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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. Sir John Kerr, KCMG, Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, will deliver the Cambridge European Trust Lecture, entitled Actions, reactions, interactions: developments in US and European policies, at 5.15 p.m. on Thursday, 16 November, in the Faculty of Law, West Road. The Lecture is followed by a reception at which there is an opportunity to talk to the lecturer informally.

Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic. Departmental Lecture Series. Dr Julia Crick, of the University of Exeter, will give a lecture, entitled The language of liberty in Anglo-Saxon St Albans, at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 15 November, in the Old Combination Room, Trinity College.

Architecture. Daniel Libeskind, Distinguished Architect in Residence, 2000-01, will give a lecture on his work at 5.30 p.m. on Friday, 10 November, in Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Mill Lane.

Classics. Corbett Lecture 2000. Professor Heinrich von Staden, of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, will deliver the Corbett Lecture, entitled Reading as therapy: medicine and literacy in the ancient world, at 5 p.m. on Friday, 10 November, in Room G.19, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue.

Divinity. Currents in World Christianity. A seminar will be held at 2.15 p.m. on Thursday, 16 November, in the Healey-Elias Room, Westminster College, when Professor Robert E. Frykenberg, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will speak on Christians, Hindutva, and the politics of 'forced' conversions in India: examining a contemporary controversy in historical perspective.

Slavonic Studies. Professor Joost van Baak, of the University of Gröningen, will give a lecture, entitled The house in Russian literature: motif, symbol, myth, at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, 16 November, in Room 7, Lecture Block, Sidgwick Site.


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Cambridge University Reporter, 8 November 2000