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No 6165

Wednesday 4 November 2009

Vol cxl No 6

pp. 169–204

Events, courses, etc.

Announcement of lectures, seminars, etc.

The following lectures, seminars, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:

Criminology. Sir Ian Blair, Former Commissioner, Metropolitan Police, will talk on Policing controversy, on Wednesday, 11 November 2009, at 5 p.m., in Little Hall (near the Institute of Criminology), Sidgwick Avenue. Attendance at this talk is by pre-booking only. If you wish to attend, please contact Joanne Garner (email jf225@cam.ac.uk, tel. 01223 335360).

Professor Manuel Eisner, Professor of Comparative and Developmental Criminology, and Deputy Director of the Institute of Criminology, will give a public seminar entitled Towards a general theory of violence: challenges and issues, at 5.30 p.m., on Thursday, 12 November 2009, in Seminar Room B3, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue.

Divinity. Henry Martyn Centre. The Henry Martyn Centre Michaelmas Term Seminars 2009 will take place at Westminster College, on Wednesdays, at 4 p.m., on the following dates. All are welcome. For further information, contact Polly Keen, Administrator (tel. 01223 741088, email pk262@cam.ac.uk).

11 NovemberWhat contextual theology has to offer the Church of the 21st Century, by Professor Stephen B. Bevans (Catholic Theological Union, Chicago).

25 NovemberMission and unity: Bishop Lesslie Newbigin and the integration of the International Missionary Council with the World Council of Churches, by Mark Laing (University of Edinburgh).

Centre for Family Research. The following seminars will take place during the Michaelmas Term:

Professor Terrie Moffitt, Institue of Psychiatry, King’s College London, will give a seminar entitled The Dunedin New Zealand longitudinal study: is psychiatric disorder in early life a preventable cause of disease in later life?, at 5 p.m., on Thursday, 19 November, in the Maxwell Theatre, Faculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology, and International Studies, Free School Lane.

Dr Jonathon Ives, of the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, University of Birmingham, will give a seminar entitled Bioethics and fatherhood: sketching the issues, at 1 p.m., on Tuesday, 1 December, in the Maxwell Theatre, Faculty of Politics, Psychology, Sociology, and International Studies, Free School Lane.

Gender Studies. Multi-disciplinary Gender Research Seminars. Seminars are held at lunchtimes on Mondays in Seminar Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Downing Site. All are welcome. The seminars are organized and chaired by Sigal Spigel. If you would like more information, or are interested in presenting your work, please email seminars@gender.cam.ac.uk.

9 November, 12.30 to 1.30 p.m.Researching social change: methodology, history, and memory, by Julie McLeod, Associate Professor, Melbourne Graduate School, University of Melbourne.

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit. Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars. Professor Michel Toledano, Oxidative Stress and Cancer Laboratory (LSOC), CEA Saclay, France, will give the following seminar on Wednesday, 11 November: The cellular functions of eukaryotic glutathione and thioredoxin pathways revisited. The seminar will take place in the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Hills Road, at 3 p.m., and will be hosted by Michael Murphy.

The 8th Sir William Dunn Scholar, Professor Gregory M. Cook, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, will give the following lectures in the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Hills Road, at 3 p.m.:

Wednesday, 18 NovemberThermoalkaliphilic ATP synthase.

Tuesday, 24 NovemberUnique flexibility in energy metabolism allows mycobacteria to combat starvation and hypoxia.

Wednesday, 25 NovemberBacterial sensing of antimicrobial stress.

The 9th Sir William Dunn Scholar, Professor Shahid Khan, LUMS School of Science and Engineering, Lahore, Pakistan, and Molecular Biology Consortium, Chicago, will give the following lectures in the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Hills Road, at 3 p.m.:

Tuesday, 1 DecemberBacterial flagellar protein export.

Wednesday, 2 DecemberComputer tools for actin cytoskeletal signal pathways.

Music. A lecture entitled Vocation, obsession, and a mad, mad market: how I write music and why, will be given by Giles Swayne on Tuesday, 17 November 2009, at 5 p.m., in the University Music School, 11 West Road. Admission is free. (Please note that this lecture was originally published in the Reporter Lecture-List (Reporter, 2009-10, Special No.1, p. 79), but the title and date have since been amended by the speaker.)