Talks
The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography
Paul Seaward on "The History of the Rebellion" by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
| Mon 14 October 2019 | 6:00PM - 7:00PM |
Highlight LARMOR LECTURE - Design of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds - Still Learning our ABC? The Larmor Lecture by Professor Serena Best, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge. |
| Tue 15 October 2019 | 12:30PM - 2:00PM |
Talk given by Professor Arthur Petersen |
| 5:00PM - 6:00PM |
“From Small Acorns……”: The Story of the Modern Slavery Garden at Chelsea Flower Show In 2016, Juliet Sargeant designed and created a gold-medal winning garden at Chelsea Flower Show, exploring the issue of modern slavery. She will share with us the story of the garden, the campaign and what can grow from small acorns. |
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| 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
Why Capitalists need Communists Britain faces huge challenges: inequality, public services under constant pressure, climate change - and in the long term, the impacts of automation and artificial intelligence. In Why Capitalists Need Communists, Charles Seaford explores how radical, progressive change is possible. |
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| Wed 16 October 2019 | 4:00PM - 5:00PM |
A talk by Professor Peter Midmore Emeritus Professor of Economics and Susan Fowler Research Associate both of Aberystwyth Business School Part of the Land Economy Departmental Seminar Series |
| 5:30PM - 6:30PM |
Changing the story? Women and leadership Business Executive and Cambridge researcher, Heide Baumann, examines why only 8.5% of top executives in Britain's 350 largest companies are women. |
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| 6:00PM - 7:30PM |
St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - Martin Weale Talk Title - 'A Democratic Measure of National Income' Martin Weale is Professor at King's College, London |
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| 7:00PM - 8:30PM |
Highlight Improving plants: achieving food sustainability in a changing environment Join us to explore how plant science and new technologies can help feeding a growing population in the face of a rapidly changing climate. |
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| 7:00PM - 9:00PM |
Café Sci Cambridge: The ethics of medical data sharing Richard Milne examines social and ethical questions of genomic data sharing. |
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| Fri 18 October 2019 | 3:00PM - 3:30PM |
Highlight TEA AND TALK WITH INUPIAQ ARTIST WILLY TOPKOK Join us for a cup of tea and a talk by Inupiaq artist, Willy Topkok. Hailing from the small villages of Teller and Wales, Alaska, Willy Topkok is an Inupiaq artist from the North American Arctic. |
| 5:15PM - 7:15PM |
War in Raqqa, Syria: Rhetoric versus Reality Panel talk with Amnesty and Cambridge researchers who investigated the 2017 Coalition bombing of Raqqa, Syria and launch of art exhibition. The discussion will be followed by drinks (6.30pm onwards). The exhibition (Fitzpatrick Gallery, Queens College) will be open until 6th December 2019. |
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| 5:30PM - 8:00PM |
General Magic the Movie at Clare College Are you interested in Technology? Entrepreneurship? Start-ups? Documentary Film-Making? This history of your smartphone? If so please join for General Magic the Movie at 5.30 PM on Friday 18 October 2019. |
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| Sat 19 October 2019 | 3:00PM - 4:00PM |
Becoming Classical: art and the revolution in values in fifth-century B.C. Greece Lecture by Professor Robin Osborne, held as part of Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2019. |