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María Antonia Garcés, Associate Professor in Hispanic Studies within the Department of Romance Studies, was invited to Oxford in November 2007 by Professor Edwin Williamson, King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish, Fellow of Exeter College. She participated in the International Colloquium "Autoridad y poder en la literatura del Siglo de Oro” (Structures of Power in the Literature of the Spanish Golden Age), hosted by Professor Williamson at Exeter College, where she gave a keynote lecture in Spanish entitled, “Poder y saber en Cervantes: De la 'Epístola a Mateo Vázquez' a Los tratos de Argel.” The visit gave her a chance to conduct research at the Bodleian Library, working at the Oriental Collection with manuscripts and drawings depicting early modern life in Istanbul. The findings will be used in her upcoming book on early modern relations between Spain and the Ottoman Empire in the 16th and 17th centuries. She delivered a keynote paper on "Captives, Dissidents, and Renegades: New Signs of Identity in Cervantes” at the Oxford Hispanic Research Seminar.

Gail Holst-Warhaft At the invitation of Dr. Dimitris Papanikolao, Director of the Modern Greek program in the Department of Modern Languages, Oxford University, Gail Holst-Warhaft visited Oxford in May 2006. She gave two public seminars, with one focusing on the Rembetika Music of Greece and the other on the relationship between the music of Mikis Theodorakis and Modern Greek poetry. Holst-Warhaft recently published her translations of the collected poems of Mikis Theodorakis, “I Had Three Lives: Selected Poems and Songs of Theodorakis” and her revised edition of her book “Road to Rembetika” will appear in the spring. She is the director of the Mediterranean Initiative in the Institute for European Studies, and an adjunct professor in the departments of Near Eastern Studies, Classics, and Comparative Literature.

Robert S. Summers William G. McRoberts Professor of Research in the Administration of the Law at the Cornell Law School of 2005. Summers, who received his LL.B. from Harvard in 1959, is the author of numerous books, including The Uniform Commercial Code (with James J. White; West Publishing, 4th edition, 1995). The four-volume treatise is considered the most influential treatment of the largest body of private law ever adopted by American state legislatures. Other significant books by Summers include Law, Its Nature, Function and Limits (West Publishing, 1986), Form and Substance in Anglo American Law (with P.S. Atiyah; Oxford University Press, 1991), Instrumentalism in American Legal Theory (Cornell, 1982) and Lon L. Fuller (Stanford University Press, 1984). Summers has been a member of the Cornell law faculty since 1969, assuming his endowed professorship in 1976. He will be visiting Oxford in 2007.

Susan Christopherson is Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning and J. Thomas Clark Professor of Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise at Cornell University. She is an economic geographer (Ph.D., U.C. Berkeley) whose research and teaching focus on economic development, urban labor markets and location patterns in service industries, particularly the media industries. Her research includes both international and U.S. policy-oriented projects. Her new book, Re-making Regional Economies: Labor, Power and Firm Strategies in the Knowledge Economy (Routledge, 2007) focuses on barriers to regional economic development in the U.S. economy. She has also written numerous articles for academic journals on subjects ranging from labor standards to the competition between US and Canadian regions for film and TV production. Christopherson is collaborating with colleague Linda McDowell, Professor of Human Geography and a Professorial Fellow of St. John's College. They are planning a joint Oxford-Cornell Project on Transforming work, involving conferences at Oxford (in June 2008) and at Cornell (October 2008). The project emerged in conjunction with their membership on the editorial board of the Cambridge Journal on Regions, Economy and Society, a new journal sponsored by the Cambridge Journal of Economics.