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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 14 February

12.30pm Sussex Continuing Education Research Forum Seminar: Liz Somerville and Sally Wilks. D310.

1.00pm Experimental Psychology Seminar: Ashok Jansari, Confabulations: Fabrications or just mis-combined elements of verdicial events? BLR.

4.00pm Sociology and Social Psychology Seminar: John Holmwood, After reflexivity: The displacement of explanation in recent theories of social inquiry. D310.

4.00pm SCOAP Seminar: Mark Plimmer (CNAM), TBA. PEV1A2.

4.30pm Neuroscience Seminar: Pedro Lowenstein (Manchester), Genetic intervention in brain disorders: Moving neurological therapeutics into the molecular area. BLR.

5.00pm Women's Studies Research-in-Progress Seminar: Shirin Rai (Warwick),Gender, development and globalisation: Some reflections. A71.

Tuesday 15 February

12.30pm Inorganic Discussion Group: Alex Hulkes, Some mixed organoruthenium and -iridium chalcogen chemistry. Laurence Bourget, New 1-azaallyl and b-diketiminato metal complexes as potential catalysts for polymerisation. CHI 3R143.

2.15pm SEI Research-in-Progress Seminar: George Schopflin, SSEES, London) Post-Communism under the triple transition: Globalisation, Europe and democracy. A71.

4.00pm American Studies Research Seminar: Sue Currell, The problem of leisure in 1930s fiction. A71.

4.15pm Social Anthropology Seminar: Dolores Martinez (SOAS), Shifting culture: Servants, schools and ex-pats in the Kathmandu valley. C233.

4.15pm Biochemistry and Genetics & Development Seminar: Colin Stirling (Manchester), Protein sorting in eukaryotic cells. BLT.

5.00pm Media Studies Graduate Seminar: Frank Webster (Birmingham), Virtual society: The limits to choice. EDB 125.

5.15pm German Research Colloquium: Leonard Olschner (London), Paul Celan and the poetics of homecoming. A155.

Wednesday 16 February

5.00pm English Graduate Colloquium: Margaretta Jolly, Pat Barker and the body. D640.

Thursday 17 February

4.00pm Experimental Psychology Colloquium: Alan Baddeley (Bristol), The episodic buffer.-BLR.

5.00pm Science Lecture: Malcolm Armstrong (Theatrical Pyrotechnics), James Bond special effects. CLT.

5.00pm History Work-in-Progress Seminar: Sara Knott (Oxford), Gender, sensibility and revolution in 18th-century America. A155.

5.00pm Queering Development Seminar: Marc Mathuray, On the national question: Imagined masculinities, enforced sexualities and the African renaissance. IDS room 120.

5.00pm Student Action for Refugees Lecture: John Morrison, The cost of survival: Refugees and human trafficking. C133.

Friday 18 February

2.15pm SPRU Seminar Series: Colin Ramshaw (Newcastle-upon-Tyne), Process intensification and innovation in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. C133.

4.30pm Philosophy Society Seminar: David Charles (Oxford), Aristotle's craftsmen and Wittgenstein's builders. A155.

Monday 21 February

12.15pm Economics Practitioner's Seminar: Barry Jackson, (Municipal Infrastructure Investment Unit, South Africa), Private sector finance for infrastructure in developing countries. D610.

12.30pm Sussex Continuing Education Research Forum Seminar: Cathie Edwards (Warwick), What we assess is what we value? D310.

2.00pm SPRU Environment Programme Brown Bag Seminar: Jacquetta Lee (Rolls Royce), Technology strategy and the environment: A Rolls-Royce view. Mantell 2A3.

4.00pm Sociology and Social Psychology Seminar: Rupert Brown (Kent), Conflict, contact and identity as determinants of inter-nation attitudes in Europe. D310.

4.30pm Neuroscience Seminar: Paul Benjamin, A systems approach to learning and memory (or snails are brighter than you think). BLR.

5.00pm Women's Studies Research-in-Progress Seminar: Nadje Al-Ali, The women's movement in contemporary Egypt: Divisions and debates within. A71.

Tuesday 22 February

12.30pm Centre for Life History Research Seminar: Celia Hunt, Fictional autobiography as self exploration. LMR.

12.30pm Inorganic Discussion Group: Rob Harker, Caesium alkoxides: Aspects of ligand design and structural diversity. Elham Aazam, Reactivity studies of titanocene. CHI 3R143.

2.15pm SEI Research-in-Progress Seminar: Kenneth Dyson (Bradford), European states and the Euro. A71.

4.00pm American Studies Research Seminar: Les Benedict, Political re-presentation: Salmon P. Chase and the presidential politics of reconstruction. A71.

4.00pm COGS Seminar: Murali Ramachandran, Cause and chance. COGS 5C11.

4.15pm Social Anthropology Seminar: Maila Stivens (Melbourne), Re-inventing the 'Asian family': Asian values, globalisation and cultural contest in Southeast Asia. C233.

4.15pm Biochemistry and Genetics & Development Seminar: Tim Joseph-Horne (Long Ashton), Mechanism, schemes and regulation of fungal mitochondrial electron transport. BLT.

4.30pm Canadian Studies Seminar: Kenneth McRoberts (York, Ontario), Cultures, languages, nations: Politics in Canada and Quebec since the 1995 Referendum. D340.

5.00pm Media Studies Graduate Seminar: Roza Tsagarousianou (Westminster), Uses of ethnic community/diasporic media: Strategies of identity construction among London's Asian and Greek communities. EDB 125.

5.15pm German Research Colloquium: Francesca Stafford (Lancaster), Else's elsewhere: Reading marginalities in the work of Else Lasker-Schüler. A155.

Wednesday 23 February

12.30pm ES Seminar: Mike Ramsey, Hazard and exposure from soil contamination: Coping with uncertainty. CHI 3R241.

2.00pm Music Research Seminar: Edward Jessen (York), Evident maps: Gesturalism and new choral repertoire (including works by Alvin Lucier, Per Nørgård, Sven-David Sandström and Anders Hillborg). Falmer House 120.

2.00pm Queory Seminar: Joanne Winning (Middlesex), Reading for difference, arguing for lesbian modernism. A71.

4.00pm Centre for South African Studies Seminar: Christabel Gurney (London), Solidarity or sell-out: The British Labour movement and apartheid in the 1960s and 1970s. C337.

4.30pm History of Art Research Seminar: Chris Townsend, Paul Graham: Poetical journeys. A103.

5.00pm English Graduate Symposium: Creative writing and academic English. D 640.

Thursday 24 February

4.00pm Experimental Psychology Colloquium: John Towse (Royal Holloway), Control freaks, all of us. BLR.

4.00pm Mathematical Society Lecture: Walter Ledermann, Two mathematical toys. PEV 1A6.

5.00pm History Work-in-Progress Seminar: Anna Gambles (Kent), Regions, nations and the UK: Conceptualising the economics of Union, 1800-1939. A155.

5.00pm Queering Development Seminar: David Forrest, Post-modernity, post-development and the appeal of the queer: A Cuban case study. IDS Room 120.

6.30pm Royal Statistical Society Local Group Seminar joint with the London and South East Operational Research Society: Ian Diamond (Southampton), The development of a one number census for 2001. PEV1A7.

Friday 25 February

2.15pm SPRU Seminar Series: Mauritizo Zollo (INSEAD, Paris), From organisational routines to dynamic capabilities. C133.

4.00pm Astronomy Centre Seminar: Mike Edmunds (Cardiff), The origins of carbon, nitrogen and dust in galaxies. Arundel 401.

4.30pm Philosophy Society Seminar: Beatrice Haan (Essex), Foucault and Heidegger on Kant and finitude. A155.

4.00pm Physical Chemistry Seminar: A. B. Horn (York), Infrared spectroscopy applied to atmospheric catalysis: New challenges for RAIRS, ATR-IR spectroscopy and TPD. CHI3-3R241.

5.00pm Science Lecture: Cyril Isenberg (Kent), What you always wanted to know about bubbles: The exciting science of soap bubbles. CLT.

8.00pm Concert by Sussex University Chamber Choir and 20th-century Music ensemble: Music by Lassus, Marenzio, Maxwell Davies and Birtwistle. Meeting House.