Societies, etc.

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The Society’s third talk of the Lent Term will take place at 6 p.m. on Monday, 24 February 2020 in the Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road. Professor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology, will give a lecture entitled Simpson’s question: How does behaviour determine evolution?

The Society’s Honorary Fellows Lecture will take place at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, 26 February 2020 in the Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry. Sir David Baulcombe, FRS, FMedSci, Royal Society Edward Penley Abraham Research Professor, Department of Plant Sciences, will give a Lecture entitled What is Epigenetics?And is it important?

Information on both lectures is available on the Society’s website at https://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/lectures-visits/lectures

Society for the History of the University

The next meeting of the Society will be held at 5.30 p.m. in the Old Library, Darwin College, on Thursday, 5 March 2020. Dr Chris Stray will give a paper entitled The slaughter of 1841: Classics and mathematics in early Victorian Cambridge. Refreshments from 5 p.m.