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Announcement of lectures and seminars

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

African Studies. Seminars under the general heading New Researchers in African Studies will be held at 5 p.m. on the following Mondays, in the SPS Committee Room, Free School Lane.

13 October. Jaguda: a history of pickpocketing in Ibadan, 1930s to 1950s, by Dr Simon Heap, of St Antony's College, Oxford.
20 October. 'Pen-pictures of themselves': the narrative and readership of local West African fiction, by Ms Stephanie Newell, of the University of Birmingham.
27 October. The use of foreign policy as a politico-economic survival strategy in small dependent states, by Ms Fatma Denton, of the University of Birmingham.
 3 November. Revisiting the vocational school fallacy: Ghana, Kenya and South Africa, by Dr Simon McGrath, of the University of Edinburgh.
10 November. The West African practice of smallpox inoculation, 1700-1870: issues in the history of medicine, by Mr Ike Achebe, of Trinity College.
17 November. The politics of civic material culture in colonial Ibadan: an episode, by Ms Ruth Watson, of Oriel College, Oxford.
24 November. Bitter sweet harvest: sugar agribusiness and rural development in South Africa, by Mr Shafiur Rahman, of St Anne's College, Oxford.
 1 December. 'From a view on the world to a point of view within it': rethinking colonial space, Sight and subjectivity, by Ms Jessica Dubow, of the University of Sussex.

 Africana Forum, under the general title Health and Development, will be held at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesdays, in the SPS Committee Room, Free School Lane, as follows:

14 October. Emerging issues in child health and development, by Professor Andrew Tomkins, of the Institute of Child Health, London.
21 October. UNHCR emergency aid and the economic development of the recipient countries, by Mr Amin Awad, of the UNHCR, Geneva.
28 October. Born poor, growing richer: the double whammy for diseases of affluence, by Dr Andrew Prentice, of the Dunn Nutrition Centre.
 4 November. Women, health and development, by Dr Suzy Elneil, of the Rosie Maternity Hospital.
11 November. Water Aid activities in Africa, by Mr Ray Heslop, of Water Aid, London.
18 November. Parasites and health, by Dr Helen Guyatt, of the Department of Zoology, Oxford University.
25 November. Directions for research into health aspects of humanitarian emergencies, by Ms Sarah Macfarlane, of the School of Tropical Medicine, University of Liverpool.
 2 December. Girls' education in Ghana: a cultural enquiry, by Dr David Stephens, of the University of Sussex.

Biochemistry. Lunch-time talks will be given at 1 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Lecture Theatre, Department of Biochemistry, New Building, Tennis Court Road.

 8 October. The detection and repair of DNA double-strand breaks, by Professor Steve Jackson.
15 October. Legume lectins and nodulation by Rhizobium, by Dr Nick Brewin, of the John Innes Centre, Norwich.
22 October. Evolutionary perspectives on apoptosis, by Dr Robin Brown, of Glaxo Wellcome Laboratories, Stevenage.
29 October. Ion channels - modelling and simulation studies, by Dr Mark Sansom, of the University of Oxford.
 5 November. Mechanisms of protein folding; from simple folds to complex topologies, by Dr Sheena Radford, of the University of Leeds.
12 November. The fibroblast growth factor receptor gene family in human developmental disorders, by Professor Sue Malcolm, of the Institute of Child Health, London.
19 November. Structural approaches to the specificity and mechanism of drug metabolizing enzymes, by Professor Gordon Roberts, of the University of Leicester.
26 November. The control of body fat mass and insulin sensitivity in man: lessons from experiments of nature, by Professor Steve O'Rahilly.
 3 December. Biochemistry and molecular pathology of NADPH oxidase, a protein complex defective in chronic granulomatosis disease, by Dr Tony Segal, of University College Hospital, London.

Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. Seminars will be held at 5.00 p.m. on Mondays in the Cambridge Group Library, 27 Trumpington Street.

20 October. Third century BC Egypt: some demographic data, by Dr Dorothy Thompson.
 3 November. The problem of pauper marriage in seventeenth-century England, by Dr Steven Hindle, of the University of Warwick.
17 November. Theoretical issues in family history, by Professor Michel Verdon, of the University of Montreal.
 1 December. Birthweight and the standard of living, Royal Women's Hospital Melbourne, 1854-1996, by Professor Janet McCalman, of the University of Melbourne.

Divinity. A meeting of the North Atlantic Missiology Project Seminar will be held at 2.15 p.m. on Thursday, 9 October, in the Lightfoot Room, the Divinity School, St John's Street. Professor Charles Weber, of Wheaton College, Illinois, will speak on Christianity and West African decolonization.

 Professor T. L. Thompson of the University of Copenhagen will deliver a lecture entitled Israelite and Jewish Ethnicity in Antiquity, at an open session of the Old Testament Seminar at 2.30 p.m. on Wednesday 15 October, in Room 13, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue.

Earth Sciences. Seminars take place at 5 p.m., with wine from 4.30 p.m., on Tuesdays in the Harker Room, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, as follows:

14 October. Iron, plankton, and atmospheric CO2, by Professor Andrew Watson, of the University of East Anglia.
21 October. The legacy of South African amphibole asbestos, by Dr Wes Gibbons, of the University of Wales, Cardiff.
28 October. Why the vertebrate fossil record is unnecessarily incomplete, by Dr Martin Lockley, of the University of Colorado, Denver.
 4 November. Sedimentation in the late Ordovician - early Silurian Welsh Basin: some recent progress, problems, and research opportunities, by Dr David James, of Imperial College, formerly of Shell, Rijswijk.
11 November. Sediment supply and climate change: recent Aegean results and general implications for basin analysis, by Professor Mike Leeder, of the University of Leeds.
Special joint Seminar with the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Thursday
13 November
The origin of 'Homo sapiens', by Professor Chris Stringer, of the Natural History Museum. (4.30 p.m. at the Institute).

Experimental Psychology. Zangwill Club Seminars are held at 4.30 p.m. on Fridays in the Psychological Laboratory, Downing Site. Tea will be served in the first floor Seminar Room from 4 p.m. Please note that the venue of the talks may be variable. Enquiries should be made at Reception.

10 October. Latent inhibition in humans: attention and association, by Dr Ian McLaren.
17 October. On the role of vision in the selection of actions to objects, by Professor Glyn Humphreys, of the University of Birmingham.
24 October. Psychoanalysis, science, and the truths of everyday life, by Dr John Forrester.
31 October. Perception, perceptual learning, and perceived similarity in autism, Dr Kate Plaisted.
 7 November. Positive and negative priming of task set, by Professor Alan Allport, of the University of Oxford.
14 November. Is there a role for imagery in language understanding?, by Professor Arnold Glass.
21 November. To be announced.
 5 December. W. H. R. Rivers: a founding father worth remembering, by Dr Paul Whittle.
W. H. R. Rivers, neurologist, psychologist, anthropologist and psychiatrist, was appointed to the first Cambridge University teaching post in psychology on 6 December 1897. Drinks will be served in the Seminar Room after the talk.

Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law. Seminars will be held at 12.45 p.m. on Fridays, at 5 Cranmer Road, accompanied by a sandwich lunch courtesy of Messrs Ashurst Morris Crisp.

10 October. State succession: some practical aspects, by Sir Arthur Watts, K.C.M.G., Q.C., formerly Legal Adviser, F.C.O.
17 October. Using the Individual Complaints Procedure under the ECHR to challenge gross violations of human rights: the case of Turkey, by Professor Kevin Boyle, University of Essex.
24 October. Host-state consent and United Nations peacekeeping, by Dr Christine Gray.
31 October. Holocaust denial laws and international human rights, by Dr Dominic McGoldrick, of the University of Liverpool.
 7 November. What if? Some speculations on the Taba and Great Belt cases, by Sir Ian Sinclair, K.C.M.G., Q.C.
14 November. The modern Law of the Sea: stability and development, by Mr Michael Wood, of the Legal Adviser's Office, F.C.O.
21 November. The implementation of the laws of war in modern conflicts, by Professor Adam Roberts, of the University of Oxford.
28 November. The ICJ's judgment in the Gabcikovo-Nagymaros case: The law of treaties and state responsibility, by Professor Derek Bowett, C.B.E., Q.C., and Professor James Crawford.

Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures. Professor Donald M. McRae will give three lectures on From security to trade: refocusing international law, at 6.15 p.m. on Thursday, Friday, and Sunday, 20, 21, and 23 November, in Room LR18, Faculty of Law.

Modern Greek. The following open lectures will be given at 5 p.m., on Wednesdays, in Room 1.02 of the Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue (with the exception of that on 5 November).

15 October. The distortion of Kalvos (in Greek), by Professor Nasos Vayenas, of the University of Athens.
29 October. Subject positions in Greek, by Ms Stavroula Tsiplakou, of the University of Hull.
 5 November. Mr Evgenios Spatharis will present a performance of 'Karagiozis', traditional Greek shadow-theatre (in the Little Hall).
 3 December. Translating Greek surrealist poetry: problems, parameters and possibilities, by Dr David Connolly, of the Ionian University, Corfu.

Newton Institute. Seminars aimed at a general scientific audience will be held at 5 p.m. on the following Mondays, in Seminar Room 1, at the Institute, 20 Clarkson Road:

13 October. A survey of wave motion, by Professor Joseph Keller, F.R.S., of Stanford University.
20 October. Statistical genome analysis: hidden Markov methods, by Professor David Haussler, of the University of California and the Newton Institute.
27 October. Stability in dynamics, invariant sets and the Burgers equation, by Professor Jörgen Moser, of ETH-Zürich.
 3 November. Neural networks: a probabilistic perspective, by Professor Christopher Bishop, of Aston University and the Newton Institute.

Tea will be served from 4.30 p.m.

Oriental Studies. The Centre for Middle Eastern Studies have arranged the following lectures to take place in Room L1, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue, on Thursdays at 5 p.m.

16 October. The Persian Gulf since the Kuwait Crisis, by Dr A. Ehteshami, University of Durham.
23 October. In the House of Silence: Arab women's autobiographies. Theory and practice of contemporary women's autobiographies, by Dr Fadia Faqir, University of Durham.
 6 November. Language and conflict in the Middle East, by Professor Yasir Suleiman, University of Edinburgh.
13 November. What does the term 'Ghazi' actually mean?, by Dr Colin Imber, University of Manchester.

Scott Polar Research Institute. With the exception of Ann Savours' lecture on 15 November, which will be held at 5.00 p.m., all lectures are at 8.30 p.m. on Saturdays in the Scott Polar Research Institute, Lensfield Road. They are open to all who are interested, and seats will be reserved, on request, for Friends of the Institute.

18 October. Halley Bay: from the Royal Society IGY Advance Party to the discovery of the ozone hole and beyond, by David Limbert, Royal Society Expedition and former British Antarctic Survey.
The speaker participated in the original establishment of this important Antarctic station as part of Britain's contribution to the International Geophysical Year (1957-58). This lecture commemorates Halley Bay's fortieth anniversary and celebrates its distinguished scientific history, not least the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole.
 1 November. The Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in a changing Russia, by Tanya Argounova, Scott Polar Research Institute.
Currently carrying out research for her doctoral thesis on political developments in the largest of the Siberian republics, the speaker was previously translator to the Sakha Head of State and has a privileged insight into its current situation.
15 November. The voyages of the 'Discovery': from Scott to Mawson, by Ann Savours (Mrs Shirley).
Author of the standard work on this ship which was specially built for Scott's first Antarctic expedition (1901-4) and enjoyed a distinguished subsequent history.
PLEASE NOTE: this lecture will begin at 5 p.m. and will be followed by the AGM of the Friends of the Institute and a buffet. All are welcome to the lecture but Friends only should attend the AGM and buffet.
29 November. 'Running from winter': by canoe from Great Slave Lake to the Arctic Ocean and back again, by Christopher Morris.
Currently studying at Cambridge University for a doctorate in philosophy, the speaker has extensive experience of canoeing in the Barren Lands of northern Canada, revisiting many sites made famous during the expeditions of Franklin, Back and others during the mid-nineteenth century.

South Asian Studies. The South Asian Seminar meets at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays during Full Term in the Director's Room, Centre of South Asian Studies, Laundress Lane, unless otherwise indicated. The seminar provides an opportunity to study South Asia from a wide variety of disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. The following programme has been arranged for the Michaelmas Term 1997:

Tuesday
14 October
Opening Pandora's Box: the impact of the Saima Waheed case on the legal status of women in Pakistan, by Dr Martin Lau of the School of Oriental and African Studies.
Friday
17 October
The making of 'Jinnah': culture, politics and media in Muslim society, by Dr Akbar Ahmed. This seminar will be held in the Little Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, and is arranged jointly with the Department of Social Anthropology.
22 October. Bengal 1947: provincial politics and international boundaries, by Dr Joya Chatterji.
29 October. Forgetting the emergency: sterilization and slum-clearance in Delhi, by Dr Emma Tarlo of Goldsmiths College.
 5 November. The Kingsley Martin Memorial Lecture, 1997. The death of Manu: silencing the voice of agricultural labour, by Professor Jan Breman of the Centre for Asian Studies, Amsterdam. This seminar will be held in Room G.19, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue.
12 November. The politics of economic reform in India, by Dr Robert Jenkins of Birkbeck College.
19 November. Our Mumbai: state power, dadas and communal reconciliation in Mumbai, by Mr Thomas Blom Hansen of Roskilde University.
Tuesday
25 November
Nationalism, the road to independence and the origins of authoritarian rule in Burma, by Dr Thant Myint-U. This seminar will be held in the Rushmore Room, St Catharine's College, and is arranged jointly with the George Macaulay Trevelyan Fund.
26 November. Nation, reason and religion: India's independence in comparative perspective, by Professor Sugata Bose of Tufts University. This seminar will be held in Mill Lane Lecture Room 1, and is arranged jointly with the George Macaulay Trevelyan Fund.
Thursday
27 November
Nation, reason and religion: India's partition in comparative perspective, by Professor Ayesha Jalal of Columbia University. This seminar will be held in the Rushmore Room, St Catharine's College, and is arranged jointly with the George Macaulay Trevelyan Fund.
 3 December. Understanding politics in India, by Dr Sunil Khilnani of Birkbeck College.

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Cambridge University Reporter, 8th October 1997
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