University Open Lecture

Japan: A new political era?

Mr David Warren, British Ambassador to Japan

David Warren joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in 1975, and has spent much of his career dealing with Japanese and East Asian affairs, in both Tokyo and London.

In 2000, he became one of the Directors and senior management team for the new Government trade promotion organisation, British Trade International, (now UK Trade and Investment), where he spent the next four years in charge of different aspects of sector and marketoriented international trade development.

In 2004, he was appointed Director, Human Resources, for the FCO and a member of the FCO Board of Management. He left this post in October 2007 and took up the post of British Ambassador to Japan in July 2008 in succession to Sir Graham Fry

Vice Chancellor’s Special Lecture

Perspectives on global health

Dr Yamada, President Global Health Programme, Gates Foundation

Dr Yamada is President of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Program. He oversees grants totaling over $9 billion in programs to address major health challenges of the developing world including TB, HIV, malaria, malnutrition and maternal and child health.

Prior to joining the Gates Foundation, Dr Yamada was Chairman of Research and Development and a Member of the Board of Directors of GlaxoSmithKline.

In recognition of his contributions to medicine and science he has been elected membership to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences (US), the Academy of Medical Sciences (UK) and the National Academy of Medicine (Mexico). In 2007, he received an honorary appointment as Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

Please note the time of this lecture is 6.30pm not 6pm as previously advertised.

Chancellor’s Lecture

The Law Today

Lord Bingham of Cornhill, formerly the Senior Law Lord

Lord Bingham became Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales in 1996. In England and Wales, he was the highest-ranking judge in regular courtroom service and was personally responsible for adding ‘and Wales’ to the office's title.

Appointed Master of the Rolls in 1992 he was created a life peer as Baron Bingham of Cornhill, of Boughrood in the County of Powys in 1996. In 2000, he was the first appointed Senior Law Lord, retiring from the position in 2008. In 2005, he was appointed a Knight of the Garter.

From 2001 to 2008, Lord Bingham held the office of High Steward of the University of Oxford. He is a Visitor of Balliol College, Green-Templeton College, and Chairman of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and the UK Charity, Reprieve.

University Open Lecture

Better health care in a cold financial climate – how volunteers, communities and charities can take the lead when money is short

Mr Thomas Hughes-Hallett, Chief Executive of Marie Curie Cancer Care

Thomas Hughes-Hallet studied at Oxford university from 1971-1974 gaining am MA in Modern History. In 1974 he commenced studies at the College of Law and qualified as a Barrister at Law in 1977.

He spent 22 years in the banking profession. In 1993 he was appointed Chairman of Robert Fleming Securities. Formerly the Chairman of English Churches Housing Group, Tom became Chief Executive of Marie Curie Cancer Care in 2000.

In addition to his work for Marie Curie, Tom also works for several external directorships, including Chairman of the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children and Trustee of the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation.

Postponed - University Open Lecture

This lecture has been postponed due to illness. We hope to re-schedule in the Autumn of 2010

“Open fields”: Darwin and the humanities

Professor Brian Boyd, University Distinguished Professor of English, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Brian Boyd is University Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Known as the foremost Vladimir Nabokov scholar, he has also for the last ten years worked on evolution and literature, from Homeric epics to Spiegelman comics.

As well as many evolutionary articles on writers from Shakespeare and Austen to Dr Seuss, he has published On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition and Fiction, which provides the first comprehensive account of the evolutionary origins of art and storytelling.

Brian Boyd also co-edited Evolution, Literature and Film: A Reader (Columbia, 2010) and is currently writing On the Ends of Stories: Literature and Evolution (Harvard).

Bob Friend Memorial Lecture hosted by the Centre for Journalism and sponsored by Sky News

Mark Thompson, Director General of the BBC

A first-year student from the Centre for Journalism will also be presented with the Bob Friend Memorial Scholarship.

A limited number of tickets are available, allocated strictly on a first come, first served basis. Bookings to Gulbenkian Booking Office on 01227 769075.

Rutherford Lecture

An English renegade: John Piper’s pivotal role within high modernism

Professor Frances Spalding

Frances Spalding is an art historian and biographer. She is the author of British Art since 1900, in the Thames & Hudson World of Art series, has written a centenary history of the Tate, as well as biographies of Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, John Minton, Gwen Raverat and of the poet and novelist, Stevie Smith.

Her introduction to the Bloomsbury Group is published in the National Portrait Gallery's 'Insights' series. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, received a CBE in 2005 for services to literature and is currently Professor of Art History at Newcastle University.

She has written extensively on 20-century British art in books, exhibition catalogues, magazine articles and reviews. Her most recent book, John Piper, Myfanwy Piper: Lives in Art, is published by Oxford University Press.

Lord Mayor's Lecture

postponed until 2011

Vice Chancellor’s Special Lecture

Looted art 1933-45 and its restitution

Professor Richard J Evans, Regius Professor of Modern History and Chairman of the History Faculty University of Cambridge

Professor Evans FBA is now Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge having previously taught at the University of East Anglia and at Birkbeck College, London, where he was Vice-Master. He is also currently Gresham Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College, London.

He has been Editor of the Journal of Contemporary History since 1998 and a judge of the Wolfson Literary Award for History since 1993. Over the years, his work has won numerous awards, including the Wolfson Literary Award for History, the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History and the Hamburg Medaille für Kunst und Wissenschaft.

He is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society, and an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, and Birkbeck College, London.

Lord Mayor's Lecture

postponed until 2011