What's On: What's On

Tue 25 June 2013

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Photographs taken on and around the London Underground to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Tube

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.

9:00AM - 10:00PM

MRC open week

To celebrate the MRC’s 100th birthday, MRC scientists the length and breadth of the country are taking part in Open Week, throwing open their doors to give visitors a taste of some of the awe-inspiring science that goes on in our establishments.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Fashioning Switzerland: portraits and landscapes by Markus Dinkel and his contemporaries

An exhibition of Swiss watercolours and prints featuring a rare selection of finely drawn and coloured portraits of Swiss women in regional costume and by the Bernese artist Markus Dinkel (1762-1832).

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.

10:30AM - 4:30PM

Chiefs and governors: art and power in Fiji

A major exhibition of Fijian Art at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, drawing from its historically significant collections

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.

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.

5:00PM

Mary of Modena: a royal scandal

The first royal birth to become a media circus was that of James Stuart in 1688, the so-called “warming-pan baby”. In this lecture, we’ll look at the newspaper stories, medals, maps, songs, and pamphlets that told conflicting and sensational tales about the child born to James II and his second wife, Mary of Modena.

5:00PM - 6:30PM

Clare Birchall: conspiracy theory, secrecy, transparency

Conspiracy theories have perhaps always been an irritation to those in power, but two recent transatlantic policy interventions suggest both the explicit ways in which conspiracy theories constitute a destabilising threat and some strategies for tackling them in a post 9/11, post 7/7 era.

6:30PM

Sarah LeFanu

An An Evening with Sarah LeFanu talking about her new book Dreaming of Rose: A Biographer's Journal

7:15PM - 8:15PM

University social club swimming Cancelled

This event has been cancelled. Lane swimming available every Tuesday for University and non-University individuals

WHAT'S ON

Events open to the public from the University of Cambridge

Tue 25 June 2013	9:00AM - 5:00PM	London underground photo exhibtion Photographs taken on and around the London Underground to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Tube
	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.
	9:00AM - 10:00PM	MRC open week To celebrate the MRC’s 100th birthday, MRC scientists the length and breadth of the country are taking part in Open Week, throwing open their doors to give visitors a taste of some of the awe-inspiring science that goes on in our establishments.
	10:00AM - 5:00PM	Fashioning Switzerland: portraits and landscapes by Markus Dinkel and his contemporaries An exhibition of Swiss watercolours and prints featuring a rare selection of finely drawn and coloured portraits of Swiss women in regional costume and by the Bernese artist Markus Dinkel (1762-1832).
	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.
	10:30AM - 4:30PM	Chiefs and governors: art and power in Fiji A major exhibition of Fijian Art at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, drawing from its historically significant collections
	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.
	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.
	5:00PM	Mary of Modena: a royal scandal The first royal birth to become a media circus was that of James Stuart in 1688, the so-called “warming-pan baby”. In this lecture, we’ll look at the newspaper stories, medals, maps, songs, and pamphlets that told conflicting and sensational tales about the child born to James II and his second wife, Mary of Modena.
	5:00PM - 6:30PM	Clare Birchall: conspiracy theory, secrecy, transparency Conspiracy theories have perhaps always been an irritation to those in power, but two recent transatlantic policy interventions suggest both the explicit ways in which conspiracy theories constitute a destabilising threat and some strategies for tackling them in a post 9/11, post 7/7 era.
	6:30PM	Sarah LeFanu An An Evening with Sarah LeFanu talking about her new book Dreaming of Rose: A Biographer's Journal
	7:15PM - 8:15PM	University social club swimming Cancelled This event has been cancelled. Lane swimming available every Tuesday for University and non-University individuals