Reporter 28/4/99: 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:

Mordell Lecture, 1999. The Mordell Lecture for 1999 will be given by Professor Don Zagier, of the Max-Planck-Institute, Bonn, who will lecture on Mock modular forms, maass modular forms, and true modular forms, at 4.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 11 May, in Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

African Studies. Research seminars on African affairs will take place at 5 p.m. on the following Mondays in the SPS Committee Room, Free School Lane.

3 May	A walkabout in Jo'burg: reflections of a first-time visitor to the New SA, by Dr Ato Quayson.
10 May	Revisiting 'Dahomean narrative': Herskovit's legacy in African oral literature analysis and beyond, by Professor Olabiyi Yai, Ambassador and permanent delegate of the Benin Republic to UNESCO.
17 May	The future of Nigeria, by Professor Abiola Irele, of Ohio State University.

African Studies and International Studies. A presentation by Jean-Luc Ndizeye, Chargé d'Affaires, Republic of Burundi, on Peaceful conflict resolution in the Great Lakes Region: the Burundi peace process, will be given at 5 p.m. on Friday, 30 April, in the SPS Committee Room, Free School Lane.

Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies (CARTS). Currents in World Christianity. The following seminar and lecture will be held at 2.15 p.m. on the following Thursdays:

29 April	A different kind of kairos: church growth and decline in South Africa 1960-91, by the Revd Dr David Goodhew, of St Catharine's College, in Room 5, All Saints Passage.
6 May	Mission experience and the development of Islamic Studies, by Professor David Kerr, of the University of Edinburgh and Hartford Seminary, Connecticut, in Lecture Room 3, Divinity School, St John's Street.

Centre for Family Research. Lunchtime Seminars will be held at 1 p.m. on Tuesdays in Room 606, Centre for Family Research, Free School Lane.

4 May	Living with the risk of hereditary cancer, by Dr Nina Hallowell.
11 May	Unmarried fathers and the law, by Ms Ros Pickford.
8 June	Culture, narrative, and psychology, by Dr Shelley Day-Sclater, of the University of East London.
15 June	Risk, responsibility, and rhetoric in infant feeding, by Dr Elizabeth Murphy, of the University of Nottingham.

Chemistry. The Merck Lectures for 1999 will be given by Professor David E. Cane, of Brown University, in the University Chemical Laboratory as follows:

Monday, 10 May, at 5 p.m.	Terpene synthases: thinking positively about baseless mechanisms. The programme starts at 4 p.m. with a lecture by Dr T. Bugg, of the University of Southampton.
Friday, 14 May, at 11 a.m.	Pyridoxine synthase: biosynthesis of vitamin B6.

ESRC Centre for Business Research. The final seminar for the Easter Term will be given at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, 4 May, in the Keynes Room (Lecture Room 1), Austin Robinson Building, Sidgwick Avenue. Paul Edwards, of the University of Warwick, will talk on Emerging models of the employment relationship.

Experimental Psychology. Zangwill Club Seminars are held at 4.30 p.m. on Fridays in the ground floor lecture theatre of the Department of Experimental Psychology, Downing Site. Tea will be served in the first floor Seminar Room from 4 p.m.

7 May	The impact of semantic deficits on 'non-semantic' language abilities, by Karalyn Patterson, of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.
14 May	Double dissociation between dreaming and REM sleep, by Mark Solms, of St Bartholomew's and the Royal London School of Medicine.
21 May	Title to be announced, by Chris Jarrold, of the University of Bristol.
28 May	What does visual attention do that Grindley and Townsend did not discover?, by Michael Morgan, of University College London.

Land Economy. The remaining seminars of the Easter Term will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Conference Room, Department of Land Economy, in the basement of 19 Silver Street, as follows:

5 May	Futures markets: a valuable tool for farmers?, by P. J. Van Blokland, of the University of Florida.
12 May	Growth and unemployment: does a trade-off exist?, by Mark Roberts.
19 May	Resource accounting in measures of unsustainability: challenging the World Bank's conclusions, by Eric Neumayer, of the London School of Economics.
26 May	Participatory democracy and the environment, by Simon Niemeyer, of the Australian National University.

Mongolian and Inner Asian Studies Unit. Research Seminars will be held at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in Lecture Room 8, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue. Tea will be available from 4 p.m. in the Unit Office, Room 4.

29 April	On classification of texts for incense-offering to the White Old Man (Tsagaan Övgön), by Professor Hiroshi Futaki, of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
13 May	Natural disasters in Mongolia, by Dr Bayasgalan, of the Department of Earth Sciences.
20 May	How to get it wrong in Uzbekistan: an ethnographic critique of household surveys, by Dr Denise Kondiuyti, of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
27 May	Mobility, technology, and de-collectivization of pastoralism in Mongolia, by Dr David Sneath, of the University of Oxford.
24 June	Symbols of ethnic identity in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), by Mrs Tanya Argunova, of the Scott Polar Research Institute.

MRC Human Nutrition Research. Tea Club Lectures will be given at 4.15 p.m. on the following Mondays (unless otherwise specified) in the Spaceway Unit, MRC Human Nutrition Research (formerly the MRC Dunn Nutritional Laboratory), Downham's Lane, Milton Road:

17 May	Selenium: biological function and new seleno proteins, by Dr J. R. Arthur, of the Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen.
14 June	Homocysteine, cardiovascular disease, and cognitive impairment, by Dr Robert Clarke, of the University of Oxford.
21 June	Atoms for peace: nutrition programmes at the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, by Dr Andy Coward, of IAEA.
Tuesday, 13 July	The early life origins of osteoporosis, by Professor Cyrus Cooper and Dr Frazer Anderson, of the University of Southampton.

Tea will be served beforehand at 4 p.m.

Oriental Studies. The Chuan Lyu Lectures for 1999 will be given by Mr Li-Pei Wu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the GBC Bancorp and General Bank, Los Angeles, at 5 p.m. in Lecture Room 1, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue.

Tuesday, 11 May	Can Taiwan's economic miracle continue? An examination of its past and future. (Tea will be served from 4.30 p.m. in the Faculty Common Room.)
Thursday, 13 May	The Taiwan-China relationship: a dilemma of political conflict and economic interdependency.

Japanese Studies Seminars will be held at 2.15 p.m. in the Sorimachi Memorial Room (Room 13) of the Faculty of Oriental Studies.

Thursday, 29 April	Waiting for the end of the world: visions of apocalypse in Japanese animation from 'Nausicaa' to 'Evangelion', by Professor Susan Napier, of the University of Texas, Austin.
Monday, 10 May	A civilized nation: Japan and the Russo-Japanese War, by Dr Naoko Shimazu, of Birkbeck College, University of London.

For further information, contact Zoë Conway Morris on (3)35100 ( e-mail zhc20@cam.ac.uk).

Sino-Indian Liberalization Seminar Series, Sidney Sussex College. The following seminars will be held from 5 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. on Mondays in the Andrew Room, Sussex House, Sidney Sussex College.

3 May	Measurement and decomposition of structure change and output growth of China's economy, by Dr Aying Liu, of Middlesex University.
24 May	Labour market reform in China, by Professor John Knight, of the University of Oxford.

Social Anthropology. Senior Seminars are held at 5 p.m. on Fridays in the Seminar Room, Department of Social Anthropology, Free School Lane. Tea will be available in the Common Room (2nd floor) from 4 p.m.

30 April	Totemism, animism, and the depiction of animals, by Professor Tim Ingold, of the University of Manchester and the Arkleton Centre, Aberdeen.
7 May	Anthropology beyond the professional text: literature?, by Dr Ato Quayson, of the Centre of African Studies.
14 May	Race, ethnicity, and biomedical research (provisional title), by Dr George Ellison, of the Department of Biological Anthropology.
21 May	Chiefs, big-men, and bureaucrats: Weber and the politics of tradition on Baluan, Papua New Guinea, by Professor Ton Otto, of the University of Aarhus.
28 May	Title to be announced, by Dr Penny Graham.
4 June	Dr Ziba Mir-Hosseini, of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, will introduce a showing of her recent prize-winning film Divorce Iranian Style.

South Asian Studies. Unless otherwise stated, the South Asian Seminar meets at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays during Full Term in the Director's Room, Centre of South Asian Studies, Laundress Lane.

28 April	Problems in early nineteenth-century British travel writing about India, by Nigel Leask.
29 April	Framin' Fundamentalism, by Bobby Sayid (Thursday, in Room N7, Pembroke College).
5 May	Minority movements and ideologies of indigenism, by Chetan Bhatt (in Room N7, Pembroke College).
12 May	Proto-industrialization in pre-colonial Deccan, by Neeraj Hatekar of the University of Bombay.
26 May	Between region and nation: Bombay cinema, 1928-36, by Kaushik Bhaumik, of the University of Oxford.
2 June	'Criminal tribes' in Colonial Madras: problems in writing alternative histories, by Meena Radhakrishna, of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi.

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