Reporter 3/2/99: 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:

Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies (CARTS). Currents in World Christianity. A seminar, on the subject of Changing concepts of world mission, 1910-48: the role of J. H. Oldham, will be given by Dr Keith Clements, General Secretary of the European Conference of Churches, at 2.15 p.m. on Thursday, 4 February, in the Elias Healey Rooms, Westminster College, Madingley Road.

Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations. Mrs Beryl Norman and Mr John Levy will talk on Israel at 50 - Jewish-Christian relations and the state of Israel at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, 9 February, at Wesley House, Jesus Lane.

Divinity. Patristic Seminar. Dr Caroline Humfress, of St Catherine's College, Oxford, will speak on Roman lawyers in the late antique church: the creation of the 'defensor ecclesiae' at 2.15 p.m. on Monday, 8 February, in the Lightfoot Room of the Divinity School, St John's Street.

ESRC Centre for Business Research. The following seminars will be given at 1 p.m. on Tuesdays in the Keynes Room (Lecture Room 1), Austin Robinson Building, Sidgwick Avenue.

23 February	The American quality gospel in Britain and Japan 1950-80, by Nick Tiratsoo, of the University of Luton.
2 March	Partnership at Work in practice, by John Knell, of the Industrial Society.
9 March	The historical development of company law (to be confirmed), by David Sugarman, of the University of Lancaster.

Experimental Psychology. The following Zangwill Club Seminars will be held this term.

19 February	Creative machinery: how it evolved and took over our brains, by Daniel Dennett, of Tufts University. (This is a joint Baddeley Colloquium-Zangwill Club meeting. It will take place at 1 p.m. in Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane.)
19 March	How children learn words, by Michael Tomasello, of the Max-Planck Institute, Leipzig. (4.30 p.m. in the lecture theatre, ground floor, Psychological Laboratory, Downing Site. Tea will be served in the first floor Seminar Room from 4 p.m.)

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

3 February	Henri Matisse, 'Studio under the eaves', by Miss Jane Munro, Senior Assistant Keeper of Paintings, Drawings, and Prints.
10 February	J. W. L. Glaisher, Sc.D., FRS (1848-1928): mathematician and collector, by Dr Julia Poole, Senior Assistant Keeper of Applied Arts.
17 February	The Pashley sarcophagus, by Dr Penny Wilson, Assistant Keeper of Antiquities.
24 February	Picasso and the Minotaur, by Mr Craig Hartley, Senior Assistant Keeper of Prints.
3 March	Small Italian Renaissance bronzes: form and function, by Dr Victoria Avery, Henry Moore Fellow, Department of the History of Art.
10 March	Rembrandt and the Passion, by Mr Craig Hartley, Senior Assistant Keeper of Prints.
17 March	Science in the service of art (a talk for National Science Week 1999), by Dr Spike Bucklow, of the Hamilton Kerr Institute for the Conservation of Paintings.

University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate and its Advisory Council for New Technologies in Assessment. A seminar on Computer based assessment: untapped potential, will be given at 4.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 10 February, in The School of Pythagoras, St John's College, as follows:

Assessing progress and process in computer based tutoring and learning, by Professor David Wood, of the University of Nottingham.

Computer based marking of free text, by Professor Tom Landauer, of the University of Colorado.

French. Metamorphoses. The following guest speakers will be in conversation at 8 p.m. in Sidgwick Hall, Newnham College, Sidgwick Avenue, on the dates shown:

Monday, 8 February	Christopher Hampton, screenwriter, playwright, and adaptor of Laclos' Les Liaisons dangereuses.
Monday, 22 February	Gilbert Adair, author of Love and death on Long Island and translator of A void.
Thursday, 4 March	Alain de Botton, author of How Proust can change your life.
Monday, 10 May	Bernard Cerquiglini, author, historian, and Director of the Institut National de la Langue Française.

Music. GoehrFest. The following lectures and colloquium, under the general heading What remains to be done?, will take place at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays (except for Friday, 26 February, at 2 p.m.) in Lecture Room 2 at the University Music School, West Road.

24 February	Reflections on teaching, by Mr Hugh Wood.
26 February	Colloquium on Elgar's 4th Symphony, with Mr Bayan Northcott and Mr Anthony Payne.
3 March	The ages of man as composer, by Professor Alexander Goehr.

Oriental Studies. Centre for Modern Hebrew Studies. The lecture to be given by Professor H. Bar-Yosef at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 10 February, in Room 9, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue, will be entitled Mental illness in modern Hebrew literature, and not as previously announced.

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