Mon 20 November 2017 | 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Artificial Things - Photography Exhibition Photography exhibition curated in collaboration with Shutter Hub. |
6:00PM - 7:00PM |
Highlight Strategic brain routes for learning and plasticity A Lecture by Professor Zoe Kourtzi, Professor of Experimental Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. |
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Tue 21 November 2017 | 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Artificial Things - Photography Exhibition Photography exhibition curated in collaboration with Shutter Hub. |
10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Codebreakers and Groundbreakers This innovative, interdisciplinary exhibition tells the stories of codebreakers such as Alan Turing and Michael Ventris, and unravels the history of language decipherment and codebreaking through many objects that haven’t before been on public display. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Degas, Caricature and Modernity: Daumier, Gavarni, Keene Edgas Degas (1834-1917) possessed what his friend Walter Sickert (1860-1942) described as ‘a rollicking and somewhat bear-like sense of fun’. This exhibition looks at three caricaturists and satirists whose work Degas admired and collected in large numbers: Honoré Daumier (1808-79), Paul Gavarni (1804-66) and Charles Keene (1823-91). |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Degas: a passion for perfection The Fitzwilliam Museum will mark the centenary of Degas’s death with an exhibition that will exhibit its holdings of works by the artist – the most extensive and representative in the UK. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Degas’s Drinker: portraits by Marcellin Desboutin Edgar Degas’s famous painting In a Café (L’Absinthe, 1875-6), features a dissolute bearded man whom Degas modeled on his characterful friend and fellow artist Marcellin Desboutin (1832-1902). Both men shared a passion for printmaking and this exhibition explores the Museum’s rare collection of Desboutin’s sensitively executed prints in drypoint |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum Showcasing over 100 samplers from the Museum’s excellent but often unseen collection, this display highlights the importance of samplers as documentary evidence of past lives. |
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1:00PM - 2:00PM |
At Lunch One |
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5:00PM - 6:00PM |
The 2017-18 Slade Lectures will be given by Professor Stephen Bann, who is Emeritus Professor of History of Art and Senior Research Fellow at Bristol University. Lectures will be given every Tuesday from 5pm-6pm in Mill Lane Lecture Room 3, Cambridge, starting Tuesday 10 October and ending on Tuesday 28 November 2016. There are eight lectures in the series. |
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5:30PM - 6:30PM |
In Everest’s footsteps: surveying the legacies of the Great Trigonometrical Survey in India A talk by Keith Lilley (Queen’s University Belfast) in the 'Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography' series. |
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7:00PM - 9:00PM |
Highlight Exploring Human Evolution Hear from some of the world’s leading experts on human evolution and explore how genomics is transforming our knowledge of our species. |
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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 |
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8:00PM - 10:00PM |
Highlight In Praise of St Cecilia's Day Cambridge University Chamber Choir and Cambridge University Collegium Musicum come together for this concert in celebration of St Cecilia's Day, directed by Nicholas Mulroy and Margaret Faultless, Director of Performance in the Faculty of Music. |
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Wed 22 November 2017 | 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Artificial Things - Photography Exhibition Photography exhibition curated in collaboration with Shutter Hub. |
10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Codebreakers and Groundbreakers This innovative, interdisciplinary exhibition tells the stories of codebreakers such as Alan Turing and Michael Ventris, and unravels the history of language decipherment and codebreaking through many objects that haven’t before been on public display. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Degas, Caricature and Modernity: Daumier, Gavarni, Keene Edgas Degas (1834-1917) possessed what his friend Walter Sickert (1860-1942) described as ‘a rollicking and somewhat bear-like sense of fun’. This exhibition looks at three caricaturists and satirists whose work Degas admired and collected in large numbers: Honoré Daumier (1808-79), Paul Gavarni (1804-66) and Charles Keene (1823-91). |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Degas: a passion for perfection The Fitzwilliam Museum will mark the centenary of Degas’s death with an exhibition that will exhibit its holdings of works by the artist – the most extensive and representative in the UK. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Degas’s Drinker: portraits by Marcellin Desboutin Edgar Degas’s famous painting In a Café (L’Absinthe, 1875-6), features a dissolute bearded man whom Degas modeled on his characterful friend and fellow artist Marcellin Desboutin (1832-1902). Both men shared a passion for printmaking and this exhibition explores the Museum’s rare collection of Desboutin’s sensitively executed prints in drypoint |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum Showcasing over 100 samplers from the Museum’s excellent but often unseen collection, this display highlights the importance of samplers as documentary evidence of past lives. |
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12:00PM - 8:00PM |
Highlight DAME ELISABETH FRINK Larger Than Life Larger Than Life is the first major showing of Dame Elisabeth Frink’s works in East Anglia since her death and includes works from a leading private collection. A daughter of the region, her first representations of warlike figures and the horrors of conflict date from her adolescence spent beside a military airfield in Suffolk during much of the Second World War. |
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6:00PM - 7:30PM |
St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - Liliana Harding Talk Title: 'Financialisation of the Global Economic System Past, Present and Future & its Relevance to Austerity Economics’ All are welcome. This seminar series is supported by the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Economics and Policy Group at the Cambridge Judge Business School. |
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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. |
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Thu 23 November 2017 | 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Artificial Things - Photography Exhibition Photography exhibition curated in collaboration with Shutter Hub. |
10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Codebreakers and Groundbreakers This innovative, interdisciplinary exhibition tells the stories of codebreakers such as Alan Turing and Michael Ventris, and unravels the history of language decipherment and codebreaking through many objects that haven’t before been on public display. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Degas, Caricature and Modernity: Daumier, Gavarni, Keene Edgas Degas (1834-1917) possessed what his friend Walter Sickert (1860-1942) described as ‘a rollicking and somewhat bear-like sense of fun’. This exhibition looks at three caricaturists and satirists whose work Degas admired and collected in large numbers: Honoré Daumier (1808-79), Paul Gavarni (1804-66) and Charles Keene (1823-91). |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Degas: a passion for perfection The Fitzwilliam Museum will mark the centenary of Degas’s death with an exhibition that will exhibit its holdings of works by the artist – the most extensive and representative in the UK. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Degas’s Drinker: portraits by Marcellin Desboutin Edgar Degas’s famous painting In a Café (L’Absinthe, 1875-6), features a dissolute bearded man whom Degas modeled on his characterful friend and fellow artist Marcellin Desboutin (1832-1902). Both men shared a passion for printmaking and this exhibition explores the Museum’s rare collection of Desboutin’s sensitively executed prints in drypoint |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum Showcasing over 100 samplers from the Museum’s excellent but often unseen collection, this display highlights the importance of samplers as documentary evidence of past lives. |
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12:00PM - 2:00PM |
Can the Digital Revolution Transform our Productivity? A talk with Gilles Babinet, Tech entrepreneur and former President of the French Digital National Council. |
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6:45PM - 8:30PM |
Amphibian conservation and midwife toads Steve Allain will talk about the threats to amphibians from chytrid fungus disease, midwife toads in Cambridge and his research on them. |
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8:00PM |
The Isimsiz Trio were selected for representation by Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) in 2013. In 2015 the Trio won 1st Prize and the Audience Prize at the Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition and in 2017 2nd Prize at the International Haydn Chamber Music Competition in Vienna. |
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Fri 24 November 2017 | 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Artificial Things - Photography Exhibition Photography exhibition curated in collaboration with Shutter Hub. |
9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Landscapes Below: Mapping and the New Science of Geology Landscapes Below celebrates a period of experimental geological map-making in the 19th century, focusing on the use of colour in geological maps and on the development of a visual vocabulary for the new science. |
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9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Pax Technica: The Implications of the Internet of Things One day conference with keynote speech by Philip Howard, author of 'Pax Technica: The Implications of the Internet of Things' |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Codebreakers and Groundbreakers This innovative, interdisciplinary exhibition tells the stories of codebreakers such as Alan Turing and Michael Ventris, and unravels the history of language decipherment and codebreaking through many objects that haven’t before been on public display. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Degas, Caricature and Modernity: Daumier, Gavarni, Keene Edgas Degas (1834-1917) possessed what his friend Walter Sickert (1860-1942) described as ‘a rollicking and somewhat bear-like sense of fun’. This exhibition looks at three caricaturists and satirists whose work Degas admired and collected in large numbers: Honoré Daumier (1808-79), Paul Gavarni (1804-66) and Charles Keene (1823-91). |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Degas: a passion for perfection The Fitzwilliam Museum will mark the centenary of Degas’s death with an exhibition that will exhibit its holdings of works by the artist – the most extensive and representative in the UK. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Degas’s Drinker: portraits by Marcellin Desboutin Edgar Degas’s famous painting In a Café (L’Absinthe, 1875-6), features a dissolute bearded man whom Degas modeled on his characterful friend and fellow artist Marcellin Desboutin (1832-1902). Both men shared a passion for printmaking and this exhibition explores the Museum’s rare collection of Desboutin’s sensitively executed prints in drypoint |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum Showcasing over 100 samplers from the Museum’s excellent but often unseen collection, this display highlights the importance of samplers as documentary evidence of past lives. |
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12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Highlight DAME ELISABETH FRINK Larger Than Life Larger Than Life is the first major showing of Dame Elisabeth Frink’s works in East Anglia since her death and includes works from a leading private collection. A daughter of the region, her first representations of warlike figures and the horrors of conflict date from her adolescence spent beside a military airfield in Suffolk during much of the Second World War. |
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7:30PM - 9:30PM |
Cambridge University Jazz Orchestra with Trish Clowes |
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Sat 25 November 2017 | 9:00AM - 4:30PM |
Landscapes Below: Mapping and the New Science of Geology Landscapes Below celebrates a period of experimental geological map-making in the 19th century, focusing on the use of colour in geological maps and on the development of a visual vocabulary for the new science. |
10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Codebreakers and Groundbreakers This innovative, interdisciplinary exhibition tells the stories of codebreakers such as Alan Turing and Michael Ventris, and unravels the history of language decipherment and codebreaking through many objects that haven’t before been on public display. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Degas, Caricature and Modernity: Daumier, Gavarni, Keene Edgas Degas (1834-1917) possessed what his friend Walter Sickert (1860-1942) described as ‘a rollicking and somewhat bear-like sense of fun’. This exhibition looks at three caricaturists and satirists whose work Degas admired and collected in large numbers: Honoré Daumier (1808-79), Paul Gavarni (1804-66) and Charles Keene (1823-91). |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Degas: a passion for perfection The Fitzwilliam Museum will mark the centenary of Degas’s death with an exhibition that will exhibit its holdings of works by the artist – the most extensive and representative in the UK. |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Degas’s Drinker: portraits by Marcellin Desboutin Edgar Degas’s famous painting In a Café (L’Absinthe, 1875-6), features a dissolute bearded man whom Degas modeled on his characterful friend and fellow artist Marcellin Desboutin (1832-1902). Both men shared a passion for printmaking and this exhibition explores the Museum’s rare collection of Desboutin’s sensitively executed prints in drypoint |
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10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum Showcasing over 100 samplers from the Museum’s excellent but often unseen collection, this display highlights the importance of samplers as documentary evidence of past lives. |
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10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight DAME ELISABETH FRINK Larger Than Life Larger Than Life is the first major showing of Dame Elisabeth Frink’s works in East Anglia since her death and includes works from a leading private collection. A daughter of the region, her first representations of warlike figures and the horrors of conflict date from her adolescence spent beside a military airfield in Suffolk during much of the Second World War. |
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8:00PM - 10:00PM |
A concert of Romantic favourites from the Cambridge University Sinfonia, conducted by Toby Hession, with piano soloist Adelaide Yue, CUMS Concerto Competition 2017 prize-winner. |
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Sun 26 November 2017 | 9:00AM - 4:30PM |
Landscapes Below: Mapping and the New Science of Geology Landscapes Below celebrates a period of experimental geological map-making in the 19th century, focusing on the use of colour in geological maps and on the development of a visual vocabulary for the new science. |
12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Codebreakers and Groundbreakers This innovative, interdisciplinary exhibition tells the stories of codebreakers such as Alan Turing and Michael Ventris, and unravels the history of language decipherment and codebreaking through many objects that haven’t before been on public display. |
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12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Highlight DAME ELISABETH FRINK Larger Than Life Larger Than Life is the first major showing of Dame Elisabeth Frink’s works in East Anglia since her death and includes works from a leading private collection. A daughter of the region, her first representations of warlike figures and the horrors of conflict date from her adolescence spent beside a military airfield in Suffolk during much of the Second World War. |
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12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Degas, Caricature and Modernity: Daumier, Gavarni, Keene Edgas Degas (1834-1917) possessed what his friend Walter Sickert (1860-1942) described as ‘a rollicking and somewhat bear-like sense of fun’. This exhibition looks at three caricaturists and satirists whose work Degas admired and collected in large numbers: Honoré Daumier (1808-79), Paul Gavarni (1804-66) and Charles Keene (1823-91). |
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12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Degas: a passion for perfection The Fitzwilliam Museum will mark the centenary of Degas’s death with an exhibition that will exhibit its holdings of works by the artist – the most extensive and representative in the UK. |
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12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Degas’s Drinker: portraits by Marcellin Desboutin Edgar Degas’s famous painting In a Café (L’Absinthe, 1875-6), features a dissolute bearded man whom Degas modeled on his characterful friend and fellow artist Marcellin Desboutin (1832-1902). Both men shared a passion for printmaking and this exhibition explores the Museum’s rare collection of Desboutin’s sensitively executed prints in drypoint |
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12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Sampled Lives: Samplers from the Fitzwilliam Museum Showcasing over 100 samplers from the Museum’s excellent but often unseen collection, this display highlights the importance of samplers as documentary evidence of past lives. |
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6:30PM |
'IMAGINE...' Variety Showcase |