Talks
Gates Cambridge Annual Lecture 2024
A global turning point: how to escape the permacrisis: Reid Lidow, Michael Spence and Mohamed A. El-Erian
| Mon 15 October 2018 | 8:00AM - 9:00PM |
Pick of the month The Festival of Ideas Hundreds of free events over two weeks, the Cambridge Festival of Ideas is one of the most exciting and dynamic occasions in the Cambridge cultural calendar. |
| Tue 16 October 2018 | 8:00AM - 9:00PM |
Pick of the month The Festival of Ideas Hundreds of free events over two weeks, the Cambridge Festival of Ideas is one of the most exciting and dynamic occasions in the Cambridge cultural calendar. |
| Wed 17 October 2018 | 8:00AM - 9:00PM |
Pick of the month The Festival of Ideas Hundreds of free events over two weeks, the Cambridge Festival of Ideas is one of the most exciting and dynamic occasions in the Cambridge cultural calendar. |
| 6:00PM - 7:30PM |
St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - Richard Werner Talk Title: ‘Scientific Macroeconomics and the Quantity Theory of Credit’ |
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| 7:00PM - 8:30PM |
Brief Answers to the Big Questions: Stephen Hawking’s final book Brief Answers to the Big Questions - a unique celebration of Stephen Hawking's final book. |
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| 7:00PM - 8:30PM |
Cafe Sci Cambridge: Is conservation good for your health? Could conserving ecosystems help to prevent future disease outbreaks? From bats and Ebola to malaria mosquitoes, we’ll explore the latest research addressing this challenging question. |
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| Thu 18 October 2018 | 8:00AM - 9:00PM |
Pick of the month The Festival of Ideas Hundreds of free events over two weeks, the Cambridge Festival of Ideas is one of the most exciting and dynamic occasions in the Cambridge cultural calendar. |
| 6:00PM - 7:00PM |
Astronomers have traditionally used the largest available telescopes with long exposures to see fainter and fainter objects further and further away. Developments in computing and CCD technology mean that now we take many short exposure frames which we can add together to see the faint objects and any objects that flare, burst or eclipse. |
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| 6:45PM - 8:30PM |
The riparian meadows of Cambridge Chris Preston will talk about the history of the commons alongside the River Cam in Cambridge. |
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| Fri 19 October 2018 | 8:00AM - 9:00PM |
Pick of the month The Festival of Ideas Hundreds of free events over two weeks, the Cambridge Festival of Ideas is one of the most exciting and dynamic occasions in the Cambridge cultural calendar. |
| Sat 20 October 2018 | 8:00AM - 9:00PM |
Pick of the month The Festival of Ideas Hundreds of free events over two weeks, the Cambridge Festival of Ideas is one of the most exciting and dynamic occasions in the Cambridge cultural calendar. |
| 3:30PM - 5:00PM |
BLACK POWER, IN BRITAIN AND ON FILM Until recently, Britain’s Black Power movement was all but erased from narratives of contemporary history. Robin Bunce, a historian based at Homerton College, chairs a discussion of film makers and screen writers who are bringing the hidden history of Black Power to the screen. |
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| Sun 21 October 2018 | 8:00AM - 9:00PM |
Pick of the month The Festival of Ideas Hundreds of free events over two weeks, the Cambridge Festival of Ideas is one of the most exciting and dynamic occasions in the Cambridge cultural calendar. |