The following lectures, seminars, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:
Divinity. The Stanton Lectures 2005 will be given by Professor Gordon Graham, FRSE, Regius Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen, on the general theme of Art in an irreligious world. Individual lectures will take place in the Faculty of Divinity on the following dates:
| 30 May | Finding an alternative narrative |
| 31 May | Making new music |
| 1 June | Replacing sacred space |
Henry Martyn Centre. Seminars will take place at 2.15 p.m., at various venues, on the following dates:
| 12 May | The persistence of tradition? Circumcision and Christianity in South Africa in the early twentieth century, by Dr Natasha Erlank, of Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg. Venue: Westminster College. |
| 19 May | Overseas mission and the celebration of Methodist mission, and the celebration of Methodist identity: the Wesleyan Centenary Fund of 1839, by Revd Dr Brian Beck, of Wesley House. (The fifth in a series of termly seminars in association with the Methodist Missionary Society history project.) Venue: Wesley House. |
Gender Studies. The following events are scheduled for the Easter Term. Details are available at http://www.gender.cam.ac.uk/.
Jane Fonda in Cambridge. On 7 June, Jane Fonda will be in conversation to discuss her autobiography, My life so far, with Carol Gilligan and Juliet Mitchell. The event will take place in Great St Mary's Church, St Mary's Passage, between 1 p.m. and 2.30 p.m. Jane Fonda will also be discussing her films at the Arts Cinema, 38-39 St Andrew's Street, at 3 p.m., and will attend a book-signing at Waterstone's Bookshop, 22-24 Sidney Street, from 5.30 p.m.
Gender Skills Seminars will take place in Seminar Room G, 2/F, 17 Mill Lane, between 1 p.m. and 2.30 p.m.
| 5 May | The history of masculinity in early modern England, by Alex Shepard. |
| 2 June | Fatherhood and paternal uncertainty: the cultural and theoretical significance of DNA testing, by Tabitha Freeman. |
| 16 June | The human side of international politics, by Alisher Faizullaev. |
Geography. Seminars will be held at 4.15 p.m. on Wednesdays and Thursdays in the Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site (unless otherwise stated), as follows:
| 11 May | Travelling in search of civil justice: English villagers' litigation beyond the manor, 1275-1400, by Dr Chris Briggs, of the History of Population and Social Structure, Department of Geography. |
| 12 May (5 p.m.) | Integrating quantitative soil spatial analysis with traditional soil survey methods: does it work for precision agriculture? by Dr Ruth Kerry of Brigham Young University. |
| 18 May* | Aestheticizing the rupture: the politics of memory at Berlin's holocaust memorial, by Dr Karen Till, of Royal Holloway, University of London. |
* This seminar will take place in Room 101 of the Sir William Hardy Building.
Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. Seminars will take place at 1 p.m. on Fridays in Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Department of Geography, Downing Place.
| 6 May | Health, information, and migration: geographic mobility of Union Army veterans 1860-80, by Professor Chulee Lee, of Seoul National University. |
| 13 May | The isonymic analysis of historical data: Irish migration to north-east England, 1851-1901, Professor Tony Hepburn, of the University of Sunderland, and Dr Malcolm Smith, of the University of Durham. |
| 20 May | Vital registration, social security, and economic development: lessons from early modern British history, by Dr Simon Szreter, of St John's College. |
| 27 May | Reconstructing fertility and mortality in Tanzania (1920-1961): an analysis of census data, by Ms Sarah Walters, of King's College, and the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. |
| 17 June | A social service or a social evil: lodgers in private households, Glasgow, c.1861-1914, Dr James Smyth, of the University of Stirling. |
Mathematics. The Rouse Ball Lecture for 2005 will take place on 17 May and will be given by Professor John Preskill, John D. MacArthur Professor of Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology. The Lecture is entitled Putting weirdness to work: quantum information science, and will be held in Room 3 of the Mill Lane Lecture Rooms at noon.
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. Seminars will be held at 1.15 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Seminar Room, McDonald Institute Courtyard Building, Downing Site.
| 18 May | The Kurnool Project: recent research on modern human origins and behaviour in South Asia, by Mike Petraglia. |
| 1 June | The Tell Brak Sustaining Area Survey, by Joan Oates. |
Modern and Medieval Languages. Cultural History and Literary Imagination seminars will be held at 4 p.m. in the Boys Smith Room, Fisher Building, St John's College.
| 12 May | Trafficking bodies of knowledge: tactical issues in cultural transfer (Spain, 1900-36), by Alison Sinclair, of Clare College. |
| 20 May | The other as self: visual piety and the politics of alterity in German Romanticism, by Cordula Grewe, of Columbia University. |
| 7 June | Thinking through metaphors: visual and thematic imagination in science and literature, by Pierpaolo Antonello, of St John's College. |
Isaac Newton Institute. Rothschild Visiting Professor, Stanley Pliska, of the University of Illinois at Chicago, will give a seminar at 5 p.m. on 16 May, entitled Portfolio optimization: the quest for useful mathematics. The seminar will be followed by an informal reception at 6 p.m. To receive regular details of the Rothschild Visiting Professor Seminars by e-mail, please send the message subscribe monday-seminars to majordomo@newton.cam.ac.uk.
Philosophy. Professor Frank Jackson, of the Australian National University, will give this year's Annual Heffer Lecture in Philosophy, entitled Why do we need proper names? The descriptivist strikes back, at 5 p.m. on 13 May, in the Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.
Centre for Public Law. The Fifth Sir David Williams Lecture will be given by the Hon. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, entitled Looking beyond our borders: the value of a comparative perspective in constitutional adjudication, at 5.30 p.m. on 9 May, in Room LG19, Faculty of Law, West Road. For further information please contact Miss Sarah Ross (tel. 01223 330035, e-mail sr309@cam.ac.uk).
Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Professor C. Skinner, of the University of Michigan, will give the Forty-ninth Kuwait Foundation Lecture entitled Elliptic curves and main conjectures, at 5 p.m. on 24 May, in the Wolfson Room, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge (entrance on Clarkson Road before the Isaac Newton Institute).
Scott Polar Research Institute. Seminars will be held at 4.30 p.m. on Wednesdays in the Main Lecture Theatre, Scott Polar Research Institute, Lensfield Road, as follows:
| 11 May | Ice cores and past climate change, by Dr Rob Mulvaney, of the British Antarctic Survey. |
| 25 May | Snow processes in complex landscapes, by Dr Richard Essery, of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. |
Slavonic Studies. On 12 May, Svetlana Boym, of Harvard University, will give a lecture entitled The other freedom, in the Umney Lecture Theatre, Robinson College, at 5.30 p.m.