NoticesCalendar 28Annual Reports 28

Vacancies, appointments, etc.Electors to the Professorship of Small Animal

Surgery 28Vacancies in the University 28

Events, courses, etc.Announcement of lectures, seminars, etc. 29

Notices by the General BoardHumanities and Social Sciences Libraries

Sub-syndicate 29Notices by Faculty Boards, etc.

Annual Meetings of the Faculty Boards 29Examination in Modern South Asian Studies

for the M.Phil. Degree, 2013–14 30

End of the Official Part of the ‘Reporter’

College NoticesVacancies 31Elections 31Other Notices 31

Societies, etc.Philosophical Society 31

External NoticesUniversity of Oxford 31

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NOTICES

Calendar20 October, Sunday. Preacher before the University at 11.15 a.m., The Reverend Dr N. Sagovsky, CL, Canon Emeritus of

Westminster Abbey and Whitelands Professorial Fellow, University of Roehampton. End of first quarter of Michaelmas Term.

22 October, Tuesday. Discussion at 2 p.m. in the Senate-House.26 October, Saturday. Congregation of the Regent House at 11 a.m. 1 November, Friday. All Saints Day. Scarlet Day. 3 November, Sunday. Commemoration of Benefactors. Scarlet Day. Preacher before the University at 11.15 a.m.,

Dr Jennifer Barnes, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for International Strategy and formerly President of Murray Edwards College (Lady Margaret’s Preacher).

Discussions at 2 p.m. Congregations22 October 26 October, Saturday at 11 a.m. 5 November 30 November, Saturday at 2 p.m.19 November 3 December

Annual ReportsThe following Annual Reports have been received by the General Board during the Michaelmas Term 2013 and are available on the websites indicated:Fitzwilliam Museum and Hamilton Kerr Institute Annual

Report 2011–12http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/about/

AnnualReport2011-12.pdfAnnual Report 2011–12 of the University Botanic Garden http://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/ (from the ‘About us’ tab)Scott Polar Research Institute Review 2012 http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/about/sprireview/2012/

VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, ETC.

Electors to the Professorship of Small Animal SurgeryThe Council has appointed members of the ad hoc Board of Electors to the Professorship of Small Animal Surgery as follows:

Professor John Rallison, T, in the Chair, as the Vice-Chancellor’s deputy

(a) on the nomination of the Council

Professor Daniel Brockman, Royal Veterinary CollegeProfessor Bryden Stanley, Michigan State University

(b) on the nomination of the General Board

Professor Nicholas Bacon, University of FloridaProfessor Duncan Lascelles, North Carolina State UniversityProfessor Duncan Maskell, W

(c) on the nomination of the Faculty Board of Veterinary Medicine

Professor Michael Herrtage, EDProfessor John Innes, University of LiverpoolProfessor James Wood, W

Vacancies in the UniversityA full list of current vacancies can be found at http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/.

Temporary Head of Fees and Graduate Funding in the Academic Division (Maternity Cover); salary: £37,382–£47,314; closing date: 28 October 2013; further particulars: http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/academic/jobs/; quote reference: AK01830

The University values diversity and is committed to equality of opportunity.The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

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EVENTS, COURSES, ETC.

Announcement of lectures, seminars, etc.The University offers a large number of lectures, seminars, and other events, many of which are free of charge, to members of the University and others who are interested. Details can be found on Faculty and Departmental websites, and in the following resources.

The What’s On website (http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/whatson/) carries details of exhibitions, music, theatre and film, courses, and workshops, and is searchable by category and date. Both an RSS feed and a subscription email service are available.

Talks.cam (http://www.talks.cam.ac.uk/) is a fully searchable talks listing service, and talks can be subscribed to and details downloaded.

Brief details of upcoming events are given below.

Faculty of History American History Seminars; Michaelmas Term programme; first seminar: The Prince of Darkness: Wall Street’s first black millionaire, by Shane White, on 14 October at 5 p.m.

http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/seminars/seminars-list/american-history-seminar

Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit

Michaelmas Term Research Seminars; first seminar: New Buddhist temples and ‘self-made’ ritual specialists in contemporary Ulaanbaatar, by Hanna Havnevik, on 15 October at 4.30 p.m.

http://www.innerasiaresearch.org/

NOTICES BY THE GENERAL BOARD

Humanities and Social Sciences Libraries Sub-syndicate

With immediate effectThe General Board give notice that, on the recommendation of the Library Syndicate and the Council of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, they have approved the establishment of a Humanities and Social Sciences Libraries Sub-syndicate to oversee affiliated libraries in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The General Board have therefore approved an amendment to the regulations for the Library Syndicate (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 656) as set out below.

By inserting new Regulation 10 as follows and renumbering the remaining regulations:

10. The Humanities and Social Sciences Libraries Sub-syndicate shall consist of:(a) one person appointed by the Library Syndicate;(b) one person appointed by each of the Faculty Boards of Economics, Education, and History; (c) two persons appointed by the Faculty Board of Human, Social, and Political Science;(d) one person appointed by each of the Boards of History and Philosophy of Science and Land Economy;(e) not more than two persons co-opted by the Sub-syndicate, provided that it shall not be obligatory to

co-opt any person or persons; (f) not more than two members of the University in statu pupillari co-opted by the Sub-syndicate.

Members in classes (a)–(d) shall serve for four years from 1 January following their appointment. Members in classes (e) and (f) shall serve until 31 December of the year in which they are co-opted or of the following year, as the Sub-syndicate shall decide at the time of their co-optation, provided that if a member in class (f) ceases to be in statu pupillari he or she shall thereupon cease to be a member in that class.

NOTICES BY FACULTY BOARDS, ETC.

Annual Meetings of the Faculty BoardsClinical Medicine The Chair of the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine gives notice that the Annual Meeting of the Faculty will be held at 3.45 p.m. on Tuesday, 19 November 2013, in the Committee Room, Level 4, School of Clinical Medicine. The business of the meeting will include a report by the Chair and the election of members of the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine in class (c) in accordance with Statute C, III, 7 and Statute C, IV, 2(c), to fill three vacancies. One will be filled to 31 December 2017 by a University Officer in the Faculty who is not a Professor or Associate Lecturer; one will be filled to 31 December 2017 by the holder of an NHS appointment at Consultant level, who is certified by the Faculty Board to

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be giving instruction to clinical medical students; and one will be filled to 31 December 2017 by a junior doctor who is certified by the Faculty Board to be giving instruction to clinical medical students.

Nominations for these elections, signed by the proposer, who must be a member of the relevant constituency mentioned above, and by the nominee indicating willingness to serve if elected, and notice of any other business, should be sent to: The Secretary of the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, Box 111, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0SP, to arrive no later than noon on Wednesday, 30 October 2013.

DivinityThe Chair of the Faculty Board of Divinity gives notice that the Annual Meeting of the Faculty will be held at 2.15 p.m. on Thursday, 14 November 2013, in the Lightfoot Room of the Divinity Building, West Road. The business to be discussed will include the Chair’s report and the election, in accordance with Statute C, IV, 2(c), of two members of the Faculty Board to serve for four calendar years in class (c), from 1 January 2014.

Nominations for the posts in class (c) must be seconded, and the consent of the candidate obtained in advance, and should reach the Administrative Officer, Faculty of Divinity, West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9BS, not later than Friday, 1 November 2013. Notice of any other business to be discussed should reach the Administrative Officer by the same date.

Examination in Modern South Asian Studies for the M.Phil. Degree, 2013–14The Centre of South Asian Studies, under the aegis of the Degree Committee for the Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science, gives notice that the mandatory and optional modules available to study for the M.Phil. in Modern South Asian Studies in the academical year 2013–14 will be:

SA1 Debates in South Asian Studies (core course):This will be examined by an essay of not more than 5,000 words on a topic chosen from a list approved by the Degree Committee.

SA2 Optional course:This will be examined by an essay of not more than 5,000 words on a topic under either (i), (ii), or (iii) below, chosen by the candidate from a list approved by the Degree Committee:

(i) Modern art and society: appropriating modernism in twentieth-century India(ii) Modern Indian society: development and social transformation(iii) Violence and non-violence: politics of modernity in twentieth century South Asia

J. W. NICHOLLS, Registrary

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COLLEGE NOTICES

VacanciesMagdalene College: Deakin Research Fellowship in Economics; tenure: three years from 1 October 2014; stipend: £18,430–£21,085; closing date: 18 November 2013; further particulars: http://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/

Stipendiary Research Fellowships, one in the Sciences, and one in the Humanities; tenure: three years from 1 October 2014; stipend: £18,430–£21,085; closing date: 18 November 2013; further particulars: http://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/

Sidney Sussex College: Stipendiary Research Fellowship in the Sciences, and Stipendiary Research Fellowship in specified areas in Humanities and Social Sciences; start date: from 1 September 2014; tenure: three years; closing date: 4 November 2013; applications and further particulars: http://www.sid.cam.ac.uk/aboutus/personnel/

ElectionsQueens’ CollegeElected into a Research Fellowship in International Law from 1 October 2013:

Federica Isabella Paddeu, B.A., Abogado Elected into a Research Fellowship in Biochemistry from 1 October 2013:

Iñigo Martincorena, B.Sc., Navarra, Ph.D., DAR Elected into an Official Fellowship from 1 October 2013:

Rowan Michael Carling Kitt, B.A., Durham, M.A., Birkbeck

Elected into a Bye-Fellowship from 1 October 2013:

Rev. Timothy Charles Harling, B.Sc., Southampton, B.A., Westcott House

Elected into a Bye-Fellowship in Law from 1 October 2013:

Andria Malaysia Hutchings, M.A., Q Elected into an Official Fellowship in English from 1 October 2013:

Sarah Haggarty, B.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., CTH Elected into an Official Fellowship in Politics from 1 October 2013

Christopher John Bickerton, B.A., D.E.A., Geneva, D.Phil., Oxford

Robinson CollegeElected into a Fellowship in Class B with effect from 1 October 2013:

Dr Amy Louise Erickson, B.A., University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D., G

Other NoticesDowning College: There will be a memorial service for Mr Richard Stibbs, M.A., PEM, University Senior Computer Officer, Junior Proctor (2000–01) and Senior Pro-Proctor (2012), Fellow, President, Praelector, Fellows’ Steward, and Secretary to the Governing Body of Downing College. The service will be held in Downing College Chapel on 23 November 2013 at 11 a.m., followed by refreshments. Those wishing to attend should contact Mrs Rowena Erby, the Master’s PA, Downing College (email: rsve2@cam.ac.uk, tel.: (01223) 334806).

Newnham College: The Principal and Fellows of Newnham College are honoured to be hosting a celebration of the life of Jean Floud CBE, former Principal of Newnham (1972–83) on Saturday, 2 November 2013 at 2 p.m. Guests are welcome and invited for tea afterwards. Those wishing to attend should let the Roll and Development Office know (email: roll@newn.cam.ac.uk).

SOCIETIES, ETC.

Philosophical SocietyProfessor Mike Payne FRS, Head of Theory of Condensed Matter Group, Department of Physics, will deliver the Larmor Lecture entitled Physics, chemistry, materials science, and biology from the Schrodinger equation, in the Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, on 14 October 2013 at 6 p.m.

EXTERNAL NOTICES

University of Oxford

Christ Church, Merton, and St John’s Colleges: Junior Research Fellowships; stipend: £21,383; closing date: 29 November 2013; further particulars: http://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/general-information/employment

Nuffield College: Three-year Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics, and Three-year Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Sociology; stipend: £23,548 plus research budget, and allowances; closing date: 4 November 2013; further particulars: http://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/About/Vacancies

Notices for publication in the Reporter should be sent to the Editor, Cambridge University Reporter, Registrary’s Office, The Old Schools, Cambridge, CB2 1TN (tel. 01223 332305, email reporter.editor@admin.cam.ac.uk). Copy should be sent as early

as possible in the week before publication; short notices will be accepted up to 4 p.m. on Thursday for publication the following Wednesday. Inclusion of notices is at the discretion of the Editor.

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