Gomes Lecture

[Bran Cardello]

Each lecture is a College occasion of intellectual significance. It strengthens the ties between Emmanuel & Harvard University, and our respective countries. It is also a celebration of those who have gone before.

The annual Gomes Lecture, at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, delivered in February 2019 by Edmund de Waal, was entitled In Touch: Objects, Families, Stories. Previous lecturers include Neil McGregor, Sandy Nairne, and Professor Alison Richard.

ITS hosts a number of faculty members from nine UC Berkeley academic departments and schools and approximately 150 researchers and students are associated with ITS through our various research and educational activities.

Dr. Gomes is a lecturer at UC Berkeley in the Department Mechanical Engineering and an project advisor in the Fung Institute in the Masters of ngineering program. He is also a control systems engineer with expertise in the areas of traffic modeling, simulation, and control. He earned his doctorate degree in controls at U.C. Berkeley in 2004. He then joined the California Center for Innovated Transportation (CCIT) where he participated in several projects spanning a variety of traffic related topics. Dr. Gomes joined PATH as an Assistant Research Engineer in 2008.

The Peter J. Gomes Chapel is a house of prayer and meditation open to all on the Bates campus. Whatever your religious affiliation, you are always welcome to enjoy a few moments of solitude and serenity in the beauty of the Gomes Chapel. Members of the Bates community can scan an ID to enter from the door facing the Quad (nearest to Campus Ave.) and from the door facing College St. (nearest to Parker Hall; this door is also an accessible entrance). In addition to being a center for some campus religious services, the Gomes Chapel is also regularly used for concerts, lectures, and performances.

The Peter J. Gomes Chapel is a beloved landmark and contemplative space for the community surrounding Bates College. To continue the longstanding tradition of opening the Chapel to the local community, the doors will be unlocked and staff will be present during these hours:

The banners were originally designed for a Spirit and Nature symposium at Middlebury College in 1990. In 1997, the Bates College Chaplain commissioned the artist, Carol E.S. MacDonald, to re-create them for permanent display in the Chapel.

The central figure of the Ancient window on the left as one faces the nave is that of Aristotle. This great scientist and philosopher is flanked by the poets Virgil and Homer. The group of ancients on the right does homage to Plato, its central figure, Phidias, the Greek artist, and Euclid, holding the triangle which represents his most famous theorem.

In the Medieval windows, next on the left, we find Peter Abelard, prominent educator and theologian, and Roger Bacon holding his best-known work, The Opus Majus. Fra Angelico, painter-friar, is in the Medieval group on the right with Dante, chosen because of his contribution to literature.

Representing the Renaissance, on the left, Leonardo da Vinci stands with theologian Martin Luther and Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch scholar and publicist. On the right, William Shakespeare stands with Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer, and Hugo Grotius, Dutch statesman.

The organ located in the rear gallery is the third instrument to occupy the Gomes Chapel. It was installed in 1982, replacing the Esty organ, which underwent a major restoration in 1953. The present organ was built by Hellmuth Wolff of Laval, Canada, and its Renaissance-style case of stained white oak was inspired by the organ in St. Geroen, Cologne. The pipeshades, of hand-carved butternut wood, reflect some of the wood carvings found elsewhere in the Chapel.

The exchange is part of Cambridge's 800th anniversary events and will celebrate the reciprocal nature of the relationship between Cambridge and Harvard, which was founded by a Cambridge alumnus. John Harvard was a student at Emmanuel College when it was a Puritan stronghold in the early 17th century.

A third of the 100 Cambridge graduates who emigrated to New England in the early 17th century were from Emmanuel. The College retains its links with Harvard today with recent presidents of Harvard being made honorary fellows of Emmanuel.

Fittingly, the first part of the exchange will take part at Emmanuel College where The Reverend Professor Peter J Gomes will speak in Queen's Building on 14th October at 5.30pm. His lecture, which is open to the public, is entitled Harvard and Cambridge: Mature Reflections of a Child and will address the relationship between Cambridge as parent and Harvard as child.

Professor Gomes is an American Baptist minister who has served in The Memorial Church at Harvard University since 1970. Gomes is also the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and the Pusey Minister in The Memorial Church. He is acclaimed as one of the most distinguished preachers in America and has offered prayers at the inaugurations of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.

An Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College where The Gomes Lectureship was established in his name, Professor Gomes is the author of numerous books and articles, including the best-selling The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart.

As well as being a leading expert on early American religion in Harvard's Divinity School, he also teaches a course on the History of Harvard and Its Presidents which is described as "an exploration of the intellectual and institutional history of America's oldest college through the examination of four pairs of its 27 presidents". Themes include European antecedents.

On 3rd December, Gordon Johnson, president of Wolfson College, provost of the Gates Cambridge Trust and deputy vice chancellor, will speak on the theme of 'Universities and Society: Contemporary Cambridge and Harvard in their Historical Contexts' at Harvard's Memorial Church.

The Memorial Church is the church for Harvard University, dedicated on Armistice Day 1932 in memory of those who died in World War I. The Church has long been regarded as the symbolic centre of Harvard's spiritual life.

Dr Johnson said: "I am delighted to take part in this exchange to celebrate the rich history of Cambridge's relationship both with Harvard and with the wider world of academia in the US. It is an excellent opportunity to consider the factors involved in creating two such vibrant and long-lasting institutions and to explore how these have been developed and nourished over the centuries."

After the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), groups of anti-Francoist guerrillas took refuge in the hills of Galicia, Spain, and along the border with Trs-os-Montes, Portugal. When the Portuguese and Spanish dictatorships sent the military to hunt down the insurgents throughout the 1940s, the villagers of places such as Repil, Lugo and Cambedo, Chaves were persecuted, sent to jail, and stigmatized for several decades. The lecture examines the battles of Cambedo (1946) and Repil (1949), and contextualizes them in the larger process of rural resistance to state formation, and border enforcement in the north of Portugal and central Galicia.

This talk presents the results of the first English-language study of how Portuguese communities outside Lisbon responded to the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, along with implications for cross-community studies of community resilience.

The 1755 Lisbon Earthquake was a cataclysmic, country-wide event that precipitated a dramatic response in Europe concerning the management of potential disasters. Within Portugal, however, and with the exception of Lisbon, the response of Portuguese communities to the event has been largely unexplored, thus creating a gap in our understanding of the event and compromising our ability to learn from it. This talk presents the first English-language analysis of the results of a country-wide survey (conducted three months after the event) on the impact and response of Portuguese communities to the event. This analysis reveals implications for the study of how communities adapt (or fail to adapt) to disasters, as well for the development of methods for empirically-grounded comparative research on community resilience.

The Head of Blue21 Maritime Engineering, Dr. Rui Gomes, gave a guest lecture on floating structures to MSc students from Delft University of Technology last Friday (16 June), inspiring and mobilising the next generation towards creating a Blue and Green Future on the water.

Our colleague, Dr. Rui Gomes, was invited to give a guest lecture to students from the new MSc course on floating and submerged structures, at Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology. This groundbreaking new course was initiated and developed by Dr. Oriol Coloms, Frank Lange and Shagun Agarwal, visionary researchers who help bring insights from the industry in a growing new market to the academia.

Blue21 is a leading engineering firm specializing in the development of sustainable floating homes, floating cities, and floating infrastructure. Using innovative design and engineering solutions, Blue21 is helping to build a more resilient future in the face of climate change and rising sea levels.

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