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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:

Stanton Lectures. The Stanton Lectures for 2000, entitled Philosophy, religion, and the meaning of life, will be given by Professor J. J. Haldane, of the University of St Andrews, at 5 p.m. in the Divinity School, St John's Street, on the following dates:

9 May With strident voice: philosophy and the silencing of religion.
10 May Discordant notes: philosophy's uncertain identity.
16 May The quiet voice within: the examined life and the sacrament of the present.
17 May Harmonious tones: the examined death and the hope of the future.

Architecture. Professor Ignasi de Solà Morales, of the University of Barcelona and BBV Visiting Professor 1999-2000, will deliver a lecture, entitled The reconstruction and extension of the Teatre del Liceu (the Barcelona Opera House), at 6 p.m. on Friday, 12 May, in the Mill Lane Lecture Rooms. Professor Solà Morales was the architect responsible for this widely acclaimed work.

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

4 May The use of model atmospheres for cool giants in a light curve synthesis code, by Dr J. Orosz, of the University of Utrecht.
11 May Does the fine-structure constant vary?, by Dr J. Webb, of the University of New South Wales.
18 May Deep heat: first year of results from ISAAC at the VLT, by Dr A. Moorwood, of the European Southern Observatory.
25 May Solar oscillations - our gateway to the sun, by Dr Y. Elsworth, of the University of Birmingham.
1 June Title to be announced, to be given by Professor J. Silk, of the University of Oxford.
8 June The great attractor and the origin of the CMB dipole, by Dr W. Saunders, of the Institute for Astronomy, Edinburgh.
15 June Title to be announced, to be given by Dr S. Charlot, of the Institut d'Astrophysique, Paris.

Biological Anthropology. Research seminars will be held at 4 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Seminar Room, Level 6, Department of Biological Anthropology, Pembroke Street, unless otherwise stated.

5 May Primate hunting strategies, by Craig Stanford, of the University of Southern California (Friday at 1 p.m.).
10 May Patas monkey behaviour and some unanswered primatological questions, by James Loy, of the University of Rhode Island.
17 May The evolution of osteoporosis, by David Purdie, of the University of Hull.

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.

8 May The epidemiology of the Black Death: the end of a paradigm, by Professor Samuel Cohn, of the University of Glasgow.
15 May Property distribution and the social structure of seventeenth-century Maryland, by Professor Debra Meyers, of Long Island University.
5 June Retirement and property transfer: social and economic aspects of a maintenance institution in Central Europe, 1550-1750, by Dr Dana Stefanova, of the University of Vienna.
12 June The patterns and significance of the relationships between bequests by and beneficiaries of Norwich will-makers, 1370-1470, by Ms Karine Dauteuille, of Lucy Cavendish College.
19 June The mystery of the late Victorian rise in infant mortality: a horse-driven solution?, by Dr Nigel Morgan, of the University of Central Lancashire.
17 July 'Little Anne is very low. Harry is in a parlous way and a great many children has Death in their faces'. Mortality and its causes on voyages to colonial Australia, by Dr Robin Haines, of Flinders University, Adelaide.

Chemistry. The Merck Lectures for 2000 will be given by Professor Erick M. Carreira, of ETH-Zürich, at 5 p.m. in the University Chemical Laboratory, Lensfield Road, as follows:

Monday, 8 May Studies in practical asymmetric synthesis.
Friday, 12 May Novel methods and strategies in natural products synthesis.

Criminology. Professor Richard Sparks, of the University of Keele, will give a lecture, entitled Children, punishment, and communications, at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, 4 May, in Room B16, Faculty of Law, West Road.

Divinity. The Currents in World Christianity Seminar will meet twice during the Easter Term, as follows:

18 May The basis of missionary motivation in New Zealand, by Dr Peter J. Lineham, of Massey University (2.15 p.m. in the Healey-Elias Room, Westminster College).
22 May Mission experience and the development of Islamic studies, by Professor David Kerr, of the University of Edinburgh (4.30 p.m. in the Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John's Street).

English. The Empson Lectures for 2000, entitled Negotiating with the Dead, will be given by Margaret Atwood. The final two lectures of the series of six lectures about writing and the writing life will take place at 5.30 p.m. in Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, on Thursday and Friday, 4-5 May.

Fitzwilliam Museum. A Gallery Talk, entitled Walter Richard Sickert, will be given by Elizabeth McKellar at 1.15 p.m. on Wednesday, 10 May, in Gallery I, Fitzwilliam Museum.

Centre of International Studies. A conference, entitled Internet and power: a revolution in international relations?, will be held on Thursday, 11 May, in Trinity College. For further information, e-mail az217@cam.ac.uk or contact the Centre of International Studies (tel. 01223 741311)

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.

8 May Multi-dimensional continued fractions, by Professor Yuri Suhov, of the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics.
15 May Path integrals for spin: from molecular clusters to holomorphic line bundles, by Professor Michael Stone, of the University of Illinois.

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.

8 May Catholic tendencies in the origins of Peronism, by Fortunato Mallimaci, of the University of Buenos Aires.
15 May Juan Pablo Viscardo y Guzmán: Creole patriot and precursor of independence, by David Brading, of the Centre of Latin-American Studies.
22 May Money and consumption in contemporary Afro-Cuban religion, by Martin Holbraad, of the Department of Social Anthropology.
29 May Marrano religiosity in seventeenth-century Hispanic America, by Nathan Wachtel, of the Collège de France.
5 June Plantation society revisited: management and British West Indian sugar plantations, 1750-1810, by Heather Cateau, Smuts Visiting Fellow, of the University of the West Indies.

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.

5 May Accountable conduct by international organizations: some yardsticks, by Professor Karel Wellens, of the Catholic University of Nijmegen.
12 May Problems raised by the reference to the 'International Community' as a legitimizing factor in the Kosovo conflict, by Professor Pierre Klein, of the University of Brussels.

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

10 May Photovoltaics, 'green' architecture, and power generation, by Professor Gehan Amaratunga, of the Department of Engineering.
17 May The word in architecture: lettering from the Cardozo Kindersley Workshop, by Ms Lida Lopez Cardozo Kindersley, of the Cardozo Kindersley Workshop.
24 May Urban surgery: building on the built, by Professor Ignasi de Solà Morales, of the University of Barcelona.
31 May Transformation of urbanity: CIAM meetings, 1947-59, by Ms Marina Lathouri, of the Department of Architecture.

Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit. Research seminars will be held at 4.30 p.m. on Tuesdays in Room 9, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue, unless otherwise stated.

9 May Moving through landscapes - place and perceptiveness in Altai, by Agniezka Halemba, of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit and the Department of Social Anthropology.
16 May Mountain cults and vertical dwelling in the Himalaya, by Ben Campbell, of the University of Keele.
26 May Cultural conversations in Eurasia: narratives of chaos and contemporary Siberian ethnography, by David Anderson, of the University of Aberdeen (Friday in the Department of Social Anthropology, Free School Lane).

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.

26 May Genetic information and insurance, by Dr Onora O'Neill, of Newnham College.
9 June Global climate changes: scenarios, uncertainties, and the estimation of health risks, by Professor Tony McMichael, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
16 June Issues in the evaluation of childhood screening programmes, by Dr Carol Dezateaux, of University College London.
30 June Rational use of medicines - an essential component of public health services, by Professor Roy Chaudhury, of the National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi.

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

4 May Would the real social representation please stand up?, by Dr Max Bergman, of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.
18 May On castoriadis and gender, by Dr Lois McNay, of Somerville College, Oxford.
25 May Feminism and liberalism revisited: has Martha Nussbaum got it right?, by Professor Anne Phillips, of the London School of Economics.

Civil Society Seminar. Dr Jennifer Ridden, of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, will speak on Civil society, ethnic politics, and the Northern Ireland peace process, at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, 10 May, in Room 606, Centre for Family Research, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Free School Lane. This is the first meeting in a new seminar series on the theme of Civil Society, which will examine the idea and its implications from a variety of disciplinary and regional perspectives.

South Asian Studies. Seminars are held at 5 p.m. in the Director's Room, Centre of South Asian Studies, Laundress Lane, unless otherwise stated.

4 May When God has lipstick on his collar: the adultery of Shiva and the revenge of Parvati in Hindu mythology, by Wendy Doniger, of the University of Chicago (Thursday).
10 May Socialism vs. Hindu nationalism? The UP Congress and volunteer movements in the 1930s and 1940s, by W. R. Gould, of Trinity College.
17 May Legislating love and legitimizing desire: love-marriage in Delhi, by Perveez Mody, of Trinity College.
24 May The temple, the raja, and the colonial state: ritual, kingship, and conflict in early nineteenth-century Orissa, by Yaaminey Mubayi, of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation, New Delhi.
31 May Caste and number in precolonial Rajasthan: the Marwar Census of 1660-64, by Norbert Peabody, of Wolfson College.

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Cambridge University Reporter, 4 May 2000
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