Reporter 9/1/02: 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:

Inaugural Lecture. Professor Robin Osborne, Professor of Ancient History, will deliver an Inaugural Lecture, entitled Changing visions of democracy, at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 23 January 2002, in the Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site.

Archaeology. Garrod Research Seminars 2001-02.

17 January	Where do you (re)start? Beginning archaeology again in East Timor, by Professor Matthew Spriggs, of the Australian National University.
31 January	Archaeology and the emergence of kingdoms in present-day Denmark, by Dr Per Ethelberg, of Haderslev Museum, Denmark.
14 February	Rethinking the English landscape: archaeology, theory, and the Hoskins tradition, by Professor Matthew Johnson, of the University of Durham.
28 February	Pots and People: a ceramic sociology of Iron Age Cambridgeshire? by Dr J. D. Hill, of the British Museum.
14 March	Culture vs. biology: the Iron Age to early medieval cemetery of Klin Yar (North Caucasus), by Dr Heinrich Haerke, of the University of Reading.

Graduate Research Seminars 2001-02

24 January	From the forest to the Scriptorium: the ups and downs of an inter-disciplinary approach towards the medieval wild, by Aleks Pluskowski, of the Department of Archaeology.
7 February	And you will learn a great deal if you study the insignificant in depth: ceramic production in a tribal context, by Kostalena Michelaki, of the McDonald Institute.
21 February	Multiple gazes and encounters with objects: making up people at the site of a museum, by Sharon Webb, of the Department of Archaeology.
7 March	Cretan psychoanalysis and Freudian Archaeology: the archaeological metaphor in action, by Cathy Gere, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

All seminars will take place on Thursdays and will commence at 4.30 p.m. in the McDonald Institute Seminar Room.

Chinese Studies. A series of Chinese Studies Seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Thursdays in Room 9, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue. Tea will be served in the Common Room from 4.45 p.m.

31 January	The scars of war: the effects of the anti-Japanese war on Chinese society, by Dr Diana Lary, of the University of British Columbia.
7 February	Rights consciousness in contemporary China: creating the consumer citizen, by Professor Beverley Hooper, of the University of Sheffield.
14 February	Can China's large firms survive its entry into the WTO? by Dr Gai Liu, of Brunel University.
21 February	Fertility and the one-child policy in two counties in China, by Dr Aiping Mu.
28 February	Migration, marriage, and house-building in the Chinese countryside, by Dr Rachel Murphy, of the Department of Land Economy.
7 March	The giraffe of Bengal: a symbol of Ming foreign relations? by Dr Sally Church, of Wolfson College.
14 March	Tibetan mountaineering, propaganda, and Sino-Tibetan relations, by Dr Hildegard Diemberger, of the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Geography. Seminars will be held at 4.15 p.m. on Thursdays in the Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site, as follows:

24 January	Direct measurement of basal sliding at temperate glaciers, by Dr Bryn Hubbard, of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
31 January	Geographies of the agenda: public policy, the discipline, and its funny turns? by Professor Danny Dorling, of the University of Leeds, and Dr Mary Shaw, of the University of Bristol.
7 February	Strategies for trade union renewal in Britain today, by Dr Jane Wills, of Queen Mary and Westfield College, London.
14 February	River process and form on multiple scales, by Dr Brian Dade, of the Department of Earth Sciences.
21 February	Flooding and property damage in Sussex 2000-01: is this climate change? by Dr John Boardman, of the Environmental Change Unit, Oxford.
28 February	Coping with crisis in South-East Asia: social capital and sustainable livelihoods, by Dr Mike Parnwell, of the University of Hull.
7 March	The significance of neighbourhood in urban Britain, by Dr Ade Kearns, of the University of Glasow.

Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Departmental Seminars. Seminars meet 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 in Seminar Room 1 at 4 p.m.

17 January	The deadly time-machine, by Barbara Saunders of Clare Hall and the University of Louvain.
24 January	The production of trustworthy knowledge: clinical trials, ethical review, and the reduction of risk, by Jerry Kutcher, of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
7 February	Demonic dreams and visual paradoxes, by Stuart Clark, of the Univerity of Wales, Swansea.
14 February	New wine in old bottles: Gassendi and the Aristotelian origin of physics, by Margaret Osler, of the University of Calgary.
21 February	Scientific progress and the aim of belief, by Alexander Bird, of the University of Edinburgh.
28 February	Mind and illusion, by Frank Jackson, of the Australian National University.
7 March	Actors, networks, and 'disturbing spectacles' in institutional science: second-century Chinese debates on astronomy, by Christopher Cullen, of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
14 March	'To see is to know': mechanisms of authenticity in the 1886 interview between Nadar and Chevreul, by Charlotte Bigg, of the Max-Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin.

History of Medicine. History of Modern Medicine and Biology Seminars will take place on Tuesdays from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane. Please feel free to bring your lunch. Please note the change of time. Organized by Sarah Hodges (seh52@cam.ac.uk) and Soraya de Chadarevian (sd10016@cam.ac.uk).

22 January	Creating a scientific context for contingent knowledge in American veterinary medicine, by Susan Jones, of the University of Colorado-Boulder.
5 February	Osteomalacia in India: framing a veiled disease, by Maneesha Lal, of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
19 February	Sexual chemistry: the power of the pill in the past and the future, by Lara Marks, of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
5 March	Night scientists at work: the Bristol Circle drug experiments, by Birgit Griesecke, of the Max-Planck Institute, Berlin.

Early Medicine and Natural Philosophy: Medicine and Magic. Seminars will take place on Tuesdays from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane. Please feel free to bring your lunch. Please note the change of time. Organized by Lauren Kassell (ltk21@cam.ac.uk) and Sophie Page (slp12@cam.ac.uk).

29 January	The kiss of life, the untold story (1774-1825), by Luke Davidson, of London.
12 February	Medical astrology in the early Middle Ages, by David Juste, of the Warburg Institute, University of London.
26 February	Countering disease with magic: medieval Islamic artefacts vs. texts, by Emilie Savage-Smith, of the University of Oxford.
12 March	Joseph Gassner and Franz Anton Mesmer, exorcism and magnetism, by Erik Midelfort, of the University of Virginia.

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, on alternate Wednesdays. Tea is served before each seminar at 4.40 p.m. Organized by John Forrester (jpf11@cam.ac.uk) and Deborah Thom (dt111@cam.ac.uk).

30 January	Edward Glover, the Institute for the Scientific Treatment of Delinquency, and the question of homosexual law reform in mid-twentieth-century Britain, by Chris Waters, Director, of the Williams College, Oxford Programme.
13 February	The analyst and the bait, by Adam Phillips, of London.
27 February	Fear - an emotional history, by Joanna Bourke, of Birkbeck College, London.
13 March	To be announced.

Psychoanalysis and the Humanities. Seminars will take place on alternate Wednesdays from 5 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane. Tea will be served from 4.40 p.m. Organized by Mary Jacobus (mlj25@cam.ac.uk) and David Hillman.

23 January	The suppression of Eisenstein's 'Bezhin Meadow': filicide and the contradictions of the cultural symptom under Stalin, by Steve Tifft, of Williams College.
6 February	'A local habitation and a name': the dream interpreter's place in the psychoanalytic process, by Margot Waddell, of the British Psychoanalytical Institute.
20 February	Palinurus and the tank: Wilfred Bion, war trauma, and nameless dread, by Mary Jacobus, of the Faculty of English.
6 March	Bryher in Berlin: cinema and psychoanalysis between the wars, by Laura Marcus, of the University of Sussex.

Cabinet of Natural History. Meetings take place at 1 p.m. on Mondays in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane. Feel free to bring lunch with you. Organized by Vicky Carroll (vlc21@cam.ac.uk) and Sadiah Qureshi (sq203@cam.ac.uk).

21 January	Improvement and science in early colonial Australia, by John Gascoigne, of the University of New South Wales.
28 January	Editing the cabinet: Aubrey's 'Brief Lives', by Kate Bennet, of the Faculty of English.
4 February	The making and meanings of country house libraries in the long eighteenth century, by Susie West, of the University Library.
11 February	Believing beaver or sinful sloth?: the Evangelical natural history of the colonized mind, c. 1810, by Sujit Sivasundaram, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
18 February	John Septimus Roe and the art of navigation, c. 1812-1830, by Felix Driver, of Royal Holloway College, University of London.
25 February	Arctic fantasies: the translocation and resurrection of bisons, musk oxen, and mammoths, by David Anderson, of the University of Aberdeen.
4 March	How to look at a monster: observational drawing and historical context, by Ann Starr.
11 March	The antiquity of man before Lyell's 'Antiquity of Man', by Martin Rudwick, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit Seminars. Seminars will be held at 3 p.m. on Wednesdays, in the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Lecture Theatre, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Hills Road. For enquiries, please contact Jean Seymour or Penny Cousins (tel. 01223 252704).

23 January	Molecular pathogenesis of Friedreich ataxia, a mitochondrial disease of iron homeostasis, by Professor Michel Koenig, of the Institute de Génétique et Biologie Moléculaire at Cellulaire CU de Strasbourg, France. Host: Michael Murphy.
6 February	2D-crystals, electron crystallography, and atomic force microscopy: a trilogy in membrane protein structure research, by Professor A. Engel, of the Maurice E. Mueller Institute Biozentrum de Universität Basel, Switzerland. Hosts: John Walker/Leo Sazanov.
20 February	Towards molecular understanding of adaptive thermogenesis and substrate metabolism: a systematic approach, by Dr Abdull G. Dulloo, of the Institute of Physiology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Host: Martin Brand.

Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Lectures will be held at 5 p.m. on the following dates, in Meeting Room 2 (Wolfson Room), Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road (entrance near the Isaac Newton Institute on Clarkson Road).

24 January	Twentieth Kuwait Foundation Lecture: The Hamilton-Jacobi equation: the revival of the interplay between partial differential equations and Lagrangian dynamics, by Professor A. Fathi, of the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon.
28 January	Twenty-first Kuwait Foundation Lecture: Heights and discriminants, by Professor L. Szpiro, of the Graduate School of City University, New York.
19 February	Twenty-second Kuwait Foundation Lecture: Multiple Dirichlet series and moments of Zeta and L-functions, by Professor D. Goldfeld, of Columbia University.

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