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:

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Michaelmas Public Lecture Series. Lectures will take place in the Little Hall, Sidgwick Site, on Thursdays at 5 p.m.

11 October The Qin empire and its achievement, by Dr Michael Loewe, of Clare Hall.
18 October The First Emperor exhibition at the British Museum, by Ms Jane Portal, of the British Museum.
25 October Emperor and subject in China, by Dr Joseph McDermott, of the Department of East Asian Studies.
1 November Writing, script, and empire in early China, by Professor Roel Sterckx, of the Department of East Asian Studies.
8 November Calling back the soul: tombs and death ritual in the early Chinese empires, by Dr Thomas Jansen, of the Department of East Asian Studies.
15 November Tombs after the unification of China, by Dr James Lin, of the Fitzwilliam Museum.
22 November Celestial software: numbers and the power of the early Chinese empire, by Dr Christopher Cullen, of the Needham Research Institute.

Interdisciplinary Asian Studies Seminar Series. Seminars take place on Mondays at 5 p.m., in the Common Room, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (formerly Oriental Studies), Sidgwick Avenue.

8 October Personalized choices: redrawing the boundaries of families and everyday life under neoliberal reform in Japan, by Dr Hiroko Takeda, of the University of Sheffield.
15 October Towards a history of natural disasters in China: the case of Linfen county (Shanxi), by Dr Andrea Janku, of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
22 October Chinese printed illustrations around 1600: additional notes on Xixiang ji and Pipa ji, by Dr Michela Bussotti, EFEO, French School of Oriental Studies in Paris.
29 October Contesting good taste, shaping Japanese bodies: the department store MITSUKOSHI and modern identities, by Professor Dr Steffi Richter, of the University of Leipzig.
5 November Reactionary dissent in late warring states China: situating the 'primitivist' layer in Laozi and Zhuangzi, by Dr Antonello Palumbo, of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
12 November Chinese media concepts in a historical perspective, by Professor Natascha Gentz, of the University of Edinburgh.
19 November Taiwan's Mainlanders' identity crisis and adaptation under the presidency of Chen Shui-bian, by Dr Stephane Corcuff, of the University of Lyons, France.
26 November The First Emperor's tomb and Sima Qian - an archaeological inquiry, by Dr Lukas Nickel, of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Divinity. Henry Martyn Centre. The Henry Martyn Michaelmas Term Seminars 2007 will take place at Westminster College on Thursdays at 2.15 p.m. as follows:

18 October The place of the miraculous in the first Jesuit mission to China (1582-1610), by Dr Mary Laven, of Jesus College.
8 November Salaam on Islam: waging peace on Muslims in the spirit of Christ, by Revd Paul-Gordon Chandler, of the US Episcopal Church, Cairo, Egypt.
15 November J. H. Ritson, the World Missionary Conference, and the origins of the Continuation Committee, by Dr Brian Stanley, Director of the Henry Martyn Centre. (This is the tenth in a series of termly seminars in association with the Methodist Missionary Society history project.)
22 November Liberating Germany: North American evangelical missions to West Germany in the wake of World War II, by James Enns, of St Edmund's College.

Further information may be obtained from Polly Keen, Henry Martyn Centre, Westminster College (tel. 01223 741088, e-mail pk262@cam.ac.uk), or from the website at http://www.martynmission.cam.ac.uk/.

Economics. The Marshall Lectures 2007-08. Professor Justin Y. Lin, of Peking University, will deliver two lectures, entitled Development strategy, institutions, and economic performance in less developed countries, in the Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, at 5 p.m. on 31 October and 1 November 2007. Professor Lin will hold a seminar in the Hall immediately after the second lecture.

English. Judith E. Wilson Lecture. Professor Edith Hall, of Royal Holloway, University of London, will give a lecture entitled Medea, murder, and metaphysics at 5 p.m. on 10 October in the Little Hall, Sidgwick Site. The lecture will be followed by a reception at the Faculty of English.

German. Professor Nicholas Boyle, Schröder Professor of German, will give his Inaugural Lecture, entitled The bourgeois and the official: a theme in German literary history, at 5 p.m. on 18 October, in the Sir Humphrey Cripps Theatre, Cripps Court, Magdalene College. The lecture will be followed by a reception for those attending in the Denis Murphy Gallery, Cripps Court.

History. Comparative Social and Cultural History Seminars are held fortnightly in the Senior Parlour, Gonville Court, Gonville and Caius College on Tuesdays at 8.30 p.m. Further information may be obtained from Margo Kirk in the Faculty of History (e-mail mmk31@cam.ac.uk).

9 October Beyond status? The changing history of consumption, by Peter Burke, of Emmanuel College.
23 October Health, work, and the diet of the labouring poor in early modern England, by Craig Muldrew, of Queens' College.
6 November 'So Long as it's not Black': printed textiles and Eurasian exchange in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, by Giorgio Riello, of the University of Warwick.
20 November Liqueurs, luxury, and chemical legitimacy in eighteenth-century Paris, by Emma Spary, of the Wellcome Institute.

Centre for History and Economics. Meetings take place on Wednesdays, at 5 p.m., in the Chetwode Room, Trinity Hall, Trinity Lane. Please note the change of venue.

31 October Radicalism and the extra-European world: the case of Marx, by Gareth Stedman Jones, of the Centre for History and Economics.
14 November Edgeworth and Utilitarianism, by Richard Tuck, of Harvard University.
28 November The race and racism of the late-Victorian Irish, by Jennifer Regan, of Queen's University Belfast.

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 p.m. in Seminar Room 1.

18 October Sybil in particulars and generals: inductive logic and Victorian narrative, by Alice Jenkins, of the University of Glasgow and the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH).
25 October Practical reasoning and inference, by Jonathan Dancy, of the University of Reading and the University of Texas at Austin.
1 November Panacea's daughters: gentlewomen healers and experiential knowledge in early modern Germany, by Alisha Rankin, of Trinity College.
8 November Are there Lewis conventions? by Francesco Guala, of the University of Exeter.
15 November 'A year of resurrection, a year of grotesque horror': heart transplants and the media in 1968, by Ayesha Nathoo, of Clare Hall.
22 November Spinoza on law and sovereignty, by Susan James, of Birkbeck, University of London.

Third Cambridge Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine. Simon Szreter, of St John's College, will give a lecture entitled Proving a negative? How important was sexual abstinence during the fertility decline? on 29 November 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.

9 October Fraud, sorcery, and medicine in the 1540s: the double life of Gregory Wisdom, by Alec Ryrie, of Durham University.
16 October How psychology lost its drive: the establishment of child psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, 1923-1938, by Bonnie Evans, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
30 October Interrogating the prehistory of Caesarean section, by Adrian Wilson, of the University of Leeds.
6 November Global prescriptions, local adaptations: South Asia, the WHO, and the global programme to eradicate smallpox, by Sanjoy Battacharya, of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London.
20 November Through the eyes of a seventeenth-century physician: reassessing John Webster, by Lindsey Fitzharris, of the University of Oxford.
27 November The science of self-destruction: animal suicide and the human condition, by Duncan Wilson, of the University of Manchester.

From Generation to Reproduction. These seminars, which are funded by our Wellcome enhancement award in the history of medicine, 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.

23 October Do females have a choice? Darwin, the breeders, and the problem of female choice, by Evelleen Richards, of the University of Sydney.
13 November Questioning the images of life before birth: Lennart Nilsson's fetal photographs in public debate, by Solveig Jülich, of Stockholm University.

Psy Studies: History of Psychiatry, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Allied Sciences. Seminars are held 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.

17 October Margaret Mead amongst the natives of Great Britain, by Peter Mandler, of the Faculty of History.
31 October 1919: psychology and psychoanalysis, Cambridge and London, by John Forrester, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
14 November The discomforting past of peptic ulcer: histories of psychosomatic medicine and H. pylori, by Katherine Angel, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
28 November 'Out of the shadows': Alexander Mitscherlich and psychoanalysis in Germany after 1945, by Martin Dehli.

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

8 October 'Objects, images, books'. Networks of validation in mid-nineteenth-century geology: Italy, France, England, by Pietro Corsi, of the University of Oxford.
15 October Hippocratic bodies: Castas and temperament in the New Spain, by Carlos López Beltrán, of Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
29 October 'Peripheral vision': science and Creole patriotism in eighteenth-century Spanish America, by Helen Cowie, of the University of Warwick.
5 November Practice and technique in the twentieth-century natural history museum, by Sam Alberti, of Manchester Museum.
12 November 'Ecological reconnaissance': expert visitors to Northern Rhodesia in the 1950s, by Lawrence Dritsas, of the University of Edinburgh.
19 November The hunter's gaze: establishing a 'period eye' in Charles Darwin's scientific methodology, by David Allan Feller, of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
26 November Animals in medical experiments in the Middle Ages, by Kathleen Walker-Meikle, of University College London.

McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. A further series of informal lunch-time seminars will be held on Wednesdays at 1.15 p.m. in the seminar room on the ground floor of the McDonald Institute Courtyard Building on the Downing Site.

10 October The cultural transmission of Great Basin projectile point technology: an experimental simulation, by Alex Mesoudi.
17 October Problems of Neolithic-Bronze Age land-use recognition in the lower Benta valley of Hungary, by Charly French.
24 October In the footsteps of Charles McBurney: the Haua Fteah, Libyan Cyrenaica, 2007, by Graeme Barker.
31 October Postpalatial transformations: tradition and innovation in Late Bronze Age Cretan ritual, by Camilla Briault.
7 November Rocks, rhombes, and racleurs: beyond piped music in the Palaeolithic, by Iain Morley.
14 November Eruption, abandonment, and reoccupation: Bayesian approaches to assessing volcanic disasters and human history, by Cameron Petrie.
28 November Rounding up the usual suspects: what caused the Viking Age?, by James Barrett.

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 2007-08 can be viewed at http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/greek/news/. Copies may also be obtained from the Secretary, Modern Greek Section, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages (e-mail moderngreek@mml.cam.ac.uk).

18 October Dismantling the Millet: religion and national identity in contemporary Greece, by Professor Renée Hirschon, of St Peter's College, Oxford.
25 October A language in the image of the nation: language and national identity in Greece since the eighteenth century, by Professor Peter Mackridge, of St Cross College, Oxford.
8 November Kazantzakis the Cretan: versions of the Minoan past from the author of Zorba the Greek, by Professor Roderick Beaton, of King's College London.
22 November Britain and the ambiguity of Greek sovereignty since 1832, by Professor Robert Holland, of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London.

Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit. The following research seminars will take place on Tuesdays from 4.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the seminar room, the Mond Building, Free School Lane.

9 October Mongolia: the decay of democracy 2004-08, by Alan Sanders, former Lecturer in Mongolian Studies (SOAS), Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists, London.
23 October Ngo tsha: Tibetan shame and hierarchical sociality in the Indian diaspora, by Timm Lau, of the Department of Social Anthropology.
6 November Mining on the Steppe: negotiating wealth and envy in Mongolia, by Mette High, of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit.

Isaac Newton Institute. The Rothschild Visiting Professor, David Gross, 2004 Nobel Laureate in Physics, of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, will give a seminar at 5 p.m., on 8 October 2007, entitled The coming revolutions in fundamental physics. 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.

Plant Sciences. Seminars take place on Thursdays at 4 p.m. in the Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site. Further information is available on the website at http://www.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/seminars/.

4 October Green light effects on plant growth and development, by Professor Kevin Folta, of the University of Florida.
11 October Biogenesis and regulation of the photosynthetic apparatus, by Professor Jean-David Rochaix, of the University of Geneva.
18 October Community assembly and phylogenies in tropical forest trees, by Dr Jérôme Chave, of the Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse.
25 October Twenty-first century crop science man, by Professor Andy Greenland, of the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB), Cambridge.
1 November Asking the plant about what's important in plant-herbivore interactions, by Professor Ian T. Baldwin, of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena.
8 November Genome- and species-wide analysis of sequence variation and its functional consequences, by Professor Detlef Weigel, of the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen.
15 November Cell-to-cell transport of PVX involves novel features of the endomembrane network, by Professor Jeanmarie Verchot Lubicz, of Oklahoma State University.
22 November Epigenetic asymmetry in plant gametes, by Dr Jose Gutierrez-Marcos, of the University of Warwick.

Slavonic Studies. The Fifth Dame Elizabeth Hill Memorial Lecture. Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, will give a lecture entitled The icon and the mouse: sacrilege and revelation in Dostoevskii, at 5 p.m. on 15 November in the Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site.

Social Anthropology. Senior Seminars take place on Fridays at 5 p.m. in Seminar Room G2, Department of Social Anthropology, Free School Lane. The common room (G1 ground floor) will be available for tea from 4 p.m. onwards.

12 October Excerpts from 'an empathetic anthropology': what we can still learn from indigenous Amazonian societies, by Professor George Mentore, of the University of Virginia.
19 October Worldly anthropology: when the subject is Middle Eastern women, by Professor Lila Abu-Lughod, of Columbia University.
26 October Transversal shamanism: form and force in Amazonian cosmopolitics, by Professor Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
2 November The new politics of female circumcision in Kenya, by Professor Henrietta Moore, of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
9 November Histories and mourning, by Dr Paul Connerton, of the Department of Social Anthropology.
16 November From the mystical to the molecular: modernity, martial arts, and agency in Java, by Dr Lee Wilson, of the Department of Social Anthropology.
23 November Indigenous archaeologies and the Greek state, by Professor Charles Stewart, of University College London.