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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 23 February 2015 12:30PM - 1:30PM

Marketing the women writer in sixteenth-century Italy

Dr Abigail Brundin, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge, will give a multi-disciplinary gender research seminar on 'Marketing the Women Writer in sixteenth-century Italy'.

5:00PM - 6:00PM

Pick of the month History of art slade lecture series 2014-15 - Prof Mary Miller

A Thing Of Wonder: The Hand-held Object Of The Ancient Maya

5:00PM - 6:30PM

Intimacy and inequality; conceptualising care labour in Kenya

Seminar by Professor Ambreena Manji, Cardiff University This Talk is part of the Centre of African Studies Lent term Seminar Series 'Gender in Africa'

6:00PM - 7:00PM

Highlight A.V.Hill lecture - Science and the quiet art revisited

The A V HILL Lecture by Professor Sir David Weatherall FRS, Regius Professor of Medicine Emeritus of the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford

Tue 24 February 2015 1:00PM - 2:00PM

Reading of poems

Readings of 20th Century Religious Poems.

5:30PM - 6:30PM

Sea monsters to sonar: mapping the Polar oceans

A talk by Lt Cdr Dr John Ash (Scott Polar Research Institute) in the 'Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography' series.

Wed 25 February 2015 4:00PM - 6:00PM

Highlight The anthropology and archaeology department was far more interesting than any primitive tribe,” former student Mary Conn 1949

You are invited to a photographic history of the archaeology and anthropology at the University of Cambridge over the last 100 years. In honour of the centennial celebration and based on hundreds of interviews with former undergraduates, this illustrated talk reveals how 1920s students hoped to create world peace by studying the deep past.

5:00PM

Sandars Lectures 2015

The Lectures entitled Henry Bradshaw and the Foundations of Codicology will be delivered by Professor Richard Beadle, Professor of Medieval English Literature and Palaeography, University of Cambridge.

5:00PM - 6:00PM

The Marshall Lectures 2014-2015

The Marshall Lectures 2014-2015. Professor Raj Chetty of Harvard University will deliver two lectures entitled Improving Equality of Opportunity: New Evidence and Policy Lessons in the Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, at 5pm on 25 & 26 February 2015. Professor Chetty will hold a Question and Answer session immediately after the second lecture on 26th February.

5:00PM - 6:00PM

The politics of islamic law: local elites, colonial authority and the making of the Muslim state

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminar go be delivered by Dr Iza Hussin, Department of POLIS, University of Cambridge

5:00PM - 6:30PM

The construction of the role of Wotan

With Sir John Tomlinson and Patrick Carnegy

6:00PM - 7:30PM

St Catharine's political economy seminar series: Mark Hayes

'Keynes, the Pope and the IMF', Mark Hayes, University of Durham

Thu 26 February 2015 12:30PM

Lunchtime talks

Open Archives: Ian Hamilton Finlay Letters

5:00PM - 6:30PM

Reforming the European Union: the ethical dimension

A lecture by Dr Martin Westlake, Visiting Professor, College of Europe, Bruges, Senior Visiting Fellow, European Institute, London School of Economics and former Secretary-General of the European Economic and Social Committee.

5:00PM - 6:30PM

The Marshall Lectures 2014-2015

The Marshall Lectures 2014-2015. Professor Raj Chetty of Harvard University will deliver two lectures entitled Improving Equality of Opportunity: New Evidence and Policy Lessons in the Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, at 5pm on 25 & 26 February 2015. Professor Chetty will hold a Question and Answer session immediately after the second lecture on 26th February.

5:00PM - 8:00PM

The 2015 Delhi elections: what do they tell us about Indian democracy?

Panel discussion

Fri 27 February 2015 5:00PM - 6:30PM

The construction of the role of the minotaur

Opera singer Sir John Tomlinson in conversation with Composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle

5:30PM - 6:30PM

Economic development lecture, Dr Ha-Joon Chang

Talk to be given by Dr Ha-Joon Chang, University of Cambridge as part of the Darwin College Lecture Series 'Development'

Sun 1 March 2015 11:15AM - 12:15PM

Hulsean Sermon

Hulsean Sermon on Intelligibility and Coherence: The Christian Vision of Reality