Reporter 20/11/02: Announcement of lectures, seminars, etc.

Announcement of lectures, seminars, etc.

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

Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic. Professor Fred Biggs, of the the University of Connecticut, will give a lecture entitled Fit 31 of Beowulf, on Thursday, 21 November, at 5 p.m. in the Ramsden Room, St Catharine's College.

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH). Irma Brenman Pick, of the British Psychoanalytical Society, will be giving the third lecture in the series entitled Certainty, uncertainty, and meaning, at 8 p.m. on Thursday, 21 November, in the Lloyd Room, Christ's College. The title of her talk will be Dangling in uncertainty. Further information about the lecture series is available at http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/eventsforthcoming.html.

Modern and Medieval Languages. Norman Maccoll Lecture 2002. Professor Henry Ettinghausen will deliver a lecture entitled Read all about it: broadsheets and tabloids in early seventeenth-century Spain, at 5.15 p.m., on Wednesday, 27 November, at Gonville and Caius College.

Department of Spanish and Portuguese Annual Symposium. This year's theme will be Current perspectives in golden-age studies: text and context, and will be held on Friday, 29 November, at Gonville and Caius College.

(Further details on these events are displayed on the departmental webpage at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/news/.)

Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. The Twenty-seventh Kuwait Foundation Lecture will be given by Professor Spencer Bloch, on Periods associated to linear differential equations, on Tuesday, 3 December, at 5 p.m., in the Wolfson Room (MR2), at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road. (Entrance on Clarkson Road, before the Isaac Newton Institute.)

University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate and its Advisory Council for New Technologies in Assessment. A seminar entitled Questionbanks and answergardens, will be given at 4.30 p.m. on Thursday, 21 November, in the Music Room, Downing College. The speakers will be Professor Grainne Conole, of the University of Southampton, and Professor Terry Mayes, of Glasgow Caledonian University. For further details please see http://ital.ucles-red.cam.ac.uk/ACNTA/.

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