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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:

Cambridge Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Ageing (CIRCA). A symposium will be held from 4.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 16 March, in the Old Library, Darwin College. Professor Tom Kirkwood, of the University of Manchester, will talk on The time of our lives, and Professor Kay-Tee Khaw will talk on Ageing in individuals and in populations. For further information please contact Dr F. A. Huppert (tel. 336970, e-mail fah2@cam.ac.uk).

Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies (CARTS). Currents in World Christianity. A seminar, on the subject of Missionary theories in the 1930s: indigenization, ethnic religion, Nazism, will be given by Professor Werner Ustorf, of the University of Birmingham, at 2.15 p.m. on Thursday, 11 March, in the Elias Healey Rooms, Westminster College, Madingley Road.

The Revd John England will give a seminar entitled Bamboo groves in winds from the west: indigenous faith and westernization in Asian Christian writings of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. The seminar will be held at 4.30 p.m. on Friday, 12 March, in the Divinity School, St John's Street.

Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations. The Revd Peter Jennings will talk on Jewish-Christian relations after the Holocaust at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, 16 March, at Wesley House, Jesus Lane.

University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate and its Advisory Council for New Technologies in Assessment. A seminar on The future of computer based assessment, will be given at 4.30 p.m. on Thursday, 18 March, in the Palmerston Room, Fisher Building, St John's College, as follows:

A Cambridge view, by Professor Roger Needham, of the Microsoft Research Laboratory, Cambridge.

Speech recognition in language learning and assessment, by Professor Steve Young, of the Department of Engineering.


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Cambridge University Reporter, 10 March 1999
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