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Lectures, Seminars, Colloquia

As the Bulletin is being produced fortnightly, we will include two weeks' lectures on the back page. Please make sure that you get information to us in time for the copy deadline.

Abbreviations

Below is a list of some of the abbreviations commonly used on the back page of the Bulletin.

BLR - Biology Lecture Room
BLT - Biology Lecture Theatre
CLT - Chichester Lecture Theatre
LMR - Library Meeting Room
PEV - Pevensey building
CHI - Chichester building

Monday 31 January

12.30pm Sussex Continuing Education Research Forum Seminar: Phyllis Creme, Assessing learning journals: a contradiction in terms? D310.

2.00pm Falmer Language Group: Andrew McCrum, A sociolinguistic study of pejorative words beginning 'DU' and 'SL'. A155.

4.00pm Sociology and Social Psychology Seminar: Angela Rogers (KCL), Between living and dying: Decisions not to treat following a stroke. D310.

4.00pm SCOAP Seminar: Alastair Sinclair (NPL), TBA. PEV 1A2.

4.30pm Neuroscience Seminar: Andrew Parker (Oxford), Structural colours in animals: Extant and extinct. BLR.

5.00pm Women's Studies Research-in-Progress Seminar: Alex Shepard, Manhood, credit and patriarchy in early modern England, c.1580-1640. A71.

Tuesday 1 February

2.15pm SEI Research-in-Progress Seminar: Jeremy Kempton (SEI/ Rowe & Maw) Rules and discretion in EU anti-dumping policy. A71.

4.00pm American Studies Seminar: Stephen Fender, The silent majority: Reported voices of black and white sharecroppers in the 1930s. A71.

4.15pm Social Anthropology Seminar: Ruba Salih, Moroccan migrant women in Italy. Plurinational subjects, transnational lives. C233.

4.15pm Biochemistry and Genetics & Development Seminar: Ian Hickson (John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford), Role of RecQ family helicases in the maintenance of genome stability. BLT.

5.00pm Media Studies Graduate Seminar: Mark Jancovitch, Cult fictions: Cult movies, subcultural capital and the production of cultural distinctions. EDB 125.

5.15pm German Research Colloquium: Ernst M. Stein (Berlin), The development of Jewish communities in Germany, 1945-2000. A155.

6.00pm Lavinia Byrne, Coming alive in cyberspace. The Meeting House.

Wednesday 2 February

2.00pm Queory Seminar: Glyn Davis (Ripon), Middle of nowhere: The dead heart of Greg Araki's L.A. A71.

4.00pm Centre for South African Studies Seminar: James Manor, Elite perceptions of poverty in South Africa. C337.

4.30pm History of Art Research Seminar: Patricia Rubin (Courtauld Institute of Art, London), The seductions of antiquity: Venus and the Renaissance. A103.

5.00pm English Graduate Colloquium: Lindsay Smith, 'Blue Skies': Photography, film and colour. D 640.

Thursday 3 February

12.30pm SPRU Environment Pro-gramme Brown Bag Seminar: Frans Berkhout, What is 'clean technology': Lessons from SCOTCH project. Mantell 2A3.

2.15pm SPRU Seminar Series: Saskia Sassan (LSE), TBA. C133.

4.00pm Science Lecture: Tim Metham, Life beyond earth: Science, fact and fiction. CLT.

4.00pm Experimental Psychology Colloquium: J.Kevin O'Regan (Univ. Paris 5), Change blindness and a theory of visual experience. BLR.

4.00pm Geography Research Seminar: Gill Valentine (Sheffield), Doing porridge: food, social relations and male prisons. D610.

4.00pm Accelerating Adaptation Lecture: Phil Husbands, Evolving brains faster. BLT.

5.00pm History Work-in-Progress Seminar: Maurice Howard, The Elizabethan gothic revival. A155.

5.00pm Queering Development Seminar: Susie Jolly, What use is queer theory to gender and development? IDS Room 109.

5.00pm Centre for Statistics and Stochastic Modelling Seminar: Nigel Stallard (Reading), A sequential design for phase III clinical trials incorporating treatment selection. PEV2A2.

Friday 4 February

4.00pm Physical Chemistry Seminar: Dr. J. Plane (UEA), Meteoric chemistry in the upper atmosphere. CHI3-3R241.

4.00pm Astronomy Centre Seminar: Lee Smolin (Penn State/Imperial), Feedback and pattern formation in galactic discs. Arundel 401.

4.30pm Philosophy Society Seminar: Richard Gaskin, Proposition and world. A155.

Monday 7 February

1.00pm Experimental Psychology Seminar: Roland Baddeley and Helen Ingram, Near optimal and adaptive human spatial-motor adaption to realistic input. BLR.

4.00pm Sociology and Social Psychology Seminar: Dianne Parker (Manchester), The social psychology of driving behaviour. D310.

4.00pm SCOAP Seminar: Jon Marangos (Imperial), Non-linear optics in coherently prepared media. PEV 1A2.

4.30pm Neuroscience Seminar: Nick Hartell (Aston), LTD is not so depressing after all. BLR.

5.00pm Women's Studies Research-in-Progress Seminar: Sabina Kahlow (Northbrook College), Gender and reception: Alternative representations of the body. A71.

Tuesday 8 February

2.15pm SEI Research-in-Progress Seminar: Ben Rosamond (Warwick) The new Europe: Globalisation and Europeanisation. A71.

4.00pm American Studies Seminar: David Morse, Magic realism: A hundred years of solitude, The house of the spirits, Beloved. A71.

4.15pm Social Anthropology Seminar: Michael Carrithers (Durham), Persons as victims and history as culture in East Germany. C233.

4.15pm Biochemistry and Genetics & Development Seminar: Jack Hensold (Case Western Reserve University, USA), The role of post-transcriptional regulation in lineage-specific gene expression in haematopoesis. BLT.

5.00pm Media Studies Graduate Seminar: Jim Barratt (BBFC), The role of research in the work of the BBFC. EDB 125.

5.15pm German Research Colloquium: Barbara Einhorn (Brighton), Going 'home'? Jewishness, gender and political commitment in the return from 'emigration' to East Germany. A155.

Wednesday 9 February

4.30pm History of Art Research Seminar: Gilane Tawadros (Institute of International Visual Arts, London), Virtual worlds: Globalisation, visual culture and new technology. A103.

4.30pm Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: Chris Sachrajda (Southampton). Room TBA.

5.00pm Migration Research Seminar: Adrian Favell, The integration of immigrants in Europe: Constructing cross-national comparisons. D630.

5.00pm English Graduate Colloquium: Susan Churchwell (UEA), The big strip tease: Plath, privacy, and the publication of Birthday Letters. D 640.

Thursday 10 February

4.00pm Experimental Psychology Colloquium: Denis Mareschal (Birkbeck), TBA. BLR.

4.00pm RSC Chatt/Science Lecture: C.D.Garner (Nottingham), The nature of molybdenum and tungsten centres in oxo-transfer enzymes. CLT.

5.00pm History Work-in-Progress Seminar: Saul Dubow, A commonwealth of knowledge: The visits to South Africa of the British Association of Science, 1905-1929. A155.

5.00pm Queering Development Seminar: Jo Doezema, Ouch! Feminists 'wounded attachment' to the third world sex worker. IDS Room 120.

5.00pm Centre for Statistics and Stochastic Modelling Seminar: Sean Collins (Bristol), Optimal policies in fluctuating environments. PEV2A2.

Friday 11 February

2.15pm SPRU Seminar Series: Suma Athreye (Manchester School of Management), The implications of patterns of growth on patterns of innovation. C133.

4.30pm Philosophy Society Seminar: Martin Stone (London), Kant and casuistry. A155.