Reporter 28/10/98: 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:

Trevelyan Lecture. A Trevelyan Lecture to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Irish Rising of 1798 will be given by Professor Roy Foster, Caroll Professor of Irish History, University of Oxford, entitled The Irish Rising of 1798, at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 4 November 1998, in the Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

McDonald Lecture. The Managing Committee of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research give notice that the tenth McDonald Lecture entitled, Process and agency in early state formation, will be delivered by Professor Kent V. Flannery, of the University of Michigan, at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 25 November, in Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane.

Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations. The following seminars will be given at 2 p.m. on Tuesdays (except for the seminar on Wednesday, 28 October) at the Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations, Wesley House, Jesus Lane:

28 October	Jewish-Christian relations in Russia today, by Mr Gleb Yastrebov, of St Andrew's Biblical Theological Seminary, Moscow.
10 November	Jewish Messianism, by Dr Avraham Ehrlich.
1 December	Matthew Chapter 1: The book of the geneology, by Mr Gleb Yastrebov, of St Andrew's Biblical Theological Seminary, Moscow.

English. On Wednesday, 11 November, at 5 p.m. in the Little Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, the writer and critic Marina Warner, currently a Visiting Fellow Commoner at Trinity College, will speak on A short history of the banana.

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.

17 November	Striking the balance: can small firms offer 'family-friendly' policies?, by Lucy Daniels, of Kingston University.
24 November	Small-sample properties of data envelope analysis estimates of efficiency: theory and simulation, by John Cubbin, of City University.
1 December	Evaluating the impact of the National Minimum Wage on small firms, by William Brown, of the Faculty of Economics and Politics.
8 December	The theory of the firm in law and economics, by Alice Belcher, of the University of Dundee.

Oriental Studies. Centre of Middle Eastern Studies. The following lectures will be given at 5 p.m. on Thursdays in either the Faculty of Classics or the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue, as shown:

29 October	A Qanun recital by Mr Abdullah Chhady, of the Guildhall School of Music, London (in Room G21, Classics).
12 November	The state of property: Late Ottoman Southern Syria - Qada Ajlun - 1876-1918, by Dr Martha Mundy, of the London School of Economics (in Room 9, Oriental Studies).
26 November	Orientalism and occultism, by Dr Robert Irwin (in Room 9, Oriental Studies).

Centre for Modern Hebrew Studies. The following lectures and seminar will be held at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays in Room 9, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue.

18 November	'A tail of a heel and a hip' - a lecture on Jacob, by Professor Gabriel Josipovici, writer.
25 November	Seminar on Literature and television in Israel today, led by Eliat Negev, writer and journalist, and Yehuda Koren, journalist.
2 December	The arithmetic of memory: a childhood kingdom revisited, by Anthony Rudolf, writer, translator, and editor.

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