Events, courses, etc.

Equality and Diversity: Events

Big Pink Read 2011

The University’s LGBT Staff Network, in partnership with the Cambridgeshire Library Service, hosts an LGBT literary discussion, from 3.30 to 5 p.m. on 19 February 2011, in the Central Library, Cambridge. The event is open to all members of the University and local community.

Gareth Thomas: life on a rollercoaster

The University, in partnership with the Cambridge Union, brings Welsh Rugby International Gareth Thomas, number one on the 2010 Pink List, to Cambridge to speak about his life experiences, from 7 to 8.30 p.m. on 20 February 2011, at the Cambridge Union, 9a Bridge Street. He will also talk about how his life has changed for the better since he came out. This is a free event, but booking is essential; please visit http://www.training.cam.ac.uk/equality/event/130538.

Uninvited – Voices from exile

Ensemble Theatre – Elizabeth Mansfield

A ‘tour de force’, telling the extraordinary stories of refugees and exiles from all over the world, past and present, in song, poetry, and testimony, interwoven with Articles from the Declaration of Human Rights. This event will be held from 5 to 7 p.m., on 22 February 2011, in Michaelhouse Café, Trinity Street, and is the last in the series of talks in the Holocaust Memorial Day programme.

This house believes the path to success is straight

The University, in partnership with the Cambridge Union, brings together a range of public figures, including journalist Andrew Pierce, to debate whether LGBT people struggle to succeed in the modern world. The debate will be held from 7 to 8.30 p.m. on 24 February 2011, at the Cambridge Union, 9a Bridge Street. This is a free event.

Announcement of lectures, seminars, etc.

The following lectures and seminars will be open to members of the University and others who are interested:

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. Two seminars will be held on Wednesdays from 2 to 3 p.m. in Lecture Theatre 1 (LT1), Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site. All are welcome.

23 FebruaryTechnical context for deepwater drilling and oil spill response, by Dr Ellen Williams (Chief Scientist BP) and Dr Andy Leonard (Cambridge co-ordinator BP)

9 MarchInventing apparatus and processes, by Professor Malcolm Mackley (Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology)

Criminology. Professor Jonathan Simon (Adrian A. Kragen Professor of Law, UC Berkeley, and Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Edinburgh University School of Law) will give a public seminar entitled Total incapacitation: the emergence of an exceptional penal rationale and its consequences for imprisonment, at 5.30 p.m. on Thursday, 24 February 2011. This seminar will be preceded by a public seminar at 4.30 p.m. by Ruth Armstrong and Tiffany Bergin (Ph.D. students, Institute of Criminology), entitled Postmodern penality under scrutiny. Both seminars will be held in Seminar Room B3 at the Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue.

English. The Graham Storey Lecture 2011 will be held on Monday, 7 March 2011, at 5 p.m., in the Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site, Sidgwick Avenue. As part of his estate, Graham Storey left a bequest to the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, to fund a lecture in his name. The inaugural lecture was given in May 2008 by Professor James Wood of Harvard University, and further lectures have been given by Professor Marina Warner in 2009 and Anne Enright in 2010.

This fourth lecture in the series will be given by Ian McEwan and is entitled The levers of fiction. This is an open lecture and all are welcome. Pre-booking is strongly recommended, though not essential. Tickets will be issued to those who book, and these will be sent electronically to those with email addresses. To book seats, please email the Events Officer at Trinity Hall (email events@trinhall.cam.ac.uk, tel. 01223 332555).

Centre for Family Research. The following seminars and special lecture will be held on Tuesdays.

15 February, 1 to 2 p.m. in Room 606, Centre for Family Research	Callous-unemotional subtype of antisocial behaviour: integrating genetic and brain imaging findings, by Dr Essi Viding (Developmental Risk and Resilience Unit, University College London)
8 March, at 5 p.m. at the Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Avenue	Special Lecture: Bob Edwards: the early years. Professor Martin Johnson will give the lecture he delivered in Stockholm in December 2010 in honour of Professor Edwards, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for his pioneering work in IVF.
15 March, 4 to 5 p.m. in the Seminar Room, PPSIS, Free School Lane	Self-presentational processes in childhood: an interplay of social experience, cognition, motivation, and emotion, by Dr Robin Banerjee (Department of Psychology, University of Sussex)