The following lectures, seminars, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:
Inaugural Lecture. Professor William Sutherland, of the Department of Zoology, will deliver his inaugural lecture, entitled New approaches to conservation science, to mark his appointment as the Miriam Rothschild Professor of Conservation Biology, on 3 May, at 5 p.m., in the Main Lecture Theatre of the Department of Zoology, Downing Street.
Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. The inaugural Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture, entitled Out of a Black Hole, will be given by Professor Stephen Hawking at 4.30 p.m. on 9 May, in the Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.
Anyone interested in attending should contact Cheryl Billington (e-mail c.billington@damtp.cam.ac.uk) for a (free) ticket. Further information about the Memorial Lecture series can be found at http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/gr/about/andrew-chamblin.html.
Architecture. Sustainable Design Seminars series 2007. Seminars will take place on Mondays from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in LR4 in the Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, followed by a drinks reception. Further details may be found under 'News and Events' at http://www.arct.cam.ac.uk/. Places are limited; anyone wishing to attend should contact Carolyn Bartley (tel. 01223 331700, e-mail cb520@cam.ac.uk).
| 30 April | Integrated urbanism, by Malcolm Smith, Director of Arup and Design Leader of Arup Urban Design, London. |
| Researching sustainable design, by Professor Koen Steemers, Director of the Martin Centre. | |
| 7 May | Disaster, risk, and recovery, by Yasemin Aysan, Independent consultant, formerly Director of Disaster Reduction Unit (UNDP) and Head of Disaster Preparedness Department (IFRC), Geneva. |
| Building for safety in earthquake areas, by Professor Robin Spence, of the Department of Architecture. | |
| 14 May | A letter to a young architect, by Alexandros Tombazis, Founder of Alexandros Tombazis and Associates Architects, Athens. |
| The weather within: 9 bioclimatic designs, by Professor Alan Short, of the Department of Architecture. | |
| 21 May | Dutch mountains, by Professor Francine Houben, of Delft University of Technology. |
| Sustainable cities, by Professor Marcial Echenique, Head of the Department of Architecture. |
Cambridge Screen Media Group. A screening of a new film about Derek Jarman, followed by a discussion with actress Tilda Swinton and producer Professor Colin MacCabe, will take place on 5 May, at 2.30 p.m. in Room LG19, Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Site. Admission is free.
Criminology. Peter Hedström, of the University of Oxford, will give a public seminar entitled Social mechanisms and the explanation of social outcomes at 5.30 p.m. on 3 May, in Seminar Room B3, Institute of Criminology (Sidgwick Site).
Divinity. The Yerushah Lecture 2007 will take place on 30 April at 5 p.m. in the Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, West Road. Professor Marc Saperstein, Principal of Leo Baeck College, will speak on Ploughshares into swords: marshalling the Jewish heritage in times of war.
German and Dutch. Professor Thomas Elsaesser, of the University of Amsterdam, will deliver four Leverhulme Public Lectures, on Wednesdays at 5 p.m., in Room 3, Mill Lane:
| 2 May | European cinema, face to face with Hollywood: the persistence of a problematic paradigm |
| 9 May | Trusting the other: European cinema before and after multiculturalism |
| 16 May | The film festival circuit: European cinema and the 'World Cinema' network |
| 23 May | Double occupancy and mutual interference: space, place, and politics in contemporary European cinema |
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.
| 26 April | Chymistry and colours: alchemy, matter theory, and optics in the early work of Isaac Newton, by William Newman, of Indiana University. |
| 3 May | Kepler as chronologer, by Anthony Grafton, of Princeton University. |
| 10 May | Williamson on knowledge, by Quassim Cassam, of the Faculty of Philosophy. |
Psy Studies: History of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Allied Sciences. Seminars are held 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.
| 9 May | Children in hospital: attachment theory and psychoanalytic research in post-war Britain, by Michal Shapira, of Rutgers University. |
| 23 May | 'We might as well call it stuff!': A short history of information as a psychological concept, by Alan Collins, of Lancaster University. |
Cabinet of Natural History. Seminars are held on Mondays at 1 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
| 30 April | Anatomist holds model embryo: interpreting a marble portrait from 1900, by Nick Hopwood, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. |
| 14 May | Setting eyes on the holy: the description of sacred sites in accounts of pilgrimages to Jerusalem and the medieval school of seeing, 12th-15th century, by Susanne Pickert, of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. |
| 21 May | Natural history as national history: post-19th century historiography of appeals to nature to establish symbols of Baltic nationalism, by Monika Baar, of the University of Essex. |
Twelfth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture. Trevor Pinch, of Cornell University, will give a public lecture entitled Music and technology studies: from the Moog synthesizer to ACIDplanet.com, on 24 May at 4.30 p.m. in the Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College.
History and Philosophy of Science and Geography. Leverhulme Lectures. Professor Sheila Jasanoff, of Harvard University, will deliver three lectures on the subject of Ungoverned reason: the politics of public rationality to mark her Leverhulme Visiting Professorship in the Departments of Geography and History and Philosophy of Science. Lectures will take place at 5 p.m. in the Mill Lane Lecture Rooms as follows:
| 15 May | Evidence (venue: Lecture Room 1). |
| 16 May | Science and citizenship (venue: Lecture Room 9). |
| 17 May | Reason and culture (venue: Lecture Room 1). |
The final lecture will be followed by a discussion of the series, led by Professor Brian Wynne, of the University of Lancaster, and Professors Martin Kusch and Simon Schaffer, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Further information, including abstracts of the lectures, may be found at http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/events/ or http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/seminars/jasanoff.html.
History of Art. Cambridge Medieval Art Seminars, on the theme of Art and governance in the Medieval West, are held fortnightly on Mondays at 5.30 p.m. in the History of Art Graduate Centre, 4a Trumpington Street. Further information is available from Dr Claudia Bolgia (e-mail cb402@cam.ac.uk), or via the website at http://www.hoart.cam.ac.uk/events.html.
| 30 April | The liturgical turn: how the papal stational liturgy transformed the idea of a Church in Rome between the fourth and the eighth centuries, by Professor Judson Emerick, of Pomona College, California. |
| 7 May | The long goodbye: the artistic patronage of the Italian cardinals 1305-1343, by Professor Julian Gardner, of the University of Warwick. |
| 14 May | 'Locus tabernaculi'. Gothic architecture as sacred journeys, by Professor Paul Crossley, of the Courtauld Institute of Art. |
Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies. Seminars are held in the Seminar Room at the Martin Centre, 6 Chaucer Road, on Wednesdays at 12.15 p.m. Further information is available weekly at http://www.arct.cam.ac.uk/. The seminar on 23 May will be followed by lunch: those wishing to attend either that seminar and/or lunch should confirm to Carolyn Bartley (tel. 01223 331700, e-mail cb520@cam.ac.uk) by 16 May, as space is limited.
| 2 May | The Royal Festival Hall: its design and refurbishment, by Dr Diane Haigh, of Allies and Morrison. |
| 9 May | CABE's experience of design research, by Ms Elanor Warwick, of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment. |
| 16 May | Sustainable suburbia and lifestyles, by Ms Dinah Roake, of English Partnerships. |
| 23 May | The Martin Centre at 40: past, present, and future, a discussion led by Professor Marcial Echenique, Professor Dean Hawkes, and Dr Nicholas Bullock, of the Department of Architecture. |
Mathematics. The Mordell Lecture for 2007, entitled Acoustical spacetime geometry and shock formation, will be given by Professor Demetrios Christodoulou, of ETH-Zurich, at 5 p.m. on 8 May in Meeting Room 2 (Wolfson Room), Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road. A reception will follow.
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.
| 2 May | The archaeology of intellectual life in ancient Iraq, by Eleanor Robson. |
| 16 May | Reconstructing seasonal climate at archaeological sites, by Rhiannon Stevens. |
| 30 May | Alchemy in the underworld (or how to get fat out of a rock), by Alison Blyth. |
| 13 June | Rocks, rhombes, and racleurs - beyond piped music in the Palaeolithic, by Iain Morley. |
Modern Greek. Professor Marc Lauxtermann, of the University of Oxford, will give a lecture entitled Inventing a literary past: the first two surveys of Modern Greek literature, at 5 p.m. on 3 May, in Room 1.02 of the Faculty of Classics, 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 G, 17 Mill Lane.
| 8 May | Sengge Lama: knowledge and time for a Lama at Mergen Monastery, Inner Mongolia, by Caroline Humphrey, of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit. |
| 22 May | Tibet in the origin and migration traditions of Far Eastern Himalayan highlanders, by Toni Huber, of Humboldt University, Berlin |
| 5 June | Pastoral perspectivism and animal self-sacrifice, by Ludek Broz, of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit. |
MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit. Seminars are held at 3 p.m. in the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Hills Road. For further details please contact Jean Seymour or Penny Peck (tel. 01223 252704).
| 8 May | Proteolytic control of mitochondrial biogenesis, by Professor Dr Thomas Langer, of the University of Cologne. Host: John Walker. |
| 9 May | Nitrate reductase of E. coli: probing the cofactor communication relay of a complex membrane protein, by Professor Joel H. Weiner, of the University of Alberta. Host: Judy Hirst. |
Physics. Theory of Condensed Matter Group Seminars will take place on Thursdays at 2.15 p.m. in the TCM Seminar Room, Mott Building, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue.
| 26 April | Multiscale simulations of mechanical properties: from general issues to fracture and friction, by Dr Noam Bernstein, of the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington. |
| 17 May | Record dynamics in spin glasses, superconductors, and biological evolution, by Professor Henrik Jensen, of Imperial College London. |
| 24 May | (Title to be confirmed) Dr Wolfgang Langbein, of Cardiff University. |
Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Professor Henri Darmon, of McGill University, will give the Sixty-Fifth Kuwait Foundation Lecture, entitled Large solutions of small equations, at 5 p.m. on 1 May, in the Wolfson Room, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road (entrance on Clarkson Road before the Isaac Newton Institute).
Social Anthropology. Senior Seminars will be held on Fridays at 5 p.m. in Seminar Room G2, Department of Social Anthropology, New Museums Site. The Common Room (G1, ground floor) will be available for tea from 4 p.m. onwards.
| 27 April | Unconscious culture and conscious nature: exploring East Javanese conceptions of the person through Bourdieu's lense, by Dr Kostas Retsikas, of the University of London. |
| 4 May | What kind of problem is corruption?: political culture and social transition in Nigeria, by Professor Daniel Jordan Smith, of Brown University. |
| 11 May | Violence, non-violence, and blood donation in India, by Dr Jacob Copeman, of Jesus College. |
| 18 May | Stories and pinboards: on foot and mouth and ontological politics, by Professor John Law, of Lancaster University. |
| 25 May | Tabulating loss, information, and future into human remains, by Dr Maja Petrovic-Steger, of Peterhouse. |
| 1 June | Dogon muslims, pagan saints, and other alleged oxymorons in West Africa, by Dr Benjamin Soares, of Afrika-Studiecentrum, Leiden, the Netherlands. |