Events, courses, etc.

Equality and Diversity: Event

As part of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans (LGBT) History Month 2011, all staff are welcome to the launch of LGBT Cambridgeshire, to be held on 8 February 2011, from 4 to 7 p.m., in the Guildhall, Market Square.

The event has been organized by the University’s LGBT Staff Network, in partnership with Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service, Cambridgeshire Constabulary, Cambridge City Council, Cambridgeshire County Council, and other district councils and community groups. LGBT Cambridgeshire is a network that brings together staff from across Cambridgeshire. This is a drop-in event.

Announcement of lectures, seminars, etc.

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

Cambridge Central Asia Forum. In collaboration with the Development Studies Committee, the Cambridge Central Asia Forum presents a seminar on Fatal embrace: trading in hospitality on the frontiers of South and Central Asia, by Dr Magnus Marsden, Department of Social Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, at 5.15 p.m. on 16 February, in Seminar Room E, 17 Mill Lane. Please RSVP to Prajakti Kalra (email prajakti.kalra@cantab.net). For further details, please visit http://www.cambridge-centralasia.org.

Criminology. An award-winning documentary film, Presumed guilty, by Roberto Hernández and Layda Negrete will be shown in Seminar Room B3, in the Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Site, on Thursday, 10 February, at 5.30 p.m. The Director (Geoffrey Smith) will be present at the screening to answer questions. All are welcome to attend.

Irish Studies. Seminars for the Cambridge Group for Irish Studies take place on Tuesdays, at 8.45 p.m. in the Parlour, Magdalene College. Wine and whiskey will be served. All are welcome. For further information, please contact the Secretary of the Group, David Clarke Shiels (email dcs29@cam.ac.uk).

15 FebruaryConnemara Trilogy: a reading and commentary, by Mr Tim Robinson, Parnell Fellow, Magdalene College

22 FebruaryKeeping the show on the road – the future of the Irish Church?, by Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, Diarmuid Martin

1 MarchThe gardener and the stable boy: Yeats, MacNeice, and the problem of Orangeism, by Professor David Fitzpatrick, Trinity College, Dublin

Music. The inaugural lecture by the Faculty of Music’s Professor of Musical Performance Studies, and Director of the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice, entitled The practice of performance studies, will be given by Professor John Rink on Wednesday, 16 February, at 5 p.m. in the Robin Orr Recital Room of the University Music School, 11 West Road. Admission is free.