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Institute of Continuing Education: Notice

INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOLS 2009: PLENARY LECTURE SERIES

In 2009 the International Division of the Institute of Continuing Education celebrates its eighty-sixth year of arranging International Summer Schools. At least one thousand visitors will come to the University for periods of study lasting from one 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 attendees arrive a few minutes in advance in order to allow time to check the location.

Please note: * indicates joint lectures (those offered for more than one Summer School). These lectures take place in the Lady Mitchell Hall.

International Summer School Term I

The first term of the Institute of Continuing Education's eighty-sixth International Summer School will take place from Monday, 6 July to Friday, 31 July 2009. The talks in this series of lectures follow the theme of Understanding. 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.

Plenary lectures

Wednesday, 8 July Understanding the University of Cambridge, by Dr Kate Pretty
Thursday, 9 July Understanding major world changes in the next fifty years, by Professor Colin Humphreys
Friday, 10 July Understanding stem cells: hope, hype, and reality, by Professor Austin Smith
Monday, 13 July Are we stardust or nuclear waste?, by Dr Robin Catchpole
Tuesday, 14 July Literature now: the place of literature in contemporary British life, by Adrian Barlow
Wednesday, 15 July Understanding biodiversity: trees and immortality, by Professor John Parker
Thursday, 16 July Understanding English, via Greek, by Professor Paul Cartledge
Monday, 20 July Towards the new horizon: world order in the twenty-first century, by Professor James Mayall
Tuesday, 21 July Understanding how governments work, by Lord Wilson of Dinton
Wednesday, 22 July Understanding our masters' voice: interpreting Parliament's will, by Dr Roderick Munday
Thursday, 23 July Understanding cancer as a Darwinian process, by Professor Ron Laskey
Friday, 24 July Understanding Middle English, by Dr Fred Parker
Monday, 27 July The ape on your bird table, by Professor Nicky Clayton
Tuesday, 28 July How the universe came to understand itself: evolution's dark secret, by Professor Simon Conway Morris

Evening lectures

Additional evening lectures, at 8 p.m., are scheduled for:

*Tuesday, 7 July Cambridge and the Colleges, by Dr Rob Wallach
*Wednesday, 8 July Cambridge 800: creation of a 'son et lumière', by Ross Ashton
*Friday, 10 July Understanding the British hero figure: from Boudica to Bond, and beyond, by Dr Sean Lang
*Monday, 13 July Understanding boomerangs and other spinning things, by Dr Hugh Hunt
*Tuesday, 14 July Understanding the British, by Dr Nicholas James
*Wednesday, 15 July Nuclear proliferation and Iran: a building crisis, by John Jackson
*Thursday, 16 July Cutting-edge technology: the art of forging a medieval sword, by Magnus Sigurdsson
*Monday, 20 July History and the decline of memory, by Professor Jonathan Steinberg
*Tuesday, 21 July Understanding codes and the Enigma machine, by Dr James Grime
*Thursday, 23 July Understanding English history from evidence in changing landscapes, 900-1300 AD, by Dr Sue Oosthuizen
Monday, 27 July Understanding the origins of Islam, by Piers Bursill-Hall

Science Summer School, Terms I and II

The Science Summer School takes place from Sunday, 5 July to Saturday, 18 July 2009 (Term I), and from Sunday, 19 July to Saturday, 1 August 2009 (Term II). The theme for this year's plenary lecture series is Atoms to galaxies. Lectures are given in the Little Hall, with the exception of asterisked joint lectures, which are held in the Lady Mitchell Hall.

Term I:

Monday, 6 July 9.15 a.m. Understanding stem cells, by Professor Austin Smith
  11 a.m. Galaxies, by Dr Carolin Crawford
  8 p.m. Making surfaces: what is the next number in the sequence 4, 8, 20, infinity?, by Dr Keith Carne
Tuesday, 7 July 9.15 a.m. Origins and evolution of the brain and the emergence of behaviour, by Professor Seth Grant
Wednesday, 8 July 9.15 a.m. Beyond quantum computing, by Professor Peter Littlewood
  8 p.m. *Cambridge 800: creation of a 'son et lumière', by Ross Ashton
Thursday, 9 July 9.15 a.m. Materials for aircraft: why they don't fall down, by Dr Rob Wallach
Monday, 13 July 9.15 a.m. Dancing algae, by Professor Raymond Goldstein
  11 a.m. Material efficiency: how can we serve more people with less material?, by Dr Julian Allwood
  8 p.m. *Understanding boomerangs and other spinning things, by Dr Hugh Hunt
Tuesday, 14 July 9.15 a.m. Examining the biological world: a plant's eye view, by Professor John Parker
Wednesday, 15 July 9.15 a.m. From eggs to animals: evolving complexity, by Professor Michael Akam
  8 p.m. *Nuclear proliferation and Iran: a building crisis, by John Jackson
Thursday, 16 July 9.15 a.m. Rubber band electronic circuits: can electronic materials stretch?, by Dr Stéphanie Lacour
Thursday, 16 July 11 a.m. The science of getting electricity from burning coal, blowing winds, and shining sunshine, by Niraj Lal
  8 p.m. *Cutting-edge technology: the art of forging a medieval sword, by Magnus Sigurdsson
Friday, 17 July 9.15 a.m. Bang in the middle: life and the predictability of evolution, by Professor Simon Conway Morris
  11 a.m. The search for extra-terrestrial life, by Dr Lisa Jardine-Wright

Term II:

Monday, 20 July 9.15 a.m. Materials in living systems, by Professor Lindsay Greer
  11 a.m. Back to the future: the development and evolution of mental time travel, by Professor Nicky Clayton
  8 p.m. Humans on the move: can migrations and diasporas in prehistory explain human biological and cultural variation?, by Dr Maru Mormina
Tuesday, 21 July 9.15 a.m. Sustainable energy (without the hot air), by Professor David Mackay
  8 p.m. *Understanding codes and the Enigma machine, by Dr James Grime
Wednesday, 22 July 9.15 a.m. Rogue molecules of the cancer cell, by Professor Ron Laskey
Thursday, 23 July 9.15 a.m. Foundations of a world shaking theory: Henslow's influence on Darwin, by Professor John Parker
  8 p.m. Are we stardust or nuclear waste?, by Dr Robin Catchpole
Friday, 24 July 9.15 a.m. Unpredictability and chance in science and technology, by Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas
  11 a.m. Light the messenger: understanding and exploiting nature, by Dr Lisa Jardine Wright
Monday, 27 July 9.15 a.m. Cloning, stem cells, and cell replacement, by Professor Sir John Gurdon
  11 a.m. Power to the people. Materials science: the key to sustainability, by Dr Rob Wallach
  8 p.m. Free drugs from your tap - the emerging problem, by Dr Oliver Jones
Tuesday, 28 July 9.15 a.m. Of maize and men or peas and people: how studies with plants help point the way to new ways of treating disease in man, by Professor David Baulcombe
Wednesday, 29 July 9.15 a.m. The Hog's Bosun and where to find him: CERN and the Large Hadron Collider, by Professor Christopher Lester
  8 p.m. DNA - beyond the double helix, by Dr Julian Huppert
Thursday, 30 July 9.15 a.m. Brain damage and repair, by Professor James Fawcett
  11 a.m. Parasitic disease: the silent killer, by Dan Neill
  8 p.m. Challenging sociality? Exploring robots as terminators and friends, by Dr Kathleen Richardson
Friday, 31 July 9.15 a.m. The puppet master: how the brain controls the body, by Professor Daniel Wolpert
  11 a.m. Serendipity in astronomy, by Professor Andrew Fabian

Art History Summer School

The Summer School in Art History will take place from Sunday, 5 July to Saturday, 18 July, 2009. The theme for this year's plenary lecture series is Paint and passion. Morning lectures take place in the Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, on the Sidgwick Site, and evening lectures are held at Wolfson Court, Clarkson Road.

Monday, 6 July 9.30 a.m. Art in the service of emotion, by Nicholas Friend
  11.30 a.m. The art of illusion: painting at the time of Van Eyck, by Dr Richard Williams
  8 p.m. British passions for Spanish art, by Gail Turner
Tuesday, 7 July 9.30 a.m. Art in the service of religion: the body of Christ in sixteenth-century Venetian art, by Norman Coady
  8 p.m. Poussin's passions, by Nicholas Friend
*Wednesday, 8 July 8 p.m. Cambridge 800: creation of a 'son et lumière', by Ross Ashton
Thursday, 9 July 9.30 a.m. Picturing the passions: the tragic mode in late sixteenth-century Venetian painting, by Dr Michael Douglas-Scott
Friday, 10 July 9.30 a.m. Passion, paint, and the sea, by Jo Rhymer
  11.30 a.m. A passion to possess, by John Myatt
Monday, 13 July 9.30 a.m. Self-seeking: self-portraits from Rembrandt to Van Gogh, by Nicholas Friend
  11.30 a.m. Cy Twombly: passionate scribbling, by Nicholas Cullinan
  8 p.m. A passion for their art: Italian women artists of the seventeenth century, from Fontana to Gentileschi, by Clare Ford-Wille
Tuesday, 14 July 9.30 a.m. A passion for painting and poetry: from the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to the Aesthetic Movement, by Dr Jan Marsh
  8 p.m. Passionate about paint - but what is it and how do we know?, by Dr Spike Bucklow
Wednesday, 15 July 8 p.m. Art for the sake of art? The Ruskin/Whistler debates, by Nicholas Friend
Thursday, 16 July 9.30 a.m. A passion for trees: the English landscape between park and wilderness, by Tim Wilcox
  8 p.m. The magic of marks: passionate abstractions, by Nicholas Friend
Friday, 17 July 9.30 a.m. Europe and America's passion for Japan, 1858-1914, by James Malpas
  11.30 a.m. Francis Bacon: the sacred and the profane, by Michael Peppiatt

Literature Summer School, Terms I and II

The Literature Summer School will take place from Sunday, 5 July to Saturday, 1 August 2009. The theme for this year's plenary lecture series is Imagined worlds: creative imagination. Morning and evening lectures are held in the Lecture Block, Room 3, on the Sidgwick Site, with the exception of asterisked joint lectures which are held in the Lady Mitchell Hall.

Term I:

Monday, 6 July 11.15 a.m. 'Why, this is hell': Doctor Faustus, by Dr Fred Parker
  8 p.m. Questions of context: is History the new English?, by Adrian Barlow
Tuesday, 7 July 11.15 a.m. Second natures and new worlds, by Dr Gavin Alexander
Wednesday, 8 July 11.15 a.m. 'Brain-man' and the medieval imagination, by Dr Jacqueline Tasioulas
Thursday, 9 July 11.15 a.m. How novelists portray other writers in fiction, by Adrian Barlow
Friday, 10 July 11.15 a.m. 'The Groves of England, vanished now so long': landscape, art, and ideology in picturing the lost domain, by Dr Charles Moseley
Monday, 13 July 11.15 a.m. Coleridge's conversation poems, by Clive Wilmer
  8 p.m. Cambridge writers, by Dr Charles Moseley
Tuesday, 14 July 11.15 a.m. London and ruins after World War II, by Dr Leo Mellor
Wednesday, 15 July 11.15 a.m. Pastoral, by Dr Mina Gorji
  8 p.m. Poetry reading: Heaven, home, and exile, by Dr Stephen Logan
Thursday, 16 July 11.15 a.m. Idris Davies inside out: imagining Wales in England, by Dr Stephen Logan
  8 p.m. The leap of imagination: fresh approaches to understanding the world in the Renaissance, by Dr Paul Suttie
Friday, 17 July 11.15 a.m. Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale', by Dr Jacqueline Tasioulas

Term II:

Monday, 20 July 11.15 a.m. Travellers, lies, and uncomfortable truth: the case of Sir John Mandeville, by Dr Charles Moseley
 8 p.m. Tragedy and ritual: the 'maimed rite', by Dr Fred Parker
Tuesday, 21 July 11.15 a.m. Poetry's elsewheres, by Dr Deborah Bowman
Wednesday, 22 July 11.15 a.m. Imagining hell: John Milton's 'Paradise Lost', Book I, by Dr Gavin Alexander
Thursday, 23 July 11.15 a.m. Creating fictional worlds, by Salley Vickers
 8 p.m. Imagined worlds: Gulliver among the Houyhnhnms, by Dr Alexander Lindsay
Friday, 24 July 11.15 a.m. Tennyson and the tears of things, by Clive Wilmer
 8 p.m. *Introduction to 'Julius Caesar', by Dr Fred Parker
Monday, 27 July 11.15 a.m. Venice imagined: Shakespeare and La Serenissima, by Adrian Barlow
 8 p.m. The possible world of poets, by Dr Jonathan Hart
Tuesday, 28 July 11.15 a.m. 'The Waste Land', by Dr Leo Mellor
Wednesday, 29 July 11.15 a.m. John Keats: cockney rebel?, by Dr Stephen Logan
 8 p.m. Poetry reading, by Clive Wilmer
Thursday, 30 July 11.15 a.m. Imagining England: memory and performance in Shakespeare's Histories, by Dr Hester Lees-Jeffries
Friday, 31 July 11.15 a.m. Bulgakov's 'Master and Margarita': the Devil comes to Moscow, by Dr Fred Parker

History Summer School

The Summer School in History will take place from Sunday, 19 July to Saturday 1, August 2009. The theme for this year's plenary lecture series is History and memory. Morning lectures take place in the Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, on the Sidgwick Site, and evening lectures are held in the Lecture Block, Room 1, with the exception of asterisked joint lectures which are held in the Lady Mitchell Hall.

Monday, 20 July 9.15 a.m. Tricks of memory, by Professor Tim Blanning
  8 p.m. *History and the decline of memory, by Professor Jonathan Steinberg
Tuesday, 21 July 9.15 a.m. Can these dry bones live? Death and memory in Victorian Britain, by Dr Michael Ledger-Lomas
  8 p.m. *Understanding codes and the Enigma machine, by Dr James Grime
Wednesday, 22 July 9.15 a.m. Memory and narrative identity, by Dr Philip Gardner
Thursday, 23 July 9.15 a.m. Time of the Nazis: past, present, and future in the Third Reich, by Professor Christopher Clark
  8 p.m. Why did Cromwell commit the Drogheda Massacre? Misremembering in Britain and Ireland, by Professor John Morrill
Friday, 24 July 9.15 a.m. 'Palaces on Monday': reconstruction of memory and construction of the socialist city after World War II, by Dr Barbara Koenczoel
  8 p.m. Memories of slavery, by Dr Betty Wood
Monday, 27 July 9.15 a.m. Ancient Greeks: remembering their past, by Dr Paul Millett
  8 p.m. Age before beauty: the rise of historical consciousness in the nineteenth century, by Dr David Gange
Tuesday, 28 July 9.15 a.m. History and memory and the resurgence of Fascism in contemporary Italy, by Professor John Pollard
Wednesday, 29 July 9.15 a.m. New memories of Old Russia: post-Soviet 'retrievals' of pre-Soviet Past, by Professor Simon Franklin
  8 p.m. Speaking up for justice: memory, witnessing hope from Las Casas to Obama, by Dr Jonathan Hart
Thursday, 30 July 9.15 a.m. History and memory in the shadow of the Bastille: the long legacies of the French Revolution, by Tom Stammers
Friday, 31 July 9.15 a.m. The politics of memory in seventeenth-century England, by Dr David Smith

Medieval Studies Summer School

The Medieval Studies Summer School will take place from Sunday, 2 August to Saturday, 15 August 2009. The theme for this year's morning plenary lecture series is War and society. Morning lectures take place in the Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, on the Sidgwick Site, and evening lectures are held in the Lecture Block, Room 1, with the exception of asterisked joint lectures which are held in the Lady Mitchell Hall.
Monday, 3 August 9.15 a.m. The Just War in the Middle Ages, by Dr Rowena E. Archer
  8 p.m. The De re militari of Vegetius (c. 400 AD) and its influence on medieval military thought and practice, by Professor Christopher Allmand
Tuesday, 4 August 9.15 a.m. The non-combatant in time of war: theory and practice in the Middle Ages, by Professor Christopher Allmand
  8 p.m. War and society in the Age of Beowulf, by Dr John Maddicott
Wednesday, 5 August 9.15 a.m. Stirling Bridge to Bosworth Field: the rise and stagnation of the English war machine, by Magnus Sigurdsson
  8 p.m. The Calais Garrison, 1436-1558, by Dr David Grummitt
Thursday, 6 August 9.15 a.m. Dearth and destruction: Durham before the Black Death, by Dr Benjamin Dodds
Friday, 7 August 9.15 a.m. What can the dead tell us? Chivalry and church monuments in the Hundred Years War, by Professor Nigel Saul
Monday, 10 August 9.15 a.m. The Mongols, warfare and world conquest, by Professor Jonathan Phillips
  8 p.m. Reading: Medieval war poetry, by Professor Tony Spearing
Tuesday, 11 August 9.15 a.m. 'More like houses of Gods': castles in Britain, 1066-1500, by Dr Marc Morris
  8 p.m. The use of military techniques and metaphors in civic violence in late medieval France, by Dr Hannah Skoda
Wednesday, 12 August 9.15 a.m. Japanese arms and armour to 1500, by James Malpas
  8 p.m. The problems of reconstructing medieval battles: a case-study of Shrewsbury, 1403, by Dr Philip Morgan
Thursday, 13 August 9.15 a.m. The afterlife of battlefields in the Middle Ages, by Dr Philip Morgan
  8 p.m. Discussion: war and society, by Dr Rowena E. Archer
Friday, 14 August 9.15 a.m. Control of the seas during the Hundred Years War, by Dr Rowena E. Archer

Shakespeare Summer School

The Shakespeare Summer School will take place from Sunday, 2 August to Saturday, 15 August 2009. The theme for this year's morning plenary lecture series is Shakespeare's stagecraft. Morning and evening lectures take place in Little Hall, on the Sidgwick Site, with the exception of asterisked joint lectures which are held in the Lady Mitchell Hall.

Monday, 3 August 11.30 a.m. Staging 'The Tempest', by Dr Catherine Alexander
  8 p.m. Shakespeare without chairs: a practical exploration, by Ian Hughes
Tuesday, 4 August 11.30 a.m. Hamlet's soliloquies and the problem of relevance, by Professor Sir Brian Vickers
  8 p.m. Shakespeare's cutting-edge craftsmanship: cross-dressing, bed-swaps, and rulers in disguise, by Clare Smout
Wednesday, 5 August 11.30 a.m. Selling Shakespeare, or, What's in a name?, by Dr Charles Moseley
  8 p.m. *'The very butcher of a silk button': language and the use of arms and armour in Shakespeare's plays, by Magnus Sigurdsson
Thursday, 6 August 11.30 a.m. Stage directions: their exits and their entrances, by Dr John Jowett
Friday, 7 August 11.30 a.m. Shakespeare's self-conscious theatricality, by Dr Jonathan Hart
  8 p.m. *An introduction to 'As you Like It', by Dr Catherine Alexander
Monday, 10 August 11.30 a.m. A view from the balcony: Shakespeare's stagecraft in 'Romeo and Juliet', by Tim Cribb
  8 p.m. *Analysing the acting process, by Eunice Roberts
Tuesday, 11 August 11.30 a.m. Pretty rooms: the architecture of the Elizabethan sonnet, by Professor Russ McDonald
  8 p.m. 'Nothing if not critical': the past, present, and future of Shakespearean theatre reviewing, by Dr Paul Prescott
Wednesday, 12 August 11.30 a.m. 'Is this the promised end?': staging Shakespearean (anti-)closure, by Dr Paul Prescott
  8 p.m. Reading: The Dark Lady sonnets, by Clive Wilmer
Thursday, 13 August 11.30 a.m. Time and the visual sense in Victorian staging, by Professor Stuart Sillars
  8 p.m. Shakespeare through the looking glass: the portraits (again), by Professor Stuart Sillars
Friday, 14 August 11.30 a.m. The Blackfriars Theatre and Shakespeare's Company, by Dr Alexander Lindsay

International Summer School Term II

The second term of the Institute of Continuing Education's eighty-sixth International Summer School will take place from Sunday, 2 August to Saturday, 15 August 2009. There is no morning plenary lecture series for this programme but evening lectures on a variety of subjects are organized for the c. 210 students. Evening lectures are held in the Lady Mitchell Hall at 8 p.m.

Monday, 3 August Cricket: more than just a game, by Dr Rex Walford
Tuesday, 4 August Understanding and misunderstanding, by Dr Jonathan Hart
*Wednesday, 5 August 'The very butcher of a silk button': language and the use of arms and armour in Shakespeare's plays, by Magnus Sigurdsson
*Friday, 7 August Introduction to 'As You Like It', by Dr Catherine Alexander
Monday, 10 August Analysing the acting process, by Eunice Roberts
Tuesday, 11 August Crown Imperial: the British Monarchy and India, by Dr Sean Lang
Wednesday, 12 August Newton: cosmic genius and misfit, by Piers Bursill-Hall

Joint evening lectures (general interest)

There are a number of general evening lectures arranged for more than one summer school. These are held in the Lady Mitchell Hall at 8 p.m.

*Tuesday, 7 July Cambridge and the Colleges, by Dr Rob Wallach
*Wednesday, 8 July Cambridge 800: creation of a 'son et lumière', by Ross Ashton
*Friday, 10 July Understanding the British hero figure: from Boudica to Bond, and beyond, by Dr Sean Lang
*Monday, 13 July Understanding boomerangs and other spinning things, by Dr Hugh Hunt
*Tuesday, 14 July Understanding the British, by Dr Nicholas James
*Tuesday, 21 July Understanding codes and the Enigma machine, by Dr James Grime
*Friday, 24 July Introduction to 'Julius Caesar', by Dr Fred Parker
*Friday, 7 August Introduction to 'As you like it', by Dr Catherine Alexander

Please note

Any unforeseen or last-minute changes to this lecture programme will be posted in the main Summer Schools Office (Foyer, Lady Mitchell Hall).

Your response to these lectures is invited

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 Rise, Cambridge (tel. 01223 (7)60851, email sjo1001@cam.ac.uk).