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
| Mon 27 January 2020 | 6:00PM - 7:00PM |
Highlight G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The Silent Flight of the Owl The G I Taylor Lecture by Professor Nigel Peake, of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics , University of Cambridge. |
| Tue 28 January 2020 | 5:00PM - 6:00PM |
Dr Nicholas Penny, Slade Lectures in Fine Art 2020 Avatars of Antiquity: Premise and Practice in European Painting and Sculpture 1500-2000 |
| Wed 29 January 2020 | 5:00AM - 7:30AM |
Centre for the Future of Democracy - Launch Event Is democracy in a global “crisis”? If so, how does the situation today compare to similar moments of doubt – Western Europe in the 1970s, or the emerging market financial crises of the late 1990s? |
| 4:00PM - 5:00PM |
Managing urban land markets in the public interest A Talk by Geoffrey Payne, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts |
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| 5:30PM - 7:00PM |
Professor David Reynolds will speak on 'Yalta at 75: The Summit and its Legacies 1945-2020' for the eighteenth biennial Roskill Lecture at Churchill College. |
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| 6:00PM - 7:15PM |
Professor Nick Wareham, FRCP, FFPHM, FMedSci, Director MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, gives the fourth lecture in the series 'Transforming healthcare through prevention'. |
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| 6:00PM - 7:15PM |
Prof Nick Wareham: Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes Type 2 diabetes affects almost 500 million people around the world. Prof Nick Wareham talks about how efforts to prevent it need to reflect a broader societal perspective. |
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| 6:00PM - 7:30PM |
Franziska Sielker is a Lecturer, Planning and Housing, at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Land Economy. Her research interests cover European cohesion policies and spatial governance, cross-border regions, influences of foreign direct investments, such as the Belt and Road Initiative, on national planning processes and digitalisation in planning. |
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| Thu 30 January 2020 | 5:30PM - 7:00PM |
As is your due: 50th anniversary of women’s admission to the University This talk and film records the 50th anniversary celebration of women's admission to the University of Cambridge. Part of The Rising Tide programme. |
| 6:45PM - 8:30PM |
Cambridge Natural History Society talk - The Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve Since 1995, the Kingfishers Bridge nature reserve www.kingfishersbridge.org has transformed 250 acres of farmland some 10 miles north of Cambridge into a vital sanctuary for numerous endangered species of the Fens, employing pioneering conservation techniques that have led to a remarkable recovery in both flora and fauna. Stephen Tomkins and James Moss will tell us more. |