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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.
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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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Cambridge University Reporter, 21 June 2000
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