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University of Cambridge DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE A reminder that tomorrow, Tuesday 17 May, at 5.00 in Seminar Room 2 Barbara Duden (Professor of Sociology, University of Hanover) will speak, in the series "From Generation to Reproduction", on "'Pop-genes': How gene-talk uproots perception and mobilizes to manage risks". A pioneering cultural historian of the body, Barbara Duden is the author, among many other works, of "The Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-century Germany" (Harvard 1991) and "Disembodying Women: Perspectives on Pregnancy and the Unborn" (Harvard 1993). She has won the Women in Science award of the History of Science Society and the American Anthropological Society's Basker Award for Outstanding Research. Tomorrow's talk draws on a recently-completed project on the meanings of 'genes' in everyday life. We'll have tea and biscuits in Seminar Room 1 from 4.40 and beer in the Eagle from 6.30. All welcome. Nick Hopwood