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SCR/MCR Seminars: Michelmas 2006


Please join the MCR and the SCR for a series of academic talks featuring the latest research interests of college members. Talks are held four Thursdays a term, from 1:00-2:00 pm. This term, talks will be held in the Rainolds Room, and a lunch is provided.

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)
Crystallography


Other Upcoming Talks in College: Michelmas 2006

MONDAY, 27th November
5:00 pm
Professor David Cole
'Less Safe, Less Free: An American's View on Why the United States is Losing the War on Terror'
Rainolds Room
David Cole is professor at Georgetown University Law Center, a volunteer staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, the legal affairs correspondent for The Nation, and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, He has litigated many First Amendment cases, including Texas v. Johnson and United States v. Eichman, which extended First Amendment protection to flag-burning. New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis has called him “one of the country’s great legal voice for civil liberties today,” and former CIA Director James Woolsey has called David’s new book, Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism (2003), “the essential book in the field.” In 2004, Enemy Aliens was awarded an American Book Award and the Hefner First Amendment Prize. He is also the author of Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties for National Security (2005) with James X. Dempsey; No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System (1999); and many articles on related issues. Professor Cole has received numerous awards for his civil rights and civil liberties work.


TUESDAY 28 November
5:00 pm
Dr Jan Dumolyn (University of Ghent)
'Belgian History and the National Question'
Rainolds Room, drinks to follow
We currently have a Visiting Scholar in the College – Dr Jan Dumolyn, University of Ghent – who has kindly agreed to present a short, informal paper, intended for a wide audience, on the subject of BELGIAN HISTORY AND THE NATIONAL QUESTION. He will speak in the Rainolds Room, at 5.00pm on Tuesday 28th November. There will be wine afterwards. You are very welcome to attend, and although the talk is meant for historians, please feel free to bring friends and colleagues working on other subjects who might be interested. Dr Dumolyn is a medieval historian, interested in questions of social power and political culture; he has active political interests and, like anyone from the Low Countries, is concerned with questions of identity and political unity.

Interested in giving a talk?



Please send an email to katie.clark@ccc.ox.ac.uk, briefly outlining your area of interest. We'd love to have you!



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