Reporter 15/10/97: Announcement of lectures and seminars

Announcement of lectures and seminars

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

McDonald Lecture. The ninth McDonald Lecture entitled Transitions in prehistory: the origins of the Upper Palaeolithic and the agricultural revolution, will be delivered by Professor Ofer Bar-Yosef, of Harvard University, at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 12 November, in Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane.

Biological Anthropology. Research Seminars will be held at 4 p.m. on Wednesdays, in the Seminar Room, Level 6, Department of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street.

15 October	Homicide in Japan: evolutionary perspectives, by Mariko Hiraiwa-Hasegawa, of the University of Tokyo.
22 October	Food and evolution in late Pleistocene Europe, by Preston Miracle.
29 October	Feast and famine: obesity and wasting in developing countries, by Noel Cameron, of Loughborough University.
5 November	Mating system and sexual selection in Drosophyla, by Linda Partridge, of University College London.
19 November	Population variation in baboon behaviour and ecology: the perspective from Mikomi, by Guy Norton and Dawn Hawkins, of Anglia Polytechnic University.
26 November	Inter-ethnic variation, polymorphism, and disease, by Anna Kessling, of Imperial College.
3 December	Autism: characterizing the cognitive phenotype, by Simon Baron-Cohen.

Cambridge European Trust Lectures (sponsored by Morgan Stanley). The Lecturers for the Michaelmas Term will be as follows:

Wednesday 29 October	Mr David Williamson, formerly Secretary General of the European Commission.
Thursday 27 November	Mr Doug Henderson, M.P., Minister of State (Europe) at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

These details supersede those previously advertised in the Reporter (1996-97, p. 1091): the Trust regrets any inconvenience. The Lectures will be held at 5.15 p.m. in the Law Faculty, West Road.

Chemical Engineering. Seminars will be held at 4.15 p.m. on Wednesdays, in the Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemical Engineering, Pembroke Street.

22 October	Magnetic resonance studies of polymer solutions and of porous materials, by Dr Bertram Manz.
29 October	Bio-molecular constructs, animation, and diversity: some process engineering aspects, by Professor Nigel Slater, of Aston University.
5 November	Membranes, bubbles, and proteins, by Dr Zhan Seng Cui, of Oxford University.
12 November	It's patently obvious - or is it?, by Professor Robin Turner, of Exeter University.
19 November	Drop behaviour in suspension polymerization, by Professor Brian Brooks, of Loughborough University.
26 November	Fluid mechanics in process metallurgy, by Dr Peter Davidson.
3 December	The role of turbophoresis in particle deposition, by Dr John Young.

Engineering. Mechanics Colloquia will be held at 2.30 p.m. on Thursdays, in Lecture Room 5, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, as follows:

16 October	Modelling the toughness of multiphase-polymeric adhesives and adhesive joints, by Professor A. J. Kinloch, of Imperial College.
23 October	Discrete dislocation modelling of plastic flow processes, by Professor E. van der Giessen, of Delft University of Technology.
30 October	The biomechanics of brain tumours, by Dr A. Pena.
6 November	Manufacturing, assembly, and packaging of micro-electronics, by Professor D. J. Williams, of Loughborough University.
13 November	Some dynamics and control issues in robot visual servoing, by Professor M. Good, of Melbourne University.
4 December	Structural analysis from Galileo 1638 to Gvozdev 1936, by Professor J. Heyman.

ESRC Centre for Business Research. The following seminars will be given at 1 p.m. on Tuesdays, in the Keynes Room (Lecture Room 1), Department of Applied Economics, Sidgwick Avenue.

21 October	Entrenchment, State, and Utopia: causality in the 'law and economics' analysis of labour market institutions, by Dr Guy Mundlak, of the University of Haifa.
4 November	Multinational penetration of local government services, by Ms Margie Jaffe, of the Public Services Privatisation Research Unit, London.
18 November	Contracting for professional services: a case study of contracts in the NHS internal market, by Dr Pauline Allen, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
9 December	Australian labour law and the flexibilization of employment, by Professor Richard Mitchell, of the University of Melbourne, and visitor to the ESRC Centre for Business Research.

Fitzwilliam Museum. Lunch-time Gallery Talks under the general title Art in context, will be given at 1.15 p.m. on Wednesdays. Please assemble in the main entrance hall of the Museum.

15 October	Sebastiano del Piombo's 'Madonna and Child', by Mr Duncan Robinson, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum.
22 October	Lust in the dust: Anthony and Cleopatra and their coins, by Professor Ted Buttrey, Honorary Keeper of Coins and Medals.
29 October	Psamtek, King of Egypt, by Dr Penny Wilson, Assistant Keeper of Antiquities.
5 November	Gerrit Dou (1613-1675): reflections of Dutch daily life, by Mr David Scrase, Keeper of Paintings, Drawings, and Prints.
12 November	Down with top-knots: a late 17th century ballad on an English delftware dish, by Miss Julia Poole, Senior Assistant Keeper, Applied Arts.
19 November	Deserts and harems: the paintings of J. F. Lewis, by Ms Briony Llewellyn, Art historian.
26 November	The Boscawen Collection: Renaissance bronzes and other sculpture, by Mr Anthony Radcliffe, Honorary Keeper, Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture.
3 December	Monet's 'Poplars': the problems of a pristine painting, by Mr Ian McClure, Director of the Hamilton Kerr Institute.

Latin-American Studies. Open seminars will be given at 5 p.m. on Mondays, in the History Faculty Building, West Road, except for the seminar on 17 November, as follows:

20 October	Misconstructing the past: myths about Chilean social development, 1880-1950, by Mr Javier Núnez, of the University of Oxford.
27 October	'Criollo' discourses and difference in modern Argentina, by Dr Arnd Schneider, of the University of East London.
3 November	'Neither married, single, widow, nor divorced': female identity and subjectivity in low-income, urban Mexico, by Dr Valentina Napolitano.
10 November	Amazonian Caboclo society and the doctrine of 'tropical nastiness', by Dr Stephen Nugent, Goldsmiths College, University of London.
17 November	Federalism and democracy: comparative and conceptual issues, by Professor Alfred Stepan, of the University of Oxford. NOTE: This lecture will be held in Lecture Theatre LG18, Law Faculty, West Road.
24 November	'Telling the truth about the past': regional politics in post-revolutionary Mexico, by Dr Keith Brewster.
1 December	Democracy and violence: the case of Rio de Janeiro, by Dr Angelina Peralva, of the University of São Paulo.

Information is also available on the Centre's www page: http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/clas/.

Materials Science and Metallurgy. Department Colloquia are held at 4.15 p.m. on Mondays, unless otherwise stated, in the Tower Seminar Room (T101), Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, Pembroke Street.

27 October	Taking biomaterials from concept to patent, by Professor W. Bonfield, of Queen Mary and Westfield College.
10 November	What is a stacking fault?, by Professor I. P. Jones, of the University of Birmingham.
Tuesday 25 November	Magnetic flake fingerprint technology, by Professor B. Wilshire, of the University of Wales, Swansea

Refreshments are served after the colloquium.

Social Anthropology. Senior Seminars are held at 5 p.m. on Fridays, in the Seminar Room, Department of Social Anthropology, Free School Lane, except for the first seminar.

17 October	The making of 'Jinnah': politics, culture, and media in Muslim society, by Dr Akbar Ahmed. This seminar will be held in the Little Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, and is arranged jointly with the Centre of South Asian Studies.
24 October	Central European transformations: a rite of passage, by Professor Michal Buchowski, of the Marc Bloch Centre, Berlin.
31 October	Placing the unborn: on the social construction of a new life, by Professor Wendy James, of the University of Oxford.
7 November	Mongolia in the age of the market: pastoral land and the development discourse, by Dr David Sneath.
14 November	Memory, simulation, and rumour: the case of missing persons in Cyprus, by Dr Paul Sant Cassia, of the University of Durham.
21 November	Dynamics of innovation, by Professor Helga Nowotny, of the University of Vienna.
28 November	The network seen twice: designs for a global reality, by Dr Annelise Riles, of the American Bar Foundation, and the University of Chicago.

Tea will be available in the Common Room (2nd floor) from 4 p.m. onwards.

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