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Mon 2 November 2015 9:00AM - 7:00PM

Threads of life - an exhibition by Jenny Langley

Exploring and celebrating the structural diversity of proteins through embroidery and printing

5:00PM - 6:30PM

Department of East Asian Studies Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2015

Department of East Asian Studies Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2015 Mondays at 17:00 in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Tue 3 November 2015 9:00AM - 7:00PM

Threads of life - an exhibition by Jenny Langley

Exploring and celebrating the structural diversity of proteins through embroidery and printing

5:00PM - 6:00PM

Highlight Slade lectures in fine art 2015-16 - presented by Prof John Bowlt

“Suddenly I forgot which comes first, 7 or 8”. Making Sense of the Russian Avant-Garde

5:00PM - 7:00PM

Talk by Edward Winters: Situating Joseph Cornell

Edward Winters is an artist and philosopher. He studied at the Slade in the 70s, and worked for many years at the University of Westminster and West Dean College.

Wed 4 November 2015 9:00AM - 7:00PM

Threads of life - an exhibition by Jenny Langley

Exploring and celebrating the structural diversity of proteins through embroidery and printing

5:00PM - 7:00PM

Highlight Public lecture: 'The fugitives - blackness as urban method' Professor AbdouMaliq Simone, Max Planck Institute

What is the 'common sense' of cities? Invoking blackness as an analytical method, this and more questions are addressed through thinking about how long histories of urban practices deployed by Black residents of cities across the world might challenge and reinvent the sense of an urban commons.

5:30PM - 7:00PM

Poetic Battlefields - Poetry of the First World War

The two-part performance Poetic Battlefields brings together historical and contemporary perspectives on the poetry of the First World War. Four speakers enact over 30 poems (1911-1919) from 14 different countries, depicting the turn from preliminary war fever to the shock at the effects of industrialised mass war. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetic-battlefields-tickets-19010718571

6:00PM - 7:30PM

St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series: Yiannis Kitromilides

Greece and the Euro-crisis: Can the ‘European Project’ be Saved?

Thu 5 November 2015 9:00AM - 7:00PM

Threads of life - an exhibition by Jenny Langley

Exploring and celebrating the structural diversity of proteins through embroidery and printing

6:00PM - 7:00PM

Public Patient Involvement in Medical Research - panel debate

Join us for this free, lively and thought-provoking discussion on public patient involvement in medical research. Led by some of the leading experts in their field the panel discussion will feature Dr Kath Maguire, Dr Fiona Walter and Jackie Ashley.

7:30PM - 9:00PM

Wandlebury: People, Nature and Heritage

Robin Pellew, Chairman of Cambridge, Past, Present and Future, will talk about the challenges of managing Wandlebury.

Fri 6 November 2015 9:00AM - 7:00PM

Threads of life - an exhibition by Jenny Langley

Exploring and celebrating the structural diversity of proteins through embroidery and printing

4:00PM - 6:00PM

Mercy: the key to Pope Francis' reform

VHI Lecture by Austen Ivereigh

Sat 7 November 2015 11:00AM - 12:30PM

Cambridge History for Schools

Cambridge History for Schools offer hands-on workshops for children aged 7-14. On Saturday 7 November they are offering workshops on Renaissance dance and the Magna Carta.