Talks
Gates Cambridge Annual Lecture 2024
A global turning point: how to escape the permacrisis: Reid Lidow, Michael Spence and Mohamed A. El-Erian
| Tue 26 April 2016 | 5:00PM - 7:00PM |
Highlight Oral histories from people of colour at Cambridge The Personal Histories Project invites a panel of current Cambridge students and alumni to use the tool of oral personal history to explore race relations and what it means to be a person of colour in Cambridge. |
| Wed 27 April 2016 | 5:00PM - 7:00PM |
The Kingsley Martin memorial lecture Professor Jonathan Spencer, University of Edinburgh, will speak on 'Three scenes from rural life: Cambridge to Colombo and back again, 1954 to 2016'. |
| 5:15PM - 6:30PM |
Adair Turner's lecture will explore the changing nature of economic activity in a world which is simultaneously "high-tech" and "hi-touch", and will support the need for major policy changes to ensure that capitalism can deliver enhanced human welfare. |
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| 5:30PM |
Total Accessibility: Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st-Century Museum The Cambridge University German Society proudly presents Dr Martin Roth, Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum since September 2011. The topic of his talk will be: 'Total Accessibility: Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st-Century Museum'. There will also be time for questions. |
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| Thu 28 April 2016 | 5:30PM - 6:30PM |
The 2016 Antcliffe Lecture, hosted by the Department of Politics and International Studies and the John Antcliffe Memorial Fund, with Tristram Hunt MP |