Reporter 27/1/99: 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:

Inaugural Lecture. Professor William Horbury, Professor of Jewish and Early Christian Studies, will give his Inaugural Lecture on Christianity in ancient Jewish tradition at 5 p.m. on 4 February 1999 in Lecture Room 4 at the Divinity School, St John's Street.

Biological Anthropology. Research Seminars will be held at 4 p.m. on Wednesdays, in the Seminar Room, Level 6, Department of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street. The seminars will be followed by refreshments.

27 January	Y chromosome and human history: traders of the lost ark, by Mark Thomas, of University College London.
3 February	Maternal-infant interactions amongst free ranging chimpanzees: the first five years, by David Gardner-Roberts.
10 February	Social capital, identity, and sexuality: community-level influences on HIV transmission in the southern African mines, by Cathy Campbell, of the London School of Economics.
17 February	Novel genetic approaches to investigating human population structure, by Bill Amos, of the Department of Zoology.
24 February	The meaning of race, by Kenan Malik, journalist and author.
3 March	Patterns of speciation in Strepsirhines and their close relatives, by Michelle Bayes, of the Institute of Zoology at the London Zoological Gardens.

Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations. Rabbi David Goldberg will talk on Jewish-Christian relations and the state of Israel: a personal reflection at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, 3 February, at Wesley House, Jesus Lane.

Divinity. There will be two joint meetings of the Religious Studies and Teape Seminars, on 29 January and 12 February, at 2.30 p.m. in the Lightfoot Room of the Divinity School, St John's Street. Dr Martin Forward, of Wesley House, will speak on Jesus in India: an oriental Christ? and Seeing the divine in India: a body of faith and love.

Engineering. Mechanics Colloquia will be held at 2.30 p.m. on Thursdays, in Lecture Room 5, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, as follows:

28 January	Inertia effects in impact energy absorbing materials and structures, by S. R. Reid, of UMIST.
4 February	Constitutive models for ferroelectrics, by J. E. Huber.
11 February	Use of advanced composites in concrete, by C. J. Burgoyne.
18 February	Modelling the frictional behaviour of rosin, by J. Woodhouse.
25 February	Modelling of friction stir welding, by H. R. Shercliff.

Further details, including abstracts, are available on the web at http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~mchc-www/

History. Professor Sanjay Subrahmanyam, of l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, will lecture on The empiricism of the heart: Khwaja Abdul al-Karim Kashmiri visits central and west Asia (1740s) at 8.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 2 February, in the Senior Parlour, Gonville Court, Gonville and Caius College.

Materials Science and Metallurgy. Departmental Colloquia will be held at 4.15 p.m. on Mondays in the Tower Seminar Room (T101), Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, Pembroke Street (immediately following tea).

1 February	Flow mechanisms in silicate and other viscous liquids: the origins of glass structure, by Dr I. Farnan, of the Department of Earth Sciences.
15 February	The scientific journal: its past, present and future, by M. A. Mabe, of Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford.
1 March	Transformation kinetics for recrystallization: can we improve upon the Avrami concept?, by Dr E. Woldt of the Institut für Werkstoffe, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany.

Refreshments are served after the colloquia.

Newton Institute. Seminars aimed at a general scientific audience will be held at 5 p.m. on Mondays in Seminar Room 1, the Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, 20 Clarkson Road. Tea will be served from 4.30 p.m. and there will be an informal reception after each seminar.

8 February	Conformal invariance and multifractality, by Professor Bertrand Duplantier, of CEA Saclay.
22 February	Random walks and some fractal graphs, by Professor Martin Barlow, of the University of British Columbia.
8 March	On the generation of vorticity at a free surface, by Professor Tom Lundgren, of the University of Minnesota.

Institute of Public Health. Bradford Hill Seminar Series. Two seminars will be held on Tuesday, 2 February, in the Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way (Parke-Davis Site).

12.30-1.30 p.m.	Measuring quality of life in osteoporosis, by Dr Paul Lips, of the Vrije Universiteit, the Netherlands.
2-3 p.m.	Geographical information systems and health research, by Professor Graham Bentham, of the University of East Anglia.

South Asian Studies. The South Asian Seminar meets at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays (except where otherwise stated) during Full Term in the Director's Room, Centre of South Asian Studies, Laundress Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1SD.

27 January	The Boy Scouts, social service, citizenship and patriotism in colonial India, by Mr Carey Watt.
Friday, 5 February	History-writing in late pre-colonial South Asia: who is afraid of it and why?, by Professor Sanjay Subrahmanyam, of l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (at 2.15 p.m.).
10 February	Class, caste and gender: political economy of plantations in colonial Southern India, by Dr Ravi Raman, of the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvanthapuram.
17 February	Political struggle and resistance by women in a squatter settlement in Dhaka, by Ms Sonya Sultan.
24 February	'A country of merchants and poets': the construction of Gujarati identity in the late nineteenth century, by Ms Riho Isaka.
3 March	Researching a revolutionary movement: the Naxalite movement in Central Bihar, by Ms Bela Bhatia.

The Gender Forum (see p. 289) will meet at 5 p.m. on 3 February, in the McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

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