Lectures, Seminars, Colloquia

Tuesday 5 May

12.30 pm SPRU Environment Programme Brown Bag Seminar: Ronan Palmer (Environment Agency) The role of economics in the environment. Room Mantell 2A3

12.30 pm Sussex Life History Research Seminar: Jill Barclay (University of South Australia) will discuss her oral history research project with nurses from the outback. Room D340

4.15 pm Biochemistry and Genetics and Development Seminar: Sue Bailey (BBSRC, Daresbury) DMSO reductase: structure and function of a molybdenum enzyme. Biology Lecture Room (EP 3.9)

4.30 pm Social and Political Thought Seminar: Kevin Love, Strangers and citizens. Room D630

5.00 pm Social Anthropology Seminar: Les Back (Goldsmiths College) Reading the writing on the wall: urban grafitti, racism and territoriality. Room D722

5.15 pm German Research Colloquium: Nick Tucker, Idealism versus evil: a British pacifist's efforts to rescue a German Jew, 1938-9. Room A155

6.30 pm Issues in Environmental Science Lecture: Goran Jamal (Southern General Hospital, Glasgow) Organophosphate effects on the nervous system: new developments and insights. Chichester Lecture Theatre

Wednesday 6 May

1.00 pm IDS (Poverty Research Programme) Seminar: Stefan Dercon (Oxford University) Changes in poverty in Ethiopia since 1989. Room IDS 221

3.00 pm Sussex Centre for Optical and Atomic Physics Seminar: Richard Keesing (York University) Two photon correlation in single bubble sonoluminescence. Room Pevensey 2A2

5.00 pm History of Art Work in Progress Seminar: Penelope Curtis & Fiona Russell (Henry Moore Institute) Writing a history of sculpture in the early 20th century: feasible? Desirable? Tenable? A5 Lecture Theatre

5.00 pm English Graduate Colloquium: Rowlie Wymer (Hull University) The tempest and the origins of Britain. Room D640

5.30 pm Centre for Statistics and Stochastic Modelling Seminar: John Bather, An adaptive Kalman filter. Room Pevensey 2A3

Thursday 7 May

11.30 am Economics Seminar: Andrea Richter (Oxford and LSE) Labour reallocation in transition Russia: is job change worthwhile? Room D340

1.00 pm IDS (Participation Group) Seminar: Timothy Pyrch (University of Calgary) PAR as a way of life. Room IDS 221

4.00 pm Geography Research Seminar: Andrew Church (Birkbeck College) Trans-frontier initiatives across the Channel and the local politics of co-operation and competition in south-east England. Room D610

5.00 pm Centre for Modern French Thought Seminar: Alan Murray (Middlesex University) Le Tiers instruit: Michel Serres on literature, science and philosophy. Room A71

5.00 pm History Work in Progress Seminar: Chris Chapman (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford) Seventeenth century representations of murder. Room A155

Friday 8 May

2.00 pm SPRU Seminar: Tom Blundell (University of Cambridge) Policy making and the uncertainty of scientific data. Room EDB 121

4.30 pm Philosophy Seminar: Martin Warner (Warwick University) Reasoning in transitions: Charles Taylor and the Good Samaritan. Room A155

Miscellaneous

Lunchtime recital at the Meeting House - Charles Macdonald (organ) and Peter Abbs (reader) 5 May at 1.20 pm in the chapel

Living Buddha, The True Story - presented by the Film Making Society and ROKPA on May 7 at 6 pm, room A1. Includes an introductory talk by Buddhist nun, Ani Chudrun, £2 (£1.50 FMS) all proceeds to ROKPA

Golf - ever had a hole-in-one? The UoS Golf Society has just begun its annual campaign; any able golfer is welcome to participate:- Tuesday 5 May (v. Pyecombe), Thursday 14 May (v. Ham Manor), Wednesday 27 May (v. Dyke), Thursday 28 May (v. Hollingbury) and club championships (36 holes) to be arranged in July. Matches are all in the afternoon. Please contact James Hirschfeld on (67)8080 or e-mail:- jwph@sussex.ac.uk

Disclaimer - contractors currently working on the A27 are not working for the University, and we were not told about it. We are discussing the matter with them to ensure safe work and minimal disruption. (Estates)

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