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What's on...
10 November - 16 November
Lectures, Seminars, Colloquia
Monday 10 November
2.00 pm Particle Physics Seminar: Antonio Riotto (Oxford University) New aspects of inflation. Room Pevensey 2A1
3.00 pm Mathematical Analysis Seminar: D Gilbert (Sheffield University) Theory and application of subordinancy in the spectral analysis of singular differential operators. Room Pevensey 2A2
4.00 pm CULCOM Lecture: Will Straw (McGill University, Montreal) 'Big boxes' and 'lifestyle stories': the evolving spaces of entertainment retailing. CCS Common Room
4.30 pm Neuroscience Seminar: Sean Sweeney (Cambridge) Genetics of the brain dead and studies on synaptic function in Drosophila. Biology Lecture Room
5.00 pm Sociology & Social Psychology Seminar: Louise Pendry (University of Exeter) Social cognition stereotyping. Room D310
5.00 pm Women's Studies Research In Progress Seminar: Deborah Cherry, Feminism and visual culture in Britain 1850-1900. Room D510
Tuesday 11 November
10.15 am COGS Open Lecture: Margaret Boden, When GOFAI was NEWFAI. Room C133
10.15 am British and American Universities, Past, Present, Future: Rupert Wilkinson, Is Dearing American? Money, race and access. Room EDB 121
4.00 pm COGS Seminar: Steve Young (University of Cambridge) Transcribing and retrieving broadcast news. Room COGS 5C11
4.15 pm Biochemistry & Genetics & Development Seminar: Paula Booth (Imperial College, London) Membrane protein folding: kinetic studies on a helical proteins. Biology Lecture Theatre
4.30 pm Social & Political Thought Seminar: Bob Brecher, The Holocaust: our responsibility to remember. Room D630
5.00 pm Social Anthropology Seminar: Richard Jenkins (University of Sheffield) Notes from darkest Jutland: first reflections on fieldwork in Denmark. Room EDB 121
5.00 pm Media & Cultural Studies Seminar: Will Straw (McGill University, Montreal) The dilemmas of Canadian cultural nationalism. Room D520
5.15 pm German Research Colloquium: Daniel Steuer, Thomas Bernhard and the unhistorical non-novel: some preliminary thoughts. Room A155
6.15 pm Hitachi Lecture: Valerie Amos (Director, Amos Fraser Bernard; former Chief Executive of the Equal Opportunities Commission) Transformation, change and equality: Britain and South Africa. Terrace Room, Refectory
6.30 pm Issues in Environmental Science/Sussex Branch of the Council for the Protection of Rural England: Sir Ghillean Prance (Director, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew) Preserving the diversity of species: the work of Wakehurst Place. Chichester Lecture Theatre
Wednesday 12 November
12.30 pm Environmental Science Seminar: Nicola Lewis (Southern Scientific) Ensuring drinking water quality in Sussex. Room MS3
1.30 pm Sussex Centre for Optical and Atomic Physics Seminar: Frank Read (Manchester University) Probing free atoms and molecules with electrons and photons. Room Pevensey 2A2
4.00 pm Mathematical Analysis Colloquium: D Preiss (UCL) Affine approximation and other problems on Lipschitz mappings. Room Pevensey 1A1
4.30 pm History of Art Work In Progress Seminar: Liz Prettejohn (University of Birmingham) 'The monstrous diversion of a show of gladiators': Simeon Solomon's Habet! Lecture Theatre A5
5.00 pm English Graduate Colloquium: Jane Moody (York University) Illegitimate theatre in London, 1787-1843. Room D640
Thursday 13 November
11.30 pm Economics Seminar: Mike Barrow, Title t.b.a. Room D310
4.00 pm Experimental Psychology Colloquium: Martin Conway (Bristol University) Inhibitory control of memory: on the nature of Directed Forgetting. Biology Lecture Room (EP 3.9)
4.00 pm Geography Research Seminar: Martyn Waller (University of Kingston) Holocene vegetational history of south east England. Room D610
4.00 pm Chemistry, Physics & Environmental Science Colloquium: P A Chaloner, How scientific is science fiction? Chichester Lecture Theatre
5.00 pm Sussex Development Lectures: Marrack Goulding (St. Antony's, Oxford) Conflict prevention: a role for development aid? Room A1
5.00 pm History Work In Progress Seminar: Geert van den Bosche (Downing College, Cambridge) Eighteenth century Republicanism. Room A155
5.00 pm Centre for Modern French Thought Seminar: Philip Pothen, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida: 'Spurs', quotation marks and the overcoming of metaphysics. Room A71
5.00 pm Centre for Statistics & Stochastic Modelling Seminar: Mark Broom, Evolutionarily stable stealing: game theory applied to kleptoparasitism. Room Pevensey 2A2
6.15 pm United Nations Lecture: Marrack Goulding (former UN Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs) An integrated approach to conflict prevention: does development aid have a role? Lecture Theatre A2
Friday 14 November
11.30 am Topology, Algebra & Geometry Group Seminar: C J Mulvey, Foulis quantales and orthomodular lattices II. Room Pevensey 2A1
2.00 pm SPRU Seminar: Mary Midgley (retired, University of Newcastle) Reductivism, sensible and otherwise. Room EDB 121
4.00 pm Applied Mathematics & Numerical Analysis Seminar: Gerald Moore (Imperial College, London) Numerical methods for centre manifolds. Room Pevensey 1A1
4.30 pm Philosophy Society Seminar: Marie McGinn (York University) The real problem of others: Cavell, Merleau-Ponty and Wittgenstein on other minds. Room A155
Meeting House Events
- Lunchtime Recital - chapel, 11 November, 1.20 pm. Charles Corps, tenor.
- Repression and Resistance - 11 November, 7.30 pm. As part of a national
speakers tour organised by Amnesty International, student activist Janai Robert
Orina will be speaking about his experience of the human rights crisis in
Kenya.
Career Development Talks
Free talks are given by employers to describe graduate opportunities in
various fields. Please sign up in advance at the CDU.
Monday 17 November: Health Service Management (Salomons Centre) 5.30 pm, CDU Information Centre, first floor Falmer House
Tuesday 18 November: Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, 5.30 pm in CDU Information Centre, first floor Falmer House
Wednesday 19 November: GPT Ltd (engineering opportunities) 5.30 pm in top
floor, Refectory
Thursday 20 November: British Steel, 6.00 pm in CDU Information Centre, first
floor Falmer House
Friday 21 November: British Antarctic Survey, 12.30 pm in CDU Seminar Room,
second floor Falmer House
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