WEDNESDAY 11 JANUARY 2017 • SUPPLEMENT (1) TO NO 5153 • VOL 147 Gazette Supplement Lectures and Seminars, Hilary term 2017 Humanities 196 Social Sciences 203 Colleges, Halls and Societies 213 Rothermere American Institute Anthropology and Museum Ethnography All Souls English Language and Literature Saïd Business School Corpus Christi English/History/History of Art/Theology/ Education Green Templeton Music Geography and the Environment Keble History International Development Kellogg History/Oriental Studies Law Lady Margaret Hall History of Art Politics and International Relations Mansfield Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics Social Policy and Intervention Nuffield Music Socio-legal Studies St Anne’s Oriental Studies Sociology St Antony’s Philosophy St Cross Department for Continuing St Edmund Hall Mathematical, Physical and Education 209 St John’s Life Sciences 200 Somerville Rewley House Trinity Chemistry Evidence-Based Health Care Earth Sciences University College Engineering Science Institutes, Centres and Wolfson Materials Museums 210 Blackfriars Hall Physics Campion Hall Ashmolean Museum Zoology Bodleian Libraries Other Groups 218 Medical Sciences 202 Botanic Garden Oxford Bibliographical Society China Centre Friends of the Bodleian Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism Hebrew and Jewish Studies Oxford Italian Association Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Museum of the History of Science Musculoskeletal Sciences Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum Islamic Studies Pathology Reuters Institute for the Study of Pharmacology Journalism Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics Oxford Martin School Population Health Population Ageing Psychiatry 195 196 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5153 • 11 January 2017 Humanities Emily Holman and Lucy Clarke Dr Spencer Morrison, Alberta 5pm, 6 Mar: ‘Marilynne Robinson’s 16 Feb: ‘William Styron and the birth of language: religion, secularity and the foreign aid’ Rothermere American Institute human experience’ Professor Christopher Nealon, Johns The following events will take place at the Dr Nigel Bowles and Professor Philip Hopkins Rothermere American Institute, unless Davies, Eccles Centre, British Library 2 Mar: ‘Ut pictura in the dark’ otherwise noted. 4pm, 9 Mar: ‘What political scientists Intersectional feminisms reading group Inaugural Lecture need to understand about Congress’ (aimed at undergraduate and graduate The group meets at 5pm on Wednesdays Professor Sidney Milkis, Virginia, will students of Politics. Registration and welcomes all those interested in reading deliver his inaugural lecture as Winant required: [email protected]) and discussing writing, art and music that Visiting Professor of American Government centres on the experiences of American American history research seminar at 5pm on 23 February. women of colour. Pre-circulated materials Subject: ‘Joining the revolution: Lyndon The following seminars will take place at provide the focus for discussion. More Johnson, the modern presidency and the 4pm on Tuesdays, unless otherwise noted. information: [email protected]. Civil Rights movement’ Daniel Robinson, Cambridge and RAI American politics graduate seminar Special events 17 Jan: ‘ “Giving law to Europe”: This seminar welcomes all to its weekly geopolitics, political culture and the Professor Deborah Cameron meetings, which feature presentations origins of the American Revolution’ 1pm, 18 Jan: ‘The taming of the shrill: and discussion led by postgraduate, junior gender, language and power in the 2016 Dr Kevin Waite, Durham and senior researchers whose work relates US presidential election’ Wed, 25 Jan: ‘The continental crisis of to US politics. The seminar meets at 1pm the union: southern secession, western on Wednesdays and a sandwich lunch is Geoff Shepard, author, The Real Watergate separatism’ provided. More information: politics.rai@ Scandal: Collusion, Conspiracy and the Plot gmail.com. that Brought Nixon Down Professor Jennifer Keene, Chapman 1pm, 20 Jan: ‘Scandal as a political 7 Feb: ‘ “Deeds not words”: American Faculty of English Language and weapon in American electoral politics’ social justice movements and World War Literature One’ US Presidential Inauguration 4pm, 20 Jan: live coverage of the Professor Laura Leibman, Reed Poets at Keble ceremony in Washington DC to 21 Feb: ‘The material of race: how Spencer Reece will give a poetry reading inaugurate the 45th president of the US, emancipation transformed early at 4pm on 27 January in the Pusey Room, Donald Trump American Jews’ Keble. Eileen Myles, poet and writer. Chair: Professor David Lubin, Wake Forest Seminar Professor David Russell 28 Feb: ‘ “O say can you see?” Art, 5pm, 23 Jan: Eileen Myles will read from propaganda and the First World War’ Adam Phillips will deliver a seminar at her work 4.30pm on 15 February in the Pusey Room, Professor Benjamin Madley, UCLA Keble. Panel discussion 7 Mar: ‘An American genocide: the Subject: ‘The poet’s essay’ Dr Sinead McEneaney, St Mary’s; Professor United States and the California Indian Jay Kleinberg, Brunel; Dr Elizabeth Clapp, catastrophe, 1846–73’ D F McKenzie Lecture Leicester; and Dr Imaobong Umoren RAI–Latin American Centre joint Professor Peter Kornicki, Cambridge, will 2pm, 20 Feb: ‘The politics of the US First seminar deliver the 2017 D F McKenzie lecture at Lady from the 19th century to Michelle 5pm on 23 February in Lecture Theatre 2, Obama’ Professor Lara Putnam, Pittsburgh, will St Cross Building. lead a seminar at 5pm on 2 February at the Jeffrey Weinberg, Washington Campus Subject: ‘Publish and perish in Japan: why Latin American Centre. 1pm, 22 Feb: ‘The Trump presidency: how manuscripts continued to circulate in the Subject: ‘Transnational approaches to is he using the legislative “tools”?’ age of print’ post-emancipation labour regimes and Patti Russo, Yale their consequences: from Venezuela to Avril Bruten Lecture 12.30pm, 24 Feb: ‘Increasing the number South Africa and Trinidad to Chicago, Margie Orford will deliver the Avril Bruten and influence of women in elected and 1870–1940’ Lecture at 5.30pm on 1 March in the appointed office in the United States and American literature research seminar Maplethorpe Lecture Hall, St Hugh’s. around the world’ Subject: ‘Writing violence: ethics and The following seminars will take place at Harmsworth American History Symposium aesthetics’ 5pm on Thursdays. Professor Alan Taylor, Virginia; Professor Professor of Poetry Lecture Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard; Professor Dr Nicole King, Reading Peter Onuf, Virginia; Dr Sarah Pearsall, 19 Jan: ‘Pedagogies of dissent: reading Professor Simon Armitage will deliver the Cambridge; and Dr Peter Thompson the paradox of racialisation in Martha Professor of Poetry Lecture at 5.30pm on 10am, 27 Feb: ‘ “The sovereignty of Southgate’s The Fall of Rome’ 8 March in the Examination Schools. generations”: Thomas Jefferson, Dr Peter Riley, Exeter paternalism and cultural transmission in 2 Feb: ‘ “Wet paper between us”: Whitman early America’ and the transformations of labour’ University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5153 • 11 January 2017 197 Early modern literature seminar Nicolette Zeeman, Cambridge Aaron Hanlon, Colby College 22 Feb: 'The work of rudeness' 20 Feb: ‘Fanny Hill and the The following seminars will take place at Enlightenment history of pain’ 5.15pm on Tuesdays at Ertegun House, 37A Tom Birkett, Cork St Giles’. Conveners: Professor Rhodri Lewis, 1 Mar: ‘The writing on the wall: runes, Old Abigail Williams Professor Emma Smith English poetry and scriptural history’ 6 Mar: faculty presentation Maggie Kilgour, McGill Postcolonial writing and theory Faculties of English/History/History of 17 Jan: ‘What did Milton learn from seminar Art/Theology/Music Shakespeare? The matter of Macbeth’ The following seminars will take place at Victoria van Hyning 5.15pm on Thursdays in the C Day Lewis The Bible in Art, Music and Literature 31 Jan: ‘English convent autobiography, Room, Wadham. Conveners: Professor interdisciplinary seminar 1630–1795’ Boehmer, Professor Mukherjee The following seminars will take place at Simon Smith, Birmingham Charles Forsdick, Liverpool 5pm on Mondays in the Danson Room, 14 Feb: ‘Playgoing, pleasure and 26 Jan: 'Writing in translation: world Trinity. Convener: Dr C Joynes judgement in early modern England’ literature and multilingual poetics' Dr Megan Kearney Sophie Read, Cambridge Madeline Clement, Teesside 23 Jan: ‘Disraeli and the Bible: 28 Feb: ‘Spiceworld: God and the 9 Feb: ‘Pakistani Christians in the post- Deuteronomic themes in Alroy (1833)’ metaphysics of scent in some 17th- 1947 imaginary’ Dr Cathy Hume, Bristol century poetry’ Frank Schulze-Engler, Frankfurt 6 Feb: ‘The Middle English Life of Job: Modern literature graduate seminar 23 Feb: tbc Bible translation, poem or play?’ The following seminars will take place at Margaret Hillenbrand Nicholas Mynheer 5pm on Wednesdays in the Tomáš Halík 9 Mar: ‘Remaking Tank Man, in China’ 20 Feb: ‘Biblical art in Oxford: engaging Room, Harris Manchester. Conveners: Dr with the work of artist Nicholas Mynheer’ Literature and medicine seminar Hayes, Professor McLoughlin Professor David Holland, Harvard The following seminars will take place at Nathan Waddell, Nottingham 6 Mar: ‘The language of the millennium: 6.15pm on Thursdays in the EP Abraham 25 Jan: ‘Moonlighting: Beethoven, sacred texts, American prophets and the Lecture Theatre, Green Templeton. literature and the First World War’ (a question of the English’ Conveners: Professor Friend, Professor recording