28 September 1995

HEBDOMADAL COUNCIL

1 Status of Master of Arts for Resident
Visitors

Mr Vice-Chancellor reports that the status of Master of Arts under
the provisions of Ch. V, Sect. vi, cl. 2 (Statutes,
1993, p. 328) has been accorded to the following Visiting Fellows of
All Souls College who will be in residence for all or part of the
academic year 19956:

PROFESSOR KENNETH ARROW (Stanford)

PROFESSOR JAMES ESTES (Toronto)

PROFESSOR ALEXANDER JONES (Toronto)

PROFESSOR ANDREI LEBEDEV (Moscow)

PROFESSOR JOSEPH MACGILLIVRAY (Columbia)

PROFESSOR NIGEL MORGAN (La Trobe)

PROFESSOR JOHN ROBERTS (Stanford)

PROFESSOR ROBERT SCHNEIDER (Catholic University of America)

PROFESSOR ELIZABETH SEARS (Michigan)

DR ANER SHALEV (Jerusalem)

PROFESSOR FRANCIS WILSON (Cape Town)

2 Status of Master of Arts

Mr Vice-Chancellor reports that the status of Master of Arts under
the provisions of Ch. V, Sect. vi, cl. 1 (Statutes,
1993, p. 328) has been accorded to the following persons who are
qualified for membership of Congregation:

RICHARD JOHN DUNSTAN LIWICKI, University Offices

YVONNE NOBIS, Bodleian Law Library

VINCENT MICHAEL RAPLEY, University Offices

JAMES IAN VANDENBERG, Pembroke College

3 Register of Congregation

Mr Vice-Chancellor reports that the following names have been added
to the Register of Congregation:

Davies, R.R., MA, D.Phil., All Souls

Hopwood, A.G., MA, Templeton

Liwicki, R.J.D., MA status, University Offices

Nobis, Y., MA status, Bodleian Law Library

O'Nions, R.K., MA, St Hugh's

Rapley, V.M., MA status, University Offices

Vandenberg, J.I., MA status, Pembroke

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Note on procedures in Congregation

Oxford University Gazette, 28 September 1995: University Agenda

University Agenda

Contents of this section:

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

*
List of forthcoming Degree Days

*
List of forthcoming Matriculation Ceremonies

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CONGREGATION 2 October

Degree by Special Resolution

The following special resolution will be deemed to be approved at
noon on 2 October, 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, 1993,
p. 13) 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:

RICHARD ELLIOTT, St Anne's College

ALAN FLEETWOOD GORDON, Wolfson College

THOMAS EDMUND KEYMER, St Anne's College

Oxford University Gazette, 28 September 1995: Notices

Notices

Contents of this section:

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

UNIVERSITY PREACHERS

Michaelmas Term 1995

Thursday, 5 October, at 8 a.m. THE REVD GERALD HEGARTY,
Chaplain of St Edmund Hall, Celebrant, Holy Communion (Latin). At St
Mary's.

Sunday, 8 October, at 10 a.m. DR S. JUDGE, Fellow of St
Anne's College. At St Mary's.

Sunday, 15 October, at 10 a.m. THE REVD DR ALLAN DOIG,
Chaplain of Lady Margaret Hall. (Ramsden Sermon.) At St Mary's.

Sunday, 22 October, at 10 a.m. DR J. WRIGHT, Student of
Christ Church. At St Mary's.

Sunday, 29 October, at 10 a.m. THE REVD DR CHRISTOPHER
LAMB, Secretary for Inter-Faith Relations, General Synod and Council
of Churches for Britain and Ireland. At Exeter College.

Sunday, 5 November, at 10 a.m. SIR JOHN HOUGHTON, CBE,
Honorary Fellow of Jesus College. At St Mary's.

Sunday, 12 November, at 10 a.m. DR E. DUFFY, Fellow of
Magdalene College and Reader in Church History, University of
Cambridge. At St Mary's.

Tuesday, 14 November, at 10.30 a.m. THE REVD MARK
EVERITT, Chaplain of Merton College. (Court Sermon. The Learned and
Honourable High Court Judges will attend this sermon.) At the
Cathedral.

Sunday, 19 November, at 10 a.m. THE RT REVD JOHN TAYLOR,
Bishop of St Albans. At St Mary's.

Sunday, 26 November, at 10 a.m. MR E. ANDERSON, FRSE,
Rector of Lincoln College, Honorary Fellow of Balliol College.
(Sermon on the Sin of Pride.) At St Mary's.

Sunday, 3 December, at 10 a.m. THE REVD DR OLIVER
O'DONOVAN, Canon of Christ Church, Regius Professor of Moral and
Pastoral Theology. (Advent Sermon.) At the Cathedral.

SUB-DEPARTMENT OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS

Appointment of Deputy

The General Board has appointed SIR ROGER ELLIOTT, MA, D.PHIL.,
Fellow of New College and Professor of Theoretical Physics, as deputy
for D. Sherrington, MA, Fellow of New College and Wykeham Professor
of Physics, for the academic year 19956, during which Professor
Sherrington has been granted leave of absence and dispensation from
prescribed duties.

REVIEW COMMITTEE FOR THE FACULTY OF ENGLISH

As part of its regular ten-year rolling review procedure, the General
Board has established a committee, under the chairmanship of Dr
R.C.S. Walker, to review the Faculty of English Language and
Literature. The terms of reference for the review, as proposed by the
English Board and adopted by the General Board, are, in brief, to
consider (a) undergraduate and graduate teaching in the
faculty; (b) research activity of faculty members and the
resources available to support it; (c) the resources
available to support the work of the faculty; and (d) the
organisation of the faculty and the conduct of its administration and
management.

The committee would welcome the comments of any interested
members of Congregation, which should be sent either to the Secretary
to the Review Committee (Catherine Godman, University Offices), or to
Dr Walker at Magdalen, by Friday, 3 November.

LIBRARY INFORMATION PACK FOR NEW MEMBERS OF
THE UNIVERSITY

For the first time, a Library Information Pack will be made available
for all new undergraduates, postgraduates, and senior members of the
University. The packs will be distributed by college secretaries in
noughth week.

The pack, sponsored by Oxford University Press and compiled with
the assistance of the Libraries Automation Service, will have a map
on the back showing the location of most of the Oxford libraries.
Inside, there will be a welcome letter, a document describing library
and information services, a booklet giving details of the
University's libraries, a single sheet on the regulations of the
Bodleian Library, and a leaflet entitled `Basic searching on OLIS'.

Current members of the University who wish to obtain one of the
information packs should contact their college secretary.

WOMEN TUTORS' GROUP

The next meeting of the Women Tutors' Group will be held at 1 p.m. on
Monday, 16 October (second week), in the Old Bar, Mansfield College.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S STUDIES COMMITTEE

The next meeting of the OUWSC will be held at 1 p.m. on Thursday, 19
October (second week), in the Old Bar, Mansfield College. New members
are welcome.

Oxford University Gazette, 28 September 1995: Lectures

Lectures

Contents of this section:

INAUGURAL LECTURE
- Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography
ROMANES LECTURE 1995
MEYERSTEIN LECTURE
CARLYLE LECTURES 1995
HERBERT SPENCER LECTURES 1995
CAMERON MACKINTOSH PROFESSOR OF CONTEMPORARY
THEATRE
ANTHROPOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY
CLINICAL MEDICINE
- Department of Psychiatry
- University Department of Cellular Science:
  haematology seminars
MEDIEVAL AND MODERN LANGUAGES
- Graduate seminar in Spanish studies
- Film Studies
MODERN HISTORY
MODERN HISTORY, ORIENTAL STUDIES
- Seminar in medieval Jewish history and
  literature
ORIENTAL STUDIES
PHYSICAL SCIENCES
- Theoretical Chemistry Group Seminars
COMPUTING LABORATORY
- Strachey Lecture
NISSAN INSTITUTE OF JAPANESE STUDIES
INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL
MICROBIOLOGY
GREEN COLLEGE
- Radcliffe Lecture 1995
WOLFSON COLLEGE
- Ronald Syme Lecture 1995
FRIENDS OF THE BODLEIAN

INAUGURAL LECTURE

Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography

PROFESSOR GORDON L. CLARK will deliver his inaugural
lecture at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 12 October, in the University
Museum.

Subject: `The passions of commitment and the scales of
regulation.'

ROMANES LECTURE 1995

SIR WALTER BODMER, FRS, will deliver the 1995 Romanes
Lecture at 5.45 p.m. on Tuesday, 14 November, in the
Sheldonian Theatre.

Subject: `The Book of Man: the complete catalogue of our
genes will revolutionise our ability to deal with disease and to
understand our origins.'

MEYERSTEIN LECTURE

PROFESSOR STEVE JONES, University College, London, will
deliver the Meyerstein Lecture at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 12
October, in the Garden Quadrangle Auditorium, St John's
College.

Subject: `Is human evolution over?'

CARLYLE LECTURES 1995

Secret concatenations: riches and poverty, Mandeville to Malthus

PROFESSOR DONALD WINCH, FBA,, University of Sussex, will deliver the
Carlyle Lectures at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays in the Examination Schools.

10 Oct.: `Overhearing conversations, political and
social scientific.'

17 Oct.: `Mandeville, Rousseau, and the paradox in
favour of luxury.'

24 Oct.: `Adam Smith and the Oeconomy of Greatness.'

31 Oct.: `Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, and factious
citizens.'

7 Nov.: `Malthus, Godwin, and Condorcet: inequality and
post-economic society.'

14 Nov.: `Economists versus human beings.'

HERBERT SPENCER LECTURES 1995

Gender and society

The Herbert Spencer Lectures will be given at 5 p.m. on the
following days in Lecture Theatre A, the Zoology/Psychology Building.
They will take place on Fridays, with the exception of the lecture to
be given on Monday, 4 December. The lectures will be open to the
public.

PROFESSOR P. GOODFELLOW, Cambridge

20 Oct.: `Genetics of sex determination and
differentiation.'

PROFESSOR S. WATKINS, Pennsylvania

3 Nov.: `Gender and population.'

PROFESSOR L. JACOBS, Berkeley

10 Nov.: `Sexual differentiation and cognitive
function.'

PROFESSOR M. LE DOEUFF, Geneva

17 Nov.: `Women and intellectual work.'

DR GERMAINE GREER, Cambridge

24 Nov.: `Victims no longer: feminism and the
reform of the criminal law.'

DR S.B. HRDY, University of California, Davis

4 Dec.: `Raising Darwin's consciousness: female
sexuality and the prehominid origins of patriarchy.'

CAMERON MACKINTOSH PROFESSOR OF CONTEMPORARY
THEATRE

PROFESSOR ARTHUR MILLER will lecture on the days shown, as
follows: the meetings on 11 and 19 October will be held at 5
p.m. in the Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre, St Catherine's College;
the meeting on 20 October will be held at 2.30 p.m. in the Old
Fire Station, George Street.

Admission to all events is free but places are strictly
limited, and are available on a first-come, first-served
basis. Tickets for the masterclass (20 October) are available
in advance from the Old Fire Station box office on production
of a student card. Tickets are limited to two per applicant,
and will be available from 5 October.

Further information may be obtained from Mr George Peck
(telephone: 01993 812883).

Wed. 11 Oct.: `The Plain Girl') (readings and
discussion of Arthur Miller's new work).

Thur. 19 Oct.: `The language of theatre.'

Fri. 20 Oct.: Masterclass (scenes from Death of a
Salesman and All My Sons performed by ETC).

ANTHROPOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY

School of Geography

Conference: geographical education and citizenship

This conference will be held on Saturday, 21 October, 10.15
a.m.6.15 p.m., in the School of Geography.

The charge for attendance is £20 (waged) or £10
(unwaged or postgraduate). Enquiries should be directed to Dr James
Ryan or Dr Avril Maddrell at the School of Geography.

Session I (10.45 a.m.): Geography and imperial citizenship

A. MADDRELL, Westminster College: `Government
emigration policy and school geography 18501918.'

T. PLOSZAJSKA, Royal Holloway College: `Constructing
the subject: geographical models in English schools
18701944.'

R. PHILLIPS, Aberystwyth: `Popular fiction,
geographical knowledge, and imperial citizenship.'

Session II (2 p.m.): Geography and the nation

C. NASH, Lampeter: `Geocentric education and anti-
imperialism: J.H. Cousins and pre-independence geography
teaching in Ireland.'

P. GRUFFUDD, Swansea: `The countryside as educator:
schools, rurality, and citizenship in inter-war Wales.'

S. RYCROFT, Sussex: `Reconstructing national
identities: the Land Utilisation Survey of Britain.'

D. MATLESS, Nottingham: `Landscape, geography, and
citizenship in England 191839.'

Session III (4.15 p.m.): Contemporary geography, education, and
citizenship

J. BALE, Keele: `Diffusion or deformation? Some
problems of the transfer of ideas in geography from higher to
secondary education in the 1970s.'

J. MORGAN, London: `Citizenship, geography, education,
and postmodernity.'

S. BUCKINGHAM-HATFIELD, Brunel: `Developing citizenship
through environmental education in the community.'

Research Seminars

The following seminars will be held at 4.45 p.m. on Tuesdays in the
Senior Common Room, the School of Geography.

Conveners: Professor Ceri Peach, Professor Gordon Clark,
and Professor Andrew Goudie.

PROFESSOR PEACH

10 Oct.: `Does Britain have ghettos?'

YOUNG-KYEONG LEE

17 Oct.: `A research on the urban cultural
landscape: focusing on the historic and monumental buildings of
Seoul.'

M. KAIKA

24 Oct.: `Water scarcity and water problems in
Athens: towards a new approach for arranging problems of the
urbanisation of water.'

SOOJIN PARK

31 Oct.: `Modelling the soilhillslope
continuum based on analysis of soil morphology and soil
chemistry.'

PROFESSOR C. NIEMITZ, Berlin

7 Nov.: `The tropical rain forestsbiological
and climate functions, threats, and conservation.'

PROFESSOR S. SMITH

14 Nov.: `Interpreting the soundscape.'

J. COE

21 Nov.: `A palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of
the Upper Thames Terrace System.'

PROFESSOR M. USHER, Scottish Natural Heritage

28 Nov.: To be announced.

CLINICAL MEDICINE

Department of Psychiatry

The following lectures will be given at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays in the
Seminar Room, the Department of Psychiatry, the Warneford Hospital.

Convener: M.G. Gelder, DM, Handley Professor of
Psychiatry.

PROFESSOR N. TARRIER, Manchester

17 Oct.: `The cognitive behavioural treatment of
psychosis: success or failure?'

PROFESSOR L. TRÄSKMAN-BENDZ, Lund Suicide Research Centre,
Sweden

31 Oct.: `Understanding suicidal behaviour from a
biological viewpoint.' (Litchfield Lecture)

DR K. FRISTON, Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology, London

14 Nov.: `Functional neuroimaging and
schizophrenia.'

DR A. DAVID, King's College, London

28 Nov.: `Insight and psychosis; does it matter?'

University Department of Cellular Science:
haematology seminars

The following seminars will be held at 12 noon on Tuesdays in the
Haematology Seminar Room, Level 4, the John Radcliffe Hospital.

DR T. PETO

10 Oct.: `HIV update.'

DR F. COTTER, Institute of Child Health, London

17 Oct.: `in vivo modelling and molecular
manipulation of haematological malignancies.'

DR R. GALE, University College, London

24 Oct.: `Clonal analysis of myeloid
malignancies.'

DR K. TALKS

31 Oct.: Case presentation.

DR J. MARSH, St George's Hospital, London

7 Nov.: `Aplastic anaemia.'

DR P. MOSS

14 Nov.: Case
presentationslymphoproliferations and cytopenia.

DR W. WOOD

21 Nov.: `Developmental aspects of erythropoiesis
and haemoglobin production.'

DR D. KEELING

28 Nov.: `Anti-phospholid antibodies.'

MEDIEVAL AND MODERN LANGUAGES

Graduate seminar in Spanish studies

The following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays in the
Taylor Institution.

Conveners: I.D.L. Michael, MA, King Alfonso XIII
Professor of Spanish Studies, and C.P. Thompson, MA, D.Phil., Faculty
Lecturer in Spanish.

SRTA. DA MARÍA LUISA LOPEZ-VIDRIERO, Royal Palace Library,
Madrid

10 Oct.: `Lectura y educación de
príncipes en el siglo XVIII.'

MR A. GINGER

17 Oct.: `Ros de Olano's early short stories, and
the origins of experimentation in modern Spanish literature.'

THE REVD DR COLIN THOMPSON

31 Oct.: `St John of the Cross: the expression of
the inexpressible.'

Film Studies

Hearts and minds, myths and moneythe struggle for control
of the world's film industry

SIR DAVID PUTTNAM, CBE, will deliver a series of public lectures to
mark the centenary of European cinema.

The lectures will be given at 5 p.m. on the following days in
the Examination Schools.

Mon. 16 Oct.: `Hearts and mindsEurope, America,
and the birth of cinema.'

Fri. 20 Oct.: `Stars, genres, and the studio
system.'

Thur. 26 Oct.: `Sleeping with the enemy? Coming to
terms with television.'

Fri. 27 Oct.: `Myths and money.'

The politics of European cinema

The following lectures will be given at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays in 47
Wellington Square. Related film showings are listed below.

I. CHRISTIE

11 Oct.: `Defending European cinema in the twenties
and the nineties.'

G. NOWELL SMITH, Editor, Oxford History of World Cinema

18 Oct.: `Cinema and democracy in Europe,
194560.'

I. CHRISTIE

25 Oct.: `Soviet cinema after the thaw and Europe's
New Waves.'

PROFESSOR T. ELSAESSER, Amsterdam

1 Nov.: `Loving the other: sexuality, ethnicity,
and Fassbinder.'

European cinema and literary movements

The following lectures will be given at 10 a.m. on Mondays in the
Taylor Institution, with a seminar on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. in 47
Wellington Square. Related film showings are listed below.

I. CHRISTIE

6 Nov.: `Cinema and German Expressionism.'

13 Nov.: `Film and the Russian avant-garde.'

DR R. GORDON

20 Nov.: `Italian realism and neo-realism.'

I. CHRISTIE

27 Nov.: `Who writes cinema history and why?'

Film showings

The following films will be shown at 2 p.m. on Wednesdays in the
Phoenix Picture House, Walton Street.

11 Oct.: Riff-Raff (UK 1990, dir. Ken
Loach)

18 Oct.: Les Enfants du Paradis (France
1945, dir. Marcel Carné)

25 Oct.: The Adventures of a Dentist (USSR
1965, dir. Elem Klimov)

1 Nov.: In a Year with Thirteen Moons (W.
Germany 1978, dir. R.W. Fassbinder)

8 Nov.: The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
(Germany 1919, dir. Robert Wiene)

15 Nov.: The Strike (USSR 1924, dir.
Sergei Eisenstein)

22 Nov.: Rome Open City (Italy 1945, dir.
Roberto Rosselini)

29 Nov.: La Ronde (France 1950, dir. Max
Ophuls)

MODERN HISTORY

The medical legacy of Greece and Rome

The following seminars will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursdays in the
Seminar Room, 47 Banbury Road, at the Wellcome Unit for the History
of Medicine. All are welcome.

Convener: E. Savage-Smith, Research Associate, Wellcome
Unit for the History of Medicine.

N. MANI, Medizinhistorisches Institut, University of Bonn

12 Oct.: `Galen and his Influence on
Sixteenth-Century Medicine.'

J. LONGRIGG, Newcastle upon Tyne
19 Oct.: `Alexandrian Medical Science.'

H. KING, Newcastle upon Tyne

26 Oct.: `The Disease of Virginity: Hippocratic
Gynaecology in the Sixteenth Century.'

R.P.J. JACKSON, Dept. of Prehistoric and Romano-British Antiquities,
British Museum, London

2 Nov.: `Surgeons, Surgery and Instruments in the
Roman Empire.'

S. WEST

9 Nov.: `Hippocrates and the Scythians.'

D. LANGSLOW

16 Nov.: `Medical Language: Ancient and Modern.'

V. HUTTON, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine

23 Nov.: `From Galen to Galenism and After.'

F.R.W. ZIMMERMANN

30 Nov.: `Razi and the Triumph of Galenism in the
World of Islam.'

Topics in the social history of medicine

The following seminars will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesdays in the
Seminar Room, 47 Banbury Road, at the Wellcome Unit for the History
of Medicine. All are welcome.

Convener: D.J. Wright, D.Phil.

B. HARRIS, Southampton

24 Oct.: `Responding to Adversity:
Government-Charity Relations and the Relief of Unemployment in
Interwar Britain.'

C. KRAMER, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine

31 Oct.: `Courting Madness: Asylum Culture in Early
Nineteenth-Century Germany.'

D. SMITH, Aberdeen

7 Nov.: `John Boyd Orr, the Rowett Research
Institute and Minerals in Nutrition.'

T. BOON

14 Nov.: `Making the Health Education Film in 1930s
Britain.'

L. MARKS, Imperial College, London

21 Nov.: `'A Cage of Ovulating Females': The Early
Clinical Trials of the Pill.'

M. DUPREE, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Glasgow

28 Nov.: `Medical Practitioners in
Nineteenth-Century Scotland.'

MODERN HISTORY, ORIENTAL STUDIES

Seminar in medieval Jewish history and
literature

The following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Mondays in Pembroke
College.

Conveners: D. Frank (Ph.D. Harvard), Research Fellow of
Wolfson College and Fellow of the Centre for Hebrew and Jewish
Studies, M.D. Goodman, MA, D.Phil., Reader in Jewish Studies, M.
Rubin, MA, University Lecturer (CUF) in Medieval History, and A.
Tanenbaum, Associate Scholar of the Centre for Hebrew and Jewish
Studies.

DR J. OLSZOWY

23 Oct.: `Karaite marriage contracts of the
tenthtwelfth centuries as a historical source.'

DR E. FROJMOVIC, Leeds

6 Nov.: `The "Old Country"
remembereda revival of the Spanish tradition in the
earliest illustrated printed Haggadah.'

DR M. MINTY, McGill

20 Nov.: `The transformation of Judengasse to
Christian Quarter in late medieval Germany.'

ORIENTAL STUDIES

Jewish history and literature in the Graeco-Roman period

The following seminars will take place at 2.30 p.m. on Tuesdays in
Wolfson College.

Convener: M.D. Goodman, MA, D.Phil., Reader in Jewish
Studies.

DR J. MCLAREN, Australian Catholic University

24 Oct.: `Turbulent times? Measuring unrest in
first-century Judaea.'

DR D. GERA, Ben Gurion University

31 Oct.: `History and literature: the Battle of
Beth Zacharia.'

DR C. HEMPEL, Birmingham

7 Nov.: `The earthly Essene nucleus of IQSa.'

DR P. VAN BOXEL, Leo Baeck College

14 Nov.: `Weeping over Jerusalem: a reaction to the
destruction of the Temple.'

PROFESSOR S. DAR, Bar-Ilan University

21 Nov.: `The Jewish settlements on Mt. Carmel in
the Roman and Byzantine periods.'

DR D. FALK

28 Nov.: `From Wissenschaft des Judentums to the
Dead Sea Scrolls: theories on the origins of Jewish liturgy
reconsidered.'

PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Theoretical Chemistry Group Seminars

The following seminars will be held on Mondays in the Seminar Room,
the New Chemistry Building. With the exception of the 27 November
seminar, which will be held at 10 a.m., they will take place at 5
p.m.

Convener: M.S. Child, MA, Professor of Chemical Dynamics.

DR M. WILSON, Max-Planck Institut, Stuttgart

9 Oct.: `Modelling interionic
interactionsprogress with ZrO2 and Al2O3.'

DR D.E. MANOLOPOUILOS

16 Oct.: `Chemical reaction dynamics and anion
photoelectron spectroscopy.'

DR P.A. MADDEN

23 Oct.: `Structure and stability of charge
stabilised colloids from first principles.'

DR S.L. PRICE, University College, London

30 Oct.: `The role of electrostatic interactions in
determining the crystal structures of polar organic
molecules.'

MR T. WESTON

6 Nov.: `Classical and quantum dynamics of coupled
Morse oscillators.'

DR D.E. LOGAN

13 Nov.: `The Hubbard model: poles, holes, strings,
and things.'

PROFESSOR M.J. GILLAN, Keele

20 Nov.: `ab initio simulation of complex
liquids.'

DR E. POLLAK, Weizmann Institute

27 Nov.: `Theory of activated surface diffusion.'

COMPUTING LABORATORY

Strachey Lecture

PROFESSOR DANA S. SCOTT, Carnegie Mellon University, will deliver the
Strachey Lecture at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 3 October, in the Lecture
Theatre, the Computing Laboratory, Wolfson Building, Parks Road.

The lecture is the first of a termly series of Distinguished
Lectures named after Christopher Strachey, the University's first
Professor of Computation.

Subject: `Twenty-five years of domain theory.'

Additional lecture

PROFESSOR SCOTT will give an additional lecture at 10 a.m. on
Tuesday, 3 October, in the Lecture Theatre, the Computing Laboratory.

Subject: `Experience in teaching mathematics with a
computer.'

NISSAN INSTITUTE OF JAPANESE STUDIES

The following seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Fridays in the
Lecture Theatre, the Nissan Institute.

DR M. REBICK

13 Oct.: `Do you have to go to Tokyo University to
get a good job? Trends in the 1990s.'

MR MASAO MIYAMOTO, former official of the Ministry of Health and
Welfare and author of The Straightjacket Society

20 Oct.: `Japanese bureaucracy and its
problems.'

PROFESSOR HIROSHI ODA, London

27 Oct.: `Proposed changes to the Code of Civil
Procedure concerning transnational litigation.'

DR D. CAMPBELL, Essex

3 Nov.: `The asset inflation in Japan in the late
1980s.'

DR F. GREY, Mikroelektronik Centret, Lyngby, Denmark

10 Nov.: `Japanese science: is there such a
thing?'

PROFESSOR TETSUO TSUZAKI

17 Nov.: `Social work as a social institution:
unpropounded or unfinished agenda? A JapanUK
comparison.'

MS HIROKO TOMIDA, Sheffield

24 Nov.: `The contribution of oral history to the
evolution of Japanese women's historiography.'

DR J. BABB, Newcastle

1 Dec.: `The emergence of a postwar political
history: critical junctures and trends.'

INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL
MICROBIOLOGY

The following seminars will be held at 4 p.m. on Fridays in the
Institute Seminar Room.

DR J. HARWOOD, NERC Sea Mammal Research Unit, Cambridge

13 Oct.: `The role of disease and mass mortality in
the dynamics of marine mammal populations.'

DR B. FINLAY, NERC Institute of Freshwater Ecology, Windermere

20 Oct.: `Microbial diversity and ecosystem
function.'

PROFESSOR J. SPRENT, Dundee

27 Oct.: `Diversity in nitrogen fixing
bacteria.'

DR R. TROUT, MAFF Central Science Laboratory, Worplesdon

3 Nov.: `Rabbit management: bashing, bugging, or
biotechnology?'

DR B. HEYWOOD, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge

10 Nov.: `Global change, Antarctica, and the BAS
programme.'

DR N. KNOWLES, BBSRC Animal Virus Laboratory, Pirbright

17 Nov.: `Molecular epidemiology and evolution of
foot-and-mouth disease virus.'

DR P. CANE, Warwick

24 Nov.: `Evolution and molecular epidemiology of
human respiratory syncytial virus.'

DR M. THOMAS, Imperial College at Silwood Park, Ascot

1 Dec.: `Biological control of locusts and
grasshoppers using pathogens.'

GREEN COLLEGE

Radcliffe Lecture 1995

PROFESSOR SIR DAVID WEATHERALL, FRS, will deliver the 1995
Radcliffe Lecture at 6 p.m. on Thursday, 12 October, in the
Witts Lecture Theatre, the Radcliffe Infirmary.

Subject: `Genetics, medicine, and society.'

WOLFSON COLLEGE

Ronald Syme Lecture 1995

PROFESSOR T.D.C. BARNES, FRSC, Professor of Classics, University of
Toronto, will deliver the fifth Ronald Syme Lecture at 6 p.m. on
Thursday, 19 October, in the Hall, Wolfson College.

Subject: `Hagiography and Roman history.'

FRIENDS OF THE BODLEIAN

GILLIAN AVERY will give a thirty-minute lecture at 5.30 p.m. on
Monday, 16 October, in Convocation House, the Old Schools Quadrangle.

Subject: `But what did children really read? An informal
survey from diaries and memoirs.'

The lecture will be followed by a private viewing, for Friends
of the Bodleian, of the exhibition `Early children's books in the
Bodleian Library'. Wine will be served in the Divinity School. Those
wishing to attend are asked to inform the Membership Secretary,
Friends of the Bodleian, Bodleian Library, Oxford OX1 3BG (tel.:
Oxford (2)77234).

Oxford University Gazette, 28 September 1995: Grants and Research Funding

Grants and Research Funding

Contents of this section:

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

Oxford University Gazette, 28 September 1995: Examinations and Boards

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: appointments, etc.
FACULTY BOARD ELECTIONS
*BOARD OF THE FACULTY
OF SOCIAL STUDIES
- *Election of official
  member
CHAIRMEN OF EXAMINERS
EXAMINATIONS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF
PHILOSOPHY
EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF
SCIENCE

GENERAL BOARD OF THE FACULTIES

With the approval of the General Board, the following
appointments and reappointments have been made and titles
conferred for the periods stated.

1 Appointments

UNIVERSITY LECTURER/CURATOR OF THE BATE COLLECTION

Anthropology and Geography

hélène t.a.m. la rue , ma, d.phil., Fellow of St
Cross. From 1 October 1995 until 30 September 2000.

UNIVERSITY LECTURERS

(From 1 October 1995 until 30 September 2000 unless otherwise
stated)

Anthropology and Geography

heather a. viles, ma, d.phil., Fellow-elect of Worcester. In
Physical Geography. From 1 January 1996 until 31 December 2000.

Biological Sciences

robert w. scotland, ma status (b.sc. London, ph.d. Reading),
Fellow-elect of Linacre. In Plant Systematics and Biodiversity.

Management Studies

ian kessler, ma (ba Manchester, ma, ph.d. Warwick), Fellow of
Templeton. In Management Studies. From 1 January 1996 until 31
December 2000.

Modern History

helena f. hamerow, d.phil. (ba Wisconsin-Madison), Fellow-elect
of St Cross. In European Archaeology (Early Medieval). From 1
March 1996 until 28 February 2001.

maria c.mundell mango, ma status, d.phil. (ba Massachusetts, ma
London), Fellow-elect of St John's. In Byzantine Archaeology and
Art.

Physical Sciences

philipp podsiadlowski (prediploma München, ph.d. MIT),
Fellow- elect of St Edmund Hall. In Physics. From 1 March 1996
until 28 February 2001.

Theology

diarmaid n.j. macculloch (ma, ph.d. Cambridge), Fellow-elect of
St Cross. In Theology.

UNIVERSITY LECTURERS (temporary)

Biological Sciences

mark ridley, ma, d.phil. In Zoology. From 1 September 1995 until
30 September 1996.

Social Studies

erica l. benner, m.phil., d.phil (ba New Orleans), Fellow-elect
of St Antony's. In International Relations. From 1 October 1995
until 30 September 1997.

UNIVERSITY LECTURER (CUF)

Modern History

james r. raven (ma, ph.d. Cambridge), Fellow-elect of Mansfield.
In Modern History. From 1 January 1996 until 31 December 2000.

UNIVERSITY LECTURERS (CUF)(temporary)

Medieval and Modern Languages

patrick r.a. mcguinness, ba (ba Cambridge, ma York), Fellow-elect
of Jesus. In French. From 1 October 1995 until 30 September 1997.

Physical Sciences

boris rusakov (m.sc. Gorki, ph.d. Moscow). In Physics. From 1
October 1995 until 30 September 1996

JUNIOR LECTURER

Mathematical Sciences

david j. allwright (ba, ph.d. Cambridge). In Mathematics. From
1 October 1995 until 30 September 1998.

UNIVERSITY LECTURER (by decree)

Medieval and Modern Languages

adelaida martín valverde (ma Hull). In Spanish. From 1
October 1995 until 30 September 1996.

STAFF TUTOR (fixed-term/half-time)

Continuing Education

vincent n.h. strudwick, ma status (ba Nottingham). In Biblical
and Theological Studies. From 1 September 1995 until 30 September
1998.

TUTOR IN EDUCATIONAL STUDIES (part-time)

ann c. childs (b.sc., ph.d. Birmingham). In Chemistry. From 1
September 1995 until 31 August 1996.

INSTRUCTOR IN ARABIC

Oriental Studies

sonia s'hiri (ba Tunis, m.sc., ph.d. Edinburgh). From 1 October
1995 until 30 September 1998.

NISSAN INSTRUCTOR IN JAPANESE

Oriental Studies

mie kagaya (ba Tsukuba, Japan). From 18 September 1995 until 17
September 2000.

HEBREW CENTRE LECTURER

Modern History

david rechter (ba, ma Melbourne), Fellow of the Oxford Centre for
Hebrew and Jewish Studies. From 1 October 1995 until 30 September
2000.

2 Reappointments

DEPUTY DIRECTOR (CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT)

Continuing Education

peter g. combey, ma, Fellow of Kellogg College. From 1 March 1996
until the retiring age.

UNIVERSITY LECTURER

Continuing Education

malcolm r. airs, ma, d.phil., Fellow of Kellogg College. In
Conservation and the Historic Environment. From 15 April 1996
until the retiring age.

INSTRUCTORS IN MODERN LANGUAGES

Medieval and Modern Languages

clara m. florio cooper, ma status (dott.lett.Turin). In Italian.
From 1 October 1995 until 30 September 1998.

mary coulton, ma status (ba Athens, m.litt. Birmingham). In
Modern Greek. From 1 October 1995 until 30 September 1998.

3 Appointment by the Board of the Faculty of Clinical
Medicine

DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF CLINICAL STUDIES

joan m. trowell, ma status (mb, bs London), frcp, mrcs. From 1
October 1995 until 30 September 1998.

4 Reappointments by the Board of the Faculty of Clinical
Medicine

CLINICAL LECTURERS

j.w.f. mant, ma status (mb, bs, m.sc. London, ma Cambridge). In
Public Health Medicine. From 1 July 1995 until 30 June 1998.

patrick h. maxwell, ma (mb, bs London). In Clinical Medicine.
From 1 January 1996 until 31 December 1996.

amanda ogilvy-stuart, ma status (bm Southampton), In Paediatrics.
From 1 April 1996 until 31 March 1999.

b.c. vinayak, (mb, bs London). In ENT. From 1 May 1996 until 30
April 1999.

n.r. watson, ma status (mb, bs London). In Obstetrics and
Gynaecology. From 1 January 1996 until 31 December 1996.

5 Conferment of title by the Board of the Faculty of Clinical
Medicine

HONORARY SENIOR CLINICAL LECTURER

justin a. roake, d.phil. (mb., ch.b. Otago), fracs. In Surgery.
From 1 April 1995 until 31 March 2000.

FACULTY BOARD ELECTIONS

No other nominations having been received, the Vice-Chancellor
and Proctors, acting under the provisions of Ch. II, Sect. vi,
§ 5 (Statutes, 1993, p. 221), have nominated
the following to fill vacancies from the beginning of Michaelmas
Term 1995.

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ordinary members

1. M.E. DAWKINS, MA, D.PHIL., Fellow of Somerville

2. A. KACELNIK, MA, D.PHIL., Fellow of Pembroke

PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIES

Ordinary member

I.D. THOMPSON, MA, Student of Christ Church

CHAIRMEN OF EXAMINERS

TRINITY TERM 1996

Preliminary Examinations

Bachelor of Fine Art: M. CHEVSKA, MA status, Fellow of
Brasenose (address: Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art)

Biology: D.B. ROBERTS, MA, Fellow of Magdalen
(address: Department of Biochemistry)

Philosophy, Politics, and Economics: C.S. ADAMS, MA,
M.PHIL., D.PHIL., Fellow of St Cross (address: Institute of
Economics and Statistics)

Honour Moderations

Geography: P.A. BULL, MA, Fellow of Hertford (address:
School of Geography)

Modern History and Economics: J.B.W. NIGHTINGALE,
MA, Fellow of Magdalen

Honour Schools

Geography: .A.M. SWYNGEDOUW, MA, Fellow of St Peter's
(address: School of Geography)

Human Sciences: D.A. COLEMAN,MA, Fellow of Linacre
(address: Department of Applied Social Studies and Social
Research)

Music: R. PARKER, Fellow-elect of St Hugh's

Natural Science
k Physics: R.C.E. DEVENISH, MA, Fellow of Hertford
(address: Department of Particle and Nuclear Physics)

Physiological Sciences: J.S.H. TAYLOR, MA,
Fellow of Pembroke (address: Department of Human Anatomy)

Bachelor of Civil Law

C.F.H. TAPPER, BCL, MA, Fellow of Magdalen

Magister Juris in European and Comparative Law

C.F.H. TAPPER, BCL, MA, Fellow of Magdalen

Master of Philosophy

Comparative Social Research: A.F. HEATH, MA, Fellow
of Nuffield

Politics: M.F.E. PHILP, MA, M.PHIL., Fellow of Oriel

Qualifying Test in Comparative Social Research: A.F.
HEATH, MA, Fellow of Nuffield

Master of Science

Applied Social Studies: C. ROBERTS, MA, Fellow of Green
College

Comparative Social Research: A.F. HEATH, MA, Fellow
of Nuffield

Management (Industrial Relations): K. GRINT, MA
status, D.PHIL., Fellow of Templeton

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

M. HENSMANN, Brasenose: `NMR studies of SHE domains: structure and
phosphopeptide binding'.

New Chemistry Laboratory, Monday, 18 December, 2.15 p.m.

Examiners: M.D. Waterfield, C.M. Dobson.

I. PHAN, Wolfson: `Structural studies of modular proteins by NMR
spectrose and molecular modelling'.

New Chemistry Laboratory, Tuesday, 17 October, 2.15 p.m.

Examiners: E.D. Laue, C.M. Dobson.

Clinical Medicine

P.F. BAILLIE-HAMILTON, Christ Church: `Applications of magnetic
resonance in cancer diagnosis and therapy'.

John Radcliffe Hospital, Tuesday, 10 October, 9.30 a.m.

Examiners: G.E. Adams, B.J. Shepstone.

English Language and Literature

J.D. FOX, Brasenose: `Darwin and the Island: the impact of
evolutionary thought on certain island texts of Wells, Conrad, and
Golding'.

Examination Schools, Monday, 2 October, 2 p.m.

Examiners: B.A. Richards, M. Kinkead-Weekes.

Law

R.N. CHAMBERS, St Peter's: `Resulting trusts and the law of
restitution'.

Wadham, Friday, 15 December, 2.15 p.m.

Examiners: a.s. Burrows, J. Hackney.

Literae Humaniores

I.D. GRADEL, Lady Margaret Hall: `Heavenly honours: emperor worship
in Italy from Augustus to the Severans'.

Examination Schools, Monday, 16 October, 4.30 p.m.

Examiners: F.G.B. Millar, J.A. North.

Physical Sciences

D.A. HOPKINSON, Keble: `T-violation in atomic systems'.

Clarendon Laboratory, Tuesday, 17 October, 2.15 p.m.

Examiners: D.M. Segal, C.D. Thompson.

Physiological Sciences

M.K. BADMAN, Wadham: `Cellular mechanisms for islet amyloid formation
and degradation'.

John Radcliffe Hospital, Thursday, 12 October, 2 p.m.

Examiners: P.E. Fraser, S.J.H. Ashcroft.

EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF
SCIENCE

The examiners appointed by The following faculty board give notice of
oral examination of their candidate as follows:

Physiological Sciences

M. FAEHLING, Lincoln: `Studies of ATP-sensitive whole-cell currents
in pancreatic beta-cells'.

John Radcliffe Hospital, Tuesday, 17 October, 2 p.m.

Examiners: U. Panten, S.J.H. Ashcroft.

Oxford University Gazette, 28 September 1995: Colleges, Halls, and Societies

Colleges, Halls, and Societies

Contents of this section:

OBITUARIES
- Christ Church
- St Edmund Hall
MEMORIAL SERVICE
- Somerville College
ELECTION
- St Hilda's College

OBITUARIES

Christ Church

HAROLD BAILEY, MA, 28 May 1995; scholar 19337. Aged 81.

SEAN DOWLING, 1995; commoner 19903. Aged 24.

SIDNEY GOLT, MA, CB, 4 June 1995; scholar 192831. Aged 85.

GERVASE JACKSON-STOPS, MA, 2 July 1995; exhibitioner 196571.
Aged 48.

LT-COL. HARRY PEARSON, MA, 7 August 1995; scholar 19325.

PATRICK FINDLATER STEWART, MA, 21 July 1995; scholar 19369.

CHRISTOPHER DENIS GEORGE PIERRE WAUD, 25 June 1995; commoner
19558. Aged 66.

St Edmund Hall

THOMAS OLDLAND HOYLE, MA, 28 February 1995; commoner 19468.
Aged 70.

MEMORIAL SERVICE

Somerville College

A Memorial Service for DR JENNIFER LOACH will be held at 2.30 p.m. on
Saturday, 14 October, in the University Church of St Mary the Virgin.
There will be a reception in Somerville College after the service.

ELECTION

St Hilda's College

To a University Kolkhorst Exhibition

KERRY JAYNE SMITH,
formerly of the Belvedere School, Liverpool

Oxford University Gazette, 28 September 1995: Advertisements

Contents of this section:

Hadrian's Wall Walk
Tuition Offered
Services Offered
Domestic Services
Situations Vacant
Houses to Let
Flats to Let
Accommodation Offered
Accommodation Sought
Accommodation Offered to Rent or Exchange
Houses for Sale
Flat for Sale
Piano for Sale
Book Sale

How to advertise in the
Gazette

Terms and
conditions of acceptance of advertisements

Hadrian's Wall Walk

Volunteers are sought by the Alumni Office to assist
with the planning of the Oxford University Hadrian's Wall Walk,
1520 Apr. 1996. Please contact the University Alumni Officer,
Rodney Buckton, External Relations Office, Oxenford House, Magdalen
Street, Oxford OX1 3AB. Tel.: Oxford (2)78128, fax: (2)78180.

Tuition Offered

Piano lessons with Martin André, MA, ARCM;
intermediate to diploma level. North Oxford. Tel.: Oxford 516985.

Piano and bassoon lessons offered in Wolvercote. All
ages and stages welcome. I have many years' teaching experience and
am fully qualified on both instruments. Noël Rainbird. Tel.:
Oxford 52539.

Cello tuition offered by experienced teacher.
Beginners to
advanced players. Johanna Messner, Jericho. Tel.: Oxford 311981.

Services Offered

Frederick and Sudabeh Hine, dealers in Persian,
Afghan, and
Turkey carpets and rugs, runners, and kelims. Wide selection of
tribal, village, and workshop pieces. Many items heavily reduced to
make room for new importations arriving end Oct. Browse through our
warehouse without obligation 10 a.m.6 p.m., for 7 days a week
at present. Old Squash Court at the rear of 16 Linton Road, North
Oxford. Tel./fax: Oxford 59396.

Furniture restoration and traditional cabinet-making
by experienced craftsman; french polishing, upholstery, carving,
gilding; clock and barometer repairs. Collection and delivery
service. Mark Griffin Furniture. Tel.: Oxford 300171.

Flowers design studio, 13 North Parade, Oxford OX2
6LX. Exciting and unusual flowers. Delivers, weddings, parties, and
balls. Open Mon.Fri. 10 a.m.5.30 p.m., Sat. 10
a.m.4 p.m. Tel.:
Oxford 56358.

Furniture restoration: all aspects of furniture
restoration, cabinet-making, carving, chair repairs, traditional
upholstery, re- caning, and rush seating can be attended to by
Brazier's of Oxford. Panelling, bookcases, and individual joinery
also undertaken. Brazier's of Oxford, 57 High Street, Oxford. Tel.:
Oxford 246574.

Domestic Services

We are looking for a native German speaker to pick
up our 5½-year-old from school in Headington at 3 p.m. and look
after him until 5.30 p.m. twice per week (inc. Wednesdays). Tel.:
Oxford 248019.

The House at Pooh Corner Montessori Nursery School,
the Milham Centre, Jack Straw's Lane, Marston, Oxford. Ages
2½5. Well-known small school. Specialist teachers for
music, dance, art, French, and project work. Directress: Victoria
King. Tel.: 01993 775744.

Situations Vacant

Serious academic summer program in Paris seeks
Director.
Candidates should have 10 years' experience in secondary school
education, fluent French, and a good knowledge of Paris. Advanced
degree preferred. Send references and c.v. to: the Executive
Director, Academic Programs, 601 W110th St., Suite 7R, New York, NY
10025, USA. Fax: 212 663 8169.

Houses to Let

Cunliffe Close, North Oxford: house, large
sitting/dining-room, kitchen, cloakroom, 3 bedrooms (1 double),
bathroom, detached garage. Fully furnished, inc. linen,
washing-machine and clothes drier. Available now. Rent £740
p.c.m., negotiable. Tel.: Oxford 727386.

End-terrace, ideally located, newly-furnished
Victorian house in
Jericho to let; 2 bedrooms, first-floor bath, conservatory, courtyard
garden. Available from 15 Oct. One-year rental at £750 p.m.
Tel.: Oxford 54507.

Headington/Risinghurst: attractive, lightly
furnished bungalow
with 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, c.h., and leafy garden; 12 minutes to
city centre, reliable bus service. £550 p.c.m. From 1 October
for 6 months. Tel.: Oxford 62674, or 01600 890207.

Old Marston: an attractive period property in the
heart of the village with two bedrooms, study, living- and
dining-room areas plus modern fitted kitchen. Ideal for professional
couple requiring easy access to colleges and hospitals. Furnished.
Available Sept. £750 p.c.m. Mallam's. Tel.: Abingdon (01235)
553064.

In East Hendred, 20 minutes from Oxford,
stone-fronted cottage in beautiful village; 3 bedrooms, conservatory,
laundry-room, etc., c.h., lovely garden, large garage. £750
p.c.m. plus bills. Tel.: 0378 064413 or 0171-262 9604.

Furnished central North Oxford house to let, 7
Oct.30 Apr. (dates flexible); walk to colleges, train station,
bus
station; near Port Meadow; c.h., recently redecorated, secluded
garden, garden furniture, terrace; 3 bedrooms, 1½ bathrooms,
washing-machine, drier, telephone, linen, dishes, 2 bicycles.
Suitable for visiting academics. £830 p.m. Tel.: Oxford 775567
(J. Mackrell, evenings); or tel. (A. Gaston, Canada): 613 7451368/819
6710348, fax: 613 7450299, e-mail: gastont@nwrc.cws.doe.ca.

Very clean, peaceful rural but accessible beautiful
old stone cottage (2 bedrooms) on ancient farm; wonderful views,
walks, garden; tennis; comfortable antiques-or unfurnished;
insulation; c.h.; open log fire; garage; local pub. Six months min.
Oxford 20 minutes. Tel.: 01993 822152.

A pleasant comfortable semi-detached house close to
Iffley Village; sleeps up to 6 people; holiday or short let; parking,
TV, linen. £350 p.w. Tel.: Oxford 778458, fax: Oxford 776477.

Coming to Oxford? QB Management are one of Oxford's
foremost
letting agents with a range of good quality flats and houses in the
Oxford area. We specialise in lettings to visiting academics, medical
personnel, and other professionals and our aim is to provide the
friendliest and most helpful service in Oxford. Please telephone or
fax us with details of your requirements and we will do whatever we
can to help without obligation. Tel.: Oxford 64533, fax: 64777.

Mallam's Residential Letting and Management
Department offers
a complete letting and management service. If you are considering
letting your property please call for a professional consultation
without cost or obligation. Tel.: Oxford 241466.

Flats to Let

Studio flat, central Oxford: large, light basement
studio flat
in Southmoor Road; own bathroom, cooking, and telephone. £105
p.w., which includes all utilities. Tel.: Oxford (2)70720 (w), or
54397 (h).

Central North Oxford: spacious modern ground-floor flat,
well presented and furnished. Off-road parking. Available immediately
for 12 months min. from 1 Oct. £500 p.c.m. Tel.: 01280
705191.

Superb new roof-top garden flat to let in very quiet
location,
10 minutes from Oxford city centre; 1 very spacious bed-sitting room,
fireplace, french doors onto terrace, new kitchen and w.c.; shower-
room on separate floor. £595 p.m. Tel.: Oxford 247150.

North Oxford, Summertown: attractive spacious flat
for
one/two; bedroom, sitting-room (period fireplace, stripped pine doors
and floors), kitchen/diner (6m by 2.4m), new bathroom, c.h.,
washer/drier, dish-washer; off-street parking; use of garden. Tel.:
Oxford 58775.

North Leigh, at edge of Cotswolds, 11 miles from
centre of Oxford, 6 miles from Woodstock and 3 miles from Witney:
first-floor flat; one study/bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, c.h.; share
entrance only; separate telephone; parking space; rural views; bus
service but car an advantage. Ideal for someone writing a
dissertation or book. £230 p.c.m. Tel.: 01993 881 667.

Central North Oxford, 10 minutes from city centre,
two
delightful and very comfortable flats available now in quiet,
civilised family house: (1)-large double bedroom, single
bedroom,
drawing-room, kitchen, bathroom; (2)-large double bedroom,
drawing-room, kitchen, bathroom. Off-street parking, garden. Regret
no children or pets. Tel.: Oxford 52400.

Charming flat in converted barn; suit professional
couple.
Islip. Free from 10 Oct. Tel.: Oxford 376094.

Active retired doctor has comfortable self-contained
studio flat available in Headington in exchange for approx. quarter-
to half-time flexible help with housekeeping, occasional shopping,
car-driving, etc. Might suit retired person with spare time or
someone with other part-time interests. Tel.: Oxford 68925.

Woodstock Road, within walking distance of
Summertown shops: modern purpose- built first-floor flat; d.g., fully
carpeted, individual gas c.h., fully furnished and equipped; 2 double
bedrooms, study, dining-room or third bedroom (single), large
living-room, kitchen/diner, one large bathroom, gardens on ground
floor, parking space. Most modern conveniences. £850 p.m.
Available 1 Oct. for academic year or longer. Tel.: Oxford 515301; if
no reply: 00 39 55 573056.

Central North Oxford: large, pleasant,
fully-equipped
centrally-heated 2-room flat with shared bathroom; garden. Suit
graduate couple. Rent, inc. of bills, £375 p.c.m. Tel.: Oxford
515635.

Accommodation Offered

Cottage just over Magdalen Bridge: quiet, sunny,
civilised,
all the usual accoutrements, pretty garden full of surprises.
Equivalent lodger sought for very nice room at £240 p.c.m. Tel.:
Oxford 245707.

Attractive bedsit available now for one person: one
main room, lobby, own bathroom; independent access; fully carpeted
and furnished; bedding; cooking facilities; heating; westerly
outlookin pleasant North Oxford location. Non-smoker please.
£60 p.w. inc. Tel.: Oxford 58263.

Not quite a flattwo rooms to let to
professional non-smoker; own bedroom and sitting-room, share bathroom
and kitchen with owner; lovely house in Wolvercote, close to Port
Meadow. Frequent buses to town. £320 p.c.m. plus council tax and
bills. Tel.: Oxford 52539.

Rooms available in Grandpont, about 4 minutes by
bicycle to city centre. Close to Isis and all amenities. Very
reasonable rates for academics. Tel.: Oxford (2)74897.

Accommodation Sought

Short-term accommodation needed. Visiting fellow
seeks
one-bedroom flat/studio in North/central Oxford, 1 Oct.15 Dec.
Tel.: Oxford 59566.

Mature female professional working within the
University
seeks pleasant independent or shared accommodation in central North
Oxford. Tel.: Oxford (2)74224 (work).

Responsible, single professional male, non-smoking,
recently started work with the University, seeks studio flat, above
average bedsit or house-sit, in quiet environs, preferably with good
access to Wellington Square. Rent available up to an absolute max. of
£400 p.c.m. References can be provided. Telephone Mark. Tel.:
Oxford (2)70053 (day), or 01793 432261 (evenings).

The Oxford School of Drama, Oxfordshire's only
professional drama school, is looking for families who will provide
bed, breakfast, and an evening meal for our students. This will be
for two terms, beginning Oct. Please contact Hilary Davis,
Administrator, for further details. Tel.: 01993 812883.

Going abroad? Or just thinking of letting your
property? QB Management are one of Oxford's foremost letting agents
and property managers. We specialise in lettings to both academic and
professional individuals and their families, and have a constant flow
of enquiries from good-quality tenants seeking property in the Oxford
area. If you would like details of our services, or if you simply
need some informal help and advice without obligation, telephone us.
Tel.: Oxford 64533, or fax: 64777.
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Accommodation Offered to Rent or Exchange

Three-bedroom semi available from Dec. for 1 year;
to let or exchange with property in Sydney, Australia; close to
Headington hospitals, quiet location, off-street parking, garden.
Ingrid Wallace. £500 p.c.m. Tel.: Oxford 65182.

Houses for Sale

In Iffley Fields, a high-quality small modern house
with double bedroom, living-room, kitchen and bathroom, own garden
and garage in a small secure and private courtyard development with
open views, yet within half-mile of Magdalen Bridge. Gas c.h. and
fully carpeted. Immediate availability. £64,950. Tel.: Oxford
739713 (p.m.). 289]

Beautifully presented and individual 3-bedroom
detached house at Garsington (10 minutes' drive Oxford, easy access
M40/London); in quiet location with views to open countryside front
and rear; good decorative order; large lounge overlooking garden;
separate dining-room and kitchen overlook front garden; downstairs
cloakroom and access to adjoining garage; upstairs 3 bedrooms,
bathroom; gas c.h. Designed and built with interesting features for
present owners. £139,000 ONO. No chain; some flexibility
possible over completion date. Tel./fax: Oxford 735540.

Flat for Sale

Kirtlington (Oxford 10 miles): attractively situated
ground-floor flat overlooking Kirtlington Park; entrance hall,
drawing-room, kitchen, utility-room, 2 bedrooms, bathroom, shower-
room, double garage, garden. Offers around £165,000 leasehold.
Savills, Banbury. Tel.: 01295 263535.

Piano for Sale

A white upright Yamaha piano for sale; approx. 10
years old; one owner only, who is going abroad; piano in pristine
condition. Tel./fax: 01491 839413.

Book Sale

Mallam's Book Sale, Fri. 17 Nov. Antiquarian and
modern books, bindings, prints, engravings, and folios. Maps and
related items. Entries are invited. All enquiries: Benjamin Lloyd.
Bocardo House, St Michael's Street, Oxford OX1 2EB.

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Ox. Univ. Gazette, 28 September 1995: Diary, 29 September - 23 October

Diary

Contents of this section:

Friday 29 September
Saturday 30 September
Sunday 1 October
Monday 2 October
Tuesday 3 October
Thursday 5 October
Friday 6 October
Sunday 8 October
Monday 9 October
Tuesday 10 October
Wednesday 11 October
Thursday 12 October
Friday 13 October
Saturday 14 October
Sunday 15 October
Monday 16 October
Tuesday 17 October
Thursday 19 October
Friday 20 October
Saturday 21 October
Sunday 22 October
Monday 23 October

Academic Staff 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="../../supps/3_4373.htm">Staff Development Programme
supplement.

Friday 29 September

ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM gallery talk: `An introduction to sculpture', 1.15
p.m. (Restricted attendance. Cost £1.50. Tel. for bookings:
(2)78000.)

Saturday 30 September

DEGREE conferments, Sheldonian: non-matriculated candidates, morning
ceremony; other candidates, afternoon ceremony (2.30 p.m.).

CHRIST CHURCH Picture Gallery exhibition opens: `Ariadne's
Thread'sculpture and wood engravings by Helen Kenny (until 29
October).

Sunday 1 October

MICHAELMAS TERM begins.

Monday 2 October

CONGREGATION elections, 19 October: nominations by two members of
Congregation to be received at the University Offices by 4 p.m.

SOCIAL STUDIES Faculty Board election, 2 November (one official
member): nominations by two electors to be received at the University
Offices by 4 p.m.

Tuesday 3 October

CONGREGATION meeting, 12 noon (Vice-Chancellor's Oration).

ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM gallery talk: `Pissarro', 1.15 p.m. (Restricted
attendance. Cost £1.50. Tel. for bookings: (2)78000.)

PROFESSOR D.S. SCOTT: `Twenty-five years of domain theory'
(Strachey Lecture), Lecture Theatre, Computing Laboratory, 5.30 p.m.

Thursday 5 October

THE REVD GERALD HEGARTY, Celebrant, Holy Communion (Latin), St
Mary's, 8 a.m.

CHRIST CHURCH Picture Gallery exhibition opens:
`Mannerism'Old Master drawings (until 18 December).

Friday 6 October

ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM gallery talk: `Costume on coins and medals', 1.15
p.m. (Restricted attendance. Cost £1.50. Tel. for bookings:
(2)78000.)

Sunday 8 October

MICHAELMAS FULL TERM begins.

DR S. JUDGE preaches, St Mary's, 10 a.m.

Monday 9 October

CONGREGATION elections, 19 October: nominations by six members of
Congregation to be received at the University Offices by 4 p.m.

Tuesday 10 October

ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM gallery talk: `Dutch and Flemish drawings from the
Royal Library, Windsor' (special exhibition), 1.15 p.m. (Restricted
attendance. Cost £1.50. Tel. for bookings: (2)78000.)

PROFESSOR D. WINCH: `Overhearing conversations, political and
social scientific' (Carlyle Lectures: `Secret concatenations: riches
and poverty, Mandeville to Malthus'), Schools, 5 p.m.

Wednesday 11 October

PROFESSOR ARTHUR MILLER (Cameron Mackintosh Professor of Contemporary
Theatre): `The Plain Girl' (readings and discussion of
Arthur Miller's new work), Bernard Sunley Lecture Theatre, St
Catherine's, 5 p.m.

CITY OF OXFORD ORCHESTRA plays works by Rossini, Wagner, Mozart,
and Weil at an opening concert and reception in the new Jacqueline du
Pré Music Building, St Hilda's, 7.45 p.m. (Limited number of
tickets available at £25 from St Hilda's: (2)76828.)

Thursday 12 October

PROFESSOR G.L. CLARK (Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography): `The
passions of commitment and the scales of regulation' (inaugural
lecture), University Museum, 5 p.m.

PROFESSOR STEVE JONES: `Is human evolution over?' (Meyerstein
Lecture), Garden Quadrangle Auditorium, St John's, 5 p.m.

PROFESSOR SIR DAVID WEATHERALL: `Genetics, medicine, and society'
(Radcliffe Lecture 1995), Witts Lecture Theatre, Radcliffe Infirmary,
6 p.m.

Friday 13 October

ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM gallery talk: `Chinese prints by Lui Haiming'
(special exhibition), 1.15 p.m. (Restricted attendance. Cost
£1.50. Tel. for bookings: (2)78000.)

Saturday 14 October

MATRICULATION ceremony, Sheldonian (time to be announced).

DISCUSSION to mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of the admission
of women to degrees of the University (various speakers), St Anne's.

Sunday 15 October

THE REVD DR ALLAN DOIG preaches the Ramsden Sermon, St Mary's, 10
a.m.

Monday 16 October

WOMEN TUTORS' GROUP meeting, Old Bar, Mansfield, 1 p.m.

SIR DAVID PUTTNAM: `Hearts and mindsEurope, America, and the
birth of cinema' (public lecture series to mark the centenary of
European cinema: `Hearts and minds, myths and moneythe struggle
for control of the world's film industry'), Schools, 5 p.m.

GILLIAN AVERY: `But what did children really read? An
informal survey from diaries and memoirs' (Friends of the Bodleian
thirty-minute lecture), Convocation House, Old Schools Quadrangle,
5.30 p.m.

TUESDAY 17 OCTOBER

ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM gallery talk: `Islamic design', 1.15 p.m.
(Restricted attendance. Cost £1.50. Tel. for bookings:
(2)78000.)

SOCIAL STUDIES Faculty Board election, 2 November (one official
member): nominations by six electors to be received at the University
Offices by 4 p.m.

PROFESSOR D. WINCH: `Mandeville, Rousseau, and the paradox in favour
of luxury' (Carlyle Lectures: `Secret concatenations: riches and
poverty, Mandeville to Malthus'), Schools, 5 p.m.

Thursday 19 October

OXFORD UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S STUDIES COMMITTEE meeting, Old Bar,
Mansfield, 1 p.m. New members welcome.

PROFESSOR ARTHUR MILLER (Cameron Mackintosh Professor of
Contemporary Theatre): `The language of theatre', Bernard Sunley
Lecture Theatre, St Catherine's, 5 p.m.

DR A. YOUNG: `Perceiving social and physical environments' (Linacre
Lectures: `Mind, brain, and the environment'), Lecture Theatre A,
Zoology/Psychology Building, 5.30 p.m.

PROFESSOR T.D. BARNES: `Hagiography and Roman history' (Ronald
Syme Lecture), the Hall, Wolfson, 6 p.m.

FRIDAY 20 OCTOBER

ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM gallery talk: `Seventeenth-century European
painting', 1.15 p.m. (Restricted attendance. Cost £1.50. Tel.
for bookings: (2)78000.)

PROFESSOR ARTHUR MILLER (Cameron Mackintosh Professor of
Contemporary Theatre): masterclass (scenes from Death of a
Salesman and All My Sons performed by ETC), Old
Fire Station, George Street, 2.30 p.m. (no charge, but limited
admission: tickets from Old Fire Station box office on production of
student card).

PROFESSOR P. GOODFELLOW: `Genetics of sex determination and
differentiation' (Herbert Spencer Lectures: `Gender and society'),
Lecture Theatre A, Zoology/Psychology Building, 5 p.m.

PROFESSOR J. NELSON: `Bad rulership in the earlier Middle Ages:
diagnoses and prescriptions' (Faculty of Modern History Special
Faculty Lecture), Schools, 5 p.m.

SIR DAVID PUTTNAM: `Stars, genres, and the studio system' (public
lecture series to mark the centenary of European cinema: `Hearts and
minds, myths and moneythe struggle for control of the world's
film industry'), Schools, 5 p.m.

Saturday 21 October

DEGREE conferments, Sheldonian, 11.30 a.m. and 2.30 p.m.

Sunday 22 October

DR J. WRIGHT preaches, St Mary's, 10 a.m.

Monday 23 October

JUDGE RICHARD A. POSNER: `Hart v. Dworkin' (Clarendon Law Lectures:
`Law and legal theory in England and America'), Gulbenkian Theatre,
St Cross Building, 5 p.m.