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Lectures, Seminars, Colloquia
Meeting House
Miscellaneous

Lectures, Seminars, Colloquia

Monday 16 February

12.30 pm Sussex Continuing Education Research Forum: Louise White, Pitch matching and unresolved harmonics. Room D310

2.00 pm Falmer Language Group Lecture: Richard Coates, English place-names before the earliest records. Room A155

2.00 pm Centre in Global Political Economy Seminar: Julian Saurin, Global food trade, hunger and food security. Room A71

3.00 pm Centre for Mathematical Analysis and its Applications Seminar: D Fortunato, (Bari University) Topological solutions for Lorentz-invariant equations in three space dimensions. Room Pevensey 2A2

4.00 pm CULCOM Lecture: Phil Crang (UCL) It's showtime: drama at work in industrial spaces. CCS Common Room

4.30 pm Neuroscience Seminar: Ruth McKernan (Merck Sharp and Dohme) GABA receptor subtypes: where are they and what do they do? Biology Lecture Room (EP 3.9)

5.00 pm Sociology and Social Psychology Seminar: Mark Bhatti (Brighton University) and Andy Church (Birkbeck College) Gardens and leisure in the age of risk. Room D310

5.00 pm Women's Studies Research in Progress Seminar: Judith Cook (independent journalist) 'An unsuitable job for women?': a report on her investigative journalism on the murder of Hilda Murrell. Room D510

Tuesday 17 February

12.30 pm Sussex Life History Research Seminar: Arthur Thickett and Lorraine Sitzia (QueenSpark Books) A shared authority? The views of interviewer and interviewee. Room A71

2.15 pm Sussex European Institute Research in Progress Seminar: Richard Black, The end of 'temporary protection' and conditions for return to Bosnia: which way forward? Room A71

4.15 pm Biochemistry, Genetics and Development Seminar: John Sinclair (University of Cambridge) Regulation of cell cycle and cellular transcription by cytomegalovirus. Biology Lecture Theatre

5.00 pm Social and Political Thought Seminar: William Outhwaite, Knowing social reality. Room D730

5.00 pm American Studies Seminar: Simon Baatz, Creationism in America: the Scopes trial. Room D722

5.00 pm Social Anthropology Seminar: Martin Mills, Diamond brother, diamond sister: notes on tantric kinship in Tibetan Buddhism. Room D722

5.00 pm New Metaphysical Art Seminar: Roger Poole, The loss of the transcendent. Room EDB 302

5.00 pm International Relations and Politics Research in Progress Seminar: Alan Cawson, The political economy of convergence in digital media. Room D640

5.15 pm German Research Colloquium: Trude Levi (University of London) Responses to a holocaust survivor's eye-witness account. Room A155

Wednesday 18 February

11.30 am Plant Science Seminar: Liam Dolan (John Innes Centre) Developmental genetics of the Arabidopsis root epidermis: from transcription factors to cell surface receptors. Room Pevensey 2A1

1.00 pm IDS Environment Group Seminar: Tim Forsyth (Royal Institute for International Affairs) Environmental policy and risk under rapid industrialisation: examples from Thailand and Vietnam. Room IDS 221

1.30 pm Sussex Centre for Optical and Atomic Physics Seminar: Peter Coveney (Schlumbeger Cambridge Research) The arrow of time. Room Pevensey 2A2

2.00 pm USIE Faculty Seminar: Barry Cooper, Social class background, approaches to problem solving and their consequences for the validity and fairness of National Curriculum mathematics testing: findings from a recent ESRC project. Room EDB 302

4.00 pm Music Seminar: Robert Adlington, Adorno and musical temporality. Falmer House Recital Room.

4.00 pm Centre for Southern African Studies Seminar: Jonathan Hyslop (Witwatersrand) The African renaissance meets the Asian renaissance? Malaysia and its impact on contemporary South Africa. Room C337

4.30 pm History of Art Work in Progress Seminar: Clare Harris (University of East Anglia) Depicted identities: Tibetan image makers after 1959. Room A5.

5.00 pm English Graduate Colloquium: Tim Barringer (Birmingham University) Leighton in South Kensington: monumental art and objects of desire. Room D640

Thursday 19 February

11.30 am Economics Seminar: Ulrike Hottop, Employment effects of trade in the UK. Room D310

12.30 pm Postgraduate History and Gender Seminar: Theresa Deane, Botany, blackboards and babies: the philanthropy of Elizabeth Twining 1805-1888. Room D520

4.00 pm Geography Research Seminar: John Lovering (Cardiff University) Globalisation and the reconstruction of the arms industry; with its spatial implications. Room D610

4.00 pm Experimental Psychology Colloquium: Val Curran (UCL) Ecstasy (MDMA): when you are up you are up, and when down, you are...down? Biology Lecture Room (EP 3.9)

5.00 pm Sussex Development Lecture: Richard Black, Greening asylum: refugees and development. Room A1

5.00 pm History Work in Progress Seminar: Felicity Heal and Clive Holmes (both Oxford University) Honour and the law in early modern England. Room A155

5.00 pm Centre for Modern French Thought Seminar: Brian Cummings, Literally speaking. Room A71

5.00 pm Centre for Statistics and Stochastic Modelling Seminar: Charles Goldie, Existence of randomly discounted sums. Room Pevensey 2A2

Friday 20 February

11.30 am Topology, Algebra and Geometry Seminar: R P Lewis, Hirschhorn's identities. Room Pevensey 2A1

2.00 pm SPRU Seminar: David Slater (Chairman, Task Force on Environmental Risk Assessment) Risk assessment. Room EDB 121

4.00 pm Astronomy Centre Seminar: Steve Phillipps (Bristol University) Dwarf galaxies in clusters. Room Arundel 401

4.30 pm Philosophy Society Seminar:

Lunchtime recital at the Meeting House: 17 February, Michael Finissy and Charles Macdonald (piano), 1.20 pm in the chapel.

University Chaplaincy Lecture: Christopher Budd (Bishop of Plymouth; Chair of the Catholic Agency of Social Concerns) Critic or collaborator? The Church and social issues. Thursday 19 February at 6.30 pm, Quiet Room, Meeting House

Welfare volunteers needed for 1998/99 academic year. Successful applicants will receive full training and knowledge of welfare rights. Contact Ian Carter, USSU Welfare Centre Manager on 877388. Closing date: 27 February

Computer training courses available. Introduction to E-mail (ECS) on 17 February, 6 to 8.30 pm; Introduction to Spreadsheets (Excel 5) on 19 February, 6 to 8.30 pm. Please contact Computer Service Reception to book.

Presentation skills workshop at CDU, Friday 27 February from 10 am to 4 pm, £10 (non-returnable fee). For more details contact CDU.

Children's courses at the Sportcentre: Multi-rackets on 15 to 17 April from 11 am to 4 pm, £27. A chance to receive qualified coaching in tennis, short tennis and squash plus supervised sessions of badminton, table tennis and batinton. Contact Karen Dunster on 8228 or e-mail: sportservice@sussex.ac.uk for details.

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Friday February 13th 1998