Talks
The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography
Paul Seaward on "The History of the Rebellion" by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
| Tue 30 April 2019 | 12:30PM - 2:00PM |
The recent rapid widespread deployment of AI and robotic systems has raised considerable ethical concern, in both public and academic arenas. In this talk Prof. Nigel Crook will explore the motivations for developing machines with moral competence and outline some current approaches. |
| 6:00PM - 7:00PM |
Unique humans and missing extraterrestrials: a strange connection? Animals cannot count and never speak, two pointers to the immense gulf that separates us. Only we are interested in extraterrestrials, but they are oddly shy. Professor Simon Conway Morris FRS questions that maybe the world we inhabit is much stranger than current orthodoxies allow? |
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| 6:00PM - 7:45PM |
Performance and In Conversation: Oscar Murillo Join us for a free evening with artist Oscar Murillo. From 6pm there will be a live performance by Murillo in the galleries as part of the current exhibition. From 6.45pm Oscar Murillo will be in conversation with artist Mandy El-Sayegh. Chaired by Elvira Dyangani Ose (Director of The Showroom, London). |
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| Thu 2 May 2019 | 1:15PM - 1:35PM |
Join Jennifer Powell, Head of Collection and Programme, for an introduction to the exhibition. |
| 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
Sir Richard Stone Annual Lecture 2019: Firms and Growth The Sir Richard Stone Annual Lecture is a major event in the Faculty annual calendar and honours Sir Richard Stone, a Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics, founding Director of the Department of Applied Economics in the University of Cambridge and a major contributor to developments in microeconomics. |
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| 5:45PM - 7:00PM |
Highlight Girton150 The Visitor’s Lecture by the Rt Hon the Baroness Hale of Richmond The Visitor’s Lecture is delivered by The Right Honourable, The Baroness Hale of Richmond (1963, Law), President of the UK Supreme Court, Visitor to Girton College since 2004 and Honorary President of the Cambridge University Law Society. Her Lecture is titled “100 Years of Women in Law”. |
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| 6:00PM - 7:00PM |
Coercion in Literature: Sophie Hannah Join us for an evening with author Sophie Hannah as she discusses coercion in literature. |
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| Fri 3 May 2019 | 3:00PM - 4:00PM |
Museum of Zoology Gallery Tour Take a tour around the Museum of Zoology |