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| <p align="center"><font color="#0000A0" face="Tahoma"><big><big><big>Environmental | |
| Seminars and Lectures in Oxford</big></big></big></font></p> | |
| <p align="center"><big><font face="Tahoma">Hilary Term 2000</font></big></p> | |
| <p align="center"><a href="Oxenv this weeks seminars.htm">This | |
| week's Oxford Environment Seminars</a> </p> | |
| <p align="center">(a weekly summary of all seminars and lectures with environmental | |
| relevance in Oxford University)</p> | |
| <p align="center"> </p> | |
| <p align="center"><big>A complete listing by convenor of all seminars for Hilary Term | |
| 2000:</big></p> | |
| <p><a href="#"American Environmental History: The Long Road to a Conservation Ethic"">American | |
| Environmental History : the long road to a conservation ethic </a><sup><examination Schools, Wednesdays at 11.00am Robin W. Winks, Harmsworth Professor)</font></sup></p> | |
| <p><a href="#Biogeography and Ecology Research Group">Biogeography and Ecology Research | |
| Group, School of Geography</a> (<font SIZE="2">Fridays at 1pm, in the SCR, School of | |
| Geography, Mansfield Rd, Oxford</font><font face="Arial" size="2">.)</font></p> | |
| <p><a href="#Department for Continuing Education">Department for Continuing Education</a> <small><small><small>(</small></small></small><font SIZE="2">A series of seven lectures to be held at the University Museum, Parks Road, | |
| Oxford Tuesday evenings at 8.00 pm starting 8 February 2000)</font></p> | |
| <p><a href="#ECU seminars">Environmental Change Institute Seminar Series</a> (<small>Mondays, | |
| 5 pm, School of Geography)</small></p> | |
| <p><a href="#Green College Lectures 2000">Green College</a> (<font SIZE="2">Mondays, | |
| 6.00pm, Witts Lecture Theatre, Radcliffe Infirmary, Woodstock Road<i>)</i></font></p> | |
| <p><a href="#Linacre College">Linacre College</a> (<font SIZE="2">Theatre A in the | |
| Zoology/Psychology Building, South Parks Road, Oxford, at 5.30pm)</font></p> | |
| <p><a href="#Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics and Society (OCEES)">Oxford Centre | |
| for the Environment Ethics and Society Seminar Series</a> (<small>Tuesdays, 5.00 pm, | |
| Mansfield College</small>)</p> | |
| <p><a href="#Oxford Forestry Institute">Oxford Forestry Institute</a> (<font SIZE="2">All | |
| lectures on Wednesdays, 11.20-12.45 in the Large Lecture Theatre, Dept of Plant Sciences)</font></p> | |
| <p><a href="http://www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/q_sem_sel.html">QEH Research Seminar </a>(<small>Thursdays | |
| at 5pm)</small><br> | |
| <br> | |
| <a href="#School of Geography">School of Geography</a> (<font SIZE="2">Senior Common Room, | |
| School of Geography, Tuesdays at 4.30-6.00pm<i>)</i></font></p> | |
| <p><a href="#Department of Zoology">Zoology</a> (<font SIZE="2">4.30-5.30 pm in the | |
| Zoology Department, on South Parks Road, in Lecture Theatre B. Seminars are followed by a | |
| short wine reception with the speake<i>r.)</i></font></p> | |
| <hr> | |
| <p align="center"><a name="ECU seminars"></a><font color="#0000A0" size="5">Environmental | |
| Change Institute</font><font color="#0000A0" size="6"><b> </b></font></p> | |
| <p align="center"><big>Seminars in Hilary Term 2000</big><small> </small></p> | |
| <p align="center"><font face="Times,Times New Roman">On Mondays at 5 p.m., in the Main | |
| Lecture Theatre of the School of Geography, Mansfield Road</font></p> | |
| <p align="center"><font face="Times,Times New Roman">Wine will be served after the first | |
| and last of these seminars. Further details from Terry Dawson (<a href="mailto:(terry.dawson@ecu.ox.ac.uk">terry.dawson@ecu.ox.ac.uk</a>). All welcome.</font></p> | |
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| <p> </p> | |
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| <td WIDTH="27" VALIGN="TOP"><font FACE="Times,Times New Roman" SIZE="6"><b>1.</b></font></td> | |
| <td WIDTH="156" VALIGN="TOP"><strong><i>17 January</i></strong></td> | |
| <td WIDTH="584" VALIGN="TOP"><font face="Arial" size="2">"The Kyoto Protocol and the | |
| United States Senate: An Uneasy Alliance."<b><p>William J. Holmes</b>, Major, USAF, | |
| Retired; Visiting Fellow, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford</font></td> | |
| </tr> | |
| <tr> | |
| <td WIDTH="27" VALIGN="TOP"><font FACE="Times,Times New Roman" SIZE="6"><b>2.</b></font></td> | |
| <td WIDTH="156" VALIGN="TOP"></font><strong><font face="Arial" size="2"><i>24 January</i></font></strong></td> | |
| <td WIDTH="584" VALIGN="TOP"><font face="Arial" size="2">"Designing vegetable oils | |
| for environmental change" <b><p>Professor Rachael Scarth</b>, Dept. of Plant Science, | |
| University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada</font></td> | |
| </tr> | |
| <tr> | |
| <td WIDTH="27" VALIGN="TOP"><font FACE="Times,Times New Roman" SIZE="6"><b>3.</b></font></td> | |
| <td WIDTH="156" VALIGN="TOP"><strong><font face="Arial" size="2"><i>31 January</i></font></strong></td> | |
| <td WIDTH="584" VALIGN="TOP"><font face="Arial" size="2">"The ecological footprint as | |
| an indicator of environmental sustainability"<b><p>Nicky Chambers,</b> Director, Best | |
| Foot Forward</font></td> | |
| </tr> | |
| <tr> | |
| <td WIDTH="27" VALIGN="TOP"><font FACE="Times,Times New Roman" SIZE="6"><b>4.</b></font></td> | |
| <td WIDTH="156" VALIGN="TOP"><strong><font face="Arial" size="2"><i>7 February</i></font></strong></td> | |
| <td WIDTH="584" VALIGN="TOP"><font face="Arial" size="2">"Using satellite data in | |
| models of vector-borne diseases."<b><p>Professor David Rogers</b>, Department of | |
| Zoology, University of Oxford</font></td> | |
| </tr> | |
| <tr> | |
| <td WIDTH="27" VALIGN="TOP"><font FACE="Times,Times New Roman" SIZE="6"><b>5.</b></font></td> | |
| <td WIDTH="156" VALIGN="TOP"><strong><font face="Arial" size="2"><i>14 February</i></font></strong></td> | |
| <td WIDTH="584" VALIGN="TOP"><font face="Arial" size="2">"Climate Change and | |
| Adaptation in Developing Countries"<b><p>Dr. Saleemul Huq</b>, Executive Director, | |
| Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies, Visiting Fellow, Centre for Environmental | |
| Technology Imperial College, London.</font></td> | |
| </tr> | |
| <tr> | |
| <td WIDTH="27" VALIGN="TOP"><font FACE="Times,Times New Roman" SIZE="6"><b>6.</b></font></td> | |
| <td WIDTH="156" VALIGN="TOP"><strong><font face="Arial" size="2"><i>21 February</i></font></strong></td> | |
| <td WIDTH="584" VALIGN="TOP"><font face="Arial" size="2">"Environmental Variability | |
| in the coral reef environment"<b><p>Dr. Tom Spencer</b>, Director, Cambridge Coastal | |
| Research Unit, University of Cambridge</font></td> | |
| </tr> | |
| <tr> | |
| <td WIDTH="27" VALIGN="TOP"><font FACE="Times,Times New Roman" SIZE="6"><b>7.</b></font></td> | |
| <td WIDTH="156" VALIGN="TOP"><strong><font face="Arial" size="2"><i>28 February</i></font></strong></td> | |
| <td WIDTH="584" VALIGN="TOP"><font face="Arial" size="2">"The human impacts of the Ok | |
| Tedi mining project in Papua New Guinea."<b><p>Dr. Stanley Ulijaszek</b>, Department | |
| of Biological Anthropology, University of Oxford</font></td> | |
| </tr> | |
| <tr> | |
| <td WIDTH="27" VALIGN="TOP"><font FACE="Times,Times New Roman" SIZE="6"><b>8.</b></font></td> | |
| <td WIDTH="156" VALIGN="TOP"><strong><font face="Arial" size="2"><i>6 March</i></font></strong></td> | |
| <td WIDTH="584" VALIGN="TOP"><font face="Arial" size="2">"America's National | |
| Environmental Policy Act (NEPA): An Interdiscipliary Approach to Making Better | |
| Decisions"<b><p>E. David Hoard</b>, Associate General Counsel (Installations & | |
| Environment), USAF, Pentagon.</font></td> | |
| </tr> | |
| </table> | |
| <font size="5"> | |
| <p align="left"> </p> | |
| <sup><b> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER"></b><font color="#0000A0"><a name=""American Environmental History: The Long Road to a Conservation Ethic"">"American | |
| Environmental History: The Long Road to a Conservation Ethic"</a></font></font><font SIZE="2"></p> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER"></font><font size="3">Examination Schools, Wednesdays at 11.00am</p> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER">Robin W. Winks, Harmsworth Professor</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>19 January</b></p> | |
| <p>"Comparative Studies and American Historiography"</p> | |
| </sup> | |
| <p><sup><b>26 January</b></sup></p> | |
| <sup> | |
| <p>"Global Environmental History"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>2 February</b></p> | |
| <p>"The Westward Movement and the Native American"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>9 February</b></p> | |
| <p>"Man and Nature: G.P. Marsh, John Muir, and the Beginnings of the Conservation | |
| Movement"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>16 February</b></p> | |
| <p>"Commerce and Conservation: The Business of America is Business"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>23 February</b></p> | |
| <p>"From Turnerian Expectations to Aldo Leopold (and after)"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>1 March</b></p> | |
| <p>"The Rise of the National Park Ethic"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>8 March</b></p> | |
| <p>"Land and the Federal Government"</p> | |
| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p>In Week 7, Professor William Beinart and Professor Winks will conduct a joint seminar | |
| from 12.00 to 2.00 immediately following the lecture.</p> | |
| <p></i></font><font size="4">Professor Winks will keep regular office hours immediately | |
| following the lectures in his rooms at The Queen's College. He is also available by | |
| appointment; his telephone number is 279197. He can be faxed at 453569 and he can be | |
| reached on email at <a href="mailto:robin.winks@yale.edu">robin.winks@yale.edu</a></font></sup><font size="5"></p> | |
| <p align="center"> </p> | |
| <p align="center"><font color="#0000A0"><a name="Department for Continuing Education">Department | |
| for Continuing Education</a></font><small> </small></p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER"></b></font><font size="4">The Evolution of Life on Earth</font><font size="5"><b> </b><font SIZE="2"></p> | |
| <p>A series of seven lectures to be held at the University Museum, Parks Road, Oxford | |
| Tuesday evenings at 8.00 pm starting 8 February 2000 </p> | |
| <p>Series Tickets at £29.50 each</p> | |
| <p>How life has evolved on planet Earth is an ever interesting topic. Our understanding of | |
| this process is still being challenged in exciting ways by new fossils and new molecular | |
| data. Following the success of last year's Darwin's Astonishing Legacy, this series for | |
| the general public brings leading speakers to explain what we know today.</p> | |
| <p><strong>8 Feb 2000 </strong></p> | |
| <p>Origins of life </p> | |
| <p>PROFESSOR JOHN MAYNARD SMITH FRS Sussex University</p> | |
| <p><strong>15 Feb 2000 </strong></p> | |
| <p>The evolution of plants: insights from the fossil record </p> | |
| <p>PROFESSOR PETER CRANE FRS Kew Gardens </p> | |
| <p><strong>22 Feb 2000 </strong></p> | |
| <p>Life: chapters from an unauthorised biography </p> | |
| <p>DR RICHARD FORTEY FRS Natural History Museum, London</p> | |
| <p><strong>29 Feb 2000 </strong></p> | |
| <p>Animals and Plants - the Evolution of Herbivory </p> | |
| <p>PROFESSOR SIR RICHARD SOUTHWOOD FRS Oxford University</p> | |
| <p><strong>7 Mar 2000 </strong></p> | |
| <p>Living fossils in the sea </p> | |
| <p>PROFESSOR KEITH THOMSON Oxford University</p> | |
| <p><strong>14 Mar 2000 </strong></p> | |
| <p>The dinosaurs: a continuing success story </p> | |
| <p>DR ANGELA MILNER Natural History Museum, London</p> | |
| <p><strong>21 Mar 2000 </strong></p> | |
| <p>The chimpanzees of Africa: resourceful yet demonic </p> | |
| <p>PROFESSOR VERNON REYNOLDS Oxford University</p> | |
| <p> </p> | |
| <p>Directors of Studies: PROFESSOR KEITH THOMSON and DR TRISTRAM WYATT</p> | |
| <p>Series and individual tickets are available in advance from the Weekly Class | |
| Administrator, Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JA. Telephone 01865 270391/ | |
| 270308. carrie.mcintyre@conted.ox.ac.uk </p> | |
| <p>cheques made payable to OUDCE).</p> | |
| <p>Series Tickets at £29.50 each. Tickets for individual lectures may be available nearer | |
| or on the night of the lecture (subject to availability) at £5.25 each.</p> | |
| <p>Please quote this number on all correspondence O99E356BI [LXGG245]</font></p> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER"></font><font SIZE="2"> </p> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER"></font><font color="#0000A0" size="5"><a name="Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics and Society (OCEES)">Oxford Centre for the | |
| Environment, Ethics and Society (OCEES)</a></font><font SIZE="2"></p> | |
| <p align="center"> </font><font size="3">Seminars will take place at 5pm on Tuesdays | |
| in the Council Room, Mansfield College</font><font SIZE="2"></p> | |
| </font><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"><i> | |
| <p></i><strong>18 January </strong></p> | |
| <p>"Realism, Humanism and the Politics of Nature"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Kate Soper, </b>Professor of Philosophy, University of North London</p> | |
| <i> | |
| <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY"></i> </p> | |
| <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY"><strong>25 January </strong></p> | |
| <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">"Risk, Pollution and Regulation"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Peter Duben</b>, Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution</p> | |
| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY"></i><strong>1 February </strong></p> | |
| <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">"Science and Precaution in the Management of Technological | |
| Risk"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Andrew Stirling</b>, Research Fellow, Science and Technology Policy | |
| Research Unit, University of Sussex</p> | |
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| <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY"></i><strong>8 February </strong></p> | |
| <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">"Authorship, Communities and Intellectual Property Rights: | |
| Insights for the Protection of Biodiversity?" </p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Markku Oksanen</b>, University of Lancaster and Research Fellow of the | |
| Academy of Finland</p> | |
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| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY"></i><strong>15 February </strong></p> | |
| <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">"Implementing Sustainability in High-Consumption Societies"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">James Meadowcroft</b>, University of Sheffield and Associate Fellow, | |
| OCEES</p> | |
| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY"></i><strong>22 February </strong></p> | |
| <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">"New Mechanisms for Ensuring State Compliance with International | |
| Environmental Obligations" </p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Catherine Redgwell</b>, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford</p> | |
| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY"></i><strong>29 February </strong></p> | |
| <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">"Consumption, Development and Environment"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Nick Robins</b>, Research Fellow, International Institute for | |
| Environment and Development</p> | |
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| <i> | |
| <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY"></i><strong>7 March </strong></p> | |
| <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">"Moral Communities and the Environment: The Nordic Enigma"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p ALIGN="JUSTIFY">Nina Witoszek</b>, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European | |
| University Institute, Florence</p> | |
| </font> | |
| <p> </p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER"></b><a name="Oxford Forestry Institute"><font color="#0000A0"><big><big><big>Oxford | |
| Forestry Institute</big></big></big></font></a><i><font SIZE="2"></p> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER">"</font><font size="3">Forestry, The Environment and Policy"</font></i><font SIZE="2"></p> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER">All lectures on Wednesdays, 11.20-12.45 in the Large Lecture Theatre, | |
| Dept of Plant Sciences</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>19th Jan </b></p> | |
| <p>Dr Pedro Moura Costa Eco-Securities, Oxford </p> | |
| <i> | |
| <p>Carbon sequestration in forests - international commitments and initiatives </i><b></p> | |
| <p></b> </p> | |
| <p><b>26th Jan</b> </p> | |
| <p>Dr Heather Viles School of Geography, Oxford </p> | |
| <i> | |
| <p>Acid rain </i><b></p> | |
| <p></b> </p> | |
| <p><b>2nd Feb </b></p> | |
| <p>Janet Stewart Oxford Forestry Institute </p> | |
| <i> | |
| <p>Searching for sustainability in the hills of Nepal </i><b></p> | |
| <p></b> </p> | |
| <p><b>9th Feb </b></p> | |
| <p>Dr Bob Evans Anglia Univ, Cambridge </p> | |
| <i> | |
| <p>Sustainability in the uplands </i><b></p> | |
| <p></b><sup> </p> | |
| </sup> | |
| <p><b>16<sup>th Feb </sup></b></p> | |
| <sup> | |
| <p>Dr David Humphreys Open University </p> | |
| <i> | |
| <p>The global politics of forest conservation </i><b></p> | |
| <p></b> </p> | |
| </sup> | |
| <p><sup><b>23rd Feb</b> </sup></p> | |
| <sup> | |
| <p>Prof Tim Burt Univ of Durham </p> | |
| <i> | |
| <p>Integrated catchment management </i><b></p> | |
| <p></b> </p> | |
| </sup> | |
| <p><sup><b>1st Mar </b></sup></p> | |
| <sup> | |
| <p>Simon Counsell Rainforest Foundation </p> | |
| <i> | |
| <p>International forestry processes - what have they achieved? </i><b></p> | |
| <p></b> </p> | |
| </sup> | |
| <p><sup><b>8th Mar </b></sup></p> | |
| <sup> | |
| <p>Prof Andy Millington Univ of Leicester </p> | |
| <i> | |
| <p>Deforestation in the tropics</p> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER"></i></font><b> </p> | |
| </b></sup> | |
| <p align="center"><font color="#0000A0"><big><a name="Linacre College"><big><big>Linacre | |
| College</big></big></a></big></font></p> | |
| <font SIZE="2"><i> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER">Co-sponsored by the ESRC Research Programme on Transnational Communities | |
| and Linacre College)</i></p> | |
| <p>The public lecture series on environmental issues instituted by Linacre College will | |
| continue in Hilary Term 2000. The lectures will take place in Lecture Theatre A in the | |
| Zoology/Psychology Building, South Parks Road, Oxford, at 5.30pm.</p> | |
| <p>The theme for this tenth series of lectures is: <b>"CONSCIOUSNESS OF CONNECTIONS: | |
| GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTS IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM"</b></p> | |
| <i> | |
| <p>27 January </i></p> | |
| <p>"Global Sustainable Development"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>The Hon. Maurice F. Strong</b>, Chairman, The Earth Council</p> | |
| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p>3 February</i></p> | |
| <p>"Indigenous Concepts of Connectedness and the New Environmentalism"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Professor Marcia Langton</b>, University of Northern Territories, Australia</p> | |
| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p>10 February</i></p> | |
| <p>"Cities, People, Planet"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Professor Herbert Giradet</b>, Urban Futures, London</p> | |
| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p>17 February</i></p> | |
| <p>"International Trade and Environment"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Dr Calestous Juma</b>, Harvard University</p> | |
| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p>24 February</i></p> | |
| <p>"Social Movements as Problematic Agents of Global Environmental Change"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Professor StevenYearley</b>, University of York</p> | |
| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p>2 March</i></p> | |
| <p>"The Transformation of Ecology"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Professor Eugene P. Odum</b>, Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia</p> | |
| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p>9 March</i></p> | |
| <p>"Global Citizens - Campaigning for Environmental Solutions"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Peter Melchett</b>, Executive Director, Greenpeace UK</p> | |
| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p>Trinity Term 2000:</p> | |
| <p>15 June</i></p> | |
| <p>"Global Networks and Local Societies: Cities in the Information Age"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Professor Manuel Castells</b>, UC Berkeley</font></p> | |
| <p align="center"> </p> | |
| <p align="center"><font color="#0000A0"><a name="School of Geography"><big><big><big>School | |
| of Geography</big></big></big></a></font></p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER">Guest Seminar Series</b><font SIZE="2"><i></p> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER">Senior Common Room, School of Geography, Tuesdays at 4.30-6.00pm</p> | |
| <p>1 February</i></p> | |
| <p>"Gender, Households and Skilled Migration: A Comparison of British and Singaporean | |
| Single Migrants in China"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Dr Katie Willis,</b> Department of Geography, University of Liverpool</p> | |
| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p>8 February</i></p> | |
| <p>"Conservation and the Statistical Enframing of Nature's Limits in the | |
| Progressive-era United States: The Timber Famine Debates"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Dr David Demeritt,</b> Department of Geography, King's College London</p> | |
| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p>15 February</i></p> | |
| <p>"Global Temperature Over the Last 150 Years in the Context of the Millennium"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Prof Phil Jones</b>, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia</p> | |
| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p>22 February</i></p> | |
| <p>"Beneath the Radar: Environmentalism and the Emerging Politics of Knowledge"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Dr Robin Grove-White</b>, Centre for the Study of Environmental Change, University of | |
| Lancaster</p> | |
| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p>29 February</i></p> | |
| <p>"Approaching Social Space from the Bottom-Up: Self-Help Organisation and | |
| Participatory Research in Barrios of Quito, Ecuador"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Dr Yvonne Riano</b>, Department of Geography, University of Berne, Switzerland</p> | |
| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p>7 March</i></p> | |
| <p>"Aeolian Sedimentary Records of Quaternary Environmental Change"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Dr Michele Clarke</b>, Department of Geography, University of Nottingham</font></p> | |
| <p> </p> | |
| <p><b> </p> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER"></b><font color="#0000A0"><a name="Biogeography and Ecology Research Group"><big><big><big>Biogeography and Ecology | |
| Research Group</big></big></big></a></font></p> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER"><font color="#0000A0"><big><big><big>School of Geography</big></big></big></font><b></p> | |
| <i> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER">'Macroecology and global change' seminar series</b><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2"></p> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER">Convenors: Dr. R.J. Whittaker (email Robert.Whittaker@Geog.Ox.Ac.Uk) | |
| & Dr.</p> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER">K.J. Willis, Biogeography & Ecology Research Group, School of | |
| Geography.</i></p> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER">Fridays at 1pm, in the SCR, School of Geography, Mansfield Rd, Oxford.</p> | |
| <p> <i>21 January</i></p> | |
| <p>"A Bottom-up Analysis of Component Community Response to Elevated Carbon | |
| Dioxide"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Dr. Jonathan Newman</b>, Department of Zoology, Oxford University.</p> | |
| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p>28 January</i></p> | |
| <p>"Conservation Planning as Applied Macroecology" </p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Dr. Kevin J. Gaston</b>, Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal | |
| & Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield</p> | |
| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p>4 February</i></p> | |
| <p>"Holocene" environmental change in southern Chile: new evidence from | |
| post-glacial lake sediments"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Professor Keith Bennett</b>, Uppsala University.</p> | |
| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p>11 February</i></p> | |
| <p>"Extinction, endemism, and the avifauna of New Zealand"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Dr. Tim Blackburn</b>, Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College at Silwood Park.</p> | |
| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p>18 February</i></p> | |
| <p>"Inca agroforestry: lessons from the past"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Dr Alex Chepstow-Lusty</b>, Department of Geography and Botanic Gardens, University of | |
| Cambridge.</p> | |
| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p>25 February</i></p> | |
| <p>"Climate, CO2 and vegetation: past, present, future"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Professor F. Ian Woodward</b>, Department of Animal & Plant Sciences, University of | |
| Sheffield</p> | |
| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p>3 March</i></p> | |
| <p>"Scale, patterns, and the limits of data resolution: perspectives on</p> | |
| <p>North American biodiversity"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Dr. Jeremy Kerr</b>, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.</font></p> | |
| <p><b> </p> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER"></b><font color="#0000A0"><a name="Department of Zoology"><big><big><big>Department | |
| of Zoology</big></big></big></a></font><b></p> | |
| <font SIZE="2"> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER">Departmental Seminar Series</b></p> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER">Hilary Term, 2000</p> | |
| <i> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER">All seminars are held from 4.30-5.30 pm in the Zoology Department, on | |
| South Parks Road, in Lecture Theatre B. Seminars are followed by a short wine reception | |
| with the speaker. </i></p> | |
| <p> </p> | |
| <i> | |
| <p>17 January</i></p> | |
| <p>"Parasitoid life-histories: the next generation"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Dr. Peter Mayhew</b>, Department of Biology, University of York</p> | |
| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p>24 January</i></p> | |
| <p>"Dynamics of spatial pattern in ecological Communities "</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Dr. Richard Law</b>, Department of Biology, University of York</p> | |
| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p>31 January</i></p> | |
| <p>"Sexual selection, selection conflict and the evolution of pheromonal | |
| communication in insects"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Dr. Allen Moore,</b> School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester </p> | |
| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p>7 February</i></p> | |
| <p>"Water-energy dynamics and latitudinal gradients in species richness"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Dr. Robert Whittaker</b>, School of Geography, University of Oxford </p> | |
| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p>14 February</i></p> | |
| <p>"Spatial scale and predator-prey cycles: the role of demographic noise and | |
| unresolved pattern"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Dr. Mercedes Pascual</b>, Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland | |
| Biotechnology Institute</p> | |
| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p>21 February</i></p> | |
| <p>"Climate change and tropic interactions" </p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Dr. Richard Harrington</b>, Department of Entomology and Nematology, BBSRC - IACR, | |
| Rothamsted </p> | |
| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p>28 February</i></p> | |
| <p>"Predicting the ecological consequences of environmental change"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Professor Bill Sutherland</b>, School of Biological Sciences , University of East | |
| Anglia </p> | |
| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p>6 March</i></p> | |
| <p>"R**K!"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Professor Alex Kacelnik</b>, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford</p> | |
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| </font><b> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER"></b><font color="#0000A0"><a name="Green College Lectures 2000"><big><big><big>Green | |
| College Lectures 2000</big></big></big></a></font><b></p> | |
| <i> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER">FOOD - Food for the Next Millennium: Implications for the Environment</i></b><font SIZE="2"></p> | |
| <i> | |
| <p ALIGN="CENTER">Mondays, 6.00pm, Witts Lecture Theatre, Radcliffe Infirmary, Woodstock | |
| Road</p> | |
| <p>17 January</i></p> | |
| <p>"Safe and Nutritious Food: Global Issues for the Next Millennium"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Professor Michael J. Gibney,</b> Institute of European Food Studies, Trinity College, | |
| Dublin</p> | |
| <i> | |
| <p></i> </p> | |
| <p><i>24 January</i></p> | |
| <p>"Genetically Modified Organisms: Environmental Saviour or Environmental | |
| Disaster?"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Dr Philip J. Dale</b>, The John Innes Centre, Norwich</p> | |
| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p>31 January</i></p> | |
| <p>"Feast and Famine: the paradox of under- and over-nutrition"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Professor W. Philip T. James</b>, Director, Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen</p> | |
| <p><i> </p> | |
| <p>7 February</i></p> | |
| <p>"Food and Forests: will they be compatible in the next millennium?"</p> | |
| <b> | |
| <p>Andrew Bennett,</b> Chief Natural Resources Adviser, Department for International | |
| Development</p> | |
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