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Linacre College
Academic Forums
Whether it was interdisciplinary discussion in
LINACRE SEMINARS
the Common Room or over dinner, or more
formal, organised lectures and seminars, TRINITY 2012
The Tanner Room, Linacre College at 5.45pm
academic forums for intellectual debate were
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First Week: Tuesday 24 April
important to College life from the beginning. As
Dr Ed Crossland (Linacre JRF, Physics)
one early Old Member recalled, “The Linacre “Nanotechnology and the Quest for ‘Cheap and Easy’ Solar Cells”
House Lectures organised by Common Room Meighen McCrae (DPhil Student, History)
“Approaching the First World War:
were given by Robert Graves, Bernard Miles of Allied Strategic Thought about a Victory Campaign in 1919”
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Mermaid Theatre fame and eminent scien sts Third Week: Tuesday 8 May
and philosophers.” Sarah Hendriks (MSt Student, Greek/Latin Language & Literature)
[title to be confirmed]
Claire Dooley (DPhil Student, Zoology – Butterfly Ecology)
“Butterfly Blues”
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Fifth Week: Tuesday 22 May
Dr Tommas Ellender (Linacre JRF, Pharmacology)
“Crossed Wires – Studying Real-life Brain Circuits
and Functional Localization”
Morgan Wesley (DPhil Student, History)
“The Divergence of Ars and Scientia:
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Alchemy, Chymistry and Chemistry in 20 Century History”
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Eighth Week: Tuesday 12 June
Josh Howard-Saunders
(Partner at Bates and Lambourne, makers of the Linacre chairs)
“Points of Contact: Furniture Making and the Linacre College Chairs”
Henry Procter (DPhil Student, Fine Art)
“More Conflict!? A Very Short Introduction to the
Practice of Conflict in Contemporary Art”
All Members of College are welcome
Bring your friends as well
Wine will be served
The Linacre Society in Italy has organised an The Linacre Seminars, held on Tuesdays during
annual Italian Linacre Lecture since 2000. The term, provide an opportunity for Fellows and
lectures, which rotate around various Italian students alike to present their research to a
ci es, are usually given by Old Members. friendly and diverse audience. The atmosphere
Pictures above are from Capri in 2008, and is informal, and the subjects are wide-ranging.
Bologna in 2000.
Pictured right: Sir Bryan Cartledge, Linacre
Principal, with Sir James Lovelock, following his
lecture, “The Earth is Not Fragile”, in the very
first Linacre Lecture series, Hilary Term 1991.
LINACRE LECTURES 1991 – 2012
1991 ‘Monitoring the Environment’
1992 ‘Energy and the Environment’
1993 ‘Health and the Environment’
1994 ‘Population and the Environment’
1995 ‘Transport and the Environment’
1996 ‘Mind, Brain and the Environment’
1997 ‘Culture, Landscape and the Environment’
1998 ‘Environments and Historical Change’
1999 ‘The Peopling of Britain: The Making of the Human Landscape’
2000 ‘Global Environments in the New Millennium’
2001 ‘Managing the Earth’
Linacre Common Room
2002 ‘Water and the Environment’
Coming into the Common Room in the evening
2003 ‘Designing Successful Environmental Policies’
2004 ‘Green Power: Green Responsibility’ a er a long day when everything had gone
2005 ‘The Unmaking of the English Landscape’ wrong with my research was an eye-opener.
2006 ‘Environmental Governance’ Groaning about my problems aloud, I was
2007 ‘Re-making Environments: histories, practices, politics’ fortunate enough not only to get sympathy,
2008 ‘The Role of Non-State Actors in Climate Change Governance’ but also to get help from an unexpected
2009 ‘Societies in Transition’
direc on. I was told, ‘I had a similar problem,’
2012 ‘Disease and Environmental Change’
The Linacre Journal: A Review of Research in the by someone in robo cs, a field I thought was
2011 ‘Riding the Perfect Storm’
HumaniƟes, was published in six volumes from far removed from my own. A er some
2012 ‘Environmental Governance and Resilience’
June 1997 un l October 2002. It grew out of a discussion about both our problems, he
desire to give Linacre students engaged in social The Linacre Lectures is an annual, highly- offered a solu on to mine. It is precisely in this
sciences and humani es research an respected series of public lectures established that one of the main strengths of this college
opportunity to publish and to engage in in 1991 to iden fy and examine environmental lies: we come from different fields, but college
interdisciplinary research, and to provide a issues through the views and research of encourages us to mix and mingle, which in
more permanent venue for the intellectual leading experts from a variety of environmental turn lets us learn from each other, finding
debates that took place in College. disciplines. common solu ons to common problems.”
