Reporter 7/8/02: Announcement of lectures, seminars, etc.

Announcement of lectures, seminars, etc.

The following lectures, seminars, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:

Inaugural Lecture. Professor J. E. Ffowcs Williams, Rank Professor of Engineering, will deliver an Inaugural Lecture, entitled Aeroacoustics, on Friday, 30 August, at 5.30 p.m. in the Queen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

Dunn Human Nutrition Unit Seminars. Seminars will be held at 3 p.m. on Wednesdays, unless otherwise stated, in the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Hills Road. For enquiries, please contact Jean Seymour or Penny Cousins (tel. 01223 252704).

22 August	Mitochondrial gene expression: new regulatory factors and molecular interactions, by Dr Gerry
(Thursday)	Shadel, of the Rollins Research Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta. Host: Michael Murphy
9 September	Structure, function, and physiology of Na+-translocating V-ATPase in Enterococcus hirae, by
(Monday)	Professor Yoshimi Kakinuma, of the Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan. Host: John Walker.
2 October	Protein import and assembly in the mitochondrial inner membrane, by Dr Kostas Tokatlidis, of the University of Manchester. Host: Michael Murphy.

Modern and Medieval Languages. The research group 'Cultural History and Literary Imagination' is holding its first major conference from 1 to 3 October 2002 under the title The fragile tradition: the German cultural imagination since 1500. The programme will examine continuities and discontinuities in the material and intellectual culture of the German-speaking world, and issues of cultural memory, particularly as reflected in literary texts. Over forty high-profile scholars will be coming from the USA, Ireland, and Italy, as well as from the UK, Germany, and Austria. Leading speakers include Aleida Assmann, Manfred Engel, Ulrich Gaier, Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, and Joachim Whaley.

The conference organizers are David Midgley, St John's College (drm7@joh.cam.ac.uk), and Christian Emden, Sidney Sussex College (cje22@hermes.cam.ac.uk). Further details of the group's activities, which includes a seminar programme throughout the coming academic year, can be found on the Department of German website.

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