Reporter 14/10/98: 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:

Slade Lectures. The Slade Lectures, 1998, will be given by Professor Virginia Spate on Metamorphoses: Woman, Man, and Nature in nineteenth-century French art, at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays in Mill Lane Lecture Room 3.

13 October	The dream of the body as nature.
20 October	'Painted with the earth that he inseminates...'.
27 October	'These living atoms...'.
3 November	Vital fluids.
10 November	Erotic water.
17 November	'My forest speaks...'.
24 November	Flower of innocence; flower of evil.
1 December	Uprooted. Nature, modernity, and modernism.

Archaeology. Garrod Research Seminars, under the title Connections..., will be held at 4.30 p.m. on the following Thursdays in the Seminar Room of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Street. Coffee will be available from 4 p.m. onwards in the McDonald Institute Coffee Room.

15 October	Middle palaeolithic hunting in the Near East and Garrod and Bate's Dama/Gazella curve revisited: the faunal evidence from Kebara Cave, by Professor John Speth, of the University of Michigan.
29 October	Between East and West: the cities of Merv, Turkmenistan, by Dr Georgina Herman, of University College London.
12 November	The aesthetics of place in Iron Age Britain, by Dr Chris Gosden, of the University of Oxford.
26 November	Connections with Christians: politics and conversion in eastern Britain, by Professor Martin Carver, of the University of York.

Biochemistry. Lunch-time talks will be given at 1 p.m. on Wednesdays in the lecture theatre, Department of Biochemistry New Building, Tennis Court Road. Anyone wishing to meet any of the speakers beforehand can do so by contacting Dr Richard Farndale, Department of Biochemistry (tel. 766047, e-mail rwf10@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk).

14 October	Regulation of epidermal stem cell fate by integrin and cadhedrin signalling, by Dr Fiona Watt, of ICRF, London.
21 October	What do proteins look like when they are not folded?, by Dr Jon Waltho, of the University of Sheffield.
28 October	Structure and function of antibiotic-producing polyketide synthases, by Dr Peter Leadlay.
4 November	Common factors in the processing of rRNA, snoRNA, and mRNA, by Professor David Tollervey, of the University of Edinburgh.
11 November	A common mechanism for all polymerases?, by Dr Joe Jaeger, of the University of Leeds.
18 November	Scavenger receptors: phagocytosis and the recognition of apoptotic cells, by Dr Nick Platt, of the University of Oxford.
25 November	'In Vitro' evolution using cell-like compartments, by Dr Dan Tawfik, of the MRC Centre, Cambridge.
2 December	RNA makes RNA makes methylated DNA and no protein, by Dr David Baulcombe, of the John Innes Centre for Plant Sciences, Norwich.

Chemical Engineering. Seminars will be held at 4.15 p.m. on Wednesdays in the main lecture theatre of the Department of Chemical Engineering, Pembroke Street. Tea will be served in the foyer at 4 p.m.

14 October	Layered ceramics for structural applications, by Dr Bill Clegg, of the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.
21 October	New developments in road asphalt, by Professor Chris Callegos, of Huelva University, Spain.
28 October	Endothermal stabilization of self-heating reactions, by Dr Rowena Ball, of the University of Leeds.
4 November	Can superconducting membranes separate air?, by Professor Ed Cussler, of the University of Minnesota.
11 November	The mechanics of powder compaction, by Professor Norman Fleck, of the Department of Engineering.
18 November	Particulate flow in geophysical systems, by Professor Herbert Huppert, of the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics.
25 November	Control of polymer architecture by synthesis, by Dr Andrew Holmes, of the Department of Chemistry.
2 December	Extrusion instabilities, by Dr Malcolm Mackley.
9 December	Title and speaker to be announced.

Clinical Veterinary Medicine. Tea Club meetings are held at 4.30 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Main Lecture Theatre at the Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road. Tea will be served at 4 p.m. in the Senior Common Room.

28 October	Aetiology of intersexuality in female (XX) pigs, with novel molecular interpretations, by Professor R. H. F. Hunter, of the Royal Veterinary University, Copenhagen.
4 November	Vaccines to parasites, by Dr Ed Munn, of the Babraham Institute.
2 December	Genital papillomaviruses: virus keratinocyte interactions, by Dr Margaret Stanley, of the Department of Pathology

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

15 October	Hydrodynamics of slender bodies: applications in offshore engineering, by Dr R. C. T. Rainey, of W. S. Atkins.
22 October	Buckling of thin cylindrical shells: theory and what actually happens, by Professor C. R. Calladine.
29 October	Mathematical problems in modal analysis, by Dr V. Gershkovich, of the University of Melbourne.
5 November	Scale effects on the fracture of ice, by Professor J. P. Dempsey, of Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY.
12 November	Electro-rheological fluids: a new electro-mechanical interface, by Dr J. E. Stangroom, of E. R. Fluid Developments Ltd.
3 December	Symmetry and structural mechanics, by Dr S. D. Guest.

Further details, including abstracts, are available on the www at: http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~mchc-www/

Latin-American Studies. Open seminars will be given at 5 p.m. on Mondays in Room 5, Second Floor, Faculty of History, West Road, as follows:

19 October	Illegal cities: law and urban change in Latin America, by Dr Edesio Fernandes, of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London.
26 October	Semblanza de un ranchero queretano (in Spanish), by Dr Marta Eugenia García Ugarte, of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
2 November	Democratizing the democracy: crisis and reform in Venezuela, by Professor Daniel Levine, of the University of Michigan.
9 November	Population change in late colonial Mexico: the case of the Valley of Tulancingo, by Dr David Navarrete, of the University of Warwick.
16 November	Time and narrative in Brazilian Art: Iberê Camargo, Glauco Rodrigues, and others, by Dr Tania Tribe, of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
23 November	New identities: the indigenous emergence in Latin America, by Dr José Bengoa, Visiting Fellow.
30 November	Race and the affirmative action debate in Brazil, by Professor Peter Fry, of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

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 (price £1.50) is available at 1.15 p.m. if ordered by the preceding Monday (tel. 331700).

14 October	The buildings of Medieval Lavenham, by Mr Leigh Alston, Architectural historian.
21 October	Managing urban risks in India, by Professor Ian Davis, of Cranfield University.
28 October	St Paul's Cathedral today, by Mr Martin Stancliffe, Surveyor to the Fabric of St Paul's Cathedral.
4 November	Querétaro, Mexico: architecture of the eighteenth century, by Dr Guillermo Boils, of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
11 November	Research into practice: space syntax and the design of the urban environment, by Mr Tim Stoner, of University College London.
18 November	Non-fibrous sound absorbers, by Dr Jian Kang.
25 November	The Royal Society, Christopher Wren, and architecture, by Dr Lydia Soo, of the University of Michigan.

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

12 October	It works better if you switch it on! Innovation through optical energy, by Professor W. Steen, of the University of Liverpool.
26 October	Textile composites: mechanisms and models, by Dr B. N. Cox, of the Rockwell Science Center, Thousand Oaks, California.
9 November	Single crystal superalloys - deformation at extremely high temperatures, greater than 1000°C, by Professor G. Eggeler, of the Ruhr Universität Bochum.
23 November	The agony and the ecstasy: failed promises and future prospects of high-temperature superconductors, by Professor D. Dew-Hughes, of the University of Oxford.

Refreshments are served after the colloquium.

Medicine and Pathology. The following Virology Seminars will be given at 12 noon on Thursdays in Seminar Room 5 at the Clinical School, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

22 October	Cell-to-cell spread of herpes simplex virus, by Dr Kevin Dingwell, of the Department of Anatomy.
5 November	Cytomegalovirus immune-evasion mechanisms: recent progress, by Dr Helen Farrell, of the Animal Health Trust, Newmarket.
12 November	Canine oral papillomavirus: a model for HPV disease, by Dr Margaret Stanley.
19 November	Molecular determinants of virus-induced cell fusion, by Professor Richard Compans, of Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta.
3 December	Human cytomegalovirus sequestration of chemokines in various cell systems, by Dr Susan Michelson, of the Pasteur Institute, Paris.
10 December	Potential function of HSV LAT-encoded ORFs: implications for latency and reactivation, by Dr Robert Coffin, of University College London.

Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit. Research Seminars, on the theme Performance, representation, and experience, will be held at 4.30 p.m. on the following dates in Room 8, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue. Tea will be available from 4 p.m. in the Unit Office.

15 October	Robinson Crusoe in Mongolia: an ethnography of the BBC, by Dr Carole Pegg, of the Department of Social Anthropology.
29 October	Secret histories and virtual ger: performances of texts and hypertexts, by Mr Paul Kahn, Director of Dynamic Diagrams, USA.
12 November	Between two worlds: representation and interpretation in official contexts, by Dr John Gaunt.
23 November	Animists with attitude: Huun-Huur-Tu's journey to the West, by Professor Ted Levin, of Dartmouth College, USA.

Newton Institute. Seminars aimed at a general scientific audience will be held at 5 p.m. on the following Mondays, in Seminar Room 1, at the Newton Institute, 20 Clarkson Road. Tea will be served from 4.30 p.m.

19 October	Predicting the future evolution of the human influenza virus, by Professor Walter Fitch, of the University of California at Irvine.
26 October	Two problems of multiple comparisons in molecular genetics, by Professor David Siegmund, of Stanford University.
2 November	Problems and challenges in environmental statistics, by Professor Richard Smith, of the University of North Carolina.
9 November	'Quantum mechanics and non-locality' or 'Why does God play dice?', by Dr Sandu Popescu.
16 November	Mathematics of genetic diversity, before and after DNA, by Sir John Kingman (Fisher Memorial Lecture).
23 November	(Title to be announced), by Professor Patrick Flandrin, of ENS, Lyon.
30 November	Experimental and computational approaches to analyse DNA-protein interactions, by Professor Gary Stormo, of the University of Colorado.

Oriental Studies. Japanese Studies Seminars will be held at 2.15 p.m. on Mondays in the Sorimachi Memorial Room (Room 13) of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue.

19 October	Japan's intellectual closed shop: an update, by Professor Ivan Hall.
2 November	Japan and the European Community, by Dr Julie Gilson, of the University of Birmingham.
16 November	Speaker and topic to be confirmed.
30 November	Gauging the nature of the threat: British Intelligence and Japanese ambition in East Asia, 1931-1937, by Dr Anthony Best, of the London School of Economics.

Scott Polar Research Institute. Lectures will be given at 8 p.m. on Saturdays in the Scott Polar Research Institute, Lensfield Road. They are open to all who are interested, and seats will be reserved, on request, for Friends of the Institute.

24 October	A century ago: the first winter on Antarctica. The Southern Cross Expedition, 1898-1900, by Robert Headland.
7 November	Shackleton and Elephant Island, by Chris Furse, of the British Schools Exploring Society.
5 December	Survival strategies in mammals and birds at 80 degrees north, by Arnoldus Blix, of the University of Tromsoe.

On 21 November there will be a special programme to celebrate the opening of the Shackleton Memorial Library.

3 p.m.	South. A rare showing of Frank Hurley's original film of Shackleton's Endurance expedition (1914-17) introduced by Robert Headland.
5 p.m.	Shackleton, Manning, and Shackleton: reflections on how the Shackleton Memorial Library became a reality, by John Heap.

PLEASE NOTE: This lecture will be followed by the AGM of the Friends of the Institute and a buffet. All are welcome to the film and lecture but Friends only may attend the AGM and buffet. Friends will also be welcome to visit the new library after the showing of South.

Social Anthropology. Senior Seminars are held at 5 p.m. on Fridays in the Seminar Room, Department of Social Anthropology, Free School Lane. Tea will be available in the Common Room (2nd floor) from 4 p.m.

23 October	(Title to be announced) by Professor Bruce Kapferer, of James Cook University.
30 October	Religion, politics, and the crisis of the State of South India, by Professor Christopher Fuller, of the London School of Economics.
6 November	Doing Western kinship: a case study from urban Northern Italy, by Dr Paola Filippucci, of New Hall.
13 November	Social contexts of virtual Manchester, by Dr Penny Harvey and Dr Sarah Green, of the University of Manchester.
20 November	Peripheral vision: on the problem of the 'objective correlative' in Scottish national identity, by Professor Anthony Cohen, of the University of Edinburgh.
27 November	Cultures of difference: the colonial legacy in Zimbabwe and Mozambique, by Professor Peter Fry, of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.

On Friday, 16 October, at 5 p.m. in the Little Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Lord Runciman, of Trinity College, will deliver a public lecture entitled Biological, cultural, and social evolution: a seamless web.

South Asian Studies. The South Asian Seminar meets at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays during Full Term in the Director's Room, Centre of South Asian Studies, Laundress Lane, unless otherwise indicated.

21 October, at 2 p.m.	Constructing identities: Hindu-Muslim in the built environment, by Professor Catherine B. Asher, of the University of Minnesota (to be held in Plommer House, Wolfson College).
21 October, at 5 p.m.	Money, work and race in Calcutta in the 1790s: aspects from a contemporary European view, by Professor Peter Robb of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
28 October	Modernity and the state in India, by Dr Sudipta Kaviraj, of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
11 November	Soft states, hard bargains: social exclusion in the North Indian countryside, by Mr Craig Jeffrey.
Monday, 16 November	On retailing Muslim conquest in India, by Professor Shahid Amin, of the University of Delhi.
25 November	Workers and civil society in Bombay 1890-1920, by Mr Prashant Kidamby, of the University of Oxford.
2 December	The (pre)occupation of studying women's work: a comparative case study of Rangoon and Calcutta, 1872-1941, by Dr Satish Kumar.

On Saturday, 24 October, beginning at 10 a.m., there will be a one day history workshop on New perspectives on the British in India, c. 1750-1850 (to be held in The Rushmore Room, St Catharine's College).

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