Other events
Library Late
Join Cambridge University Library after-hours for our biggest event of the year!
| Tue 14 May 2013 | 5:00PM - 7:00PM |
A special issue of the Screen Media Seminar looking at three facets of performance. |
| Wed 15 May 2013 | 10:00AM |
The Fork’s Tale, as narrated by Itself The story of a cannibal fork in the collections of the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology’s, complete with drawings from its point of view. |
| Thu 16 May 2013 | 3:30PM - 5:00PM |
Cambridge Assessment Network seminar: Detecting cheating and plagiarism Cheating and plagiarism have become very serious problems in schools and colleges alike. Teachers, examination boards and their agents clearly have a responsibility to discourage cheating on their tests and to minimise it wherever possible. |
| 6:00PM - 8:30PM |
Highlight Museums at night: a father for my son Ever wanted to explore a museum after dark? Join us at the Polar Museum, for one night only to explore the galleries with a glass of wine in tow! Travel back in time with Kathleen Scott, wife of the legendary polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott for a female perspective on love and life at the turn of the 20th century in a play written and performed by Jenny Coverack. |
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| Fri 17 May 2013 | 9:30AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight Orientality: Cultural Orientalism and Mentality The topics of the speakers coming from the UK, Europe, Qatar, Turkey, Uzbekistan and the USA range from impressionist painting in Nukus and Ottoman travelogue literature, to the pragmatic Orientalism of Dyagilev's ballets, Orientalist photography and Portuguese luxury trade. |
| 6:00PM - 9:00PM |
Join us for a special evening at the Fitzwilliam Museum and explore the collections after hours. |
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| Sat 18 May 2013 | 10:00AM - 3:00PM |
Highlight Orientality: Cultural Orientalism and Mentality The topics of the speakers coming from the UK, Europe, Qatar, Turkey, Uzbekistan and the USA range from impressionist painting in Nukus and Ottoman travelogue literature, to the pragmatic Orientalism of Dyagilev's ballets, Orientalist photography and Portuguese luxury trade. |
| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
The new Festival of Plants at the Cambridge University Botanic Garden brings together horticulture and science in a day devoted to all things plant, from propagation to pollination, from seed to shopping! Join our team of horticulturalists, plant experts and scientists from across the region for a garden event with a difference. |