WEDNESDay 7 octobEr 2015 • SUPPLEMENt (1) to No 5107 • VoL 146 Gazette Supplement Lectures and Seminars, Michaelmas term 2015 Witness Seminar (the UN orthopaedics, rheumatology and Islamic Studies at 70) 26 Musculoskeletal Sciences Reuters Institute for the Study of Pathology Journalism Pharmacology Reuters Institute for the Study of Charles Simonyi Lecture 26 Physiology, anatomy and Genetics Journalism/Nuffield Population Health Latin american centre Humanities 26 Psychiatry Foundation for Law, Justice and Society/ centre for Socio-Legal Studies TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in Social Sciences 34 Learning Institute the Humanities Maison Française Rothermere American Institute anthropology and Museum Ethnography oxford Martin School Classics Archaeology Population ageing English Language and Literature Saïd Business School English/History/History of Art/Theology/ Education Colleges, Halls and Societies 44 Music Geography and the Environment all Souls/Magdalen History Intellectual Property research centre Balliol History/Politics and International Interdisciplinary Area Studies Relations Green templeton International Development (Queen Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics Elizabeth House) Keble Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics/ Law Lady Margaret Hall Medieval and Modern Languages Politics and International relations Magdalen Medieval and Modern Languages Social Policy and Intervention Mansfield Music Socio-legal Studies Nuffield Oriental Studies Sociology Oriel St Anne’s Mathematical, Physical and Department for Continuing St Antony’s Life Sciences 31 Education 39 St Cross Weldon Memorial Prize Lecture St Edmund Hall Kellogg college centre for creative St Hugh’s Chemistry Writing St John’s Earth Sciences rewley House Somerville Engineering Science Graduate Seminar Programme in the arts Mathematical Institute and Humanities University college Physics Wolfson Plant Sciences Institutes, Centres and blackfriars Hall Museums 39 Medical Sciences 32 Other Groups 48 ashmolean Museum Biochemistry bodleian Libraries Friends of the Bodleian Clinical Neurosciences coMPaS Oxford Italian Association Friends of the Pitt rivers Museum Molecular Medicine Hebrew and Jewish Studies Hindu Studies 25 26 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5107 • 7 october 2015 Witness Seminar (the UN Humanities TORCH/Bodleian Libraries at 70) a panel discussion will be held at 5pm on TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in 29 october in the Lecture theatre, Weston a seminar will be held 9.30am–5.30pm on the Humanities Library, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of 16 october in the Lecture theatre, Weston the publication of the final volume oft olkien’s Library. Sponsors: british association of Unconscious memory seminars The Lord of the Rings. Speakers: Professor Former UN civil Servants; all Souls; bodleian UNCONSCIOus: CONCEPT OR METAPHOR? Andy Orchard, Dr Dimitra Fimi, cardiff Library; United Nations association; KcL; Metropolitan, and Dr Patrick Curry, Lampeter. Humanitarian Policy Group, oDI. chair: the following papers will be presented chair: Dr Stuart Lee. accompanied by a display Professor Sir adam roberts. Speakers: consecutively from 4.30pm to 6.45pm on of original drawings from the tolkien archive. Michael Mosselmans, christian aid; Angela 26 october in the Seminar room, radcliffe registration required: www.torch.ox.ac.uk/ Raven-Roberts, independent consultant; Humanities building, followed by drinks and tolkien. Lamees Hafeez, Manchester; David Harland, discussion. convener: Sowon Park (sowon. Subject: ‘The Lord of the Rings; tolkien’s Humanitarian Dialogue; Alan Doss, Kofia nnan [email protected]) legacy’ Foundation; Dr Nicola Dahrendorf, the Policy Professor Andrew Mayes, Manchester: TORCH/Museum of Natural History Practice; Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill; Sir ‘the neural bases of the unconscious’ John Holmes, Ditchley Foundation; Professor a public event will be held at 5.30pm on 18 Mukesh Kapila, Manchester; Michael Keating, Dr Angus Nicholls, QMUL: ‘Is the November at the Museum of Natural History to chatham House; Dr Randolph Kent, KcL. unconscious a concept or a metaphor?’ celebrate the life and legacy of the oxford dodo, conveners: Edward Mortimer; Martin barber, Humanitas along with an opportunity to view the dodo. BAFUNcS. Free but places limited. to register: Speakers: Paul Smith, Pietro Corsi, Jasper www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/whatson/whats-on/ VISITING PROFEssOrshIP IN MusEUMS, Fforde, author, Paul Jepson, Environmental upcoming-events/2015/oct/un-at-70. GALLERIES AND LIBrarIES LECTURE researcher, and Kirsten Shepherd-Barr. Part Subject: ‘the UN and humanitarian action: SERIES: THE RISE AND fall OF Adam of being Human, the nationwide festival of the learning lessons from past experience for AND EvE humanities. registration required: http://torch. ox.ac.uk/dodo. future policy’ Professor Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard, will Subject: ‘the oxford dodo: culture at the give the following lectures. More information crossroads’ Charles Simonyi Lecture and to register: www.torch.ox.ac.uk/ humanitas/museums-galleries-and-libraries. Rothermere American Institute 5.30pm, 19 Oct, Blackwell Hall, Weston Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor of Library: ‘In the bathhouse’ Physics, Harvard, will deliver the 2015 charles the following events will take place at the Simonyi Lecture at 5pm on 5pm, 20 Oct, South School, Examination rothermere american Institute, unless otherwise noted. 6 November at the oxford Playhouse. Schools: ‘Getting real’ tickets: £7 (£5 concessions) from www. TORCH/Museum of the History of Science Harmsworth Lecture in American History oxfordplayhouse.com/theatre/3456/Putting- Professor Kristin Hoganson, Illinois, will the-Higgs-boson-in-its-place. Dr Silke Ackermann, Dr Liz Bruton and deliver her inaugural lecture as Harmsworth Subject: ‘Putting the Higgs boson in its Professor Nigel Biggar will discuss the ethics Visiting Professor of american History at 5pm place’ of scientists going to war, in response to the current Museum of the History of Science on 17 November in the Examination Schools. exhibition exploring the life and legacy of Subject: ‘Isolationism as an urban legend’ Henry Moseley, at 7pm on American Literature research seminar 13 october in the Museum of the History of Science. registration required: http://torch. the following seminars will be held at 5.30pm ox.ac.uk/too-valuable-die. on thursdays in the large seminar room. Subject: ‘too valuable to die? the ethics of conveners: Jurrit Daalder, christine Fouirnaies science and scientists going to war’ Professor Nancy Bentley, Pennsylvania TORCH/Worcester 15 Oct: 'Kinship politics: Jewett, Zitkala-Sa and literary clans' Professor Oliver Taplin and Professor Seamus Perry will lead a roundtable Dr Thomas Karshan, East anglia discussion at 6pm on 16 october at the 29 Oct: 'Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor Mathematical Institute to celebrate the gloom of night: american writers at the publication of Professor Jonathan bate’s Ted dead letter office’ Hughes: An Unauthorised Life. registration Benjamin Markovits required: http://torch.ox.ac.uk/tedhughes. 5 Nov: Discussion of his new novel You Subject: ‘ted Hughes: the unauthorised life’ Don’t Have To Live Like This Dr Stephen Burn, Glasgow 26 Nov: 're-reading the core texts: american fiction after the decade of the brain' University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5107 • 7 october 2015 27 Special events Faculty of Classics Faculty of English Language and Literature Dr Robert Scott, adelphi the following events will take place at the 3pm, 23 Oct: ‘american higher education: Ioannou centre for classical and byzantine Professor of Poetry Lecture observations from the field’. Followed by Studies, 66 St Giles’. a round-table discussion led by Dr Gail Professor Simon Armitage will deliver his Mellow, LaGuardia, Professor Margaret APGRD free public lectures inaugural Professor of Poetry Lecture at 5.30pm on 24 November in the Examination MacMillan and Darryl Greer, Stockton. the following free public lectures will be given Schools. Professor Don Doyle, South carolina at 2.15pm on Mondays in the Lecture theatre. Clarendon Lectures in English: Psyche and 4pm, 26 Oct: ‘the cause of all nations: an Marina Carr, playwright Ethos international history of the american civil 12 Oct: In conversation about her new War’ version of Euripides’ Hecuba Professor Amanda Anderson, andrew W Mellon Professor of Humanities and English Tim Griffin, Lt Gov, arkansas Adele Thomas, director, and Rory Mullarkey, and Director, cogut center for the Humanities, 12.30pm, 5 Nov: ‘congress, constituents and playwright brown, will deliver the clarendon Lectures the constitution: thoughts on the House 2 Nov: ‘on the Globe theatre’s production of in English at 5.15pm on the following days in republican majority, 2010–present’ The Oresteia’ room 6, Examination Schools. Dr Stella Krepp, bern Professor Peter Wiseman 10 Nov: ‘Psychology contra morality’ 5pm, 5 Nov: ‘From the western hemisphere 9 Nov: ‘rhinthon and the roman audience’ (followed by a drinks reception) to the west: the United States and Latin america, 1941–9’ APGRD seminar series: Reception and 12 Nov: ‘In the middle of life’ scholarship Book launch 17 Nov: ‘Psychic life and the claims of others’ Professor Celeste-Marie Bernier, Nottingham the following seminars will be given at 5pm 19 Nov: ‘a human science’ 5pm, 23 Nov: ‘Suffering and sunset: World on Mondays in the First Floor Seminar room. War I in the art and life of Horace Pippin’ conveners: Professor Fiona Macintosh, Dr