Beyond Neoliberalism Conference 2025
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| Wed 19 June 2024 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM |
An art exhibition by Ruth Murray and Linda Hemmersbach |
| 9:00AM - 6:30PM |
Highlight Murder by the Book: A Celebration of 20th Century British Crime Fiction Cambridge University Library's exhibition celebrates the richness of twentieth century British crime fiction through a creative lens, from its origins to contemporary best sellers. |
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| 9:30AM - 12:30PM |
Seeing Through Her Paintings: Leonora Carrington and technical art history This symposium gives insights into the recent and first technical art historical studies of works by the British-born Mexican artist Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) in Mexico and the United Kingdom. |
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| 10:00AM |
Photography Competition – Weird and Wonderful in Cambridge University Botanic Garden The Botanic Garden is delighted to partner again with the International Garden Photographer of the Year (IGPOTY) to offer this free-to-enter competition. |
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| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Highlight Hidden Histories Explore the hidden histories of the Polar Museum in this new label display. From the female figures in polar history to the origins of Inuit art; follow the stories around the museum exhibits and discover something new. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
Highlight National Treasures: Botticelli in Cambridge Sandro Botticelli’s masterpiece ‘Venus and Mars’ is the highlight of our exciting new display exploring ideas of sex and power, gender and the body through classical mythology and Italian art of the 1400s and 1500s. |
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| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight 70 Years of New Hall & Murray Edwards College 70 years ago, New Hall opened as the third foundation for women at the University of Cambridge on a shoestring with just 16 students. This exhibition traces the history of a women's college, |
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| 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. |
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| 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Uncover the hidden stories of the Garden on this exciting adventure. |
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| 12:00PM - 5:00PM |
Highlight ALISON WILDING RA: By the Mark - and the Line below the Loaf An exhibition of four decades of drawings by Alison Wilding RA. |
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| 4:00PM - 5:30PM |
Book launch - The Homeric Centos: Homer and the Bible Interwoven Was Homer a Christian ‘theologian’? Could pagan gods and heroes express nascent Nicene faith? The Cambridge Interfaith Programme welcomes Dr Anna Lefteratou, Senior Lecturer in Patristics at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, with a launch for her book, The Homeric Centos: Homer and the Bible interwoven (OUP, 2023). |
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| 6:30PM - 7:45PM |
Think Firstly of Your Walls: Inspirations Behind David’s Designs with Fiona Rose Join former William Morris Society Trustee and Arts Society Lecturer, Fiona Rose for a talk about the inspirations behind David Parr’s designs. |
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| 7:00PM - 8:00PM |
Zoology Live! Animal Connections the LIVESTREAM Join us LIVE online as we chat to zoology experts |