The following lectures, seminars, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:
Criminology. Professor Robert J. Sampson, Chairman of the Department of Sociology and the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, will give the twelfth annual Nigel Walker Lecture entitled The immigration and diversity debate: insights from criminology, at 6 p.m. on Thursday, 19 February, in the Seminar Room at the Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue. Entry is by ticket only. To book a seat, please contact Joanne Garner (tel. 01223 335360, email jf225@cam.ac.uk).
Education. FERSA Lunchtime Student Research Seminars will take place from 1 p.m. until 2 p.m. in the New Faculty Building, Hills Road. Enquiries should be directed to Maria Mama (email mm705@cam.ac.uk). Tea, coffee, and biscuits will be available.
| 17 February | Room GS1 | Intersecting and collective identities: African-American middle-class parents' values and actions in enrolling their children in a 'low-achieving', predominantly black working-class school, by Ms Berglind Magnusdottir, Ph.D. student. |
| 24 February | Room GS3 | Approaches to moral and religious education in Eastern Europe, by Dr Dana Hanesova, of the University of Matej Bel, Slovakia. |
| 5 March | Room 2S4 | Faith school debate and overlapping consensus: an examination of two ideals of personhood, by Mr Farid Panjwani, Ph.D. student. |
An M.Phil./M.Ed. in ACE Students' Research Seminar will take place on 18 February, from 12.30 p.m. until 1.30 p.m. in Room GS5, New Faculty Building, Hills Road. Miss Anna-Marie Higgins, of the Faculty of Education, and Mr Alex Baxter, University Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, will speak on Teacher-researchers' reflections on the dilemmas of researching classroom practice. Enquiries should be directed to Pam Burnard (email pab61@cam.ac.uk). Coffee will be served prior to the event.
PLACE Histories of Education and Childhood Seminars will take place on Thursdays from 5.30 p.m. until 7 p.m. in Room 1S3, New Faculty Building, Hills Road. Enquiries should be directed to Ewa Illakowicz (email ei219@cam.ac.uk).
| 19 February | Fostering institutional and professional health and well being: student culture in Australia's first rural teachers' college 1945-55, by Professor Anthony Potts, Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Education, La Trobe University; Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College; and Visiting Professor at Newman University College. |
| 19 March | English in a post-war 'experimental comprehensive school': constructing a history, 1946-63, by Dr John Hardcastle, of the University of London, Institute of Education and Dr Peter Medway, of King's College, London. |
| 23 April | The art of school design: networks of collaboration between architects and educators in post-war Europe, by Dr Catherine Burke, of the Faculty of Education. |
Cambridge Colloquia in Mathematics Education will take place on 23 February at 5 p.m. in Room G10, Mary Allan Building, Hills Road. Dr Dolores Corcoran of St Patrick's College, Dublin City University, and the Faculty of Education, will speak on Learning to teach mathematics using lesson study. Enquiries should be directed to Tim Rowland (email tr202@cam.ac.uk). Tea and coffee will be available before the meeting.
Psychology and Neuroscience in Education Seminars will take place in the New Faculty Building, Hills Road. Enquiries should be directed to Nichola Daily (email nd241@cam.ac.uk).
| 24 February | Room GS1 | Games, learning, and the brain's reward system, by Dr Paul Howard-Jones, of the Centre for Psychology and Learning in Context, University of Bristol. |
| 4.30 p.m. - 6 p.m. | ||
| 29 April | Room GS4 | Applying psychology in multiple learning contexts: the role of an educational psychologist, by Mr Frank Murphy, Senior Educational Psychologist, Cambridgeshire LEA |
| 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. |
Centre for Family Research. Dr Charles Fernyhough, of the University of Durham, will give a seminar entitled What is it like to be a small child?, at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, 17 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. Professor John Forrester, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, will give a seminar entitled Gender, feminism, and psychoanalysis, at 1 p.m. on Thursday, 19 February, in Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Downing Site.
Mathematics. Professor Steven Strogatz, of Cornell University, will give the Rouse Ball Lecture for 2009, entitled The mathematics of collective synchronization, at 12 noon on Tuesday, 19 May, in Room 3 of the Mill Lane Lecture Rooms. The abstract is available at http://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/news/rouseball.html.
Sociology. A seminar, held as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science, entitled The credit crunch: gender equality in hard times, will take place in Queens' College, on Friday, 6 March 2009, from 1 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. The topics covered will be as follows:
Minimum wage and gender equality, by Professor William Brown, of the Faculty of Economics.
Job insecurity and stress, by Dr Brendan Burchell, of the Faculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology, and International Studies.
Sink jobs and gender inequalities, by Professor Shirley Dex, of the Institute of Education.
Are women bearing the burden of the crunch? What data does and does not tell us, by Dr Katherine Rake, Director, The Fawcett Society.
Those wishing to attend should email Ann Sinnott (email as759@cam.ac.uk). Further details can be found at http://www.genet.ac.uk/Events/Festival2009/.