In 2007 the International Division of the Institute of Continuing Education celebrates its eighty-fourth year of arranging International Summer Schools. Some 920 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-fourth International Summer School will take place from Monday, 9 July to Friday, 3 August 2007. The talks in this series of lectures follow the theme of Power. 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 question 'what is power?', to the power of persuasion, media and power, the power of evolution, and the power of stem cell research. 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 | Media and power, by Kate Adie |
| 13 July | Power games: the politics of climate change, by Craig Bennett |
| 16 July | What is power?, by Professor Peter Lipton |
| 17 July | Stem cells: hope, hype, and reality, by Professor Austin Smith |
| 18 July | The power of persuasion, by Stephen Jolly |
| 19 July | Brain power: how the brain controls the body, by Professor Daniel Wolpert |
| 23 July | Conventional power, guerrilla warfare, and terrorism, by Dr Philip Towle |
| 24 July | Guernica and total war, by Dr Ian Patterson |
| 25 July | Power tools, by Sharon Collins |
| 26 July | The power of law, by Dr Roderick Munday |
| 27 July | The power of healing: why is cancer so difficult to treat?, by Professor Ron Laskey |
| 30 July | The Romantic imagination: 'a kind of sympathy with power', by Dr Fred Parker |
| 31 July | The power of evolution, by Professor Simon Conway-Morris |
An evening lecture, also in the Lady Mitchell Hall, from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., is scheduled for:
| 30 July | Britain's identity crisis, by Dr Nicholas James |
(See also Joint evening lectures, arranged for the benefit of more than one Summer School, below.)
The Summer School in Art History will take place from Sunday, 8 July to Saturday, 28 July 2007. The theme for this year's plenary lecture series is The power of art. Morning lectures take place in the Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, on the Sidgwick Site at the times given below.
| 12 July | 9 a.m. - 10 a.m. | The power of fakes and forgeries, by John Myatt |
| 13 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | The power of the female nude in nineteenth-century French painting, by Joanne Rhymer |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | Edouard Vuillard: the power of pattern and paint, by Joanne Rhymer | |
| 16 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Poses, props, and power: the language of public portraiture, by Nicholas Friend |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | The power of mountains, by Tim Wilcox | |
| 17 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | The power of symbolism and emblem in seventeenth-century art and architecture, by Clare Ford-Wille |
| 18 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Power versus genius: the conflict between patronage and individual expression in Baroque art, by Christopher Wright |
| 20 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | The power of Gothic, by Dr Thomas Cocke |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | The Gothic revival, by Dr Thomas Cocke | |
| 23 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | In the raw: modernity and emotion, by Nicholas Friend |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | Guernica and total war: Picasso, art, and bombs, by Dr Ian Patterson | |
| 24 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | The power of Florentine architecture, by Dr Jonathan Foyle |
| 25 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Twentieth-century satire, by James Malpas |
| 26 July | 9 a.m. - 10 a.m. | Visual power in art, by Oliver Gosling |
| 27 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | The power of colour, by Nicholas Friend |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | Power of art 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 | Wall paintings in Byzantine churches: a powerful marriage of art and architecture, by Aidan Hart |
| 17 July | William Morris: decoration and politics, by Nicholas Friend |
| 23 July | Caliphs and Christians in Spain: historical background for Spanish art, by Gail Turner |
| 25 July | The power of masks, by Oliver Gosling |
The Literature Summer School will take place from Sunday, 8 July to Saturday, 28 July 2007. The theme for this year's plenary lecture series is Fiction and reality. Morning lectures take place in Lecture Block, Room 3, on the Sidgwick Site. They start promptly at 11.15 a.m., and end at 12.15 p.m.
| 12 July | Charles Dickens and the idea of evidence, by Dr Jan-Melissa Schramm |
| 13 July | Modern Arabic fiction in English; whose reality?, by Dr Kate Daniels |
| 16 July | Imagining annihilation in the 1920s and 1930s, by Dr Ian Patterson |
| 17 July | Designing Utopia: the work of William Morris, by Clive Wilmer |
| 19 July | Elizabeth von Arnim: 'a delicate impatient pen', by Dr Isobel Maddison |
| 20 July | Real lives and the false world: biography and autobiography in the fifteenth century, by Dr Daniel Wakelin |
| 23 July | 'We were children to be amused': Virginia Woolf, Truby King, and the Armistice of 1918, by Dr Trudi Tate |
| 24 July | Surrealism versus Realism - some battles in 1930's literature, by Dr Leo Mellor |
| 25 July | Virginia Woolf: modern fiction and modernist reality, by Dr Sinead Garrigan-Mattar |
| 26 July | Fiction and film of World War II, by Dr Rod Mengham |
| 27 July | 'The poet never lieth … ' , 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):
| 16 July | 'Wild form, man, wild form!' (Jack Kerouac): pursing the intuitive across the post-war American Arts, by Dr Michael Hrebeniak |
| 17 July | Pushkin: Russia's greatest literary genius, by Iain Sproat |
| 23 July | The internationalization of Arabic literature, by Dr Kate Daniels |
The Science Summer School will take place from Sunday, 15 July to Saturday, 4 August 2007. The theme for this year's plenary lecture series is Knowledge and power. Lectures take place in the Trust Room, Fitzwilliam College, at the times given below.
| 16 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.20 a.m. | Knowledge and power: Introductory talk, by Sir David King |
| 17 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | How the stalactite got its shape, by Professor Raymond Goldstein |
| 18 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Modelling movement, by Professor Daniel Wolpert |
| 19 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Stem cells: hope, hype, and reality, by Professor Austin Smith |
| 20 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Notations for creativity, invention, and control, by Dr Alan Blackwell |
| 23 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | What do animals know about other minds and times?, by Professor Nicky Clayton |
| 11 a.m. - 12.15 p.m. | The environmental cost of flight, by Professor Peter Haynes | |
| 24 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Cancer: does the power of treatments increase with knowledge of the disease, by Professor Ron Laskey |
| 25 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Genetic discoveries in pain, by Dr Geoff Woods |
| 26 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.15 a.m. | Trains and Lego: teaching emotion, understanding, and social skills to children with autism spectrum conditions, by Georgina Owens |
| 10.45 a.m. - 11.45 p.m. | Emotionally intelligent interfaces, by Professor Peter Robinson | |
| 27 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Rock guitar in 11 dimensions, by Dr Mark Lewney |
| 30 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Darwin, sex, and slavery, by Professor James Moore |
| 11 a.m. - 12.15 p.m. | Knowledge and power on the web, by Professor Ted Briscoe | |
| 31 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Chasing chimpanzees, by Dr William McGrew |
| 1 August | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Antarctica, by Dr Robert Hawley |
| 2 August | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Influenza pandemic, by Professor John Oxford |
| 11 a.m. - 12.15 p.m. | Lighting the way: fluorescent proteins and animal development, by David Welchman | |
| 3 August | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | String theory, by Dr David Berman |
| 11 a.m. - 12.15 p.m. | How do we know what to believe?, by Professor Jim Secord |
Additional lectures given in the evening may also be of interest (see also Joint evening lectures, below):
| 16 July | 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. | The truth about Science, by Professor Peter Lipton |
| 17 July | 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. | Cloning and stem cells as a route towards cell replacement, by Professor Sir John Gurdon |
| 23 July | 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. | From genes to cognition, by Professor Seth Grant |
| 25 July | 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. | Sustainable energy: how it all adds up, by Professor David MacKay |
| 31 July | 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. | Black holes, by Professor Andrew Fabian |
| 1 August | 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. | Moore's Law, by Dr Douglas Paul |
The Summer School in History will take place from Sunday, 8 July to Saturday, 28 July 2007. The theme for this year's morning plenary lecture series is Power and leadership. Morning lectures take place in Little Hall, on the Sidgwick Site. They start promptly at 9.15 a.m. and end at 10.30 a.m.
| 12 July | The international crisis over Bosnia, 1992-1995, by Dr Brendan Simms |
| 13 July | Thucydides, by Professor Geoffrey Hawthorn |
| 16 July | The Six Day War, by Dr Glen Rangwala |
| 17 July | Serbia and the July Crisis of 1914, by Dr Christopher Clark |
| 19 July | Thermopylae, by Professor Paul Cartledge |
| 20 July | Guernica and total war, by Dr Ian Patterson |
| 23 July | The Spanish Civil War, by Charlie Nurse |
| 24 July | Winning the peace in European warfare in the early modern period, by Dr William O'Reilly |
| 25 July | Enslaved southern women and the American War for Independence, by Dr Betty Wood |
| 26 July | European Union - a new type of peace settlement, by Dr Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni |
| 27 July | Cromwell in war and peace, by Dr David Smith |
An additional lecture 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):
| 12 July | The war correspondent and the pacifist, by Professor Angela V. John |
The Shakespeare Summer School will take place from Sunday, 29 July to Saturday, 18 August 2007. Morning lectures take place in Little Hall, on the Sidgwick Site. They start promptly at 11.30 a.m., and end at 12.30 p.m.
| 30 July | Looking for King Lear, by Professor Michael Dobson |
| 31 July | Seeing better, by Professor Peter Holland |
| 1 August | Shakespeare and soliloquy, by Dr Alexander Lindsay |
| 2 August | Breaking the mould, by Dr Charles Moseley |
| 3 August | The illustrated Shakespeare 1709-1875, by Professor Stuart Sillars |
| 6 August | Hamlet on film, by Dr Emma Smith |
| 7 August | Shakespeare from text to performance, by Professor Stanley Wells |
| 9 August | 'You speak a language that I understand not': Shakespeare's late style, by Dr Russ McDonald |
| 10 August | Illusions and delusions: theatrical trickery in Shakespearean contemporary drama, by Dr Stewart Eames |
| 13 August | Helen of Troy, by Dr Laurie Maguire |
| 14 August | Kings, queens, and crowns: staging Shakespeare's Histories, by Dr Sarah Dewar-Watson |
| 15 August | Over their heads: Iago in the playhouse, by Professor Michael Hattaway |
| 16 August | Co-authors at work: Shakespeare and Fletcher write 'The Two Noble Kinsmen', by Professor Brian Vickers |
| 17 August | Shakespeare's chairs, by Dr Catherine Alexander |
Additional lectures given in the evening in Little Hall, on the Sidgwick Site, from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., may also be of interest (see also Joint evening lectures, below):
| 31 July | The life and times of Shakespeare, by Dr Catherine Alexander |
| 2 August | Painting Shakespeare, 1720-1820, by Professor Stuart Sillars |
| 7 August | A reading from the Sonnets, by Clive Wilmer |
| 13 August | Shakespeare from manuscript to print, by Dr Alexander Lindsay |
The Medieval Studies Summer School will take place from Sunday, 29 July to Saturday, 18 August 2007. Morning lectures take place in the Faculty of Divinity, Room 3 on the Sidgwick Site, at the times shown below.
| 30 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | The use and abuse of power and authority by medieval Queens, by Dr Rowena E. Archer |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. | Authorizing and subverting nationhood in medieval Britain: the struggles between England, Scotland, and Wales, by Professor Michael Clanchy | |
| 31 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Why were the politics of later medieval Europe so chaotic?, by Dr John Watts |
| 1 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Late medieval political poetry: commission, criticism, or conversation?, by Dr Jenni Nuttall |
| 2 August | 9 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Popular (and unpopular) iconoclasm: who destroyed English religious art in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England and why?, by Dr Phillip Lindley |
| 3 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | The image of kingship: politics and painting at Westminster in the age of the Plantagenets, by Dr Paul Binski |
| 7 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Why were the Templars arrested in 1307?, by Professor Malcolm Barber |
| 8 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Population, trade, and the fifteenth-century economy, by Professor Richard Britnell |
| 9 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Modern approaches to the history of the Crusades, by Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. | Cardinal Lavigerie and the last Crusaders, by Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith | |
| 13 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Margaret of Anjou: subversive queen or dutiful wife?, by Diana E. S. Dunn |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. | Julian of Norwich: devotion, vision, subversion, by Professor A. C. Spearing | |
| 14 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Robert or David Bruce: Who was the real hero of Scottish kingship?, by Dr Richard Partington |
| 15 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | The Council of Constance (1414-1417) and the conversion of England, by Professor Vincent Gillespie |
| 16 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Cade's rebellion: popular politics in fifteenth-century England, by Dr David Grummitt |
| 17 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Chivalry and authority: the Battle of Crécy and the Order of the Garter, by Professor Nigel Saul |
Additional lectures from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. (location to be advised: please enquire via Summer Schools Office) may also be of interest (see also Joint evening lectures, below):
| 2 August | Medieval painting - heretical arts in the service of the church, by Dr Spike Bucklow |
| 13 August | Edward I and William Wallace: master and rebel, by Dr Richard Partington |
| 15 August | Discussion. Authority and subversion: the last word?, led by Dr Rowena Archer |
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.:
| 11 July | Fifty years on: Europe's new identity, by Dr Julie Smith |
| 12 July | Crossing borders: the power of interdisciplinary study, by Adrian Barlow |
| 13 July | Introduction to 'Macbeth', by Simon Browne |
| 16 July | 'Wild form, man, wild form!' (Jack Kerouac): pursuing the intuitive across the post-war American Arts, by Dr Michael Hrebeniak |
| 16 July (sic) | Cambridge and the abolition of the slave trade, by Sean Lang |
| 17 July | The Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707, by Dr Mark Goldie |
| 18 July | Art and power, by Nicholas Friend |
| 20 July | An introduction to 'Othello', by Dr Fred Parker |
| 23 July | Hitler's role in World War II, by Professor Jonathan Steinberg |
| 25 July | Churchill through his papers. War, peace, and power: the fiction and reality, by Allen Packwood |
| 26 July | RE: Design, based on the correspondence between Asa Gray and Charles Darwin and performed by the Menagerie Theatre Company |
| 31 July | Power: clocks, robots, and God. Machines, authority, and the Middle Ages, by Piers Bursill-Hall |
| 1 August | The anatomy of a Cambridge College, by Adrian Barlow |
| 6 August | Hampton Court: 'The greatest English palace', by Dr Jonathan Foyle |
| 7 August | Britain's changing landscape, AD300-1900, by Dr Nicholas James |
| 8 August | Shakespeare and the Middle Ages, by Professor Helen Cooper |
| 9 August | Making the Earth move: 1200-1600, by Piers Bursill-Hall |
| 10 August | An introduction to 'Love's Labour's Lost', by Dr Catherine Alexander |
| 13 August | Children of the Empire, by Sean Lang |
| 14 August | The fate of Faerie, by Dr Stewart Eames |
| 15 August | One, two, three: 'Twelfth Night' deconstructed and performed, by Eunice Roberts |
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, Greenwich House, Madingley Road, Cambridge (tel. 01223 760851, e-mail sjo1001@cam.ac.uk).