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Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch, Kt, FBA, FSA, FRHistS, gives the 2018 David Nicholls Lecture, on the theme: 'The Politics of Sex and Gender in Christian History'. Diarmaid Maculloch, Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford, is a distinguished historian, whose many publications include A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (London, 2009), which became an acclaimed TV series, and most recently, a biography of Thomas Cromwell (London, 2018).

Anne McLaren Lecture 2018: Gene Editing in Human Embryos In 2017 Kathy Niakan and her team revealed the role of a fertility “master gene” in one of the world’s first demonstrations of DNA editing in human embryos.

The study could help uncover the cause of recurrent miscarriages and lead to more effective fertility treatments. It also raises ethical questions about the prospect of controversial gene editing techniques being used clinically to correct defects in, or even enhance, human embryos in the future.

A multidisciplinary seminar, as part of the Kellogg Urban Knowledge Exchange series Around 1.5 million people are moving into the world’s cities every week. By 2050 there will be an additional 2 billion urban citizens mostly concentrated in developing countries. It places huge demands on infrastructure, housing, services, job creation, climate and environment. At the same time it presents opportunities for business, society and sustainable growth.

This seminar sets out to explore the impact of rapid urbanisation, the critical lack of capacity amongst some of the most vulnerable countries and how the past may hold the key to unlocking sustainable development.

We have asked four leading voices in the field to share their knowledge, research and pitch their views on the subject. This is the next event in our series examining key urban issues. It is certain to provoke some lively debate.

A multidisciplinary seminar, as part of the Kellogg Urban Knowledge Exchange series. Five leading voices in the fields of architectural history, architecture, heritage research and urban conservation will pitch their views on how the urban landscape might be managed to celebrate and invigorate the built environment of the past in today’s era of smart cities, reconfigured time scales and new, emerging urban technologies. They will answer the question:

Cities change. How should urban heritage be managed?

Speakers:

Dr Geoffrey Tyack, Emeritus Fellow in Architectural History, Kellogg College

Professor Leidulf Mydland, Head of Community Department, Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage

Debbie Dance, Director, Oxford Preservation Trust

Barbara Weiss, Skyline Campaign

Chair:

Dr Oliver Cox, Heritage Engagement Fellow, University of Oxford

The first multidisciplinary seminar in the Kellogg Urban Knowledge Exchange series. Why would anyone want a fifty-metre horse in the middle of a shopping centre? Is visibility over-rated? Is it more pleasurable to accidentally turn a corner and discover an artwork?

Is it more productive to understand the city itself as a work of art? This seminar sets out to help define where and why Public Art works - working closely with its building and environmental context – and where it does not. Britain has a splendid tradition of public art but in the last 50 years has also seen some sadly inappropriate installations all over the country that have given the genre a bad name. We have asked some passionate and diverse speakers to share their knowledge, research and above all, their views on the subject.

This is the first of our series on key urban issues affecting society today.

Baroness Hayto and Betty Webb talk about gender parity in the workplace, sharing their own experiences and exploring what needs to be done to achieve equality across all industries, at all levels, and in all professions. With the World Economic Forum’s 2017 Global Gender Gap Report findings telling us that gender parity is over 200 years away – and with global activism for women’s equality fuelled by movements like #MeToo, #TimesUp – there is a strong global momentum striving for gender parity.

Join us at Kellogg College on International Women’s Day as we hear from two women who will talk about gender parity in the workplace, sharing their own experiences and exploring what needs to be done to achieve equality across all industries, at all levels, and in all professions.

Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town is Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Lords and shadow Brexit minister.

Betty Webb was a codebreaker at Bletchley Park, working on Japanese air codes during the Second World War.

An evening with special guest speakers on the subject of Brexit. Professor Andrew Oswald Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science at Warwick University and Professor Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, Oxford University discuss the impact of Brexit and the implications it will have on the UK.

Professor Andrew Leak, University College London, delivered the 18th David Nicholls Memorial Annual Lecture on 'New' Governors of the Dew at Regent's Park College, Oxford on Monday, 16th October 2017. Professor Andrew Leak, University College London, delivered the 18th David Nicholls Memorial Annual Lecture on 'New' Governors of the Dew at Regent's Park College, Oxford. His presentation addressed literary and political narratives of rural development, poverty and peasant society in Haiti. Professor Leak further explored the contemporary challenges facing Haitian peasantry from the perspective of Jacques Roumain’s classic novel, Gouverneurs de la rosée (1944), and the Haitian political analyses of David Nicholls.

The David Nicholls Memorial Trust www.dnmt.org.uk was founded in 1997 to commemorate David's life and work following his death in 1996. David Nicholls was a rare phenomenon in today's world of professional pigeon-holing: a polymath and writer of important and influential academic works who never held a mainstream academic post; a theologian whom the Church of England found it difficult to accommodate. The Trust has enabled David's extensive book collection to be kept together in The David Nicholls Memorial Library, which is housed at Regent's Park College, Oxford.

The Trust also funds:

New accessions in Caribbean Studies, so that the Library is kept up-to-date.

Research Awards to enable students to visit Oxford to use the David Nicholls Memorial Library or to complete original research in the Caribbean.

Tche annual David Nicholls Memorial Lecture, held in the second week of October each year, which continues David's focus on providing new and radical perspectives on contemporary issues concerning Caribbean Studies, Political Science and Theology.

The David Nicholls Memorial Lecture - Deity and Domination: Winstanley, Blake, and David Nicholls - a contribution to the understanding of theology and secularity. The David Nicholls Memorial Trust www.dnmt.org.uk was founded in 1997 to commemorate the life and work of Rev Dr David Nicholls, following his death in 1996. David was one of the most distinguished priest-scholars in the Church of England's recent history. He was a leading expert on Haiti and an outstanding political scientist, with an early interest in political pluralism and espoused ‘socialism from below’. The Trust funds the annual David Nicholls Memorial Lecture, which continues David's focus on providing new and radical perspectives on contemporary issues concerning Caribbean Studies, Political Science and Theology. The Trust also supports The David Nicholls Memorial Library which is housed at Regent's Park College, Oxford, and provides Research Awards to enable students to visit Oxford to use the David Nicholls Memorial Library or to complete original research in the Caribbean.

2014 David Nicholls Memorial Lecture, given by Professor John Milbank, University of Nottingham