Cambridge University Reporter


Announcement of lectures, seminars, etc.

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

Classics. Corbett Lecture. Professor Claude Calame, of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris, and the University of Lausanne, will deliver the Corbett Lecture entitled Poetic identity and speech in Greek lyric poetry: from Sappho to Goethe, on 11 October, at 5 p.m. in Room G.19, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue.

Criminology. Kathleen Daly, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University, will give a public lecture in Seminar Room A, Institute of Criminology New Building (Sidgwick Site), entitled Restorative justice and sexual assault, on 14 October at 5.30 p.m. Please note new venue.

Education. A 'Meeting the needs of the most able in science' seminar will take place on 9 October, at 11 a.m. (registration from 10.30 a.m.) in the Science Block, Homerton site. Professor Phil Scott, of the University of Leeds will give a paper entitled Challenge pupils through talk in the science classroom. Enquiries should be addressed to Keith Taber (tel. 01223 507171, e-mail kst24@cam.ac.uk).

Experimental Psychology. Zangwill Club Seminar. Dr Gregg DiGirolamo, of the Department of Experimental Psychology, will give a paper entitled Visual illusions: a little less conscious perception, a little more action, on 8 October, in the Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, Department of Experimental Psychology, Downing Site, at 4.30 p.m.

Centre for Family Research. Lunch-time seminars will be held at 1 p.m. promptly on Tuesdays, in Room 606, Centre for Family Research, Free School Lane, unless otherwise stated.

12 October Changing fathers, changing history: an evaluation of historical narratives of fatherhood, by Dr Tabitha Freeman, of the Centre for Family Research.
26 October Disabled parents: righting the family picture, by Ms Michele Wates, of the Disabled Parents Network (DPN) research liaison, and DPN Handbook Co-ordinator. This seminar will take place in Room B-16, Faculty of Law.
9 November Positive ageing, by Dr Felicia Huppert, of the Cambridge Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Ageing.
23 November Parenting children with educational impairments: qualitative research, by Ms Christine Rogers, of the Centre for Family Research.

Geography. Seminars will be held at 4.15 p.m. in the Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site (unless otherwise stated) as follows:

13 October Mapping the industrial revolution: a preliminary view of the changing occupational structure of England 1700-1871, by Dr Leigh Shaw-Taylor, of the Department of Geography.
14 October Effects of flow regulation on frequency of floodplain inundation, Murrumbidgee River, by Dr Ken Page, of the Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia.
21 October The missing links: a trans-scalar examination of biodiversity patterns, by Dr Richard Field, of the University of Nottingham.
8 November Poverty and famine: Malawi in 1949 and 2002, by Dr Megan Vaughan, of King's College, Cambridge. (This seminar is in association with the Centre for African Studies and takes place in the Centre for African Studies, Free School Lane, at 5 p.m.)
11 November Rethinking citizenship: spaces of 'hope and hopelessness' in South Africa, by Dr Cheryl McEwan, of the University of Bristol.
17 November Geography militant: resistance the essentialization of identity in colonial Ireland, c.1600-41, by Dr John Morrissey, of the National University of Ireland, Galway.
18 November The spaces of modernity in Paris, by Professor Ulf Strohmayer, of the National University of Ireland, Galway.
24 November Quarantine, empire, and anti-slavery: Eclair and Vista incidents of 1845 and their aftermath, by Dr Mark Harrison, of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford.

Centre for History and Economics. Meetings are on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. in the Seminar room, CRASSH, Old Press Site, Silver Street.

20 October An end to poverty?: the French Revolution and the promise of a world without want, by Gareth Stedman Jones, of the Faculty of History and the Centre for History and Economics.
3 November Republicanism and the Hegelian left, by Douglas Moggach, of the University of Ottawa.
17 November Frederick Accum's treatise on adulterations of food (1820), by Bee Wilson, of St John's College.

History and Philosophy of Science. Departmental Seminars. Seminars are held on Thursdays at 4 p.m. in Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane. Tea is available from 3.45 p.m. in Seminar Room 1. Organized by Simon Schaffer.

21 October Sociology of scientific knowledge versus historical big pictures: who needs this opposition? by John Pickstone, of the University of Manchester.
28 October Ecological communities: theorists' projections or natural systems? by Kim Sterenly, of the Australian National University.
4 November Ecstasy and community: William James and the politics of the self, by Francesca Bordogna, of Northwestern University.
11 November The relevance of Aristotle's dialectic to his scientific method, by Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila, of the Helsinki School of Economics.
18 November Rethinking the early history of x-rays in medicine: the case of orthopaedic surgery in the German speaking lands, 1895-1900, by Andrew Warwick, of Imperial College London.
25 November How to produce local knowledge in a European capital: the territorialization of science in Paris from Descartes to Kant, by Stéphane van Damme, of Maison Française, Oxford.
2 December The social transformation of astrology in the waning middle ages, by Hilary Carey, of the University of Newcastle, NSW.

History of Medicine. Seminars are held on Tuesdays at 5 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Tea is available from 4.40 p.m. Organized by Nick Hopwood and Lauren Kassell.

12 October Mr Clever, Captain Chemo, and the elephants: mediating childhood cancer, by Emm Barnes, of the University of Manchester.
19 October Clerical medicine and textual appropriation in fifteenth-century England, by Robert Ralley, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
26 October Replacing the bull with a small glass phial: artificial insemination and the ambitions of interwar science, by Sarah Wilmot, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
2 November 'More copious, and less unaccurate': Robert Boyle's planned second edition of his 'Memoirs for the History of Human Blood', by Harriet Knight, of Birkbeck College, University of London.
9 November Poison, detection, and the Victorian imagination, by Ian Burney, of the University of Manchester.
16 November Resemblance, paternity, and imagination in early modern courts, by Silvia De Renzi, of the Open University.
23 November Flu research after the great pandemic: experimental medicine and the making of a virus disease, by Michael Bresalier, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
30 November Recipe collections in early modern England: women, household, and science, by Elaine Leong, of the University of Oxford.

Psy Studies: History of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Allied Sciences. Seminars are held fortnightly on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Tea is available from 4.40 p.m. Organized by John Forrester and Deborah Thom.

20 October Three varieties of psychology in Spain, 1919-70, by Annette Mülberger, of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.
3 November Survival of the object: does Winnicott's work constitute a change in the symbolic matrix of psychoanalysis? by Jan Abram, of the British Psychoanalytical Society.
17 November Narrating the nightmare: literary and scientific accounts of night terrors in nineteenth-century France, by Lisa Downing, of Queen Mary, University of London.
1 December 'Psychotherapy': the invention of a word, by Sonu Shamdasani, of the Wellcome Trust Centre, University College London.

Psychoanalysis and the Humanities. Seminars are held fortnightly on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. in G-R 07, Faculty of English, 9 West Road. Please note the change of venue. Organized by Mary Jacobus and David Hillman.

13 October The turn of the screw, hysteria, and the cinematograph, by Matthew Bennett, of the University of East Anglia.
27 October Entering the skin of the other, by Naomi Segal, of the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London.
10 November Anecdotal selves: Flannery O'Connor and me, by Claire Kahane, of the University of California at Berkeley.
24 November 'Between the conception and the creation ... falls the shadow': gender, generative identity, and the creative process, by Joan Raphael-Leff, of the Anna Freud Centre and the University of Essex.

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 Melanie Keene.

11 October Francis Willughby, John Ray, and the importance of collecting pictures, by Nick Grindle, of Oxford Brookes University.
18 October Three late seventeenth-century Dutch plant collectors: Simon van Beaumont, Hieronymous van Beverningk, and Gaspar Fagel, by Elizabeth Edwards, of the University of Kent.
1 November John Mill's 'The fossil spirit: a boy's dream of geology': education and the voices of science in Victorian Britain, by Melanie Keene, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
8 November Changing public attitudes towards taxidermy, by Pat Morris.
15 November The community of naturalists in Montpellier in the eighteenth century, by Jim Livesey, of Trinity College, Dublin.
22 November Message in a bottle: the business of vaccines and the nature of heredity after 1880, by Andrew Mendelsohn, of Imperial College London.
29 November Individual freedom, capitalism, and evolutionary biology in the Chicago School of Economics, by Naomi Beck, of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.

Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. Seminars will take place on Fridays at 1 p.m. in Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Department of Geography, Downing Place.

8 October Influenza as a model for the impact of immunity, debility, and selection on mortality trends, by Jim Oeppen, of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure.
22 October The mystery of the dying Dutch: can micronutrient deficiencies explain Dutch wartime mortality? by Ralf Futselaar, of the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation.
5 November Parallel histories of children: experience and expression, children rather than childhood, by Bob Woods, of the University of Liverpool.
3 December Aspects of transformation and adaptation: the changing reproductive behaviour of the English landed gentry, c. 1870-1939, by Mark Rothbury, of the Institute of Historical Research.

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. Seminars will be held at 1.15 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Seminar Room, McDonald Institute Courtyard Building, Downing Site.

13 October Palaeodietary reconstruction using isotopic analysis: the importance of modern control studies, by Tamsin O'Connell.
27 October Quick architecture: the construction of Neolithic long cairns in southern England, by Lesley McFadyen.
10 November The genetics of wheat and barley domestication and the spread of agriculture, by Diane Lister.
24 November How did modern humans colonize Island Southeast Asia? Some inferences from the Pleistocene archaeology of the Niah Cave, Sarawak, by Graeme Barker.

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.

14 October 'Faith and Power (1261-1557) at the Metropolitan Museum': what was the exhibition about? by Professor Robin Cormack, of the Courtauld Institute of Art.
28 October Byron, Greece, and guilt: the motives behind Byron's second journey, by Dr Peter Cochran, of the University of Liverpool.
11 November Four hundred years of Turkish rule - were they really that bad? by Mr David Brewer
25 November The discreet charm of low life in inter-war Greek literature, by Professor Stathis Gauntlett, of La Trobe University, Melbourne.

The complete programme for 2004-05 can be viewed at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/greek/news/mgls.html. Copies may also be obtained from the Secretary, Department of Other Languages, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages (e-mail moderngreek@mml.cam.ac.uk).

Oriental Studies. Japan Centre Seminars. Seminars are held in the Sorimachi Memorial Room (Room 13) of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at 2 p.m. on Mondays, unless otherwise stated. For further information, please contact Zoë Conway Morris on (tel. 01223 335100, e-mail zhc20@cam.ac.uk).

18 October The puzzle of Japan's private universities, by Professor Roger Goodman, of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, Oxford.
22 October Exploring reasons for Dogen's move from Kyoto to Echizen Province, by Professor Steven Heine,
(Friday) of Florida International University.
1 November Writing war: Du Zhongyuan's frontline journalism in the Sino-Japanese war, 1937-38, by Dr Rana Mitter, of the Oriental Institute, Oxford.
8 November Pictures (the most part bawdy): a shipment of paintings from London to Japan, 1617, by Dr Timon Screech, of the School of Oriental and African Studies.
15 November Japanese responses to the resurgence of maritime piracy in Asia, by Dr Euan Graham, of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
22 November Shinkansen - more than just a train, by Dr Christopher Hood, of the Japanese Studies Centre, Cardiff Business School.
29 November Evolving 'East Asia': Japan's perspective and role, by Mr Masafumi Ishii, of the Japanese Embassy, London.

Scott Polar Research Institute. Seminars will be held at 4.30 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Main Lecture Theatre, Scott Polar Research Institute, Lensfield Road, as follows:

20 October Evidence for ice flow direction change in central West Antarctica, by Professor Martin Siegert, of the University of Bristol.
27 October Ice stream switching during deglaciation of the northwestern sector of the Laurentide ice sheet, by Dr Chris Clarke, of the University of Sheffield.
10 November Environmental, social, and developmental problems in the Russian arctic, by Dr Boris Morgunov, of Russia.
17 November Tidal interactions with Antarctica and its ice sheet, by Dr Matt King, of the University of Newcastle.
24 November The Neoglacial (late Holocene) mass balance history of the Greenland ice sheet, by Professor Antony Long, of the University of Durham.

Slavonic Studies. On 7 October, Nancy Condee, of the University of Pittsburgh, will give a lecture entitled Popular culture: Russian paradoxes, in the Umney Lecture Theatre, Robinson College, at 5.30 p.m.

Social Anthropology. Senior Seminars will take place on Fridays at 5 p.m. in Seminar Room G2, Department of Social Anthropology. The common room (G1 ground floor) will be available for tea from 4 p.m. onwards.

15 October Science, biodiplomacy, human rights, by Dr Monica Konrad, of the Department of Social Anthropology.
22 October The generality of well-being: the concept of 'well-being', and the encounter of Jain ascetic non-violence with utilitarian animal liberation and environmentalism, by Dr James Laidlaw, of the Department of Social Anthropology.
29 October Spatial mobility and the Mamprusi King House, by Dr Susan Drucker-Brown, of the Department of Social Anthropology.
5 November Three competing states of mind: prediction, healing, and trance in Mongolian shamanism, by Dr Katie Swancutt, of the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford.
12 November From hitch-hiking nuns to charismatic super-monks: Romanian orthodox monasticism in the 21st century, by Alice Forbess, of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
19 November Capital: a project at Tate Modern and the Bank of England, by Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska, Artists, Chance Projects.
26 November Being with others in the world, by Dr Lisette Josephides, of Queen's University, Belfast.