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CONGREGATION 31 January

Degree by Special Resolution

The following special resolution will be deemed to be approved at
noon on 31 January, unless by that time the Registrar has received
notice in writing from two or more members of Congregation under the
provisions of Tit. II, Sect. vi, cl. 6 (Statutes, 1997,
p. 15) that they wish the resolution to be put to a meeting of
Congregation.

Text of Special Resolution

That the Degree of Master of Arts be conferred upon the following:

MARTIN FARRALL, Keble College

VALERIE MARIE LECHENE, Wadham College

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Notices

Contents of this section:

[Note. An asterisk denotes a reference to a previously published or
recurrent entry.]

• UNIVERSITY PREACHERS
  
  • Hilary Term 2000
    
    
• DESIGNATION OF PRO-VICE-CHANCELLORS WITH SPECIAL
  RESPONSIBILITIES
  
• WHITE'S PROFESSORSHIP OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY
  
• RECONFERMENT OF THE TITLE OF VISITING PROFESSOR
  
• COMPOSITION OF AN ELECTORAL BOARD
  
• INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY
  
  • German courses for archaeologists
    
    
• COMPUTING LABORATORY
  
  • Programming Competition
    
    
• CIRCULATION OF FLYSHEETS
  
• CONCERTS
  
  • Faculty of Music
    
  • St John's College and Colin Carr: Chamber Music
    Events
  
  

• Links to some University institutions:
  • Ashmolean Museum
  • Christ Church Picture
    Gallery
  • Oxford University Museum of
    Natural History
  • Pitt Rivers Museum
  • Museum of the History of
    Science
  • Bate Collection of
    Musical Instruments
  • Bodleian Library

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DESIGNATION OF PRO-VICE-CHANCELLORS WITH
SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

In accordance with the recommendations of the Joint Working Party on
Governance (see Supplement (1) to Gazette No. 4506, 2 March 1999,
p. 959, and particular para. 28 and paras. 59–66), the Vice-Chancellor,
with the concurrence of the Hebdomadal Council, has designated the following
Pro-Vice-Chancellors as having special responsibilities under the University's
impending new governance structures.

Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic): L.G. BLACK, MA, D.PHIL. (BA Cape Town),
Fellow of Oriel College (from 1 October 2000 to 30 September
2002)

Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Planning and Resource Allocation): PROFESSOR S.D.
IVERSEN, MA, D.PHIL., D.SC. (MA, PH.D. Cambridge), Fellow of Magdalen College
(from 1 October 2000 to 30 September 2002)

(For the two previous appointments of Pro-Vice-Chancellors with special
responsibilities see Gazette No. 4530, 25 November 1999, p. 400.)

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WHITE'S PROFESSORSHIP OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY

Dr John Broome, who has been appointed to the White's Professorship of Moral
Philosophy (Gazette, p. 620), will take up his duties with effect
from 1 October 2000, and not, as previously announced, from 1 September
2000.

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RECONFERMENT OF THE TITLE OF VISITING
PROFESSOR

On the recommendation of the Biological Sciences Board, the General Board has
reconferred the title of Visiting Professor in Plant Pathology on I.R. CRUTE
(B.SC, PH.D. Newcastle), Director of the Institute of Arable Crops Research, for
a period of five years from 20 January 2000.

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COMPOSITION OF AN ELECTORAL BOARD

The composition of the board to the post below, proceedings to fill which are
currently in progress, is as follows:

                                                 Appointed by

Professorship of Law

Mr Vice-Chancellor                               ex officio
The Principal of Lady Margaret Hall              ex officio
Professor M. Bridge                              Council
Professor M. Brazier                             General Board
Professor J. Beatson                             General Board
Mr S. Gardner                                    Law Board
Professor P. Birks                               Law Board
Professor P. Craig                               Law Board
Miss A.S. Kennedy                                Lady Margaret Hall

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INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY

German courses for archaeologists

A week of intensive German courses for archaeologists, for beginners and
intermediate learners, will be held in the Institute of Archaeology in ninth
week of Hilary Term (13–17 March). Those wishing to attend should
register with the receptionist at the institute (telephone: Oxford (2)78240, e-
mail: liz.strange@arch.ox.ac.uk), giving details of name, college, contact number,
and desired course. The course tutor will be Gertrud Seidmann, Research
Associate, the Institute of Archaeology.

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COMPUTING LABORATORY

Programming Competition

A first prize of £100 is offered for the best solution to a specified
programming problem submitted by an undergraduate member of the university
by noon on Monday of sixth week of Hilary Term to the judges, Dr J.M. Spivey
and Mr J.E. Stoy, Computing Laboratory. The rules of the competition and a
description of the problem to be solved can be obtained from the WWW at
http://spivey.oriel.ox.ac.uk/mike/comp2000.html.

The prize fund has been provided through the generosity of Data Connection
Ltd.

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CIRCULATION OF FLYSHEETS

Ten or more members of Congregation may arrange to have a flysheet
circulated with the Gazette (a) on matters before
Congregation, or Convocation in regard to the election of the Professor of
Poetry, or (b) relating to matters of general interest to the
University, subject to the following general conditions:

(i) no flysheet will be circulated which in the opinion of the
Vice-Chancellor and Proctors might be defamatory or otherwise illegal;

(ii) the right is reserved on behalf of the University and its employees,
without prior consultation with the signatories, to publish an apology in
respect of any statement in a flysheet which is complained of as defamatory
or otherwise illegal (whether or not the statement can be shown to be true);

(iii) the signatories shall jointly and severally indemnify the University
and its employees against any costs or damages payable in respect of their
flysheet and, unless a Queen's Counsel (to be mutually agreed on by the
signatories and the University) shall advise within four months of the making
of any claim in respect of a flysheet that any proceedings could be contested
with the probability of success, such damages shall include any sum paid by
the University in settlement of any claim arising out of the flysheet;

(iv) the flysheet shall consist of one leaf only (though text may appear
on both sides of the leaf); the text shall include the name and college or
department of each of the signatories;

(v) a copy of the text of the flysheet shall be delivered to the

Registrar before 10 a.m. on the Monday of the week in which circulation is
desired; it shall be accompanied by an indemnity in accordance with condition
(iii) above drawn up on a form obtainable from the Registrar and signed by
each of the signatories of the flysheet; the Registrar shall be informed at the
same time which of the signatories is to be notified whether the
Vice-Chancellor and Proctors have authorised circulation;

(vi) the Registrar shall arrange for the production by the University
Press of copies of a flysheet the circulation of which has been duly
authorised.

Though every effort will be made to circulate on the day desired
flysheets so received, it must be understood that this cannot be guaranteed.

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(a) Matters before Congregation or Convocation

If the flysheet deals with a matter that is a formal agendum for Congregation,
or for Convocation in regard to the election of the Professor of Poetry, or the
subject of a report published in the Gazette, the production costs
will be met from university funds.

(b) Matters of general interest to the University

If the flysheet deals with a matter that is not a formal agendum for
Congregation or the subject of a report published in the Gazette,
the Vice-Chancellor will decide whether it is of sufficient general interest to
warrant circulation with the Gazette; the production costs for such
a flysheet will be the responsibility of the signatories.

Oxford University Student Union

The Executive and the Graduate Committee of the Oxford University Student
Union may have flysheets circulated with the Gazette under the
arrangements and subject to the conditions set out above, provided that:

(1) the number of names to be included on the flysheet under condition
(iv) shall be not less than a majority of the total number of members of the
Executive or the Graduate Committee of OUSU, as the case may be, and each
of the persons named shall sign the indemnity required under condition (v);

(2) the maximum number of flysheets to be circulated as of right, whether
on matters before Congregation (to be paid for by the University) or on
matters of general interest to the University (to be paid for by OUSU and to
be subject to the Vice-Chancellor's decision as prescribed under (b)
above) shall be three per term for each of these bodies, save that the
Vice-Chancellor shall have discretion to permit further flysheets.

Subject to proviso (1) above, the Executive and the Graduate Committee
of OUSU may also support flysheets signed by not less than ten members of
Congregation.

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CONCERTS

Faculty of Music

The Allegri String Quartet

THE ALLEGRI STRING QUARTET will give concerts in the Holywell Music Room
on the dates indicated below. Tickets for the evening events cost £10
(£5 concessions); tickets for the lunchtime concert cost £5 (£2.50
concession). Tickets may be obtained from the Oxford Playhouse Box Office or
at the door.

Mon. 7 Feb., 8 p.m.: Haydn, Quartet in E flat major, op. 33 no.
2; Shostakovitch, Fifth Quartet, op. 17, in B flat major; Brahms, Quartet
in C major, op. 51, no. 1.

Wed. 9 Feb., 8 p.m.: Haydn, Quartet in D major, op. 64, no.
5;
Janácek, Quartet No. 2, `Intimate Letters'; Brahms, Quartet in B flat
major, op. 67.

Fri. 11 Feb., 1 p.m. (with Edith Coakley, viola): Mozart,
Quintet in C. major, K.515; John Woolrich, The Death of King
Renaud.

Other musical events

THE BAND OF INSTRUMENTS, with Rachel Elliott (soprano), director Gary
Cooper, leader Caroline Balding, will perform songs and arias by Purcell and
Hasse, with a selection of French cantatas, in the chapel, New College, at 8.15
p.m. on Sunday, 6 February, (tickets £7/£5 from the Oxford
Playhouse or at the door).

TERESA CAHILL, soprano, will lead a masterclass for student singers from the
Faculty of Music, in the Denis Arnold Hall, Music Faculty, at 2 p.m. on
Wednesday, 23 February (open to the public).

GARY COOPER will give a harpsichord recital of the first part of Bach's
48 Preludes and Fugues, in the chapel, New College, at 8.15 p.m.
on Thursday, 2 March (tickets £6/£4, available only at the door).
Gary Cooper will give a keyboard master-class with students from the Faculty
of Music, open to a viewing public, at 11 a.m. in the college chapel on the day
of the recital.

THE BAND OF INSTRUMENTS, with the Choir of New College, will perform Bach's
St John Passion, in the chapel, New College, at 3 p.m. on Sunday,
12 March (Evensong service; free tickets obtainable on application to the
Precentor, New College).

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St John's College and Colin Carr: Chamber Music
Events

The following musical events will take place at the times shown in the Garden
Quadrangle Auditorium, St John's College. Admission is by free programme,
available from the college lodge, but reserved for members of St John's
College until about ten days before the concert. Each programme will be valid
as an admission ticket until ten minutes before the start time. Any vacant
seats will be filled from the door during the last ten minutes before the
concert starts.

Those wishing to attend the Saturday concerts are asked to note that they
will start at 8 p.m., and not, as previously notified, at 8.30 p.m.

COLIN CARR

Sun. 30 Jan., 10 a.m.: master-class.

JAMES BUSWELL (violin), CAROLINE WOLFF (viola), and COLIN CARR (cello)

Sat. 19 Feb., 8 p.m.: Schubert, string trio D.471; Ravel, duo
for violin and cello; Ysaye, sonata for solo violin; Mozart, divertimento for
string trio, K.563.

JAMES BUSWELL

Sun. 20 Feb., 10 a.m.: master-class.

ANTHONY MARWOOD (violin) and SUSAN TOMES (piano)

Sat. 4 Mar., 8 p.m.: programme including the Schumann
sonatas op. 105 and op. 121.

FRANCIS GRIER (piano), PATRICIA ROSARIO (soprano), and COLIN CARR
(cello)

Sat. 6 May, 8 p.m.: programme including the world
première of a new song cycle by Francis Grier, setting poems by
Robert Graves.

Master-classes

Master-classes are of outstanding interest to anyone concerned with making
or listening to music, whether as a performer or a listener. The format is of
coaching in front of an audience. Those coached are chamber groups or
performing soloists, without restriction of the instrument to whoever is giving
the class, and without restriction to members of the college. Each group
receives about forty minutes of tuition. The atmosphere is informal.

There is no charge for performers or for audience. Potential performers are
invited to apply to the College Secretary.

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Lectures

Contents of this section:

• SPEAKER'S LECTURES IN BIBLICAL STUDIES
  1999–2001
• CAMERON MACKINTOSH LECTURES
• NEWS INTERNATIONAL VISITING PROFESSOR OF
  BROADCAST MEDIA
• NORTH LECTURE
• ANTHROPOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY
• ANTHROPOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY, SOCIAL STUDIES
• BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
• CLINICAL MEDICINE
• ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
• MEDIEVAL AND MODERN LANGUAGES
• MODERN HISTORY, SOCIAL STUDIES
• MUSIC
• PHYSICAL SCIENCES
• PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
• THEOLOGY, ORIENTAL STUDIES
• INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY
• RESEARCH LABORATORY FOR ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE
  HISTORY OF ART
• SAþD BUSINESS SCHOOL
• WELLCOME UNIT FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
• OXFORD CENTRE FOR ISLAMIC STUDIES
• LANGUAGE CENTRE
• CENTRE FOR SOCIO-LEGAL STUDIES
• CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE
  • Bateson Memorial Lecture

• KEBLE COLLEGE
• ST ANTONY'S COLLEGE
  • Russian and East European Centre

• SOMERVILLE COLLEGE
• TRINITY COLLEGE
  • Richard Hillary Lecture

• CAMPION HALL
  • Martin D'Arcy Memorial Lectures

• OXFORD BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
• OXFORD ITALIAN ASSOCIATION
• OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY
  FORUM
• FRIENDS OF THE PITT RIVERS MUSEUM

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SPEAKER'S LECTURES IN BIBLICAL STUDIES
1999–2001

Future hope and present reality

ANDREW CHESTER, University Lecturer, the Divinity School, University
of Cambridge, will deliver his first series of Speaker's Lectures at
5 p.m. on the following Tuesdays in the Examination Schools.

1 Feb.: `Future hope and the end of time.'

8 Feb.: `Prophecy: true or false?'

15 Feb.: `Land and nation.'

22 Feb.: `Kingdom and Messiah.'

29 Feb.: `Resurrection and transformation.'

7 Mar.: `Paradise restored.'

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CAMERON MACKINTOSH LECTURES

PROFESSOR NICHOLAS HYTNER will lecture at 5 p.m. on Friday, 4
February, in the Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre, St Catherine's
College.

There will be an open meeting for students connected with drama the
following day, Saturday, 5 February (time and venue to be announced).

Subject: `An anti-hauteur view of
directing.'

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NEWS INTERNATIONAL VISITING PROFESSOR OF
BROADCAST MEDIA

The illusion of information

PROFESSOR ROGER GRAEF will lecture at 6 p.m. on the following days in
Green College.

Tue. 1 Feb.: `Secrets of the cutting-room.'
(Master-class/workshop)

Tue. 8 Feb.: `Moveable feast: ethics in the media.'

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NORTH LECTURE

DR MARINA KURKCHIYAN, North Fellow, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
and Keble College, will deliver the North Lecture at 5 p.m. on
Thursday, 10 February, in the Examination Schools. The lecture will
be open to the public.

Convener: D.J. Galligan, BCL, MA, Professor of Socio-
Legal Studies and Director of the Centre.

Subject: `The illegitimacy of law in post-Communist
societies: an internal point of view.'

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ANTHROPOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY

Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Departmental Seminars

The following departmental seminars will be held at 4.30 p.m. on
Fridays in 64 Banbury Road.

F. OSELLA, Sussex

28 Jan.: `Narrating modernity: migrants' life
histories in Kerala, South India.'

M. BANERJEE, UCL

4 Feb.: ` "Our weapon is the vote":
perceptions of democracy in rural West Bengal.'

J. AITCHISON

11 Feb.: `On the origins of language.'

C. MURRAY, Manchester

18 Feb.: `The father, the son, and the holy spirit:
biography and historiographics on the Southern African
highveld.'

J. TANNER, UCL

25 Feb.: `Nature and culture in comparative art:
portraits and society in ancient Greece and imperial China.'

H. MONTGOMERY

3 Mar.: `The return of the white slave
trade—myths and metaphors from the end of two
centuries.'

R. SEGAL, Lancaster

10 Mar.: `Why for Tylor religion is unscientific.'

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Work-in-progress

The following seminars will be held at 9.30 a.m. on Wednesdays in the
Lecture Room, 61 Banbury Road.

K. HANSING

2 Feb.: `Rasta, race, and revolution: transnational
connections in 1990s Cuba.'

A. BROWN

23 Feb.: `Negotiated relationships: perspectives on
First Nations' museum collections in Britain.'

F. PIEKE

1 Mar.: `A second stage of rural industrialisation?
Élite formation and stratification in Taicing (Jiangsu)
and Xuanwei (Yunnan).'

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ANTHROPOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY, SOCIAL STUDIES

Lectures

PROFESSOR D. NEWMAN, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva,
Israel, will lecture as follows.

Mon. 31 Jan., 4.45 p.m., School of Geography: `Boundary
systems in contemporary geopolitics.'

Mon. 31 Jan., 8.15 p.m., Mansfield College: `The
political geography of the Israel–Palestinian–Syrian
peace process.'

Tue. 1 Feb., 5 p.m., St Antony's College: `The
geopolitical impact of West Bank settlements on the
Israeli–Palestinian peace process.'

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BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Department of Plant Sciences

The following research talks will be held at 4 p.m. on Thursdays in
the Large Lecture Theatre, the Department of Plant Sciences.

Convener: H.G. Dickinson, MA, Sherardian Professor of
Botany.

DR D. BAULCOMBE, Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Centre

27 Jan.: `Gene silencing in plants: antiviral
defence that can be exploited for gene discovery.'

DR J. PANNELL

3 Feb.: `Persisting in metapopulation: sex allocation and
the maintenance of genetic diversity.'

DR J. IRWIN, John Innes Centre

10 Feb.: `Using genetic modification in
Brassicas—science facts, not science fiction.'

DR R. SCOTT, Bath

17 Feb.: `The nature of sexuality and its utility
in Arabidopsis and other plants.'

DR V. DE LORENZO, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Madrid

24 Feb.: `How Pseudomonas putida sense that there
is toluene out there: transcriptional regulation and co-
regulation of sigma-54 promoters of the TOL plasmid.'

DR M. FRICKER and N. WHITE

2 Mar.: `Opportunities offered by new and
established imaging technologies; multiphoton confocal
microscopy.' (Imagefest 1)

DR N. BATTEY, Reading

9 Mar.: `The regulation of flowering in space and
time.'

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CLINICAL MEDICINE

Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology

Unless otherwise indicated, the following seminars will be held at 1
p.m. on Mondays in the library, the Nuffield Laboratory of
Ophthalmology.

DR I. COMAISH, Nottingham Eye Hospital

7 Feb.: `Vigabatrin-associated
retinopathy—unexpected serendipity.'

DR G. CHIDLOW

14 Feb.: `On the significance of the interaction
between betaxolol and sodium channels.'

PROFESSOR J. HORWITZ, Los Angeles

21 Feb.: `[alpha]-crystallin, the mutant R120G, and
other small heat-shock proteins.'

DR MING CHAO

Fri. 3 Mar.: `Clonidine: studies related to its
neurprotective properties.'

DR J. TIFFANY

6 Mar.: `Expressions of meibomian oil.'

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Institute of Molecular Medicine

PROFESSOR MITSUHIRO OSAME, Kagoshima University, Japan, will lecture
at 12 noon on Tuesday, 15 February, in the Institute of Molecular
Medicine Seminar Room, the John Radcliffe Hospital. Further
information may be obtained from Professor Angela Vincent (telephone:
Oxford 222321).

Subject: `The past, the present, and the future of
HAM/TSP research.'

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ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Text and book: new studies in literature and history

The following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Fridays (unless
indicated otherwise) in Room 11, the St Cross Building.

Convener: P.D. McDonald, MA, D.Phil., University Lecturer
(CUF) in English Language and Literature.

DR S. DIXON

28 Jan.: `The dynamics of the manuscript verse
miscellany.'

PROFESSOR R. GROSS

Mon. 15 Feb., 5 p.m.: `Print and the public sphere
in the new American republic.'

DR R. MIGHALL

25 Feb.: `How do you edit a classic?'

DR H. SMALL

10 Mar.: `Liberal editing: literature and science
in The Fortnightly Review and the Nineteenth
Century.'

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MEDIEVAL AND MODERN LANGUAGES

Luis Buñuel Centenary Lecture

PROFESSOR P.W. EVANS, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, will
deliver the Luis Buñuel Centenary Lecture at 5 p.m. on
Wednesday, 9 February, in 47 Wellington Square. The lecture is open
to the public.

Subject: `Dreams and day-dreams in Belle de
Jour.'

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Romance Linguistics Seminars

The following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Thursdays in the
basement, 47 Wellington Square.

Convener: M.D Maiden, MA, D.Phil., Professor of the
Romance Languages.

DR R. SAMPSON, Bristol

3 Feb.: `Rise and fall of a phonological rule:
prosthesis in French.' (Postponed from Michaelmas
Term)

DR J. FELLERER

17 Feb.: `Slav influences on Romance languages.'

PROFESSOR A. LODGE, St Andrews

24 Feb.: `The speech of Paris and the rise of
standard French.'

DR M. ZACCARELLO

2 Mar.: `Paretymology and popular reanalysis:
towards a census of "speaking" toponyms and
anthroponyms.'

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Paget Toynbee Lectures

Dante's `chiara favella': scatology and obscenity in the
Commedia

PROFESSOR Z. BARANSKI, Reading, will deliver the Paget Toynbee
Lectures at 5 p.m. on Thursdays in the Taylor Institution. The
lectures on 17 February and 2 March will take place in Room 3; the 24
February lecture in Room 10b.

Convener: M.L. McLaughlin, MA, D.Phil., University
Lecturer In Italian.

17 Feb.: `Stercus and
scurrilitas in Dante.'

24 Feb.: `\Inferno\ XVIII and the "Sins of the
Tongue".'

2 Mar.: `Science, sex, and poetry:
Purgatorio XXV.'

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Italian Graduate Seminar

The following lectures and seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on
Tuesdays in Room 3, the Taylor Institution (unless otherwise stated).

Convener: M.L. McLaughlin, MA, D.Phil., University
Lecturer In Italian.

PROFESSOR G. BERTONE, Genoa

8 Feb.: `Spazio e tempo nel Petrarca del
Canzoniere (Canz. 16, 38, 129.)'

PROFESSOR L. FELICI, Milan

15 Feb.: `Gli apologhi del borgo in Leopardi:
"La quiete dopo la tempesta" e "Il sabato del
villaggio".'

DR A. TUMINI O'CONNELL

22 Feb., Room S7, 47 Wellington Square: `The
triumph of death in D'Annunzio's writings.'

D. HOLMES

29 Feb., Room S7, 47 Wellington Square: `1930s
exile literature: fact or fiction?'

PROFESSOR J.P. RUSSO, Miami

7 Mar.: `The cypress and the rose: Ruskin on
Italian tombs.'

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MODERN HISTORY, SOCIAL STUDIES

Seminar in Economic and Social History

The following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays in the
Chester Room, Nuffield College.

Conveners: P.A. David, MA, Professor of Economics and
Economic History, K.J. Humphries, MA, Reader in Economic History, and
A. Offer, MA, D.Phil., Reader in Recent Social and Economic
History.

A. JANSSENS, Nijmegen

18 Jan.: `The breadwinner family.'

N. HIGGINS, Cambridge

25 Jan.: `Family formation in the Midlands,
c.1930–60.'

K. FISHER, Cambridge

1 Feb.: `Changes in married sexuality in the
twentieth century.'

L. MARKS, Imperial College

8 Feb.: `Consequences of the birth-control pill for
behaviour.'

R. ADAIR, Cambridge

15 Feb.: `Early modern illegitimacy.'

J. LEWIS

22 Feb.: `Long-term family trends in Britain.'

J. ERMISCH, Essex

29 Feb.: `Post-war trends and determinants of
family formation and dissolution.'

R. ROWTHORN, Cambridge

7 Mar.: `Trends in divorce.'

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MUSIC

Public lectures

The following public lectures will be given at 5 p.m. on Mondays.

PROFESSOR D. BORCHMEYER

21 Feb., Holywell Music Room: `Goethe's musical
horizon.'

PROFESSOR D. TITTERINGTON

28 Feb., Denis Arnold Hall, Music Faculty:
`Rhetoric and structure in performance. The organ works of J.S.
Bach.'

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PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Theoretical Particle Physics Seminars

The following seminars will be held at 2.15 p.m. on Fridays in the
Nuclear and Astrophysics Lecture Theatre.

Conveners: I.I. Kogan, MA, and S. Sarkar, MA, University
Lecturers in Physics.

I. ANTONIADIS, Paris

28 Jan.: `Large dimensions and string physics in
particle colliders.'

T. MORRIS, Southampton

11 Feb.: `A manifestly gauge invariant exact
renormalisation group.'

P. RAMOND, Florida

25 Feb.: `Possible structures underlying M-
theory.'

M. ASOREY, Zaragoza

10 Mar.: `Monopoles, gauge fixing, and
confinement.'

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Geophysical and Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars

The following seminars will be held at 2.15 p.m. on Mondays in the
Atmospheric Physics Laboratory. The organiser is Dr Martin Juckes
(telephone: Oxford (2)72894, e-mail: juckes@atm.ox.ac.uk).

Conveners: Dr P. Read and Dr L. Smith.

DR READ

31 Jan.: `Nonlinear dynamics of barotropically
unstable detached shear layers.'

DR R. PRANDI, UCL

7 Feb.: To be announced.

DR J. KOBINE, Cambridge

14 Feb.: `Nonlinear sloshing in shallow layers.'

DR D. MARSHALL, Reading

21 Feb.: `Ocean eddies, abyssal recirculation, and
zonal jets.'

DR I. MOROZ

28 Feb.: `Self-exciting dynamos.'

PROFESSOR D. DRITSCHEL, St Andrews (provisional arrangement)

6 Mar.: To be announced.

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Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Planetary Physics Seminars

The following seminars will be held at 4.15 p.m. on Thursdays in the
Dobson Lecture Room, the Atmospheric Physics Laboratory. Because on
rare occasions the arrangements need to be changed, anyone intending
to come to Oxford specially to attend should check first by
telephoning Oxford (2)72933.

DR J. THUBURN, Reading

3 Feb.: `Radiative and dynamical constraints of
tropopause height.'

DR R. BUIZZA, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts,
Reading

10 Feb.: `The ECMWF approach to probabilistic
weather prediction.'

DR W.J. NELLIS, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California

17 Feb.: `Metallisation of fluid hydrogen:
implications for the interior of Jupiter.'

DR K.S. CARSLAW, Leeds

24 Feb.: `Twenty years of polar stratospheric cloud
research—where are we?'

DR R. WOOD, Hadley Centre, Meterological Office

2 Mar.: `Stability of the North Atlantic
thermohaline circulation in the HadCM3 coupled GCM.'

DR P. TAYLOR

9 Mar.: `Extreme storm statistics—offshore
engineers estimating the 10,000-year wave in a changing world.'

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PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The following seminars will be held at 12 noon on Wednesdays in the
Sherrington Room, the University Laboratory of Physiology.

Convener: J.C. Ellory, MA, D.Sc., Professor of
Physiology.

DR A. KING

2 Feb.: `How does experience affect the perception
and neural coding of sound source location?' (McDonnell-
Pew Seminar)

DR J. GIBSON, St George's Hospital Medical School, London

9 Feb.: `Potassium transport in sickle red cells.'
(Jenkinson Seminar)

PROFESSOR R. THAKKER

16 Feb.: `C channels in kidney stone disease.'
(Sponsored by the Physiological Society)

DR A. GALIONE

23 Feb.: `NAADP: a new messenger for calcium
signalling.' (Jenkinson Seminar)

DR A. HURLBERT, Newcastle

1 Mar.: To be announced. (McDonnell-Pew
Seminar)

DR G. BATES, King's College, London

8 Mar.: `Insights into the molecular basis of
Huntington's disease.' (Sponsored by the Physiological
Society)

DR S. NEUENSCHWANDER, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research,
Frankfurt

15 Mar.: To be announced. (McDonnell-Pew
Seminar)

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THEOLOGY, ORIENTAL STUDIES

Eastern Christian Studies

The following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays in the
House of St Gregory and St Macrina, 1 Canterbury Road.

Conveners: K.T. Ware, MA, D.Phil., Spalding Lecturer in
Eastern Orthodox Studies, and S.P. Brock, MA, D.Phil., Reader in
Syriac Studies.

C. LANGE

9 Feb.: `On the Christology of the Commentary on
the Diatessaron attributed to St Ephrem.'

THE REVD DR C. GALLAGHER, SJ

23 Feb.: `A forgotten (Ecumenical) Council of
Reunion? Some comments on the significance of the Council of
Constantinople 879–80.'

A. LINGAS

8 Mar.: `When is an opera like an icon? John
Tavener's Mary of Egypt.'

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INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY

Medieval Archaeology Seminar

The following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays in the
Lecture Room, the Institute of Archaeology.

Convener: H.F. Hamerow, MA, D.Phil., University Lecturer
in European Archaeology (Early Medieval).

DR J. BLAIR

9 Feb.: `Recent work at Bampton, Oxon.'

DR D. GRIFFITHS

23 Feb.: `The Irish Sea region.'

DR HAMEROW

8 Mar.: `Sutton Courtenay: the Anglo-Saxon
settlement revisited.'

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RESEARCH LABORATORY FOR ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE
HISTORY OF ART

The following seminars will be held at 10.30 a.m. on Thursdays in the
Library, the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of
Art.

Convener: M.S. Tite, MA, D.Phil., Professor of
Archaeological Science.

I. SHAW, University College, London

27 Jan.: `Rediscovering Cleopatra's emerald mines
in the Egyptian Eastern Desert.'

T. MOLLESON, Natural History Museum, London

10 Feb.: `Towards a reconstruction of the Neolithic
people of Çatalhöyük.'

E. ROBSON

24 Feb.: `Mathematics and quantity surveying in
ancient Mesopotamia.'

H. MARTLEW

9 Mar.: `Minoans and Myceneans: flavours of their
time.'

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SAÏD BUSINESS SCHOOL

Interdepartmental Finance Seminars

The following seminars will be held at 12.30 p.m. on Fridays in the
Saïd Business School, 59 George Street.

Further information may be obtained from Elaine Durham, Saïd
Business School, 59 George Street, Oxford OX1 2BE (telephone: Oxford
(2)88650, e-mail: elaine.durham@sbs.ox.ac.uk).

Conveners: Clara Raposo (Saïd Business School), Hyun
Shin (Economics), and Sam Howison (Mathematics).

I. TONKS, Bristol

28 Jan.: `Performance of UK pension funds.'

T. LYONS, Imperial College, London

4 Feb.: to be announced.

R. RAHI, LSE

11 Feb.: `Efficiency properties of rational
expectations equlibria with asymmetric information.'

W. PERRAUDIN, Birkbeck College, London

18 Feb.: `The consistency of ratings and on market
yields.'

K. NYBORG, London Business School

25 Feb.: `R.&D. capital investments, and
financing under repeated moral.'

J. COCCO, London Business School

3 Mar.: to be announced.

V. SAPORTA, Bank of England

10 Mar.: to be announced.

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Oxford Financial Research Centre Workshops

The Oxford Financial Research Centre (OFRC) will be running two
workshops in finance during Hilary Term. The workshop on 4 February
will be devoted to an overview of opportunities for undertaking
postgraduate research in finance in the University. The workshop on 3
March will be an opportunity for postgraduate students and faculty in
any department of the University to present papers in finance. The
workshops will take place in the Saïd Business School's Seminar
Room, 59 George Street.

Any member of the University interested in attending the workshops or
presenting a paper should contact Elaine Durham, Saïd Business
School, 59 George Street, Oxford OX1 2BE (telephone: Oxford (2)88650,
e-mail: elaine.durham@sbs.ox.ac.uk).

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WELLCOME UNIT FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE

Understanding twentieth-century health-care through oral history

The following seminars will be held at 2 p.m. on Mondays in the
Wellcome Unit, 47 Banbury Road.

Conveners: M.J. Dobson, MA, D.Phil., Acting
Director, the Wellcome Unit, and S. Harper, D.Phil., Research
Associate, the Wellcome Unit.

DR R. FERGUSON, Caledonian University, Glasgow

24 Jan.: `Autonomy, tension, and trade-off:
attitudes to district nursing.'

DR S. ANDERSON, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

31 Jan.: `The chemist's story.'

DR M. RHODES, Birmingham

7 Feb.: `Births, bedpans, and bugs: professional
education for midwives.'

DR K. FISHER

14 Feb.: `The understanding and practices of birth
control.'

DR D. ATKINSON, Open University

21 Feb.: `A history of learning disabilities.'

PROFESSOR N. SMALL, Bradford

28 Feb.: `The modern hospice movement.'

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NGOs, international organisations, and tropical health and
medicine (workshop series)

The following workshops will be held at 2 p.m. on Tuesdays in the
Wellcome Unit.

Conveners: O. Barrow (Ph.D. London), Research Fellow, the
Wellcome Unit, and M. Jennings, BA, D.Phil., Research Officer, the
Wellcome Unit.

DR C. NEVILL and DR S. COLLINS

1 Feb.:
(C.N.) `The history of AMREF.'

(S.C.) `Emergency relief and practice: improving
professional standards.'

PROFESSOR P. WEINDLING and DR M. BLACK

15 Feb.:
(P.W.) `German representation in the
League of Nations health organisations: the role of the
malariologist, Bernard Nocht.'

(M.B.) `The history of UNICEF.'

DR D. ANDERSON and DR A. KLEIN

29 Feb.: `Doing drugs in Africa and dealing with
the data.'

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OXFORD CENTRE FOR ISLAMIC STUDIES

H.E. MURATBEK IMANALIEV, Foreign Minister of Kyrgyzstan, will lecture
at 3 p.m. on Friday, 28 January, in the Lecture Room, the Oxford
Centre for Islamic Studies.

Subject: `Silk Route diplomacy.'

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LANGUAGE CENTRE

Lunchtime seminars in applied linguistics

The following seminars will be held at 1 p.m. on Mondays in Room 301,
the Language Centre (12 Woodstock Road). Refreshments will be
available in the Language Centre reception area from 12.30 p.m.

DR A. FRANKENBERG-GARCIA, ISLA, Lisbon

7 Feb.: `Using a translation corpus to sort out
Portuguese–English cross-linguistic influence.'

DR R. VANDERPLANK

21 Feb.: `What makes a good "language
keeper"? Success and failure in the Lambda Project.'

DR E. MACARO

6 Mar.: `An analysis of code switching in foreign
language classroom discourse.'

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CENTRE FOR SOCIO-LEGAL STUDIES

The interplay between informal practices and the state law in
post-Communist countries

DR T. GINSBURG, Legal Adviser, the Iran–USA Claims Tribunal, The
Hague, will lecture at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 1 February, in the Centre
for Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College.

Convener: Dr Marina Kurkchiyan, North Fellow, Centre for
Socio-Legal Studies and Keble College.

Subject: `Comparative administrative procedure: evidence
from East Asia and implications for post-Communist reforms.'

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Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy

Seminar

DAVID ELSTEIN, Chief Executive, Channel 5, will give a seminar at 5
p.m. on Thursday, 10 February, in the Goodhart Seminar Room (Logic
Lane), University College.

Subject: `The digital future of the BBC.'

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Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy and the Reuter
Foundation Programme

Media Intervention in conflict and post-conflict environments

The following seminars will be held at 4 p.m. on Fridays in Green
College (unless indicated otherwise).

J. COLE, Reuter Foundation Programme

11 Feb.: `What happened at Srebrenica.'

PROFESSOR P.M. TAYLOR, Leeds

18 Feb., Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson
College: `Psychological operations and information
warfare.'

C. MULHOLLAND, formerly Deputy Director, the ITC, and currently
Commissioner, the IMC

25 Feb.: `The experience of the International Media
Commission (IMC) in Bosnia.'

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Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy and the Oxford
E-Commerce Working Group

PAUL A. MCNABB, Vice-President and Chief Executive Officer, Argus,
will give a seminar at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 3 February, in the Seminar
Room, the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies.

Subject: `Security on the Internet.'

DR C. ROSE, member, the E-Commerce Advisory Board, the Cayman
Islands, will give a seminar at 12 noon on Friday, 18 February, in
the Danson Room, Trinity College.

Subject: `E-commerce and regulatory
arbitrage—shopping for infrastructure providers in a global
economy.'

Subject:

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CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE

Bateson Memorial Lecture

PROFESSOR D. KARLIN, Department of English, University College,
London, will deliver the F.W. Bateson Memorial Lecture at 5 p.m. on
Wednesday, 16 February, in the Examination Schools.

Subject: `The figure of the singer.'

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KEBLE COLLEGE

Commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the death of
William Butterfield

The following lectures will be given in Keble College on Saturday, 19
February, as part of a one-day programme of events to commemorate the
hundredth anniversary of the death of William Butterfield, the
architect of the college. The programme will begin at 12.30 p.m.
There will be a Sung Eucharist in the college chapel at 5 p.m.
(preacher: The Revd Alan Moses, Vicar, All Saints, Margaret Street,
London).

Information on bookings for the lectures only (free admission), or
for the whole day programme with lunch and tea (£20), is
available from Denise Battisby, the Development Office, Keble
College, Oxford OX1 3PG (telephone: Oxford (2)82338).

DR J. MANE-WHEOKI, Canterbury, New Zealand: `William
Butterfield and the architectural setting of Ritualism.'

DR G. TYACK: `William Butterfield, Keble College, and
High Victorian architecture in Oxford.'

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ST ANTONY'S COLLEGE

Russian and East European Centre

Twentieth-century Russia: ideas, politics, and society

The following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Mondays in the
Lecture Theatre, the New Building, St Antony's College.

Conveners: D.R. Priestland, MA, University Lecturer (CUF)
in Modern History, and R.J. Service, MA, University Lecturer in
Modern Russian History.

G. SMITH

17 Jan.: `Russian and her Eurasianism.'

C. ANDREYEV

24 Jan.: `Russia and her fascism.'

E. ACTON, East Anglia

31 Jan.: `Russia and her liberalism.'

A. LUUKKANEN

7 Feb.: `Russian and her Christianity.'

D. LIEVEN, LSE

14 Feb.: `Russia and her imperialism.'

DR SERVICE

21 Feb.: `Russia and her nationalism.'

G. SWAIN, West of England

28 Feb.: `Russia and her social-democracy.'

MR PRIESTLAND

6 Mar.: `Russia and her Communism.'

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SOMERVILLE COLLEGE

Study-day: How to get on in politics

This study-day will be held on Saturday, 26 February, in Somerville
College.

Have you ever considered becoming more involved in politics? Do you
want to know what political activity really involves? What has drawn
Somervillians into politics? What are the highs and lows? A panel
including local councillors, Members of Parliament and the House of
Lords, and those who work closely with politicians as researchers and
journalists, will discuss the realities of political life at all
levels.

For details of the programme, and to book, contact Liz Cooke,
Somerville College, Oxford OX2 6HD (telephone: Oxford (2)70632, e-
mail: elizabeth.cooke@somerville.ox.ac.uk).

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TRINITY COLLEGE

Richard Hillary Lecture

BERYL BAINBRIDGE will deliver the Richard Hillary Lecture at 5 p.m.
on Wednesday, 2 February, in the St Cross Building.

Subject: `What makes a writer?'

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CAMPION HALL

Martin D'Arcy Memorial Lectures

Paul of Antioch and Ibn Taymiyya: the modern relevance of a
medieval polemic

DR THOMAS MICHEL will deliver the Martin D'Arcy Memorial Lectures at
5 p.m. on Thursdays in the Examination Schools.

27 Jan.: `Features of the Muslim–Christian polemical
tradition.'

3 Feb.: `The Christian prophet and the Prophet of
Islam.'

10 Feb.: `The divine word and scripture in Islam and
Christianity.'

17 Feb.: `God's unity and trinity: the
Islamic–Christian debate.'

24 Feb.: `Sin and redemption in Christianity and
Islam.'

2 Mar.: `Moving beyond the burdens of history.'

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OXFORD BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY

SANDRA RAPHAEL will lecture at 5.15 p.m. on Thursday, 3 February, in
the Taylor Institution.

Subject: `Plants in print: the history of botanical
illustration.'

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OXFORD ITALIAN ASSOCIATION

Lectures

The following lectures will be given as indicated. Except where
otherwise indicated, admission is £1 for members, £2 for
non-members.

M. BRODY

2 Feb., 8 p.m., Pauling Centre for Human Sciences, 58
Banbury Road: `Renaissance maiolica at the Medici villa of
Cafaggiuolo.'

D. LEWIS

15 Feb., 8 p.m., Pauling Centre for Human Sciences, 58
Banbury Road: `Jessie White Mario, Garibaldi's unrecognised
Florence Nightingale.'

P. CLAIRE

16 Feb., 5 p.m., Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean
Museum: `Centrifugal centripetal: motifs in word pictures
of Severini, Carra, and Apollinaire.' (Lecture-
performance; programme £1)

PROFESSOR P. RYLANDS, Director, Guggenheim Foundation

22 Feb., 8 p.m., Mary Ogilvie Theatre, St Anne's
College: `Peggy Guggenheim's museum in Venice.'
(Students free)

DR S. FRAQUELI, selector of the Severini Exhibition at the Ashmolean
Museum

1 Mar., 6 p.m., Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean
Museum: `Gino Severino—from Futurism to Classicism.'
(Admission free; nominal charge for wine)

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Other events

The film Pummarò will be shown (with subtitles)
in the Rewley House Lecture Theatre, 7.45 for 8 p.m., on 18 January.
Admission is free.

Conversazione in italiano: `L'Italia nel 2000', 7.45 for 8 p.m., 9
February, in St Anne's College. Admission free.

Dr Alan Milner will offer a wine-tasting in the context of an
imagined dinner, at 7.45 for 8 p.m. on 9 March in Halifax House. This
is a ticket-only event (admission £8 per person). Tickets may be
reserved by telephoning Oxford 377479.

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OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY
FORUM

The following lectures will be given at 5 p.m. on the days shown in
Rewley House. All are welcome to attend.

L. JEFFERSON

Wed. 9 Feb.: `Charge and discharge: medieval
financial terminology in the accounts of the Mercers'
Company.'

J. SMITH, Glasgow

Thur. 2 Mar.: `Five hundred ways of spelling
through: the evolution of Middle English
orthography.'

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FRIENDS OF THE PITT RIVERS MUSEUM

Lectures will be given as follows: the lecture on Sunday, 6 February,
will be given at 7.30 p.m. in the Oxford Playhouse; other lectures
will be given at 6 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Pitt Rivers Research
Building, 64 Banbury Road. Tickets for the 6 February event cost
£14.50/£12.50, and are available from the Oxford Playhouse
Box Office (telephone: Oxford 798600). Visitors are welcome to attend
the other lectures in the series (a contribution of £2 is
requested). For further information, telephone 01869 249565.

MICHAEL PALIN

6 Feb.: `Hemingway adventure.' (Special
benefit performance for the Pitt Rivers Museum and the Oxford
Playhouse)

DR C. GOSDEN

9 Feb.: `White Horse Hill and prehistory on the
Ridgeway.'

M. GORRINGE, Leverhulme Researcher, Roehampton Institute

8 Mar.: `How Dasi Attam became Bharat Natyam: the
history and current trends of the Indian dance style.'

C. FITHEN, Africa analyst, Oxford Analytica

12 Apr.: `Ethnicity and the Sierra Leone diamond
trade.'

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Grants and Research Funding

Contents of this section:

[Note. An asterisk denotes a reference to a previously
published or recurrent entry.]

• RESEARCH SERVICES
  OFFICE
• RESEARCH
  AND EQUIPMENT COMMITTEE
• *GERALD AVERAY WAINWRIGHT
  RESEARCH
  FELLOWSHIP IN NEAR EASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY
  
• *OXFORD ITALIAN ASSOCIATION
  
  • *Grants to promote Italian culture
    
    

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Examinations and Boards

Contents of this section:

[Note. An asterisk denotes a reference to a previously
published or recurrent entry.]

• GENERAL BOARD OF THE FACULTIES
• *DIVISIONAL BOARDS
  • *Elections, 9 March

• BOARD OF THE FACULTY OF PHYSICAL
  SCIENCES
  • Election of an official member and an
    ordinary member

• *LECTURE LISTS: TRINITY TERM
• EXAMINATIONS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF
  PHILOSOPHY
  

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GENERAL BOARD OF THE FACULTIES

The General Board of the Faculties gives notice that it has co-
opted D.A. HAY, MA, M.PHIL., Fellow of Jesus College, to
membership of the Board for the remainder of the academic year
1999–2000.

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BOARD OF THE FACULTY OF PHYSICAL
SCIENCES

Election of an official member and an
ordinary member

2 March 2000

An election will be held on Thursday, 2 March, to fill a vacancy
for an official member (vice Professor K. O'Nions,
resigned), and for an ordinary member (vice Dr
C.R.M. Grovenor, resigned), both to hold
office from the date of the elction until the end of Trinity Term
2000.

Nominations in writing by two electors will be received by the
Secretary of Faculties at the University Offices up to 4 p.m. on
Monday, 7 February, and similar nominations by six electors up
to 4 p.m. on
Tuesday, 22 February.

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EXAMINATIONS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF
PHILOSOPHY

The examiners appointed by the following faculty boards give notice of oral
examination of their candidates as
follows:

Biological Sciences

J. BALK, St John's: `Mitochondrial biogenesis and function during flower
development'.

Department of Plant Sciences, Monday, 14 February, 9 a.m.


Examiners: H.G. Dickinson, A. Brennicke.

B. JONES, Magdalen: `Ischaemia and efficiency in the isolated heart'.

Green College, Tuesday, 1 February, 2 p.m.


Examiners: R.D. Evans, M. Bernard.

I. PEARSON, Lady Margaret Hall: `Cloning, mutagenesis, and expression of the
"pazs" gene, encoding pseudoazurin from Paracoccus
denitrificans'.

Department of Biochemistry, Monday, 20 March, 2 p.m.


Examiners: J.P. Armitage, S. Spiro.

HOR WONG, Linacre: `Some theoretical aspects of self incompatibility systems
in plants'.

Department of Plant Sciences, Tuesday, 8 February,
9.30 a.m.


Examiners: J.R. Pannell, D. Charlesworth.

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English Language and Literature

H. GAZZARD, Merton: `The patronage of Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex,
c.1577–96'.

Somerville, Thursday, 27 April, 2 p.m.


Examiners: K.D. Duncan-Jones, H.R. Woudhuysen.

C.L. HUMPHRIES, Lady Margaret Hall: `"Devocioun of chastite to
love": the devotional language of virginity in some thirteenth- and
fourteenth-century texts'.

Lady Margaret Hall, Tuesday, 1 February, 2 p.m.


Examiners: H. Barr, R. Ellis.

R. SCHNEIDER, Lincoln: `Sidney's Arcadias: prose romance or proto-novel?'.

St Cross Building, Thursday, 10 February, 2.15 p.m.


Examiners: J. Carey, C. Whitworth.

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Literae Humaniores

D.T. BAIN, Corpus Christi: `Sensation and representation: a study of
intentionalist accounts of the bodily sensations'.

St Hilda's, Thursday, 17 February, 11 a.m.


Examiners: A. Avramides, G. McCulloch.

K. NEW, Worcester: `Meaning and the justification of deduction'.

Examination Schools, Monday, 7 February, 10.30 a.m.


Examiners: D.M.D. Edgington, R.L.V. Hale.

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Mathematical Sciences

M. EMBREE, Balliol: `Convergence of Krylov subspace methods for non-normal
matrices'.

Balliol, Thursday, 3 February, 10 a.m.


Examiners: L.N. Trefethen, H.A. Van der Vorst.

G. HARPER, Wolfson: `The selection of compounds for screening in
pharmaceutical research'.

Department of Statistics, Monday, 7 February, 2.15 p.m.


Examiners: B.D. Ripley, R.C.H. Cheng.

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Modern History

CHE CHANG OOH, St Antony's: `Wartime currency stabilisation in China
1937–41: economic expediency and political reality'.

St Antony's, Wednesday, 16 February, 2.30 p.m.


Examiners: C. Lin, R. Myers.

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Music

T. MORRIS, New College: `The Augustinian use of Oseney Abbey: a study of the
Oseney Ordinal, Professional, and Tonale (Bodleian Library MS. Rawlinson
C.39)'.

Examination Schools, Wednesday, 8 March, 9.30 a.m.


Examiners: R.A. Cross, J. Harper.

A. MUSK, New College: `Aspects of regionalism in French music during the
Third Republic: the Schola Cantorum, d'Indy, Severac, and Canteloube'.

St Catherine's, Monday, 31 January, 2 p.m.


Examiners: P.R. Franklin, A. Fauser.

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Physical Sciences

J. HENDERSON, Magdalen: `Combined microfiltration and membrane-based affinity
separation'.

Department of Engineering Science, Friday, 18 February, 2 p.m.


Examiners: Z.F. Cui, R.W. Field.

A.A. ROSTOM, Keble: `Mass spectrometry of protein interactions'.

Department of Biochemistry, Friday, 4 February, 2 p.m.


Examiners: I.D. Campbell, J. Staunton.

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Colleges, Halls, and Societies

Contents of this section:

• OBITUARIES
  
  • Christ Church
    
  • Corpus Christi College
    
  • Oriel College
    
  • St Anne's College
    
  • St Hilda's College
  
  
• ELECTIONS
  
  • All Souls College
    
    
• NOTICES:
  • BALLIOL COLLEGE
    
    • Six-hour Stipendiary Lecturership in Mathematics
      
      
  • JESUS COLLEGE
    
    • Tutorial Fellowship in Economics
      
      
  • KEBLE COLLEGE
    
    • Research Fellowship and Tutorship in Archaeology and
      Anthropology
      
      
  • QUEEN'S COLLEGE
    
    • Randall MacIver Studentship in Archaeology
      
      
  • ST CROSS COLLEGE
    
    • St Cross College Graduate Scholarships 2000–1
      
      

Note: college vacancies will also be found in the
Gazette's "http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/as/">Appointments Supplement.

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OBITUARIES

Christ Church

SIR MICHAEL KEITH SIMPSON-ORLEBAR, KCMG, 2 January 2000; scholar
1951–4. Aged 67.

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Corpus Christi College

DUNCAN COTTRELL MUNRO, MA, D.PHIL., 2 November 1999; commoner
1944–50. Aged 73.

JOHN WILLIAM OGILVIE, BM, MA, FRCS, 28 November 1998; commoner
1956–9. Aged 60.

ULLIN THOMAS PLACE, MA, DIP.ANTHR., D.LITT., 2 January 2000; scholar
1943 and 1947–50. Aged 75.

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Oriel College

FREDERICK HOPE MURRAY, MA, 19 December 1999; 1931. Aged 91.

PROFESSOR RICHARD ITHAMAR AARON, D.PHIL.; 1923. Aged 98.

ROBERT BARNEY CHILDS, MA; 1949. Aged 73.

DR BASIL MUSCHAMP THORNTON, BM; 1930. Aged 87.

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St Anne's College

MISS R. JOAN HOBSON, 31 August 1999; member of the Society of Oxford Home
Students 1925–8.

MRS MARGERY BAILE (née Cartwright), 1999; member of the
Society of Oxford Home Students 1925–9.

MRS DOROTHY GWYN (née Macmillan), 1999; member of the
Society of Oxford Home Students 1937–40.

MRS GILLIAN HALL (née Dedman), 18 November 1999;
scholar 1972–6. Aged 47.

MRS VIOLETTA ZHANG, 1999; Erasmus Student 1993–4. Aged 33.

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St Hilda's College

AMY JOYCE GODBER, MA, 20 December 1999; scholar 1925–8. Aged 93.

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ELECTIONS

All Souls College

Visiting Fellowships: amended notice

The following will be in residence for Hilary Term 2000 as Visiting Fellows at
All Souls College:

PROFESSOR DAVID N. BERATAN, University of Pittsburgh

PROFESSOR BRIAN J. BOND, King's College, London

PROFESSOR MARGALIT FINKELBERG, Tel Aviv University

DR CHRISTOPHER DE HAMEL, Senior Director, Sotheby's, London

DR IAN C. HARRIS, University of Leicester

PROFESSOR MICHAEL POWER, London School of Economics and Political
Science

PROFESSOR ALAN SOKAL, New York University

PROFESSOR LARRY S. TEMKIN, Rice University

PROFESSOR NICHOLAS C. VINCENT, Christ Church College, Canterbury

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NOTICES

BALLIOL COLLEGE

Six-hour Stipendiary Lecturership in Mathematics

Balliol College proposes, if a suitable candidate applies, to appoint a six-hour
Stipendiary Lecturer in Mathematics for the academic year 2000–1. The
lecturer will be asked to teach first- and second-year Pure Mathematics, and
to contribute some section b classes to the intercollegiate class scheme. The
lecturer will also be expected to assist with the administration of the subject,
with pastoral care of students, and with entrance interviewing.

The successful applicant will be expected to teach an average of six hours a
week over the year, with up to eight hours a week in Michaelmas Term and
Hilary Term and proportionally less in Trinity Term. He or she will receive a
stipend of £5,279 per annum and certain common room rights.

Applicants should provide a letter of application supported by a
curriculum vitae, and should state which parts of the Mathematics
syllabus they would be willing to teach. They should give the names of two
referees whom they should ask to write directly to the Senior Tutor.
Applications and references must reach the Senior Tutor,

Balliol College, Oxford OX1 3BJ, by Friday, 4 February.

It is expected that interviews will be held during the week beginning 14
February (fifth week).

Any prospective applicants wishing to discuss details of the post should
contact Keith Hannabuss (e-mail: keith. Hannabuss@balliol.ox.ac.uk) or Frances
Kirwan (e-mail: frances.Kirwan@balliol.ox.ac.uk).

Balliol College is an equal opportunities employer.

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JESUS COLLEGE

Tutorial Fellowship in Economics

Applications are invited for a Tutorial Fellowship in Economics from 1 October
2000. The fellowship will be held in conjunction with a stipendiary University
Lecturership (CUF), for which no separate application is required.

Jesus College admits on average twelve undergraduates a year to read for
Economics in the related degrees of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics;
Economics and
Management; Modern History and Economics; Engineering, Economics, and
Management; and Metallurgy, Economics, and Management. The successful
applicant will be expected to undertake research and to make a major
contribution to teaching Economics to undergraduates at Jesus College reading
for these degrees.

The combined college and university salary will be according to age on a scale
up to £38,412 per annum (subject to review with effect from April 2000).

Additional
college allowances are available. Further particulars, containing details of the
duties and full range of emoluments and allowances, may be obtained from the
Principal's Secretary, Jesus College, Oxford OX1 3DW (telephone: Oxford
(2)79718, e-mail: geraldine.peissel@jesus.ox.ac.uk).

Applications, with a curriculum vitae and the names of three
referees, should reach the Principal, Jesus College, Oxford OX1 3DW, not later
than Saturday, 19 February. Referees should be asked to write directly to the
Principal by the same date.

Interviews will be held on Friday, 25 February.

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KEBLE COLLEGE

Research Fellowship and Tutorship in Archaeology
and Anthropology

Keble College proposes to elect a Research Fellow and Tutor in Archaeology
and Anthropology for a period of three years from 1 October 2000, with the
possibility of
re-election for a further period of two years. The person
appointed will be required to teach for up to four hours per week, and be
able either to cover Moderations paper 2 (Introduction to Anthropological
Theory) and substantial parts of Final Honours papers 1 (Social Analysis and
Interpretation) and 2 (Cultural Representations, Beliefs, and Practices), or to
cover Moderations paper 3 (Evolution, the Environment and Culture
[Perspectives on Human Evolution]) and Final Honours paper 4 (Human
Evolution and Ecology). In addition, the fellow will be expected to
conduct revision classes in Trinity Term.

The fellow will not be a member of the governing body, but will be a full
member of the senior common room and be entitled to lunch and dinner at the
common table as well as an academic allowance of £536. Shared office
space will also be available. Payment for teaching will be at the rate of
£2,516 for four hours; in addition, a Research Fellow and Tutor not in
receipt of other financial support will receive a housing allowance of
£2,913. The fellow will be eligible to join USS. Selection will be made on
the basis of teaching capacity in the required field and on research.

Candidates should submit a curriculum vitae, a statement of
research, a covering letter, and the names and addresses of two referees to
the Warden's Secretary, Keble College, Oxford OX1 3PG, by 21 February; they
should
also ask their referees to write directly to the Warden's Secretary by the
same date.

Keble College is an equal opportunities employer committed to excellence in
teaching and research.

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QUEEN'S COLLEGE

Randall MacIver Studentship in Archaeology

Queen's College proposes to elect to a Randall MacIver Studentship in
Archaeology, tenable from 1 October 2000. The studentship, whose value,
unless the student is in
receipt of other emoluments, will be £12,616 per annum, is open to
members of the University of Oxford who have obtained first- or second-class
honours at any university
in the United Kingdom or a degree of equivalent standing at a university
elsewhere, and is intended for research
relating to the material civilisation of any country or
period (before AD 1500), excluding the archaeology of the American continent
and Greek and Roman archaeology. Italy before 300 BC is however a legitimate
subject.

Further particulars and application forms may be obtained from the College
Secretary, Queen's College, Oxford OX1 4AW (e-mail:
college.secretary@queens.ox.ac.uk). The closing date for applications is Friday,
11 February.

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ST CROSS COLLEGE

St Cross College Graduate Scholarships
2000–1

St Cross College offers the following scholarships for which it invites
applications from students who will be studying for a postgraduate degree in
the University of Oxford in the academic year 2000–1.

Two Paula Soans O'Brian Scholarships, unrestricted in
subject area, with a value of £1,774 per annum, normally tenable for
between one and three years, coterminous with college fee liability, though
consideration will be given to doctoral candidates in their fourth year for that
year alone. Applications should be received by 17 March. It is intended to
hold interviews on 12 May.

One Unilever Scholarship in the Sciences, with a value of
£1,774 per annum, tenable for between one and three years
coterminous with college fee liability. Preference will be given to those
studying for degrees in engineering or biochemistry. Applications should be
received by 17 March. It is intended to hold interviews on 19 May.

Scholarships are awarded only after interview. Only in the most exceptional
circumstances is the college able to pay travel expenses for interview.
Any candidates unsuccessful in their application for a scholarship may, if they
wish, be considered for normal membership of the college.
Enquiries about the procedures for applying for a scholarship and requests
for application forms should be sent to the College Office, St Cross College,
Oxford OX1 3LZ (e-mail: college.secretary@stx.ox.ac.uk).

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Oxford University Museum of Natural History

`The Oxford Dodo' bone china mugs newly commissioned by
this museum are now on sale (£5; £5.50 boxed), as are CD's (£10)
of baroque music played by the EUBO and launched at their recent recital
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Oxford Chamber Music Society

Hilary Term 2000: 20 Feb., Mark Wilde (tenor) and Paul
Plummer (piano), works by Beethoven, Schumann, Ireland, Britten and Tippett;
26 Mar., Vanbrugh Quartet, works by Haydn, John McCabe, Beethoven. Time:
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from the Oxford Playhouse Box Office, tel.: Oxford 798600; concs. Seniors
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The University Club

Wine tasting: 2 Feb. `Some recent purchases'; 8 Mar.,`Italian
Wines'. To be held at 6–8 South Parks Rd., Oxford at 5.45 p.m. Admittance
£2.00.

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Oxford University Newcomers' Club

This club exists to welcome to Oxford the partners and
families of academic visitors and graduate students. Come along to the Club
Room at 13 Norham Gardens any Wednesday morning between 10.30 a.m. and 12
noon, from the week before term starts to the week after term, and
throughout the Summer vacation, and sample our programme of events and
outings.

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Tuition Offered

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GCSE and A level Easter Revision courses. Highly successful
courses which build confidence and exam skills and which can make a
significant difference to students' grades. Tel.: d'Overbroeck's College, Oxford
310000.

Jazz/World music course for musicians aged 10–14 of all
levels of experience. Feb. half-term. Contact Sami Cohen at d'Overbroeck's
College. Tel.: Oxford 310000.

OXACTS. Oxford Tutorial School of Acting for children (from
7–14 years), the Jericho St Barnabas Community Centre, 33a Canal St.,
Oxford OX2 6BQ. Classes in voice production, movement and drama. Sats.,
3–6 p.m. Information, interviews, auditions, tel./fax: Oxford 792965.

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Services Offered

Oxuniprint, Oxford University Press—the University
Printers: specialising in booklet and publicity material, typesetting, printing,
and finishing. Output Bureau provides high-quality output from disc from all
major DTP programs onto paper, bromide, colour-separated positive or negative
film; high-quality specialist colour copier service. For service, quality, and
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Town and Country Trees, arboricultural contractors. Tree
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Rd., Oxford. Tel.: Oxford 514655, fax: 514656, e-mail:
summertown@020.mbe.uk.com.

Autogenic therapy, a self-help method, brings about
profound relief from negative stress. It can be taught in small groups or
individually over a period of 8–10 weeks. Individual psychotherapy is also
available from an experienced, qualified practitioner. Tel.: Thomas Goss on
Oxford 351765.

Aromatherapy treatments and workshops by Tisserand
graduate in Oxford city. A treatment will enhance your health and help deal
with stress. Telephone Sue Colclough on Oxford 244146. Forthcoming workshops
include `Aromatherapy for winter ailments' on Mon. 31 Jan., 6–8 p.m.;
`Aromatherapy for pampering and pleasure' on Sat., 12 Feb., 10 a.m.–12
noon; and `Aromatherapy for relaxation and stress release', Mon., 28 Feb.,
6–8 p.m. Please telephone Mill Court Clinical Centre, Oxford 484157, to
book a place. £7 per session.

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Domestic Services

Do you need a nanny? All Counties Nannies, qualified and
experienced staff. Full and part-time, permanent and temporary. Newborn,
toddlers, school age. Our aim is to provide the best possible care for your
family. Tel.: Lynda on 01235 524462, mobile: 0402 068165.

Carpet/upholstery/curtain cleaning by Grimebusters,
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college. Also carpet/upholstery stain protection, pre-occupancy cleaning, flood
cleaning/drying, oriental rug cleaning. For free estimates and friendly advice,
call Grimebusters. Tel.: Oxford 726983 or Abingdon 555533.

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Situations Vacant

Secretarial/Editorial Assistant. Part-time freelance
opportunity for someone with existing University connection to assist with the
receipt of papers and correspondence with authors for a monthly journal.
Flexible working hours readily arranged. Available from 1 Feb. 2000 with
payment to £500 p.m. Enquiries, expressions of interest to:
richard.brook@materials.oxford.ac.uk or tel.: Oxford 273782, or Richard Brook,
Department of Materials, University of Oxford, OX1 3PH.

Computer programmist and graphic designer required for
Grasmere Publications (advertisements and organisation), to develop two
websites–global and intranet. Some literary skills required (in English);
some ability in Russian useful. £10 per hour. When applying, state date
and place of birth. Email: mcadex@gofornet.co.uk, fax (24 hours): Oxford
516452.

The Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, is
seeking an administrative assistant for management of manuscripts. Duties:
assisting to assemble edited book, dealing with authors, copy-editing,
preparation of camera-ready copy, liaison with publishers. Previous experience
highly desirable. Part-time. Contact, Stefaan Verhulst, Wolfson College, tel.:
Oxford 284241.

Freelance bookkeeper wanted by Oxford-based publisher
specialising in academic books on Africa, the Caribbean and the Third World.
Bookkeeper to manage Purchase and Sales ledgers, In-house invoicing and the
production of management accounts and statistics, using Quick Books. Minimum
8 hours per week, at mutually convenient times. Hourly rate, subject to
negotiation. Please send details of experience, available hours, and current
hourly rate to: Office Administrator, James Currey Ltd, 73 Botley Road, Oxford
OX2 0BS.

Secretarial Assistant, Clerical and Library Grade C2:
£9,794–£11,689 p.a. The Faculty of Music wishes to appoint a
secretarial assistant for its academic and administrative programmes. Word-
processing skills on a high level are desirable (some training can be
provided); interest in music would be an advantage.One year appointment in
the first instance, renewal likely. Applications should be made in writing to
the Administrator, Faculty of Music, St. Aldate's, Oxford OX1 1DB, from whom
further particulars can be sought. Referees should be asked to write directly
to the Administrator. The closing date for the receipt of applications and
references is 31 Jan., 2000.

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Houses to Let

Jericho, available early Jan. for 6 months. Two bedrooms,
g.c.h, washing machine etc. Excellent family home. Non-smokers only. £700
p.c.m. Call Ru or Terry on Oxford 559581.

Charming cottage, 12 miles north west of Oxford in a quiet
corner of village. Beams, inglenook fireplace, woodburning stove, g.c.h.,
country antiques, washer/drier, fridge/freezer, bath/shower, small walled
garden, garage, double bedroom, spare bedroom/study. Available from mid-
April. Tel.: Oxford 284225.

Moreton in Marsh. 27 miles Oxford, 35 minutes by train.
Elegant Cotswolds stone town house. Sleeps 5. All mod. cons., garden. Available
end Jan. £520 p.c.m. Please tel.: 01608 810549.

Central Oxford, Rewley Park. Newly built 2-bedroom terrace
house, within easy walk of the University and city centre. Situated in a quiet
cul-de-sac close by train station. Small garden, with patio. Fully carpeted,
furnished and equipped to a high standard, allocated parking. Available mid-
Jan. either for 6 month minimum at £795 p.c.m. exc. council tax and water
rates, or short let at £865 p.c.m. inc. Apply Dr Josephine Reynell, 70
Southmoor Rd., Oxford OX2 6RB. Tel.: Oxford 516615, fax: Oxford 516616, email:
macdonaldreynell@netscapeonline.co.uk.

Well situated, 2-bedroom, furnished terrace house in South
Oxford. Washing machine, c.h. Would suit couple or 2 sharers. Non-smokers
only please. Available for 6 months or 1 year. £700 p.c.m. plus council
tax. Deposit and references required. Tel.: Oxford 310806.

Romantic residence. A unique opportunity to live on an
Edwardian houseboat moored at Port Meadow. Comfortably furnished 2-bedroom
cabin accommodation, saloon with Blenheim fireplace, and stunning views across
the Dreaming Spires. Atmospheric and inspiring, this type of accommodation
would suit an artist or writer. Gas mains and water supply. For more
information please contact Julia at Finders Keepers on Oxford 311011 or by
email at: oxford@finders.co.uk

East Oxford. Four bedroom, 2 reception, Victorian house.
£1,000 p.c.m. Tel.: Nick on Oxford 725735.

North Oxford house available from 28 Mar. 2000 for one year
or less. Walk to colleges, train station, and bus station, near Port Meadow,
c.h., recently re-decorated, desks, filing cabinets, several large closets,
secluded garden, 2 1/2 bathrooms. washing machine, drier, telephone, linen,
dishes, 2 bicycles. Suitable for visiting academics. Two bedrooms, £950
p.m.; 3 bedrooms, £1250 p.m (inc. bedsit with separate entrance). Tel.: J.
Mackrell (eves.), Oxford 775567, or Canada: A.Gaston, 613 745 1368, fax. 613 745
0299. E-mail: Tony.Gaston@EC.GC.CA or Gaston@cyberus.ca.

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Folly Bridge. Modern 2-bedroom town house situated in a
quiet side road close to the River Thames, within walking distance of the city
centre and university. Well furnished and equipped, with accommodation
including a modern fitted kitchen, master bedroom (double), single
bedroom/study, bathroom. The property has gas c.h., and a separate lock-up
garage. Ideal for professional couple. For more information please contact Julia
at Finders Keepers, 226 Banbury Road, Summertown, Oxford OX2 7BY. Tel.:
Oxford 311011 or email: oxford@finders.co.uk.

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Flats to Let

North Parade, charming, fully furnished 1-bedroom flat in
the heart of North Oxford. Available early Jan. £600 p.m. Tel.: Oxford
513816 weekdays.

Murray Court, Banbury Rd, Oxford. Very spacious (200 sq
yds.), quiet, first floor flat. Three double bedrooms, 2 bathrooms (1 ensuite).
Fully furnished to high standard, gas c.h., garage, garden. Within short
walking distance Science Area, University Parks and city centre. Non-smokers
only. Available 1 Jan. 2000. £1,250 p.c.m. Tel.: Brooks Property
Management, Oxford 728597, fax: 794606.

Central North Oxford, 10 minutes walk from city centre, all
main University buildings, and parks, and very close to the river. Available
for short/long let. Exceptionally well-furnished, comfortable flats in extremely
quiet, civilised, large Victorian house in this exclusive, leafy, residential
Victorian suburb, with large, light, airy rooms. First-floor flat available from
11 March, large double bedroom, large drawing room, kitchen, bathroom;
ground-floor available from 1 June, 1 double, 1 single bedroom, drawing-room,
kitchen, bathroom. Off-street parking and secluded garden. Tel./fax: Oxford
552400.

Butler Close, central Oxford. Two-bedroom, first floor flat.
£675 p.m. Apply: Carter Jonas, 269 Banbury Rd., Summertown. Tel.: Oxford
511444.

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Accommodation Offered

Paying guests, visiting academics welcomed for short or long
stays in the warm, comfortable home of a semi-retired academic couple in
exclusive, quiet, central north Oxford. Within walking distance of all main
university buildings, town centre, parks, river, good shops, and restaurants.
All rooms have colour TV, tea- and coffee-making facilities, microwave and
refrigerator/refrigerator availability, c.h. and alternative heating. Breakfast
included in the very moderate terms. Tel./fax: Oxford 557879.

Sunny single room to rent in North Oxford. Share bathroom
and limited use of kitchen. Very near St. Hugh's and St. Antony's college.
Pleasant walk or cycle rid to Carfax via road or canal path. Would suit quiet,
non-smoking dog lover. Rent £250 per calendar month, inc. heating and
electricity. Reference and deposit required. Tel.: Oxford 438983 or email:
grumpy3@tinyonline.co.uk

Tranquil rural setting, many walks on doorstep, accessible
Oxford, Didcot, Abingdon. Car helpful. Large room for independent individual,
non-smoker, quiet, used to cats, with use of bathroom, kitchen/breakfast room,
and possibly other facilities. Available 4 months, Feb.–May. Tel.: Oxford
736993.

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Accommodation Sought

Visiting MIT academic and family looking for 3 or more
bedroom, furnished house to let in the Oxfordshire area during Summer 2000
(period flexible). Contact Dr. Spencer Pitcher, USA, tel.: 617 253 8667, fax: 617
253 0627, email: csp@psfc.mit.edu.

Australian academic couple wishing to house-sit (for any
period in 2000) or rent 1-bedroom apartment. Working at the Churchill Hospital
for 12 months starting March. Non-smokers, references available.
Email:drninio@yahoo.com, fax: +618 829 52706.

Professional couple with elderly parent seek spacious
detached home to rent from March/April 2000. Rural or low-traffic village
location within 15 mile radius of Summertown preferred, unfurnished, with
permission for a dog. Please contact Kit on: 01869 347664 or 07990 500167,
email: kit.carpenter@virgin.net.

Swedish academic visiting Oxford from March to May 2000
wishes to rent accommodation for himself and his family (wife and 2 children,
6 months and 3 years of age). The starting date 1 March is flexible, but the
visit is intended to last for 3 months. A furnished 2-bedroom flat with
washing machine preferred, parking space is also needed. Non-smokers.
Contact Jan-Ake Larsson, email: jalar@mai.liu.se, tel.: + 46 13 281468 (daytime),
+46 13 274459 (home).

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Holiday Lets

Self-catering accommodation 5 minutes walk to city centre.
We have 4-bedroom self-contained flats to let from July to Sept., fully
equipped kitchens for groups or families. Close to shops, restaurants and
buses. A 24-hour lodge with CCTV. Pleasant gardens in tranquil surroundings.
Use of the adjacent sports ground. Washing machines on site. Free off-road
parking. For rates tel./fax Oxford 725364.

Country lovers' retreat, children and dogs welcome. Beautiful
barn conversion into 2 cottages with panoramic views over secluded valley.
Small mixed organic farm with rare breed animals. Owls, herons, buzzards,
otters, exclusive fishing on farm as well as salmon fishing on River Taw
nearby. Painting and drawing holidays, Tarka trail, RHS Rosemoor, beautiful
North Devon coastline not far. For brochure tel.: 01769 520263. Short breaks
available.

Luxury accommodation in mid-Wales between Hay on Wye and
Builth Wells. Barn conversion completed late 1999. Sleeps 8, full c.h., and fully
equipped kitchen. Ideal location for hill walking, trout fishing, birdwatching,
and pony trekking. For rates tel.: Oxford 864372, after 6.30 p.m.

French country house, 45 mins SE of Bordeaux. Simple but
well equipped, flexible accommodation suits 2 to 12 or more. 5 km from village
with basic shops, weekly market, tennis court. Choice of market towns 15-20
mins. Sea 1 hour away. £500 p.w. July and August. £350 other times.
Tel.: 01235 751633.

Italy, Umbria. `Casa Colonica' on its own road in hills 5 miles
N.E. of Assisi, in National Park, superb views, wild life, kitchen, dining/sitting
room, 2 double bedrooms, large bathroom, car essential; Lombardia, Lake Como,
in village house, closely overlooking lake, 25 minutes from Como city. One
double bedroom, sitting/dining room, kitchenette, bathroom, open terrace. For
either let, £300 p.w., £550 fortnight. Tel.: Oxford 768775.

Tuscany. Family-owned Wine Estate, producing highly
recognised wines, olive oil, and cheese, offers ancient farmhouse and
apartments, accommodating 2 up to 12 plus. Pool, secluded rural setting, half
hour central Florence. Tel./fax: (0039) 055 824 9120, email: pgklpoggio@ftbcc.it.
`Fattoria Corzano and Paterno'.

Traditional Andalusian house in mountain village. Sleeps 6.
Immaculate and newly furnished, spacious with large roof terrace overlooking
orange groves and hills. Dishwasher, washing machine. Sea 25 minutes.
Granada 20 minutes. Sierra Nevada peaks 40 minutes. Summer and Easter
£380 per week, otherwise £260 per week – both incl. linen and
cleaner. Tel.: Oxford 515778.

Crete. A traditional Cretan house in old town Rethimno,
superbly renovated to provide space and comfort in beautifully furnished
surroundings. Elevated, vine-covered, sitting area with brick
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Diary

Contents of this section:

• Friday 28 January
• Saturday 29 January
• Sunday 30 January
• Monday 31 January
• Tuesday 1 February
• Wednesday 2 February
• Thursday 3 February
• Friday 4 February
• Saturday 5 February
• Sunday 6 February
• Monday 7 February
• Tuesday 8 February
• Wednesday 9 February

Academic Staff
Development Programme Seminars: places should be booked in advance
through
the Staff Development Office, University Offices,
Wellington Square (telephone: (2)70086).

For the full list of courses, see the HREF="http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/training/">Staff Development
ProgrammeWeb site.

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Friday 28 January

ACADEMIC STAFF DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME SEMINAR: `Introduction to
strategic planning and management', 9 a.m. (see
information above).

DR N. ALLEN: `Death and reincarnation—a South Asianist's perspective'
(Ethnicity and Identity Seminar: `Death'), Institute of Social and Cultural
Anthropology, 11 a.m.

ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM gallery talk: `Local Oxfordshire finds', 1.15 p.m. (Cost:
£1.50. Tel. for bookings: (2)78015, 9 a.m.--1 p.m.)

SIR KEITH THOMAS: `Work and vocation' (Ford's Lectures in British History:
`The ends of life: roads to human fulfilment in early modern England'),
Schools, 5 p.m.

MS PATRICIA HEWITT, MP: `Social justice in the knowledge economy' (St
Antony's College Jubilee Lecture Series), New Lecture Theatre, St Antony's, 5
p.m.

J.-C. COLLIARD: `Une institution politique majeure: le Conseil
Constitutionnel' (lecture), Maison Française, 5.15 p.m.

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Saturday 29 January

ST ANNE'S COLLEGE: `A Feast for the Millennium', with Master of Wine, Jancis
Robinson, and wine historian Hanneke Wilson; reception, 7.30 p.m., dinner, 8
p.m. (tickets £35 from college Development Office: tel./fax (2)74852).

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Sunday 30 January

THE VERY REVD JOHN DRURY preaches, Cathedral, 10 a.m.

COLIN CARR: master-class, Garden Quadrangle Auditorium, St John's, 10 a.m.
(admission by free programme, available from the Porters' Lodge, St John's).

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Monday 31 January

ACADEMIC STAFF DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME SEMINAR: `Listening skills', 9.30
a.m. (see information above).

DR M. KONRAD: `Fertility and the substance of anonymity' (Fertility and
Reproduction Seminars), basement Seminar Room, Institute of Social and
Cultural Anthropology, 11 a.m.

PROFESSOR W.P.T. JAMES: `Feast and famine: the paradox of under- and over-
nutrition' (Green College Lectures: `Food for the next millennium: implications
for the environment', Witts Lecture Theatre, Radcliffe Infirmary, 6 p.m.

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Tuesday 1 February

ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM gallery talk: `Shakespeare's world', 1.15 p.m. (Cost:
£1.50. Tel. for bookings: (2)78015, 9 a.m.–1 p.m.)

ACADEMIC STAFF DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME SEMINAR: `Examining theses', 2
p.m. (see information above).

DR D. TERRAR: `Lasers in the study of heart muscle contraction' (Graduate
Interdisciplinary Lectures: `Seeing things in a new light—laser applications
in science and technology', Lindemann Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory,
4.15 p.m.

A. CHESTER: `Future hope and the end of time' (Speaker's Lectures in Biblical
Studies: `Future hope and present reality'), Schools, 5 p.m.

S. HAZAREESINGH: `Building the new republic from below: the propaganda of
the "Société d'instruction républicaine", 1870–7'
(Seminar in Modern French History and Politics), Maison Française, 5
p.m.

PROFESSOR ROGER GRAEF: `Secrets of the cutting-room' (master-
class/workshop, in series `The illusion of information'), Green College, 6
p.m.

DR J. SHAW: `The late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries' (Lecture series
to celebrate the start of a new millennium: `The history of
Christianity—how we got to where we are now'), Schools, 5 p.m.

SIR STEPHEN MOORBATH: `Physics and geological time' (Wolfson College
Lectures: `Physics at the boundaries'), the Hall, Wolfson, 5 p.m. (open to the
public).

A. STIRLING: `Science and precaution in the management of technological risk'
(Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics, and Society seminars), Council
Room, Main Building, Mansfield, 5 p.m.

R. STROHM: `Murder in Armenia and voices in opera seria'
(Graduate Students' Colloquia), Music Faculty, 5.15 p.m.

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Wednesday 2 February

MATTHEW HALLS: organ recital, in series `Bach at Queen's 2000', the chapel,
Queen's, 1.10 p.m. (admission free; retiring collection).

BERYL BAINBRIDGE: `What makes a writer?' (Richard Hillary Lecture), St Cross
Building, 5 p.m.

DR N. VAN HEAR: `Undisciplined: the virtues of rootlessness in refugee search'
(Refugee Studies Centre seminars: `Perspectives on forced migration'), Library
Wing Seminar Room, Queen Elizabeth House, 5 p.m.

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Thursday 3 February

ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM exhibition opens: `Golden pages—Qurans and prayer-
books from the H.E. Shaik Ghasan I. Shaker collection' (until 2 April).

ACADEMIC STAFF DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME SEMINAR: `Time management', 9.30
a.m. (see information above).

MRS M. CLAPINSON: `Byron in the family papers' (Friends of the Bodleian
thirty-minute lecture), Cecil Jackson Room, Sheldonian, 1 p.m.

E. TAKYI: `West African narratives in Ghanaian feminist novels' (Centre for
Cross-Cultural Research on Women seminars: `Cross-border
narratives—between North and West Africa'), Library Wing Seminar Room,
Queen Elizabeth House, 2 p.m.

PROFESSOR R. HEWISON: ` "I think he must have read my book": Ruskin and
the writing and rewriting of Turner' (Slade Lectures: `Ruskin today'), Lecture
Hall, University Museum of Natural History, 5 p.m. (open to the public).

DR THOMAS MICHEL: `The Christian prophet and the Prophet of Islam' (Martin
D'Arcy Memorial Lectures: `Paul of Antioch and Ibn Taymiyya: the modern
relevance of a medieval polemic'), Schools, 5 p.m.

SANDRA RAPHAEL: `Plants in print: the history of botanical illustration' (Oxford
Bibliographical Society lecture), Taylor Institution, 5.15 p.m.

PROFESSOR M. LANGTON: `Indigenous concepts of connectedness and the new
environmentalism' (Linacre Lectures: `Consciousness of connections: global
environments in the new millennium'), Lecture Theatre A, Zoology/Psychology
Building, 5.30 p.m.

JOHN SCOTT: organ recital, in series `Bach at Queen's 2000', the chapel,
Queen's, 8 p.m. (admission £5/£3).

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Friday 4 February

ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM gallery talk: `East meets West: sculpture ancient and
modern', 1.15 p.m. (Cost: £1.50. Tel. for bookings: (2)78015, 9 a.m.–1
p.m.)

DR L. MARTINEZ: `Death and women in a Japanese village' (Ethnicity and
Identity Seminar: `Death'), Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, 11
a.m.

ACADEMIC STAFF DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME SEMINAR: `Observing teaching', 2
p.m. (see information above).

SIR KEITH THOMAS: `Wealth and possessions' (Ford's Lectures in British
History: `The ends of life: roads to human fulfilment in early modern
England'), Schools, 5 p.m.

PROFESSOR NICHOLAS HYTNER (Cameron Mackintosh Professor): `An anti-
hauteur view of directing' (lecture), Bernard Sunley Lecture
Theatre, St Catherine's, 5 p.m.

LORD DAHRENDORF: `Democracy beyond the nation-state' (St Antony's College
Jubilee Lecture Series), New Lecture Theatre, St Antony's, 5 p.m.

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Saturday 5 February

B. D'ASCOLI: solo piano recital of works by Debussy, Liszt, and Chopin,
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda's, 8 p.m. (tickets
£10/£7.50 from Oxford Playhouse, tel. 798600; information from
(2)76821).

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Sunday 6 February

THE REVD DR FRASER WATTS preaches a Sermon on Religion and Science (first
in series, by different preachers), St Mary's, 10 a.m.

MICHAEL PALIN: `Hemingway adventure' (special benefit performance for the
Pitt Rivers Museum and the Oxford Playhouse), Oxford Playhouse, 7.30 p.m.
(tickets £14.50/£12.50 from the Playhouse Box Office: 798600).

THE BAND OF INSTRUMENTS, with Rachel Elliott (soprano), perform songs and
arias by Purcell and Hasse, with a selection of French cantatas, in the chapel,
New College, 8.15 p.m. (tickets £7/£5 from the Oxford Playhouse or
at the door).

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Monday 7 February

G. BARRETT: `How can unintended pregnancy be measured? Implications of
findings from qualitative interviews' (Fertility and Reproduction Seminars),
basement Seminar Room, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, 11
a.m.

A. BENNETT: `Food and forests: will they be compatible in the next millennium?'
(Green College Lectures: `Food for the next millennium: implications for the
environment', Witts Lecture Theatre, Radcliffe Infirmary, 6 p.m.

THE ALLEGRI STRING QUARTET perform works by Haydn, Shostakovitch, and
Brahms, Holywell Music Room, 8 p.m. (tickets £10/£5 from the Oxford
Playhouse Box Office or at the door).

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Tuesday 8 February

ACADEMIC STAFF Development Programme seminar: Hilary Term meeting of
Higher Education Reading Group, 12.30 p.m. (see details above).

ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM gallery talk: `From viol to virginal', 1.15 p.m. (Cost:
£1.50. Tel. for bookings: (2)78015, 9 a.m.–1 p.m.)

PROFESSOR P. FRENCH: `Fluorescence lifetime imaging for biomedicine and
microscopy' (Graduate Interdisciplinary Lectures: `Seeing things in a new
light—laser applications in science and technology', Lindemann Lecture
Theatre, Clarendon Laboratory, 4.15 p.m.

A. CHESTER: `Prophecy: true or false?' (Speaker's Lectures in Biblical Studies:
`Future hope and present reality'), Schools, 5 p.m.

DR J. GARNETT: `The nineteenth century' (Lecture series to celebrate the start
of a new millennium: `The history of Christianity—how we got to where we
are now'), Schools, 5 p.m.

M. OKSANEN: `Authorship, communities, and intellectual property rights:
insights for the protection of biodiversity?' (Oxford Centre for the
Environment, Ethics, and Society seminars), Council Room, Main Building,
Mansfield, 5 p.m.

DR N. ALLEN: `An Indo-European comparativist looks at the Buddha's
biography' (Interdisciplinary Seminars in the Study of Religions: `Comparative
approaches in the study of religions'), Blue Boar Seminar Room, Christ Church,
5 p.m.

V. DIMIER: `Trading places: resettling colonial administrators in the French
prefectoral corps' (Seminar in Modern French History and Politics), Maison
Française, 5 p.m.

PROFESSOR ROGER GRAEF: `Moveable feast: ethics in the media' (lecture series
`The illusion of information'), Green College, 6 p.m.

PROFESSOR SIR ROGER PENROSE: `Quantum mechanics: is there a limit to its
validity?' (Wolfson College Lectures: `Physics at the boundaries'), the Hall,
Wolfson, 5 p.m. (open to the public).

M. BENT, J. Craig-McFeely, and A. Wathey: `The Digital Image Archive of
Medieval Music (DIAMM)' (Graduate Students' Colloquia), Music Faculty, 5.15
p.m.

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Wednesday 9 February

ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM gallery talk (Miss Katharine Eustace): `The Gino Severini
Exhibition', 1.15 p.m. (Cost: £1.50. Tel. for bookings: (2)78015, 9
a.m.–1 p.m.)

DR M. GIBNEY: `Political perspectives on forced migration' (Refugee Studies
Centre seminars: `Perspectives on forced migration'), Library Wing Seminar
Room, Queen Elizabeth House, 5 p.m.

PROFESSOR P.W. EVANS: `Dreams and day-dreams in Belle de Jour'
(Luis Buñuel Centenary Lecture), 47 Wellington Square, 5 p.m.

L. JEFFERSON: `Charge and discharge: medieval financial terminology in the
accounts of the Mercers' Company' (Oxford English Dictionary
Forum), Rewley House, 5 p.m.

DR C. GOSDEN: `White Horse Hill and prehistory on the Ridgeway' (Friends of
the Pitt Rivers Museum lecture; donation of £2 requested from visitors),
Pitt Rivers Research Building, 64 Banbury Road, 6 p.m.

THE ALLEGRI STRING QUARTET perform works by Haydn, Janácek, and
Brahms, Holywell Music Room, 8 p.m. (tickets £10/£5 from the Oxford
Playhouse Box Office or at the door).

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