Reporter 11/10/00: 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:

Twelfth McDonald Lecture. The Managing Committee of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research give notice that the Twelfth McDonald Lecture, entitled Tales from the hieroglyphic stairway: the archaeology of classic Maya religion, history, and art, will be delivered by Professor William L. Fash, Chairman of the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 1 November, in Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Mill Lane.

Smuts Distinguished Lecture. Dr Ronald Hyam, of Magdalene College, will deliver the Smuts Distinguished Lecture, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the death of General Jan Christiaan Smuts, at 5.30 p.m. on Monday, 27 November, in Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Mill Lane. The title of the Lecture will be South Africa, Cambridge, and Commonwealth history, and will be of interest to all those working in South African or Commonwealth history. The Managers of the Smuts Memorial Fund welcome all who are able to attend the Lecture and a reception to be held afterwards in the Combination Room.

Smuts Memorial Fund Commonwealth Lectures. The series of lectures, entitled 'To convert, trade, rule, or fight': Anglo-Chinese encounters, will be delivered by Professor Wang Gungwu, Director of the East Asia Institute, Faculty Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, National University of Singapore; Distinguished Professorial Fellow, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies; Emeritus Professor, Australian National University. The lectures will be held at 5 p.m. on the following Wednesdays, in Lecture Room B16, Faculty of Law, West Road.

18 October	'To fight': Anglo-Chinese encounters I.
25 October	'To trade': Anglo-Chinese encounters II.
1 November	'To convert': Anglo-Chinese encounters III.
8 November	'To rule': Anglo-Chinese encounters IV.

Institute of Astronomy. Colloquia will be held at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Lecture Theatre, Madingley Road. They will be preceded by tea at 4 p.m. in the Wolfson Library, Hoyle Building.

12 October	The evolution of nearby dwarf galaxies, by Dr Eline Tolstoy, of the University of Oxford.
19 October	The accretion of high velocity gas clouds on to the galactic halo, by Dr Joss Bland-Hawthorn, of the Anglo-Australian Observatory.
26 October	Imaging dark matter with gravitational lensing, by Dr Andy Taylor, of the Institute for Astronomy, Edinburgh.
2 November	Probing the cosmic star formation history longwards of 1 micron, by Dr Paul van der Werf, of the Leiden Observatory.
9 November	The problem with nebular abundances, by Dr Mike Barlow, of University College London.
16 November	The feedback of galaxy formation on the intergalactic medium?, by Dr Andrea Ferrara, of Osservatorio Astronomico di Arcetri.
23 November	Title to be announced, to be given by Dr Penny Sackett, of the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute.
30 November	Molecular hydrogen and dark matter in galaxies, by Professor Donald Lynden-Bell, of the Institute of Astronomy.
7 December	Title to be announced, to be given by Dr Bengt Gustafsson, of the University of Uppsala.
14 December	The origin and evolution of elliptical galaxies, by Professor Richard Ellis, of Caltech.

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

18 October	Beyond the nation-state: the search for a new global political economy, 1914-1930s, by Frank Trentmann, of Birkbeck College, London.
25 October	Alfred Marshall and the third way, by Sylvia Nasar, of Columbia University and Churchill College.
1 November	The 'Communism' of the Communist Manifesto, by Gareth Stedman Jones, of the Faculty of History and the Centre for History and Economics.
29 November	'Made in Germany': how punitive labels become national symbols, by Maiken Umbach, of the University of Manchester.

Chemical Engineering. Seminars will be held at 4.15 p.m. on Wednesdays in the main Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemical Engineering, Pembroke Street, unless otherwise stated. Tea is available in the foyer at 4 p.m.

11 October	Towards a turnover model for the carbon-oxygen reaction, by Professor Brian Haynes.
18 October	Selective adsorption of toxic metal micro-pollutants from aqueous solutions using novel activated carbons and marine algal biomass, by Professor Mike Streat.
25 October	The role of chemical engineering in the fast moving consumer goods industry, by Professor Mike Edwards.
1 November	Research student presentations I (3 p.m.).
8 November	Research student presentations II (3 p.m.).
15 November	Title to be announced, to be given by Professor David Bogle.
22 November	Towards the automatic generation of process models, by Professor John Perkins.

Comparative Social and Cultural History. A series of seminars, entitled Cities, will be held at 5 p.m. on the following Tuesdays in the Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College.

24 October	The city as text: Sri Lanka, by James Duncan, of Emmanuel College.
7 November	Neighbourhoods and the moral order in golden age Amsterdam, by Herman Roodenburg, of the University of Amsterdam.
21 November	Gerolamo Vano's dark places: a spy's Venice, by Jonathan Walker, of Wolfson College.

Criminology. A seminar, entitled To establish justice and ensure domestic tranquility: a thirty-year update of the (US) National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, will be led by Dr Lynn A. Curtis, of the Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation, Washington DC, at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, 12 October, in Room B.16, Faculty of Law, West Road.

Divinity and Oriental Studies. Old Testament Seminar. The Seminar will meet fortnightly at 2.30 p.m. on Wednesdays in Room 13, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue. Tea will be available at 4 p.m.

11 October	By the rivers of Babylon: Jewish encounters with Babylonian religion in the time of the Exile, by S. J. Sherwin.
25 October	'Looking upon one's enemies': the meaning of a biblical idiom, by J. A. Emerton.
8 November	What does it mean to call the former prophets a 'Deuteronomistic history'?, by R. E. Clements.
22 November	The Dead Sea Scrolls and the canon of the Hebrew Bible, by T. H. Lim (public lecture).

East Asia Institute. Japan Centre Seminars. Seminars will be held at 2.15 p.m. on Mondays in the Sorimachi Memorial Room (Room 13), Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue.

16 October	Politico-business relations in Japan during World War I: an examination of political decision-making, by Mr Peter von Staden, of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
23 October	Approaches to the study of cinema history: Shochiku and the 'modern' film in the 1930s, by Dr Isolde Standish, of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
30 October	Raining cats and dogs: Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese imperialism, and the political philosophy of weather, by Mr Christopher Jones, of the University of Oxford.
6 November	A new theatre for a new society? Some reflections on the various attempts to create theatrical forms able to deal with the modernization of Japanese society in the late nineteenth century, by Dr Jean-Jacques Tschudin, of Paris 7-Diderot.
13 November	The semiotic power of Japanese postage stamps: propaganda and policy-making, by Dr Hugo Dobson, of the University of Kent at Canterbury.
20 November	Title to be announced, to be given by Professor Arthur Stockwin, Director of the Nissan Institute, Oxford.

Experimental Psychology. Zangwill Club Seminars are held at 4.30 p.m. on Fridays in the Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, Department of Experimental Psychology, Downing Site. Tea and cakes will be served in the First Floor Seminar Room from 4 p.m.

13 October	Studying cognitive activation with fMRI, by Dr Rebecca Elliott, of the University of Manchester.
20 October	Spectral pattern and the perception of auditory objects, by Dr Brian Roberts, of the University of Birmingham.
27 October	Neural networks in the temporal lobe: interfacing perception and memory, by Dr Tim Bussey, of the Department of Experimental Psychology.
3 November	Episodic-like memory in scrub jays, by Dr Nicky Clayton, of the Department of Experimental Psychology.
10 November	Benzodiazepines and dopamine: keys to 'liking' and 'wanting' in the brain?, by Professor Steve Cooper, of the University of Liverpool.
17 November	Mindsight: seeing what isn't there, by Dr Roz McCarthy, of the Department of Experimental Psychology.
24 November	Pitch perception: temporal codes and integration times, by Dr Chris Plack, of the University of Essex.
1 December	Using transgenic mice to understand some common links between anxiety and cognition, by Dr Gerry R. Dawson, of Merck, Sharp & Dohme Research Laboratories.

Centre for Family Research. Lunch-time seminars will be held at 1 p.m. prompt on Tuesdays in Room 606, Centre for Family Research, Free School Lane.

17 October	Psychological aspects of predictive genetic testing, by Dr Susan Michie, of the Guys, King's College, and St Thomas' Hospitals' Medical and Dental School, London.
31 October	The social and family implications of the new biobanks, by Dr Caroline Dryden, of Gene Watch UK.
28 November	South Asian women and domestic violence in Britain, by Dr Ayesha Gill, of the University of Essex.

History and Philosophy of Science. Departmental seminars will be held at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane, unless otherwise stated. There is tea beforehand at 4 p.m. in Seminar Room 1.

12 October	Research methods seminar, part 2, by staff and associates of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science (4 p.m., tea at 3.45 p.m.).
19 October	Astronomical transactions: communication and collaboration prior to Oldenburg, by Mr Adam Mosley, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
26 October	'Like a cat in an air-pump': recovering the culture of early eighteenth-century experimental lecturing, by Mr Steven Snobelen, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
2 November	Epistemic consciousness, by Dr Neil Manson, of King's College.
9 November	The value of truth, by Mr Paul Horwich, of University College London.
16 November	Ian Donald's clinical holism: ultrasound imaging, diagnostic practice, and the anti-abortion debate, by Mr Malcolm Nicolson, of the University of Glasgow.
23 November	A mad business, by Ms Rachel Cooper, of the University of Bradford.
30 November	Experts: which ones should you trust?, by Mr Alvin Goldman, of the University of Arizona.

A special seminar, entitled Obligations, judgment, and data: reflections on the science and politics of the Baltimore Case, will be given by Professor Daniel J. Kevles, of the California Institute of Technology at 8 p.m. on Sunday, 12 November, in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

A special lecture, entitled The failure of naturalized epistemology, will be given by Mr Joe Cruz, of Williams College, Massachusetts, at 4.30 p.m. on Monday, 20 November, in Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Tea will be available at 4 p.m.

Cabinet of Natural History. Meetings take place at 1 p.m. on Mondays in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane. Bring lunch if you wish.

16 October	'The realm of hard evidence': novelty, persuasion, and collaboration in botanical cladistics, by Mr Jim Endersby, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
23 October	Boxes in nature, by Ms Anke te Heesen, of the Max-Planck Institute, Berlin.
30 October	Alternative vs. allopathic medicine, by Ms Zuzana Parusnikova, of the Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
6 November	Haast and the Moa: a scientific career and international reputation in colonial New Zealand, by Ms Ruth Barton, of the University of Auckland.
13 November	Shaping the edifice of natural history: folk and tribal intermediaries in eighteenth-century voyages of discovery, by Ms Lisbet Koerner.
20 November	Sir Thomas Browne's hidden museums, by Ms Claire Preston, of Sidney Sussex College.
27 November	Spurzheim: co-founder of phrenology or plagiarist?, by Mr John van Wyhe, of the Faculty of History.

Cambridge Historiography Group. Meetings take place at 8 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Seminar Room, Darwin College. Copies of all documents will be placed in box file 30 in the Whipple Library. All speakers are from the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

18 October	Discussion of his 'Koyré's Intellectual Revolution' (in press in the Lettre de la Maison Française d'Oxford) and his 'Koyré's Kepler/Kepler's Koyré' (in press in History of Science), led by Professor Nick Jardine.
1 November	Discussion of her The birth of tragedy: Friedrich Nietzsche and archaeological modernism, led by Ms Cathy Gere.
15 November	Discussion of her Wonder-making and Philosophical Wonder in Hero of Alexandria, led by Ms Karin Tybjerg.
29 November	A discussion of science and empire (readings to be announced), led by Mr Sujit Sivasundaram.

Early Medicine and Natural Philosophy. Seminars will be held fortnightly at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane, unless otherwise stated. Tea is available from 4.30 p.m.

17 October	The medieval hospitals of East Anglia: a landscape perspective, by Mr Max Satchell, of the Suffolk Archaeology Service.
30 October	Cornelius Gemma and the body politic, by Ms Tabitha van Nouhuys, of Magdalen College, Oxford (Monday).
14 November	Aestheticizing scripture; anaesthetizing revolution: the damping down of millenarianism in eighteenth-century England, by Mr David S. Katz, of the University of Tel Aviv.
28 November	The search for system in the earliest writings of Paracelsus, by Mr Charles Webster, of All Souls College, Oxford.

History of Modern Medicine and Biology. Seminars will be held fortnightly at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane. Tea is available from 4.30 p.m.

24 October	Abortion in Weimar Germany: the view from below, by Ms Cornelie Usborne, of the Roehampton Institute.
7 November	Mediating medicine: doctors, journalists, and the reporting of health and medicine in post-war Britain, by Ms Kelly Loughlin, of Leeds School of History, Technology, and Medicine.
21 November	Degeneration and recuperation: theories of the menstrual cycle in the 1890s, by Ms Helen Blackman, of the University of Manchester.

PSY Studies. Seminars on the history of psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, and allied sciences will be held at 5 p.m. on the following Wednesdays, in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane. Tea is served before the seminars at 4.40 p.m.

18 October	Oedipus over the soup: the forgotten psychoanalysis craze in Britain in the 1920s, by Professor Graham Richards, of Staffordshire University.
1 November	The action of the psychoanalyst: educational psychotherapies, by Mr Wen-Ji Wang, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
15 November	Psychological explanation and first person authority: is repression an artefact?, by Dr Neil Manson, of King's College.
29 November	Civilization and its excrements: disgust and the origins of culture, by Mr Chris Turner, of the London Consortium, University of London.

History and Philosophy of Science and English. Psychoanalysis and the Humanities. Seminars will take place at 5 p.m. on the following Wednesdays in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane. Tea is served before each seminar at 4.40 p.m.

11 October	Making an example of cosmopolitanism: Zizek's 'The Ticklish Subject', by Dr Drew Milne, of the Faculty of English.
25 October	Psychoanalytic heresy and literary institutions, by Mr Luke Thurston, of Robinson College.
8 November	Psychoanalysis and privacy, by Dr John Forrester, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
22 November	The question of representability: 'Hamlet' and 'The Interpretation of Dreams', by Mr Julian Patrick, of the University of Toronto.

Slavonic Studies. The Department of Slavonic Studies announces a series of public lectures, entitled All the Russias. The lectures will take place at 5.30 p.m. on alternate Thursdays, in the Umney Theatre, Robinson College, throughout the academical year. The lectures in the Michaelmas Term are as follows:

12 October	Russia in time, by Dr Simon Franklin, of Clare College.
26 October	Russia as space, by Dr Emma Widdis, of Trinity College.

Social Anthropology. Senior Seminar: Rivers Lecture. Dr Simon Schaffer, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, will give the Rivers Lecture, entitled The disappearance of useful sciences, at 5 p.m. on Friday, 13 October, in Room 1, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Mill Lane. There will be a reception afterwards in the Beves Room, King's College.

Seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Fridays in the Seminar Room, Department of Social Anthropology, Free School Lane. Tea will be available in the common room (ground floor) from 4 p.m.

20 October	Title to be announced, to be given by Dr Hildegard Diemberger, of the Department of Social Anthropology.
27 October	Charisma and possession in Africa and Brazil, by Dr David Lehmann, of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.
3 November	Movement, mountains, and maps on the Greek-Albanian border, by Dr Sarah Green, of the University of Manchester.
10 November	Public and private time: an illustration from sex work in London, by Dr Sophie Day, of Goldsmiths College, London.
17 November	'Modernity' and selfhood in a contemporary Hindu devotionalist organization: the Mata Amritanandamayi Mission in India, by Maya Warrier, of the Department of Social Anthropology.
24 November	Negotiating identities in an African Muslim diaspora, by Dr Mariane Ferme, of the Department of Social Anthropology.

South Asian Studies. Seminars are held at 5 p.m. on the following dates, in the Director's Room, Centre of South Asian Studies, Laundress Lane.

11 October	Bengali detective, North Indian Jasus: early detective fiction in North India, by Dr Francesca Orsini, of the Faculty of Oriental Studies.
26 October	The controversial life of C. J. Beschi (1680-1747), Jesuit missionary and Tamil scholar, by Stuart Blackburn, of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
2 November	The myth of Indian competition: British labour and the politics of Empire, by Tony Cox, of Trinity College.
7 November	Whatever happened to the Bhadralok? Late twentieth-century Calcutta, by Parimal Ghosh, of the University of Calcutta.
15 November	Title to be announced (see http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/ for details), to be given by Kumkum Chatterjee, of Pennsylvania State University.
29 November	The appeal of a modern godperson in contemporary India: the case of Mata Amritanandamayi and her mission, by Maya Warrier, of the Department of Social Anthropology.

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