Societies, etc.

Cambridge Antiquarian Society

The Society’s Annual Spring Conference on the theme From the ground up: contemporary building recording methods and practice will be held on Saturday, 31 March 2012, between 10 a.m. (registration from 9.30 a.m.) and 5 p.m. in Room LG18 of the Law Faculty Building, West Road. The programme will be as follows:

Morning from 10 a.m.: An introductory view from local government, by Edward Martin; King’s Cross: the challenges of recording historic buildings, by Charlotte Mathews; Conservation areas: capturing collective qualities, by David Grech

Afternoon from 2 p.m.: How & why do you record a cathedral, by Philip Dixon; Exploration to explanation: applied digital technologies, by Marcus Abbott; The Grand Arcade, Cambridge, by Craig Cessford

Places for non-members are £15, and £10 for members of the CAS and of its Affiliated Societies. Further details are available at http://www.camantsoc.org/downloads/conf12spr.pdf.

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Society’s next lecture will take place at 5.30 p.m. on Monday, 12 March 2012, in the Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Professor Simon Conway-Morris will give a lecture entitled Nine evolutionary myths: The closing of the Darwinian mind? Further details are available at http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/lectures.shtml.