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Talks

Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah

Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah at King's College

"Misreading Fanon: How a thinker of division became a prophet of certainty"

Mon 11 March 2024 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.

6:00PM - 7:30PM

St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar - ‘Drifting apart? The urban-rural continuum and the evolution of political disenchantment across 30 European countries’ - Professor Michael Kenny and Dr Davide Luca

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

Tue 12 March 2024 12:30PM - 2:00PM

Science, Religion and the Material Turn: Exploring New Global Potentials through Colonial Museum African collections

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.

5:30PM - 7:00PM

Deep cultural history and the humanities

Do the humanities still matter?

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?

Wed 13 March 2024 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 2024 12:00AM

Pick of the month Cambridge Festival 2024

The Cambridge Festival returns for 2024.

Fri 15 March 2024 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

Sat 16 March 2024 12:00AM

Pick of the month Cambridge Festival 2024

The Cambridge Festival returns for 2024.

Sun 17 March 2024 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.