Reporter 13/11/02: Announcement of lectures

Announcement of lectures

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

Inaugural Lecture. Professor Mary Jacobus, Professor of English, will deliver an Inaugural Lecture entitled Wordsworth and Winnicott: on communicating and not communicating, at 5.15 p.m. on Tuesday, 26 November 2002, in Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Mill Lane.

E. C. Quiggin Memorial Lecture. The Head of the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, gives notice of the eighth annual Lecture in memory of Edmund Crosby Quiggin, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Monro Lecturer in Celtic, University Lecturer in German (d. 1920). The theme of these annual lectures is The sources of Gaelic history. The lecturer will be Professor Pádraig Ó Néill, of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, who will speak about Biblical study and medieval Gaelic history, at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 14 November 2002, in Fitzpatrick Hall, Queens' College. The Lecture will be followed by a reception in the Monro Room.

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH). Professor Edward Said, of Columbia University, will be delivering the final lecture in his series on Humanism and knowledge, at 5 p.m. in Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, on Thursday, 14 November. The title of his talk will be The example of Auerbach's 'Mimesis'. Further information is available from the CRASSH webpage at http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/events.html. Seating will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

Criminology. Mr Julian Broadhead will give a public lecture in Room LG18, Faculty of Law, West Road, on The prison muse - findings on the inspirations and effects of prisoners' published writing, on Thursday, 21 November, from 12.45 p.m. to 2.15 p.m.

Professor Andrew Simester, Professor of Legal Philosophy at the University of Nottingham and Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Criminology, will give a public lecture in Room G24, Faculty of Law, on Regulating offensive conduct through anti-social behaviour orders. The lecture will take place on Thursday, 21 November, at 5.30 p.m.

Ms Anne Owers, CBE, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, will give a public lecture in Room G24, Faculty of Law, entitled Prisons and protection of society, on Thursday, 28 November, at 5.30 p.m.

French Cultural and Scientific Delegation. On Thursday, 14 November, Gerard Megie, President of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, will give a lecture entitled Climate change and climate chemistry interactions, at 5 p.m., in Lecture Theatre 3, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. In association with the Department of Chemistry.

On Tuesday, 19 November, Guy Canivet, Premier President de la Cour de Cassation (Paris) will give a lecture entitled La question de la responsabilité du juge en France, at 5.30 p.m., in Lecture Theatre LG-19, Faculty of Law, West Road. In association with the Faculty of Law.

Philosophy. 2002 Heffer Lecture in Philosophy. Professor Jerry Fodor, of Rutgers University, will give a lecture entitled Hume versus Wittgenstein: Hume wins, at 5 p.m. on Friday, 15 November, in the Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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