'Shadows of the Captain of the (convener: Professor Jenny Ozga) reception. To register: http://sbselman. Men of Death: long run impacts of early life 16 Jan.: ‘The means to a better nation? The eventbrite.com. exposure to pneumonia' SNP government and education policy’ Subject: tbc Dr Rui Esteves Dr Pedro Nuno Teixeira, Porto Distinguished Speaker seminars 31 Jan.: 'The Belle Epoque of international (conveners: Professor Ken Mayhew and Dr finance. French capital exports, 1880–1914' Len Blavatnik, Founder and Chairman, Hubert Ertl) Access Industries, will deliver a Dr Olivier Accominotti, LSE 23 Jan.: ‘Public and private higher Distinguished Speaker Seminar at 7 Feb.: 'Asymmetric propagation education in Europe: competition, 6.30 pm on Wednesday, 18 January, at the of financial crises during the Great complementarity or worlds apart?’ Saïd Business School. To register: http:// Depression' Dr Petri Nokelainen, Finnish National sbsblavatnik.eventbrite.co.uk. Professor Geoffrey Kron, Victoria Board of Education; Tampere Subject: ‘Access Industries: building a 14 Feb.: 'Democracy, social justice, and (convener: Professor Ken Mayhew) global industrial holding company’ economic development: comparative 30 Jan.: ‘Modelling vocational excellence’ James Turley, Chairman and CEO, Ernst & perspectives on Greco-Roman antiquity Professor Jan Hulstijn, Amsterdam Young, will deliver a Distinguished Speaker and early industrial England' (convener: Professor Ernesto Macaro) Seminar at 6 pm on 21 February at the Dr Markus Lampe, Carlos III de Madrid 6 Feb.: ‘What is speaking proficiency?’ Saïd Business School, followed by a drinks 21 Feb.: 'How much trade liberalisation was reception. To register: http://sbsturley. Professor Margaret Brown, KCL there in the world before and after Cobden- eventbrite.com. (convener: Professor Anne Watson) Chevalier?' Subject: ‘Winning in turbulent times’ 13 Feb.: ‘Tensions in the formulation of a new national curriculum in mathematics’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4973 • 11 January 2012 193
Dr Therese Hopfenbeck Dr Susan Kenyon Dr Florence Brisset-Foucault, Cambridge (convener: Professor Jo-Anne Baird) 8 Feb.: ‘Transport is social policy: focus on 1 Mar.: ‘Buganda nationalism in the 21st 20 Feb.: ‘Learning to learn: assessment and higher education in the UK context’ century’ educational policy for tomorrow's world Professor Tim Cresswell, Royal Holloway Dr Noor Nieftagodien, Witwatersrand progress’ 15 Feb.: ‘The prosthetic citizen: forms of 8 Mar.: ‘Squatter movements in the Vaal Dr Paul Thompson, Birmingham citizenship for a mobile world’ Triangle’ (convener: Professor Ernesto Macaro) Professor Robert Imrie, KCL Department of International 27 Feb.: ‘What place for corpus tools and 22 Feb.: ‘Auto-disabilities: the case of Development evidence in classroom learning about shared space environments’ language?’ African history and politics seminar Professor Gordon Walker, Lancaster Professor Andrew J Hobson, Sheffield 29 Feb.: ‘Breathing unequally: The following seminars will be given at Hallam environmental justice and transport- 5 pm on Mondays in Seminar Room 1, (convener: Professor John Furlong) related air pollution’ Oxford Department of International 5 Mar.: ‘Teacher professional development Development. Conveners: A R Mustapha, pandemic: a diagnosis, prognosis and Professor Margaret Grieco, Edinburgh Jan-Georg Deutsch and Ricardo Soares de potential remedy’ Napier Oliviera. 7 Mar.: ‘Gender and transport, the Philosophy of Education Society of neglected dimension: social inclusion, John Campbell, SOAS Great Britain (Oxford) and Religion, access and sustainable urban mobility’ 16 Jan.: ‘The illusion of citizenship: politics Philosophy and Education Forum and “persecution” in Eritrea and Ethiopia’ Dr Ruth Butler, Hull Seminars 14 Mar.: ‘Bodies, buses and bureaucracy: Ian Walker The following seminars will be given at reflections on common interests in 23 Jan.: ‘Strategies of identity construction 5 pm in Seminar Room D, 15 Norham disability rights and service provision’ among the Comorian community of Gardens, unless otherwise noted. PESGB Zanzibar, 1890–1963’ conveners: Dr Alis Oancea, Dr Lorraine School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies Adekeye Adebajo, Cape Town Foreman-Peck, Janet Orchard. RPE 30 Jan.: ‘UN peacekeeping in Africa: from conveners: The Revd Dr John Gay, Dr Liam African Studies Centre the Suez crisis to the Sudan conflicts’ Gearon, Dr Alis Oancea. The following seminars will be given at 5 pm Diana Jeater Dr Michael Hand, London in the Fellows Dining Room, St Antony’s. 6 Feb.: ‘Human rights and inhuman 24 Jan.: ‘What’s in a worldview? A Convenors: Professor David Anderson and violence in Zimbabwe: seeking an interface response to Trevor Cooling’s “Doing God in Dr Jonny Steinberg. Enquiries to marita. between secular and spiritual discourses Education” ’ [email protected]. of humanity’ Professor Andrew Wright, KCL Dr Susan Williams, Institute of Hannah Hoechner 7 Feb.: ‘Beyond the tyranny of the self: Commonwealth Studies 13 Feb.: ‘ “Either speak good about us, or truth, truthfulness and knowledge in 19 Jan.: ‘Who killed Dag Hammersjkold? keep quiet!” Participatory film making religious education’ The UN, the Cold War, and white with Qur'anic students in Kano’ supremacy in Africa’ Professor Alister McGrath, KCL Abdul Raufu Mustapha 14 Feb. (Seminar Room G): ‘C S Lewis, Dr Nic Cheeseman and Dan Paget, 20 Feb.: ‘Boko Haram: the long road to theology and education’ independent researcher terrorism’ 26 Jan.: 'When does political competition School of Geography and the become less “ethnic” and clientelistic?' Nina Studer, Zurich Environment 27 Feb.: ‘Empirical knowledge: categorising Dr Lovise Aalen, CMI,Bergen female North African patients in French 2 Feb.: ‘The politics of ethnicity in Ethiopia: Transport Studies Unit research colonial psychiatry’ actors, power and mobilisation under seminar series ethnic federalism’ Richard Reid, SOAS The following seminars will be given at 5 pm 5 Mar.: ‘Ghosts in the academy: history Dr Nikki Palmer on Wednesdays in the Halford Mackinder and historians in the making of modern 9 Feb.: ‘The legitimation of criminal justice Lecture Theatre, School of Geography Uganda’ in post-genocide Rwanda: international, and the Environment. Conveners: Dr T national and localised courts’ Oxford Poverty and Human Schwanen and Dr K Lucas. Development Initiative (OPHI) Dr Adam Habib, Johannesburg Dr Karen Lucas lunchtime seminar series 16 Feb.: ‘Reflections on building a 18 Jan.: ‘Unequal mobility and its social sustainable social pact: business, labour The following seminars will be given at consequences’ and the state in contemporary South 1 pm on Mondays in Seminar Room 3, Queen Dr Katharina Manderscheid, Lucerne Africa’ Elizabeth House. Convener: Dr Suman Seth. 25 Jan.: ‘Automobile subjects’ Professor David Anderson Martyna Kobus, Warsaw Dr Gina Porter, Durham 23 Feb.: 'Kenya's Somalia invasion: security, 16 Jan.: ‘Multidimensional inequality 1 Feb.: ‘Transport and daily mobility in Sub- development and humanitarian assistance indices for ordinal data’ Saharan Africa: exploring young people’s in Eastern Africa' experiences’ 194 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4973 • 11 January 2012
Nicholas Ruiz Hannah Smith, Climate Outreach and Faculty of Law 23 Jan.: ‘Multidimensional poverty in Information Network Europe: an analysis using EU-SILC panel 8 Feb.: 'Seeing the person in the problem: Lever Lecture data’ a practitioner perspective on justice, the Professor Miguel Maduro, Professor Suman Seth environment and displacement' of European Law, European University 30 Jan.: ‘Sub-national disparities and inter- Calum Nicholson, Swansea Institute, will deliver the Lever Lecture at temporal evolution of multidimensional 15 Feb.: 'Social scientific approaches to 5 pm on 3 February in the Gulbenkian poverty across developing countries’ equivocal issue-areas: the case of the Lecture Theatre, St Cross Building. Sabina Alkire “environmental migration” nexus' Subject: ‘The future of European 6 Feb.: ‘The Gross National Happiness integration and EU Law: why and how Dr Andrew Baldwin, Durham Index of Bhutan’ a financial crisis has become a crisis in 22 Feb.: 'Pre-empting race: climate change, European integration’ Paola Ballon migration and the future-conditional' 27 Feb.: ‘Measurement error in Special Lecture Nina Hall Multidimensional Poverty Index’ 29 Feb.: 'Climate change and organisational Ius gentium: foreign law and the Sebastian Silva-Leander change in UNHCR and IOM' law of nations 5 Mar.: ‘Poverty as lack of autonomy: a Dr Hein de Haas Jeremy Waldron, Professor of Law and definition and empirical illustration’ 7 Mar.: 'Conceptualising structure and Philosophy, New York, and Chichele agency in environmental displacement' Professor of Social and Political Theory, will Refugee Studies Centre lecture at 2 pm on Fridays in the Cube, St Workshops Special Seminar Cross Building. The Refugee Studies Centre and Anja Klug, Head, Asylum/Migration 27 Jan.: ‘The foreign law controversy in International Migration Institute will Unit Division of International Protection, American courts’ organise a workshop on 20 March, at Queen UNHCR, will deliver a seminar at 5.30 pm 3 Feb.: ‘Ius gentium: the law of nations’ Elizabeth House. Contact: rsc-outreach@ on 19 January in Seminar Room 1, Queen 10 Feb.: ‘Learning from other courts’ qeh.ox.ac.uk. Elizabeth House. 17 Feb.: ‘Treating like cases alike in the Subject: ‘The Arab Spring and beyond: Subject: ‘Is UNHCR becoming a migration world’ human mobility, forced migration and agency? An analysis of UNHCR's 24 Feb.: ‘Democratic and textualist institutional responses’ engagement in “mixed movements” ’ objections’ The Refugee Studies Centre will organise 2 Mar.: ‘Practical difficulties’ RSC–OCAF Seminar a workshop on 10 and 11 March at Queen 9 Mar.: ‘Legal civilisations’ Maria Jose Kanag, Congolese human Elizabeth House. Contact: rsc-outreach@ Oxford Intellectual Property Research rights activist with asylum in Israel, Faida qeh.ox.ac.uk. Centre Bakaji Tshuma, 2010 PlaNet International Subject: ‘Palestine refugees and MicrofinanceA ward winner, and Andrea international Law’ Invited Speaker Seminar Series Kruchik-Krell, Founder, Microfy, will deliver Israel: Historical, Political and The following seminars will be given at a seminar at 4.30 pm on 24 February in Social Aspects lecture series 5.15 pm on Thursdays in the Dorfman Seminar Room 2, Queen Elizabeth House. Room, St Peter’s. Conveners: Professor G Subject: ‘From DR Congo to Tel Aviv: a The following lectures will be given at Dinwoodie and Dr R Pitkethly. story of Congolese refugees, activism and 8 pm at Lincoln, and are open to the public. microfinance’ Convener: Professor Peter Oppenheimer. Dr Markus Eberhardt, Nottingham 26 Jan.: ‘Is the dragon learning to fly?A n Public seminar series: Critical Dr Asaf Siniver, Birmingham analysis of the Chinese patent explosion’ approaches to environmental 26 Jan.: ‘Resolving the Israeli–Palestinian displacement territorial dispute: the case for arbitration’ Professor Lionel Bently, Cambridge 2 Feb.: ‘You've gotta be joking: parody and The following lectures will be given on Professor Shai Feldman, Brandeis copyright’ Wednesdays at 5 pm, Seminar Room 1, 13 Feb.: ‘Israel and Middle East regional Queen Elizabeth House. Convener: Dr developments’ Professor Christopher Buccafusco, Alexander Betts. Chicago-Kent Professor Colin Schindler, SOAS 9 Feb.: ‘Experiments on creativity and Professor Brad Blitz, Kingston 23 Feb.: ‘Israel and the European Left: innovation for intellectual property law’ 18 Jan.: 'Environmental displacement: between solidarity and delegitimisation’ future scenarios and modes of protection Professor Barton Beebe, New York re-examined' 16 Feb.: ‘Intellectual property law and the problem of aesthetic progress’ Professor Roger Zetter 25 Jan.: 'Environmental displacement and Professor Josh Sarnoff, DePaul the challenge of rights protection' 23 Feb.: ‘The patent system and climate change’ Dr Francois Gemenne, Sciences Po, Paris 1 Feb.: 'Migration as an environmental Dr Nikolaus Thumm, European Patent policy: pitfalls, opportunities, and Office rhetorics' 1 Mar.: ‘Patents and clean energy: bridging the gap between evidence and policy’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4973 • 11 January 2012 195
Department of Politics and Professor Fernando Teson, Florida State Post-conflict State Building: International Relations 31 Jan.: ‘Targeted killing in war and peace: a Practitioners’ Perspectives philosophical analysis’ The following seminars will be given at Centre for Political Ideology William Dutch, Stimson Centre 5 pm on Tuesdays in Seminar Room E, Political Ideologies Research 7 Feb.: ‘Letting go and staying gone: Department of Politics and International Seminar elements of exit for post-conflict Relations. All are welcome; however, seating peacebuilders’ is limited. Convener: Professor Richard The following seminars will be given at Caplan. 5 pm on Tuesdays in Seminar Room A, Professor Cécile Fabre Department of Politics and International 14 Feb.: ‘Living with the enemy: the ethics Mr Iain King, Governance Advisor to the UK Relations. of belligerent military occupation’ Stabilisation Unit 24 Jan.: tbc Jeremy Waldron Dr Laleh Khalili, SOAS 24 Jan.: ‘The nineteenth-century decline 21 Feb.: ‘Gendering counterinsurgency’ Sir Geoffrey Nice, former Prosecutor, of natural right’ International Criminal Tribunal for the Dr Antulio Echevarria II, US Army War former Yugoslavia Elizabeth Frazer College 7 Feb.: tbc 31 Jan.: ‘Feminism and pacifism revisited’ 28 Feb.: tbc Mr Alan Doss, former Special Ben Jackson Professor Daniel Joyner, Alabama Representative, UN Secretary General in 7 Feb.: 'Property-owning democracy: a 6 Mar.: ‘Iran's nuclear programme and Liberia and Democratic Republic of Congo short history' international law’ 21 Feb.: tbc Jo Innes and Mark Philp Centre for International Studies Ms Lindy Cameron, former head of office, 14 Feb.: 'Re-imagining democracy in Historical Materialism and Iraq and Afghanistan Europe and the Americas 1750–1850 (or International Relations 6 Mar.: tbc so): report on a research project in progress' The following seminars will be given at The Oxford–Sciences Po Research Alan Finlayson, East Anglia 5 pm on Thursdays in Seminar Room C, Group in the Social Sciences (Oxpo) 21 Feb.: ‘Rhetoric invention and the art of Department of Politics and International politics’ Dr Nicolas Delalande will speak at the Relations. Convener: Dr Alex Anievas. Maison Française d'Oxford at 5 pm on Nathalie Berny, Sciences-Po Bordeaux Robbie Shilliam, QMUL 7 February. Discussant tbc. Please see http:// 28 Feb.: ‘Deliberation and coalition- 19 Jan.: ‘Civilisation and the poetics of oxpo.politics.ox.ac.uk/events/index.asp for building: the case of European NGOs in slavery’ further information. Brussels' Subject: ‘Taxation, democracy and state Jeff Webber, QMUL David Priestland formation in France (1970–40)’ 26 Jan.: ‘The political economy of 6 Mar.: 'Ideology, political culture and reconstituted neoliberalism: reflections Professor Anne Deighton and Dr “culturalist sociology”: comparing on Bolivia and Latin American Gwendolyn Sasse will convene a workshop communist and liberal politics' neostructuralism’ from 9.30 am on 11 January at Wolfson. For Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and information, please contact gwendolyn. Andrew Davenport, Sussex Armed Conflict (ELAC) and the Oxford [email protected]. 2 Feb.: ‘Marxism in IR and the challenge of Programme on the Changing Character Subject: ‘The evolution of international realism’ of War (CCW) norms and “norm entrepreneurship”: Rob Knox, LSE the Council of Europe in comparative Lunchtime Seminars 9 Feb.: ‘Civilising interventions? Race, war perspective’ The following seminars will be given at and international law’ Additional Topics in Political Theory 1 pm on Tuesdays in Seminar Room G, Adam Fabry, Brunel Lectures Manor Road Building. All seminars are 16 Feb.: ‘Development under “the whip of free with no registration required. A light Professor Jeremy Waldron will lecture at external necessity”: the political economy sandwich lunch is served. For further details 2 pm on Thursdays in Examination Schools. of Hungary from 1989 to global economic please visit www.elac.ox.ac.uk or contact crisis’ 26 Jan.: ‘The idea of security’ Lucy Crittenden at lucy.crittenden@politics. 2 Feb.: ‘Human dignity’ ox.ac.uk or 01865 285986. Conveners: Peter Thomas, Brunel 9 Feb.: ‘Basic equality’ Professor Jennifer Welsh, Dr David Rodin, 23 Feb.: ‘Uneven developments, combined: 16 Feb.: ‘Self-determination’ Dapo Akande and Professor Hew Strachan. Gramsci and Trotsky on permanent 23 Feb.: ‘The rule of law’ revolution’ Dr Hugo Slim, ELAC Visiting Fellow 1 Mar.: ‘Cultural accommodation’ 17 Jan.: ‘Humanitarian ethics in armed Benno Teschke, Sussex 8 Mar.: ‘Public reason’ conflict: aid agency dilemmas and 1 Mar.: ‘Fatal attraction: a critique of Carl responsibility’ Schmitt's international political and legal theory’ Professor Leonard Smith, Oberlin 24 Jan.: ‘Ending wars in a Wilsonian world: Neil Davidson, Strathclyde sovereignty at the Paris Peace Conference 8 Mar.: ‘The bourgeois revolution as an of 1919’ international process’ 196 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4973 • 11 January 2012
Reuters Institute Reuters Institute/Nuffield Professor Birgit Pfau-Effinger, Hamburg 2 Feb.: ‘The role of migrant carers in The business and practice of Media and Politics seminars different types of gender arrangement’ journalism The following seminars will be given at 5 pm Professor Holly Sutherland, Essex The following seminars will be given at on Fridays in the Seminar Room, Nuffield. 9 Feb.: ‘Inequalities within couples in 2 pm on Wednesdays in the Barclay Room, Conveners: Dr David Levy, James Painter Europe: market incomes and the role of Green Templeton, unless otherwise noted. and Neil Fowler. taxes and benefits’ Conveners: Dr David Levy, James Painter Mark Thompson, Director General, BBC and John Lloyd. Professor Mary Daly, Queens, Belfast 20 Jan.: ‘The British media and trust’ 16 Feb.: ‘Parenting support policies in Norma Percy, award-winning documentary Stephen Abell, Director, Press Complaints Europe: typologies and trends’ film maker Commission 18 Jan.: ‘Can TV make history?’ Professor Trudie Knijn, Utrecht 27 Jan.: ‘How can there be a future for press 23 Feb.: ‘Prizing or pricing care-work in a Bridget Kendall, BBC Diplomatic self-regulation?’ comparative perspective’ Correspondent Will Hutton, Principal, Hertford College, Thurs. 26 Jan.: ‘The challenges of reporting Professor Emiko Ochiai, Kyoto commentator and former Editor-in-chief of foreign policy’ 1 Mar.: ‘Care regimes in Asia’ The Observer Lindsey Hilsum, Channel 4 international 3 Feb.: ‘Lies, damned lies and modern Professor Barbara Hobson, Stockholm editor and author journalism – where do we go from here?’ 8 Mar.: ‘The agency gap in work-life 1 Feb.: 'Revolution in Libya – what balance: applying Sen’s capability Helen Goodman MP, shadow minister happened and how the media reported it' framework’ for culture, media and sport, with specific Jane Fuller, former financial editor, the responsibility for media reform Department of Sociology and Oxford Financial Times, and director, Fuller 10 Feb.: ‘Relations between press and Network for Social Inequality Research Analysis public: a new settlement’ 8 Feb.: ‘Reporting the financial crisis – David Mellor, former Conservative MP and Departmental research seminar lessons for the future' cabinet member The following seminars will be given at Naomi Sakr, University of Westminster 17 Feb.: ‘The Coalition; in office but not in 12.30 pm on Mondays in Seminar Room 15 Feb.: ‘Constraints and motivations power? How it all began, and how it will G, Manor Road Building. All welcome. affecting journalism in Egypt after surely end’ Convener: Tak Wing Chan. February 2011’ Philip Graf, chairman of the Gambling Yu Xie, Michigan at Ann Arbor Sarah Lyall, London New York Times Commission, former deputy chairman of 16 Jan.: ‘Modelling individual-level 22 Feb.: ‘The British media – the view from broadcast regulator Ofcom and former CEO, heterogeneity in racial residential outside’ (tbc) Trinity Mirror Newspapers segregation’ 24 Feb.: ‘Regulation: some thoughts from Tim Harford, Financial Times columnist and both sides of the fence’ Irena Kogan, Mannheim author 23 Jan.: ‘Human capital transferability and 29 Feb.:‘Numbers are weapons – a self Greg Clark MP, localism minister in the immigrant investment in host country defence guide’ Department for Communities and Local education and training’ Government Rob Gifford, The Economist’s China editor 2 Mar.: tbc Mike Hout, Berkeley 10 am, 7 Mar.: ‘Reporting China’ 30 Jan.: ‘Structural and exchange mobility Gill Hudson, editor, Reader’s Digest and Oxford Media Research seminars in Britain and the USA: 1870–1970’ former editor, Radio Times The following seminars will be given at 5 pm 9 Mar.: ‘The future of magazines: nine- Stephen Jenkins, LSE on Tuesdays in the Seminar Room, Reuters and-a-half observations from the frontline’ 6 Feb.: ‘Regression analysis of cross- Institute, 13 Norham Gardens. Conveners: Dr national differences using multi-level data: Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and Dr Anne Geniets. Department of Social Policy and Social a cautionary note’ Work Michael Starks Elina Kilpi-Jakonen, Bamberg 24 Jan.: ‘Global digital television 13 Feb.: ‘Education as a lifelong process: Oxford Institute of Social Policy switchover: national differences and comparing social inequalities related to emerging outcomes’ Family, Gender and the Welfare lifelong learning in modern societies’ State Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Cardiff Colin Mills 7 Feb.: ‘Emotions and journalism: the The following seminars will be given at 20 Feb.: ‘Social mobility, marriage and relationship between practices of 5 pm on Thursdays in the Violet Butler societal openness in Great Britain, 1949– emotional story-telling and objectivity in Room, Barnett House, Wellington Square. 2006’ award-winning journalism’ Conveners: Fran Bennett and Professor Elizabeth Thomson, Stockholm Martin Seeleib-Kaiser. Corinna Arndt 27 Feb.: ‘Childbearing across partnerships’ 21 Feb.: ‘The politicisation of public Fran Bennett Ka Yuet Liu, Columbia broadcasting in post-apartheid South 19 Jan.: ‘Key concepts and current debates’ 5 Mar.: ‘Focal points, endogenous Africa’ Dr Linda Pickard, LSE processes and exogenous shock in the 26 Jan.: ‘The provision of family care in autism epidemic’ Europe: the role of long-term care systems’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4973 • 11 January 2012 197
Institutes, Centres and Lord (Peter) Hennessy 27 Jan. 24 Jan. (Convocation House): ‘The Catherine Goudie Museums documentary spoor of Clement Attlee’ 9.15–10.15 am: ‘WISER: your thesis, (seminar in conjunction with the Attlee copyright and ORA’ Rothermere American Institute Foundation) Jane Rawson 10.30 am–noon: ‘WISER: getting American History Research Seminar John Campbell information to come to you’ 6 Feb.: ‘The Roy Jenkins papers’ The following seminars will be given on 3 Feb. Tuesdays at 4 pm in the large seminar room, Work in progress session Valerie Lawrence and Kate Petherbridge Rothermere American Institute, unless 13 Feb.: ‘What’s new in the Bodleian 2–5 pm: ‘RefWorks for humanities’ otherwise noted. All are welcome. Co- archives’ convenors: Dr Gareth Davies and Dr David 8 Feb. Mary, Lady Jay Sim. Ljilja Ristic, Ollie Bridle and Angela Carritt 20 Feb.: ‘The diary of Douglas Jay: from 2–5 pm: ‘WISER: tech tools – reference Max Edling, Loughborough dictation to online resource’ management’ 24 Jan.: ‘Financing American wars, 1775– Sir David Butler and Professor Dennis 1865’ 15 Feb. Kavanagh Juliet Ralph and Karine Barker Marilyn Young, New York 27 Feb.: ‘The David Butler papers: sixty 2–3 pm: ‘WISER: bibliometrics I – who's 5 pm, 26 Jan., European Studies Centre, years of interviews’ citing you?’ 70 Woodstock Road: ‘America’s necessary Lectures to accompany the Romance of Juliet Ralph and Angela Carritt wars of choice’ the Middle Ages Exhibition 3.15–4.15 pm: ‘WISER: bibliometrics II – Peter Thompson tools of the trade’ The following lectures will be given at 1 pm 31 Jan.: Harmsworth discussion in Convocation House, Bodleian Library. 20 Feb. Natalie Zacek, Manchester Angela Carritt Dr Alison Wiggins, Glasgow 7 Feb.: ‘Brother Jonathan races John Bull: 2–2.45 pm: ‘WISER: finding stuff – books 1 Feb.: ‘Before Tolkien: manuscripts, negotiating national identity on the Anglo- etc on SOLO’ audiences and readers of Middle English American racetrack’ 2.45–4 pm: ‘WISER: finding stuff – journal romance’ articles’ Alan Brinkley, Columbia and Cambridge, Dr Laura Ashe Sue Bird and James Shaw 14 Feb.: ‘The great depression – then and 15 Feb.: ‘The birth of romance in England’ 4–5 pm: ‘WISER: finding stuff – now’ conferences’ Dr Nicholas Perkins Marina Moskowitz, Glasgow 7 Mar.: ‘Medieval romance and the gift of 29 Feb. 21 Feb.: ‘The exchange of nature, and storytelling’ Hilla Wait and Jo Gardner the nature of exchange: selling seeds in 2–3 pm: ‘WISER: e-books’ nineteenth-century America’ Professor Helen Cooper, Cambridge 3.15–4.15 pm: ‘WISER: e-book readers’ 23 Mar.: ‘Shakespeare and medieval James T Patterson, Brown romance’ 2 Mar. 28 Feb.: ‘When “the sixties” began’ Kate Williams and Nia Roberts Lecture to accompany the World Book Jane Kamensky, Brandeis 9.15–12.15: ‘RefWorks for sciences and Day display 6 Mar.: ‘Eastward the course of empire social sciences’ takes its way: Benjamin West’s Errand Out Professor Kathryn Sutherland will lecture Friends of the Bodleian Lectures of the Wilderness’ at 1 pm on 1 March in Convocation House, Old Bodleian Library. The following lectures will be given at Bodleian Libraries Subject.: ‘The Watsons: Jane Austen 1 pm on Tuesdays in Convocation House, practising’ Bodleian Library. Conference WISER Workshops Sarah Couch Richard Sharpe, Cristina Dondi, and Dorit 7 Feb.: ‘Reconstructing a remarkable The following workshops will take place Raines, Ca’ Foscari, Venice, will convene a 17th-century garden from John Aubrey’s at Oxford University Computing Services, conference on 22–24 March at St Anne’s for drawing of the Deepdene, Dorking’ 13 Banbury Road. the Bodleian Libraries Centre for the Study Dr Giles Bergel of the Book. 23 Jan. 28 Feb.: ‘Signs of life at the Bodleian: Subject: ‘How the secularisation of Angela Carritt genealogical diagrams in Bodleian religious houses transformed the libraries 9.15–10 am: ‘WISER: finding stuff – books collections’ of Europe, 16th–19th centuries’ etc on SOLO’ Kerry Webb Oxford Seminars in Cartography Centre for the Study of the Book 10–11.30 am: ‘WISER: finding stuff – journal Rachel Hewitt will lecture at 5 pm on Modern Political Papers articles’ 23 February at the Centre for the Masterclasses Angela Carritt Environment. Space limited. Details: nick. 11.30 am–12.15 pm: ‘WISER: finding stuff – The following seminars will be given at [email protected] or 01865 287119. theses and dissertations’ 5 pm on the dates shown in the Pitt Rivers Subject: ‘The military survey of Scotland Museum Lecture Room, unless otherwise (1747–55): a family affair?’ noted. Co-chairs: Professor Martin Ceadel and Professor Anne Deighton. 198 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4973 • 11 January 2012
Botanic Garden and Harcourt Mr Justin Whitaker Professor Shlomo Berger, Amsterdam Arboretum 27 Feb.: ‘Wriggling eels in the wilderness of 9 Feb.: ‘Five beautiful new songs; an views: studies in Buddhist ethics’ anthropological reading of Old Yiddish Winter Lecture Series texts’ Mr Greg Seton Gardens Around the World 5 March.: ‘Are Yogācāra and Madhyamaka Oren Roman, Hebrew allies or rivals?’ 16 Feb.: ‘Idiomatic expressions in a non- The following lectures will take place at spoken language’ 8 pm on Thursdays in the Nelson Mandela Hebrew and Jewish Studies Unit Auditorium, Saïd Business School. Tickets: Professor Lucia Raspe, Goethe-Universität/ £12. Ruhr-Universität Bochum David Patterson Seminars 1 Mar.: ‘Murder in the ghetto: urban space, James Wong The following seminars will be held at Yiddish narrative and the medieval past in 9 Feb.: ‘The gardens of Singapore’ 8 pm on Wednesdays at Yarnton Manor. early modern Worms’ Dan Pearson Convener: Professor Martin Goodman. Dr Rebekka Voß, Goethe-Universität 26 Jan.: ‘A garden for a thousand years’ Professor Michael Keren and Professor 8 Mar.: ‘The mildest and wildest of men: Elizabeth Banks Shlomit Keren, Calgary Di royte yidlekh in Jewish and Christian 23 Feb.: ‘Gardening is happiness – window 18 Jan.: ‘The Jewish Legions in the British imagination’ boxes to the president of the RHS’ army in the First World War: a life-writing perspective’ Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies Isabell van Groeningen 8 Mar.: ‘The Royal Garden Academy in Professor Simon Neuberg, Trier Majewski Lecture Berlin: the revival of German horticulture’ 25 Jan.:‘The printing of Yiddish quartos around 1600’ Professor C Ram-Prasad, Lancaster, will Professor James Hitchmough deliver the Majewski lecture at 5 pm on 22 Mar.: ‘Meadows at the Olympic Park: Professor Norbert Samuelson, Arizona 27 February in Lecture Room 1, Oriental Elysium in the East End?’ State Institute. 1 Feb.: ‘Light and enlightenment: Jewish Study Morning Subject: 'God, being and beyond: outlines and scientific conceptions of redemption of a comparative theology' Stephen Harris will lecture from 10.30 am to and the End of Days’ 1 pm on 18 February at the Botanic Garden. Seminar Dr Maria Haralambakis, Manchester Tickets: £18. 8 Feb.: ‘The significance of Moses Gaster Dr James Mallinson will present a seminar Subject: ‘Botanical Latin’ (1856–1939): the Gaster Collection at the at 2 pm on 8 March at the Oxford Centre for John Rylands University Library’ Hindu Studies. Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies Subject: ‘Vaishnava features of traditional Dr Juha Pakkala, Helsinki Hatha yoga’ Lecture series 15 Feb.: ‘The dating of Deuteronomy’ Graduate Seminars The following lectures will be given at Dr Asaf Yedidya, Bar Ilan 5.30 pm on Mondays in lecture room XXIII 22 Feb.: ‘The nature of the Jewish state and The following seminars will be given at 2 pm at Balliol. society in the thought of Zeev Yavetz’ on Thursdays at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. Dr Sarah Shaw Professor Marion Aptroot, Heinrich Heine 16 Jan.: ‘Unfolding the Buddha’s teachings: 29 Feb.: ‘Western Yiddish Purim papers’ W David Soud chant, image and text in an eighteenth- 26 Jan.: ‘Yeats and the Yoga Sutras of European Seminars on Advanced century Siamese manuscript’ Patanjali: the poet as orientalist’ Jewish Studies: Old Yiddish: Old Texts, Professor Geoffrey Samuel New Contexts Brainerd Prince, Centre for Mission Studies 23 Jan.: ‘Panentheism and the longevity 9 Feb.: ‘The importance of Aurobindo for The following seminars will take place on practices of Tibetan Buddhism’ the contemporary study of religion’ Thursdays from 2–4 pm in the Radcliffe Dr Jowita Kramer Science Library. Convener: Professor Simon Shivdasani Seminars 30 Jan.: ‘Contamination and purification of Neuberg and Dr Zehavit Stern. M N Narasimhachari, Professor Emeritus, the person according to Yogācāra sources’ Wiebke Rasumny, Munich Madras, will deliver the following Mr Alastair Gornall 19 Jan.: ‘Formal and thematic units in the Shivdasani Seminars on Mondays at 11 am 6 Feb.: ‘How is the Pali Canon a sacred text? Masebukh’ and Thursdays at 11am. Exploring answers from 12th-century Sri Professor Marion Aptroot, Heinrich Heine Weeks 1–8: Readings in Ramanuja’s Lanka and 18th-century Burma’ 26 Jan.:‘Yiddish literary genres of the early Shribhashya Mr Charles Allen modern period seen through the lens of an Weeks 1–8: Readings in Vedantadeshika’s 13 Feb.: ‘Asoka and the development of the eighteenth-century parody ’ work Cakravartin image’ Ingedore Rüdlin, Frankfurt Dr Robert Mayer 2 Feb.: ‘The Book of Ruth in the Yiddish 20 Feb.: ‘Neither the same nor different: tradition’ Buddhist and Bon Tantras in 12th-century Tibet’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4973 • 11 January 2012 199
Shivdasani Lectures Professor Mary Eagleton, Leeds Islam in Contemporary Society Metropolitan (Islam II) M N Narasimhachari, Professor Emeritus, 1 Mar.: ‘Fraught fictions: representations of Madras, will deliver the following Dr AfifiA l-Akiti, KFAS Fellow, will lecture the female university student’ (Jerwood) Shivdasani Lectures at 11 am at the Oxford at 2 pm on Mondays in the Examination Centre for Hindu Studies. International Women’s Day Schools. Lectures open to matriculated Members of LMH and IGS members of the University. 24 Jan.: ‘Post-Ramanuja developments in 8 Mar.: ‘Equality and diversity: gendering Shri Vaishnavaism 1’ Qur’anic Arabic the Academy’(Old Library) 27 Feb.: ‘Post-Ramanuja developments in Mr Steven Styer will give classes in Qur’anic Shri Vaishnavism 2’ Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Arabic at 5 pm on Fridays at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. All welcome. Museum of the History of Science Seminar Series: Islam in Europe Registration required. See www.oxcis.ac.uk for further details. The following lectures will be given at 7 pm, The following seminars will be held at unless otherwise noted, at the Museum of 5 pm on Wednesdays at the Oxford Centre Modern Standard Arabic the History of Science. for Islamic Studies, George Street, unless Mr Yousif Qasmiyeh will give the following otherwise noted. All welcome. Professor Ian Walmsley classes in Modern Standard Arabic at the 24 Jan.: ‘Ultrafast physics: past, present, Professor Jørgen S Nielsen, Copenhagen Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. These future’ 18 Jan.: ‘In Europe, who is Muslim?’ courses are run in association with the Department of Continuing Education. David Rooney, Curator of Transport, Science Professor Jonathan Githens-Mazer, Exeter Registration required – this is a continuation Museum, London 25 Jan.: ‘Thinking beyond radicalisation of the course which began last term. See 7 Feb.: ‘Selling time’ and extremism: disaggregating security www.oxcis.ac.uk for further details. Dr Stephen Johnston and Islam in Europe’ Arabic 1a: Monday, 5.15–7.15 pm 2.30 pm, 26 Feb.: ‘The armillary animated’ Professor Leif Stenberg, Lund Arabic 2: Tuesday, 5–7 pm 1 Feb.: ‘Muslims in Sweden’ Dr Matthew Shaw Arabic 3: Wednesday , 5–7 pm 6 Mar.: ‘Decimalising time: calendar and Professor Ayhan Kaya, Istanbul Bilgi Arabic 4: Tuesday, 10 am–noon clocks in the French Revolution’ 8 Feb.: ‘Islamophobia as a form of Fiqh al ibadat governmentality: unbearable weightiness International Gender Studies Centre of the politics of fear’ Dr Mohammad Akram will hold classes on rituals of worship (Fiqh al ibadat) at Professor June Edmunds, Cambridge Writing women: fact or fiction seminar the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies on 15 Feb.: ‘Have human rights failed series Tuesdays at 5 pm. All welcome. Registration European Muslims?’ required. See www.oxcis.ac.uk for further The following seminars will be given at Dr Sara Silvestri, City University, London details. 2 pm on Thursdays at Lady Margaret Hall at 22 Feb.: ‘Europe’s Muslim women: beyond either Jerwood or Old Library. Conveners: the burqa controversy’ Latin American Centre Professor Judith Okely and Dr Lidia Sciama. Professor Mary Hickman, London Dr Nancy Lindisfarne, SOAS Seminar series Metropolitan 19 Jan.: ‘State oppression and the Syrian 29 Feb.: ‘On being “suspect”: the impact The following seminars will be given at uprising: thoughts on the politics of fiction on Irish communities and Muslim 5 pm on Fridays in the Seminar Room, Latin and ethnographic writing’ (Jerwood) communities in Britain 1974–2007’ American Centre. Convener: Professor L Francesca Ghillani Payne. Other Lectures 26 Jan.: ‘Narrating trauma: the influence of Professor Lisa Hilbink, Minnesota otherness in autobiography’ (Old Library) Dr Mohammad Talib, Sultan bin Abdul 20 Jan.: ‘Ideas, incentives, and incipient Aziz Fellow and Islamic Centre Lecturer Professor Sheila Rowbotham, Manchester; activism in the Chilean judiciary’ in Anthropology of Muslim Societies, will British Museum lecture at noon on Tuesdays in the Oxford Professor Renato Perissinotto, 2 Feb.: ‘My work’ (Old Library) Centre for Islamic Studies. Lectures open to Universidade Federal do Paraná Dr Mette Berg matriculated members of the University. 3 Feb.: ‘State elites and crucial moments: 9 Feb.: ‘Juggling: gendered reflections on Subject: ‘Anthropology of Muslim societies’ industrialisation in Argentina and Brazil becoming an academic’ (Old Library) compared (1930–66)’ Public Lecture Rachel Scicluna, Open Dr Tanya Harmer, LSE Mr Don M Randel, President of the Andrew 16 Feb.: ‘The inchoate characteristic 10 Feb.: ‘Allende’s Chile and the inter- W Mellon Foundation, will lecture at 5 pm of roles: fieldwork, interpretation and American cold war’ on 6 March in the Examination Schools. writing’ (Jerwood) Subject: ‘Higher education in a world of 30th Anniversary Lecture for the Bulletin of Dr Ketaki Kushari Dyson inequality and conflict’ Latin American Research 23 Feb.: ‘Writing as a woman: between Professor James Dunkerley, QMUL continents and cultures in two languages’ 24 Feb.: ‘ “Where is Carlos Montufar?” (Jerwood) Scenes of sensibility in the scientific life of Alexander von Humboldt’ 200 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4973 • 11 January 2012
Dr Cynthia Milton, Montreal Dr Barbara Crossouard, Sussex Sabine Rommevaux, CNRS-SPHERE, Paris, 2 Mar.: ‘ “Soy tan pobre que no tengo 23 Feb.: ‘The reconstruction of the will lecture at 5.15 pm on 24 February. Chair: indio”: perceptions of poverty in a colonial university doctorate viewed through Ian Maclean. Convener: Martine Pécharman, context (eighteenth-century Quito)' Bernstein’s conceptual frameworks’ CNRS. Subject: ‘La réception des Calculatores Dr Julián Salazar Professor Chris Rust, Oxford Brookes d’Oxford en France et en Italie: quelques 9 Mar.: ‘The political determinants 1 Mar.: ‘University assessment practices exemples’ of resource allocation in Mexican just don't add up’ municipalities’ Conferences and Study Days Professor John Brennan, Open Conference 8 Mar.: ‘Researching black and minority Jean-Philippe Genet, Paris I and Ann ethnic staff working in higher education’ Thomson, Paris VIII, will organise the A conference will be held in the Nissan following workshop for the CNRS research Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s , from 8.40 am McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics group Iles Britanniques from 2 pm on on 17 February. Speakers: Angus Lapsley, and Public Life 11 January until 6.30 pm on 12 January. Foreign and Commonwealth Office;L Subject: ‘Translation and culture in the Enrique García, CAF-Latin American Peter Singer and Christian ethics: British Isles: a historical approach’ Development Bank; Alicia García-Herrero, beyond polarisation BBVA; Enrique Iglesias, Secretario General Garance Auboyneau, Helena Taylor and Iberoamericano; José Antonio Ocampo, Charles Camosy, Assistant Professor of Sophie Turner will organise the Oxford Columbia; María Emma Mejía, UNASUR; Christian Ethics, Fordham University, NY, University French Postgraduate Conference João Carlos Ferraz, BNDES; Michael and Visiting Fellow, McDonald Centre for from 2 pm on 27 January until 5.30 pm on 28 Penfold, CAF; Gabriel Palma, Cambridge; Theology, Ethics and Public Life, will deliver January. Martín Torrijos, former President of the following lectures on Tuesdays at 5 pm Subject: ‘Metamorphosis’ Panama; Manuel Alcántara, Salamanca; in the Examination Schools. Martine Pécharman, CNRS, Daniel Garber, Martín Tanaka, Instituto de Estudios 31 Jan.: 'Hope for meaningful Princeton, and Noel Malcolm will organise Peruanos; Leonardo Villar, CAF; Diego conversation? Poverty and non-human the following conference on 3 February Sánchez-Ancochea; Nora Lustig, Tulane. animals' from 9 am at the Maison Française d'Oxford, All welcome. To register or for further 7 Feb.: 'Common ground where we least continuing on 4 February at All Souls. information, email david.robinson@lac. expect it? Abortion and euthanasia' Subject: ‘The natural philosophy of ox.ac.uk or telephone (2)74484. 14 Feb.: 'A common consequentialist Thomas Hobbes: its context and Subject: ‘Latin America in a new global approach? Utilitarianism and Christian development’ economic order: towards a new model of teleology' development’ Soazick Kerneis, Paris X, will organise the 21 Feb.:’Moving forward together: following conference from 9.30 am to 5 pm reimaging a consistent ethic of life in the Oxford Learning Institute on 8 February. twenty-first century' Subject: ‘ “La maison et le monde”: la Public seminar series romanisation et ses variations juridiques’ Maison Française The following seminars are given on A study day, ‘Journée Jean-Pierre Vernant’, Thursdays at 4 pm in the Seminar Room, The following events will take place at the will take place from 2 pm to 6 pm on Littlegate House, St Ebbe’s. The seminars Maison Française, unless otherwise noted. 14 February, at the Ioannou Centre, St Giles’. are open to anyone interested in research Email: [email protected]. Lectures and Four doctoral students will present their into higher education. To attend or to be conferences with English titles will be in research before the keynote lecture by added to our mailing list contact: research@ English. Vincent Azoulay, Paris Est-Marne-la-Vallée- learning.ox.ac.uk or (2)86811. IUF. Single Lectures Subject: ‘The statues of Theogenes of Dr Camille Kandiko, KCL Philippe Descola, Collège de France, will Thasos: glory and outrage’ 19 Jan.: ‘Strategic curricula: a global lecture at 5.15 pm on 18 January. Convener: analysis of organisational change’ Corine Eyraud, Provence, and Luc Borot Luc Borot. will organise the following conference from Dr Rowena Murray, Strathclyde Subject: ‘Animating images: an 2 pm on 17 February until 4 pm on 26 Jan.: ‘Academic writing/academic anthropological approach’ 18 February. writers’ Jacob Rogozinski, Strasbourg, will lecture at Subject: ‘Universities in the “performance Dr Helen Carasso 5.15 pm on 21 February. Convener and Chair: age”: issues and changes in higher 2 Feb.: ‘A quasi-market for undergraduate Christina Howells. education in France and the United education in England – what are the Subject: ‘La marque du diable: la chasse aux Kingdom’ conditions for its successful operation?’ sorcières aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles’ Nathalie Ferrand, ITEM, Paris-CNRS, and Professor Roger Kneebone, Imperial Patrick Cabanel, Toulouse, will lecture at Nicholas Cronk will organise the following 9 Feb.: ‘New ways of thinking about 5 pm on 22 February at St Hugh’s. Chair: conference at 4 pm on 22 February. simulation’ Ruth Harris. Conveners: Laurent Douzou, Speakers: Michel Delon, Paris IV: ‘Pourquoi IEP Lyon and Anna-Magdalena Elsner. Laclos?’; and Michèle Sajous d’Oria, Bari: Dr Donald Gillies, Strathclyde Subject: ‘Rescuing the Jews in France ‘Illustrer les Liaisons dangereuses’. 16 Feb.: ‘The agile university and the risk of during the holocaust: background, Subject: ‘Autour des Liaisons dangereuses educational osteoporosis’ networks, characters’ de Laclos’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4973 • 11 January 2012 201
Bill Pickering, British Centre for Carine Barbafieri, Valenciennes 5 Mar., History Faculty, George Street Durkheimian Studies, will organise a study 1 Mar.: ‘Persistance et renouveau de Charles-François Mathis, Paris-Sorbonne day from 10.30 am to 4.30 pm on la veine gauloise dans le XVIIe siècle Subject: ‘Landscape and preservation in 25 February. classique (1630–1715)’ England in the 19th century’ Subject: ‘A further look at effervescence’ Jeremy Burchardt, Reading Key Words in Early Modern France Subject: ‘Landscape, preservationism and Martine Pécharman, CNRS, and Philip Seminar local interests: the example of Berkshire, Beeley will organise the following The following seminars will be given at early 20th century’ conference from 10 am to 6 pm on 11.30 am on Fridays. Conveners: Alain Viala 28 February. Cinema and Richard Scholar. Subject: ‘Across the channel: intellectual This term, the Maison Française will show relations between England and France in Richard Cooper four films celebrating the career of the film the early modern period. Part two’ 20 Jan.: ‘Arms and letters in Renaissance director Alain Resnais, in collaboration with Italy and France’ Martine Pécharman, CNRS, will co-organise Nikolaj Lűbecker, Lecturer in French. Films with Christiane Chauviré, Paris I, a round- Thibaut Maus de Rolley will be at 8 pm on alternate Tuesdays, in table at 3 pm on 9 March. Chair: Michael 27 Jan.: ‘Lettres et savoirs au XVIe siècle’ French with English subtitles. Sheringham. Marine Roussillon 24 Jan.: Muriel ou le temps d’un retour Subject: ‘Remembering Pierre Bourdieu 3 Feb.: ‘Lettres et pouvoir de Molière à (1963, 117 min.) (1930–2002)’ Voltaire’ 7 Feb.: Mon Oncle d’Amérique (1980, Seminars 125 min.) Frédérique Aït-Touati 21 Feb.: Mélo (1986, 112 min.) Medieval French Seminar 10 Feb.: ‘Sciences et lettres au XVIIe siècle’ 6 Mar.: On connaît la chanson (1997, The following seminars will be given at Modern French Seminar 120 min.) 5.15 pm on alternate Tuesdays. Conveners: The following seminars will be given at Sophie Marnette and Helen Swift. Oxford Martin School 5.15 pm on alternate Thursdays. Conveners: Michelle Szkilnik, Paris III, will chair a Ian Maclachlan and Michael Sheringham. Seminar series round-table discussion workshop Hector Kollias, KCL 17 Jan.: ‘Is there such a thing as a European Can emerging technologies save 26 Jan.: ‘Jouhandeau and Genet: romance of chivalry in the late middle the world? two perverts between abjection and ages?’ sublimation’ The following panel discussions will be Catherine Croizy-Naquet, Paris III given at 3.30 pm on Thursdays in Seminar Pierre Schoentjes, Ghent 31 Jan.: ‘Les chroniqueurs de croisade: de Room 1, Oxford Martin School, Old Indian 9 Feb.: ‘Quelle poétique pour l’écriture de la l’auteur de l’Estoire de la Guerre sainte à Institute Building. Convener: Alison Stibbe. nature? Perspectives contemporaines’ Joinville’ Professor Sonia Contera, Angela D Saini, Jacob Rogozinski, Strasbourg Ruth Harvey, Royal Holloway author, Dr Dianne Sullivan, Vodafone 23 Feb.: ‘Déporté loin de soi-même – routes 14 Feb.: ‘Representation, performance and Global Enterprise, and Professor Lionel et déroutes d’Antonin Artaud’ troubadour manuscript illumination: a Tarassenko marginal case?’ Kate Conley, Dartmouth 19 Jan.: ‘Emerging healthcare technologies 8 Mar.: ‘Pierre Alechinsky’s ghostly – how are they changing us?’ Thomas Hinton palimpsests’ 28 Feb.: ‘ “A man may write of love and Professor Nick Bostrom, Graham not be in love”: authenticity in thirteenth- History of Science Seminar Lawton, New Scientist, and Professor Gero century French and Occitan literature’ Miesenböck The following Environmental History 2 Feb.: ‘Human and cognitive Early Modern French Seminar seminars will be given at 4 pm on alternate enhancement – do we want smarter, faster, Mondays. Convener: Thomas Le Roux, The following seminars will be given at better humans?’ CNRS. 5.15 pm on alternate Thursdays. Conveners: Professor Sadie Creese, Martin Sadler, Jessica Goodman, Richard Parish, Caroline 23 Jan. Hewlett Packard, and Greg Williams, Warman and Wes Williams. Grégory Quenet, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines WIRED Subject: ‘Building the Palace of Versailles: Alexandre Wenger, Genève 16 Feb.: ‘Securing our cyber future – environmental consequences’ 19 Jan.: ‘Qu’est-ce qu’un personnage? opportunities and risks when virtual Richard Oram, Stirling Le médecin Bordeu dans Le Rêve de meets reality’ Subject: ‘Castles and resources, from 12th d’Alembert de Diderot’ to 17th centuries’ Dr John Constable, Renewable Energy Michael Moriarty, Cambridge Foundation, Professor Richard Darton, 13 Feb., Oxford Brookes, Gipsy Lane 2 Feb.: ‘La Bruyère, virtue, friendship, Fiona Harvey, the Guardian, and Professor Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, Imperial disinterestedness’ Steve Rayner Subject: ‘Chemistry and the transformation 1 Mar.: ‘The hopes and hazards of climate Guillaume Pigeard de Gurbert, Fort-de- of the environment, 1750-1850’ intervention’ France, Martinique, in association with the John Perkins, Oxford Brookes Caribbean Globalizations Research Network Subject: ‘Chemical expertise and industrial 16 Feb.: ‘Le tabac: voyage aux sources de la pollution in Rouen, 1770-1810’ mondialisation’ 202 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4973 • 11 January 2012
Centre on Migration, Policy and Society Dr Jose Manuel Roche Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (COMPAS) 2 Feb.: ‘Multidimensional poverty measurement: tailoring applications to Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminar series context and age groups’ (OTJR) Seminar Series
Migrants and welfare states: Dr Nick Townsend The following seminars will be given at inclusion or exclusion? 9 Feb.: ‘Social inequalities in the burden of 5 pm on Tuesdays in Seminar Room D, cardiovascular disease’ Manor Road Building, except for 7 February The following seminars will be given at 2 pm and 6 March. Convener: Nicola Palmer. on Thursdays in the Seminar Room, Pauling Dr Philip Kreager Centre, 58a Banbury Road. Convener: 16 Feb.: ‘Social stratification schemes and Dr Larbi Sadiki, Exeter COMPAS Welfare Cluster. the older population of Indonesia’ 17 Jan.: ‘The Arab spring: transitional justice for a just transition’ Professor Lydia Morris, Essex Dr Elizabeth Breeze, London School of 19 Jan.: ‘Civic stratification and migrants’ Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Dr Mark Freeman, IFIT rights’ 1 Mar.: ‘Health inequalities in the English 24 Jan.: ‘Amnesties and human rights longitudinal study of ageing’ fundamentalism: what has happened to Dr Virginie Guiraudon, National Center for transitional justice?’ ScientificR esearch Dr Bernard Rachet, London School of 26 Jan.: ‘Between welfare states and Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Rudina Jasini markets: the migrant–policy nexus in 8 Mar.: ‘Age and socio-economic 31 Jan.: ‘Victim participation in comparative perspective and reflections inequalities in cancer survival’ international criminal proceedings: are on social rights and antidiscrimination law’ retributive and restorative principles Institute for Science, Innovation and enhancing the prospect for justice?’ Dr Rebecca Taylor, Birkbeck Society 2 Feb.: ‘Entitlement, belonging and Betty Bigombe, Ugandan MP outsiderness: Britain’s Gypsy Travellers in 7 Feb.: tbc BioProperty seminar series the twentieth century’ Felipe Michelini, IPPDH The following seminars will be given at Dr Aoife Nolan, Durham Law School 14 Feb.: ‘From Condor to MERCOSUR: the 4 pm on Tuesdays in the Seminar Room, 9 Feb.: ‘Migrants’ access to goods and struggle for accountability for past human 64 Banbury Road. Convener: Javier Lezaun. services in the context of international rights violations in Uruguay’ human rights law’ Nils Hoppe, Hannover Sandra Rubli, Swisspeace 24 Jan.: ‘Legal and ethical perspectives Dr Kaveri Qureshi and Dr Alison Shaw 21 Feb.: ‘Transitional justice as an on property rights in human biological 16 Feb.: ‘Immigration, demographic instrument for political struggles in material’ governance and social policy in the late Burundi’ twentieth century: British Pakistani Shobita Parathasarathy, Michigan Professor Cynthia E Milton, Montreal families’ 31 Jan.: ‘Building a patent system in the 28 Feb.: ‘ “Before, During and After”: artistic public interest? Making democracy, the Professor Sarah van Walsum, VU narrative representations of Peru’s internal economy, and morality in the United Amsterdam conflict’ States and Europe’ 23 Feb.: ‘Shifts in the public/private divide Various guest speakers as mode of inclusion and exclusion’ Justine Pila 6 Mar.: ‘Challenges of peace-building in the 7 Feb.: ‘Ownership in the contemporary life Thomas Huddleston, Migration Policy Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’ sciences’ Group Regulation Discussion Group seminar 1 Mar.: ‘The right to participate: law, Anne Phillips, LSE series equality and the prospective impact on 14 Feb.: ‘Why we do not own our bodies’ immigrant integration in Europe and The following seminars will be given at 4 pm Nick Brown, York abroad’ on Wednesdays in Seminar Room F, Manor 21 Feb.: ‘Between use and exchange in Road Building. Convener: Dr Bettina Lange. Panel workshop bioeconomy’ 8 Mar.: ‘The welfare state: practitioners’ Professor Julia Black, LSE Jane Calvert, Edinburgh perspectives on inclusion or exclusion’ 25 Jan.: ‘Regulatory imagination and 28 Feb.: ‘Ownership and sharing in regulatory reform: the future of principles- synthetic biology: a “diverse ecology” of Oxford Institute of Population Ageing based regulation’ the open and proprietary?’ Dr Alan Morrison Work, Wellbeing and Retirement 8 Feb.: ‘Regulatory imagination and seminar series regulatory practice: UK banking regulation’ The following seminars will take place Professor Bob Jessop, Lancaster on Thursdays, 12.30-2 pm, in the Seminar 22 Feb.: ‘Regulatory imagination and the Room, Wolsey Hall, 66 Banbury Road. challenge of interdisciplinarity’ Dr Chris Davis Professor Michael Moran, Manchester 26 Jan.: ‘Class inequalities in health 7 Mar.: ‘Regulatory imagination and and social welfare affecting the elderly reform: the case of the financial crisis’ in Russia: have they increased in the transition period?’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4973 • 11 January 2012 203
Colleges and Halls Keble Centre for the Study of Governance and Transparency Richardson Lecture All Souls Conference Professor Chris Gosden, will deliver the Kellogg’s second anti-corruption conference Neill Lecture 2012 Richardson Lecture at 5.30 pm on will take place on 19 and 20 January. 17 February in the Pusey Room, Keble. Sir John Baker, QC, Downing Professor Speakers include the Rt Hon Clare Short, Subject: ‘On being English: exploring Emeritus of the Laws of England, Laurence Cockcroft, Gareth Winrow, the English collections of the Pitt Rivers Cambridge, will deliver the Neill Lecture Seema Joshi, Catarina Tully, Anthea Museum' at 5 pm on 24 February in the Examination Lawson, Arwa Hassan, and others. The Schools. Advanced Studies Centre, Creativity conference will begin at 4 pm on 19 January Subject: ‘The legal history nobody knows’ Lecture Series at Kellogg and continue on 20 January at the Lecture Theatre, Rewley House, at 9.45 am. The following lectures will be given at Balliol Fee: £150 including conference dinner (£50 5 pm on Fridays in O’Reilly Lecture Theatre, students) or day 2 only £90 (£25 students) Keble, unless otherwise noted. Convener: Dr Oliver Smithies Lectures including lunch. Convener: Patricia Feeney. L Malafouris. For a programme and registration form see: The following lectures will be delivered at Professor Susan Greenfield www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/researchcentres/csgt/ 5 pm in Lecture Room XXIII, Balliol, unless 20 Jan.: ‘The neuroscience of creativity’ conferences.php. otherwise noted. Information at: www. balliol.ox.ac.uk/events. Professor Kevin Warwick, Reading Seminars 27 Jan.: ‘Creating cyborgs’ Dr Luca Guidoni The following seminars will be given at 11.30 am, Mon. 16 Jan.(Audrey Wood Professor Robin Dunbar 12.30–2 pm on Thursdays in the Meeting Seminar Room, Clarendon Laboratory): 9 Mar.: ‘Why the internet won’t make you Room, Kellogg. All welcome. Convenors: ‘Quantum correlations obtained by four- any more friends’ Patricia Feeney and Dr Elizabeth David- wave-mixing in an atomic vapour’ Barrett. Kellogg Dr Ildar Garipzanov Michael Macaulay, Teesside Thurs. 26 Jan.: ‘Christian identities, 26 Jan.: ‘Corruption in the UK’ Centre for Creative Writing seminar social status and gender in Viking-age series Heather Marquette, Birmingham Scandinavia’ 2 Feb.: ‘Corruption and religion: the cases The following seminars will be given at Dr William Coleman of India and Nigeria’ 4.45 pm (refreshments) for 5.15 pm at Tues. 14 Feb.: ‘The strange birth of Kellogg. All welcome. Almira Cemmell, Global Witness neoliberalism’ 9 Feb.: ‘Corruption in the extractive Sir Andrew Motion Dr Ildar Garipzanov industries’ 31 Jan. (Mawby Room): ‘Reading and Thurs. 1 Mar.: ‘Rise of graphicacy and poetry masterclass’ graphic symbols of authority in early Lady Margaret Hall medieval Europe’ Jane Draycott 28 Feb. (Stopforth Metcalfe Room): Canada Seminar Dr William Coleman ‘Translating the dream-vision Pearl’ Tues. 6 Mar.: ‘The liberal and the Jane Urquhart, award-winning writer, will powerlessness of ideas’ Centre for the Study of Religion and deliver the Canada Seminar at 5.15 pm on Public Life Seminars 24 January in the Simpkins Lee theatre, Hertford Lady Margaret Hall. The following seminars will take place at Subject: ‘Sanctuary line’ Kellogg, with refreshments at 4.30 pm. All John Donne Lecture welcome and no booking is necessary. Linacre Dr Mary Robinson, former President Professor Roger Trigg of Ireland; President, Mary Robinson 5 pm, 18 Jan.: ‘Equality, freedom and Environmental Governance and Foundation – Climate Justice; and Honorary religion’ (book launch and panel Resilience Fellow, Hertford, will lecture at 5.15 pm on discussion) 16 March in the Sheldonian Theatre. The following Linacre Lectures, sponsored Subject: ‘Climate justice – "What is this Professor Dr Vasile Timis, Secretary of State by Tetra Laval, will be given at 5.30 pm on present were the world's last night?" (Holy in the Ministry for Religious Affairs, Culture Thursdays in the New Biochemistry Lecture Sonnets no. 13)’ and National Heritage of Romania Theatre, South Parks Road. 5 pm, 13 Feb.: ‘Religious diversity in Professor Stuart Chapin, Institute of Arctic Romania’ Biology, Alaska The Right Revd Dr John Prichard, Bishop 19 Jan.: ‘Social-ecological resilience: a of Oxford framework for stewardship in an uncertain 5.15 pm, 5 Mar.: ‘The contested future of and rapidly changing world’ church schools’ Professor Kathy Willis 26 Jan.: ‘Planning for ecological resilience on landscapes: the importance of the past to plan for the future’ 204 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4973 • 11 January 2012
Professor Andy Pickering, Exeter Dr Erzsebet Bukodi and Dr John Maria Eleni Koppa, MEP for PASOK, and 2 Feb.: ‘Enframing and poiesis in Goldthorpe George Koumoutsakos, MEP for New environmental management’ 25 Jan.: ‘Decomposing “social origins”: Democracy Party the effects of parents’ class, status and 23 Jan.: ‘Greek foreign policy: challenges in Professor Gísli Pálsson, Iceland education on the educational attainment the shadow of the crisis’ 9 Feb.: ‘Governance, genomes, Gaia’ of their children’ Ricardo Borges de Castro, European Professor Robert Costanza, Portland State Dr Bram Lancee Commission 16 Feb.: ‘Solutions for a sustainable and 1 Feb.: ‘Immigrant performance in the 30 Jan.: ‘Through the guardians' lenses: an desirable future’ labour market. Bonding and bridging analysis of the role of the Turkish military Professor Carl Folke, Stockholm social capital’ in the protection of secularism’ 23 Feb.: ‘Resilience and social-ecological Professor Harry Ganzeboom Vesna Drapac, Adelaide systems’ 8 Feb.: tbc 9 Feb.: ‘Living and writing the Second World War in Yugoslavia: a transnational Mansfield Professor Brian Nolan approach’ 15 Feb.: ‘The distributional impact of the Lecture series great recession’ Nicoletta Demetriou and Kerem Oktem 13 Feb.: ‘The mysterious other side: The following lectures will be given at Professor Robert Erikson growing up in divided Cyprus’ 5 pm on Fridays in the Chapel, Mansfield. 22 Feb.: ‘Dimensions of social background Convener: Baroness Helena Kennedy. and educational and occupational Laurent Mignon attainment’ 20 Feb.: ‘From Aleph to Elif: the birth- David Marquand, political writer and pangs of Judeo-Turkish literature’ historian; former Labour MP; and former Professor Lindsay Patterson Principal of Mansfield 29 Feb.: ‘Does comprehensive education Jens Bastian, European Commission Task 27 Jan.: ‘The end of the West: Europe in make people more civic-minded?’ Force for Greece crisis’ 27 Feb.: ‘Is the task force for Greece a new Professor Dr Frans van Poppel concept of EU policy-making?’ Victoria Brittain, former associate foreign 7 Mar.: ‘Demographic transitions and editor, the Guardian; LSE changes in the living arrangements of Josip Glaurdic, Cambridge, and Richard 3 Feb.: ‘Guantanamo ten years on – when children: the Netherlands 1950–2010’ Caplan law and humanity fell through the cracks’ 5 Mar.: ‘The hour of Europe: western St Antony’s powers and the break-up of Yugoslavia’ Owen Jones, author and commentator 10 Feb.: ‘Chavs. The demonisation of the International History and Politics Dahrendorf Programme for the Study of working class’ Seminar: Twentieth-Century Freedom Europe and the World: Integration Hisham Matar, author The following lectures will take place at and Disintegration 17 Feb.: ‘In the country of men: Libya, 5 pm in the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, literature and political longing’ The following seminars will be given at Clarendon Laboratory. 5 pm on Thursdays in the Seminar Room, David Edgar, playwright and author Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, Dr European Studies Centre. Conveners: Jane 24 Feb.: ‘Politics and the theatre’ Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and Caplan, Patricia Clavin and Anne Deighton. Caroline Lucas, Green Party MP Professor Timothy Garton Ash Glenda Sluga, Sydney 2 Mar.: ‘Can we be Green when we are 19 Jan.: ‘Freespeechdebate.com: global 19 Jan.: ‘Internationalism in the age of broke?’ free speech in the internet age’ (register at: nationalism’ [email protected]) Lord (Roy) Hattersley, Labour politician, Marilyn Young, New York author and journalist Richard Allen, Facebook, Viktor Mayer- 26 Jan.: ‘America’s necessary wars of 9 Mar.: ‘Dissent – a proud tradition.’ Schönberger and student contributors choice’ (chair: Timothy Garton Ash) Nuffield 20 Feb.: ‘Facebook, privacy and you: a Mark Gilbert, Johns Hopkins debate’ 2 Feb.: ‘European integration’s great leap Nuffield Sociology Seminars forward?: 1974–89’ European Studies Centre The following seminars will be given at 5 pm Angela Romano, LSE Please check our programme updates at: www. in the Clay Room, Nuffield. Conveners: Colin 9 Feb.: ‘The European Community and sant.ox.ac.uk/esc. Mills and Erzsebet Bukodi. Eastern Europe in the long 1970s’ SEESOX Seminar Series Professor Heather Joshi and Elise De La Aryo Makko, Stockholm Rocherbrochard The following seminars will take place at 16 Feb.: ‘Sweden and Europe in the cold 18 Jan.: ‘School readiness at age three: 5 pm on Mondays in the Seminar Room, war’ the role of birth intendedness, social European Studies Centre. Convener: Othon Dragos Petrescu, Bucharest, National inequality and parenting practice in the Anastasakis. Council for the Study of the Securitate Millennium Cohort’ Zlatko Lagumdzija, Sarajevo, Leader of Archives Social Democratic Party 23 Feb.: ‘Romania and Europe, West and 16 Jan.: ‘On Bosnia’ (tbc) East 1967–81’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4973 • 11 January 2012 205
Teresa Tomas Rangil Book launch Russkiy Mir Programme 1 Mar.: ‘ “I predict a riot”: monitoring Daniel A Gordon, Edge Hill, will present his Clementine Cecil, former Times violence in Sub-Saharan Africa during the book Immigrants and Intellectuals: May '68 correspondent and co-founder, Moscow “lost decade” ’ and the Rise of Anti-Racism in France at 5 pm Architecture Preservation Society, will Alessandro Roselli, Cass Business School on 6 March at the European Studies Centre. lecture at 5 pm on 18 January, in the 8 Mar.: ‘The political economy of banking: Dahrendorf Room, St Antony’s. Stifterverband Visiting Fellowship financial stability and collapse in the 20th Subject: ‘A tale of two cities: the grassroots workshop century’ campaign to save buildings in Moscow and Lutz Raphael, ESC Stifterverband Visiting St Petersburg’ Visiting Fellows’ Workshops Series Fellow, and Jane Caplan will convene a Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre The following seminars will be given in pairs workshop on modern German history on at 12 pm on Wednesdays in the Seminar Friday, 16 March, and Saturday, 17 March; Twenty years of post-Communism in Room, European Studies Centre. Convener: times tbc. the former Soviet Union Jane Caplan. For details, see: www.sant. Subject: ‘Poverty and welfare in modern The following seminars will be given at 5 pm ox.ac.uk/esc. German history. New perspectives from on Mondays in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, current research’ 1 Feb. St Antony’s. Conveners: Dr Paul Chaisty and Claire Dupuy, ESC Deakin Visiting Fellow North American Studies Seminar Series Dr Alex Pravda. Subject: ‘Education and territorial The following seminars will take place on Dr Nikolai Petrov, Carnegie, Moscow restructuring in Western Europe’ Mondays at 5 pm. 16 Jan.: ‘Elections as a mirror image of Lutz Raphael, ESC Stifterverband Visiting Russian state and society, 1989–2011’ Fellow Alejandro Madrazo Lajous, CIDE, Mexico Subject: ‘De-industrialisation in Western 16 Jan. (Latin American Centre Seminar Professor Neil MacFarlane Europe 1970 to 2000: changes in class and Room): 'Drug prohibition: health policy or 23 Jan.: ‘Political development and state- gender relations’ health problem? Reflections from Mexico building in Georgia: the last twenty years’ and Latin America' 15 Feb. Professor Jeffrey Kahn, Southern John Farnell, ESC EU Visiting Fellow Nigel Bowles, Diego Sanchez-Ancochea, Methodist Subject: ‘EU-China economic relations in Jennifer Welsh and Laurence Whitehead 30 Jan.: ‘After twenty years: Russia, human a difficult decade: partnership, rivalry or 23 Jan. (Dahrendorf Room, St Antony’s): rights and legal reform’ indifference?’ 'Defining NorthA merica and North Professor Robert Legvold, Columbia Fikret Causevic, SEESOX Alpha Bank American Studies: a roundtable on a new 6 Feb.: ‘Russia and its post-Soviet Visiting Fellow initiative ' neighbours: from empire to what?’ Subject: ‘Economic liberalisation and small Doug Saunders, Globe and Mail (Toronto); open economies: the case of western Professor Olexiy Haran, Kyiv Mohyla author Balkan countries’ 13 Feb.: ‘Orange revolution and 6 Feb. (Dahrendorf Room, St Antony’s): counterrevolution: whither Ukraine?’ 29 Mar. 'The suburbanisation of arrival: new Noe Cornago, ESC Basque Visiting Fellow migrant communities on the edges of Professor Leslie Holmes, Melbourne Subject: ‘Plural diplomacies: changing North American cities' 20 Feb.: ‘Corruption in the post-Soviet practices, institutions and discourses’ space: the first two decades’ Mark Aspinwall, Edinburgh Diego Muro, ESC Santander Visiting Fellow 13 Feb. (Latin American Centre Seminar Dr Vladimir Pastukhov Subject: ‘Self healing in action: the political Room): 'Side effects: Mexican governance 27 Feb.: ‘The rise and fall of Russia's post- activism of terror victims organisations in under NAFTA's labour and environmental communist “inner state” ’ Spain and the UK’ agreements' Professor Richard Sakwa, Kent Seminar Hal Klepak, Royal Military College of 5 Mar.: ‘1991, elections and the future of Timothy Garton Ash, Adam Roberts Canada democracy in Russia’ and Michael Zantovsky, Czech Republic 27 Feb. (Dahrendorf Room, St Antony’s): South Asian History Seminars Ambassador, will give a seminar chaired by The relationship between Canada and Alex Pravda at 8.15 pm on 9 February in the Cuba' (tbc) The following seminars will be given at 2 pm Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s. on Tuesdays in the Fellow’s Dining Room, Laurence Whitehead Subject: ‘Václav Havel: playwright, the Hilda Besse Building, St Antony’s. 5 Mar. (Latin American Centre Seminar dissident, velvet revolutionary and Room): 'Mexico’s 2012 presidential Professor Yunas Samad, Bradford president’ elections: prospects and implications for 17 Jan.: ‘Military, politics and democracy in MDCEE Workshop North America' Pakistan’ Jan Zielonka and Martin Krygier, New Professor Ishtiaq Ahmad South Wales, will convene a workshop 24 Jan.: ‘Afghanistan: rethinking conflict on Friday, 10 February, and Saturday, resolution’ 11 February; times tbc. Please contact [email protected] if you are interested in attending. 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Dr Sanchari Dutta Film Seminars Richard Rusbridger, British 31 Jan.: ‘Chronicles of captivity: prison Psychoanalytical Society Migration and post-migration in memoirs and inmate society in the prisons 6 Feb.: ‘Projective identification inOthello national cinemas of colonial India, 1900–30s’ and Verdi's Otello’ The following seminars will be given at 7 Feb.: tbc Peter Fifield 5 pm, with film screenings commencing at 20 Feb.: ‘Beckett and Bion’ 14 Feb.: tbc 8.30 pm, in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s, except where otherwise noted. Ian Donaldson, Melbourne Dr Stephen Legg, Nottingham Open to all. Convenors: Dr Alex Pravda and 12 Mar.: ‘Noli me tangere: touching and its 21 Feb.: ‘An international anomaly: the Professor Rosemary Foot. taboos’ (response: British Psychoanalytic League of Nations, India and its princely Association member) geographies’ 10 Feb.: Dr Kerem Oktem. Discussant: Dr Laurent Mignon. Dr Evrim Binbas, Royal Holloway Somerville Seminar: ‘People in motion: migration and 28 Feb.: ‘The king’s two bodies in the post-migration in Turkey’s cinema’ Timurid political theology’ Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture Film: Edge of Heaven (Fatih Akin) 6 Mar.: tbc Dr Venki Ramakrishnan, MRC Laboratory 17 Feb.: Dr Birgit Beumers, Bristol. of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, will deliver Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship Discussant: Dr Alex Pravda the Dorothy Hodgkin Memorial Lecture at 5 seminar series Seminar (Dahrendorf Room): ‘A hero of our pm on 2 March in the University Museum. time? The gastarbeiter in recent Russian Human rights in a violent world Subject: ‘How antibiotics illuminate cinema’ ribosome function and vice versa’ The following seminars will take place at Film (Nissan Lecture Theatre): Another Sky 5 pm on Tuesdays in the Nissan Lecture (Dmitrii Mamulia) Trinity Theatre, St Antony's. Conveners: Professor 2 Mar.: Asher Tlalim, Film Director. David Marquand, Professor Robert Service, Discussant: Professor Avi Shlaim. Richard Hillary Memorial Lecture Ms Lisa Nandy MP and Ms Nicola Blackwood Seminar: ‘Galoot: walking through traumas MP. Sir Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate in Israeli cinema’ 1999–2009, will deliver the Richard Hillary David Davis MP, Professor Francesca Klug, Film: Galoot (Asher Tlalim) Memorial Lecture at 5 pm on 20 February LSE, and Professor John Packer, Essex 9 Mar.: Dr Margaret Hillenbrand. in the Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre, St Cross 17 Jan.: ‘Human rights: fond illusions or Discussant: Dr Rachel Murphy. Building. urgent necessities?’ Seminar: ‘Still Life: portraits of dislocation Subject: 'Reading: war poetry' Conrad Bailey, Conflict Group, FCO, and in modernising China’ Professor Norman Davies; third speaker tbc Film: Still Life (Jia Zhangke) Wolfson 24 Jan.: ‘Sexual violence as a weapon of war' St Catherine’s Haldane Lecture Sir David King, Lord Dick Taverne and Dr Sir Iain Chalmers, Coordinator, James Lind Wallace Watson Award lecture Liz Fisher Initiative, will deliver the Haldane Lecture at 31 Jan.: ‘Rights for the Earth?’ Thomas Mallon, winner, 2011 Wallace 6 pm on 16 February, in the Hall, Wolfson. Watson Award, will lecture at 6 pm on Subject: ‘Trying to do more good than harm Nicola Blackwood MP, Dr Paula Heinonen; 8 March in the Bernard Sunley Theatre, St in health care’ third speaker tbc Catherine’s. 7 Feb.: ‘What role for women in the search Oxford Centre for Life-Writing Subject: ‘A poem for Oppenheimer – a for peace and security?’ (UN resolution journey through American military Weinrebe Lectures in Life-Writing: 1325) campaigns in Asia’ Fiction and Auto/Biography David Loyn, BBC; second and third speakers The following lectures will be given at tbc St John’s College Research Centre 5.30 pm at Wolfson. 14 Feb.: ‘Afghanistan after ten years: more rights or fewer?’ Interdisciplinary seminars in Michèle Roberts psychoanalysis 2 Feb.: ‘ “Oh you liar, you storyteller”: on Lisa Nandy MP, Clare Short, Transparency fibbing, fact and fabulation’ International and Professor Bernard Y Kao, The following seminars will take place at 8.15 National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan pm in the Lecture Room, Research Centre, Alan Hollinghurst, in conversation with 21 Feb.: ‘Global companies: enemies or 45 St Giles’. Free of charge to members of the Hermione Lee friends of human rights?’ University and mental health professionals, 7 Feb.: ‘What can I say: secrets in fiction and but space limited. To attend it is helpful (but biography’ Lord Alex Carlile, Anthony Barnett, Open not essential) to email [email protected]. Democracy, and Richard Norton Taylor, Candia McWilliam Conveners: Louise Braddock, Richard Gipps Guardian 14 Feb.: ‘Where may truth lie? Fiction in and Paul Tod. 28 Feb.: ‘Electronic rights: free expression memory, memory in fiction’ or state surveillance?’ Maja Zvigi Cohen, Royal College of Art Hisham Matar 23 Jan.: ‘When seasons in the internal Lady Ellen Dahrendorf; second and third 21 Feb.: ‘The closest exit may be behind landscape don’t change: an exploration of speakers tbc you’ the filmClimates in light of the theory of 6 Mar.: ‘Colliding rights? 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Daisy Hay and Pete Newbon (convened by 26 Jan.: Consumerism in schools 8 Mar.: Oxford learning Rachel Hewitt) Patrick Alexander: ‘Student-teacher Derek Morris, Provost of Oriel: 28 Feb.: ‘Solitary or socialite? The relations in schools’ ‘Undergraduate colleges in the 21st challenges of Romantic group biography’ James McBain: ‘The consumer university century’ meets the consumer school’ Nick Brown, Principal of Linacre: ‘The Campion Hall graduate experience in the 21st century’ 2 Feb.: Approaches to teaching and learning: Jonathan Michie, President of Kellogg perspectives from different disciplines Martin D’Arcy Memorial Lectures College and Head of Continuing Nicholas Hawker: ‘Threshold concepts – Education: ‘Universities and lifelong The following lectures will be given at 5 pm a natural way to teach Engineering’ learning’ on Tuesdays at Campion Hall. Each lecture Mette Berg: ‘Teaching and learning will be followed by discussion and a light Migration Studies: a view from an Oxford Intelligence Group reception. interdisciplinary field’ Benjamin Skipp: ‘Alternative musical The Revd Dr Michael Barnes SJ, Heythrop The following seminars will be given at models in university learning: dilettante, College, London 5.30 pm in the Large Lecture Room, Nuffield. connoisseur, virtuoso’ 14 Feb.: ‘The spiritual revolution: Levinas Enquiries to [email protected]. and the turn to the Self’ 9 Feb.: Undergraduate debate: ‘This Richard Aldrich, Warwick undergraduate body believes that 21st- The Revd Dr John McDade SJ, Heythrop 16 Feb.: ‘Escaping from American century students are consumers of College, London Intelligence: strategic culture as a barrier to education’ 21 Feb.: ‘Levinas on the value of atheism: re-thinking secret service’ what might Christians learn from this 16 Feb.: Size and shape matters Jim Beach, Salford Jewish thinker?’ Helen Kaufmann: ‘Learning and teaching 8 Mar.: ‘Histories of British military in tutorials and classes’ intelligence’ Other Groups Helen Swift: ‘Size matters in teaching modern languages’ Oxford Italian Association Kathleen Quinlan: ‘Beyond critical Oxford Asian Textile Group thinking: developing the whole student Dr John Sweetman will lecture at 8 pm on Verity Wilson will lecture at 5.45 pm on through higher education’ 24 January in the Mary Ogilvie Theatre, St 15 February to the Oxford Asian Textile 23 Feb.: Gender and learning around the Anne’s. Group, Pauling Institute, 58 Banbury Road. world Subject: ‘Bridges, artists and Italy’ Subject: ‘Dressing up Chinese: William Maria Jaschok: ‘Gender, education Robinson and his Chinese alter ego’ and women’s empowerment – global diversity and notions of equality (Beijing, University Assessor in association with Islamabad and Oxford).’ Oxford University Student Union Melanie Stewart: ‘Sexualising students’ Lilith Dornhuber de Bellesiles (Women’s Consumerism and its Alternatives: Studies): ‘Gender at university’ Learning and Teaching in the 21st 1 Mar.: The ethics of education Century University George Pattison: ‘Cyberversity or The following seminars will be held at 5 pm university?’ on Thursdays in the Examination Schools. Nicholas Rodger: ‘The moral basis of the All welcome. university’ Casey Strine: ‘ “The one who walks with 26 Jan.: Learning in the animal kingdom the wise grows wise”: views on the social Lucy Aplin and Zinta Zommers: benefits of education from the ancient ‘Corvids, choughs and chimps’ Near East’