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Mon 11 March 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM

Exhibition - The Expanded Librarian

The Expanded Librarian exhibition is the result of a series of collaborative artists’ workshops investigating different approaches to what the figure of the Expanded Librarian can be, and to add to the existing discourses of text & image – theoretically, methodologically and as artistic strategy.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Crazy Cone Caper self-led trail

Join us for a fantastic whodunit mystery this winter and track down who has been stealing seeds from pinecones!

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Exhibition: The Goddess, the Deity & the Cyborg

Drawing from the works in The Women’s Art Collection as well as loans from public and private collections, the exhibition explores the enduring appeal of the goddess and traces how artists have adapted and even transformed the goddess into an ambiguous figure undefined by gender or even bodily form.

11:00AM - 5:00PM

Issam Kourbaj: Urgent Archive

Since 2011 Issam Kourbaj’s artwork has responded to the ongoing conflict in Syria, and reflects on the suffering of his fellow Syrians and the destruction of his cultural heritage.

2:00PM - 3:30PM

Highlight Touch Tours for Blind and Partially Sighted Adults: Arctic Culture

Join the Polar Museum team for a Touch Tour and explore a range of objects from different Arctic Cultures.

6:00PM - 7:00PM

Highlight Using organoids to reveal what sets the human brain apart

A Lecture by Dr Madeline Lancaster, Group Leader in the Cell Biology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge.

6:00PM - 7:30PM

St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar - ‘Drifting apart? The urban-rural continuum and the evolution of political disenchantment across 30 European countries’ - Professor Michael Kenny and Dr Davide Luca

Date: Monday, 11 March 2024 Time: 18:00 -19:30 Speakers: Professor Michael Kenny and Dr Davide Luca Talk Title: Drifting apart? The urban-rural continuum and the evolution of political disenchantment across 30 European countries