Reporter 12/2/03: 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. Christopher Hogwood, Honorary Professor, of the Faculty of Music, will give his Inaugural Lecture entitled A private music, at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 27 February, in the Concert Hall of the University Music School, 11 West Road.

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH). John Steiner, of the British Psychoanalytical Society, will be giving the fifth lecture in the series entitled Certainty, uncertainty, and meaning, at 8 p.m. on Thursday, 13 February, in the Lloyd Room, Christ's College. The title of his talk will be Dominance and humiliation in the Schreber case. Further information about the lecture series is available from the CRASSH website at http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/eventsforthcoming.html.

Centre for History and Economics. Documenting environmental change seminars take place on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. in the Meeting Room, Clare Hall (main building), Herschel Road. Please note the location change.

26 February Environmental history as a just so story: Alfred Crosby's 'Ecological Imperialism' by Richard Drayton, of Corpus Christi College.

12 March Reconstructing the nature and impact of volcanic eruptions, by Clive Oppenheimer, of the Department of Geography.

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

19 February Biogenesis of cellular iron-sulfur proteins and the essential contribution of mitochondria, by Dr Roland Lill, of the Institut für Zytobiologie der Philipps Universität Marburg, Germany. Host: Judy Hirst.

5 March Regulation of the corticosteroid phenotype in man - implications for our understanding of cardiovascular disease, by Professor John Connell, of the University of Glasgow. Host: Sheila Bingham.

12 March Ammonium transporters from bacteria to man, by Dr Michael Merrick, of the John Innes Centre, Norwich. Host: John Walker.

19 March Genetic and biochemical characterization of complex I - deficient mammalian cell mutants in tissue culture, by Professor Immo Scheffler, of the Nijmegen Center for Mitochondrial and Metabolic Disorders, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Host: John Walker.

Table of Contents

26 February	Environmental history as a just so story: Alfred Crosby's 'Ecological Imperialism' by Richard Drayton, of Corpus Christi College.
12 March	Reconstructing the nature and impact of volcanic eruptions, by Clive Oppenheimer, of the Department of Geography.

19 February	Biogenesis of cellular iron-sulfur proteins and the essential contribution of mitochondria, by Dr Roland Lill, of the Institut für Zytobiologie der Philipps Universität Marburg, Germany. Host: Judy Hirst.
5 March	Regulation of the corticosteroid phenotype in man - implications for our understanding of cardiovascular disease, by Professor John Connell, of the University of Glasgow. Host: Sheila Bingham.
12 March	Ammonium transporters from bacteria to man, by Dr Michael Merrick, of the John Innes Centre, Norwich. Host: John Walker.
19 March	Genetic and biochemical characterization of complex I - deficient mammalian cell mutants in tissue culture, by Professor Immo Scheffler, of the Nijmegen Center for Mitochondrial and Metabolic Disorders, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Host: John Walker.