Reporter 10/10/01: 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:

Criminology. The Prisons Research Centre is holding a public seminar, entitled Penal values and penal sensibilities. Dr Alison Liebling, of the Institute of Criminology, will give a talk entitled Measuring the prison: an adventure in values; Professor Richard Sparks, of the University of Keele, will give a talk entitled The meaning of humanity in the penal context; and Professor David Garland, of New York University, will give a talk entitled Penal cultures and sensibilities in modern society.

The seminar will be chaired by Professor Andrew von Hirsch, of the Institute of Criminology, and will take place on 12 October, between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. in Room LG19 of the Law Faculty.

Divinity. The 2001 Yerushah Lecture in Modern Judaism will be given by Daniel Libeskind, architect of the Berlin and Manchester Holocaust Museums, on 16 October at 5 p.m. in the Auditorium, Robinson College, Grange Road.

Divinity and the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology. A series of lectures, under the general title of Sursum corda: a call to prayer, will be held at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Faculty of Divinity, West Road, as follows:

17 October	Eastern wisdom and Christian faith, by Professor William Johnson, SJ, of Sophia University, Tokyo.
24 October	Praying with the office of readings, by Dr Francesca Murphy, of the University of Aberdeen.
31 October	Crisis of faith: danger or opportunity?, by Sr Cecilia Goodman, IBVM (Provincial Superior).
7 November	Complex persons, simple prayer, by Rt Revd Robert O'Brien, OSCO (Former Abbot, Caldey Island).
14 November	Prayer in the desert, prayer in the city, by Mother Joanna Burton.
21 November	Prayer at the margins: holy books and their users, by Dr Eamon Duffy, of the Faculty of Divinity.

Any enquiries should be addressed to the Administrator of the Institute (tel. 01223 741039, e-mail pac37@cam.ac.uk).

Divinity and Oriental Studies. Old Testament Seminar. The following meetings will be held at 2.30 p.m. in Room 13 of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue. Tea will be available at 4 p.m.

10 October	The Divine Council in the Old Testament, by R. P. Gordon.
24 October	The united monarchy: history, archaeology, and the Hebrew Bible, by Professor Amnon Ben-Tor, of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. (Public Lecture).
7 November	The King and I: ancient Israelite perspectives of God as King, by Diana Lipton.
21 November	Monotheism and the God of many names, by R. E. Clements.

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.

12 October	More on monkey memory mechanisms: audition versus vision, by Dr Mortimer Mishkin, of the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda. Host: Dr Tim Bussey.
19 October	Fantastic learning, by Mike Le Pelley, of the Department of Experimental Psychology. Host: Professor A. Dickinson.
26 October	Differentiation and disintegration of conceptual knowledge: a parallel-distributed processing approach, by Professor James L. McClelland, of Carnegie-Mellon University. Host: Dr Lisa Saksida.
2 November	Inhibition and generativity in relation to pragmatic language impairment and autistic disorder in children, by Professor Dorothy Bishop, of the University of Oxford. Host: Professor B. C. J. Moore.
9 November	Genotype/phenotype relations: why a cognitive developmental approach is essential, by Professor A. Karmiloff-Smith, of the Institute of Child Health, London. Host: Professor L. Tyler.
16 November	Discrimination and perceptual learning in artificial, animal, and autistic neural networks, by Dr L. Saksida, of the Department of Experimental Psychology.
23 November	The ability of drugs to prevent the behavioural and physiological consequences of stress and of alcohol, and their interactions, by Professor H. J. Little, of the University of Durham. Host: Professor A. Dickinson.
30 November	Psychological heterogeneity in attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: an analysis of the relationship between regulatory and motivational factors, by Professor E. Sonuga-Barke, of the University of Southampton. Host: To be announced.

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.

16 October	Positive psychology: an explanation of what it is and why it is useful, by Nick Baylis, of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.
30 October	Lay understanding of inheritance, by Kate Hunt, of the Medical Research Council's Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow (to be confirmed).
13 November	Early theory of mind and social competencies: fledgling skills in young toddlers, by Claire Hughes, of the Centre for Family Research, and the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.
27 November	Early years policies and young children's rights, by Eva Lloyd, of the National Early Years Network.

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

17 October	Alfred Nobel - technician, inventor, donor, by Tore Frängsmyr, of Uppsala University, and The Nobel Foundation.
31 October	Adam Smith and Epicureanism, by Knud Haakonssen, of Boston University.
14 November	The explosion of reading in the Romantic period, by William St Clair, of Trinity College.
21 November	Sir Henry Maine, India, and the Anglo-Saxon past, by Ananya Kabir, of Clare Hall.

History and Philosophy of Science. Departmental Seminars. 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. There is tea beforehand at 4 p.m. in Seminar Room 1.

18 October	Filled in space, by Stephen Mumford, of the University of Nottingham.
25 October	Museums of the future and the future of museums, by Alan Morton, of the Science Museum, London.
1 November	Spectacular psychology: early experimental psychology in France, by Jimena Canales, of Harvard University.
8 November	Broad species, bottled ale, and a good botanical horse: how to make yourself into a philosophical botanist, by Jim Endersby, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
15 November	The technology of telegraphy and the telegraphy of technology: the Indian Empire, 1860-1900, by Deep Kanta Lahiri Choudhury, of the Faculty of History.
22 November	A Flamsteed Celebration (from 3.30 p.m.)
29 November	How not to get causes from probabilities, by Nancy Cartwright, of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Early Medicine and Natural Philosophy. Medicine and Magic seminars will take place on alternate Tuesdays at 5 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, and have been organized by Lauren Kassell (e-mail ltk21@cam.ac.uk). Tea will be served from 4.30 p.m.

16 October	Astrological almanacs in fifteenth-century English medicine, by Cornelius O'Boyle, of the Wellcome Institute, London.
30 October	The world of the late-medieval alchemist, by Jonathan Hughes, of the University of East Anglia.
13 November	Diseases and planets, by Charles Burnett, of the Warburg Institute.
27 November	Lady Margaret Clifford (1560-1616), Christopher Taylour (fl.1580-c.1598), and alchemical notions of health, by Penny Bayer, of the University of Warwick.

Psy Studies. History of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Allied Sciences. All seminars start at 5 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane. Tea will be served before each seminar at 4.40 p.m. The seminars have been organized by John Forrester (e-mail jpf11@cam.ac.uk), and Deborah Thom (e-mail dt111@cam.ac.uk).

17 October	Electricity and the organ of the soul: Freud and Fleischl-Marxow, 1883-1895, by Michael Molnar, Research Director of the Freud Museum, London.
31 October	Testing narratives and persecuted speech: readings of the newspaper reports concerning Dr Ernest Jones's 1906 trial for indecent child assault, by Philip Kuhn, poet and historian.
14 November	Freud and the perils of humour, by Greg Fried, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
28 November	The psychopathology of everyday life: British culture between the wars, by Sally Alexander, of Goldsmiths College, London.

Land Economy. Lunch-time seminars will be held from 1 to 2 p.m., and will take place in Lecture Room 1, Laundress Lane (old Department of Land Economy Library). All welcome.

10 October	Agricultural productivity, sustainability, and growth: a dynamic general equilibrium investigation, by Dr Xavier Irz, of the University of Reading.
17 October	Is there a continuing role for set-aside in European farm policy?, by Dr Alan Renwick, of the Department of Land Economy.
24 October	EU enlargement and regional policy, by Professor John Bachtler, of the University of Strathclyde (Regional Studies Association).
31 October	Sustainability, green national accounting, and deforestation, by Dr Giles Atkinson, of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
7 November	The economics of transgenic crops: how to decide whether or not to realize them, by Dr Justus Wesseler, of Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
14 November	No Seminar.
21 November	Market-based approaches to environmental policy: what have we learned from the UK experience?, by Professor David Pearce, of University College London.
28 November	Climate change, Kyoto, and the US: the economics and politics of global responsibilities, by Professor Michael J. Grubb, of Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine, London.

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. Seminars will be held at 1.15 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Seminar Room, McDonald Institute Courtyard Building, Downing Site.

10 October	Southern Aspromonte landscapes: now and the Neolithic in peninsular Italy, by John Robb.
24 October	Landscape and technology in flux: the late Palaeolithic/Early Mesolithic of the Vale of Pickering, by Chantal Conneller.
7 November	Interpreting Egyptian pyramids, by Kate Spence.
21 November	Recent excavations at Byzantine Carthage, by Richard Miles.

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

15 October	Potter of a thousand themes: adaptation and innovation in the work of Makuzu Kozan (1842-1916), by Dr Clare Pollard, of the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin.
22 October	Material and immaterial functions of image in ninth-century (Japanese) esotericism, by Dr Cynthia Bogel, of the University of Washington, and Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies.
29 October	Re-mapping Japanese militarism: provincial society and the army in the 1900s, by Professor Stewart Lone, of the Australian Defence Force Academy.
5 November	Communications development and Japanese industrialization: preliminary observations on the economic history of the postal system, by Dr Janet Hunter, of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
12 November	Social processes of elaboration of local policies concerning foreign residents: Kawasaki City's case, by Dr Noriko Berlinguez-Kono, of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
19 November	Globalization and Japanese corporate governance, by Dr Simon Learmount, of the Judge Institute of Management Studies.
26 November	Japan and the age of speed, 1925-35: urban society and the automobile, by Professor Stewart Lone, of the Australian Defence Force Academy.

Slavonic Studies. Professor Caryl Emerson, of Princeton University, will give a lecture entitled Bakhtin after the Boom: pro and contra, at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 30 October, in the Little Hall, Sidgwick Site.

Professor Katerina Clark, of Yale University, will give a lecture entitled Masquerade and carnival: Bakhtin, Bulgakov, and Stalinist public ritual, at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 7 November, in Room 8, Lecture Block, Sidgwick Site.

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