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
| Tue 7 May 2019 | 1:00PM - 2:00PM |
Lunchtime Talk: Amanda Brock (Trustable) Amanda Brock will talk about Trustable, an open project looking at risk in software development, by pulling together engineering practices, legal and compliance with insurance. |
| 5:00PM - 6:00PM |
Language as Heritage: Indigenous Language Resurgence in the 21st Century The Annual Heritage Lecture is one of the highlights of the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre’s events calendar. This year the Annual Lecture will be given by Professor Mark Turin, University of British Columbia. Professor Turin will speak on Language as Heritage: Indigenous Language Resurgence in the 21st Century |
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| 5:30PM - 6:30PM |
Burmese cloth maps and itineraries in Cambridge University collections A talk by Natasha Pairaudeau (Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge) and Marie de Rugy (Wolfson College Cambridge) in the 'Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography' series. |
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| Wed 8 May 2019 | 5:00PM - 6:00PM |
An age of discoveries: 250 years since Captain Cook's Endeavour Voyage to the Pacific Edwin Rose discusses the working practices of two natural historians of the eighteenth century, Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander who travelled on the ship Endeavour to the Pacific between 1768 and 1771 and collected thousands of new species previously unknown to European natural history. |
| Thu 9 May 2019 | 5:00PM - 7:00PM |
The Methodology and Ethics of Targeting This public event is organised by the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence |
| 5:15PM - 7:30PM |
Third Annual Kate Pretty Lecture Homerton College is delighted that renowned philosopher and former Principal of Newnham College, Onora O'Neill, has agreed to give the third annual Kate Pretty Lecture. |
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| 5:30PM - 6:00PM |
Eye-Witness Stories from Israel and the West Bank Come and hear first-hand from Emma Pritchard recently returned from 3 mo in the West Bank |
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| 5:30PM - 6:30PM |
Give Me Inspiration! The Paradigm Shift with Professor Melanie Welham This regular series of conversations hosted Professor Dame Athene Donald, explores the individual paths of distinguished professional women who have made it to the top in their own particular ways. How have they found their own solutions to 'life', what tips do they wish they'd been given earlier on, and what might they view, retrospectively, with most pleasure or regret? |
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| 6:00PM - 7:00PM |
Join us for an evening with Sarada Chaterjee and Kameri Christy as they discuss coercion and consent. |
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| Fri 10 May 2019 | 1:15PM - 1:35PM |
Join University of Cambridge research fellow Nicola Kozicharow (History of Art), who will respond to the current Oscar Murillo exhibition and its themes. |
| 1:15PM - 1:45PM |
Discovery Talk: Northern Journeys: Wildlife trade and the medieval Arctic Join Dr James Barrett from the Department of Archaeology as he discusses the growth of trade in walrus ivory, furs and fish. |