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 April 2013 | 7:00PM - 9:00PM |
Third public debate in Global Food Security: The Right to Food Is there a right to food? How do states and public distribution systems contribute to food security? What is the role of private supply chains and food networks? |
| Wed 10 April 2013 | 10:30AM - 12:30PM |
Cambridge Assessment Network training event: Test and item evaluation Mr Nat Johnson, Senior Manager in Operational Research Standards at OCR, introduces test and item evaluation covering the item level statistics used across a range of Cambridge Assessment’s qualifications. The session will introduce the concepts of omit rates, facility values, discrimination indices, bias or Differential Item Functioning, and analysis of multiple choice items. |
| 1:15PM - 2:00PM |
The Lansdowne Relief in England: from 1771 to 2013 Enjoy a lunchtime talk in Seminar Room 35 at the Fitzwilliam Museum. |
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| 6:30PM |
Highlight Natural history month: An evening with 4 reaktion authors 4 authors from the Reaktion series of wildlife books talk about their book. Helen Macdonald - Falcon Deirdre Jackson - Lion Claire Preston - Bee Kevin Jackson - Moose |
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| 7:00PM |
Highlight Sir Edgar Speyer: banker, traitor, scapegoat, spy? Join DG Cambridge and Prof Antony Lentin, formerly Professor of History at The Open University and senior member of Wolfson College, Cambridge. |
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| Thu 11 April 2013 | 7:30PM - 9:00PM |
Wild orchids in Cambridgeshire and southern Britain Wild orchids in Cambridgeshire and southern Britain Charles Turner, the CNHS botanical recorder, will talk about the variety of wild orchids found in Cambridgeshire and southern Britain. |
| Fri 12 April 2013 | 7:30PM - 10:20PM |
The thinking person's variety night, with our special guests Kent Valentine on stage alongside fellows and researchers giving stand-up comedy a go for the first time. Join academics from Cambridge and beyond for a lighthearted look at their research. |