The following lectures, seminars, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:
Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic. The 2009 H. M. Chadwick Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Professor Richard Sharpe, of the University of Oxford, at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 12 March, in the English Faculty Building, 9 West Road. The lecture, entitled The earls of York and Bamburgh, will be followed by a wine reception.
Continuing Education. Research Seminar Series. Professor Gareth Parry, of the University of Sheffield, will give a seminar entitled Why do the English separate further and higher education? at 5.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 4 March, at Wolfson College, Barton Road. Light refreshments will be served afterwards. For further information or to reserve a free place, contact the Research Division, Institute of Continuing Education, Madingley Hall, Madingley, Cambridge, CB23 8AQ (email research@cont-ed.cam.ac.uk) or see the website at http://www.cont-ed.cam.ac.uk/.
Criminology. Professor Tim Newburn, Professor of Criminology and Social Policy, and Director of the Mannheim Centre for Criminology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, will give a public seminar entitled The abolition of capital punishment in Britain: political, cultural, and penal change in the mid-twentieth century, at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, 5 March, in Seminar Room B3 at the Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue.
Centre for Family Research. Dr Rosemary Abbott, of the Department of Psychiatry, will give a seminar entitled Parenting practices and psychological well-being in midlife: life course associations among women in the 1946 British cohort study, at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, 3 March, in Room 606, Centre for Family Research, Faculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology, and International Studies, Free School Lane.
Gender Studies. Professor Barbara Taylor, of the University of East London and Co-Director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre, will give a talk entitled Kind women and anti women, from 12.30 p.m. to 2 p.m. on Monday, 2 March, in the Upper Hall, Jesus College. The respondents will be Professor Juliet Mitchell, of the Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, Dr Deborah Thom, of the Faculty of History, and Dr Mary Laven, of the Faculty of History.
Multi-disciplinary Seminar Series. Ms Wazhmah Osman, visiting student from the University of New York, will give a seminar entitled Thinking outside the box: television and gender in the Afghan culture wars, at 1 p.m. on Thursday, 5 March, in Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Downing Site.
A screening of the film Postcards from Tora Bora, followed by a discussion with the film's maker, Ms Wazhmah Osman, will take place at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, 5 March, at CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane. The discussant will be Ms Humeira Iqtidar, of the Centre of South Asian Studies.
MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit. Seminars are held on Wednesdays 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 March | How does nitrite affect mitochondrial function and what may be its role in biology?, by Professor Martin Feelisch, of the University of Warwick. Hosted by Mike Murphy. |
| 25 March | A tale of two genomes: mitochondria and the foundations of the eukaryotic cell, by Dr Nick Lane, of University College London. Hosted by John Walker. |
Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Professor Tom Mrowka, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will give the Eighty-Eighth Kuwait Foundation Lecture, entitled Knots, 3-manifolds, and gauge theories, at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 3 March, in the Founder Patrons Room, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road (entrance on Clarkson Road before the Isaac Newton Institute).
Cambridge Seminar on Religion, Conflict, and its Aftermath. The interdisciplinary seminar on Religion, Conflict, and its Aftermath invites graduate students working on related topics to present short introductions to their work at this poster session, which will take place from 5.30 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday, 26 February, in the Garden Room, St Edmund's College. Two speakers are confirmed thus far:
Masaryk's religious humanism as a response to violence and war, by Ms Lucia Faltin, of the Faculty of Divinity.
Warriors, civilians, and christian ethics, by Mr Tom Simpson, of the Faculty of Philosophy.
Drinks and refreshments will be served.
A special session on War, ethics, and peacebuilding in the former Yugoslavia, will take place from 5.30 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, 11 March, in the Senior Common Room, Centre of International Studies, First Floor, 17 Mill Lane. Talks will cover the following topics:
On biomedical, political, and ethical categories of health in post-conflict Serbia, by Dr Maja Petrovic-Steger, of the Department of Social Anthropology.
Recreating a multi-ethnic country: Bosnia since Dayton, by Dr Marko Hoare, of Kingston University.
General K. John Drewienkiewicz, former Chief of Staff of the NATO Headquarters in Sarajevo, later Military Advisor to the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Deputy Head of the Kosovo Verification Mission in the run-up to the 1999 NATO intervention in the Kosovo War, will chair the session. The talks will be followed by a broader discussion of post-conflict developments in the former Yugoslavia.