Cambridge University Reporter


Announcement of lectures

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

History. The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lecture Series 2005 will be given by Professor Anthony Grafton, of Princeton University and will be entitled What was history? The art of history in Early Modern Europe. The lectures will be held at 5 p.m. on 20 January, 25 January, 27 January, and 1 February in Room G-R 06/07, Faculty of English, West Road, as follows:

20 January Historical criticism in Early Modern Europe
25 January The origins of the Ars historica: a question mal posée
27 January Methods and madness in the Ars historica: three case studies
1 February Splendours and miseries of the Ars historica: how to write the history of a genre

Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Professor F. Shahidi, of Purdue University, will give the Forty-fourth Kuwait Foundation Lecture entitled Hyperbolic lattice points and the theory of automorphic forms, on 18 January, at 5 p.m., in the Wolfson Room, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road.