Reporter 16/1/02: 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 Simon Blackburn, Professor of Philosophy, will deliver an Inaugural Lecture, entitled Relatively speaking, at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 31 January 2002 in Room 1, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

Development Studies. Migration and marginalization: a focus on the Asian experience. Seminars will take place on Mondays, from 5 p.m. until 6 p.m., in the Library Court Seminar Room (Room 10), Staircase 1, Jesus College. (Enter at the second Porter's Lodge. It is the first building on the left. Turn left up the footpath until you reach Staircase 1.)

28 January	Migration and the demographic crisis in Kazakhstan, by Dr Bhavna Dave, of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
4 February	Refugee rights in the Commonwealth, by Dr Siraj Sait, of the University of East London.
11 February	Irregular migration and trafficking in the Mekong: policy issues, by Professor Ronald Skeldon, of the University of Sussex.
18 February	Overseas Filipino female workers: a case of a revolving door (work in progress), by Sr Bernadette Chen, of the Department of Social and Political Sciences.
25 February	Restructuring the coal industry and migrant miners in China, by Ms Rui Huaichuan, of the Judge Institute of Management Studies.
4 March	The other women in your home: social discourses on foreign maids and Chinese racial identities in Taiwan, by Ms Chin-Ju Lin, of the University of Essex.

Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. Seminars will take place on Mondays at 5 p.m. in the Seminar Room, First Floor, Sir William Hardy Building, Department of Geography, Downing Place.

21 January	No more white bread: changing the diet of the poor in the late eighteenth century, by Professor Sandra Sherman, of the University of Arkansas and Lucy Cavendish College.
4 February	Re-evaluating the Compton census: Bishop Wake's overview of population and dissent from the Humber to the Thames c. 1710, by Dr John Broad, of the University of North London.
11 February	'The birth of mortality' and Sir William Petty, by Professor Hervé le Bras, of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris and Churchill College.
18 February	Is there an East Asian mortality pattern? by Dr Zhongwei Zhao, of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure and Pembroke College.
4 March	Regional differentials in Spanish mortality at the turn of the twentieth century, by Dr Diego Ramiro Farinas, of the Spanish Research Council, Madrid.
11 March	Infant mortality in the English Fens in the nineteenth century: some problems, by Ms Samantha Sneddon, of Queen Mary, University of London.

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

30 January	Palaiologos's Ο Πολυπαθής: picaresque autobiography as a national allegory, by Professor Dimitris Tziovas, of the University of Birmingham.
13 February	Odysseas Elytis on poetic expression: Carte blanche, by Dr David Connolly, of St Cross College, Oxford.
20 February	Why does music matter? Issues of identity in Cretan music, by Dr Chris Williams and Panos Poulos, of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London (lecture-recital, in Room G.19).
27 February	Greek Cypriot refugees and the problems of 'generation' in analysing their situations, by Professor Peter Loizos, of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
13 March	Sculpture in the poetry of Giannis Ritsos, by Dr Liana Giannakopoulou, of King's College, London.

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

13 February	Discourse of negotiation: on the writing of Orthodox women writers in Israel, by Dr Tsila Ratner, of University College, London.
27 February	Re-reading of the New Testament in Israeli literature, by Professor R. Kartun-Blum, of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
4 March	Writing, identity, and imagination, by Ronit Matalon, Israeli author.

MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit Seminars. Seminars will be held at 3 p.m. on Wednesdays, in the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Lecture Theatre, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Hills Road. For enquiries, please contact Jean Seymour or Penny Cousins (tel. 01223 252704).

23 January	Molecular pathogenesis of Friedreich ataxia, a mitochondrial disease of iron homeostasis, by Professor Michel Koenig, of the Institute de Génétique et Biologie Moléculaire at Cellulaire CU de Strasbourg, France. Host: Michael Murphy.
6 February	2D-crystals, electron crystallography, and atomic force microscopy: a trilogy in membrane protein structure research, by Professor A. Engel, of the Maurice E. Mueller Institute Biozentrum de Universität Basel, Switzerland. Hosts: John Walker/Leo Sazanov.
20 February	Towards molecular understanding of adaptive thermogenesis and substrate metabolism: a systematic approach, by Dr Abdull G. Dulloo, of the Institute of Physiology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Host: Martin Brand.

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.

19 January	The discovery of gold in the Klondike: oral histories from the Yukon Territory, Canada, by Professor Julie Cruikshank, of the University of British Columbia.
2 February	Arctic and Polar medals - rewards for the brave, the foolhardy, and the shivering! by Rear Admiral John Myres, CB, Hydrographer of the Navy, 1990-94, and Secretary of the UK Polar Medal Assessment Committee.
16 February	Evaluating the sensitivity of glaciers to climate change, by Dr Neil Arnold, of the Scott Polar Research Institute.
2 March	Young explorers in Svalbard and the Antarctic: the BSES expeditions, by Susie Grant and Sarah Robinson, of the Scott Polar Research Institute.

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