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SPECIAL LECTURE LIST
Trinity Term 2008
NOTICE: Non-members of the University may not attend university lectures (unless they are announced as open to
the general public) without payment of a fee, otherwise than by personal invitation of the lecturer concerned. Persons
who are neither reading for a qualification of this University nor otherwise exempt, and who wish to attend lectures in
any term, should apply to the Buildings and Events Manager, Examination Schools, for details of fees. At least three
working days' notice is required before a lecture permit can be issued, to allow liaison with the department or faculty
concerned. Senior visiting scholars from other universities who wish to attend lectures, seminars, or classes should
normally apply to the lecturer concerned directly, and not to the Buildings and Events Manager.
Single Lectures
Date Time Lecturer Subject Place
M. 21 Apr. 5.00 Prof. Nancy Kopell Rhythms of the nervous system: how Martin Wood
Boston to connect biophysics and behaviour Lecture Theatre
Weldon Lecture
T. 22 Apr. 5.00 Prof. Nigel Biggar Saving the `secular': the public Schools
Regius Professor of Moral vocation of moral theology
and Pastoral Theology Inaugural Lecture
T. 22 Apr. 5.15 Prof. Barbara Newman Visions and revisions: redeeming the Schools
Northwestern time in Piers Plowman and A
revelation of love
W. 23 Apr. 2.00 Prof. J. Zittrain Cyberlaw: the impact of next Gulbenkian Lecture
generation internet technologies on Theatre, St Cross
regulability Building
Th. 24 Apr. 5.00 Dominic Grieve, MP What Constitution do we need? The Magdalen College
Conservative approach to reform Auditorium
M. 28 Apr. 2.00 Charlie Beckett Networked journalism Oxford Internet
POLIS Institute
M. 28 Apr. 5.00 Dr Julian Gardner Painters and saints: anthroponymy Schools
and art in medieval Italy
T. 29 Apr. 1.00 Prof. John Kelsay Arguing the just war in Islam Seminar Room G,
Florida State Dept of Politics and
International
Relations, Manor
Road Building
T. 29 Apr. 6.30 Lord Neuberger Title to be announced Gulbenkian Lecture
Theatre, St Cross
Building
Th. 1 May 5.00 Prof. G.A. Cohen My philosophical development and Gulbenkian Lecture
Chichele Professor of impressions of philosophers whom I Theatre, St Cross
Social and Political met along my way Building
Theory Valedictory Lecture
Th. 1 May 11.30 Prof. Joseph Stiglitz Global governance: meeting twenty- Sheldonian Theatre
Columbia first-century challenges 1
May Day Lecture
Th. 1 May 5.00 Prof. John Kelsay Islam and modern war1 Lecture Room 1,
Florida State Christ Church
Th. 1 May 5.00 Dr Efi Spentzou Title to be announced Schools
Royal Holloway College Don Fowler Memorial Lecture
F. 2 May 4.30 Prof. A.J. Rosakis Intersonic earthquakes: what University Museum
Visiting Professor in the laboratory earthquakes can teach us Lecture Theatre
Mathematical and about real ones
Physical Sciences
F. 2 May 5.00 Prof. M. Kemp Title to be announced Headley Lecture
Professor of History of Valedictory Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean
Art Museum
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Open to the public
LECTURE LISTS HILARY TERM 2008
Date Time Lecturer Subject Place
Single Lectures (continued)
T. 6 May 5.00 Prof. S. Issacharoff Democracy in times of war Schools
New York H.L.A. Hart Memorial Lecture
W. 7 May 2.00 Prof. J. Zittrain Cyberlaw: privacy 2.0 Gulbenkian Lecture
Theatre, St Cross
Building
W. 7 May 5.00 Prof. Bridget O'Laughlin AIDS, migration and gender St Anne's
Institute of Social Studies, inequality in southern Africa
the Hague Audrey Richards Commemorative
Lecture
F. 9 May 5.00 Sir John Elliott `Starting afresh?' The eclipse of Schools
Empire in British and Spanish
America
A.B. Emden Lecture
M. 12 May 4.30 Prof. Sir John Sulston and What is science for?1 Sheldonian Theatre
Prof. John Harris Distinguished Public Lecture
Manchester
M. 12 May 5.00 Prof. Ricks Rhythms 3. Robert Graves? Schools
Professor of Poetry
T. 13 May 5.00 Prof. Warner Title to be announced Schools
Hussey Lecture on the Church and
the Arts
W. 14 May 5.00 Prof. Mair Parry Matters of choice: language Main Hall, Taylor
Bristol preferences in Italy today Institution
Clara Florio Cooper Memorial
Lecture
Th. 15 May 4.45 Lord Browne of On being an engineer Lecture Rooms 1, 2,
Madingley Centenary Lubbock Lecture and 3, Thom
Royal Academy of Building
Engineering
F. 16 May 5.00 Dr Forsyth Rocking the cradle of Scottish Lecture Theatre 2,
Glasgow Christianity: new work on Whithorn St Cross Building,
and its carved stones
T. 20 May 4.00 Prof. Xunyu Zhou Risk, human judgement and asset Martin Wood
Professor of allocation 2 Lecture Theatre
Mathematical Finance Inaugural Lecture
T. 20 May 5.30 Prof. Harry M. Markowitz A taxonomy of risk-facing behaviour3 Martin Wood
(via video-link) Nomura Lecture Lecture Theatre
T. 20 May 5.00 Sir Alan Wilson Superconcepts for interdisciplinary Lecture Theatre A,
University College, research Dept. of Zoology
London Julia Bodmer Memorial Lecture
W. 21 May 5.00 Dr Deborah Madden Saving souls and saving lives: John Oakeshott Room,
Wesley's `inward and outward health' Lincoln College
W. 21 May 5.00 Erich Gruen The `assimilated Jew': Hellenism and Garden Auditorium,
California, Berkeley Judaism at the border St John's College
David Lewis Memorial Lecture
W. 21 May 5.00 Prof. F. Zimring The great American crime decline: Gulbenkian Lecture
two lessons for criminology and Theatre, St Cross
crime policy Building
Roger Hood Public Lecture
W. 21 May 7.00 Dea Birkett Malcolm in the Middle at the Museum Pitt Rivers Museum
Kids in Museums Beatrice Blackwood Lecture
Th. 29 May 5.00 Dr Chris Stray Thomas Gaisford Lecture Theatre,
Gaisford Lecture Classics Centre
Th. 29 May 5.00 Mr Les Murray Postcolonial Poetry Reading Lecture Theatre 2,
St Cross Building
F. 30 May 10.00 His Holiness the Dalai Buddhist understanding: why and Sheldonian
Lama how4
1
Open to the public
2
This lecture is immediately followed by the Nomura Lecture given via video-link by Prof. Harry M. Markowitz
3
This lecture is immediately preceded by the Inaugural Lecture of Xunyu Zhou, Professor of Mathematical Finance
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Admission by ticket only; details at www.so-wide.org
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SPECIAL LECTURE LIST
Series of Lectures
ENGINEERING
Centenary Lectures
Time: T. 5.00 Place: Lecture Room 1, Thom Building
Date Lecturer Subject
29 Apr. Prof. Carlos Ruiz Solid mechanics at Oxford
6 May Prof. Peter Dobson Spin-out companies and nanotechnology
27 May Prof. Roland Clift Engineering and sustainable development
10 June Prof. Sir Michael Brady Information engineering and its future
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, HISTORY
Collecting Incunabula: Enlightenment, revolution and the market - rediscovering and re-creating the earliest
printed books in the eighteenth century
Lyell Lectures
Lecturer: Dr Kristian Jensen British Library
Time: 5.00 Place: Schools
Date Subject
T. 22 Apr. Incunabula and freedom
Th. 24 Apr. `May the god of Gold be with you'
T. 29 Apr. Old books and new luxury - identifying incunabula in the market
Th. 1 May `The superiority which books give better than horses'. Incunabula and authority
T. 6 May `Old books, very displeasing to the eye'. Re-creation and oblivion
LAW
Invited Lectures in Constitutional Theory
Conveners: Mr N.W. Barber, Prof. T.A.O. Endicott, Prof. L. Green
Time: T. 5.00 Place: Trinity
PHILOSOPHY
John Locke Lectures
Lecturer: Prof. H. Field New York
Time: W. 5.00 Place: Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre, St Cross Building (except 21 May,
which will be in Lecture Theatre II)
SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIAL WORK
Convener: Dr Paul Montgomery
Time: T. 5.00 Place: Violet Butler Seminar Room, Department Social Policy and Social
Work
Date Lecturer Subject
22 Apr. Dr Aron Shlonsky Building the imperfect beast: designing and testing risk
Toronto assessment tools for use in child welfare settings
29 Apr. tbc
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LECTURE LISTS HILARY TERM 2008
Date Lecturer Subject
Social Policy and Social Work (continued)
6 May Prof. Jay Belsky A quasi-experimental study of the effects of fully
Birkbeck College, London established Sure Start local programmes on 3-year-olds and
their families
13 May Dr Barney Reeves Using non-randomised studies to estimate the effects of
Bristol interventions
CENTRE FOR CRIMINOLOGY
Oxford Criminology Seminar Series
Date/Time Lecturer Subject Place
W. 23 Apr. Barbara Hudson Principles of justice for divided Seminar Room A,
3.30 Central Lancashire societies in a globalised world Manor Road Building
W. 7 May Victor Tadros Wrongs and crimes Seminar Room A,
3.30 Warwick Manor Road Building
W. 21 May Frank Zimring The great American crime decline: Gulbenkian Lecture
5.00 California, Berkeley two lessons for criminology and crime Theatre, St Cross
policy Building
Roger Hood Annual Public Lecture
Th. 22 May Frank Zimring The political economy of death Wharton Room,
2.00 California, Berkeley penalty policy in Asia All Souls College
HEBREW AND JEWISH STUDIES UNIT
Seminar on Jews and Judaism in the early modern period
Convener: Joanna Weidberg
Time: Th. 2.15 (except 2 June) Place: Oriental Institute
Date Lecturer Subject
1 May Howard Hotson Philo-Semitism and millenarianism in early modern Europe
8 May Joseph Hacker Curriculum and intellectual life among Spanish and Ottoman
Jerusalem Jewry in fifteenth-century Spain: the supercommentaries on
Rashi's commentary on the Torah
15 May Francesca Bregoli Hebrew poetry and Spinozist hermeneutics: a Jewish-
Christian polemic in eighteenth-century Italy
22 May Theodor William Dunkelgrün The rabbinical scholarship of Johannes Drusius the elder
Chicago (15501616)
29 May Piet van Boxel Cardinal Bellarmine reads Rashi
2 June (Mon.) David Ruderman Can one speak of a trans-regional Jewish culture in early
Philadelphia modern Europe?
12 June Eleazar Gutwirth Books and their readers: towards HispanoJewish continuity
Tel Aviv after 1492
David Patterson Seminars
Convener: Dr Piet van Boxel
Time: W. 8.00 (except 8 May) Place: Yarnton Manor
Date Lecturer Subject
23 Apr. Dr Javier del Barco Conversos as New Christian Hebraists in sixteenth-century
Universidad Complutense, Spain
Madrid
30 Apr. Dr Garth Gilmour Folk religion, or the religion of folk? The archaeology of cult
in Israel and Judah in the Biblical Period
8 May Prof. James Charlesworth The Odes of Solomon: Jewish, Gnostic, JewishChristian, or
(Thurs.) Princeton Theological Seminary `Christian'?
14 May Dr Esperanza Alfonso A woman of valour (Proverbs 31: 10-31) and her medieval
Universidad Complutense, Jewish interpreters
Madrid
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SPECIAL LECTURE LIST
Date Lecturer Subject
Hebrew and Jewish Studies Unit: David Patterson Seminars (continued)
21 May Rebecca Clifford Forging consensus in Holocaust commemoration: the uses
(and abuses) of the Righteous Among the Nations
28 May Prof. Chaim Milikowsky How did the Jews count their years and how did the Rabbis
Bar Ilan lose 160 years?
4 June Prof. Steven J. Zipperstein Isaac Rosenfeld, Saul Bellow, and New York Jewish
Stanford intellectuals: a reassessment
11 June Prof. Joseph Hacker Private collections and public libraries in sixteenth-century
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Salonica--their impact on intellectual fermentation
Hebrew Codicology Course
Lecturer: Prof. Malachi Beit-Arié Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Time: W. 2.15 Place: New Bodleian Library
Date Subject
30 Apr. Introductory session illustrated by manuscripts from the Bodleian
7 May Colophons: their contributions to the history of the book, production modes, textual criticism
14 May Writing materials: parchment, Occidental and Oriental paper, mixed quires and their geo-cultural
typology
21 May Quiring and its geo-cultural typology
28 May Maintaining the codex quires, bifolia and folios in the right order
4 June Ruling techniques and their geo-cultural and chronological typology
11 June Line management: comfort of copying v comfort of reading
Note: Pre-registration for this course is required. Please e-mail enquiries@ochjs.ac.uk to book a place
KHALILI RESEARCH CENTRE
The art and architecture of the Great Mughals
Lecturer: Prof. Ebba Koch Vienna
Time: M. 11.00 (except 2 May) Place: Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre
Date Subject
28 Apr. Why are the Great Mughals (r.1526--1707) so important for the study of Islamic art?
2 May (Fri.) Tolerance and universalism: the intellectual and artistic climate at Akbar's court
5 May Mughal gardens and other approaches to landscape and nature
12 May The Iranian identity of the Mughal Padshahs in their visual construction of universal rule
19 May The Great Mughals and Europe: art as a link
26 May Visual strategies of Imperial ideology in Mughal history painting under Shah Jahan: the Windsor
Castle Padshahnama
2 June The garden palaces of riverfront Agra as a key to the problem of Mughal land ownership
9 June The Taj Mahal as statement in the `built tomb controversy'
ALL SOULS COLLEGE
Secret networks and major misfortunes: an historical anthropology of `crisis' in the African Great Lakes Region
Evans-Pritchard Lectures
Lecturer: Dr Richard Vokes Canterbury, New Zealand
Time: 5.00 Place: Wharton Room, All Souls
Date Subject
W. 23 Apr. The many lives of the Nyabingi spirit: rethinking the history and sociology of secret societies in
south-western Uganda
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LECTURE LISTS HILARY TERM 2008
Date Lecturer Subject
All Souls College: Evans-Pritchard Lectures (continued)
T. 29 Apr. Splicing the networks: millenarianism, HIV/AIDS and the new Christianity in south-western
Uganda
W. 30 Apr. On the origins of violence: suicide, murder, and the limits of the academic detective
T. 6 May Broadcasting networks: secret networks, new radio stations, and the Rwandan genocide of 1994
W. 7 May Secret societies and the origins of crisis in the African Great Lakes
BALLIOL COLLEGE
Oliver Smithies Lectures
Lecturer: Dr Uttara Natarajan Goldsmiths, London
Time: Th. 5.00 Place: Lecture Theatre II, Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Subject
24 Apr. Hazlitt and Shakespeare
8 May Hazlitt's common sense
Can we win the long war against global corruption?
Lecturer: Mr Ben W. Heineman, Jr General Electric Co.
Time: T. 5.30 Place: Lecture Theatre 4, Saïd Business School
Date Subject
20 May Inside the private firm?
27 May Through governmental initiatives?
Leonard Stein Lectures
Lecturer: Prof. Shlomo Ben-Ami
Time: 5.00 Place: Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's
Date Subject
T. 13 May The changing window of opportunities for an IsraeliArab peace
Th. 15 May Lessons of the IsraeliPalestinian peace process
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