Talks
The Really Popular Book Club: The Duke & I by Julia Quinn
Join cambridge University Library for their monthly, online reading group.
| Mon 4 May | 5:30PM - 7:00PM |
Directing Disturbance: Three Theatremakers in Discussion In this roundtable discussion, three directors — Corinne Jaber, Atri Banerjee, and Andrew Quick — will reflect on their methods for bringing theatregoers into and out of states of psychological unease. This event is organised by the Affective Encounters research network. |
| Tue 5 May | 1:00PM - 2:00PM |
The Imagined Conflict: On Science and God On 5th May at 1pm Prof. Sverre Holm will give a seminar entitled ‘The Imagined Conflict: On Science and God’. A light sandwich lunch will be provided from 12:30pm in the Shasha Suite, Woolf Building, Westminster College, Madingley Road, Cambridge. |
| 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
Slaughterhouse Struggle: Space, Time, and Ideology in Beirut’s class conflicts of the 1960s. Slaughterhouse Struggle: Space, Time, and Ideology in Beirut’s class conflicts of the 1960s. Join members of the Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies for a lecture presented by MAC Research Fellow, Dr Diala Lteif. |
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| 5:30PM - 6:45PM |
The rise of local cartography in Europe, 12th-14th century A talk by Juliette Dumasy (Université d’Orléans) in the 'Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography' series. |
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| 6:00PM - 7:15PM |
What the hell is going on with... power? Join Dr Eliane Glaser, author and BBC producer, and Prof Clare Chambers to explore where and how power is exerted today – both overtly and covertly, in public and in private – and why the term seems to have fallen out of fashion at a time when we need it more than ever. They will be joined by award-winning novelist Joanna Kavenna and author and broadcaster Phil Tinline. |
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| Wed 6 May | 5:00PM - 7:00PM |
Driftlines presents a dynamic programme of screenings, workshops, and director discussions. We invite you to join as we explore a wide range of themes, from food sovereignty and Indigenous governance to pollution and climate change. |
| 7:00PM - 8:15PM |
The changing character of war and peacemaking John, Lord Alderdice will draw on his experience as a key negotiator in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement and former Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly to examine the shifting nature of global conflict and peacemaking within today's rapidly changing geopolitical landscape |
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| Thu 7 May | 12:00PM - 7:00PM |
Driftlines presents a dynamic programme of screenings, workshops, and director discussions. We invite you to join as we explore a wide range of themes, from food sovereignty and Indigenous governance to pollution and climate change. |
| 6:00PM - 7:00PM |
The Importance of Teaching about Science and Religion in a Time of Global Uncertainty We will be holding a public lecture on Thursday 7th May at 6pm. Our speaker will be Prof. Michael Reiss and his talk is entitled ‘The Importance of Teaching about Science and Religion in a Time of Global Uncertainty’. |
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| Sat 9 May | 9:30AM - 5:00PM |
Driftlines presents a dynamic programme of screenings, workshops, and director discussions. We invite you to join as we explore a wide range of themes, from food sovereignty and Indigenous governance to pollution and climate change. |
| 11:00AM - 12:30PM |
The Development, building, and installation of the new Willis / Harrison organ |