The following lectures, seminars, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:
Criminology. Professor Martin Innes, of Cardiff University, will give a public seminar, entitled Decoding insecurities and incivilities: a signal crimes perspective, at 5.30 p.m. on 22 February in Seminar Room B3, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue.
East Asia Institute. Seminars will be held on Mondays at 5 p.m. in Room 13 of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue. Further information may be obtained from Dr John Swenson-Wright, East Asia Institute, Faculty of Oriental Studies (tel. 01223 335152, e-mail jhs22@cam.ac.uk), or from the website at http://www.eai.cam.ac.uk/.
| 19 February | Re-evaluating Chiang Kai-shek, by Professor Steve Tsang, of the University of Oxford. |
| 26 February | Seeking pleasure and letting off steam: how older people in Beijing pursue a happy old age, by Dr Anna Boermel, of the Faculty of Oriental Studies. |
| 5 March | Party schools and cadre training in contemporary China, by Dr Frank Pieke, of the University of Oxford. |
| 12 March | Inner party democracy in Taiwan, by Dr Dafydd Fell, of the University of London. |
Gates Scholars' Colloquium. The Lent Term Gates Scholars' Colloquium will take place at 11 a.m. on 18 February in the Gates Common Room, University Centre. Three current scholars will speak on the following subjects:
Fighting for peace: the challenges facing Sudan and the international community on the bumpy road to peace, by Sarah Nouwen
Modelling episome-driven cervical carcinogenesis, by Elizabeth Gray
Charity demands ... , by Vladimir Pintro
History. A joint graduate symposium on Orientalism - Said and after will be held in the Seminar Room, Darwin College, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. on 23 February. Further information is available at http://www.srcf.ucam.org/worldhistory/gradsymposiumlent07.html. Those wishing to attend should register their interest (e-mail id239@cam.ac.uk) by 16 February.
University Library. Sarah Tyacke, CB, will give the Sandars Lectures 2007 under the general heading Conversations with maps: world views in early modern Europe, at 5 p.m. in the Morison Room, University Library, as follows:
| 5 March | 'Then and now' - recent views of mapping in the early modern period |
| 6 March | 'Geography is better than divinity' - the practitioners' story |
| 8 March | 'There are maps and there are maps' |
Further information is available at http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/maps/sandars.html, or from Anne Taylor, Map Department, University Library (tel. 01223 333041, maps@lib.cam.ac.uk).
Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Professor Joseph Silverman, of Brown University, will give the Sixty-second Kuwait Foundation Lecture, entitled The arithmetic of dynamical systems, at 5 p.m. on 20 February, in the Wolfson Room, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road (entrance on Clarkson Road before the Isaac Newton Institute).
Professor Shouwu Zhang, of Columbia University, will give the Sixty-third Kuwait Foundation Lecture, entitled Diagonal cycles and triple L-series, at 5 p.m. on 21 February, in the Wolfson Room, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road (entrance on Clarkson Road before the Isaac Newton Institute).