Reporter 10/2/99: 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:

Astronomy. Astrophysics Colloquia (see p. 288) will now be held at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in the Common Room of the former Royal Greenwich Observatory, Madingley Road. An additional meeting has been arranged for 11 March, when Dr Richard Wade, of Pennsylvania State University, will talk on Accretion discs in cataclysmic variables: do we understand the spectrum?

Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies (CAMCREES). There will be a seminar at 5.15 p.m on Tuesday, 23 February, in the Old JCR, Emmanuel College. Michael Stewart, of University College London, will speak on his work with gypsies in Eastern Europe. Tea will be served at 5 p.m.

Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies (CARTS). Currents in World Christianity. A seminar, on the subject of Some currents in early twentieth-century missiology, will be given by Professor R. E. Pierard, of Indiana State University, at 2.15 p.m. on Thursday, 11 February, in the Elias Healey Rooms, Westminster College, Madingley Road.

Divinity. The Very Revd. James Atwell will give a paper entitled An Egyptian background for the priestly creation story? at an open meeting of the Old Testament Seminar at 2.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 17 February, in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue.

Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology. The Mary Ward Lecture will be given by Professor Elizabeth Johnson at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 16 February, in the Divinity School, St John's Street. The title of the lecture will be Jesus-Sophia: ramifications for contemporary theology.

Music. GoehrFest. The following lectures and colloquium, under the general heading What remains to be done?, will take place at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays, 24 February and 3 March, and at 2 p.m. on Friday, 26 February, in Lecture Room 2 at the University Music School, West Road.

24 February	Reflections on teaching, by Mr Hugh Wood.
26 February	Colloquium on Elgar's 4th Symphony, with Mr Bayan Northcott and Mr Anthony Payne.
3 March	The ages of man as composer, by Professor Alexander Goehr.

Oriental Studies. A mini-conference on Japan, race, and social theory will be held from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, 19 February, in Room 13, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue. Speakers include:

Professor Stephanie Lawson	Culture and the politics of occidentalism
Dr Phil Hammond	Cultural difference and cultural studies
Ms Lynn Revel	Nihonjinron and theories of identity
Mr Hiroshi Narumi and Dr Sharon Kinsella	New orientalism in contemporary culture

For further information please contact S. Kinsella on hzz00200@niftyserve.or.jp, or Zoë Conway Morris on (3)35100, e-mail zhc20@cam.ac.uk.

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