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:

Slade Lectures. The Slade Lectures for 2006 will be given by Ian Christie, FBA, of Birkbeck College, under the title 'The Cinema has not yet been invented!' Film as the art of the future, c.1880-2000, at 5 p.m. on Tuesdays, in the Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

24 January Dream and reality: the matrix of invention
31 January The struggle for legitimacy, 1907-17
7 February Competing avant-gardes of the 1920s
14 February Decoding reality: film as document
21 February Inner vision: film as personal expression
28 February Universal theatre: art cinema in the 1960s
7 March Film as modernist art: minimalism and abstraction
14 March Digital delight: a world of images?

American History. The following open seminars will be given at 5 p.m., on Mondays, in the Latimer Room, Clare College.

23 January Segregation and the second removal of southern Indians, by Theda Perdue, of the University of Georgia.
30 January 'A business that is a credit to the womanhood of our race': women, work, and the Madam Walker Manufacturing Company, by Kate Dossett, of the University of Leeds.
6 February Co-existing with the other red peril: Ronald Reagan and the budget deficit, by Iwan Morgan, of the Institute for the Study of the Americas.
13 February 'Becoming international again': C. Wright Mills and the global New Left, by Daniel Geary, of the University of Nottingham.
20 February A southern liberal fights for survival: Senator Lister Hill and the World War II conservative backlash, by Samuel Webb, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
27 February Freedom writer: the life and letters of Virginia Durr, by Patricia Sullivan, of the University of South Carolina, and Lucy Hackney.
6 March Sericulture on British America's southern frontier, by Ben Marsh, of the University of Stirling.
13 March The Ford/Carter years, by Dominic Sandbrook, of the Rothermere Institute.

Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CRASSH). Film Seminars will take place on Thursdays at 5 p.m. for 5.15 p.m., in the Seminar Room at CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane.

19 January Close analysis in practice: east and west in the city in 'Piccadilly' (E. A. Dupont, 1929). Discussion and close analysis session led by Ian Christie, of Birkbeck College.
2 February Paul Ryan of the Ciné Lumière (actor, commentator, editor of Lindsay Anderson's letters) and guest.
16 February Close analysis in practice: Robert Flaherty's 'Nanook of the North - the Sequel'. Discussion and close analysis session led by Alan Marcus, of the University of Manchester.
2 March Cinema and the senses. Discussion led by Georgina Evans, of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages.

CRASSH Conversation Work-In-Progress Seminars will take place on Mondays at 1 p.m. in the Seminar Room at CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane.

23 January Investigating Aristotelian logic, by Dr Cornelia Schoeck and Dr Henrik Lagerlund, of CRASSH.
30 January The pragmatic (in)adequacy of cognitive theories of autism, by Dr Louise Cummings, of Nottingham Trent University.
6 February Conversation with the self, by Professor Denise Riley, of the University of East Anglia.
13 February Conversation and exile in literary modernism, by Dr James Rodgers, of Lawrence Technological University, USA.
20 February Cultural politics in Victorian England: The Cowper-Temples and their circle, by Professor Michael Roberts, of Macquarie University, Australia.
27 February Profane conversation: wit and blasphemy in seventeenth-century England, by Professor John Spurr, of the University of Swansea.
13 March Conversations between nationalism and cosmopolitanism: Ireland in the early twentieth century, by Dr Gerry Kearns, of the Department of Geography.

Education. Second Language Education Group Seminars will take place at 5 p.m. in the New Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road. Enquiries should be directed to Edith Esch (e-mail eme10@cam.ac.uk).

24 January Foreign language listening as a strategic activity, by John Field, of the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics.
30 January Prior knowledge, comprehension, and the second language, by Ernesto Macaro, of the University of Oxford.
6 February Exploring language learning through communication: how far is task repetition repetition? by Martin Bygate, of Lancaster University.

A seminar will take place in association with the Cambridge Branch of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain, on 24 January at 5.30 p.m. in Room GS3 of the New Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road. David Bridges will speak on The disciplines and discipline of educational research. Enquiries should be directed to Janet Gibson (e-mail jg323@cam.ac.uk).

A seminar will take place on 25 January at 5 p.m. in the New Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road. Paul Goalen, of the Faculty of Education, will speak on Music, research, and dissemination: processes and production. Enquiries should be directed to Paul Goalen (e-mail pspg2@cam.ac.uk).

A Mathematics Education Colloquium will take place on 30 January at 5.30 p.m. in Room 205 of the Mary Allan Building, Homerton Site, Hills Road. Orit Zaslavsky, of the Technio-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, will speak on Teachers' choice and use of mathematical examples. Enquiries should be directed to Tim Rowland (e-mail tr202@cam.ac.uk).

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 the seminar office (e-mail educsecb@hermes.cam.ac.uk).

2 February A central role for local government? The example of late Victorian Britain, by Simon Szreter, of the Faculty of History.
23 February The Nuffield Review of 14-19 education and training: the relevance of John Dewey, by Richard Pring, of the University of Oxford.

A Spirituality in Arts Education seminar will take place on 9 February between 5 p.m. and 6.30 p.m. in Room GS5 of the New Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road. Michael Bonnett will be speaking on Retrieving nature: education for a post-Humanist age. Enquiries should be directed to Pam Burnard (e-mail pab61@cam.ac.uk).

An Education and Psychology Seminar will take place on 22 February at 4.30 p.m. in the New Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road. Cintia Rodriguez, of the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid and Portsmouth University will speak on Use of objects, communication, and signs: the triadic basis of early cognitive development. Enquiries should be directed to Usha Goswami (e-mail ucg10@cam.ac.uk).

A Words about Pictures: Pictures about Words Seminar (jointly run by the Faculty of Education and Anglia Ruskin University School of Art) will take place on 22 February between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. in Room 1S3 of the New Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road. Eve Bearne, Past President UKLA, Assistant Director of Research, Homerton College will speak on Children's production of multimodal texts: on screen and paper. Enquiries should be directed to Morag Styles (e-mail ms104@cam.ac.uk).

Centre for Family Research. Lunch-time seminars will be held on Tuesdays, in Room 606, Centre for Family Research, Free School Lane. Presentations begin promptly at 1 p.m. and will end at 2 p.m.

17 January The decision to decline to participate in a clinical trial - does a double standard exist?, by Claire Snowdon, of the Centre for Family Research.
31 January Helping children become competent informants in forensic situations, by Michael Lamb, of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.
14 February Contemporary ethics and social determinants of health, by Sridhar Venkatapuram, of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.
28 February Constructing solidarity among men with same-sex desire: a comparison between Xhosa and Afrikaner/English men in Cape Town, South Africa, by Andy Tucker, of the Department of Geography.
14 March Parenting and child development in embryo donation families, by Fiona MacCallum, of the Department of Psychology, University of Warwick.

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.

26 January Conformity, humour, and parody: handwritten newspapers from an exiles' commune, 1938-43, by Dr Margaret Kenna, of the University of Wales Swansea.
9 February What price success? The population exchange of 1923 as a political and moral conundrum, by Bruce Clark, of The Economist.
23 February Author and readers: the making of the early modern Greek 'Physiologos', by Professor Ulrich Moennig, of the University of Hamburg.
2 March Modern Greek variations on the myth of Helen, by Dr Anastasia Markomihelaki-Mintzas.

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

25 January 'Communism' in the Republic and Laws: from Plato to Plethon, by Peter Garnsey, of Jesus College.
8 February The last fish? A historical perspective on the exploitation of the North Sea, by Poul Holm, of the University of Southern Denmark and Churchill College.
22 February Europe after the revolutions of 1848, by Christopher Clark, of St Catharine's College.
8 March Economics and culture in the late French Enlightenment, by Lianna Vardi, of the University of Buffalo, New York.

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.

19 January Berkeley's 'Siris': light, fire, and spirit, by Timo Airaksinen, of the University of Helsinki.
26 January Wittgenstein, ethics, and moral certainty, by Nigel Pleasants, of the University of Exeter.
2 February The indoors and the forging of climatological citizenship during the medical Enlightenment, by Vladimir Jankovic, of the University of Manchester.
9 February Realistic minimalism and minimal realism, by Simon Blackburn, of the Faculty of Philosophy.
16 February Commonsense psychology and interpersonal interaction, by Matthew Ratcliffe, of Durham University.
23 February What's in a name? Paracelsians, Paracelsianism, and the imagination, by Bruce Moran, of the University of Nevada.
2 March On the pathological, by Rachel Cooper, of Lancaster University.
9 March Invisible mathematicians: Thomas Harriot and John Pell, by Jacqueline Stedall, of the Queen's College, Oxford.

From Generation to Reproduction. These seminars, which are funded by our Wellcome Trust enhancement award in the history of medicine, will be a forum for discussion of how, since 1500, our world of reproductive practices and controversy was created. The seminars are held on Tuesdays at 5 p.m. in Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Tea is available from 4.40 in Seminar Room 1.

24 January Stillbirth registration and conceptions of the deadborn, c.1900-1950, by Gayle Davis, of the University of Glasgow.
31 January Sex, age, and the female reproductive body in early modern British medicine, by Wendy Churchill, of the Wellcome Centre at University College London.
7 February Is law important? Making sense of reproductive technologies in Germany and Britain - a discourse analysis, by Charlotte Augst, of the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority.
14 February The germ is the life and the life is the germ: Louis Pasteur's explanation of infectious diseases and his biological philosophy, by Bernardino Fantini, of the University of Geneva and the University of Lausanne.

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.

21 February Genealogy and human heredity around 1900, by Bernd Gausemeier, of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.
28 February What were surgical tracts about? The writings of an ordinary Italian surgeon in the early eighteenth century, by Sandra Cavallo, of Royal Holloway, University of London.
7 March Inventing the 'Magyar': ethnography, physical anthropology, and eugenics in Hungary around 1900, by Emese Lafferton, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
14 March The nightmare: from demon to dream, c.700-1840, by Michael Macdonald, of the University of Michigan.

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.

1 February Psychoanalysis in dark times: Leon Trotsky and his daughter, by Alexander Etkind, of the Department of Slavonic Studies.
15 February 'In the world of the mad': patients' testimonies and the rise of anti-psychiatry in nineteenth-century France, by Aude Fauvel, of EHESS, Paris.
1 March 'Microbes of the mind': moral contagion in late Imperial Russia, by Daniel Beer, of Royal Holloway, University of London.
15 March Sex, subjectivity, and agency: lessons from the sociology of transsexualism, by Patricia Soley Beltran, of the University Ramon Llull, Barcelona.

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

25 January Narcissism: an adolescent disorder? by Margot Waddell, of the Tavistock Clinic and the British Psycho-Analytic Society.
8 February What is a theorist? by Irit Rogoff, of Goldsmiths College, London.
22 February Bibliophilia, by Cora Kaplan, of Queen Mary, London.
8 March The visual world of French theory, by Sarah Wilson, of the Courtauld Institute, 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.

23 January Erudition and geology: the Temple of Serapis revisited, by Ernst Hamm, of York University, Canada.
30 January Splashing about in popularization: Penguins, Pelicans, and the common reader in mid-twentieth-century Britain, by Sophie Forgan, of the University of Teesside and the Captain Cook Memorial Museum.
6 February A natural history of machines: John Wilkins' mathematical magic, by Natalie Kaoukji, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
13 February Romantic science and a passion for botanical design: the life and garden of Izabela Czartoryska, by Margaret Olszewski, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
20 February Eating the two-legged sheep: man, nature, and analogy in early modern Chinese natural history, by Carla Nappi, of Princeton University and the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge.
27 February Hotbeds and cool fruits: the unnatural cultivation of the eighteenth-century cucumber, by Anne Secord, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
6 March Fabricating the 'Origin', by David Kohn, of Drew University, Madison.
13 March Darwin and dogs, by David Allan Feller, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Professor P. Ozsvath, of Columbia University, will give the Fifty-first Kuwait Foundation Lecture, entitled Holomorphic disks and low-dimensional topology, at 5 p.m. on 24 January, in the Wolfson Room, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road (entrance on Clarkson Road before the Isaac Newton Institute).