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Thu 16 May 2013 8:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Cambridge schools Art Exhibition

Pupils from The Leys and Arbury Primary school exhibit their work on conservation. In the last few years students have won prizes and exhibited at Saatchi gallery. the Mall Galleries, arts and the Medical Research Council at Addenbrookes.

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Jane Perryman and Helena Greene exhibition

Jane Perryman is exhibiting ceramics, photography and video, Helena Greene is exhibiting paintings.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Art exhibition

'Future anterior' Art Exhibition at Clare Hall by Hepzibah Rendle-Short

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Read all about it! wrongdoing in Spain and England in the long nineteenth century

An exhibition of nineteenth-century popular press material from Spain and England, featuring poisoners, pirates, werewolves and many other dubious characters.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Gathering light

The provocative exhibition takes a rare view of the discipline through the eyes of patients and researchers. The photographs capture the unique relationship between patient and doctor and the hope and human spirit wrapped up in research projects.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Images of empire: the British Empire on nineteenth century medals

A special display: A thought provoking selection of medallic artowrk, which explores British expansion across the globe during the nineteenth century, showing a wide range of medals relating to plagues and rebellions, sieges and skirmishes, victories and defeats.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Anne-Lise Saillen - L'arbre, der baum, the tree

An exhibition of work by Anne-Lise Saillen

10:30AM - 4:30PM

Creativity in the bronze age - a response

An intervention into MAA’s experimental World Archaeology Gallery by a group of seven contemporary craft artists, ranging from artist jewellers to potters.

10:30AM - 4:30PM

The cultured rainforest

Exploring how the Penan and Kelabit people of Borneo have shaped and been shaped by the rainforest for 50,000 years

11:30AM - 5:00PM

House guests

From April to July visitors to Kettle's Yard will have the opportunity to see 'guests' from eight other University of Cambridge museums and collections carefully places amongst the artworks and objects in the house.

11:30AM - 5:00PM

Katie Paterson

Katie Paterson's exhibition at Kettle's Yard brings together previous projects and new work. On display in St Peter's Church is a new piece, Fossil Necklace, a culmination of her residency at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

1:10PM - 1:40PM

Introduction to Katie Paterson with Andrew Nairne

Join Andrew Nairne, Director of Kettle's Yard, for a lunchtime talk introducing the work of Katie Paterson.

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.

4:00PM - 5:30PM

Software innovation: eight work style heuristics for creative system developers

Traditional forms of technical education pay little attention to creativity – often encouraging overtly rationalistic ways of thinking which stifle the ability to innovate. Professional software developers are often drowned in commercial drudgery and overwhelmed by work pressure and deadlines.

5:00PM

Roundtable discussion: transnational organised crime and security

Transnational organised crime increasingly concerns policy-makers and security experts around the world. Drug-related violence in Mexico, human trafficking in the Mediterranean, and Internet and environmental crimes are only some of the examples of transnational organised crime with increasing bearing over international security.

5:00PM - 6:30PM

Sir Richard Stone annual lecture, Prof Debraj Ray, "ethnicity and conflict"

Prof Ray is the Julius Silver Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Science and Professor of Economics at New York University. His main research areas focus on microeconomic theory, development economics and game theory.

6:00PM

Museums at night

University of Cambridge Museums open after-hours for music, art, performance, talks

6:00PM - 7:00PM

What makes a novelist?

Have you ever wondered what it takes to become a novelist? Join us for an engaging, insightful and thought-provoking talk by Salley Vickers.

6:00PM - 7:30PM

What's the state of today's Russian non-fiction writing?

What's the state of today's Russian non-fiction writing? Rachel Polonsky, Sue Larsen and journalist Andrew Jack discuss the six shortlisted books in the inaugural Pushkin House Book Prize.

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.

7:00PM - 11:00PM

Pint of science

Wouldn't it be amazing if you could sit in the pub sipping your pint while listening to the most incredible scientists explain their recent discoveries? Pint of Science is a new science festival for the general public being held in 15 different pubs in London, Oxford and Cambridge over three days