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 22 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. |
| 6:00PM - 7:00PM |
Highlight Campath-1H: how a famous antibody found its disease A lecture by Professor Alastair Compston, Professor Emeritus of Neurology, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge |
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| Tue 23 February 2016 | 12:30PM - 2:00PM |
Prof. Monica Grady: Comets and Asteroids, Moon and Mars, Science and Faith - Life and Death Faraday Institute Research Seminar Prof. Monica Grady: Comets and Asteroids, Moon and Mars, Science and Faith - Life and Death |
| 5:00PM - 7:00PM |
Juliet Mitchell and the Lateral Axis: Book Launch The Centre for Gender Studies is hosting a book launch for 'Juliet Mitchell and the Lateral Axis' on Tuesday 23 February 2016 at Jesus College, Upper Hall. Professor Juliet Mitchell, Professor of Psychoanalysis and Gender Studies, University of Cambridge, will be 'In Conversation' with the editors. All are welcome to attend this event, which will commence with a drinks reception at 5.00 pm. |
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| 5:30PM - 6:30PM |
Plans of London buildings drawn c.1450-1720 A talk by Dorian Gerhold (London) in the 'Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography' series. |
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| Wed 24 February 2016 | 4:00PM - 5:00PM |
Government quality and foreign investment in the European regions A talk by Dr Riccardo Crescenzi from the London School of Economics. Part of the Land Economy Seminar Series. |
| 6:00PM - 7:30PM |
St Catharine's Political Economy seminar series - Anastasia Nesvetailova ‘Shadow Banking and Financial Innovation: in Search of a Theory’ Anastasia Nesvetailova will discuss the emergent views on the origins and the nature of the shadow banking system. The 2007-09 crisis posed an intellectual challenge to finance and economics, and to the practice of financial regulation. |
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| Thu 25 February 2016 | 5:15PM |
Highlight Rosamund Urwin and Ben Phillips talk: inequality In times of austerity, can we afford to tackle global and intergenerational inequality? |
| 5:30PM - 7:30PM |
G.L.S. Shackle Biennial Memorial Lecture St Edmund’s College is delighted to announce the sixth in a series of lectures in memory of the late Professor G.L.S. Shackle. The invited speaker is: Adair Turner The title of his lecture will be: ‘Economics after the Crisis’ |
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| 6:15PM - 7:30PM |
Architecture and urban conflict: how do they connect? Head of Architecture Dr Wendy Pullan explores the role architecture plays in urban conflict. |
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| 7:00PM - 10:00PM |
Speakezee presents Cambridge: The Art of Science Art, poetry, dance, music and science collide as 3 scientists explore how the arts have influenced their research, and how science affects their art. |
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| 7:30PM - 8:45PM |
Terry Eagleton on The Comedians by Trevor Griffiths The great literary theorist comes to Hughes Hall. |
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| Fri 26 February 2016 | 7:00PM - 9:30PM |
History of Beer and Brewing in Cambridge with a beer tasting with CAMRA featuring local real ale |
| Sat 27 February 2016 | 11:00AM - 12:00PM |
University wives and their social history |
| 1:30PM - 2:30PM |
Proctors, bulldogs, constables and councillors: a city of divided power The structure of law and order in Cambridge |
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| 3:00PM - 4:00PM |
The Cambridge Townscape 1815-1914 Cambridge before WW1 |
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| 6:30PM - 7:30PM |
Cambridge in the good old days Cambridge in the 50s and 60s |