Talks
Institute of Continuing Education: Undergraduate Virtual Open Day
Looking to pursue your love of learning, take the next step in your career or take your first steps along a new career path? Join us for our upcoming Undergraduate Virtual Open Day on 21st May, where we’ll delve into the world of undergraduate study at the Institute of Continuing Education
| Mon 26 October 2015 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Threads of life - an exhibition by Jenny Langley Exploring and celebrating the structural diversity of proteins through embroidery and printing |
| 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
Highlight Capitalism on the Edge: Paul Polman, CE of Unilever plc This event will explore how or if capitalism can be reformed to meet the needs and concerns of society. Come and debate this with key leaders in the first of our series of talks. |
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| 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
Department of East Asian Studies Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2015 Department of East Asian Studies Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2015 Mondays at 17:00 in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies |
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| 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
Mitsuko Uchida will be the holder of the Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Chamber Music with three events during the Michaelmas term 2015. |
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| 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
Highlight Mitsuko Uchida - on keys and music: first illustrated lecture Legendary pianist Mitsuko Uchida brings a deep insight into the music she plays through her own search for truth and beauty. Renowned for her interpretations of Mozart, Schubert, Schumann and Beethoven, she has also illuminated the music of Berg, Schoenberg, Webern and Boulez for a new generation of listeners. |
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| 6:00PM - 7:00PM |
Highlight On the origin of animals, and the invention of the modern biosphere Lecture by Professor Nick Butterfield, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge |
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| Tue 27 October 2015 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Threads of life - an exhibition by Jenny Langley Exploring and celebrating the structural diversity of proteins through embroidery and printing |
| 5:00PM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Slade lectures in fine art 2015-16 - presented by Prof John Bowlt “Suddenly I forgot which comes first, 7 or 8”. Making Sense of the Russian Avant-Garde |
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| 5:30PM - 6:30PM |
The #UpForSchool campaign has brought fair access to education for all to the top of the global agenda. |
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| 6:00PM - 7:30PM |
The most good you can do: Q&A with Peter Singer It's a natural impulse to be altruistic to others, especially if you're lucky enough to live without want. But, asks philosopher Peter Singer, what's the most effective way to give? We’ll start by showing his TED video (10 minutes), then open to live Q&A over Skype for 50 minutes. |
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| Wed 28 October 2015 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Threads of life - an exhibition by Jenny Langley Exploring and celebrating the structural diversity of proteins through embroidery and printing |
| 4:00PM - 5:00PM |
Socio-economic impact of agricultural science: the European story A talk by Professor Peter Midmore, Aberystwyth University. Part of the Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series. |
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| 5:30PM - 6:30PM |
Race Equality in the 'Age of Austerity' |
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| Thu 29 October 2015 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Threads of life - an exhibition by Jenny Langley Exploring and celebrating the structural diversity of proteins through embroidery and printing |
| 4:00PM - 6:00PM |
The Imperial Aesthetic: photography, Samuel Bourne and the Indian Peoples in the post-Mutiny era This talk is part of the annual ‘Visual Constructions of South Asia’ seminar series convened by Dr Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes (Clare Hall College and Centre of South Asian Studies) at the University of Cambridge. |
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| 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
Mitsuko Uchida will be the holder of the Humanitas Visiting Professorship in Chamber Music with three events during the Michaelmas term 2015. |
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| 5:00PM - 7:30PM |
Highlight On keys and music, second illustrated lecture Legendary pianist Mitsuko Uchida brings a deep insight into the music she plays through her own search for truth and beauty. Renowned for her interpretations of Mozart, Schubert, Schumann and Beethoven, she has also illuminated the music of Berg, Schoenberg, Webern and Boulez for a new generation of listeners. |
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| 6:30PM - 8:00PM |
Conflict in paradise: riot, rebellion and relocation in the designed landscape Join Dr Twigs Way for a short talk at the Botanic Garden on the themes of power and resistance in garden history. |
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| Fri 30 October 2015 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Threads of life - an exhibition by Jenny Langley Exploring and celebrating the structural diversity of proteins through embroidery and printing |
| 4:00PM - 6:00PM |
The price of truth: Herbert McCabe on love, politics and death This lecture is part of a Public Lecture Tour by Professor Denys Turner (Yale University). Turner is the Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology at Yale University. He was previously Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University. |
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| Sat 31 October 2015 | 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Gropius' Impington, power and space, art and the rural As part of the 75th anniversary of the Walter Gropius' Modernist Building, a day of roundtables, workshops, and performances will address: 1) art and the rural ; 2) power embodied in space, and issues of place attachment. This is funded through the Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England, supported by Impington Village College 75th Anniversary Festival, Cambridge Central Library Collections |
| 2:00PM - 6:00PM |
Conference: The Legacy of Lee Kuan Yew and the Future of Singapore A free half-day conference exploring Singapore’s past, present and future. Part of the Festival of Ideas. Join us for an afternoon of panel discussions to explore history, politics, law, science and sustainability with a Singaporean perspective. |