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All things bright and beautiful

Works by Rebecca Merry

Cambridge & London 2012

Over 300 Olympians have been associated with the University as former students, academics and staff. To celebrate London 2012, the University is hosting a variety of events highlighting the City’s Olympic links and the cultural diversity of countries competing in the Games.

Reading Tolstoy and Flaubert in English

This new short course at Madingley Hall will consider problems and theories of translation and, at the same time, will engage you in a close reading of two world masterpieces: Lev Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, and Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary.

Art as power and performance: Byzantine and modern art compared and contrasted

For the Byzantines, art was a craft central to their culture and lavishly supported by the state. From the ‘Modern’ period on, ‘artists’ have fulfilled a more variable role in society. This new short course at Madingley Hall will help you develop your analytical skills in both these periods of art, opening up new areas of knowledge of Byzantine society and of the way art is consumed today.

People’s portraits exhibition

The People’s Portraits exhibition captures on canvas ordinary people from different walks of lives in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century, and is rich in its diversity of subjects and styles.

Francis Galton, measurement, psychometrics and social progress

In this talk Harvey Goldstein looks at the work of Francis Galton, a pioneer of modern social measurement, and traces the influence he has had over the century since his death. The talk looks at the scientific status of Galton’s work and subsequent developments within psychometrics and education, including the use of factor analysis and item response models.

All things bright and beautiful

Works by Rebecca Merry

Cambridge & London 2012

Over 300 Olympians have been associated with the University as former students, academics and staff. To celebrate London 2012, the University is hosting a variety of events highlighting the City’s Olympic links and the cultural diversity of countries competing in the Games.

The edge of beyond: the Antarctic paintings of Dafila Scott

An exhibition of Antarctic work by landscape and wildlife artist Dafila Scott

Designed to Impress: Highlights from the print collection

See works by some of the greatest Old Master printmakers, including Rembrandt and Dürer, as well as prints by later artists such as Degas, Whistler and Picasso.

People’s portraits exhibition

The People’s Portraits exhibition captures on canvas ordinary people from different walks of lives in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century, and is rich in its diversity of subjects and styles.

Tuesday studio

For young people aged 11-14

University social club swimming Cancelled

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

All things bright and beautiful

Works by Rebecca Merry

Cambridge & London 2012

Over 300 Olympians have been associated with the University as former students, academics and staff. To celebrate London 2012, the University is hosting a variety of events highlighting the City’s Olympic links and the cultural diversity of countries competing in the Games.

The edge of beyond: the Antarctic paintings of Dafila Scott

An exhibition of Antarctic work by landscape and wildlife artist Dafila Scott

Designed to Impress: Highlights from the print collection

See works by some of the greatest Old Master printmakers, including Rembrandt and Dürer, as well as prints by later artists such as Degas, Whistler and Picasso.

Secrets of the scarab beetle

A lunchtime talk at the Fitzwilliam Museum.

People’s portraits exhibition

The People’s Portraits exhibition captures on canvas ordinary people from different walks of lives in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century, and is rich in its diversity of subjects and styles.

Wednesday club

Weekly art club for 8-11s

Teaching mathematics & Hungary: what’s the link? what is geogebra?

Come & find out about: The Cambridge Centre for Innovation in technological education and research centres in Szeged, Hungary

In praise of shadows: installations and archives

An Illustrated Lecture by Edmund de Waal

All things bright and beautiful

Works by Rebecca Merry

Cambridge & London 2012

Over 300 Olympians have been associated with the University as former students, academics and staff. To celebrate London 2012, the University is hosting a variety of events highlighting the City’s Olympic links and the cultural diversity of countries competing in the Games.

The edge of beyond: the Antarctic paintings of Dafila Scott

An exhibition of Antarctic work by landscape and wildlife artist Dafila Scott

Designed to Impress: Highlights from the print collection

See works by some of the greatest Old Master printmakers, including Rembrandt and Dürer, as well as prints by later artists such as Degas, Whistler and Picasso.

Lunchtime talk

Introduction to the Alfred Wallis display with Kettle's Yard Director, Andrew Nairne

People’s portraits exhibition

The People’s Portraits exhibition captures on canvas ordinary people from different walks of lives in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century, and is rich in its diversity of subjects and styles.

The Lawrence room

Girton College has an extremely unusual Egyptian mummy called Hermione, which can now be viewed in the College’s small museum.

All things bright and beautiful

Works by Rebecca Merry

Cambridge & London 2012

Over 300 Olympians have been associated with the University as former students, academics and staff. To celebrate London 2012, the University is hosting a variety of events highlighting the City’s Olympic links and the cultural diversity of countries competing in the Games.

The edge of beyond: the Antarctic paintings of Dafila Scott

An exhibition of Antarctic work by landscape and wildlife artist Dafila Scott

Designed to Impress: Highlights from the print collection

See works by some of the greatest Old Master printmakers, including Rembrandt and Dürer, as well as prints by later artists such as Degas, Whistler and Picasso.

People’s portraits exhibition

The People’s Portraits exhibition captures on canvas ordinary people from different walks of lives in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century, and is rich in its diversity of subjects and styles.

Newnham College Jane Harrison memorial lecture 2012 by Dame Stella Rimington

The changing face of national security: one woman's experiences

A Conversation with Adam Thorpe

Adam Thorpe will come to Cambridge to discuss his latest novel Flight. He will read from his work and there will also be the opportunity to purchase a signed copy (£16.99).

Evolution and belief (Cambridge University Press bookshop)

Robert Asher discusses his new book on the evidence for evolution and its implications for religion

All things bright and beautiful

Works by Rebecca Merry

Cambridge & London 2012

Over 300 Olympians have been associated with the University as former students, academics and staff. To celebrate London 2012, the University is hosting a variety of events highlighting the City’s Olympic links and the cultural diversity of countries competing in the Games.

The edge of beyond: the Antarctic paintings of Dafila Scott

An exhibition of Antarctic work by landscape and wildlife artist Dafila Scott

Designed to Impress: Highlights from the print collection

See works by some of the greatest Old Master printmakers, including Rembrandt and Dürer, as well as prints by later artists such as Degas, Whistler and Picasso.

Creative writing

For adults and those aged 16+

People’s portraits exhibition

The People’s Portraits exhibition captures on canvas ordinary people from different walks of lives in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century, and is rich in its diversity of subjects and styles.

Wittgenstein words and music

By Michael Nedo

All things bright and beautiful

Works by Rebecca Merry

Cambridge & London 2012

Over 300 Olympians have been associated with the University as former students, academics and staff. To celebrate London 2012, the University is hosting a variety of events highlighting the City’s Olympic links and the cultural diversity of countries competing in the Games.

Designed to Impress: Highlights from the print collection

See works by some of the greatest Old Master printmakers, including Rembrandt and Dürer, as well as prints by later artists such as Degas, Whistler and Picasso.

Dowland, Purcell, Schumann

A lunchtime concert at the Fitzwilliam Museum.

A concert of meditative music

Presented by Sri Chimnoy Centre Cambridge

People’s portraits exhibition

The People’s Portraits exhibition captures on canvas ordinary people from different walks of lives in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century, and is rich in its diversity of subjects and styles.

Organ recital

To be performed by Freddie Brown (St Catharine’s College, Cambridge)