The following lectures, seminars, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:
Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. The third Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture, entitled How many universes are there?, will be given by Professor Paul Davies, of Arizona State University, at 5 p.m. on Monday, 4 May, in the Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.
The 2009 G. K. Batchelor Lecture entitled Optimizing low Reynolds number locomotion, will be given by Professor Anette Hosoi, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at 4 p.m. on Friday, 8 May, in Meeting Room 2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road.
Chemistry. Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis. All seminars take place on Thursdays at 4 p.m. in the Unilever Lecture Theatre (unless stated otherwise), Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. For more information, see the Melville Laboratory website (http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/events/colloquia/mel.html).
| 30 April | Investigation of multivalent glycan interactions on functional surfaces, by Dr Carlo Fasting, of Freie Universität, Berlin. |
| 7 May | Dr Tony James, of the University of Bath (title to be announced). |
| 14 May | Assembling and breaking: competitive interactions between polymer, drug, and cyclodextrin, by Dr Cecile Dreiss, of King's College London. |
| 21 May | Melville Lecture. Matrix elasticity directs stem cell lineage - better (polymeric) materials for better biology, by Professor Dennis Discher, of the University of Pennsylvania (in the Wolfson Lecture Theatre). |
| 28 May | Molecular tectonics: from building blocks to crystals, by Professor M. W. Hosseini, of the Université de Strasbourg. |
| 4 June | Electrochemical formation of responsive hydogel films for bioanalytics, by Dr Johanna Bünsow, of the Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis (in the Pfizer Lecture Theatre). |
Classics. The J. H. Gray Lectures 2009 will be delivered by Professor Dorothea Frede, Mills Visiting Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, on the subject of Aristotelian virtues. Lectures will take place at 5 p.m., in room G.19, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue.
| 19 May | A swarm of virtues - the unity and completeness of Aristotle's scheme. |
| 20 May | After virtue - the decline of Aristotelian ethics. |
Professor Frede will also give a seminar on Aristotle on natural justice and equity (Nicomachean Ethics, book 5, chapters 7 and 10), at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 21 May, in room 1.11, Faculty of Classics.
Criminology. Paul Roberts, Professor of Criminal Jurisprudence and Co-Director of the LL.M. Programme at the University of Nottingham School of Law, will give a public seminar entitled A human rights revolution in English criminal procedure: whether, whence, whither, and so what?, at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, 30 April, in Seminar Room B3, at the Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue.
Divinity. Henry Martyn Centre. The Henry Martyn Easter Term Seminars 2009 will take place at Westminster College on Thursdays at 2.15 p.m., as follows:
| 7 May | Sex, death, woman, and religion: what is the role of faith based organizations in changing the face of HIV in sub Saharan Africa?, by Dr Elizabeth Grant, of the University of Edinburgh. |
| 14 May | From here to there and back again: reflections on mission in Kenya and the UK, by the Revd Cyprian Yobera, CMS Mission Partner, Harpurhey, Manchester. |
English. The Judith E. Wilson Poetry Lecture 2009 will take place at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 7 May, in Little Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, and will be given by Charles Bernstein, Donald T. Regan Chair in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Any enquiries should be directed to Dr Drew Milne (email agm33@cam.ac.uk).
History and Economics. Meetings take place on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. in the B-Dining Room, Trinity Hall, Trinity Lane.
| 29 April | Does it make sense to discount liberty?, by David Runciman, of the Department of Politics and International Studies. |
| 13 May | Some Indian views on land-rights in eighteenth century Bengal: petitions as political thought, by Robert Travers, of Cornell University. |
| 10 June | Apocalypse in the stacks?, by Anthony Grafton, of Princeton University. |
History and Philosophy of Science. Departmental Seminars. Seminars are held on Thursdays at 4.30 p.m. in Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane. Tea is available from 4 p.m. in Seminar Room 1.
| 23 April | Fusing modern art and science: Marian Dale Scott, Hans Selye, and the visualization of life, by Mark Jackson, of the University of Exeter. |
| 30 April | Causation, models of disease, and epidemiology, by Alex Broadbent, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. |
| 7 May | Insanity, divine madness, and prophecy in Jung's self-experimentation, by Sonu Shamdasani, of University College London. |
| 14 May | Experimental religion and experimental natural philosophy in early modern England, by Peter Harrison, of the University of Oxford. |
| 21 May | The two cultures controversy: science, literature, and cultural politics in postwar Britain, by Guy Ortolano, of the University of Virginia. |
Fourteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture. Pamela H. Smith, of Columbia University, will give a public lecture entitled Local crafts and universal science: lived experience and the written word in the early modern world, at 4.30 p.m. on 28 May, in the McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.
Valedictory Lecture. Martin Kusch, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, will give a lecture entitled Rulers, clocks, and common sense: metrology as a key to Wittgenstein's 'On Certainty', at 4.30 p.m. on 4 June, in Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
Cabinet of Natural History. Seminars are held on Mondays at 1 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
| 27 April | Founding the science of ethnology: James Cowles Prichard and his 'Researches into the physical history of man', by Efram Sera Shriar, of the University of Leeds. |
| 4 May | 'It is to do one's best to look without laughing': the spectacle of the kangaroo in late eighteenth-century London, by Christopher Plumb, of the University of Manchester. |
| 11 May | Gardening like gentlemen? Constructing the nurseryman in early eighteenth-century London, by Richard Coulton, of Queen Mary, University of London. |
| 18 May | Reality and representation: Mark Catesby's natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands and the epistemological limits of pictorial illustration, by Philip Kerrigan, of the University of York. |
| 25 May | Locating true North: a physiognomic analysis of Marianne North and the North Gallery at Kew, by Katie Zimmerman, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. |
Psy Studies: History of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Allied Sciences. Eli Zaretsky, of the New School for Social Research, New York, will give a lecture entitled Psychoanalysis and war, at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 6 May, in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Tea will be available from 4.40 p.m.
Modern and Medieval Languages (Department of Spanish and Portuguese). The annual Norman MacColl Lecture will take place at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, 23 April, in the Ramsden Room, St Catharine's College. The lecture, to be given by Professor Alberto Moreiras, of the University of Aberdeen, will be entitled Idolatrous dwelling: on the limits of transculturation. Please note that the accompanying symposium, New approaches to Latin American popular culture, will take place on 24 and 25 April, at CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane. Those wishing to attend the symposium must register in advance. The online booking form, further information on the programme, and abstracts, is available at http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/761/.
Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit. Research seminars take place on Tuesdays from 4.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Seminar Room, the Mond Building, Free School Lane.
| 5 May | Piety and power: principles of religious explanation in contemporary Tibetan-Mongolian Buddhism in Inner Mongolia, by Jonathan Mair, of the Department of Social Anthropology and the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit. |
| 19 May | Tibetan gay sciences and other technologies of the sense: jokes, proverbs, artful bullshitting, and the defeat of cynical reason in Yunnan's Shangri-la, by Giovanni da Col, of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit. |
| 2 June | Beyond Tibetanization: border ethnicities at the Nepal-China (TAR) friendship bridge, by Sara Shneiderman, of the Department of Social Anthropology. This seminar will be preceded by a special film showing, presented by Ben Campbell of the University of Durham, entitled A trans-Himalayan road and the people of the border. |
Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Professor Mark Gross, of the University of California, San Diego, will give the Ninetieth Kuwait Foundation Lecture, entitled The tropical vertex, at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 28 April, in the Wolfson Room, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road (entrance on Clarkson Road before the Isaac Newton Institute).
Social Anthropology. Senior Seminars take place at 3.30 p.m. on Fridays, in the Seminar Room, Department of Social Anthropology, Free School Lane.
| 24 April | The textility of making, by Professor Timothy Ingold, of the University of Aberdeen. |
| 1 May | The material culture of loss, by Professor Daniel Miller, of University College London. |
| 8 May (2 p.m. - 6 p.m.) | Rethinking Lévi-Strauss and structural anthropology: a seminar to accompany the book launch of The Cambridge Companion to Lévi-Strauss, published by Cambridge University Press, and edited by Dr Boris Wiseman. Topics and speakers will be as follows: |
| Structure, transformation, and the genesis of forms, by Professor Philippe Descola, of Collège de France and Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale. | |
| Dr Anne-Christine Taylor, of the Centre National de la Recherché Scientifique and the Musée du Quai Branly (title to be confirmed). | |
| Symbolism, sensation, and mythopoetics, by Dr Boris Wiseman, of the University of Durham. | |
| Anthropological knowledge in the fifties: a programme for today, by Professor Claude Imbert, of the École Normale Supérieure, Ulm University, and Fudan University, Shanghai. | |
| This will be followed by a round-table discussion, entitled A future for structural anthropology. Discussants will be as follows: | |
| Professor Chris Johnson, of the University of Nottingham; Professor Michael Harkin, of the University of Wyoming; and Professor Eric Schwimmer, of Université Laval and the University of Toronto. | |
| 15 May | Pacifist devices: the human-technology interface in the field of conflict resolution, by Dr Yael Navaro-Yashin, of the Department of Social Anthropology. |
| 22 May | Professor Christina Toren, of the University of St Andrews (title to be confirmed). |
Sociology. Professor Anthony Giddens, of the London School of Economics and Political Science, will give a lecture entitled The politics of climate change, at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, 5 May, in Room LG19, Faculty of Law, West Road.