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No 6193

Wednesday 16 June 2010

Vol cxl No 34

pp. 969–1008

Events, courses, etc.

Institute of Continuing Education: Notice

International Summer Schools 2010: Plenary lecture series

In 2010 the International Division of the Institute of Continuing Education celebrates its eighty-seventh year of arranging International Summer Schools. At least 1,150 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. Accompanying faculty here in a pastoral role with their students are warmly welcomed to the plenary series.

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) and near the small Summer Schools Office in the Mill Lane Lecture Theatres: we suggest you 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 unless otherwise indicated.

International Summer School, Term I

The first term of the Institute of Continuing Education’s eighty-seventh International Summer School will take place from Monday, 5 July, to Friday, 30 July 2010. 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:

10.30 a.m., 7 July

Lord Wilson of Dinton

Understanding how governments work

10.30 a.m., 8 July

Dr Frank Woodman

Understanding King’s College Chapel

10.30 a.m., 9 July

Dr Mark Goldie

Understanding Churchill: flawed hero?

10.30 a.m., 12 July

Dr John Lawson

Understanding humans

10.30 a.m., 13 July

Dr Fred Parker

Understanding Chaucer

10.30 a.m., 14 July

Dr Justin Meggitt

Understanding miracles

10.30 a.m., 15 July

Professor Imre Leader

Ramsey theory: understanding order in disorder

10.30 a.m., 19 July

Massimo M. Beber

Manias, panics, and crashes – the international financial crisis in historical perspective

10.30 a.m., 20 July

Professor Ron Laskey

DNA and disease

10.30 a.m., 21 July

Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas

The genius of Michael Faraday

10.30 a.m., 22 July

Professor John Pollard

Understanding Fascism

10.30 a.m., 23 July

Professor Sir Colin Humphreys

Understanding major world changes in the next fifty years

10.30 a.m., 26 July

Professor John Parker

Understanding alternative life forms. Trees: lords of creation

10.30 a.m., 27 July

Professor Simon Conway Morris

Is evolution predictable?

Evening lecture: (see also ‘Joint evening lectures’ section below)

8.00 p.m., 15 July

Piers Bursill-Hall

Understanding the world – the Christian debt to Islam

Science Summer School, Terms I and II

The Science Summer Schools take place from Sunday, 4 July, to Saturday, 17 July (Term I), and from Sunday, 18 July, to Saturday, 31 July (Term II). The theme for this year’s plenary lecture series is Innovation and discovery. These lectures are given in Room 3, in the Mill Lane Lecture Theatres. (See also ‘Joint evening lectures’ below.)

Science Term I:

9.15 a.m., 5 July

Professor Herbert Huppert

The fluid dynamics of everyday life

11.00 a.m., 5 July

Professor Anne Cooke

Have we won the war only to lose the peace?

8.00 p.m., 5 July

Dr Djuke Veldhuis

Stress: the science of surviving everyday life

9.15 a.m., 6 July

Dr Robin Catchpole

What’s new in our solar system

9.15 a.m., 7 July

Dr Cam Middleton

Bridges – current challenges, future prospects

9.15 a.m., 8 July

Dr Rob Wallach

Aircraft materials – why they don’t fall down

9.15 a.m., 9 July

Dr Martin Welch

The meaning of life and all that: biology in the post-genomic era

11.00 a.m., 9 July

Dr Paul Wilkinson

Genes, environments, and depression

9.15 a.m., 12 July

Professor Seth Grant

Molecular origins of the brain and behaviour

11.00 a.m., 12 July

Professor Daniel Wolpert

The puppet master: how the brain controls the body

8.00 p.m., 12 July

Dr Patricia Fara

The Lunar Society: entrepreneurs of enlightenment

9.15 a.m., 13 July

Professor Ron Laskey

DNA and disease

9.15 a.m., 14 July

Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas

Rutherford: the Newton of the Atom

8.00 p.m., 14 July

Dr Keith Carne

How to model geometry with triangles

9.15 a.m., 15 July

Dr Julian Allwood

Energy and material efficiency

11.00 a.m., 15 July

Professor Chris Gilligan

Emerging diseases in changing landscapes

8.00 p.m., 15 July

Dr Spike Bucklow

Old Master paintings – how were they made and how do we know?

9.15 a.m., 16 July

Professor Imre Leader

Ramsey theory: understanding order in disorder

Science Term II:

9.15 a.m., 19 July

Professor John Mollon

The conceptual understanding of colour

11.00 a.m., 19 July

Professor Serena Best

Biomaterials for skeletal tissue replacement –improving on nature’s design?

9.15 a.m., 20 July

Professor Chris Abell

Early stage drug discovery

8.00 p.m., 20 July

Dr Maru Mormina

Humans on the move: can migrations and diasporas in prehistory explain human biological and cultural variation?

9.15 a.m., 21 July

Dr Derek Smith

The evolution of influenza viruses

9.15 a.m., 22 July

Professor John Parker

Past and future plants: Cambridge’s contribution to plant science

8.00 p.m., 22 July

Dr Lisa Jardine-Wright

Light the messenger

9.15 a.m., 23 July

Professor Grae Worster

Ice

11.00 a.m., 23 July

Dr Jules Griffin

The chemistry of life: from the Krebs Cycle to functional MRI

9.15 a.m., 26 July

Professor Sir John Gurdon

Cloning, stem cells, and cell replacement

11.00 a.m., 26 July

Dr Rob Wallach

Materials Science: can it save the world?

8.00 p.m., 26 July

Professor Mark Thomson

Hunting the Higgs

9.15 a.m., 27 July

Professor Richard Prager

How medical imaging works

9.15 a.m., 28 July

Professor Simon Conway Morris

Is evolution predictable?

9.15 a.m., 29 July

Michael Ramage

Form and forces: medieval vaults in the twenty-first century

9.15 a.m., 30 July

Professor James Fawcett

Brain and spinal cord damage: how can it be repaired?

11.00 a.m., 30 July

Professor Nicky Clayton

Social cognition: lessons from crows and children

Art History Summer School

The Summer School in Art History will take place from Sunday, 4 July, to Saturday, 17 July 2010. The theme for this year’s plenary lecture series is Colour and meaning. 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. (See also ‘Joint evening lectures’ below.)

9.30 a.m., 5 July

Nicholas Friend

Colour and medieval meanings

11.30 a.m., 5 July

Professor John Mollon

Colour perception

9.30 a.m., 6 July

Dr Richard Williams

How to handle colour: Dürer in Renaissance Venice

8.00 p.m., 6 July

Norman Coady

And Titian said: ‘Let there be colour’

9.30 a.m., 8 July

Dr Michael Peppiatt

Colourless world: Giacometti and Paris after the Liberation

9.30 a.m., 9 July

Nicholas Cullinan

Matisse: colour as form

11.30 a.m., 9 July

John Myatt

Genuine fakes

9.30 a.m., 12 July

Nicholas Friend

Van Gogh and colour

11.30 a.m., 12 July

Clare Ford-Wille

Mapping the narrative: colour and meaning in fourteenth-century frescoes

8.00 p.m., 12 July

Dr Spike Bucklow

The materials of the Macclesfield Psalter

9.30 a.m., 13 July

Jo Rhymer

New meanings, new colours: painting the Thames

8.15 p.m., 14 July

Nicholas Friend

Singing the Blues: from stained glass through Goethe to Picasso

9.30 a.m., 15 July

James Malpas

The colour of feeling: responses to landscape in Nordic painting 1860–1920

8.00 p.m., 15 July

Jo Rhymer

Colour and emotion

9.30 a.m., 16 July

Professor Jonathan Woodham

Colour in twentieth-century design

11.30 a.m., 16 July

Nicholas Friend

Abstract Expressionist colour

Literature Summer School, Terms I and II

The Literature Summer Schools take place from Sunday, 4 July, to Saturday, 17 July (Term I) and from Sunday, 18 July, to Saturday, 31 July (Term II) 2010. The theme for this year’s plenary lecture series is Interpretations. Morning and evening lectures are held in Room 1, Mill Lane Lecture Theatres. (See also ‘Joint evening lectures’ below.)

Literature Term I:

11.15 a.m., 5 July

Dr Fred Parker

What stories mean

11.15 a.m., 6 July

Dr Julia Swindells

Dramatic landscapes of the early nineteenth century

11.15 a.m., 7 July

Dr Leo Mellor

Walking as interpreting: Iain Sinclair’s London

11.15 a.m., 8 July

Adrian Barlow

The Habit of Art: an introduction to Alan Bennett’s play

11.15 a.m., 9 July

Dr Hester Lees-Jeffries

Interpreting love in time and space: Shakespeare, Herbert, Donne

11.15 a.m., 12 July

Dr Raphael Lyne

Interpreting Doctor Faustus

11.15 a.m., 13 July

Dr Alexander Lindsay

Interpretations: reading Dryden’s MacFlecknoe

11.15 a.m., 14 July

Dr Sophie Read

A cognitive interpretation of Paradise Lost

11.15 a.m., 15 July

Dr Noel Sugimura

Gigantic loftiness: the formation of the sublime

8.00 p.m., 15 July

Dr Alexander Lindsay

Poetry reading: Matthew Prior and the lighter side of Augustan poetry

11.15 a.m., 16 July

Dr Paul Chirico

John Clare

Literature Term II:

11.15 a.m., 19 July

Dr Fred Parker

Interpreting epic: The Rape of the Lock and the idea of mock-heroic

8.00 p.m., 19 July

John Gilroy

‘How were people...to be understood’: some issues of interpretation in Shakespeare and Shelley

11.15 a.m., 20 July

Dr David Hillman

Interpreting love in Anthony and Cleopatra

8.00 p.m., 20 July

Colin Wilcockson

Bringing Chaucer up to date

11.15 a.m., 21 July

Dr Jacqueline Tasioulas

Love, stars, and the ‘Nether eye’: interpreting Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale

11:15 a.m., 22 July

Dr Stephen Logan

The hyphenation of Dylan Thomas

8.00 p.m., 22 July

Dr Stephen Logan

Stephen Logan reads his own poems

11.15 a.m., 23 July

Clive Wilmer

‘What is man?’: Psalm 8 in English literature

11.15 a.m., 26 July

Adrian Barlow

Sassoonery: the case for re-reading Siegfried Sassoon

8.00 p.m., 26 July

Clive Wilmer

Clive Wilmer reads his own poems

11.15 a.m., 27 July

Dr Rod Mengham

Tess of the d’Urbervilles and the necessity of multiple interpretations

11.15 a.m., 28 July

Dr Michael Hrebeniak

Wheels within wheels: the art of metafiction

11.15 a.m., 29 July

Dr Stephen Logan

Grief in C. S. Lewis

11.15 a.m., 30 July

Clive Wilmer

Aubade and Serenade

History Summer School

The Summer School in History takes place from Sunday, 18 July, to Saturday, 31 July 2010. The theme for this year’s plenary lecture series is Transitions of power. Morning and evening lectures take place in the Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, on the Sidgwick Site. (See also ‘Joint evening lectures’ below.)

9.15 a.m., 19 July

Professor John Morrill

Transitions of power in the seventeenth-century British revolutions: 1649 and 1660 compared

8.00 p.m., 19 July

Dr Jonathan Davis

From communism to democracy: Russia after the USSR

9.15 a.m., 20 July

Dr Mark Goldie

Post-war Britain: losing an empire, finding a role

9.15 a.m., 21 July

Dr Jon Lawrence

Fighting for power: a history of electioneering in modern Britain

9.15 a.m., 22 July

Dr Andrew Thompson

Monarchs, ministers, and parties: political change and survival in eighteenth-century Britain

9.15 a.m., 23 July

Dr Justin Meggitt

Transitions of power: English slaves in North Africa

9.15 a.m., 26 July

Charlie Nurse

Living with Franco’s ghost: the Spanish transition to democracy

9.15 a.m., 27 July

Dr Tom Freeman

Religious transition and the gentry in Kent and Suffolk, 1540–1570

9.15 a.m., 28 July

Dr Diana Henderson

Victories, vacuums, and vampires: the occupation of the Rhineland, 1919

8.00 p.m., 28 July

Dr Seán Lang

Giving away the Empire: why did the British do it?

9.15 a.m., 29 July

Dr Hugo Service

Ethnic cleansing in twentieth-century Europe

9.15 a.m., 30 July

Dr David Smith

From monarchy to republic and back again: transitions of power in seventeenth-century England

Medieval Studies Summer School

The Medieval Studies Summer School takes place from Sunday, 1 August, to Saturday, 14 August 2010. The theme for this year’s morning plenary lecture series is Saints and sinners. Morning and evening lectures take place in the Faculty of Divinity, Runcie Room, on the Sidgwick Site. (See also ‘Joint evening lectures’ below.)

9.15 a.m., 2 August

Dr Rowena E. Archer

‘The art and craft of dying well’: death, judgement, heaven, hell in the Middle Ages

8.00 p.m., 2 August

Dr Bernard Gowers

On heaven and in earth. How to become a saint in the Middle Ages

9.15 a.m., 3 August

Dr Bernard Gowers

Ecclesiastical censure: excommunication, interdict, and anathema in the Middle Ages

8.00 p.m., 3 August

Dr Eva de Visscher

Medieval Jewish ideas of sin and purity

9.15 a.m., 4 August

Professor Caroline Barron

The cult of St Zita

8.00 p.m., 4 August

Professor Tony Spearing

Saints and sinners in religious prose and poetry

9.15 a.m., 5 August

Professor Tony Spearing

The book of Margery Kempe

8.00 p.m., 5 August

Dr John Maddicott

Simon de Montfort: saint or sinner?

9.15 a.m., 6 August

Professor Nigel Saul

National sainthood: St George the patron of England

9.15 a.m., 9 August

Professor Jonathan Phillips

St Louis: crusader king and holy warrior

8.00 p.m., 9 August

Dr Rowena E. Archer

Joan of Arc: a night at the movies

9.15 a.m., 10 August

Dr Joe Canning

The ungodly ruler. Sin and property rights in the fourteenth century

8.00 p.m., 10 August

Dr Tom Licence

Sociable solitude: why medieval society needed hermits

9.15 a.m., 11 August

Dr Tom Licence

Warrior king or meek martyr? The invention of St Edmund

8.00 p.m., 11 August

Dr Philip Morgan

Rejected saints: Thomas of Lancaster and Edward II

9.15 a.m., 12 August

Professor Malcolm Barber

‘By their fruits we can know them’: was the Holy Land betrayed by the Templars in 1291?

8.00 p.m., 12 August

Dr Rowena E. Archer

Saints and sinners – themes and conclusions?

9.15 a.m., 13 August

Dr Frank Woodman

From here to eternity: medieval images of the Last Judgment

Shakespeare Summer School

The Shakespeare Summer School takes place from Sunday, 1 August, to Saturday, 14 August 2010. The theme for this year’s morning plenary lecture series is Interpreting Shakespeare. Morning and evening lectures take place in Little Hall, on the Sidgwick Site. (See also ‘Joint evening lectures’ below.)

11.30 a.m., 2 August

Professor Peter Holland

‘A kind of character in thy life’: Shakespeare and the character of history

8.00 p.m., 2 August

Dr Paul Prescott

Shamlet: interpretation, simulation, and fakery

11.30 a.m., 3 August

Dr Paul Prescott

‘What’s aught but as ’tis valued?’: the curious case of Troilus and Cressida

8.00 p.m., 3 August

Professor Russ McDonald

Shakespeare and the suspicion of style

11.30 a.m., 4 August

Professor Andy Murphy

The politics of culture: reading Shakespeare in Victorian Ireland

8.00 p.m., 4 August

Professor Stuart Sillars

Henry Fuseli: the artist as interpreter

11.30 a.m., 5 August

Professor Stuart Sillars

Illustrated editions and the limits of interpretation

8.00 p.m., 5 August

Tim Cribb

Comedy as value in Henry IV parts I and II

11.30 a.m., 6 August

Professor Helen Wilcox

Interpreting Shakespearian tragicomedy: the case of All’s Well That Ends Well

11.30 a.m., 9 August

Dr Charles Moseley

A short view of Thomas Rymer

8.00 p.m., 9 August

Dr Alexander Lindsay

Ben Jonson’s Shakespeare

11.30 a.m., 10 August

Professor Catherine Belsey

Hamlet: Shakespeare’s ghost story

8.00 p.m., 10 August

Val Brodie

Music and Henry V

11.30 a.m., 11 August

Dr Alexander Lindsay

Shakespeare’s jacquerie: King Henry VI part II

8.00 p.m., 11 August

Dr Catherine Alexander

Using Shakespeare in commercial art

11.30 a.m., 12 August

Dr Judith Buchanan

‘Wresting an alphabet’: ‘reading’ a silent Shakespeare film

8.00 p.m., 12 August

Vivien Heilbron and David Rintoul

Couplings

11.30 a.m., 13 August

Dr Catherine Alexander

Interpreting King Lear

International Summer School, Term II

The second term of the Institute of Continuing Education’s eighty-seventh International Summer School will take place from Sunday, 1 August, to Saturday, 14 August 2010. There is no morning plenary lecture series for this programme but evening lectures on a variety of subjects are organized for the c. 200 students. Evening lectures are held in the Lady Mitchell Hall. (See also ‘Joint evening lectures’ below.)

8.00 p.m., 2 August

Adrian Barlow

Cambridge ancient and modern: the architecture of the University

8.00 p.m., 3 August

Dr Rex Walford

A view of England: John Betjeman, a very English Poet Laureate

8.00 p.m., 4 August

Caroline Holmes

The Victorian Garden – the quest for the best

8.00 p.m., 5 August

Dr Spike Bucklow

From Lapis Lazuli to laundry powder: the alchemy of colour

8.00 p.m., 9 August

Jo Rhymer

New meanings, new colours: painting the Thames

8.00 p.m., 10 August

Dr Seán Lang

Understanding the British hero figure: from Boudica to Bond, and beyond

8.00 p.m., 11 August

Piers Bursill-Hall

Engineers and alchemists: the accidental makers of modern science

Joint evening lectures

There are a number of general interest and more specialized evening lectures arranged for the participants of more than one summer school. Those marked * are held in the Lady Mitchell Hall. The location of the talk on 28 July is indicated below.

*8.00 p.m., 6 July

Dr Rob Wallach

Cambridge: how it works (All programmes)

*8.00 p.m., 7 July

Adrian Barlow

Cambridge: how it looks (All programmes)

*8.00 p.m., 9 July

Dr Fred Parker

An introduction to Henry VIII (All programmes)

*8.00 p.m., 12 July

Adrian Barlow

Cambridge writers (Literature and International Term I)

*8.00 p.m., 14 July

Professor Stefan Collini

Criticism and the reading public (Literature and International Term I)

*8.00 p.m., 19 July

Dr Hugh Hunt

Boomerangs, bouncing balls, and other spinning things (Science and International Term I)

*8.00 p.m., 20 July

Dr Jerry Toner

Power and persuasion in Roman art (History and International Term I)

*8.00 p.m., 22 July

John Jackson

Afghanistan: can it achieve stability and legitimacy? (History and International Term I)

*8.00 p.m., 23 July

Dr John Lennard

‘All the world’s a stage’: an introduction to As You Like It (All programmes)

*8.00 p.m., 26 July

Professor Anthony Badger

FDR’s 100 days and Obama’s (History and International Term I)

*8.00 p.m., 27 July

Dr James Grime

Understanding codes and the Enigma machine (All programmes)

8.00 p.m., 28 July

Dr Cecily Morrison and

Dr Nikiforos Karamanis

Lost in translation: how Google translate works and when it doesn’t (Science and Literature, held in Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Theatres)

*8.00 p.m., 6 August

Professor Howard Erskine-Hill

An introduction to Julius Caesar (All programmes)

Please note

Any unforeseen or last-minute changes to this lecture programme will be posted in the main Summer Schools Office (Lady Mitchell Hall) and at the Office in Mill Lane Lecture Theatres.

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 email Sarah Ormrod, Director of International Programmes, Institute of Continuing Education, at sjo1001@cam.ac.uk.