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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 1 February 2016 5:00PM - 6:30PM

East Asian seminar series, Lent 2016

East Asian Seminar Series, Lent 2016 Beginning 18 January, please join us each Monday evening in Lent for a line up of eight prominent scholars from around the world who will be speaking on topics related to East Asia.

Tue 2 February 2016 5:00PM - 6:15PM

The art of invention

The second of this year's Clark Lectures in English Literature

Wed 3 February 2016 4:00PM - 5:00PM

The impact of the Right to Buy for housing association tenants and forced sale of higher value council homes

A talk by Anna Clarke from the Cambridge Centre for Housing and Planning Research. Part of the Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series.

5:30PM

Highlight Archbishop Matthew Parker, patron of bookbinding

A talk by Mirjam Foot for the Friends of Cambridge University Library

6:00PM - 7:30PM

St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - Ann Pettifor

‘Challenging the Ideology of Austerity’ Ann Pettifor will discuss the one-sided and one-dimensional aspects of today's dominant economic narrative. It acts as cover for an ideological objective: a world of liberal finance freed up by de-regulation and capital mobility to exercise despotic power over an illiberal and shrunken state.

7:00PM - 9:00PM

Highlight The UK’s EU referendum and Britain’s place in the world

Adrian Monck, head of communications at the World Economic Forum and a former British journalism professor and writer on the media and current affairs will talk about international relations in DG Cambridge’s public lecture series on Britain’s EU referendum. This talk will be in English. Prof Monck will be introduced by Dr Christopher Bickerton. The talk will be followed by drinks.

Thu 4 February 2016 7:30PM - 9:00PM

Ants: ecology, behaviour and importance

Brian Eversham will talk about British ants including their complex interactions with other plants and animals.

Fri 5 February 2016 5:00PM

Ver Heyden de Lancey Medico-Legal Lecture 2016

"Montgomery: a dramatic change in the law on patient consent?"

6:00PM - 7:00PM

'The Heart of Leonardo'

Mr Francis Wells FRCS will deliver the first lecture in the ‘Clare Hall Anniversary Lecture Series 2016’

6:00PM - 7:00PM

Britain’s International Role

Q&A session with Daniel Zeichner MP