Reporter 4/11/98: 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:

Astronomy. 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 European Trust. The 1998-99 Cambridge European Trust Lecture Series will have the theme The EU and the nation state and will open with a lecture by the Rt Hon. John Redwood, PC, MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, entitled Can Mr Blair's Britain ever be at the heart of Europe? The lecture will take place at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 19 November, in the Faculty of Law, West Road. The lecture will be followed by a reception, generously sponsored by Morgan Stanley.

Cambridge Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Ageing (CIRCA). A symposium will be held from 4.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, 1 December, in the Beves Room, King's College. Professor Bryan Turner, of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, will talk on Generational culture and generational conflict, and Professor Victor Marshall, of the Health and Ageing Institute, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, will talk on Restructuring work and the life course. Wine will be served following the symposium. For further information please contact Dr F. A. Huppert (tel. 336970, e-mail fah2@cam.ac.uk).

Divinity. The Hulsean Lectures are being given by Professor Brian Murdoch, of the University of Stirling, at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Divinity School, St John's Street. The remaining lectures in the series (overall title Adam sub gratia: the Fall and Redemption in medieval literature and beyond) are as follows:

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.

Seminar in Hebrew, Jewish and Early Christian Studies. Dr James Aitken, of the Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies, will speak on The language and culture of the Septuagint at 2.30 p.m. on Monday, 9 November, in the Lightfoot Room, 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, 12 November, in the Healey Elias Room, Westminster College, when Siphamandla Zondi, of Magdalene College, will speak on A history of medical missions in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, to 1950.

English. On Wednesday, 11 November, at 5 p.m. in the Little Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, the writer and critic Marina Warner, currently a Visiting Fellow Commoner at Trinity College, will speak on A short history of the banana.

Law. Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS). Mr Nicholas Bamforth, of Robinson College, will give a lunch-time seminar entitled Aspects of the Human Rights Act 1998, at 12.45 p.m. today, Wednesday, 4 November, in Room B16 (Lower Ground Floor), Faculty of Law, 10 West Road.

A sandwich lunch will be provided, courtesy of Stanbrook and Hooper, Brussels.

Smuts Memorial Fund, African Studies, Latin-American Studies, and Social Anthropology. Professor Peter Fry, of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro will give the following lectures and seminar:

23 November	Cultures of difference: colonial legacies in Zimbabwe and Mozambique, I, at 5 p.m. in the Committee Room, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Free School Lane.
27 November	Cultures of difference: colonial legacies in Zimbabwe and Mozambique, II, at 5 p.m. in Room G2, Department of Social Anthropology, Free School Lane.
30 November	Race and the affirmative action debate in Brazil, at 5 p.m. in Room 5, Faculty of History, West Road.

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