Announcement of lectures, seminars, etc.

The following lectures, seminars, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:

Criminology. Dr Manuel Eisner, Reader in Sociological Criminology, and Deputy Director at the Institute of Criminology, will give a public seminar, entitled No effects? Scientific and political implications of a universal early violence prevention trial, at 5.30 p.m. on 8 November in Seminar Room B3, Institute of Criminology (Sidgwick Site).

Divinity and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Professor Leo Perdue, of Texas Christian University, will speak on Mantic sages in the Ancient Near East, Israel, and early Judaism, at an open meeting of the Old Testament Seminar on 7 November, at 2.30 p.m. in the Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, West Road.

Education. A seminar will take place on 20 November from 5 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. in Room GS3 of the Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road. Professor David Hogan, of the Institute of Education at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, will speak on Strategic educational research and innovation in Singapore. Enquiries should be directed to Sally Roach (e-mail saer2@cam.ac.uk).

German and Dutch. Professor Peter-André Alt, of the Freie Universität, Berlin, will give a lecture, entitled Schiller and politics, at 5 p.m. on 6 November, in Lecture Block Room 1, Sidgwick Avenue.

Leverhulme Public Lectures. Professor Thomas Elsaesser (Amsterdam), currently Leverhulme Visiting Professor in the Department of German and Dutch, will give his second series of Leverhulme Public Lectures, entitled What was cinema, on Wednesdays at 5.30 p.m. in the Faculty of English, West Road, Room GR 06/07.

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).