The Trinity College Birkbeck Lectures for the Michaelmas Term 2005 will be given by Professor Patricia Crone of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, on Civic religion and rationalist thought: the classical tradition in the Near East before and after the rise of Islam. All are welcome to the lectures, which will take place at 5 p.m. in the Mill Lane Lecture Rooms as follows:
| 7 | November | Jahiz and civic religion |
| 8 | November | Materialists, sceptics, and dualists (eighth and ninth centuries) |
| 14 | November | The same continued: Ibn al-Rawandi |
| 15 | November | The philosophers and civic religion (tenth and eleventh centuries) |