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Lectures, Seminars, Colloquia

Monday 17 May
1.00pm Experimental Psychology Seminar: Rebecca Gomez (University of Arizona) , What artificial grammar learning tells about language acquisition. BLR.

2.00pm Falmer Language Group: Keiko Ozaki, The 'inner ear' in silent reading in different writing systems. A155.

4.30pm Neuroscience Seminar: Malcolm Maden (King's, London), Retinoic acid in neural development and regeneration. BLR

5.00pm Women's Studies Research in Progress Seminar: Paramjit Rai, Indian partition: myth and memory in one narrative. D610.

Tuesday 18 May
2.15pm SEI Research-in-Progress Seminar: Michael Shackleton (Secretariat of European Parliament, Brussels), The European Parliament after Amsterdam. A71.

4.00pm COGS Seminar: TBA. 5C11.

4.15pm Biochemistry and Genetics & Development Seminar: Elmar Schiebel (The Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow), Microtubule organisation by the budding yeast centrosome. BLR.

4.15pm Social Anthropology Seminar: K Sivaramakrishnan, Forest co-management in West Bengal: technology and democracy in practice. C219.

5.00pm Literary and Intellectual History Seminar: Lorna Hutson (Hull), 'Not the king's two bodies': political consciousness in Shakespeare's Henry IV parts I and II. D410.

5.15pm German Research Colloquium: Sebastian Fohrbeck (Director of German Academic Exchange Service), New possibilities for study and research in Germany: major changes in the German higher education system. A155.

Wednesday 19 May
1.00pm IDS Seminar: Robert Calderisi (Manager, Africa World Bank), Influencing anti-poverty policy: the World Bank, governments and the media. IDS 221.

4.30pm Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: Serge Harosche, TBA. Pev 1A7. Tea at 4.00pm on the Bridge. Reception afterwards.

5.00pm Migration Research Seminar: Howard Winant (Temple University, USA) The modern world (racial) system. Arts A71.

5.00pm English Graduate Colloquium: Jacqueline Labbe (Sheffield), On, in, or under? Locating the poet in Charlotte Smith's Beachy Head. Arts D640.

6.00pm History of Art Lecture: Anne McClintock, Metamorphoses: cross dressing and cyberbodies. A1.

Thursday 20 May
11.00am Mathematical Analysis Seminar: M Esteban (Paris), TBA. Room 2A2 PEVI.

11.30am Economics Seminar: Mamta Murthi (Cambridge), The cost of personal pensions in the UK. D310.

4.00pm Experimental Psychology Colloquium: Simon Baron-Cohen (WAC), Autism: characterising the cognitive phenotype. BLR.

5.00pm Modern French Thought Seminar: Beatrice Han (Essex), TBA. A71.

5.00pm History Work-in-Progress Seminar: Josslyn Alexander, War stories: narratives of guerrillas and civilians in Zimbabwe. A155

Friday 21 May
2.00pm SPRU Seminar: Bob Morgan (Washington University), University-based research contributions to industry: findings and conjectures. EDB Lecture Theatre.

4.00pm Chemical Physics and Materials Seminar: Wayne Sinclair (Basel), High resolution electronic spectroscopy of polyacetylene cations by frequency modulation absorption spectroscopy. CHI-3R241 (MS3).

4.00pm Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis Seminar: J Chapman (Oxford), Thin film models for type II superconductors. Room 2B13, PEVI.

Staff Development Opportunities

Funding may be available from Staff Development for faculty to attend the following events. Please contact the Staff Development Officer, ext 7188, for further details.

18 May - Student-centred assessment: Oxford Brookes Centre for Staff Development, Oxford.

26 May - Group facilitation skills: Oxford Brookes Centre for Staff Development, London.

Advance notice of events later in the year

6-8 September 1999 - 7th International improving student learning symposium: improving student learning through the disciplines, Oxford Brookes Centre for Staff Development, York.

14-16 December 1999 - SRHE Annual Conference: Higher Education and its communities at UMIST, Manchester.