In 2004 the International Division of the Institute of Continuing Education celebrates its eighty-first year of arranging International Summer Schools. Some 900 visitors will come to the University for periods of study lasting from two to six weeks. At the core of each Summer School are small special study classes, usually taught by members of the University. Each programme also offers plenary lectures for all participants in that Summer School, and experts from within the University and beyond are invited to contribute to these series.
These lectures have been very well received in the past, and the organizers of the Summer Schools would like, where possible, to make them more widely accessible to those with research and teaching interests in the subject concerned. The lectures are not open to the public, but where space in the lecture hall or venue permits, we are willing to make places available for members of the University to attend the plenary lectures which interest them most.
Please note: members of the University may be asked to confirm their status to one of the Institute's staff in attendance at the lecture hall. We would be grateful if those wishing to attend any of these lectures would notify us in advance. Contact details are given at the end of this list. Any unavoidable changes to the list of venues or speakers will be posted in the main Summer Schools Office (Foyer, Lady Mitchell Hall, for all except the Science Summer Schools): we suggest you arrive a few minutes in advance in order to allow time to check the location.
The first term of the Institute of Continuing Education's seventy-second International Summer School will take place from Monday, 5 July, to Friday, 30 July. The talks in this series of lectures follow the theme of What matters? The topics have been chosen to stimulate interest amongst a group of students whose own interests are necessarily very diverse. Interpretations are far-reaching: subjects range from materials science, genetic modification, and climatology to theology, art history, botany, infrastructure, and current political events. Lectures take place on weekday mornings, in the Lady Mitchell Hall. They begin promptly at 10.30 a.m., and finish at 11.30 a.m. The series is arranged for the c. 250 participants on the International Summer School, but members of the University are cordially invited to attend.
| 7 July | What does it all matter? by Don Cupitt |
| 8 July | Energy matters, by Professor Colin Humphreys |
| 9 July | Does the truth matter? by Professor Peter Lipton |
| 12 July | Why does genetic modification matter? by Professor Mark Tester |
| 13 July | Art: what matters? by Nicholas Friend |
| 14 July | (Why/how) does Classics matter? by Dr Paul Cartledge |
| 15 July | Why infrastructure matters, by Robert Dove |
| 16 July | Does it matter that it is getting warmer? by Dr Julian Paren |
| 19 July | Green days in forests, blue days at sea: plants and life on earth, by Professor John Parker |
| 20 July | What matters in English literature? by Dr Fred Parker |
| 21 July | Re-thinking the freedom of the press, by Professor Onora O'Neill |
| 22 July | The human revolution: prehistory and the origins of mind, by Professor Colin Renfrew |
| 23 July | Why cancer cells matter so much, by Professor Ron Laskey |
| 26 July | What matters in the war on terror? by Dr Tarak Barkawi |
| 27 July | The matter of evolution: it matters who we are, but does it matter how we got here? by Professor Simon Conway-Morris |
The What matters? theme continues in several of the evening lectures, also in the Lady Mitchell Hall, from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.:
| 7 July | Why Europe matters, by Dr Julie Smith |
| 12 July | Does the monarchy matter any more? by Dr David Starkey |
| 14 July | Why dreams matter in Tibet, by Dr Alex Studholme |
| 15 July | Does 'the nation' matter? by Professor James Mayall |
| 19 July | What matters? You matter! (Students and the origins of the universities), by Piers Bursill-Hall |
| 21 July | Why being happy makes such good sense, by Dr Nick Baylis |
| 22 July | Cricket: what it is and why it matters so much, by Dr Rex Walford |
| 26 July | What matters for Israelis, what matters for Palestinians - is peace possible? by John Jackson |
| 27 July | The concept of honour in late-medieval England, by Dr Rosemary Horrox |
Additional general lectures given in the evening may also be of interest to members of the University: see Joint evening lectures, below.
The Summer School in Art History will take place from Sunday, 4 July to Saturday, 24 July. The theme for this year's plenary lecture series is The value of art. Morning lectures take place in the Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, on the Sidgwick Site at the times given below.
| 5 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Values spiritual, temporal, compositional 1300-1700, by Nicholas Friend |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | The expression of wealth in Tudor portraits, by Dr Richard Williams | |
| 6 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | The conflict of values, by Christopher Wright |
| 7 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Disposable art, indispensable values: festival architecture, wine fountains, and firework displays in the Baroque, by Dr Judi Loach |
| 8 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Spiritual values and private devotion in Book of Hours, by Dr Victoria Condie |
| 9 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | 'And they call this progress?': how Chenies Manor was improved to receive Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, by Dr Jonathan Foyle |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | Colour values, by Dr Spike Bucklow | |
| 12 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Collecting and the country house: a short history, by Nicholas Friend |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | Art theft and recovery, by Richard Ellis | |
| 13 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Turner's money, by Dr David Brown |
| 14 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | The value of illuminated manuscripts, by Dr Christopher de Hamel |
| 16 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | British visitors to the Louvre, 1802-03, by Elizabeth Allen |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | Order and value: five orders of classical architecture, by Dr Simon Bradley | |
| 19 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Modern art: challenging the notion of values, by Nicholas Friend |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | The still life: Meléndez to installation art, by Jo Rhymer | |
| 20 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | The opposition between nature and technology in modern architecture, by Dr Alan Powers |
| 21 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Portraiture, Professor Ludmilla Jordanova |
| 22 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Yves Klein and zones of sensibility: the value of space, by James Malpas |
| 23 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | The marketing of 'good design': tastemakers and lifestyles, by Professor Jonathan Woodham |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | The value of colour and line in abstract composition, by Nicholas Friend |
Additional lectures given in the evening in Wolfson Court, Clarkson Road, from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., may also be of interest (see also Joint evening lectures, below):
| 7 July | The value of Byzantine mosaics, by Dr Liz James |
| 8 July | Where should the Elgin marbles be? Art and national values, by Dr Nigel Spivey |
| 12 July | The Ruskin/Whistler debate, by Nicholas Friend |
| 14 July | Gothic, Gothicke, or Gothic revival, by Dr Thomas Cocke |
| 15 July | Beauty: the value of line, by Paul Antonio Attong |
| 19 July | Kettle's Yard as a teacher of aesthetic value, by Sabastiano Barassi |
| 20 July | The seventeenth-century trip: artists in Rome, Paris, and London, 1640-1700, by Lindsey Shaw-Miller |
| 21 July | The influence of Japanese aesthetic values on Western art, by Oliver Gosling |
The Summer School in History will take place from Sunday, 4 July to Saturday, 24 July. The theme for this year's morning plenary lecture series is Cambridge history, Cambridge historians. Morning lectures take place in History Faculty Room 0.3, on the Sidgwick Site. They start promptly at 9.15 a.m. and end at 10.30 a.m.
| 5 July | The founding of the Cambridge History School, by Dr Mark Goldie |
| 6 July | G. M. Trevelyan, by Dr David Smith |
| 7 July | From Seeley to Gallagher, by Dr Gordon Johnson |
| 8 July | M. M. Postan, by Professor John Hatcher |
| 9 July | Betty Behrens, by Patrick Higgins |
| 12 July | E. H. Carr, by Professor Jonathan Haslam |
| 13 July | Denis Brogan; republics, history, and politics, by Dr Mike Sewell |
| 14 July | Sir Harry Hinsley, by Dr Philip Towle |
| 15 July | Sir Moses Finley, by Dr Paul Millett |
| 19 July | Gallagher, Robinson, and after, by Dr Polly O'Hanlon |
| 20 July | Roy Porter, by Professor Ludmilla Jordanova |
| 21 July | Eileen Power, by Professor Miri Rubin |
| 22 July | Cambridge history and the nation, by Dr Peter Mandler |
| 23 July | Discussion: Cambridge history, Cambridge historians, by Dr Mike Sewell |
Additional lectures given in the evening in the Little Hall from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., may also be of interest (see also Joint evening lectures, below):
| 7 July | Cambridge historians and the national context (c. 1900-1980s), by Dr David Fowler |
| 8 July | Sir Herbert Butterfield, by Patrick Higgins |
| 14 July | Sir Geoffrey Elton, by Professor John Morrill |
| 15 July | Cambridge medievalists, by Dr Carl Watkins |
| 19 July | Smythe and the Victorian understanding of the French Revolution, by Professor Gareth Stedman-Jones |
| 20 July | Peter Laslett, by Dr Richard Smith |
| 21 July | Sir John Plumb, by Neil McKendrick |
The Shakespeare Summer School will take place from Sunday, 4 July to Saturday, 24 July. Morning lectures take place in the Lecture Block, Room 3, on the Sidgwick Site. They start promptly at 11.30 a.m., and end at 12.30 p.m.
| 5 July | Seeing Shakespeare, by Dr Charles Moseley |
| 6 July | Shakespeare, the Scots, and Early Modern England, by Professor John Kerrigan |
| 7 July | Shakespeare and nothing, Professor Terry Eagleton |
| 8 July | Shakespeare' s teachers I, by Professor Brian Vickers |
| 9 July | Shakespeare's teachers II, by Professor Brian Vickers |
| 12 July | Afterlife of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', by Dr Catherine Alexander |
| 13 July | The medicinal comedy of 'Love's Labour's Lost', by Dr Philippa Berry |
| 14 July | The internationalism of Shakespeare, by Professor Robert Smallwood |
| 15 July | The Roman plays, by Professor Laurence Lerner |
| 19 July | The politics of sleep in 'The Tempest', by Professor William Sherman |
| 20 July | On Shakespearean ethics, by John Joughin |
| 21 July | Hamlet, Machiavelli, and revenge, by Dr John Roe |
| 22 July | Shakespeare in hate, by Professor Richard Wilson |
| 23 July | 'Art made tongue-tied by authority'?: the censoring of Shakespeare, by Professor Cedric Watts |
Additional lectures given in the evening in the Lecture Block, Room 3, on the Sidgwick Site, from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., may also be of interest (see also Joint evening lectures, below):
| 7 July | Ellen Terry, Shakespeare, and Lady Macbeth, by Dr Catherine Alexander |
| 8 July | Shakespeare's London, by Dr Charles Moseley |
| 14 July | Shakespeare and Rome, by Professor Laurence Lerner |
| 15 July | Shakespeare and Purcell, by Dr Alexander Lindsay |
| 21 July | 'The Taming of the Shrew': a play for today? by Professor Cedric Watts |
The Science Summer School will take place from Sunday, 11 July to Saturday, 31 July. The theme for this year's plenary lecture series is What matters?. Lectures take place in the Reddaway Room, Fitzwilliam College at the times given below. Lectures marked ** take place elsewhere and are, unfortunately, open only to participants in the Science Summer School.
| 12 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Does the truth matter? by Professor Peter Lipton |
| 13 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Stellar evolution, by Dr Robin Catchpole |
| 14 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Planet ocean, by Dr Julian Priddle |
| 15 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Energy matters, by Professor Colin Humphreys |
| 11.15 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. | **Green days in forests, blue days at sea: plants and life on Earth, by Professor John Parker | |
| 16 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | **Finding our feet in Greenland (lecture), by Dr Jenny Clack |
| 11.15 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | **Finding our feet in Greenland (demonstration), by Dr Jenny Clack | |
| 19 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Coral reefs: here today, gone tomorrow. Does it matter? I, by Frances Dipper |
| 11 a.m. - 12.15 p.m. | Coral reefs: here today, gone tomorrow. Does it matter? II, by Frances Dipper | |
| 20 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Why size matters, by Dr Matt Wilkinson |
| 21 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Building embryos: beyond the laws of physics, by Dr Alfonso Martinez Arias |
| 22 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m.** | Nanoparticles, by Dr Neil Greenham |
| 11 a.m. - 12.15 p.m. | **Dark energy - a new form of matter, by Professor Malcolm Longair | |
| 23 July | 9 a.m. - 10 a.m. | If I were a clone, would I matter as much? by Dr Lynne Harrison |
| 11 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. | **Fertility matters, by Professor W. R. Allen | |
| 26 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | The matter of evolution: it matters who we are, but does it matter how we got here? I, by Professor Simon Conway-Morris |
| 11 a.m. - 12.15 p.m. | The matter of evolution: it matters who we are, but does it matter how we got here? II, by Professor Simon Conway-Morris | |
| 27 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Maths matters, by Brian Catlow |
| 28 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Plants and a changing climate - future perfect or imperfect - is there a tense situation ahead? by Professor Howard Griffiths |
| 29 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Are there other dimensions? by Professor John Barrow |
| 11 a.m. - 12.15 p.m. | In the grip of gravity, by Dr Kevin Marshall | |
| 30 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Dark matter, by Professor Andrew Fabian |
| 11 a.m. - 12.15 p.m. | Cancer and how our bodies avoid it, by Professor Ron Laskey |
Additional lectures given in the evening may also be of interest:
| 14 July | 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. | Kyoto: kill or cure? by Dr Julian Paren |
| 15 July | 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. | The human genome: 'got the T-shirt' - what matters now? by Dr Stephan Beck |
| 20 July | 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. | Boomerangs are more predictable than you think, by Dr Hugh Hunt |
| 21 July | 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. | Decoding the genome: innovative approaches to studying the cell cycle, by Dr Monica Bettencourt-Dias |
| 22 July | 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. | Why being happy makes such good sense, by Dr Nick Baylis |
| 26 July | 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. | Watt matters? by Piers Bursill-Hall |
| 28 July | 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. | What matters most? by Dr Lynne Harrison |
The Medieval Studies Summer School will take place from Sunday, 25 July to Saturday, 14 August. Morning lectures take place in the Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, on the Sidgwick Site, at the times shown below.
| 26 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | The Albigensian Crusades: 'war crimes' in the thirteenth century? by Professor Malcolm Barber |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. | Richard the Lionheart and the development of English kingship, by Professor Nigel Saul | |
| 27 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Alice Chaucer, Dutchess of Suffolk (d. 1475): menace or matriarch? by Dr Rowena E. Archer |
| 28 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Debating heresy: fifteenth-century vernacular theology and Arundel's constitution (1409), by Dr Sarah James |
| 29 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Perceptions, by Dr Amanda Power |
| 30 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | The Fourth Crusade and the sack of Constantinople, 1204, by Dr Jonathan Phillips |
| 2 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Lollardy and Orthodoxy in late medieval England, by Dr Richard Rex |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. | Gods, graves, and pottery: the archaeology of pagan Anglo-Saxon religion, by Dr Catherine Hills | |
| 3 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | 'Ful mery in hevyn': heavenly imagery in medieval English parish churches, by Dr Lynne Broughton |
| 4 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | 1066 and a biography of William the Conqueror, by Professor David Bates |
| 5 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Medieval victuallers, hawkers, and pedlars, by Dr James Davis |
| 6 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Symbolism, bigamy, and consummation, by Professor David d'Avray |
| 9 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Music fit for a queen? Isabel of Castile (d.1504) as a patron of the arts, by Dr Tess Knighton |
| 11.30a.m. - 12.45 p.m. | Time off for good behaviour. Building your way out of Purgatory, by Dr Francis Woodman | |
| 10 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Stained glass windows for prelates and princes, by Sarah Brown |
| 11 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | 'A fond thing vainly invented': the abolition of Purgatory and the destruction of tomb-monuments in the Reformation, by Phillip Lindley |
| 12 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | The evolution of medieval housing, by Leigh Alston |
| 13 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Knights of Venus: courtliness and manliness in later medieval England, by Professor W. Mark Ormrod |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. | Designing medieval buildings, by Professor Eric Fernie |
Additional lectures given in the evening in the Lecture Block Room 3, on the Sidgwick Site, from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., may also be of interest (see also Joint evening lectures, below):
| 27 July | The concept of honour in late medieval England, by Dr Rosemary Horrox |
| 29 July | 'Getting medieval': the making of Gothic art for England, 1400-1547, by Professor Richard Marks |
| 3 August | A call to arms - some reflections on heraldry, by Tim Milner |
| 4 August | Monks 'back to back'. The medieval lavatory, by Dr Francis Woodman |
| 5 August | Islam and its contributions to the medieval world, by Piers Bursill-Hall |
| 9 August | Human or beast? Probing the edges of civilization in the 'romance of Perceforest', by Dr Sylvia Huot |
| 11 August | Medieval ghosts, by Dr Carl Watkins |
The Summer School in English Literature will take place from Sunday, 25 July to Saturday, 14 August. The theme of the Gender, sexuality, and desire has been chosen for this year's lectures, which take place in the Little Hall, on the Sidgwick Site. They start promptly at 11.30 a.m., and finish at 12.30 p.m.
| 26 July | Shakespeare in love, by Dr Fred Parker |
| 27 July | What men did together; writing, sexuality, and politics, by Dr Geoffrey Gilbert |
| 28 July | Jane Eyre's daydreams, by Dr Heather Glen |
| 29 July | Blake's spiritual body, by Dr Simon Jarvis |
| 30 July | Fin-de-siècle Elizabeths: rewriting queenship in poetry and drama at the end of the sixteenth century, by Dr Philippa Berry |
| 2 August | Dickens and divorce: the Victorian novel and the Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857, by Dr Corinna Russell |
| 3 August | Sex and the single male, by Dr Colin Burrow |
| 4 August | 'The public woman': the actress-whore connection, 1660-1700, by Dr Sarah Burton |
| 5 August | Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes: gender politics and poetry in 'Ariel' and 'Birthday Letters', by Dr Felicity Rosslyn |
| 9 August | Voyeurism and epistolarity in Richardson's 'Pamela', by Dr Phil Connell |
| 10 August | Love and hate: psychoanalysis, literature, ambivalence, by Dr Trudi Tate |
| 11 August | Romantic confessions: Hazlitt's 'Liber Amoris', by Dr Gregory Dart |
| 12 August | Desire in history: Thomas Hardy's short stories, by Dr Rod Mengham |
| 13 August | Modernism and feminism, by Alison Hennegan |
Additional lectures given in the evening in the Little Hall, from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., may also be of interest (see also Joint evening lectures, below):
| 27 July | The study of English, by Dr Fred Parker |
| 29 July | Pope: poems to two sisters, by Dr Alexander Lindsay |
| 3 August, | Traditional songs of modern war, by Dr John Lennard |
| 5 August | A feeling for poetry, by Dr Stephen Logan |
| 11 August | The practice of poetry, by Clive Wilmer |
These take place in the Lady Mitchell Hall, from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.:
| 2 August | 'He's fat and scant of breath' (Act 5, scene 2, line 239 'Hamlet'). Shakespeare and the politics of size, by Simon Browne |
| 3 August | Tony Blair: an elective dictatorship, by Richard Yates |
| 5 August | Aztec metropolis: an allegory for our own? by Dr Nicholas James |
| 11 August | What matters? You matter! (Students and the origins of the universities), by Piers Bursill-Hall |
A number of lectures have been arranged for the benefit of more than one Summer School. These take place in the Lady Mitchell Hall, from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.:
| 6 July | Cambridge and the Colleges, by Rosemary Horrox |
| 8 July | Shakespeare's London, by Dr Charles Moseley |
| 9 July | Introduction to 'Much Ado About Nothing', by Simon Browne |
| 12 July | Does the monarchy matter any more? by Dr David Starkey |
| 16 July | An introduction to 'Romeo and Juliet', by Dr Charles Moseley |
| 19 July | What matters? You matter! (Students and the origins of the universities), by Piers Bursill-Hall |
| 20 July | The playing of space, by Graham Christopher |
| 27 July | Honour in late-medieval England, by Dr Rosemary Horrox |
| 28 July | 'Beowulf', by Dr Andrew Orchard and Clive Wilmer |
| 2 August | Medieval love-sickness, by Dr Jacqueline Tasioulas |
| 4 August | England, England! Englishness in recent British fiction, by Dr Adrian Barlow |
| 6 August | An introduction to 'Hamlet', by Dr Fred Parker |
| 9 August | Undressing Mr Darcy, by Gilliam Stapleton |
We would be interested to hear your response to any of the plenary lectures you have heard. If you have comments, or wish to know more about teaching on the Summer Schools, please write to Sarah Ormrod, Director of International Programmes, Institute of Continuing Education, Madingley Hall, Madingley (tel. 140-216 or e-mail sjo1001@cam.ac.uk).