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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 Committee for Russian and East European Studies. Seminars will be held at 5.15 p.m. on Tuesdays as follows:

15 February Arguing with the KGB: archival and narrative memory in Latvia, by Dr Vieda Skultans, of the University of Bristol (Harrods Room, Emmanuel College).
29 February Talking to monks: a portrait of Eastern Orthodox Europe, by Ms Victoria Clark, freelance journalist (venue to be announced).

Criminology. Institute Nigel Walker Seminar Series. Mr Michael Tonry, of the Institute of Criminology, will give a seminar, entitled Interactions between crime rates and policies across space and time, at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, 2 March, in Room LG17, Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Site, West Road.

Fitzwilliam Museum. Lunch-time Gallery Talks, under the general title Art in context, will be given at 1.15 p.m. on Wednesdays, from 26 January to 26 April.

16 February Sounds like time, by Glyn Evans, composer and Education Director of the Britten Sinfonia.

Isaac Newton Institute. A series of seminars aimed at a general scientific audience will be held at 5 p.m. on Mondays in Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, 20 Clarkson Road. Tea will be served from 4.30 p.m. and there will be an informal reception afterwards.

14 February Nilpotent groups and non-conventional ergodic theorems, by Professor Hillel Furstenberg, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
28 February Discrete breathers: classical and quantum, by Professor Robert MacKay, of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.

University Advisory Committee on Disability. Dr Michael Stein, Associate Professor at Stanford University, will give a short lecture, entitled Almost a decade: is the Americans with Disabilities Act working? What can the British campaign for civil rights learn from the American experience?, at 5.30 p.m. on Friday, 25 February, in Room B.16, Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Site, West Road. There will be time for questions and discussion, and a wine reception will follow.


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Cambridge University Reporter, 9 February 2000
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