Lectures, Seminars, Colloquia

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Saturday 21 November 11.00am - 5.00 pm.
One Day Conference Examining the interplay between environmentalism and critical realism. Pre registration necessary, contact Peter Dickens ext 8893 for further details.

Monday 23rd November 12.30 pm
Sussex Continuing Education Research Forum: Celia Hunt, Blocks to Writing: Research with Students of Creative Writing. D310.

1.00 pm Experimental Psychology Seminar: Wendy Clements, Synonyms, homonyms, and adjectives...is language really related to theory of mind? BLR.

2.00 pm International Relations and Politics Seminar: Beate Jahn, International relations and the state of nature: the cultural origins of a ruling ideology. D310.

4.00 pm Centre for Mathematical Analysis Seminar: I. McGillivray (Bristol), Low energy asymptomatics of the scattering phase and large time behaviour of the pinned Weiner sausage. 2A2 PEVI.

4.00 pm Sociology and Social Psychology Seminar: Gerd Bohner (Kent), Proper problem or propaganda? Negative affect may increase or decrease message processing depending on its interpretation. D310.

4.30 pm Neuroscience Seminar Series: David Mann (Manchester), Molecular Pathology of Alzheimer's Disease. BLR.

5.00 pm Women's Studies Research-in-Progress Seminar: Maya Unnithan, Researching Reproductive Health in Rajasthan. D610.

Tuesday 24 November
12.30 pm Sussex Life History Research Network: Brian Roberts (Huddersfield), Biographical research and the life of the researcher. Mass Observation Archive.

1.00 pm AUT General Meeting: Workloads: Towards less to do More and Better. William Locke and others. Arts C133.

2.15 pm Sussex European Institute Research-in-Progress Seminar: Eva Ostergaard-Neilsen (St Anthony's College), Diasporapolitics: The Case Transtate Political Activities of Immigrants and refugees from Turkey living in Germany. A71, SEI

4.00 pm COGS Seminar: Henry Plotkin (UCL), Evolution and Culture. COGS 5C11.

4.15 pm Biochemistry and Genetics and Development Seminar: John Walker (Cambridge), ATP synthesis by rotary catalysis. BLT.

4.30 pm Social and Political Thought Seminar: Stewart Woods (Oxford), How left is New Labour? Education and Training Policy under the Blair Government. D630.

5.00 pm Media Studies Graduate Seminar: Manuel Alvarado, Publishing, media studies and the media. D710.

5.00 pm Social Anthropology Graduate/Faculty Seminar: Robert Gibb (University of Central Lancashire), The Continuing Appeal of the Republic? Some Problems in Mobilising Anti-Racism in Contemporary France. D722.

5.15 pm German Research Colloquium: Cathy Gelbin, Victim- Perpetrator - Bystander? The Case of German Writer Elisabeth Langgasser (1899-1950). A155.

Wednesday 25 November 12.30 pm
Environmental Science Seminar: Andy Deacon (Sussex Air Quality Steering Group), Review and assessment of air quality in Sussex. Chichester - 3R241/Ms3.

2.00 pm Queory Lecture: Jennifer Doyle (Sweetbriar) Reading for Sex/Reading Against Plot: Boredom, Sexuality and Aesthetics. D722

3.00 pm Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: Shin-Tza Wu, Cavity quantum-electrodynamics of an atom in front of a non-dispersive dielectric half-space. PEV2A2.

5.00 pm English Graduate Colloquium: David Pattison (Open University), Oxford, Black Oxford. D640.

Thursday 26 November
12.30-2 p.m. SPRU Environment Programme Brown Bag Lunchtime Seminar: Adrian Smith, The politics of ordure: New Labour, OFWAT and the Environment Agency. Room Mantell 2A3.

1.00 pm MSF Branch Meeting will be held in Pevensey 2A3.There will be a speaker from the Brighton Unemployment Centre.

4.00 pm CPES School Colloquium: John Gribbin, The birth of time. Chichester.

4.00 pm Laboratory of Experimental Psychology: Gareth Gaskell (MRC APU Cambridge), Phonological and lexical ambiguity in speech perception. BLR.

4.00 pm Geography Research Seminar: Julian Murton, Fluid observations and laboratory modelling of periglacial involutions. D340.

5.00 pm French Thought Seminar: Ullrich Haase (Manchester Metropolitan), Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis. A71.

5.00 pm Sussex Development Lecture: Jim Skea, Climate change: can a global strategy work? A1.

5.00 pm History Work-in-Progress: Robert Tombs (Cambridge), Women and violence in the Paris commune. A155.

6.00 pm Centre for Statistics and Stochastic Modelling Seminar (RSSLG): Fred Smith (Southampton), 100 years of sampling and surveys. Room 321 Watts Building, University of Brighton (Moulsecomb site).

Friday 27 November
2.00 pm SPRU Seminar: Sally Wyatt (University of East London), Technology and Inequality: Metaphors of the Internet and Social Exclusion. EDB Lecture Theatre.

4.00 pm Chemical Physics and Materials Seminar: Tim Wright (Southampton), Experimental and ad initio studies of NO-containing complexes, and their cations. CHI-3R241 (MS3).

4.00 pm Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis Seminar: Paul Houston (Oxford), hp-Finite Element Methods for First Order Hyperbolic Problems. PEV2B13.

4.30 pm Philosophy Society Seminar: Terry Diffey, Architecture, Art and Works. Art A155

9.30 am - 5.00 pm Centre on European Political Economy Workshop on Structural and Microeconomic Aspects of Transition/Enlargement Sussex European Institute, Room A71.