WEDNESDAY 18 APRIL 2018 • SUPPLEMENT (1) TO NO 5200 • VOL 148 Gazette Supplement Lectures and Seminars, Trinity term 2018 Cyril Foster Lecure 374 Social Sciences 381 Colleges, Halls and Societies 388 Anthropology and Museum Ethnography All Souls Humanities 374 Saïd Business School Balliol Economics Green Templeton TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities Education Keble Classics Education/St Stephen’s House Kellogg English Language and Literature Interdisciplinary Area Studies Lady Margaret Hall English/Modern Languages/Theology International Development (Queen Linacre Elizabeth House) History Lincoln Oxford Internet Institute History/Modern Languages/Voltaire Nuffield Foundation Law Oriel History of Art Social Policy and Intervention St Anne’s Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics Socio-legal Studies St Antony’s Medieval and Modern Languages/ Sociology St Hilda’s Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics St John’s Institutes, Centres and Oriental Studies University College Museums 384 Philosophy Wolfson Theology and Religion Ashmolean Museum Blackfriars Hall Bodleian Libraries Campion Hall Mathematical, Physical and Buddhist Studies Life Sciences 377 China Centre Other Groups 391 Chemistry Hebrew and Jewish Studies Oxford Bibliographical Society Earth Sciences Islamic Studies Friends of the Bodleian Mathematical Institute Reuters Institute for the Study of Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum Physics Journalism Plant Sciences Reuters Institute/Nuffield Zoology Latin American Centre Centre for Life-Writing Medical Sciences 379 Oxford Martin School Institute of Population Ageing Biochemistry Voltaire Foundation – Besterman Centre Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism for the Enlightenment Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences Pathology Pharmacology Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics Population Health Psychiatry 373 374 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5200 • 18 April 2018 Cyril Foster Lecture David Lewis Lecture Faculties of English/Modern Languages/Theology Professor Werner Eck will deliver the Professor Barbara F Walter, California at David Lewis Lecture at on 23 May. San Diego, will deliver the 2018 Cyril Foster Study day: The Bible and poetry Subject: ‘Latin in imperial Greece’ Lecture at 5pm on 17 May in the Lecture A study day will take place 11am–6pm on Theatre, Manor Road Building. Followed Conference 18 May in the Summer Common Room, by drinks reception. Registration required: An international conference will take place Magdalen, in response to Bible et poésie https://cyrilfosterlecture2018.eventbrite. on 9 and 10 June at the Ioannou Centre. by Sir Michael Edwards. Keynote speaker: co.uk. Speakers: Professor Claude Calame, Professor Simon Gilson. Free. Email toby. Subject: ‘The new new civil wars’ Lausanne; Professor Angus Bowie; [email protected] to attend and receive Professor Christopher Faraone, Chicago; a draft programme and summary of Bible Humanities Professor Thomas Hubbard, Texas; et poésie. Conveners: Toby Garfitt, Brian Professor Ioannis Konstantakos, Athens; Sudlow, Aston TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in Professor Andreas Michalopoulos, Athens; the Humanities Professor Amy Smith, Reading; Dr Giacomo Faculty of History Fedeli, KCL; Dr Thomas Mannack; Dr Jane Oxford Psalms Network: New Masséglia, Leicester; Dr Eleni Pachoumi, Oxford Centre for Global History perspectives on the psalms Hellenic Open University; Dr Ed Sanders, More information on these events: https:// Roehampton; Dr Thea Selliaas Thorsen, The following lectures will take place at globalhistory.web.ox.ac.uk. Registration NTNU; Dr Chiara Thumiger, Warwick. More 6.15pm on Tuesdays in the Ursell Room, required: [email protected]. information and to register: www.classics. Pusey House, unless otherwise noted. ox.ac.uk/love-pathology.html. Conveners: A workshop will take place at 11.30am on 6pm, Thurs 3 May, Nazrin Shah Centre, Dimitrios Kanellakis, Emila Savva 24 April in the Rees Davies Room, History Worcester: Launch of Susan Gillingham’s Subject: ‘The pathology of love in Greek Faculty, for those interested in supervising Psalms Through the Centuries: Volume 2, and Roman art and literature’ and teaching on the legacies of colonialism with Worcester College Choir in Oxford. Speakers include: Erica Charters; Faculty of English Language and Oliver Cox; Nick Draper, UCL; Richard Beatrice Groves Literature Drayton, KCL; Tim Livsey; and William 8 May: ‘Mark this: recovering early Whyte. Lunch provided. modern readers through Psalm Professor of Poetry Lecture Subject: ‘Oxford and empire: teaching marginalia’ workshop’ Professor Simon Armitage will deliver the Edward Clarke Professor of Poetry Lecture at 5.30pm on An interdisciplinary roundtable to discuss 29 May: ‘O high tree in the ear! A selection 16 May in the Examination Schools. the book Climate Change and the Course of of psalms’ Subject: ‘Unseasonal produce: winter Global History by Professor John Brooke, Thea Gomelauri words in various moods and metres’ Astor Visiting Lecturer, will take place on 12 Jun: ‘The puzzle of Psalm 30’ 24 May, details to be confirmed. Participants O’Donnell Lecture include: James Belich, Amy Bogaard, John Faculty of Classics Professor Helen Fulton, Bristol, will deliver Brooke, Robert Iliffe and Friederike Otto. the O’Donnell Lecture at 5pm on 10 May in All welcome. The following lectures will take place at Lecture Theatre 2, St Cross Building. Subject: ‘Interdisciplinary roundtable on 5pm in the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Subject: ‘Cheapside in Wales: textiles and global climate change and history’ Byzantine Studies. commodities in medieval Welsh poetry’ ASTOR LECTURE IN GLOBAL Sybille Haynes Lecture Special postcolonial writing and theory ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY seminar Professor Giovanna Bagnasco will deliver Professor John L Brooke, Ohio, will deliver the Sybille Haynes Lecture on 23 April. Linton Kwesi Johnson and Paul Gilroy the Astor Lecture in Global Environmental Subject: ‘Tarquinia and the origin of will give a seminar at 5.15pm on 26 April in History at 5.30pm on 25 May in the Nissan Etruscan religion’ the Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre, St Cross Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s, followed by Building. drinks reception. All welcome. Don Fowler Memorial Lecture Subject: ‘Reading Bass Culture’ Subject: ‘Climate and the plague: toward a Professor Christina Kraus will deliver the late Holocene Eurasian synthesis’ Don Fowler Memorial Lecture on 3 May. GLOBAL HISTORY OF WAR LECTURE Subject: ‘Livy’s Faliscan schoolmaster (5.26-7)’ Professor Wayne E Lee, North Carolina, will deliver the Global History of War Gaisford Lecture Lecture in conjunction with the Changing Dr Nick Lowe, will deliver the Gaisford Character of War Centre and Pembroke at Lecture on 17 May. 5pm on 2 June in the Pichette Auditorium, Subject: ‘The Greeks and a short long Pembroke, followed by drinks reception. All history of the joke’ welcome. Subject: ‘Reaping the rewards: how the governor, the priest, the taxman and the garrison secure victory in world history’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5200 • 18 April 2018 375 ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM Professor Iwan Morus, Aberystwyth Dr Alexander Bevilacqua, Williams College 14 May: ‘Looking through the 13 Jun, Old Archives Room: ‘The Republic The 2018 symposium, held in conjunction telectroscope: the material culture of the of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European with the History Faculty, Royal Historical Victorian future’ Enlightenment’ Society and Ashmolean Museum, will take place 22 and 23 June in the Ashmolean Professor Elliott West, Arkansas Faculty of History/ Faculty of Modern Museum and the Bodleian Library. 21 May: tbc Languages/Voltaire Foundation Speakers include: Catia Antunes, Leiden; Dr Zoë Laidlaw, RHUL Scott Ashley, Newcastle; Maxine Berg, 4 Jun: ‘Scientific networks and Enlightenment workshop Warwick; Paul Betts; Steffen Burkhardt, humanitarian ends: Dr Thomas Hodgkin Göttingen; Catriona Cannon; Esther da The following seminars will take place and the protection of aborigines in mid- Costa Meyer, Princeton; John Darwin; at 5pm on Thursdays at the Voltaire 19th century London’ Pekka Hämäläinen; Catherine Holmes; Foundation, unless otherwise noted. Isabel Holowaty; Andrew Hurrell; Monica Dr Philip Beeley Conveners: Nicholas Cronk, Avi Lifschitz Juneja, Heidelberg; Miles Larmer; Wayne 11 Jun: ‘Euclid in the world of Professor Paul Kerry, Brigham Young Modest, VU Amsterdam; Patrick O’Brien, early modern London’s practical 28 Apr: ‘The late German Enlightenment LSE; Amanda Power; Richard Reid, SOAS; mathematicians’ and its temples’ Chaitanya Sambrani, ANU; Dagmar New Perspectives in Mediterranean Schäfer, Max Planck Institute for the History Professor Darrin McMahon, Dartmouth History of Science; Sujit Sivasundaram, Cambridge; 3 May: ‘Lighting the Enlightenment: Amy Stanley, Northwestern; Alan The following seminars will take place at public illumination and the Siècle des Strathern; and Laura van Broekhhoven. 11.15am on Wednesdays in the Old Common Lumières’ Registration open soon. Conveners: Room, Balliol, unless otherwise noted. All Dr Caroline Warman Professor Erica Charters, Dr Mallica welcome. Tea served from 11am. Convener: 10 May: ‘Patterns of materialist thought: Kumbera Landrus Dr J-P Ghobrial fragments and formulations from Subject: ‘The future of history: going Richard Calis, Princeton Diderot to Destutt de Tracy’ global in the university’ 25 Apr: ‘The apostle of the Orient: Martin Professor Anthony La Vopa, North KEYNOTE ADDRESS AND CONFERENCE