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Tue 19 November 2013 9:00AM - 5:00PM

Until lions write their own history ... and exhibition by artist Deanna Tyson

An eclectic exhibition of painted and stitched kimono, wall hangings, soft sculptures and paintings at the Alison Richard Building.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Art exhibition

Gail de Cordova

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Enduring visions

Paintings by Gail de Cordava Gail achieved a 1st class Hons degree in Fine Art from Exeter College of Art and Design in 1981. She currently lives in Cambridge and has exhibited widely in the UK, Spain and Sweden.

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

Highlight The night of longing: love and desire in Japanese prints

An exhibition of Japanese woodcuts and books of the Edo and Meiji periods (18th and 19th centuries) depicting lovers from literature and life.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Martha Haversham: blue on white III

Martha Haversham gained a dance degree at Roehampton Institute and worked in the theatre before transferring to fine art. Charcoal and material of tangibility is intrinsic to her work as this represents the dance of carbon atoms and the continuance of life.

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

The lost world (part 2)

The Lost World (Part 2) is a solo exhibition by Julie Gough simultaneously installed in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and at Contemporary Art Tasmania (CAT), Hobart.

4:00PM - 5:30PM

After independence: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh

Part of 'Visual rhetoric and modern South Asian history' course which examines the importance of theories of visual culture to teaching modern South Asian history. It introduces Cambridge University academics, students and researchers of South Asia to media research skills required when exploring the ideologies conveyed by the visual dimension of South Asia’s modern history.

7:00PM

And The Horse You Rode In On

Ten men. Two sides of the river. One night in the early 20th Century; in a world torn apart.

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

7:45PM - 10:30PM

Confusions

From a mother unable to escape from baby talk to a farcical village fete: five interlinked short plays presented by Cambridge’s freshest dramatic talent.

8:00PM - 9:30PM

Pathogens in the pub

Pathogens at Sanger: Using cutting-edge genome science to tackle diseases of the developing world

9:30PM

An Earlier Heaven

Lying comatose in a hospital bed, Alice has a very busy day ahead of her. A new and relentlessly inventive pitch black comedy.

11:00PM

The Human Zoo

Talk Radio on 1053 and 1029 AM. The Nation's Interactive Station. There's a good argument for listening. The Human Zoo A piece of interactive/ verbatim/ improvised theater with 101 actors. 1053 and 1029 AM Talk Radio. Ideological purity in listener appropriate language.