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WEDNESDAY 13 JANUARY 2021 • SUPPLEMENT (1) TO NO 5297 • VOL 151 Gazette Supplement Lectures and Seminars, Hilary term 2021 Humanities 178 Institutes, Centres and 186 Rothermere American Institute Museums Classics Bodleian Libraries English/History/History of Art/Theology/Music Botanic Garden and Harcourt Arboretum History China Centre History/Modern Languages/Voltaire Foundation Hindu Studies History of Art Islamic Studies Medieval and Modern Languages/Linguistics, Philology Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and Phonetics Life-Writing Music Maison Française Oriental Studies Oxford Martin School Mathematical, Physical and Life Colleges, Halls and Societies 190 Sciences 181 All Souls Chemistry Green Templeton Earth Sciences Mansfield Physics St Antony’s St John’s Medical Sciences 182 Blackfriars Hall Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics Psychiatry Social Sciences 183 Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Education Geography and the Environment Global and Area Studies International Development Law Socio-legal Studies 177 178 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5297 • 13 January 2021 Humanities Professor Devin Fergus, Missouri Faculty of Classics 9 Mar: ‘Financial matters, Black lives: white collar crime and the Seminar series Rothermere American Institute racial wealth gap’ The following seminars will take place The future of American politics American literature research seminar 11.30am–1pm on Mondays. To register: [email protected]. Conveners: The following events will take place The following seminars will take Fiona Macintosh; David Ricks, KCL online via Zoom. More information, place at 5.30pm on Thursdays online updates and to register: www.rai.ox.ac. via Zoom. To receive links and pre- APGRD uk/future-of-american-politics. circulated readings, please join the SYMPOSIUM ALRS mailing list by sending a blank Professor Robert Liebermann, Johns email to: [email protected]. A symposium will take place on 15 Hopkins, Professor Margaret Weir, uk. January online, in collaboration with Brown, and Professor Desmond King Groningen, Trento and UCL. Free; more 6pm, 28 Jan: ‘The Biden Dr Erica Fretwell, SUNY at Albany information and to register: www. administration: priorities and 28 Jan: ‘Sensory experiments: apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2021/01/15- challenges’ psychophysics, race and the the-fascist-archive-in-performance. aesthetics of feeling’ Professor Seth Masket, Denver, and Conveners: Giovanna Di Martino, UCL; Professor Julia Azari, Marquette Book discussion Eleftheria Ioannidou, Groningen; Sara 5pm, 22 Feb: ‘The future of the Dr Tessa Roynon, Julia Adamo, Kenyon Troiani, Trento Democratic Party’ College 20, Dr Kasia Boddy, Cambridge, Subject: ‘The Fascist archive in Professor Stephen Harrison and Dr performance: classical reception in Evan McMullin, 2016 presidential Michael Kalisch film and live events under Mussolini’ candidate, and Professor Donald 11 Feb: Tessa Roynon’s The Classical Critchlow, Arizona State PUBLIC LECTURE Tradition in Modern American tbc: ‘The future of the Republican Fiction (Edinburgh UP, 2021) Rosa Andújar, KCL, will lecture at noon Party’ on 18 January online on the APGRD 25 Feb: James Baldwin’s Another American history research seminar YouTube channel, followed by a live Country: reading group and Q&A. Chair: Justine McConnell, KCL. The following seminars will take place discussion To join: https://youtu.be/IHcu1C0uhpg. at 4pm on Tuesdays online via Zoom, Professor Dagmawi Woubshet, Subject: ‘The Greek trilogy of Luis unless otherwise noted. To receive Pennsylvania Alfaro: new visions of tragedy in links and pre-circulated papers, please 11 Mar: ‘James Baldwin’s Another 21st-century America’ join the AHRS mailing list by sending a Country (1962): a discussion’ blank email to ahrs-subscribe@maillist. PUBLIC LECTURE ox.ac.uk. Oxford early American republic seminar Naomi Weiss, Harvard, will deliver a Professor Jennifer Morgan, NYU The following seminars will take place public lecture at 2pm on 15 February 19 Jan: ‘Reckoning with slavery: at 4.30pm on Wednesdays online online on the APGRD YouTube gender, kinship and capitalism in the via Zoom. More information: grace. channel, followed by a live Q&A. To Black Atlantic’ [email protected] or stephen. join: https://youtu.be/6Qkxh3s15Fc. [email protected]. Subject: ‘Tragic form in Kamila Dr Blake Scott Ball, Huntingdon College Shamsie’s Home Fire’ 26 Jan: ‘What Snoopy can teach us Ann Daly, Brown about popular political discourse’ 27 Jan: ‘Dollars and cents: money, CONFERENCE politics and the establishment of the Professor Tim Lockley, Warwick A conference will take place on 2 April US Mint, 1784–1828’ 1pm, 2 Feb: ‘The Camden slave online. Conveners: Estelle Baudou; conspiracy of 1816’ Briana Royster, NYU Anne Violaine Houcke, Paris Nanterre. 10 Feb: ‘The liberating prospects of Details tbc; more information: www. Dr Amanda Bellows, New School British Guiana’ apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2021/04/02- 16 Feb: ‘Remembering American Poetics-Politics-and-the-Ruin. slavery and Russian serfdom during Adam Challoner, Warwick Subject: ‘Poetics, politics and the the post-Emancipation era’ 24 Feb: ‘ “No class or age escapes ruin in cinema and theatre since it”: the novel reading disease and Professor Michael Woods, Tennessee at 1945’ the democratisation of American Knoxville nationalism’ 23 Feb: ‘Branding a business of bigotry: John Van Evrie and the mass Aisha Djelid, Reading marketing of white supremacy’ 10 Mar: ‘ “Dey jus’ puts a man and breedin’ woman together like Dr William Goldsmith, UNC at Chapel mules”: forced reproduction in the Hill antebellum South, 1808–65’ 2 Mar: ‘Educating for a new economy: the struggle to rebuild a Jim Crow state’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5297 • 13 January 2021 179 Faculties of English /History/History of James Ford Lectures in British History Dr Michelle Pfeffer Art/Theology/Music 8 Mar: ‘Astrological forecasting of IRELAND, EMPIRE AND THE EARLY epidemic disease in early modern MODERN WORLD The Bible in art, music and literature England: a forgotten chapter in the interdisciplinary seminar Jane Ohlmeyer, Trinity College Dublin, history of public health?’ will give the 2021 James Ford Lectures The following seminars will take place Global and imperial history research in British History at 5pm on Fridays at 5pm on Mondays online via Zoom. seminar online. To join: www.history.ox.ac.uk/ To register: christine.joynes@regents. events. The following seminars will take place ox.ac.uk. Convener: Christine Joynes 22 Jan: ‘Making history’ at 4pm on Fridays online via Zoom, Professor Hindy Najman unless otherwise noted. All welcome 29 Jan: ‘Anglicisation’ 25 Jan: ‘Poesis, vitality and but registration required: https:// articulation: practices of reading in 5 Feb: ‘Assimilation’ global.history.ox.ac.uk/events-1. More Judaism’ information: cheryl.birdseye@history. 12 Feb: ‘Agents of empire’ ox.ac.uk. Conveners: Professor Andrew Conversations with poets series 19 Feb: ‘Laboratory’ Thompson, Professor Erica Charters, Professor David Kinloch, Strathclyde, Professor Richard Reid and Dr Samuel Tongue, Glasgow 26 Feb: ‘Empires’ 8 Feb: ‘Flipping the script(ure): poets Dr Katie Donington, South Bank Oxford Centre for the History of Science, and the Bible’ 22 Jan: ‘The bonds of family’ Medicine and Technology Professor Martin Kemp Dr Nükhet Varlik, Rutgers The following seminars will take place 22 Feb: ‘Dante and the art of divine 29 Jan: ‘Plagued legacies: rethinking at 4pm on Mondays (virtual coffee light in painting’ Black Death narratives’ and chat from 3.45pm). All welcome. Dr Michael Downes, St Andrews To register: [email protected] Professor Emma Hunter, Edinburgh 8 Mar: ‘ “A most wonderfully or www.hsmt.ox.ac.uk. Conveners: 5 Feb: ‘Colonial public spheres, interesting book”: Elgar’s use of Dr Roderick Bailey, Dr Erica Charters, liberal thought and indirect rule in biblical texts in The Apostles’ Professor Rob Iliffe, Dr Catherine interwar Africa’ Jackson, Dr John Lidwell-Durnin Professor Stuart Ward, Copenhagen Faculty of History Dr Jennifer Crane 12 Feb: tbc 18 Jan: ‘ “Think of the position I Carlyle Lectures Professor Philip Murphy, School of have been put in since first grade, Advanced Study JOHN LOCKE AND EMPIRE just because I passed a silly test of 19 Feb: ‘Andrew Roth’s end of describing pictures”: gifted children, Mark Goldie, Professor Emeritus of empire: an unfinished history of intellect and expertise in modern Intellectual History, Cambridge, and decolonisation’ Britain and America’ Honorary Professor, Sussex, will give Professor Krishan Kumar, Virginia the 2021 Carlyle Lectures at 5pm on Dr Evan Hepler-Smith, Duke 26 Feb: ‘Empire and China’s Belt and Tuesdays online. More information: 25 Jan: ‘Compound words, synthetic Road Initiative (BRI) www.history.ox.ac.uk/carlyle-lectures. world: an information history of 19 Jan: ‘Empire, property and the modern chemistry’ 10am–5pm, 5 Mar: Global and New York land question’ Imperial History graduate student Dr Netta Cohen research presentation 26 Jan: ‘Darien, the Scottish empire 1 Feb: ‘New under the sun: Jews and and colonial anthropology’ climate in Palestine 1897–1948’ 10am–5pm, 12 Mar: Global and Imperial History graduate student 2 Feb: ‘The grievances of Virginia: Harriet Mercer research presentations land, people and arbitrary 8 Feb: ‘How Joseph Banks made government’ climate move’ Faculties of History/Modern Languages/ 9 Feb: ‘Captain Kidd, piracy and the Dr Sarah Easterby-Smith, St Andrews Voltaire Foundation sovereignty