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 16 July 2013 | 1:15PM - 1:45PM |
Enjoy half an hour looking at and talking about art at the Fitzwilliam Museum. |
| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
Join us in the Origins of the Afro Comb exhibition at the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology for demonstrations of styling and braiding by expert hairdresser Lorraine Dublin. |
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| Wed 17 July 2013 | 1:15PM - 1:45PM |
Myths and realities of food consumption and cuisine in Ancient Greece Join Anastasia Christophilopoulou, Outreach Officer Greece and Rome, for a lunchtime talk at the Fitzwilliam Museum. |
| Thu 18 July 2013 | 5:30PM - 6:30PM |
Mathemagic with a deck of cards There seems to be no end to the mathemagical things one can explore with a simple deck of cards, from algebra and combinatorics to probability and statistics. This talk by Professor Colm Mulcahy explores how card tricks can provide an entertaining and often surprising forum for mathematics. |