Cambridge University Reporter

Announcement of lectures, seminars, etc.

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

Divinity. Henry Martyn Centre. The Henry Martyn Lent Term Seminars 2008 will take place at Westminster College on Thursdays at 2.15 p.m. as follows:

31 January Korean Presbyterians and the rise of non-Western missions, by Kyo Seong Ahn, of Fitzwilliam College.
14 February The influence of Sierra Leone on Methodist mission thought and practice, by Professor Andrew Walls, of the University of Edinburgh. This is the eleventh in a series of termly seminars in association with the Methodist Missionary Society history project.
28 February Missionary cosmopolitanism? London Missionary Society and Catholic interactions with India's Deccan Society, 1810-1860, by Dr Chandra Mallampalli, of Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California.
6 March Asian Pentecostalism: the spirit and the context, by Dr Wonsuk Ma, of the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies.

Further information may be obtained from Polly Keen, Henry Martyn Centre, Westminster College (tel. 01223 741088, e-mail pk262@cam.ac.uk), or from the website at http://www.martynmission.cam.ac.uk/.

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.

17 January Biographical medicine: London consultants explain disease, by Harry M. Marks, of Johns Hopkins University.
24 January Natural purposes, Kantian analogies, and environmental ethics, by Angela Breitenbach, of Sidney Sussex College.
31 January Thatcher, scientist, by Jon Agar, of University College London.
7 February Rival theories of the aerofoil: 1909-1926, by David Bloor, of the University of Edinburgh.
14 February Contracting the philosopher's stone: fraud, risk, and profit in early modern alchemy, by Tara Nummedal, of Brown University.
21 February Walking as a problem of the nineteenth century, by Andreas Mayer, of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.
28 February A Roman engineer's tales, by Serafina Cuomo, of Birkbeck, University of London.
6 March The politics and physiology of laughter in eighteenth-century France: the Saint-Aubins' Livre des Culs, by Colin Jones and Emily Richardson, of Queen Mary, University of London.

History of Medicine. Seminars are held on Tuesdays at 5 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Tea is available from 4.40 p.m.

15 January Negotiating masculinity: hermaphrodites and sexual difference in early modern France, by Cathy McClive, of Durham University.
5 February Serving men, serving gods: doctors and musicians in the ancient Greek world, by Natacha Massar, of the Free University of Brussels.
12 February Biotrash: medical garbage in India, by Sarah Hodges, of the University of Warwick.
26 February Thomas Willis and the pathology of sleep disorders, by Sasha Handley, of the University of Manchester.
4 March Working with beasts: animal societies in 20th-century popular culture, by Amanda Rees, of the University of York.

From Generation to Reproduction. These seminars, which are funded by our Wellcome enhancement award in the history of medicine, are held on Tuesdays at 5 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Tea is available from 4.40 p.m.

29 January Embryo genesis: how a handful of scientists produced an American origin story, by Lynn Morgan, of Mount Holyoke College.
19 February Reproduction and religion: paediatrics and devotion to the Christ Child in the Central Middle Ages, by William MacLehose, of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine.

Cabinet of Natural History. Seminars are held on Mondays at 1 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

21 January 'What is meant by this system?' Charles Darwin and the visual re-ordering of nature, by Nicola Gauld, of the Fitzwilliam Museum.
28 January Skulls, science, and the spoils of war: frontier violence and the creation of the US Army Medical Museum's cranial collection, 1869-1900, by Elise Juzda, of the Faculty of History.
4 February Cartographies of a scientific county: mapping Cornwall, by Simon Naylor, of the University of Exeter.
11 February Gideon Mantell, Thomas Hardy, and the politics of geological knowledge, by Adelene Buckland, of the Cambridge Victorian Studies Group.
18 February Distancing animals in medieval chronicles, by Brigitte Resl, of the University of Liverpool.
25 February Transatlantic hum: Mexican hummingbirds and the French encyclopedic project, by Iris Montero Sobrevilla, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
3 March Locating species identity: towards a biogeography of transgenic life, by Gail Davies, of University College London.
10 March Saved by servitude: the display of horses at the Natural History Museum in London, by Allison Ksiazkiewicz, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations. Plenary Lectures 2007-08. Lectures take place on Wednesdays at 2 p.m. in the Old Common Room, Wesley House, Jesus Lane.

23 January Jewish-Christian encounter after Rosenzweig: Between or beyond war and politics?, by Dr George Wilkes, of St Edmund's College.
30 January Jewish-Christian relations and the cinema, by Dr Melanie J. Wright, of the Open University.
6 February Identity in Israeli literature, by Dr Tamar Drukker, of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
13 February (Title to be confirmed) Dr Simon J. Gathercole, Faculty of Divinity.
20 February Religion and the development of secular constitutionalism in Tomáš Masaryk, 1890-1920, by Ms Lucia Faltin, of the Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations.
27 February Continuity and change in twelfth century Christian-Jewish relation, by Dr Anna Abulafia, of Lucy Cavendish College.
5 March Continuing Jewish use of the Christian Septuagint, by Dr James Aitken, of the Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations.
12 March Catholic-Jewish relations: the state of play, by Revd Professor John Pawlikowski, of the Catholic Theological Union, Chicago.

Modern Greek. The following open lectures will be given at 5 p.m., on Thursdays, in Room 1.02 of the Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue.

31 January Militant intellectuals against the literary establishment: Giorgos Kotzioulas and Giannis Skarimbas (1935-1952), by Dr Athina Vogiatzoglou, of the University of Ioannina.
14 February Why Greek vowels aren't boring, by Professor Peter Trudgill, of the University of East Anglia.
28 February Erotokritos into music, by Dr Natalia Deliyannaki.
6 March Adamantios Korais and the dilemmas of liberal nationalism, by Professor Paschalis Kitromilides, of the University of Athens.

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).

16 January In vivo models of mitochondrial disorders: confirmations, lessons, and some surprises, by Professor Massimo Zeviani, of the National Institute of Neurology, Milan. Hosts: Graduate Student Society.
23 January Who chaperones mitochondrial DNA?, by Dr Jarosław Marszałek, of the University of Gdańsk, Poland. Host: Ian Holt.

Philosophy. Professor Andy Clark, of the University of Edinburgh, will give the Routledge Lecture in Philosophy, entitled Messy minds: embodiment, action, and explanation in 21st-century cognitive science, at 5.15 p.m. on 31 January, in the Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Professor Jianqing Fan, of Princeton University, will give the Seventieth Kuwait Foundation Lecture, entitled Estimation of large covariance matrix, at 5 p.m. on 15 January, in the Wolfson Room, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road (entrance on Clarkson Road before the Isaac Newton Institute).