The following lectures, seminars, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:
Inaugural Lecture. Professor Bill Adams, of the Department of Geography, will give his Inaugural Lecture as the first Moran Professor of Conservation and Development, entitled Environment versus development? Towards a political ecology of conservation, at 5 p.m. on 8 May, in Room 9 of the Mill Lane Lecture Rooms. Places are limited; those wishing to attend should notify Jayne Vaughan, Development Office (e-mail jsv20@foundation.cam.ac.uk).
Continuing Education. Community Education and Outreach. A research seminar, entitled Time to use the F word again: a plea for the recovery of feminist perspectives in the adult learning debate, will be given by Dr Jane Thompson, of the National Institute for Adult Continuing Education, at 4.30 p.m. on 10 May in the Old Combination Room, Wolfson College. The seminar will be followed by light refreshments. All are welcome.
Criminology. Professor Friedrich Lösel, Director of the Institute of Criminology, will give the 11th Annual Nigel Walker Lecture, entitled Developmental prevention and offender treatment: what does the evidence show?, at 6 p.m. on 24 May in the Seminar Room, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Site. Admission is free, but by ticket only. Tickets may be obtained from Joanne Garner (tel. 01223 335360, e-mail jf225@cam.ac.uk).
Cambridge Socio-Legal Group Occasional Seminar Series. Professor Carol Bohmer, of Dartmouth College, will give a seminar entitled Paradoxes of political asylum, at 5.30 p.m. on 9 May in Room B3, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Site.
Divinity and Oriental Studies. Old Testament Seminar. The Seminar will meet on Wednesdays at 2.30 p.m. in the Runcie Room of the Faculty of Divinity, West Road. Tea will be available at 4 p.m.
| 16 May | The elephant in the study: Barr and Moberly on Genesis 2-3, by Professor Robert Gordon, of the Faculty of Oriental Studies. |
| 30 May | From scroll to stage: the story of Ruth in cantillation and opera, by Dr Helen Leneman. |
History. Public History Seminar. Mark Damazer, controller of BBC Radio 4 and BBC 7, will give a talk entitled History programming and the future of radio, at 5 p.m. on 8 May in the Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College.
Oriental Studies. Professor Lung Yingtai, of National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, will deliver the Annual Chuan Lyu Lectures 2007 at 5 p.m. in Room LG 17, Faculty of Law, 10 West Road, as follows:
| 15 May | Remapping Taipei: how politics transforms a city |
| 17 May | What divides us - a cultural explanation of the China-Taiwan Problematik |
An open reception will precede each event in the Common Room at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue, from 4 p.m. to 4.50 p.m. on both days. All are welcome. Further information is available from Anne-Marie Tucker, Faculty Administrator and Secretary to the Board, Faculty of Oriental Studies (tel. 01223 335107, fax 01223 335110).
East Asia Institute Seminars will be held at 5 p.m. in the Common Room 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/.
| 7 May | Normal firms for a normal country: the transformations of Japanese capitalism, by Dr Ronald Dore, of the London School of Economics and Political Science. |
| 8 May | The enigma of Chinese nationalism: anti-Japanese protests, 2003-05, by Dr Peter Hays Gries, of the University of Oklahoma. |
| 14 May | Fiscal policy in Guomindang-controlled China 1927-45: tariffs, power, nationalism, and modernity, by Mr Felix Boecking, of St Catharine's College. |
| 21 May | Re-conceptualizing risk in Japan: crossing borders, crossing out Japanese sovereignty?, by Dr Glenn Hook, of the University of Sheffield. |
| 28 May | (Title to be confirmed) Ambassador Clark T. Randt, Jr, US Ambassador, People's Republic of China. |
Physics. Cavendish Astrophysics Group Seminars will take place on Tuesdays at 4.30 p.m. in the Ryle Seminar Room, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue.
| 8 May | The evolution of elliptical galaxies, by Marcel Clemens, of the Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Italy. |
| 15 May | A new view of the sun from the Hinode mission, by Louise Harra, of University College London. |
| 22 May | SZ effect with OCRA and AMiBA, by Mark Birkinshaw, of the University of Bristol. |
| 29 May | Modifying gravity and the Dark Matter problem, by Pedro Ferreira, of the University of Oxford. |
| 5 June | Monte Carlo or bust: megadimensional sampling and the CMB, by Jeremy Taylor, of the Department of Physics. |
| On the way to an SZ survey, by Jonathan Zwart, of the Department of Physics. | |
| 12 June | Recent star formation in early-type galaxies: insights from rest-frame UV photometry, by Sugata Kaviraj, of the University of Oxford. |
Surfaces, Microstructure, and Fracture Group Colloquia will take place on Thursdays at 4 p.m. (unless otherwise stated) in the Mott Seminar Room, Mott Building, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue.
| 3 May | Forensic material technology, by Dr. J. E. Balzer, of Kriminaltechnisches Institut, Wiesbaden, Germany. |
| 8 May | Shock generated pressure-temperature excursions in planetary materials, by Dr J. G. Spray, of the University of New Brunswick, Canada. (This seminar will start at 2 p.m.) |
| 10 May | Quantum information processing with silicon-on-insulator based single electron transistors, by Dr D. G. Hasko, of the Department of Physics. |
| 17 May | A mathematician's odyssey into the world of granular flows: from microscopic considerations to a continuum theory, by Mr C. J. Cawthorn, of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. |
| 24 May | Extrapolating from fifty years of dislocation imaging: reaching into the core, by Professor A. Howie of the Department of Physics. |
| 7 June | The dynamics of benzene on surfaces, by Dr H. Hedgeland, of the Department of Physics. |
| 14 June | Systematic prediction of new second-order organic nonlinear optical materials, by Mr N. Z. F. Weng, of the Department of Chemistry. |
Quantum Matter Group Seminars will take place on Wednesdays at 11.15 a.m. in the Mott Seminar Room, Mott Building, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue.
| 23 May | NaxCoO2 and some related materials, by David Singh, of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. |
| 6 June | Exploring metallization and superconductivity in elements and simple molecular systems at megabar pressures, by Mikhail I. Eremets, of the Max-Planck-Institut fur Chemie. |
| 13 June | (Title to be confirmed) Richard Haley, of Lancaster University. |
Mott Colloquia will take place on alternate Wednesdays at 4.15 p.m. in the Pippard Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue.
| 9 May | Time and frequency as new frontiers in microscopy, by Professor A. Howie, of the Department of Physics. |
Scott Polar Research Institute. Dr Alexander Nakhimovsky, of Colgate University, New York, will give a talk and demonstration on Fieldnotes and beyond: annotated multimedia for linguists and anthropologists, at 5 p.m. on 3 May at the Scott Polar Research Institute, Lensfield Road.