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Mon 25 November 2013 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 - 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.

12:30PM - 1:30PM

Feminism in Israel: spotlight on the Israeli multicultural rifts

Professor Henriette Dahan Kalev, Gender Studies, Ben Gurion University, Israel and Senior Academic Visitor, St Antony's College, University of Oxford gives a Multi-disciplinary Gender Research Seminar.

4:30PM - 6:00PM

Sri Lanka’s visual identity: from Ceylon tea to Tamil Tigers

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.

5:00PM - 6:00PM

Overlapping sovereignties and the politics of legal pluralism in Mozambique

Part of the Centre of African Studies' Michaelmas Term Seminar Series on 'Law, Crime and Justice in Africa'

6:00PM - 7:00PM

Decoding human genomes on a population scale: solexa/illumina sequencing

Lecture by Professor Shankar Balasubramanian FRS FMedSchi, Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute

6:00PM - 8:00PM

Sing that thing!

In our workshops we will explore stories of objects through singing songs connected and inspired by them. The music featured will include both traditional and contemporary styles as well as some composed by the group.

9:30PM

Comments Disabled

Comments Disabled is a fresh, irreverent standup night loosely themed around disability, with all profits going to MIND. Say what?

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.

Wed 27 November 2013 8:00AM - 5:00PM

Autumn in Cambridge

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

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 - 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.

1:00PM - 2:00PM

Open classes in modern Hebrew

Open classes in Modern Hebrew Michaelmas Term 2013 Foundation course

1:15PM

Being modern in Britain: Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth

With Julia Tozer, former Head of Education.

2:15PM

Israeli film club - Michaelmas Term 2013

All films are in Hebrew with English sub-titles.

5:30PM

Highlight 'All manner of books': Cambridge University Press and its new museum

A talk organised by the Friends of Cambridge University Library. This event will be preceded by the Annual General Meeting of the Friends.

5:30PM - 6:30PM

I could be anyone

An autobiographical performance based on the adolescence of a Cambridge person with dyslexia, before the word became relevant

6:00PM - 7:30PM

St Catharine's political economy seminar series on the Economics of Austerity

Özlem Onaran will give a talk on 'What happens to growth when there is a global race to the bottom in the share of labour?' All are welcome.

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.

7:00PM - 9:00PM

Nudging public policy: behavioural economics and beyond with Dr David Halpern

Dr David Halpern is a senior fellow at the Institute for Government, currently on secondment to both No.10 and the Cabinet Office full time to head the Behavioural Insight Team, and support on the Big Society and wellbeing agendas.

7:00PM - 9:00PM

Public open evenings at the Institute of Astronomy

Astronomy talks and public observing (if clear!) every Wednesday evening during the winter season.

7:45PM - 10:30PM

ADC/Footlights Pantomime 2013: The Princess and the Pea

This year’s ADC/Footlights Pantomime brings together comedy, music and drama for a night of cockle-warming, rib-tickling, souffle-rising Christmas fun."

8:00PM - 9:30PM

Storytelling - Eros and Psyche

Eros and Psyche with Sally Pomme Clayton presented by cambridge storytellers

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.

Thu 28 November 2013 8:00AM - 5:00PM

Autumn in Cambridge

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

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 - 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.

2:30PM - 5:15PM

ADC/Footlights Pantomime 2013: The Princess and the Pea

This year’s ADC/Footlights Pantomime brings together comedy, music and drama for a night of cockle-warming, rib-tickling, souffle-rising Christmas fun."

5:00PM - 6:00PM

Economics was useless during the financial crisis. What can be done?

The dominant paradigm in macroeconomic theory over the past 30 years has been that of rational agents making optimal decisions under the assumption that they form their expectations about the future rationally.

7:00PM - 9:00PM

Can you believe your eyes?

Our sense of vision is important to our lives, but what if it is damaged or changed? Come and join us for a night of altered perceptions and visual illusions to find out about our amazing sense of vision.

7:45PM - 10:30PM

ADC/Footlights Pantomime 2013: The Princess and the Pea

This year’s ADC/Footlights Pantomime brings together comedy, music and drama for a night of cockle-warming, rib-tickling, souffle-rising Christmas fun."

8:00PM - 10:00PM

CUWO and CUPE perform Bernstein and Copland

Programme includes: CUWO (conducted by Benedict Collins-Rice): Bernstein - Candide Overture Copland - Quiet City Copland - An Outdoor Overture Hindemith - Symphony in B-flat CUPE: Siegfried Fink - Zulu Welcome Jim Casella - Katraterra

8:00PM - 10:00PM

Heath string quartet

Schubert, Tippet and Beethoven

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.

11:00PM - 11:59PM

Gender the Elephant

Inspired by the writing of Jim Jarmusch (Coffee and Cigarettes) and Richard Cameron (Can't Stand Up For Falling Down), as well as the work of feminist artists Claude Cahun, Jenny Saville, and Caryl Churchill (Top Girls), this one-woman play takes you on the peculiar journey of Bess and Bobby."

Fri 29 November 2013 8:00AM - 5:00PM

Autumn in Cambridge

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

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Photographs of cultural heritage by Gwil Owen

A rare opportunity to witness a collection of striking and informative images from the world of Archaeology and Anthropology

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 Edmund de Waal: on white – porcelain stories from the Fitzwilliam

Come and experience the visual drama of the intervention that renowned potter and Cambridge graduate, Edmund de Waal, has staged in four interconnected ground-floor galleries of the Museum.

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 - 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.

7:45PM - 10:30PM

ADC/Footlights Pantomime 2013: The Princess and the Pea

This year’s ADC/Footlights Pantomime brings together comedy, music and drama for a night of cockle-warming, rib-tickling, souffle-rising Christmas fun."

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.

11:00PM - 11:59PM

Gender the Elephant

Inspired by the writing of Jim Jarmusch (Coffee and Cigarettes) and Richard Cameron (Can't Stand Up For Falling Down), as well as the work of feminist artists Claude Cahun, Jenny Saville, and Caryl Churchill (Top Girls), this one-woman play takes you on the peculiar journey of Bess and Bobby."

Sat 30 November 2013 8:00AM - 5:00PM

Autumn in Cambridge

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

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

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.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Edmund de Waal: on white – porcelain stories from the Fitzwilliam

Come and experience the visual drama of the intervention that renowned potter and Cambridge graduate, Edmund de Waal, has staged in four interconnected ground-floor galleries of the Museum.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Perception

The Cambridge Science Centre presents an extraordinary sensory experience. The new exhibition, Perception, will use illusions to uncover how our senses and brain work and the tricks your brain uses to make sense of the world.

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 - 3:30PM

Highlight Antarctica day

The Polar Museum celebrated Antarctica Day!

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.

11:45AM - 1:45PM

Creative writing course

Creative Writing Course run by Sophie Smiley

1:00PM - 2:00PM

Free lunchtime concert

Canita Tuba! Sounds the Trumpet

2:30PM - 5:15PM

ADC/Footlights Pantomime 2013: The Princess and the Pea

This year’s ADC/Footlights Pantomime brings together comedy, music and drama for a night of cockle-warming, rib-tickling, souffle-rising Christmas fun."

7:45PM - 10:30PM

ADC/Footlights Pantomime 2013: The Princess and the Pea

This year’s ADC/Footlights Pantomime brings together comedy, music and drama for a night of cockle-warming, rib-tickling, souffle-rising Christmas fun."

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.

Sun 1 December 2013 8:00AM - 5:00PM

Autumn in Cambridge

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

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.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Perception

The Cambridge Science Centre presents an extraordinary sensory experience. The new exhibition, Perception, will use illusions to uncover how our senses and brain work and the tricks your brain uses to make sense of the world.

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.

12:00PM - 5:00PM

Highlight Edmund de Waal: on white – porcelain stories from the Fitzwilliam

Come and experience the visual drama of the intervention that renowned potter and Cambridge graduate, Edmund de Waal, has staged in four interconnected ground-floor galleries of the Museum.

12:00PM - 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.

1:15PM - 2:00PM

Instrumental award holders for chamber music

Enjoy a classical concert in the beautiful surroundings of Gallery 3 at the Fitzwilliam Museum

4:00PM - 6:00PM

Memorial celebration

Annual Worlds Aids Day