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In 2002 the International Division of the Institute of Continuing Education celebrates its seventy-ninth 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 or venue 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 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.
The first term of the Institute of Continuing Education's sixty-seventh International Summer School will take place from Monday, 8 July to Friday, 2 August 2002. The talks in this series of lectures follow the theme of Prediction. 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 botany, cosmology, theology, and secret intelligence. 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 around 300 participants on the International Summer School, but members of the University are cordially invited to attend.
| 10 July | Is there a world beyond nationalism? by Professor James Mayall |
| 11 July | Prophets of Apocalypse: art before the First World War, by Mr Richard Cork |
| 12 July | Foretelling the future from the past: plants and prediction, by Professor John Parker |
| 15 July | 'Hello Dolly!' The brave new world of cloning, by Dr Nancy Lane |
| 16 July | Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice - what does the past climate tell us about the future? by Dr Julian Paren |
| 17 July | 'A Republican paradise postponed': predicting the future of the House of Windsor, by Dr David Starkey |
| 18 July | Prediction and prejudice, by Professor Peter Lipton |
| 19 July | Why did no one predict the end of the Cold War and the USSR? by Dr Mike Sewell |
| 22 July | Predictions in astronomy and cosmology - successes, failures, surprises, by Professor Malcolm Longair |
| 23 July | The Montezuma fallacy, by Dr Nicholas James |
| 24 July | Shakespeare and the future, by Professor Kiernan Ryan |
| 25 July | Prediction, secret intelligence, and the new world order, by Professor Christopher Andrew |
| 26 July | Contested predictions: the Bible and the unexpected Messiahs, by Dr Justin Meggitt |
| 29 July | Medieval illuminations on the end of the world, by Dr Christopher de Hamel |
| 30 July | Ancient Greek Oracles: myth and reality, by Dr Paul Millett |
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):
| 10 July | Northern Ireland futures, by Mr John Jackson |
| 15 July | Hellish Nell: spiritualism and psychical research in Interwar Britain, by Dr Malcolm Gaskill |
| 17 July | The dome of the cathedral of Florence, Texan engineers, Gucci shoes, Chianti Classico, a knife in the back, and the beginnings of the Renaissance, by Mr Piers Bursill-Hall |
| 22 July | King's College Chapel, by Dr Frank Woodman |
| 24 July | Britain, USA, and Europe: why, on occasion, does the Channel seem wider than the Atlantic? by Mr Richard Yates |
| 25 July | Mothers, wives, or workers: women and welfare in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, by Dr Samantha Williams |
| 29 July | Was Darwin right about the Fossil Record? by Dr Douglas Palmer |
| 30 July | Boomerangs are more predictable than you think, by Dr Hugh Hunt |
The Summer School in Art History will take place from Sunday, 7 July to Saturday, 27 July 2002. The theme for this year's plenary lecture series is Art, light, and space from the middle ages to the present. Morning lectures will take place in the Runcie Room between 9.30 a.m. and 10.30 a.m. (unless otherwise stated), Faculty of Divinity, Sidgwick Site, at the times given below.
| 8 July | Art, light, and space from the middle ages to the seventeenth century: an introduction, by Mr Nicholas Friend |
| Gothic light and space, by Dr Francis Woodman (11.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.) | |
| 9 July | Colour and space in stained glass, by Dr Carola Hicks |
| 10 July | Colour and space in sixteenth-century Venice, by Dr Paul Hills |
| 11 July | Light in Christopher Wren, by Dr James Campbell |
| 12 July | Chasing shadows, by Mr Nicholas Friend |
| Rembrandt's light, by Dr Christopher Wright (11.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.) | |
| 15 July | Light and space from Watteau to Monet, by Mr Nicholas Friend |
| Reflections on the Baroque, by Professor Robert Harbison (11.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.) | |
| 16 July | Light and land in Aboriginal Australia, by Dr John Gage |
| 17 July | Thomas Girtin's 'The White House': the sublimity of light, by Mr Tim Wilcox |
| 19 July | Light and space in Pre-Raphaelite paining, by Dr Rachel Barnes |
| Impressionist light and space, by Dr Hilary Guise (11.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.) | |
| 22 July | Light and space from Cézanne to Neon, by Mr Nicholas Friend |
| Northern Lights: Scandinavian painting c.1900, by Mr James Malpas (11.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.) | |
| 23 July | Light in Thirties' architecture, by Dr Alan Powers |
| 24 July | Making space: twentieth-century sculpture, by Mr Nicholas Friend |
| 25 July | Light and space: a discussion, by Mr Nicholas Friend |
| 26 July | Light and space in twentieth-century design, by Mr Jonathan Woodham |
| Crossing the Atlantic: the St Ives School and International Abstraction, by Mr Nicholas Friend (11.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.) |
Additional lectures given in the evening in Wolfson Court, Clarkson Road, 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):
| 10 July | Kettle's Yard: light and space as a way of life, by Mr Michael Harrison |
| 15 July | Stage painting: images of the theatre 1750-1850, by Professor Stuart Sillars |
| 17 July | Conservation: a different light on paintings, by Dr Spike Bucklow |
| 18 July | Light and space in Constable and Turner: a discussion, by Mr Nicholas Friend |
| 22 July | Into the White: Charles Rennie Mackintosh, by Mr William Hardie |
| 24 July | Light, colour, and the Universe, by Dr Robin Catchpole |
The Summer School in History will take place from Sunday, 7 July to Saturday, 27 July 2002. The theme for this year's morning plenary lecture series is Revolution. Morning lectures take place in the Octagon, St Chad's. They start promptly at 9.15 a.m., and end at 10.30 a.m., except for Monday, 8 July, which starts at 9.30 a.m.
| 8 July | Understanding the French Revolution, by Professor Tim Blanning |
| 9 July | Was Nazi Germany a Revolutionary State? by Professor Richard Evans |
| 10 July | Revolutions and revolutionaries in nineteenth-century Europe, by Dr Robert Tombs |
| 11 July | The American Revolution, by Ms Betty Wood |
| 12 July | The Marxist Historical Revolution, by Dr Mark Goldie |
| 15 July | Medieval English depositions, by Dr Rosemary Horrox |
| 16 July | The Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions in historical perspective, by Dr Richard Smith |
| 17 July | Revolutions and anti-colonial nationalism in Asia, by Dr Polly O'Hanlon |
| 18 July | The triumph of Christianity in the Late Roman Empire, by Dr Peter Sarris |
| 22 July | The revolutionary traditions in Latin America, by Dr Charles Jones |
| 23 July | The Chinese Revolution, by Dr Hans Van de Ven |
| 24 July | The invention of the Scientific Revolution, by Mr Scott Mandelbrote |
| 25 July | Slave revolts in the Ancient World, by Dr Paul Millett |
| 26 July | The 'rights' revolution in America, 1965-2000, by Professor Tony Badger |
Additional lectures given in the evening in Little Hall 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):
| 8 July | The British Revolution of the seventeenth century, by Professor John Morrill |
| 10 July | Women in twentieth-century Britain: a revolution? by Dr Deborah Thom |
| 12 July | 'A moral revolution'. Calls for a moral revolution before, during, and after the French Revolution, by Ms Sylvana Tomaselli |
| 15 July | The Russian Revolution: backing into the future, by Dr Jonathan Haslam |
| 17 July | The 'Tudor revolution in government'. Revisited, by Dr David Starkey |
| 22 July | Information revolutions in historical perspectives, by Dr Claire Warwick |
| 24 July | Was there a religious revolution in seventeenth-century England? by Dr David Smith |
The Shakespeare Summer School will take place from Sunday, 7 July to Saturday, 27 July 2002. Morning lectures take place in the Octagon, St Chad's. They start promptly at 11.30 a.m., and end at 12.30 p.m.
| 8 July | Shakespeare and that half-suspected desire, by Dr Charles Moseley |
| 9 July | Shakespeare and Marlowe, by Professor Park Honan |
| 10 July | Shakespeare and divine right, by Professor Laurence Lerner |
| 11 July | Incising Venice: cultural incorporation in The Merchant of Venice, by Dr Philippa Berry |
| 12 July | Images of Shakespeare, by Dr Catherine Alexander |
| 15 July | Insides and outsides in Shakespeare, by Dr David Hilman |
| 16 July | Shakespeare on a Renaissance fairground stage, by Professor Michael Hattaway |
| 17 July | Shakespeare and time, by Dr Christopher Bristow |
| 18 July | Shakespeare and the Psalms, by Dr John Rowe |
| 22 July | Shakespeare, King Lear, and the future of criticism, by Professor Kiernan Ryan |
| 23 July | The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, by Professor Inga-Stina Ewbank |
| 24 July | Shakespeare and pleasure, by Professor Cedric Watts |
| 25 July | Henry V: paradoxes and problems, by Professor Andrew Gurr |
| 26 July | The pilot's thumb: Macbeth and the Jesuits, by Professor Richard Wilson |
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):
| 10 July | Elizabethan medley, by Dr Charles Moseley and Dr Clive Wilmer |
| 15 July | Elizabethan and Jacobean gardens: a Shakespearean tour, by Ms Caroline Holmes |
| 17 July | 'Touches of sweet harmony': a snapshot of the musical scene, by Mr Jonathan Hellyer Jones (in the Recital Room, Music Faculty) |
| 18 July | Picturing Elizabeth, by Dr Charles Moseley and Dr Catherine Alexander |
| 22 July | Translating Shakespeare, by Professor Inga-Stina Ewbank |
| 24 July | Astrophel and Stella: a reading, by Dr Clive Wilmer |
The Science Summer School will take place from Sunday, 14 July to Saturday, 3 August 2002. The theme for this year's plenary lecture series is Exploration and prediction. Lectures will take place between 9.15 a.m. and 10.30 a.m. (unless otherwise stated), in the Trust Room, Fitzwilliam College.
| 15 July | Prediction and prejudice, by Professor Peter Lipton (9.30 a.m. to 10.45 a.m.) |
| 16 July | Scrapie, BSE, v.CJD: exploring the role or PrP in prion disease, by Dr Raymond Bujdoso |
| 17 July | Paul Dirac: his life and times, by Mr Piers Bursill-Hall |
| 18 July | Our changing perceptions of biodiversity, by Professor John Parker (10.30 a.m. to 11.30 a.m., in the Gilmore Room, at the Botanic Garden: not open to non-Summer School students) |
| 19 July | Darwin's voyage of discovery, by Dr Adrian Friday (9.15 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., two lectures in the Zoology Museum) |
| 22 July | The unseen planet: exploring the Earth's interior, by Dr Lucy MacGregor |
| Plate tectonics, by Dr Alan Smith (11 a.m. to 12.15 p.m.) | |
| 23 July | Mendel and medicine, by Professor Timothy Cox |
| 24 July | Repairing the Brain - predicting clinical outcomes from laboratory experiments, by Dr Robin Franklin |
| 25 July | The human genome project: an introduction and overview, by Dr Don Powell (10.30 a.m. to 11.30 a.m., at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute: not open to non-Summer School students) |
| Predicting protein structure, by Dr Alex Bateman (1.15 p.m. to 2.15 p.m., at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute: not open to non-Summer School students) | |
| 26 July | Exploring the very large and the very small, by Professor Malcolm Longair (at the Cavendish Laboratory: not open to non-Summer School students) |
| Neutrino oscillation, by Dr Mark Thomson (10.45 a.m. to 11.45 a.m., at the Cavendish Laboratory: not open to non-Summer School students) | |
| 29 July | Looking outwards: life on other planets, by Professor Simon Conway Morris |
| Looking outwards: intelligence on other planets, by Professor Simon Conway Morris (11 a.m. to 12.15 p.m.) | |
| 30 July | What will your next hip be made of? by Professor William Bonfield |
| 31 July | Solar cells and space exploration, by Dr Sergio Pellegrino |
| 1 August | Sizing-up the Universe: learning a lot from a little, by Professor John Barrow (at the Departement of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics: not open to non-Summer School students) |
| 2 August | What is the human body made of? by Professor Ron Laskey |
| What is the Universe made of? by Professor Andy Fabian (11 a.m. to 12.15 p.m.) |
Additional lectures given in the evening (between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m., unless otherwise stated), may also be of interest to members of the University (see also Joint evening lectures, below):
| 15 July | The science and ethics of cloning, by Dr Nancy Lane |
| 16 July | Genome acrobatics: understanding complex genomes, by Dr Stefan Beck |
| 17 July | Exploring the night sky, by Dr Andy Fabian (8.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m., at the Institute of Astronomy: not open to non-Summer School students) |
| 22 July | An introduction to autism spectrum conditions, by Mr John Lawson (8.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m.) |
| 24 July | On the Millennium Bridge, by Dr Allan Robie |
| 25 July | Winging it: how the vertebrates took to the skies, by Mr Matt Wilkinson |
| 29 July | 'Will my giraffe make it through the night?' Predicting survival in animal critical care, by Mr Graham Bilbrough |
| 30 July | Exploration and prediction issues: a discussion, chaired by Dr Lynne Harrison |
| 31 July | How can we know the unknowable, explore the unexplorable? The problem of the scientific study of the heavens before the advent of the telescope, by Mr Piers Bursill-Hall |
The Medieval Studies Summer School will take place from Sunday, 28 July to Saturday, 17 August 2002. Morning lectures take place in Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, on the Sidgwick Site, between 9.30 a.m. and 10.45 a.m, unless otherwise stated.
| 29 July | Ceremonial power at the court of Henry VII, by Dr Steven Gunn |
| Music and ceremony at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella, by Dr Tessa Knighton (11.30 a.m. to 12.45 p.m.) | |
| 30 July | Making and breaking of nations: the medieval experience, by Professor Rees Davies |
| 31 July | Early French epics and the development of a 'national' identity, by Dr Bill Burgwinkle |
| 1 August | Benedictine monasticism in medieval England, by Dr Martin Heale (9 a.m. to 10.15 a.m.) |
| 2 August | How many medieval Robin Hoods? by Professor Stephen Knight |
| 5 August | The building of St George's Chapel, Windsor, by Mr Tim Tatton-Brown |
| The building of Henry VII's chapel at Westminster Abbey, by Mr Tim Tatton-Brown (11.30 a.m. to 12.45 p.m.) | |
| 6 August | Margaret of Anjou: monster Queen or dutiful wife? by Dr Diana Dunn |
| 7 August | The 'art of vilification' and the 'formation of a persecuting society', by Professor Sandy Heslop |
| 8 August | Crusader castles, by Professor Malcolm Barber (9 a.m. to 10.15 a.m.) |
| 9 August | A limping example: the death of Frederick the Quarrelsome in chronicles and elsewhere, by Dr Mark Chinca |
| 12 August | Landlords and their estates c.1180-1348, by Dr David Stone |
| After the black death: a crisis in the countryside? by Dr David Stone (11.30 a.m. to 12.45 p.m.) | |
| 13 August | Attitudes to animals in medieval England, by Dr Isobel Harvey |
| 14 August | The cult of St George, by Mr David Morgan |
| 15 August | Patrons and devotional images in late medieval England, by Professor Nigel Morgan (9 a.m. to 10.15 a.m.) |
| 16 August | Hearts of oak: or how to build a medieval house, by Dr Jane Grenville |
| East, west, which is best? Regionality in English medieval timber building, by Dr Jane Grenville (11.30 a.m. to 12.45 p.m.) |
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):
| 30 July | Crash, bang, wallop: a brief history of Ely Cathedral, by Dr Francis Woodman |
| 31 July | The diplomatic underworld, by Dr Edward Meek |
| 5 August | Misericords: seats of mercy and hammer of conscience, by Dr Christa Grossinger |
| 14 August | The archaeology of medieval excrement, by Dr Andrew Jones |
The Summer School in English Literature will take place from Sunday, 28 July to Saturday, 17 August 2002. The theme of the Literature and landscape has been chosen for this year's lectures, which take place in the Octagonal, St Chad's. They start promptly at 11.30 a.m. and finish at 12.30 p.m.
| 29 July | Credit limit: money, fiction, and futures, by Professor Dame Gillian Beer |
| 30 July | Takes from Shakespeare: telling it how it isn't, by Dr Fred Parker |
| 31 July | 'Two truths are told' - James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, by Mr John Gilroy |
| 1 August | Tristram Shandy, confessions of a justified sinner, by Professor Howard Erskine-Hill |
| 2 August | Fiction's history, by Dr Rod Mengham |
| 5 August | Fecundities of the unexpected: magical realism, by Dr Ato Quayson |
| 6 August | Reality and Spenser's Faerie Queene, by Dr Colin Burrow |
| 7 August | Richardson the epistolary novel, by Dr Anne Henry |
| 8 August | History in the novel: Paul Scott and Louis de Bernières, by Dr John Lennard |
| 12 August | The Cockney moment, by Dr Gregory Dart |
| 13 August | Novelistic elements in eighteenth-century biography, by Dr Freya Johnston |
| 14 August | Literature and the political, by Dr Felicity Rosslyn |
| 15 August | Harriet's portrait: depiction and reality in Jane Austen, by Professor Trevor Whittock |
| 16 August | Death and the novel, by Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst |
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):
| 30 July | Practical criticisms I - Bones, by Dr John Lennard |
| 31 July | Practical criticisms II - Flesh, by Dr John Lennard |
| 12 August | Self, other, and landscape in Wordsworth and Coleridge, by Mr Simon Binney |
| 14 August | The rattlesnake, the kidney, and the mummified bishop: John Aubrey and Early Modern curiousity, by Dr Kate Bennett |
A number of lectures have been arranged for the benefit of more than one Summer School. These take place in the Lady Mitchell Hall, unless otherwise stated, from 8.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m.:
| 9 July | Cambridge and the Colleges, by Dr Rosemary Horrox |
| 12 July | An introduction to Much Ado About Nothing, by Dr Charles Moseley (in the Concert Hall, Faculty of Music) |
| 16 July | Canterbury, by Mr Bill Zajac |
| 18 July | The Falklands, twenty years on, by Dr Eric Grove |
| 19 July | An introduction to A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Professor Stuart Sillars |
| 1 August | An introduction to Much Ado About Nothing, by Dr Fred Parker |
| 5 August | 'Nasty forward minxes': Women and the University in Cambridge, by Dr Pam Hirsch |
| 6 August | Hearing Chaucer's voice: or, how to acquire an ear for Middle English in fifteen minutes, and why, by Dr Fred Parker |
| 7 August | An introduction to Hampton Court Palace, by Mr Jonathan Foyle |
| 9 August | An introduction to Lincoln and Tattershall, by Dr Lynne Broughton |
| 12 August | Geometry or God: which came first? Early mathematics and the ways of knowing about the world, by Mr Piers Bursill-Hall |
| 15 August | Crash, bang, wallop: a brief history of Ely Cathedral, by Dr Francis Woodman |
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