The following lectures, seminars, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:
Slade Lectures. The Slade Lectures for 2007 will be given by Robert E. Harrist, Jr., Professor of Chinese Art History at Columbia University, under the title Reading Chinese mountains: landscape and the power of writing, on Tuesdays at 5 p.m., in Room 3 of the Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.
| 23 January | The landscape of words |
| 30 January | Public writing and words on stone in early China |
| 6 February | A mountain tomb and writing in memory of a crane |
| 13 February | Writing and representation on Cloud Peak Mountain |
| 20 February | Monumental sutras and the creation of sacred space |
| 27 February | Writing and rulership on Mt Tai |
| 6 March | Elegant graffiti |
| 13 March | Vision, imagination, and names on stone |
Divinity. Henry Martyn Centre. The 2007 Henry Martyn Lectures will be given by Professor Peter Ng, of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, on the subject of Three prophetic voices: the challenges of Christianity from Modern China. Lectures, on the following topics, will take place at 5 p.m. in the Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, West Road:
| 5 February | Timothy Richard - Christian attitudes towards Chinese religions and culture |
| 6 February | David Paton - Christianity encounters communism |
| 7 February | K. H. Ting - Christianity and the Three-Self Church in China |
For further information, contact Polly Keen, Henry Martyn Centre, Westminster College (tel. 01223 741088, e-mail pk262@cam.ac.uk) or see the website at http://www.martynmission.cam.ac.uk/.
Centre for History and Economics. Seminars will take place on Wednesdays at 5 p.m., in the Seminar Room, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane.
| 17 January | The Enlightenment and the origins of modern economics, by William Nelson, of the Centre for History and Economics/Trinity Hall. |
| 31 January | Politeness and work in the Scottish Enlightenment: revisiting the Boswells, by Tony Lavopa, of North Caroline State University/The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh. |
| 14 February | Citizenship and heresy in the later Roman Empire, by Caroline Humfress, of Birkbeck College, University of London. |
| 28 February | Exceptional decisions in normal and exceptional times: denaturalizations in the US, the UK, Germany, and France in the 20th century, by Patrick Weil, of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. |
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. Tea is available from 4 p.m. in Seminar Room 1.
| 25 January | Francis Bacon and the art-nature distinction, by Sophie Weeks, of Homerton College and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. |
| 8 February | From manifest image to Musgrave's problem: some comments on van Fraassen's epistemology, by Paul Dicken, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. |
| 22 February | Reference failure: why worry?, by Christina McLeish, of St Catharine's College and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. |
| 8 March | Anatomical politics and urban transformation in Vienna, 1848-1945, by Tatjana Buklijas, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. |
History of Medicine. Seminars are held on Tuesdays at 5 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Tea is available from 4.40 p.m.
| 23 January | Making more out of meat in eighteenth-century Paris, by Emma Spary, of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London. |
| 30 January | Queer feet: tracing the normal and the pathological in nineteenth-century movement studies, by Andreas Mayer, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. |
| 13 February | Dreams of plenty: domestic economy in the writings of Hugh Platt, by Ayesha Mukherjee, of Trinity College. |
| 20 February | 'The dog days': rabies in England, 1830-1860, by Michael Worboys and Neil Pemberton, of the University of Manchester. |
| 6 March | 'Murderous pity?' Active euthanasia in early modern medicine and society, by Michael Stolberg, of the University of Würzburg. |
| 13 March | Infection and imagination: Robert Koch and tropical medicine, by Christoph Gradmann, of the University of Oslo. |
From Generation to Reproduction. These seminars, which are funded by our Wellcome enhancement award in the history of medicine, are held on Tuesdays at 5 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Tea is available from 4.40 p.m.
| 6 February | Why write a history of both red and green biotech? The controversies over DES in post-war France and the United States, by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, of CERMES, Paris. |
| 27 February | The concept of generation: historical and theoretical perspectives, by Sigrid Weigel, of the Centre for Literature Research, Berlin. |
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. Tea is available from 4.40 p.m.
| 31 January | The mismeasure of stickman: testing intelligence by drawings, by Barbara Wittmann, of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. |
| 14 February | On the metaphysics of listening and lying in psychoanalysis, by Bibi Straatman, of the University of Nijmegen. |
| 28 February | How we became our brains: a historical perspective, by Fernando Vidal, of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. |
| 14 March | 'No! No! Not the comfy chair!' The power of the experimental situation in social psychology, by Alison Winter, of the University of Chicago. |
Cabinet of Natural History. Seminars are held on Mondays at 1 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
| 22 January | Geological deluge and snowball Earth, by Martin Rudwick, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. |
| 29 January | Conquering the world through plants: kings and botany in the Graeco-Roman world, by Laurence Totelin, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. |
| 5 February | Amateurs and pros(e): growing pains in nineteenth-century scientific publishing, by Peter Bowler, of Queen's University Belfast. |
| 12 February | Alchemy and natural history, by Jenny Rampling, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. |
| 19 February | (Title to be confirmed) Joe Cain, of University College London. |
| 26 February | The Earl of Oxford's stud at Welbeck in the 1720s, by Peter Edwards, of Roehampton University. |
| 5 March | Early nineteenth-century provincial geological societies, by Leucha Vermeer, of the University of Leeds. |
| 12 March | (Title to be confirmed) Jenny Beckman, of the University of Uppsala, Stockholm. |
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. 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.
| 24 January | Martial arts and materiality: locating the warrior in Bronze Age society, by Barry Molloy. |
| 7 February | Some early survivals of melody and their implications for the recollection of text in prehistory, by Graeme Lawson. |
| 21 February | The Nubian-Egyptian frontier at Aswan during the sixth to ninth centuries AD: the Fort of Al-Bab, by Alison Gascoigne. |
| 7 March | Genetic analysis of historic cereal landraces aids in understanding the spread of agriculture across Europe, by Diane Lister. |
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.
| 25 January | After Philhellenism: perceptions of the modern Greeks among the Victorian intellectual elite, by Dr Georgios Varouxakis, of Queen Mary, University of London. |
| 8 February | The Parthenon in poetry, by Dr Liana Giannakopoulou, of King's College London. |
| 15 February | An epidemic of dreaming on Naxos in 1930: antecedents and consequences, by Dr Charles Stewart, of University College London. |
| 1 March | Modern Greek in the 11th century, by Professor Michael Jeffreys, of King's College London. |
| 8 March | Recording the history of the Cretan War (1645-1669): an overview, by Dr Tassos A. Kaplanis, of the University of Cyprus. |
MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit. The 5th Annual Sir William Dunn Lecture, entitled Mitochondria in the life and death of the brain, will be given at 4.30 p.m. on 27 March 2007 at the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, by Professor David Nicholls, of the Buck Institute for Age Research, Novato. A reception will be held in the foyer at 5.30 p.m. Further information is available on the Unit's website at http://www.mrc-dunn.cam.ac.uk. For further details please contact Penny Peck/Jean Seymour (tel. 01223 252703).