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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

Tue 22 April 2014 11:45AM

Highlight Mere's commemoration Sermon on ‘the readiness is all’

The Reverend Canon Jeremy Davies, of Corpus Christi College, will preach in commemoration of John Mere.

5:00PM - 7:00PM

Kathleen Stock: 'sexual objectification, perception, and images'

Kathleen Stock, Reader in Philosophy at the University of Sussex, will talk on 'Sexual Objectification, Perception, and Images'.

Wed 23 April 2014 1:15PM - 2:00PM

Putting something of a relationship III into context

A lunchtime talk at the Fitzwilliam Museum with David Reekie, British glass sculptor.

Thu 24 April 2014 1:00PM - 2:00PM

Venture capital - supporting technological innovation

Commercializing university research

5:00PM - 6:30PM

Interpreting Bach on the piano

This is the first of four major public Humanitas events in Music by world-leading concert pianist Angela Hewitt.

6:30PM - 8:00PM

Highlight Robert Macfarlane & Ali Smith

Come and enjoy a very special evening with Robert Macfarlane and Ali Smith, who will be reading from Nan Shepherd’s extraordinary book of poems, In The Cairngorms, first published in 1934, and now reissued on its 80th anniversary by local publisher Galileo in April.

Fri 25 April 2014 2:00PM - 5:30PM

Masterclass with Angela Hewitt

This is the second of four major public Humanitas events in Music by world-leading concert pianist Angela Hewitt.

5:30PM - 6:30PM

The past ahead: academic expertise and public understandings of the past

Professor Lin Foxhall, MBE (Hon.) delivers Newnham College’s Jane Harrison Memorial Lecture.

Sat 26 April 2014 4:30PM - 5:30PM

Highlight Charlotte Hodes: in conversation with Nina Lubbren

With an international reputation as an artist working through collage across different media, this new work by Charlotte Hodes has been informed by the influential 1856 book The Grammar of Ornament by architect Owen Jones, one of the most important design theorists of the 19th century.