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Announcement of lectures, seminars, etc.

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

Archaeology. Garrod Research Seminars will take place on Thursdays at 4.30 p.m. in the McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Downing Site.

6 February The 'Stonehenge experience' - why should we bother? Examining the controversy, by Dr Brian Davison, former Inspector of Ancient Monuments with responsibility for Stonehenge.
20 February A rural arena - developing archaeological policy towards the countryside, by Dr Vince Holyoak, of English Heritage.
6 March The long-term sustainability of landscapes - identifying soil management in the archaeological record, by Dr Charly French, of the Department of Archaeology.

Computer Laboratory. There will be a meeting at Microsoft Research Limited, entitled Roger Needham: 50 and 5, on 17 February, to celebrate Roger Needham's fifty years in Cambridge and five years at Microsoft Research.

There will be technical talks and some short personal talks, followed by a presentation. For programme details please see http://www.research.microsoft.com/~aherbert/needham_50_5.aspx. Note that the programme order may change; please check.

Space in the Microsoft Lecture Theatre is limited. Tickets, on a first come, first served basis are available during office hours from the Microsoft Research reception desk.

There will also be a video recording of the meeting, live to the Computer Laboratory's Seminar Room and, hopefully, to the public Internet network. The video recording should also be available after the meeting. See http://www.research.microsoft. com/~aherbert/video.aspx for details.

Criminology. The following lectures will take place on Thursdays at 5.30 p.m., in Room G24, Faculty of Law, West Road.

13 February Is prison reform possible? by Professor Pat Carlen, of Keele University, and the University of Westminster.
20 February Victimization and offending: two sides of the same coin? by Professor David J. Smith, of the University of Edinburgh.

Divinity. Revd Canon Andrew White (the Archbishop of Canterbury's Special Representative to the Middle East) will lecture at 5 p.m. on 18 February, on The role of religion in the Middle East conflict. The lecture will take place in the Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, West Road, and will be followed by a wine reception.

Music. The Donald Wort Lecture Series, 2003, will be given by Professor Carolyn Abbate, of Princeton University. The first two lectures in the series of four will be held at 5 p.m. in the University Music School, 11 West Road. (Please note that the dates have changed from those advertised in the Special edition of the Lecture-list for Lent Term 2003.)

10 February Between Cipher and performance
12 February Terminal hermeneutics

Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. The Twenty-ninth Kuwait Foundation Lecture, entitled P-adic Galois representations, will be given by Professor Jean-Marc Fontaine, of the Université Paris-Sud, and will be held at 5 p.m. in Meeting Room 2 (Wolfson Room), Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road (entrance near the Isaac Newton Institute on Clarkson Road).

University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate and its Advisory Council for New Technologies in Assessment. A seminar entitled Current and future possibilities, the evolving role of ICT in developing education, will be given at 4.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 11 February, in the Music Room, Downing College, Regent Street. The speakers will be Dr John O'Donoghue, of the University of Wolverhampton, and Ms Jackie Bawden, of the Qualifications Curriculum Authority. For further details please see http://ital.ucles-red.cam.ac.uk/ACNTA/.

University Library. Anne Stevenson will give a talk entitled Coming back to Cambridge, with readings from her poetry, on Wednesday, 12 February, at 5.15 p.m. in the Morison Room, University Library, West Road.


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Cambridge University Reporter, 5 February 2003
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