Societies, etc.

Cambridge Philosophical Society

‘Acoustics of musical instruments – why is a saxophone like a violin?’, a talk by Professor Jim Woodhouse (University of Cambridge), will take place on Monday, 17 March 2025 at 6 p.m., in person at the Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road; free and open to all; further details: https://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/events/event/professor-jim-woodhouse

The Unknown Maxwell: One-Day Meeting

This one-day meeting, featuring multiple lectures on the life and work of physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879), will take place on Friday, 28 March 2025 from 9 a.m. to 5.30 p.m., in person in the Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street; free and open to all; programme and further details: https://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/events/event/the-unknown-maxwell

Society for the History of the University

The next meeting will be held on Thursday, 20 March 2025 at 5.30 p.m., in the John Bradfield Room, Darwin College. In association with the ‘Rise up: Resistance, revolution, abolition’ exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum (21 February–1 June 2025), its Lead Curator, Professor Victoria Avery, will give a talk entitled ‘The Black presence in Georgian and Victorian Cambridge’. Refreshments will be served from 5 p.m.