Special Lectures
The King James Bible Lecture Series 2011
MANIFOLD GREATNESS: OXFORD CELEBRATIONS OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE 1611-2011
A series of public lectures given by Prof Pauline Croft, Prof Valentine Cunningham, Prof Helen Wilcox and Prof Terence Wright to mark the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible was held in Hilary Term at Corpus Christi. The series began with Prof Croft (Royal Holloway, University of London): The Making of the King James (Authorized) Version of the Bible, 1604-1611. Further details of the lectures, including a commemorative Choral Evensong with Revd Prof John Morrill, Selwyn College, Cambridge, can be found here.
Bateson Lectures
The Bateson Lectures commemorate F. W. Bateson, the distinguished critic and literary scholar, English Fellow at Corpus from 1963 to 1978. The 2012 lecture, 'Punctuation and its contents: Virginia Woolf and Evelyn Waugh', will be given on 25 April by Professor Henry Woudhuysen, Professor of English at UCL.
The 2011 lecture, 'Henry James and Charm', was given by Professor Adrian Poole. Previous lecturers have included David Bromwich, Eric Griffiths, Quentin Skinner, Frank Kermode and Rachel Bowlby.
Isaiah Berlin Lectures
Isaiah Berlin read Greats (Classics) at Corpus, finding it 'cute', according to his letters. The Isaiah Berlin Lectures in the History of Ideas are a prestigious annual series, run in conjunction with Oxford's Philosophy Faculty. The 2010 series was given by Professor Michael Rosen, of Harvard University. Kenneth Winkler will be the Professor in Hilary 2011. Previous lecturers include Jonathan Israel, J. G. A. Pocock, Daniel Garber and Allen Wood.
Further information can be found at http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/lectures/isaiah_berlin_lectures
Triennial E. A. Lowe Lectures in Paleography
The E. A. Lowe Lectures are given in memory of Elias Avery Lowe, a noted Paleographer and Honorary Fellow of the College from 1954 to his death in 1969. The most recent series was in 2008, when Susan Rankin, Professor of Medieval Music at Cambridge University, spoke on musical sounds and notation in the ninth century. Previous lecturers have included Anthony Grafton and Michael Lapidge.
Details on the 2011 series can be found here.
