In 2005 the International Division of the Institute of Continuing Education celebrates its eighty-second 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 eighty-second International Summer School will take place from Monday, 11 July to Friday, 5 August 2005. 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 energy, genetic modification, and climatology to art history, business ethics, economy, health, and human rights. 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.
| 13 July | What matters to the University today, by Dr Kate Pretty |
| 14 July | Are human rights past their prime? by Dr Barbara Metzger |
| 15 July | Does it matter that it is getting warmer? by Dr Julian Paren |
| 18 July | Nuremburg to Helsinki: what matters ethically in research on human subjects? by Professor Onora O'Neill |
| 19 July | Energy matters, by Professor Colin Humphreys |
| 20 July | Why does genetic modification matter? by Professor Mark Tester |
| 21 July | Why anthropology matters, by Professor Marilyn Strathern |
| 25 July | Diet and health: why it matters, by Dr Alison Stephen |
| 26 July | Why art matters, by Duncan Robinson |
| 27 July | Does it matter what I say at the interview? by Dr Fred Parker |
| 28 July | Ethics in business, do they exist? To whose advantage? by Nigel Brown |
| 29 July | Why does the Euro matter? by Professor Iain Begg |
| 1 August | Why cancer cells matter so much, by Professor Ron Laskey |
| 2 August | The science of happiness, by Professor Felicia Huppert |
Evening lectures, also in the Lady Mitchell Hall, from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.:
| 19 July | An introduction to Freud, by Dr John Lawson |
| 1 August | Mexico's Zapatistas: ancient identities resisting globalization, by Dr Nicholas James |
| 2 August | Expanding reality, expanding minds: how seventeenth-century science changed perceptions of God, the Universe, and everything, by Piers Bursill-Hall |
Additional evening lectures have been arranged for the benefit of more than one Summer School: see Joint Evening Lectures, below.
The Summer School in Art History will take place from Sunday, 10 July to Saturday, 30 July 2005. The theme for this year's plenary lecture series is Methods and materials: the making of art. Morning lectures take place in the Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, on the Sidgwick Site at the times given below.
| 11 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Making and meaning: an introduction to materials in art, by Nicholas Friend |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | Varnishing days: Turner's painting methods, by Dr David Brown | |
| 12 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Surface and depth, by Oliver Gosling |
| 13 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Greek and Roman bronze casting, by Julie Dawson |
| 15 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | The technique of fresco painting: how it is done, by Clare Ford-Wille |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | Great fresco cycles: themes and variations, by Clare Ford-Wille | |
| 18 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Making marks: brushing and scratching, by Nicholas Friend |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | Lithography in twentieth-century book illustrations, by Dr Alan Powers | |
| 19 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Letterpress printing, by Sebastian Carter |
| 20 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Past and present approaches to the conservation of medieval stained glass windows, by Professor Richard Marks |
| 22 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Fraud, by Richard Ellis |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | The art forger's experience, by John Myatt | |
| 25 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Methods and materials of Modernism, by Nicholas Friend |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | Egg tempera icon painting, by Aiden Hart | |
| 26 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Conceptual art, by James Malpas |
| 27 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Carving past and present, by Andrew Tanser |
| 29 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Methods and materials in domestic design since 1920, by Professor Jonathan Woodham |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | Discussion, 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):
| 11 July | How to build a medieval cathedral, by Dr Jonathan Foyle |
| 14 July | Watercolour comes of age: Thomas Girtin's 'The White House', by Timothy Wilcox |
| 18 July | A journey from the eye to the image, by Benedict Rubbra |
| 19 July | The making of art: Japanese woodblock prints, by Celia Withycombe |
| 20 July | Calligraphy, by Paul Antonio Attong |
| 21 July | Chinese painting, by Oliver Gosling |
| 25 July | The professional hand-weaver in the twenty-first century: an endangered species? by Heidi Lichterman |
| 27 July | Silverpoint, by Clarissa Koch |
The Summer School in History will take place from Sunday, 10 July to Saturday, 30 July 2005. The theme for this year's morning plenary lecture series is Intelligence and international relations, from the Wooden Horse to the war on terror. 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.
| 11 July | Intelligence in the spectrum of national foreign policy, by Professor Christopher Hill |
| 12 July | The Trojan Horse in history, by Dr Paul Millett |
| 13 July | Richard Nixon and the death of Allende's Chile, by Professor Jonathan Haslam |
| 14 July | Preventing rebellion: intelligence, the British state, and the Jacobite threat, 1688-1760, by Dr Andrew Thompson |
| 15 July | Intelligence and the Cromwellian protectorate, by Dr David Smith |
| 18 July | Gunpowder plot and the failure of intelligence, by Dr Mark Nicholls |
| 19 July | Nelson and British intelligence, by Professor Roger Knight |
| 21 July | Northern Ireland: 'why is agreement so hard to reach?' by John Jackson |
| 22 July | Intelligence and the Restoration State, by Dr Grant Tapsell |
| 25 July | Intelligence and security in the Imperial and Post-Imperial order, by Professor James Mayall |
| 26 July | British assessment of Japanese military power in the 1930s, by Dr Philip Towle |
| 27 July | Security and the new international financial order, by Dr S. Kern Alexander |
| 28 July | War on terror: fighting witches during the English Civil War, by Dr Malcolm Gaskill |
| 29 July | The Cambridge Spies, by Professor Christopher Andrew |
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):
| 18 July | The Near Eastern crisis and the origins of the Cold War, by El'vis Beytullayev |
| 19 July | Rumour, race, and the American Revolution, by Dr Betty Wood |
| 21 July | Roger Morrice: fear, intelligence, and the overthrow of the House of Stuart, by Dr Mark Goldie |
The Shakespeare Summer School will take place from Sunday, 10 July to Saturday, 30 July 2005. Morning lectures take place in Lecture Block, Room 3, on the Sidgwick Site. They start promptly at 11.30 a.m., and end at 12.30 p.m.
| 11 July | Shakespeare and the sense of a beginning: the case of Lear, by Dr Charles Moseley |
| 12 July | Playing with fire: the drama of damnation, by Professor Helen Cooper |
| 13 July | 'The future in the instant': the present and the past in Shakespeare criticism, by Professor Kate McLuskie |
| 14 July | Shakespeare, Henry VIII, and Elizabeth I, by Dr Catherine Alexander |
| 15 July | Shakespeare: post-Post-Modernist? by Professor Cedric Watts |
| 18 July | Thomas Rymer on 'Othello', by Dr Alexander Lindsay |
| 19 July | Making men of monsters: Shakespeare and the company of strangers, by Professor Richard Wilson |
| 21 July | 'The view from Dover cliff', by Professor Michael Hattaway |
| 22 July | Shakespeare's political opinions, by Professor Blair Worden |
| 25 July | Bottom's secret … by John Joughin |
| 26 July | 'Salving the mail': perjury, grace, and the disorder of things in 'Love's Labour's Lost', by Dr Philippa Berry |
| 27 July | Shakespeare and action, by Dr Ewan Fernie |
| 28 July | 'King Lear', by Professor Lawrence Lerner |
| 29 July | Why does Shakespeare matter? by Dr Charles Moseley |
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):
| 19 July | How an Elizabethan house worked, by Dr Jonathan Foyle |
| 27 July | 'Hamlet' for fun, by Dr Stewart Eames |
The Science Summer School will take place from Sunday, 17 July to Saturday, 6 August 2005. The theme for this year's plenary lecture series is Knowing the unknowable, seeing the unseen. Lectures take place in the Reddaway Room, Fitzwilliam College, at the times given below.
| 18 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.20 a.m. | Galileo's finger, by Professor Peter Atkins |
| 19 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Interpreting the genome sequence, by Dr Richard Durbin |
| 20 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Obesity: science vs stigma, by Professor Steve O'Rahilly |
| 21 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Dark matter in the Universe, by Professor Andy Fabian |
| 22 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Materials matter, or material matters! by Dr Rob Wallach |
| 25 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Nuremberg to Helsinki: what matters ethically in research on human subjects? by Professor Onora O'Neill |
| 11 a.m. - 12.15 p.m. | Windows on the mind: brain imaging in health and disease, by Dr Adrian Owen | |
| 26 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Why does maths matter? by Dr Robert Hunt |
| 27 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | The peppered moth: decline of a Darwinian disciple, by Dr Michael Majerus |
| 28 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Milky Way: the galaxy in our backyard, by Dr Lisa Jardine-Wright |
| 29 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Predicting the unpredictable: seeing order within chaos, by Professor Michael Thompson |
| 1 August | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Lift and flight, by Dr Tamás Bertényi |
| 11 a.m. - 12.15 p.m. | Reverse engineering the violin, by Professor Jim Woodhouse | |
| 2 August | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | The dark energy, by Professor Malcolm Longair |
| 3 August | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Nanotechnology: small is good, by Dr Colm Durkan |
| 4 August | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | 3-D ultra sound, by Richard Prager |
| 5 August | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | The genetics of animal diversity, by Professor Michael Akam |
| 11 a.m. - 12.15 p.m. | Understanding the past: climate history from ice cores, by Dr Eric Wolff |
Additional lectures given in the evening may also be of interest:
| 19 July | 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. | What can scientists know? What can scientists see? by Professor Peter Lipton |
| 21 July | 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. | Human evolution and the inevitability of intelligence, by Professor Simon Conway-Morris |
| 25 July | 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. | Freud and the unconscious: knowing the unknowable, by Dr John Lawson |
| 27 July | 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. | Seeing beyond the faith: Galileo's telescope, by Piers Bursill-Hall |
| 2 August | 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. | Science and art fraud, by Richard Ellis |
| 3 August | 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. | Left brain and right brain: what can fish tell us about the development of asymmetries in the brain? by Stephen Wilson |
The Medieval Studies Summer School will take place from Sunday, 31 July to Saturday, 20 August 2005. Morning lectures take place in the Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, on the Sidgwick Site, at the times shown below.
| 1 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Richard the Lionheart and Saladin, by Dr Jonathan Phillips |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. | The Mongols, by Dr Jonathan Phillips | |
| 2 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | The migration of ideas in the early middle ages: ways and means, by Professor Rosamond McKitterick |
| 3 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | How we study masculinity in the middle ages? by Dr Christopher Fletcher |
| 4 August | 9 a.m. - 10.15 a.m. | Imagining the medieval universe, by Dr Carl Watkins |
| 5 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Rituals of community: drama from Germany in the late middle ages, by Dr Mark Chinca |
| 8 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Medieval London women, by Professor Caroline Barron |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. | On reading Julian of Norwich, by Professor Vincent Gillespie | |
| 9 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | 'The Seven Deadly Sins' (and a few lively virtues), by Dr Lynne Broughton |
| 10 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Kingship and tyranny, by Richard Partington |
| 11 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Medieval timber-framed buildings, by Leigh Alston |
| 12 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Hospitals in Renaissance Italy: medicine for the body and medicine for the soul, by Dr John Henderson |
| 15 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Holy Mackerel!: the perils of popular history, by Dr Richard Rex |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. | Braveheart: the reality, by Dr Caroline Burt | |
| 16 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Perceptions of the crusades from Sir Walter Scott to Usamah bin Laden, by Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith |
| 17 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Imagination and reality: St Anselm as art theorist and patron, by Sandy Heslop |
| 18 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Medieval scripts: historical evolution and identification, by Paul Antonio Attong |
| 19 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Christians to the lions: a good idea? by Dr Christopher Kelly |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. | Contemporary explanations of the Black Death, by Dr Rosemary Horrox |
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):
| 2 August | The abbot in late medieval England, by Dr Martin Heale |
| 4 August | From here to eternity and back. Anglo-Saxon pilgrims, by Dr Anna Gannon |
| 10 August | Introduction to the Cambridge Illuminations, by Dr Elizabeth New |
| 17 August | Shops and shopping in late medieval England, by Leigh Alston |
The Summer School in English Literature will take place from Sunday, 31 July to Saturday, 20 August 2005. The theme of the Conversation has been chosen for this year's lectures, which take place in the English Faculty, Room G-R06/R07, on the Sidgwick Site. They start promptly at 11.30 a.m., and finish at 12.30 p.m.
| 1 August | Jane Austen and the morality of conversation, by Dr Bharat Tandon |
| 2 August | Negotiations with the dead: rewriting the classic, by Dr Fred Parker |
| 3 August | Facing the consequences: the novel as a mode of prophecy, by Jill Paton-Walsh |
| 4 August | Autism and dialogism: Mark Haddon's and Samuel Beckett, by Dr Ato Quayson |
| 5 August | One-sided conversations: the dramatic monologue, by Clive Wilmer |
| 8 August | Fictional dialogue and the illusion of life, by Dr Felicity Rosslyn |
| 9 August | The Brownings: man and woman: poems and letters, by Professor Lawrence Lerner |
| 11 August | Coleridge's conversation poems, by Dr Stephen Logan |
| 12 August | Freud and the Rat Man: a psychoanalytic conversation, by Dr Trudi Tate |
| 15 August | T S Eliot and Dante, by Ingrid Soren |
| 16 August | Interruptions, by Dr Con Coroneos |
| 17 August | Country talk: the eclogue from Virgil to Seamus Heaney, by Adrian Barlow |
| 18 August | Romanticism in dialogue by Dr Gregory Dart |
| 19 August | Lord Rochester, Lady Winchilsea, and the verse letter, by Dr Alexander Lindsay |
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):
| 2 August | Poetry reading, by Clive Wilmer |
| 4 August | Theatrical showmanship in Shakespeare, by Dr Stewart Eames |
| 15 August | Bombs, bars, and books, by Dr Geoff Gilbert |
| 17 August | 'Talking scripture out of church': updating the classics, by Dr Fred Parker |
These lectures take place in the Lady Mitchell Hall, from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.:
| 8 August | Cambridge and the Colleges, by Alison Taylor |
| 17 August | The first Texans (Florence, 1420), by Piers Bursill-Hall |
A number of lectures have been arranged for the benefit of more than one Summer School. These take place on the Sidgwick Site usually, but not always in the Lady Mitchell Hall, from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.:
| 13 July | Cambridge and the Colleges, by Dr Rosemary Horrox |
| 14 July | Perceptions of the crusades from Sir Walter Scott to Usamah bin Laden, by Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith |
| 15 July | Introduction to 'The Tempest', by Dr Charles Moseley |
| 18 July | 'There's rosemary, that's for remembrance': remembering the past, present, and future of the flowering plants, by Professor John Parker |
| 20 July | Israel/Palestine: 'does peace now have a chance?' by John Jackson |
| 21 July | Going to the theatre in Shakespeare's time, by Dr Charles Moseley |
| 22 July | Introduction to 'The Comedy of Errors', by Simon Browne |
| 25 July | The General Election of 2005: what does it mean for Britain? by Professor Tom Ling |
| 26 July | The Enigma cipher machine, by Claire Ellis |
| Material splendour at the Tudor Court, by Richard Williams | |
| 27 July | The sixtieth anniversary of peace in Europe, by Dr Julie Smith |
| 28 July | A Faustian deal with endocrinology (the quest for a long life and the foundation of a new science), by Dr Bastien Gomperts |
| 3 August | Piers Plowman: trial by desire, by Dr Nicolette Zeeman |
| 8 August | Icelandic sagas, by Professor Andy Orchard |
| 9 August | Building a national treasure: Hampton Court Palace, by Dr Jonathan Foyle |
| 10 August | Pathos to bathos, by Dr Con Coroneos |
| 11 August | Lincoln Cathedral - a powerhouse of thirteenth-century design, by Dr Francis Woodman |
| 12 August | Introduction to 'As You Like It', by Dr Fred Parker |
| 15 August | Eviscerating, embalming, and boiling. Funeral practices in medieval England, c.1066-1509. (Illustrated), by Dr Rowena E. Archer |
Any unforeseen or last-minute changes to this lecture programme will be posted in the main Summer Schools Office (Lady Mitchell Hall) or, for the Science programme, in Fitzwilliam College.
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, e-mail sjo1001@cam.ac.uk).