Newnham College: Phyllis and Eileen Gibbs Travelling Research Fellowship 2019–20 in Biology, Archaeology, Social Anthropology, or Sociology; salary: up to £18,000; women applicants only; closing date: 25 February 2019; further details: https://www.newn.cam.ac.uk/research/travelling-fellowships
As part of Girton’s 150th Anniversary celebrations, the 58th Founders’ Memorial Lecture will be given by Girton alumna Her Imperial Highness Princess Takamado, a member of the Imperial Family of Japan, on Netsuke and their role in introducing Japan to the West, at 6 p.m. (doors open at 5.45 p.m.) on Friday, 15 February 2019. All are welcome to attend, but places are limited and should be reserved by registering at: https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/events/girton150-founders-memorial-lecture-by-hih-princess-takamado/
Professor Serena Best, Deputy Head of the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy and Fellow of St John’s College, will deliver the annual Linacre Lecture on Scaffolds for tissue regeneration: do we understand the ‘hole’ story? at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, 5 February 2019, in the Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John’s College. Further information is available at https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/professor-serena-best-give-linacre-lecture-2019
The Clark Lectures for the Lent Term 2019 will be delivered by Professor Andrew Cole, Princeton University, on the theme of Unmodernism as follows:
28 January: Hegel in the Cathedral (lecture)
30 January: The substance of thought (seminar)
4 February: The forms of theory (seminar)
6 February: Marx after Feudalism (lecture)
All begin at 6 p.m. Lectures 1 and 4 will take place in the Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, and last an hour. Lectures 2 and 3 will take place in the Junior Parlour, Trinity College, and will be approximately an hour and a half long. They will take a more informal, seminar format, with advance reading material available (email: jm258@cam.ac.uk). Further information can be found at https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/events/
A Memorial Service for Mr John Hopkins, Emeritus Fellow of Downing College and Honorary Fellow of Hughes Hall (see Reporter, 6521, 2018–19, p. 52), will be held in Great St Mary’s, the University Church, on Saturday, 4 May 2019 at 2 p.m. After the service, refreshments will be served in Downing College. Those planning to attend are asked to register at: https://www.downingcambridge.com/john-hopkins-memorial-service