Cambridge University Reporter


Announcement of lectures, seminars, etc.

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

Archaeology. Professor Matthew Spriggs, of the Australian National University, will deliver the 2005 David Clarke Lecture, entitled Ethnographic parallels and the denial of history: a critique from Melanesia. The lecture will take place at Lecture Room 1 of the Mill Lane Lecture Theatres, at 5 p.m. on 28 April.

Computer Laboratory. Seminars are held on Wednesdays at 4.15 p.m. in Lecture Theatre 1, William Gates Building, JJ Thomson Avenue, off Madingley Road.

27 April Dis-integration in telecoms, by David Cleevely, of cleevely.co.uk.
4 May The international technology roadmap for semiconductors, by Maurice Wilkes, of the Computer Laboratory.
11 May What is extreme programming and how does it work? by Fred Tingey, of BNP Paribas.
18 May CS challenges in constructing genome databases, by Henning Hermjakob, of the European Bioinformatics Institute.
25 May E-Science, digital libraries, and knowledge communities, by Christine L. Borgman, of the University of California, Los Angeles.

International Studies and Politics. Seminars will take place on Thursdays at 5 p.m. in the Common Room on the first floor of 17 Mill Lane, unless otherwise stated.

28 April China's regional multilateralism and regional order, by Professor Michael Yahuda, of George Washington University.
11 May (Wednesday) Soft power as strategy: problems of implementation, by Professor Joseph Nye, of Harvard University and Balliol College, Oxford. Please note that this seminar will take place between 11 a.m. and 12.45 p.m.)
26 May Territoriality, international politics, and international law: the case of the boundary commission for Eritrea and Ethiopia, by Professor Christopher Clapham, of the Centre of African Studies.

Centre for Modern Hebrew Studies. On 4 May, Professor Avraham Balaban, of the University of Florida, will talk on Jews and Arabs in Israeli literature - the case of Oz and Yehoshua, at 5 p.m. in Room 8, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Sidgwick Avenue.

Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit. Research seminars will be held on Tuesdays at 4.30 p.m. in Seminar Room G, 17 Mill Lane.

26 April Tibet in 'Tsogt Taij': each other's histories in Inner Asian film, by Robert Barnett, of Columbia University, New York.
10 May Reflections on ethnic belonging and development in Inner Mongolia, by Flemming Christiansen, of the University of Leeds.
24 May The repetition of Mongolian prophetic time, by Rebecca Empson, of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit.
7 June Respect and power without resistance: leadership and politics in the Deed Mongol Village of Qinghai, by Bum-Ochir Dulam, of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit.

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.

27 April Oxidative stress and apoptosis associated with cryopreservation of equine spermatozoa, by Professor B. A. Ball, of the University of California, Davis.
11 May Advances in herpesvirus genomics, by Dr Andrew Davison, of the Institute of Virology, Glasgow.
25 May Salmonella enterica and systemic disease, by Professor Gordon Dougan, of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.
1 June Inhibiting herpesviruses - a medical past and a veterinary future, by Dr Hugh Field, of the Department of Veterinary Medicine.
8 June The TSEs - is PrP in control? by Dr Jean Manson, of the BBSRC Neuropathogenesis Unit, Edinburgh.
15 June Development of a therapeutic vaccine for canine malignant melanoma, by Dr Brian Catchpole, of the Royal Veterinary College, London.