No 6461
Thursday 20 April 2017
Vol cxlvii No 27
pp. 443–470
The University offers a large number of lectures, seminars, and other events, many of which are free of charge, to members of the University and others who are interested. Details can be found on individual Faculty, Department, and institution websites, on the What’s On website (http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/whatson/), and on Talks.cam (http://www.talks.cam.ac.uk/).
Brief details of upcoming events are given below.
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Cambridge Judge Business School |
Financial market history: reflections on the past for investors today, by Professor Elroy Dimson, Chair of Newton Centre for Endowment Asset Management, Cambridge Judge Business School, at 6.30 p.m. on 4 May 2017 at the BNY Mellon Centre, London, EC4V 4LA |
http://insight.jbs.cam.ac.uk/events/financial-market-history/ |
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Classics |
The J. H. Gray Lectures 2017: Discovering Oplontis, by Professor John Clarke, University of Texas at Austin, from 9–11 May 2017 at the Faculty of Classics |
http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/research/seminars/special-lectures |
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Mathematics |
The Rouse Ball Lecture 2017: Heat rises: 100 years of Rayleigh-Bérnard convection, by Professor Charles Doering, of the University of Michigan, at 12 noon on 2 May 2017, in Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms |
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Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit (MIASU) |
Seminar series 2016–17: Masterhood, hospitality, and mobility; lectures at 4.30 p.m. in the Mond Building Seminar Room, Division of Social Anthropology; first seminar: The mistress of the hearth: female mobility, domestic divinities, and reproductive power in North Central China, by Charlotte Bruckermann of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, on 2 May 2017 |
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Procurement Services |
Travel supplier event: 9.30 a.m. to 12.15 p.m. on 25 April 2017 at the Department of Engineering; the event includes a talk on travel risk management, demonstrations, and an opportunity to meet some of the University’s travel suppliers |
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Spanish and Portuguese |
Annual Norman MacColl Lecture 2017:
Un Viaje, la práctica de la expedición como una de las Bellas
Artes, by Alberto Baraya, Colombian artist, at 5 p.m. on 28
April 2017 |
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Norman MacColl Symposium 2017: Magical dispossessions: nature, capital, and conflict in Colombia, from 9.30 a.m. on 29 April 2017 Both events in Room SG1, CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road |
Register online for the symposium by 20 April. |
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