WHAT'S ON

Pupils from The Leys and Arbury Primary school exhibit their work on conservation. In the last few years students have won prizes and exhibited at Saatchi gallery. the Mall Galleries, arts and the Medical Research Council at Addenbrookes.

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Jane Perryman is exhibiting ceramics, photography and video, Helena Greene is exhibiting paintings.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

'Future anterior' Art Exhibition at Clare Hall by Hepzibah Rendle-Short

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Anne-Lise Saillen - L'arbre, der baum, the tree

An exhibition of work by Anne-Lise Saillen

10:30AM - 4:30PM

Highlight MAA's gala weekend

Come to the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology's Gala Weekend on the first May Bank Holiday: 3 days of drop-in activities, tours, and demonstrations.

Tue 7 May 2013

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Pupils from The Leys and Arbury Primary school exhibit their work on conservation. In the last few years students have won prizes and exhibited at Saatchi gallery. the Mall Galleries, arts and the Medical Research Council at Addenbrookes.

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Jane Perryman is exhibiting ceramics, photography and video, Helena Greene is exhibiting paintings.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Images of empire: the British Empire on nineteenth century medals

'Future anterior' Art Exhibition at Clare Hall by Hepzibah Rendle-Short

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

A special display: A thought provoking selection of medallic artowrk, which explores British expansion across the globe during the nineteenth century, showing a wide range of medals relating to plagues and rebellions, sieges and skirmishes, victories and defeats.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Quentin Blake is one of the best-known illustrators of his generation. Drawn by Hand looks at individual works he has produced in the past decade: book illustrations, etchings, lithographs, drawings and works done for hospitals in various and contrasting media.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Anne-Lise Saillen - L'arbre, der baum, the tree

An exhibition of work by Anne-Lise Saillen

10:30AM - 4:30PM

An intervention into MAA’s experimental World Archaeology Gallery by a group of seven contemporary craft artists, ranging from artist jewellers to potters.

10:30AM - 4:30PM

Exploring how the Penan and Kelabit people of Borneo have shaped and been shaped by the rainforest for 50,000 years

11:30AM - 5:00PM

From April to July visitors to Kettle's Yard will have the opportunity to see 'guests' from eight other University of Cambridge museums and collections carefully places amongst the artworks and objects in the house.

11:30AM - 5:00PM

National grids: some twentieth-century cartographies of energy production and transmission

Katie Paterson's exhibition at Kettle's Yard brings together previous projects and new work. On display in St Peter's Church is a new piece, Fossil Necklace, a culmination of her residency at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

5:00PM - 6:30PM

Highlight Cornel West in conversation with MM McCabe on Philosophy in the public sphere

Cornel West in conversation with MM McCabe on Philosophy in the public sphere

5:30PM - 6:30PM

A talk by James Purdon of Jesus College, Cambridge in the 'Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography' series.

7:00PM - 8:00PM

Highlight A slice of Raspberry Pi

In this free public lecture at Madingley Hall, Eben Upton, one of the creators of the Raspberry Pi, explains why he set out to design a computer so affordable that every child in Britain could have one, and discusses the staggering response to the Raspberry Pi.

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

Wed 8 May 2013

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Pupils from The Leys and Arbury Primary school exhibit their work on conservation. In the last few years students have won prizes and exhibited at Saatchi gallery. the Mall Galleries, arts and the Medical Research Council at Addenbrookes.

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Jane Perryman is exhibiting ceramics, photography and video, Helena Greene is exhibiting paintings.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Images of empire: the British Empire on nineteenth century medals

'Future anterior' Art Exhibition at Clare Hall by Hepzibah Rendle-Short

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

A special display: A thought provoking selection of medallic artowrk, which explores British expansion across the globe during the nineteenth century, showing a wide range of medals relating to plagues and rebellions, sieges and skirmishes, victories and defeats.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Quentin Blake is one of the best-known illustrators of his generation. Drawn by Hand looks at individual works he has produced in the past decade: book illustrations, etchings, lithographs, drawings and works done for hospitals in various and contrasting media.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Anne-Lise Saillen - L'arbre, der baum, the tree

An exhibition of work by Anne-Lise Saillen

10:30AM - 4:30PM

An intervention into MAA’s experimental World Archaeology Gallery by a group of seven contemporary craft artists, ranging from artist jewellers to potters.

10:30AM - 4:30PM

Exploring how the Penan and Kelabit people of Borneo have shaped and been shaped by the rainforest for 50,000 years

11:30AM - 5:00PM

From April to July visitors to Kettle's Yard will have the opportunity to see 'guests' from eight other University of Cambridge museums and collections carefully places amongst the artworks and objects in the house.

11:30AM - 5:00PM

Open classes in modern Hebrew

Katie Paterson's exhibition at Kettle's Yard brings together previous projects and new work. On display in St Peter's Church is a new piece, Fossil Necklace, a culmination of her residency at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

1:00PM

Open classes in Modern Hebrew Easter Term 2013 Foundation course

1:15PM - 2:00PM

Sepoys in silver: images of India on British Medals

Join Aaron Jaffer, intern coins and medals, for a lunchtime talk at the Fitzwilliam Museum.

2:15PM

Israeli film club

All films are in Hebrew with English sub-titles.

3:30PM - 4:45PM

Bach Cantata evensong

With St John's College Choir and St John's Sinfonia BBC 3 Live broadcast

5:00PM - 6:30PM

Highlight Ending deadly conflict: a naïve dream?

Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AC QC FASSA (Chancellor and Honorary Professorial Fellow, Australian National University; President Emeritus, International Crisis Group; former Foreign Minister of Australia) will give a series of three public lectures and a concluding symposium as Humanitas Visiting Professor in Statecraft and Diplomacy 2013.

6:30PM - 8:00PM

Life clubs - Self improvement workshops Cancelled

This event has been cancelled. Life clubs was created in 2004 by Nina Grunfeld, best-selling author of The Life Book. Sessions are every Wednesday.

7:30PM - 9:30PM

Highlight Endellion String Quartet with guest student pianist Hok Kiu Johnson Leung

The Endellion String Quartet will be celebrating its 21st Season as 'Resident Quartet' at the University of Cambridge in 2012-13. Haydn String Quartet Op.50 No.2 Bartók String Quartet No.1 Brahms Piano Quartet No.1

Thu 9 May 2013

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Pupils from The Leys and Arbury Primary school exhibit their work on conservation. In the last few years students have won prizes and exhibited at Saatchi gallery. the Mall Galleries, arts and the Medical Research Council at Addenbrookes.

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Jane Perryman is exhibiting ceramics, photography and video, Helena Greene is exhibiting paintings.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Images of empire: the British Empire on nineteenth century medals

'Future anterior' Art Exhibition at Clare Hall by Hepzibah Rendle-Short

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

Gathering light

The provocative exhibition takes a rare view of the discipline through the eyes of patients and researchers. The photographs capture the unique relationship between patient and doctor and the hope and human spirit wrapped up in research projects.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

A special display: A thought provoking selection of medallic artowrk, which explores British expansion across the globe during the nineteenth century, showing a wide range of medals relating to plagues and rebellions, sieges and skirmishes, victories and defeats.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Quentin Blake is one of the best-known illustrators of his generation. Drawn by Hand looks at individual works he has produced in the past decade: book illustrations, etchings, lithographs, drawings and works done for hospitals in various and contrasting media.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Anne-Lise Saillen - L'arbre, der baum, the tree

An exhibition of work by Anne-Lise Saillen

10:30AM - 4:30PM

An intervention into MAA’s experimental World Archaeology Gallery by a group of seven contemporary craft artists, ranging from artist jewellers to potters.

10:30AM - 4:30PM

Exploring how the Penan and Kelabit people of Borneo have shaped and been shaped by the rainforest for 50,000 years

11:30AM - 5:00PM

From April to July visitors to Kettle's Yard will have the opportunity to see 'guests' from eight other University of Cambridge museums and collections carefully places amongst the artworks and objects in the house.

11:30AM - 5:00PM

The "Oriental music" broadcasts by Robert Lachmann: a musical ethnography of mandatory Palestine

Katie Paterson's exhibition at Kettle's Yard brings together previous projects and new work. On display in St Peter's Church is a new piece, Fossil Necklace, a culmination of her residency at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

5:00PM - 6:00PM

Robert Lachmann was an ethnomusicologist, linguist, musicologist and orientalist who arrived in Palestine in April 1935 after he was dismissed from his position at the Berlin National Library, following the rise of power of the Nazis. He came to Palestine at the invitation of Judah L. Magnes, president of the Hebrew University where he established the "Archive for Oriental Music".

5:00PM - 6:30PM

Highlight Cornel West in conversation with Ben Okri on literature and the nation

Cornel West in conversation with Ben Okri on Literature and the Nation

5:00PM - 8:00PM

Gathering light

The provocative exhibition takes a rare view of the discipline through the eyes of patients and researchers. The photographs capture the unique relationship between patient and doctor and the hope and human spirit wrapped up in research projects.

6:00PM - 7:00PM

Restoring profanity: applying mathematics to digital image restoration?

Dr Carola‐Bibiane Schönlieb discusses the collaborative restoration project of the frescoes of 14th century cloth merchant Michel Menschein, and looks at how mathematics played a part in the process.

7:00PM - 8:00PM

The third annual vsesvit readings in celebration of literary translation

The Cambridge Ukrainian Studies Programme presents it's third annual Vsesvit Readings celebrating Georgian and Armenian classics in Ukrainian and English in translation.

Fri 10 May 2013

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Pupils from The Leys and Arbury Primary school exhibit their work on conservation. In the last few years students have won prizes and exhibited at Saatchi gallery. the Mall Galleries, arts and the Medical Research Council at Addenbrookes.

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Jane Perryman is exhibiting ceramics, photography and video, Helena Greene is exhibiting paintings.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Images of empire: the British Empire on nineteenth century medals

'Future anterior' Art Exhibition at Clare Hall by Hepzibah Rendle-Short

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

Gathering light

The provocative exhibition takes a rare view of the discipline through the eyes of patients and researchers. The photographs capture the unique relationship between patient and doctor and the hope and human spirit wrapped up in research projects.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

A special display: A thought provoking selection of medallic artowrk, which explores British expansion across the globe during the nineteenth century, showing a wide range of medals relating to plagues and rebellions, sieges and skirmishes, victories and defeats.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Quentin Blake is one of the best-known illustrators of his generation. Drawn by Hand looks at individual works he has produced in the past decade: book illustrations, etchings, lithographs, drawings and works done for hospitals in various and contrasting media.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Anne-Lise Saillen - L'arbre, der baum, the tree

An exhibition of work by Anne-Lise Saillen

10:30AM - 4:30PM

An intervention into MAA’s experimental World Archaeology Gallery by a group of seven contemporary craft artists, ranging from artist jewellers to potters.

10:30AM - 4:30PM

Exploring how the Penan and Kelabit people of Borneo have shaped and been shaped by the rainforest for 50,000 years

11:30AM - 5:00PM

From April to July visitors to Kettle's Yard will have the opportunity to see 'guests' from eight other University of Cambridge museums and collections carefully places amongst the artworks and objects in the house.

11:30AM - 5:00PM

Vanessa and Virginia with Susan Sellers

Katie Paterson's exhibition at Kettle's Yard brings together previous projects and new work. On display in St Peter's Church is a new piece, Fossil Necklace, a culmination of her residency at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

1:00PM - 2:00PM

Susan Sellers an English Professor at St. Andrews University and expert on Virgina Woolf, presents a new insight into how the stresses of family life mould the creative artist.

1:10PM - 1:50PM

Anthony Friend and Oliver Pashley (clarinet)

University of Cambridge students perform a 20th-century program, including works by Berg, Stravinsky and Lutoslawski.

1:15PM

Neglected treasures of Georgian harpsichord music from the Fitzwilliam's collection

Dr Gerald Gifford, Honorary Keeper of Music, presents a programme of lesser known Georgian keyboard music from the Museum’s collection.

2:30PM - 3:30PM

Michaelhouse chorale

New year new term every Friday in the Chancel at Michaelhouse.

5:00PM - 6:00PM

The ordeal of modernity: the cultural politics of ethnicity

Smuts Memorial Fund Lecture given by Professor Bruce Berman, Smuts Visiting Research Fellow and Queen’s University, Canada

5:00PM - 6:30PM

Highlight Ending mass atrocity crimes: a hopeless dream?

Professor the Hon Gareth Evans AC QC FASSA (Chancellor and Honorary Professorial Fellow, Australian National University; President Emeritus, International Crisis Group; former Foreign Minister of Australia) will give a series of three public lectures and a concluding symposium as Humanitas Visiting Professor in Statecraft and Diplomacy 2013.

5:30PM - 6:45PM

The crisis in Greece and the state of Europe: a historian's perspective: Ramsay Murray lecture 2013

Ramsay Murray lecture 2013

7:30PM - 9:00PM

The life of John Clare

On Common Ground - a performance with Chris Wood and Hugh Lupton An evening of stories, songs and music exploring the life and times of John Clare

Sat 11 May 2013

7:30AM

Fauré’s Requiem by Addenbrooke's Hospital choir

Join us for our first concert of 2013, supported by guest musicians and organist Clifton Hughes.

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Pupils from The Leys and Arbury Primary school exhibit their work on conservation. In the last few years students have won prizes and exhibited at Saatchi gallery. the Mall Galleries, arts and the Medical Research Council at Addenbrookes.

9:00AM - 4:30PM

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.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Images of empire: the British Empire on nineteenth century medals

'Future anterior' Art Exhibition at Clare Hall by Hepzibah Rendle-Short

9:30AM - 12:30PM

The Dreaming of place

A storytelling workshop with Hugh Lupton

10:00AM - 5:00PM

A special display: A thought provoking selection of medallic artowrk, which explores British expansion across the globe during the nineteenth century, showing a wide range of medals relating to plagues and rebellions, sieges and skirmishes, victories and defeats.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Quentin Blake is one of the best-known illustrators of his generation. Drawn by Hand looks at individual works he has produced in the past decade: book illustrations, etchings, lithographs, drawings and works done for hospitals in various and contrasting media.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Anne-Lise Saillen - L'arbre, der baum, the tree

An exhibition of work by Anne-Lise Saillen

10:30AM - 4:30PM

An intervention into MAA’s experimental World Archaeology Gallery by a group of seven contemporary craft artists, ranging from artist jewellers to potters.

10:30AM - 4:30PM

Drawing from the collection

Exploring how the Penan and Kelabit people of Borneo have shaped and been shaped by the rainforest for 50,000 years

11:00AM - 1:30PM

Saturday morning drawing sessions taking inspiration from the objects at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

11:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlights of the Samuel Butler collection

An exhibition in the beautiful seventeenth-century Library of St John's College, showcasing some of the highlights of this remarkable Victorian collection.

11:30AM - 5:00PM

From April to July visitors to Kettle's Yard will have the opportunity to see 'guests' from eight other University of Cambridge museums and collections carefully places amongst the artworks and objects in the house.

11:30AM - 5:00PM

Samuel Butler: Victorian Atheist and Controversialist

Katie Paterson's exhibition at Kettle's Yard brings together previous projects and new work. On display in St Peter's Church is a new piece, Fossil Necklace, a culmination of her residency at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

2:00PM - 3:00PM

Journalist, writer and biographer Dr Simon Heffer will discuss material from his forthcoming book, 'High Minds: The Victorian Pursuit of Perfection', relating to Samuel Butler's role as a Victorian controversialist.

3:30PM - 4:30PM

Young Sam Butler and the Origins of Modern Running: His Athletic and Illicit Exploits as a Fox and a Hound

Join literary scholar, author and international runner Roger Robinson, as he pursues the Victorian Samuel Butler through a fascinating paperchase of unpublished documents and roguish running, to a finish line of revisionist biography and a new history of running and track athletics.

7:30PM - 9:00PM

Highlight A performance of traditional and modern Chinese music

These are the musicians in Cambridge that plays Chinese music and have played in the West Road Concert Hall

7:30PM - 9:00PM

Clare Hall music present IIlana Kravitz

Programme: Divertimento concert with Ilana Kravitz (folk music). Ilana will also will run a workshop during the day.

7:30PM - 9:30PM

Proud songsters

A song recital of works by Benjamin Britten and Henry Purcell

Sun 12 May 2013

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Pupils from The Leys and Arbury Primary school exhibit their work on conservation. In the last few years students have won prizes and exhibited at Saatchi gallery. the Mall Galleries, arts and the Medical Research Council at Addenbrookes.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

'Future anterior' Art Exhibition at Clare Hall by Hepzibah Rendle-Short

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Anne-Lise Saillen - L'arbre, der baum, the tree

An exhibition of work by Anne-Lise Saillen

11:30AM - 5:00PM

From April to July visitors to Kettle's Yard will have the opportunity to see 'guests' from eight other University of Cambridge museums and collections carefully places amongst the artworks and objects in the house.

11:30AM - 5:00PM

Images of empire: the British Empire on nineteenth century medals

Katie Paterson's exhibition at Kettle's Yard brings together previous projects and new work. On display in St Peter's Church is a new piece, Fossil Necklace, a culmination of her residency at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

12:00PM - 5:00PM

A special display: A thought provoking selection of medallic artowrk, which explores British expansion across the globe during the nineteenth century, showing a wide range of medals relating to plagues and rebellions, sieges and skirmishes, victories and defeats.

12:00PM - 5:00PM