The following lectures and seminars will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:
Divinity. The eminent art expert and scholar Dr Alfred Bader, CBE, will be giving a talk on The Bible through Dutch eyes, in the Runcie Room, Faculty of Divinity, on 19 November, at 2.30 p.m.
Gender Studies. A Gender research and methods mini-conference, entitled Discourse and difference will take place on 11 November 2004, between 9.15 a.m. and 1 p.m. in the Keynes Hall, King's College. Organizers: Véronique Mottier and Lucy Delap. The programme is as follows:
Feminist methodologies, by Judith Squires, of the University of Bristol.
Foucault, discourse, and gender history, by Lucy Delap, of King's College.
Discourses of gender and sexuality in the context of eugenics, by Natalia Gerodetti, of the University of Lausanne.
Sex, gender, sexualities: metaphors/discourse/politics, by Terrell Carver, of the University of Bristol.
Law. Professor Sir Neil MacCormick, former member of the European Parliament for the SNP and current Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations at the Faculty of Law, University of Edinburgh, will give a public lecture in Lecture Theatre LG18, Faculty of Law, West Road, entitled The health of Europe and the health of nations, on 11 November, at 5.30 p.m. The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception.
Modern and Medieval Languages. The next Department of German Research Seminar will be held at 5 p.m. on 19 November, in the Senior Parlour, Gonville and Caius College. Dr Carolin Duttlinger, of Wadham College, Oxford, will present a paper entitled CNN Verdun: picturing the First World War in the poetry of Thomas King.
Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit. Research seminars will be held at 4.30 p.m. in Seminar Room G, 17 Mill Lane. Dr Karma Phuntsho will give a series of seminars under the title of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism: its theories and practices, as follows:
| 11 November | The concept of Buddhism: looking at classical definitions and categories |
| 18 November | What makes someone a Buddhist? A synopsis of moral and philosophical determinants |
| 25 November | Buddhist world in the framework of four noble truths |
| 2 December | Buddhist soteriology: paths, stages, and fruition |
Isaac Newton Institute. Rothschild Visiting Professor, Charles Bennett, of IBM, will give a seminar at 5 p.m. on 22 November, entitled Information is quantum. The seminar will be followed by an informal reception at 6 p.m.
Slavonic Studies. On 18 November, Tim Phillips, of the University of Oxford, will give a lecture entitled Leisure and consumption strategies at the late-Imperial resort, in the Umney Lecture Theatre, Robinson College, at 5.30 p.m.