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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 190 181 182 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No. 4973 • 11 january 2012 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’
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