Reporter 19/1/00: 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, entitled American power in the twenty-first century, at 5.15 p.m. on Thursday, 20 January, in the Faculty of Law, West Road.

Slade Lectures. The Slade Lectures, entitled Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Van Brekelenkam: 'Ekphraseis' on Dutch painting, will be given by Professor Albert Blankert, at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays, in Mill Lane Lecture Room 3, unless otherwise stated.

25 January	Why Vermeer depicted an adjustable leg
1 February	Rembrandt as a vacuum. The lecture will start at 4 p.m.
8 February	Ignoble selection - Hendrick ter Brugghen and the Utrecht Caravaggisti. The lecture will start at 4 p.m.
15 February	Rembrandt disguised
22 February	Why all the way to Italy?
29 February	The invention of landscape
7 March	The Dutch Classicists and their lewd nudes
14 March	Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Van Brekelenkam: a pre-emptive conclusion

African Studies Centre. Research seminars, on the theme Southern Africa, will take place at 5 p.m. on Mondays in Room 606, Centre for Family Research, New Museums Site, Free School Lane.

24 January	The World Bank's new paradigm for development: implications for Southern Africa, by Dr Frank Carey, of the Von Hugel Centre, St Edmund's College.
31 January	'New South Africa' school design - vision and reality, by Dr Ola Uduku, of the University of Liverpool.
7 February	Prophecy, psychiatry, and power in twentieth-century South Africa, by Dr Hilary Sapire, of Birkbeck College, London.
14 February	Give and take: the ethics of research and intervention among African street children, by Dr Christopher Williams, of the Institute of Education, London.
21 February	New meanings of South Africa's Rand revolt, to be given by Dr Jeremy Krikler, of the University of Essex.
28 February	Between whiteness and the African renaissance: South African intellectuals, by Dr Bheki Peterson, of the University of Birmingham.
6 March	Writing apartheid: historical truths and legal facts in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, by Dr Richard Wilson, of the University of Sussex.
13 March	The costs to Africans of the colonial currency boards: the African experience, by Professor Jan Hogendorn, of Linacre College, Oxford.

Institute of Astronomy. Colloquia will be held at 4.30 p.m. on Thursdays in the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Theatre, Madingley Road. They will be preceded by tea at 4 p.m. in the Wolfson Library, Hoyle Building.

20 January	Gamma ray bursts, by Professor M. J. Rees, of the Institute of Astronomy.
27 January	Extragalactic stellar astronomy, by Dr R. Kudritzki, of the University of Munich.
3 February	Are there MACHOS in our dark galactic halo?, by Dr M. Spiro, of Saclay, France.
10 February	Solar oscillations - our gateway to the sun, by Dr Y. Elsworth, of the University of Birmingham.
17 February	Host galaxies when quasars were young: the z = 2.5 radio galaxies, by Dr R. Fosbury, of the Space Telescope European Co-ordinating Facility, Munich.
24 February	First results from Chandra, by Professor C. Canizares, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
2 March	Molecular hydrogen and dark matter in galaxies, by Dr F. Combes, of the Observatoire de Paris.
9 March	Supernovae as cosmological probes, by Dr P. Madau, of the Institute of Astronomy.

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.

31 January	Family planning in Britain long before the fertility decline. Was 1816 a turning point?, by Dr Eilidh Garrett, of the Cambridge Group, and Dr Simon Szreter, of St John's College.
28 February	Abandoned children and their transitions to adulthood in nineteenth-century Italy, by Dr Wendy Sigle, of the University of Southampton.
13 March	Infant mortality levels and cultures of infant care in nineteenth-century Denmark, by Dr Anne Loekke, of the University of Copenhagen.

Professor Jan de Vries, of the University of California, Berkeley, will be giving the Ellen McArthur Lectures at 5 p.m. on Monday, 14, Wednesday, 16, Monday, 21, and Wednesday, 23 February, in the Mill Lane Lecture Rooms. The subject of his lectures is The family and economic growth since the eighteenth century.

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.

Divinity. Divinity and the Westcott Philosophical Theology Discussion Group. The Bishop of Monmouth, the Rt Revd Rowan Williams, and Professor George Steiner will debate Real presences: the culture of mistrust, at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 26 January, in the Divinity School, St John's Street.

Henry Martyn Mission Studies Seminar. The seminar will be held at 2.15 p.m. on the following Thursdays at Westminster College.

3 February	Bread and breath in India: the mission pneumatology of Samuel Rayan, by Ms Kirsteen Kim, of the Henry Martyn Centre, and the University of Birmingham.
17 February	Issues of 'home and abroad': cultural blunders and Pentecostal missions during the twentieth century, by Dr Allan H. Anderson, of the University of Birmingham.
2 March	Kenyatta, God, and the modern world, by Dr John Lonsdale, of Trinity College.

Theology Through the Arts of Cambridge. Lectures, exploring theological themes through engagement with artists and artworks associated with twentieth-century Cambridge, will take place at 5 p.m. on Mondays, in the Faculty of Divinity, St John's Street, unless otherwise stated.

24 January	Hearing and believing, by Mr Stephen Cleobury, of King's College, in conversation with the Revd Dr Jeremy Begbie, of the Faculty of Divinity.
31 January	Mr Richard MacCormac, Architect, Fitzwilliam College Chapel, in conversation with Professor David Ford, of the Faculty of Divinity. (An informal drinks reception will follow) The lecture will take place in Fitzwilliam College Chapel.
28 February	Erasing the Master, by Mr Michael Harrison, of Kettle's Yard.
1 May	Art in the service of God: Walter Hussey and St Matthew's Northampton, by Mr Graham Howes, of Trinity Hall.
29 May	Being and beauty: can beauty be painted?, by Dr Janet Martin Soskice, of the Faculty of Divinity, and Mr Oliver Soskice, painter.

Experimental Psychology. Zangwill Club Seminars are held at 4.30 p.m. on Fridays in the Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, Department of Experimental Psychology, Downing Site. Tea will be served in the First Floor Seminar Room from 4 p.m.

21 January	Testing the anatomy of anterograde amnesia, by John Aggleton, of the University of Cardiff.
28 January	Two routes for the visual control of action: neuropsychological evidence, by David Milner, of the University of St Andrews.
4 February	Cognitive ecology: comparative cognition with a twist, or poor psychology done by behavioural ecologists?, by Sue Healy, of the University of Edinburgh.
11 February	An effect of culture on the brain, by Uta Frith, of University College London.
18 February	The influence of belief on reasoning and judgement, by Jonathan StB Evans, of the University of Plymouth.
25 February	Trait anxiety: a cognitive approach, by Michael Eysenck, of Royal Holloway College, London.
10 March	The dynamics of self in Zen experience, by John Crook, author.

Centre for Family Research. Lunch-time seminars will be held at 1 p.m. prompt on Tuesdays in Room 606, Centre for Family Research, Free School Lane.

25 January	Cousin marriage among British Pakistanis, by Dr Alison Shaw, of Brunel University.
8 February	Where have all the drunks gone? An illustration of ways of dealing with missing data applied to alcohol consumption in the 1946 British Cohort, by Ms Margaret Ely, of University College London, and the Centre for Family Research.
29 February	Step-fathering: policy and everyday experiences in Britain and Sweden, by Professor Ros Edwards, of South Bank University.
14 March	The difference between living and existing: infant and child mortality rates in developing countries and their relationship to children's rights, by Dr Judith Ennew, of the Centre for Family Research.

Fitzwilliam Museum. Lunch-time Gallery Talks, under the general title Art in context, will be given at 1.15 p.m. on Wednesdays, from 26 January to 26 April.

26 January

Time in medieval life and prayer, by Professor James Marrow, Acting Keeper of Manuscripts and Printed Books.

History. Byzantium and the Medieval World seminar series. Dr Peter Sarris, of the Faculty of History, will give a seminar, entitled Society and economy in sixth-century Byzantine Egypt, at 5 p.m. on Friday, 21 January, in the Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College.

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 at 4 p.m. in Seminar Room 1.

20 January	Objectivity, representation, and conventionality in modern physics, by Talal Debs, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
27 January	What did Hume really show? The problem of induction re-considered, by Samir Okasha, of the London School of Economics.
3 February	Nature's grammar, by Ofer Gal, of Ben Gurion University.
10 February	Darwin's science and Victorian Christianity: what should a companion to Darwin say?, by John Hedley Brooke, of Harris Manchester College, Oxford.
17 February	Industrialized conversion: publishing popular science and religion in Victorian Britain, by Aileen Fyfe, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
24 February	The religion of Thomas Harriot, by Scott Mandelbrote, of Peterhouse.
2 March	Eighteenth-century human experimentation in colonial connection, by Londa Schiebinger, of Pennsylvania State University, and the Max-Planck Institut.
9 March	Sex, science, and environmental politics: the making of a Hollywood pet star, by Greg Mitman, of the Max-Planck Institut, Berlin, and the University of Oklahoma.

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.

24 January	Rudiments of a philosophical botany: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the 'étude oiseuse', by Alexandra Cook, of Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
31 January	Travels of a craniologist: Franz Joseph Gall and his European lecture tour, 1805-07, by John van Wyhe, of the Faculty of History.
7 February	The Royal Geographical Society and British exploration, 1878-1914, by Max Jones, of Christ's College.
14 February	Angry red Lamarckians on every corner: transformist ideology in pre-Victorian London, by David Clifford, of the Faculty of English.
21 February	Problem-solving and evolving, by Tim Lewens, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
28 February	Curiosity and romantic travel writing, by Nigel Leask, of Queens' College.
6 March	A discussion of Karl Sabbagh's A rum affair (Allen Lane, 1999), led by Emma Spary, of the Max-Planck Institut, Berlin, and Nick Jardine and Jim Endersby, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
13 March	Writing the life of a living scientist: ethical problems, by Thomas Soderqvist, of the University of Copenhagen.

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

2 February	Discussion of his 'The inverse square law' (forthcoming), by Ofer Gal, of Ben Gurion University.
16 February	Discussion of her 'Inverted showmanship: performance, precision, and mathematics in The Ladies' Diary, 1714-44' (a chapter of her Ph. D. dissertation on The Ladies' Diary), by Shelley Costa, of Cornell University, and Clare Hall.
1 March	Discussion of her 'Rococo readings of the book of nature' (forthcoming in M. Frasca-Spada and N. Jardine, Books and Sciences in History (Cambridge, 2000)), by Emma Spary, of the Max-Planck Institut, Berlin.
15 March	Discussion of his 'The Paracelsan body', in O. Grell (ed.), Paracelsus: The Man and His Reputation, His Ideas, and Their Transformation (Brill, 1998), by John Christie, of the University of Leeds. Background reading in C. Lawrence and S. Shapin (eds), Science Incarnate. Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge (Chicago, 1998) recommended.

Early Medicine and Natural Philosophy. 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 served before each seminar at 4.40 p.m.

1 February	Evidence, logic, rule, and exception in Renaissance law and medicine, by Ian Maclean, of All Souls College, Oxford.
15 February	Colleges, libraries, and knowledge: making it or faking it?, by Peter Jones, of King's College.
29 February	Smells and the medieval surgeon, by Michael McVaugh, of Magdalen College, Oxford.
14 March	Medicine and religion in the early German Enlightenment: the case of Christian Thomasius, by Thomas Ahnert, of St John's College.

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.

25 January	Population, race, and 'normal' herrings: anthropometry and demography in the beginnings of ecology, 1870-1914, by Sarah Jansen, of the Max-Planck Institut, Berlin.
8 February	Cancer patients as proxy soldiers: unethical Cold War research or normal science?, by Jerry Kutcher, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
22 February	Statistical images of disease: styles of health education in Britain, 1900-50, by Sybilla Nikolow, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
7 March	Hay fever holiday: health, leisure, and the persistence of place, by Gregg Mitman, of the Max-Planck Institut, Berlin, and the University of Oklahoma.

PSY Studies. Seminars on the history of psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, and allied sciences 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.

26 January	Adorno and Freud, by Yvonne Sherratt, of Corpus Christi College.
9 February	'A sort of devil' (Keynes on Freud, 1925): reflections on a century of Freud-criticism, by John Forrester, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
23 February	Bad boys, good mothers, and the miracle of Ritalin, 1930-60, by Ilina Singh, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
8 March	Exits and entrances: narcissism for and against, by Adam Phillips, psychoanalyst and writer.

Technology and Material Culture. Seminars take place at 8 p.m. on Mondays in the Seminar Room, P stairs, Trinity Hall, unless otherwise stated.

24 January	'N01se' in the Whipple Museum, by Simon Schaffer, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. (4.30 p.m.)
31 January	Virtuality and virtuosity: making hierarchies in a digital world, by Celia Lury, of Goldsmiths College, London.
10 February	'N01se: the digital and the discrete' in Kettle's Yard Gallery, by Simon Schaffer, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. (Thursday, 1.10 p.m.)
21 February	The ethnography of sound: the walkman and urban experience, by Michael Bull, of Anglia Polytechnic University.

Isaac Newton Institute. A series of seminars aimed at a general scientific audience will be held at 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.

24 January	Exotic dynamics in smooth and real-analytic category, by Professor Anatole Katok, of Pennsylvania State University.
31 January	Quantum integrable models, by Professor Alexei Tsvelik, of the Department of Physics, Oxford.
14 February	Nilpotent groups and non-conventional ergodic theorems, by Professor Hillel Furstenberg, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations. Seminars take place at 2 p.m. in the Old Common Room, Wesley House, Jesus Lane, on the following dates:

19 January	Israel and the media, by Mr David Craig.
26 January	Exegetical traditions in the writings of John Chrysostom (with reference to the twenty-second homily on Genesis), by Hagit Amirav.
2 February	The significance of the Song of Songs in Jewish-Christian relations, by Ms Nathalie Henry.
23 February	Elusive identities: the Jews in Poland, by Dr Janina Bauman.
16 March	The future of Catholic-Jewish relations, by the Revd Professor John Pawlikowski.
23 March	The sacrifice of Isaac: interpretations of the Church Fathers (with the Institute of Orthodox Christian Studies), by Dr Edward Kessler. (8 p.m.)
30 March	The sacrifice of Isaac: interpretations of the Rabbis (with the Institute of Orthodox Christian Studies), by Dr Edward Kessler. (8 p.m.)

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.

24 January	The origins of the Vargas era in Brazil: Rio Grande do Sul's developmental and educational dictatorship, by Jens R. Hentschke, of the University of Newcastle.
31 January	Gender and sustainability in Quintana Roo, Mexico, by Margarita Velázquez Gutiérrez, of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
7 February	Bullfighting: a forgotten feature of life in the River Plate, by Estela Erausquin, of Paris-Sorbonne.
14 February	Oral history in a museum of terror: representations of the past in contemporary Argentina, by Dora Schwarzstein, of the Centre of Latin-American Studies, and the Universidad de Buenos Aires.
21 February	Education, nationalism, and revolution: the case of Cuba, 1899-1958, by Laurie Johnston, of University College London.
28 February	Riots and resistance at the moment of full freedom in the Anglophone Caribbean, by Gad Heuman, of the University of Warwick.
6 March	State building in post-Rosas Argentina, by David Rock, of St John's College, and the University of California, Santa Barbara.
13 March	Execution of Virtuchi: a murder case and its memory in the Bolivian Amazon, by Akira Saito, of the Centre of Latin-American Studies, and the National Museum of Ethnology, Japan.

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

26 January	Greece, Britain, and Europe: common points and contrasts, by Sir Michael Llewellyn Smith, formerly HM Ambassador in Athens.
2 February	Modes of fiction: historical and comparative approaches to modern Greek prose (1860-1995), by Professor Margaret Alexiou, of Harvard University.
23 February	C. P. Cavafy: Byzantine historian?, by Dr Anthony Hirst, of Princeton University.
1 March	Cavafy in America, by Dr David Ricks, of King's College London.
15 March	Orthodoxy: a faith or a slogan?, by Mr Bruce Clark, of The Economist.

Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Professor Robert Guralnick, of the University of Southern California, will deliver the fourth Kuwait Fund Lecture, entitled Some applications of the classification of finite simple groups, at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 15 February, in Lecture Room 9, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Mill Lane.

Social Anthropology. Seminars will be 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 from 4 p.m.

21 January	Grasping the political in No Man's Land (Northern Cyprus), by Dr Yael Navaro-Yashin, of the Department of Social Anthropology.
28 January	Gift exchange: new light on an old controversy, by Mr Manuka Henare, of the University of Auckland.
4 February	A contribution to the critique of cultural economy, by Professor Terence Turner, of Cornell University.
11 February	The Ghriba: the role of the 'stranger woman' in an Islamic plural society, by Professor Airi Tamura, of Tokyo International University.
18 February	The rise and fall of British social anthropology?, by Professor Jonathan Spencer, of the University of Edinburgh.
25 February	Money, mayhem, and the Beast: narratives of the world's end from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, by Dr Richard Eves, of Australian National University, and Smuts Fellow, Cambridge.
3 March	Owning creativity: love magic and the efficacy of custom on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea, by Dr James Leach, of the Department of Social Anthropology.
10 March	Architecture and indifference in urban India, by Dr Marcus Banks, of the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford.

University Library. Munby Fellow Seminar Series. The paper, entitled New light on Alexander Barclay (1475?-1552) and Scottish printing?, to be given by Martin Moonie on 21 January (Reporter, p. 318), has been cancelled. The rest of the programme remains unchanged. The seminar series will now commence on 28 January.

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