Talks
In Her Words: Women Artists and Life Writing Symposium
For centuries, women artists have produced autobiographical accounts of their lives and careers, using diaries, letters and other types of writing as a means of resistance, reflection, and self-fashioning. Taking a broad geographical approach, this symposium will address how women artists, between 1900 and the present, navigate their artistic identities through writing.
| Tue 25 September 2012 | 7:00PM - 9:00PM |
Soccer and the intelligence services: why they matter? The 1883 cup final, the only occasion when the working class was able to take on the upper class. No public school team ever made it to the finals again with momentous consequences. Equally momentous was the founding of MI5, the first British organisation to try to recruit clever women. For the first time some of the gents found that their secretaries were better educated than they were. |
| Wed 26 September 2012 | 1:15PM - 2:00PM |
Enjoy a lunchtime talk in Seminar Room 3 at the Fitzwilliam Museum. |
| 3:30PM - 5:00PM |
Validity theory and validation: never the twain shall meet? Is it possible that modern validity theory is just too abstract, confusing or unclear to scaffold effective practice? |
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| 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
Highlight Need and nature of a new scientific revolution Microsoft research's Stephen Emmott will be speaking on the consequences of over-population and the difficult technological and societal choices we face in addressing the global challenges of the 21st century. |
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| Thu 27 September 2012 | 6:00PM - 7:30PM |
Talking about things: a lecture by Ludmilla Jordanova Talking about things: a lecture by Ludmilla Jordanova |
| Sat 29 September 2012 | 3:00PM |
Reading and translations of poetry by Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi at the Fitzwilliam Museum. |