Reporter 7/10/98: 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:

Slade Lectures. The Slade Lectures, 1998, will be given by Professor Virginia Spate on Metamorphoses: Woman, Man, and Nature in nineteenth-century French art, at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays, in Mill Lane Lecture Room 3. The first lecture, which will be given on 13 October, is entitled The dream of the body as nature.

African Studies Centre. Research seminars on the theme New research in African studies will take place at 5 p.m. on the following Mondays in the SPS Committee Room, Free School Lane.

12 October	Transition in the idea of the culture hero in African literature and politics, by Ato Quayson.
19 October	Knowledge, custom, and re-claiming of a lost land in the new South Africa, by Deborah James, of the London School of Economics.
26 October	Bunyan in the Congo: Baptists, prophets, and disappearing texts, by Isobel Hofmeyr, of the University of Witwatersrand, and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
2 November	Blowing beer: ritual, age, and authority in East Africa, by Justin Willis.
9 November	Measuring the cost of conservation policy, by Dan Brockington, of University College London.
16 November	The historical imagination in Caribbean literature, by Nana Wilson-Tagoe, of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
23 November	Culture difference: colonial legacies in Zimbabwe and Mozambique, by Peter Fry, of the Federal University, Rio de Janeiro.
30 November	Revolutionary lives: women and local resistance in Zimbabwe's liberation war, by Eleanor O'Gorman, of New Hall.

A special talk entitled Post apartheid South Africa's contribution to the New World Order will be given by Her Excellency Cheryl Carolus, South African High Commissioner to the UK, on Friday, 16 October, at 5 p.m. in The Old Library, Pembroke College.

Institute of Astronomy. All colloquia will be held at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in the Seminar Room, Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, preceded by tea at 4.00 p.m.

8 October	Mapping the earliest stages of galaxy formation, by Professor L. Cowie, of the University of Hawaii.
15 October	Measuring proper motions in clusters of galaxies, by Professor M. Merrifield, of the University of Nottingham.
22 October	An estimate of the mass accretion rate in the NGC 4258 central engine based on multi-epoch VLBI observations of the sub-parsec maser disk, by Dr J. Herrnstein, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
29 October	Evolution of early-type galaxies in rich clusters, by Dr P. van Dokkum, of the Leiden Observatory.
5 November	A SCUBA survey of the distant Universe, by Dr I. Smail, of the University of Durham.
19 November	Black hole accretion revisited: ADIOS to ADAFs, by Professor M. Begelman, of the University of Colorado.
26 November	Reionization and the cosmic microwave background, by Dr A. Liddle, of Imperial College, London.

On 12 November at 5.30 p.m. in the Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Professor D. Helfand, of Columbia University, will deliver the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Lecture entitled The cosmic clock: reconstructing prehistory atom by atom.

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, as follows:

19 October	Genes, memes and contingency: the effects of purposive action on mortality reduction, by Professor Bruce Fetter, of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
2 November	Illness, death, and infant feeding practices in Derbyshire in the early twentieth century, by Ms Alice Reid.
16 November	Mary Douglas v. Vero Wynne Edwards: homeostasis and regimes in historical demography, by Professor Robert Woods, of the University of Liverpool.
30 November	Infant and child mortality in Central Spain, 1795-1960: changes in the course of demographic modernization, by Dr Diego Ramiro-Fariñas and Dr Alberto-Sanz-Gimeno, of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Divinity. Hulsean Lectures. The Faculty of Divinity invites all who are interested to attend a series of lectures entitled Adam sub gratia: the Fall and Redemption in medieval literature and beyond, to be given by Professor B. Murdoch, of the University of Stirling, at 5 p.m. in the Divinity School, St John's Street, on the following dates:

14 October	After Eden: the Apocryphal Adam.
21 October	Written in tablets of stone: Adam and Gregorius.
28 October	Stultus et insipiens: Adam, Parzival, and the Grail.
4 November	Innocent blood: redemption and the leper.
11 November	Promises to Adam: the Fall, the Redemption, and medieval drama.
18 November	By the Scriptures alone? Playing Adam in the Reformation and beyond.

The 'D' Society. Professor Gerd Haeffner, of the Hochschule für Philosophie, Munich, will give an open lecture at 2.30 p.m. on Friday, 16 October, in the Divinity School, St John's Street, on The awareness of 'Presence' and its possible religious meaning.

Henry Martyn Mission Studies Seminar, celebrating the centenary of the Henry Martyn Library 1898-1998. The Seminar will convene at Westminster College, Madingley Road, on the following dates:

12 October, at 5 p.m.	Martyn and martyrs: questions for mission, by the Rt Revd Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester.
16 October, at 2.30 p.m.	Who is Jesus? Presenting the claim of Christ in a multi-religious society, by the Rt Revd Yong Ping Chung, Bishop of Sabah.
5 November, at 2.30 p.m.	Aspects of Ethiopian Christianity, by the Revd Dr John Binns.

The lecture on 12 October will be preceded by a ceremony at 3.30 p.m. in the Morison Room of the University Library to mark the transfer of the SPCK archives to the University Library.

Earth Sciences. Seminars will take place at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays in the Tilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street. Wine will be served in the Harker Room from 4.30 p.m.

13 October	The Cambrian explosion: megatonnage or damp squib?, by Professor Simon Conway Morris.
20 October	Plants in an ancient greenhouse world, by Dr David Beerling, of the University of Sheffield.
27 October	Ordovician ice ages, by Dr Pat Brenchley, of the University of Liverpool.
3 November	Madagascar: mantle plumes and continental breakup, by Dr Andy Saunders, of the University of Leicester.
10 November	High resolution sampling of recent sediments: new insights into important geochemical processes, by Dr Michael Krom, of the University of Leeds.
17 November	Stratigraphical and facies analysis of igneous cumulates in the Rhum ultrabasic complex, by Dr Rob Hunter, of the University of Liverpool.
24 November	(Title to be announced) by Dr Dick Kroon, of the University of Edinburgh.
1 December	Turbidite sedimentology, by Dr Bryan Cronin, of the University of Aberdeen.

English. Seminars, under the general title Commonwealth and International Literature in English, will be held at 5.30 p.m. on Mondays in the Nihon Room, Pembroke College.

12 October	Waiting for the christening: Canadian writers and propaganda in World War I, by Professor Peter Buitenhuis, of Vancouver University.
26 October	History in a pickle: rewriting history in recent Indian fiction, by Dr Jon Mee, of University College, Oxford.
9 November	Onitsha Market pamphlets: some questions without answers, by Dr Stephanie Newell, Smuts Research Fellow in African Studies.

At 5.30 p.m. on 23 November in the Little Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, as part of the mini-fest of contemporary Indian and Australian literature from 21 to 24 November, Mr Hanif Kureishi will read from and talk about his work.

Experimental Psychology. Zangwill Club Seminars are held on Fridays at 4.30 p.m. in the ground floor lecture theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology, Downing Site. Tea will be served in the first floor Seminar Room from 4 p.m.

9 October	Metabolic cost and the function, design, and evolution of brain, by Simon Laughlin, of the Department of Zoology.
16 October	Spearman's g: empirical revival and future research, by Arthur Jensen, of the University of California at Berkeley.
23 October	On the modularity of implicit learning: independent learning of spatial, object, and response sequences, by Thomas Goschke, of the University of Osnabrück.
30 October	The psychological significance of fiction, by Keith Oatley, of the University of Toronto.
13 November	Computational models of reading: a comparative evaluation, by Kathy Rastle.
20 November	Mechanisms for fear processing in the human brain, by Ray Dolan, of the Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology, London.
27 November	A 64,000 dollar question. Does long-term potentiation play a role in learning or memory?, by Richard Morris, of the University of Edinburgh.

Centre for Family Research. Lunchtime seminars will be held at 1 p.m. on the following Tuesdays in Room 606, Centre for Family Research, Free School Lane:

13 October	Reaching an accommodation: mothers' accounts of feeding and weaning their infants, by Dr Gail Ewing.
3 November	How perspective shifts in the view of self and marital partner guide the break-up decision, by Dr Helena Willen, of the University of Gothenberg.
24 November	Children's understanding of war: tales of innocence and experience, by Dr Lynne Jones.
1 December	Intimacy, disrupted lives, and identity: recent Australian data, by Professor Bryn Turner, Professor of Sociology elect.

Fitzwilliam Museum. Lunch-time Gallery Talks under the general title Art in context, will be given at 1.15 p.m. on Wednesdays, and at 1.15 p.m. on Thursdays for the repeated lectures. Please assemble in the main entrance hall of the Museum.

14 October	Joseph Wright of Derby, 'The Hon. Richard Fitzwilliam, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion': a portrait of the Founder, by Mr Duncan Robinson, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum.
21 October	Music set in ivory: an early medieval depiction of chant singing, by Dr Susan Rankin, Reader in
	Medieval Music.
	(limited to twenty-five people, repeated 22 October)
28 October	Salvator Rosa, 'L'Umana fragilità', by Dr Jean-Michel Massing, Reader in the History of Art.
4 November	Vincennes and Sèvres porcelain from the collection of Louis C. G. Clarke, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, 1937-1946, by Dr Julia Poole, Senior Assistant Keeper of Applied Arts.
11 November	Ramesses III, Giovanni Belzoni, and the mysterious Reverend Browne, by Dr Penelope Wilson, Assistant Keeper of Antiquities.
18 November	Lord Fitzwilliam's print collection, by Mr Craig Hartley, Senior Assistant Keeper of Prints.
	(limited to twenty-five people, repeated 19 November)
25 November	Renaissance bronzes from the Boscawen Collection, by Mr Robin Crighton, Keeper of Applied Arts.
2 December	Ruskin's Turners, by Mr David Scrase, Keeper of Paintings, Drawings, and Prints.
	(limited to twenty-five people, repeated 3 December)

Geography. Seminars will be held at 4.15 p.m. on Thursdays in the Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Place, as follows:

22 October	Ecosystem science v. social constructs: research and management in Slapton Ley Nature Reserve, Devon, by Dr Steve Trudgill.
29 October	The conditions and consequences of choice: some reflections on indicators of women's empowerment, by Dr Naila Kabeer, of the University of Sussex.
5 November	Policy design for hazard management, by Dr John Handmer, of Middlesex University.
12 November	Cultural frontiers of early modern Europe, by Professor Peter Burke, of Emmanuel College.
19 November	Myths and meaning: integrating natural and social science in environment and development, by Dr Tim Forsyth, of the University of Sussex.
26 November	Commodities in the world economy: cotton in the first global economy, by Professor Peter Hugill, of Texas A&M University.
3 December	Social constructions of nature in environmental restoration, by Dr Sally Eden, of the University of Hull.

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. There is tea beforehand in Seminar Room 1 at 4 p.m.

22 October	The creation of social reality, by Dr Miranda Fricker, of Birkbeck College, London.
29 October	Conservative thought and the emergence of pure mathematics: the case of the Jacobin Revolution in Naples (1799), by Dr Massimo Mazzotti, of the University of Edinburgh.
5 November	The strategic turn in British science and the tides of Empire in India (1939-1996), by Dr Robert Anderson.
12 November	A tumbling-ground for whimsies? The history and contemporary role of the conscious/unconscious contrast, by Dr Neil Manson.
19 November	Perceptions of non-western sciences in the Scientific Revolution, by Dr Nick Dew.
26 November	Explaining irreversibility: why entropy cannot be the explanans, by Dr Katinka Ridderbos.
3 December	An informative history of the government machine: the automatic civil servant, fantasies of total knowledge, and British digital science, by Mr Jon Agar, of the University of Manchester.

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.

12 October	Dr Harvey's weak experiment: the story of a text, by Ms Cathy Gere.
26 October	William Bateson, the Botanic Garden, and the public, by Professor John Parker.
2 November	The beginning and the end: William Whiston's 'New Theory of the Earth' (1696), by Mr Stephen Snobelen.
9 November	Sex, lies, and phonograph cylinders: Garner in the Congo, 1892-93, by Mr Greg Radick.
16 November	Speaking plainly about evolution: Quakers respond to Darwin, by Professor Geoffrey Cantor, of the University of Leeds.
23 November	A. G. Tansley and the place of anthropogenic nature, by Ms Laura Cameron.
30 November	Potoroos, pig-foots, and paradise parrots: John Gilbert in Australia, 1838-1845, by Dr Clemency Fisher, of Liverpool Museum.

History of Medicine Seminars. Seminars will be held on Mondays at 5 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane. Tea is available from 4.30 p.m.

Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Medicine

19 October	Teaching medicine and natural philosophy in thirteenth century Oxford, by Mr Roger French.
2 November	The primacy of simples in early modern English medicine, by Mr Andrew Wear, of the Wellcome Institute, London.
16 November	Classical medicine and early Christianity in the late antique world, by Ms Rebecca Flemming.
30 November	Hospitals and medicine in Renaissance Italy, by Mr John Henderson.

History of Modern Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

12 October	Picturing surgeons and other explorers in the late nineteenth century, by Dr Chris Lawrence, of the Wellcome Institute, London.
26 October	Bodies of the Church: transforming anatomy in early Victorian Oxford and Cambridge, by Dr Jim Secord.
9 November	Supported lives: configuring dialysis in postwar Britain, by Dr Jenny Stanton, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
23 November	Materialities of communication: tabulation in anthropometry and child care around 1900, by Dr Lyuba Gurjeva, of the University of Manchester.

PSY Studies. Seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane, unless otherwise stated. Tea is served before the seminar at 4.40 p.m.

14 October	Great exhumations?, by Dr Ruth Richardson, of the Wellcome Institute, London.
28 October	Ferenczi's dangerous proximities: telepathy, psychosis, and the real event, by Dr Pam Thurschwell.
11 November	The founding of the Psychological Laboratory at University College, London: James Sully, Francis Galton, and the Anonymous Donor, by Dr Elizabeth Valentine, of the University of London.
25 November	Words in decay: the study of language disorders in late nineteenth century Vienna, by Dr Heini Hakosalo, of the University of Oulu, Finland.

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.

9 October	The politics of self-determination, by Professor J. Mayall.
16 October	The role of the legal adviser to military contingents involved in peace keeping operations, by Major Bruce Oswald, Legal Adviser to the Australian Armed Forces.
23 October	The role of the geographer in addressing international boundary disputes, by Professor Gerald Blake, of the University of Durham.
30 October	International commercial arbitration and African states, by Dr Amazu Asouzu, of King's College, London.
6 November	Structures for African economic integration: a comparative survey, by Professor Craig Jackson, of Texas Southern University.
13 November	The role of the ICC Court of Arbitration under the new ICC rules, by Mr David St John Sutton, Partner, Allen & Overy; UK Member of the ICC Court of Arbitration.
20 November	The grant of refugee status: when is fear of persecution well-founded?, by His Honour Judge David Pearl, President, Immigration Appeals Tribunal.

Hersch Lauterpacht Lectures. Professor Martti Koskenniemi, of the University of Helsinki, will give three lectures on The gentle civilizer of nations: the rise of international legal pragmatism, at 6 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, 25 and 26 November, and at 12.45 p.m. on Friday, 27 November, at 5 Cramner Road.

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.

14 October	Women and gender roles in Modern Greek folk tales, by Dr Birgit Olsen, of the University of Copenhagen.
21 October	Independent Greece: the search for a frontier, 1822-1835, by Professor Malcolm Wagstaff, of the University of Southampton.
18 November	'Our Christian brethren in the East': the Turkish-speaking Greeks of Asia Minor, by Professor Richard Clogg, of St Antony's College, Oxford.

Copies of the complete lecture programme for 1998-99 may be obtained from the Secretary, Department of Other Languages, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages (e-mail lish2@cus.cam.ac.uk).

Institute of Public Health. Bradford Hill Seminar Series. Seminars will be held at 1 p.m. prompt on Fridays in the Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way (Parke-Davis Site).

16 October	Relatives in the resuscitation room - here to stay?, by Dr Sue Robinson, of Addenbrooke's NHS Trust.
6 November	Drugs, illegal addiction: high time for Bradford Hill's scientific method, by Dr Sheila Gore.
13 November	Epidemiological and experimental approaches to identifying the effects of genes and the environment in Type II diabetes, by Professor Nick Hales, of the Department of Clinical Biochemistry.
20 November	Childhood cognitive function and timing of the natural menopause, by Dr Marcus Richards, of the MRC National Survey of Health and Development, University College London.
27 November	(Title to be announced), by Dr Andrew Farmer, of the Institute of Public Health, Oxford.
4 December	Evidence based medicine, systematic review and the Cochrane Collaboration, by Dr Lesley Stewart, of the MRC Cancer Trials Office.

IPH Discussion Groups. Seminars will be held at 1 p.m. prompt on Tuesdays in the Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health.

13 October	Mammographic patterns and breast cancer risk, by Evis Sala.
20 October	A comprehensive patient-centred evaluation study of health care setting, by Charles Fox, of Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust.
27 October	Education intervention in primary care, by Richard Nixon and Guy Fender.
3 November	Cystic fibrosis - a needs assessment, by Corinne Camilleri-Ferrante and Julia Legh-Smith.
10 November	Variations in bone density and vertebral fracture in Europe, by Mark Lunt and Gemma Holt.
17 November	The consulting life of Brian, by Brian Tom.

University Library. To mark the centenary of the official presentation of the Genizah Collection to the University of Cambridge by Dr Solomon Schechter and Dr Charles Taylor, in October, 1898, a series of five lectures, sponsored by the University Library, the Faculty of Oriental Studies, and the Corob Charitable Trust, will be given in the Michaelmas Term by an international group of speakers. The overall theme of the series will be The contribution of the Genizah Collection to the study of medieval Jewish culture. The lectures will be delivered in the Morison Room of the University Library's new exhibition centre and will be open to all. Each lecture will commence at 5 p.m. and will be preceded by tea at 4.30 p.m.

15 October	The contribution of the Genizah to studies of Aramaic Bible translations and commentaries, by Professor Michael Klein, of the Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem.
20 October	The contribution of the Genizah to the history of Jewish female literacy in the Middle Ages, by Professor Joel Kraemer, of the University of Chicago.
5 November	The contribution of the Genizah to our understanding of medieval Jewish marriage and the family, by Professor Mordechai Friedman, of Tel Aviv University.
19 November	The contribution of the Genizah to the chronicling of Jewish/Muslim relations in the medieval Mediterranean area, by Professor Paul Fenton, of the Sorbonne, Paris.
30 November	The contribution of the Genizah to the study of Talmudic law and Rabbinic custom in the Middle Ages, by Professor Neil Danzig, of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.

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