In 2010 the International Division of the Institute of Continuing Education celebrates its eighty-seventh year of arranging International Summer Schools. At least 1,150 visitors will come to the University for periods of study lasting from one 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. Accompanying faculty here in a pastoral role with their students are warmly welcomed to the plenary series.
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. Any unavoidable changes to the list of venues or speakers will be posted in the main Summer Schools Office (Foyer, Lady Mitchell Hall) and near the small Summer Schools Office in the Mill Lane Lecture Theatres: we suggest you arrive a few minutes in advance in order to allow time to check the location.
Please note: * indicates joint lectures (those offered for more than one Summer School). These lectures take place in the Lady Mitchell Hall unless otherwise indicated.
The first term of the Institute of Continuing Education’s eighty-seventh International Summer School will take place from Monday, 5 July, to Friday, 30 July 2010. The talks in this series of lectures follow the theme of Understanding. The topics have been chosen to stimulate interest amongst a group of students from a broad range of disciplines. 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. 250 participants on the International Summer School, but members of the University are cordially invited to attend.
10.30 a.m., 7 July |
Lord Wilson of Dinton |
Understanding how governments work |
10.30 a.m., 8 July |
Dr Frank Woodman |
Understanding King’s College Chapel |
10.30 a.m., 9 July |
Dr Mark Goldie |
Understanding Churchill: flawed hero? |
10.30 a.m., 12 July |
Dr John Lawson |
Understanding humans |
10.30 a.m., 13 July |
Dr Fred Parker |
Understanding Chaucer |
10.30 a.m., 14 July |
Dr Justin Meggitt |
Understanding miracles |
10.30 a.m., 15 July |
Professor Imre Leader |
Ramsey theory: understanding order in disorder |
10.30 a.m., 19 July |
Massimo M. Beber |
Manias, panics, and crashes – the international financial crisis in historical perspective |
10.30 a.m., 20 July |
Professor Ron Laskey |
DNA and disease |
10.30 a.m., 21 July |
Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas |
The genius of Michael Faraday |
10.30 a.m., 22 July |
Professor John Pollard |
Understanding Fascism |
10.30 a.m., 23 July |
Professor Sir Colin Humphreys |
Understanding major world changes in the next fifty years |
10.30 a.m., 26 July |
Professor John Parker |
Understanding alternative life forms. Trees: lords of creation |
10.30 a.m., 27 July |
Professor Simon Conway Morris |
Is evolution predictable? |
8.00 p.m., 15 July |
Piers Bursill-Hall |
Understanding the world – the Christian debt to Islam |
The Science Summer Schools take place from Sunday, 4 July, to Saturday, 17 July (Term I), and from Sunday, 18 July, to Saturday, 31 July (Term II). The theme for this year’s plenary lecture series is Innovation and discovery. These lectures are given in Room 3, in the Mill Lane Lecture Theatres. (See also ‘Joint evening lectures’ below.)
9.15 a.m., 5 July |
Professor Herbert Huppert |
The fluid dynamics of everyday life |
11.00 a.m., 5 July |
Professor Anne Cooke |
Have we won the war only to lose the peace? |
8.00 p.m., 5 July |
Dr Djuke Veldhuis |
Stress: the science of surviving everyday life |
9.15 a.m., 6 July |
Dr Robin Catchpole |
What’s new in our solar system |
9.15 a.m., 7 July |
Dr Cam Middleton |
Bridges – current challenges, future prospects |
9.15 a.m., 8 July |
Dr Rob Wallach |
Aircraft materials – why they don’t fall down |
9.15 a.m., 9 July |
Dr Martin Welch |
The meaning of life and all that: biology in the post-genomic era |
11.00 a.m., 9 July |
Dr Paul Wilkinson |
Genes, environments, and depression |
9.15 a.m., 12 July |
Professor Seth Grant |
Molecular origins of the brain and behaviour |
11.00 a.m., 12 July |
Professor Daniel Wolpert |
The puppet master: how the brain controls the body |
8.00 p.m., 12 July |
Dr Patricia Fara |
The Lunar Society: entrepreneurs of enlightenment |
9.15 a.m., 13 July |
Professor Ron Laskey |
DNA and disease |
9.15 a.m., 14 July |
Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas |
Rutherford: the Newton of the Atom |
8.00 p.m., 14 July |
Dr Keith Carne |
How to model geometry with triangles |
9.15 a.m., 15 July |
Dr Julian Allwood |
Energy and material efficiency |
11.00 a.m., 15 July |
Professor Chris Gilligan |
Emerging diseases in changing landscapes |
8.00 p.m., 15 July |
Dr Spike Bucklow |
Old Master paintings – how were they made and how do we know? |
9.15 a.m., 16 July |
Professor Imre Leader |
Ramsey theory: understanding order in disorder |
9.15 a.m., 19 July |
Professor John Mollon |
The conceptual understanding of colour |
11.00 a.m., 19 July |
Professor Serena Best |
Biomaterials for skeletal tissue replacement –improving on nature’s design? |
9.15 a.m., 20 July |
Professor Chris Abell |
Early stage drug discovery |
8.00 p.m., 20 July |
Dr Maru Mormina |
Humans on the move: can migrations and diasporas in prehistory explain human biological and cultural variation? |
9.15 a.m., 21 July |
Dr Derek Smith |
The evolution of influenza viruses |
9.15 a.m., 22 July |
Professor John Parker |
Past and future plants: Cambridge’s contribution to plant science |
8.00 p.m., 22 July |
Dr Lisa Jardine-Wright |
Light the messenger |
9.15 a.m., 23 July |
Professor Grae Worster |
Ice |
11.00 a.m., 23 July |
Dr Jules Griffin |
The chemistry of life: from the Krebs Cycle to functional MRI |
9.15 a.m., 26 July |
Professor Sir John Gurdon |
Cloning, stem cells, and cell replacement |
11.00 a.m., 26 July |
Dr Rob Wallach |
Materials Science: can it save the world? |
8.00 p.m., 26 July |
Professor Mark Thomson |
Hunting the Higgs |
9.15 a.m., 27 July |
Professor Richard Prager |
How medical imaging works |
9.15 a.m., 28 July |
Professor Simon Conway Morris |
Is evolution predictable? |
9.15 a.m., 29 July |
Michael Ramage |
Form and forces: medieval vaults in the twenty-first century |
9.15 a.m., 30 July |
Professor James Fawcett |
Brain and spinal cord damage: how can it be repaired? |
11.00 a.m., 30 July |
Professor Nicky Clayton |
Social cognition: lessons from crows and children |
The Summer School in Art History will take place from Sunday, 4 July, to Saturday, 17 July 2010. The theme for this year’s plenary lecture series is Colour and meaning. Morning lectures take place in the Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, on the Sidgwick Site and evening lectures are held at Wolfson Court, Clarkson Road. (See also ‘Joint evening lectures’ below.)
9.30 a.m., 5 July |
Nicholas Friend |
Colour and medieval meanings |
11.30 a.m., 5 July |
Professor John Mollon |
Colour perception |
9.30 a.m., 6 July |
Dr Richard Williams |
How to handle colour: Dürer in Renaissance Venice |
8.00 p.m., 6 July |
Norman Coady |
And Titian said: ‘Let there be colour’ |
9.30 a.m., 8 July |
Dr Michael Peppiatt |
Colourless world: Giacometti and Paris after the Liberation |
9.30 a.m., 9 July |
Nicholas Cullinan |
Matisse: colour as form |
11.30 a.m., 9 July |
John Myatt |
Genuine fakes |
9.30 a.m., 12 July |
Nicholas Friend |
Van Gogh and colour |
11.30 a.m., 12 July |
Clare Ford-Wille |
Mapping the narrative: colour and meaning in fourteenth-century frescoes |
8.00 p.m., 12 July |
Dr Spike Bucklow |
The materials of the Macclesfield Psalter |
9.30 a.m., 13 July |
Jo Rhymer |
New meanings, new colours: painting the Thames |
8.15 p.m., 14 July |
Nicholas Friend |
Singing the Blues: from stained glass through Goethe to Picasso |
9.30 a.m., 15 July |
James Malpas |
The colour of feeling: responses to landscape in Nordic painting 1860–1920 |
8.00 p.m., 15 July |
Jo Rhymer |
Colour and emotion |
9.30 a.m., 16 July |
Professor Jonathan Woodham |
Colour in twentieth-century design |
11.30 a.m., 16 July |
Nicholas Friend |
Abstract Expressionist colour |
The Literature Summer Schools take place from Sunday, 4 July, to Saturday, 17 July (Term I) and from Sunday, 18 July, to Saturday, 31 July (Term II) 2010. The theme for this year’s plenary lecture series is Interpretations. Morning and evening lectures are held in Room 1, Mill Lane Lecture Theatres. (See also ‘Joint evening lectures’ below.)
11.15 a.m., 5 July |
Dr Fred Parker |
What stories mean |
11.15 a.m., 6 July |
Dr Julia Swindells |
Dramatic landscapes of the early nineteenth century |
11.15 a.m., 7 July |
Dr Leo Mellor |
Walking as interpreting: Iain Sinclair’s London |
11.15 a.m., 8 July |
Adrian Barlow |
The Habit of Art: an introduction to Alan Bennett’s play |
11.15 a.m., 9 July |
Dr Hester Lees-Jeffries |
Interpreting love in time and space: Shakespeare, Herbert, Donne |
11.15 a.m., 12 July |
Dr Raphael Lyne |
Interpreting Doctor Faustus |
11.15 a.m., 13 July |
Dr Alexander Lindsay |
Interpretations: reading Dryden’s MacFlecknoe |
11.15 a.m., 14 July |
Dr Sophie Read |
A cognitive interpretation of Paradise Lost |
11.15 a.m., 15 July |
Dr Noel Sugimura |
Gigantic loftiness: the formation of the sublime |
8.00 p.m., 15 July |
Dr Alexander Lindsay |
Poetry reading: Matthew Prior and the lighter side of Augustan poetry |
11.15 a.m., 16 July |
Dr Paul Chirico |
John Clare |
11.15 a.m., 19 July |
Dr Fred Parker |
Interpreting epic: The Rape of the Lock and the idea of mock-heroic |
8.00 p.m., 19 July |
John Gilroy |
‘How were people...to be understood’: some issues of interpretation in Shakespeare and Shelley |
11.15 a.m., 20 July |
Dr David Hillman |
Interpreting love in Anthony and Cleopatra |
8.00 p.m., 20 July |
Colin Wilcockson |
Bringing Chaucer up to date |
11.15 a.m., 21 July |
Dr Jacqueline Tasioulas |
Love, stars, and the ‘Nether eye’: interpreting Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale |
11:15 a.m., 22 July |
Dr Stephen Logan |
The hyphenation of Dylan Thomas |
8.00 p.m., 22 July |
Dr Stephen Logan |
Stephen Logan reads his own poems |
11.15 a.m., 23 July |
Clive Wilmer |
‘What is man?’: Psalm 8 in English literature |
11.15 a.m., 26 July |
Adrian Barlow |
Sassoonery: the case for re-reading Siegfried Sassoon |
8.00 p.m., 26 July |
Clive Wilmer |
Clive Wilmer reads his own poems |
11.15 a.m., 27 July |
Dr Rod Mengham |
Tess of the d’Urbervilles and the necessity of multiple interpretations |
11.15 a.m., 28 July |
Dr Michael Hrebeniak |
Wheels within wheels: the art of metafiction |
11.15 a.m., 29 July |
Dr Stephen Logan |
Grief in C. S. Lewis |
11.15 a.m., 30 July |
Clive Wilmer |
Aubade and Serenade |
The Summer School in History takes place from Sunday, 18 July, to Saturday, 31 July 2010. The theme for this year’s plenary lecture series is Transitions of power. Morning and evening lectures take place in the Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, on the Sidgwick Site. (See also ‘Joint evening lectures’ below.)
9.15 a.m., 19 July |
Professor John Morrill |
Transitions of power in the seventeenth-century British revolutions: 1649 and 1660 compared |
8.00 p.m., 19 July |
Dr Jonathan Davis |
From communism to democracy: Russia after the USSR |
9.15 a.m., 20 July |
Dr Mark Goldie |
Post-war Britain: losing an empire, finding a role |
9.15 a.m., 21 July |
Dr Jon Lawrence |
Fighting for power: a history of electioneering in modern Britain |
9.15 a.m., 22 July |
Dr Andrew Thompson |
Monarchs, ministers, and parties: political change and survival in eighteenth-century Britain |
9.15 a.m., 23 July |
Dr Justin Meggitt |
Transitions of power: English slaves in North Africa |
9.15 a.m., 26 July |
Charlie Nurse |
Living with Franco’s ghost: the Spanish transition to democracy |
9.15 a.m., 27 July |
Dr Tom Freeman |
Religious transition and the gentry in Kent and Suffolk, 1540–1570 |
9.15 a.m., 28 July |
Dr Diana Henderson |
Victories, vacuums, and vampires: the occupation of the Rhineland, 1919 |
8.00 p.m., 28 July |
Dr Seán Lang |
Giving away the Empire: why did the British do it? |
9.15 a.m., 29 July |
Dr Hugo Service |
Ethnic cleansing in twentieth-century Europe |
9.15 a.m., 30 July |
Dr David Smith |
From monarchy to republic and back again: transitions of power in seventeenth-century England |
The Medieval Studies Summer School takes place from Sunday, 1 August, to Saturday, 14 August 2010. The theme for this year’s morning plenary lecture series is Saints and sinners. Morning and evening lectures take place in the Faculty of Divinity, Runcie Room, on the Sidgwick Site. (See also ‘Joint evening lectures’ below.)
9.15 a.m., 2 August |
Dr Rowena E. Archer |
‘The art and craft of dying well’: death, judgement, heaven, hell in the Middle Ages |
8.00 p.m., 2 August |
Dr Bernard Gowers |
On heaven and in earth. How to become a saint in the Middle Ages |
9.15 a.m., 3 August |
Dr Bernard Gowers |
Ecclesiastical censure: excommunication, interdict, and anathema in the Middle Ages |
8.00 p.m., 3 August |
Dr Eva de Visscher |
Medieval Jewish ideas of sin and purity |
9.15 a.m., 4 August |
Professor Caroline Barron |
The cult of St Zita |
8.00 p.m., 4 August |
Professor Tony Spearing |
Saints and sinners in religious prose and poetry |
9.15 a.m., 5 August |
Professor Tony Spearing |
The book of Margery Kempe |
8.00 p.m., 5 August |
Dr John Maddicott |
Simon de Montfort: saint or sinner? |
9.15 a.m., 6 August |
Professor Nigel Saul |
National sainthood: St George the patron of England |
9.15 a.m., 9 August |
Professor Jonathan Phillips |
St Louis: crusader king and holy warrior |
8.00 p.m., 9 August |
Dr Rowena E. Archer |
Joan of Arc: a night at the movies |
9.15 a.m., 10 August |
Dr Joe Canning |
The ungodly ruler. Sin and property rights in the fourteenth century |
8.00 p.m., 10 August |
Dr Tom Licence |
Sociable solitude: why medieval society needed hermits |
9.15 a.m., 11 August |
Dr Tom Licence |
Warrior king or meek martyr? The invention of St Edmund |
8.00 p.m., 11 August |
Dr Philip Morgan |
Rejected saints: Thomas of Lancaster and Edward II |
9.15 a.m., 12 August |
Professor Malcolm Barber |
‘By their fruits we can know them’: was the Holy Land betrayed by the Templars in 1291? |
8.00 p.m., 12 August |
Dr Rowena E. Archer |
Saints and sinners – themes and conclusions? |
9.15 a.m., 13 August |
Dr Frank Woodman |
From here to eternity: medieval images of the Last Judgment |
The Shakespeare Summer School takes place from Sunday, 1 August, to Saturday, 14 August 2010. The theme for this year’s morning plenary lecture series is Interpreting Shakespeare. Morning and evening lectures take place in Little Hall, on the Sidgwick Site. (See also ‘Joint evening lectures’ below.)
11.30 a.m., 2 August |
Professor Peter Holland |
‘A kind of character in thy life’: Shakespeare and the character of history |
8.00 p.m., 2 August |
Dr Paul Prescott |
Shamlet: interpretation, simulation, and fakery |
11.30 a.m., 3 August |
Dr Paul Prescott |
‘What’s aught but as ’tis valued?’: the curious case of Troilus and Cressida |
8.00 p.m., 3 August |
Professor Russ McDonald |
Shakespeare and the suspicion of style |
11.30 a.m., 4 August |
Professor Andy Murphy |
The politics of culture: reading Shakespeare in Victorian Ireland |
8.00 p.m., 4 August |
Professor Stuart Sillars |
Henry Fuseli: the artist as interpreter |
11.30 a.m., 5 August |
Professor Stuart Sillars |
Illustrated editions and the limits of interpretation |
8.00 p.m., 5 August |
Tim Cribb |
Comedy as value in Henry IV parts I and II |
11.30 a.m., 6 August |
Professor Helen Wilcox |
Interpreting Shakespearian tragicomedy: the case of All’s Well That Ends Well |
11.30 a.m., 9 August |
Dr Charles Moseley |
A short view of Thomas Rymer |
8.00 p.m., 9 August |
Dr Alexander Lindsay |
Ben Jonson’s Shakespeare |
11.30 a.m., 10 August |
Professor Catherine Belsey |
Hamlet: Shakespeare’s ghost story |
8.00 p.m., 10 August |
Val Brodie |
Music and Henry V |
11.30 a.m., 11 August |
Dr Alexander Lindsay |
Shakespeare’s jacquerie: King Henry VI part II |
8.00 p.m., 11 August |
Dr Catherine Alexander |
Using Shakespeare in commercial art |
11.30 a.m., 12 August |
Dr Judith Buchanan |
‘Wresting an alphabet’: ‘reading’ a silent Shakespeare film |
8.00 p.m., 12 August |
Vivien Heilbron and David Rintoul |
Couplings |
11.30 a.m., 13 August |
Dr Catherine Alexander |
Interpreting King Lear |
The second term of the Institute of Continuing Education’s eighty-seventh International Summer School will take place from Sunday, 1 August, to Saturday, 14 August 2010. There is no morning plenary lecture series for this programme but evening lectures on a variety of subjects are organized for the c. 200 students. Evening lectures are held in the Lady Mitchell Hall. (See also ‘Joint evening lectures’ below.)
8.00 p.m., 2 August |
Adrian Barlow |
Cambridge ancient and modern: the architecture of the University |
8.00 p.m., 3 August |
Dr Rex Walford |
A view of England: John Betjeman, a very English Poet Laureate |
8.00 p.m., 4 August |
Caroline Holmes |
The Victorian Garden – the quest for the best |
8.00 p.m., 5 August |
Dr Spike Bucklow |
From Lapis Lazuli to laundry powder: the alchemy of colour |
8.00 p.m., 9 August |
Jo Rhymer |
New meanings, new colours: painting the Thames |
8.00 p.m., 10 August |
Dr Seán Lang |
Understanding the British hero figure: from Boudica to Bond, and beyond |
8.00 p.m., 11 August |
Piers Bursill-Hall |
Engineers and alchemists: the accidental makers of modern science |
There are a number of general interest and more specialized evening lectures arranged for the participants of more than one summer school. Those marked * are held in the Lady Mitchell Hall. The location of the talk on 28 July is indicated below.
*8.00 p.m., 6 July |
Dr Rob Wallach |
Cambridge: how it works (All programmes) |
*8.00 p.m., 7 July |
Adrian Barlow |
Cambridge: how it looks (All programmes) |
*8.00 p.m., 9 July |
Dr Fred Parker |
An introduction to Henry VIII (All programmes) |
*8.00 p.m., 12 July |
Adrian Barlow |
Cambridge writers (Literature and International Term I) |
*8.00 p.m., 14 July |
Professor Stefan Collini |
Criticism and the reading public (Literature and International Term I) |
*8.00 p.m., 19 July |
Dr Hugh Hunt |
Boomerangs, bouncing balls, and other spinning things (Science and International Term I) |
*8.00 p.m., 20 July |
Dr Jerry Toner |
Power and persuasion in Roman art (History and International Term I) |
*8.00 p.m., 22 July |
John Jackson |
Afghanistan: can it achieve stability and legitimacy? (History and International Term I) |
*8.00 p.m., 23 July |
Dr John Lennard |
‘All the world’s a stage’: an introduction to As You Like It (All programmes) |
*8.00 p.m., 26 July |
Professor Anthony Badger |
FDR’s 100 days and Obama’s (History and International Term I) |
*8.00 p.m., 27 July |
Dr James Grime |
Understanding codes and the Enigma machine (All programmes) |
8.00 p.m., 28 July |
Dr Cecily Morrison and Dr Nikiforos Karamanis |
Lost in translation: how Google translate works and when it doesn’t (Science and Literature, held in Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Theatres) |
*8.00 p.m., 6 August |
Professor Howard Erskine-Hill |
An introduction to Julius Caesar (All programmes) |
Any unforeseen or last-minute changes to this lecture programme will be posted in the main Summer Schools Office (Lady Mitchell Hall) and at the Office in Mill Lane Lecture Theatres.
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 email Sarah Ormrod, Director of International Programmes, Institute of Continuing Education, at sjo1001@cam.ac.uk.