Events, courses, etc.

Equality and Diversity: Lecture

Cambridge’s First International Women’s Day (IWD) Lecture, entitled Iraqi women’s untold stories: between violence and mobilization, will be held at 5.15 p.m. on 7 March at Emmanuel College. Professor Nadje Al-Ali, from the School of African and Oriental Studies, will speak on the struggles of women in Iraq.

The lecture is part of a two-week programme of IWD events between 27 February and 17 March, celebrating the centenary of International Women’s Day, and is hosted by the Women’s Staff Network. All staff are welcome.

Further information is available at http://www.cambridge.gov.uk/ccm/content/community-and-living/annual-events/international-womens-day.en and http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/hr/equality/events/. Booking is available at http://www.training.cam.ac.uk/equality/event/126963.

Announcement of lectures, seminars, etc.

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

Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. The fifth Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture, entitled The hidden reality: parallel universes and the deep laws of the cosmos, will be given by Professor Brian Greene at 5 p.m. on Friday, 18 March, in the Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site. Admission is free, but booking is required via the website (http://bit.ly/hiddenreality). There will also be a book-signing for Professor Greene’s new book following the lecture.

Criminology. Professor Barry Mitchell, Coventry University Law School, and Professor Julian Roberts, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, will give jointly a public seminar entitled Sentencing for murder: exploring public knowledge and opinion, at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, 10 March, in Seminar Room B3 at the Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue.

Divinity. Cambridge celebrates 400 years of the King James Bible, from 9.30 a.m. on Wednesday, 27 April 2011, at Great St Mary’s, the University Church, Cambridge. The lectures are open to all, and no registration or fee is required.

9.35 a.m.King James and his Bible: the historical context, by Professor Pauline Croft (Royal Holloway)

11 a.m.The Cambridge contribution, by Professor William Horbury (Cambridge)

12 p.m.Words and the word: how the Bible became literature, by Professor Brian Cummings (Sussex)

2.30 p.m.The ‘authorizing’ of the KJB: two hundred years of success and failure, by Dr Scott Mandelbrote (Cambridge)

3.30 p.m.‘Isn’t this the book of the people?’: the KJB in America, by Professor Mark Noll (Notre Dame)

5 p.m.Theology and the task of translation, by the Archbishop of Canterbury

6.15 p.m.Evensong


Philosophy. The Faculty of Philosophy, in conjunction with Routledge, present the fifth annual Routledge Lecture in Philosophy. Professor T. M. Scanlon, the Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity at Harvard University, will deliver a lecture entitled Value in morality and politics, at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 15 March, in Little Hall, Sidgwick Avenue. All are welcome.