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Announcement of lectures and seminars

The following lectures and seminars will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:

Rouse Ball Lecture, 1999. The Rouse Ball Lecture for 1999 will be given at 12 noon on Wednesday, 5 May, in Room A of the Arts School. The Lecturer will be Professor N. Trefethen and his title is Scientific computing: the finite, the infinite, and the future.

Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies (CAMCREES), English, and Social and Political Sciences. A seminar on Race, class, and identity will be held at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 3 March, in N7, Pembroke College. Michael Stewart, of University College London, will speak on Gypsies or Roma? Historical and current sources of ambiguity in representation of self-representation.

Cambridge European Trust. The following lecture will take place at 5.15 p.m. in the Faculty of Law, West Road. The lecture will be followed by a reception, generously sponsored by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.

Friday, 26 February The priorities of the German EU presidency, by HE Gebhart von Moltke, German Ambassador to the UK.

Cambridge Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Ageing (CIRCA). A symposium will be held from 4.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 16 March, in the Old Library, Darwin College. Professor Tom Kirkwood, of the University of Manchester, will talk on The time of our lives, and Professor Kay-Tee Khaw will talk on Ageing in individuals and in populations. For further information please contact Dr F. A. Huppert (tel. 336970, e-mail fah2@cam.ac.uk).

Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies (CARTS). Father Hilarion Alfeyev of the Moscow Patriarchate will present a seminar on The relations between the Orthodox Church and the World Council of Churches at 4.15 p.m. on Wednesday, 3 March, in the Divinity School, St John's Street.

Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations. Professor Hamutal Bar-Yosef will talk on The sacred female in Hebrew literature and its Russian context at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, 3 March, at Wesley House, Jesus Lane.

Divinity and Oriental Studies. Dr Terry Fenton, of Haifa University, will give a paper entitled The Hebrew tenses in the light of Ugaritic at an open meeting of the Old Testament Seminar at 2.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 3 March, in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue.

English. Professor Dame Gillian Beer will speak on No man is an island - the making of a cliché, at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 25 February, in Room 6, Lecture Block, Sidgwick Avenue.

The following readings on Tuesday, 2 March, and Wednesday, 3 March, in the Little Hall, Sidgwick Avenue are also announced:

2 March, at 6 p.m. Jeanette Winterson will read from her work and take questions.
3 March, at 3 p.m. Australian novelists David Foster and Frank Moorhouse (currently writer-in residence at the Faculty of English) will read from their work.

Oriental Studies. Centre for Modern Hebrew Studies. The following lectures will be held at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays (unless otherwise stated), in Room 9, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue.

3 March From collective memory to self-definition: biblical images in Israeli women's poetry, by Professor G. Moscati-Steindler, of the Istituto Universitario, Naples.
9 March (Tuesday) On his own work, by Benny Barbash, Israeli author, with readings in English.
10 March Portrait of the biblical narrator as a master of deception: the aesthetics of the biblical text, by Professor Y. Mazor, of the University of Wisconsin.
28 April Gazing at the bee - the poetry of Leah Goldberg, by Dr O. Yeglin, of Tel Aviv University.

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Cambridge University Reporter, 24 February 1999
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