The following lectures and seminars will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:
Criminology. Dr Dietrich Oberwittler, Sociologist and Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany, and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Criminology, will give a public lecture in Seminar Room B3, Institute of Criminology Building, Sidgwick Site, on Routine activities, delinquent propensities, and adolescent crime (Interactions between situational and individual factors in a cross-national analysis), on 3 February at 5.30 p.m.
Land Economy. Lunch-time seminars will be held on Wednesdays from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. in the Laundress Lane Seminar Rooms, 19 Silver Street.
2 February | From dreams to drains: making the Grand Arcade Scheme a reality, by Ms Sue Chadwick, of the Department of Land Economy. |
9 February | Energy-environment-economy modelling of the development of Russia, by Dr Stanislav Shmelev, of the Open University. |
16 February | Is the iceberg melting less quickly? International trade costs after WWII, by Mr Dennis Novy, of the Faculty of Economics. |
9 March | Some perplexing issues in the economics of climate change and their possible resolution, by Professor David W. Pearce, of University College London. |
16 March | Rebuilding a city? Planning and housing in the new Glasgow, by Mr Keith Kintrea, of the University of Glasgow. |
Social Anthropology. Senior Seminars will take place on Fridays at 5 p.m. in Seminar Room G2, Department of Social Anthropology. The Common Room (G1 ground floor) will be available for tea from 4 p.m. onwards.
28 January | Ethics (organization) decentralization and the distribution of academic knowledge, by Dr Alberto Corsin-Jimenez, of the University of Manchester. |
4 February | Diabolical delusions and hysterical narratives in a postmodern state, by Dr Martin Walsh, of the Department of Social Anthropology. |
11 February | From capital to enthusiasm, by Mr Neil Cummings and Ms Marysia Lewandowska, Artists, Chance Projects. The artists Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska will recount recent projects involving Tate Modern, the Bank of England, and amateur film makers working in Poland under socialism. |
18 February | Doctors as potential affines: learning about Amazonia through modern relations between Yanomami and doctors in the Upper Orinoco, by Dr Jose Kelly, of the Amazonian Centre for Research and Control of Tropical Diseases (CAICET), Amazonas State, Venezuela. |
25 February | Up, across, and along - movement and the integration of knowledge, by Professor Tim Ingold, of the University of Aberdeen. |
4 March | The commitment to transparency: reinventing the oil business in the South Caucasus, by Dr Andrew Barry, of Goldsmiths College, University of London. |
11 March | 'The revolution is mine': re-patriotizing the revolution in present-day Havana, by Ms Maria Gropas, of the Department of Social Anthropology and UNESCO Fellow. |