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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 24 November 2014 12:30PM - 1:30PM

A bit of himself: British male-authored abortion narratives from waste to Alfie

Fran Bigman, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge gives a Multi-disciplinary Gender Research Seminar

4:00PM - 6:00PM

From courts, studios to bazaars: A visual history of the Tawa’if in colonial North India, late 18th to early 20th centuries

Part of 'Visual Constructions of South Asia' (2014-15) seminar series (http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/50675)

5:00PM - 6:00PM

The paradox of parallel lives: immigration policy and transnational polygyny between Senegal and France

A talk by Helene Neveau-Kingelbach (Oxford) Part of the Centre of African Studies' Michaelmas Seminar Series 'Migration and African Diasporas'

5:00PM - 6:30PM

Book launch: Clive Wilmer's Urban Pastorals

Book launch: Clive Wilmer reads his sequence Urban Pastorals (Worple Press).

6:00PM - 7:00PM

Highlight MEMS Biosensors and their potential for improving healthcare

A Lecture by Dr Andrew Flewitt, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

7:30PM - 9:00PM

Poetry reading: Mark Ford, Simon Jarvis, Rowan Williams

A poetry reading by Mark Ford, Simon Jarvis and Rowan Williams.

Tue 25 November 2014 5:00PM - 6:30PM

Book launch: Nicholas Moore's selected poems

Mark Ford and John Lucas talk about the poet Nicholas Moore (1918–1986) and read from his new selected poems (Shoestring Press).

5:30PM - 6:30PM

Early-modern maps in mirror image

A talk by Professor Paul Harvey (University of Durham) in the 'Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography' series.

7:30PM - 9:30PM

Poetry reading: new Cambridge poets

A reading of their work by upcoming Cambridge poets

Wed 26 November 2014 10:30AM - 12:30PM

Validity unpacked

Training event: Stuart Shaw leads an exploration into the issues of validity and validation.

1:15PM - 2:00PM

Modern art and the mannequin, form to fetish

Dr Alyce Mahon Senior University Lecturer in the History of Art (20th century).

5:00PM - 6:30PM

Family Politics: Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival, 1900-1950

Professor Paul Ginsborg, Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Florence gives a Lecture on the topic of his latest book: 'Family Politics: Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival, 1900-1950'.

5:00PM - 6:30PM

Poetry reading: Dan Burt and Anne Stevenson

A poetry reading by two American poets with Cambridge connections, Dan Burt and Anne Stevenson.

5:30PM - 6:30PM

Disability and austerity: shifting perspectives

To celebrate International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the panel will explore current changes to disability support for students and staff in Higher Education.

7:00PM - 8:00PM

Highlight Pompeii and Herculaneum: does the past have a future?

A free public lecture at Madingley Hall by Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Director of Research in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.

7:30PM - 9:00PM

Poetry reading: Sean Borodale, Elaine Feinstein and Angela Leighton

Poets Sean Borodale, Elaine Feinstein and Angela Leighton read from their work.

Thu 27 November 2014 5:00PM - 6:30PM

Global poetries: the work of the editor

Global poetries: the work of the editor, a discussion with With Sarah Howe, Eve Lacey and Preti Taneja.

6:30PM - 9:00PM

Magazine launch: Long Poem Magazine, issue 12

The launch of Long Poem Magazine, issue 12, with readings and discussion

Fri 28 November 2014 5:00PM - 6:30PM

Poetry reading: Vahni Capildeo, Ian Patterson and James Russell

Poets Vahni Capildeo, Ian Patterson and James Russell read from their work.

5:00PM - 6:30PM

The crisis of the UK political class

Professor Andrew Gamble FBA will deliver this lecture part of the VHI series 'Ethical Standards in Public LIfe'

7:30PM - 9:00PM

Equipage Poets

A reading by Equipage Poets John James, Drew Milne, Ian Patterson, Luke Roberts, Geoff Ward and Carol Watts.