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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:

Inaugural Lecture. Professor Stefan Reif, Professor of Medieval Hebrew Studies and Director of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, University Library, will give his Inaugural Lecture, entitled Why Medieval Hebrew Studies?, at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 11 November, in the School of Pythagoras, St John's College.

African Studies Centre. Research seminars on the theme New Research in African Studies will take place at 5 p.m. on Mondays in the SPS Committee Room, New Museums Site, Free School Lane. All are welcome.

11 October The search for Nation and State in South Africa during the twentieth century, by Professor James Barber, of the Centre of International Studies.
18 October Walking barefoot where bankers fear to tread: a reappraisal of the township moneylender, by Jimmy Roth, of Magdalene College.
25 October Researching Kampala street kids: adapted methodologies, by Lorraine Young, of the University of Coventry.
1 November The uses and abuses of civil society: 'donors' and democracy in Africa, by Dr Julie Hearn, of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.
8 November A proper cultivation of peoples: the colonial reconfiguration of pastoral tribes and places in Kenya, by Dr Vigdis Broch-Due, of the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala.
15 November The kachinja-idiom of the Kenyan Luo: a popular critique of medical research in rural East Africa, by Dr Wenzel Geissler, of Darwin College.
22 November School cultures and gender values in Kenya: a case of city primary school girls and boys in transitions to adulthood, by Fatuma Chege, of Wolfson College.
29 November Staging Ugandan culture, by Gabriel Gbadamosi, of the African Studies Centre, and Charles Mulekwa, playwright.

Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. Seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Mondays in the Cambridge Group Library, 27 Trumpington Street, as follows:

11 October Northeast Thailand funeral societies, by Dr John Bryant, of Khon Kaen University, Thailand.
25 October Mortality patterns of the monks of Durham Cathedral Priory in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries: preliminary reflections on initial findings, by Professor John Hatcher, of Corpus Christi College, Jim Oeppen, of the Cambridge Group, and Dr David Stone, of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
8 November Godparentage, patronage, and kinship in Chester, 1600-1623, by Catherine Frances, of King's College.
22 November Dependence and independence in widowhood in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Northwest Europe, by Dr Beatrice Moring, of the Cambridge Group, and Richard Wall, of the Cambridge Group.
6 December Generation replacement in European populations since 1870, by Professor Sir Tony Wrigley, of Corpus Christi College.

Divinity and the Henry Martyn Trust. Henry Martyn Lectures. A series of lectures, entitled Mission and empire: the ambiguous mandate of Bishop Crowther, will be given by Professor Jacob Ade Ajayi, of the University of Ibadan, at 5 p.m. in Room 3, Faculty of Divinity, St John's Street.

25 October Philanthropy in Sierra Leone
26 October Crowther and language in the Yoruba Mission
28 October Crowther and trade on the Niger

Fitzwilliam Museum. Lunch-time Gallery Talks, under the general title Art in context, will be given at 1.15 p.m. on Wednesdays, from 13 October to 1 December.

13 October Ancient imitations, by Dr Eleni Vassilika, Keeper of Antiquities.

Centre for History and Economics. Seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays in H3, King's College.

13 October The longest years - time and work in Britain, 1750-1830, by Hans-Joachim Voth, of the Centre for History and Economics and Robinson College.
27 October Hamlet in purgatory, by Stephen Greenblatt, of Harvard University.
17 November Henry Sidgwick's practical ethics: a century's perspective, by Sissela Bok, of Harvard University.
24 November Victorian exceptionalism?, by John Burrow, of Balliol College, Oxford.

History and Philosophy of Science. Departmental seminars will be held at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane. There is tea beforehand in Seminar Room 1 at 4 p.m. Speakers are from the Department, unless otherwise specified.

7 October Research skills, by staff and associates.
14 October Research skills, by staff and associates.
21 October On the professorial voice, by William Clark.
28 October Relativism for the realist, by Anjan Chakravartty.
4 November Russian academies, by Simon Werrett.
11 November Time and objective chance, by Carl Hoefer, of the London School of Economics.
18 November Between theory and practice: agricultural sciences in Germany, 1870-1940, by Jonathan Harwood, of the University of Manchester.
25 November A special series of job talks arranged by the Department.

Cabinet of Natural History. Meetings take place at 1 p.m. on Mondays in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane. Bring lunch if you wish.

11 October Text and image in the 'Historia Piscium' (1686), by Sachiko Kusukawa.
25 October Botany on a plate: the role of illustration in dishing up botanical knowledge, by Anne Secord.
1 November Victorians writing natural history: the aims, gains, and pains, by Aileen Fyfe.
8 November Darwin's barnacles: Victorian natural history and the marine grotesque, by Rebecca Stott, of Anglia Polytechnic University.
15 November Units of evolution vs. units of classification, by John Dupré, of Birkbeck College, London.
22 November Setting up a discipline: disputes in the Cambridge History of Science Committee, 1936-51, by Anna Mayer.
29 November Perceiving the world, worldly men of science, and those dying without the word: the London Missionary Society's South Pacific campaign, by Sujit Sivasundaram.

Cambridge Historiography Group. Meetings will be held at 5.30 p.m on Wednesdays in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane, unless otherwise stated. There is tea beforehand at 5 p.m. Copies of all documents will be placed in box file 87a in the Whipple Library.

20 October Discussion of his 'Original significances and historical interpretation', supplementary essay in The Scenes of Inquiry, second edition (OUP forthcoming), by Nick Jardine.
3 November Discussion of her The illustrations of the hommes-bêtes in Rétif de la Bretonne's 'La Découverte australe', by Ilaria Lo Tufo.
17 November Discussion of her Heroes and hero-worship: the construction of the inventor in the 1830s and 1840s, by Clare Pettitt, of Newnham College. This meeting will be held in Seminar Room 2.
1 December Discussion of his 'The Language of the Public: Print, Politics, and the Book Trade in 1614', in J. Raymond (ed.), News, Newspaper and Society in Early Modern Britain (Frank Cass, 1999), pp. 109-140, by Joad Raymond, of the University of Aberdeen.

Early Medicine and Natural Philosophy. A series of research seminars, Law and medicine, will be held at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane. Tea is served before each seminar at 4.30 p.m.

19 October Nature brought to trial: judges, physicians, and the tribunal of the Sacra Rota in seventeenth-century Rome, by Silvia De Renzi.
2 November Contractual relations between patients and practitioners in early modern London, by Margaret Pelling, of the University of Oxford.
16 November Evidence, logic, rule, and exception in Renaissance law and medicine, by Ian Maclean, of the University of Oxford.
30 November Suicide and free will in the Middle Ages, by Alexander Murray, of the University of Oxford.

History of Modern Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane. Tea is available from 4.30 p.m.

12 October 'The new St Valentine will be a saint of science': eugenics and love in late nineteenth-century literature, by Angelique Richardson, of the University of Exeter.
26 October Medical films and medical ethics under National Socialism, by Ulf Schmidt, of the University of Oxford.
9 November Rationalizing folk medicine in interwar Germany: faith, business, and science at 'Dr Madaus & Co.', by Carsten Timmermann, of the University of Manchester.
23 November Forgotten partners: laboratory technicians in British biomedical research, by Tilli Tansey, of the Wellcome Institute.

PSY Studies. Seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane. Tea is served before the seminars at 4.40 p.m.

13 October Cloning expertise: understanding the birth of bioethics through the birth of Dolly the sheep, by Shobita Parthasarathy, of Cornell University.
27 October War and mental health, by Ben Shephard, military historian.
17 November Psychiatric experts in criminal trials: from observers to authorities, by Tony Ward, of De Montfort University.
24 November John Rodker selling Freud to the natives, by Ian Patterson, of Queens' College.

Technology and Material Culture. Seminars take place from 8 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. on Mondays in the Seminar Room, P stairs, Trinity Hall.

18 October Digital culture, by Charlie Gere, of Birkbeck College, London.
1 November The political object, by Andrew Barry, of Goldsmiths College, London.
15 November 'Speculum Exemplar Imago': the computer as a representational force in archaeology, by Robin Boast, of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
29 November Heaviness in our times: the imaginary life of the tank, by Patrick Wright, writer and broadcaster.

Special Lecture. A special lecture, entitled A new critique of theological interpretations of physical cosmology, will be given by Professor Adolf Grünbaum, of the University of Pittsburgh, at 3.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 7 December, in Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane. A discussion will follow at 5.15 p.m.

Kettle's Yard. A series of lunch-time talks, exploring the exhibitions and the artists of the collection, will be given at 1.10 p.m. on the following Thursdays:

7 October Juan Cruz, the Kettle's Yard/Girton College Artist Fellow in 1999-2000.
21 October H. S. Ede and Kettle's Yard.
4 November The Fatal Englishman?, by Christopher Wood, of Kettle's Yard.
18 November Post-war art at Kettle's Yard.
2 December '45-'99.

Centre of Latin American Studies. Seminars will take place at 5 p.m. on Mondays in Seminar Room 5, Second Floor, History Faculty Building, West Road.

11 October Indian marriage strategies in the colonial Andes, by Professor Enrique Tandeter, Simón Bolívar Professor of Latin American Studies.
18 October Creative encounters: British visions of Rio de Janeiro, by Luciana Martins, of Royal Holloway College, London.
25 October La Habana Vieja and the work of the Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad, by Juliet Barclay, British Representative of the Office of the Historian of Old Havana, Cuba.
1 November Pentecostals and the devil, by Cecilia Mariz, of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris and Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro.
8 November Shamanic rock art of pre-Hispanic Northwestern Argentina, by Ana Maria Llamazares, of Museo Etnográfico, Universidad de Buenos Aires.
15 November The globalization of production: what role for Latin America?, by Jaime Crispi, of the Centre of Latin American Studies.
22 November Christian power: the transformation of Anglican missionaries into indigenous leaders, by Stephen Kidd, of the University of Edinburgh.
29 November Seminar title to be announced, to be given by Catherine Davies, of the University of Manchester.

McDonald Institute. Lunch-time seminars will be held on Wednesdays at 1.15 p.m. in the seminar room, ground floor, McDonald Institute Courtyard Building, Downing site.

13 October The origins of the civilization of Angkor, by Charles Higham.

Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology. A series of lectures in honour of the late Bernard Haring will be given on the theme Free and faithful in Christ. The lectures will take place at 5 p.m in the Divinity School, St John's Street, on the following Wednesdays:

20 October Timely virtues: an introduction to the thought of Bernard Haring, by Sr Lavinia Byrne, of Westcott House, Cambridge.
27 October Ethics and pastoral issues, by Revd Dr Kevin Kelly, of Liverpool Hope University.
3 November Freedom of conscience and the Church, by Professor Brian Johnson, of the Alfonsian Academy, Rome.
10 November Towards an ethic of responsibility in contemporary Catholic theology, by Dr Linda Hogan, of the University of Leeds.
17 November Ethics at the end of modernity, by Dr Janet Martin Soskice, of the Faculty of Divinity.

The Martin Centre. The Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies holds lunch-time lectures at 12.15 p.m. on Wednesdays at 6 Chaucer Road. Lunch (price £1.50) is available at 1.15 p.m. if ordered by the preceding Monday (tel. 331700).

13 October Preserving the vernacular: 1920 or 2020, by Dr Nick Hall, of South Bank University.
20 October The process of urban generation and regeneration - the sustainable urban neighbourhood, by David Rudlin, of the Urban and Economic Development Group.
27 October Spirit of technology: designing in the Far East, by Roy Fleetwood, of Roy Fleetwood Ltd.
3 November The fan vaulting of Henry VII's Chapel, Westminster, by Professor Jacques Heyman, formerly of the Department of Engineering.
10 November A designed Renaissance garden in Cambridgeshire, by C. C. Taylor, formerly of the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments.
17 November Architectural eschatology: or musings on the third millennium, by Dr Sumet Jumsai, of 3JA + 3D Co. Ltd.
24 November Tall buildings - the challenge for environmental friendliness, by Mohsen Zikri, of Ove Arup & Partners.
1 December Sketching with geometric constraints in CAD, by Dr Ben Medjdoub, of the Martin Centre.

Modern Greek. The following open lectures will be given at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays in Room 1.02, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue.

27 October Identity in exile: Byzantines in Renaissance Italy, by Dr Jonathan Harris, of Royal Holloway College, London.
10 November Greece: like any other European country? The politics and economics of adjustment, by Professor Loukas Tsoukalis, of the London School of Economics.
24 November The globalization of Cavafy, by Professor Nasos Vayenas, of the University of Athens.
1 December The Balkans in transition, by Professor Thanos Veremis, of the University of Athens.

Copies of the complete lecture programme for 1999-2000 may be obtained from the Secretary, Department of Other Languages, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages (e-mail rc264@cam.ac.uk).

MRC Human Nutrition Research. Tea Club Lectures will be given at 4.15 p.m. in the Spaceway Unit, MRC Human Nutrition Research (formerly the MRC Dunn Nutritional Laboratory), Downham's Lane, Milton Road, on the following dates. Tea is served beforehand at 4 p.m.

14 September The early life origins of osteoporosis, by Professor Cyrus Cooper and Dr Frazer Anderson, of the MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, Southampton.
27 September Maternal haemoglobin concentration and its relationship to birth weight, by Professor Philip Steer, of Imperial College, School of Medicine, London.
25 October Stable isotope techniques in human nutrition research: a look on minerals and trace elements, by Professor Thomas Walczyk, of the Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich.
1 November Maternal nutrition and foetal growth in India, by Dr Caroline Fall, of the MRC Environmental Epidemiology Unit, Southampton.
9 November NHANES 1971-1999+: what have we learned?, by Professor Elaine Gunter, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta.

Isaac Newton Institute. A series of seminars aimed at a general scientific audience will be held 5 p.m. on Mondays in Seminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, 20 Clarkson Road. Tea will be served from 4.30 p.m. and there will be an informal reception afterwards.

18 October A dynamical systems approach to the Burgers equation, by Dr Konstantin Khanin, of the Newton Institute.
1 November Problems in crack and fault dynamics, by Professor James Rice, of Harvard University.
8 November Formation of galaxies and structure in the universe, by Professor Carlos Frenk, of the University of Durham.
22 November Magnetostriction of martensite: new materials that combine shape-memory and ferromagnetism, by Professor Dick James, of Minnesota University.
29 November The baryon asymmetry of the universe, by Professor Valery Rubakov, of the Russian Academy of Science.

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Institute of Public Health. Bradford Hill Seminar Series. Seminars will be held at 1 p.m. prompt on Fridays in the Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way (Parke-Davis Site).

8 October There is no economic justification for government funding in science, by Dr Terence Kealey, of the Department of Clinical Biochemistry.

IPH Discussion Groups. Seminars will be held at 1 p.m. prompt on Tuesdays in the Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health.

12 October Diagnostic imaging for low back pain: risk factors and red herrings, by Will Hollingworth, of the Health Services Research Group.

Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Professor Jacques Tilouine, of Université de Paris 13 and Institut Universitaire de France, will deliver the second Kuwait Fund Lecture, entitled Deforming modular forms and their galois representations, at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 12 October in Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Mill Lane.

University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate and its Advisory Council for New Technologies in Assessment. A seminar, entitled On-line certification: reality or science fiction?, will be given at 4.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 13 October in Room Second South, The University Centre, Mill Lane, as follows:

ICT and society: issues for learning, teaching, and assessment, by John Hammond, of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority.

Lifelong learning demands new forms of evaluation: the social role of assessment and new technologies, by Dr Edith Esch, of the Language Centre.

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Cambridge University Reporter, 6 October 1999
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