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Board of Continuing Education: Notice

INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOLS 2000: PLENARY LECTURE SERIES

In 2000 the International Division of the Board of Continuing Education celebrates its seventy-seventh 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.

International Summer School: plenary lecture series

The first term of the Board of Continuing Education's sixty-fourth International Summer School will take place from Monday, 10 July to Friday, 4 August. The talks in this series of lectures follow either or both of the themes: Achievements and disasters: the last 1,000 years. The topics have been chosen to stimulate interest amongst a group of students whose own interests are necessarily very diverse. 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, 12 July War and welfare, state and nation: the last 1,000 years, by Professor James Mayall
Thursday, 13 July Flinging pots of paint: changing reputations in art, by Nicholas Friend
Friday, 14 July Political economy: the seamless web from Marx to Keynes, by Dr Geoffrey Harcourt
Monday, 17 July Things that go bump in the night, by Dr Francis Woodman
Tuesday, 18 July The exchange between Old World and New World civilization, by Dr Nicholas James
Wednesday, 19 July Astrophysics and cosmology of the twenty-first century, by Professor Malcolm Longair
Thursday, 20 July Environmental change and Antarctica, by Dr Julian Paren
Friday, 21 July The Black Death: purgative or toxic?, by Dr Rosemary Horrox
Monday, 24 July Great botanical disasters, by Professor John Parker
Tuesday, 25 July The Cambrian explosion hits Cambridge: new light on the dawn of animal life, by Professor Simon Conway Morris
Wednesday, 26 July Drugs, diseases, discoveries, and disasters?, by Dr Brian Callingham
Thursday, 27 July The Great War as catastrophe, by Dr Jay Winter
Friday 28 July Genetic modification: disaster or achievement?, by Dr Mark Tester
Monday, 31 July Advances in imaging brain function in health and disease, by Dr David Menon
Tuesday, 1 August Possible achievements (and potential disasters): the next 1,000 years, by Professor Colin Humphreys

Additional lectures given in the evening, from 8.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m., may also be of interest to members of the University:

Monday, 17 July The Irish question, by John Jackson
Tuesday, 18 July The British Monarchy: the end of a thousand years of history?, by Dr David Starkey
Monday, 24 July The ever-changing shape of Britain, by Professor John Morrill
Wednesday, 26 July The impact of worldwide telegraphy in the later nineteenth century: 'The Victorian internet', by Dr Charles Jones
Thursday, 27 July The politics of calendars, by Dr Susan Drucker-Brown
Monday, 31 July The power of the British Prime Minister, by Professor Peter Hennessy

Summer School in Art History: plenary lecture series

Sunday, 9 July, to Saturday, 29 July 2000

The theme for this year's plenary lecture series is Art, light, and colour from the middle ages to the present. Morning lectures take place in the Little Hall at the times given below.

Monday, 10 July 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Art, light, and colour from the middle ages to the Renaissance: an introduction, by Nicholas Friend
11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Light in Byzantine mosaics, by Dr Liz James
Tuesday, 11 July 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Light in Italian frescoes, by Clare Forde-Wille
Wednesday, 12 July 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Art and shadows, from the Renaissance to the seventeenth century: an introduction, by Nicholas Friend
Thursday, 13 July 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Light and colour in sixteenth-century Venice, by Dr Paul Hills
Friday, 14 July 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Caravaggio and the Caravaggisti, by Dr Helen Langdon
11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Light in Rembrandt, by Dr Christopher Wright
Monday, 17 July 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Art, light, and colour from the Rococo to Impressionism: an introduction, by Nicholas Friend
11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Light and the Enlightenment in painting, by Dr Matthew Craske
Tuesday, 18 July 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Colour perception, by Professor John Mollon
Wednesday, 19 July 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Goethe's theory of colours, by Dr John Gage
5 p.m. - 6 p.m. Light and colour in seventeenth-century Dutch painting, by Clare Forde-Wille
Friday, 21 July 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Impressionism: the relationship between colour and light, by Nicholas Friend
11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Colour and the Pre-Raphaelites, by Rachel Barnes
Monday, 24 July 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Colour in the twentieth century: an introduction, 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, 25 July 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Light in thirties' architecture, Dr Alan Powers
Wednesday, 26 July 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Space and light in art and architecture, by Richard MacCormac
Thursday, 27 July 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. The impact of modern paints, by Dr Tom Learner
Friday, 28 July 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Colour and light in twentieth-century design, by Professor Jonathan Woodham
11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. From Jackson Pollock to Howard Hodgkin: light and colour in post-war abstraction, by Nicholas Friend

Summer School in History: plenary lecture series

Sunday, 9 July, to Saturday, 29 July 2000

The theme for this year's morning plenary lecture series is Utopias. Morning lectures take place in Lecture Block, Room 3, on the Sidgwick Site. They start promptly at 9.15 a.m., and end at 10.30 a.m.

Monday, 10 July Wagner and the Aryan Utopia, by Professor Tim Blanning
Tuesday, 11 July The battle for Merry England, by Professor Ronald Hutton
Wednesday, 12 July Thomas More and his Utopia, by Professor Colin Davis
Thursday, 13 July Levellers and diggers, by Dr Mark Goldie
Friday, 14 July Was Plato's Republic the first Utopia?, by Dr Melissa Lane
Monday, 17 July Futurism, fascism, and the revolt against reason, by Professor Jonathan Steinberg
Tuesday, 18 July Soviet Communism as Utopia,by Professor Steve Smith
Wednesday, 19 July A new landscape for the Promised Land: the Ursulines in colonial Louisiana, by Dr Emily Clark
Thursday, 20 July Peasant Utopias in early modern Europe, by Dr Paul Warde
Monday, 24 July The welfare state, by Professor Virginia Berridge
Tuesday, 25 July American Utopia?: The race problem and Martin Luther King, by Dr Stephen Tuck
Wednesday, 26 July Plato's other Utopia, by Dr Paul Millett
Thursday, 27 July Guy Burgess, by Dr Andrew Lownie
Friday, 28 July Character and degeneration in British Utopianism, 1700-1850, by Professor Gregory Claeys

Shakespeare Summer School: plenary lecture series

Sunday, 9 July, to Saturday, 29 July 2000

Morning lectures take place in Lecture Block, Room 3, on the Sidgwick Site. They start promptly at 11.30 a.m., and end at 12.30 p.m.

Monday, 10 July 'Don't blame me …': John Wayne (perhaps) and Shakespeare, by Dr Charles Moseley
Tuesday, 11 July Shakespeare and total theatre, by Dr Trevor Whittock
Wednesday, 12 July Shakespeare's dramatic grammar, by Professor Sylvia Adamson
Thursday, 13 July The management of mirth: Shakespeare and the Great House, by Professor Richard Wilson
Friday, 14 July King Lear, by Dr Wilbur Sanders
Monday, 17 July Shakespeare's endings, by Dr Philippa Berry
Tuesday, 18 July Will Shakespeare and Sam Johnson, by Dr Catherine Alexander
Wednesday, 19 July Filming Shakespeare, by Russell Jackson
Thursday, 20 July Shakespeare, Janus, Proteus, and the Asp, by Professor Cedric Watts
Monday, 24 July The Sonnets, by Professor Katherine Duncan-Jones
Tuesday, 25 July Shakespeare and Stoppard, by Terry Hodgson
Wednesday, 26 July 'Into something rich and strange': Shakespearean tragicomedy, by Shubha Mukherji
Thursday, 27 July Hamlet and its afterlife, by Professor Inga-Stina Ewbank
Friday, 28 July Shakespeare laid out: editing the text, by Dr James Rigney

Science Summer School: plenary lecture series

Sunday, 16 July, to Saturday, 5 August 2000

The theme for this year's plenary lecture series is The Natural World. Morning lectures take place in the Reddaway Room, Fitzwilliam College (unless otherwise stated) at the times given below.

Monday, 17 July 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. The shape of things to come: nanoparticles in electronic devices and catalysis, by Professor Brian Johnson
11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Cinnamon, curare, and contraception: plant strategies for defence, by Professor John Parker
Tuesday, 18 July 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. How does Science explain?, by Professor Peter Lipton
Wednesday, 19 July 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. The grim reaper in the garden, by Professor David Ingram
Thursday, 20 July 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Gardens for science, by Professor John Parker (in the Gilmore Room, the Botanic Garden)
Friday, 21 July 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Bones of contention: skeletons, evolution, and showbusiness, by Dr Adrian Friday (in the Museum of Zoology)
11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Clawing at the portals: who needs museum collections?, by Dr Adrian Friday (in the Museum of Zoology)
Monday, 24 July 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. What life on earth tells us about extra-terrestrials I, by Professor Simon Conway-Morris
11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. What life on earth tells us about extra-terrestrials II, by Professor Simon Conway-Morris
Tuesday, 25 July 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Uprooting the animal tree: new developments in understanding animal relationships, by Professor Michael Akam
Wednesday, 26 July 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Simplicity and complexity, by Professor John Barrow
Thursday, 27 July 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Big bangs from small beginnings, by Dr Valerie Gibson (at the Cavendish Laboratory)
Friday, 28 July 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. The art and zen of animal building, by Dr Alfonso Martinez-Arias
11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Imagination and the impossible, by Dr Simon J. James
Monday, 31 July 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. From Dr Collis Browne to loperamide: the treatment of a traveller's complaint, by Dr Brian Callingham
11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. Understanding the beginning and the end, by Professor Sir Martin Rees
Tuesday, 1 August 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Spectroscopy: from atoms to galaxies, by Dr Peter Wothers
Wednesday, 2 August 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Surfing, sex, and shopping, by Richard Stibbs
Thursday, 3 August 9 a.m. - 10.15 a.m. Black holes, by Professor Andy Fabian (at the Institute of Astronomy)
Friday, 4 August 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. The construction and launch of an X-ray telescope, by Professor Andy Fabian
11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. Plant evolution: the green line that shaped our world, by Professor John Parker

Medieval Studies Summer School: plenary lecture series

Sunday, 30 July, to Saturday, 19 August 2000

Morning lectures take place in the Little Hall, at the times shown below.

Monday, 31 July 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: medieval crucifixions and art censorship I, by Dr Paul Binski
11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: medieval crucifixions and art censorship II, by Dr Paul Binski
Tuesday, 1 August 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. The origins of parliament, by Dr John Maddicott
Wednesday, 2 August 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Arthur and Charlemagne: writing out the sin of incest, by Miranda Griffin
Thursday, 3 August 9 a.m. - 10.15 a.m. Trade and devotion in the medieval town: the case of Boston, by Professor W. Mark Ormrod
Friday, 4 August 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Real and imaginary blues: the preparation of ultramarine, by Dr Spike Bucklow
11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. Real and imaginary blues: the synthesis of silver azure, by Dr Spike Bucklow
Monday, 7 August 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Church and property, by Dr Benjamin Thompson
11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. Writing the Self: Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe, by Professor Felicity Riddy
Tuesday, 8 August 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. The revolution of the word, by Dr Brian Cummings
Wednesday, 9 August 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Perceptions of the past in the early middle ages, by Professor Rosamond McKitterick
Thursday, 10 August 9 a.m. - 10.15 a.m. Medieval Norwich, by Brian Ayers
Friday, 11 August 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. The Hundred Years War, by Dr Craig Taylor
11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. The Battle of Agincourt, by Dr Craig Taylor
Monday, 14 August 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. The medieval sculptor, by Dr Phillip Lindley
11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. John Wastell: a great Cambridge architect, by Dr Francis Woodman
Tuesday, 15 August 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Chaucer and English poetry, by Professor Helen Cooper
Wednesday, 16 August 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Canon law, by Dr Peter Clarke
Thursday, 17 August 9 a.m. - 10.15 a.m. St Alban's, by Dr Lynne Broughton
Friday, 18 August 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. The Byzantine Empire: rhetoric and reality, by Dr Catherine Holmes
11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. Reassessing the Wars of the Roses, by Dr Helen Castor

Summer School in English Literature: plenary lecture series

Sunday, 30 July, to Saturday, 19 August 2000

The theme of Epic runs through this year's lectures, which take place in Lecture Block, Room 3, on the Sidgwick Site. They start promptly at 11.30 a.m., and finish at 12.30 p.m.

Monday, 31 July 'Something greater than The Illiad ', by Dr Charles Moseley
Tuesday, 1 August The Odyssey, by Dr Simon Goldhill
Wednesday, 2 August Renaissance Vergils, by Dr Philip Hardie
Thursday, 3 August Homer's Iliad, by Professor Pat Easterling
Friday, 4 August La Chanson de Roland, by Dr Judy Weiss
Monday, 7 August Spenser, by Dr Colin Burrow
Tuesday, 8 August 'The anxiety of influence': Wordsworth and Milton, by Professor Laurence Lerner
Wednesday, 9 August Beowulf, by Dr Andrew Orchard
Thursday, 10 August The Grand Manner, by Professor Sylvia Adamson
Monday, 14 August Dryden: heroic satire, by Professor Howard Erskine-Hill
Tuesday, 15 August Pope: poetic autobiography, by Professor Howard Erskine-Hill
Wednesday, 16 August The matter of England, by Professor Derek Brewer
Thursday, 17 August Victorian narrative poems: Epic versus Novel, by Professor Laurence Lerner
Friday, 18 August All about Eve, by Dr Charles Moseley

Your response to these lectures is invited

The Board of Continuing Education 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, Board of Continuing Education, Madingley Hall, Madingley, CB3 8AQ (tel. 140-216, e-mail sjo1001@cus.cam.ac.uk).


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