Reporter 17/5/00: 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. Lord Powell of Bayswater, KCMG, former Private Secretary to Margaret Thatcher, will deliver the Cambridge European Trust Lecture, entitled Bruges revisited, at 5.15 p.m. on Tuesday, 23 May, in the Faculty of Law, West Road.

Délégation Culturelle Française and Divinity. A symposium, entitled Lourdes pilgrimage and modernity (based on Dr Ruth Harris's book, Lourdes: Body and Spirit in a Secular Age), will be held on 19-20 May in Magdalene College, as follows:

Friday, 19 May

2.30 p.m.	Welcome and introduction.
3 p.m.	Opening discussion, by Dr Ruth Harris, of New College, Oxford.
5 p.m.	The anthropology of pilgrimage, Compostella and Lourdes, by Dr John Eade, of Roehampton Institute.

Saturday, 20 May

9.15 a.m.	Religion et technologie: chemin de fer et pélerinage, by Professor Michel Lagrée, of Rennes II.
10.45 a.m.	Modernity in action: Mgr Gerlier and the reshaping of Lourdes, by Dr Albert Lavigne, of the French Embassy.
12 p.m.	In Her image: female seers and Marian visions, by Dr Christopher Maunder, of the College of Ripon and St John.
2.15 p.m.	Evolution du discours politique dans les messages attribués à la Vierge, by Dr Joachim Bouflet, of Paris.
4 p.m.	Plenary discussion.

Classics. Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd will deliver a valedictory lecture, entitled Is there a future for ancient science?, at 5 p.m. on Monday, 29 May, in the Little Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Clinical Veterinary Medicine. Dr Antonio Acami, of the Department of Pathology, will give a Tea Club lecture, entitled Soluble cytokine and chemokine binding proteins encoded by poxviruses and herpesviruses, at 4.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 24 May, in Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road. Tea will be available at 4 p.m. in the Senior Common Room.

Criminology. Dr Stephen Shute, of the University of Birmingham, will give a lecture, entitled Whither parole?, at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, 25 May, in Room B16, Faculty of Law, West Road.

Engineering. Mechanics colloquia will be held at 2.30 p.m. on Thursdays in Lecture Room 5, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street.

18 May	Tribology and arthritis: are there connections?, by M. J. Furey, of Virginia Tech.
25 May	Soil mechanics at the grain scale, by C. Thornton, of Aston University.

Fitzwilliam Museum. A Gallery Talk, entitled Ruskin's Turners, will be given by Jane Munro at 11.30 a.m. on Sunday, 28 May, in the Shiba Room, Fitzwilliam Museum. Admission is limited to thirty people only.

Gender Studies Working Group. Professor Olwen Hufton, of Merton College, Oxford, will give a lecture, entitled Giving women a past, at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 18 May, in the Palmerston Room, Fisher Building, St John's College. There will also be a seminar on Professor Hufton's lecture at 2 p.m. on Friday, 19 May, in the Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building, St John's College.

Land Economy. Lunch-time seminars will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Conference Room, Department of Land Economy, basement of 19 Silver Street.

24 May	Locating EC environmental law, by Donald McGillivray, of Birkbeck College, London.
31 May	The breakdown of climate: human choices or global disaster?, by Peter Bunyard, co-founder of The Ecologist.

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