Talks
The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography
Paul Seaward on "The History of the Rebellion" by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
| Mon 15 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 16 February 2016 | 5:00PM - 6:15PM |
The fourth and last of this year's Clark Lectures on English Literature |
| Wed 17 February 2016 | 1:00PM - 2:00PM |
Highlight Return to Igbo-Ukwu This is the story of two Cambridge researchers returning to Igbo-Ukwu a 9th Century archaeological site in Nigeria, excavated in 1959 and 1964. Hundreds of intricate sophisticated bronze, copper and iron art objects (ca 900 AD). This archaeological work was interrupted by the Biafran War. This talk will describe the return visit and hopes for the future. |
| 2:30PM - 4:30PM |
Highlight Translation and the periphery Academics from Cambridge, Edinburgh and Glasgow will come together on 17 February at CRASSH to examine how translation can impact communities at the periphery of society, such as refugees, in both positive and negative ways. |
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| 4:00PM - 5:00PM |
A talk by Professor Paul Hickman from Sheffield Hallam University. |
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| 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
Public lecture on early history of printing in East Asia by world-renowned expert |
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| 6:00PM - 7:30PM |
St Catharine's Political Economy seminar series - Michelle Baddeley ‘Convergence, Divergence and Migration in an Age of Austerity’ Michelle Baddeley will discuss number of relevant issues. With the movement of large numbers of refuges in response to conflicts in the Middle East and other parts of the global South, migration has become one of the most pressing political, social and economic issue of our time. |
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| Thu 18 February 2016 | 7:30PM - 9:00PM |
Birdsong - what's all the noise about? Tony Fulford from Ely Wildspace and the Department of Zoology will present his personal views on how and why birds sing. |