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Lectures, Seminars, Colloquia

Monday 9 November

12.30 pm Sussex Continuing Education Research Forum: Tom Steele (Glasgow University), European Popular Education and the Origins of Academic Specialism. D310.

2.00 pm International Relations and Politics: Ed Keane (School of Oriental and African Studies), The languages of modern international political theory. D310.

4.00 pm Centre for Mathematical Analysis Seminar: R Douglas (Reading), Applications of optimal mass transfer problems to the semigeostrophic equations. 2A2 PEV I.

4.00 pm Sociology and Social Psychology Graduate Faculty Seminar: Monica Greco (Goldsmith College), Psychosomatic medicine as a research problem. D310.

4.30 pm Neuroscience Seminar Series: Jonathan Gale, Damage, Repair and Regeneration in Hair Cell Epithelia. Biology Lecture Room.

5.00 pm Women's Studies Research-in-Progress Seminar: Prof Maureen Pagaduan (University of the Philippines) - Title to be confirmed. D610.

Tuesday 10 November

2.15 pm Sussex European Institute Research-in-Progress Seminar, Prof Per Magnus Wijkman (Federation of Swedish Industries), The EU in 2010: Economic Superpower or Confused Giant. A71, SEI.

4.00 pm COGS Seminar: Dr Geoffrey Sampson, Demographic correlates of complexity in British speech. COGS 5C11.

4.15 pm Biochemistry and Genetics and Development Seminar: Prof Robert Liddington (University of Leicester), Crystallographic studies of protein-protein interactions. BLT.

4.30 pm Social and Political Thought Graduate and Faculty Seminar: Beate Jahr, IR and the state of nature: the cultural origins of a ruling ideology. D630.

5.00 pm Social Anthropology Graduate/Faculty Seminar: Yael Navaro-Yashin (Edinburgh University), Rethinking 'ethnic conflict': Turks versus Turks in Cyprus. D722.

5.00 pm Graduate Seminar in Media Studies: Andrew Blake, The end of music? A prelude to 21st Century Sound. D710.

5.15 pm German Research Colloquium: Ritchie Robertson (Oxford), What is Jewish about German-Jewish Literature? A155.

Wednesday 11 November

5.00 pm Sussex Centre for Research in the History of Art Seminar: Dr Lynn Nead (Birkbeck College), The Rape of the Glances: Men, Women and Streets in Mid-Victorian London. C219.

5.00 pm English Graduate Colloquium: David Marriott (Queen Mary and Westfield), Black Types: Race, Destiny and Nation. D640.

Thursday 12 November

1.00 pm IDS Environment Group Seminar: John Harris (LSE), Ethnography of the State in India. Rm 121.

4.00 pm CPES School Colloquium: Dr Tony Wood (Pfizer UK Ltd), Viagra: its science and its ethics. Chichester Lecture Theatre.

4.00 pm Laboratory of Experimental Psychology Colloquium: Robin Dunbar (Liverpool), The evolution of the social brain. Biology Lecture Room (EP3.9).

4.00 pm Geography Research Seminar: Dr Mark Bateman (University of Sheffield), Deserts in North-western Europe during the last glacial interglacial transition. D340.

5.00 pm Sussex Development Lecture: David Dyker, Russia: Crisis of Capitalism. A1.

5.00 pm Centre for Statistics and Stochastic Modelling Seminar: Martin Crowder (University of Surrey), Alcohol, random effects and non-regular behaviour. PEV2A2.

5.00 pm History Work-in-Progress Seminar: Joan Thirsk (St Hilda's College, Oxford), The food history of England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. A155.

5.00 pm French Thought Seminar: Alexander Garcia Duttmann (Middlesex), The Resistance of a Poem: Nancy and Derrida. A71.

6.00 pm Meeting House Lecture: The Rt Rev'd Dominic Walker (Bishop of Reading), The Future of Anglicanism post Lambeth 1998. The Meeting House.

Friday 13 November

11.30 am Topography, Algebra and Geometry Group: R Corran (Sydney), The word problem for singular braid monoids. 2A1 PEVI.

2.00 pm SPRU Seminar: Prof Wiebe Bijker (University of Maastricht), The Politicisation of Technological Culture. EDB Lecture Room.

4.00 pm Chemical Physics and Materials Seminar: Prof Tony Stace, Infra-red photophysics in an ion trap. CHI-3R241 (MS3).

4.30 pm Philosophy Society Lecture: Kate Soper (North London), Rorty: Humanist or Anti-Humanist? Arts A 155.

CDU Info

Please sign up beforehand

Amnesty International - 9 November, 5.30 pm CDU. Presentation on working for Amnesty - who and how they recruit.

RAF Engineering - 10 November, 6.00 pm CDU. Opportunities for engineers in the RAF.

British Antarctic Survey - 11 November, 5.30 pm CDU. Opportunities in 1999 for scientists and engineers.

College of Law - 12 November, 5.30 pm CDU. Their Solicitor and Barrister training courses explained.

Postgrad. Study at Cardiff - Journalism - 16 November, 5.30 pm CDU. Also including media and PR courses.

Racal Electronics - 17 November, 5.30 pm CDU. Graduate jobs for Electronic Engineers and Computer Scientists.

Miscellaneous

CHRIS JOHNSON POETRY PRIZE - Closing date 16 November. Open to any student. First prize £200. Contact Dr Peter Abbs, ext 8348 for further details.

USSU Time Management Workshop - 12 November, 10 am - 1 pm, £3.50. Book at SU Reception.

ROKPA Poverty Awareness Dinner,
11 November, £2.50 students, £3.00 others. Talks and an innovative way of eating your dinner, depending on whether you're drawn out of a hat as 'rich', 'middle class' or 'poor'.