Reporter 24/1/01: 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 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.

29 January	Defective vitality: neonatal mortality and still births in early twentieth-century Derbyshire, by Dr Alice Reid, of St John's College.
26 February	Female paupers in inner London parishes, c. 1590-1700, by Ms Anisha Dasgupta, of Trinity College; English baptism and marriage customs, 1538-1640: the evidence from parochial registration, by Mr Peter Kitson, of Downing College.
5 March	Tracking ancestors and descendants in kinship networks: the distribution of genetic contribution to those alive at the last millennium, by Professor Mike Murphy, of London School of Economics.
12 March	Population in medieval thought, by Dr Peter Biller, of the University of York.

Comparative Social and Cultural History. A series of seminars, entitled Cities, will be held at 5 p.m. on the following dates in the Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College.

7 February	How to shop in the Renaissance city, by Evelyn Welch, of the University of Sussex.
20 February	Urban life and culture in the eighteenth century: the British experience, by Peter Borsay, of the University of Wales, Lampeter.
6 March	Talk of the town: origins of an eighteenth-century commonplace, by Lawrence Klein, of Emmanuel College.

Criminology. A seminar, entitled Homicide in Europe, 1200-2000 AD - approaches to understanding secular trends in lethal violence, will be led by Professor Manuel Eisner, of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, and the Institute of Criminology, at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, 25 January, in Room B.16, Faculty of Law, West Road.

Divinity and Oriental Studies. Old Testament Seminar. The following meetings will be held at 2.30 p.m. in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue.

24 January	Sexual deviance in the Mediterranean: adultery in Deuteronomy and at Gortyn, by Mr Anselm Hagedorn, of Oriel College, University of Oxford.
7 February	Love in a multi-racial society: Genesis 34 in the context of Genesis 28-35, by Professor Ellen van Wolde, of the University of Tilburg.

Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations. Holocaust Remembrance 2001. Seminars take place at 2 p.m. in Wesley House, Jesus Lane, on the following dates:

31 January	Reconciliation: a modern trend of a hope for the future, by the Revd Canon Andrew White, of Coventry Cathedral.
15 February	Negotiating the marketplace: the role of the Holocaust Museum today, by Dr Isabel Wollaston, of the University of Birmingham.

Land Economy. Lunch-time seminars will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesdays in Room 1, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Mill Lane, unless otherwise stated.

24 January	Growth in the GB countries: some empirical results from 1977-93, by Mr Mark Roberts, of the Department of Land Economy.
31 January	Clusters and New Labour's regional policy, by Dr Ron Botham, of the University of Glasgow (Regional Studies Association seminar: 5 p.m.).
7 February	Mortgage lending process and risk reduction measures in South Africa, by Mr Kofi Karley, of the Department of Land Economy.
14 February	Environmental problems from a family perspective - lessons from Japan, by Professor Noboru Hidano, of the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
21 February	Title to be announced, to be given by Dr Louise Brown, of the University of Ulster (Regional Studies Association seminar: 5 p.m.).
28 February	Title and speaker to be announced.
7 March	Interaction between intellectual property law and developments in agricultural biotechnology, by Dr Margaret Llewlyn, of the University of Sheffield.
14 March	Is trade liberalization necessary to improve environmental performance in agriculture?, by Dr Wilfrid Legg, of OCED Paris.

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, unless otherwise stated. A sandwich lunch will be provided, courtesy of Messrs Ashurst Morris Crisp.

26 January	Accountability for the use of military force: international law and institutions, by Professor Harold Jacobson, of the University of Michigan, and Ms Charlotte Ku, of the American Society of IL.
2 February	Investor-state arbitration under NAFTA Chapter 11, by Mr Barry Appleton and Mr Ian Laird, of Appleton & Associates, Toronto.
7 February	Recent developments in the case law of the International Court of Justice, by Dame Rosalyn Higgins, DBE, QC, Judge, International Court of Justice (Wednesday).
9 February	The legal regulation of imaginary states, by Mr Frank Dawson, of the University of Warwick.
16 February	Jurisdiction in respect of international crimes: is there an obligation to try or extradite?, by Mr Christopher Hall, of Amnesty International.
23 February	Settling investment and trade disputes under the Energy Charter Treaty, by Mr Adnan Amkhan, of the European Energy Charter Secretariat.
2 March	Statelessness and human rights, by Professor Bill Conklin, of the University of Windsor, Canada.
9 March	Title to be announced, to be given by Professor Pierre Klein, of the Free University of Brussels.

The Fifth Annual Earl Snyder Lecture, entitled Harmonization of disclosure standards for cross-border share offerings: approaching an 'international passport' to capital markets?, will be given by Professor William Hicks, of the University of Indiana, at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 1 March, in the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law.

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. Seminars will be held at 1.15 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Seminar Room, McDonald Institute Courtyard Building, Downing Site.

24 January	The life-history of a megalith: survey work at Monte de Ingreja, Portugal, by Cornelius Holtorf, of the Department of Archaeology.
7 February	Monumentality and landscape in Western France, by Chris Scarre, of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
21 February	Landscape narratization and high mountain frontiers: fieldwork in the central Nepalese Himalayas, by Chris Evans, of the Cambridge Archaeology Unit.
7 March	Rice and pottery: understanding the Austronesian dispersal in island South-east Asia, by Victor Paz, of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit (MIASU). Research seminars will be held at 4.30 p.m. on Tuesdays in Room 9, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue. Tea and coffee will be available from 4 p.m. in the MIASU Office (Room 4).

6 February	Magic works: the place of playing cards and curses in North-east Mongolia, by Katherine Swancutt, of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit.
20 February	Committed to development: views of a Tibetan official in the Chinese administration, by Trinley Namgyal, Director of Tibetan Assistance to Remote Areas.
6 March	Premonition and pollution: infants, spirits, and omens in Mongolia, by Rebecca Empson, of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit and the Department of Social Anthropology.
13 March	'Winter worms', 'lengths of string', and other views of leaders in Tibet, by Robert Barnett, of the University of Columbia.

Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Professor Bruno Kahn, of the University of Paris 7, will deliver the twelfth Kuwait Foundation Lecture, entitled Motovic cohomology, L-adic cohomology, and the Tate conjecture, at 5 p.m. on Monday, 5 February, in the Wolfson Room (MR2), Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road (entrance near the Isaac Newton Institute, on Clarkson Road).

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