Reporter 9/5/00: 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:

Inaugural Lecture. Professor Tim Gowers, Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, will give his Inaugural Lecture, entitled The elementary approach to mathematics, at 5 p.m. on Monday, 22 May, in the Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street.

Mordell Lecture, 2000. The Mordell Lecture for 2000 will be given by Professor McA. Gordon, of the University of Texas at Austin, who will lecture on The classification of knots, at 4.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 30 May, in Meeting Room 2, Pavilion A, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Clarkson Road.

African Studies Centre. Research seminars will take place at 5 p.m. on Mondays in the Committee Room, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, New Museums Site, Free School Lane.

15 May	The opportunities of extending girls' access to education in rural Zimbabwe, by Ms Angeline Mugwendere, of Cama-CamFed, Zimbabwe.
22 May	Medicine murder in colonial Basutoland: a moral crisis, by Dr Peter Sanders, of the University of Oxford.

Architecture. The lecture to be given by Professor Ignasi de Solà Morales, of the University of Barcelona and BBV Visiting Professor 1999-2000, entitled The reconstruction and extension of the Teatre del Liceu (the Barcelona Opera House), at 6 p.m. on Friday, 12 May, will now be held in the Faculty of Architecture and History of Art, 1 Scroope Terrace, Trumpington Street, and not in the Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, as previously announced (p. 638). Refreshments will be available afterwards in the Gallery.

Centre for History and Economics. Seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays in Room H3, King's College.

10 May	The state and social capital in historical perspective, by Simon Szreter, of St John's College.
24 May	Inequality and exclusion, by Caroline Humphrey, of King's College.
31 May	Ruskin and political economy, by Donald Winch, of the University of Sussex.

Fitzwilliam Museum. A Gallery Talk, entitled Paris-London 1900, will be given by Duncan Robinson at 11.30 a.m. on Sunday, 14 May, in Gallery I, Fitzwilliam Museum.

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. Lunch-time seminars will be held at 1.15 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Seminar Room, Ground Floor, McDonald Institute Courtyard Building, Downing Site.

17 May	Burials, blades, and bodies: Obsidian and society in the EBA Cyclades, by Tristan Carter.
31 May	New thoughts on prehistoric land use in Cranborne Chase, by Charly French and Helen Lewis.

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