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'Crime doesn't have to be second class literature': An evening with Nicola Upson

Join Cambridge University Library for an evening with crime writer Nicola Upson. Nicola will talk to us about curating the Library’s new exhibition, Murder by the Book: A Celebration of 20th Century British Crime Fiction.

Mon 27 October 2014 12:30PM - 1:30PM

The (In)visible gay in academic leadership: implications for re-imagining Inclusion and transformation in South Africa

Dr Robert Balfour, Visiting Fellow, Institute of Education, London, gives a Multi-disciplinary Gender Research Seminar.

5:00PM - 6:00PM

The Roots Of Impermanence: Farm Life, Labour, And Migration On The Zimbabwean-South African Border

A talk by Maxim Bolt (Birmingham) Part of the Centre of African Studies' Michaelmas Seminar Series 'Migration and African Diasporas'

5:30PM - 7:00PM

Talk by Norman Ackroyd RA

Talk by the artist

6:00PM - 7:00PM

Perception and belief in psychosis

A Lecture by Professor Paul Fletcher, Department of Psychiatry

Tue 28 October 2014 5:00PM - 6:30PM

Humanitas series in sustainability studies 2014

Earth Resilience and World Development: Pathways towards global sustainability

5:00PM - 7:00PM

A land of conspiracy: geopolitics and imagination in colonial North Africa

A public talk by James Roslington (Cambridge). 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

6:00PM - 8:00PM

Perfected mannequin: Perfected body?

A roundtable discussion chaired by Steven Connor, Professor of English, exploring notions of perfection of the artificial figure – and the human body - from a number of different perspectives.

Wed 29 October 2014 1:15PM - 2:00PM

David’s Polyphemus: the statue and the Baroque love of the monstrous

With Carlo Milano, Art Historian specialising in Italian 17th and 18th century sculpture and decorative arts.

5:00PM - 6:30PM

Humanitas series in sustainability studies 2014

Earth Resilience and World Development: Pathways towards global sustainability

5:30PM - 6:30PM

Annual race equality lecture 2014

Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater: Remembering the Benefits of Multi-Cultural Britain

5:30PM - 6:30PM

Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater: remembering the benefits of multi-cultural Britain

In a context of growing anxiety about immigration, author, playwright and Chancellor of Kingston University Bonnie Greer OBE explores how the UK’s cultural and ethnic diversity enriches our communities and how the UK benefits both societally and economically from its diversity.

Thu 30 October 2014 11:00AM - 1:00PM

Humanitas series in sustainability studies 2014

Earth Resilience and World Development: Pathways towards global sustainability

5:00PM - 6:15PM

Magdalene Festival of Sound : Mad for Music: Festival Lecture by Duncan Robinson

An expert in art from the eighteenth century onwards, in his Festival LectureDuncan Robinson will focus on the relationship of art to music in the world of Gainsborough.

6:00PM - 7:20PM

Sherard Cowper-Coles on 'Folly in Foreign Policy: An Afghan Case Study'

One hour lecture + short discussion

6:30PM

Highlight Lars Iyer, David Winters and Wittgenstein Jr

Lars Iyer in conversation with literary critic Daivid Winters discuss Lars' latest novel Wittgenstein Jr which concerns the academic career of a group of Cambridge philosophy students, deeply under the influence of their supervisor, whom they nickname Wittgenstein Jr.

6:30PM - 7:30PM

Responses to the First World War

The Fitzwilliam College Arrol Adam Lecture Series, Michaelmas 2014.

6:30PM - 8:30PM

Highlight Scriptural reasoning

Multi-Faith workshop coordinated by the Cambridge

Fri 31 October 2014 2:00PM - 6:00PM

Humanitas series in sustainability studies 2014

Earth Resilience and World Development: Pathways towards global sustainability

Sat 1 November 2014 9:30AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Heffers Classics Forum 2014

Heffers Classics Forum returns to Cambridge: Saturday 1st November 2014. Faculty of Law, Sidgwick Site 9.30am - 6pm Heffers are delighted to be holding the annual Heffers Classics Forum once again, in association with Cambridge University’s Festival of Ideas, featuring a host of celebrities from the world of Classics.

Sun 2 November 2014 11:15AM

University Sermon on ‘Scarlet gowns bound for St Mary’s’: Dame Rose Macaulay, MA (Oxon), LittD (Cantab), Cambridge and the War of 1914-1918

The Reverend Canon Dr Judith Maltby, of Newnham and Wolfson Colleges, will be the Lady Margaret's Preacher at the University's Commemoration of Benefactors.