Announcement of lectures, seminars, etc.

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

Biological Anthropology. Research Seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays, in the Seminar Room, Level 6, Department of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street.

26 October	Molecular ecology of wild gorillas, by Brenda Bradley, of the Department of Zoology.
2 November	Lucy Redux: evolving views of early human evolution in Africa, by Bill Kimbel, of Arizona State University.
9 November	Worldwide genetic patterns in human population genetics, by Andrea Manica, of the Department of Zoology.
23 November	Out of Africa, moving on: clues from mtDNA, by Vincent Macaulay, of the, University of Glasgow.

Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies. Seminars will take place on Tuesdays at 5 p.m. in the Latimer Room, Clare College, unless otherwise stated. Tea and coffee will be available at 4.45 p.m.

25 October	Postconflict intervention into the dead body - the case of the former Yugoslavia, by Maja Petrovic, of the Department of Social Anthropology.
8 November	The anti-Nazi resistance in Bosnia-Hercegovina during World War II, by Marko Hoare, of the Faculty of History and Robinson College. (This seminar will take place in the Thirkhill Room, Clare College.)
22 November	Fighting the famine of 1921-23 in the Urals: American attack, local resistance, and mutual adaptation, by Julia Khmelevskaia, of South Ural State University, Cheliabinsk.

Criminology. On 3 November, Dr Paula Kautt, of the Institute of Criminology, will give a lecture entitled Engineered systematic disparity? Assessing the predictors of the offence seriousness score for federal criminal cases. The lecture will be held at the Institute of Criminology (Seminar Room B3) and will start at 5.30 p.m.

Divinity and Oriental Studies. Old Testament Meetings will take place on Wednesdays, at 2.30 p.m. in the Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, West Road.

26 October	Synchronic and diachronic approaches in the study of the Hebrew bible, by Professor Zipora Talshir, of Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Third Annual Tyrwhitt Lecture).
9 November	The ethics of warfare and the holy war tradition in the Book of Judges, by Dr Janet Tollington, of the Faculty of Divinity.
23 November	Capturing character: the figure of Joshua in the conquest narratives, by Ms Sarah Lebhar, of the Faculty of Divinity.

Earth Sciences. Tuesday seminars will take place in Harker 1. Wine will be served from 4.45 p.m. in the Common Room.

25 October	Intrusion, deformation, and gas discharge at the Yellowstone Caldera, by Jake Lowenstern, of Yellowstone Volcano Observatory.
1 November	What do noble gases really tell us about the mantle? by Don Porcelli, of the University of Oxford.
8 November	Are models of lower mantle mineralogy defective? by Mike Walter, of the University of Bristol.
15 November	Neoproterozoic ocean chemistry, by Don Canfield, of the University of Odense, Denmark.
22 November	Oceanic records of climate change, by Rainer Zahn, of the University of Barcelona.
29 November	Biomineralization in geothermal systems, by Liane Benning, of the University of Leeds.

Bullard Seminars are held on Wednesdays at 3.30 p.m. in the Marine/Wolfson Building Lecture Hall. Tea immediately follows the seminar.

26 October	Microseismicity and the oil business, by Rob Jones, of Schlumberger Cambridge Research.
9 November	Crustal structure of the Newfoundland margin, by Helen Lau, of Dalhousie University, Canada.
30 November	Determining the rates of faulting in Iran, by Richard Walker, of the University of Oxford.

Education. Second Language Education Group Seminars will take place on Mondays at 5 p.m. in Room 1S3 of the New Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road. Enquiries should be directed to Edith Esch (e-mail eme10@cam.ac.uk).

24 October	Discourse information structure and referring to person: how L1 and learners deal with it, by Dr Henriette Hendricks, of the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics.
7 November	The role of instruction and L1 in second language acquisition: the case of French verbal morphology, by Dr Cyrille Granget, of Sorbonne Nouvelle and the University of Nantes, France.

Mathematics Education Colloquia will take place on Mondays at 5.30 p.m. in Room 205 of the Mary Allan Buiding, Homerton Site, Hills Road. Enquiries should be directed to Tim Rowland (e-mail tr202@cam.ac.uk).

24 October	Learning mathematics through discussion: change practices and beliefs, by Dr Malcolm Swan, of the University of Nottingham.
21 November	Can realistics mathematics education work in Manchester secondary schools? by Dr Julia Anghileri, of the Faculty of Education.

Politics, Democracy, and Education Seminars will take place on Thursdays between 5 p.m. and 6.30 p.m. in Room 1S7 of the New Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road. Enquiries should be directed to Carol Scott (e-mail cts22@cam.ac.uk).

27 October	Theorizing, representing, and researching Muslim identities: issues for social justice and democracy, by Dr Louise Archer, of London Metropolitan University.
3 November	School choice and performance in East London - what PLASC tells us, by Dr Tim Butler, of King's College London.
17 November	Black women, education, and real citizenship, by Professor Heidi Mirza, of Middlesex University.

An EARS Seminar will take place on 29 October, between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. in Room 2S5 of the New Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road. Ms Jo Glover, of the University of Central England, Birmingham, Dr John Hopkins, of the Faculty of Education, and Dr Pam Burnard, of the Faculty of Education, will be speaking on Researching creativity: from understanding the developing composer to the use of 'activity theory' as an analytical lens. Enquiries should be directed to Pam Burnard (e-mail pab61@cam.ac.uk).

An Early Years and Primary Group Seminar will take place on 1 November, between 5.15 p.m. and 6.30 p.m. in Room 2S5 of the New Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road. Professor Diane Reay, of the Faculty of Education, will speak on 'I'm not seen as one of the clever children': consulting primary school pupils about the social conditions of learning. Enquiries should be directed to Linda Hargreaves (e-mail lh258@cam.ac.uk).

Centre for Modern Hebrew Studies. The following events will be held at 5 p.m. in Room 8, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue.

20 October	Problems of Holocaust writing - the case of the Seven Dwarfs from Auschwitz, by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev (Israeli Journalists and Authors).
9 November	Biblical narrative patterns in Midrashic and Modern Hebrew literatures, by Moshe Lavee, of Leo Baeck College, London.
16 November	The Israeli cinematic body: from 'They Were Ten' to 'Kippur', by Haim Bresheeth, of the University of East London.

Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations. Seminars will take place at the Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations, in the Old Common Room, Wesley House, on Wednesdays, at 2 p.m. for 2.15 p.m.

26 October	'Under the lash of the Egyptian': Olive Schreiner's women and labour and Jewish biblical history, by Dr Emma Francis, of the University of Warwick.
2 November	Developing public awareness of Christian-Jewish relations: the Hungarian experience, by Ms Judit Hermann, of the Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations.
16 November	Christian monasticism and Judaism, by Mr Nicholas Sakharov.
30 November	Augustine and Judaism, by Dr Chad Pecknold, of the Faculty of Divinity.

Scott Polar Research Institute. The 2005 Stefansson Memorial Lecture, entitled Travelling passions: the life and legacy of Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the Arctic explorer, will be given by Gísli Pálsson, of the University of Iceland. The lecture will take place in the Scott Polar Research Institute, Lensfield Road, on 1 November, at 5.30 p.m. for 6 p.m.

The Antarctic photographs of Herbert Ponting will be on view at the Scott Polar Research Institute, from Tuesdays to Saturdays, from 2.30 p.m. until 4 p.m., until 31 March 2006.