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Institute of Continuing Education: Undergraduate Virtual Open Day

Looking to pursue your love of learning, take the next step in your career or take your first steps along a new career path? Join us for our upcoming Undergraduate Virtual Open Day on 21st May, where we’ll delve into the world of undergraduate study at the Institute of Continuing Education

Visions of the future: predictions past and present

Tue 29 April 2014 - Tue 27 May 2014

Institute of Continuing Education

The desire to both know and control the future has been a constant preoccupation of human societies. This course will examine how visions of the future have shaped the world we live in today, and what such visions tell us about what we might experience tomorrow.

29 April: The shape of futures past (Dr Justin Meggitt)
6 May: Living the dream: utopian thinking and utopian communities from Plato to the present day (Dr Justin Meggitt)
13 May: Planet of slums? Migration and urban life (Dr Alexandra Winkels)
20 May: Climate change and resource wars: what can we expect? (Dr Alexandra Winkels)
27 May: Imagined futures: spectacle and narrative (Dr Jenny Bavidge)

This course will be supported by our virtual learning environment (VLE). You will be able to download course material, contact your tutor and talk to fellow students via the web at a time and place that’s convenient to you.

Cost: £150

Enquiries and booking

Please note that booking is required for this event.

Enquiries: Registration Team Website Email: registration@ice.cam.ac.uk Telephone: 01223 746262

Timing

7:15pm-9:15pm Tuesday every week , for 5 sessions starting Tuesday 29 April 2014

All times

Tue 29 April 2014 7:15PM - 9:15PM
Tue 6 May 2014 7:15PM - 9:15PM
Tue 13 May 2014 7:15PM - 9:15PM
Tue 20 May 2014 7:15PM - 9:15PM
Tue 27 May 2014 7:15PM - 9:15PM

Venue

Address: Institute of Continuing Education
Madingley Hall
Madingley
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB23 8AQ
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Email: enquiries@ice.cam.ac.uk
Telephone: 01223 746262
Fax: 01223 746200
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