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Announcement of lectures and seminars, etc.

The following lectures and seminars will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:

Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic. Ms Abigail Burnyeat, of the University of Edinburgh, will give a talk entitled Mad Professors: the NLS 72.1.1 text of Lebor Ollamon and the grammatical teaching tradition in Ireland and Scotland, on Thursday, 21 February, at 5.30 p.m. in the Junior Parlour, Trinity College.

Architecture and History of Art. West Cambridge Landscape Design Workshop. An opening event will take place on Thursday, 21 February, at 5.30 p.m. in Lecture Room A, Arts School, New Museums Site. The Workshop continues in public until Sunday, 24 February. A review of proposals will take place on the same day between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.

Clinical Veterinary Medicine. A seminar entitled Zoonotic diseases, scientific debates, and popular beliefs - lessons in history, will be given by Dr Susan Jones, of the University of Colorado, on Wednesday, 6 March, at 4.30 p.m. in Lecture Theatre 1 of the Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road.

Criminology. Dr Nathan Harris, of the Institute of Criminology, will give a public lecture entitled The relevance of shame to reintegrative shaming on Thursday, 28 February, at 5.30 p.m. in Room B16, Faculty of Law, West Road.

Divinity. Dr Judith Hadley, of Villanova University, will speak at an open meeting of the Old Testament Seminar on The de-deification of deities in Deuteronomy, at 2.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 6 March, in Room 13 of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue.

Engineering. Dr Mamdouh Hamza will present an Open Lecture, entitled History of the construction of the Suez Canal on Friday, 22 February, at 5 p.m. in Lecture Room 0 in the Department of Engineering.

Gender Studies Working Group. Gender Symposium. Conflict and violence: do women do it differently?

This meeting will be held on Saturday, 9 March, from 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. in the Palmerston Room, St John's College. For further details, please see http://www.gender.cam.ac.uk/.

Isaac Newton Institute. Professor Shigeru Mukai, of Kyoto University, will offer a seminar entitled Invariant theory and moduli: from Cayley, Nagata to the Verlinde formula, at 5 p.m. on Monday, 25 February, in Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, 20 Clarkson Road. Tea will be served from 4.30 p.m. and there will be an informal reception afterwards.

Oriental Studies. Centre of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. The Eleventh John Bennett Memorial Lecture, entitled Post-Colonialism in tenth-century Islam, will be given by Professor Patricia Crone, of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 7 March, in Room G19, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue. If you wish to attend please e-mail knb21@cam.ac.uk.


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Cambridge University Reporter, 20 February 2002
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