The following lectures, seminars, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:
Criminology. On 27 October, Professor Ian Loader, Director of Criminology and Professor of Criminology, University of Oxford, Centre for Criminology, and Fellow of All Souls College, will give a lecture entitled Civilizing security. The lecture will be held at the Institute of Criminology (Seminar Room B3) and will start at 5.30 p.m.
Engineering. Mechanics Colloquia will be held at 2.30 p.m. on Fridays in Lecture Room 6, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street.
| 21 October | Flow localization and damage in metals under high-strain rate conditions, by Professor Alain Molinari, Institut Supérieur de Génie Mécanique et Productique, Université de Metz. |
| 11 November | The Gothic ribbed vault, by Professor Jacques Heyman, of the Department of Engineering. |
Gender Studies. Gender Theory and Methodology Seminars will take place on Thursdays in Seminar Room G, 17 Mill Lane, between 1 p.m. and 2.30 p.m.
| 27 October | 'Healthy children, healthy nation': gender, positive eugenics, and fitter families, by Natalia Gerodetti, of the University of Lausanne. |
| 1 December | Sutured selves, queer connections: intimacy at the cutting edge of individualization, by Sasha Roseneil, of the University of Leeds. |
On 15 November, Brenda Maddox will be in conversation about her book, Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, with Juliet Mitchell. This will take place in the Upper Hall, Jesus College, between 1 p.m. and 2.30 p.m.
Please also note the start of the new Gender Research Skills Programme (Lent Term 2006). Please see http://www.gender.cam.ac.uk/postgrad.html for a full programme.
Geography. Seminars will be held at 4.15 p.m. on Thursdays in the Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site, as follows:
| 13 October | Selection environments and the growth of hi-technology firms: a comparative analysis of Cambridge (UK) and Bangalore (India), by Dr Suma Athreye, of the Open University. |
| 27 October | Ambient power: Potsdamer Platz and the seductive logic of public space, by Professor John Allen, of the Open University. |
| 10 November | A time for decision: the problem of integrating social and scientific knowledge in the management of radioactive waste, by Professor Andy Blowers, of the Open University. |
| 17 November | Destroying an industry, remaking places: British coalfields after coal, by Professor Ray Hudson, of the University of Durham. |
| 24 November | Rethinking agency in collective action, by Dr Frances Cleaver, of the Bradford Centre for International Development. |
| 1 December | Development, disaster, and dolphins: a trip down the Lower Ganges, by Professor Graham Chapman, of the University of Lancaster. |
German. Open Lecture Series: Landmarks in German women's writing. Lectures will be given on Thursdays at 5 p.m. in the Sidgwick Avenue Lecture Block, Room 7.
| 13 October | The Enlightenment: Sophie von La Roche, by Dr Kevin Hilliard, of St Peter's College, Oxford. |
| 20 October | Romanticism: Bettine von Arnim, by Dr Ursula Hudson-Wiedenmann. |
| 27 October | Biedermeier: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, by Professor Roger Paulin, of Trinity College. |
| 3 November | The early twentieth century: Else Lasker-Schüler, by Dr Andrew Webber, of Churchill College. |
| 10 November | The Weimar period: Irmgard Keun, by Dr Andrea Capovilla. |
| 17 November | Modern Austria: Ingeborg Bachmann, by Dr Stephanie Bird, of University College, London. |
| 24 November | Modern Germany: Christa Wolf, by Dr Anita Bunyan, of Gonville and Caius College. |
Cambridge group for the History of Population and Social Structure. Research seminars will be held at 5 p.m. on Mondays in Room 101, Sir William Hardy Building, Department of Geography, Downing Place.
| 17 October | English county population totals in the later eighteenth century, by Professor Sir Tony Wrigley, of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. |
| 31 October | Ancient and early modern mortality: experience and understanding, by Professor Robert Woods, of the University of Liverpool and All Souls College, Oxford. |
| 14 November | The nature and extent of occupational change in two English market towns, 1600-1830, by Dr Peter Kitson of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, and Downing College. |
| 28 November | English mortality trends, 1541-1830: an interpretation, by Dr John Landers, Principal of Hertford College, Oxford. |
| 5 December | Towards a family reconstitution of Clerkenwell parish registers c. 1550-1750, by Ms Gill Newton, of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. |
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.
| 18 October | Contemporary Inner Mongolian Buddhism, by Jonathan Mair, of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit. |
| 1 November | School versus Nomadism? The influence of educational aspirations on migration in Mongolia, by Ines Stolpe, of Humboldt-University Berlin. |
| 15 November | The PRC official discourse on Mongolia since 1990, by Natalia Lissenkova, of the University of Leeds. |
| 29 November | Life lived over. When a woman becomes a dynasty: the Samding Dorje Phagmo of Tibet, by Hildegard Diemberger, of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit. |
Isaac Newton Institute. The Rothschild Visiting Professor, Martin Golubitsky, of the University of Houston, will give a seminar at 5 p.m., on 24 October, entitled Pattern formation in coupled systems. 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.
Oriental Studies. Japan Centre Seminars. Seminars are held in the Sorimachi Memorial Room (Room 13) of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, at 2 p.m. on Mondays. For further information, please contact Lucy North (tel. 01223 335100, e-mail lcn23@cam.ac.uk).
| 17 October | Writing the female subject in postwar literature: infanticide in Enchi Fumiko's 'Onnamen' (Masks), by Dr Linda Flores, of the University of Oxford. |
| 24 October | Korean-Japanese relations from antiquity to the twenty-first century, by Dr Jay Lewis, of the University of Oxford. |
| 31 October | The outside of Buddhism: mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion in Japanese Buddhist soteriology, by Dr Fabio Rambelli, of the University of Sapporo. |
| 7 November | The ends of development: the uses of expos, by Dr Angus Lockyer, of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. |
| 14 November | The Japanese work organization: revolution, readjustment, or more of the same? by Dr George Olcott, of the Judge Business School. |
| 21 November | The development of the medieval Ryukuan state, by Dr Tom Nelson, of the University of Oxford. |
| 28 November | The taste for hybridism in the texts of early Tokugawa Japan, by Dr Laura Moretti, of the University of Venice. |
Plant Sciences. Seminars will take place on Thursdays at 4 p.m. in the Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Street.
| 13 October | Molecular evolution of C4 photosynthesis - a case study with the genus Flaveria, by Professor Peter Westhoff, of the University of Düsseldorf. |
| 20 October | Host compatability factors for potyvirus infection, by Professor Andy Maule, of the John Innes Centre. |
| 3 November | Metal hyperaccumulation in plants: molecular and ecological perspectives, by Professor Andrew Smith, of the University of Oxford. |
| 10 November | Construction and evolution of circadian clocks, by Professor Steve Kay, of the Scripps Institute. |
| 17 November | Grass-tree interactions and sustainable grazing strategies for African savannas, by Professor Steven Higgins, of the University of Munich. |
| 24 November | Regulation of seed reserve mobilization and germination in Arabidopsis, by Professor Ian Graham, of the University of York. |
Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Professor Simon Donaldson, of Imperial College London, will give the Fiftieth Kuwait Foundation Lecture entitled Existence theorems and numerical solutions in complex differential geometry, at 5 p.m. on 25 October, in the Wolfson Room, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road (entrance on Clarkson Road before the Isaac Newton Institute).
Scott Polar Research Institute. Lectures will be held at 8 p.m. (doors open at 7.30 p.m.) on Saturdays in the Main Lecture Theatre, Scott Polar Research Institute, Lensfield Road, unless otherwise stated.
| 15 October | Nobu Shirase's Antarctic expedition, 1910-12, by Hilary Shibata. |
| 29 October | Herbert Ponting, Antarctic camera artist, by Bob Headland. |
| 12 November | Antarctic sites outside the Antarctic: memorials, statues, houses, graves, and the occasional pub, by Robert Stephenson (5 p.m. Doors open at 4.30 p.m.). |
| 26 November | The forbidden plateau, British Army expedition, 2004, by Richard Pattison. |
On 19 October, a Nansen Seminar in celebration of 100 years of Norwegian independence will take place. Please contact enquiries@spri.cam.ac.uk for further details.