In 2008 the International Division of the Institute of Continuing Education celebrates its eighty-fifth year of arranging International Summer Schools. Some 820 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 therefore suggest attendees 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-fifth International Summer School will take place from Monday, 7 July to Friday, 1 August 2008. The talks in this series of lectures follow the theme of Creation. The topics have been chosen to stimulate interest amongst a group of students from a broad range of disciplines. 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.
| Wednesday, 9 July | East-West encounter: creation of a first link, by Dr Kate Pretty |
| Thursday, 10 July | Medieval cathedrals: creation and evolution, by Professor Eric Fernie |
| Friday, 11 July | How to stay fit at 800: creating change in Cambridge in the twenty-first century, by Dr Jonathan Nicholls |
| Monday, 14 July | Creation and evolution, by Professor Colin Humphreys |
| Tuesday, 15 July | Making as meaning: Jackson Pollock, by Nicholas Friend |
| Wednesday, 16 July | Creating peace in divided societies. Can the Middle East learn from the experience of Northern Ireland?, by John Jackson |
| Thursday, 17 July | Stem cells: hope, hype, and reality, by Professor Austin Smith |
| Monday, 21 July | Double-glazed ceilings: creating opportunities for women, by Dr Gill Sutherland |
| Tuesday, 22 July | The creation of success in government, by Lord Wilson of Dinton |
| Wednesday, 23 July | Entrepreneurship has now become a social movement. Are you part of it?, by Dr Shailendra Vyakarnam |
| Thursday, 24 July | Does wealth improve our well-being?, by Dr Luisa Corrado |
| Friday, 25 July | Inventing the nation: Japan and India, by Professor James Mayall |
| Monday, 28 July | Unwelcome creation: how cancer cells arise, by Professor Ron Laskey |
| Tuesday, 29 July | Evolution: Directionless? Purposeless? Stupid?, by Professor Simon Conway-Morris |
Additional evening lectures, also in the Lady Mitchell Hall, from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., are scheduled for:
| Thursday, 24 July | Cambridge life: the undergraduate perspective, by Mark Fletcher |
| Tuesday, 29 July | Engineers and alchemists: the accidental makers of modern science, by Piers Bursill-Hall |
(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, 6 July to Saturday, 26 July 2008. The theme for this year's plenary lecture series is The making of art: line, colour, and composition from Giotto to Rothko. Morning lectures take place in the Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, on the Sidgwick Site at the times given below.
| Monday, 7 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Colour and composition in the Italian Renaissance, from Giotto to Leonardo, by Nicholas Friend |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | The colour of churches, by Professor Eric Fernie | |
| Tuesday, 8 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | King's College Chapel and the making of its stained glass windows, by Dr Carola Hicks |
| Wednesday, 9 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Painting is murder: making and meaning in Sickert's Camden Town paintings, by James Malpas |
| Thursday, 10 July | 9 a.m. - 10 a.m. | The making of fakes and forgeries, by John Myatt |
| Friday, 11 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | The making of the Renaissance: Giotto and the break from Byzantine art, by Aidan Hart |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | The making of an icon, by Aidan Hart | |
| Monday, 14 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Telling the tale: painting, sculpture, and architecture in seventeenth-century Italy and France, by Nicholas Friend |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | Composition, line, and colour in the frescoes of Giotto for the Arena Chapel, Padua, by Clare Ford-Wille | |
| Tuesday, 15 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Line, colour, and composition through Spanish eyes - El Greco to Picasso, by Gail Turner |
| Wednesday, 16 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Kettle's Yard as a work of art, by Sebastiano Barassi |
| Friday, 18 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Hammershøi: silent disruptions, by Joanne Rhymer |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | The making of St Pancras station, by Dr Simon Bradley | |
| Monday, 21 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Perception, passion, and paint from Delacroix to Rothko, by Nicholas Friend |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | Barbara Hepworth: the influence of her relationships and the Cornish landscape on her sculpture, by Lucy Walker | |
| Tuesday, 22 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Carving composition, process, and technique, by Andrew Tanser |
| Wednesday, 23 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Art as post-war reconstruction: John Sell Cotman in Normandy, 1817-1820, by Timothy Wilcox |
| Thursday, 24 July | 9 a.m. - 10 a.m. | Renaissance and pre-Renaissance scripts, by Paul Antonio Attong |
| Friday, 25 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | The mutating figure, by Susie Hamilton |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | Making as meaning: Jackson Pollock, 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).
| Wednesday, 9 July | From jumble to jigsaw: the reassembly of three Chinese vases from the Fitzwilliam Museum, by Penny Bendall |
| Tuesday, 15 July | Keys and clues: Chardin, by Nicholas Friend |
| Wednesday, 16 July | Re-making Cimabue's crucifix, by Dr Spike Bucklow |
| Monday, 21 July | The fruits of his labours: Cézanne, by Nicholas Friend |
The Literature Summer School will take place from Sunday, 6 July to Saturday, 26 July 2008. The theme for this year's plenary lecture series is A line of beauty. 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.
| Monday, 7 July | Drawing the line in Sterne and Blake, by Dr Fred Parker |
| Tuesday, 8 July | Hogarth's 'Analysis of Beauty' and the pleasures of the Serpentine Line, by Dr Charlotte Grant |
| Wednesday, 9 July | Alan Hollinghurst's 'The Line of Beauty', by Dr Robert Macfarlane |
| Thursday, 10 July | Contemporary British poetry: lines, colours, and the visual field, by Professor John Kerrigan |
| Friday, 11 July | 'Mapping the too huge world': lines of beauty in Jack Kerouac's fiction, by Dr Michael Hrebeniak |
| Monday, 14 July | The line in which all things are contained: P. B. Shelley and the creation of the Universe, by Dr Ross Wilson |
| Tuesday, 15 July | The art of the book, by Dr Rod Mengham |
| Thursday, 17 July | Line-endings and beauty of line, by Clive Wilmer |
| Friday, 18 July | The end of the line, by Dr Deborah Bowman |
| Monday, 21 July | The aesthetics of verse form, by Dr Gavin Alexander |
| Tuesday, 22 July | James Joyce and Shakespeare's line of beauty, by Dr Christopher Bristow |
| Wednesday, 23 July | Keats's taste, by Dr Stephen Logan |
| Thursday, 24 July | Wisdom XI, v.21: what shape is the line?, by Dr Charles Moseley |
| Friday, 25 July | Twenty-five things to do with a beautiful heroine, by Professor Helen Cooper |
| Monday, 21 July | The theme of beauty in Renaissance poetry, by Dr Paul Suttie |
The Science Summer School will take place from Sunday, 13 July to Saturday, 2 August 2008. The theme for this year's plenary lecture series is Visions of the future: Newton to nanoscience. Lectures take place in the Trust Room, Fitzwilliam College, at the times given below.
| Monday, 14 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | The origins of the brain, by Professor Seth Grant |
| Tuesday, 15 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | The genetics of pain, by Dr Geoff Woods |
| Wednesday, 16 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | The next fifty years, by Professor Colin Humphreys |
| Thursday, 17 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Beyond quantum computing, by Professor Peter Littlewood |
| Friday, 18 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Brain damage: repairing the damaged brain and spinal cord, by Professor James Fawcett |
| Monday, 21 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Under Newton's apple tree, by Dr Patricia Fara |
| 11 a.m. - 12.15 p.m. | Back to the future: is mental time travel unique to humans?, by Professor Nicky Clayton | |
| Tuesday, 22 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Sustainable energy: how it all adds up, by Professor David MacKay |
| Wednesday, 23 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | 360 million years BCE: environmental changes and the origins of tetrapods, by Professor Jennifer Clack |
| Friday, 25 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Cloning, stem cells, and cell replacement, by Professor Sir John Gurdon |
| 11 a.m. - 12.15 p.m. | Are we star dust or nuclear waste?, by Dr Robin Catchpole | |
| Monday, 28 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Power for the people: can materials science save the world?, by Dr Rob Wallach |
| 11 a.m. - 12.15 p.m. | The search for extra-terrestrial life, by Dr Lisa Jardine-Wright | |
| Tuesday, 29 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | The future of cancer treatment, by Professor Ron Laskey |
| Wednesday, 30 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Instabilities and catastrophes, by Professor Michael Thompson |
| Thursday, 31 July | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Astronomy: visions of the future, by Professor Andrew Fabian |
| 11 a.m. - 12.15 p.m. | Materials for aircraft: why they don't fall down, by Dr Rob Wallach | |
| Friday, 1 August | 9.15 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Global international agreements and climate change, by Professor Sir Brian Heap |
| 11 a.m. - 12.15 p.m. | What happens when we re-run the tape of life?, by Professor Simon Conway-Morris |
Additional lectures given in the evening, from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., may also be of interest (see also Joint evening lectures, below):
| Monday, 14 July | Recent advances in biosensors, by Professor Christopher Lowe |
| Tuesday, 15 July | Visions of the future: a load of rubbish?, by Dr Claire Barlow |
| Tuesday, 22 July | Boomerangs, bouncing balls, and other spinning things, by Dr Hugh Hunt |
| Thursday, 24 July | Stemcells: hope, hype, and reality, by Professor Austin Smith |
| Tuesday, 29 July | Cosmic imagery: visions of science, by Professor John Barrow |
| Wednesday, 30 July | Copernicanism: a silly idea that nobody believed. Ever., by Piers Bursill-Hall |
The Summer School in History will take place from Sunday, 6 July to Saturday, 26 July 2008. The theme for this year's morning plenary lecture series is States and nations. 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.
| Monday, 7 July | The origins of nationalism, by Professor Tim Blanning |
| Tuesday, 8 July | Were there States in the Middle Ages?, by Dr Joseph Canning |
| Wednesday, 9 July | The Bosnian crisis, by Dr Brendan Simms |
| Thursday, 10 July | The beginnings of European expansion, by Dr Jonathan Hart |
| Friday, 11 July | Europe in Victorian Britain, by Dr Michael Ledger-Lomas |
| Monday, 14 July | The resilience of the State in contemporary Europe, by Dr Julie Smith |
| Tuesday, 15 July | Visions of Rome in British Imperial history, by Dr Piers Brendon |
| Thursday, 17 July | The new peoples of early modern Britain and Ireland, by Professor John Morrill |
| Friday, 18 July | America's rise to hegemony: a product of push or pull?, by Dr John Thompson |
| Monday, 21 July | Nationalism in the West since 1945, by Professor James Mayall |
| Tuesday, 22 July | Forming states and nations in the early modern world, by Dr William O'Reilly |
| Wednesday, 23 July | Greeks and Barbarians, by Dr Paul Millett |
| Thursday, 24 July | The Vatican: a state of mind?, by Professor John Pollard |
| Friday, 25 July | States and nations: the last word?, 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).
| Monday, 21 July | Napoleon's legacy? Radical nationalism and state formation in nineteenth-century Europe, by Victoria Harris |
The Shakespeare Summer School will take place from Sunday, 27 July to Saturday, 16 August 2008. The theme for this year's morning plenary lecture series is Shakespeare's skills. 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.
| Monday, 28 July | Questions of authority in 'Titus Andronicus', by Dr Catherine Alexander |
| Tuesday, 29 July | The limitations of the First Folio, by Professor Stanley Wells and Paul Edmondson |
| Wednesday, 30 July | Shakespeare and landscape, by Professor Ruth Morse |
| Thursday, 31 July | Shakespeare's use of rhetoric: speech and persuasion, by Professor Sir Brian Vickers |
| Friday, 1 August | Let's not edit Shakespeare, by Dr Emma Smith |
| Monday, 4 August | Shakespeare's dramatic theory, by Dr Sarah Dewar-Watson |
| Tuesday, 5 August | Shakespeare's drama of history, by Dr Jonathan Hart |
| Thursday, 7 August | Shakespeare's skill as a political anthropologist: 'Richard II', by Tim Cribb |
| Friday, 8 August | The skills of comedy, by Professor Howard Erskine-Hill |
| Monday, 11 August | Shakespeare and the uses of parody, by Professor Stuart Sillars |
| Tuesday, 12 August | Passing through: Shakespeare, theatre, and the internet, by Professor Peter Holland |
| Wednesday, 13 August | A knight, a queen, and a mirror: Shakespeare on language, by Dr Russ McDonald |
| Thursday, 14 August | The glass of fashion and the mould of form, by Dr Charles Moseley |
| Friday, 15 August | 'Shrew': the two text problem, 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).
| Tuesday, 29 July | Is it true what they say about Shakespeare?, by Professor Stanley Wells and Paul Edmondson |
| Thursday, 31 July | Poetry in the time of Elizabeth I, by Dr Paul Suttie |
| Tuesday, 5 August | A reading of 'Venus and Adonis', by Clive Wilmer |
| Monday, 11 August | The Illustrated Shakespeare, 1709-1875, by Professor Stuart Sillars |
| Tuesday, 12 August | Nahum Tate's 'King Lear': a play for its time, by Dr Alexander Lindsay |
The Medieval Studies Summer School will take place from Sunday, 27 July to Saturday, 16 August 2008. The theme for this year's morning plenary lecture series is Superstition and belief. Morning lectures take place in the Faculty of Divinity, Runcie Room on the Sidgwick Site, at the times shown below.
| Monday, 28 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Medieval chronicles and credulity, by Dr Rowena E. Archer |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. | The conversion of England to Christianity: Augustine to Bede, by Dr John Maddicott | |
| Tuesday, 29 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Proving crime: trial by battle at Winchester in 1249, by Professor Michael Clanchy |
| Wednesday, 30 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Heresy and fear of heresy, by Professor Tony Spearing |
| Thursday, 31 July | 9 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Saints and devils, heroes and villains: superstition and belief in medieval incest stories, by Dr Elizabeth Archibald |
| Friday, 1 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Contemporary explanations of the Black Death, by Dr Rosemary Horrox |
| Monday, 4 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | The Royal Touch: the mystique of kingship, by Dr Christopher Fletcher |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.45 a.m. | The Royal Touch: the practice of kingship, by Dr Christopher Fletcher | |
| Tuesday, 5 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Peasants and 'rationality' in the late Middle Ages, by Dr Benjamin Dodds |
| Wednesday, 6 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | The Seven Deadly Sins (and a few lively virtues), by Dr Lynne Broughton |
| Thursday, 7 August | 9 a.m. - 10 a.m. | Medieval hands: scripts and structure, by Paul Antonio Attong |
| Friday, 8 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Domestic housing in medieval England, by Leigh Alston |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. | Evidence of superstition and ritual in early buildings, by Leigh Alston | |
| Monday, 11 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Seable rememoratijf signes: image and idolatry in late medieval England, by Professor Richard Marks |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. | The moost profytable sayntes in the chyrche? The function and meaning of stained glass imagery in the late medieval parish church, by Professor Richard Marks | |
| Tuesday, 12 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Searching for King Arthur from Windsor to Tintagel, by Julian Munby |
| Wednesday, 13 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Poverty and the crisis of Christian belief in the fourteenth century, by Dr Joseph Canning |
| Thursday, 14 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Ghosts and revenants, by Professor Vincent Gillespie |
| Friday, 15 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Sir John Oldcastle and the death throes of Lollardy, 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):
| Tuesday, 29 July | Readings on religion and superstition, by Professor Tony Spearing |
| Thursday, 31 July | Death and the afterlife, by Dr Carl Watkins |
| Tuesday, 5 August | Christine de Pizan: 'First Lady' of the Middle Ages, by Dr Helen Swift |
| Wednesday, 13 August | Discussion: superstition and belief, led by Dr Rowena E. 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.:
| Tuesday, 8 July | Collegiate Cambridge: how it works for students, by Dr Rob Wallach |
| Wednesday, 9 July | Cambridge ancient and modern: the architecture of the University, by Adrian Barlow |
| Thursday, 10 July | Henslow's legacy: Darwin's inheritance, by Professor John Parker |
| Friday, 11 July | Introduction to 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', by Dr Simon Browne |
| Monday, 14 July | Creating 'Braveheart': national hero or national myth?, by Dr Richard Partington |
| Monday, 14 July | A line of beauty: letter forms in stone, by Lida Lopes Cardozo Kindersley |
| Tuesday, 15 July | The American political system and the Presidential campaign of 2008, by Professor Jonathan Steinberg |
| Wednesday, 16 July | Writing about Empire, by Dr Jonathan Hart |
| Friday, 18 July | An introduction to 'King Lear', by Dr Fred Parker |
| Monday, 21 July | Reverse engineering the violin, by Professor Jim Woodhouse |
| Tuesday, 22 July | Harry Potter and the British Empire, by Sean Lang |
| Wednesday, 30 July | Lincoln Cathedral, by Dr Lynne Broughton |
| Friday, 1 August | Shakespeare's 'King Lear' at the Globe: past and present, by Dr Clare Smout |
| Monday, 4 August | The changing face of the English countryside, 1350-2008, by Dr Nicholas James |
| Tuesday, 5 August | Britain's changing landscape, AD 300-1900, by Dr Nicholas James |
| Wednesday, 6 August | Readings in the medieval supernatural, by Professor Helen Cooper |
| Thursday, 7 August (sic) | Harry Potter and the British Empire, by Dr Sean Lang |
| Friday, 8 August | An introduction to Hamlet, by Dr Catherine Alexander |
| Monday, 11 August | 'The Heavens themselves blaze forth the death of Princes': comets in the Middle Ages, by Dr Christopher Taylor |
| Tuesday, 12 August (sic) | Creating 'Braveheart': national hero or national myth?, by Dr Richard Partington |
| Wednesday, 13 August | Ellen Terry and Shakespeare: triumphant and pathetic women, 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 (7)60851 or email sjo1001@cam.ac.uk).