The following lectures, seminars, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested.
Criminology. Dr Paula Kautt, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Criminology, will give a public seminar entitled Crime, fear, and blame: does respondent ethnicity make a difference?, on Thursday, 27 November, at 5.30 p.m. in Seminar Room B3 at the Institute of Criminology (Sidgwick Avenue Site). This seminar has been rescheduled from October.
Centre for Family Research. Consultant Genetic Counsellor Dr Anna Middleton, of Cardiff University, will give a seminar entitled 'They just take these genes and fix 'em together and create a fake human' - views from deaf people about genetics, at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, 25 November, in Room 606, Centre for Family Research, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Free School Lane.
Centre for Gender Studies. The Centre for Gender Studies presents In conversation with … Hisham Matar, who will be talking about his multi-award winning first novel In the country of men. The event will take place on Monday, 24 November, from 1 p.m. to 2.30 p.m. in the Upper Hall, Jesus College.
Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars. Brigitte Steger, of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, will give a seminar entitled Thighs wide open, hair loose - gender specific attitudes towards napping in Japanese public transport, on Thursday, 27 November, at 1 p.m. in the Sir William Hardy Building (Downing Site), Room HB101. Further details are also available on the website (http://www.gender.cam.ac.uk/events/theory/) or on request via email (seminars@gender.cam.ac.uk).
Music. Professor Robin Holloway will give a lecture entitled Elliott Carter at 100: a critical overview, at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 2 December, in the Robin Orr Recital Room, Faculty of Music. This will be followed by a recital by Raymond Clarke in the West Road Concert Hall at approximately 6 p.m. Admission is free.
The Robin Orr Lecture 2008 entitled Messiaen and birdsong in the 1950s, will be given by Professor Peter Hill, of the University of Sheffield, at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 3 December, in the Robin Orr Recital Room, Faculty of Music.
Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Professor Richard Weiss, of Tufts University, will give the Eighty-Sixth Kuwait Foundation Lecture, entitled Classification results in the theory of buildings, at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 25 November, in the Wolfson Room, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road (entrance on Clarkson Road before the Isaac Newton Institute).
Cambridge Seminar on Religion, Conflict, and its Aftermath. This seminar series, sponsored by the Religion and Ethics in War and Peace-Making Programme of Faith in Society, is co-ordinated by Britt Baillie (email bab30@cam.ac.uk), Lucia Faltin (email lf225@cam.ac.uk), Dr Inga Volmer (email iv211@cam.ac.uk), and Dr George Wilkes (email grw1000@cam.ac.uk). The seminars form part of the broader programme of the interdisciplinary Post-Conflict and Post-Crisis Research Group.
Dr Douglas Hedley, of the Faculty of Divinity, will give a seminar entitled Sacrifice, from 5.30 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday, 4 December, in the Garden Room, St Edmund's College. Please note that this is a new date and venue, replacing the details originally published in the 29 October 2008 edition of the Reporter (p. 100).
Cambridge Socio-Legal Group. Dr Layla Skinns, Adrian Socio-Legal Research Fellow, Darwin College, will give a seminar entitled I'm a detainee get me out of here: legal advice, length of police detention, and the law, on Wednesday, 26 November, at 5.30 p.m. in Seminar Room B3 at the Institute of Criminology (Sidgwick Avenue Site).