Reporter 24/5/00: 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:

Gender Studies Working Group. Professor Amartya Sen, Master of Trinity College, will give a lecture, entitled Gender and fertility, at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 25 May, in the Palmerston Room, Fisher Building, St John's College. Professor Sen will also give a seminar on his lecture at 4 p.m. on Friday, 26 May, in the Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building, St John's College.

MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit. Seminars will be held at 3 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Level 3 Seminar Room, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Hills Road, unless otherwise stated.

5 June	The mitochondrial uncoupling proteins: facts, recent data, and perspectives, by Daniel Ricquier, of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Meudon, France (Monday).
14 June	Biochemistry of methanogenesis: from the metabolic pathway to the catalytic mechanisms, by Rolf Thauer, of the Max-Planck Institut für Terrestrische Mikrobiologie, Germany.
21 June	Structures of the two nucleotide-binding components of proton translocating transhydrogenase, by J. Baz Jackson, of the University of Birmingham.
5 July	c-type cytochromes: ubiquitous in bioenergetics but why?, by Stuart Ferguson, of the University of Oxford.

Social and Political Sciences. Civil Society Seminar. A seminar, entitled Voluntarism, associational culture, and civil society in India, 1900-20 and beyond, will be given by Dr Carey Watt, of Wolfson College, at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, 24 May, in Room 616, Centre for Family Research, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Free School Lane.

A joint seminar with the Centre of Latin-American Studies, entitled Democracy, law, and comparative politics, will be given by Professor Guillermo O'Donnell, of the University of Notre Dame, on Friday, 9 June (time and venue to be announced).

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