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Mon 27 October 2014 8:00AM - 5:00PM

Makers of contemporary Cambridge

Who are the makers and artists of Cambridge? What are their personal accounts and stories of risk?

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Sula Rubens- artist in residence

Sula Rubens is currently working as Artist in Residence at The Michaelhouse. You are welcome to talk to her about her work.

9:00AM - 5:00PM

52 Days to Timbuktu - an exhibition by Tim Oelman

Art exhibition by Tim Oelman

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Social Commentary - an exhibition by Mohammed Djazmi

Exhibition by artist Mohammed Djazmi

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Private lives of print: The use and abuse of books 1450-1550

An exhibition of over 50 of Cambridge University Library's wonderful early printed books, selected for the stories they tell about the use of books in the first hundred years after the invention of printing.

10:00AM - 12:00PM

Highlight Exhibition. myths, memories and mysteries: artists revisit the past

Jointly hosted with the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Myths, Memories and Mysteries is a mixed-media exhibition which explores the ways in which artists confront and negotiate the past, with a special focus on Greece.

10:00AM - 4:00PM

Ediacaran Enigmas: resolving the fossil record of early animals

This new display is a snapshot of the research taking place in the department of Earth Sciences at Cambridge on fossils from the 540-580 million year old Ediacaran Period, known as the 'Ediacaran Biota'.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Exhibition. myths, memories and mysteries: artists revisit the past

Jointly hosted with Wolfson College, Memories and Mysteries is a mixed-media exhibition which explores the ways in which artists confront and negotiate the past, with a special focus on Greece.

11:30AM - 5:00PM

Gwen Raverat wood engravings

In Helen Ede’s bedroom, in the house at Kettle’s Yard, a series of wood engravings by Gwen Raverat (1885-1957) are on display.

12:30PM - 1:30PM

The (In)visible gay in academic leadership: implications for re-imagining Inclusion and transformation in South Africa

Dr Robert Balfour, Visiting Fellow, Institute of Education, London, gives a Multi-disciplinary Gender Research Seminar.

2:30PM - 5:00PM

Highlight Exhibition. myths, memories and mysteries: artists revisit the past

Jointly hosted with the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Myths, Memories and Mysteries is a mixed-media exhibition which explores the ways in which artists confront and negotiate the past, with a special focus on Greece.

4:00PM - 6:00PM

‘For a little amusement’: A Brutal Look at Leisure in Early Modern Indo-Danish Relations

Part of 'Visual Constructions of South Asia' (2014-15) seminar series (http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/50675)

5:00PM - 6:00PM

The Roots Of Impermanence: Farm Life, Labour, And Migration On The Zimbabwean-South African Border

A talk by Maxim Bolt (Birmingham) Part of the Centre of African Studies' Michaelmas Seminar Series 'Migration and African Diasporas'

5:30PM - 7:00PM

Talk by Norman Ackroyd RA

Talk by the artist

6:00PM - 7:00PM

Perception and belief in psychosis

A Lecture by Professor Paul Fletcher, Department of Psychiatry