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Tue 26 November 2013 8:00AM - 5:00PM

Autumn in Cambridge

Dillistone and A.E. Students from Hills Road 6th form College

9:00AM - 5:00PM

UK~IRC innovation summit

This will be the fifth UK~IRC Innovation Summit and this year the focus will be on the ‘The Future of Science and Innovation Policy’.

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 - 12:00PM

Public trust in national assessments

Training event: Trust is key to the use of assessment, but where is regulation taking us? Part of the Assessment Principles series.

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

Contemporary South Asian visual constructions of self and nation in film

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.

4:30PM - 5:30PM

Reading religious poetry aloud

Lead by Pauline Davison and Peter Hilken, focusing on poems that can be read aloud in Church services and other occasions

5:30PM - 6:30PM

East Anglian large-scale county maps of the eighteenth century: what can we learn from a digital analysis?

A talk by Andrew Macnair (University of East Anglia) in the 'Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography' series.

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

9:30PM

Jitters

It’s Martha’s wedding but there are oh so many things that could go wrong… Come and watch as every one of them does in this comic new play.