The following lectures, seminars, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:
Criminology. Professor Dirk van Zyl Smit, of the University of Nottingham, will give a public seminar in Seminar Room B3, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue, entitled European principles of prison law, at 5.30 p.m. on 8 February.
Divinity. The following open meetings of the Old Testament Seminar will take place at 2.30 p.m., in the Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, West Road:
| 7 February | Rewriting Isaiah: the case of Isaiah 28-31, by Professor Reinhard Kratz, of Georg August University, Göttingen. |
| 21 February | The third annual Tyrwhitt Lecture: The God of Israel and the dead: a historical survey of religion and theology, by Professor Bernd Janowski, of the University of Tübingen. |
Education. Mathematics Education Colloquia will take place on Mondays at 5.30 p.m. in Room 205 of the Mary Allan Building, Homerton site, Hills Road. Enquiries should be directed to Tim Rowland (e-mail tr202@cam.ac.uk).
| 5 March | Development of a framework for understanding maths enrichment, by Ms Wai Yi Feng, of the Faculty of Education. |
Second Language Education Group Seminars will take place on Tuesdays at 5 p.m. in Room 2S4 of the New Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road. Enquiries should be directed to Edith Esch (e-mail eme10@cam.ac.uk).
| 13 February | Exploring language learning through communication: how far is task repetition repetition?, by Dr Martin Bygate, of the University of Lancaster. |
| 6 March | Insights into optimal and natural language from deaf and hearing children of deaf parents, by Dr Tyron Woolfe, of University College London. |
A School Teaching and Learning Seminar will take place on 6 February at 4.30 p.m. for 5 p.m. in Room GS1 of the Faculty of Education building, 184 Hills Road. Dr Nathalie Muller, of the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, will speak on Using ICT to develop students' argumentation skills: the DUNES (Dialogical Argumentative Negotiation Educational Software) project. Enquiries should be directed to Neil Mercer (e-mail nmm31@cam.ac.uk).
Neuroscience and Psychology in Education Seminars will take place on Tuesdays at 4.30 p.m. in Room 1S7 of the New Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road. Enquiries should be directed to Usha Goswami (e-mail ucg10@cam.ac.uk).
| 6 February | Understanding selective attentional and perceptual abnormalities in autism, by Dr Kate Plaisted, of the Laboratory for Research into Autism. |
| 27 February | Parietal mechanisms subserving the mental number line, by Dr Ed Hubbard, of INSERM Cognitive Neuroimaging Service. |
Arts, Culture, and Education Seminars will take place from 4.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Room GS1 of the New Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road. Enquiries should be directed to Pam Burnard (e-mail pab61@cam.ac.uk).
| 7 February | Creativity as practice: reflection on teachers' meaning making as artists, by Ms Ruth Sapsed, of Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination. |
| 14 February | Research in dance education: old questions, new lenses?, by Dr Kerry Chappell, of the Open University. |
| 5 March | Development of media rich e-learning environments, by Mr John Eyles, of the University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand. |
| 7 March | Shared professional development: reflecting on the roles of teachers and professional artists in participatory arts projects, by Ms Anna Ledgard, of Animarts Action Research Programme, Teacher Artist Partnership Programme. |
| 14 March | The community in community music, by Dr Lee Higgins, of the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts. |
Two seminars will take place from 4.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Faculty of Education building, 184 Hills Road. Enquiries should be directed to Sue Brindley (e-mail smb295@cam.ac.uk).
| 8 February | Learning to be creative with digital technologies in teacher education, by Professor Avril Loveless, of Brighton University |
| 6 March | The teacher as researcher: making pedagogic design part of the move to blended learning, by Professor Diana Laurillard, of the Institute of Education, London |
Words about Pictures: Pictures about Words Seminars (Series 2), jointly run by the Faculty of Education and Anglia Ruskin University School of Art, will take place on Wednesdays in Room GS4, 184 Hills Road (unless otherwise stated). Enquiries should be directed to Morag Styles (e-mail ms104@cam.ac.uk).
| 7 February, 6 p.m.-7.30 p.m. | Children responding to picture books with specific reference to Mini Gray's 'Traction Man', by Helen Bromley, freelance lecturer on aspects of literacy and children's books. (This seminar will take place in the Boulind Rooms of the Mary Allan Building on the Homerton site.) |
| 14 March, 6 p.m.- 7.30 p.m. | Using picture books to introduce children to fine art, by James Mehew, of Anglia Ruskin University. |
| 21 March, 4.30 p.m.-6 p.m. | Illustration - interpreting other people's words with specific reference to a few chosen works, by John Lawrence, of Anglia Ruskin University. |
A Science Education seminar will take place on 27 February at 5.15 p.m. for 5.30 p.m. in Room GS1 of the New Faculty of Education Building, 184 Hills Road. Professor Christine Howe, of the Faculty of Education, will speak on Children's tacit and explicit conceptions of object motion: possible implications for science teaching. Enquiries should be directed to Keith Taber (e-mail kst24@cam.ac.uk).
An Education, Equality, and Development seminar will take place on 14 March between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. in Room 2S8 of the New Faculty of Education Building, 184 Hills Road. Frances Winddance Twine, of the University of California, Santa Barbara, will speak on Cultural capital, class mobility, and contests over the meaning and value of whiteness in multi-racial families. Enquiries should be directed to Diane Reay (e-mail dr311@cam.ac.uk).
Engineering. The fifth Annual Lecture Series in Sustainable Development will take place on Wednesdays in Lecture Room 0 of the Department of Engineering at 5.30 p.m. for 6 p.m. Further details are available from Dr R. A. Fenner (e-mail raf37@cam.ac.uk).
| 7 February | The promise of energy biosciences, by Dr Steven Koonin, of BP. |
| 21 February | When the rivers run dry, by Mr Fred Pearce, of the New Scientist. |
| 28 February | Can we quantify sustainability?, by Professor Richard Darton, of the University of Oxford. |
| 7 March | One planet living, by Mr Pooran Desai, of Bioregional. |
| 14 March | A new sustainable way of life - the sine qua non of human development?, by Ms Clare Short, MP, and former Secretary of State for International Development. |
| 25 April | Why sustainable development might be bad for the environment, by Professor Susan Owens, of the Department of Geography. |
| 2 May | Sustainable development, by Professor Sir David King, Chief Scientific Adviser to HM Government. |
Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Professor Paul Embrechts, of ETH, Zurich, will give the Sixtieth Kuwait Foundation Lecture, entitled A capital charge for operational risk: utopia or not, at 5 p.m. on 6 February in the Wolfson Room, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road (entrance on Clarkson Road before the Isaac Newton Institute).
Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies. Seminars take place on Tuesdays at 5 p.m. in the Latimer Room, Clare College. Tea and coffee are available at 4.45 p.m.
| 6 February | New developments in Russian politics under President Putin, by Andrei Zdravomyslov, of the Institute of Sociology, RAN, Moscow. |
| 27 February | Imperial scholars and minority nationalism in Late Imperial Russia, by Vera Tolz, of the University of Manchester. |
| 6 March | Re-evaluating the village community in Russia under NEP: change and conflict in Nizhnii Novgorod, by Elizabeth Evison, of the Faculty of History. |
| 13 March | Kulturologiia - a new discipline for old values?, by Jutta Scherrer, of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. |