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Talks

The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography

Paul Seaward on "The History of the Rebellion" by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon

Tue 18 February 2020 12:30PM - 2:00PM

Consciousness, Intention, Final Causality and the Desire for God

Seminar talk given by Prof. Simon Oliver

5:00PM - 6:00PM

Dr Nicholas Penny, Slade Lectures in Fine Art 2020

Avatars of Antiquity: Premise and Practice in European Painting and Sculpture 1500-2000

5:30PM - 7:00PM

Federal Indifference: Sexuality, the State, and Social Reform during the early HIV/AIDS Crisis

Lecture by Stephen Colbrook (University College London) as part of the Churchill History Lecture Series. This lecture examines the interaction between HIV/AIDS and state policymaking in the US between the early 1980s and mid-1990s.

5:30PM - 7:00PM

Fighting Federal Indifference: Sexuality, the State, and Social Reform during the early HIV/AIDS Crisis

Stephen Colbrook, PhD candidate at UCL, will give this talk as part of the Churchill History Lecture Series

6:00PM - 7:00PM

Oon Lecture, Structure-based drug design using Electron Cryomicroscopy, by Richard Henderson

Downing College hosts the 12th Oon Lecture, this year given by Dr Richard Henderson, CH FRS and Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry. Tuesday 18 February at 6 pm in the Howard Theatre, Downing College.

7:00PM - 8:30PM

Highlight Café Sci Cambridge: The Genetics of Depression

Join Dr David Howard, Kings College London, for a brief overview of the history of human genetics with a focus on the research conducted around depression.

Wed 19 February 2020 4:00PM - 5:00PM

Well-Being and Financial Indicators: Linking Individual and Macro Data in a Cross-Country Analysis

A Talk by Yaprak Tayman Lecturer in Economics at the New College of Humanities (NCH) Northeastern

4:00PM - 5:30PM

Rainbow Crossings: Safe Spaces for LGBT+ at Home and Abroad

An enduring search for safe spaces has defined the precarious movement of the LGBTQI+ communities and minorities.

6:00PM - 7:10PM

Primary Care at the forefront of prevention

Professor Simon Griffin FRCGP, FMedSci, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, gives the sixth lecture in the series 'Transforming healthcare through prevention'.

6:00PM - 7:15PM

Prof Simon Griffin: Primary care at the forefront of prevention

Prof Griffin will share some thoughts on how we might square the circle and efficiently deliver effective prevention in primary care.

Thu 20 February 2020 1:00PM - 2:00PM

Lunchtime talk: Bill Janeway - "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash: The Financial System as the joint product of Trust and Technology"

20th February 2020: Dr Bill Janeway - "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash: The Financial System as the joint product of Trust and Technology"

6:45PM - 8:30PM

Cambridge Natural History Society talk - Three mammals: otters, bats and hedgehogs

Peter Pilbeam: Otters in Cambridgeshire; Carole Baber: Putting Hedgehogs on the map in Grafham; Jo Chesham: Bats at Sheep's Green and Coe Fen.

Sat 22 February 2020 3:00PM - 3:45PM

Bridging Binaries: LGBTQ+ Tours at Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Cancelled

This event has been cancelled.

Sun 23 February 2020 3:00PM - 3:45PM

Bridging Binaries: LGBTQ+ Tours at Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Cancelled

This event has been cancelled.