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Mon 14 May 2012 8:00AM - 5:00PM

Cows, bowers and towers

Cows, bowers and towers

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Shelf Lives: Four Centuries of Collectors and their Books

Ten great book collectors whose volumes have enriched the University Library's holdings from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries.

9:00AM - 11:00PM

Cambridge & London 2012

Over 300 Olympians have been associated with the University as former students, academics and staff. To celebrate London 2012, the University is hosting a variety of events highlighting the City’s Olympic links and the cultural diversity of countries competing in the Games.

9:00AM - 5:00PM on Mon 9 July 2012

Pick of the month London calling: an exhibition of paintings by Vic Stedman

An exhibition of paintings for sale by local artist Vic Stedman.

10:00AM - 12:00PM

Reading Tolstoy and Flaubert in English

This new short course at Madingley Hall will consider problems and theories of translation and, at the same time, will engage you in a close reading of two world masterpieces: Lev Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, and Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Lys Hansen: across the divide

The core of this exhibition is a selected group of major canvases on the theme of war and peace and family relationships.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Art as power and performance: Byzantine and modern art compared and contrasted

For the Byzantines, art was a craft central to their culture and lavishly supported by the state. From the ‘Modern’ period on, ‘artists’ have fulfilled a more variable role in society. This new short course at Madingley Hall will help you develop your analytical skills in both these periods of art, opening up new areas of knowledge of Byzantine society and of the way art is consumed today.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

People’s portraits exhibition

The People’s Portraits exhibition captures on canvas ordinary people from different walks of lives in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century, and is rich in its diversity of subjects and styles.

5:00PM - 7:00PM

Presentations on work-in-progress in screen media

Postgraduates present their research at CRASSH.

6:15PM - 7:30PM

Leveson and the lessons from hacking

A talk by Chris Blackhurst, Editor of the Independent.

6:30PM - 7:30PM

Gates scholars distinguished lecture: Dr. Richard Horton

Dr. Horton's tenure at the Lancet has been dynamic and engaging--he is known for his willingness to use scientific research and knowledge to advocate for political and social change. Through commentaries and publications in the Lancet, he has publicly tackled issues of funding in science, pharmaceuticals, mortality in the Iraq war, the structure of the NHS, and much more.