The following lectures, seminars, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested.
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH). The Cultures of Climate Change research group at CRASSH announces its Michaelmas 2008 schedule. Regularly scheduled seminars are held on Tuesdays at 5 p.m. in the main seminar room at CRASSH (17 Mill Lane), followed by discussion and a wine reception.
| 11 November | Listening in place, by Dr Katharine Norman, of City University. |
| 20 November at 7 p.m. | (Special event: note day and time.) The climate crunch: ethics, ecology, and the end of civilization, by Dr Michael Northcott, of the University of Edinburgh. |
| 25 November | Film screening and discussion: The Happening (M. Night Shyamalan, 2008). |
Any questions may be directed to the convenors, Benjamin Morris (email bam32@cam.ac.uk) and Bradon Smith (email btls2@cam.ac.uk). Further information and regular updates can be found on the CRASSH website (http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/page/34/climate-change.html).
Gender Studies. Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars. Tina Miller, of Oxford Brookes University, will give a seminar entitled Practising gender: men's experiences of transition to first-time fatherhood, on Thursday, 13 November at 1 p.m., in the Sir William Hardy Building (Downing Site), Room HB101. Further details are available on the website (http://www.gender.cam.ac.uk/events/theory/) or on request via email (seminars@gender.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. For further details please contact Jean Seymour or Penny Peck (tel. 01223 252704).
| 11 November | Mitochondrial dynamics and quality control, by Dr Richard J. Youle, of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Porter Neuroscience Research Centre, Bethesda, USA. Hosted by John Walker. |
| 26 November | Glutathione in immunity: from the concept of oxidative stress to that of redox regulation, by Professor Pietro Ghezzi, of Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Hosted by Michael Murphy. |
Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Professor Peter McCullagh, of the University of Chicago, will give the Eighty-Fourth Kuwait Foundation Lecture entitled On exchangeable random partitions, permutations, and fragmentation trees, at 5 p.m. on 11 November, in the Wolfson Room, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road (entrance on Clarkson Road before the Isaac Newton Institute).