The following lectures and seminars will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:
Criminology. Pieter Spierenburg, Professor at the Department of History, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands, will give a public lecture in Seminar Room A, Institute of Criminology (Sidgwick Site) entitled Violence: can historical research contribute to criminological understanding? on 11 November at 5.30 p.m. Please note new venue.
Divinity. The Stanton Lectures 2004-05 will be given by the distinguished American philosopher based at Notre Dame University, Professor Alvin Plantinga, on the subject of Christian belief and science: surface conflict, deep concord; naturalism and science: surface concord, deep conflict. The lectures will all take place at 5 p.m. in the Faculty of Divinity, West Road, on the following dates:
8 November | Evolution and design |
10 November | Evolutionary psychology and Christian belief |
12 November | Methodological naturalism and games scientists play |
15 November | Divine action in the world |
17 November | Evolution vs naturalism: an evolutionary argument against naturalism |
History. Hexagonal Forum. Meetings will be held at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays in the Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building, St John's College.
16 November | Were the French right? French policy and Islamist terrorism, by Jeevan Deol, of the School of Oriental and African Studies. |
23 November | Tintin: De Gaulle's 'only international rival'? by Michael Farr. |
30 November | La patrie du patrimoine? Conceptualizing 'heritage' in ninteenth-century France: a European perspective, by Astrid Swenson, of the Faculty of History. |
Law. The Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures will be given by Dr Hans Blix, Chairman, International Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction; formerly, Executive Chairman, UN Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission, and will be entitled The United Nations and Iraq - reflections on the use of force, on international inspections, and on UN reform. The lectures will be held on Monday, 22, Tuesday, 23, and Wednesday, 24 November at 6 p.m. in Room LG17, Faculty of Law, West Road.
Professor Mireille Delmas-Marty, Professor of Law at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, member of the College de France and of the French National Ethics Committee, will give a paper on the topic of Towards an Integrated European Criminal Law? at 5 p.m. on 9 November in Seminar Room B16, Faculty of Law, West Road.
McDonald Institute. The Sixteenth McDonald Lecture entitled Modern human origins: abrupt or gradual? will be given by Professor Richard Klein, of Stanford University, at 5 p.m. on 1 December in Mill Lane Lecture Room 3.
MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit. The following seminars will be held at 3 p.m., 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).
24 November | Pathways of protein assembly in mitochondria, by Professor Walter Neupert, of the Adolf-Butenandt-Institut Physiologische Chemie, Universität München, Germany. Host: John Walker. |
1 December | Gene-environmental interaction in the aetiology of diabetes, by Dr Nick Wareham, of the MRC Epidemiology Unit, Strangeways Research Laboratory. Host: Sheila Bingham. |
Oriental Studies. Professor Cheng Chung-ying, of the University of Hawaii, will lecture on The metaphysics of the Chinese language, on 18 November at 5 p.m. in Room 8 of the Faculty of Oriental Studies.