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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'

Tue 3 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 - 5:00PM

Modern heroism: printmaking and the legacy of Napoleon Bonaparte

An exhibition to mark the 200th anniversary of Napoleon’s defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. Highlights of the exhibition include prints by Charlet and Raffet, who contributed to Napoleon’s heroic legacy through glorifying war and military personnel; works by Delacroix and Gericault that respond to the drama and tragedy of the period; and satirical prints by Daumier.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Moonstrips: Eduardo Paolozzi and the printed collage 1965-72

Eduardo Paolozzi’s use of found images and words cut from popular magazines and scientific journals played a formative role in the development of British art in the 1950s and 60s. He adapted the technique of collage to printed media in spectacular sets – often seen as highlights of Pop Art.

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.

4:15PM - 5:45PM

Look, make, talk

6 week course, Tuesdays after school for 8 – 12s. Weekly after school art club continues with artists Alex Hirtzel and Filipa Pereira-Stubbs. Explore the themes of the Ian Hamilton Finlay exhibition, experiment with different materials and create unique artworks of your own.

5:00PM - 6:30PM

From sexism to solidarity

Natasha Walter, Humanitas Visiting Professor in Women's Rights 2014-15, will give two public lectures and participate in the Cambridge Women of the World event on Sunday 8 March 2015.

7:00PM - 8:00PM

Highlight Why is modern poetry difficult?

A free public lecture at Madingley Hall by Professor Geoff Ward, Principal of Homerton College, University of Cambridge.

7:15PM - 8:15PM

University social club swimming Cancelled

This event has been cancelled. Lane swimming available every Tuesday for University and non-University individuals

Wed 4 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

Modern heroism: printmaking and the legacy of Napoleon Bonaparte

An exhibition to mark the 200th anniversary of Napoleon’s defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. Highlights of the exhibition include prints by Charlet and Raffet, who contributed to Napoleon’s heroic legacy through glorifying war and military personnel; works by Delacroix and Gericault that respond to the drama and tragedy of the period; and satirical prints by Daumier.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Moonstrips: Eduardo Paolozzi and the printed collage 1965-72

Eduardo Paolozzi’s use of found images and words cut from popular magazines and scientific journals played a formative role in the development of British art in the 1950s and 60s. He adapted the technique of collage to printed media in spectacular sets – often seen as highlights of Pop Art.

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.

2:30PM - 3:30PM

'The Kids are Not All Right: LGBT+ Student Lives beyond the Happy Normal and the Suicidal Exception'

Even before the It Gets Better Project launched in 2010, universities were portrayed as places where LGBT+ youth could be happy and free from the bullying and social isolation that often characterizes their lives in school and at home, but...

5:00PM

Sandars Lectures 2015

The Lectures entitled Henry Bradshaw and the Foundations of Codicology will be delivered by Professor Richard Beadle, Professor of Medieval English Literature and Palaeography, University of Cambridge.

6:30PM - 8:00PM

Life clubs - Self improvement workshops Cancelled

This event has been cancelled. Life clubs was created in 2004 by Nina Grunfeld, best-selling author of The Life Book. Sessions are every Wednesday.

7:00PM - 9:30PM

Sparrows Can’t Sing (1963)

Introduced and with discussion led by Lucy Bland (Anglia Ruskin University) Free admission. All welcome.

Thu 5 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

Modern heroism: printmaking and the legacy of Napoleon Bonaparte

An exhibition to mark the 200th anniversary of Napoleon’s defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. Highlights of the exhibition include prints by Charlet and Raffet, who contributed to Napoleon’s heroic legacy through glorifying war and military personnel; works by Delacroix and Gericault that respond to the drama and tragedy of the period; and satirical prints by Daumier.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Moonstrips: Eduardo Paolozzi and the printed collage 1965-72

Eduardo Paolozzi’s use of found images and words cut from popular magazines and scientific journals played a formative role in the development of British art in the 1950s and 60s. He adapted the technique of collage to printed media in spectacular sets – often seen as highlights of Pop Art.

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.

5:00PM - 6:30PM

From Reform to Revolution

Natasha Walter, Humanitas Visiting Professor in Women's Rights 2014-15, will give two public lectures and participate in the Cambridge Women of the World event on Sunday 8 March 2015.

7:30PM - 9:00PM

Scrub clearance and chalk grassland restoration

Peter Grubb, Emeritus Professor of Investigative Plant Ecology, will explain why you cannot just clear scrub and get back chalk grassland, drawing upon four decades of experience on the Devil's Ditch.

8:00PM

Chamber Concert

Orbis Piano Trio

Fri 6 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

Modern heroism: printmaking and the legacy of Napoleon Bonaparte

An exhibition to mark the 200th anniversary of Napoleon’s defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. Highlights of the exhibition include prints by Charlet and Raffet, who contributed to Napoleon’s heroic legacy through glorifying war and military personnel; works by Delacroix and Gericault that respond to the drama and tragedy of the period; and satirical prints by Daumier.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Moonstrips: Eduardo Paolozzi and the printed collage 1965-72

Eduardo Paolozzi’s use of found images and words cut from popular magazines and scientific journals played a formative role in the development of British art in the 1950s and 60s. He adapted the technique of collage to printed media in spectacular sets – often seen as highlights of Pop Art.

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 - 1:00PM

Highlight Free Concert Stephen Perse Foundation

These concerts give young people a showcase for their talents

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.

5:30PM - 6:30PM

Technology Development, Dr Hermann Hauser, Amadeus Capital Partners

Darwin College Lecture Series 'Development'

6:00PM

Jacqui Dankworth 'in conversation' with Mary Buckley

Vocalist Jacqui Dankworth will be ‘In Conversation’ with Mary Buckley at Hughes Hall on Friday 6 March at 6pm.

7:00PM - 10:30PM

Creative Cabaret

A unique evening of mixed arts and performance in the University Centre, with food and wine - "Best evening I have had out for ages"

8:00PM - 10:00PM

CUMS Chorus performs Vaughan Williams

Join us for a performance of the stunning Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony.

Sat 7 March 2015 9:00AM - 4:30PM

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 - 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 - 4:45PM

Archaeology: prehistoric and Roman Britain in a day

This day school gives an insight into prehistoric and Roman Britain in a single day! Suitable for Key Stage 2 history teachers needing a background in the archaeology of Britain or for those who would simply like an introduction to the subject.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Modern heroism: printmaking and the legacy of Napoleon Bonaparte

An exhibition to mark the 200th anniversary of Napoleon’s defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. Highlights of the exhibition include prints by Charlet and Raffet, who contributed to Napoleon’s heroic legacy through glorifying war and military personnel; works by Delacroix and Gericault that respond to the drama and tragedy of the period; and satirical prints by Daumier.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Moonstrips: Eduardo Paolozzi and the printed collage 1965-72

Eduardo Paolozzi’s use of found images and words cut from popular magazines and scientific journals played a formative role in the development of British art in the 1950s and 60s. He adapted the technique of collage to printed media in spectacular sets – often seen as highlights of Pop Art.

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.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Family first Saturdays

Visit our Fitz Family Welcome Point and collect materials to use in the Museum.

8:00PM - 10:00PM

CUMS Symphony Orchestra performs Prokofiev, Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky

See the CUMS Concert Competition Joint-Winner come together with the CUMS Brenda Charters Conducting Scholar for a night of student music making at its peak.

Sun 8 March 2015 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 - 4:45PM

Biological Sciences: the story of four billion years of evolution in seven hours

In this day school we will explore the evolution of life on planet Earth: from the first replicating molecules to the evolution of ‘superorganisms’. We will discuss what we mean by ‘life’ and the key processes that have led to such a bewildering diversity of species that live on our planet.

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.

10:00AM - 9:00PM

Highlight WOW Cambridge 2015

WOW Women of the World Cambridge

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.

12:00PM - 5:00PM

Modern heroism: printmaking and the legacy of Napoleon Bonaparte

An exhibition to mark the 200th anniversary of Napoleon’s defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. Highlights of the exhibition include prints by Charlet and Raffet, who contributed to Napoleon’s heroic legacy through glorifying war and military personnel; works by Delacroix and Gericault that respond to the drama and tragedy of the period; and satirical prints by Daumier.

12:00PM - 5:00PM

Moonstrips: Eduardo Paolozzi and the printed collage 1965-72

Eduardo Paolozzi’s use of found images and words cut from popular magazines and scientific journals played a formative role in the development of British art in the 1950s and 60s. He adapted the technique of collage to printed media in spectacular sets – often seen as highlights of Pop Art.

2:30PM - 3:30PM

Highlight Music for oboe, horn and piano

Tom Blomfield (oboe) and Alexei Watkins (horn), both students at the Royal Academy of Music, join Cambridge scholar, Alex Woolf (piano) for this free concert at Madingley Hall.

5:30PM

Highlight Raaga Kalaa 2015

And evening of Indian classical music and dance organized by CUICAS (Cambridge University Indian Classical Arts Society).

6:00PM - 6:25PM

Organ Recital

To be performed by Edward Picton-Turbervill (Organ Scholar, St John's College)