WEDNESDAY 4 OCTOBER 2017 • SUPPLEMENT (1) TO NO 5179 • VOL 148 Gazette Supplement Lectures and Seminars, Michaelmas term 2017 Charles Simonyi Lecture 34 Social Sciences 42 Colleges, Halls and Societies 51 Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Green Templeton Humanities 34 Saïd Business School Hertford Rothermere American Institute Education Keble Classics Interdisciplinary Area Studies Kellogg Classics/English Language and Literature/ International Development Lady Margaret Hall History/Medieval and Modern Internet Institute Magdalen Languages Law Mansfeld English Language and Literature Politics and International Relations/ Nufeld English Language and Literature/History/ History St Anne’s History of Art/Theology and Religion/ Social Policy and Intervention Music St Antony’s Socio-legal Studies History St Catherine’s Sociology History of Art St Edmund Hall Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics St Hugh’s Department for Continuing Music St John’s Education 47 Oriental Studies Somerville Theology and Religion MSc in Evidence-Based Health Care Wolfson Blackfriars Mathematical, Physical and Institutes, Centres and Regent’s Park Life Sciences 38 Museums 47 Other Groups 56 Chemistry Ashmolean Museum Computer Science Bodleian Libraries Oxford Bibliographical Society Earth Sciences Botanic Garden Friends of the Bodleian Oxford Italian Association Engineering Science China Centre Oxford Monastic Institute Materials Hebrew and Jewish Studies Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum Physics Hindu Studies Plant Sciences Islamic Studies Zoology Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism Medical Sciences 40 Reuters Institute /Nufeld Foundation for Law, Justice and Society Biochemistry Oxford Martin School Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism Voltaire Foundation – Besterman Centre Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and for the Enlightenment Musculoskeletal Sciences Pathology Pharmacology Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics Population Health Psychiatry 33 34 University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5179 • 4 October 2017 Charles Simonyi Lecture Humanities Dr Charlotte Jefries 24 Oct: ‘Feminist sources, punk methods: US riot grrrls in the history of teenage Geofrey West, Senior Fellow, Los Alamos Rothermere American Institute female sexuality’ (followed by a reception National Laboratory, and distinguished to welcome new members of the American professor, Sante Fe Institute, will deliver The following events will take place at 5pm history and RAI communities) the 2017 Charles Simonyi Lecture at 5pm at the Rothermere American Institute, on 3 November at the Oxford Playhouse. unless otherwise noted. Dr George Van Cleve, Seattle Introduction by Marcus du Sautoy. Tickets: 31 Oct: ‘The birth of the American empire: Harmsworth Lecture in American History £7 from www.oxfordplayhouse.com/whats- the Articles of Confederation and the road on/all-shows/the-annual-charles-simonyi- Professor Elliott West, Arkansas, will to the Constitution’ lecture. deliver the 2017 Harmsworth Lecture in Professor Pekka Hämäläinen Subject: ‘Scale: the universal laws of growth’ American History on 7 November in the 14 Nov: discussion of the Harmsworth Examination Schools. Lecture in American History (see above) Subject: ‘Things come together: science and the American West’ Professor Jennifer Luf, Durham 21 Nov: ‘ “The re-conquest of America”: Drue Heinz Professorship of American American munitions and British Literature governance during the Great War’ INAUGURAL LECTURE American politics graduate seminar Professor Lloyd Pratt will deliver his Presentations and discussion, led by inaugural lecture as Drue Heinz Professor of postgraduate, junior and senior researchers American Literature on 1 November in the whose work relates to US politics, will take English Faculty. place at 1pm on Wednesdays; all welcome Book launch and sandwich lunch provided. More information and to register: russell.bogue@ Dr Nadia Hilliard and Dr Tom Cutterham, balliol.ox.ac.uk and alexander.coccia@sjc. Birmingham ox.ac.uk. 5.30pm, 20 Oct: The Accountability State: US Federal Inspectors General and the Pursuit American history graduate seminar of Democratic Integrity (Kansas UP, 2017) Papers and discussion led by postgraduates and Gentlemen Revolutionaries: Power in US history will take place at noon on and Justice in the New American Republic Mondays; sandwich lunch provided. More (Princeton UP, 2017) information and to register: dominic. American literature research seminar [email protected], emma.day@ history.ox.ac.uk and mitchell.robertson@ The following seminars will take place on history.ox.ac.uk. Thursdays. Dr Eldrid Herrington, QMUL Faculty of Classics 12 Oct: ‘Civil war and one’s self’ APGRD Dr Natalia Cecire, Sussex 26 Oct: ‘Quartz contentment: or, passing for The following events will take place in dead’ the Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’, unless otherwise noted. More Professor Ina Bergmann, Wrzburg information: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events. 23 Nov: ‘A cultural history of solitude in the USA’ PUBLIC LECTURES American history research seminar Professor Nancy Rabinowitz, Hamilton College The following seminars will take place at 2.15pm, 16 Oct, Outreach Room, Ioannou 4pm on Tuesdays, unless otherwise noted. Centre: ‘Classics and social justice’ Dr Ivan Jaksic, Stanford Paul O'Mahony, APGRD Artist in 5pm, Thur, 12 Oct, Latin American Centre: Residence/Out of Chaos Theatre Company ‘Lessons from empire: the frst hispanists in 5pm, 27 Oct: ‘Crossing the sea – the the United States, 1820–80’ development of a new version of the Professor Anthony Pinn, Rice Aeneid’ 17 Oct: ‘How does it feel to be a problem? Du Josephine Balmer, poet and translator Bois, the problem soul and the nature of 5pm, 2 Nov: Poetry reading from The Paths religion’ of Survival based on Aeschylus’ Myrmidons, followed by discussion with Professor Oliver Taplin and Dr Laura Swift University of Oxford Gazette • Supplement (1) to No 5179 • 4 October 2017 35 Professor Erika Fischer-Lichte, FU Berlin Clarendon Lectures Early modern English literature seminar 2.15pm, 20 Nov: ‘Tragedy’s endurance’ THE TROUBLE WITH LITERATURE The following seminars will take place at Professor Emily Wilson, Pennsylvania 5.15pm on Tuesdays in the Mure Room, Professor Victoria Kahn, Berkeley, will 6pm, 20 Nov: reading from her new Merton. Conveners: Professor Lorna Hutson, deliver the Clarendon Lectures at 5.30pm in translation of the Odyssey Professor Emma Smith Lecture Theatre 2, Faculty of English. RESEARCH SEMINAR 17 Oct: ‘Literature and literariness’ Professor Laurie Maguire 10 Oct: ‘ ”This page left intentionally blank”: Enzo Cormann, playwright, will lead a 19 Oct: ‘Hobbes and maker’s knowledge’ ludic space in early modern texts’ seminar at noon on 27 November in the 24 Oct: ‘Milton and the problem of belief’ First Floor Seminar Room, Ioannou Centre, Professor Stephen Guy-Bray, British in collaboration with Maison Française 26 Oct: ‘Literariness in Kant, Kierkegaard Columbia d’Oxford. and Coetzee’ 7 Nov: ‘Becoming art: the queerness of Subject: ‘Singulier pluriel – spécifcité des representation in the Renaissance’ Mellon–Sawyer seminar series: Post- écritures pour la scène théâtrale’ war: commemoration, reconstruction, Dr Hester Lees-Jefries, Cambridge CONFERENCE reconciliation 21 Nov: ‘Inky cloaks: black cloth and black pages, performance and paratext’ A conference will take place on 12 December. Professor Aminatta Forna will be in Speakers include: Sir Drummond conversation with Elleke Boehmer at Medieval research seminar Bone; Anna Camilleri; Karen Caines; 5.30pm on 20 October in Lecture Theatre 3, The following seminars will take place at Mirka Horová, Prague; Jonathan Sachs, Andrew Wiles Building. 5.15pm on Wednesdays in Lecture Theatre Concordia; William St Clair; Timothy Subject: ‘Memoir and memory’ 2, English Faculty. Convener: Professor Dan Webb, Bristol; and Bernard Beatty. Fee, Professor of Poetry Lecture Wakelin including lunch: £15 (£10 students). Online registration opens shortly. Convener: Karen Professor Simon Armitage will deliver the Professor Andy Orchard and Dr Jenni Caines Professor of Poetry Lecture at 5.30pm on Nuttall Subject: ‘Byron the Latinist’ 14 November in the Examination Schools. 11 Oct: ‘Poetic style between English and Latin’ Disability History Month Lecture Faculty of Classics/Faculty of English Dr Francis Leneghan and Dr Mark Language and Literature/Faculty of Dr Clare Barker, Leeds, will deliver the Atherton History/Faculty of Medieval and Modern Disability History Month lecture at 5pm on 18 Oct: ‘Old English verse’ Languages 23 November in Lecture Theatre 2, English Faculty. Professor Heather O’Donoghue and Dr Seminar and exhibitions Subject: ‘ “Disorder’s avatar”? Literature, Annie Sutherland culture and the politics of disability 25 Oct: ‘Time’ A seminar will take place from 2pm on representation’ 27 October at the Lecture Theatre, Weston Dr Nicholas Perkins and Dr Laura Varnam Library. Speakers: Colin Burrow, Juan- 18th-century literature and culture 1 Nov: ‘Things’ Carlos Conde, Nicola Gardini, Stephen seminars Dr Mishtooni Bose and Dr Kantik Ghosh Heyworth, Elena Lombardi, Oren Margolis, The following seminars will take place 8 Nov: ‘Knowledge’ David Maskell, Erica McAlpine, Ritchie at 5.15pm on Mondays in the Old Library, Robertson and Andrei Zorin. Includes Dr Helen Leith Spencer and Professor Hertford, unless otherwise noted. an exhibition of Ovidian manuscripts and Carolyne Larrington early printed books. Accompanied by an Dr Kim Simpson, Southampton 15 Nov: ‘Medievalism’ ‘Ovidian