Announcement of lectures, seminars, etc.

The following lectures, seminars, 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 following conferences and events are announced for the Easter Term and the Long Vacation. All events take place at CRASSH (17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX) unless otherwise indicated. For further information on all these events please visit http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/.

14 May Conference: Skilled visions - Educating attention in the field
20 May Social Property Seminar (two of four): Incommensurability and scale - comparison
27 May CRASSH Open Day (2 p.m.-5 p.m.)
5-6 July  Conference: Migrants, nations, and citizenship (New Hall)
5-7 July  Conference: John Foxe and the Catholic tradition (Magdalene College)
8 July Social Property Seminar (three of four): Refashioning patents: scientific research and the public domain
23-25 July Conference: Royalists and royalism: politics, religion, and culture, 1640-60 (Clare College)

Law. The 3CL/CBR joint one-day Conference on The future of corporate rescue will take place on 22 May, in the Judge Institute of Management Studies, from 9.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. Further information and a booking form can be found on the Faculty of Law website (http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/).

Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Professor M. Aschbacher, of the California Institute of Technology, will give a lecture entitled Finite simple groups, at 5 p.m. on 18 May, in the Wolfson Room, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge (entrance on Clarkson Road before the Isaac Newton Institute). Further information can be obtained at http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/.

Women in Science, Engineering, and Technology Initiative (WiSETI). The WiSETI-Schlumberger Lecture will be given by Professor Julia Goodfellow, CBE, Chief Executive of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) in the Palmerston Room, Fisher Building, St John's College, on 19 May at 5 p.m.