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:

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. All seminars take place on Wednesdays in Lecture Theatre 1 (LT1), New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, from 3.30 p.m. until 4.30 p.m. Tea and cakes are offered from 3.15 p.m. to 3.30 p.m. outside LT1.

21 January Protein aggregation: teasing out generalities, by Professor Athene Donald, of Cavendish Laboratories.
28 January Research Students' Seminars. Start time: 2 p.m.
4 February Interfacial structural conformations of proteins and DNA fragments, by Professor Jian Lu, of the University of Manchester.
11 February Sustainable organic fuels for transport, by Dr Richard Pearson, of Lotus Cars.
18 February Non-uniqueness of instabilities in free-surface flows, by Dr Mark Simmons, of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.
25 February Disease biomarkers in first-onset schizophrenia, by Dr Sabine Bahn, of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.
4 March Exhaust after-treatment catalysis, by Dr Andrew York, of Johnson Matthey and the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

Divinity. The Stanton Lectures 2009 entitled Love stories: self, other, text, and God in 20th century Jewish thought, will be given by Dr Tamra Wright, of the London School of Jewish Studies, at 5 p.m. in the Runcie Room of the Faculty of Divinity, West Road, on the following dates:

15 January Divine love and human love: Franz Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption
19 January 'A rising moon on a starry night': Martin Buber's eternal thou
26 January 'The text as thou': Buber, Rosenzweig, and the Bible
2 February Dialogical thought and the Holocaust
9 February 'Loving the Torah more than God': Emmanuel Levinas's response to the Shoah
26 February Levinas and the ethics of infinite responsibility
2 March 'Translating the Bible into Greek': Levinas's ethical hermeneutics
12 March Beyond philosophy: the wisdom of love

Centre for Family Research. Georgia Philip, of the Open University, will give a seminar entitled Working at it: the practical, relational, and moral aspects of sustaining fatherhood beyond couplehood, at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, 20 January, in Room 606, Centre for Family Research, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Free School Lane.

Modern Greek. The following open lectures will be given at 5 p.m. on Thursdays (except for that on 27 January, which takes place on a Tuesday), in Room 1.02 of the Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue.

22 January Π’αθη’/‘Passions': a latent poetic collection by Cavafy, by Professor Michalis Pieris, of the University of Cyprus.
27 January Psycharis: the conflict between the neogrammarian linguist and the language reformer, by Professor Gunnar De Boel, of the University of Ghent.
19 February Marital failures: glimpsing the margins of marriage in Greece, by Professor Roger Just, of the University of Kent.
5 March The enemy that never was: the Muslim minority in Greece in the 1940s, by Professor Kevin Featherstone, of the London School of Economics.

Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit. Research Seminars will take place on Tuesdays from 4.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Seminar Room, the Mond Building, Free School Lane.

20 January Local leaders between obligation and corruption: state workplaces, the discourse of 'moral decay', and 'eating money' in the Mongolian Province, by Astrid Zimmermann, of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit.
3 February Chinggis Khan: Buddha or Shaman? On the uses and abuses of the portrait of Chinggis Khan, by Isabelle Charleux, of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.
17 February An experimental study of technological change in Inner Asia: the reconstruction of an ancient saddle from Subeixi (Xinjiang), by Marsha Levine, of the McDonald Institute.
3 March Hosting protocols and the Qing incorporation of Inner Asian domains, by Adam Yuet Chau, of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

Plant Sciences. Lectures take place on Thursdays at 4 p.m. in the Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Street.

22 January RNA degradation and polyadenylation in Arabidopsis thaliana, by Dr Dominique Gagliardi, of the Institut de Biologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Strasbourg.
29 January Pollen tube growth: of male gametophytes and the need for models, by Professor José Feijó, of the University of Lisbon.
5 February CPPS Seminar: The European potential to produce bio-energy: Miscanthus potential for current and future climates, by Mr Astley Hastings, of the University of Aberdeen.
12 February Regulatory role of ribosomes in plant development, by Dr Mary Byrne, of the John Innes Centre, Norwich.
19 February Investigating the biology of plant infection by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae, by Professor Nicholas Talbot, of the University of Exeter.
26 February Intracellular metabolite transport in plant cells, by Professor Andreas Weber, of the University of Düsseldorf.
5 March Seasonal control of flowering in annual and perennial plants, by Professor George Coupland, of the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne.
12 March Between a rock and a hard place: metal nutrition in Chlamydomonas, by Professor Sabeeha Merchant, of the University of California, Los Angeles.

Social Anthropology. Senior Seminars take place on Fridays at 3.30 p.m. in Seminar Room G2, Department of Social Anthropology, Free School Lane.

16 January Conversion to Christianity: a perspective from Amazonia, by Dr Aparecida Vilaca, of the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro.
23 January Modernization redirected: socialism, liberalism, and the national elite in Mozambique, by Dr Jason Sumich, of the London School of Economics.
30 January Diving 'One Man': performing disconnection among beche-de-mer divers, Panapompom, Papua New Guinea, by Dr Will Rollason, of the University of St Andrews.
6 February To be announced.
13 February The fate of sharing in an epoch of nations: mixed shrines in contemporary Macedonia and West Bank Palestine, by Dr Glenn Bowman, of the University of Kent.
20 February The laws of the land. Indigenous land rights as a key to government in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, by Dr Laurens Bakker, of the University of Leiden.
27 February Finessing 'sacred law' and the civil state: shariah courts in Lebanon, by Dr Morgan Clarke, of the Department of Social Anthropology.
6 March Addressing colonial nostalgia in the Morobe goldfields of Papua New Guinea, by Dr Daniele Moretti, of the Department of Social Anthropology.