Talks
Institute of Continuing Education: Undergraduate Virtual Open Day
Looking to pursue your love of learning, take the next step in your career or take your first steps along a new career path? Join us for our upcoming Undergraduate Virtual Open Day on 21st May, where we’ll delve into the world of undergraduate study at the Institute of Continuing Education
| Mon 11 March | 2:00PM - 3:30PM |
Highlight Touch Tours for Blind and Partially Sighted Adults: Arctic Culture Join the Polar Museum team for a Touch Tour and explore a range of objects from different Arctic Cultures. |
| 6:00PM - 7:00PM |
Highlight Using organoids to reveal what sets the human brain apart A Lecture by Dr Madeline Lancaster, Group Leader in the Cell Biology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge. |
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| 6:00PM - 7:30PM |
Date: Monday, 11 March 2024 Time: 18:00 -19:30 Speakers: Professor Michael Kenny and Dr Davide Luca Talk Title: Drifting apart? The urban-rural continuum and the evolution of political disenchantment across 30 European countries |
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| Tue 12 March | 12:30PM - 2:00PM |
On 12th March at 1pm Dr Nathan Bossoh will give a seminar entitled ‘Science, Religion and the Material Turn: Exploring New Global Potentials through Colonial Museum African collections’. A light sandwich lunch will be provided from 12:30 in the Healey Room, Westminster College, Madingley Road Cambridge. |
| 5:30PM - 7:00PM |
1848: Resonances of a 19th Century Revolution Dr. Fernanda Gallo, Lecturer in History & Politics, Homerton College, in conversation with Sir Christopher Clark, Regius Professor of History, St Catharine's College. |
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| 5:30PM - 7:00PM |
Deep cultural history and the humanities Do the humanities still matter? |
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| 5:45PM - 7:00PM |
VS Naipaul and the Quest for Modernity, with Pankaj Mishra VS Naipaul wrote about the difficult transition to modernity in remote corners of the non-Western world. How have they evolved in the decades since? |
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| Wed 13 March | 3:30PM - 4:30PM |
The Noah Books project: from modern Hebrew classics to contemporary comics for children Hebrew comics and picturebooks for children |
| Thu 14 March | 12:00AM |
Pick of the month Cambridge Festival 2024 The Cambridge Festival returns for 2024. |
| Fri 15 March | 12:00AM |
Pick of the month Cambridge Festival 2024 The Cambridge Festival returns for 2024. |
| 1:15PM - 2:00PM |
Writing for display in the Ancient World A lunchtime talk with the VIEWS Project team |
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| Sat 16 March | 12:00AM |
Pick of the month Cambridge Festival 2024 The Cambridge Festival returns for 2024. |
| Sun 17 March | 12:00AM |
Pick of the month Cambridge Festival 2024 The Cambridge Festival returns for 2024. |
| 2:30PM - 3:00PM |
Science on Sundays: March 2024 An immense archive of plant diversity: the many uses of the Cambridge University Herbarium. A talk by Dr Anne Dubéarnès, Cambridge University Herbarium, University of Cambridge. |