The following lectures, seminars, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:
Inaugural Lecture. Professor Robert Foley will give his Inaugural Lecture as Leverhulme Professor of Human Evolution, on 1 February, at 5 p.m. in the Mill Lane Lecture Rooms. The title of his lecture is Unknown boundaries: exploring human evolutionary studies.
Divinity and Oriental Studies. Professor Ernest Nicholson, of Oriel College, Oxford, will give a paper entitled 'Do not dare to place a foreigner over you': the King in Deuteronomy and the Great King, at an open meeting of the Old Testament Seminar on 26 January, at 2.30 p.m. in the Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, West Road.
Gender Studies. Theory and Methodology Seminars will take place in Seminar Room G, Second Floor, 17 Mill Lane, from 1 p.m. to 2.30 p.m.
| 27 January | Dosing dilemmas for parents of boys taking Ritalin for ADHD: gender, meaning, and action, by Ilina Singh. |
| 24 February | Role reversal and class crossing in British domestic service, 1894-1950, by Lucy Delap. |
| 10 March | Connecting gender and economic competitiveness: lessons from Cambridge's high-tech regional economy, by Mia Gray. |
A mini conference on Gender change in the workplace: the case of the care professions will take place in the Upper Hall, Jesus College, Jesus Lane on 10 February, between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. Speakers will include Professor Carol Black (President, Royal College of Physicians); Professor Linda Mulcahy (Birkbeck School of Law); and Professor Keith Whitfield (Human Resources Economics, Cardiff Business School).
The Eighth Annual Gender Symposium, entitled Ethics, dialogue, and gender identity, will be held on 4 March, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., in the Howard Building, Downing College. Carol Gilligan and Juliet Mitchell will be in dialogue. Speakers will include Diana Coole (Birkbeck College); Judith Squires (University of Bristol); Tracy Srong (University of California, San Diego); Gayatri Spivak (Columbia University).
Geography. Seminars will be held at 4.15 p.m. on Wednesdays and Thursdays in the Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.
| 26 January | Contraception's voluntary empire: health and society in India before the development state, by Dr Sarah Hodges, of the University of Warwick. |
| 3 February | Destroying an industry, remaking places: British coalfields after coal, by Professor Ray Hudson, of the University of Durham. |
| 9 February | Governing performances and spaces of exception: science and the everyday in Berlin, 1919-33, by Dr Alex Vasudevan, of the University of Nottingham. |
| 17 February | Regional inequalities in Europe, by Professor George Petrakos, of the University of Thessaly, Greece. |
| 23 February | From Mackinder to Bobbitt: naturalizing empires through geo-politics, by Dr Gerry Kearns, of the Department of Geography. |
| 24 February | Neoliberalization, by Professor Adam Tickell, of the University of Bristol. |
| 9 March | The politics and geography of old poor law bastardy, by Mr Tom Nutt, of Magdalene College. |
History. Comparative Social and Cultural History Seminars, on the theme of Gossip and rumour will be held on Tuesdays in the Senior Parlour, Gonville Court, Gonville and Caius College, at 5 p.m.
| 25 January | Processing belief: French rumours in the eighteenth century, by Jacques Revel, of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. |
| 8 February | Enforcement or subversion?: on the multivalency of gossip in early modern England, by Bernard Capp, of the University of Warwick. |
| 22 February | Gossip, rumour, slander, truth: categorizing talk about witchcraft in seventeenth-century Rothenburg ob der Tauber, by Alison Rowlands, of the University of Essex. |
| 8 March | Talking books: recorded conversations in intellectual history, by Warren Boutcher, of Queen Mary, University of London. |
History and Philosophy of Science. Departmental Seminars. Seminars are held on Thursdays at 4.30 p.m. in Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane. Please note the change of time. Tea is available from 4.15 p.m. in Seminar Room 1.
| 20 January | Ethnological showbusiness, collecting people, and the natural history of man, 1800-55, by Sadiah Qureshi, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. |
| 27 January | Neo-Darwinian fitness, by André Ariew, of the University of Rhode Island. |
| 3 February | Reduction, realization, and ontology, by Mohan Matthen, of the University of British Columbia. |
| 10 February | John Locke and his notebooks: between memory and information, by Richard Yeo, of Griffith University, Brisbane. |
| 17 February | Borderlands of knowledge: salmonella in the twentieth century, by Anne Hardy, of the Wellcome Trust Centre at University College London. |
| 24 February | Relations among the phenomena, by James Ladyman, of the University of Bristol. |
| 3 March | Ecstasy and community: William James and the politics of the self, by Francesca Bordogna, of Northwestern University. |
| 10 March | Pre-global warming interpretations of glacial reduction: the case of Hans Ahlmann, polar science, and British meteorology, 1930-55, by Sverker Sörlin, of the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. |
Special Philosophy Seminar. On 25 February, Patricia Glazebrook, of Dalhousie University, will give a seminar entitled Heidegger's environmental phenomenology, in Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, at 3 p.m.
History of Medicine. Seminars are held on Tuesdays at 5 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, unless otherwise stated. Tea is available from 4.40 p.m.
| 25 January | Between fact and fiction: bioscientific research and early debates about cloning (in Germany), by Christina Brandt, of the Max Planck Institute, Berlin. |
| 1 February | '... the pharmacist, who was my student in Mecca': pharmacists in medieval Arabic biographical dictionaries, by Leigh Chipman, of the University of Jerusalem. Please note this seminar will be at 1 p.m. |
| 8 February | Mechanical beauty: 'Bildung' and the aesthetics of experiment in nineteenth-century German physiology, by Sven Dierig, of the Max Planck Institute, Berlin. |
| 15 February | Aristotelianism and the development of medicine: the case of John Philoponus, by Philip van der Eijk, of the University of Newcastle. |
| 22 February | 'The proletariat can find in my preparations protection for their corpses': politics of anatomical modelling in the nineteenth century, by Nick Hopwood, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. |
| 1 March | The anatomy of the Pope: modelling the Catholic Enlightenment, by Lucia Dacome, of University College London. |
| 8 March | 1848 and all that: writing public health history beyond the public health acts, by Debbie Brunton, of the Open University. |
| 15 March | Creating the medieval leper: some nineteenth-century myths, by Carole Rawcliffe, of the University of East Anglia. |
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, unless otherwise stated. Tea is available from 4.40 p.m.
| 2 February | From soul to heart to psyche to personality, by A. S. Byatt. Please note the venue for this seminar will be the Faculty of English, 9 West Road. |
| 16 February | From traumatic neurosis to PTSD: putting Abram Kardiner in context, by Ben Shephard, author of A War of Nerves. |
| 2 March | Architecture, psychiatry, and the modernist mental hospital in early twentieth-century Austria, by Leslie Topp, of Oxford Brookes University. |
| 16 March | Beyond containing: middle-class sons and emotional experience in the First World War, by Michael Roper, of the University of Essex. |
Psychoanalysis and the Humanities. Seminars are held fortnightly on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. in the Faculty of English, 9 West Road.
| 26 January | Psychoanalysis beyond idealism: Freud or the cultural script? by Kate Belsey, of the University of Cardiff. |
| 9 February | Legality and affectivity in Cyprus and Britain: an anthropological and psychoanalytic approach, by Yael Navaro-Yashin, of the Department of Social Anthropology. |
| 23 February | Psychoanalysis and the 'case' of adolescence: Sigmund Freud, G. Stanley Hall, and Willa Cather, by Pam Thurschwell, of University College London. |
| 9 March | 'Titus Andronicus', cannibalism, and multiplicity, by Valerie Sinason, of St George's Hospital Medical School. |
Cabinet of Natural History. Seminars are held on Mondays at 1 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
| 24 January | Understanding Caribou: Western biological and Aboriginal traditional sciences, by David Neufeld, of the Scott Polar Research Institute. |
| 31 January | 'To ask questions of men that converse with things': reconsidering the Royal Society's History of Trades, by Matthew Underwood, of Harvard University. |
| 7 February | A splendid idiosyncrasy: prehistory at Cambridge, 1915-50, by Pamela Smith, of the Department of Archaeology. |
| 14 February | Darwin and the imperial archive, by Paul White, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. |
| 21 February | Seminar by members of the Darwin Correspondence Project. |
| 28 February | The culture of donation: the international network of naturalists of the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle of Paris (Chair of Comparative Anatomy in the XIXth century), by Cédric Cremière, of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. |
| 7 March | Linnaeus and the troglodyte: man, beast, and European knowledge of the East Indies in the early-modern era, by Christina Granroth, of Wolfson College. |
| 14 March | Bateson and the doctors: the introduction of Mendelian genetics to the British medical community, 1900-10, by Alan Rushton, of the Medical University of the Americas, Nevis. |
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.
| 26 January | Chinese chariot horses and the evolution of horse husbandry, by Marsha Levine. |
| 9 February | Hominid evolution and the emergence of musical capacities, by Iain Morley. |
| 23 February | The genetics of wheat and barley domestication and the spread of agriculture, by Diane Lister. |
| 9 March | 'Total archaeology' (interpretative modesty) and landscape modelling: David Clarke's Great Wilbraham excavations, by Chris Evans. |
Centre of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. Harry Norris, of the School of Oriental and African Studies, will give a public lecture entitled Islam on the marches of Dhu'l Qarnayn: twenty-first-century Muslims in Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania, and Poland as part of the Centre's Lecture Series. The lecture will be held in Room 13 in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue, at 5 p.m. on 27 January.
Modern and Medieval Languages. Cultural History and Literary Imagination seminars will be held at 4 p.m. in the Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building, St John's College, unless otherwise stated.
| 11 February | French counter-revolutionary thought in British and French historiography, by Bee Wilson, of St John's College. |
| 28 February | The worlds of 1926: German history at the edge of time, by Hans-Ulrich Gumbrecht, of Stanford University (5 p.m. in the Old Music Room, St John's College). |
| 18 March | Rewriting the reformation, by Ulinka Rublack, of St John's College. |
Plant Sciences. Seminars will take place at 4 p.m. in the Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Street.
| 20 January | 14-3-3s as integrators of nutrient and growth factor signalling in plant and human cells, by Professor Carol MacKintosh, of the University of Dundee. |
| 27 January | Signals and patterns in plant development: the shape of things to come, by Professor Keith Lindsey, of the University of Durham. |
| 3 February | The need for winter in the switch to flowering, by Professor Caroline Dean, of the John Innes Centre. |
| 10 February | Potential impacts of anthropogenic climatic change upon the species and ecosystems of Arctic Europe, by Professor Brian Huntley, of the University of Durham. |
| 17 February | The chaperone complex in plant immunity, by Dr Ken Shirasu, of the John Innes Centre. |
| 24 February | Spatial and temporal patterns in the structure and dynamics of Amazonian forests, by Dr Yadvinder Malhi, of the University of Oxford. |
| 3 March | Cytoplasmic male sterility: molecular basis, mitochondria. and programmed cell death, by Professor Chris Leaver, of the University of Oxford. |
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.
| 19 January | What do sediment on the Pacific margin of Antarctica tell us about development of, and late Quaternary fluctuations in, the West Antarctic and Antarctic Peninsula ice sheets, by Dr Rob Larter, of the British Antarctic Survey. |
| 16 February | Periglacial tramlines, palaeonunataks, and the dimensions of the last British Ice Sheet, by Professor Colin Ballantyne, of the University of St Andrews. |
Slavonic Studies. On 27 January, Hilary Pilkington, of the University of Birmingham, will give a lecture entitled Reading Russian TV adverts, in the Umney Lecture Theatre, Robinson College, at 5.30 p.m.