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Mon 24 November 2014 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

Element – An exhibition of recent paintings by Zachary Beer

An exhibition of recent paintings by Zachary Beer, exploring flora and biochemical processes.

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 - 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 - 6:00PM

Highlight Exhibition: poppies (women and war)

An exhibition of contemporary photography by Lee Stow, focusing on images of women whose lives have been touched by war, and of poppies, to commemorate the centenary of the First World War.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Natalie Dower & Harriet Mena Hill: the elegance of order Cancelled

An exhibition that brings together two artists from different generations, who work within pre-set parameters, which guide, and to some extent govern the outcome of their images.

12:30PM - 1:30PM

A bit of himself: British male-authored abortion narratives from waste to Alfie

Fran Bigman, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge gives a Multi-disciplinary Gender Research Seminar

4:00PM - 6:00PM

From courts, studios to bazaars: A visual history of the Tawa’if in colonial North India, late 18th to early 20th centuries

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

5:00PM - 6:00PM

The paradox of parallel lives: immigration policy and transnational polygyny between Senegal and France

A talk by Helene Neveau-Kingelbach (Oxford) Part of the Centre of African Studies' Michaelmas Seminar Series 'Migration and African Diasporas'

5:00PM - 6:30PM

Book launch: Clive Wilmer's Urban Pastorals

Book launch: Clive Wilmer reads his sequence Urban Pastorals (Worple Press).

6:00PM - 7:00PM

Highlight MEMS Biosensors and their potential for improving healthcare

A Lecture by Dr Andrew Flewitt, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

7:30PM - 9:00PM

Poetry reading: Mark Ford, Simon Jarvis, Rowan Williams

A poetry reading by Mark Ford, Simon Jarvis and Rowan Williams.