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DOWNING COLLEGE 2011–2012Amy Goymour is delighted to have been recently appointed to a UniversityLectureship in Land Law at the Cambridge Law Faculty, starting in October2012. Her two most recent publications are a chapter evaluating the impact ofHuman Rights on property law (chapter 12 in D Hoffman, The Impact of theUK Human Rights Act on Private Law (CUP, 2011) and an co-authored article onthe legal protection awarded to rights in bank accounts (Goymour andWatterson, Testing the boundaries of conversion: account-holders, intangible propertyand economic harm [2012] LMCLQ 204).Amy Milton was delighted to be elected the first Ferreras-Willetts Fellow inNeuroscience this year. She has continued with her research into developingtreatments for psychiatric disorders, based on the disruption of maladaptivememories. She has published reviews on the influence of maladaptive memorieson relapse to drug addiction and persistent anxiety in PTSD, respectively inNeuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, and a book chapter in ‘Exposure Therapy:New Developments’, which will be published in July 2012. She spoke at severalconferences, including the 5th International Conference on Memory in Yorkand the 14th European Behavioural Pharmacology Society conference inAmsterdam. She has enthusiastically continued with her attempts to engage thegeneral public with neuroscience research, giving a talk at the CambridgeScience Festival, which led to her research being featured in newspapersincluding The Independent and The Daily Mail. She also ran a film festival on‘Compulsion’ in collaboration with the British Science Association and theCambridge Arts Picturehouse.From April to August 2011, Brigitte Steger travelled to Japan as a VisitingLecturer at Keio University, Tokyo (under an exchange agreement with DowningCollege). In June and July, she went north to a coastal town in Iwate prefecturecalled Yamada, where she lived in a shelter for victims of the March 11thtsunami and conducted research on life in the shelter. She has widely presentedher research at conferences, in Japanese media and as academic articles. She iscurrently working on a book based on this research and is also co-editing afieldwork-based book, tentatively titled Coping with Disaster.In Michaelmas term 2011, Brigitte was an Early Career Fellow at CRASSH,the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities atCambridge University. She is also finishing up a book on the cultural historyof sleep in Japan and another on socio-cultural aspects of sleep in contemporaryJapan. In the summer, she was re-elected onto the Council of the EuropeanAssociation for Japanese Studies.190