Talks
Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah at King's College
"Misreading Fanon: How a thinker of division became a prophet of certainty"
| Mon 4 March 2024 | 6:00PM - 7:30PM |
Pending Puzzles: It's not Easy being Green The second event in the Hughes Hall 'Pending Puzzles' series, examining if there a 'right' approach to achieving the common goal of averting catastrophic climate change. |
| Tue 5 March 2024 | 5:00PM - 6:00PM |
The Baxandall Lecture - An Archbishop at the End of Time: Politics and Episcopal Power c. 1000 The lectures looks at the role of bishops not only in the church but also in the early medieval political sphere, particularly their ability to shape political culture, especially ideas of kingship and the kingdom as a Christian community. |
| 5:15PM - 6:25PM |
Conversation in the Magdalene College Festival of Perspective programme. "Perspectives on Perspectives". Projections and Maps. |
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| 5:30PM - 7:00PM |
The Dictionary Craze in Enlightenment Europe (c. 1665–1800) How did people in eighteenth-century Europe react to the dictionary genre as a new information technology, and what can these reactions tell us about changing attitudes towards knowledge and learning in the age of Enlightenment? |
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| Wed 6 March 2024 | 4:15PM - 5:30PM |
Futures of State Capitalism in the Global North, East and South Dr Ilias Alami will speak about the role of the state as promoter, supervisor, shareholder-investor, and direct owner of capital across the world economy, or what commentators refer to as the “new state capitalism.” |
| 5:30PM - 6:30PM |
Going hungry in the UK: our ‘food desert’ problem An on-line panel event about why the UK food system serves some of our least privileged citizens so poorly. |
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| 6:00PM - 7:00PM |
The Honorary Fellows Lecture by Professor Sir Peter Ratcliffe FRS, Distinguished Scholar, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford and Clinical Research Director, Francis Crick Institute, London. |
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| 7:30PM - 8:45PM |
Power and the unWEIRDification of behavioural science Catherine Angai discusses how to make behavioural science less WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and Democratic). |
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| Fri 8 March 2024 | 12:15PM - 1:00PM |
Highlight International Women's Day Lecture Anti-imperial epistemic justice: Building solidaristic coalitions in a time of global crises. |
| 3:30PM - 4:30PM |
The canon is dead: long live the comic canon The disappearnce of literary canons, using comic books studies as a case study. |
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| 4:30PM - 7:30PM |
Celebrate International Women's Day at the Museum of Zoology Hear stories of passion, support and triumph from women in the field of STEM and conservation. Live panel discussion at the Museum of Zoology. |
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| 5:00PM - 7:00PM |
Women’s Stories: Changing the World All are warmly welcome to an event to mark International Women's Day. |
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| 5:30PM - 9:00PM |
Celebrating International Women’s Day at Cambridge Judge Business School Join The Wo+Men’s Leadership Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School on 8 March 2024 as we celebrate International Women’s Day. |
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| 6:45PM - 7:45PM |
Pre-Concert Talk by Professor Bettina Varwig | BACH ST JOHN PASSION Join us for an insightful pre-concert talk by Professor Bettina Varwig, a distinguished figure in music and cultural history at the Faculty of Music. |