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Please join the MCR and the SCR for a series of academic talks featuring the latest research interests of college members. Talks are held on various weekdays during term, from 1:00-2:00 pm in the Rainolds Room and a free lunch is provided.
Previous MCR/SCR Seminars: Trinity 2007
FIFTH WEEK, 15 February
Dr Pete Nellist (SCR) - Tutorial Fellow in Materials
Animacules and Holograms: the path to seeing atoms in the electron microscope
SEVENTH WEEK, 1 March
Helena Kelly (MCR)
The English Constitution: Granville Sharp and the foundation of Freetown
EIGHTH WEEK, 8 March
Michael Sulmeyer (MCR)
Buying Nuclear Submarines - Britain's Upcoming Debate on
Renewing its Trident Nuclear Weapons
Other Upcoming Talks in College...
Upcoming MCR/SCR Seminars: Hilary 2007
Fifth Week, Thursday, 14th February
Sir Timothy Patrick Lankester (SCR) - Corpus Christi College President
Conflict of Interest: an Historical and Comparative Perspective
Conflict of Interest: an Historical and Comparative Perspective
Seventh Week, Friday, 29th February
Julian Reid (SCR) - Corpus Christi College Archivist
When Two Tribes Go to War: the experiences of Corpus Christi and Merton during the English Civil War
When Two Tribes Go to War: the experiences of Corpus Christi and Merton during the English Civil War
Previous MCR/SCR Seminars: Michaelmas 2007
Second Week, Friday, 19th October
Dr Liz Fisher (SCR) - CUF Lecturer in the Faculty of Law & Corpus Christi College Tutorial Fellow
Rethinking the BSE Crisis: Beyond the Science/Politics Dichotomy
Rethinking the BSE Crisis: Beyond the Science/Politics Dichotomy
Abstract: The BSE crisis has tended to be understood as due to politics overriding scientific decision-making, or in other words an incorrect relationship between science and politics. This is a flawed understanding of the crisis however. By analyzing the role of the Southwood Working Party in the crisis it is shown that understandings of good public administration were a significant influence on how decision-makers understood their role and nature and that such understandings resulted in a disjunction between what the Working Party thought they were doing and how their report was received.
Fifth Week, Thursday, 8th November
Dr Jennifer Dueck (SCR) - British Academy Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Middle Eastern History
Scout's Honour: Politico-Religious Loyalties in the Syrian and Lebanese Boy Scout Movements under the French Mandate
Sixth Week, Friday, 16th November
Omar Haroun (MCR) - Second BA Student in PPE
Forensic Evaluation of Sexually Violent Predators: Legal Facts and Philosophical Fictions
Forensic Evaluation of Sexually Violent Predators: Legal Facts and Philosophical Fictions
Eighth Week, Friday, 30th November
Gail Trimble (MCR) - DPhil Student in Classical Languages and Literature and Ancient History
Looking When You Can't Get There: art, text and the desire for other worlds in Catullus 64 and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader"How do you put a picture into a written text? Can a text do something that a picture can’t? Can a picture or a book be a window into a desirable but inaccessible other world – and if so, does it make it worse to look when you can’t get there, or is even looking better than nothing?
I will be investigating the ways in which two very different texts explore these issues in strikingly similar ways. Catullus’ 64th poem is a sophisticated miniature epic of Greco-Roman mythology written for a cultural elite in the first century BC; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, one of C.S. Lewis’ Narnia stories, is an English children’s book from the 1950s deeply imbued with Christian ideas and symbolism. But in each of them a picture of a ship comes to life, and there is love at first sight between a sailor and a sea-nymph. What’s going on? What do obtrusive narrators, frustrated readers, the feel of the wind and the smell of salt have to do with it, and is it really all about The Gaze?
I will be investigating the ways in which two very different texts explore these issues in strikingly similar ways. Catullus’ 64th poem is a sophisticated miniature epic of Greco-Roman mythology written for a cultural elite in the first century BC; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, one of C.S. Lewis’ Narnia stories, is an English children’s book from the 1950s deeply imbued with Christian ideas and symbolism. But in each of them a picture of a ship comes to life, and there is love at first sight between a sailor and a sea-nymph. What’s going on? What do obtrusive narrators, frustrated readers, the feel of the wind and the smell of salt have to do with it, and is it really all about The Gaze?
Come to the Rainolds Room at 1.00pm on the last Friday of term to find out."
Previous MCR/SCR Seminars: Trinity 2007
Third Week, 10th May
Dr James Howard-Johnston (SCR) - University Lecturer in Byzantine Studies, Faculty of History
Islam's Conquest of the World
Fifth Week, 24th May
Oleg Brandt (MCR) - Sub-Department for Particle Physics
Elementary Particle Physics, the origin of mass, supersymmetry and all that -- the quest for New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN
Seventh Week, 7th June
Katya Samoylova (MCR) - DPhil student in General Linguistics and Phonetics
Chinese Whispers: how to tell your mum from the horse when things get very quiet
Eighth Week, 14th June
Gerry Baker (Former JCR President) - US Editor of the Times
"The Brown Factor - Prospects for Change in the Anglo-American Alliance?"
Gerry Baker is United States Editor of The Times with a weekly opinion piece appearing on Fridays. He came to Corpus in 1980 and read for a First in PPE and was President of the JCR.
After embarking on a career in Finance as a Research Analyst with the Bank of England and an Economist with Lloyd's Bank he moved to London Weekend TV 1987-88 as a researcher then New York Producer then Senior Producer, BBC TV News and Current Affairs (Panorama), BBC Economics Correspondent. From there he went to work for the Financial Times as Tokyo correspondent and Washington Bureau Chief. In 2004 he went onto his current position at The Times.
Dr James Howard-Johnston (SCR) - University Lecturer in Byzantine Studies, Faculty of History
Islam's Conquest of the World
Fifth Week, 24th May
Oleg Brandt (MCR) - Sub-Department for Particle Physics
Elementary Particle Physics, the origin of mass, supersymmetry and all that -- the quest for New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN
Seventh Week, 7th June
Katya Samoylova (MCR) - DPhil student in General Linguistics and Phonetics
Chinese Whispers: how to tell your mum from the horse when things get very quiet
Eighth Week, 14th June
Gerry Baker (Former JCR President) - US Editor of the Times
"The Brown Factor - Prospects for Change in the Anglo-American Alliance?"
Gerry Baker is United States Editor of The Times with a weekly opinion piece appearing on Fridays. He came to Corpus in 1980 and read for a First in PPE and was President of the JCR.
After embarking on a career in Finance as a Research Analyst with the Bank of England and an Economist with Lloyd's Bank he moved to London Weekend TV 1987-88 as a researcher then New York Producer then Senior Producer, BBC TV News and Current Affairs (Panorama), BBC Economics Correspondent. From there he went to work for the Financial Times as Tokyo correspondent and Washington Bureau Chief. In 2004 he went onto his current position at The Times.
Previous SCR/MCR Seminars: Hilary 2007
FIFTH WEEK, 15 February
Dr Pete Nellist (SCR) - Tutorial Fellow in Materials
Animacules and Holograms: the path to seeing atoms in the electron microscope
SEVENTH WEEK, 1 March
Helena Kelly (MCR)
The English Constitution: Granville Sharp and the foundation of Freetown
EIGHTH WEEK, 8 March
Michael Sulmeyer (MCR)
Buying Nuclear Submarines - Britain's Upcoming Debate on
Renewing its Trident Nuclear Weapons
Previous SCR/MCR Seminars: Michaelmas 2006
THIRD WEEK, 26 October
Victor B. D'Avella (MCR)
How to have your smiter smitten: Incantations from the Paippalada Samhita of the
Atharva Veda
FIFTH WEEK, 9 November
Dr Hans Kraus (SCR)
Dark Matter in the Universe
SEVENTH WEEK, 23 November
Mr Nick Thorn, Senior Development Officer (SCR)
The Long Voyage: The Story of the Corpus Christi Charts
EIGHTH WEEK, 30 November
Helen Fielder (MCR)
Protein Crystallography
Other Upcoming Talks in College...
Watch this space for announcements about other academic talks and presentations of interest occurring in college. If you have an event you'd like to publicize, please contact Gerard Vong at
<gerard.vong AT ccc.ox.ac.uk>.
<gerard.vong AT ccc.ox.ac.uk>.
Interested in giving a talk? |
| Please send an email to gerard.vong AT ccc.ox.ac.uk, briefly outlining your area of interest. We'd love to have you! |
