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No 6441

Wednesday 26 October 2016

Vol cxlvii No 7

pp. 60–82

Events, courses, etc.

Announcement of lectures, seminars, etc.

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

http://www.ice.cam.ac.uk/what-we-do/madingley-conversations

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

http://talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/19699