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 7 May 2013 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
Highlight Cornel West in conversation with MM McCabe on Philosophy in the public sphere Cornel West in conversation with MM McCabe on Philosophy in the public sphere |
| 5:30PM - 6:30PM |
National grids: some twentieth-century cartographies of energy production and transmission A talk by James Purdon of Jesus College, Cambridge in the 'Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography' series. |
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| 7:00PM - 8:00PM |
Highlight A slice of Raspberry Pi In this free public lecture at Madingley Hall, Eben Upton, one of the creators of the Raspberry Pi, explains why he set out to design a computer so affordable that every child in Britain could have one, and discusses the staggering response to the Raspberry Pi. |
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| Wed 8 May 2013 | 1:15PM - 2:00PM |
Sepoys in silver: images of India on British Medals Join Aaron Jaffer, intern coins and medals, for a lunchtime talk at the Fitzwilliam Museum. |
| 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
Highlight Ending deadly conflict: a naïve dream? Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AC QC FASSA (Chancellor and Honorary Professorial Fellow, Australian National University; President Emeritus, International Crisis Group; former Foreign Minister of Australia) will give a series of three public lectures and a concluding symposium as Humanitas Visiting Professor in Statecraft and Diplomacy 2013. |
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| Thu 9 May 2013 | 5:00PM - 6:00PM |
The "Oriental music" broadcasts by Robert Lachmann: a musical ethnography of mandatory Palestine Robert Lachmann was an ethnomusicologist, linguist, musicologist and orientalist who arrived in Palestine in April 1935 after he was dismissed from his position at the Berlin National Library, following the rise of power of the Nazis. He came to Palestine at the invitation of Judah L. Magnes, president of the Hebrew University where he established the "Archive for Oriental Music". |
| 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
Highlight Cornel West in conversation with Ben Okri on literature and the nation Cornel West in conversation with Ben Okri on Literature and the Nation |
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| 6:00PM - 7:00PM |
Restoring profanity: applying mathematics to digital image restoration? Dr Carola‐Bibiane Schönlieb discusses the collaborative restoration project of the frescoes of 14th century cloth merchant Michel Menschein, and looks at how mathematics played a part in the process. |
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| 7:00PM - 8:00PM |
The third annual vsesvit readings in celebration of literary translation The Cambridge Ukrainian Studies Programme presents it's third annual Vsesvit Readings celebrating Georgian and Armenian classics in Ukrainian and English in translation. |
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| Fri 10 May 2013 | 1:00PM - 2:00PM |
Vanessa and Virginia with Susan Sellers Susan Sellers an English Professor at St. Andrews University and expert on Virgina Woolf, presents a new insight into how the stresses of family life mould the creative artist. |
| 5:00PM - 6:00PM |
The ordeal of modernity: the cultural politics of ethnicity Smuts Memorial Fund Lecture given by Professor Bruce Berman, Smuts Visiting Research Fellow and Queen’s University, Canada |
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| 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
Highlight Ending mass atrocity crimes: a hopeless dream? Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AC QC FASSA (Chancellor and Honorary Professorial Fellow, Australian National University; President Emeritus, International Crisis Group; former Foreign Minister of Australia) will give a series of three public lectures and a concluding symposium as Humanitas Visiting Professor in Statecraft and Diplomacy 2013. |
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| 5:30PM - 6:45PM |
The crisis in Greece and the state of Europe: a historian's perspective: Ramsay Murray lecture 2013 Ramsay Murray lecture 2013 |
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| 7:30PM - 9:00PM |
On Common Ground - a performance with Chris Wood and Hugh Lupton An evening of stories, songs and music exploring the life and times of John Clare |
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| Sat 11 May 2013 | 2:00PM - 3:00PM |
Samuel Butler: Victorian Atheist and Controversialist Journalist, writer and biographer Dr Simon Heffer will discuss material from his forthcoming book, 'High Minds: The Victorian Pursuit of Perfection', relating to Samuel Butler's role as a Victorian controversialist. |
| 3:30PM - 4:30PM |
Join literary scholar, author and international runner Roger Robinson, as he pursues the Victorian Samuel Butler through a fascinating paperchase of unpublished documents and roguish running, to a finish line of revisionist biography and a new history of running and track athletics. |
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| Sun 12 May 2013 | 3:00PM - 4:30PM |
How did fire first get into the world? Who shot at the sun? What was in the pot bubbling on the traveller's fire |