| Mon 21 May 2012 | 8:00AM - 5:00PM |
All things bright and beautiful Works by Rebecca Merry |
| 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. |
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| 9:00AM - 11:00PM |
Over 300 Olympians have been associated with the University as former students, academics and staff. To celebrate London 2012, the University is hosting a variety of events highlighting the City’s Olympic links and the cultural diversity of countries competing in the Games. |
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| 9:00AM - 5:00PM on Mon 16 July 2012 |
Pick of the month London calling: an exhibition of paintings by Vic Stedman An exhibition of paintings for sale by local artist Vic Stedman. |
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| 10:00AM - 12:00PM |
Reading Tolstoy and Flaubert in English This new short course at Madingley Hall will consider problems and theories of translation and, at the same time, will engage you in a close reading of two world masterpieces: Lev Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, and Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary. |
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| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Lys Hansen: across the divide The core of this exhibition is a selected group of major canvases on the theme of war and peace and family relationships. |
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| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
Art as power and performance: Byzantine and modern art compared and contrasted For the Byzantines, art was a craft central to their culture and lavishly supported by the state. From the ‘Modern’ period on, ‘artists’ have fulfilled a more variable role in society. This new short course at Madingley Hall will help you develop your analytical skills in both these periods of art, opening up new areas of knowledge of Byzantine society and of the way art is consumed today. |
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| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
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. |
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| 3:30PM - 5:00PM |
Francis Galton, measurement, psychometrics and social progress In this talk Harvey Goldstein looks at the work of Francis Galton, a pioneer of modern social measurement, and traces the influence he has had over the century since his death. The talk looks at the scientific status of Galton’s work and subsequent developments within psychometrics and education, including the use of factor analysis and item response models. |
