Reporter 29/10/97: Announcement of lectures and seminars

Announcement of lectures and seminars

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

Inaugural Lecture. Professor Quentin Skinner, Regius Professor of Modern History, will give his Inaugural Lecture, entitled Liberty before Liberalism, at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 12 November, in the Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Divinity. Professor Walter Hollenweger, Professor Emeritus of Mission, of the University of Birmingham, will deliver the Henry Martin Lectures for 1997, under the general title Pentecostalism: promise and problem, at 5 p.m. in the Faculty of Divinity, St John's Street.

Monday, 27 October	The black oral and the critical root
Tuesday, 28 October	Pentecostal missiology
Wednesday, 30 October	Pentecostalism and ecumenism

French. Professor Doug Kibbee, of the University of Illinois, will deliver a lecture on Standard languages, historical linguistics, and the history of linguistics, with special reference to Anglo-Saxon, at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 12 November, in Lecture Block 1, Sidgwick Avenue. There will be a reception after the lecture in the Armitage Room, Queens' College, to meet the speaker.

History and Philosophy of Science. Departmental Seminars will be held at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays, in Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane. Tea will be served at 4 p.m. in Seminar Room 1.

30 October	Medicine, alchemy, and religion in the war of words of Andreas Libavius, by Professor Bruce Moran, of the University of Nevada-Reno.
6 November	The uses of anomaly: experimental biology, medical research and the demands of culture, by Dr Chandak Sengoopta, of the Wellcome Institute, London.
13 November	Theory, practice and reputations in sociological research methods, by Dr Jennifer Platt, of Sussex University.
20 November	Dreams, collusions of interests and other ingredients of success: the case of high temperature superconductivity, by Professor Helga Nowotny, of the University of Vienna.
27 November	The politics of excellence: a history of awarding the Nobel physics and chemistry prizes, by Dr Robert Marc Friedman, of the University of Oslo.
4 December	Fading away - must things have a definite end?, by Ms Katherine Hawley.

Cabinet of Natural History. The Cambridge Group for the History of Natural History and the Environmental Sciences meets at 1 p.m. on Mondays in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane. Bring lunch if you wish.

3 November	Herodotus and the microscope: investigating dragons in seventeenth-century Rome, by Dr Silvia De Renzi.
10 November	Child's place in nature: talking animals in Victorian children's fiction, by Dr Tess Cosslett, of the University of Lancaster.
17 November	'To see the fellows fight': discussions at the early meetings of the Geological Society, by Dr John Thackray, of the Natural History Museum, London.
24 November	Victorian natural history observed: the letters of 'Jenny Malvern', by Dr Fritz Rehbock, of the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
1 December	Instincts and instruments: using animal instinct in the nineteenth century, by Dr Katey Anderson, of York University, Canada.

PSY Studies. The next seminar will be held at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 29 October, in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane, when Mr Jonathan Burt will talk on Zootherapies and Freud's animals around World War One.

Wellcome Unit for History of Medicine. Early Modern Programme. The next seminar will be held at 5 p.m. on Monday, 3 November, in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane, when Dr Maria Unkovskaya, of the University of Oxford, will talk on What foreign medicine did in seventeenth-century Muscovy. Tea will be served from 4.30 p.m. in the Department.

Oriental Studies. Centre for Modern Hebrew Studies. The following lectures will be held at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays, in Room L1, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue.

12 November	Why Jewish history?, by Professor Chimen Abramsky, of University College London.
26 November	A promised land? Jewish writers and the American experience, by Professor Dan Jacobson, Professor Emeritus, University College London.

Table of Contents