Francis Crick, Race, and The Poetry of Richard Nixon

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Josie Gill (University of Cambridge)

17 February, 5pm
Wolfson College, Gatsby Room

Amongst the hundreds of files which make up the Francis Crick archive is a file dedicated to Crick’s correspondence with Arthur Jensen, an American educational psychologist whose work focuses on proving a link between race and intelligence. The letters, which date from the early 1970s, provide an insight into Crick’s views on this controversial topic, and his role in galvanising support for a statement on academic freedom in the face of calls for the study of racial differences to be halted. However the file also contains two literary documents; a photocopy of The Poetry of Richard Nixon, a satirical collection of found poetry based on the Watergate tapes, and an essay on feminism by the science fiction writer Isaac Asimov. What do these documents tell us about Crick’s thinking about race and why are they included in a file of his professional correspondence on the matter? In this paper I will suggest that the poems and essay reflect Crick’s ambivalent relationship to the political culture of the early 1970s which his participation in the debate over race exposes. Crick felt threatened by the questioning of traditional sources of authority such as science, yet embraced the more liberal movements of the time through an interest in beat poetry and drugs. Examining the authorship, production and content of the texts reveals a complex web of connections between Crick and the politically conservative, as well as countercultural, figures of the period, providing an alternative view of the relationship between literature and science in the second half of the twentieth century.

Part of the Countercultural Research Group, Lent 2012.

Countercultural Research Group, Lent 2012

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The Counterculture Research Group is an interdisciplinary series of seminars, lectures and associated events that focuses the multiple artistic, historical and social manifestations of the countercultural impetus.

For further information contact yps1000@cam.ac.uk or rjer2@cam.ac.uk.


17 February, 5pm
Wolfson College, Gatsby Room

Francis Crick, Race, and The Poetry of Richard Nixon

Josie Gill (University of Cambridge)


15 March, 5pm
Wolfson College, Seminar Room

‘A Nation-Wide Intelligence Service’: Mass-Observation, Hermeneutic Paranoia and the Invasion of Cambridge

James Purdon (University of Cambridge)

Interdisciplinary Early Modern Seminars, Programme 2011-2012

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Wednesday, March 14th speaker change!

Seminars are held in St. Catharine’s College OCR, 2.00pm – 3.30pm, unless otherwise stated. Tea, coffee and biscuits are served. All welcome!

Michaelmas 2011

Wednesday, October 19th: Graduate session
Austen Saunders, English Department, University of Cambridge
‘John Dixon’s annotations to The Faerie Queene: the 1590s blogosphere?’
and
Harriet Phillips, English Department, University of Cambridge
‘How the ploughman learned, and then forgot, his Pater Noster: figuring the Tudor everyman’

Wednesday, November 2nd
Round-table session: ‘Letter writing and networking in the early modern world’

Wednesday, November 16th
Professor Thomas Mayer, Augustana College (USA)
‘Trying Gallileo’, 2.15 pm, Lightfoot Room, Faculty of Divinity

Wednesday, November 23rd
Dr Paul White, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge

‘Does Poetry Teach Morality? Jodocus Badius Ascensius (1462-1535) and Debates about Humanist Education’ – Ramsden Room, St. Catharine’s College

Wednesday, November 30th: Graduate Session
Hannah August, King’s College London, and Simon Smith, Birkbeck College, London

‘Early modern English commercial drama and the creation of delight’

Lent 2012

Wednesday, February 1st
Hannah Newton, University of Cambridge

‘Cur’d in a different manner: children’s medicine in early modern England, c.1580-1720’ Rushmore Room, St Catharine’s College

Wednesday, February 15th
Richard Serjeantson, University of Cambridge

‘”Published after the old fashion”: Reconstructing a scribal publishing operation in an age of print’ Rushmore Room, St Catharine’s College

Wednesday, March 14th

Joe Moshenska, University of Cambridge

‘Sir Kenelm Digby’s Interruptions: Piracy and Romance in the 1620s’

Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College, 2-3.30

Easter 2012

Wednesday, May 2nd:
Professor John O’Brien, Royal Holloway, University of London

‘The Disclosure of Truth in Montaigne’

Wednesday May 9th
Will Poole, University of Oxford

(TBC)

Wednesday May 23rd
Meredith Hall, Cambridge

‘Text and Image in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Satire’, Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College

Wednesday June 6th
Tom Blaen, University of Exeter

(TBC)


For further details, please check the website or contact:

Jennifer Bishop
Cassie Gorman
Jonathan Patterson
Erin Walters

“Published after the old fashion”: Reconstructing a scribal publishing operation in an age of print

Events;

Richard Serjeantson (Trinity College)

Rushmore Room, St Catharine’s College
Wednesday, February 15th
2.00-3.30pm

Part of the Interdisciplinary Early Modern Seminar.

Cambridge Bibliographical Society, Programme 2011-2012

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Morison Room, Cambridge University Library, 5:00 pm (except where noted). Tea from 4:30 pm before the lectures.

Wednesday, 16 November
Dr Nick Hopwood, ‘Icons of evolution: from alleged forgeries to textbook illustrations’
Wednesday, 7 December
Dr Jennifer Rampling, ‘The phoenix in the library: using marginal illuminations to trace alchemical manuscripts in Tudor England’
Wednesday, 21 March
Dott. Laura Nuvoloni, ‘Witnesses of the past: the Incunabula Collection at Cambridge University Library’
Wednesday, 16 May
Dr Mark Curran, Munby Fellow, ‘Beyond the forbidden best-sellers of pre-Revolutionary France’
Thursday, 14 June, 4:30 pm, Cambridge University Library
Tea, followed by the Annual General Meeting and a private view of incunabula with Ed Potten and Dott. Laura Nuvoloni

Sandars Lectures

The Sandars Reader for 2012 is Professor Michael Reeve, who will lecture on ‘Printing the Latin Classics—some episodes’ (provisional title). The lectures will be given on Monday 27 February, Tuesday 28 February, and Thursday, 1 March, at 5:00 pm in the Morison Room, Cambridge University Library.

For more information on the Society, visit its website.

Friends of Cambridge University Library, Programme 2011-12

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Saturday events and exhibition opening receptions are free of charge to Friends. Members attending weekday evening talks pay at a special rate of £2.50 per head, to help us recover costs. Non-members are welcome at talks; the admission charge is £3.50. All talks are free to junior members of the University of Cambridge.

Events take place in the Library’s Morison Room, unless noted otherwise. Coffee will be served half an hour before morning meetings, and tea half an hour before the evening talks starting at 5.30 p.m.; events which include displays of books and manuscripts begin at 5.00 p.m. Light refreshments are provided at exhibition openings.

Saturday 26 November 2011, at 11.30 a.m.
PETER JONES
Babies Make News

This talk will explore ways in which the subject of human reproduction has shaped books, manuscripts, newspapers and films, and how communications media have in turn framed thinking about babies.

The talk will be preceded at 11.00 a.m. by the Friends’ Annual General Meeting

Thursday 15 December 2011, at 5.00 p.m.
PAUL BINSKI AND PATRICK ZUTSHI
Library Illuminations

Following the publication of their catalogue of Western illuminated manuscripts in the University Library (produced with the collaboration of Stella Panayotova), Professor Binski and Dr Zutshi will give an illustrated presentation and lead a viewing of a selection of the Library’s most remarkable illuminated manuscripts.

Tuesday 17 January 2012, at 5.00 p.m.
EXHIBITION OPENING RECEPTION

Friends are invited to a reception to mark the opening by Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healy of the Library’s new exhibition highlighting books and manuscripts collected by the great bibliophiles whose treasures have enriched its holdings over the centuries.

Wednesday 15 February 2012, at 5.30 p.m.
JOHN GARDNER
Radical Print Culture from 1815 to 1822

‘“Radical” is a new word since my time – it was not in the political vocabulary in 1816’ (Byron in a letter to John Cam Hobhouse, April 1820)

Following the end of the war with France, street literature, in the form of pamphlets, broadsides, illustrations, pornography, pirate publications and advertising, became increasingly radical, and ephemeral. This paper will examine radicalism in this period and its literary and cultural legacy.

Wednesday 29 February 2012, at 5.30 p.m.
JULIE BROWN
Exploring the Music of ‘Epic of Everest’

Mallory and Irvine’s famous ascent of Mount Everest in 1924 was captured for posterity by Captain J. B. Noel. Although a ‘silent film’, it was afforded rather sumptuous musical treatment for its West End run, and its compiled ‘special score’ is one of only a small number of such British scores known to survive. What did people hear at those screenings, and how might it have inflected their viewing?

Tuesday 13 March 2012, at 5.30 p.m.
LAURA NUVOLONI
‘Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be’: Incunables and their Owners

In this talk, Dr Nuvoloni will examine the historical evidence of book ownership in the University Library’s collection of books printed before 1501.

Thursday 10 May 2012, at 5.00 p.m.
CHRISTIAN STAUFENBIEL
The German Collections

Specialist cataloguer Christian Staufenbiel gives a guided tour of a display of representative items from the Library’s rich holdings of German-language books, highlighting some distinct features of the collections.

Wednesday 6 June 2012, at 5.00 p.m.
THE FRIENDS’ FINANCIAL PANEL MEETING

The Financial Panel meets annually to decide which books, maps, manuscripts and musical scores accessioned by the Library in the preceding twelve months should receive the support of the Friends. The items under consideration will be on display in the Morison Room from 4.30 p.m. onwards, and at 5.00 p.m. presentations on the material will be made by members of the Library staff. The Panel will then deliberate and decide on the Friends’ purchases for 2011–2012.

Admission free to members of the Friends.

Other events and visits may be organized in the course of the year. Details will be circulated to members.

The Friends of Cambridge University Library
Honorary Treasurer and Secretary: John Wells
University Library, West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DR
Tel. 01223 333055/333083; Fax 01223 333160; e-mail friends@lib.cam.ac.uk.

Radical Print Culture from 1815 to 1822

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Wednesday 15 February 2012, at 5.30 p.m.
JOHN GARDNER

‘“Radical” is a new word since my time – it was not in the political vocabulary in 1816’
— Byron in a letter to John Cam Hobhouse, April 1820

Following the end of the war with France, street literature, in the form of pamphlets, broadsides, illustrations, pornography, pirate publications and advertising, became increasingly radical, and ephemeral. This paper will examine radicalism in this period and its literary and cultural legacy.


Free for junior members of the University of Cambridge
£2.50 for members of the Friends of Cambridge University Library
£3.50 for non-members

Events take place in the Library’s Morison Room, unless noted otherwise.

Tea will be served half an hour before the evening talks starting at 5.30 p.m.

Please see details of the Friends of Cambridge University Library’s full programme.

Incunabula on the Move

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Date and location

Tuesday 6 March 2012
Elton-Bowring Room, the Gillespie Conference Centre,
Clare College, Cambridge (in front of CUL)

Programme

9:30 Registration

10:00 Opening Remarks: Ed Potten (Cambridge University Library)

10:10 Production: Chaired by Margaret Lane Ford (Christie’s)

  • Satoko Tokunaga (Keio University), ‘Rubrication of Caxton’s Early English Books’
  • Paul Needham (Scheide Library, Princeton University), ‘Ulrich Zel’s Printing’

11:20 Tea/Coffee

11:35 Collection: Chaired by Richard Linenthal (Antiquarian Bookseller)

  • Eric White (Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University), ‘Gutenberg Bibles on the Move in England, 1789–1834’
  • John Goldfinch (British Library), ‘British Museum Incunabula in Cambridge; Cambridge Incunabula in London’

12:50 Lunch

14:00 History: Chaired by Elisabeth Leedham-Green (Darwin College, Cambridge)

  • Toshiyuki Takamiya (Keio University), ‘John Oates, Sir Geoffrey, et al.: Bibliophiles in Darwin, 1975−78’
  • Lotte Hellinga (formerly British Library), ‘Six Summers at CUL in the 1960s: A Reminiscence’

15:00 Round Table Discussion: Chaired by David McKitterick (Trinity College, Cambridge)

16:00 Tea/Coffee

16:15 Book Viewing at CUL (1)

16:45 Book Viewing at CUL (2)

17:15 End of the Conference

Registration

If you would like to attend, please return your completed registration form and the registration fee (not refundable) to the conference organiser by 14 February. The full registration fee is £30 (£25 for students), which includes lunch and refreshments. For further information and enquiries please contact Dr Satoko Tokunaga.

Part-time Departmental Lecturers in Bibliography (two posts), Oxford

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English Faculty, St Cross Building, Oxford
Grade 8: £36,862 – £44,016 p.a. (pro rata)

There are two posts for part-time (0.5FTE) Departmental Lecturers in Bibliography and Textual Criticism (1550 – 1830) and (1830 – present day) which are offered for a period of three years from 1 October 2012.

They are intended to provide graduate teaching for the Faculty’s MSt ‘B course’ (Bibliography, Theories of Text, History of the Book, and Manuscript studies). The ‘B course’ is designed to be a broad-based introduction to bibliography and textual criticism in relation to literary texts. For most Masters’ students these are new disciplines, offering the challenge of new methods and ways of thinking about literary texts.

Individuals will be welcome to offer lectures on other English literature topics, once their B course obligations have been met, and may be asked to undertake assessing/supervision in areas relevant to their research and teaching.

Note: These are two separate posts and it is anticipated that different individuals will be appointed to each post; applications will be assessed within the field appropriate to each post. Whilst it is possible that the same individual could be appointed to both posts, it will not be possible to guarantee this and thereby guarantee a full-time appointment. Please make it clear in your application which post you are applying for, and/or if you are interested in applying for both posts.

Applications should be received by noon on 27 February 2012.

Contact Person : Katy Routh
Contact Phone : 01865 281262
Contact Email : administrator@ell.ox.ac.uk