In 2006 the International Division of the Institute of Continuing Education celebrates its eighty-third year of arranging International Summer Schools. Some 900 visitors will come to the University for periods of study lasting from ten days 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-third International Summer School will take place from Monday, 10 July to Friday, 4 August 2006. The talks in this series of lectures follow the theme of Secrets and lies. The topics have been chosen to stimulate interest amongst a group of students whose own interests are necessarily very diverse. Topics range widely: from the secret lives of plants and insects, energy, and eyewitness testimony to spies, news reporting, fraud and forgery, and the secrets of health and happiness. 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.
| 12 July | Persuasion on the dark side, by Stephen Jolly |
| 13 July | Secrets and lies: perceptions of government, by Lord Wilson of Dinton |
| 14 July | Right of silence, by Dr Roderick Munday |
| 17 July | Hearing is believing, by Professor Peter Lipton |
| 18 July | Tell the Truth - The whole truth, nothing, or lies in the service of truth, by Kate Adie |
| 19 July | Children's eyewitness memory: sex, lies, and videotapes, by Professor Graham Davies |
| 20 July | Democracies do not negotiate with terrorists - or do they?, by John Jackson |
| 24 July | The truth about the 1930s, by Dr Piers Brendon |
| 25 July | Justifying crime, by Richard Ellis |
| 26 July | The faker's progress, by John Myatt |
| 27 July | The deceptive ape: the role of deception in defining human beings, by Dr John Lawson |
| 28 July | Energy: secrets and lies, by Professor Colin Humphreys |
| 31 July | Evolution: its best kept secrets, by Professor Simon Conway-Morris |
| 1 August | The secret life of the cancer cell, by Professor Ron Laskey |
Evening lectures, also in the Lady Mitchell Hall, from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. (see also Joint Evening Lectures, arranged for the benefit of more than one Summer School, below):
| 17 July | Ladybird secrets and lies, by Dr Michael Majerus |
| 18 July | Winston Churchill: secrets and lies, by Dr Mark Goldie |
| 26 July | Secrets and lies about life in the 'miserable' Middle Ages, by Bill Zajac |
| 27 July | Secrets of the site of Mount Sinai, by Professor Colin Humphreys |
| 31 July | Conmen, fraudsters, and spin-doctors, by Rob Eastaway |
The Summer School in Art History will take place from Sunday, 9 July to Saturday, 29 July 2006. The theme for this year's plenary lecture series is Sources of modern masters. Morning lectures take place in the Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, on the Sidgwick Site at the times given below.
| 10 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | The use of sources by modern masters: an introduction, by Nicholas Friend |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | Colour sources, artists' materials, by Dr Spike Bucklow | |
| 11 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Degas and Raphael, by Jo Rhymer |
| 12 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Sources of modernist architecture, by Dr Alan Powers |
| 13 July | 9 a.m. - 10 a.m. | Nineteenth-century drawing techniques, by Clarissa Koch |
| 14 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | 'A power supreme': Turner's romance with the sea, by Dr James Hamilton |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | Turner's sources, by Dr James Hamilton | |
| 17 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | The Ash Can School and Dutch social realism, by Nicholas Friend |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | The influence of Japan on the Scottish School, by William Hardie | |
| 18 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Matisse and Rothko: decoration and abstraction, by Professor Charles Harrison |
| 19 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | The cult of the wild beast: its sources, affinities, and aftermath, by Dr Nicholas Watkins |
| 21 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Sources of a modern mistress: Paula Rego, by Elizabeth McKellar |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | Going Places: traditional and modern sources in the art of John Piper, by Dr Frances Spalding | |
| 24 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Moore and Mexico, by Nicholas Friend |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | The language of Classicism in the era of Modernism, by Professor David Watkin | |
| 25 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Van Gogh and his sources, by Clare Ford-Wille |
| 26 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Lichtenstein, Warhol, and their sources, by James Malpas |
| 27 July | 9 a.m. - 10 a.m. | Icon painting in the twenty-first century: a personal story, by Aidan Hart |
| 28 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Sources of modern design, by Professor Jonathan Woodham |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | Influences on abstract art, 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):
| 10 July | A revolution in English houses: A. W. N. Pugin and the early Gothic revival, by Timothy Brittain-Caitlin |
| 17 July | Redressing the past: Revivals, romanticism, and modernity in contemporary fashion, by Susan North |
| 18 July | Space within form: the condition for image and emotion, by Oliver Gosling |
| 19 July | Historical sources for the calligrapher - a necessity for modern form, by Paul Antonio Attong |
| 24 July | The kindest cut of all, by Lida Cardozo Kindersley |
| 26 July | Fakes as art, by John Myatt |
The Literature Summer School will take place from Sunday, 9 July to Saturday, 29 July 2006. The theme for this year's plenary lecture series is Tragedy or comedy? Morning lectures take place in the Lecture Block, Room 3, on the Sidgwick Site. They start promptly at 11.15 a.m., and end at 12.15 p.m.
| 10 July | Heroes? Call those heroes?: Shakespeare's problem with tragedy, by Dr Fred Parker |
| 11 July | Shakespeare and the Gothic imagination, by Dr Catherine Alexander |
| 12 July | Articulating the agony and the ecstasy, by Dr Sarah Houghton-Walker |
| 13 July | Tragicomedy: both or neither?, by Dr Raphael Lyne |
| 14 July | Comic bodies, tragic bodies, by Dr David Hillman |
| 17 July | The tragic comedians: tragedy, comedy, and the novel, by Dr Anne Henry |
| 18 July | The comedy and tragedy of love 2: the end of the affair, by Professor Laurence Lerner |
| 20 July | Tragical mirth, by Dr Charles Moseley |
| 21 July | Tragedy, comedy, and theory, by Dr Katie Fleming |
| 24 July | Shakespeare and the avoidance of tragedy, by Clive Wilmer |
| 25 July | Dark comedy, by Dr Michael Hurley |
| 26 July | Tragic or comic feeling? Ambivalence in the literature of sensibility, by Dr Ildiko Csengei |
| 27 July | Dickens and Shakespeare's ghost, by Professor Adrian Poole |
| 28 July | Wordsworth's faith, by Dr Stephen Logan |
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):
| 17 July | The comedy and tragedy of love 1: Shakespeare and love's disguises, by Professor Laurence Lerner |
| 18 July | Humour and the avant-garde, by Dr Eric White |
| 19 July | 'Into something rich and strange': Shakespearean tragicomedy, by Dr Subha Mukherji |
| 24 July | Tragedy and the suffering of animals, by Dr Christopher Burlinson |
| 26 July | Poetry reading, by Clive Wilmer |
The Science Summer School will take place from Sunday, 16 July to Saturday, 5 August 2006. The theme for this year's plenary lecture series is Innovation and global change. Lectures take place in the Trust Room, Fitzwilliam College at the times given below.
| 17 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.20 a.m. | Introductory talk, by Sir David King (title to be advised) |
| 18 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Exploring the solar system, by Dr Carolin Crawford |
| 19 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | The master puppeteer - how the brain controls the body, by Professor Daniel Wolpert |
| 20 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Environmental monitoring of GM crops, by Dr Les Firbank |
| 21 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Stem cell biology - coming of age, by Professor Austin Smith |
| 24 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | How the embryo builds itself - revelations from conjoined twins and salamanders, by Dr Miranda Gomperts |
| 11 a.m. - 12.15 p.m. | The Bangladesh arsenic crisis and its global implications, by Professor John McArthur | |
| 25 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Computer vision and computer graphics: the mathematics behind the movies, by Dr Joan Lasenby |
| 26 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Volcanoes and climate, by Dr Tamsin Mather |
| 27 July | 9 a.m. - 10 a.m. | The evolution of intelligence, by Professor Simon Conway-Morris |
| 10.30 a.m. - 11.30 p.m. | Cyborg science: combining human and machine brains, by Professor Kevin Warwick | |
| 28 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Flood risk and flood management in a changing environment, by Dr James Brasington |
| 31 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Type 2 diabetes: from molecule to malady, by Professor Frances Ashcroft |
| 11 a.m. - 12.15 p.m. | Publishing scientific research in the 24 hour-news society, by Tracey Brown | |
| 1 August | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | The anatomy of unconsciousness - where anaesthetics work in the brain, by Dr David Menon |
| 2 August | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Mountains, tsunamis, and global change - the perils of living on plate margins, by Professor Nigel Harris |
| 3 August | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Pain and pain perception, by Irene Tracey |
| 11 a.m. - 12.15 p.m. | Innovation in aircraft noise reduction, by Dr William Graham | |
| 4 August | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Harmonics and the physics of music, by Dr Hugh Hunt |
| 11 a.m. - 12.15 p.m. | The global challenge of cancer, by Professor Ron Laskey |
Additional lectures given in the evening may also be of interest (see also Joint Evening Lectures, below):
| 17 July | 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. | Quantum technologies and communication and computation, by Professor Sir Michael Pepper |
| 18 July | 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. | Energy and the limits to innovation, by Professor David Elliott |
| 26 July | 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. | Engineering the World Trade Center: how did it collapse and why did it stand up so long?, by Dr Chris Burgoyne |
| 27 July | 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. | Innovation in science, by Professor Peter Lipton |
| 1 August | 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. | The role of autism in shaping society, by Dr John Lawson |
| 2 August | 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. | Obesity: science vs stigma, by Professor Steve O'Rahilly |
The Summer School in History will take place from Sunday, 30 July to Saturday, 19 August 2006. The theme for this year's morning plenary lecture series is Power and leadership. Morning lectures take place in the Little Hall on the Sidgwick Site. They start promptly at 9.15 a.m. and end at 10.30 a.m.
| 31 July | Ancient Athens: democracy without leaders?, by Dr Paul Millett |
| 1 August | Leadership, or the absence of it, on the Fourth Crusade, 1202-1204, by Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith |
| 2 August | The power of the Press: the role of the printed word in the English Reformation, by Dr Elizabeth Evenden |
| 3 August | Churchill: image and reality, by Dr Richard Toye |
| 4 August | Crown and nobility in late medieval England, by Professor Christine Carpenter |
| 7 August | Napoleon as charismatic hero, by Professor Tim Blanning |
| 8 August | Monarchs and Parliaments 1603-1688: who ruled Britain?, by Professor John S. Morrill |
| 10 August | Power in a slave society: the American South, by Dr Betty Wood |
| 11 August | Power and leadership in the East Asian International order, by Dr Shogo Suzuki |
| 14 August | Pope Joan, by Dr Tom Freeman |
| 15 August | Parliament and the monarchy, 1688-1783: who ruled Britain?, by Dr Andrew Thompson |
| 16 August | Charles de Gaulle: a Republican Bonapartist, by Dr Aidan Van De Weyer |
| 17 August | Secret intelligence, power, and leadership, by Professor Christopher Andrew |
| 18 August | The Three Edwards: good kings and bad kings in medieval England, by Dr Rosemary Horrox |
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):
| 31 July | Oliver Cromwell: power and leadership in the British Republic, by Dr David Smith |
| 2 August | George Bush and US foreign policy, by Professor Jonathan Steinberg |
| 3 August | The Victorian monarchy, masculinity and feminism?, by Clarissa Campbell Orr |
| 10 August | The histories of medieval Iceland: fact and fiction, by Professor Andrew Orchard |
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 | Secrets of wonderful lives, by Dr Nick Baylis |
| 14 July | An introduction to Julius Caesar, by Dr Fred Parker |
| 19 July | Lies and subterfuge: the deceptive world of plants, by Professor John Parker |
| 21 July | An introduction to Romeo and Juliet, by Simon Browne |
| 24 July | The Enigma cipher machine, by Claire Ellis |
| 1 August | The Da Vinci conspiracy, by Dr Richard Rex |
| 7 August | The lessons of the British Empire?, by Sean Lang |
| 9 August | Whither the European Constitution?, by Dr Julie E. Smith |
| 11 August | An introduction to Antony and Cleopatra, by Simon Browne |
| 14 August | Foundering and floundering - the hazards of travel in the Middle Ages, by Dr Rowena E. Archer |
| 15 August | Art under the dictators - the Soviet Union and the Third Reich, by Dr Don Watts |
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).