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Gates Cambridge Annual Lecture 2024

A global turning point: how to escape the permacrisis: Reid Lidow, Michael Spence and Mohamed A. El-Erian

Mon 26 June 2017 6:00PM - 7:15PM

Highlight The Future of the Antarctic Treaty: A talk by Professor Klaus Dodds

How do you govern an international continent? The Antarctic Treaty was intended to build on the legacy of the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58, with a vision of a world where international science and co-operation prevailed. Looking back as much as looking forward, what is the future of this treaty? Can it continue to provide the necessary framework to govern Antarctica peacefully?

Tue 27 June 2017 1:15PM - 1:45PM

Highlight The Year That Made Antarctica – Exhibition Tours

Join us for a free tour of our new temporary exhibition, The Year That Made Antarctica: People, politics & the International Geophysical Year.

Wed 28 June 2017 5:30PM - 7:00PM

Friends of Clare Hall Art Society - Talk by Nicholas Juett

Talk by Cambridge artist, Nicholas Juett a conceptual artist who produces oil paintings.

Fri 30 June 2017 7:15PM - 8:15PM

Jean-Léon Gérôme: A certain taste for archaeology

Following the Museum’s successful bicentenary acquisition of Jean-Léon Gérôme’s Portrait of Claude-Armand Gérôme, the foremost expert on Gérôme and Musée d’Orsay’s Senior Curator for Sculpture, Edouard Papet, will contextualise this significant 19th century artist and his intimate works.

Sun 2 July 2017 6:00PM - 8:00PM

Highlight Lecture Suppers: Madingley and its history

Now home to the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education, Madingley Hall has functioned at various times as a hunting lodge, a family home and a royal residence. Discover the fascinating past (and present!) of this 16th-century mansion, in this informal lecture series.