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Ustinov College

2008 Seminars

Michaelmas Term 

 

29 November, Multi-Disciplinary Seminar

  • Jerónimo Montero (Department of Geography) - Slaves Sewing Your Clothes?
  • Dominic Wells (Department of Music) - Music and Madness
  • John Shafer (Department of English Studies) - Argan kalla: Translating Þrymskviða
  • Fouad Marei (School of Government and International Affairs) - Field Research in the Developing World: Challenges and Opportunities from a Social Sciences Perspective

16 November, Being Human (in conjunction with the IAS)

  • Laura Jose (English Studies) - Monstrous Conceptions: Sex and Madness in Medieval Medical Texts
  • Lee de-Wit (Psychology) - 'Free will' from a cognitive science perspective
  • Professor Jill Gordon (IAS Visiting Fellow) - Being Human in Medicine
  • Dr Roger Smith (IAS Visiting Fellow) - Being human has a history 

25 October, Online communities: the space as the new place for education?

  • Esther Dingley (School of Education) - The Graduate Junction: connecting early-career researchers around the globe
  • Zilia Iskoujina (Durham Business School) - Information systems: yesterday, today, tomorrow
  • Mike Cameron (Senior Learning Technologist with the Learning Technologies Team in ITS, Durham University) - e-Learning 2.0: how Web 2.0 is influencing learning technology
  • Kate Boardman (Principal Lecturer and Head of E-learning at the University of Teesside) - Education in Second Life: immersing yourself in virtual learning

 

Easter Term

 

28 June, Multidisciplinary Ustinov Seminar

  • Kenneth Smith (Music) - Alexander Skryabin and The Russian Silver Age Aesthetic
  • Dr Julia Friedman (Honorary Research Associate in Russian, School of Modern Languages & Cultures) - From Writing to Drawing: Alexei Remizov's Modernist Codex
  • Jenny Marshall (Archaeology) - Missing links: demic diffusion and the development of agriculture in the Iranian Plateau
  • Emma Miller (English Studies) - The Madman in the Attic: Playing with gendered literary identity as object and muse in Iris Murdoch's The Good Apprentice and The Message to the Planet

14 June, Russian Day at the Ustinov Seminar

  • Professor David Moon (History) - The environment in Russian and Soviet history
  • Rebecca Bouveng (School of Government and International Affairs) - Russian Messianism: Beyond the Clichés
  • Marianna Taymanova (School of Modern Languages & Cultures) - Socialist Realism in USSR - necessity or free choice?
  • Patrick Zuk (Music) - The Soviet composer and Socialist Realism: the case of Nikolai Miaskovskii

31 May, Saturday, The Ustinov Seminar on Intellectual Property

  • Chris Lever (Law) - Intellectual Property: A Critical Introduction
  • Jurgita Venckute (Law) - The impact of European Community Competition Law on the scope of intellectual property rights: hard times for pharmaceuticals
  • Dominic Wells (Music) - Whose property is it anyway?: Copyright, authorship and the online music industry
  • Zilia Iskoujina (Business School) & Pete Tiarks (Geography) - Open source software communities and intellectual property

3 May, Saturday, The Ustinov Seminar on Financial Studies

  • Cornelius Mueller (Durham Business School) - Academics in the Dragons' Den - Who becomes an academic entrepreneur and what funding types are attracted?
  • Christos Mavrovitis (Durham Business School) - When do Mergers and Acquisitions destroy value: An Overview
  • Lars Terhaar (Durham Business School) - Financial Markets Trade on Public Information
  • Rifki Ismal (School of Government and International Affairs) - The Liquidity risk problem in Islamic banking
  • Wei Song (Durham Business School) - The Optimal Currency Composition of International Reserves: An Empirical Study of China

 

Epiphany Term

 

Saturday, 8th March, Ustinov Seminar on Literature with the Institute of Advanced Studies

  • Alistair Brown (Literature) - What is Literature? Neuroscience and the Future of Literary Criticism
  • Professor Zoltán Kövecses (IAS Fellow) - Metaphoric Thought Across and Within Cultures
  • Simon Robinson  (Literature) - The Locus of Meaning: Samuel Beckett's "Literary Geometry"
  • Abeer Fahim (Literature) - "Buzzing Flesh": Acoustic Technology in Don DeLillo's Fiction

Saturday 23rd February, Ustinov Seminar on Climate Change (in conjuction with the IAS) 

  • Fengling Yu (Geography) - 'The East Asian monsoon, and its variability  over the past    6000 years -- a case study from southern China'
  • Bruce Scholten (Geography) - 'USDA organic grazing war: linking consumers, pastoralists & nukes in the bio-fuel boom'
  • IAS Fellow: Peter Challenor (University of Southampton) - 'The Risk of Rapid Climate Change'

Saturday 9th February, The Ustinov Seminar on Chinese Studies 

  • Fengling Yu (Geography) - The East Asian monsoon, and its variability over the past 6000 years
  • Yan Bin Lu (Law) - Traditional Ideologies of Chinese Criminal Procedure Law
  • Professor Bob Layton (Archaeology) - Sustainability of Traditional Crafts in China
  • Yao Wang (Management) - Modern China
  • Jingrui Xiang, Yining Song, Shuai Tian and Youxi Liu (Finance) - Spring Festival in Modern China 1
  • Wanyue Huang (Music) - Chinese Classical Music (recital)

Saturday 26th January

  • Sarah Hackett (Department of History) - "The post-1945 Muslim immigrant community in Newcastle"
  • James Russell (School of Modern Languages and Cultures) - "The Mahavamsa and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Models of Island Conquest"
  • Abhijnan Rej (Department of Mathematical Sciences) - "'Building Space': A non-technical account of work in pure maths and theoretical physics in the last fifty years concerning 'atoms' of space"
  • Zu'bi Al-Zu'bi (Business School) - "Examining the impacts of partners' collaboration on mass customisation attributes"