KING’S Spring 2007 PARADE a newsletter for members of King’s College, Cambridge Editor’s Letter College Forthcoming events Fellows’ books Encompassing the Globe In brief news Professor Jean-Michel Massing (1980) is guest curator for a King’s at the Royal Society Japan through the forthcoming exhibition in Washington DC, which brings together Aspects of Aspects This issue has three main strands: the life 250 extraordinary objects reflecting the cross-cultural dialogue After the Bank of England and India House, the third in our series Looking Glass Professor Sir Frank Kermode (1974, sciences, ideal communities and the life of that followed the of London Receptions is to be held at the Royal Society. King’s is Honorary Fellow) gave the Clark Lectures current students. establishment of inviting Members living and working in London to join the Provost, Alan Macfarlane (1971) in Cambridge in March 2007, under the Portugal's world Last October our student telephone Professor Ross Harrison (1975) and other Fellows to hear about Profile Books, August 2007 title ‘Some lesser-known aspects of E.M. trading network in the fundraisers told us you wanted to hear more developments in the life sciences and to discuss the issues involved Forster’. E.M Forster himself gave the Clark Japan – ultra-modern, efficient, urbanised, 16th and 17th Lectures in 1927, under the title Aspects of about student life in King’s now, so this time in bringing new technologies to market. Guest speakers include the second-largest economy in the world – is centuries. One such the Novel. An edited version of all three there’s a section devoted to undergraduate news and concerns, a Professor Azim Surani (1992), who is profiled in this issue, an enigma, a mystery to its Asian object is the steatite lectures was published in the London ‘My PhD’ column and a cover designed by a current student. But Honorary Fellows Dr Hermann Hauser (1973) and David neighbours, to the west, even to itself. figure shown here. In Review of Books on 10 May. www.lrb.co.uk

lest there be bias in this feedback … there is also a new way for Sainsbury (1959, Lord Sainsbury of Turville). Professor Barry PHOTO: KHOURY FRANKO Japanese customs and culture have baffled his article "Steatite you to let us know what you think and feel about King’s – an online Keverne (1985) will chair the forum. generations of travellers. Countless Carving and Ivory Global Capitalism survey. You will find more about this in the note from Joelle du Lac, difficulties remain to trip up the tourist, catch Wednesday 19 September, from 6.00 p.m. Sculpture in Sierra An informal three-part meeting on Global Director of Development. out the passing academic, and ensnare the Invitations will be sent. Leone in the Sixteenth Capitalism organised by the Centre for unwary business person. Alan Macfarlane I found a rather bucolic ‘south of England’ theme underlying some Century", Jean-Michel History and Economics, took place in takes the reader on an exploration into every of the material I received from Members this time. There’s a book KCA Day – Music at King’s studies the original King's College on 27 April, with aspect of Japanese society from the most meaning of the on Dorset churches; another which invites us to share a tranquil This year’s KCA Day on Saturday 16 June will celebrate all things presentations by, among others, Honorary public to the most intimate – from religion sculptures, and day at Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight, and The Curlew, a CD of musical at King’s, and includes performances from the Dante Quartet, Fellow Eric Hobsbawm (1936), and and ritual to hot baths and geishas, crime identifies the engraved songs by Peter Warlock which contains settings of Belloc’s poems cellist Anton Lukoszevieze, jazz singer Torben Rees (2002), King’s Male Figure (nomoli), Sierra Leone, Fellows Emma Rothschild (1988) and and gangs to politics and the family. Guinea, 15th-17th century, Nomoli sources used by the about West Sussex. Chaplain, Richard Lloyd Morgan and Collegium Regale. Invitations Gareth Stedman Jones (1975). style, Steatite, 19cm, National carver of the three have been sent to those who have attended KCA Day regularly over Museum of African Art, Smithsonian www-histecon.kings.cam.ac.uk After the Archaeology and Anthropology Day last October King’s Shakespeare’s Entrails: Belief, early sixteenth century the last three years, to members of the King’s College Choir Institution. Parade asked Members to write about what they do now and what Scepticism and the Interior of pyxides, in a Book of Association, to those who read Music as well as the year groups 1987- Kavli Institute for Cosmology they remembered of supervisions – a selection of the many Hours printed in Paris between 1509 and 1511. 90. Space is limited, so please contact the Development Office for the Body responses is on page 10. George Efstathiou (1980) will lead the available places. The cost, which includes lunch, is £52 per person. David Hillman (2004) Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th and new institute (currently under There’s now a green flurry going on in King’s. Caroline Davidson 17th Centuries is at the Arthur M Sackler Gallery, Washington DC construction) when it opens in October Palgrave (1972) and the Cookson Trust have given the Library a very large For more information please contact Amy Ingle in the June 24 – September 16, 2007. 2008. He is currently director of the collection of books on climate change and related topics. And the Development Office on +44 1223 331443. Shakespeare's Entrails puts side by side a Institute of Astrophysics. [email protected] www.kings.cam.ac.uk reading of Shakespeare's plays and a Prof Massing’s new book The World Discovered (Studies in catering department has announced its commitment to a greener Imagery, II) is forthcoming. future for all – a new labelling system will enable you to identify the history of the human body; it attempts to Silent Aircraft Initiative Note from the Director of Development map out some of the changes which notions origin of produce served in the Cafeteria and Coffee Shop. Cesare Hall (1992) is looking at future of embodiment underwent during the Truth, lies and global warming I have already had the pleasure of meeting quite a number of Non aero-engine designs for low emissions. His At the Foundation Lunch in March, Tam Dalyell’s speech about course of the Renaissance, taking into Resident Members since arriving in September, and will be meeting Global warming has reached King’s library – the first three research has included the propulsion King’s Fellows from his time was entertaining and moving; and account medical, anatomical, architectural, many more of you at various events this summer. But I am keen to get bookcases are now full of up to date publications on the system design for the University of afterwards, in several conversations I was struck by the inventive literary and philosophical perspectives. The to know you even better. subject. You will find everything from the Stern Review and the Cambridge/MIT Silent Aircraft Initiative. range of approaches to retirement dreamed up by Kingsmen. If you book is above all about how we imagine latest IPCC report – to Lifting the lid: an ecological approach to www.silentaircraft.org. Cesare will be In a new departure for the College, I have recently sent four thousand would care to reflect on the topic for a subsequent issue I would be that we come to know one another in an toilet systems, and Thin ice: climate change and the Inuit sense part of a team presenting this project at of you (those whose emails the Development Office holds) a survey – very pleased to hear from you. embodied way. of weather. The collection is a gift from Caroline Davidson the Royal Society summer science by email. In the survey, part of which will be interpreted by computer, I (1972) and the Cookson Trust and will provide King's with a exhibition 2 – 5 July 2007. It is free and In September, Members living and working in London are invited to ask you to rate various aspects of your ‘King’s experience’, whether as READER OFFER unique resource. King's College website features a page open to all. www.royalsoc.ac.uk a Reception at the Royal Society, to join the Provost and Fellows undergraduates, graduate students or as alumni. With Non Resident Shakespeare’s Entrails is dedicated to this collection. It carries a downloadable select (some of whom are featured in this issue) for a panel discussion Members of so many generations and interests, I hope the responses Environmental remediation published in hardback by bibliography compiled by Caroline Davidson and a web forum about developments in the life sciences and the processes involved you supply will enable me, and the King’s College Association, to tailor Palgrave Macmillan priced for discussion. 'We hope this collection will provoke thought, Alex Orlov (2005) has been appointed to in bringing new technologies to market. The team from the communications and events in a more sophisticated way, with more £50.00. It is available to generate debate and stimulate further discussion and Defra’s Advisory Committee on Hazardous Development Office look forward to welcoming you. understanding of your needs and desires. That’s the theory anyway. King’s Parade readers at the research,' said Wai Kirkpatrick, Assistant Librarian. Substances. Alex was appointed because of And I look forward to hearing your news and views as usual. As this survey will also be available online on the King’s website until special discounted price of his knowledge in areas such as water quality 1 July, may I encourage you to complete it? This will make £25.00 + postage and and environmental remediation. “It’s vital Alison Carter communicating with you about events, and other matters, easier (and packing. Quote that decisions are informed by real science, [email protected] cheaper) for the College as well as being an important source of up to WHILLMAN2007a when not by scare-stories, and I look forward to helping make sure that government Please see the website date addresses and other information. ordering from www.palgrave.com ministers are given sound advice." www.kings.cam.ac.uk for details of all I am not asking you to fill in your name, but a prize is on offer if you http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/ao220/ forthcoming events and concerts, or choose to do so – dinner for two in the Saltmarsh Study with overnight contact the Development Office. accommodation in the Rylands Suite, or wine to an equivalent value. More books by Fellows Plashy fen [email protected] Please don’t miss this chance to let me know what you think. A new Penguin edition of Plato’s Republic,by Long disused water vole burrows along November 2006 saw Members gather for the third 1441 Joelle du Lac the ditch at the back of King’s may once Melissa Lane (1989) is forthcoming and a Foundation Dinner – sponsored by Oliver Dawson. Left to The cover design is by Chris Green (2005, again prove desirable residences – once Fellow and Director of Development new translation by Peter Avery (1958), The right: Robin Boyle (1955), Geoffrey Wilson (1949), dredging has taken place this summer. Architecture). He also designed the poster for www.kings.cam.ac.uk Collected Lyrics of Hafiz of Shiraz,is Martin Reavley (1973), Jafar Maan al Askari (1957), Questing voles should apply to the Second college news editors’ letter the 2007 King's Affair 'Aftermath' to be held on Development Office, King’s College, Cambridge CB2 1ST published by Archetype. Julia Hands (1979), Oliver Dawson (1949), Adrian Cadbury | | (1949), Hal Dixon (1946), Hugh Johnson (1957). Bursar Dr David Munday. 2 Wednesday 20 June. www.kingsaffair.com 01223 331443 3 Cydonia oblonga 18 April 2007 4 | parade profile: Professor Azim Surani Professor AzimSuraniProfessor nttt.HetalkstoAlisonCarter. Institute. Laboratories at theWellcome Trust CancerResearch UKGurdon theWellcome andHeadof andReproduction, Physiology isMarshall –Walton Professor of FRS, Azim Surani (1992), Parade Profile: in hisfamilyhad anyconnectionwith town ontheshores ofLakeVictoria. Noone Azim grewupinKenya, inKisumu,asmall some basicbiography. researchers inhislab.But first, backto meet someoftheyounginternational important partofhiscurrentresearch –and shown somestemcells–whicharean and Cancer ResearchUK.Lateron,Iwillbe Court RoadfundedbytheWellcome Trust at thenewGurdon InstituteonTennis We aretalkinginAzim’s small,lightoffice and silenced. which examineshowgenesareactivated since thesequencingofgenomeand young branchofbiology, whichhasgrown important oneforepigenetics,arelatively properly nurtured.Thisdiscoverywasan offspring (andthushisgenes)wouldbe way ensurethathis that themalecouldinthis imagine, ofmothermice) the chagrin,onemight silent. Itseemedtoshow(to while themother’s copywas from thefathermouse, only activewhenpassedon ‘maternal behaviour’ was the generegulatingthis King’s) alsoreportedthat Keverne (1985,aFellow at collaboration withBarry published in their offspring.Thepaper, Mest) shamefullyneglected without thisgene(called dubbed. Mothermice gene, asitwassubsequently found the‘good mother’ headlines in1998,whenhe Azim Surani’s workhitthe Science Professor AzimSurani in for me–it it wasalotoffun …andthatwasverygood after myexperienceinLondon and Glasgow much workforthetwoyearsIwas there, This was1970–andalthoughI didn’t do looked up.“IwenttoParis, to alabIknew. productive” hemovedtoFrance andlife time atuniversityas“notparticularly subject topoliceattention.Describinghis studies andwas,likemanyimmigrants, – hetookavarietyofjobstohelppayforhis friendly, andwhitepeopleevensweptstreets culture shockatfirst –thenativeswereoften and AzimcametoLondonstudy. A bilharzia.” Kenya becamemoreunsettled whites only. Thelakehadcrocodilesand swimming pool,anditwasattheclubfor lived rightontheequator…therewasone Kenya beforeindependencein1964.“We growing upintheverysegregatedsocietyof vivid snapshotoflifeasanAfrican-Asianboy he couldgetdowntohiswork.He offersa But therewasalongishpathtotravelbefore most ofhisprofessionallife. answering variouspartsofthisquestionfor can’t mammalsdoit?”He hasbeen “If lizardsdoit,whycan’t micedoit?Why question whichisofinterest contribution fromsperm. whole animal,withoutanypaternal – theeggitselfissufficient tomakethe “Some speciesoflizardareparthenogenetic question aboutvirginbirth,heexplains. reproduction goesbacktoafundamental reckons. His life-longinterestin and lizards.“That’s whereitallstarted,” he samples –microscopicthings,butterflies became akeenvolunteercollectorof inspired byhisexcellentbiologyteacher, he had aBritishCouncillibrary. Initially with asmallsciencelabandthetownalso science, butKisumuHigh Schoolwasgood, iee my widened horizons.” ,” heemphasises. And thisisthe is “One gene,‘insulin-likegrowthfactor2’ breakthrough inscientific understanding. which thismarkinghappens,wasamajor ‘genomic imprinting’, themechanism by Institute, Azim’s discovery, in1984,of established in1979attheBabraham placenta.” By now workinginhisownlab, fertilised eggwhichbecomesthe trophoblast –theouterlayerof they arebetterabletomakethe the malechromosomesaremarkedso are betterabletomaketheembryo,and chromosomes are‘marked’ sothatthey female. We foundthatthefemale contributions fromthemaleand (but notsomelizards)need eventually wasthereasonwhymammals make aplacenta.Whatwefound stopped growingwasthatitcouldn’t growing. “Onereasontheconceptus Quite alongway, itturnedout–butthentheembryostopped the mouseeggwithoutfertilisation–howfarwoulditgo?” “We wantedtoknowwhatwouldhappenifyoucouldswitchon virgin birthbasically, andthatwasthestartingpoint.” interested withoneortwocolleaguesonaproblem,todo and hesaidgoawaydowhateveryouwant,Igot was thatBobverybusytryingtodohisresearchonIVF, studentship, andbecamehisPhDsupervisor. “Thesituation was justdriftingaround.”BobEdwardsgotAzimanMRC - IVF).“Icouldhaveendedupanywhere.Therewasnoplan.I were known. the keygenesinvolved intheformationofgerm cellsinmice Before thiswork waspublishedjusttwoyears ago,noneof mechanism ofhowprimordial germcellsareformedinmice. over thepast5yearshasfor first timeidentified the have formed–weareatday7.5 afterfertilisation.His work developing embryonicmouse gonads afewdaysafterthey They aregermcellsbeforethey startmigratingintothe small fluorescentgreendotsinapurposeful-lookingcluster. fertilisation,” heexplains,showingmeaphotographofsome germ cells’. “Themarkingitselfoccursmuchearlieron, future eggsandspermaredescendentsofthese‘primordial generations; thebodycellsperishwitheachindividual.All fertilisation andprovideanenduringlinkbetweenall in thesensethattheygenerateawholeorganismupon Germ cells,theprecursors ofspermandeggs,areimmortal Walton Professor, andhestartedtofocuson germcells. Azim returnedtotheUniversityin1992asMarshall- this way? remain silentinembryos?Andwhyhasthesystemevolved parental copyisswitchedofforsilent.But howdosuchgenes parent, andinthese‘marked’ or‘imprinted'genes,one genes are‘marked’ asoriginatingfromthemaleorfemale dependent onthegenethatcomeswithsperm.”About 80 in theembryo.Sogrowthoffoetusiscompletely comes fromthefather. Themother’s copyiscompletelysilent that thecopyisactiveone foetus,” heexplains.“And itturnsout meeting withR.G.Edwards(thepioneerof He hasbeeninCambridge since1972,thankstoachance absolutely essential for thegrowthof

PHOTO: YASUHIDE OHINATA vitro in o h salsmn fthe germ celllineage. for theestablishment of which iscritical Blimp1, expressing akey gene, primordial germ cells(seenasgreen cells) gestation showingfounderpopulation of mouseembryo at 7.5day of Posterior viewof fertilisation before lot ofpotential…”Itsoundslikeanunderstatement. loss ofmemoryinthecells.We areawarethatthiswouldhavea are formed.Cancer cellsactuallyforgetwhattheyare –thereisa mechanism mightalsoilluminatesomeaspectsofhowcancers conceptually weknewthatthiswouldhappen.Thesurprise marks couldgoinyouhadtowipeouttheoldones.So chromosomes getmarkeditwasobviousthatbeforethenew story. “Whenwestartedtothinkabouttheway getting increasinglyengagedwiththisprimordialdetective As herecountstheeditedhighlightsofthirtyyears’ workIam embryos willstarttoturnintosperm.” process whichwillturnthemintoeggs.Andthoseinmale differences start–germcellsthatareinfemaleembryosa embryo. But twodaysaftertheymigrateintothegonads germ cellsthatareforminginamaleembryoorfemale Azim explains:“Initiallythereisn’t anydistinctionbetween www.gurdon.cam.ac.uk/surani.html regulation inmammalianembryos. for pioneering workonepigenetic gene Distinguished Work inBasicMedicalScience Rosenstiel Award for the 2007Lewis S. He hasjustbeenawarded dedifferentiation. genomic reprogramming and mechanisms of pluripotentstemcellsandthe include research His interests also germ line. themammalian epigenetic reprogramming of andthe primordial cellsinmammals, germ specificationof focused onthemechanism of More recent workhas imprinting inmice. genomic thephenomenonof discovery of Azim Surani’s the pastworkincludes them. Thereisthepossibilitythat and indeedmakenewgermcellsfrom mature cellstobehavelikestemcells, perhaps re-programmeanyadult information inthegermcell,wecan in thisnaturalwipingoutofepigenetic understand themechanismsinvolved biomedical research.“Oncewe mechanism tobethenewfrontierin He considersthisareaofepigenetic stem cells. may holdthekeytofutureworkon hard drive,andiswhereAzim’s work like thelossofdataonacomputer’s organism.” Thisre-programmingis fertilised eggabletogiveusthewhole important steptowardsmakingthe developing spermandeggs.It’s avery in preparationforthenewones hours –theoldmarksarecleanedout They getre-programmedinafew process andavery was tofind thatit’s averyactive dramatic process.

5 | parade profile: Professor Azim Surani A stretch of the imagination Bringing technology to market

Hermann Hauser (1973, Honorary Fellow), the man behind Acorn Digging for the conceptual economy New Fellow Stéphanie Lacour (2006) has been working to create a and ARM, has just helped raise the largest venture round in material which behaves like a rubber band – it stretches and Europe for Plastic Logic – a revolutionary plastic chip and display Deborah Wince-Smith (1973) reflects on what the company. He tells Alison Carter about bringing Cambridge study of archaeology has contributed to her work as snaps back to its original shape – yet also conducts electricity. technology to market. President of the Council on Competitiveness. As the Council’s President, I work to help set a national action I first interviewed Hermann Hauser when he was agenda to drive U.S. competitiveness, productivity and leadership spinning out ARM. An acronym for Advanced Risc in world markets. Today, the old linkages between scientific and Machines, this is the company which developed the For her PhD, in Lyon, Stéphanie Lacour We are talking over lunch, a free-range egg and technological leadership, national economic performance and risc chip and grew a successful business licensing worked on developing microsensors to anchovy sandwich taken in a corner of the SCR individual prosperity are no longer guaranteed. Advanced nations them. “ARM is the most amazing story we have measure skin hydration – it’s part of the among the crush of Fellows browsing papers now compete with countries newly empowered with high-skilled, locally - 80% of the world’s phones have ARMs in science behind those expensive moisturising and periodicals, gossiping or trying to be low-wage workforces, growing scientific and technical capabilities, them, it’s the Intel of the phone.” They sold two and products. The water content of the epidermis invisible. Stéphanie is attending a lecture course modern infrastructure, and the purchasing power of discerning a half billion of them last year alone. Ten years later, affects its ability to conduct heat, so measuring this term which brings her near enough to come global consumers. I believe the path to prosperity is to embrace the sitting in the same room at Amadeus, his venture the skin’s thermal conductivity provides a way into King’s twice a week – relatively uncommon Dr Hermann Hauser rapidly emerging “conceptual economy” — a new system of PHOTO: ALISON CARTER capital company, he tells me about the next big of measuring hydration. Her subsequent post- for Fellows in the Sciences. “Here I work across wealth creation and prosperity driven not by materials or physical thing – plastic chips. “There are few companies with as fundamental a new doc project at Princeton involved evaluating three departments, brawn, but by brainpower, knowledge, creativity, and risk taking. technology as Plastic Logic. It happens once a decade. We will be putting a thin-film materials and devices on an elastic Materials Science, the new semi-conductor into production – last time that happened was 50 years When I came to study classical archaeology at King’s, I could not polymeric substrate (artificial rubber) called Centre for Brain ago with silicon – it’s a fundamental shift and it’s very exciting.” And it’s the have imagined that my life long interest in ancient civilizations poly-dimethyl siloxane. Repair, and Cavendish lab that produced it. would play a pivotal role in shaping my perspective and future Engineering. I really career. Yet as I studied the Bronze Age Aegean world of Minoan After a few months at Princeton, she enjoy the This is particularly gratifying for Hauser, a former Cavendish physics student. Crete and Mycenaean Greece of the second millennium BC, I discovered that thin gold films on such multidisciplinary “I worked two doors down from Richard (Prof Sir Richard Friend – whose came to see it as a dynamic world of innovation, risk taking, and rubber-like substrates could stretch up to aspects of my work. group provided the break-through technology for Plastic Logic) when I did my cultural change. Possession and use of “know-how,” the ability to Dr Stéphanie Lacour twice their length and still remain electrically At King’s I interact PhD. I jumped when he told me about this.” Hauser believes that one manage complex supply chains, and creating value from design conductive. “I’ve been lucky! It just worked with people whose application of the new technology in flexible A4 size plastic displays (this e- and artistry brought these civilizations wealth and power. They when I tried with gold.” The process involved backgrounds are very paper will be available in 2008) will transform the delivery of printed were prototype “conceptual economies” because they became evaporating a gold film onto the silicone rubber different from mine – information. “You will be able to download your newspaper from the phone, idea incubators. atom by atom, until it coated the surface to this is mind opening.” and your books from Google; store them on a stick and you can carry your form a layer a few nanometers thick. Gold is Archaeology imparts key skills for navigating the conceptual whole library with you.” At an estimated $35 billion, it’s the largest market ever quite ductile, and soft, compared to other The applications of Array of amorphous silicon economy. By definition, archaeologists search for bits and pieces addressed with new technology – and that’s why they managed to raise the metals. Typically a thin metal film can stretch the emergent thin-film transistors, fabricated of information — locked in a grave, as scattered pottery, the largest venture round in Europe ever, $120 million. He also argues that e- by a few tenths of a percent before failing. But technology are on silicone rubber remains of a meal or a clothing fragment — to reconstruct the books will cut emissions. “If the process to make a 250-page book generates once bonded to the rubbery substrate, the gold exciting, and are being puzzle of the past and reveal an unseen world. Similarly, in the 3kg of CO2, and a 1gb memory stick carries a thousand novels – then one e- film does not fail even after a 10% stretch, taken up by scientists working on brain trauma conceptual economy, the ability to “see the unseen” is vital to book can save 3 tonnes of CO2!” Lacour discovered. “This was very exciting but and nerve repair, including James Fawcett, also divining what is important in an avalanche of information, fusing we couldn’t explain why the film on rubber a King’s Fellow. “The brain and nerves are very bits of knowledge and technology to create something of value, With all the science coming out of Cambridge they must be behaved like this – and it’s taken us four years soft. We might be able to develop long-term and seeing opportunity in a highly fragmented, ever-changing beating a path to his door at Amadeus. “One of the great to understand what’s happening.” neurone implants with this technology.” consumer market. advantages of living in Cambridge for so long is that I’m a known quantity – so we have the deal flow. We look on average at 100 An archaeologist’s Now imagine this new material dotted with In September 2006 Stéphanie Lacour was honoured deals for every one investment, which is the industry average.” He perspective on how the minute sensors – and it could be a second skin. by MIT Technology Review Magazine as one of sets strict criteria for funding applications. “There are three things pieces of the puzzle fit In fact, creating artificial skin is one of Lacour’s their 35 Young Innovators. most venture capitalists look at: firstly, size and growth rate of the together for meaning and ultimate aims. “Human skin is soft and elastic, market (can we build a big company?). Secondly, the quality of the impact has served me well but although this quality can be mimicked by www.nanoscience.cam.ac.uk/ Hermann Hauser, team. We always look for one star – in Cambridge that’s often a throughout my career. rubbery materials such as silicone, recreating Chris Curry, and Acorn technical star. It’s easier to build the rest of the team around them. Without deep, expert sensitivity to pressure and temperature is more computer, c1980 It doesn’t need to be a complete team, we are happy to bring other knowledge on every issue, I challenging.” If the gold conductors embedded people to the party. And finally, it must be defensible technology – so it can be have been able to identify in the flexible material are connected to silicon protected against others who might muscle in.” what is important, see key transistors and microsensors it could create an relationships, and act on that electronic surface which could sense pressure, or Was he always going to be an entrepreneur? “No - I really had two things I understanding. heat, making it potentially skin-like in its ability thought I was going to do. One was to become a lecturer in physics and the to monitor and send back information. “At the other was to go back to join my father’s wine business in Austria. Then Chris Deborah Wince-Smith spent a year studying archaeology at King’s after moment, the ‘prosthetic skin’ available to cover Curry came along and said we should start a company, and I said how much graduating Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from Vassar College. prosthetic limbs looks natural but is just does it cost and he said £50. If it had cost £1000 we wouldn’t have done it!” In 1989, the United States Senate confirmed her as the first Assistant cosmetic. One day the patient might be able to That company was Acorn. And you know what they say about small acorns. Secretary of Commerce for Technology Policy. She is now President of feel the limb too.” Stretchable metallization: thin gold films on the Council on Competitiveness, a national leadership organization bringing technology to market | | of a stretch – Stéphanie Lacour the imagination www.compete.org 6 silicone rubber www.amadeuscapital.com based in Washington, DC. 7 PHOTO: PIT KLEMM Making ideal communities: three members share their experiences Inverie, Knoydart Peninsula, 6 March 2000

Father Luke Bell (1971) read English, and is now Structural engineer Philip Cooper (1971) was a member of the design team of a sustainable Community land buy-outs – in it for the long term a monk at Quarr Abbey, a Benedictine monastery conference centre built for an enlightened philanthropist. It also gave him the chance to realise a on the Isle of Wight. He reflects on life at Quarr long-held dream. In March 1999 Gwen Barrell (1986) moved to Knoydart, a remote land-locked peninsula on the west coast and at King’s. of the Scottish Highland. Here she reflects on the challenges of living in an isolated community of about 100 people. King’s and Quarr have obvious similarities architecturally – both arranged round quadrangles The ownership of land in owned, though once exclusively private estate – and dominated by a place of worship. But while Scotland has been politically but do get a little sick sometimes of them the worship at King’s has great beauty and charged for centuries, but a peeping through our windows and taking our dignity, I think it would be fair to say that the lives new impetus to both the photos! And of course we have lots and lots of of the residents are not organised around it in the debate and the reality has committees, working groups, policy groups … same way as the lives of monks are organised come over the past ten years alongside the inevitable (though easily forgotten around their worship. And a couple of years into with a wave of “buy-outs” the next day) debates in the bar! my time at King’s, women were admitted to the whereby communities have Just as at King’s, I’ve found myself on most of the college. I don’t expect this to happen at my bought their land – either on committees at one time or another (we take turns) monastery! the open market, from the receivers or in some over the past eight years – our main governance is There are also deeper connections between the recent cases, under the terms of the Scottish Land through a charity, of which we are all members, two ways of life. I could say that my life at King’s Reform Act, where the estate was not “for sale”. In but we also have two companies to manage our was in a way a preparation for my life as a monk. the Western Isles alone, 40% of the land and 70% renewable energy initiatives, our bunkhouse and It was a life lived in a community whose purpose of the population are now part of community land our deer management programme. This is a pretty was the disinterested pursuit of truth. It was initiatives, marking a huge movement away from standard format for any development trust, but never simply a matter of following a particular absentee landlord-ism towards local self- what’s much more unique here is how close we course of study with a view to a qualification. governance. Community buy-outs are seen as are to what we are managing. If the electricity Rather, the fact of living with others whose “forever”. There is a sense of long-term goes off, someone has to sort out the generator specialities were different from mine meant that custodianship, not only for the local resident The Pines Calyx ™ Centre and pinpoint the problems. If a cottage comes up there was always an openness to thought about community, but to preserve the unique wildlife for tenancy we have to decide who is the most any and everything. It was a training in being As a young lecturer teaching structural design to structural elegance and audacity of these wafer thin habitats, to restore local communities and to needy. There is no buffer of a faceless willing to put on hold one’s immediate architects in the 1970s I discovered a tiny book in the vaults, built without formwork or steel, captivated me maintain access to the land for the public. University Library called Cohesive Construction, written – and I longed to build a tile vault in England. In 2003 bureaucracy to take the blame. conclusions to enter into a common search for a In Knoydart, a well-publicised buy-out happened truth that transcended what could be in 1893 by Raphael Guastavino. In its day this I finally got the chance. And my day job? I run a small restaurant with following years of upheaval, innumerable changes immediately reached on one’s own. Now that I inspirational handbook of tile vaulting had convinced letting rooms, buying local produce from my The vision Alistair Gould had for The Pines Calyx ™ in landlord and lack of investment and stability, am a monk, I am again engaged in a search for his American clients that his method of building was neighbours, baking bread every day, keeping bees, Centre was of an educational venue which would ‘touch so the infrastructure, land and buildings were in truth: the absolute truth that is God. This too is a strong, economical and efficient. Guastavino’s Spanish growing herbs (and of course washing lots of the hearts’ of all visitors, promote a more healthy very poor repair. The immediate challenges for common search, undertaken in community, a timbrel vault – a thin, curved structure made of layers dishes and making lots of beds). My long vacation lifestyle, and demonstrate truly sustainable construction. such a remote community were to repair the community that includes not only the brothers of ordinary tiles – is a fireproof system of building is now in the winter, when the visitors are away, and Built on a sloping chalk site at St Margaret’s Bay near sputtering hydro-electric scheme as we are not with whom I live, but also the many who have floors and roofs which is now almost extinct. The I have some time to put into the bigger Knoydart Dover, it is constructed from materials harvested from its grid connected, to gut and renovate uninhabitable lived this life before me picture. Our Knoydart Foundation project is a huge own site. The low-energy building has rammed chalk cottages (many were inhabited!) and to try to and formed its tradition. one – with ongoing challenges about creating viable walls, and joinery and furniture made from the three develop some income to fund the necessary long- As when I was at King’s, I democratic forms, managing our responsibilities as mature trees felled to make way for the building. Tiles term land management of this wilderness area. need to put aside my own charity trustees and company directors, looking for the dome-vaulted roofs were made from local clay, As we have no road, we are totally dependent on immediate assumptions: after the land for the future, and building up and they are covered with soft green downland turf. Cool ferry and work-boat transport, so this adds this time, in the quest for community infrastructure. Remote living is often in summer and warm in winter, its humidity is naturally another aspect (and cost) to anything we do. a humility that will open romanticised – it’s not just a walk along the beach regulated by the chalk walls. me to the transcendent I sometimes reflect that living in Knoydart is not … but then of course one of the joys of our mystery of the divine. The building recently won the Sustainable Building unlike living in Kings – we are in an envied and beautiful peninsula is that it is that too… category in the 2007 Sustainable City Awards for its near beautiful place (though here is wild rather than zero-carbon design. built); often inward-looking, but part of a I welcome any contact from King’s alumni. A Deep and Subtle Joy, by Father Luke network of other communities. We have the Email [email protected] or Bell is published by Paulist Press. www.pinescalyx.co.uk same slightly uneasy relationship with tourists – www.thepierhouseknoydart.co.uk www.hiddenspringbooks.com making ideal communities

making ideal communities www.scottwilson.com www.knoydart-foundation.com we welcome them, of course, to this publicly |

| www.quarrabbey.co.uk 8 9 Making the Spanish timbrel vault The following Members of the College have presented their The Archaeology and Anthropology Day: 7 October 2006 own works to the College Library: FATHER LUKE BELL A deep and subtle joy: life at Quarr Abbey Anthropologists returned to the fold in October for a reunion and dinner in honour of I'm a director of documentary films … Last year I worked on PROFESSOR PETER BELLWOOD Stephen Hugh-Jones. King’s Parade took the chance to study them, discreetly, to ask "The Secret World of Voodoo", about how African religions them about supervisions and to find out what they’d been up to since leaving King’s. were taken by slaves to Brazil, Jamaica and North America. First farmers: the origins of agricultural societies At the moment I'm trying to complete a documentary on a community of witches I've been in touch with for ten years: MR EDMUND BOOTH "The Witches of Gambaga". I'm currently a Visiting Scholar at Earthquake design practice for buildings As an anthropologist I had the I am a publisher – I run an imprint the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana … (Co-author) opportunity to eat seal with the at Penguin Books, Fig Tree, which I and recently met an old supervisor of mine - Malcolm Mcleod. One supervision Inuit and a variety of snakes in launched a year ago, the writers I MR COLIN CHAMBERS in particular comes to mind - not so much the erudition of his supervision but Here we stand: politics, performers and lowland South America, but nothing publish are terrific – among them, where he took me afterwards. He invited me to lunch at his college - performance: Paul Robeson, Isadora I experienced came remotely close Zoe Heller; Miranda Carter; Marina Magdalene, I believe it was: lots of crusty old dons ruminating on bread and Duncan and Charlie Chaplin to eating in King’s in the late Lewycka; Alex Kapranos; … what I Stilton as they sipped beer from silver goblets. Unforgettable. DR YUNG-KANG ROBERT CHIN sixties. Imagine a gathering of do has absolutely nothing to do with anthropology at Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies A permanent magnet traction motor for males wearing black gowns and eating sprouts that all, except that everything I do involves understanding Yaba Badoe (1973) electric forklifts: design and iron loss had been boiled for at least an hour and meat which human beings, and I hope I occasionally apply the Professor Robert Foley (1987) Director of the Leverhulme Centre for analysis with experimental verifications bore no resemblance to any known animal. All this in intellectual rigour I learned at King's … My best Human Evolutionary Studies (LCHES), told guests about the genesis of I applied to read Soc. Anth simply because I happened to MR RUPERT CHRISTIANSEN cooking juices, not sauce. With nothing to drink. A memories are of third year supervisions with Stephen the centre, which was established in 2000. “It grew out of the work of the read the published version of Edmund Leach’s Reith The complete book of aunts good friend, who later went home to run the Bank of Hugh-Jones and Madeleine Piper as my co student. King's College Research Centre project on the Evolution of Human Lectures, ‘A Runaway World?’ I only recently learnt that my Italy, kept mumbling “Why have we, Romans, even They were just fantastically stimulating, argumentative Diversity, and its central theme is that human evolution must be studied DR WINTON DEAN dear friend, Ivan Ward, was also propelled to King’s by this Handel’s operas: 1726-1741 tried to civilize these people?” Forty years later, I and HARD. within an integrated multidisciplinary framework. From anthropology and slim book. I didn’t have any real inkling of what would be returned to King’s to celebrate the retirement of archaeology comes both the classical approaches relating to phenotypic DR ASHOK V. DESAI Juliet Annan (1974) involved but I knew I wanted to be a student of this man in Stephen Hugh-Jones. The food was delightful. Fresh, variation and the evolution of behaviour; from biology comes the India’s telecommunications industry: the college where he was boss. My Leavisite English master history, analysis, diagnosis tasty, elegant. And the wine was no longer described emerging techniques of molecular genetics and an increasing at school confirmed this decision when he snorted: ‘King’s! They’re all junkies simply as ‘Claret’. I am now left wondering whether it I am the Director of Education at the understanding of the genetic and environmental mechanisms of PROF. JOHN DUNN and queers there, so you should fit in!’ Though neither of these categories can is Europe, the admission of female students, the Freud Museum. … a key thing for development, while from an evolutionary paradigm comes the emphasis Democracy: a history entirely be applied to myself, I certainly felt King’s was ‘a home from home’. Internet or global warming. me about Cambridge, was that as a on interpreting biological variation in humans within the environmental PROF. SIMON GOLDHILL student I was treated like an adult Maybe that teacher should also have included ‘spies’ because a writer has to Rethinking revolutions through Ancient context - both natural and cultural - within which evolution occurred.” I worked in Colombia under Edmund Leach, taught whose opinions were valued and have something in common with an undercover agent. Needless to say, to find Greece (Co-editor and contributor) anthropology at the universities of Copenhagen, listened to, who could be entrusted myself in close proximity to Leach’s mind was an intellectual experience which The Centre moved into its new building in Fitzwilliam Street in 2005. The PROF. GEOFFREY HARCOURT McGill and Laval, in Québec and worked as a radio- to direct his own course of study … It was the has never been repeated. modern building provides laboratory facilities, housing for the Duckworth The structure of post-Keynesian host on the CBC. Collection, office and seminar space. Funding has come from the combination of being treated like a 'grown up' and yet It would be difficult to over-estimate the influence of Social Anthropology upon economics: the core contributions of the Leverhulme Trust and the Wellcome Trust, as well as the American pioneers Bernard Arcand (1966) being 'looked after' that was the hallmark of the my work as a dramatist. It meant an awful lot to me to be reunited last October. supervision system, and both those aspects of the Friends of the University of Cambridge. A generous donation from PROF. JOHN HENDERSON situation are realised in human terms when one Michael Eaton (1973) Sydney Brenner (1958, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for Asinaria: the one about the asses person listens with benign interest to another. Whether Physiology and Medicine) helped equip the new genetics laboratories. (Translator and commentator) I first worked in the tiny Sabah Michael Eaton is a screenwriter whose credits include New Street Law (2006 BBC museum in what was previously that double-consciousness and attitude can be carried series), Shipman (2002), Shoot to Kill (1991) and Why Lockerbie? (1990). His www.human-evol.cam.ac.uk MR DAVID HOLBROOK over into forms of group supervision is a moot point. thriller, Fellow Traveller (1989), won the 1991 Evening Standard British Film English in a university education North Borneo, then returned to England and retrained in medicine Ivan Ward (1973) Award for Best Screenplay. He was awarded an MBE for ‘services to the film Plus ça change … exam questions then and now DR ROBERT JACKAMAN before heading back to south east industry’ in 1999. Memoirs of a dark overlord: and other Asia for fifteen years working as a poems since 2000 I spent 20 or so feckless years 2006 … The human history of Homo doctor. Every day was an 1907 … “Man is the highest “ (impecunious but very happy) sapiens can be clearly resolved through the MR PETER JONES anthropology lesson. Belief in the power of the I have spent most of my career working in the United outcome of evolution, and his Visualizing medieval medicine and digging (archaeological) round the study of mitochondrial DNA. Discuss. bomoh in particular, and magic in general was Nations. My training in anthropology was a further development is limited by ” natural history, 1200-1550 (Contributor) world, working in museum universal, as was the belief in malevolent spirits. … prerequisite for functioning effectively in a anatomical conditions education and setting up a new The Cambridge history of libraries in It is certainly easier practising in the south west of multicultural working environment, and which are not likely to Britain and Ireland – 3 vols (Contributor) education service for the Historic 1947 … “Physical anthropology has grown up principally England where shared understandings go unnoticed understanding why and how different cultural alter. Royal Palaces based at Hampton ” as a handmaiden of human anatomy, a socially inferior MR BRENDAN LEHANE and I am the accepted healer. … Going up to King's heritages underpin the way people think and behave Court Palace. Following a make-over as a lawyer, I branch of medical science, and part as an avocation of the Dorset’s best churches for the Arch & Anth dinner was the first time I had has been of great value. In Bhutan I learned that am now buying and selling businesses and homes zoological taxonomist, who, for the sake of completeness, PROF. RICHARD LYNN returned in more than 17 years. Predictably it was spirituality pervaded daily life with the result that that every important for people, based in the delightful market town of has aspired to extend his classifications to the most IQ and global inequality (Co-author) disturbingly familiar yet different - true too of the government decision first had to be blessed by monks … Now that I’m engaged Tetbury, Gloucestershire … It was a great experience perfidious brute of all.” Comment on this statement. friends I found there. … The night of course was in debates and actions on the reform of the UN, cultural differences and PROF. PETER MATTHEWS attending Stephen Hugh-Jones’s special retirement Syntactic relations: a critical survey Stephen's and for me it was a real treat to be in that nuances need interpreting at every turn. dinner and to meet up with those who shared the Film and interview material on website kind, gently humorous and always gorgeously MR RONALD MITCHELL delights of seeing Stephen demonstrating the art of On supervisions, I wish to record how grateful I am to have had such individual handsome presence once again. Alan Macfarlane (1971) has pioneered the use of the film and video, Lakeland & Cumbria from the air using an Amazonian blow pipe in one of his earliest attention at some point in my education. Over the course of the last ten years as documenting many King’s Fellows over the years. Much of this material Madeleine Piper (1974) lectures. We all ducked! I have looked for schools with small class sizes for my three children, I realize how privileged we were to have had the chance to learn in very small groups. is now available on his website. Members might like to know that Gillian Dawson (1973) interviews with Geoffrey Lloyd, Edmund Leach and soon Stephen Hugh- the archaeology and anthropology day Sarah Papineau (1974) Jones can be found under 'Video Interviews' off the front page of | www.alanmacfarlane.com 11 The following Members of the College have presented their Members’ news own works to the College Library: The Dante Quartet in King’s Five things not to say to an accompanist Handel’s Operas Climate Leadership that Georgi Markov, the Bulgarian writer PROF. DOUGLAS MOGGACH in exile murdered in London by unknown The new Hegelians: politics and The Dante Quartet, the String Quartet in Residence at King’s, philosophy in the Hegelian School (Editor) Accompanist Simon Lepper (1992) became Winton Dean is the The University of Cambridge agents in 1978, is also buried here. The have given three concerts in the College this year, and will be most distinguished Programme for Industry (CPI) has an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music benefactors of Tarrant Rushton ‘lie PROF. ROBIN OSBORNE playing at the KCA Day on 16 June. They are winners of the 2007 British authority on developed a range of programmes in 2005, he is an official accompanist for the under an astonishing tomb perhaps Poverty in the Roman world (Co-editor Royal Philharmonic Society Award in the Chamber Music category. the life and work of aimed at developing leadership in and contributor) Cardiff Singer of the World Competition and apter for Egypt’s Valley of the Kings Handel. Handel tackling climate change. Krysia Osostowicz (1977) leads the Dante Quartet. She read than a quiet English rural churchyard: a Rethinking revolutions through Ancient his own competition successes include the ranks with Dr Aled Jones (1991) leads these Art History at King's and then studied with Sandor Vegh in vast megalithic table and casket … It Greece (Co-editor and contributor) Gerald Moore Award. He takes a wry look at Monteverdi, Mozart activities. CPI is working with Al Gore’s Austria before becoming a member of the pioneering piano must be Dorset’s most pretentious 20th DR KIRAN C.R. PATEL some common misconceptions. and Verdi among the The Climate Project and on 24-26 March quartet Domus. PHOTO: JEREMY HAYWOOD century tomb.’ Prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of supreme masters of 200 leaders drawn from across the UK cardiovascular disease in South Asians Winton Dean (1934) opera, yet between came to Cambridge to explore the (Co-editor.) at a reception at 1754 (when Handel science of climate change. Al Gore Brendan Lehane read Classics and English PROF. WILLIAM PLOWDEN the Royal Academy was still living) and worked with the delegates to deepen and has written books on Irish history and of Music to mark natural history (including fleas), as well as Governance and nationbuilding: the 1920, not one of his understanding, as well as explore what the publication of the Companion Guide to Ireland. He was also failure of international intervention (Co- operas was action can be taken. The first Climate his book. an early pioneer of sustainable living – author) performed anywhere. Leadership Programme will be run from spending three rather trying months in the MR JOHN PREST Their revival in the modern theatre has 1st – 4th October 2007. early 1970s living in iron age style on Exmoor The most difficult village: Wheatley, been among the most remarkable www.cpi.cam.ac.uk for a special issue of the Telegraph Magazine. England, and the Church phenomena in the history of the art. But DR GEORGE RYLANDS (bequest) until recently no reliable modern Dorset’s Best Churches Dorset’s best churches Quoth the raven “one encore: no more” “Are you an accompanist because you didn’t make it as editions existed. This book is the sequel Brendan Lehane (2 copies) soloist?” Musicians and non-musicians alike are often under to Handel's Operas 1704-1726, published Affpuddle, Melbury Bubb, Toller Fratrum: The Dovecote Press £14.95 the misconception that an accompanist has been forced into in 1987. MR KARL SABBAGH it could only be Dorset. If you’re looking www.dovecotepress.com Palestine: a personal history Left to right: Bernard Gregor-Smith (cello), Krysia following this career path because he didn’t quite cut it as a Handel's Operas 1726-1741 for an excuse to cut down on air travel, Osostowicz (violin), Giles Francis (violin), Judith Busbridge soloist. The reality is that a good accompanist has always Dr Riemann’s zeros (hardback and Winton Dean (viola). enjoyed the collaborative element of music making and has Horace’s Odes & Do-Re-Mi paperback eds) Boydell & Brewer £49.95 actively chosen to dedicate his career to piano accompaniment. A new book by Stuart Lyons (1962) PROF PETER H.A. SNEATH King’s trio in quartets A century of sonnets for Joan and “You played so sensitively, as always…” Usually this unravels the link between Horace, Additional sonnets A series of four quartets, commissioned by Honorary Fellow, comment is reserved for the obligatory post-concert green Bletchley Park indexers? Guido d’Arezzo and the invention of Nicholas Goodison (1955) and Judith Goodison, have brought do-re-mi. Stuart read Classics, then room meeting and greeting. The accompanist waits his turn to Tony Bryant (1971) Professor of DR MICHAEL SONENSCHER together young and established performers, adding a new went into industry; he translated the The Cambridge history of eighteenth- be congratulated by the eager well-wishers, only to be left Informatics at Leeds Metropolitan dimension to the string quartet repertoire with the introduction Odes when a sports injury in 1995 left century political thought (Contributor) with the impression that they’ve hardly realized that the piano University, and his colleague Dr Rodney of voice. The latest in the series, performed at the Wigmore Hall him temporarily immobile, and then accounts for half of their enjoyment of the music performed. Brunt are seeking information on MR TIM SPARROW in May, featured Goodison Quartet No 4, by composer became convinced that the Odes were Applied EI: the importance of attitudes in “I realise how difficult your job must be…” This is the Bletchley Park indexers and their work Huw Watkins (1994) with the Petersen Quartet and tenor songs. The chapter on ‘Guido d’Arezzo developing emotional intelligence other comment an accompanist receives from well-meaning for a new book. They have interviewed Mark Padmore (1979). and the Do-re-mi Mystery’ explains (Co-author) listeners. However, the accompanist is not the poor put-upon a number of former indexers but would how an eleventh-century Benedictine DR ALISON SPEDDING pianist hiding behind the skirts of the diva that some like to also like to speak to their customers, A Musician's Alphabet choirmaster used the melody of the Kawsachun coca: economia campesina make out. His involvement in the music making is not to the ‘men of the professor type'. "The Ode to Phyllis to invent do-re-mi, but cocalera en los Yungas y el Chapare Published in September 2006, this new book by pianist Susan obediently “follow” the “soloist” in the most discreet way information officer as intelligence kept his get hold of this book and spend a week La voz de La Cuneta - No. 3 (Contributor) Tomes (1972) was a Classical Music Book of the Year in The possible. In fact, the good accompanist has as much to do with officer: information retrieval in British exploring Dorset, refreshing your source Times, a Book of the Year in The Herald, and a Best Biography in the shaping of the music as the “soloist”. In the Lieder Movimientos cocaleros en el Peru y military intelligence in the first half of acquaintance with the ‘thousand years of secret. The The Independent, as well as a Book of the Month on an Arizona repertoire he creates the mood of the piece in the first few bars Bolivia: Coca o muerte? (Co-author) the twentieth century" will be a chapter colourful history and personal dramas’ Fleeting radio station. It had chapters printed in Gramophone Magazine before the singer has even uttered a word. in Information management and the contained in these glorious parish Years, his DR JOHN SPERLING and in The Guardian, whose columnist James Fenton also used it English verse “Do you prefer to be called an ‘accompanist’ or a identity of organisations to be published churches. Brendan Lehane (1957) The great divide: retro vs. metro America as a subject of his column ‘Things that have interested me’. translation of (Co-author) ‘collaborative pianist?’” First and foremost I am a pianist by Elsevier. King's members and others visits the tiny, simple Winterborne the Odes was but my set of skills are different from those of a “solo” with personal experience of the Tomson, where church and farmyard are PROF. THOMAS J. SUGRUE a Financial pianist and as such I enjoy having a separate label of information gathering processes are only separated by a wall, as well as The new suburban history (Co-editor) A new CD, The Curlew: Times book accompanist. Collaborative pianist is just too long. As a invited to contact: some of England’s most famous abbey Songs by Peter Warlock is choice of the MS SUSAN TOMES chamber music pianist or song accompanist we have to be churches, like Sherborne and Milton A Musician’s Alphabet a collaboration between Dr Rodney Brunt, Priestley Hall, year in 1996. soloist, accompanist, conductor and orchestra. One of the Abbey, and even the Orthodox St Headingley Campus, Beckett Park, DR MARGARET TUDEAU-CLAYTON Simon Lepper, tenor continuous joys of having a career as an accompanist is that Osmund at Parkstone. He balances Horace’s Odes and the Mystery of Leeds, LS6 3QS. The comedies of Terence (Contributor) Andrew Kennedy (1995) to collaborate with another musician you have to be both full personal observations, architectural Do-Re-Mi and Robert Ogden (1992). of your own musical ideas but willing to take others on board. 0113 283 7591 or messages on detail and historical context. After Stuart Lyons MR JOHN WILD The story of the Uganda agreement www.landorrecords.co.uk 0113 283 2600 (extension 5155.) Aris & Phillips 2007 “Do you get paid as much as the soloist?” … ! intriguing us with the hidden, but still Ebyafaayo by’endagaano: ya 1900 used, shrine to the obscure Saint Wite, www.oxbowbooks.com The Uganda Mutiny 1897 www.simonlepper.com [email protected] at Whitchurch Canonicorum, he reveals Early travellers in Acholi

members’ news www.horace-odes.com | 12 Student news Essay Prize My PhD Catherine Crimp (2003) won the 2006 R.H Gapper Undergraduate Essay Prize, awarded by the Society for French Studies for her essay ‘Variations on the New Political Spaces Kings of the Table? risen to 20th position. Appointing King’s Chapel in Michaelmas term. political in Lacan, Kristeva and Irigaray’. student representatives to take “Hamlet is full of life’s most difficult The recent ‘lurch to the Left’ in King’s has one of the best responsibility for recycling and questions. A religious setting will The essay I submitted examines texts from the Latin American politics has table football teams in the energy/water saving initiatives within beautifully underline Shakespeare’s seventies and eighties by Jacques Lacan, Luce made household names of University and has dominated accommodation units has proved urgent spiritual questioning. Is the ghost Irigaray and Julia Kristeva, focusing on these three Hugo Chavez and Evo Morales the College leagues since successful in several colleges, especially a devil or an angel? Should Hamlet be French thinkers’ relationship with politics after May and sparked suggestions of a 2003. Knocked off the top where financial incentive is offered. damned or redeemed? And, in heaven or 1968. It identifies three major political concerns in new Cold War. Yet the spot this year we still have hell, who’s there?” their work: the status of women and the concept of prominence of the ‘Leftist’ The university’s rise to the challenge has two students in the University www.swantheatrecompany.co.uk revolution, but also—and most strikingly—a defence of their motif in much media coverage been slow. We feel that more needs to Team - both have won There will be an alumni performance one own psychoanalytical, philosophical approach to political has led to the neglect of other and certainly can be done at both college trophies in national night during the run: please contact issues. I originally wrote the essay in October 2005 for a Conor Farrington political transformations in the competitions and the top and university levels (and globally of [email protected] to supervision with Emma Wilson, who suggested I enter it for the area. My PhD research looks at one such set of changes player is ranked 7th in the course, but let’s set an example first!). If express an initial interest. prize. Next year, I hope to go on to a PhD here at King’s. I will – the decentralisation of political power from state to Mayya Racy (2003) and Jonathan UK. Last year, King’s line-up the world is to be a pleasant place for the be studying representations of childhood and families in works municipal and local authorities. May (2002). Mayya Racy is currently included Mayya Racy, who next 700 years, now is the time to act. doing an MSc in Finance and Fairtrade status for King’s by Marcel Proust, Samuel Beckett and the contemporary was (and still is) the UK www-green.cusu.cam.ac.uk These processes of ‘municipalisation’ have led to Economics at LSE. sculptor Louise Bourgeois. Their works display an obsession Women’s Singles Champion. A series of events this term have focused www.societies.cam.ac.uk/cuecs with memories of childhood and family life, but the links profound changes in the ways that citizens engage with on trade and its potential for reducing political authority, amounting in some cases to the Jonathan May (2002) www.threeseas.org.uk between the three have yet to be explored. www.zerocarbonnow.org world poverty. In February the debate creation of local direct democracy. In the Brazilian city Jonathan May (2002, Computer Science) is “This house believes buying Fairtrade is a of Porto Alegre, for instance, 50% of the municipal Alex Ridge (2006) and Emilia Melville working on a PhD in Parallel Computing moral obligation,” saw a heated budget is distributed according to preferences expressed (2005) Engineering Autonomous underwater vehicle Architectures and is an active member in discussion between speakers from the by city residents. Cambridge University Entrepreneurs as Adam Smith Institute and the Trade A group of engineering and computer science well as the current Commercial Waste not, want not Justice Movement; in March Sher Gazi, a These ‘new political spaces’ have attracted some undergraduates (myself included) have teamed up to Development Director of the British fruit farmer from Pakistan, spoke about academic attention, but while some municipal Helen Sharpe (2005) was the winner of build an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) to take Foosball Association. how his community has benefited from the authorities (such as Porto Alegre) have been studied the photographic competition organised part in a European competition this Summer (SAUC-E). involvement of the Fairtrade Foundation. in depth, others (such as Quito, Ecuador) have been [email protected] by Catherine Richardson (2004, Classics) This involves designing, building and programming a This term’s penultimate formal Hall was overlooked entirely. My thesis fills these gaps by www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jm451; and Livia Cahn (2005) and funded by vehicle (in our case a miniature submarine) to pass held in conjunction with the Southern presenting an analysis of local democracy in Quito, www.cue.org.uk; www.britfoos.com KCSU and CUSU Green. The competition African Fund for Education on the theme through a validation gate, locate and hit certain using a Discourse Quality Index (derived from the was judged on May 4, Green Awareness of African Trade Justice, and raised over underwater objects while avoiding others, drop moral and political theory of Jürgen Habermas) to Day, by Tony Juniper, executive director of Pointing the green finger £300 for development projects. markers over a cross and surface in a specified area. quantify the quality of democracy in various ways. Friends of the Earth, who congratulated While doing this, the vehicle needs to also make a map As a world leader in research and Students, caterers and College King’s students on their efforts to be of the course layout, which changes every run! It’s the first time education, Cambridge University is well authorities, working together towards This index has already been applied in Western greener in everyday life – re-using glass we’ve entered this competition and we’re learning as we go. placed to lead the way in environmental environmental and ethical ends, have parliamentary settings, but this is the first uses less energy than recycling. sustainability. While things are just about developed a new fairtrade policy. application of the index to local democracy, and the starting to happen, there is still a long Proposed by students, this first application in a developing world context. way to go, and much of the commits the college to offering environmental drive is currently coming high quality Fairtrade options in all My analysis to date indicates that the quality of local from the students themselves. its food outlets. Jason Waterfield, democracy in Quito is low. Populism, clientelism and the Catering Manager, has gender/ethnic discrimination continue to hold sway This year the Zero Carbon society was established a reputation for over ostensibly democratic procedures. In contrast to set up and is “calling for immediate PHOTO: WYATT DAVID providing ethical food of the Porto Alegre, the city authorities are very unwilling to action to cut emissions for a near-zero highest calibre in King’s, and the cede control over resource distribution to citizens; in carbon economy by 2030”. The Three new policy expands this 2006, only 1% of municipal resource distribution was Seas (Combat Climate Change) is an PHOTO: HELEN SHARPE (2005) commitment to include the use of decided in this way. even more recent initiative with a more certified Fairtrade goods Despite these local and campaigning focus. An Jam jars for resale in a French depot-vente. wherever feasible. We are negative conclusions, Environmental Forum is being pioneered hopeful, but Fairtrade status is a I have found that by a current King’s undergraduate to co- decision taken by the Fairtrade Foundation local democracy in ordinate talks and publicity. Awareness Oklahoma! & Hamlet? itself and has previously been granted to What actually sparked the project was an idea to build a small, Quito has led to raising initiatives such as Carbon Health A successful production of Oklahoma! only one other remote-controlled submarine that can be dropped through a greater public Week and last year’s Green Electricity directed by Rob Icke (2005, English) for Cambridge college. The drilled hole in a pancake ice floe (around the poles) to measure awareness of citizen Campaign have also proved worthwhile. the Cambridge University Musical ethical movement within the conditions underneath it. While our immediate goal is the rights, hopefully The Cambridge University Environmental Theatre Society ran at the Arts Theatre King’s is gathering pace. SAUC-E competition, we hope that our completed AUV will be laying the Consulting Society (CUECS) has in February. used for a variety of applications, such as sub-ice investigation, groundwork for published its fourth annual Charlotte Payne and we see this competition as a stepping- stone and testing future progress in Environmental League Table, which Rob Icke is also directing a production of (2006) Archaeology ground on our way to achieving this. We would also like to add citizen participation. ranks individual colleges by their Hamlet which will begin a short national and Anthropology our thanks to our sponsors: Sentec, Qinetiq and IET. student news stundent news environmental performance – King’s has tour with a week of performances in Conor Farrington Jorge Velazquez, Zonal | | (2005) Administrator 14 Alex Ridge (2006) 15 Events

Saturday 16 June Saturday 14 July KCA Day – Music at King’s King's College Chapel Reunion for Years 1987 -90 & May Bumps The Dream of Gerontius with Boat Club Marquee by the river. Elgar www.cubc.org/mays 01223 357851 Saturday 23 June www.cambridgesummermusic.com Summer Reunion for Years 1966-1970 Saturday 28 July PHOTO: ANDREW HOUSTON King's College Chapel Saturday 29 June (with Academy of Ancient Music) Symposium on E.J.Dent Zadok the Priest Handel and other Sunday 1 July works Year Group Representatives 01223 357851 Choral and Organ Scholars. Standing from left: Ashley Riches (2006), Patrick 2.00 - followed by light supper www.cambridgesummermusic.com Stobbs (2006), Edmund Hastings (2005), Charles Richardson (2004), Peter Stevens 7.30 Singing on the River – (2006), John Taylor (2003), Oliver Brett (2004), Jonathan Kanagasooriam (2005), Collegium Regale 1 – 10 August Simon Ponsford (2005, standing at back), Mark Begbie (2005), Rupert Reid (2004), Tickets +44 1223 331656 Choir tour to Baltic Harvey Brink. Around the table from left: Andrew Tipple (2005), Benjamin Finland www.lippu.fi Williamson (2004), Joel Robinson (2006), Peter Lindsay (2004), John Robb (2004). 17 September – 1 October Estonia www.concert.ee Telephone Fundraising Campaign The Director of Music, Stephen Cleobury, is always pleased to receive Latvia www.hbf.lv enquiries from potential members of the choir. Please telephone him Wednesday 19 September Lithuania www.pazaislis.lt (01223 331224) or write to him at the College for details: King’s College, London Reception Cambridge CB2 1ST. Email: [email protected] Royal Society 8 & 9 September (Invitations will be sent) Bonn, Beethovenfest Friday 21 – Sunday 23 September www.beethovenfest.de A Room of One’s Own: King’s Women’s Dinner 8 March University Alumni Weekend King’s Fellow, Melissa Lane (1989) Details in CAM or www.cam.ac.uk Saturday 15 September Ambronay Festival welcomed guests, and the speaker, Susie Orbach, to a celebration of Saturday 22 September www.ambronay.org Non-Resident Members’ Reunion significant anniversaries: the 35th Years 1961 -1965 Friday 19 October anniversary of the matriculation of women undergraduates at King’s and (Invitations will be sent) Swansea Festival the 125th birthday of Virginia Woolf – Saturday 6 October www.swanseafestival.com several of whose letters were on display Legacy lunch (invitations will be sent) in the Library. 7 – 18 December 2007 For more information please contact From left, the organisers: Kate Brassel Bloomsbury talk Amy Ingle in the Development Office on Choir tour to South America (2006), Kelli Rudolph (2002), Elisabeth +44 1223 331443. Sacks (2006), Tania Espinoza (2006) The Librarian, Peter Jones, is giving a Friday 21 December and Aileen Bintliff (2005). talk about the 52 letters from Dora [email protected] Royal Albert Hall Carrington to F.L. Lucas, given to King’s New recording by the Choir of www.kings.cam.ac.uk www.royalalberthall.com Library recently by Oliver Lucas (1961). King's College, Cambridge Society for the History of the University, CHOIR CONCERTS 3 – 13 April 2008 and Stephen Cleobury Darwin College, 14 June, 8pm. Choir tour to USA Saturday 23 June Dallas, St Louis, Ann Arbor, Visiting King’s? Hagia Eireni Museum, Istanbul Cincinnati, Minneapolis, Chicago, 35th International Istanbul Music New York, Westport, Baltimore. Main switchboard: Festival 01223 331100 www.iksv.org/muzik/english Details of Chapel services, choir Parking: Richard Nash, Head Porter. Thursday 12 July concerts and recordings can be [email protected] found on York Early Music Festival Guest rooms and High Table: www.kings.cam.ac.uk/chapel/ York Minster Hilary Perrott, Vice-Provost’s PA, choir/concerts www.ncem.co.uk [email protected] or John Buckley, Accommodation Officer: www.cambridge.org/printing Who are they? [email protected] 01223 331421. This photo reached the Archive recently – sent High Table and wine sales: in by a descendant of Oliffe Leigh Richmond, Mark Smith, Butler. (1881-1977, Eton and King’s 1900.) “It looks a [email protected] bit like Augustus Austen Leigh in front,” says 01223 331341 Archivist, Patricia McGuire. “We think it was Events: taken around 1910 – does anyone recognise Development Office: their father or uncle, or the young face of a 01223 331443 Fellow met much later in his life?” [email protected]

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