Announcement of lectures, seminars, etc.

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

American History. The following seminars will take place at 5 p.m. on Mondays in the Latimer Room, Clare College, except 13 and 27 October (Thursdays) and 21 November (5.30 p.m. start).

10 October	Lady Frances Berkeley and the politics of gendered power in seventeenth-century Virginia, by Mary Beth Norton, of Cornell University.
13 October	Retiring Jim Crow: another look at the origins of the civil rights movement, by Robert Norrell, of the University of Tennessee.
17 October	Women's political choices after suffrage, by Elizabeth Perry, of Binghamton University.
24 October	Hollywood censors history, by David Eldridge, of the University of Hull.
27 October	The centrality of feminism in American political history, 1776-2000, by Kathryn Sklar, of Binghamton University.
31 October	White southern liberals and the civil rights struggle - a grassroots perspective: the Arkansas Council on Human Relations, 1954-74, by John Kirk, of Royal Holloway College.
7 November	Cultivating virtue: the discourse of planter benevolence in the eighteenth-century English West Indies, by Natalie Zacek, of the University of Manchester.
14 November	'The South's best defense': common schooling in the Antebellum south, by Tim Lockley, of the University of Warwick.
21 November	'The Returns of the Red Shirts': historical memory of the end of reconstruction in South Carolina, by Bruce Baker, of Royal Holloway College.
28 November	In the shadow of LBJ: Federal education policy, 1968-83, by Gareth Davies, of the University of Oxford.

Chemical Engineering. Seminars take place from 3.30 p.m. to 4.30 p.m. on Wednesdays in Lecture Theatre 1 (LT1), Department of Chemical Engineering, Pembroke Street. Tea and cakes are offered from 3.15 p.m. to 3.30 p.m. outside LT1.

12 October	Applications of distinct element modelling in granular dynamics, by Dr Paul Langston, of the University of Nottingham.
2 November	The catalytic production of carbon nanotubes, by Dr Ian Kinloch, of the Department of Materials Science and Matellurgy.
9 November	New technologies from self-modifying proteins: from drug discovery to efficient bioseparations, by Professor David Wood, of Princeton University.
16 November	Optical tweezers and their use in the bio and nano sciences, by Professor Miles Padgett, FRSE, of the University of Glasgow.
23 November	New technologies for the wine industry, by Dr Robert Falconer, of the Department of Chemical Engineering.
30 November	Entrepreneuring chemical engineering: biodiesel, by Mr Peter Davidson, of D1 Oils.

Classics. Professor François Lissarrague, of the Centre Louis Gernet, Paris, will deliver the Corbett Lecture entitled Image and society? War and warriors in attic iconography, on 25 October at 5 p.m. in Room G.19, Faculty of Classics, Sidgwick Avenue.

Computer Laboratory. Seminars are held on Wednesdays at 4.15 p.m. in Lecture Theatre 1, William Gates Building, 15 JJ Thomson Avenue, off Madingley Road.

12 October	Natural randomness as a fingerprint: using nanotechnology to fight counterfeiting, by Professor Russell Cowburn, of Imperial College London.
19 October	Excursions on exact real-number computation, by Martín Escardó, of the University of Birmingham.
26 October	Synchronous programming techniques: from research to industry, by Gerard Berry, of Esterel Technologies.
9 November	Designs on the Web, by Peter Cameron, of Queen Mary, University of London.
23 November	Semantic video content analysis for security, by Shaogang Gong, of Queen Mary, University of London.

Criminology. On 20 October, Dr Catrien Bijleveld, Senior Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, and Professor of Research Methods in Criminology at the Free University, Amsterdam, will give a lecture entitled Troublesome boys: a study on delinquency across five generations. The lecture will be held at the Institute of Criminology (Seminar Room B3), Sigwick Avenue, and will start at 5.30 p.m.

Divinity. Henry Martyn Centre. Seminars will take place on Thursdays at 2.15 p.m., in Westminster College.

13 October	Professor Peter Ng, of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, will speak on Christian higher education in China - a globalization view.
27 October	Revd Dr Tudor Griffiths, of Hawarden, Cheshire, will speak on Bishop Tucker of Uganda - a missionary before, of, or after his time?
17 November	Professor Suzanne Schwarz, of Liverpool Hope University, will speak on Melvill Horne, Sierra Leone, and early Methodist missions. (The sixth in a series of termly seminars in association with the Methodist Missionary Society history project.)
24 November	Dr Kirsteen Kim will speak on Holy Spirit movements in Korea: paternal or maternal?

Education. A seminar will take place on 6 October at 4.30 p.m. in Room 2S5 of the New Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road. Professor Robert Balfour, of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, will speak on University language policies in South Africa. Enquiries should be directed to Edith Esch (e-mail eme10@cam.ac.uk).

A further seminar will take place on 7 October from 2 p.m. until 3.30 p.m. in Room 2S8 of the New Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road. Markus Hohenwarter, of the University of Salzburg, will speak on A dynamic system for education use: a presentation on GeoGebra. Please contact Sally Roach (e-mail saer2@cam.ac.uk) to reserve a place.

Politics, Democracy, and Education Seminars will take place on Thursdays between 5 p.m. and 6.30 p.m. in Room 1S7 of the New Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road. Enquiries should be directed to Carol Scott (e-mail cts22@cam.ac.uk).

13 October	Disciplining 'education': educational researchers, professional identity, and New Zealand's first Research Assessment Exercise, by Professor Sue Middleton, of the University of Waikato, New Zealand.
27 October	Theorizing, representing, and researching Muslim identities: issues for social justice and democracy, by Dr Louise Archer, of London Metropolitan University.

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, unless otherwise stated.

11 October	The end of multiculturism? by Bryan Turner, of the National University of Singapore. Please note that this seminar will take place at noon in the Maxwell Theatre, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, New Museums Site.
25 October	Antenatal haemoglobinopathy screening: the role of faith and religion, by Shenaz Ahmed, of the University of Leeds.
1 November	Social welfare, genetic welfare? Boundary work in the PGD clinic, by Kathryn Ehrich, of King's College London.
15 November	The regulation of assisted reproduction: laws and policies in Australia and the UK, by Kerry Petersen, of La Trobe University, Australia.
29 November	Genius loci: locating genealogies on the family mantelpiece, by Rachel Hurley, of Cardiff University.

History. Comparative Early Modern Social and Cultural History Seminars will take place on Tuesdays in the Senior Parlour of Gonville and Caius College at 5 p.m. This year's theme is Appearances.

11 October	Meanings of appearances in early modern Europe, by Peter Burke, of Emmanuel College.
25 October	Sincerity or self-fashioning: the book of clothes of a sixteenth-century Fugger accountant, by Ulinka Rublack, of St John's College.
8 November	Art on the edge. Hair, hats, and hands in Renaissance Italy, by Evelyn Welch, of Queen Mary, University of London.
22 November	Calvin and Geneva's vile body, by Graeme Murdoch, of the University of Birmingham.

History and Economics. Meetings are on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. in the Seminar Room, CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane.

12 October	Al-e Ahmad's glimpses at the past: an intellectual's reflections on selected periods of Iranian history, by Anja Pistor-Hatam (Seminar für Orientalistik Islamwissenschaft, CAU Kiel).
26 October	Language and British left historians. From Thomas Carlyle to Edward Thompson, by Gareth Stedman Jones, of the Centre for History and Economics.
9 November	Moving moves: emotions and (forced) migration in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, by Maruska Svasek, of Queen's University, Belfast and the University of Oxford.
23 November	Hitler and the problem of American economic power, 1928-45, by Adam Tooze, of Jesus College.

History and Philosophy of Science. Departmental Seminars. Seminars are held on Thursdays at 4.30 p.m. in Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Free School Lane. Tea is available from 4.15 p.m. in Seminar Room 1.

20 October	Ontological surgery and the comparative politics of biotechnology, by Sheila Jasanoff, of Harvard University.
27 October	Ethics and heroics: can we write a history of French humanitarian medicine? by Bertrand Taithe, of the University of Manchester.
3 November	Are there really genes? Please yourselves! by Barry Barnes, of the University of Exeter.
10 November	The dissolution of the solid celestial spheres and Tycho Brahe's questionable indebtedness to Christoph Rothmann, by Miguel A. Granada, of the University of Barcelona.
17 November	Troubles with zombies, by David Papineau, of King's College London.
24 November	Realism about computation, by Mark Sprevak, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

The First Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine. Professor Helen King, of the University of Reading, will give a lecture entitled Women's bodies in sixteenth-century medicine: using the classical tradition, on 1 December at 4.30 p.m. in Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

History of Medicine. Seminars are held on Tuesdays at 5 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Tea is available from 4.40 p.m.

11 October	How cancer crossed the colour line: race and disease in twentieth-century America, by Keith Wailoo, of Rutgers University.
18 October	Medical history in perspective: Leeuwenhoek to Lister, by David Wootton, of the University of York.
25 October	Anatomical storytelling and the performance of medical identity in nineteenth-century America; or, the case of Dr Charles Knowlton (1800-50), an 'odd', body-snatching, 'atheistical' physician of Antebellum New England, by Michael Sappol, of the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
1 November	Sex and vegetables in the Hippocratic gynaecological treatises and attic comedies (fifth and fourth centuries BC), by Laurence Totelin, of the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London.
8 November	Cold War at Porton Down: informed consent in Britain's biological and chemical warfare experiments, by Ulf Schmidt and David Willcox, of the University of Kent.
15 November	Knowing the handwork: women and medical experimentation at the courts of early modern Germany, by Alisha Rankin, of Trinity College.
22 November	Cultures of speechlessness: scrambles amongst the Alps, 1800-1900, by Philipp Felsch, of the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna.
29 November	The doctor and the witches: Bartholomaeus Carrichter's 'On the Curing of Magical Illnesses' (1551), by Catherine Rider, of Christ's College.

Psy Studies: History of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Allied Sciences. Seminars are held fortnightly on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Tea is available from 4.40 p.m.

19 October	Magic lanterns of physiognomy: Rodolphe Töpffer and Duchenne de Boulogne on facial expression, by Stephanie Dupouy, of ENS, Paris.
2 November	Hypnosis and the mental geography of science, by Emese Lafferton, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
16 November	Trials of the unconscious: a sociological approach to experiences with psychoanalysis, by Nicolas Dodier, of EHESS, Paris.
30 November	History of the couch, by Lydia Marinelli, of the S. Freud Foundation, Vienna, and Andreas Mayer, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Criticism and Culture (formerly Psychoanalysis and the Humanities). Seminars are held fortnightly on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. in the Faculty of English, 9 West Road.

12 October	Rock-bottom rhetoric, by Neil Hertz, of Johns Hopkins University.
26 October	Phantasmagoria, by Marina Warner, of the University of Essex.
9 November	Squiggling, art, and psychoanalysis: Winnicott, Bion, Kristeva, by Janet Sayers, of the University of Kent.
23 November	The Cronus Complex: psychoanalytic myths of the future for boys and girls, by Rachel Bowlby, of University College London.

Cabinet of Natural History. Seminars are held on Mondays at 1 p.m. in Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

10 October	Military falcons, by Helen Macdonald, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
31 October	Splashing about in popularization: penguins, pelicans, and the common reader in mid-twentieth-century Britain, by Sophie Forgan, of the University of Teesside.
7 November	The Sumner Cave controversy revisited: provincialism, class, and the politics of colonial science, by Francis Lucian Reid, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
14 November	'The origin of species is an object of experimental investigation': de Vries, Oenothera, and the fate of the mutation theory, by Jim Endersby, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
21 November	Reading birdsong (with sidelong glances at radios, deafness, and war), by Greg Radick, of the University of Leeds.
28 November	The Duchess of Beaufort's Guava, 1692-1704, by Elizabeth J. Cole, of the Faculty of History.

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.

12 October	Investing in religion at Akhenaten's Amarna, by Barry Kemp.
26 October	Excavating a provincial capital of the Assyrian empire, by John MacGinnis.
9 November	Forager-farmer encounters in the Balkans: new field research in the Lepenski Vir culture zone, by Dusan Boric.
23 November	Exploring local identities in the Bronze Age Aegean: the Kastri Cemetery Project, by Laura Preston.

MRC Dunn Human Nutrition Unit. The following seminars will be held on Wednesdays 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).

2 November	Transport of folded proteins across the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane, by Professor Tracy Palmer, of the John Innes Centre, Norwich. Host: Judy Hirst.
16 November	Transcription regulation: a genomic network, by Dr Nicholas Luscombe, of the European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton. Host: Alan Robinson.
23 November	Proton translocation across membranes by transhydrogenase, by Professor J. Baz Jackson, of the University of Birmingham. Host: Judy Hirst.
30 November	Cyclin dependent kinases and cell cycle control, by Dr Tim Hunt FRS, of the Cancer Research UK Clare Hall Laboratories. Hosts: Graduate Student Society.

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. The complete programme for 2005-06 can be viewed at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/greek/news/mgls.html. Copies may also be obtained from the Secretary, Department of Other Languages, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages (e-mail moderngreek@mml.cam.ac.uk).

13 October	Representations of Achilles in medieval and early modern Greek literature, by Dr Vicky Panagiotopoulou-Doulavera, of the University of New South Wales.
27 October	Ancient sites, modern eyesores? The transformation of the city of Athens in English-language accounts (c. 1945-2005), by Dr David Wills.
10 November	Fictions of continuity: time in lieu of place in Cavafy's poetry, by Professor Michalis Chryssanthopoulos, of the University of Thessaloniki.
17 November	Transcending politics: symbolism, allegory, and censorship in Greek fiction, by Professor Dimitris Tziovas, of the University of Birmingham.

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.

14 October	Witchcraft and the limits of mass mediation in Malawi, by Dr Harri Englund, of the Department of Social Anthropology.
21 October	Histories and mourning, by Dr Paul Connerton, of Gonville and Caius College.
28 October	Exploring female Muslim subjectivities: fashion and cinematic dance in Kerala, South India, by Dr Caroline Osella, of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
4 November	Pharmaceutical citizenship: antidepressants in urban India, by Dr Stefan Ecks, of the University of Edinburgh.
11 November	Telling the sheep from the goats: redistribution and recognition in Northern India, by Dr Kriti Kapila, of the Department of Social Anthropology.
18 November	The Pope in Mexico: syncretism in public ritual, by Dr Andrew Beatty, of Brunel University.
25 November	From peerless pirs to bold bauleys: the history of Sundarbans tiger-charmers, by Dr Annu Jalais, of the London School of Economics and Political Science.