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
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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 of the seas’ 15 Feb: ‘Enlightenment science in Surat? Interpreting the collections Enlightenment workshop 16 Feb: ‘William Molyneux, of Anquetil de Briancourt and family improvement and the case of The following discussions of new books (1773–9)’ Ireland’ in Enlightenment studies will take Dr Moujan Matin, Toronto place at 5pm on Mondays online. More 23 Feb: ‘Africans, Native Americans, 22 Feb: ‘Lost in translation? information and to join: www.voltaire. slavery and Christian evangelism’ Archaeological materials science as ox.ac.uk. Conveners: Nicholas Cronk, evidence for the study of the history Avi Lifschitz of technology: case studies on Joanna Innes, Anthony La Vopa, North ceramics’ Carolina, Karen O’Brien and Ritchie Dr Vojtěch Hladky, Charles Robertson 1 Mar: ‘Hermetic tradition and 25 Jan: Ritchie Robertson’s The scientific revolution revisited: the Enlightenment: The Pursuit of case of Francesco Patrizi’ Happiness, 1680–1790 (2020) 180 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5297 • 13 January 2021
Margaret Jacob, UCLA, Darrin Antiquity after antiquity: the reception of Dr Oana Uţă and Professor Martin McMahon, Dartmouth, and Antoine Classical art from the Middle Ages to the Maiden Lilti, EHESS 20th century 25 Feb: ‘Croatian influences on the 8 Feb: Antoine Lilti’s L’Héritage Istro-Romanian gender and number Dr Costanza Beltrami will give des Lumières: ambivalences de la system?’ the following lectures at 10am on modernité (2019) Wednesdays online. Dr Louise Esher, CNRS Tim Blanning, Cambridge, Kelsey 20 Jan: ‘The tyranny of antiquity’ 4 Mar: ‘Selection and spread of Rubin-Detlev, Southern California, thematic consonants in the history 27 Jan: ‘Old stories: telling the Catriona Seth and Avi Lifschitz of Occitan preterite inflection’ history of art in antiquity’ 22 Feb: Marie-Antoinette’s Lettres Professor Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, inédites, editor Catriona Seth 3 Feb: ‘Forgetting antiquity? The Manchester (2019), and Frederick the Great’s “Middle Ages” ’ 11 Mar: ‘A pragmatic approach to Philosophical Writings, editor Avi 10 Feb: ‘Architecture unmade and reanalysis: evidence from French Lifschitz, translator Angela Scholar remade’ and other languages’ (2021) 17 Feb: ‘The shock of the old, and a Colin Jones, QMUL, Síofra Pierse, Faculty of Music new history of art’ University College Dublin, Janet Godden and James Hanrahan, Trinity 24 Feb: ‘Classic Baroque: painting Graduate research colloquia College Dublin myths and the myth of painting’ The following seminars will take place 8 Mar: Voltaire’s Précis du siècle de 3 Mar: ‘Collecting the Grand Tour, at 5.15pm on Tuesdays online via Zoom. Louis XV (OCV, vols 29a–c, 2019–20), beauty and the problem of ancestors’ More information: www.music.ox.ac. editors Janet Godden and James uk/events/calendar. Conveners: Dylan Hanrahan 10 Mar: ‘Antiquity on display: Price, Ella Marshall-Shepherd museums, archaeology and cultural History of Art Department politics’ Hilary Moss, Limerick 19 Jan: ‘Music and creativity in Joining information for the following Faculties of Medieval and Modern hospitals and healthcare settings: events: [email protected]. Languages/Linguistics, Philology and does music matter?’ Phonetics Concepts and methods Joseph Fort, KCL 26 Jan: ‘Who danced the minuet in The following lectures will take place at Romance linguistics seminars 1790s Vienna?’ 10am on Mondays online. Convener: Dr The following seminars will take place Neal Shasore Rachel McCarthy, RHUL at 5pm on Thursdays online, until 2 Feb: tbc Professor J P Park further notice. More information and to 18 Jan: ‘Decolonising’ register: martin.maiden@mod-langs. Katie Bank, Sheffield ox.ac.uk. Convener: Professor Martin 9 Feb: ‘(Re)creating the Eglantine Professor Jennifer Johnson Maiden Table’ 25 Jan: ‘Gendering’ Dr Chiara Cappellaro and Professor Darci Sprengal Dr Neal Shasore Martin Maiden 16 Feb: tbc 1 Feb: ‘Queering’ 21 Jan: ‘Italian–Romanian cognate Thomas Hodgson Dr Neal Shasore and Ms Rebecca Lewin recognition: the role of inflexional 23 Feb: tbc 8 Feb: ‘Greening’ morphology’ Michael Beckerman, NYU Dr Mary-Ann Middelkoop Professor Norma Schifano, 2 Mar: ‘Music and infection’ 15 Feb: ‘Collecting/displaying’ Birmingham, and Professor Adam Ledgeway, Cambridge Thomas Hyde Professor Gervase Rosser 28 Jan: ‘On the correlation between 9 Mar: tbc 22 Feb: ‘Affecting’ verb movement and negation Mr Saul Nelson macrotypologies’ 1 Mar: ‘Commodifying’ Nicola Swinburne Professor Geoffrey Batchen 4 Feb: ‘The grammaticalisation of 8 Mar: ‘Reproducing’ “do”-support in the Camuno dialect of northern Italy’ Dr Anastasiia Kharlamova, St Petersburg 11 Feb: ‘Aromanian dialects of southern Albania’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5297 • 13 January 2021 181
Oxford seminar in music theory and Professor Ahuvia Kahane, Trinity Mathematical, Physical analysis College Dublin 2 Feb: ‘The piety of transgression: and Life Sciences The following seminars will take place biblical injunctions and religious at 4pm on Wednesdays online. More Department of Chemistry practice in Palmyra, Dura-Europos information: www.music.ox.ac.uk/ and Besara’ osimta. Conveners: Professor Jonathan Physical chemistry seminars Cross, Dr Sebastian Wedler Dr Katharina Keim, Lund The following seminars will take place 9 Feb: ‘Biblical women in late J P E Harper-Scott, RHUL at 2pm on Mondays online via Teams, Midrash’ 27 Jan: ‘Tonality and the capitalist unless otherwise noted. All welcome. mode of exploitation’ LXX Forum: Grinfield Lecture Conveners: Professor Stephan Dr James Aitken Rauschenbach, Professor Peter Hore Catherine Bradley, Oslo 16 Feb: ‘The Septuagint, editing 24 Feb: ‘Fragments from a medieval Professor Andreas Heinrich, IBS Center and textual production in ancient motet manuscript in Stockholm: for Quantum Nanoscience. To join: Judaism’ perspectives for theory and analysis’ https://tinyurl.com/yyox9ohp. Professor Hindy Najman 11am, 25 Jan: ‘Probing the spin Seminars in medieval and Renaissance 23 Feb: ‘Articulating the scriptural in of single atoms on surfaces with music the Book of Jubilees’ electron spin resonance’ The following seminars will take LXX Forum Rex Richards Lecture place at 5pm on Thursdays online. Dr Oliver Norris Professor Charalampos Babis Registration required one week in 2 Mar: ‘The significance of the Old Kalodimos, St Jude Children’s Research advance: matthew.thomson@music. Latin Psalter for understanding the Hospital. To join: https://tinyurl.com/ ox.ac.uk. Convener: Dr Margaret Bent Septuagint, Hebrew Bible and New y58lymhq. Grantley McDonald Testament’ 8 Feb: ‘Conformational states 28 Jan: ‘Emperor Frederick III as dynamically populated by a kinase Professor Martin Goodman patron of music’ determine its function’ 9 Mar: ‘Herod and the temple in Charles Atkinson, Ohio and Würzburg Jerusalem’ Professor Perdita Barran, Manchester. 18 Feb: ‘On modulation in Eastern To join: https://tinyurl.com/y6e59jrk. and Western chant: techniques, texts 22 Feb: tbc and rhetoric’ Professsor Martin Jarrold, Indiana at Cristina Alis Raurich, Schola Cantorum, Bloomington. To join: https://tinyurl. Basel and Würzburg com/y4spsfxx. 4 Mar: ‘Flos vernalis and 8 Mar: ‘Charge detection mass Robertsbridge intabulation style: spectrometry’ ornamentation, diminution and intabulation in the 14th century’ Department of Earth Sciences
Composer speaks The following seminars will take place Roderick Williams will discuss his online via Zoom. More information compositions on 25 January at 4pm and to join: www.earth.ox.ac.uk/ online via Zoom. More information: events. Conveners: Dr Laura Stevens, www.music.ox.ac.uk/events/calendar. Dr Julie Cosmidis, Dr Claire Nichols. Convener: Professor Robert Saxton Administration: Maria Petrunova
Earth-to-Earth series Faculty of Oriental Studies The following seminars will take place Seminar on Jewish history and literature at 3pm on Thursdays. in the Graeco-Roman period Professor Sally Benson, Stanford The following seminars will take place 14 Jan: tbc 3–3.30pm on Tuesdays online. More Professor Lindy Elkins-Tanton, ASU, information and to register: martin. and Dr Rona Oran, MIT [email protected]. 28 Jan: ‘Psyche: journey to a metallic Dr Daniel Weiss, Cambridge world’ 19 Jan: ‘Jesus-followers and non- Professor Barbara Sherwood Lollar, minim in early rabbinic literature’ Toronto Dr Jeremiah Coogan 11 Feb: tbc 26 Jan: ‘Matthew, Jewish Christian Professor Jabrane Labidi, IPGP gospels and the “Parting of the 25 Feb: tbc Ways” ’ 182 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5297 • 13 January 2021
Professor Tracey Wade, Flinders. Chair: Professor Chen Zhu, Bloomington Medical Sciences Christopher Fairburn 11 Mar: tbc 26 Jan: ‘Efficacy and acceptability Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Departmental research seminars of psychological interventions for Genetics the treatment of anorexia nervosa: The following seminars will take place a systematic review and network at noon on Fridays. Head of Department seminar series meta-analysis’ Dr Sean McMahon, Edinburgh The following seminars will take place Professor Jane Barlow. Chair: Professor 22 Jan: ‘Pseudofossils and the search at 1pm on Fridays online via Microsoft Mina Fazel for life on Mars’ Teams, unless otherwise noted. More 2 Feb: ‘The impact of parental mental information: communications@ Dr Ching-Yao Lai, Princeton health problems on parenting in the dpag.ox.ac.uk. Convenors: Associate 5 Feb: ‘How does ice flow and crack first two years, and what works to Professor Duncan Sparrow, Dr Natalie in a warming climate?’ improve outcomes’ Connor-Robson Professor Whitney Behr, ETH Zurich Professor Richard Morriss, Nottingham. Professor Dino Giussani, Cambridge. 19 Feb: ‘Rheological heterogeneity Chair: Professor Phil Cowen Host: Professor David Paterson. To on the deep subduction interface: 9 Feb: ‘Specialist services and join: https://tinyurl.com/ycwto8uh. implications for short-term seismic treatments for refractory depression: 29 Jan: ‘Healing tiny hearts across style and long-term subduction some pros and cons’ generations’ dynamics’ Professor David J Miklowitz, Los Associate Professor Kristy Red-Horse, Angeles, and Professor Toshiaki Department of Physics Stanford. Host: Professor Sarah De Furukawa, Kyoto. Chair: Professor John Val. To join: https://tinyurl.com/ Geddes Theoretical particle physics seminars ycyammh4. 23 Feb: ‘Adjunctive psychotherapy 5pm, 5 Feb: ‘Cardiac development The following seminars will take for bipolar disorder: a systematic and repair: role of coronary arteries’ place at 4pm on Thursdays online via review and component network Zoom (https://zoom.us/j/99110556925; Dr Rajeevan Narayanan Therpurakal. meta-analysis’ password: PTseminars). More Host: Professor Zoltán Molnár. To join: Professor Keith Hawton. Chair: information: www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/ https://tinyurl.com/yckm3eb6. Professor Kate Saunders research/seminars/series/theoretical- 26 Feb: ‘Excitatory neurons of the 2 Mar: ‘The COVID-19 pandemic and particle-physics-seminar. Convener: cortex: similarities and variations’ suicide and self-harm’ Professor Subir Sarkar Professor Andrea Münsterberg, UEA. Dr Andrew Bassett, Sanger Institute. Professor Zohar Komargodsky, Simons Host: Professor Duncan Sparrow. To Chair: Professor Elizabeth Tunbridge Centre, Stony Brook join: https://tinyurl.com/y9wj7vtp. 9 Mar: ‘Identification, prioritisation 21 Jan: ‘The high temperature limit 5 Mar: ‘Emergence and patterning and validation of genetic of QFT’ of mesoderm cell lineages: from associations with Alzheimer’s cardiac progenitors to paraxial Professor Sandhya Choubey, KTH disease’ mesoderm’ 28 Jan: ‘Searching for new physics in long-baseline experiments’ Professor Liz Patton, Edinburgh. Host: Professor Sarah De Val. To join: https:// Professor Csaba Csaki, Cornell tinyurl.com/y8943y3s. 4 Feb: ‘Crunching away the hierarchy 12 Mar: ‘Mechanisms of cell state or the cosmological constant transitions in zebrafish melanoma’ problem’
Dr Jonathan Gaunt, Manchester Department of Psychiatry 11 Feb: ‘Double parton scattering in QCD’ The following seminars will take place 9.30–10.30am on Tuesdays online Professor Georgi Dvali, Munich via Zoom. More information and to 18 Feb: ‘S-matrix exclusion of de register: katherine.stevens@psych. Sitter and observational signatures’ ox.ac.uk. Coordinator: Katherine Dr Jesse Thaler, MIT Stevens 25 Feb: ‘The hidden geometry of Professor Paul Harrison and Dr Max particle collisions’ Taquet. Chair: Professor John Geddes Professor Ashoke Sen, Harishchandra 19 Jan: ‘6-month psychiatric and Research Institute neurological outcomes after COVID- 4 Mar: ‘D-instanton amplitudes in 19 – analysis of 236,000 cases’ string theory’ Dr Djuna Croon, Durham 11 Mar: ‘QCD baryogenesis’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5297 • 13 January 2021 183
Social Sciences Cat Hardie, Hong Kong Baptist Primate conversations seminar series 17 Feb: ‘Karmic healing in China’s The following seminars will take “sacred margins”: Han Chinese School of Anthropology and Museum place at 4pm on Tuesdays online via pilgrimage at Larung Gar’ Ethnography YouTube, unless otherwise noted. Hildegard Diemberger, Cambridge To join: www.youtube.com/channel/ Departmental seminar series 3 Mar: ‘Can sacred landscapes heal? UCaDUFDdsWlY-aK9pV9W95cg/ Reflections on territorial cults, spirit videos. Convener: Dr S Carvalho DECOLONISING ANTHROPOLOGY possession and pilgrimage in Tibet AND THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF Kathelijne Koops and the Himalayas’ COLONIALISM 19 Jan: ‘Of apes and tools: insights Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity into the evolution of technology’ The following seminars will take (UBVO) seminar series place at 3pm on Fridays online. More Daniel Lieberman information: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/ The following seminars will take place 2pm, 26 Jan: ‘The active grandparent departmental-seminars. Convener: at 4pm on Thursdays online, unless hypothesis: physical activity and Professor M Clarke otherwise noted. To join: www.anthro. aging in humans versus other ox.ac.uk/unit-for-biocultural-variation- primates’ Laura Van Broekhoven and-obesity. Conveners: Professor S 22 Jan: ‘ “Decolonising” the Pitt Susan Cheyne Ulijaszek, S Parrish Rivers Museum’ 2 Feb: ‘Gibbons of Asia’ Theresa Mares, Vermont Laurence Ralph, Princeton Erin Wessling 21 Jan: ‘Life on the other border: 29 Jan: tbc 9 Feb: ‘Contextualising the farmworkers and food justice in chimpanzee niche: how savanna Pamila Gupta, Witwatersrand Vermont’ mosaic chimpanzee ecology can 5 Feb: ‘Moving still: bicycles in Hannah Graf, LSHTM offer insights into human evolution Ranchhod Oza’s photographs of 28 Jan: ‘Talking sugar in South and beyond’ 1950s Stone Town (Zanzibar)’ Africa’ I Yohannes Haile-Selassie Paul Basu, SOAS Karen Watson, Imperial 16 Feb: ‘The paleobiology, 12 Feb: tbc 4 Feb: ‘The role of popular culture in paleoecology and biogeography Jo Setchell, Durham creating new norms for wellness’ of the earliest Australopithecus: 19 Feb: ‘Decolonising primatology’ new insights from Woranso-Mille, Michelle Pentecost, KCL Ethiopia’ Nancy Hunt, Florida 2pm, 11 Feb: ‘Preconception 26 Feb: tbc interventions: the future of obesity Nicolas Langlitz prevention strategies?’ 23 Feb: ‘Making up for a missed Rogers Orock, Witwatersrand encounter? Why cultural 5 Mar: ‘Anthropology, fiction and Fiona Lavelle, Queen’s Belfast primatologists and cultural decolonisation: Chinua Achebe and 18 Feb: ‘From the pandemic to the anthropologists didn’t get to talk’ the “Image of Africa” ’ pan: a cross-continental overview of changes in consumers’ cooking and Kirsty Graham Noémi Tousignant, UCL food practices during COVID-19’ 2 Mar: ‘Meaning and context in Great 12 Mar: tbc Ape gestures’ Carol Ferreira and Bruno Gualano, Sao Anthropology Research Group at Oxford Paolo Lisa Horn on Eastern Medicines and Religions 25 Feb: ‘Changes in physical activity 9 Mar: ‘Ravens, crows and co – a new (ARGO-EMR) and eating habits during the model taxon for investigating the PILGRIMAGE AND HEALING IN TIBET pandemic: a Brazilian view’ evolution of prosociality’ AND THE HIMALAYAS Erik Hemmingsson, Swedish School of Fertility and reproduction seminar series The following seminars will take place Sport and Health Sciences, Stockholm FERTILITY AND FECUNDITY at 11am on Wednesdays online via 4 Mar: ‘The social origins of Teams. To join: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/ childhood obesity’ The following seminars will take events. Conveners: Professor D Gellner, place at 4.30pm on Mondays. To join: John Komlos, Munich A Sehnalova www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/fertility-and- 11 Mar: ‘Post-COVID-19 futures: reproduction-seminars. Conveners: Dr Charles Ramble, EPHE, Sorbonne the need for a paradigm shift in P Kreager, Professor E Hsu 20 Jan: ‘Why go on pilgrimage? economics’ Geomancy and the transformational Sarah Franklin, Cambridge powers of sacred places in Tibetan 18 Jan: ‘Changing (in)fertilities: a Buddhism and Bon’ global study of situated fertility transitions’ Will Tuladhar-Douglas, Hamburg 3 Feb: ‘Medicine mountains along Robbie Davis-Floyd, Rice the Himalayas: healing, trade and 25 Jan: ‘Birth models that work: ecology’ standing the test of time?’ 184 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5297 • 13 January 2021
Irene Maffi, Lausanne Department of Education Education, purpose and human 1 Feb: ‘A revolution for women? flourishing in uncertain times: Access to contraception and abortion Quantitative Methods Hub seminar series personhood and society care in post-revolutionary Tunisia’ The following seminars will take The following seminars will take place Rishita Nandagiri, LSE place 12.45–2pm on Mondays online at 5pm on Tuesdays in the Investcorp 8 Feb: ‘Rethinking “fertility” and via Zoom, unless otherwise noted. Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s. More “voluntary” family planning in Registration required: www.education. information: fiona.gatty@education. population and development’ ox.ac.uk/news-events/events. ox.ac.uk. Conveners: Dr David Johnson, Convener: Professor Lars Malmberg Dr Fiona Gatty, Ms Luana Deborst Lia Betti, Roehampton 15 Feb: ‘Women’s diversity in the Dr Lorena Ortega, Chile Professor Hanan Alexander, Haifa, shape of the birth canal: implications 18 Jan: ‘Investigating the centrality Professor Tali Tal, Technion, and for human evolution and modern of female and immigrant students Dr Rachel S A Pear, Haifa maternal care’ within teacher–student interaction 19 Jan: ‘Dialogue between science networks in Chile’ education and religious education: Burcu Mutlu, Istanbul Bilgi evolution instruction, pedagogy of 22 Feb: ‘Familial biopolitics, intimate Kyle Davison difference, and human flourishing’ transgressions: reproductive travels 25 Jan: ‘Academic help-seeking between Turkey and Northern interactions in primary school Dr Edward Brooks and Katy Granville- Cyprus’ classrooms: a micro-longitudinal Chapman study’ 26 Jan: ‘Reimagining educational Maya Unnithan, Sussex leadership – empowering human 1 Mar: ‘Re-imagining reproductive Dr Prathiba Natesan, Brunel flourishing’ health and rights in India’ 4–5.15pm, 1 Feb: ‘A Bayesian Rate Ratio effect size to quantify Professor Kristján Kristjánsson, Jubilee Carolyn Sargent, Michigan intervention effects for count data in Centre for Character and Virtues 8 Mar: ‘Cancer risk versus fertility single case experimental research’ 2 Feb: ‘Four accounts of flourishing desires’ as the aim of education: a synthesis Dr Lisa Bardach, Tübingen COMPAS seminar series and ten remaining problems’ 8 Feb: ‘A research agenda on CITIZENS BY INVESTMENT: LAW, heterogeneity in students’ Professor Tyler VanderWeele, Harvard POLICY AND SOCIOLOGY perceptions of teaching quality’ 9 Feb: ‘Flourishing and education’ The following seminars will take Dominik Bulla Denise Kohlhepp, Cambridge place at 4pm on Thursdays. More 15 Feb: ‘Measuring student 16 Feb: ‘Investigating physical information: www.compas.ox.ac.uk/ motivation in Rwanda: development activity and parental psychosocial event/citizenship-by-investment. and validation of a self-report stress as modifying resilience and Conveners: M Sumption, D Kochenov instrument’ risk factors on the coupling between cognition and mental health’ Christian Joppke and Kristin Surak Professor Fani Lauerman, TU 28 Jan: ‘Residence and citizenship by Dortmund Dr Tom Harrison, Jubilee Centre for investment: understanding recent 22 Feb: ‘Linking teacher efficacy Character and Virtues trends’ and professional responsibility with 23 Feb: ‘Character education; teachers’ motivating styles and what might it contribute to human Suryapratim Roy and Maarten Prak student engagement’ flourishing?’ 11 Feb: ‘Citizenship, status and money: from medieval times to the Dr Monika Donker, Utrecht TWCF Visiting Fellow present’ 1 Mar: ‘Interpersonal behaviour and 2 Mar: tbc physiological arousal (heartrate) in Peter Spiro and Audrey Macklin Dr Jonathan Beale, Eton teachers’ 25 Feb: ‘Citizenship by investment 9 Mar: ‘The role of human and international law’ Sophie Hall, Southampton flourishing in education: should 8 Mar: ‘Using exploratory structural flourishing be realistically attainable Ayelet Shachar and Odile Ammann equation modelling to examine or an ideal to which we aspire?’ 11 Mar: ‘The law and ethics of selling the writing beliefs of UK university citizenship’ students with and without dyslexia’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5297 • 13 January 2021 185
Philosophy, religion and education Professor David Bissell, Melbourne Middle East Studies research group seminar series noon, 11 Mar: ‘Losing investments in ISRAEL STUDIES SEMINAR SERIES mobility transitions: reckoning with OPTING OUT OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION loss in the wake of on-demand’ The following seminars will take place – LEGAL AND EDUCATIONAL ISSUES at 2.15pm on Tuesdays online via The following seminars will take Oxford School of Global and Area Studies Teams. To join: www.mes.ox.ac.uk/ place at 5pm on Tuesdays online events. Convener: Professor Y Yadgar via Zoom, unless otherwise noted. Latin American Centre seminars Dr Tal Shamur, Cambridge More information and to join: nigel. The following seminars will take place 19 Jan: ‘The emergence of [email protected]. online. More information: www.lac. melancholic citizenship at the urban Convener: Dr N Fancourt ox.ac.uk/events. Convenors: Francesca periphery: the case of south Tel Aviv Professor Burkhard Berkmann, Munich Lessa, Maryhen Jiménez Morales, protest against global migration’ 2 Feb: ‘Religious education before Andreza de Souza Santos Dr Anna Prashizky, Western Galilee the European court of human rights: Dr Maryhen Jiménez and José Miguel College the opt-out clause does not suffice Vivanco, Executive Director, Americas 2 Feb: ‘Connecting ethnicity and anymore’ Division, Human Rights Watch space: the new Russian–Mizrahi– Dr Leni Franken, Antwerp, and Dr 22 Jan: ‘Transition in Venezuela? Mediterranean pop culture in Israel’s Johan Livens, FU Amsterdam Challenges for the rule of law and periphery’ 23 Feb: ‘The end of the opt-out era in human rights in 2021’ Jamie Weiner Belgian state schools?’ Professor Julie Cupples, Edinburgh 16 Feb: ‘IHRA: the politics of a Professor Recep Kaymakcan and 29 Jan: ‘The (un)making of the definition’ Dr Abdurrahman Hendek, Sakarya resilient subject in Guatemala’s Professor Yael Berda, Hebrew 2 Mar: ‘The European court of colonial disasterscape’ 2 Mar: ‘Living emergency: Israel’s human rights’ judgements and Professor Kathryn Hochstetler, LSE permit regime in the occupied West compulsory religious education in 5 Feb: ‘Political economies of energy Bank’ Turkey’ transition: wind and solar power in RECONSIDERING EARLY JEWISH Professor Marie von der Lippe, Bergen Brazil and South Africa’ NATIONALIST IDEOLOGIES SEMINAR 3pm, 9 Mar: ‘The right to opt-out or Dr Juliano Spyer, São Paulo SERIES not: the legal right of withdrawal 12 Feb: ‘The matters with evangelical from religious education in Norway’ The following seminars will take place lives in Brazil: ethnographic notes at 2.15pm on Tuesdays online via about race and religion in 21st- School of Geography and the Teams. To join: www.mes.ox.ac.uk/ century Brazil’ Environment events. Conveners: Dr P Bergamin, Professor Roddy Brett, Bristol Professor Y Yadgar Transport Studies Unit 19 Feb: ‘Confronting ongoing Professor Adam Sutcliffe, KCL legacies of violence and division: SEMINAR SERIES 26 Jan: ‘Light unto the nations: ethnographic research in violent the idea of Jewish purpose and the The following seminars will take place “transitioning” societies’ emergence of Zionism’ at 1pm on Thursdays online via Teams, Professor Alisha Holland, Harvard unless otherwise noted. Registration Dr Daniel M Herskowitz 26 Feb: ‘Creative construction: the required: www.tsu.ox.ac.uk/events. 9 Feb: ‘Between exclusion and rise of mass infrastructure in Latin intersection: Heidegger’s philosophy Professor Jillian Anable, Leeds America’ and Jewish volkism’ 28 Jan: ‘You can’t always get what Professor Guillermo Trejo, Notre Dame you want: a reflection on Climate Professor Maja Gildin Zuckerman, 5 Mar: ‘Indigenous resistance to Assembly UK’s deliberations on Copenhagen Business School Narco rule: social movements, decarbonising passenger transport’ 23 Feb: ‘The pragmatism of participatory institutions and proto-Zionism: tracing Jewish Dr James Esson, Loughborough grassroots community policing in nation-building through a cultural 11 Feb: ‘Livelihoods in motion: Mexico’ sociological framework’ age-related mobility, transport and Dr Hassan Akram, Wake Forest and livelihoods in the urban Global Dr Elana Shapira, Applied Arts Diego Portales South’ 9 Mar: ‘Berta Zuckerkandl and her 12 Mar: ‘Estallido: the beginning of circle: Austrian nationalism and Dr Anna Nikolaeva, Amsterdam the end for neoliberalism in Chile’ Zionism in Viennese modernism’ 18 Feb: ‘Commoning mobility’ Professor Amy Lubitow, Portland State 4pm, 25 Feb: ‘Transportation and mobility justice: race, class and gender intersections in the United States’ 186 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5297 • 13 January 2021
Oxford Department of International Luíza Leao Soares Pereira, Sheffield Institutes, Centres and Development 28 Jan: ‘More than a morbid quest: obituaries and mapping the invisible Museums Oxford Poverty and Human Development college of international lawyers’ Bodleian Libraries Initiative seminar series Carola Lingaas, VID Specialised The following seminars will take place University The following talks will take place at 3pm on Mondays through Zoom. 4 Feb: tbc online. Free; all welcome but Organised jointly with the International registration required. Joining links Martin Scheinin, EUI Institute for Economic Policy, GWU. To will be emailed to registered attendees 11 Feb: tbc join: https://ophi.org.uk/courses-and- before the event. events/seminars. Moderator: Professor Monica Hakimi, Michigan DF McKenzie Lecture 2021 James Foster, GWU. Conveners: 18 Feb: tbc Dr U Kanagaratnam, Dr R Nogales Professor Francesca Orsini will give the Seline Trevisanut, Utrecht 2021 DF McKenzie Lecture at 5pm on Dr Nicolai Suppa, CED 25 Feb: tbc 18 February. To register: https://visit. 18 Jan: ‘Sensitivity analyses in 4 Mar: tbc bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/d-f-mckenzie- poverty measurement: the case of lecture-2021-magazine-and-world- the global Multidimensional Poverty James Thuo Gathii, Loyola literature. Index’ 3.15–4pm, 11 Mar: tbc Subject: ‘The magazine and world Professor Sabina Alkire literature’ Centre for Socio-legal Studies 25 Jan: ‘Changes over time in the History of the book seminars global Multidimensional Poverty Socio-legal seminar series Index’ The following events will take place The following seminars will take place at 2.15pm on Fridays online via Zoom, Dr Elina Scheja, Sida at 4.30pm on Mondays online via unless otherwise noted. To register: 1 Feb: ‘Moderate internationally Zoom. More information: www.law. [email protected]. comparable MPI’ ox.ac.uk/centres-institutes/centre- Conveners: Cristina Dondi, Alexandra Mr Jakob Dirksen socio-legal-studies/events. Convener: Franklin 8 Feb: ‘Child poverty measurement’ Linda Mulcahy Matthew Payne Dr Frank Vollmer, Jaume I Professor Nick Gill, Exeter 22 Jan: ‘Follow the money: Wynkyn 22 Feb: ‘The relationship between 18 Jan: ‘Inside Europe’s asylum de Worde, Jacques Ferrebouc and electrification, poverty and courts: legal geography, ethnography the Bardi’ economic development’ and the hollowness of refugee law’ Henrike Lähnemann, Kathryn James, Dr Maria Emma Santos, CONICET Anna Bryson, Queen’s Belfast Matthew Shaw and Sarah Wheale 1 Mar: ‘Inequality among the 25 Jan: ‘Boycott, resistance and the 5pm, 29 Jan: ‘Translating, singing, multidimensionally poor in over 100 law: cause lawyering in conflict and printing the Reformation. The countries’ authoritarianism’ Queen’s College Sammelband with Myles Coverdale’s Goostly Psalmes’ Dr Suman Seth, Leeds Matthew Erie (with showing of The Queen’s 8 Mar: ‘Growth elasticity for India’ 1 Feb: ‘Chinese law and College copy and the Bodleian and development’ Beinecke fragments) Faculty of Law Anne Kaun, Södertörn Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli 15 Feb: ‘The mundanisation of Public international law discussion group 5 Feb: ‘The Borromei’s trade automated decision-making in unveiled: digging for information in The following discussions will public services through litigation’ 15th-century account-books’ take place 12.45–2pm on Thursdays Johannah Latchem online, unless otherwise noted. Alessandro Bianchi 22 Feb: ‘The art of justice: To register: www.law.ox.ac.uk/ 19 Feb: ‘Hidden in plain sight. reconfiguring the courtroom object’ research-subject-groups/graduate- Printed books from the Japanese discussion-group-index/public- Roxana Willis Mission Press in the Bodleian international-law-discussion-group. 1 Mar: ‘ “Ethnography at home” on Collections’ Conveners: Xiaotian (Kris) Yu, Natasha an English council estate’ Kanupriya Dhingra Holcroft-Emmess Gavin Sullivan, Edinburgh 26 Feb: ‘Streets and serendipity: Duncan Hollis, Temple 8 Mar: ‘Infra legalities: a method “locating” Daryaganj Sunday Patri 21 Jan: ‘Binding and non-binding assemblage for studying law and Kitab Bazar’ international agreements (as data infrastructures together’ Benjamin Wardhaugh explored by the OAS Juridical 5 Mar: ‘Hunting for readers in 16th- Committee)’ (tbc) century editions of the works of Euclid’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5297 • 13 January 2021 187
William Stoneman Oxford University China Centre Readings in phenomenology 12 Mar: ‘Buying incunabula at Professor Gavin Flood will lead a Gimbel Brothers department store: Seminars seminar at noon on Mondays. To a curious chapter in the history of The following seminars will take place register: [email protected]. American book collecting’ at noon on Mondays online via Teams. uk. Seminars in palaeography and More information: www.chinacentre. Readings in Middle Bengali devotional manuscript studies ox.ac.uk/talks-and-lectures. literature: female gurus The following seminars will take Book talk Lucian Wong will lead a seminar at 4pm place at 2.15pm on Mondays online. Professor Rachel Murphy on Thursdays. To register: lucian@ Original manuscripts will be shown. To 18 Jan: ‘Children in skipped ochs.org.uk. register: [email protected]. generation families in rural China’ uk. Conveners: Daniel Wakelin, Martin (from The Children of China’s Great OCHS Śākta traditions lecture series Kauffmann Migration) The following lectures will take place Julian Luxford, St Andrews Dr Camille Boullenois, ANU at 2pm on Wednesdays via the OCHS 18 Jan: ‘The Tewkesbury 25 Jan: ‘Poverty alleviation in China: YouTube channel. benefactors’ book’ the rise of state-sponsored corporate Professor David G White, UC Santa paternalism’ Bodleian and John Rylands curators Barbara 1 Feb: ‘Newly acquired medieval Book talk 27 Jan: ‘Before they were foxy ladies, book coffers at the Bodleian and the Mr Graham Hutchings they were lady foxes. Yoginīs and John Rylands Libraries’ 8 Feb: China 1949: Year of Revolution Ḍākinīs in Hindu and Buddhist Tantra’ Adam Whittaker, Birmingham City The following seminars will take place 15 Feb: ‘Medieval music theory in at 5pm on Thursdays online via Teams. Dr James Mallinson, SOAS Bodleian manuscripts’ 10 Feb: ‘New light on Śāktism and Dr Nadine Amsler, Bern Haṭhayoga’ Marc Smith, École des chartes 18 Feb: ‘Jesuits, women and 1 Mar: ‘Late medieval writing domestic Christianity in early Dr Bihani Sarkar, Winchester models: contextualising MS. modern China’ 24 Feb: ‘Assessing medieval Śākta Ashmole 789’ history in the light of Indian Professor Jenny Lin, South California inscriptions’ 25 Feb: ‘The politics of transnational Botanic Garden and Harcourt Arboretum aesthetics: contemporary Chinese Dr Silvia Linder, Leipzig art and design in global contexts’ 10 Mar: tbc Winter lectures Dr Gabriele de Seta, Bergen The following lecture series will take Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies 4 Mar: ‘Matrix barcodes, swapped place at 7pm on Thursdays online; each faces and thousand-mile eyes: lecture will be followed by a short live Centre seminars machine vision in Chinese everyday Q&A. To register: www.obga.ox.ac.uk/ life’ The following seminars will take place whats-on. at 5pm on Wednesdays online. All Nelson Landry Adam Frost, British garden designer welcome. To register: www.oxcis.ac.uk/ 11 Mar: ‘Miracles and the and television presenter seminar-series. supernormal in medieval China: a 21 Jan: ‘Adam’s 7 gold medal-winning discussion on religious objects in the Professor Mahmood El-Gamal, Rice Chelsea Gardens’ works of Daoxuan 596–667’ 20 Jan: ‘The end of petrodollar Tim Upson, Director of Horticulture, recycling and the future of Islamic Education and Communities, RHS Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies finance’ 4 Feb: ‘Creating RHS Bridgewater – a Book talk garden from the past for the future’ The following events will take place online during weeks 1–8. Ambassador Rajendra Abhyankar, Jane Owen, author, lecturer, journalist Indiana at Bloomington and TV presenter Hinduism 2: modern Hinduism 27 Jan: ‘Syria: the tragedy of a pivotal 18 Feb: ‘From Renaissance Italy to state’ Dr Rembert Lutjeharms will lecture at Mexico, Japan, Switzerland and the 4pm on Fridays. To register: rembert@ Professor Scott Redford, SOAS UK’ ochs.org.uk. 3 Feb: ‘Writing as talisman in Sue Stuart-Smith, psychiatrist, medieval Islamic art’ Readings in Vedānta: Madhva’s psychologist and author Anuvyākhyāna Professor Anoush Ehteshami, Durham 4 Mar: ‘The well-gardened mind’ 10 Feb: ‘Remapping political Islam in Dr Rembert Lutjeharms will lead a James Basson, gardener and garden the Middle East’ seminar at 10am on Wednesdays. To designer register: [email protected]. Professor Sussan Babaie, Courtauld 18 Mar: ‘Extreme Mediterranean 17 Feb: ‘Isfahan and Istanbul: landscapes with cast studies of Etna European views before the long and Malta’ shadow of “Orientalism” ’ 188 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5297 • 13 January 2021
Professor Elizabeth Thompson, Oxford Centre for Life-Writing Sarah Bridge American 16 Feb: ‘ “…et cetera transtulit 24 Feb: ‘How the West stole The following events are free and in anglicum”: Middle English democracy from the Arabs: a open to all and will take place online. translations of Nicole Bozon’s Anglo- reassessment of the 1919 Paris peace Conveners: Professor Elleke Boehmer, Norman lyrics’ conference’ Dr Kate Kennedy, Dr Katherine Collins, Professor Dame Hermione Lee Ramani Chandramohan and Elizabeth Dr Michael Christopher Low, NYU at Cullina Abu Dhabi Symposium 2 Mar: Graduate students’ work-in- 1 Mar: ‘Pandemic and the pilgrimage: progress Professor Dame Hermione Lee, Dr Ottoman Arabia in the shadow of Merve Emre, Luke Young, Caroline Early modern French seminar British India’s ecological fallout’ Curtis, Rowena Gutsell and Marie The following seminars will take place Dr Kamran Karimullah, Manchester Allit will lead a symposium 1–3pm on at 5pm on Thursdays online, unless 8 Mar: ‘A new interpretive model for 2 February. To join: https://oclw.web. otherwise noted. thinking about for thinking about ox.ac.uk/event/in-sickness-and-in- Avicenna’s hypothetical syllogistic’ health-writing-life-through-the-essay. Frédéric Charbonneau, McGill. To join: Subject: ‘ “In sickness and in health”: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/818941942 Reuters Institute for the Study of writing life through the essay’ 80?pwd=MThsck5pNmlzT1k2T1hCOWs Journalism wKzFHQT09. Life-writing beyond words colloquium 21 Jan: ‘Querelle autour d’un Global journalism seminars Dr Katherine Collins, Dr Eleanor héritage chinois à l’Académie royale Morgan, Kat Rahmat, Dr Rachel des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres The following seminars will take place Murray, Aline Penitot, Olivier Adam, (1713–43)’ at 1pm on Wednesdays online via Zoom. and Dr Martin Bencsik will lecture All welcome but registration required: Tristan Alonge. To join: https:// at 5.30pm on 9 February. Host: Felix https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac. us02web.zoom.us/j/82233989073?pw Appelbe. To join: https://oclw.web. uk/calendar. d=ZFFDWUZuR3lvalpHd29vZlFPQTlh ox.ac.uk/event/what-can-life-writing- QT09. Sophia Smith Galer, BBC journalist and learn-from-the-expressive-forms-of- noon, 18 Feb: ‘Qui graecizabant TikTok influencer the-animal-kingdom. lutheranizabant: apprendre le grec 20 Jan: ‘Building relationship and Subject: ‘What can life-writing learn de Montaigne à Racine’ trust on TikTok – and finding news from the expressive forms of the stories’ animal kingdom?’ Matthieu Dupas, Northwestern. To join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/861515 James Harding, co-founder and editor- Seminar 26211?pwd=a2hVYXpLYnhJMWdGYzljd in-chief, Tortoise Media Professor Peter Kruschwitz and 1hOQW9iQT09. 27 Jan: ‘Journalism and time’ Alexander Gangoly, Vienna, will lead 4 Mar: ‘Savoir comique, sagesse Hopewell Chin’ono, Zimbabwean a seminar at 5.30pm on 10 February. galante: Mélite ou les fausses Lettres journalist and anti-corruption Registration required: https://oclw.web. (1629) de Pierre Corneille’ campaigner ox.ac.uk. Thanatic ethics: the circulation of bodies 3 Feb: ‘Arrested development: Subject: ‘The poetics of in migratory spaces webinar Zimbabwean journalism’ displacement: migration and multiculturalism in Roman verse The following seminars will take place Julia Angwin, co-founder and editor- inscriptions’ at 9.30am on Fridays online, unless in-chief, The Markup otherwise noted. To register: thomas. 10 Feb: ‘Keeping tech accountable: a Weinrebe Lecture [email protected]. conversation with The Markup’ Professor Heather Clark, Huddersfield, Juliette Cleuziou, Lyon Borja Echevarría, managing editor, El will give a Weinrebe Lecture at 5.30pm 29 Jan: ‘Taking care of the dead: País on 2 March. To join: https://oclw.web. experiences from Tajiks in Russia’ 17 Feb: ‘Data and subscriptions: El ox.ac.uk/event/sylvia-plath-an-iconic- Pais’s lessons in pandemic coverage’ life. Valérie Loichot, Emory Subject: ‘Sylvia Plath: an iconic life’ 2.30pm, 12 Feb: ‘Water graves: the Sinead Boucher, CEO, Stuff art of the unritual in the greater 24 Feb: ‘Stuff’s 2020 Facebook exit: Maison Française Caribbean’ what happened next’ Félicien de Heusch, Liège Adela Bello, managing editor, Zeta Medieval French research seminar 12 Mar: ‘Transnational engagements magazine The following seminars will take place around Senegalese migrant deaths’ 3 Mar: ‘Covering the cartels: the at 5pm on Tuesdays online. To register: history and mission of Zeta’ [email protected]. Daisuke Furuta, former editor, Liam Lewis, Liverpool Buzzfeed Japan, and current Google 2 Feb: ‘Dogs to the rescue: the hue News fellow and cry soundscapes of Marie de 10 Mar: ‘News media in the Far East France’s fables’ in 2021’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5297 • 13 January 2021 189
Historians in the public sphere seminars Doctoral and postdoctoral workshop John Lidwell-Durnin and Pascal Marty 9–5pm, 15 Feb: ‘Sortition in politics: will speak 4–6pm on 24 February. To The following sessions will be history, sociology, philosophy’ register: [email protected]. held 3–4pm on Thursdays online. Subject: ‘Science and the public Registration required: martin.robert@ Pierre Charbonnier, EHESS, Lier. sphere I’ wolfson.ox.ac.uk. Discussant: Michael Drolet 4–6pm, 18 Feb: ‘Ecology and politics’ Book Launch Robert Lacey, historian, author and consultant on The Crown Chantal Mouffe, Exeter, and Federico Rossella Bondi, Oxford Brookes, will 21 Jan: ‘History on the screen: Tarragoni, Paris launch her book at 8pm on 4 March. representing the past in series and 4–6pm, 11 Mar: ‘Populism(s) as new Title: À la recherche de l’homme films’ political imaginarie(s)’ nouveau: Alberto Savinio et les avant- gardes à Paris 1911–1937 (Peter Lang, Andrew Thompson Night of Ideas 2020) 28 Jan: ‘Tracing the future of A project staged simultaneously in research: managing a public funding Paris, London and worldwide, the Oxford Martin School body’ 2021 Night of Ideas will take place Na Li, Zhejiang 5.30–10.30pm on 28 January. More Building back better – lessons and 4 Feb: ‘Public history in China: information: http://nightofideas.co.uk. opportunities from the COVID-19 history, memory and politics’ Subject: ‘Together’ pandemic
Daniel Burt and Perrine Poiron, Cities of refuge for migrants at the time of The following talks will take place at Sorbonne and UQAM the pandemic 5pm on Thursdays. More information 11 Feb: ‘Historians and gaming: and to register: www.oxfordmartin. This event will take place at 6pm on 29 consulting for video and board ox.ac.uk/event-series/building-back- January online via Zoom. Discussants: games’ better. Eric Albert, City correspondent at Richard Fraser, McGill, Éloïse Quétel, Le Monde, Jacqueline Broadhead Sir Andy Haines, LSHTM, and Professor Sorbonne, and Paul Weindling, Oxford and Thomas Lacroix. Registration Chris Dye Brookes required: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ 21 Jan: ‘Building back healthier: 18 Feb: ‘Medical museums: handling night-of-ideas-cities-of-refuge- climate change, health and the specimens from the past’ for-migrants-at-the-time-of-the- recovery from COVID-19’ pandemic-tickets-133353821871. Ugo Bimar, ‘Confessions d’histoire’ Lord Martin Rees, Cambridge, and Sir channel, and Matus Lazar, ‘M Laser A critical turn of migration studies? – Charles Godfray History’ channel webinar 28 Jan: ‘Thinking again about the 25 Feb: ‘Connected historians: future and prospects for humanity’ Emmanuel Ma Mung, Poitiers, will give YouTube and new media’ a webinar 3–4.30pm on 28 January. Sir Paul Collier and John Kay Mary Hague-Yearl, McGill, and Florent Registration required:thomas.lacroix@ 4 Feb: ‘Greed is dead; politics after Palluault, Médiathèque François- cnrs.fr. individualism’ Mitterrand, Poitiers Subject: ‘Migration autonomy vs Dame Sally Davies, UK Special Envoy 4 Mar: ‘Appreciating and preserving: migrants’ autonomy’ on Antimicrobial Resistance, and Sir archives and special collections’ Assemblée constituante du Centre Charles Godfray Mark Davies, Oxford local historian/ International Jean Racine 11 Feb: tbc author, and Liz Woolley, Oxford local This event will take place at 4pm on 5 Sir John Armitt, National Infrastructure historian/author February online via Zoom. Commission, and Professor Jim Hall 11 Mar: ‘Local historians and the 25 Feb: tbc historical profession’ Conversation with David Diop Vittorio Colao, General Atlantic, and Antidemocratic politics vs democratising Translator Anna Moschovakis and Professor Cameron Hepburn democracy: new political imaginaries in Catriona Seth will be in conversation 4 Mar: tbc the 21st century seminar series with David Diop on the occasion of the publication of his book. To register: Oxford net zero: climate in the balance Registration for the following events [email protected]. required: [email protected]. The following talks will take place at Title: Frère d’âme (At Night all Blood 1pm on Mondays. More information Book launch and discussion is Black, 2020, Pushkin Press) and to register: www.oxfordmartin. Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Inserm/EHESS, Anglo-French seminar in the history of ox.ac.uk/event-series/oxford-net-zero- and Caroline Izambert, EHESS/AIDES. philosophy of science climate-in-the-balance. Discussants: Erica Charters, Florence Faucher, Sciences Po/OxPo and Yves Dimitri Levitin and Delphine Bellis, Professor Myles Allen, Kaya Axelsson, Sintomer Montpellier, will lead a seminar 4–6pm Professor Sam Fankhauser and Dr 1–3pm, 25 Jan: ‘Pandémopolitique. on 11 February. To register: mogens. Steve Smith Réinventer la santé en [email protected]. 18 Jan: ‘Net zero – why and how?’ commun’/‘Pandemopolitics. Subject: ‘The natural philosophy and Reinventing health in common’ philosophy of mathematics of Pierre (2021, La Découverte) Gassendi’ 190 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5297 • 13 January 2021
Professor Nathalie Seddon and Dr Colleges, Halls and Green Templeton Steve Smith Societies 25 Jan: ‘Value and limits of working Management in Medicine Programme with nature to address climate All Souls The following events, primarily for change’ clinicians in training including medical Professor Nick Eyre and Dr Steve Smith Seminar series: the relation of literature students, will take place at 6.45pm 1 Feb: ‘Zero carbon energy systems’ and learning to social hierarchy in early online via Zoom. Registration required: modern Europe [email protected]. Professor Cameron Hepburn and Dr Steve Smith The following seminars will take place Professor Richard Canter 8 Feb: ‘Sensitive intervention points at 2pm on Wednesdays online (via 1 Feb: ‘Making better decisions in life for net zero’ Microsoft Teams). There will be two and work’ papers per session. To register: www. Visiting fellow talks Dr Oscar Lyons asc.ox.ac.uk/event/relation-literature- 27 Feb: ‘Leading during uncertainty’ Professor John Vucetich, Michigan and-learning-social-hierarchy-early- TU. To register: www.oxfordmartin. modern-europe-21. All welcome. Oscar Mathew, Director, Medical ox.ac.uk/events/conservation-of- Convener: Neil Kenny Mediation Foundation biodiversity. 8 Mar: ‘Recognising, understanding 20 Jan 5pm, 24 Feb: ‘The stymieing effect and managing conflict between of unresolved ethical issues on the Sarah Gwyneth Ross, Boston patients and health professionals’ conservation of biodiversity’ College: ‘(Social) places, please! The Green Templeton Lecture Commedia dell’Arte and the problem Mohammad Farhadinia. To register: of “class” ’ NAVIGATING THE COVID CHALLENGE www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/ leopards-borders-and-politics. Susan Wiseman, Birkbeck: ‘Non-elite Professor Trudie Lang and Professor 5pm, 10 Mar: ‘Leopards, mountains women and the network: compatible Rafael Ramírez will lecture at 6pm and politics’ categories?’ on 27 January online. Registration required: www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/events. 3 Feb Subject: ‘Framing the COVID Imogen Choi: ‘Exile, migration challenge’ and hospitality: visions of a Health and care seminar series cosmopolitan society in the poetry of the Sephardic diaspora’ CARE INITIATIVE SEMINAR Neil Kenny: ‘Peasants and Professor Keri Thomas, Birmingham, representation: the case of Noël du and Dr Lucy Selman, Bristol Medical Fail’ School, will give a seminar at 6pm on 11 February online via Zoom. Registration 17 Feb required: [email protected]. David Lines, Warwick: ‘Renaissance uk. Aristotelianism and the problem Subject: ‘End-of-life care and of publics between Latin and bereavement in the pandemic’ vernacular’ Ann McPherson Memorial Lecture Jonathan Patterson: ‘ “Greatness Philip Pullman, novelist, will give the going off”: Renaissance Antony and 2021 Ann McPherson Memorial Lecture Cleopatra plays’ at 6pm on 25 February online via 3 Mar Zoom. Registration required: yoland. [email protected]. Warren Boutcher, QMUL: ‘Learning, vernacular cultures and social hierarchy in early modern Europe’ Dorine Rouiller, Humboldt: ‘Erasmus, citizen of the – or of a – world?’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5297 • 13 January 2021 191
Mansfield Professor Karuna Mantena, Columbia Dr Ali Raza, Lahore University of 25 Jan: ‘Gandhian Satyagraha in the Management Sciences Public Talks mirror of Marxism’ 23 Feb: ‘Communist internationalism and decolonisation in South Asia’ The following talks will take place at Professor Vinayak Chaturvedi, UCI 5.30pm on Fridays. Free and open to 1 Feb: ‘The making of “Veer Dr Julie Vig, Toronto all, but registration required. More Savarkar”: methods for writing an 2 Mar: ‘The play of the guru: Braj information and to register: www. intellectual history’ historical poetry in early modern mansfield.ox.ac.uk/mansfield- Punjab’ Professor Prathama Banerjee, Centre college-public-talks. Convener: Helen for the Study of Developing Societies Latin American Centre Mountfield 8 Feb: ‘The curious career of Shunya: LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY SEMINAR Alastair Campbell and Fiona Millar, politics and metaphysics of caste journalists, broadcasters and former thinking in India’ The following seminars will take place No 10 staffers at 5pm online. More information: Professor Prashant Keshavmurthy, 22 Jan: ‘How I (and we) learned to www.lac.ox.ac.uk/events. Convener: McGill live better with depression’ Professor Eduardo Posada-Carbó 15 Feb: ‘Bedil’s bisemic ghazal Professor Sherryll Cashin, Georgetown poetics’ Professor Alan Knight 29 Jan: ‘US racial healing in the 21 Jan: ‘Informal empire and internal Dr Shruti Kapila, Cambridge Biden era’ colonialism in Latin America, c1810– 22 Feb: tbc 1930’ Dikgang Moseneke, Deputy President, Graduate Research Presentations first post-apartheid Constitutional Dr Andrew Paxman, CIDE, Mexico 1 Mar: tbc Court of South Africa 28 Jan: ‘Why does Mexico have so 5 Feb: ‘My own liberator’ (organised Graduate Research Presentations many newspapers? A historical jointly with Bonavero Institute of 8 Mar: tbc accounting, 1914 to the present’ Human Rights) 4 Feb: tbc St Antony’s Professor Simon Hix, LSE and EUI Tertulia at the Latin American History 12 Feb: ‘EU and us: relations between Asian Studies Centre Seminar the EU and the UK after Brexit’ Dr Erika Denise Edwards, North MODERN SOUTH ASIA SEMINAR SERIES Professor Sir John Bell Caroline at Charlotte, in conversation 19 Feb: ‘After COVID:the G7 The following seminars will take place with Dr Celso Castilho Castro, Pandemic Task Force, and how to 2–2.45pm on Tuesdays via Teams. Vanderbilt stop future pandemics destroying Organised with the Contemporary 11 Feb: ‘Black women, the law and our future’ South Asian Studies Programme the making of a white Argentine at the School of Interdisciplinary Republic’ Miranda Wayland, Head of Creative Area Studies, the Department for Diversity, BBC 18 Feb: tbc International Development, the Faculty 26 Feb: ‘Creative diversity: how to of History and the Faculty of Oriental Tertulia at the Latin American History reflect and include diverse voices in Studies. More information: www. Seminar the creative industries’ sant.ox.ac.uk/research-centres/asian- Professor Javier Fernandez Sebastian, Patrick Kabanda studies-centre/events. Conveners: Imre País Vasco, in conversation with 5 Mar: ‘The creative wealth of Bangha, Polly O’Hanlon, Kate Sullivan Professor Carole Leal, Simón Bolívar nations: can the arts advance de Estrada (tbc) development?’ 25 Feb: ‘Historia conceptual en el Professor Robin Rinehart, Lafayette Atlántico Ibérico’ (in Spanish) 12 Mar: tbc College 19 Jan: ‘Kalki and the Mahdi: the 24 Tertulia at the Latin American History South Asian intellectual history seminar avatars of the Dasam Granth’ Seminar series Dr Cristina Soriano, Villanova, in Professor Ed Simpson, SOAS The following seminars will take place conversation with Juan Neves 26 Jan: tbc 4–5.30pm on Mondays online via 4 Mar: ‘The press in revolutionary Teams. Organised with the Faculty Dr Manan Ahmed Asif, Columbia Venezuela, 1789–1808’ of History. More information and to 2 Feb: ‘A contrapuntal history of Tertulia at the Latin American History register: [email protected]. Hindustan’ Seminar uk. Convener: Zobia Haq Dr Nosheen Ali, NYU Professor Peter Guardino, Indiana, in Professor Ali Usman Qasmi, Lahore 9 Feb: ‘Delusional states: love, conversation with Dr Timo Schaefer University of Management Sciences citizenship and resistance in Gilgit- 11 Mar: ‘The Mexican–American War, 18 Jan: ‘Nation and its discontents: Baltistan ‘ 1846–8’ the poetics and politics of Siraiki Dr Linda Hess, Stanford nationalism in Pakistan’ 16 Feb: ‘Encountering Kabir: from old manuscripts to living oral’ 192 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5297 • 13 January 2021
St John’s The Revd Professor Vivian Boland, OP, Panel discussion Angelicum. To register: https://tinyurl. A panel discussion will take place St John’s College Research Centre com/AquinasSeminar25Feb. 3.30–5.30pm on 24 February online. 25 Feb: ‘Can Aquinas’s sana INTERDISCIPLINARY SEMINARS IN Speakers include: Dr Sara Silvestri, doctrina on learning and teaching PSYCHOANALYSIS City; the Rt Hon Ruth Kelly, Vatican be extracted from its place in sacra Council for the Economy; Professor The following seminars will take place doctrina?’ Anna Sapir Abulafia; Professor Peter at 8.15pm on Mondays online, and Las Casas Tyler, St Mary’s; and Dr Maria Powe. available for one week thereafter. Free; Moderator: the Revd Dr Ashley Beck, open to members of the University FUTURE OF THE HUMANITIES PROJECT St Mary’s. Free but registration and mental health professionals. To The following events will take place required: https://tinyurl.com/ register: [email protected] (please in conjunction with Georgetown BeingWithoutBorders. include your affiliation). Those who University. Subject: ‘Being without borders: registered for this series last term need what does “fratelli tutti” mean for not register again. Conveners: Louise Panel discussions: free speech British society?’ Braddock, Niall Gildea, Paul Tod More information: yq56@georgetown. Book launch Michael Uebel, Texas at Austin edu. Moderators: Sanford Ungar, 8 Feb: ‘Architectures of affect: Georgetown; Michael Scott A book launch will be held at 6pm on formulae for a psychoanalytic 2 March for Edward Hadas’s latest book. John Kampfner, journalist, with approach to atmosphere’ Free but registration required: https:// Dr Fernando Herrero, Birkbeck tinyurl.com/CounselsofImperfection. Katie Fleming, QMUL 3pm, 19 Jan: ‘Where is democracy Title: Counsels of Imperfection: 8 Mar: ‘ “Not feeling it”: affect theory working today?’ Thinking Through Catholic Social and Greek tragedy’ Baroness Mary Goudie Teaching 4pm, 16 Feb: ‘Women’s free speech Blackfriars Hall worldwide’
Aquinas Institute Talks: Christian literary imagination The following events will take place The following events will take place online. Open to all, but registration at 4pm, followed by a Q&A. Chair: required. Professor Michael Scott. Registration required: https://global.georgetown. ANNUAL AQUINAS LECTURE edu/series/the-christian-literary- Professor Mark Wynn, Nolloth imagination. Professor of the Philosophy of the Clare Broome Saunders Christian Religion, will give the 2021 26 Jan: ‘Elizabeth Barrett Browning’ Aquinas Lecture at 5pm on 28 January. To register: https://tinyurl.com/ Clare Asquith, Mells and independent AquinasLecture2021. scholar Subject: ‘Christian narratives and the 9 Feb: ‘Michael Drayton, the “Faire well-lived life: Thomistic reflections’ Matilda” poems’
AQUINAS SEMINAR SERIES: DE Professor Mark Bosco, Georgetown MAGISTRO: AQUINAS AND THE 23 Feb: ‘Flannery O’Connor, stories’ EDUCATION OF THE WHOLE PERSON Professor Noel Sugimura The following seminars will take place 9 Mar: ‘John Milton, poems’ 4.30–6pm on Thursdays. Dr Paul Edmondson, Shakespeare Dr Zena Hitz, St John’s College, Birthplace Trust Annapolis. To register: https://tinyurl. 16 Mar: ‘William Shakespeare, plays’ com/AquinasSeminar4Feb. Pope Benedict XVI’s Spe Salvi 4 Feb: ‘The spontaneity of the mind and the desire to learn’ Edward Hadas will lead a reading group over six weeks starting on 6pm Professor Andrea Aldo Robiglio, KU on 27 January. Free but registration Leuven. To register: https://tinyurl. required: https://tinyurl.com/ com/AquinasSeminar11Feb. SpeSalviReadingGroup. 11 Feb: ‘Learning failures and scholarly vices’ The Revd Dr David Goodill, OP. To register: https://tinyurl.com/ AquinasSeminar18Feb. 18 Feb: ‘Wittgenstein, training and habits’