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Announcement of lectures, etc.

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

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH). The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities is pleased to announce the following events. Full information is available from the Centre's website at http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/eventsforthcoming.html. Alternatively, please contact CRASSH (tel. 01223 766886, e-mail administrator@crassh.cam.ac.uk) for further details.

Biographical knowledge (31 March - 3 April: Peterhouse)

Co-sponsored by CRASSH and the Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles). This conference forms part of a larger programme of activities currently under way at the Getty Research Institute, whose theme for 2002-03 is Biography, and at CRASSH, whose theme for 2001-03 is The organization of knowledge. The conference will explore questions relating to biographical representation in various media and in various disciplinary fields. Conveners: Ian Donaldson, of CRASSH, Richard Holmes, of the University of East Anglia, and Charles Salas, of the Getty Research Institute.

The organization of knowledge (9 - 12 April: Corpus Christi College)

Sponsored by CRASSH. This conference will be the culmination of a series of activities arranged by CRASSH in relation to its current theme, The organization of knowledge. It will concentrate on three main themes: the ordering of the archive; knowledge communities; and the convergence of knowledge. Conveners: Ian Donaldson, of CRASSH, Robert Anderson, of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Martin Daunton, of the Faculty of History, and Richard Drayton, of Corpus Christi College.

Adorno's Schubert: winter study day (22 February: King's College)

An interdisciplinary study day jointly sponsored by CRASSH and the Society for Music Analysis (SMA). Bringing together scholars from philosophy, European literary studies, and psychoanalytic theory, as well as musicology, this study day takes as its central focus Adorno's 1928 essay entitled 'Schubert'. Conveners: Nick Marston, of the Faculty of Music, and Beate Perrey, of University College London.

Criminology. Professor Kieran McEvoy, of Queen's University Belfast, will give a public lecture in Room G24, Faculty of Law, West Road, on Human rights, humanitarianism, and peacemaking criminology in Northern Ireland, on Thursday, 27 February, at 5.30 p.m.

Law. Centre for Public Law. Justice Albie Sachs, Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, will give a lecture entitled Tock-tick: the working of a judicial mind - with fleeting reference to capital punishment, in Room LG18, Faculty of Law, at 5.30 p.m., on Tuesday, 25 February. The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception. Justice Sachs's visit from South Africa is made possible through the sponsorship of the British Academy for which the Centre is grateful.


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Cambridge University Reporter, 19 February 2003
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