Reporter 14/1/98: 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:

Stanton Lectures. The Stanton Lectures will be given by Dr Janet Martin Soskice at 5 p.m. in the Divinity School on the following dates: 19 and 26 January, 2, 9, 16, and 23 February, and 2 March. The general title for the series is Naming the Christian God.

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.

14 January	Structural classification of protein superfamilies, by Professor Sir Tom Blundell.
21 January	Retention and sorting in the Golgi, by Dr Sean Munro, of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.
28 January	Transcription and regulation by stress-activated MAP kinase pathways, by Dr Nic Jones, of the ICRF Laboratories, London.
4 February	Structure and evolution of a family of right-handed beta-helix proteins, by Dr Richard Pickersgill, of the Institute of Food Research, Reading.
11 February	Bacterial suntans and 'mad' monarchs: the molecular basis of light-induced gene expression, by Professor David Hodgson, of the University of Warwick.
18 February	DNA structure checkpoints: DNA damage and cell cycle specificity, by Dr Antony Carr, of the MRC Cell Mutation Unit, Sussex.
4 March	The future of antibiotics: drug design and strategy, by Professor Ian Chopra, of the University of Leeds.
11 March	Understanding metabolism: the changed perspective from metabolic control analysis, by Dr David Fell, of Oxford Brookes University.

The Alkis Seraphim Memorial Lecture will be given by Professor Chris Higgins, of the Institute of Molecular Medicine, on ABC transporters, channels and channel regulators, at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 25 February, in the Lecture Theatre, Department of Biochemistry New Building.

Centre for Family Research. Lunchtime Seminars will be held at 12.30 p.m. on Tuesdays in Room 606, Centre for Family Research, Free School Lane.

20 January	Childhood neglect/abuse and adult depression: exploring family context, by Dr Toni Bifulco, of Royal Holloway, University of London.
27 January	Towards evidence based social work practice: using research in a national childcare charity, by Ms Eva Lloyd, of Barnardo's.
3 February	Understanding health in (Post-)Communism, by Dr Peggy Watson. This seminar is jointly organized with the Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies.
10 February	Replication and mutation: professional, public and media perspectives on the social aspects of the new genetics, by Dr Sarah Cunningham-Burley, of the University of Edinburgh.
24 February	Understanding families: children's accounts of family, kinship and significant others, by Dr Ginny Morrow, of LSE.
3 March	Theatre for development in Mexico and Venezuela, by Ms Lisa Brown.
10 March	Understanding social inequality: using the Cambridge Scale, by Dr Ken Prandy.

Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. Seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Mondays in the Cambridge Group Library, 27 Trumpington Street, as follows:

26 January	An examination of age at marriage and changes in the provision of poor relief: Banbury, Oxfordshire, 1790-1834, by Dr Sharon Lauricella.
9 February	Infant mortality in 'laundryland': Kensington, 1890-1914, by Dr Graham Mooney and Dr Andrea Tanner, of the University of London.
23 February	Migration, maps and regionalism: some preliminary findings from the Nineteenth-Century Census Project, by Dr Kevin Schürer, of the University of Essex.
9 March	Long term changes in rural social stratification: the Northern Bohemian lands c. 1350-1650, by Dr Markus Cerman, of the University of Vienna.

Earth Sciences. Seminars will be held in the Harker Room at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays, except for the seminars on 21 January (Wednesday, at 3 p.m.) and 9 February (Monday, at 5 p.m.). Wine will be served from 4.30 p.m.

13 January	SHRIMP U-Pb age-determinations for Ediacaran faunas from the Ukraine and Newfoundland, by Professor William Compston, of the Australian National University.
21 January	The dwarfing of dinosaurs by Professor David Weishampel of Johns Hopkins University. NOTE this Seminar will start at 3 p.m.
27 January	Controls on sedimentary organic matter preservation in the Arabian Sea, by Dr Greg Cowie, of the University of Edinburgh.
3 February	A new approach to Upper Carboniferous deltas using sequence stratigraphy, by Dr Gary Hampson, of Imperial College, London.
9 February	New era of experimental geophysics and geochemistry, by Dr David H. K. Mao, of the Carnegie Institution, Washington.
17 February	Crustal-scale structural geometries of the Chicxulub impact from BIRPS seismic reflection profiles, by Dr David Snyder.
24 February	Fault growth rates in extensional settings: observations, models, and implications, by Dr Patience Cowie, of the University of Edinburgh.
3 March	Quantifying the incompleteness of the fossil record: assessing the rapidity of mass extinctions, by Dr Charles Marshall, of UCLA.
10 March	The Montserrat crisis: a medical view of volcanic hazards, by Dr Peter Baxter.

English. A special series of seminar talks on book history, reading, and cultural formation, under the general title The reading nation in the romantic period, by William St Clair, F.B.A., F.R.S.L., Visiting Fellow Commoner, Trinity College, will be held on Wednesdays, at 5 p.m., in the Lecture Block, Room 3, Sidgwick Avenue.

14 January	The Explosion of reading in the romantic period: copyright, prices, and the determinants of access to books.
21 January	Who read what? Canons, print runs, collective reading, and reading constituencies.
28 January	The poets and the pirates: illegal publishing. The impact of Shelley and Byron.
4 February	Individual reading: reception and dissemination.
11 February	At the boundaries: cross-overs between the oral and reading cultures, chapbooks, tracts, and popular literature.
18 February	Women's reading: gendered reading, cultural anxieties, the impact of Wollstonecraft, self-made books, and gift books.
25 February	Outcomes and impacts: the romantic authors in Victorian times. Provisional conclusions on the connexions between reading and cultural formation. Possible models for a history of reading.

Experimental Psychology. Zangwill Club Seminars are held at 4.30 p.m. on Fridays in the Lecture Theatre on the ground floor of the Department of Experimental Psychology, Downing Site, unless otherwise stated. Tea and cakes will be served in the first floor Seminar Room, from 4 p.m.

16 January	Why adult neuropsychology is the wrong model for understanding developmental disorders, by Dr Annette Karmiloff-Smith, of the MRC Cognitive Development Unit, London.
23 January	What, if anything, do we know about the evolution of the human mind?, by Dr Robert Foley.
30 January	Culture, biology and religion, by Professor Robert Hinde.
6 February	Motor activation and inhibition elicited by subliminal stimuli, by Dr Martin Eimer.
13 February	Darwin dismissed: Why his book on Expression was ignored for nearly a century, by Professor Paul Ekman, of the University of California Medical School, San Francisco. This is a joint meeting with Zoology, and will be held in the Main Lecture Theatre of the Department of Zoology, New Museums Site, Downing Street.
20 February	Young children's theory of mind and its relation to their success in school, by Dr Janet Astington, of the University of Toronto.
27 February	Listening to two things at once - with and without a cochlear implant, by Dr Bob Carlyon.
6 March	Consciousness and Free Will, by Dr Donald Laming.

French. Early Modern Seminars will be held at 8.30 p.m. on Tuesdays, in Flat C, Newnham Cottage, Harvey Court, Queen's Road. Parking is available on site for the evening of each seminar.

20 January	'…of one language, and one speech'? La Fontaine's talking animals, by Dr Jill Jondorf.
3 February	History and methodology, group discussion starting from Roger Chartier's Texts, Printing, Reading.
17 February	Reading pictures in 'Jacques le Fataliste', by Dr Nicholas Cronk, of Oxford University.
3 March	Language and power, group discussion.

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 is available from 4 p.m. in Seminar Room 1.

15 January	E. J. Marey and the early French Third Republic: 'Politique expérimentale' and the politics of experiment, by Dr Robert Brain, of Harvard University.
22 January	Popularizing mathematics a hundred years ago, by Dr Jeremy Gray, of the Open University.
29 January	'Ideas so monstrous that reason shrinks before them with a shudder': critical idealism and formative forces in Kant, by Professor Catherine Wilson, of the University of Alberta.
5 February	Leibnizian analysis: methodology and mathematics, by Professor Emily Grosholz, of Pennsylvania State University.
12 February	Divide and conquer: Roman land-division in the first century AD, by Dr Serafina Cuomo.
19 February	Kepler's solution to the problem of realist celestial mechanics, by Dr Rhonda Martens, of the University of Chicago.
26 February	Creating a 'public' Nature and a 'professional' Nature: the new museum idea in German natural history, by Professor Lynn Nyhart, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
5 March	The authentic self in post-war American psychiatry, by Professor Elizabeth Lunbeck, of Princeton University.
12 March	Flamsteed's stars: presentation of a newly published collection of essays on the life, work and legacy of John Flamsteed, edited by Frances Willmoth, by Dr Frances Willmoth, and by Dr Jim Bennett, of the University of Oxford.

Cambridge Historiography Group. Meetings under the general title History of the book/history of the sciences, will be held at 8 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Old Library, Darwin College:

21 January	Discussion of his 'Testimony and proof in early modern Europe', by Mr Richard Serjeantson.
4 February	Discussion of her 'Reading children's books in liberal, dissenting families: an instructive and amusing example', by Ms Aileen Fyfe.
18 February	Discussion of her 'Leonhart Fuchs on the importance of pictures' (Journal of the History of Ideas 58, 1997: 403-27), by Dr Sachiko Kusukawa.
4 March	Discussion of her 'Much held in a narrow room: natural philosophy and the limits of knowledge in a footnote by Edmund Law', by Dr Marina Frasca-Spada.

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.

19 January	Forging nature at the Republican museum, by Dr Emma Spary, of the University of Warwick.
26 January	Cross-cultural encounters: the co-production of science and literature in mid-Victorian periodicals, by Dr Paul White.
2 February	Culture, reason, and the problem of progress in the 'Origin of Species', by Mr Greg Radick.
9 February	Wonderful collections or cabinets of taxonomy: a contemporary view of early English museums, by Dr Ken Arnold, of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London.
16 February	Representing the invisible. Disease and national health in a German exhibition of 1903, by Dr Sybilla Nikolow, of the University of Bielefeld.
23 February	Basic instinct: biology and Anglo-American literature in the early twentieth century, by Ms Charlotte Sleigh.
2 March	The man who did not want to weigh himself: fatness, temperance and longevity in eighteenth-century England, by Ms Lucia Dacome.
9 March	Jarring bodies: on the question of ownership of extraordinary anatomies, by Professor Alice D. Dreger, of Michigan State University.

Psy Studies (History of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Allied Sciences). Seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Tea is available from 4.45 p.m.

21 January	Guides to self-presentation in Victorian England, by Dr Emm Barnes.
4 February	Coded minds, chemical souls: how to write the history of biological and genetic psychiatry, by Professor Nik Rose, of Goldsmiths College, London.
18 February	Bereavement and mourning in twentieth-century Russia, by Dr Cathy Merridale.
25 February	Schreber as linguist, by Dr Zvi Lothane, of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York.

Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine

Medieval and Renaissance Programme

A series of seminars on Medicine and society in Medieval and Renaissance Europe will be held on Tuesdays at 5 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane.

20 January	Galen goes to heaven: Renaissance biographical accounts of Galen, 1330-1660, by Professor Vivian Nutton, of the Wellcome Institute, London.
3 February	Spot the difference: Latin and vernacular medical writings, by Dr Helen Valls.
17 February	Happy endings: surgical case histories in the fourteenth century, by Mr Peter Jones.
3 March	Epidemic disease in Europe, 1490-1648: crisis, crises or what?, by Dr Andrew Cunningham.

Early Modern Programme

A series of seminars on Medicine and society in Early Modern Europe will be held on Mondays at 5 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane.

26 January	Libavius the Paracelsian? Monstrous novelties, institutions, and the norms of social virtue, by Professor Bruce Moran, of the University of Nevada, Reno.
9 February	Boerhaave's theology and the chemical elements, by MW Rina Knoeff.
23 February	A new way of 'saving the phenomena': from recipe to 'historia' in early modern medicine, by Professor Gianna Pommata, of the University of Bologna.
9 March	A portrait of Paracelsus, by Dr Charles Webster, of All Souls College, Oxford.

Modern Biomedicine Programme

A series of seminars will be held on Mondays at 5 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane.

19 January	The Medical Research Council was a mistake, by Dr Terence Kealey.
2 February	Yellow fever - the known and the lesser known aspects of experimentation on humans, by Dr Ilana Löwy, of INSERM U-158, Paris.
16 February	Shaping a new field of research: investigating interferon, 1958-1965, by Mr Toine Pieters, of the University of Limburg.
2 March	The Liverpool school of medical genetics and its influence on medical genetics in the UK, by Dr Doris Zallen, of Virginia Polytechnic University.

Tea is served before each seminar at 4.30 p.m. in the Department.

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:

21 January	Salonika without Jews: 1943-1950, by Dr Mark Mazower, of the University of Sussex.
28 January	Light a black candle: changing notions of the individual and personal celebration in contemporary Greece, by Professor Renée Hirschon, of the University of the Aegean.
11 February	Missing persons in Cyprus as Ethnomartyres, by Dr Paul Sant Cassia, of the University of Durham.
25 February	The life of C. P. Cavafy and why it remains unwritten, by Dr Sarah Ekdawi, of the Queen's University, Belfast.
11 March	Kazantzakis and biography, by Professor Georgia Farinou-Malamatari, of the University of Thessaloniki.

Newton Institute. Seminars aimed at a general scientific audience will be held at 5 p.m. on Mondays in Seminar Room 1, The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, 20 Clarkson Road. The first seminar of this term will be held on 19 January, when Professor Alan Newell, of the University of Warwick, will talk on Semiconductor lasers and Kolmogorov spectra. Tea will be served from 4.30 p.m.

Oriental Studies. Centre for Modern Hebrew Studies. The following lectures will be held at 5 p.m. in Room 9, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue:

27 January	Fabricating Israeli history, by Professor E. Karsh, of King's College, London.
11 February	Writing for the 'other': Arabic literature in Hebrew dress, by Dr A. Ela'd Bouskila, of Beit Berl College , Israel.

Physiology. Foster Club talks are held at 4.15 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Part II Lecture Theatre at the Physiological Laboratory, Downing Street. Tea and cakes will be served in the Tea Room from 3.45 p.m.

14 January	A new look at energy conversion in the F₁ ATP synthase, by Dr Luca Turin, of University College London.
21 January	The GnRH pulse generator: the nerve centre for reproduction, by Dr Kevin T. O'Byrne, of King's College, London.
28 January	The blood-brain barrier: physiology and drug delivery to the CNS, by Dr N. Joan Abbott, of King's College, London.
4 February	Surface tension and surfactants in the lung, by Dr Oliver Jenser.
11 February	Lesion-induced meta-plasticity in vestibular neurones: role of the stress axis, by Dr Mayank B. Dutia, of the University of Edinburgh.
18 February	Old age and death in the vessel wall, by Dr Martin R. Bennett.
25 February	Targeted disruption of the murine galanin gene, by Dr David Wynick, of the University of Bristol.
4 March	New insights on the somatostatin neuropeptide family, by Professor Patrick Humphrey.
11 March	The role of TGF-ß in cardiovascular protection: from cell culture to clinical studies, by Professor Jim Metcalfe.
18 March	Central mechanisms of control of food intake, by Professor S. R. Bloom of the Hammersmith Hospital.
25 March	The physiological role of substance P, by Dr R. G. Hill of Merck Sharp and Dohme Research Laboratories.

Scott Polar Research Institute. Lectures will be given at 8 p.m. (please note change of time) on Saturdays in the Scott Polar Research Institute, Lensfield Road. Seats will be reserved, on request, for Friends of the Institute.

24 January	Svalbard and the expeditions of the Arctic Research Group, by Mr Ian Frearson, of the Arctic Research Group.
7 February	The Cretaceous greenhouse: fossil forests of Antarctica, by Dr David Cantrill, of the British Antarctic Survey.
21 February	Cape Farewell Expedition, Greenland, 1996, by Mr Mike Bartle, of De Montfort University (Bedford).
7 March	The limits of endurance: the physiology of polar travel, by Dr Mike Stroud, of Southampton General Hospital.

Social Anthropology. Senior Seminars are held at 5 p.m. on Fridays in the Seminar Room, Department of Social Anthropology, Free School Lane. Tea will be available in the common room (second floor) from 4 p.m. onwards.

23 January	Growing knowledge in Bolivip, Papua New Guinea, by Dr Tony Crook.
30 January	Resourceful knowledge: innovation and gender interaction in the New Guinea Highlands, by Dr Lisette Jopsephides, of the London School of Economics.
6 February	The organization and transmission of cosmology in Melanesia and Amazonia, by Dr Harvey Whitehouse, of the Queen's University of Belfast.
13 February	Teaching Indians their own culture, by Dr Stephen Hugh-Jones.
20 February	A lesson in Piro beadwork: understanding style in a lived world, by Dr Peter Gow, of the London School of Economics.
27 February	A Piaroa theory of practice, with an answer to Eduardo Viveiros de Castro on the matter of soul, by Professor Joanna Overing, of the University of St Andrews.
6 March	'Exchange' and Amazonia: the anti-exchange mentality in contemporary anthropology, by Professor Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Simón Bolivár Professor of Latin-American Studies 1997-98.

A Public Lecture arranged jointly with the Centre of Latin-American Studies will be held at 3 p.m. on Friday, 16 January, at the McDonald Institute, Downing Site, Downing Street. Dr Darrell Posey, of the Oxford Centre for the Environment, Ethics and Society, will talk on Learning about conservation from the Kapayo Indians of the Brazilian Amazon.

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