Reporter 21/10/98: 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:

Biological Anthropology. Research Seminars will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Seminar Room, Level 6, Department of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street.

21 October	'Free-riding' in animal societies: comparative and experimental tests of the 'collective action problem' in primates, by Charlie Nunn, of Duke University.
28 October	To kill or to copulate? A molerat dilemma, by Justin O'Riain, of the Department of Zoology.
11 November	The evolution of MHC genes in rhesus macaques, by Leslie Knapp.
18 November	Nutrition and growth of contrasting Amerindian communities in Guyana, by Alan Dangour, of the University of Kent.
25 November	The meaning of race, by Kenan Malik, journalist and author.

Divinity. Seminar in Hebrew, Jewish, and Early Christian Studies. Dr Eva Maria Lassen, of the Danish Human Rights Centre, Copenhagen, will speak on A tale of two Bibles: religions and the universality of human rights. The seminar will be held at 2.30 p.m. in the Lightfoot Room of the Divinity School, St John's Street.

A meeting of the North Atlantic Missiology Project Seminar will be held at 2.15 p.m. on Thursday, 29 October, in the Healey Elias Room, Westminster College, when Sebastian Kim, of Fitzwilliam College, will speak on The debate on conversion in the Indian Constituent Assembly, 1947-49.

Geography. Cambridge Coastal Research Unit. Dr John Day, of Louisiana State University, will give a presentation on The sediment dynamics in the Rhône, Po, and Ebro deltas: implications for sea level rise at 4 p.m. on Friday, 6 November, in the Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Place.

Law. Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS). Professor Alan Dashwood will give a lunchtime seminar entitled Free movement of persons under the Amsterdam Treaty, on Wednesday, 28 October 1998, starting at 12.45 p.m. in room B16, (Lower Ground Floor), Faculty of Law, 10 West Road, Cambridge. A sandwich lunch will be provided, courtesy of Stanbrook and Hooper, Brussels.

Slavonic Studies. The following lectures will be given at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesdays in the Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick Avenue:

27 October	The persistence of Russian peasant society, by Dr David Moon, of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (in Room 17).
3 November	Book publishing and culture in Post-Soviet Russia, by Dr Dmitri Bulanin, of the Institute of Russian Literature, St Petersburg (in Room 12).

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