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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:

William and Mary Lecture. Mr Rudi Fuchs, Director of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, will deliver the 1998 William and Mary Lecture at 5 p.m. in the Senate-House on Thursday, 26 March. (Please note: the date of the Lecture has been changed from 12 March.) The title of Mr Fuchs's Lecture is Home sensation, foreign charm: national culture and international museums. A reception will follow the Lecture.

African Studies Centre. Professor John de Gruchy, of the University of Capetown, will lecture on The Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the churches at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 12 March, in Room 606, Centre for Family Research, New Museums Site, Free School Lane.

Classics. Professor Martha Nussbaum, of the University of Chicago, will speak on The incomplete feminism of Musonius Rufus: Platonist, Stoic, and Roman at 10 a.m. on Friday, 13 March, in Room G12, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue.

Divinity. The Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies will hold a conference on 16 and 17 March 1998 on the theme of Sexing the Liturgy. The keynote speaker will be Baroness James of Holland Park (P. D. James), and the major world religions will be represented amongst panellists and speakers. For further details and to reserve a place, please contact Ms R. M. Paul, tel. (3)39562, rmp24@cam.ac.uk.

Dunn Nutritional Laboratory. Lectures will be given at 4.15 p.m. on the following Mondays:

9 March Phyto-oestrogens: a possible role in hormone-dependent cancers, by Dr Mike Morton, of the Tenovus Cancer Research Centre, Cardiff, in Seminar Room 2, the Clinical School, Addenbrooke's Hospital.
23 March New approaches to defining dietary requirements for micronutrients, by Dr Malcolm Jackson, of the University of Liverpool, in Hospital Seminar Room F/G, Level 6, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Tea will be served at 4 p.m.

Engineering. Laboratory for Communications Engineering Seminar Series. Bjarnes Stroustrup will talk on Foundations for Native C++ Styles at 4.15 p.m. on Wednesday, 18 March, in Lecture Theatre 'O', Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street.

Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law. There will be a talk by Professor Mireille Delmas-Marty, of Université de Paris I, entitled The role of the European Court of Human Rights in the revival of the 'Jus Commune', at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 5 March, in the Finley Library, 5 Cranmer Road.

In an alteration of the seminar programme announced for 12.45 p.m. on 6 March (Reporter, p. 318), Sir Robert Jennings, QC, will talk on Some aspects of international litigation.

An additional seminar has been arranged for 12.30 p.m. on Friday, 13 March. Lord Lester of Herne Hill, QC, will talk on Legal enigmas: the Human Rights Bill. Please note the earlier starting time for this seminar.

Both seminars will be held at 5 Cranmer Road, accompanied by a sandwich lunch courtesy of Messrs Ashurst Morris Crisp.


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Cambridge University Reporter, 4th March 1998
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