The following lectures, seminars, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:
Criminology. Professor Michael E. Lamb, of the Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, will give a public seminar entitled Young children can be competent witnesses when competently interviewed, at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, 5 February, in Seminar Room B3, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue.
English. Graham Storey Lecture. Professor Marina Warner, of the University of Essex, will give the Graham Storey Lecture 2009, entitled Dark magicians and modern shamans: plotting enchantment after a thousand and one nights, at 5 p.m. on Monday, 23 February, in Little Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. There will be a drinks reception at the Faculty of English, 9 West Road, immediately after the lecture.
Smuts Lecture. Mr M. G. Vassanji will give the Smuts Lecture 2009, entitled Somewhere and anywhere: writing from the places in-between, at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 5 March, in Little Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.
Centre for Family Research. Dr Michael Roper, of the University of Essex, will give a seminar entitled Maternal love and the Great War, at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, 3 February, in Room 606, Centre for Family Research, Faculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology, and International Studies, Free School Lane.
Gender Studies. Multi-disciplinary Seminar Series. Dr Mairead Mcauley, of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, will give a seminar entitled Reproducing Rome: motherhood in Augustan epic, at 1 p.m. on Thursday, 5 February, in Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Downing Site.
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. Lunchtime seminars will be held on Wednesdays at 1.15 p.m. in the McDonald Institute Seminar Room, Downing Street.
| 4 February | Occupation archaeology: a case study from the Channel Islands, by Gilly Carr, of the Institute of Further Education. |
| 11 February | Digging the high life: new excavations at Melikane rock shelter, Lesotho, by Brian Stewart, of the McDonald Institute. |
| 18 February | Middle preclassic Maya economy and society at Cuello, Belize, by Norman Hammond, of the McDonald Institute. |
| 25 February | The Lismore project: experiences of an island community through time, by Simon Stoddart, of the Department of Archaeology. |
| 4 March | The Brough of Deerness, Orkney: power and ideology in Viking age Scotland, by James Barrett, of the McDonald Institute. |
| 11 March | Postdoctoral discussion forum. |
Music. The Wort Lecture Series 2008-09 will be given by Professor Gary Tomlinson, of the University of Pennsylvania. All lectures will be held at 5 p.m. in the Robin Orr Recital Room, Faculty of Music, West Road.
| 9 February | Music, 1,000,000 years out: what stone tools tell us |
| 11 February | Music, 500,000 years out: disclosure versus protolanguage |
| 9 March | Music, 100,000 years out: hierarchy and combinatorality |
| 11 March | Music, 40,000 years out: thinking at a distance and modernity |
Theoretical Geophysics. The Departments of Earth Sciences and Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics present a series of seminars on Theoretical Geophysics, which will take place at 2.05 p.m. on Thursdays, in Room MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road. A varied, informal luncheon will be supplied in the Common Room of Pavilion H before each seminar at a cost of £3.00 per head, commencing at 1.05 p.m.
| 29 January | The impact of climate change on the global oceanic sink for CO2, by Professor Corinne Le Quéré, of the University of East Anglia. |
| 5 February | The three-dimensional morphology and topology of dendritic mushes, by Professor Peter Voorhees, of Northwestern University. |
| 12 February | Spin-up, adjustment, and equilibrium state of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, by Professor David Marshall, of the University of Oxford. |
| 19 February | Investigating the earthquake cycle and crustal deformation using space geodesy, by Professor Barry Parsons, of the University of Oxford. |
| 26 February | The porridge (and magma) problem: viscoplastic Rayleigh-Bénard convection, by Dr Alison Rust, of the University of Bristol. |
| 5 March | Thermoviscous coupling in ice-sheets and its influence on grounding line migration, by Dr Richard Hindmarsh, of the British Antarctic Survey. |
| 12 March | Origin of the Earth and Moon, by Professor Alex Halliday, of the University of Oxford. |