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'Crime doesn't have to be second class literature': An evening with Nicola Upson

Join Cambridge University Library for an evening with crime writer Nicola Upson. Nicola will talk to us about curating the Library’s new exhibition, Murder by the Book: A Celebration of 20th Century British Crime Fiction.

Mon 19 November 2018 6:00PM - 7:00PM

Highlight The combinatorics of spaghetti hoops

A Lecture by Professor Simon Tavaré FRS FMedSci, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Tue 20 November 2018 1:00PM - 2:00PM

Lunchtime Talk: Prof Simon Schaffer

On 20th November: Prof Simon Schaffer (History and Philosophy of Science) will be talking about how trust was initially established, and disputed, around early mechanical computers such as those designed by Babbage.

5:00PM

Professor Diane Coyle - Cogs and Monsters: economists, experts and measuring progress

Professor Diane Coyle is the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. On the 20th of November she will be holding her inaugural lecture at the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS): "Cogs and Monsters: economists, experts and measuring progress."

5:30PM - 6:30PM

Creed and Cartography: Religion and the Mapping of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Seventeenth Century

A talk by Andrew Doll (Lincoln College Oxford) in the 'Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography' series.

6:00PM - 7:00PM

Highlight New Hall Art Collection: An Alternative History of Art - Women Through the Ages

Please join us for a talk, ‘An Alternative History of Art: Women Through the Ages (1550-1945)’ with curator and art historian, Katy Hessel, which will highlight how women, from female Renaissance artists up to the mid-century Surrealists have contributed to the history of art.

Wed 21 November 2018 1:00PM - 2:00PM

Highlight Oral-histories of women in Cambridge

Report by Pamela Jane Smith on oral-histories of women-in-Cambridge, 21 November, Wednesday, Wolfson College, combination room.

6:00PM - 7:30PM

St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - Lars Boerner

Talk Title: ‘Time for Growth’

Thu 22 November 2018 5:00PM - 7:00PM

Climate Changed Urban Futures: imaginaries, experiments and justice in the Anthropocene city: Professor Harriet Bulkeley, University of Durham

Cambridge Geography celebrates 100 years with a series of centenary lectures by leading thinkers in the world of academic Geography.

5:30PM - 7:00PM

Highlight New Hall Art Collection: Figures in a Landscape

A panel discussion looking at landscape and feminism, different ways of seeing, and how things carry hidden meanings at a time when Virginia Woolf was working within a network of writers, artists and intellectuals.

Fri 23 November 2018 3:30PM - 4:30PM

Highlight Brexit and Conspiracy Theories

Dr Hugo Leal and Dr Hugo Drochon will launch the results of a substantial cross-national survey on the topic of conspiracy and democracy.