Talks
The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography
Tessa Rajak on "The Jewish War" by Flavius Josephus
| Mon 13 October 2014 | 12:30PM - 1:30PM |
Dr Janelle Lamoreaux, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge gives the first Multi-disciplinary Gender Research Seminar of 2014-15. |
| 6:00PM - 7:00PM |
Larmor lecture - the computational universe The Larmor Lecture by Professor Leslie Valiant FRS, T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Harvard USA |
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| Tue 14 October 2014 | 12:30PM - 2:00PM |
A political theology of climate change This Research Seminar is being given by Prof Michael Northcott. The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion Research Seminars are held at 1.00 p.m. on alternate Tuesdays in term time in the Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College. A free light buffet lunch and drinks are served from 12.30 p.m. onwards. |
| 5:00PM - 7:00PM |
Stolen votes, secret spooks and the hidden oil: conspiracy theories in an age of transparency A public talk by the journalist and broadcaster David Aaronovitch (Times). The talk will be followed by a wine reception. This is part of a series of public talks from the Leverhulme-funded project Conspiracy and Democracy. More information at http://www.conspiracyanddemocracy.org |
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| Wed 15 October 2014 | 1:15PM - 2:00PM |
A curator’s introduction to silent partners With Jane Munro, Keeper of Paintings, Drawings and Prints. |
| 2:30PM - 3:15PM |
A curator’s introduction to silent partners With Jane Munro, Keeper of Paintings, Drawings and Prints. |
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| 6:00PM - 7:30PM |
St Catharine's political economy seminars: Simon Wren-Lewis The next St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar in the series on the Economics of Austerity, will be held on Wednesday 15th October 2014 - Simon Wren-Lewis will give a talk on 'Fiscal Rules and Austerity'. The seminar will be held in the Rushmore Room at St Catharine's College from 6.00-7.30 pm. All are welcome. |
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| Thu 16 October 2014 | 12:30PM - 1:00PM |
Gwen Raverat and the wider context printmaking and wood-engraving |
| 5:15PM - 6:30PM |
Magdalene Festival of sound launch with Professor Trevor Cox “Sonic Travel” with Professor Trevor Cox In his lecture Professor Cox will explain his particular interest in sound and he will launch the Magdalene Festival of Sound. |
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| 6:30PM - 7:30PM |
Responses to the First World War The Fitzwilliam College Arrol Adam Lecture Series, Michaelmas 2014. |
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| Sun 19 October 2014 | 11:15AM |
University Sermon on Memory and Identity The Right Reverend Dom Aidan Bellenger, of Jesus College, will preach the University Sermon in Great St Mary's. A widely published historian, Aidan Bellenger's works include Princes of the Church (2001), The Mitre and the Crown (2005), Downside Abbey: an Architectural History. (2011) and Keeping the Rule: David Knowles and the Writing of History (2014). |