The following lectures, seminars, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:
Linacre Lecture. The Linacre Lecture will take place on 5 May at 5 p.m. in Lecture Theatre 1, Physiological Laboratory, Downing Street. Professor Frances Ashcroft FRS, University of Oxford, will give a talk entitled Unravelling diabetes: from molecule to malady.
Rausing Inaugural Lecture. Professor Caroline Humphrey, of the Department of Social Anthropology, will deliver her Inaugural Lecture, entitled Alternative freedoms? A view from anthropology, to mark her appointment as the first Sigrid Rausing Professor of Collaborative Anthropology, at 5 p.m. on 10 May, in Room 9 of the Mill Lane Lecture Rooms. The lecture will be followed by a reception in the Beves Room at King's College.
American History. The following open seminars will be given at 5 p.m. on Mondays in the Latimer Room, Clare College.
| 1 May | Presidential politics in the Great Depression, by Don Ritchie, Director of the Senate Historical Office. |
| 8 May | The anthracite miners' new deal: coalminers' agency in the Great Depression, by Tom Dublin, of Binghamton University. |
| 15 May | Reconsidering the civil rights/black power movements: the case of the NAACP, by Simon Hall, of the University of Leeds. |
| 22 May | Leo Strauss, the Straussians, and writing American history, by Richard King, of the University of Nottingham. |
| 5 June | Bonds and bridges: social capital and the Southern Christian leadership conference, by Peter Ling, of the University of Nottingham. |
Classics. The J. H. Gray Lectures 2006 will be delivered by Professor Albio Cassio, of the University of Rome, on the subject of Ionian epic and archaic mainland Greece: dialect contact and cultural interaction. Lectures will take place at 5 p.m. in Room G19, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue.
| 8 May | Ajax of Oileus: new life for an old digamma |
| 9 May | Dialect and archaic poetry: the case of Doric 3 |
Professor Cassio will also give a seminar on The winner takes it all: Ionic culture in Boeotia on 10 May at 2.15 p.m. in Room 1.11, Faculty of Classics.
Criminology. The following public seminars will take place on Thursdays at 5.30 p.m. in Seminar Room B3, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue.
| 4 May | Inspecting prisons and the question of effectiveness, by Professor Richard Harding, inaugural Inspector of Custodial Services for Western Australia. |
| 11 May | Research on organized crime, by Gerben Bruinsma, Director of the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), and Professor of Criminology at Leiden University in the Netherlands. |
Divinity. Henry Martyn Centre. Seminars take place at 2.15 p.m. on Thursdays at Westminster College and are open to all.
| 11 May | The bishop and the banyan tree: the place and space of Christian architecture in the Indian Ocean world, Ms Su Lyn Seah of Newnham College. |
| 18 May | Culture, education, and mission in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Reverend Dr John Binns, Great St Mary's Church, Cambridge. |
History and Philosophy of Science. Eleventh Annual Hans Rausing Lecture. Nelly Oudshoorn, of the University of Twente, will give a public lecture entitled From victims to heroes? Rethinking the role of users in technoscience, on 18 May at 4.30 p.m. in the Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.
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. Tea is available from 4.15 p.m. in Seminar Room 1.
| 27 April | Three kinds of conceptual change in natural science, by Marcel Weber, of the University of Basel. |
| 4 May | Picturing the invisible? Scientific photography and the 'optical unconscious', by Peter Geimer, of ETH Zürich. |
| 11 May | Expertise in death: astrology, necromancy, and the Eleanor Cobham episode of 1441, by Rob Ralley, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. |
Special Seminar. Ronald L. Numbers, of the University of Wisconsin, will give a seminar entitled Science and religion among the vulgar: a plea for a non-elitist history of science and religion, on 10 May at 5 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
Psy Studies: History of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Allied Sciences. Elizabeth Lunbeck, of Princeton University, will give a seminar entitled On Freud's narcissism: gender and self-sovereignty in life and works, on 24 May at 5 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Tea will be available from 4.40 p.m.
Criticism and Culture. Seminars are held fortnightly on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. in the Faculty of English, 9 West Road.
| 3 May | The writing of post-war guilt: Rebecca West in Nuremberg? by Lyndsey Stonebridge, of the University of East Anglia. |
| 17 May | Things left behind. Or, what to do with stuff, by Jani Scadura, of the University of Minnesota. |
Cabinet of Natural History. Seminars are held on Mondays at 1 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
| 8 May | Coral reefs and the young Charles Darwin, by Alistair Sponsel, of Princeton University. |
| 15 May | The logarithmic ear: Pietro Mengoli, music, mathematics, and anatomy in the late seventeenth century, by Benjamin Wardhaugh, of the University of Oxford. |
| 22 May | Aliens and useful knowledge: Kant's 'Natural History and Theory of the Heavens', by Anna Märker, of the Max Planck Institute, Berlin. |
| 29 May | Empire and nature in New Zealand: theologies of nature and natural theologies, 1830-1920, by James Beattie, of the University of Otago (based on joint research with John Stenhouse). |
| 5 June | Exhibition and extinction: the display of nature and the development of conservation, by William Adams, of the Department of Geography. |
Modern Greek. The following open lectures will be given at 5 p.m. on Thursdays, in Room 1.02 of the Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue.
| 27 April | What price success? The population exchange of 1923 as a political and moral conundrum, by Mr Bruce Clark, of the Economist (postponed from 9 February). |
| 4 May | When art criticism meets poetry: the case of the post-war Greek poet Eleni Vacalo (1921-2001), by Professor Maria Kakavoulia, of the Panteion University, Athens. |
| 11 May | Richard M. Dawkins - a pioneer in the field of Modern Greek folktales, by Dr Birgit Olsen, of the University of Aarhus. |
Centre for Modern Hebrew Studies. Professor Avraham Balaban, University of Florida, will talk on Motherhood in modern Hebrew fiction at 5 p.m. on 22 May. The lecture will take place in Room 9, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue.
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 G17, Mill Lane.
| 9 May | Contacts across Asia? Millet farming 8,000 years ago, Martin Jones, Department of Archaeology. |
| 23 May | The Tibetan Calendar - a journey from empiricism and reform to pure superstition, Edward Henning, freelance writer. |
| 6 June | Institutional reforms in Mongolia since 1990: restructuring government, Bolormaa Shagdar, University of Plymouth. |
MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit. The following seminars will be held on Wednesdays at 3 p.m. in the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Hills Road, Cambridge.
| 3 May | Prediction of protein structure: state-of-the-art and future prospects, by Professor David Jones, University College London. Host: Alan Robinson. |
| 17 May | Pathogenesis of mitochondrial diseases caused by nuclear genes, by Dr Anu Suomalainen Wartiovaara, University of Helsinki, Finland. Host: Ian Holt. |
| 7 June | Protein storage, prenatal glial activation, and inherited neurodegeneration in ceroid lipofuscinosis (Batten disease) studied in sheep, by Professor David Palmer, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand. Host: John Walker. |
Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Professor Stephen Ross, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will give the Fifty-fifth Kuwait Foundation Lecture entitled A neoclassical look at behavioural finance; a tale of at least two anomalies, at 5 p.m. on 3 May, in the Wolfson Room, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road (entrance on Clarkson Road before the Isaac Newton Institute).
Social Anthropology. The following Senior Seminars will take place on Fridays at 5 p.m. in Seminar Room G2, Department of Social Anthropology, Free School Lane, unless otherwise stated. The common room (G1, ground floor) will be available for tea from 4 p.m. onwards.
| 28 April | Towards an understanding of the second Palestinian Intifada: the attractions of accountancy, Dr Toby Kelly, University of Edinburgh. |
| 5 May | The regeneration of a Catalan village, Professor Sandy Robertson, University of Edinburgh. |
| 12 May | On the return of the younger brother in the Iatmul naven ritual, Papua New Guinea, Dr Andrew Moutu, Cambridge. |
| 19 May | (Un)bounding bodies: rights, mob justice, and occultic protection in urban Tanzania, Dr Richard Sherrington, Cambridge. |
| 26 May | 'Right reading': some Christian approaches to the temporality of scripture, Dr Matthew Engelke, The London School of Economics and Politics. |
| 2 June | Activists and civil society in Nepal, Dr David Gellner, University of Oxford. |
| 9 June | Violent pasts: historical narrative as social practice among the Huaorani of Amazonian Ecuador, Dr Casey High, The London School of Economics and Politics. |
University Library. Sandars Lectures 2006. The Lectures, entitled Word-Diagram-Picture: The shape of meaning in Medieval books, will be delivered by Professor James H. Marrow, Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, at 5 p.m. in the McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College, as follows:
| 11 May | The Sacred Book: In principio erat verbum |
| 16 May | Diagrams of meaning: The architecture of thought |
| 18 May | Picturing meaning in the late Middle Ages |