Reporter 15/1/03: 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:

Slade Lectures. The Slade Lectures, 2003, will be given by Professor Joseph Leo Koerner on Bosch and Bruegel: Parallel Worlds, at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays, in Mill Lane Lecture Room 3. Please note there will be no lecture on 18 February.

21 January Towards a painting of everyday life

28 January Bosch's world picture

4 February Among idols

11 February Things that talk

25 February Bosch to Bruegel

4 March Unmasking the world

11 March The man without qualities

Computer Laboratory. The Graduate Association (please see http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/UoCCL/misc/camring.html) is holding an event entitled Telecommunications and network, on 23 January at 4.15 p.m., in Lecture Theatre 2, William Gates Building. David Cleevely, Founder and Chairman of Analysys will be in attendance to answer questions. The event is free and unticketed, but capacity is limited. To reserve a place please e-mail jan.samols@cl.cam.ac.uk (tel. 01223 763585).

Criminology. Professor D. Nagin, of Carnegie Mellon University, will give a public lecture in Room G24 of the Faculty of Law, entitled 'Most fall but not all': changes in physical aggression from childhood through adolescence on Thursday, 23 January at 5.30 p.m.

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

22 January Colonial governance: what difference did the League of Nations make? by Susan Pedersen, of Harvard University.

5 February The perils of play: eighteenth-century ideas about gambling, by Justine Crump, of the Centre for History and Economics.

19 February The concept of representation: Hobbes's attempted counter-revolution, by Quentin Skinner, of Christ's College.

5 March Sovereign risk and globalization: an anthropology of the market mechanism, 1870-1913, by Marc Flandreau, of the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques.

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).

16 January Nature exposed: problems of trust in Victorian photography, 1860-80, by Jennifer Tucker, of Wesleyan University.

23 January Constructing historical distance, by Mark Phillips, of the University of British Columbia.

30 January Kuhn: a Wittgenstein of the sciences? by Rupert Read, of the University of East Anglia.

6 February Copernicus and the lodestone: mathematics, magnetism, and astronomy in Elizabethan England, by Steven Johnston, of the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford.

13 February Phenomenal force, by Rae Langton, of the University of Edinburgh.

20 February Walking experiments? From the laboratory to the field and back again, by Andreas Mayer, of the Max Planck Institute, Berlin.

27 February Wittgenstein on accord, by José Zalabardo, of University College London.

6 March 'The very verge of paradox': the worlds of Augustus De Morgan and William Frend, 1827-41, by Joan Richards, of Brown University.

13 March Aesthetics, identity, and the grounding of modern medicine, by John Harley Warner, of Yale University.

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).

21 January Making sense of the modern rise of adult longevity and maximal life extent after 1700, by Richard Smith, of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure.

28 January 'Life depends on blood': blood and the conception of the human being in medieval German medical texts, by Bettina Bildhauer, of Emmanuel College.

4 February Imperial bodies: supplying Viennese anatomy after 1848, by Tatjana Buklijas, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

11 February From kidney stones to philosophers' stone: alchemy and medicine in the works of Heinrich Khunrath of Leipzig (1569-1605), by Peter Foreshaw, of Birkbeck College, University of London.

18 February Bacteriology and the unsexing of disease: gonorrhoea in Britain, 1860-1920, by Michael Worboys, of the University of Manchester.

25 February Harmony and healing: music's role in Paracelsian medicine, by Penelope Gouk, of the University of Manchester.

4 March Wu Liande and the control of cholera in Early Republican China, 1911-37, by Kim Taylor, of the Needham Research Institute.

11 March 'Some observations on poisons': myths and medical meaning in the Early Modern period, by Louella Vaughan, of Oriel College, Oxford.

Psychoanalysis and the Humanities. Seminars are held fortnightly on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. in Seminar Room 2, 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).

22 January The cinematic dream-work of Ingmar Bergman's 'Wild Strawberries' (1957), by Elizabeth Cowie, of the University of Kent.

5 February The insistence of the image: Hitchcock's 'Vertigo' and psychoanalysis, by Mark Cousins, of the Architectural Association.

19 February Imagining reality, by Anne Alvarez, of the Tavistock Institute.

5 March The writing of trauma: Australian Vietnam veterans, by Trudi Tate, of Clare Hall.

Psy Studies: History of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Allied Sciences. Seminars are held fortnightly on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. in Seminar Room 2, 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).

29 January The first experiment in selective breeding of the eugenic era: stirpiculture at the Oneida Community, 1869-79, by Martin Richards, of the Centre for Family Research.

12 February The history of the psychiatric couch cartoon, by John Burnham, of Ohio State University.

26 February Psychoanalysis and pastoral care: Jung, Pfister, and the case of 'Mrs F.', by Andreas Mayer, of the Max Planck Institute, Berlin.

12 March Piaget and Freud, by Gerard Duveen, of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.

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).

20 January Pride goes after a fall: the Cambridge School of Zoology and the death of Frank Balfour, by Helen Blackman, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

27 January Edwin Chadwick's reputation, by Ruth Richardson, author of Death, Dissection, and the Destitute.

3 February Wandering and settling: a paradox of imperial natural history? by Elizabeth Green Musselman, of Southwestern University.

10 February Soldiers, artists, and butterflies: nature as sequence, by Janina Wellman, of the Max Planck Institute, Berlin.

17 February Let slip the dogs of yore: key words and canine breeding in nineteenth-century Britain, by Ed Russell, of the University of Virginia.

24 February A Wiltshire Wunderkammer: William Beckford's romantic natural history, by Alex Marr, of New College, Oxford.

3 March Public events and the fortunes of evolutionary theory in the Calvinist cultures of Scotland and Ulster, by David N. Livingstone, of Queen's University, Belfast.

Land Economy. International Seminars in regional economics, economic geography, and clusters will form part of the Lunchtime Seminar Series, to be held on Wednesdays, unless otherwise stated, at the Department of Land Economy, Laundress Lane, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Convened by Dr Bernard Fingleton (e-mail bf100@cam.ac.uk).

22 January Convergence and cycles in the Euro-zone, by Professor Andrew Harvey, of the Faculty of Economics and Politics.

29 January Cluster dynamics, by Dr Bernard Fingleton, Danilo Igliori, and Barry Moore, of the Department of Land Economy.

5 February Specialization and regional size, by Professor John Dewhurst, of the University of Dundee.

12 February Testing for localization using micro-geographic data, by Dr Henry Overman, of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

18 February The new economic geography: concepts and developments, by Professor Gianmarco Ottaviano, of

(Tuesday) the University of Bologna.

26 February Hype and hyperbolas revisited: market structure and the new economic geography, by Professor Peter Neary, of University College Dublin.

5 March A critical assessment of agglomeration and growth, by Professor Francesco Pigliaru, of the University of Cagliari.

12 March Economic geography and economic geography! by Dr Paul Plummer, of the University of Bristol.

MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit. Seminars will be held at 3 p.m. on Wednesdays, in the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Hills Road. For enquiries, please contact Jean Seymour or Penny Peck (tel. 01223 252704).

29 January Folates in plants: synthesis, metabolism, and prospects for biofortification, by Dr Andrew Hanson, of the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. Host: John Walker.

5 February Pfam: 5,000 families for the molecular biologist, by Dr Alex Bateman, of the Sanger Centre, Hinxton Hall, Cambridge. Host: Jong Park.

19 February Biogenesis of cellular iron-sulfur proteins and the essential contribution of mitochondria, by Dr Roland Lill, of the Institut für Zytobiologie der Philipps Universität, Marburg, Germany. Host: Judy Hirst.

Modern Greek. The following open lectures will be given at 5 p.m., on Thursdays, in Room 1.02 of the Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue.

6 February Re-evaluating family relationships: the Greek novel in the 1990s, by Dr Eleni Yannakakis, of the University of Oxford.

27 February Cavafy and Cantacuzenus: allies or enemies? by Dr Anthony Hirst, of Queen's University, Belfast.

Centre for Modern Hebrew Studies. The following lectures and reading will be held on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. in Room 8, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue.

29 January Man and nature in the landscape of Israel, by Professor Efraim Lev, of Bar-Ilan University.

5 February Forbidden scriptures: Israeli literature re-reading the New Testament, by Professor R. Kartun-Blum, of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

5 March Meir Weiseltier, Israeli Poet, will read from his work.

Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit. Research Seminars will take place on Tuesdays between 4.30 p.m. and 6 p.m., in Room 8, Faculty of Oriental Studies.

21 January Blood, bone, and reincarnation: shifting idioms of kinship in Mongolia, by Rebecca Empson, of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit.

4 February High frontiers:Dolpo and the changing world of Himalayan pastoralists, by Kenneth Bauer, of the University of Oxford.

18 February Integrated ecological studies of pasture problems in Tibet, by Monika Kriechbaum, of the University of Agricultural Sciences, Vienna.

4 March Dhondup Gyal and the search for Tibetan modernism, by Tsering Shakya, writer.

Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. The Twenty-eighth Kuwait Foundation Lecture will be given by Professor Shing-Tung Yau, of Harvard University, and is entitled Conformal field theory and geometry. The Lecture will take place on Wednesday, 5 February at 5 p.m., in the Wolfson Room (MR2), Centre For Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road (entrance on Clarkson Road before the Isaac Newton Institute). The Department organizes these lectures following a generous benefaction from the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences.

Scott Polar Research Institute. Lectures will be held at 8 p.m. on Saturdays in the Scott Polar Research Institute, Lensfield Road.

25 January Life and identity in Arctic Europe: the Sámi people in Sápmi today, by Dr Sharon Webb, of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

8 February The British Army expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula, 2001-02, by Mr Richard Pattison.

15 February The Northwest Passage, by Mr Gary Comer.

22 February Henry Robertson Bowers (1883-1912), by Mr Clive Bradbury.

8 March Surveying in Antarctica forty years ago, by Mr Richard Harbour.

Social Anthropology. Senior Seminars are held at 5 p.m. on Fridays in the 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.

17 January Rivers Lecture. Portraits: visual intelligence and social networks, by Professor Ludmilla Jordanova, of the University of East Anglia. This lecture will take place in Mill Lane Lecture Room 3 at 5 p.m.

24 January Reconsidering witchcraft: postcolonial Africa and analytic (un)certainties, by Dr Todd Sanders, of the Department of Social Anthropology.

31 January Wrestling with politics: musclemen, politicians, and popular democracy in a North Indian town, by Dr Lucia Michelutti, of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

7 February When is law and custom not 'customary law'?: reflections on Swazi data, by Sari Wastell, of Goldsmiths College, London.

14 February Soviet hegemony of form: everything was forever, until it was no more, by Dr Alexei Yurchak, of the University of California, Berkeley.

21 February Fire without smoke and other phantoms of Ambon's violence: media effects, agency, and the work of imagination, by Professor Patricia Spyer, of Leiden University.

28 February Gauging necessity: Ifa oracles and truth in Havana, by Dr Martin Holbraad, of the Department of Social Anthropology.

7 March Ontologies of detachment: bodies, environments, anthropologists, by Dr Peter Wynn Kirby, of Asia Pacific University, Japan.

Table of Contents

21 January	Towards a painting of everyday life
28 January	Bosch's world picture
4 February	Among idols
11 February	Things that talk
25 February	Bosch to Bruegel
4 March	Unmasking the world
11 March	The man without qualities

22 January	Colonial governance: what difference did the League of Nations make? by Susan Pedersen, of Harvard University.
5 February	The perils of play: eighteenth-century ideas about gambling, by Justine Crump, of the Centre for History and Economics.
19 February	The concept of representation: Hobbes's attempted counter-revolution, by Quentin Skinner, of Christ's College.
5 March	Sovereign risk and globalization: an anthropology of the market mechanism, 1870-1913, by Marc Flandreau, of the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques.

16 January	Nature exposed: problems of trust in Victorian photography, 1860-80, by Jennifer Tucker, of Wesleyan University.
23 January	Constructing historical distance, by Mark Phillips, of the University of British Columbia.
30 January	Kuhn: a Wittgenstein of the sciences? by Rupert Read, of the University of East Anglia.
6 February	Copernicus and the lodestone: mathematics, magnetism, and astronomy in Elizabethan England, by Steven Johnston, of the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford.
13 February	Phenomenal force, by Rae Langton, of the University of Edinburgh.
20 February	Walking experiments? From the laboratory to the field and back again, by Andreas Mayer, of the Max Planck Institute, Berlin.
27 February	Wittgenstein on accord, by José Zalabardo, of University College London.
6 March	'The very verge of paradox': the worlds of Augustus De Morgan and William Frend, 1827-41, by Joan Richards, of Brown University.
13 March	Aesthetics, identity, and the grounding of modern medicine, by John Harley Warner, of Yale University.

21 January	Making sense of the modern rise of adult longevity and maximal life extent after 1700, by Richard Smith, of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure.
28 January	'Life depends on blood': blood and the conception of the human being in medieval German medical texts, by Bettina Bildhauer, of Emmanuel College.
4 February	Imperial bodies: supplying Viennese anatomy after 1848, by Tatjana Buklijas, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
11 February	From kidney stones to philosophers' stone: alchemy and medicine in the works of Heinrich Khunrath of Leipzig (1569-1605), by Peter Foreshaw, of Birkbeck College, University of London.
18 February	Bacteriology and the unsexing of disease: gonorrhoea in Britain, 1860-1920, by Michael Worboys, of the University of Manchester.
25 February	Harmony and healing: music's role in Paracelsian medicine, by Penelope Gouk, of the University of Manchester.
4 March	Wu Liande and the control of cholera in Early Republican China, 1911-37, by Kim Taylor, of the Needham Research Institute.
11 March	'Some observations on poisons': myths and medical meaning in the Early Modern period, by Louella Vaughan, of Oriel College, Oxford.

22 January	The cinematic dream-work of Ingmar Bergman's 'Wild Strawberries' (1957), by Elizabeth Cowie, of the University of Kent.
5 February	The insistence of the image: Hitchcock's 'Vertigo' and psychoanalysis, by Mark Cousins, of the Architectural Association.
19 February	Imagining reality, by Anne Alvarez, of the Tavistock Institute.
5 March	The writing of trauma: Australian Vietnam veterans, by Trudi Tate, of Clare Hall.

29 January	The first experiment in selective breeding of the eugenic era: stirpiculture at the Oneida Community, 1869-79, by Martin Richards, of the Centre for Family Research.
12 February	The history of the psychiatric couch cartoon, by John Burnham, of Ohio State University.
26 February	Psychoanalysis and pastoral care: Jung, Pfister, and the case of 'Mrs F.', by Andreas Mayer, of the Max Planck Institute, Berlin.
12 March	Piaget and Freud, by Gerard Duveen, of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.

20 January	Pride goes after a fall: the Cambridge School of Zoology and the death of Frank Balfour, by Helen Blackman, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
27 January	Edwin Chadwick's reputation, by Ruth Richardson, author of Death, Dissection, and the Destitute.
3 February	Wandering and settling: a paradox of imperial natural history? by Elizabeth Green Musselman, of Southwestern University.
10 February	Soldiers, artists, and butterflies: nature as sequence, by Janina Wellman, of the Max Planck Institute, Berlin.
17 February	Let slip the dogs of yore: key words and canine breeding in nineteenth-century Britain, by Ed Russell, of the University of Virginia.
24 February	A Wiltshire Wunderkammer: William Beckford's romantic natural history, by Alex Marr, of New College, Oxford.
3 March	Public events and the fortunes of evolutionary theory in the Calvinist cultures of Scotland and Ulster, by David N. Livingstone, of Queen's University, Belfast.

22 January	Convergence and cycles in the Euro-zone, by Professor Andrew Harvey, of the Faculty of Economics and Politics.
29 January	Cluster dynamics, by Dr Bernard Fingleton, Danilo Igliori, and Barry Moore, of the Department of Land Economy.
5 February	Specialization and regional size, by Professor John Dewhurst, of the University of Dundee.
12 February	Testing for localization using micro-geographic data, by Dr Henry Overman, of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
18 February	The new economic geography: concepts and developments, by Professor Gianmarco Ottaviano, of
(Tuesday)	the University of Bologna.
26 February	Hype and hyperbolas revisited: market structure and the new economic geography, by Professor Peter Neary, of University College Dublin.
5 March	A critical assessment of agglomeration and growth, by Professor Francesco Pigliaru, of the University of Cagliari.
12 March	Economic geography and economic geography! by Dr Paul Plummer, of the University of Bristol.

29 January	Folates in plants: synthesis, metabolism, and prospects for biofortification, by Dr Andrew Hanson, of the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. Host: John Walker.
5 February	Pfam: 5,000 families for the molecular biologist, by Dr Alex Bateman, of the Sanger Centre, Hinxton Hall, Cambridge. Host: Jong Park.
19 February	Biogenesis of cellular iron-sulfur proteins and the essential contribution of mitochondria, by Dr Roland Lill, of the Institut für Zytobiologie der Philipps Universität, Marburg, Germany. Host: Judy Hirst.

6 February	Re-evaluating family relationships: the Greek novel in the 1990s, by Dr Eleni Yannakakis, of the University of Oxford.
27 February	Cavafy and Cantacuzenus: allies or enemies? by Dr Anthony Hirst, of Queen's University, Belfast.

29 January	Man and nature in the landscape of Israel, by Professor Efraim Lev, of Bar-Ilan University.
5 February	Forbidden scriptures: Israeli literature re-reading the New Testament, by Professor R. Kartun-Blum, of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
5 March	Meir Weiseltier, Israeli Poet, will read from his work.

21 January	Blood, bone, and reincarnation: shifting idioms of kinship in Mongolia, by Rebecca Empson, of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit.
4 February	High frontiers:Dolpo and the changing world of Himalayan pastoralists, by Kenneth Bauer, of the University of Oxford.
18 February	Integrated ecological studies of pasture problems in Tibet, by Monika Kriechbaum, of the University of Agricultural Sciences, Vienna.
4 March	Dhondup Gyal and the search for Tibetan modernism, by Tsering Shakya, writer.

25 January	Life and identity in Arctic Europe: the Sámi people in Sápmi today, by Dr Sharon Webb, of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
8 February	The British Army expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula, 2001-02, by Mr Richard Pattison.
15 February	The Northwest Passage, by Mr Gary Comer.
22 February	Henry Robertson Bowers (1883-1912), by Mr Clive Bradbury.
8 March	Surveying in Antarctica forty years ago, by Mr Richard Harbour.

17 January	Rivers Lecture. Portraits: visual intelligence and social networks, by Professor Ludmilla Jordanova, of the University of East Anglia. This lecture will take place in Mill Lane Lecture Room 3 at 5 p.m.
24 January	Reconsidering witchcraft: postcolonial Africa and analytic (un)certainties, by Dr Todd Sanders, of the Department of Social Anthropology.
31 January	Wrestling with politics: musclemen, politicians, and popular democracy in a North Indian town, by Dr Lucia Michelutti, of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
7 February	When is law and custom not 'customary law'?: reflections on Swazi data, by Sari Wastell, of Goldsmiths College, London.
14 February	Soviet hegemony of form: everything was forever, until it was no more, by Dr Alexei Yurchak, of the University of California, Berkeley.
21 February	Fire without smoke and other phantoms of Ambon's violence: media effects, agency, and the work of imagination, by Professor Patricia Spyer, of Leiden University.
28 February	Gauging necessity: Ifa oracles and truth in Havana, by Dr Martin Holbraad, of the Department of Social Anthropology.
7 March	Ontologies of detachment: bodies, environments, anthropologists, by Dr Peter Wynn Kirby, of Asia Pacific University, Japan.