Reporter 17/10/01: 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:

Biochemistry. Seminars will be held at 1 p.m. on Tuesdays in the Lecture Theatre, Sanger (New) Building, Department of Biochemistry, Tennis Court Road. Please address any enquiries to Dr Richard Farndale (tel. 01223 766 111, e-mail rwf10@cam.ac.uk).

23 October	The natural history of domains: origins and evolution, by Dr Chris Ponting, of the University of Oxford.
30 October	Multiple roles of SR proteins in mRNA processing, by Dr Javier Caceres, of the Medical Research Council's Human Genetics Unit, Edinburgh.
6 November	Information sources in modern drug discovery: eroding the barriers between academia and industry, by Dr Adam Smith, Editor of Nature Reviews Drug Discovery.
13 November	EF-hands and molecular recognition, by Dr Annalisa Pastore, of the National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill.
20 November	Biosynthesis of heterologous membrane proteins in yeast and their biochemical characterization, by Professor Per-Amstrup Pedersen, of the University of Copenhagen.
27 November	Metabolomic analysis of long-distance transport in plants, by Dr Oliver Fiehn, of the Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany.
4 December	Protein transport and multi-drug efflux in Gram negative bacteria, by Dr Ben Luisi, of the Department of Biochemistry.

Chemical Engineering. All seminars will take place at 4.15 p.m. in Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering, New Museums Site, unless otherwise stated.

24 October	Bioproduct Design, by Dr Inger Mollerup, of Novo, and Dr Steve Drew, Zeneca Fellow.
31 October	Solid oxide fuel cell technology for energy and chemical production, by Professor Ian Metcalfe, of UMIST.
7 November	Nanoporous and nanoparticle catalysts: agents for clean technology, by Sir John Meurig Thomas (to be held in the Babbage Lecture Theatre at 4.15 p.m.) Further details on this lecture can be found at http://www.cheng.cam.ac.uk/seminars/Seminars_Michaelmas_2001.html/.
14 November	Detailed modelling of the chemistry of PAH's in combustion processes, by Professor Lindstedt, of Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine.
21 November	Granular dynamics and particulate systems, by Dr Raphael Blumenfeld, of the Cavendish Laboratory.
28 November	Discussion on ethical issues, with Dr Doug Parr, Chief Scientific Officer of Greenpeace (to be held in Lecture Theatre 2).

Clinical Veterinary Medicine. Tea Club lectures will be held at 4.30 p.m. on Wednesdays in Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road. Tea will be served at 4 p.m. in the Senior Common Room.

7 November	Foot and Mouth Disease - safeguarding the public interest, by Mr Gareth Davies, previously Head of Epidemiology, State Veterinary Service, Weybridge, and Epidemiologist to the European Commission.
28 November	Research on the virus which caused the UK 2001 Foot and Mouth Epidemic, by Professor A. I. Donaldson, Head of the Pirbright Laboratory, Woking.

Divinity and Tyndale House. The 2001 Tyndale House Lectures in Biblical Theology will be given under the general title of Beyond tradition: history, canon, and theology, by Professor Christopher R. Seitz, of the University of St Andrews, at 4.30 p.m. in the Faculty of Divinity, West Road, on the following dates:

23 October	Prophecy in Gerhard von Rad's tradition-history.
26 October	Tradition-history and biblical theology: Gese and Stuhlmacher.
2 November	A New Testament example: ending John and ending Jesus.
9 November	The old prophets and a new age: the twelve and the three.

English. Seminars, under the general title Commonwealth and International Literature in English, will be held at 5 p.m. in the Thomas Gray Room, Pembroke College, unless otherwise stated.

24 October	Interpretation, literary and anthropological, in the postcolonial situation, by Dr Mariane Ferme, of the Department of Social Anthropology (Nihon Room).
7 November	Caryl Phillips, author of The European Tribe, Cambridge, and many other titles, will launch his book of essays A New World Order, and will lead a discussion.
12 November	The post-colonial university - the need for revolution, by Dr Ashok Mathur, of the University of Calgary, Canada.
21 November	The rise of Commonwealth literature: causes and questions, by Dr Gail Low, of the University of Dundee.

Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. Seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Mondays in the Seminar Room, First Floor, of the Sir William Hardy Building, Downing Site.

22 October	The cost of children of British cotton factory workers in the nineteenth century: early results and new data I, by Dr Mac Boot, of the Australian National University, Canberra.
29 October	Mother's death and children's health: Spain during the demographic transition, by Professor David Reher, of the Complutense University, Madrid.
12 November	The psychic costs of international migration to the UK from the 1960s to the present, by Dr Atreyi Mazumdar, of the University of Delhi.
19 November	Female rights in property in post-Reformation Scandinavia?, by Dr Kirsi Warpula, of the Cambridge Group for the History and Population of Social Structure.
26 November	The cost of children of British cotton factory workers in the nineteenth century: early results and new data II, by Dr Mac Boot, of the Australian National University, Canberra.
3 December	Marriage and fertility patterns in colonial Australia: a study of the Upper Williams Valley, New South Wales, 1850-1900, by Dr Glenda Strachan, of the University of Newcastle, New South Wales.

Modern and Medieval Languages. The Norman Maccoll Lecture 2001. Professor Lou Charnon-Deutsch, of the State University of New York, Stony Brook, will give a Lecture entitled Travels of the imaginary Spanish gypsy. (The history and geography of cultural representations of the Spanish gypsy from the seventeenth century to the present). The Lecture will take place at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 21 November 2001, in the Queen's Building Auditorium, Emmanuel College. The Lecture will be followed by a reception in the Harrods Room, also in the Queen's Building, at 6 p.m. Those wishing to attend should contact Coral Neale, in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese (tel. 01223 335005, e-mail cn205@cus.cam.ac.uk), by Wednesday, 14 November.

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