Reporter 12/1/00: 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:

Cambridge European Trust Lecture. The Rt Hon. Raymond Seitz, Vice-Chairman, Lehman Brothers (Europe), formerly American Ambassador to the United Kingdom, will deliver the Cambridge European Trust Lecture at 5.15 p.m. on Thursday, 20 January, in the Faculty of Law, West Road.

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

19 January	Weaving and surviving in Laichingen, 1650-1900: micro-history as history and as research experience, by Hans Medick, of the Max Planck Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen.
2 February	Songs and the police in eighteenth-century Paris, by Robert Darnton, of All Souls College, Oxford.
1 March	'Die Weltgeschichte als Weltgericht': Schiller and Hegel, by Reinhart Koselleck, of the University of Bielefeld.

Criminology. A seminar, entitled Reforming criminal justice - the potential of restorative justice, will be given by Professor Allison Morris, of Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, 20 January, in Room B.16, Faculty of Law, West Road.

English. Clark Lectures. Peter Hall will give a series of lectures, entitled Exposed by the mask: a study of form in drama, at 5.30 p.m on Mondays in the Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

24 January	The Greek stage
31 January	Shakespeare's verse
7 February	Mozart's ensembles
14 February	The metaphors of Beckett and Pinter

Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law. Lunch-time talks will be held at 12.30 p.m. on Fridays in the Lauterpacht Research Centre, 5 Cranmer Road. A sandwich lunch will be provided, courtesy of Messrs Ashurst Morris Crisp.

21 January	State succession: recent UK practice, by Michael Wood, of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
28 January	The power of international tribunals to determine national security interests, by Dapo Akande, of the University of Nottingham.
4 February	Current issues and working methods of the IMO Legal Committee, by Dr Rosalie Balkin, of the International Maritime Organization.
11 February	Legal aspects of United Nations sanctions, by Gian Luca Burci, of the World Health Organization, and formerly of the Office of the Legal Counsel of the United Nations, New York.
18 February	The European Community Courts as international courts, by Judge Josef Azizi, of the European Court of First Instance.
25 February	Developments in WTO law and procedure: the Appellate Body Report on Foreign Sales Corporations, by Eric White, of the European Commission.
3 March	New mechanisms for ensuring state compliance with international treaty obligations, by Catherine Redgwell, of the Faculty of Law, Oxford.
10 March	Interpretation of treaties, by Professor Don Greig, of Australian National University, Canberra.

In addition to this programme, the Centre also organizes occasional evening seminars and other sessions on an ad hoc basis on topics of current interest. Notice of these meetings will be given at the Friday lunch-time sessions.

MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit. Seminars will be held at 3 p.m. on the following Wednesdays in the Level 3 Seminar Room, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Hills Road.

26 January	Induction of intestinal immune responses by commensal bacteria and soluble protein antigens, by Andrew McPherson, of the Institute of Experimental Immunology, Zurich.
2 February	Energetics of neuronal cells, by David Nicholls, of the University of Dundee.
9 February	DNA helicases: ATP hydrolysis in a molecular motor, by Dale Wigley, of the Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Oxford.

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.

21 January	Halving premature death, by Professor Sir Richard Peto, of the University of Oxford.
28 January	How should cost data in RCTs be presented and analysed?, by Simon Thompson, of the MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge.

Scott Polar Research Institute. Lectures will be held at 8 p.m. on Saturdays in the Scott Polar Research Institute, Lensfield Road, unless otherwise specified. Seats will be reserved, on request, for Friends of the Institute.

29 January	From Greenland's icy oceans - the threat of climate cooling, by Peter Wadhams, of the Scott Polar Research Institute.
12 February	In the shadow of the volcanoes: Kamchatka, World Heritage, and local communities, by Emma Wilson, of the Scott Polar Research Institute.
26 February	Tourists in Antarctica - a growing concern, by Bernard Stonehouse, of the Scott Polar Research Institute.
11 March	Antarctica in the 'Heroic Age'
	4 p.m.'The Worst Journey in the World': a play for one voice, performed by Chris Crooks. Admission is by ticket only (tel. 336540).
	8 p.m.Unsung hero: Tom Crean of the Antarctic, by Michael Smith, biographer.

Social and Political Sciences. Interdisciplinary seminars will be held at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in Room I6, Corpus Christi College.

20 January	What will the genetic revolution do to bioethics?, by Dr Onora O'Neill, Principal of Newnham College, and Acting Chair of the Human Genetics Advisory Commission.
27 January	'Hell hath no fury', by Professor Terrie Moffitt, of the Institute of Psychiatry.
3 February	The stimulus of urban agglomeration: rethinking the role of the city in social theory, by Professor Ed Soja, of UCLA, and the London School of Economics.
10 February	Curative and preventive welfare states, by Professor Julian Le Grand, of the London School of Economics.
17 February	Representations of sexuality: a challenge to the theory of social representations, by Dr Alain Giami, of the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, and the London School of Economics.
24 February	Assessing attachment in children and adolescents, by Dr Howard Steele, of University College London.
2 March	Freedom, justice, and the market domain: the commodification of labour and occupational choice, by Ms Serena Olsaretti, of Emmanuel College.

University Library. Munby Fellow Seminar Series. A series of seminars, entitled New voices, old books, will be held at 4 p.m. on Fridays in the Morison Room, University Library, West Road.

21 January	New light on Alexander Barclay (1475?-1552) and Scottish printing?, by Martin Moonie, of the University of Edinburgh.
28 January	Informing the public: Europe's news in the Thirty Years War, by Paul Arblaster, of the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven.
4 February	The printers, stationers, and bookbinders of York before 1557, by Stacey Gee, of the University of Liverpool.
11 February	'The Art of the House' (1897): Books, interior design, and aestheticism in the late Victorian period, by Kate McGowran, of the University of Hull.
25 February	Recycling and originality in British pamphlets, 1640-48, by Joseph Marshall, of the University of Edinburgh.
3 March	The prehistory of copyright in England, c. 1515-30, by Meraud Grant Ferguson, of Jesus College, Oxford.
10 March	'His werkis shall his name conueye & bere': Chaucer, Lydgate, and Caxton's Sammelbände, by Alexandra Gillespie, of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

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