Talks
Gates Cambridge Annual Lecture 2024
A global turning point: how to escape the permacrisis: Reid Lidow, Michael Spence and Mohamed A. El-Erian
| Mon 27 April 2015 | 4:00PM - 6:00PM |
Death and sanitation: Imperial representations of The Ganges Part of 'Visual Constructions of South Asia' (2014-15) seminar series (http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/50675) |
| 4:00PM - 6:00PM |
Death and sanitation: Imperial representations of The Ganges This seminar is part of the 'Visual Constructions of South Asia’ series convened by Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes (http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/50675) |
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| 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
The CRASSH Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chinese Studies, Xu Bing (artist and Former President of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing), will give two public lectures and participate in a concluding symposium. He will also present a talk and reception at the Fitzwilliam Museum to celebrate his visit to Cambridge. More information about this first lecture will be posted shortly. |
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| Tue 28 April 2015 | 1:00PM - 2:00PM |
Conversation reflecting on gender and faith. |
| 6:00PM - 7:00PM |
Highlight A Victorian polar explorer remembered: Vice-Admiral Sir George Nares The commander of the the first steam vessel to cross the Antarctic Circle in 1874, Vice-Admiral Sir George Nares played a pivotal role in Victorian Arctic exploration. On the centenary of his death, descendent Jerrard Nares will discuss this extrordinary Victoprian polar pioneer. |
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| 6:00PM - 8:00PM |
Highlight Xu Bing at the Fitzwilliam Museum At this special evening at the Fitzwilliam Museum to celebrate Xu Bing's visit to Cambridge, you will have the opportunity to meet Xu Bing and to see a small installation of his four birdcages in the Chinese Gallery. Xu Bing will discuss his work with Shelagh Vainker who curated his exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in 2013. The evening will also include a wine reception in the Courtyard. |
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| Wed 29 April 2015 | 4:30PM - 6:30PM |
Seminar: understanding vocational education and training Time for upheaval? Professor Linda Clarke of University of Westminster shares her unique interpretation of vocational education and training in the context of the history of labour and industrial relations and sets out her vision for the future. |
| 5:00PM - 6:00PM |
Urdu migrant literati and lahore's culture Centre of South Asian Studies Seminar: Dr Tahir Kamran, Allama Iqbal Fellow at the Centre will speak on 'Urdu migrant literati and Lahore's culture' |
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| 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
The energy of reality and the creativity of art - Xu Bing Xu Bing is the 2015 Humanitas Chair in Chinese Studies. |
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Highlight Bluestockings A talk by Jane Robinson for the Friends of Cambridge University Library. |
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| 6:00PM - 7:15PM |
Charles Holland RIBA East 2015 Spring Lecture - ‘End Of/Start Up’ Charles Holland to give RIBA East 2015 Spring Lecture ‘End Of/Start Up’ Wednesday 29 April 2015, 6pm at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 0WA |
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| 6:00PM - 7:30PM |
St Catharine's political economy seminar series: Photis Lysandrou 'The Colonisation of the Future: An Alternative View of Financialisation and its Portents' by Photis Lysandrou |
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| Thu 30 April 2015 | 2:00PM - 5:30PM |
Chinese tradition: Chinese reality CRASSH Humanitas Vistitng Professor in Chinese Studiies, Xu Bing, will give two lectures and participate in this concluding symposium. |
| Fri 1 May 2015 | 5:30PM - 6:45PM |
Selwyn College's annual Ramsay Murray Lecture. Speaker: Bridget Kendall, BBC Diplomatic Correspondent - “Russia and the West: lessons from the Ukraine crisis” |