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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 27 May 2013 5:00PM - 6:00PM

Professor Ron Barnett: imagining the University: contending with an impoverished understanding

This event is held as part of the two-year 'Religion and the Idea of a Research University' project, a collaboration between the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme in the Faculty of Divinity, the Faculties of English and History and the Department of Psychiatry. It seeks to explore the core question: What place does religion have in the Western research university?

Tue 28 May 2013 11:00AM - 12:00PM

And the ostracod goes to... the animal awards at the Museum of Zoology

Which animal is the spookiest? the most disgusting? has the best adaptation? Join us for the nominations for the animal awards, vote for your favourites and see collections from the museum stores at these interactive gallery talks.

1:00PM - 2:00PM

The emergence of human persons

A Faraday institute for science and religion research seminar

2:00PM - 3:00PM

And the ostracod goes to... the animal awards at the Museum of Zoology

Which animal is the spookiest? the most disgusting? has the best adaptation? Join us for the nominations for the animal awards, vote for your favourites and see collections from the museum stores at these interactive gallery talks.

5:30PM - 6:30PM

Professor Sir John Beddington FRS FRSE: what's happened to the world?

As part of the International Year of Statistics 2013 the Statistical Laboratory and the MRC Biostatistics Unit are co-hosting a celebratory series of 1-hour public lectures

Thu 30 May 2013 11:00AM - 12:00PM

And the ostracod goes to... the animal awards at the Museum of Zoology

Which animal is the spookiest? the most disgusting? has the best adaptation? Join us for the nominations for the animal awards, vote for your favourites and see collections from the museum stores at these interactive gallery talks.

2:00PM - 3:00PM

And the ostracod goes to... the animal awards at the Museum of Zoology

Which animal is the spookiest? the most disgusting? has the best adaptation? Join us for the nominations for the animal awards, vote for your favourites and see collections from the museum stores at these interactive gallery talks.

6:30PM

Highlight Jerry Toner in conversation with Mary Beard

Jerry Toner is talking about his latest book 'Roman Disasters' with Mary Beard

Fri 31 May 2013 4:15PM - 5:15PM

The smuts commonwealth lecture

Francis B Nyamnjoh University of Cape Town Fiction and Reality of Mobility in Africa

5:00PM - 6:30PM

The Balkh art and cultural heritage project - Dr Arezou Azad

Dr Arezou Azad (Oxford) talks about the Balkh Art and Cultural Heritage Project.