Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies (CamCREES). Seminars will take place on Tuesdays at 5 p.m. in the Latimer Room, Clare College, unless otherwise noted. Tea and coffee will be available from 4.45 p.m.
| 4 November | Minority conflicts and their role in the latest Georgian Russian crisis, by Mr Malkhaz Gulashvili, of the Georgian Times Media Holding, Tbilisi. |
| 11 November | Narratives of adversity: Jesuit missionaries and teachers on the Habsburg periphery, 1620-1770, by Professor Paul Shore, of St Louis University. |
| 25 November | The meanings of authority in 1930s Soviet Union, by Professor Yves Cohn, of École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. |
| 5 December | Conflicts in Georgia - Russia's role, by Dr Dieter Boden, Ambassador, former Head of the OSCE/ODIHR Observation Mission in Georgia, Potsdam. |
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Criminology. Dr Liora Lazarus, University Lecturer in Law and Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford, will give a public seminar entitled The right to security: securing rights or securitizing rights? on Thursday, 16 October, at 5.30 p.m. in Seminar Room B3 at the Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue Site.
Education. Science, Technology, and Maths Education Seminars will take place on Tuesdays from 4 p.m. until 5 p.m. at the Faculty of Education, Hills Road. Any enquiries should be directed to Elaine Wilson (email ew208@cam.ac.uk). Tea is available from 3.45 p.m.
| 14 October | Room 2S7 | Mobile technologies: current practice, future possibilities, by Mr Tom Power, of the Open University. | |
| 21 October | Boulind Rooms 8 and 9, | E-learning, by Professor Gilly Salmon, of the University of Leicester. | |
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| 3 November (Monday) |
Room GS4 | From black boxes to glass boxes: computerized concept mapping in schools, by Dr Robin M. Bevan, Head teacher, Southend High School. |
Lunchtime Student Research Seminars will take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. in Room GS4, New Faculty Building, Hills Road.
| 14 October | Schemes of work in Key Stage 3 History, by Elizabeth Duignan, of Magdalene College. |
| 28 October | Why am I here? Equity, identity, and elite mathematics students in Finland and Washington State, by Jennifer Saari, of Trinity Hall. |
| 11 November | Emerging thoughts: early case study research in collaboration with Birmingham Repertory Theatre on theatre and multiculturalism, by Natalie Hart, of the University of Warwick. |
| 20 November | The drag mode in 3D-dynamic geometry environments, by Mathias Hattermann, of the Justus-Liebig University, Germany. |
A Science, Technology, and Maths Education Seminar will be held on 16 October, from 4 p.m. until 5 p.m. in Room 207 of the Mary Allan Building, Hills Road. Dr Mike Thomas of the Mathematics Education Unit, University of Auckland, will speak on Teaching with technology. Any enquiries should be directed to Professor Ken Ruthven (email kr18@cam.ac.uk).
Meetings of the Mathematics Education Colloquia will take place on Mondays at 5 p.m. in the Faculty of Education, Room G05, Mary Allan Building, Hills Road. Enquiries should be directed to Dr Tim Rowland (email tr202@cam.ac.uk). Tea and coffee is available prior to the meeting.
| 27 October | Inquiry in activity in developmental research, by Dr Barbara Jaworski, of the University of Loughborough. |
| 24 November | Mathematical knowledge in teaching, by Professor Kenneth Ruthven, Dr Tim Rowland, and Ms Marilena Petrou, of the Faculty of Education. |
A Pedagogy, Language, Arts, Culture, and Education (PLACE) Seminar will take place on 29 October from 4.30 p.m. until 6 p.m. in Room GS1, New Faculty Building, Hills Road. Professor Claudia Gluschankof of the Levinsky College of Education, Tel-Aviv, will speak on Musical expressions of Israeli Jewish and Arab kindergarten children: an inter-cultural study. Enquiries should be directed to Pam Burnard (email pab61@cam.ac.uk).
A one-day symposium entitled Teacher research: making a difference in music education? will take place on 1 November from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. in Room GS5, Faculty of Education, Hills Road. Enquiries should be directed to Pam Burnard (email pab61@cam.ac.uk).
PNE Seminars will take place on Tuesdays from 4.30 p.m. until 6 p.m. in the New Faculty Building, Hills Road.
| 4 November | Trumpington House, Room 3 | Activity theory: methodological and analytical resources for researching learning for interprofessional work, by Professor Harry Daniels, of the University of Bath. |
| 11 November | Room 2S3 | Vygotsky and Piaget, as seen from Neuchatel today, by Professor Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont, of the University of Geneva. |
Engineering. Dynamics and Vibrations tea time talks will take place on Fridays at 4 p.m. in the Oatley Seminar Room. Tea will be available from 3.30 p.m. Enquiries should be directed to Helen Slater, Division C Administrator (email has22@cam.ac.uk).
| 10 October | Introduction to the DVRG (following the Mechanics Colloquium) |
| 17 October | Acoustical analysis of flat panel speakers, by Mr Luke Humphry, of the Engineering Department. |
| 24 October | Development of a novel high-frequency tribometer, by Mr Kevin Wang, of the Engineering Department. |
| 31 October | Approximating large dynamic systems using reduced order models, by Mr Christophe Lecomte, of the Engineering Department. |
| 7 November | Mechanics Colloquium - 2.30 p.m. in LR6 |
| Maths, engineering, and industry, by Professor John Ockendon, of the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mechanics. | |
| 14 November | Mechanics Colloquium - 2.30 p.m. in LR6 |
| Fluid mechanical modelling of carbon dioxide sequestration, by Professor Herbert Huppert, Director of the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, Department of Earth Sciences. | |
| 21 November | Performance of lightly trafficked roads, by Mr Will Goodrum, of the Engineering Department. |
| Fracture mechanics for bitumen and bituminous mixtures, by Mr Oscar Portillo, of the Engineering Department. | |
| 28 November | Into deep water, the hybrid modelling of offshore systems, by Mr Richard Lines, of the Engineering Department. |
| 5 December | Active steering: is it safe?, by Dr David Cole, of the Engineering Department. |
History. Comparative Social and Cultural History Seminars, on the theme of Sociabilities, will take place, fortnightly, on Tuesdays, in the Senior Parlour, Gonville Court, Gonville and Caius College, at 8.30 p.m. All are welcome to attend.
| 14 October | Sociability and class collaboration in eighteenth century England, by Lawrence Klein, of the Faculty of History. |
| 28 October | Death and the growth of capitalism in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644): a Chinese perspective on the sociability of the living and the dead, by Joe McDermott, of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. |
| 11 November | Styles of sociability in early modern Islamic Eurasia: going beyond the individualist-collectivist and private-public typologies, by Gagan Sood, of the Faculty of History. |
| 25 November | Neighbourhood and festive life in seventeenth century Madrid, by Maria José Del Rio, of Universidad Autónoma, Madrid. |
For a programme, please contact Margo Kirk in the Faculty of History (email mmk31@cam.ac.uk).
History and Economics. Meetings are on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. in the B-Dining Room, Trinity Hall, Trinity Lane.
| 22 October | The origins of British anti-Imperialism reconsidered, 1850-1920, by Gregory Claeys, of Royal Holloway, University of London. |
| 19 November | Consecrated groves: the imperial utility of a Tacitean theme, by Ananya Kabir, of the University of Leeds. |
| 3 December | A French Imperial meridian, 1815-1870, by David Todd, of Trinity Hall and the Centre for History and Economics. |
Human Evolutionary Studies (Leverhulme Centre). Adam Kuper will chair the 2008 meeting Personal/oral histories of human origins research on Monday, 3 November. Leslie Aiello, Meave Leakey, David Pilbeam, Chris Stringer, Rob Foley, and Marta Mirazon Lahr will reconstruct the recent history of human evolutionary research through their personal recollections. Admission is free. The programme will be as follows:
| 3 p.m. | Tea in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. |
| 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. | Discussion in the Physiology Lecture Theatre, Downing Site. |
| 7 p.m. | Wine reception in the Leverhulme Centre, Fitzwilliam Street. |
For further information, please contact Pamela J. Smith (email pjs1011@cam.ac.uk).
Mathematics. The Mordell Lecture for 2008, entitled Geometric PDE, will take place on Thursday, 30 October, and will be given by Professor Tobias Colding of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It will be held in Meeting Room 2 (Wolfson Room), Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, at 5 p.m. A reception will follow.
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. A series of lunchtime seminars will be held on Wednesdays at 1.15 p.m. in the seminar room at the McDonald Institute.
| 15 October | Postdoctoral discussion forum. |
| 22 October | Land, water, and settlement: environmental constraints and human responses in northwest India between 2000 and 300 BC, by Cameron Petrie. |
| 29 October | Some like it sticky: molecular evidence for 2000-year old genetic engineering in millet, by Harriet Hunt. |
| 5 November | Reconstructing settlement histories - a new approach to the post-Roman period in eastern England, by Carenza Lewis. |
| 12 November | Death and the city: recent work at Tell Brak, Syria, by Augusta McMahon. |
| 26 November | Sant'Aniceto and the Bronze Age of Calabria, by John Robb. |
| 3 December | Midway through the AHRC 'Cultured Rainforest' project (Sarawak, Borneo): some reflections on progress, by Graeme Barker and Lindsay Lloyd-Smith. |
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.
| 23 October | Aspects of modern and postmodern Greek fictional biography in the twentieth century, by Professor Georgia Farinou-Malamatari, of the University of Thessaloniki. |
| 6 November | Truth, lies, and poetry: Kalvos, Solomos, and the War of Independence, by Dr Anthony Hirst, of Queen's University, Belfast. |
| 20 November | Greek film studies today: in search of identity, by Dr Lydia Papadimitriou, of Liverpool John Moores University. |
The complete programme for 2008-09 can be viewed at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/greek/news/. Copies may also be obtained from the Secretary, Modern Greek Section, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages (email moderngreek@mml.cam.ac.uk).
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, Cambridge. For further details please contact Jean Seymour or Penny Peck (tel. 01223 252704).
| 11 November | Dr Richard J. Youle, of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Porter Neuroscience Research Centre, Bethesda, USA - title to be confirmed. Hosted by John Walker. |
| 26 November | Professor Pietro Ghezzi, of Brighton and Sussex Medical School - title to be confirmed. Hosted by Michael Murphy. |
Physics. The Inaugural Hewish Lecture, the first of an annual lecture series established to honour the outstanding contribution of Antony Hewish to the development of radio astronomy, will take place on Wednesday, 29 October, at 4.15 p.m., in the Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory. The lecture, entitled Pulsars: a marvellous serendipity, will be given by Professor Dick Manchester, of Australia Telescope Facility, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. The lecture will be followed by a reception.
Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Professor Lawrence D. Brown, of the University of Pennsylvania, will give the Eighty-Second Kuwait Foundation Lecture entitled A field-test of basic empirical bayes and bayes methodologies: in-season prediction of baseball batting averages, at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 14 October, in the Wolfson Room, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road (entrance on Clarkson Road before the Isaac Newton Institute).