Reporter 6/2/02: 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:

Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic. Ms Sarah Grieve, of the University of the Highlands and Islands, will give a lecture entitled Some Norse chapels in Orkney at 5.30 p.m., on Thursday, 7 February, in the Jane Harrison Room, Newnham College.

Criminology. Professor Roxanne Lieb, Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Criminology, will give a lecture entitled Sex offender notification: Megan's Law in Washington State, at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, 21 February, to be held in Room B16 at the Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Site.

Divinity. Henry Martyn Seminars in Mission Studies and World Christianity. A series of seminars will be held at 2.15 p.m. on the following dates in the Healey-Elias Room, Westminster College.

14 February	The future of world Christianity: true and false prophecies from Edinburgh 1910, by Dr Brian Stanley, of the Henry Martyn Centre and St Edmund's College.
21 February	How can theology inform mission practice? The example of the public theology in Cultural Engagement Project, by Dr Stephen Holmes, of King's College, London.

Please note that the Henry Martyn Seminars previously advertised to take place on 28, 29, 31 January have had to be postponed to 4, 5, 7 November.

Centre for History and Economics, King's College. Quantitative Economic History Seminars will take place on Thursdays at 12.30 p.m. in Room F4, the Gibb's Building, King's College. Sandwiches will be available from 12.15 p.m. Presentations will be approximately thirty minutes in length. Organizers: Chris Meissner and Hans-Joachim Voth.

21 February	Marriage markets and intergenerational transfers in comparative perspective, by Maristella Botticini, of Boston University and the University of Brescia.
28 February	Mechanisms of integrity: nineteenth-century New England banks and the success of connected lending, by Christopher M. Meissner, of King's College.
14 March	The size of the Ante, inequality, financial markets, and growth in Paris, 1780-1907, by Jean Laurent Rosenthal, of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique 2001-02.

Modern and Medieval Languages. Hispanic Research Seminars. Seminars for this Term will take place on Wednesdays at 5.30 p.m. in the Richard Eden Room, West Court, Clare Hall. Please contact Jan Gilbert (e-mail jg208@cam.ac.uk) for further details and directions to the Richard Eden Room.

6 February	Eye-opening revision: cinematic foreclosure in Kagel's 1981 soundtrack to 'Un perro andaluz', by Dr Dominic Keown, of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
13 February	Ricardo Piglia: postmodern aesthetics and political commitment in contemporary Argentina, by Ms Joanna Page, of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.
27 February	Transplanting otherness: migration, transculturation, and the question of community in 'Flores de otro mundo' (Iciar Bollain, 1999), by Dr Parvati Nair, of Queen Mary and Westfield College, London.

Refreshments will be provided. Seminars will generally be followed by dinner with the guest speaker in a local restaurant. All are welcome.

Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. The Twenty-second Kuwait Foundation Lecture, entitled Multiple Dirichlet series and moments of Zeta and L-functions, will be offered by Professor D. Goldfeld, of Columbia University. The Lecture will be held at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 19 February, in Meeting Room 2 (Wolfson Room), Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road (entrance near the Isaac Newton Institute on Clarkson Road).

Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies. All seminars will be held on Tuesdays at 5.15 p.m. in the Thirkill Room, Old Court of Clare College.

12 February	Early Western stereotypes of Russians, by Dr Stéphane Mund, of the Department of Slavonic Studies.
26 February	Stalin's last years: myth and reality, by Dr John Barber, of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.
12 March	Stalin and the art of boredom, by Dr Marina Frolova-Walker, of the Faculty of Music.

The General Board give notice that, on the recommendation of the Faculty Board or other authority concerned, the regulations for certain University examinations have been amended as follows:

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