Reporter 24/10/01: 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:

Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic. Professor Signe Horn Fuglesang, of the University of Oslo, will give a lecture, entitled The gold hoard from Hoen, Norway: Scandinavian and European ornaments in a Viking treasure of the ninth century, at 6.15 p.m., on Thursday, 1 November, in the Rushmore Room, St Catharine's College.

Classics. Corbett Lecture 2001. Professor Kurt Raaflaub, of Brown University, former co-Director, Centre for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC, will deliver the Corbett Lecture, entitled Two empires, two historians: Herodotus and Thucydides on Persian and Athenian imperialism, at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 13 November, in Room G.19, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue.

Criminology. Dr David Thomas, Reader in Criminal Justice in the Institute of Criminology until September 2001, will give a lecture, entitled A future for sentencing: a personal view, at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, 1 November, in Room B.16, Faculty of Law, West Road.

French. Special Lecture, with the support of the French Embassy, London, and the French Cultural Delegation, Cambridge. Professor Michel Bideaux, of the Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, will give a lecture entitled Cartier, ou une découverte sans lendemain. The lecture will take place between 11 a.m. and 12 noon on Wednesday, 7 November, in Room 9, Lecture Block A, Sidgwick Site.

Early Modern French Research Seminar, with the support of the French Cultural Delegation, Cambridge, and the French Embassy, London. Professor Michel Bideaux will also give a lecture, entitled Les Amadis: une entreprise éditoriale européenne. The lecture will take place at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, 6 November, in the Philippa Fawcett Room (near the Porters' Lodge), Newnham College.

Professor Bideaux's many publications include an edition of the 1534-42 accounts of Jacques Cartier's voyages to Canada, and numerous studies of early modern French culture.

History. On its 40th anniversary, there will be a lecture to assess E. H. Carr's What is History? which began as the Cambridge Trevelyan Lectures in 1961. The lecture will be given by Professor Richard Evans in room LG19, Faculty of Law, on Monday, 19 November, at 2 p.m.

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