The following lectures, seminars, etc. will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:
Slade Lectures. The Slade Lectures for 2008 will be given by Griselda Pollock, Professor of the Social and Critical Histories of Art, Leeds University, under the title After-images/after-affects: trauma and aesthetic inscription in the virtual feminist museum, on Thursdays at 5 p.m., in the Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.
| 24 January | Gasping at violence: the body's breath in Bernini's Daphne and Apollo |
| 31 January | Invocation in sculpture: Louise Bourgeois' Maman |
| 7 February | Gazing from the abyss: Eurydice's silent question |
| 14 February | Renavigating Africa: silence and sound in the gaze of Alfredo Jaar |
| 21 February | Too early and too late: melting solids in the sculpture of Alina Szapocznikow |
| 28 February | Fictions of fact: memory in transit in Vera Frenkel's installations |
| 6 March | Suitcases and mothers: Chantal Akermann's cinematic memory-work in the shadow of Charlotte Salomon |
| 13 March | Aesthetics and catastrophe: some psychoanalytical reflections |
Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Centre for Modern Hebrew Studies. The following seminars will take place on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. in Room 8 of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Sidgwick Avenue.
| 23 January | The Jewish magical texts from the Cairo Genizah, by Dr Gideon Bohk, of Tel Aviv University. |
| 20 February | Two states for two peoples? The Zionist opposition to partition in 1947, by Dr Colin Shindler, of the School of Oriental and African Studies. |
History. Professor Anthony Appiah, of Princeton University, will give the Seeley Lectures, entitled Matters of honour: a moral history of esteem, at 5 p.m. in Room LG19, Faculty of Law, West Road.
| 28 January | Individual honour: the duel dies. This lecture will be followed by a reception. |
| 29 January | National honour: freeing Chinese feet. |
| 31 January | Class honour: the suppression of North Atlantic slavery. |
| 1 February | Honour and identity: lessons and legacies. |
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). This year the theme is Consumption.
| 22 January | Porcelain and global history in the long eighteenth century, by Maxine Berg, of the University of Warwick. |
| 5 February | A global renaissance? Renaissance objects in a worldwide perspective, by Marta Ajmar-Wollheim, of the Victoria and Albert Museum. |
| 19 February | Consumption, social capital, and the 'Industrious Revolution' in early modern Germany, by Sheilagh Ogilvie, of Trinity College. |
| 4 March | Paradigms of Enlightenment and the consumption of ice cream in late eighteenth-century Naples, by Melissa Calaresu, of Gonville and Caius College. |
Centre for History and Economics. Meetings take place on Wednesdays, at 5 p.m., in the B-Dining Room, Trinity Hall, Trinity Lane.
| 30 January | The invention of sustainability: agronomy in Britain and Germany c.1500-1850, by Paul Warde, of the University of East Anglia. |
| 13 February | Gender, economics, and history in modern Spain, by Natalia Mora-Sitja, of Downing College. |
| 27 February | The 'Americanization' of German economics after 1945, by Jan Otmar Hesse, of the University of Frankfurt. |
| 12 March | Abraham Lincoln, emancipation, and the rights of black Americans, by Eric Foner, of Columbia University. |
History and German. Professor Mary Fulbrook, of University College London, will present and discuss her 60-minute documentary, 'Behind the Wall: 'Perfectly Normal Lives' in the GDR?', on 21 January, at 5 p.m., in the Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College. This event is hosted by the Modern European History Seminar in conjunction with the Department of German and Dutch, and will be followed by a drinks reception.
History and Philosophy of Science. 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, Free School Lane. Tea is available from 4.40 p.m.
| 30 January | 'Out of the shadows': Alexander Mitscherlich and psychoanalysis in Germany after 1945, by Martin Dehli. |
| 13 February | Colonizing and de-colonizing psychoanalysis in the 1950s: Masud Khan amongst the British, by Julia Borossa, of Middlesex University. |
| 27 February | The psycho-reflexology of film: Soviet non-fiction cinema of the 1920s, by Barbara Wurm, of the University of Vienna. |
| 12 March | Exploring the human psyche: psychology and British psychic detective fiction at the turn of the 20th century, by Alexandra Lembert, of the University of Leipzig. |
| 19 March | Revolution in mind: making the psychoanalytic field, 1870-1945, by George Makari, of the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. |
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.
| 29 January | Negotiating belonging: ritual practice and public culture in Buriat Pribaikal'e, by Joe Long, of the University of Aberdeen. |
| 12 February | Spirits as 'invisible things' in contemporary Mongolia, by Grégory Delaplace, of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit. |
| 26 February | Pawnshops in Ulaanbaatar: dealing with adversity, by Lars Højer, of the University of Copenhagen. |
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.
| 18 January | Eco-incarceration: indigenous politics in Jharkhand, India, by Dr Alpa Shah, of Goldsmiths, University of London. |
| 25 January | Moving images: John Layard, fieldwork, and photography in Malakula 1914 - present, by Ms Anita Herle, of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology |
| 1 February | A supplement to Tene Waitere's travels: Maori carving and colonial history, by Professor Nick Thomas, of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. |
| 8 February | 'Whose are you?': From identity to possession with the help of Gabriel Tarde, by Dr Matei Candea, of the Department of Social Anthropology. |
| 15 February | The politics of dead bodies: human rights, violence, and the media in Palestine, by Dr Lori Allen, of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies. |
| 22 February | Whose virtues? Which forms of knowledge? Some ethical choices in contemporary Jainism, by Dr James Laidlaw, of the Department of Social Anthropology. |
| 29 February | 'We are not Buddhas': on the relation of faith and certainty in contemporary Inner Mongolian Buddhism and beyond, by Dr Jonathan Mair, of the Department of Social Anthropology. |
| 7 March | Perspectives on cadre training and good governance at a Chinese Communist Party Cadre School, by Dr Frank Pieke, of the University of Oxford. |