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In 2001 the International Division of the Board of Continuing Education celebrates its seventy-eighth year of arranging International Summer Schools. Over 1,000 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-sixth International Summer School will take place from Monday, 9 July to Friday, 3 August. The talks in this series of lectures follow the theme of Memory. The topics have been chosen to stimulate interest amongst a group of students whose own interests are necessarily very diverse. Interpretations are far-reaching: subjects range from the historical (the Greeks, the early middle ages, the Cold War), to botanical, literary, legal, materials science, and medical aspects of this theme. 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, 11 July | Human memory and its disorders, by Professor John Hodges |
| Thursday, 12 July | History and memory in the early middle ages, by Professor Rosamond McKitterick |
| Friday, 13 July | The remembrance of things past: a plant's perspective, by Professor John Parker |
| Monday, 16 July | Memory - how safe is the criminal law?, by Andrew Hurst |
| Tuesday, 17 July | Children's eyewitness memory: sex, lies, and videotape, by Professor Graham Davies |
| Wednesday, 18 July | Remembering the slave trade, by Dr Sue Benson |
| Thursday, 19 July | 'Lost beyond the reach of thought': Wordsworth and memory, by Mr John Gilroy |
| Friday, 20 July | The Cold War and historical memory, by Dr Mike Sewell |
| Monday, 23 July | Metals with memories: the magic of modern materials, by Professor Colin Humphreys |
| Tuesday, 24 July | The Greeks for all: popular histories, by Professor Paul Cartledge |
| Wednesday, 25 July | Memories of animals, by Professor Nick Mackintosh |
| Thursday, 26 July | Memory and nationalism, by Professor James Mayall |
| Friday, 27 July | Remembering Robin Hood, by Professor Stephen Knight |
| Monday, 30 July | Memory and the management of information, by Dr Peter Robinson |
| Tuesday, 31 July | Reflections on the memory boom, by Dr Jay Winter |
Additional general 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 (see also Joint evening lectures, below):
| Wednesday, 11 July | The general election - who won and why, by Dr Tom Ling |
| Monday, 16 July | Kitchen sink dramas and the Weimar Republic: how where you wash up makes you what you are, by Dr Leif Jerram |
| Monday, 23 July | Radio London and political warfare in World War II, by Dr Michael Stenton |
| Thursday, 26 July | Britain and Ireland, by Mr John Jackson |
| Monday, 30 July | The monarchy, by Dr Rick Yates |
| Tuesday, 31 July | The poisoned chalice - British politics and the European Union, by Mr David Weigall |
The Summer School in Art History will take place from Sunday, 8 July to Saturday, 28 July. The theme for this year's plenary lecture series is Art, light, and space from the middle ages to the present. Morning lectures take place in the Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, on the Sidgwick Site at the times given below.
| Monday, 9 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Art, light, and space from the middle ages to the seventeenth century: an introduction, by Mr Nicholas Friend |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Light and Byzantine mosaics, by Dr Liz James | |
| Tuesday, 10 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Gothic illumination, by Dr Paul Binski |
| Wednesday, 11 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Renaissance shadows, by Mr Nicholas Friend |
| Thursday, 12 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Lighting and the English country house, by Mr James Lomax |
| Friday, 13 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Light in Rembrandt, by Dr Christopher Wright |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Light and space from the Rococo to Impressionism, by Mr Nicholas Friend | |
| 2.00 p.m. - 3 p.m. Romantic light and colour, by Dr John Gage | |
| Monday, 16 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Colour and light in stained glass, by Dr Carola Hicks |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Pictorial composition, by Professor Thomas Puttfarken | |
| Tuesday, 17 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Light in Christopher Wren, by Dr James Campbell |
| Wednesday, 18 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m.Colour and space in sixteenth-century Venice, by Dr Paul Hills |
| 5 p.m. - 6 p.m. Light and dark in Caravaggio, by Dr Helen Langdon | |
| Friday, 20 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m.Drawing on light: English watercolours from Girtin to Cotman, by Mr Nicholas Friend |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Light and space in Turner, by Dr James Hamilton | |
| Monday, 23 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Light and space from Monet to Cézanne, by Ms Mary Acton |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Light and space in the twentieth century: an introduction, by Mr Nicholas Friend | |
| Tuesday, 24 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Light in Thirties' architecture, Dr Alan Powers |
| Wednesday, 25 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Light and space in twentieth-century design, by Professor Jonathan Woodham |
| Thursday, 26 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. The nature of sculpture: light, space, and volume in twentieth-century sculpture, by Mr Nicholas Usherwood |
| Friday, 27 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.30 a.m. Kettle's Yard: light and space as a way of life, by Mr Michael Harrison |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Crossing the Atlantic: the St Ives School and International Abstraction, by Mr Nicholas Friend |
Additional lectures given in the evening in Wolfson Court, Clarkson Road, from 8.15 p.m. to 9.15 p.m., may also be of interest to members of the University (see also Joint evening lectures, below):
| Wednesday, 11 July | Light and space in architecture from Mannerism to Modernism, by Mr David Dernie |
| Monday, 16 July | Reflections on the Baroque, by Professor Robert Harbinson |
| Tuesday, 17 July | Light in Joseph Wright of Derby, by Professor Stephen Daniels |
| Wednesday, 18 July | Light and dark in Caravaggio, by Dr Helen Langdon |
| Thursday, 19 July | Conservation: a different light on paintings, by Dr Spike Bucklow |
| Wednesday, 25 July | Light, colour, and the Universe, by Dr Robin Catchpole |
The Summer School in History will take place from Sunday, 8 July to Saturday, 28 July. The theme for this year's morning plenary lecture series is Power. 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., except for the lecture on Monday, 9 July, which starts at 9.30 a.m.
| Monday, 9 July | Is a court of law the right place to decide historical issues such as holocaust denial?, by Professor Richard Evans |
| Tuesday, 10 July | Music and the representation of power, by Professor Tim Blanning |
| Wednesday, 11 July | Revolutions: success and failure, 1789-1871, by Dr Robert Tombs |
| Thursday, 12 July | American power in the American century, by Dr John Thompson |
| Friday, 13 July | Charlemagne and the power of the Franks, by Professor Rosamond McKitterick |
| Monday, 16 July | The state and sanity, by Professor Roy Porter |
| Tuesday, 17 July | Power and the end of the Empire, by Professor James Mayall |
| Wednesday, 18 July | Successions in Byzantium, by Dr Peter Sarris |
| Thursday, 19 July | State and society in Imperial Russia, by Dr Hubertus Jahn |
| Monday, 23 July | Women and the state in twentieth-century America, by Professor Tony Badger |
| Tuesday, 24 July | Mussolini's seizure of power, by Professor Jonathan Steinberg |
| Wednesday, 25 July | Power in slave societies, by Dr Betty Wood |
| Thursday, 26 July | Local power to state power: poor relief in England, by Dr Richard Smith |
| Friday, 27 July | The Ancient Greeks and popular power, by Dr Paul Millett |
Additional lectures given in the evening in the Little Hall, from 8.15 p.m. to 9.15 p.m., may also be of interest to members of the University (see also Joint evening lectures, below):
| Monday, 9 July | Louis XIV, art, and power, by Professor Peter Burke |
| Wednesday, 11 July | Theories of liberty in historical perspective, by Professor Quentin Skinner |
| Monday, 16 July | Transfers of power in seventeenth-century Britain and Ireland, by Professor John Morrill |
| Tuesday, 17 July | Crown and Parliament: the problem of power in early modern England, by Dr David Smith |
| Wednesday, 18 July | If knowledge is power, what is the history of information?, by Dr Claire Warwick |
| Monday, 23 July | Projections of Soviet power, by Dr Jonathan Haslam |
| Thursday, 26 July | The rise of religious toleration: principles, pluralism, and power, by Dr John Coffey |
The Shakespeare Summer School will take place from Sunday, 8 July to Saturday, 28 July. 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, 9 July | Shakespeare's character, by Dr Charles Moseley |
| Tuesday, 10 July | Hamlet's and Hamlets, by Professor Cedric Watts |
| Wednesday, 11 July | Shakespearean puzzles, by Professor Cedric Watts |
| Thursday, 12 July | Jonson and Shakespeare, by Professor Ian Donaldson |
| Friday, 13 July | Hamlet and the tragedy of revenge, by Professor Laurence Lerner |
| Monday, 16 July | ''Hamlet' again', by Mr John Kerrigan |
| Tuesday, 17 July | Shakespeare's hardware: the Globe and its uses, by Professor Andrew Gurr |
| Wednesday, 18 July | Shakespeare's software: the antithesis of cinema, by Professor Andrew Gurr |
| Thursday, 19 July | Shakespeare and the arts of rhetoric, by Professor Sylvia Adamson |
| Monday, 23 July | This malapert blood: the duel in 'Twelfth Night', by Professor Richard Wilson |
| Tuesday, 24 July | Shakespeare and that half-suspected desire, by Dr Philippa Berry |
| Wednesday, 25 July | Shakespeare, Montaigne, and natural behaviour, by Dr Fred Parker |
| Thursday, 26 July | Shakespeare, Jonson, and Rome, by Professor Inga-Stina Ewbank |
| Friday, 27 July | 'Where late the sweet bird sang', by Dr Eamon Duffy |
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 (see also Joint evening lectures, below):
| Wednesday, 11 July | Watching a Shakespeare play, by Professor Trevor Whittock |
| Monday, 16 July | What makes theatre theatre?, by Mr Nicholas Hytner |
| Thursday, 19 July | 'Hero and Leander', by Dr Philippa Berry and Mr Clive Wilmer |
| Monday, 23 July | Why this is hell: Marlowe and the Devil's pact, by Professor Richard Wilson |
The Science Summer School will take place from Sunday, 15 July to Saturday, 4 August. The theme for this year's plenary lecture series is Life on the edge. Lectures take place in the Trust Room, Fitzwilliam College at the times given below.
| Monday, 16 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Philosophy on the edge of science, by Professor Peter Lipton |
| 11.15 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. Does it all end in 2020!, by Professor Brian Johnson | |
| Tuesday, 17 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Life at the limits: protective bio-chemicals in extreme habitats on Earth and Mars, by Dr David D. Wynn Williams |
| Friday, 20 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Species on the edge: finch and chimps, by Dr Adrian Friday |
| 11.15 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. Eyes on the edge, by Professor Stephen Laughlin | |
| Monday, 23 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Mid-ocean ridges: life in the fiery deep, by Dr Lucy MacGregor |
| 11.15 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. The search for extra solar planets, by Dr Cathie Clarke | |
| Tuesday, 24 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Living with salt - plants and salinity, by Professor Roger Leigh |
| Wednesday, 25 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Human memory and its disorders, Professor John Hodges |
| Friday, 27 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Ring of ice: southern ocean and global climate, by Dr Julian Priddle |
| 11.15 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. Would you swim in the Antarctic?, by Dr Julian Priddle | |
| Monday, 30 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Freezing and boiling, flying and burrowing: taking life to extremes I, by Professor Simon Conway-Morris |
| 11.15 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. Freezing and boiling, flying and burrowing: taking life to extremes II, by Professor Simon Conway-Morris | |
| Tuesday, 31 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. 'Going out on a limb': how tropical rainforest epiphytes cope with environmental extremes, by Professor Howard Griffiths |
| Wednesday, 1 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. The second law of thermodynamics - or, how to make an ice cube, by Dr Peter Wothers |
| Thursday, 2 August | 9 a.m. - 10.15 a.m. From dreaming spires to 'All Creatures Great and Small': preparing veterinary scientists for practical careers, by Mr Graham Bilbrough |
| Friday, 3 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. What is the universe made of?, by Professor Andy Fabian |
| 11.15 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. Predicting the unpredictable, by Professor John Barrow |
Additional lectures given in the evening, from 8.15 p.m. to 9.15 p.m., may also be of interest to members of the University (see also Joint evening lectures, below):
| Monday, 16 July | Nanotechnology and carbon nanotubes: life at the bottom, by Dr Colm Durkan |
| Tuesday, 17 July | Antarctica - the last great wilderness: an audio-visual experience, by Dr Julian Paren |
| Wednesday, 18 July | The algebra of genes, the geometry of the cells, and the architecture of animal embryos, by Dr Alfonso Martinez Arias |
| Monday, 23 July | Memories of animals, by Professor Nick Mackintosh |
| Monday, 30 July | To clone or not to clone? That is the question, by Dr Nancy Lane |
| Tuesday, 31 July | The three magic ingredients of boomerangs, by Dr Hugh Hunt |
The Medieval Studies Summer School will take place from Sunday, 29 July to Saturday, 18 August. Morning lectures take place in the Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, on the Sidgwick Site, at the times shown below.
| Monday, 30 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. The Black Death and medieval visual culture, by Dr Paul Binski |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. The past as a foreign culture: ritual in medieval England, by Professor Charles Phythian-Adams | |
| Tuesday, 31 July | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. The Jews of Latin Christendom in the age of the Crusades, by Dr Anna Abulafia |
| Wednesday, 1 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Narcissus in medieval literature, by Dr Jane Gilbert |
| Thursday, 2 August | 9 a.m. - 10.15 a.m. 'Stern, crude stuff': interpreting English church murals in context, by Ms Miriam Gill |
| Friday, 3 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Prophecy and political consciousness in medieval England, by Dr Lesley Coote |
| Monday, 6 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. The problem of identity I: madness, by Dr Sylvia Huot |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. The problem of identity II: monstrosity, by Dr Sylvia Huot | |
| Tuesday, 7 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Understanding social space in the medieval house, by Dr Jane Grenville |
| Wednesday, 8 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Medieval gangsters: fact or fantasy, by Mr Richard Partington |
| Thursday, 9 August | 9 a.m. - 10.15 a.m.The Anglo-Saxon village at West Stow and the medieval town and abbey of Bury St Edmunds, by Ms Alison Taylor |
| Friday, 10 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Reading St Katherine of Alexandria in later medieval England, by Dr Katherine Lewis |
| Monday, 13 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Bold as brass: the context of brasses and funerary sculpture in England in the Middle Ages, by Professor Nigel Saul |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. How others see us: status and self-image in late-medieval brasses, by Professor Nigel Saul | |
| Tuesday, 14 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Towns, trade, and lordship in Europe, 1000-1300, by Professor Richard Britnell |
| Wednesday, 15 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. 'Go, little book': authors and readers in late medieval England, by Dr Julia Boffey |
| Thursday, 16 August | 9 a.m. - 10.15 a.m. Sutton Hoo - burial ground of Kings, and Orford, a medieval castle and a planned town and port, by Ms Alison Taylor |
| Friday, 17 August | 9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m. Was there a (literary) Arthur of the Welsh?, by Dr Oliver Padel |
| 11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m. Far away is close at hand in images of elsewhere: some illuminated manuscripts and their owners, by Ms Janet Backhouse |
Additional lectures given in the evening in the Little Hall, on the Sidgwick Site, from 8.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m., may also be of interest to members of the University (see also Joint evening lectures, below):
| Tuesday, 31 July | Religion and magic, by Dr Sophie Page |
| Friday, 3 August | Introduction to medieval Norfolk churches and abbeys, by Dr Lynne Broughton |
| Monday, 6 August | Aquinas and the Eucharist, by Dr Catherine Pickstock |
| Tuesday, 7 August | Corn, cloth, and Colleges: the economy of medieval Cambridge and its region, by Dr John Lee |
| Wednesday, 8 August | Romance and religion in the medieval garden, by Ms Caroline Holmes |
| Thursday, 9 August | 'Manners maketh man'?: late-medieval courtesy books and their uses, by Dr Rosemary Horrox |
| Monday, 13 August | Anglo-Saxon coinage as art, by Dr Anna Gannon |
| Wednesday, 15 August | King John's nemesis: the real Constance of Brittany, by Dr Judith Everard |
The Summer School in English Literature will take place from Sunday, 29 July to Saturday, 18 August. The theme of Literature and landscape has been chosen for 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, 30 July | 'Where every prospect pleases….', by Dr Charles Moseley |
| Tuesday, 31 July | Vergilian perspectives, by Dr Phillip Hardie |
| Wednesday, 1 August | Edward Thomas and the metaphysics of landscape, by Professor Stuart Sillars |
| Thursday, 2 August | Jane Austen and the picturesque, by Dr Charlotte Grant |
| Friday, 3 August | A world elsewhere: Shakespeare's sense of an exit, by Professor Richard Wilson |
| Monday, 6 August | The gardens of Stowe: a [mis]guided phenomenon, by Dr Catherine Alexander |
| Tuesday, 7 August | Landscape and poetry, by Professor Howard Erskine-Hill |
| Wednesday, 8 August | Thomson's 'The Seasons', by Dr Alexander Lindsay |
| Thursday, 9 August | Ruskin on landscape, by Mr Clive Wilmer |
| Monday, 13 August | 'Hesperian fables true': Milton's Eden, by Professor Laurence Lerner |
| Tuesday, 14 August | Thoreau and the construction of landscape, by Dr Andrew Taylor |
| Wednesday, 15 August | Railways and the perception of landscape, by Professor John Woolford |
| Thursday, 16 August | Pathetic fallacies, by Professor Sylvia Adamson |
| Friday, 17 August | Thomas Hardy, by Dr Rod Mengham |
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 (see also Joint evening lectures, below):
| Monday, 6 August | New shoots, old tips: a literary overview of practical gardening through the ages, by Ms Caroline Holmes |
| Wednesday, 8 August | Romance and religion in the medieval garden, by Ms Caroline Holmes (in the Little Hall) |
| Thursday, 9 August | Poetic landscapes, by Ms Caroline Holmes |
| Monday, 13 August | Keats' landscape, by Professor Laurence Lerner |
A number of lectures have been arranged for the benefit of more than one Summer School. These take place in the Lady Mitchell Hall, from 8.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m.
| Tuesday, 10 July | Cambridge: the early history, by Ms Alison Taylor |
| Friday, 13 July | An introduction to 'Twelfth Night', by Professor Stuart Sillars |
| Wednesday, 18 July | Shakespeare's England, England's Shakespeare, by Professor Stuart Sillars |
| Thursday, 19 July | Secret worlds: intelligence communities, states, and citizens, by Professor Chris Andrew |
| Friday, 20 July | An introduction to 'King Lear', by Professor Stuart Sillars |
| Wednesday, 25 July | Witchcraft and power in early modern England, by Dr Malcolm Gaskill |
| Thursday, 2 August | Introduction to 'Hamlet', by Dr Charles Moseley |
| Monday, 6 August | Rediscovering Hampton Court Palace, by Mr Jonathan Foyle |
| Tuesday, 7 August | Landscape and medieval literature, by Professor John Fyler |
| Wednesday, 8 August | How to say NO to the most powerful man in the world. Medieval lawyers and the fine art of survival, by Dr Magnus Ryan |
| Thursday, 9 August | One bright pearl: Zen Buddhism and reality, by Dr James Giles |
| Monday, 13 August | The astrophysics and cosmology of the twenty-first century, by Professor Malcolm Longair |
| Wednesday, 15 August | Listening to the twentieth century, by Dr Peter Martland |
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, Board of Continuing Education, Madingley Hall, Madingley (tel. 140-216, e-mail sjo1001@cam.ac.uk).
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