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Cambridge’s Department of Slavonic Studies is hosting a series of public lectures over the coming academic year entitled ‘Russia Hangs Out: Consumer Culture from the Tsars to Putin.’ ̽»¨Ö±²¥series will examine how ordinary Russian men and women have spent their leisure time, what they have consumed and how they have amused themselves - from Imperial times to the present day.

School/college students thinking about applying for 2005 entry to Cambridge (or deferred entry in 2006) are welcome to come along to one of the many open days and information days taking place this month.

Clare Hall are honoured that this year's Tanner Lectures will be given by Neil MacGregor, the new Director of the British Museum. ̽»¨Ö±²¥title of his lectures is ' ̽»¨Ö±²¥meanings of things'. ̽»¨Ö±²¥lectures take place on Monday 16, Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 February.

Next month the eminent poet Seamus Heaney, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, will give the first of the Clare Hall Tanner Lectures for 2002.