The University offers a large number of lectures, seminars, and other events, many of which are free of charge, to members of the University and others who are interested. Details can be found on individual Faculty, Department, and institution websites, on the What’s On website (http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/whatson/), and on Talks.cam (http://www.talks.cam.ac.uk/).
Brief details of upcoming events are given below.
Institute of Continuing Education |
Madingley conversations (a new series of public lectures by leading political figures); inaugural series of talks on: The future of lifelong learning, from 7 p.m. at Madingley Hall: 3 November: Sir Simon Hughes 10 November: Baroness Julie Smith 24 November: Gordon Marsden MP |
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Sociology |
Racial domination: revisiting the American case: a series of public lectures by Professor Loïc Wacquant, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Pitt Professor in the Department of Sociology, 2016–17, at 5 p.m. on: 16 November: Race as symbolic violence and public dishonour 17 November: Racialized slavery and racial terrorism 18 November: The ghetto and the prison 28 November: Peculiar institutions: four centuries of race-making in the United States |