The following lectures, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:
Criminology. Adam Crawford, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, University of Leeds, will give a public lecture in Seminar Room A, Institute of Criminology (Sidgwick Site), entitled The extended policing family: dysfunctional relatives or painting the town blue? on 25 November at 5.30 p.m. Please note new venue.
Centre of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. Johan Büssow, of the University of Berlin, will give a public lecture entitled Crusades and civilizing missions: religion and politics in Palestine at the end of the Ottoman era as part of the CMEIS Lecture Series. The lecture will be held in Room 13 of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Site, at 5 p.m. on 18 November.
Modern and Medieval Languages. This year's Norman Maccoll one-day Symposium will be entitled Testing limits and crossing boundaries: issues in nineteenth-century Spanish culture. The Maccoll Lecturer 2004 will be Professor Jo Labanyi, of the University of Southampton, who will lecture on Things, copies, fakes: value and the real. The Symposium will be held at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), 17 Mill Lane, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on 2 December.
For further information, a copy of the programme, a description of the papers, and a link to maps and directions, please refer to the following website: http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/spanish/news/, or contact the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Secretary. Please note that there is no fee for this event, only a small charge for lunch: £5 a head (£3 for students). Those interested in attending (for the whole day or part of it) should contact the Secretary as soon as possible but by 26 November at the latest: Coral Neale, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, Sidgwick Site (tel. 01223 335005, e-mail spanport@hermes.cam.ac.uk). Please supply the following information: name, title, and institution; whether lunch is required; student status (if applicable).
Oriental Studies. The 2004 Sir Harold Bailey Memorial Lecture, entitled Ideology, war, and diplomacy: Sasanian ways of dealing with 'Rome', will be given by Professor Josef Wiesehoefer, of the University of Kiel, at 5 p.m. on 6 December, in Little Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, and will be followed by a reception at the Faculty of Oriental Studies.