Reporter 23/2/00: 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:

Cambridge European Trust Lecture. Monsieur Jean-Claude Juncker, Prime Minister of Luxembourg, will deliver the Cambridge European Trust Lecture, entitled IGC 2000: meeting the change of the twenty-first century?, at 5.15 p.m. on Wednesday, 1 March, in the Faculty of Law, West Road.

French Cultural Delegation in Cambridge. Mme Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, first woman ever elected Secrétaire Perpétuel de l'Académie Française, will deliver a lecture on Nationalisme et questions nationales en Russie au tournant du siècle, at 5 p.m. on Monday, 13 March, in the Senate-House.

Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic. Dr Helen Fulton, of the University of Sydney, will speak on The individual in medieval romance: Owein and Yvain, at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, 23 February, in the Dirac Room, St John's College.

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

29 February	Talking to monks: a portrait of Eastern Orthodox Europe, by Ms Victoria Clark, freelance journalist (King's Research Centre Seminar Room).
14 March	What kind of capitalism for Russia?, by Dr David Lane, of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (Old JCR, Emmanuel College).

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, West Road.

Divinity. Currents in World Christianity Seminar. A seminar will be held at 2.15 p.m. on Thursday, 24 February, in the Healey-Elias Room, Westminster College, when Mr Brent Whitefield, of Gonville and Caius College, will speak on Reforming China: the Christian Literature Society for China, 1887-1911.

Divinity and Oriental Studies. Professor Hugh Williamson, of Christ Church, Oxford, will speak to an open meeting of the Old Testament Seminar on Hope and judgment: the prophets of the eighth century, at 2.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 23 February, in Room 13, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue.

English. Clark Lectures. Professor John Hollander, of Yale University, will give a series of lectures, entitled The substance of shadow: a darkening trope in poetic history, at 5 p.m. in the Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

8 March	A lecture upon the shadow.
9 March	Shadows and shades.
15 March	Shadowes light.
16 March	A shadow different from either.

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.

1 March

From time to time: Wilson's 'Apollo and the Four Seasons', by Duncan Robinson, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum.

Oriental Studies. Modern Hebrew Studies. Professor A. Balaban, of the University of Florida, will give a seminar, entitled Amos Oz's fiction, at 3 p.m. on Thursday, 2 March, in Room 13, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue.

Physics. Scott Lectures. Professor Robert J. Birgeneau, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will give three lectures on the theme Low dimensional quantum spin systems and high temperature superconductivity, at 4.30 p.m. in the Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Madingley Road, on the following dates:

6 March	Chains, planes, and in-between.
8 March	High temperature superconductivity: the landscape.
10 March	High temperature superconductivity: stars and stripes.

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