Reporter 3/10/01: 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:

Inaugural Lecture. Professor Richard Hunter, Regius Professor of Greek, will deliver an Inaugural Lecture, entitled On coming after, at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 17 October, in the Little Hall, Sidgwick Site. All are welcome to attend.

George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures 2001. The Trevelyan Lectures, entitled The Third Reich, will take place at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays in the Lady Mitchell Hall.

16 October	The Nazi capture of power, by Professor Richard Bessel, of the University of York.
23 October	Leaders of the people? The Nazi Party and German society, by Professor Jeremy Noakes, of the University of Exeter.
30 October	A people's economy? Economy, race, and empire in the Third Reich, by Professor Richard Overy, of King's College, London.
6 November	The Nazi New Order: race, rights, and international Law in mid-20th century Europe, by Professor Mark Mazower, of Birkbeck College, London.
13 November	Nazi propaganda: a reappraisal, by Professor David Welch, of the University of Kent, Canterbury.
20 November	The German public and the persecution of the Jews, by Professor Peter Longerich, of Royal Holloway College, London.

Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic. Dr Paul Russell, of Radley College, Abingdon, will give a lecture, entitled Vita Griffini filii Conani: the earliest Latin life of Gruffudd ap Cynan, on Wednesday, 10 October, at 5 p.m. in Trinity College.

Institute of Astronomy. Cambridge Astrophysics Colloquia. 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 Hoyle Building.

4 October	Warm dark matter: a viable model?, by Professor Jeremiah Ostriker, of the Institute of Astronomy.
11 October	New structures in spiral galaxies: predictions and discoveries, by Dr Wendy Freedman, of the Carnegie Observatories.
18 October	Galaxy formation in CDM: crises and resolutions, by Professor Avishai Dekel, of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
25 October	The search for extrasolar planets, by Dr Artie Hatzes, of the Thüeringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg.
1 November	The matter content of the Universe derived from the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey and CMB anisotropies, by Professor George Efstathiou, of the Institute of Astronomy.
8 November	New results on the X-ray properties of star-forming galaxies, by Professor Martin Ward, of the University of Leicester.
15 November	Growing supermassive black holes in the centres of galaxies, by Dr Martin Haehnelt, of the Institute of Astronomy.
22 November	The ages of old stars, by Dr Brian Chaboyer, of Dartmouth College, and Queen Mary, University of London.
29 November	The formation of stellar clusters, by Dr Matthew Bate, of the University of Exeter.

Divinity. Professor D. A. Turner will give his Inaugural Lecture as Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity, entitled How to be an atheist, at 5 p.m. on Friday, 12 October, in the Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, West Road.

Divinity and the Westcott House Philosophical Theology Society. Dr D. M. Thompson will give a lecture, entitled Westcott and the Cambridge Trio - or Quartet?, on Wednesday, 10 October, at 5 p.m. in the Faculty of Divinity, West Road, to commemorate the centenary of the death of Bishop B. F. Westcott.

Earth Sciences. Seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays in the Harker Room, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site.

16 October	Bio-inspired strategies to control crystal growth, by Professor Brigid Heywood, of the University of Keele.
23 October	Metastability, molecules, and minerals, by Professor David Rickard, of the University of Wales, Cardiff.
30 October	Quantum-mechanical simulation of complex solids from first-principles, by Dr Emilio Artacho, of the Department of Earth Sciences.
6 November	Sedimentary indigestion: formation and movement of methane bubbles in sediments, by Professor Bernard Boudreau, of Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia.
13 November	Remote monitoring of interseismic strain accumulation using satellite radar interferometry, by Dr Tim Wright, of the University of Oxford.
20 November	Hydrothermal activity along slow-spreading ridges: why should we be excited?, by Professor Chris German, of the Southampton Oceanography Centre.
27 November	Snowball earth and early animal evolution, by Professor Paul Hoffman, of Harvard University.

Fitzwilliam Museum. Art in Context Gallery Talks will be given at 1.15 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Fitzwilliam Museum. Admission is free.

3 October	Flaming pottery: art and landscape in Jōmon Japan, by Simon Kaner, archaeologist and co-curator of the exhibition.
10 October	Over my shoulder: a modern potter's perception of ancient pottery, by Elspeth Owen, ceramicist.
17 October	Heroes and artists: popular art and the Brazilian imagination, by Tania Tribe, anthropologist and curator of the exhibition.
24 October	Stories of Brazil, by Ben Haggarty.
31 October	Guns and butter: art and faith across the frontiers, by Duncan Robinson, Director.
7 November	Illuminating the law: medieval law books from Cambridge collections, by Stella Panayotova, Keeper of manuscripts and printed books.
14 November	Brazilian rhythms, by Glyn Evans, composer and musician.
21 November	A touch of God: the material culture of Catholicism, by Dr Eamon Duffy of the Faculty of Divinity.
28 November	Techniques of Ancient Greek and Cypriot pottery, by Lucilla Burn, Keeper of Antiquities.
5 December	Brazilian art of the twentieth century, by Dawn Ades, art historian.

Gender Studies Working Group. Gender and education day: gender and education in developing countries and amongst ethnic minorities in Britain. This meeting will be held on Saturday, 24 November, from 10 a.m. to 4.30 p.m., in the Upper-Hall, Jesus College. For further details, see http://www.gender.cam.ac.uk/.

Geography. Research seminars will be held at 4.15 p.m. on Thursdays in the Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Place.

11 October	Another country: Latino labour and the politics of disappearance in a New York suburb, by Dr Jim Duncan, of the Department of Geography.
18 October	Reconstructing climate change: palaeoclimate records from New Zealand speleothems and implications for interhemispherical synchronicity, by Professor Paul Williams, of the University of Auckland.
25 October	Urban morphology but not as we know it: the shape of electronic space, by Dr Mike Crang, of the University of Durham.
1 November	Whiteness, hybridity, and the Irish diaspora, by Dr Bronwen Walter, of Anglia Polytechnic University.
8 November	Fluvial processes and riparian habitat diversity on wandering gravel bed rivers, by Dr David Gilvear, of the University of Stirling.
15 November	Media transformation and 'The politics of sham' in South Africa, by Dr Clive Barnett, of the University of Bristol.
22 November	The economic geography of the internet age, by Dr Michael Storper, of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
29 November	Redefining the national memory: the Great Britain historical GIS project, by Dr Humphrey Southall, of the University of Portsmouth.

German. Cultural History and Literary Imagination Open Seminars. Seminars will be held at 4 p.m. on Fridays in the Dirac Room, Fisher Building, St John's College. Further information can be obtained from David Midgley, St John's College (e-mail drm7@joh.cam.ac.uk), or Christian Emden, Sidney Sussex College (e-mail cje22@hermes.cam.ac.uk).

19 October	Literary representations of history and German national identity around 1870, by Charlotte Woodford.
9 November	Iconography and its rivals: Panofsky's model of interpretation, by Peter Burke.
30 November	Scientific thought and intellectual history around 1900, by Greg Moore.

History. Hexagonal Forum. Meetings will be held at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays in the Fisher Building, St John's College.

16 October	Charles Fourier and the science of 'gastrosophie', by Bee Wilson, of the Faculty of History.
30 October	Elle attend: the role of the Alsatian woman in French propaganda and nation-building, 1914-1924, by Elizabeth Vlossak, of the Faculty of History.
13 November	Babylon of lust and Pandora's box: Carlyle's vision of French history, by Catherine Heyrendt, of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III and St John's College.
27 November	L'evolution de la sensibilité au temps qu'il fait (A history of sensitivity to the weather), by Alain Corbin, of the Centre de Recherches en Histoire du 19e Siècle, Universités de Paris I et IV.

History and Philosophy of Science. Cabinet of Natural History. Meetings will be held 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.

8 October	Chapels of science: provincial Natural History collections in nineteenth-century England, by Sam Alberti, of the University of Manchester.
15 October	Space-invaders: Darwin and Wallace on biogeography, by Jim Moore, of the Open University.
22 October	Cabinet Fungus Hunt.
29 October	The experimental animal in Victorian Britain, by Paul White, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
5 November	Natural history and the Italian nation after 1861, by Rainer Broemer, of the University of Aberdeen.
12 November	The Moravian experiment: colonial natural history, missionary artisans, and religious conversion (1730-1830), by Michael Bravo, of the Scott Polar Research Institute.
19 November	Art after ethics? Debating the place of the living animal in contemporary works of art, by Steve Baker, of the University of Central Lancashire.
26 November	The naturalist of parts: composite caricatures in nineteenth-century England, by Jim Secord, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

History of Modern Medicine and Biology. Seminars take place on alternate Tuesdays from 5 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane. Tea is served from 4.30 p.m. All welcome.

9 October	Body techniques and fever charts: introducing the thermometer in the hospital, by Volker Hess, of the Max-Planck Institut, Berlin.
23 October	Pathology before and after the French Revolution, by Andrew Cunningham, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
6 November	Insurmountable limits, disturbances, peculiarities: exploring the means of microscopy, by Jutta Schickore, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
20 November	Molecularizing the neurosciences: the case of Holger Hydén on memory, by Robert Olby, of the University of Pittsburgh.

Psychoanalysis and the Humanities. Seminars take place on alternate Wednesdays from 5 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane. Tea is served from 4.30 p.m. All welcome.

10 October	Melancholy, Stoppard's 'Arcadia', and complexity theory, by Anita Sokolsky, of Williams College.
24 October	The psyche element: archeology, psychoanalysis, and Dionysian modernity, by Cathy Gere, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
7 November	Insides and outsides: belief, scepticism, and Shakespeare, by David Hillman, of the Faculty of English.
21 November	Mirroring in human development, with a glance at Ovid, by Malcolm Pines, of the British Psychoanalytical Society.

Details of further seminars will be published in subsequent issues of the Reporter.

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. 01223 331700).

10 October	La Mostra d'Oltremare: an overlooked example of outstanding 1930s urban design in Naples, by Enrique Larcade, of Marcial Echenique and Partners.
17 October	On the Millennium Bridge, by Allan McRobie, of the Department of Engineering.
24 October	Engineers and sustainable development - an unholy alliance?, by Professor Peter Guthrie, of the Department of Engineering.
31 October	From research to application in design: two demonstration projects, by Professor J. Martin Evans, of the University of Buenos Aires.
7 November	Memories in design from 20,000 BC to the twenty-first century and beyond, by Dr Sumet Jumsai, of SJA+3D.
14 November	Green schools and their performance, by Professor Brian Edwards, of Heriot-Watt University.
21 November	Walking through the digital city: New York and Chicago 1870-1930, by Dr Maria Balshaw, of the University of Birmingham.

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

17 October	The treasure of Ayios Simeon: a micro-historical analysis of colonial relations in Venetian-ruled Cyprus, by Professor Benjamin Arbel, of Tel Aviv University.
7 November	National bibliography before the nation: constructing Greekness out of early Greek printing, by Professor Michael Jeffreys, of King's College London.
14 November	The ethnic dimension of the 'Fédération Socialiste Ouvrière de Salonique': revisiting the sources, by Kostas Skordyles, of the University of Westminster.
28 November	Intimacy and emancipation in Melpo Axioti's Δύσκολες νύχτες, by Dr Jocelyn Pye, of the Department of Other Languages.

Copies of the complete lecture programme for 2001-02 may be obtained from the Secretary, Department of Other Languages, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages (e-mail rc264@cam.ac.uk).

Centre for Modern Hebrew Studies. The following lectures will be held on Wednesdays at 5 p.m., in Room 9, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue.

17 October	The seven dwarfs of Auschwitz and Yehuda Amichai, a secular prophet, by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev, of Yediot Ahronot.
31 October	Shakespeare through Hebrew eyes, by Professor Harai Golumb, of Tel Aviv University.
14 November	Dynamics of hatred: victims, victimizers, and other innocent bystanders in contemporary Israeli writing, by Marta Marzanska, of Girton College.

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

17 October	Protein film voltammetry: revealing the mechanisms of biological oxidation and reduction, by Professor Fraser Armstrong, of St John's College, Oxford.
31 October	Mitochondria: a matter of life and death, by Professor Anthony Schapira, of Royal Free and University College Medical School, London.
7 November	Disorders of mitochondrial DNA maintenance, by Professor Howard Jacobs, of the University of Tampere, Finland.

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.

15 October	An elementary perspective on axiom systems, in general, and for Euclid in particular, by Professor Martin Kruskal, of Rutgers University.
29 October	Mathematical and computational challenges posed by models of biological systems, by Professor Hans Othmer, of the University of Minnesota.
19 November	How the immune system uses mathematics to recognize invading pathogens, by Professor David Rand, of the University of Warwick.
26 November	The theory of integrable systems applied to the classical problems of differential geometry: N-orthogonal co-ordinate systems and spaces of diagonal curvature, by Professor Vladimir Zakharov, of the University of Landau.

Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Lectures will be held at 5 p.m. on the following dates, in Meeting Room 2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road (entrance near the Isaac Newton Institute on Clarkson Road).

9 October	Eighteenth Kuwait Foundation Lecture: Galois representations and differential equations, by Professor Pierre Colmez, of the Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu.
1 November	Nineteenth Kuwait Foundation Lecture: Local Langlands correspondence between Galois and linear groups, by Professor Marie-France Vigneras, of the Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu.

Scott Polar Research Institute. Lectures will be held at 8 p.m. on Saturdays in the Scott Polar Research Institute, Lensfield Road, unless otherwise stated.

20 October	The Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901-04, by Robert Headland, of the Scott Polar Research Institute.
3 November	In Nanook's footsteps: filming the Inuit from Flaherty to today, by Hugh Purcell, documentary film-maker and historian. From 3 p.m. onwards, films including Nanook of the North and Nanavut will be screened. From 8 p.m. onwards, the speaker will talk about the making of these films and his own experiences.
10 November	The German South Polar Expedition of 1901-03, by Cornelia Lüdecke, of the University of Munich.
17 November	Discovery rediscovered, by David Wilson, Antarctic historian and lecturer. (5 p.m.).
1 December	Beetles on the Beardmore - Antarctica before the big freeze, by Alan Ashworth, of North Dakota State University.

Social Anthropology. Senior Seminars are 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 (G1, ground floor) from 4 p.m.

12 October	Secret enterprise: market activities among London sex workers, by Dr Sophie Day, of Goldsmiths College, London.
19 October	Creole Europe and the implacable demands of objects, by Dr Chris Pinney, of University College, London.
26 October	Citizenship and autochthony: democratization and the politics of belonging in Africa, by Professor Peter Geschiere, of the University of Leiden.
2 November	Reproduction, health, rights: connections and disconnections, by Dr Maya Unnithan, of the University of Sussex.
9 November	Villages and states: aspects of identification amongst Russia's displaced Meskhetian Turks, by Kathryn Tomlinson, of University College, London.
16 November	What's in a god-image? Reflections on Polynesia and beyond, by Dr Steven Hooper, of the Sainsbury Research Centre, University of East Anglia.
23 November	Making a space for secularism: law and morality in colonial Egypt, by Professor Talal Asad, of the City University of New York.

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