The following lectures, seminars, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:
Archaeology. Cambridge Heritage Seminar. The Eighth Annual Cambridge Heritage Seminar will take place on 12 May at the Scott Polar Research Institute, and will focus on the visual rhetoric of states and societies emerging from post-conflict and post-crisis situations, and the ways in which cultural heritage is appropriated in this process. The keynote speaker will be Dr Yael Navaro-Yashin, of the Department of Social Anthropology. Further information (including contacts and registration) can be found at http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/heritage-seminar/.
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH). Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate and Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, will read from his poetry and from his memoir In the Blood (2006) at 5 p.m. on 16 May in the Little Hall, Sidgwick Site. All are welcome. Those wishing to attend should e-mail events@crassh.cam.ac.uk to register.
Cambridge Canadian Studies Initiative. Professor Linda Hutcheon and Dr Michael Hutcheon, of the University of Toronto, will deliver the Canadian Studies Annual Lecture, entitled Jazz/opera and the ideologies of race: the example of George Elliott Clarke, at 5 p.m. on 14 May in the Little Hall, Sidgwick Site.
Classics. The J. H. Gray Lectures 2007 will be delivered by Professor Shadi Bartsch, of the University of Chicago, on the subject of Persius: the satirist out of joint. Lectures will take place at 5 p.m. in Room G19, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue.
| 22 May | Persius on the cannibal poets |
| 23 May | Ill-sutured limbs and self-consuming metaphors |
Professor Cassio will also give a seminar on Alcibiades in the sun: the failure of pedagogy, on 25 May at 2.30 p.m., in Room 1.11, Faculty of Classics.
Continuing Education. Research Seminar Series. Professor Gus John, of the University of Strathclyde, will give a seminar entitled Recruitment, retention, and progression of black and ethnic minority students - the higher education challenge, at 5.30 p.m. on 23 May at the Chancellor's Centre, Wolfson College, Barton Road. Light refreshments will be available afterwards. Further information is available from the Research Division, Institute of Continuing Education, Madingley Hall, Madingley, CB23 8AQ (e-mail wmk22@cam.ac.uk), or from http://www.cont-ed.cam.ac.uk/. Those wishing to attend should e-mail wmk22@cam.ac.uk to reserve a free place.
Education. Mathematics Education Colloquia will take place on Mondays in the Mary Allan Building, Homerton site, Hills Road. Enquiries should be directed to Tim Rowland (e-mail tr202@cam.ac.uk).
| 14 May, 5.30 p.m. | Designing an interactive DVD-ROM to portray a case study of teacher mediation of technology-supported graphing activity, by Dr Sara Hennessy and Ms Rosemary Deaney, of the Faculty of Education. |
| 18 June, 3 p.m. | Promoting 'relational equity': the case of Railside School, by Professor Jo Boaler, of the University of Sussex. |
Research Students Lunchtime Seminars will take place on Wednesdays from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. in Room GS1 of the New Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road. Enquiries should be directed to Jenny Symonds (e-mail jes81@cam.ac.uk).
| 16 May | Research youth citizenship identities: perspectives on 'place' and schooling, by Antonia Tereshchenko, of Clare Hall. |
| Untangling the visual: using visual ethnography to interpret young people's use of visual material culture, by Kristen Eglinton, of Clare Hall. | |
| 30 May | Physics problem-solving patterns among KS4 students, by Fatin Allah Phang, of New Hall. |
| From individual to group units of analysis: exploring the impact of family synchronic events on children's self-regulated learning, by Deborah Pino-Pasternak, of Darwin College. | |
| 13 June | Assessing students' mathematics-related belief structures, by Jose Diego-Mantecon, of Jesus College. |
| Self-explanation: an attempt to understand how children with learning difficulties learn, by Qais Almeqdad, of Homerton College. |
A Neuroscience and Psychology in Education Seminar will take place on 22 May from 4.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Room 2S4 of the New Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road. Dr Liane Kaufman, of Innsbruck Medical University, will speak on Neural correlates of number magnitude processing in children and adults: evidence from fMRI. Enquiries should be directed to Nichola Daily (e-mail nd241@cam.ac.uk).
Seminars will take place on Thursdays from 4.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Room 1S3 at the Faculty of Education building, 184 Hills Road. Enquiries should be directed to Sue Brindley (e-mail smb295@cam.ac.uk).
| 17 May | (Title to be confirmed) Professor Stephen Heppell, Government Adviser on Education and ICT. |
| 14 June | Learning to be creative with digital technologies in teacher education, by Professor Avril Loveless, of Brighton University. |
Science Education seminars will take place at 4.15 p.m. for 4.30 p.m. in Room GS5 of the New Faculty of Education Building, 184 Hills Road. Enquiries should be directed to Keith Taber (e-mail kst24@cam.ac.uk).
| 22 May | What is dialogic teaching in science?, by Professor Neil Mercer, of the Faculty of Education. |
| 13 June | A multimodal perspective on teaching and learning in the school science classroom, by Dr Carey Jewitt, of the University of London. |
An Education, Equality, and Development seminar will take place on 30 May between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. in Room GS1 of the New Faculty of Education Building, 184 Hills Road. Professor Stephen Ball, of the University of London, will talk about his latest book with Dr Shailaja Fennell, of the Department of Land Economy, and Professor Christopher Colclough and Dr Rob Moore, of the Faculty of Education. Enquiries should be directed to Madeleine Arnot (e-mail mma1000@cam.ac.uk).
Engineering. Dynamics and Vibration Tea-Time Talks. Talks are held on Fridays at 4 p.m. in Lecture Room 11 at the Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street (unless otherwise stated). Tea is served at 3.30 p.m. in the South Wing Mechanics Laboratory, followed by presentations at 4 p.m., lasting approximately 30 minutes. All visitors are welcome. Please report to Reception on arrival. Further information is available from Tore Butlin, Dynamics and Vibration Research Office (e-mail tb267@cam.ac.uk).
| 18 May | Modelling of floating-slab tracks with discontinuous slabs in underground railway tunnels, by Dr Mohammed Hussein, of the University of Nottingham. |
| 25 May | Driver steering control law development and validation, by Mr Steve Keen, of the Department of Engineering. |
| A neuromuscular model for driver simulation, by Mr Will Hoult, of the Department of Engineering. | |
| 1 June | Vibration control using periodic structural building blocks, by Dr Mahmoud Hussein, of the Department of Engineering. |
| 15 June | Dynamics and vibration poster session (this talk will take place in Lecture Room 4 at 3 p.m.). |
Physics. Optoelectronics Group Seminars will take place on Tuesdays at 2.30 p.m. in the Small Lecture Theatre, Mott Building, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue.
| 15 May | (Title to be confirmed) Professor Mike Ramsey, of the University of Graz. |
| 22 May | (Title to be confirmed) Professor Arkady Yartsev, of Lund University, Sweden. |
Particle Physics Seminars will take place on Tuesdays at 3 p.m. in Seminar Room B of the Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue.
| 15 May | Precision phenomenology for the LHC, by Thomas Binoth, of the University of Edinburgh. |
| 22 May | Review of double beta decays, by Kai Zuber, of the University of Sussex. |
| 5 June | b->s gamma in Belle, by Antonio Limosani, of the University of Geneva. |
| 12 June | NLO QCD corrections to Higgs production via vector boson fusion in association of two jets at the LHC, by Terrance Figy, of the University of Durham. |
Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Professor H.-T. Yau, of Harvard University, will give the Sixty-Sixth Kuwait Foundation Lecture, entitled Dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates, at 5 p.m. on 15 May 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 (CamCREES). Alexander Polunov, of Moscow State University, will give a seminar, entitled Towards the Orthodox Vatican: K. P. Pobedonostsev and the international activities of the Russian Church in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, at 5 p.m. on 22 May in the Latimer Room, Clare College. Tea will be available from 4.45 p.m.