The following lectures, seminars, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:
Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic. Guest Lecture. Professor Michael Chesnutt, of the University of Copenhagen, will give a lecture entitled My life with Egils saga - transformations of a medieval Icelandic masterwork, at 5 p.m. on 5 March, in room G-R05 of the English Faculty Building.
The 2007 Chadwick Memorial Lecture, entitled Order, disorder, and disordered order - interpretations of the world and society from the Pagan to the Christian period, will be delivered by Professor Sverre Bagge, of the University of Bergen, at 5 p.m. on 15 March, in room G-R06/7 of the English Faculty Building, Sidgwick Site. Further information may be obtained from the Departmental Secretary (tel. 01223 335079).
Criminology. Professor Lucia Zedner, of the University of Oxford, will give a public seminar entitled Preventive justice or pre-punishment? The case of control orders, at 5.30 p.m. on 8 March in Seminar Room B3, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue.
Economics. The Marshall Lectures 2006-07. Professor Eric S. Maskin, of Princeton University, will deliver two lectures entitled Is majority rule the best election method?, in the Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, at 5 p.m. on 12 and 13 March. Professor Maskin will hold a seminar in the Hall immediately after the second lecture.
Mathematics. The Rouse Ball Lecture for 2007, entitled The mathematics of epidemics: history of and recent developments in epidemic outbreak analysis, will be given by Professor Sir Roy Anderson, FRS, FMedSci, of Imperial College London, in Room 3 of the Mill Lane Lecture Rooms at 12 noon on 17 May. The abstract is available at http://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/news/rouseball.html.