The following lectures, seminars, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:
East Asia Institute. Professor Susan Naquin, of Princeton University, will give a lecture entitled Making Beijing, 1600-1860, at the East Asia Institute, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Room 9, on 23 February at 4 p.m.
Education. 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 Vilette Jennings (e-mail vvj20@cam.ac.uk).
| 2 March | Mute but not blind: how South African township youth understand structural injustice, by Ms Sharlene Swartz, of the Faculty of Education. |
| 9 March | 'A little learning'? Familiar conversation and girls' education in the eighteenth century, by Professor Michelle Cohen, of Richmond University. |
A Cambridge Mathematics Education Colloquium will take place on 6 March at 5.30 p.m. in Room 205 of the Mary Allan Building, Homerton site, Hills Road. Mr Zsolt Lavicza, of the Faculty of Education, will speak on A comparative investigation of the integration of computer algebra systems into university mathematics teachings. Enquiries should be directed to Tim Rowland (e-mail tr202@cam.ac.uk).
A Second Language Education Group Seminar will take place on 7 March at 5 p.m. in Room 2S4 of the New Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road. Ms Anne Ife, of Anglia Ruskin University, will speak on Lingua franca: English as mediator language in the L3 classroom. Enquiries should be directed to Edith Esch (e-mail eme10@cam.ac.uk).
Words about Pictures: Pictures about Words Seminars (jointly run by the Faculty of Education and Anglia Ruskin University School of Art) will take place on Wednesdays between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. in Room 1S3 of the New Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road. Enquiries should be directed to Morag Styles (e-mail ms104@cam.ac.uk).
| 8 March | The theatre of the page: ideas and interpretation, by Mr Quentin Blake, distinguished artist and first Children's Laureate (1999-2001). |
| 22 March | Dimensions of visual literacy - children talking, drawing, and thinking about picture books, by Ms Kate Noble, of the Faculty of Education. |
An Early Years and Primary Education Seminar will take place on 14 March, between 5 p.m. and 6.30 p.m., in Room G4 of the New Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road. Professor Becky Francis, of Roehampton University, will speak on A perfect match? Primary pupils' and teachers' views of the impact of matching educators and learners by gender. Enquiries should be directed to Diane Reay (e-mail dr311@cam.ac.uk).
An Education and Psychology Seminar will take place on 15 March at 4.30 p.m. in Room GS3 of the New Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road. Professor Kathleen E. Metz, Associate Professor of Cognition and Development at the University of California, Berkeley, will speak on Young children's scientific inquiry: disentangling mutable from immutable developmental constraints. Enquiries should be directed to Usha Goswami (e-mail ucg10@cam.ac.uk).
Engineering. The third lecture of the fourth Annual Lecture Series in Sustainable Development will take place on 22 February in Lecture Room 0 of the Department of Engineering at 5.30 p.m. for 6 p.m. The lecture, entitled A sustainable climate for the future: applying engineering skills to the challenge of climate change, will be given by Tom Delay, Chief Executive of the Carbon Trust.
Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics. Professor G. Henniart, of the University of Paris, Orsay, will give the Fifty-third Kuwait Foundation Lecture entitled Recent progress on Langlands functoriality: inner forms of GL(N), at 5 p.m. on 23 February, in the Wolfson Room, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road (entrance on Clarkson Road before the Isaac Newton Institute).