ANTHROPOLOGY SERIES: The Department of Anthropology's Fall Colloquium Series is set to start next week with a lecture by the University of Chicago's William Mazzarella, speaking on the topic "The Censor's First: Obscenity and Publicity in Contemporary India."

The program is scheduled to start at 4:10 p.m. Nov. 5 in the Andrews Conference Room,

2203 Social Sciences and Humanities Building.

The series is free and open to the public. Other speakers and topics:

• Margaret Wiener, University of North Carolina, "Magic in Translation," 4:30 p.m. Nov. 19, 184 Young Hall.
• Noah Rosenberg, University of Michigan, "Genomic Analyses of Population-Genetic Variation in Native Americans," 4:10 p.m. Dec. 3, 184 Young Hall.

PLAN COLOMBIA: A leader of the Nasa people of Colombia is due on campus next week to talk about the U.S.-funded Plan Colombia and its impact on indigenous communities.

Yu'cta Musse's talk is scheduled from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Nov. 6 in the Andrews Conference Room, 2203 Social Sciences and Humanities Building.

Musse's talk is sponsored by the departments of Anthropology, Environmental Science and Policy, and Native American Studies, the International Agricultural Development Graduate Program, UC Davis' Hemispheric Institute on the Americas, and University Outreach and International Programs.

CONSORTIUM PLANS FILM, TALK: The Consortium for Women and Research announced a film screening and discussion next week as part of the consortium's 2007-08 program on "Genders, Bodies, Politics." The fall subtheme is "Rethinking Bodies."

Organizers announced a Nov. 7 presentation of Strong! Taking Up Space in the USA, with a discussion led by Julie Wyman, associate professor, Technocultural Studies. The program, free and open to the public, is scheduled from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in 3201 Hart Hall.

More information: cwr.ucdavis.edu.

'DEATH AND THE MAIDEN': Visiting Professor Gert Kaiser, a leading European medievalist with a specialization in Middle High German literature, is scheduled to deliver a public lecture next week on "Death and the Maiden." The free event is set to begin at 5 p.m. Nov. 7 in 912 Sproul Hall.

Kaiser, the fall 2007 Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor in the German Department at UC Davis, is director of the Center for Advanced Research in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. He is known for his work on the medieval dance of death and is an expert on German lyrical poetry of the High Middle Ages.

'LIBERALISM' AT OLD CITY HALL: UC Davis is bringing two of its social sciences lecture programs to the community this year, starting with a Nov. 8 talk titled "The Fall and Rise of American Liberalism," by professor and journalist Eric Alterman.

This talk and one scheduled for May 8 ("The Left Since 9/11: What Happened to Cultural Studies?") make up the Public Intellectuals Forum. Both are scheduled from 5 to 6:30 p.m. at Davis' Historic City Hall, 226 F St., and both are free and open to the public.

Alterman is Distinguished Professor of English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York; and professor of journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. His most recent book is When Presidents Lie.

The Public Intellectuals Forum is sponsored by the Davis Humanities Institute and the Center for History, Society and Culture, and is part of the latter's larger speakers series, which this year carries the theme "Social Science and the Larger Society." The series is co-sponsored by the Institute of Governmental Affairs.

ECONOMIC SUCCESS FACTORS: The Determinants of Economic Success Fall Seminar Series is scheduled to begin next week with "Prenatal Nutrition and Adult Outcomes -- the Effect of Maternal Fasting During Ramadan," presented by Bhashkar Mazumder, executive director of the Chicago Research and Data Center for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

Organizers said Mazumder's talk will be from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Nov. 9 in the Institute of Governmental Affairs Reading Room, 360 Shields Library.

The Determinants of Economic Success series is free and open to the public. Other speakers and their topics this quarter:

• Yu Xie, Department of Sociology, Univer-sity of Michigan, "Population Heterogeneity and Casual Inference," 3:30-5 p.m. Nov. 19, International House, 10 College Place, Davis.
• Scott Carrell, Department of Economics, UC Davis, "Raising College Students' Grades: A Controlled Experiment with Peer Effects," 3:30-5 p.m. Nov. 30, International House.

The series is sponsored by the Institute of Governmental Affairs and Economy, Justice and Society, an interdisciplinary program involving faculty in the departments of Economics, Political Science and Sociology.

Visit calendar.ucdavis.edu for all calendar and seminar listings.