Reporter 17/2/99: 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 Medical missiona and the history of feminism: Emmeline Stuart of the CMS Persia Mission, will be given by Guli Francis-Dehqani, of the University of Bristol, at 2.15 p.m. on Thursday, 25 February, in the Elias Healey Rooms, Westminster College, Madingley Road.

Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations. Professor Hamutal Bar-Yosef will talk on Jewish-Christian relations in modern Hebrew literature at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, 24 February, at Wesley House, Jesus Lane.

Clinical Veterinary Medicine. Tea Clubs are held on Wednesdays at 4.30 p.m. in the Main Lecture Theatre at the Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge. Tea is served at 4 p.m. in the Senior Common Room.

24 February	The role of growth factors in bone formation, by Dr Alan Horner, of the Department of Medicine Bone Group.
3 March	E. coli O157 - a good test for the Food Standards Agency, by Professor T. H. Pennington, FRSE, of the University of Aberdeen.
17 March	Recent studies of HIV-1 transcription inhibitors, by Professor Masanori Baba, of Kagoshima University, Japan.

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. Due to unforeseen circumstances, Professor Ruth Kartun-Blum will be unable to give her talk at the Faculty of Oriental Studies on Wednesday, 24 February. There will be a film show instead.

Symposium on Gender Studies at Cambridge. The second annual one-day symposium will take place from 10.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. on Saturday, 6 March, at Girton College. Admission is free (lunch £5, coffee £1) and no registration is required. Workshops will be held on Gender and reproductive technologies, Gender and development, Women's poetry, and Women in science. There will also be discussions on Perspectives on motherhood and The future of Gender Studies in Cambridge.

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