Announcement of lectures, seminars, etc.

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

Divinity. Henry Martyn Centre. Seminars take place at 2.15 p.m. on Thursdays at Westminster College and are open to all.

2 February	Providentialist nationalism and juvenile missionary literature: 1830-1870, by Mr John Brooke, of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
16 February	The seventh in a series of termly seminars in association with the Methodist Missionary Society history project: Indian-Christian theology: two centuries of contrasting dynamics, by Dr Eric Lott, of the United Theological College, Bangalore.
2 March	Missionaries as humanitarians: opposing the Pacific labour trade in the 1860s and 70s, by Revd Dr John Darch, of St John's College, Nottingham.
16 March	Lesslie Newbigin's 'Theology of Evangelism', by Revd Dr Krish Kandiah, of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford.

Experimental Psychology. Zangwill Club Seminars are held in the Lecture Theatre on the ground floor of the Department of Experimental Psychology, Downing Site. Tea and cakes will be served in the seminar room on the second floor from 4 p.m. Talks start at 4.30 p.m.

20 January	Zangwill-Bartlett Seminar: Developmentally appropriate forensic interviews with alleged victims of child abuse, by Professor Michael Lamb, of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences. Host: Trevor Robbins.
27 January	Coping with reverberation in speech perception, by Dr Anthony Watkins, of the University of Reading. Host: Brian Moore.
3 February	Alignment in dialogue: evidence from monolinguals and bilinguals, by Professor Martin Pickering, of the University of Edinburgh. Host: Lorraine Tyler.
10 February	What's new in working memory?, by Professor Alan Baddeley, of the University of York. Host: Anthony Dickinson.
17 February	Autism as cognitive style?, by Dr Francesca Happe, of King's College, London. Host: Lorraine Tyler.
24 February	Lexical and semantic talents and abnormality in genetic disorders, by Professor Christine Temple, of the University of Essex. Host: Lorraine Tyler.
3 March	Preparing mind and brain for a change of task, by Professor Stephen Monsell, of the University of Exeter. Host: Anthony Dickinson.
10 March	Spatial orientation in infants: what can it tell us about landmark representations? by Dr Dina Lew, of Lancaster University. Host: James Russell.

Gender Studies. The Ninth Annual Gender Symposium, entitled Gender and Religion will be held on 9 March, from 9.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m., in the Howard Building, Downing College. Speakers include Dr Diana Lipton, Professor Mona Siddiqui, Dr Anat Scolnicov, Professor Janet Soskice, and Mr Tim Winter.

Gender Theory and Methodology Seminars will take place on Thursdays in Seminar Room G, 17 Mill Lane, between 1 p.m. and 2.30 p.m.

26 January	Muslim personal law and the British-Pakistani muslim women, by Aisha Anees Malik.
2 February	From gender trouble to undoing gender: the changing politics of normative violence, by Moya Lloyd.
9 February	The impact of protracted exile on Sahrwawi gender relations, by Elena Fiddian.
16 February	Gendered body images - do they affect contraceptive uses? by Susan Walker
23 February	A novel take on lesbian marriage in classical antiquity, by Helen Morales.
2 March	Just like a woman: female experiences and explanations of fertility treatments, by Zeynep Gurtin-Broadbent.
16 March	Reading gender into the eucharist: Judith Butler and a Christian eucharist theology, by Joel Cabrita.

Geography. Seminars will be held at 4.15 p.m. on Thursdays in the Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site, as follows:

19 January	Biotechnology, biopower, and the comparative politics of knowledge, by Professor Sheila Jasanoff, of Harvard University and Leverhulme Visiting Professor.
26 January	God on our side? The church and the critical geopolitics of mourning 9/11, by Dr Nick Megoran, of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
2 February	Some thoughts on 'geographical' ethics, by Professor Keith Richards, of the Department of Geography.
9 February	Science, studies, climate change, and the prospects for constructivist critique, by Dr David Demeritt, of King's College, London.
23 February	'Economy' or 'shadow economy'? Definitional criteria and their implications for the regulation of trade in human tissue samples, by Dr Bronwyn Parry, of Queen Mary, London.
2 March	Turbulence and river morphology: processes, scalings, and effects, by Professor Andre Roy, of the University of Montreal.
9 March	From good to eat to good to watch: whale watching adaptation and change in Icelandic fishing communities, by Professor Níels Einarsson, Director of the Stefansson Arctic Institute.

McDonald Institute. A further series of informal lunch-time seminars will be held on Wednesdays at 1.15 p.m. in the Seminar Room on the ground floor of the McDonald Institute Courtyard Building on the Downing Site.

25 January	Some may know how to kill a dragon, but what about how to drink a beer? Archaeological and philological approaches to drinking and feasting in later European prehistory, by Marc Vander Linden.
8 February	High fidelity or Chinese whispers? Quantifying ritual change in the Bronze Age Aegean, by Camilla Briault.
22 February	Ancient DNA from the first European farmers in 7,500-year-old neolithic sites, by Peter Forster.
8 March	Horse palaeopathology: fashioning an analytical tool, by Marsha Levine.

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

25 January	'Hebrew' and 'drama': a contradiction in terms?, by Yossi Yzraeli (leading Israeli theatre director).
1 February	The history of Israeli music since the first Aliah, by Daphne Sadeh (Israeli musician and musicologist).
15 February	The rise of the Hebrew novel, by Michal Arbell-Tor, of Beer Sheva University of the Negev.
6 March	Finding my own voice, by Yehudit Rotem (Israeli author).

Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit. The following research seminars will take place on Tuesdays from 4.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Seminar Room G, 17 Mill Lane.

24 January	Landscapes of Mergen monastery, Inner Mongolia, by Caroline Humphrey, of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit.
7 February	Tourist realism and post-exoticism: how the shaman became entrepreneur (a case study on the influences of tourism in North Mongolia), by Laetitia Merli, of l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris.
21 February	Mongolian Buddhist monasteries in present-day northern China: a comparative study of Liaoning and Inner Mongolia, by S. Erhimbayar, of Inner Mongolia University.
7 March	Conversion to religion? Becoming a real nation in contemporary Altai, by Ludek Broz, of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit.

Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Kuwait Foundation Lectures for the academical year 2005-06 will take place at 5 p.m. in the Wolfson Room at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road. Further information can be obtained from http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/.

14 February	Symmetries of algebraic numbers, by Professor Avner Ash, of Boston College.
23 February	Recent progress on Langlands functoriality: inner forms of GL(N), by Professor Guy Henniart, of the University of Paris, Orsay.
7 March	Counting number fields, by Professor Gunter Malle, of Kaiserlautern.
3 May	A neoclassical look at behavioural finance; a tale of at least two anomalies, by Professor Stephen Ross, of the Massachussets Institute of Technology.
16 May	Weil-etale cohomology, by Professor Matthias Flach, of the California Institute of Technology.
23 May	Tropical geometry, by Professor Bernd Sturmfels, of the University of California, Berkeley.