Reporter 25/10/00: 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:

Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic. Professor Paul Szarmach, of the University of Kalamazoo, will give a departmental lecture, entitled The disappearing woman in Old English literature, at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 25 October, in the Old Combination Room, Trinity College.

Criminology. A seminar, entitled 'Hell hath no fury': aggressive behaviour by women, will be led by Professor Terrie Moffitt, of the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, 26 October, in Room B.16, Faculty of Law, West Road.

Gender Studies Working Group. Gender Theory Study Group. Meetings will be held at 8.15 p.m. in Room 10, 8-9 Jesus Lane, on the following dates. Refreshments will be available at 7.45 p.m.

31 October	Statism and individualism amongst feminists: twentieth-century experiences, by Lucy Delap.
28 November	Feminist research with non-feminist and anti-feminist women: meeting the challenge, by Molly Andrews.

A Study Day, entitled Education - including women, will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on 25 November, in the Barbara White Room, Newnham College.

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, unless otherwise stated. Tea will be served from 4.30 p.m. and there will be an informal reception afterwards.

6 November	Applications of dynamical stability: Hamiltonian dynamics and fluid stirring, by Professor Philip Boyland, of the University of Florida.
14 November	Mechanical models for insect locomotion, by Professor Philip Holmes, of Princeton University (Tuesday).
20 November	Modeling and analysing fluid dynamics in the Euler-Poincaré framework, by Professor Darryl Holm, of the University of Los Alamos.
27 November	Scale-based geometry for problems in computer imaging, by Professor Jim Damon, of the University of North Carolina.
4 December	From molecular chaos to deterministic chaos by dimensional reduction, by Professor Ed Spiegel, of Columbia University.

Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations. Seminars take place at 2 p.m. in Wesley House, Jesus Lane, on the following dates, unless otherwise stated:

1 November	Jewish-Christianity, by Dr James Carleton Paget, of the Faculty of Divinity.
7 November	Jews, Christians, and Luke-acts, by Dr Irina Levinskaya, Visiting Fellow, Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations.
15 November	Anglo-Jewish literature in the nineteenth century, by Dr Nadia Valman, of the University of Southampton.
23 November	Religious tolerance in an interfaith world, by Prince El Hassan Bin Talal, of the Royal Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (4 p.m. in the Faculty of Divinity).
29 November	Christianity in early Rabbinic literature, by Rabbi Dr Sacha Stern, of the London School of Jewish Studies.

Centre for Modern Hebrew Studies. Emanuele Ottolenghi, of St Antony's College, University of Oxford, will give a seminar on Assessing the new system of direct election of the Prime Minister in Israel, at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 25 October, in Room 9, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue.

Music. Cambridge Music Festival. Lectures will be held at 5 p.m. in the University Music School, West Road, on the following dates.

7 November	Shostakovich's chamber music: the medium and the messages, by Dr David Fanning, of the University of Manchester.
13 November	On being a composer in the twenty-first century, by Dr Stephen Montague, Festival Composer.
15 November	Bach and the encyclopaedia of sound, by Dr John Butt, of King's College.
22 November	On gilding the Goldbergs, by Dr Robin Holloway, of Gonville and Caius College.

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Cambridge University Reporter, 25 October 2000