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.
| Mon 8 October 2012 | 12:30PM - 1:30PM |
Engaging township men who have sex with men (MSM) in HIV prevention programmes Dr Andrew Tucker, Deputy Director of the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies, will give a Multi-disciplinary Gender Research Seminar. |
| 5:30PM - 6:30PM |
Highlight Larmor lecture - the antikythera mechanism and the mechanical universe The larmor lecture by Professor Mike Edmunds, Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics, University of Cardiff |
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| 7:00PM - 8:00PM |
Highlight Nature's glass: half-full or half-empty? A free public lecture at Madingley Hall by Professor Andrew Balmford, Professor of Conservation Science at the University of Cambridge. |
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| Tue 9 October 2012 | 1:15PM - 1:45PM |
Enjoy half an hour looking at and talking about art at the Fitzwilliam Museum. |
| 5:15PM - 7:00PM |
The first turns of an embodied cinema: Duncan Grant’s abstract kinetic collage painting with sound The Cambridge Screen Media Group welcomes Professor Chris Townsend, who will be launching this year's seminar series with a paper on the abstract kinetic collage paintings of Duncan Grant. |
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| 5:30PM - 7:00PM |
William Blake: ahead of his time? ahead of ours? Malcolm Guite will give an introduction to William Blake in four talks, entitled: Introducing Blake; Songs of Innocence and Experience; Blake and Jesus; Blake as a Prophet. |
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| Wed 10 October 2012 | 1:15PM - 2:00PM |
Enjoy a lunchtime talk in Seminar Room 3 of the Fitzwilliam Museum |
| 7:00PM - 9:00PM |
Public open evenings at the Institute of Astronomy Astronomy talks and public observing |
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| Thu 11 October 2012 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
Gender, security and inter-generational conflict in Muslim societies post 9/11 Professor Akbar Ahmed, Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies, American University in Washington DC is the Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies for Michaelmas 2012 and will give the Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professorship Lecture. |
| 6:30PM - 9:30PM |
Highlight Cambridge University Entrepreneurs grand launch Be inspired to start your entrepreneurial journey at the Cambridge University Entrepreneurs Grand Launch! Speakers include Lord Parry Mitchell, Dr Billy Boyle and Dr Darrin Disley. |
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| 7:30PM - 9:00PM |
Jean Sinclair will discuss the use of maps, GPS and location descriptions to record natural history findings. |
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| Sat 13 October 2012 | 9:00AM |
National Biology week in Cambridge 2012 sees the first National Biology Week organised by the Society of Biology. Cambridge has a proud tradition of pioneering work in the biological sciences and to celebrate biology in the city during National Biology Week, we’ve organised some exciting events to which everyone is invited. |
| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
The Search for Immortality: ancient and modern An event for young adults - Join us at the Fitzwilliam Museum for a session which looks at how we think about life after death, using the Han exhibition and permanent collection to explore ideas through two ancient civilisations and world religions. |
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| Sun 14 October 2012 | 9:00AM |
National Biology week in Cambridge 2012 sees the first National Biology Week organised by the Society of Biology. Cambridge has a proud tradition of pioneering work in the biological sciences and to celebrate biology in the city during National Biology Week, we’ve organised some exciting events to which everyone is invited. |