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Mon 2 March 2015 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.

9:00AM - 7:00PM

Embodied memories – another perspective on research in Africa

Photographic exhibition by Ashley Ouvrier.

10:00AM - 3:30PM

Orchid Festival 2015: the pollinators are coming...

Enjoy the Glasshouse Range transformed for this year's Orchid Festival from Saturday 7 February – Sunday 22 March 2015 and discover some unique plant and pollinator relationships.

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

Landscape and stone: oil paintings of Lazio, Italy by Emily Fowke

Exhibition of oil paintings inspired by the countryside around Rome by Cambridge artist Emily Fowke.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Rowena Comrie

Rowena Comrie’s art is concerned with confronting the contemporary sublime using specific metaphors to express this concept. Previously she has taken flight as her subject, creating a major body of work.

12:00PM - 5:00PM

Circuit curates: Gaudier-Brzeska

The Circuit group are curating a display in Helen’s bedroom in Kettle’s Yard that explores the artist’s fascination with birds. The display includes sculptures, ink drawings and sketchbooks.

12:30PM - 1:30PM

Listening to different voices: reconceptualizing corporate social responsibility using feminist standpoint theory

Ms Helen Mussell, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies, will give a multi-disciplinary gender research seminar on 'Listening to Different Voices: reconceptualizing corporate social responsibility using feminist standpoint theory'.

4:00PM - 6:00PM

Imaging the amorous in a multi-sensory space of the Cinema

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

5:00PM - 6:00PM

Pick of the month History of art slade lecture series 2014-15 - Prof Mary Miller

A Thing Of Wonder: The Hand-held Object Of The Ancient Maya

5:00PM - 6:30PM

At the cutting edge of transformations in gender relations in Zambia

Seminar by Dr Tony Simpson, University of Manchester This Talk is part of the Centre of African Studies Lent term Seminar Series 'Gender in Africa'