Cambridge University Reporter Special

Announcement of lectures, seminars, etc.

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

Computer Laboratory. Cambridge Computer Lab Ring is holding an event on 27 January. Ting Zhang, Managing Director, China Business Solutions Ltd, will speak on Opportunities and issues for British ICT/Telecom companies in China, at 5 p.m. in Lecture Theatre 2, William Gates Building, JJ Thomson Avenue. For further information please contact jan.samols@cl.cam.ac.uk.

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH). The following events are scheduled for Lent Term 2005. All events take place at CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX, unless otherwise indicated. For further information on all events please visit http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/.

Tuesdays in term from 18 January Conversation Reading Group

20 January, 3, 17 February, 3 March Cambridge University Film Seminar

Mondays in term from 24 January Conversation Work-in-progress Seminars

Mondays in term from 24 January Cambridge Realist Workshop

Tuesdays in term from 25 January Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Seminar

Tuesdays in term from 25 January Psychoanalysis Reading Group

10 February Conversations @ CRASSH: Making Portraits

11-12 February Mediterranean Encounters: People, History, and Literature

18-19 February The Conundra of Vision: Reflexivity in Latin-American Visual Culture

24 February Conversations @ CRASSH: Nanotechnology and Beyond

26 February Workshop on Marcel Mauss's thesis 'On Prayer'

11 March Gender: Dialogue and Difference (Downing College)

11-12 March Beyond the Imperial centre and Colonial Periphery: Reconnecting the Global and the Local

11-13 March Defining Social Complexity: Approaches to Power and Interaction in the Archaeological Record (The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research)

18 March History and Music

Divinity. Henry Martyn Centre. A series of three lectures, under the title of Religion and politics in Kenya, will be given by Professor John Lonsdale, Fellow of Trinity College, on 7, 8, and 9 February at 5 p.m. in the Faculty of Divinity, West Road.

A series of seminars will be held at 2.15 p.m. in various venues:

3 February The development of ecumenicity in the early Korean Church, by the Revd Kyo Seong-Ahn, of Fitzwilliam College. Jointly hosted with the Christianity in Asia Project. Venue: Faculty of Divinity.

24 February Pandita Ramabai and the origins of Pentecostalism, by Dr Allan Anderson, of the University of Birmingham. Jointly hosted with the Christianity in Asia Project. Venue: Faculty of Divinity.

17 March Methodist missions in the Gambia in the nineteenth century, by Dr Martha Frederiks, of the University of Utrecht. The fourth in a series of termly seminars in association with the Methodist Missionary Society history project. Venue: Wesley House.

English. The Empson Lectures will be held in the Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site, on 24 and 25 January 2005, at 5.30 p.m. Professor Geoffrey Hill will be speaking on F. H. Bradley and Eros: a postscript on Modernist poetics. Professor Hill will also be giving a reading on 26 January at 5.30 p.m. in Room G-R06/07, of the Faculty of English, West Road. For further information, please e-mail english-events@lists.cam.ac.uk.

Centre for Family Research. Lunch-time seminars will be held at 1 p.m. promptly on Tuesdays, in Room 606, Centre for Family Research, Free School Lane.

25 January Responsible familial selves: socio-moral and psychological reasoning in genetic counselling discourse, by Dr Lucy Howell and Dr Srikant Sarangi, of Cardiff University.

15 February Self-advocacy: an exploratory video study in fact-to-face communication between people with learning difficulties and service providers, by Dr Marcus Redley, of the Department of Psychiatry.

1 March Fatherhood and the regulation of reproductive technologies, by Dr Sally Sheldon, of Keele University.

15 March Genomic medicine in transnational context: Between the US and Europe, by Dr Shobitha Parthasarathy, of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Centre for Family Research.

Centre for History and Economics. Meetings are held on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. in the Seminar room, CRASSH, Old Press Site, Silver Street.

2 February From the history of labour to the history of work? by Jürgen Kocka, of WZB and St Anthony's College, Oxford.

16 February When affirmative action was white, by Ira Katznelson, of Columbia University.

2 March Language, identity, political conflict: the case of Kashmiri, by Ananya Kabir, of the University of Leeds.

16 March United we stand. A history of Britain's trade unions, by Alastair Reid, of Girton College.

Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. Seminars will take place at 1 p.m. in Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Department of Geography, Downing Place.

28 January Birth weight, social class, and life course: Women's Hospital, Melbourne 1857-1900, by Janet McCalman, of the University of Melbourne.

18 February Did owner-occupation lead to smaller families for inter-war working class families? by Peter Scott, of the University of Reading.

25 February Does a woman who marries another woman become a man? Transformation of women-women marriage among the Kuria of Western Kenya, 1890-1990, by Babere Kerata Chaca, of Wolfson College.

4 March Premature female death in Western Europe 1960-2000, by Nicky Hart, of the University of California, Los Angeles.

Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations. Lectures take place at 2.15 p.m. at Wesley House, Jesus Lane as follows:

19 January Myths of the Middle Ages: the ritual murder accusation, by Professor Emily Rose.

23 February Walter of Chatillon: a twelfth-century poet's engagement with Jews, by Dr Anna Abulafia.

2 March Jewish scribes and Christian illuminators in thirteenth-century Germany: thoughts on cultural translation and negotiation, by Dr Eva Frojmovic.

MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit. The following seminars will be held at 3 p.m., 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 January Exploiting lipid interactions to control membrane-protein insertion, folding, and stability, by Dr Paula J. Booth, of the University of Bristol. Host: Edmund Kunji.

9 February Visualizing mitochondrial Ca²⁺ and ATP in living cells, by Professor Guy A. Rutter, of the University of Bristol. Host: Martin Brand.

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

3 February Agnes Smith: a Victorian traveller through Greece and Cyprus, by Dr Mary Roussou-Sinclair, of the University of Cyprus.

10 February The Greek dialects of Southern Italy, by Dr Io Manolessou, of the University of Patras.

24 February Nationalizing the land and its people: the case of Greek Macedonia, c. 1912-c. 1959, by Dr Philip Carabott, of King's College London.

10 March Kazantzakis's abortive foray into politics in liberated Athens, 1944-46, by Professor Peter Bien, of Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.

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:

20 January Bodhicitta and the six perfections: ideals and practices in Mahayana altruism

27 January The Buddhist philosophical schools: a survey of various theories of ontology and epistemology

3 February Appearance, emptiness, and coalescence: arguing there is not anything

10 February Are we all Buddhas already?

Veterinary Medicine. Tea Clubs are held on Wednesdays at 4.30 p.m. in Lecture Theatre I, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road. Tea is served at 4 p.m. in the Senior Common Room.

19 January Adenylate cyclase toxins from 'Bordetella' species and 'Bacillus anthracis': more than just making cyclic AMP!, by Professor Erik Hewlett, of the University of Virginia.

26 January Cellular transmission of canine transmissible venereal tumour, by Dr Claudio Murgia, of University College London.

9 February Endangered species, survival, and past and future plagues, by Professor Jonathan Heeney, of the University of Leiden, The Netherlands.

16 February Enhancing veterinary surveillance in partnership, by Dr Ruth Lysons, of the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs.

2 March Neuronal death in prion disease and how to prevent it, by Professor Alun Williams, of the Royal Veterinary College, London.

16 March Blocking the exit: a new twist in the never-ending battle between endogenous and exogenous retroviruses, by Professor Massimo Palmarini, of the University of Glasgow.

Zoology. Evolution and development seminars of 45-50 minutes, will be held at 1 p.m. in the First Floor Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

19 January Origin and migration of primordial germ cells in Platynereis dumerilii, by Nicole Rebscher, of the University of Heidelberg.

2 February Evolution of vulval development in Caenorhabditis, by Marie-Anne Félix, of the Institut Jacques Monod.

16 February Evolution of Metazoa: molecular and functional approaches, by Werner Müller, of the University of Mainz.

2 March Cranial muscle morphogenesis in lungfish and amphibians - a comparative perspective, by Lennart Olsson, of the University of Jena.

30 March Fox gene clusters in metazoans, by Seb Shimeld, of the University of Oxford.

13 April Polyembryonic development and caste fate in the parasitoid wasp Copidosoma floridanum, by Laura Corley, of the University of Washington.

27 April Nature read in tooth: from ecological to molecular interactions, by Jukka Jernvall, of the University of Helsinki.

11 May Investigating hypotheses for the evolution of vertebrate neurogenic placodes using shark and chick embryos, by Clare Baker, of the Department of Anatomy.

18 May Evolution of developmental mechanisms controlling leaf form, by Miltos Tsiantis, of the University of Oxford.

Tuesdays in term from 18 January	Conversation Reading Group
20 January, 3, 17 February, 3 March	Cambridge University Film Seminar
Mondays in term from 24 January	Conversation Work-in-progress Seminars
Mondays in term from 24 January	Cambridge Realist Workshop
Tuesdays in term from 25 January	Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Seminar
Tuesdays in term from 25 January	Psychoanalysis Reading Group
10 February	Conversations @ CRASSH: Making Portraits
11-12 February	Mediterranean Encounters: People, History, and Literature
18-19 February	The Conundra of Vision: Reflexivity in Latin-American Visual Culture
24 February	Conversations @ CRASSH: Nanotechnology and Beyond
26 February	Workshop on Marcel Mauss's thesis 'On Prayer'
11 March	Gender: Dialogue and Difference (Downing College)
11-12 March	Beyond the Imperial centre and Colonial Periphery: Reconnecting the Global and the Local
11-13 March	Defining Social Complexity: Approaches to Power and Interaction in the Archaeological Record (The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research)
18 March	History and Music

3 February	The development of ecumenicity in the early Korean Church, by the Revd Kyo Seong-Ahn, of Fitzwilliam College. Jointly hosted with the Christianity in Asia Project. Venue: Faculty of Divinity.
24 February	Pandita Ramabai and the origins of Pentecostalism, by Dr Allan Anderson, of the University of Birmingham. Jointly hosted with the Christianity in Asia Project. Venue: Faculty of Divinity.
17 March	Methodist missions in the Gambia in the nineteenth century, by Dr Martha Frederiks, of the University of Utrecht. The fourth in a series of termly seminars in association with the Methodist Missionary Society history project. Venue: Wesley House.

25 January	Responsible familial selves: socio-moral and psychological reasoning in genetic counselling discourse, by Dr Lucy Howell and Dr Srikant Sarangi, of Cardiff University.
15 February	Self-advocacy: an exploratory video study in fact-to-face communication between people with learning difficulties and service providers, by Dr Marcus Redley, of the Department of Psychiatry.
1 March	Fatherhood and the regulation of reproductive technologies, by Dr Sally Sheldon, of Keele University.
15 March	Genomic medicine in transnational context: Between the US and Europe, by Dr Shobitha Parthasarathy, of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Centre for Family Research.

2 February	From the history of labour to the history of work? by Jürgen Kocka, of WZB and St Anthony's College, Oxford.
16 February	When affirmative action was white, by Ira Katznelson, of Columbia University.
2 March	Language, identity, political conflict: the case of Kashmiri, by Ananya Kabir, of the University of Leeds.
16 March	United we stand. A history of Britain's trade unions, by Alastair Reid, of Girton College.

28 January	Birth weight, social class, and life course: Women's Hospital, Melbourne 1857-1900, by Janet McCalman, of the University of Melbourne.
18 February	Did owner-occupation lead to smaller families for inter-war working class families? by Peter Scott, of the University of Reading.
25 February	Does a woman who marries another woman become a man? Transformation of women-women marriage among the Kuria of Western Kenya, 1890-1990, by Babere Kerata Chaca, of Wolfson College.
4 March	Premature female death in Western Europe 1960-2000, by Nicky Hart, of the University of California, Los Angeles.

19 January	Myths of the Middle Ages: the ritual murder accusation, by Professor Emily Rose.
23 February	Walter of Chatillon: a twelfth-century poet's engagement with Jews, by Dr Anna Abulafia.
2 March	Jewish scribes and Christian illuminators in thirteenth-century Germany: thoughts on cultural translation and negotiation, by Dr Eva Frojmovic.

19 January	Exploiting lipid interactions to control membrane-protein insertion, folding, and stability, by Dr Paula J. Booth, of the University of Bristol. Host: Edmund Kunji.
9 February	Visualizing mitochondrial Ca²⁺ and ATP in living cells, by Professor Guy A. Rutter, of the University of Bristol. Host: Martin Brand.

3 February	Agnes Smith: a Victorian traveller through Greece and Cyprus, by Dr Mary Roussou-Sinclair, of the University of Cyprus.
10 February	The Greek dialects of Southern Italy, by Dr Io Manolessou, of the University of Patras.
24 February	Nationalizing the land and its people: the case of Greek Macedonia, c. 1912-c. 1959, by Dr Philip Carabott, of King's College London.
10 March	Kazantzakis's abortive foray into politics in liberated Athens, 1944-46, by Professor Peter Bien, of Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.

20 January	Bodhicitta and the six perfections: ideals and practices in Mahayana altruism
27 January	The Buddhist philosophical schools: a survey of various theories of ontology and epistemology
3 February	Appearance, emptiness, and coalescence: arguing there is not anything
10 February	Are we all Buddhas already?

19 January	Adenylate cyclase toxins from 'Bordetella' species and 'Bacillus anthracis': more than just making cyclic AMP!, by Professor Erik Hewlett, of the University of Virginia.
26 January	Cellular transmission of canine transmissible venereal tumour, by Dr Claudio Murgia, of University College London.
9 February	Endangered species, survival, and past and future plagues, by Professor Jonathan Heeney, of the University of Leiden, The Netherlands.
16 February	Enhancing veterinary surveillance in partnership, by Dr Ruth Lysons, of the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs.
2 March	Neuronal death in prion disease and how to prevent it, by Professor Alun Williams, of the Royal Veterinary College, London.
16 March	Blocking the exit: a new twist in the never-ending battle between endogenous and exogenous retroviruses, by Professor Massimo Palmarini, of the University of Glasgow.

19 January	Origin and migration of primordial germ cells in Platynereis dumerilii, by Nicole Rebscher, of the University of Heidelberg.
2 February	Evolution of vulval development in Caenorhabditis, by Marie-Anne Félix, of the Institut Jacques Monod.
16 February	Evolution of Metazoa: molecular and functional approaches, by Werner Müller, of the University of Mainz.
2 March	Cranial muscle morphogenesis in lungfish and amphibians - a comparative perspective, by Lennart Olsson, of the University of Jena.
30 March	Fox gene clusters in metazoans, by Seb Shimeld, of the University of Oxford.
13 April	Polyembryonic development and caste fate in the parasitoid wasp Copidosoma floridanum, by Laura Corley, of the University of Washington.
27 April	Nature read in tooth: from ecological to molecular interactions, by Jukka Jernvall, of the University of Helsinki.
11 May	Investigating hypotheses for the evolution of vertebrate neurogenic placodes using shark and chick embryos, by Clare Baker, of the Department of Anatomy.
18 May	Evolution of developmental mechanisms controlling leaf form, by Miltos Tsiantis, of the University of Oxford.