Reporter 7/11/01: 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:

Thirteenth McDonald Lecture. The Managing Committee of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research give notice that the Thirteenth McDonald Lecture, entitled A paradigm shift in classical archaeology? will be delivered by Professor Anthony Snodgrass, Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology, 1976-2001, on Wednesday, 21 November at 5 p.m. in Mill Lane Lecture Room 3.

Criminology. Professor Douglas Husak, Professor of Philosophy and Law at Rutgers University, will give a public lecture, entitled Personal desert, general rules, and the substantive criminal law. The lecture will take place on Thursday, 15 November, at 5.30 p.m. in Room B16, Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Site, West Road.

Divinity. Teape Lectures 2001. The Teape Lectures 2001, entitled Travelling through Britain: India's road to postcolonialism, on Hindu-Christian Dialogue, will be given by Dr Christel Devadawson, Reader in English Literature, of the University of Delhi. The lectures will be given at the Divinity Faculty, West Road, and will take place as follows:

Notion-building, nation-building: 'Panditji' and pre-independent India.

Monday, 12 November, 5 p.m., Lecture in the Runcie Room.

Notion-building, nation-breaking: 'Mrs G' and independent India.

Tuesday, 13 November, 5 p.m., Lecture in the Runcie Room.

Notion-breaking, nation-breaking: postcolonial India, postcolonial Britain.

Friday, 16 November, 2.30 p.m., Seminar in the Lightfoot Room.

The Teape Lectures are sponsored by the Cambridge-Delhi Christian Partnership (formerly the Cambridge Committee for Christian Work in Delhi).

Modern and Medieval Languages. New approaches to visual culture in Spanish and Latin-American Studies Symposium. A symposium, organized by Ms Erica Segre, of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, will be held on Friday, 23 November, at Trinity College. For further details, programme, and abstracts of papers, please refer to the Departmental website (http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/news/symposium.xhtml). For free registration, please contact Ms Segre (e-mail es251@cam.ac.uk).

East Asia Institute. Centre for Korean Studies. A seminar will be given by Mr Han Chang Gyu, Director of the National Gallery in Pyongyang, The Democratic People's Republic of Korea, entitled Art and mural painting in the Koguryo period. The seminar will take place on Tuesday, 27 November at 5 p.m., in Room 8, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue.

Philosophy. Heffer Lecture in Philosophy, 2001. Professor Sir Bernard Williams will give the 2001 Heffer Lecture in Philosophy, entitled Lying and other forms of deceit, at 5 p.m. on Friday, 9 November, in Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies. A seminar, entitled Spiritual purity and disease in the Orthodox Church in late imperial Russia, will be given by Daniel Beer, of the Department of Slavonic Studies, on Tuesday, 20 November. The seminar will take place at 5.15 p.m. in the Thirkill Room, Old Court, Clare College. Tea will be served from 5 p.m.

Social and Political Sciences. Seminars will be held on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. in the Committee Room, Social and Political Sciences Faculty, Free School Lane.

7 November	A sociology of bilingual lexicography: a new sociological specialism? by Christopher T. Husbands, of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
21 November	Britain (not) at the polls, by Harold Clarke, of the University of Texas, Dallas.
28 November	Differentiated citizenship, deliberative democracy, and equality units, by Judith Squires, of the University of Bristol.

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