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Announcement of lectures and seminars

The following lectures and seminars will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:

Clinical Veterinary Medicine. The Share-Jones Lecture in Veterinary Anatomy will be given at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 9 October, in the Judge Institute of Management Studies. Dr John Grandage will speak on All Creatures Great and Tall: a celebration of gross anatomy. Admission is by ticket only and application for tickets should be made to Clare Blenkinsop, Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, tel. (3) 37696 or e-mail jcb13@cam.ac.uk.

Dunn Nutritional Laboratory. Dr Ann Walker, of the Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Reading, will lecture on Herbal medicine: science meets tradition, at 4.15 p.m. on Monday, 20 October, in Hospital Seminar Room F/G, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road. Tea will be served at 4 p.m.

The Martin Centre. The Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies holds lunch-time seminars at 12.15 p.m. on Wednesdays at 6 Chaucer Road. Lunch is available at 1.15 p.m. if ordered by the preceding Monday (tel. (3)31700).

15 October. Acoustics on the Underground, by Dr Raf Orlowski, of Arup Acoustics.
22 October. Energy-efficient buildings in China, by Dr Helen Mulligan, of Cambridge Architectural Research Ltd.
29 October. The search for Gormenghast: surveying and recording large country houses, by Mr John Heward, formerly of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments in England.
 5 November. Towards zero emissions urban development - future directions, by Dr Nick Baker, Dr David Crowther, and Dr Koen Steemers.
12 November. Technological knowledge and design history, by Dr David Yeomans, of the University of Manchester.
19 November. Society and technology in the eighteenth century: Stanislaw Leszczynski's Theatre of Automata at Lunéville, by Ms Renata Tyszczuk.
26 November. Environmental sustainability: a new imperative for architecture? by Dr Joe Smith, of the Department of Geography.

Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit. Research seminars will be held at 4.30 p.m. on the following Wednesdays, in Lecture Room 8, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue. Tea or coffee will be available from 4 p.m. in the Unit Office, Room 4.

22 October. Notes from a visit to a Mongolian community in Yunnan, by Dr David Sneath.
 5 November. Post-Soviet landscape: new building in Kazakhstan, by Dr Victor Buchli.
19 November. New entrepreneurs in post-Communist Russia and Mongolia: a sociological perspective, by Mr Batjargal, of Oxford University.
26 November. Local Buddhism in Inner Mongolia, by Mr Hurelbaatar.

Oriental Studies. Professor Yehuda Friedlander, Rector of Bar-Ilan University, will lecture on Poetry and history: the case of U.Z. Greenberg, at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 29 October, in Room L1, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue.

Post-Soviet States Research Programme, Sidney Sussex College. A seminar in the Post-Soviet States in Transition series will be given by Dr Elizabeth Teague, of the Jamestown Foundation, on Russia in the next millennium - how strong are its democratic roots?, at 5.15 p.m. on Wednesday, 12 November, in the Old Library, Sidney Sussex College.

Zoology. The Michael Perkins Lecture for 1997 will be given by Professor Joel E. Cohen, of Rockefeller University, at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 23 October, in the Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, Downing Street. His subject will be How many people can the earth support?


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Cambridge University Reporter, 1st October 1997
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