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 24 June 2013 | 9:00AM - 10:00PM |
To celebrate the MRC’s 100th birthday, MRC scientists the length and breadth of the country are taking part in Open Week, throwing open their doors to give visitors a taste of some of the awe-inspiring science that goes on in our establishments. |
| Tue 25 June 2013 | 9:00AM - 10:00PM |
To celebrate the MRC’s 100th birthday, MRC scientists the length and breadth of the country are taking part in Open Week, throwing open their doors to give visitors a taste of some of the awe-inspiring science that goes on in our establishments. |
| 5:00PM |
Mary of Modena: a royal scandal The first royal birth to become a media circus was that of James Stuart in 1688, the so-called “warming-pan baby”. In this lecture, we’ll look at the newspaper stories, medals, maps, songs, and pamphlets that told conflicting and sensational tales about the child born to James II and his second wife, Mary of Modena. |
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| 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
Clare Birchall: conspiracy theory, secrecy, transparency Conspiracy theories have perhaps always been an irritation to those in power, but two recent transatlantic policy interventions suggest both the explicit ways in which conspiracy theories constitute a destabilising threat and some strategies for tackling them in a post 9/11, post 7/7 era. |
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| 6:30PM |
An An Evening with Sarah LeFanu talking about her new book Dreaming of Rose: A Biographer's Journal |
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| Wed 26 June 2013 | 10:30AM - 11:30AM |
Alan Turing and the enigma machine This talk by Dr James Grime presents a history of both Alan Turing and the Enigma cipher - including a full demonstration of an original WWII Enigma Machine! |
| 1:15PM - 1:45PM |
A call to arms: re-displaying the Armoury Join Victoria Avery, Keeper of Applied Arts, at the Fitzwilliam Museum for a lunchtime talk. |
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| 6:00PM - 8:00PM |
Highlight Sustainable Retrofit Challenge GreenBRIDGE and the Living Laboratory for Sustainability invite you to the Sustainable Retrofit Challenge 2 day event: Wednesday 26 June: Dr Brenda Boardman keynote speaker "Delivering Future-friendly Buildings: the next 800 years?" Thursday 27 June: Presentations by the competition participating teams and announcement of the winner |
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| Thu 27 June 2013 | 2:00PM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Sustainable Retrofit Challenge GreenBRIDGE and the Living Laboratory for Sustainability invite you to the Sustainable Retrofit Challenge 2 day event: Wednesday 26 June: Dr Brenda Boardman keynote speaker "Delivering Future-friendly Buildings: the next 800 years?" Thursday 27 June: Presentations by the competition participating teams and announcement of the winner |
| Fri 28 June 2013 | 9:30AM - 11:30AM |
Geoff Mulgan, co-founder of Demos and former Head of Policy at No 10 under Tony Blair, reflects on the role of think tanks in British political life |