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In 1999 the International Division of the Board of Continuing Education celebrates its seventy-sixth anniversary year of arranging International Summer Schools. Over 1,200 visitors will come to the University for periods of study lasting from two 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 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 Board'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.
The first term of the Board of Continuing Education's sixty-fourth International Summer School will take place from Monday, 5 July, to Thursday, 29 July 1999. The talks in this series of lectures follow one or more of the three themes: Celebration, controversy, discovery. The topics have been chosen to stimulate interest amongst a group of students whose own interests are necessarily very diverse. Subjects range from splendid art collections within this University, through aspects of mankind's creativity, to topical issues in today's world (the Euro, the Internet, nationalism, and conflict) and issues of abiding interest to any inquisitive audience (evolution, health and gender, intelligence, memory, and, finally, the motivation of attraction). 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. 300 participants on the International Summer School, but members of the University are cordially invited to attend.
| Wednesday, 7 July | Whose world is it anyway?, by Mrs Anne Lonsdale |
| Thursday, 8 July | What remains to de done?: the ages of man as composer, by Professor Alexander Goehr |
| Friday, 9 July | Celebrating 150 years of the Fitzwilliam Museum, by Mr Duncan Robinson |
| Monday, 12 July | Intelligence: are males cleverer than females?, by Professor N. J. Mackintosh |
| Tuesday, 13 July | The Booker Prize: a Judge's experience, by Professor Dame Gillian Beer |
| Wednesday, 14 July | Explosions and disasters: the true course of evolution?, by Professor Simon Conway Morris |
| Thursday, 15 July | Second nature: classical sculpture and its replicas at Cambridge, by Dr Nigel Spivey |
| Friday, 16 July | The organization of memory, by Professor John Hodges |
| Monday, 19 July | A brief history of the future - the evolution and significance of the Internet, by Mr John Naughton |
| Tuesday, 20 July | Nationalism: the curse or the salvation of the twentieth century?, by Professor James Mayall |
| Wednesday, 21 July | Are women healthier than men?, by Professor Kay Tee Khaw |
| Thursday, 22 July | From Kuwait to Kosovo: the use of force in the International Constitution, by Mr Marc Weller |
| Friday, 23 July | Human rights: whose obligations?, by Baroness O'Neill |
| Monday, 26 July | The Euro, by Lord Eatwell |
| Tuesday, 27 July | The psychology of sexual motivation: why do we fall in love?, by Dr Donald Laming |
Additional lectures given in the evening, from 8.30 p.m. - 9.30 p.m., may also be of interest to members of the University:
| Tuesday, 13 July | Britain's multi-cultural society, by Dr Sue Benson |
| Wednesday, 14 July | Greenwich and the measurement of time, by Dr Robin Catchpole |
| Tuesday, 20 July | The Cold War in Russia, by Professor Vyachselav Shestakov |
| Wednesday, 21 July | The British Museum: human knowledge and the scythe of time, by Dr Robert Anderson |
| Thursday, 22 July | The changing face of British politics, by Dr Tom Ling |
| Monday, 26 July | 'Dinosaurs - great!…but aren't they all dead?, by Dr David Norman |
The theme for this year's plenary lecture series is Art and colour from the middle ages to the present. Morning lectures take place in the Little Hall at the times given below.
| Monday, 5 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Art and colour from the middle ages to the seventeenth century, by Nicholas Friend |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | Colour in Byzantine mosaics, by Dr Liz James | |
| Tuesday, 6 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Colour in stained glass from the middle ages to the seventeenth century, by Alex Koller |
| Wednesday, 7 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Colour and conservation, by Spike Bucklow |
| Thursday, 8 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Light or colour? Priorities in the Renaissance, by Dr Paul Hills |
| Friday, 9 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Pigment or brush? Approaches to colour in Titian, by Nicholas Friend |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | Colour in Rubens and Poussin, by Christopher Wright | |
| Monday, 12 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Colour from the Rococo to Impressionism, by Nicholas Friend |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | Turner and colour: a disengaged view, by Dr David Brown | |
| Tuesday, 13 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Colour perception, by Professor John Mollon |
| Wednesday, 14 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Delacroix and colour, by Professor Lee Johnson |
| Friday, 16 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Goethe's theory of colours, by Dr John Gage |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | The Impressionist palette, by Professor Anthea Callen | |
| Monday, 19 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Colour in the twentieth century, by Nicholas Friend |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | The function of red in French and British painting, 1880-1914, by Dr Anna Greutzner Robins | |
| Tuesday, 20 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Kandinsky and the meanings of colour, by Dr John Gage |
| Wednesday, 21 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Colour constancy, by Professor John Mollon |
| Thursday, 22 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Colour in modern British architecture, by John Outram |
| Friday, 23 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Colour in twentieth century design, by Professor Jonathan Woodham |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | From Jackson Pollock to Howard Hodgkin: colour in post-war abstraction, by Nicholas Friend |
The theme for this year's morning plenary lecture series is 'Continuity and change'. Morning lectures take place in Mill Lane. They start promptly at 9.15 a.m. and end at 10.30 a.m., except for the lecture on Monday, 5 July, which starts at 9.30 a.m.
| Monday, 5 July | How revolutionary was the French Revolution?, by Professor Tim Blanning |
| Tuesday, 6 July | 1688: the Glorious Revolution?, by Dr Mark Goldie |
| Wednesday, 7 July | The collapse of the Soviet Order, 1989-1991, by Dr Jonathan Haslam |
| Thursday, 8 July | 1000, by Professor Tim Reuter |
| Friday, 9 July | The impact of the Great Depression, by Dr Piers Brendon |
| Monday, 12 July | The death of England: changing experiences of national identity, by Dr David Starkey |
| Tuesday, 13 July | Continuity and change in Great Britain's relations with the Continent, 1500-2000, by Professor Jeremy Black |
| Wednesday, 14 July | Domesticating change: culture and capitalism in Victorian Britain, by Professor Martin Daunton |
| Thursday, 15 July | 1918 and the emancipation of women?, by Dr David Jarvis |
| Monday, 19 July | The Scientific Revolution, by Scott Mandelbrote |
| Tuesday, 20 July | The execution of Charles I, by Dr Jonathan Scott |
| Wednesday, 21 July | The Reformation, by Dr Diarmaid MacCulloch |
| Thursday, 22 July | The conversion of Constantine, by Dr Christopher Kelly |
| Friday, 23 July | Why Jews have no history, by Dr Jonathan Steinberg |
Morning lectures take place in Mill Lane. They start promptly at 11.30 a.m., and end at 12.30 p.m.
| Monday, 5 July | Shakespeare and Richard II, by Dr Charles Moseley |
| Tuesday, 6 July | Shakespeare: the lost years, by Professor Richard Wilson |
| Wednesday, 7 July | What we have learned from the New Globe, by Professor Andrew Gurr |
| Thursday, 8 July | 'Who has no children?', by Professor Laurence Lerner |
| Friday, 9 July | 'A lass unparalleled': 'Antony and Cleopatra' and the limits of illusion, by Professor Ian Donaldson |
| Monday, 12 July | 'Adventuring the Flesh': Lodge's 'Rosalynde' and Shakespeare's 'As You Like It', by Dr Paul Hartle |
| Tuesday, 13 July | These are but wild and whirling words, my Lord, by Terry Hodgson |
| Wednesday, 14 July | Shakespeare and Race, by Dr Catherine Alexander |
| Thursday, 15 July | Experimental Shakespeare: 'Troilus and Cressida', by Professor Cedric Watts |
| Monday, 19 July | The Foolosophy of Shakespeare, by Professor Jonathan Bate |
| Tuesday, 20 July | Some Shakespearean figures, by Dr Sylvia Adamson |
| Wednesday, 21 July | Elizabethan-Jacobean laughter, a comparison of comics: a paper, by Professor Eric Salmon |
| Thursday, 22 July | Shakespeare's dramatic inheritance, by Professor Peter Meredith |
| Friday, 23 July | Shakespeare's late plays in performance: a question of style, by Wendy Greenhill |
The theme for this year's plenary lecture series is The Natural World. Morning lectures take place in Mill Lane at the times given below.
| Monday, 12 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Prediction and prejudice: Cambridge and the philosophy of science, by Professor Peter Lipton |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | A plant's eye view of the world, by Professor John Parker | |
| Tuesday, 13 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Explosions and disasters: the true course of evolution?, by Professor Simon Conway Morris |
| Wednesday, 14 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Lessons from the Australian rainforest pollen, seeds, and fruit, by Dr Peter Grubb |
| Thursday, 15 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | The glass menagerie, by Dr Adrian Friday |
| Friday, 16 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Calcium: a life and death signal, by Professor Sir Michael Berridge |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | Isaac Newton: science, religion, and magic in the late seventeenth century, by Scott Mandelbrote | |
| Monday, 19 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Nailing the insect vector of a parasitic disease, by Dr Henry Disney |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | Colour vision, by Professor John Mollon | |
| Tuesday, 20 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Darwinism and humans - still a problem?, by Dr Robert Foley |
| Wednesday, 21 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | The genetics of animal design, by Professor Michael Akam |
| Friday, 23 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. | Science in the Media, by Dr Jim Secord |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. | Volcanoes: how and why do they erupt?, by Professor Herbert Huppert | |
| Monday, 26 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Plants under stress: how do they grow in saline soils?, by Dr Mark Tester |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. | Genetically-modified crops: useful or dangerous?, by Dr Mark Tester | |
| Tuesday, 27 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Why science matters, by Dr Lynne Harrison |
| Wednesday, 28 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Antarctica: a natural biological laboratory, by Professor Bill Block |
| Thursday, 29 July | 9.00 a.m. - 10.15 a.m. | So what's all the fuss about biodiversity?, by Professor John Parker |
| Friday, 30 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Molecularizing disease, by Dr Nick Hopwood |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. | Explosions through the Universe, by Professor Andrew Fabian |
Morning lectures take place in the Little Hall, at the times shown below.
| Monday, 26 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | The medieval English manor and its records, by Dr Mark Bailey |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. | The medieval English manor and its records, by Dr Mark Bailey | |
| Tuesday, 27 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Scholasticism and the development of medieval political thought, by Dr Annabel Brett |
| Wednesday, 28 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Emperors as Gods, Angels as Bureaucrats: the representation of imperial power in late antiquity, by Dr Christopher Kelly |
| Thursday, 29 July | 9.00 a.m. - 10.15 a.m. | Medieval wall paintings, by Miriam Gill |
| Friday, 30 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Medieval heraldry as symbols of family pride and social importance, by Adrian Ailes |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. | A sense of dynasty, by Dr Rosemary Horrox | |
| Monday, 2 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Braveheart revisited: chivalry and atrocity in Edward I's Anglo-Scottish Wars, 1296-1307, I, by Dr Matthew Strickland |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. | Braveheart revisited: chivalry and atrocity in Edward I's Anglo-Scottish Wars, 1296-1307, II, by Dr Matthew Strickland | |
| Tuesday, 3 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Telling the truth with authority: Richard II to 'Richard II', by Dr Ruth Morse |
| Wednesday, 4 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Spies and spying in the later middle ages, by Dr Ian Arthurson |
| Thursday, 5 August | 9.00 a.m. - 10.15 a.m. | Framlingham: the castle and town in its military, social, and landscape context in East Anglia, by Dr Peter Warner |
| Friday, 6 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Medieval English law in context, by Dr Anthony Musson |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. | Influences on medieval English law, by Dr Anthony Musson | |
| Monday, 9 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Medicine for the soul, by Dr Carole Rawcliffe |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. | Medicine for the body, by Dr Carole Rawcliffe | |
| Tuesday, 10 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | 'How a man schall be armyd': medieval arms and armour, by Christopher Gravett |
| Wednesday, 11 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Joan of Arc, by Dr Craig Taylor |
| Thursday, 12 August | 9.00 a.m. - 10.15 a.m. | Norwich Cathedral, by Dr Lynne Broughton |
| Friday, 13 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. | Ghosts, visions, and apparitions: the rest is dead, 1000-1500, by Dr Carl Watkins |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. | Eclipses, by Professor David Dumville |
The theme of The Novel from the seventeenth century to the present has been chosen for this year's lectures, which take place in Mill Lane. They start promptly at 11.30 a.m., and finish at 12.30 p.m.
| Monday, 26 July | Romancing…, by Dr Charles Moseley |
| Tuesday, 27 July | Bunyan's revolution in narrative, by Dr Sylvia Adamson |
| Wednesday, 28 July | Robinson Crusoe and the desert island myth, by Professor Derek Brewer |
| Thursday, 29 July | Fielding, by Dr Penelope Wilson |
| Friday, 30 July | Richardson: the tragedy of Clarissa, by Christopher Bristow |
| Monday, 2 August | Jane Austen, by Dr Janet Bottoms |
| Tuesday, 3 August | Godwin and the Gothic Novel, by Dr Nigel Leask |
| Wednesday, 4 August | The Master as Pupil: Henry James reads George Eliot, by Dr Lindsey Traub |
| Thursday, 5 August | Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness': a defence, by Professor Cedric Watts |
| Monday, 9 August | George Eliot, by Professor Laurence Lerner |
| Tuesday, 10 August | Thomas Hardy, by Dr Rod Mengham |
| Wednesday, 11 August | The condition of empire: Novels of the Raj, by Dr John Lennard |
| Thursday, 12 August | 'Ulysses' and the making of myth, by Terry Hodgson |
| Friday, 13 August | J. R. R. Tolkien and the Tree of Story, by Dr Charles Moseley |
Further information is available on the WWW at http://www.cont-ed.cam.ac.uk/IntSummer/. If you have comments about the plenary lecture series, or wish to know more about teaching on the Summer Schools, please write to Sarah Ormrod, Director of International Programmes, Board of Continuing Education, Madingley Hall, Madingley, CB3 8AQ (tel. 140-216 or e-mail sjo1001@cus.cam.ac.uk).
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Cambridge University Reporter, 23 June 1999
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