Reporter 9/10/02: 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:

Criminology. Professor David Farrington, Professor of Psychological Criminology in the Faculty of Law, will give a public lecture entitled Development of offending and antisocial behaviour from childhood to adulthood. The lecture will take place in Room G24, Faculty of Law, West Road, on Thursday, 17 October, at 5.30 p.m.

Experimental Psychology. Zangwill Club Seminars are held at 4.30 p.m. on Fridays in the Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, Department of Experimental Psychology, Downing Site. Tea and cakes will be served in the First Floor Seminar Room from 4 p.m.

18 October Vocabulary acquisition and the mental lexicon, by Dr Gareth Gaskell, of the University of York. Host: Jenny Rodd.

25 October Sign language and the brain: fMRI findings, by Professor Ruth Campbell, of University College London. Host: Professor Lolly Tyler.

1 November Decoding emotions and intentions from observable behaviour, by Professor David Perrett, of the University of St Andrews. Host: Dr Nicky Clayton.

8 November Location and object-based inhibitory mechanisms of attention: implications for memory and attention, Dr Stephen Tipper, of the University of Wales, Bangor. Host: Dr G. Davis.

15 November Exploring agnosia: seeing strange things or seeing things strangely? by Dr Rosaleen McCarthy, of the Department of Experimental Psychology. Host: Professor Lolly Tyler.

22 November Singing in the brain: sexual selection and the evolution of the songbird brain, by Professor Clive Catchpole, of Royal Holloway, University of London. Host: Dr Nicky Clayton.

29 November Time and memory: developmental issues, by Dr Teresa McCormack, of the University of Warwick. Host: Dr Jim Russell.

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

17 October Towards the place responsive society: an Australian perspective, by Professor John L. Cameron, of the University of Western Sydney-Hawkesbury.

31 October The epistemology of particulars, by Dr Noel Castree, of the University of Manchester.

14 November The role of physical geographers in the understanding of the Canadian Cordillera, by Professor Olav Slaymaker, of the University of British Columbia.

28 November Indigenous movements in transnational circuits: Andean places and global spaces, by Dr Sarah Radcliffe, of the Department of Geography.

Centre for History and Economics. History and Economics Seminars. Meetings will be held at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Allhusen Room, Trinity College.

16 October Kenneth Arrow and the high theory of democracy in the 1950s, by Richard Tuck, of Harvard University.

30 October From Mauss to Levi-Strauss: another perspective on social relations, by Claude Imbert, of the École Normale Supérieure.

13 November The conundrum of the Security Council, by Paul Kennedy, of Yale University, and Christ's College.

20 November The death of a colonial metropolis. Yangon (Rangoon), 1940-48, by Christopher Bayly, of St Catharine's College.

Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Departmental Seminars. Seminars are held on Thursdays at 4.30 p.m. in Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane. Tea is served from 4 p.m. in Seminar Room 1. Organized by Simon Schaffer (e-mail sjs16@cam.ac.uk).

24 October J. Robert Oppenheimer and the crisis of the American liberal intellectual, by Charles Thorpe, of the University of Cardiff.

31 October Seeing selves: mind, memory, and identity on film 1920-62, by Alison Winter, of the University of Chicago.

7 November Intercultural encounters and European botanising in India in early modernity: Nicolas L'Empereur's Jardin de Lourixa, by Kapil Raj, of l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

14 November The Scientific Revolution, modernity, and the West, by Stephen Gaukroger, of the University of Sydney.

21 November Archaeology and photography, by Kitty Hauser, of Clare Hall.

28 November Cybernetics as nomad science, by Andy Pickering, of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

5 December Applied history of science: theory and practice, by Arnold Thackray, of the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia.

History of Medicine. Seminars are held on Tuesdays at 1 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Organized by Sarah Hodges (e-mail seh52@cam.ac.uk), Soraya de Chadarevian (e-mail sd10016@cam.ac.uk), and Lauren Kassell (e-mail ltk21@cam.ac.uk).

15 October Networks and novices: Joseph Hooker in Calcutta and the Himalayas, 1848-50, by David Arnold, of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.

22 October Profit and practice: work, medicine, and the 'medical marketplace' in early modern London, by Patrick Wallis, of the University of Nottingham.

29 October Time and chance: temporal order, natural laws, and artisan experience in early nineteenth-century England, by Anne Secord, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

5 November Re-framing high blood pressure: the Platt-Pickering controversy and the risk factor approach to chronic disease, c. 1945-70, by Carsten Timmermann, of the University of Manchester.

12 November Of vitamins and veils: women physicians, transnational medical research, and the framing of osteomalacia in late colonial India, by Maneesha Lal, of Columbia University.

19 November Seventeenth-century medical practice and the resurrection of Anne Green, by Scott Mandelbrote, of Peterhouse.

26 November Disease, empire, and degeneration in early nineteenth-century Britain, by Mark Harrison, of the University of Oxford.

3 December European melancholy and the context of psychopathology, c. 1500-1700, by Angus Gowland, of Magdalene College.

Psychoanalysis and the Humanities. Seminars are held fortnightly on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Tea is served from 4.40 p.m. Organized by Mary Jacobus (e-mail mlj25@cam.ac.uk) and David Hillman (e-mail dah54@cam.ac.uk).

16 October Questioning the questioner: 'Little Hans', Wordsworth, and 'The Wolfman', by Gillian Beer, of the Faculty of English.

30 October Zizek on representation, by Sarah Kay, of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages.

13 November What isn't there in Margaret Atwood's 'The Blind Assassin', by Ruth Parkin-Gounelas, of the University of Saloniki.

27 November Art as prosthesis: Cronenberg's crash, by Parveen Adams, of Brunel University.

Psy Studies: History of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Allied Sciences. Seminars are held fortnightly on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Tea is served from 4.40 p.m. Organized by John Forrester (e-mail jpf11@cam.ac.uk) and Deborah Thom (e-mail dt111@cam.ac.uk).

23 October Experiments in freedom: science, nature, and the Malting House School, Cambridge, 1924-29, by Laura Cameron, of Churchill College.

6 November Psychopharmacology and the government of the self, by David Healy, of the University of Wales.

20 November Hate, destructiveness, and the other, by Stephen Frosh, of Birkbeck College, University of London.

4 December Lacan and twentieth-century science, by Dylan Evans, of the University of Bath.

Cabinet of Natural History. Seminars are held on Mondays at 1 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Organized by Sujit Sivasundaram (e-mail sps20@cam.ac.uk).

14 October Eskimo words for 'snow', Vervet words for 'predator', by Greg Radick, of the University of Leeds.

21 October The evangelical geologist and writer Hugh Miller: a Victorian hero reassessed, by Michael Taylor, of the National Museums of Scotland.

4 November Anatomists, animals, and the making of comparative anatomy, 1650-1800, by Andrew Cunningham, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

11 November 'Rock birds and beach blonds': falcon trapping, falconry, and bird banding on the East Coast of America, 1935-65, by Helen Macdonald, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

18 November 'Crunching the gristles of his dying prey': geology as spectacular theatre in the treatises of Thomas Hawkins (1810-89), by Ralph O'Connor, of the Faculty of English.

25 November Nick Jardine and Anne Secord, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, will lead a discussion of Anke te Heesen's The World in a Box: The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia (Chicago, 2002).

2 December Frankfurt am Main, 1867: visiting a meeting of German naturalists and physicians, by Ayako Sakurai, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. Seminars will take place on Fridays at 1 p.m. in the Main Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Place.

11 October The influence of the developmental paradigm and reading history sideways on the history of family studies, by Professor Arland Thornton, of the University of Michigan.

18 October Disputing the nature of marriage from the Reformation to the 1930s: changing definitions of husband wife and family in Scandinavia, by Dr Kati Katajisto, of the University of Helsinki, and Dr Kirsi Warpula, of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure.

1 November The historical contexts of South Indian demographic regimes, by Dr Gopinath Ravindran, of the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the University of Delhi.

15 November Economic growth, energy consumption, and carbon dioxide emissions in Sweden 1800-2000, by Dr Astrid Kander, of Lund University.

29 November 'Marrying at the right age': age at marriage and marriage strategies in Catalonia 1680-1830, by Ms Julie Marfany, of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, and King's College.

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. Seminars will be held at 1.15 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Seminar Room, McDonald Institute Courtyard Building, Downing Site.

16 October H3 Kuwait: gateway to the Arabian Gulf? by Harriet Crawford.

30 October Excavations at the Assyrian site of Ziyaret in south-east Turkey, by John MacGinnis.

13 November Cumulative architecture: excavations at Prissé-la-Charrière in western France, by Chris Scarre.

27 November Neolithic and megalithic landscapes of South India: the Bellary District Archaeological Project, by Nicole Boivin.

Isaac Newton Institute. A series of seminars aimed at a general scientific audience will be held at 5 p.m. on Mondays 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. To receive regular details of the Monday Seminars by e-mail, please send the message 'subscribe monday-seminars' to majordomo@newton.cam.ac.uk.

14 October Global information from local observation, by Dr Laszlo Lovasz, of Microsoft Research.

21 October Lie groups and their classifying spaces, by Professor Bill Dwyer, of the University of Notre Dame.

28 October An overview of certain phase transitions, by Professor Jeffrey Steif, of Chalmers University of Technology, and the Georgia Institute of Technology.

11 November What is elliptic cohomology? by Professor Douglas Ravenel, of the University of Rochester.

25 November Special values of zeta-functions, by Professor Steve Lichtenbaum, of Brown University.

Slavonic Studies. A lecture series, entitled Understanding Russia: perspectives on Russian history and culture, and organized by the Department of Slavonic Studies, will be held during the academical year 2002-03. All lectures commence at 5.30 p.m. on Thursdays in the Umney Lecture Theatre, Robinson College.

17 October Establishing Russian literature: the ruse of the Russian novel, by William Mills Todd, of Harvard University.

31 October What is 'History'? The case of late Stalinism, by Chris Ward, of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages.

14 November Building paradise? Russia's obsession with the past, by Jana Howlett, of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages.

28 November The magic of Russia: witches, wizards, and werewolves, by William Ryan, of the Warburg Institute.

Social Anthropology. Senior Seminars are held at 5 p.m. on Fridays in Seminar Room G2, Department of Social Anthropology, Free School Lane. Tea will be available in the Common Room (G1, ground floor) from 4 p.m.

25 October Authoritarianism and the preservation of heritage and patrimonies in the Mediterranean, by Dr Paul Sant Cassia, of the University of Durham.

1 November Weber's problem and ours: can charismatic authority be democratic? A discussion using Chinese examples, by Dr Stephan Feuchtwang, of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

8 November Rethinking tyranny: ataman culture and the political imagination in Outer Mongolia, by Morten Pedersen, of the University of Copenhagen.

15 November Social transformations in Poland, identities, and European accession, by Professor Dr Zdzislaw Mach, of the Centre for European Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow.

22 November Authority and the meaning of place, by Dr Susan Benson, of the Department of Social Anthropology.

29 November Is oriental despotism an Islamic tradition? by Professor Jocelyne Dakhlia, of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

Table of Contents

18 October	Vocabulary acquisition and the mental lexicon, by Dr Gareth Gaskell, of the University of York. Host: Jenny Rodd.
25 October	Sign language and the brain: fMRI findings, by Professor Ruth Campbell, of University College London. Host: Professor Lolly Tyler.
1 November	Decoding emotions and intentions from observable behaviour, by Professor David Perrett, of the University of St Andrews. Host: Dr Nicky Clayton.
8 November	Location and object-based inhibitory mechanisms of attention: implications for memory and attention, Dr Stephen Tipper, of the University of Wales, Bangor. Host: Dr G. Davis.
15 November	Exploring agnosia: seeing strange things or seeing things strangely? by Dr Rosaleen McCarthy, of the Department of Experimental Psychology. Host: Professor Lolly Tyler.
22 November	Singing in the brain: sexual selection and the evolution of the songbird brain, by Professor Clive Catchpole, of Royal Holloway, University of London. Host: Dr Nicky Clayton.
29 November	Time and memory: developmental issues, by Dr Teresa McCormack, of the University of Warwick. Host: Dr Jim Russell.

17 October	Towards the place responsive society: an Australian perspective, by Professor John L. Cameron, of the University of Western Sydney-Hawkesbury.
31 October	The epistemology of particulars, by Dr Noel Castree, of the University of Manchester.
14 November	The role of physical geographers in the understanding of the Canadian Cordillera, by Professor Olav Slaymaker, of the University of British Columbia.
28 November	Indigenous movements in transnational circuits: Andean places and global spaces, by Dr Sarah Radcliffe, of the Department of Geography.

16 October	Kenneth Arrow and the high theory of democracy in the 1950s, by Richard Tuck, of Harvard University.
30 October	From Mauss to Levi-Strauss: another perspective on social relations, by Claude Imbert, of the École Normale Supérieure.
13 November	The conundrum of the Security Council, by Paul Kennedy, of Yale University, and Christ's College.
20 November	The death of a colonial metropolis. Yangon (Rangoon), 1940-48, by Christopher Bayly, of St Catharine's College.

24 October	J. Robert Oppenheimer and the crisis of the American liberal intellectual, by Charles Thorpe, of the University of Cardiff.
31 October	Seeing selves: mind, memory, and identity on film 1920-62, by Alison Winter, of the University of Chicago.
7 November	Intercultural encounters and European botanising in India in early modernity: Nicolas L'Empereur's Jardin de Lourixa, by Kapil Raj, of l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
14 November	The Scientific Revolution, modernity, and the West, by Stephen Gaukroger, of the University of Sydney.
21 November	Archaeology and photography, by Kitty Hauser, of Clare Hall.
28 November	Cybernetics as nomad science, by Andy Pickering, of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
5 December	Applied history of science: theory and practice, by Arnold Thackray, of the Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia.

15 October	Networks and novices: Joseph Hooker in Calcutta and the Himalayas, 1848-50, by David Arnold, of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
22 October	Profit and practice: work, medicine, and the 'medical marketplace' in early modern London, by Patrick Wallis, of the University of Nottingham.
29 October	Time and chance: temporal order, natural laws, and artisan experience in early nineteenth-century England, by Anne Secord, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
5 November	Re-framing high blood pressure: the Platt-Pickering controversy and the risk factor approach to chronic disease, c. 1945-70, by Carsten Timmermann, of the University of Manchester.
12 November	Of vitamins and veils: women physicians, transnational medical research, and the framing of osteomalacia in late colonial India, by Maneesha Lal, of Columbia University.
19 November	Seventeenth-century medical practice and the resurrection of Anne Green, by Scott Mandelbrote, of Peterhouse.
26 November	Disease, empire, and degeneration in early nineteenth-century Britain, by Mark Harrison, of the University of Oxford.
3 December	European melancholy and the context of psychopathology, c. 1500-1700, by Angus Gowland, of Magdalene College.

16 October	Questioning the questioner: 'Little Hans', Wordsworth, and 'The Wolfman', by Gillian Beer, of the Faculty of English.
30 October	Zizek on representation, by Sarah Kay, of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages.
13 November	What isn't there in Margaret Atwood's 'The Blind Assassin', by Ruth Parkin-Gounelas, of the University of Saloniki.
27 November	Art as prosthesis: Cronenberg's crash, by Parveen Adams, of Brunel University.

23 October	Experiments in freedom: science, nature, and the Malting House School, Cambridge, 1924-29, by Laura Cameron, of Churchill College.
6 November	Psychopharmacology and the government of the self, by David Healy, of the University of Wales.
20 November	Hate, destructiveness, and the other, by Stephen Frosh, of Birkbeck College, University of London.
4 December	Lacan and twentieth-century science, by Dylan Evans, of the University of Bath.

14 October	Eskimo words for 'snow', Vervet words for 'predator', by Greg Radick, of the University of Leeds.
21 October	The evangelical geologist and writer Hugh Miller: a Victorian hero reassessed, by Michael Taylor, of the National Museums of Scotland.
4 November	Anatomists, animals, and the making of comparative anatomy, 1650-1800, by Andrew Cunningham, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
11 November	'Rock birds and beach blonds': falcon trapping, falconry, and bird banding on the East Coast of America, 1935-65, by Helen Macdonald, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
18 November	'Crunching the gristles of his dying prey': geology as spectacular theatre in the treatises of Thomas Hawkins (1810-89), by Ralph O'Connor, of the Faculty of English.
25 November	Nick Jardine and Anne Secord, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, will lead a discussion of Anke te Heesen's The World in a Box: The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Picture Encyclopedia (Chicago, 2002).
2 December	Frankfurt am Main, 1867: visiting a meeting of German naturalists and physicians, by Ayako Sakurai, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

11 October	The influence of the developmental paradigm and reading history sideways on the history of family studies, by Professor Arland Thornton, of the University of Michigan.
18 October	Disputing the nature of marriage from the Reformation to the 1930s: changing definitions of husband wife and family in Scandinavia, by Dr Kati Katajisto, of the University of Helsinki, and Dr Kirsi Warpula, of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure.
1 November	The historical contexts of South Indian demographic regimes, by Dr Gopinath Ravindran, of the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the University of Delhi.
15 November	Economic growth, energy consumption, and carbon dioxide emissions in Sweden 1800-2000, by Dr Astrid Kander, of Lund University.
29 November	'Marrying at the right age': age at marriage and marriage strategies in Catalonia 1680-1830, by Ms Julie Marfany, of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, and King's College.

16 October	H3 Kuwait: gateway to the Arabian Gulf? by Harriet Crawford.
30 October	Excavations at the Assyrian site of Ziyaret in south-east Turkey, by John MacGinnis.
13 November	Cumulative architecture: excavations at Prissé-la-Charrière in western France, by Chris Scarre.
27 November	Neolithic and megalithic landscapes of South India: the Bellary District Archaeological Project, by Nicole Boivin.

14 October	Global information from local observation, by Dr Laszlo Lovasz, of Microsoft Research.
21 October	Lie groups and their classifying spaces, by Professor Bill Dwyer, of the University of Notre Dame.
28 October	An overview of certain phase transitions, by Professor Jeffrey Steif, of Chalmers University of Technology, and the Georgia Institute of Technology.
11 November	What is elliptic cohomology? by Professor Douglas Ravenel, of the University of Rochester.
25 November	Special values of zeta-functions, by Professor Steve Lichtenbaum, of Brown University.

17 October	Establishing Russian literature: the ruse of the Russian novel, by William Mills Todd, of Harvard University.
31 October	What is 'History'? The case of late Stalinism, by Chris Ward, of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages.
14 November	Building paradise? Russia's obsession with the past, by Jana Howlett, of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages.
28 November	The magic of Russia: witches, wizards, and werewolves, by William Ryan, of the Warburg Institute.

25 October	Authoritarianism and the preservation of heritage and patrimonies in the Mediterranean, by Dr Paul Sant Cassia, of the University of Durham.
1 November	Weber's problem and ours: can charismatic authority be democratic? A discussion using Chinese examples, by Dr Stephan Feuchtwang, of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
8 November	Rethinking tyranny: ataman culture and the political imagination in Outer Mongolia, by Morten Pedersen, of the University of Copenhagen.
15 November	Social transformations in Poland, identities, and European accession, by Professor Dr Zdzislaw Mach, of the Centre for European Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow.
22 November	Authority and the meaning of place, by Dr Susan Benson, of the Department of Social Anthropology.
29 November	Is oriental despotism an Islamic tradition? by Professor Jocelyne Dakhlia, of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.