Cambridge University Reporter


EVENTS, COURSES, ETC.

Announcement of lectures, seminars, etc.

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

Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic. Graduate Seminar Series. Seminars will be held on Mondays at 5 p.m. in rooms G-R06/7 of the English Faculty Building, 9 West Road.

18 February Treacherous earls and wayward queens: reclaiming the lost literature of Anglo-Saxon England, by Dr Martha Bayless, of the University of Oregon.
3 March Who read Aethelbert's letter: translation and mediation in the Old English Bede, by Dr Sharon Rowley, of Christopher Newport University.

Criminology. Professor Dr Albin Eser, Director Emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg, Germany, will give a public seminar, entitled Challenges of international criminal justice: lessons from the Hague, at 5.30 p.m. on 21 February in Seminar Room B3 at the Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue.

University Library. Professor Peter Kornicki, of the Department of East Asian Studies, will deliver the Sandars Lectures 2008, under the general heading Having difficulty with Chinese? - the rise of the vernacular book in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, at 5 p.m. in the Morison Room, Cambridge University Library, as follows:

10 March The Latin of East Asia?
11 March Bluffing your way in Chinese
13 March 'Little Chinese, less Manchu'

The lectures will be illustrated and no knowledge of Chinese is assumed. Some of the books used to illustrate the argument will be available for close examination after each lecture.

Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit. Dr Vladimir Boyko, Visiting Scholar at the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, will present a lunchtime seminar, entitled New regionalism in Inner Asia: the Greater Altai case, at 1 p.m. on 19 February in the seminar room, the Mond Building, Free School Lane.

Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Professor Terry Speed, of UC Berkeley, will give the Seventy-Third Kuwait Foundation Lecture entitled Technology-driven statistics, at 5 p.m. on 19 February, in the Wolfson Room, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road (entrance on Clarkson Road before the Isaac Newton Institute).