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Talks

The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography

Paul Seaward on "The History of the Rebellion" by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon

Mon 21 October 2013 5:00PM - 6:00PM

Culpable identities: homicide jurisdiction and the politics of culture in late-colonial northern Nigeria

Part of the Centre of African Studies' Michaelmas Term Seminar Series on 'Law, Crime and Justice in Africa'

Tue 22 October 2013 5:00PM - 7:00PM

If you are not a conspiracy theorist then you are an idiot

An open lecture with Charles Pigden at CRASSH supported by the Leverhulme funded Conspiracy and Democracy Research Project

Wed 23 October 2013 10:30AM - 12:30PM

Grading

Training event: Making the right grading decisions - a discussion of issues, challenges and outcomes by Cambridge Assessment expert Mark Dowling. Part of the Assessment Practice series.

1:15PM

Healthy, humours and paintings

With Spike Bucklow, Research Scientist, Hamilton Kerr Institute.

3:00PM

Healthy, humours and paintings

With Spike Bucklow, Research Scientist, Hamilton Kerr Institute.

5:00PM - 6:30PM

The lattey lecture: what authority does the word of God have in the Catholic Church?

Fr Timothy Radcliffe OP, former Master General of the Dominicans,who will deliver the 2013 Lattey Lecture on Catholic Social Teaching and Biblical Studies.

7:00PM - 8:00PM

How to do macroeconomics in an age of uncertainty: methodology & theory (lecture 1 and 2) With Professor Jesper Jespersen

Lecture one will begin with an analysis of macroeconomic development in the past and how can it be explained? In this lecture the importance of methodology and how to choose a relevant model, where uncertainty is represented, is discussed.

7:00PM - 8:00PM

Highlight What's wrong with wrongdoing?

A free public lecture at Madingley Hall by Professor Alison Sinclair, Professor of Modern Spanish Literature and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge.

7:00PM - 9:00PM

Public open evenings at the Institute of Astronomy

Astronomy talks and public observing (if clear!) every Wednesday evening during the winter season.

8:00PM - 9:30PM

Halloween stories - Cambridge storytellers

Tales to chill the blood

Thu 24 October 2013 1:10PM - 2:00PM

An introduction to Pedro Barateiro

A lunchtime talk by Guy Haywood, Assistant Curator.

1:15PM

It’s not easy being green: exploring the use of green pigments and mixtures in manuscript illumination

With Dr Paola Ricciardi, Research Associate, Manuscript and Printed Books.

5:30PM - 6:30PM

A postgenomic perspective on sex and gender

Professor John Dupré gives the Michaelmas 2013 Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professorship Lecture.

7:30PM - 9:00PM

The House Sparrow survey of Cambridge

Bob Jarman will talk about reasons why House Sparrows have declined throughout Western Europe including the UK.