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Fri 10 February 2012 9:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Shelf Lives: Four Centuries of Collectors and their Books

Ten great book collectors whose volumes have enriched the University Library's holdings from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries.

9:00AM - 8:00PM

John Wonnacott exhibition

A 50 Years Restrospective of Self Portraits

10:00AM - 4:00PM

Highlight These Rough Notes: Captain Scott's last expedition

A chance to see unique manuscripts from the archive of Captain Scott's Terra Nova Expedition (1910-13) on show to commemorate the centenary of the first British expedition to the attain the South Pole.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

England and the Dutch Republic in the age of Vermeer

Coins and medals from the 17th-century

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Grey matters: Graphite

Discover the extraordinary expressive potential of the pencil in a display ranging from 17th-century miniatures on vellum to compositional sketches by George Romney and William Blake, and drawings by Ingres and Degas.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Work, rest and play: Women and children in prints after Chardin

This exhibition investigates the appeal of Chardin’s familial imagery for the 18th-century public, and takes a close look at the skill of the printmakers who interpreted his canvases into graphic art.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Braided together

Hair in the work of contemporary women artists

1:00PM - 5:00PM

Artists in focus: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

Selected works from the collection will be on show in the exhibition gallery during the closure of the house extension. The first of these displays will look at the work of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.

1:10PM

Friday lunchtime concert

Passionate playing from students of the University of Cambridge. Performances by students of the University of Cambridge. Please note due to building work, the Friday concerts will be held over the road at St Giles Church.

1:15PM - 3:30PM

Israeli film club

Israeli films with English subtitles will be shown in the faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies during Lent term 2012.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

People’s portraits exhibition

The People’s Portraits exhibition captures on canvas ordinary people from different walks of lives in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century, and is rich in its diversity of subjects and styles.

5:00PM - 7:30PM

At home with strangers: urban life and the moral force of nationalism

Professor Blom Hansen (Anthropology and South Asian Studies, Stanford University) will give the keynote address at Nationalism and the City. His lecture is free and will be followed by a wine reception.

7:15PM - 1:00PM on Sun 12 February 2012

Dickens's David Copperfield and Thackeray's Pendennis: answering back

The serial publication of these two novels overlapped and to an extent they deliberately respond to one another, particularly in presenting main characters who are authors. Beyond exploring this ‘dialogue’ between the two novels, this weekend course at Madingley Hall will give you a chance to appreciate and compare the central qualities of Dickens and Thackeray.

7:15PM - 1:00PM on Sun 12 February 2012

Mozart and the piano

Mozart is remembered not only for his outstanding contribution to the piano concerto repertoire and his many piano sonatas, but also his chamber works, many of which include a piano participation. This weekend course at Madingley Hall will endeavour to place all such works in an overall picture of his remarkable musical achievement.

8:00PM - 10:30PM

Highlight Screening of Oldboy

Screening of Korean film 'Oldboy', presented by Dr Joseph Crawford

9:00PM - 10:45PM

Fetes francaises

Roy Howat piano