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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:

Smuts Memorial Fund Commonwealth Lectures. The Managers of the Smuts Memorial Fund give notice that Professor Barbara Harriss-White, Professor of Development Studies at Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, will be giving the Smuts Memorial Fund Lectures, entitled India working: working India - the character of the economy, at 5 p.m. in the Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Place. A reception will follow the lecture on Tuesday, 23 November.

16 November Class: Indian development and its intermediate classes.
17 November Caste and corporatist capitalism.
23 November Gender, capital, and co-operative control.
24 November Space and synergy.

An additional lecture, entitled The protean state and the informal economy, providing a background to the main Lectures, will be given by Professor Harriss-White at 9.30 a.m. on Wednesday, 24 November, in the Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies. Seminars will be held at 5.15 p.m. on Tuesdays in the Old JCR, Emmanuel College. Tea is available from 5 p.m.

16 November Saving the legacy of the first five-year plan: the early Soviet architecture of Sverdlovsk and Ekaterinaburg, by Dr Catherine Cooke, of the Open University.
30 November Organization of disorder: the case of the homeless children in the Moscow underworld, by Ms Svetlana Stephenson, of the University of Luton.

Fitzwilliam Museum. Lunch-time Gallery Talks, under the general title Art in context, will be given at 1.15 p.m. on Wednesdays, from 13 October to 1 December.

10 November Painting or what? Richard Smith's 'Alpine', by Duncan Robinson, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum.

Sino-Indian Liberalization Seminar. The Sino-Indian Liberalization Seminar, entitled The dynamics of competition and loss-making in Chinese industry, will be given by Dr Dic Lo, of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. The seminar will take place from 5.30 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, 18 November, in the Andrew Room, Sussex House, Sidney Sussex College.


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Cambridge University Reporter, 3 November 1999
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