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Mon 17 February 2014 8:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Exhibition: humour in colour

Yunoki Textiles, Curated by Miles Dodd

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Exhibition by Roeland Verhallen and Ash Summers

Exhibitions by Roeland Verhallen and Ash Summers at the Alison Richard Building.

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 - 9:00PM

e-luminate Festival

A festival of light, illuminating the city's historic architecture and latest technology.

10:00AM - 4:30PM

February orchid festival

The exotic allure of the tropical orchid will take centre stage in a special display in the Botanic Garden's Glasshouse Range.

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

Romeinaround

This exhibition of contemporary photography by visual artist Robert Richardson turns the lens not on the monuments of Rome but on the tourists and locals who people the city's winding streets.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Marilyn Johns

The small selection of paintings exhibited here have been chosen by Marilyn Johns because they incorporate images and allusions that reflect a lifetime's association with the art of Italy.

12:30PM - 1:30PM

Mapping the post-oedipal landscape in feminist and gender studies

Dr Victoria Browne, Department of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University will give a Multi-disciplinary Gender Research Seminar.

5:00PM - 6:00PM

Producing Islamic reform: media practices and the construction of religious authority in Niger

Part of the Centre of African Studies Lent term seminar series: Media and Intellectual Productions in Africa's Pasts and Presents

Tue 18 February 2014 Times TBC

Highlight Conspiracy and democracy film series: rosemary’s baby (1968)

There will be a screening of the film with an introduction by Dr Michael Newton (Universiet Leiden)

8:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Exhibition: humour in colour

Yunoki Textiles, Curated by Miles Dodd

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Exhibition by Roeland Verhallen and Ash Summers

Exhibitions by Roeland Verhallen and Ash Summers at the Alison Richard Building.

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 - 9:00PM

e-luminate Festival

A festival of light, illuminating the city's historic architecture and latest technology.

10:00AM - 4:30PM

February orchid festival

The exotic allure of the tropical orchid will take centre stage in a special display in the Botanic Garden's Glasshouse Range.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight A world of private mystery: John Craxton, RA (1922 -2009)

A fresh retrospective on John Craxton - from his beginnings as a young hope of post-war British art, creating dark, meditative images of the natural world, to works of incredible vibrancy, light and colour from his later life in Crete.

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

From root to tip: Botanical art in Britain

This exhibition brings together a selection of watercolours from the Fitzwilliam’s outstanding collection of botanical art. It draws on over 300 years of work by both professional and amateur artists, tracing a history of flower drawing in Britain.

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

Romeinaround

This exhibition of contemporary photography by visual artist Robert Richardson turns the lens not on the monuments of Rome but on the tourists and locals who people the city's winding streets.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Marilyn Johns

The small selection of paintings exhibited here have been chosen by Marilyn Johns because they incorporate images and allusions that reflect a lifetime's association with the art of Italy.

10:15AM - 4:00PM

Source

One-to-one advice, gallery tours and studio space for students preparing for art exams, in particular GCSE and A Level.

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

1:00PM - 2:00PM

'Infanticide on demand: why should the baby live? medical ethics for children

This talk given by Dr Richard Hain [University of South Wales] suggests the practice of palliative medicine in children makes complex moral demands on the clinician. To behave with integrity, a doctor must be guided both by what is scientifically correct and what is ethically right. The two make quite different demands, however, on the moral agent.

5:00PM

Slade lectures in fine art 2013-2014

The 2013-2014 Slade Lectures will be given in the Lent Term by Professor Jessica Rawson, Professor of Chinese Art and Archaeology.

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 19 February 2014 8:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Exhibition: humour in colour

Yunoki Textiles, Curated by Miles Dodd

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Exhibition by Roeland Verhallen and Ash Summers

Exhibitions by Roeland Verhallen and Ash Summers at the Alison Richard Building.

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 - 9:00PM

e-luminate Festival

A festival of light, illuminating the city's historic architecture and latest technology.

10:00AM - 4:30PM

February orchid festival

The exotic allure of the tropical orchid will take centre stage in a special display in the Botanic Garden's Glasshouse Range.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight A world of private mystery: John Craxton, RA (1922 -2009)

A fresh retrospective on John Craxton - from his beginnings as a young hope of post-war British art, creating dark, meditative images of the natural world, to works of incredible vibrancy, light and colour from his later life in Crete.

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

From root to tip: Botanical art in Britain

This exhibition brings together a selection of watercolours from the Fitzwilliam’s outstanding collection of botanical art. It draws on over 300 years of work by both professional and amateur artists, tracing a history of flower drawing in Britain.

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

Romeinaround

This exhibition of contemporary photography by visual artist Robert Richardson turns the lens not on the monuments of Rome but on the tourists and locals who people the city's winding streets.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Marilyn Johns

The small selection of paintings exhibited here have been chosen by Marilyn Johns because they incorporate images and allusions that reflect a lifetime's association with the art of Italy.

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

12:00PM - 4:00PM

Drawing together - antiquities: creatures from the ancient world

Drop-in and draw at the Museum with activities available from the Fitz Family Welcome Family Point.

2:15PM - 5:00PM

Israeli film club

All films are in Hebrew with English sub-titles.

4:30PM - 8:30PM

Twilight at the Museums

Perception - Explore your Senses: Come along and use illusions to uncover how your senses and brain work together to understand the world around us. Test how well your senses work in the twilight through our special demonstrations.

4:30PM - 8:30PM

Twilight at the Museums. Botanic Garden

Darkness and Deception

4:30PM - 8:30PM

Twilight at the Museums. Cambridge Museum of Technology

Contrasts – A Photography Workshop:

4:30PM - 8:30PM

Twilight at the Museums. Cambridge Science Centre

Perception - Explore your Senses

4:30PM - 8:30PM

Twilight at the Museums. Farmland Museum & Denny Abbey

Light and Shade at Denny

4:30PM - 8:30PM

Twilight at the Museums. Kettle's Yard

Light Source

4:30PM - 8:30PM

Twilight at the Museums. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Explorer Bingo!

4:30PM - 8:30PM

Twilight at the Museums. Museum of Classical Archaeology

Treasures by Torchlight

4:30PM - 8:30PM

Twilight at the Museums. Polar Museum

Icily Done

4:30PM - 8:30PM

Twilight at the Museums. Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences

Discover the museum by torch light...

4:30PM - 8:30PM

Twilight at the Museums. The Museum of Cambridge (formerly the Folk Museum)

Be our Guest! Art workshop

4:30PM - 8:30PM

Twilight at the Museums. The Whipple Museum

Natural World Torch-lit Trail

5:00PM - 6:00PM

The Marshall lectures 2013-2014 - Professor Alvin Roth

Professor Alvin Roth (Stanford and Harvard University) will deliver two lectures for the Faculty of Economics annual Marshall Lectures.

5:00PM - 6:15PM

Adam Phillips: becoming freud: the psychoanalyst and the biographer. lecture 1

Trinity College Clark Lectures 2014

5:30PM

Cambridge poets and their papers

A talk organised by the Friends of Cambridge University Library.

6:00PM - 7:00PM

The Arcadian quartet & Ekaterina Chernyakova concert

The Arcadian Quartet and Ekaterina Chernyakova will be performing Robert Schumann’s Piano Quintet Op. 44.

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

Public open evenings at the Institute of Astronomy

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

Thu 20 February 2014 8:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Exhibition: humour in colour

Yunoki Textiles, Curated by Miles Dodd

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Exhibition by Roeland Verhallen and Ash Summers

Exhibitions by Roeland Verhallen and Ash Summers at the Alison Richard Building.

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 - 9:00PM

e-luminate Festival

A festival of light, illuminating the city's historic architecture and latest technology.

10:00AM - 4:30PM

February orchid festival

The exotic allure of the tropical orchid will take centre stage in a special display in the Botanic Garden's Glasshouse Range.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight A world of private mystery: John Craxton, RA (1922 -2009)

A fresh retrospective on John Craxton - from his beginnings as a young hope of post-war British art, creating dark, meditative images of the natural world, to works of incredible vibrancy, light and colour from his later life in Crete.

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

From root to tip: Botanical art in Britain

This exhibition brings together a selection of watercolours from the Fitzwilliam’s outstanding collection of botanical art. It draws on over 300 years of work by both professional and amateur artists, tracing a history of flower drawing in Britain.

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

Romeinaround

This exhibition of contemporary photography by visual artist Robert Richardson turns the lens not on the monuments of Rome but on the tourists and locals who people the city's winding streets.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Marilyn Johns

The small selection of paintings exhibited here have been chosen by Marilyn Johns because they incorporate images and allusions that reflect a lifetime's association with the art of Italy.

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

2:15PM - 5:00PM

Israeli film club

All films are in Hebrew with English sub-titles.

5:00PM - 6:30PM

The Marshall lectures 2013-2014 - Professor Alvin Roth

Professor Alvin Roth (Stanford and Harvard University) will deliver two lectures for the Faculty of Economics annual Marshall Lectures.

5:00PM - 7:00PM

Talk by Professor Peter Kivy

Professor Peter Kivy, of Rutgers University, will talk on 'Joking Morality'.

6:00PM - 7:00PM

An illustrated tour through the History of the Mediterranean

A free talk by the Cavendish History Society's Professor David Abulafia, Professor of Mediterranean History, Gonville and Caius College.

7:00PM - 9:00PM

Now hear this!

Can your ears can be fooled? What happens when your hearing gets damaged? Get within ear shot of some amazing hearing illusions and researchers.

8:00PM

CUOS mainshow 2014: Don Giovanni

Cambridge University Opera Society presents their 2014 Mainshow, Mozart's Don Giovanni.

Fri 21 February 2014 8:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Exhibition: humour in colour

Yunoki Textiles, Curated by Miles Dodd

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Exhibition by Roeland Verhallen and Ash Summers

Exhibitions by Roeland Verhallen and Ash Summers at the Alison Richard Building.

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 - 9:00PM

e-luminate Festival

A festival of light, illuminating the city's historic architecture and latest technology.

10:00AM - 4:30PM

February orchid festival

The exotic allure of the tropical orchid will take centre stage in a special display in the Botanic Garden's Glasshouse Range.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight A world of private mystery: John Craxton, RA (1922 -2009)

A fresh retrospective on John Craxton - from his beginnings as a young hope of post-war British art, creating dark, meditative images of the natural world, to works of incredible vibrancy, light and colour from his later life in Crete.

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

From root to tip: Botanical art in Britain

This exhibition brings together a selection of watercolours from the Fitzwilliam’s outstanding collection of botanical art. It draws on over 300 years of work by both professional and amateur artists, tracing a history of flower drawing in Britain.

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

Romeinaround

This exhibition of contemporary photography by visual artist Robert Richardson turns the lens not on the monuments of Rome but on the tourists and locals who people the city's winding streets.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Marilyn Johns

The small selection of paintings exhibited here have been chosen by Marilyn Johns because they incorporate images and allusions that reflect a lifetime's association with the art of Italy.

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

2:15PM - 5:00PM

Israeli film club

All films are in Hebrew with English sub-titles.

5:30PM

The Darwin College lecture series Cambridge 2014: Plagues

The annual multidisciplinary series hosted by Darwin College will examine the topic “Plagues” in the broad context of a disease or calamity of proportions that cause high morbidity or mortality with lasting impact on populations. The speakers will delve into plagues of the past, present and consider future threats to all populations that inhabit the earth.

5:30PM - 6:30PM

The human plague, Professor Stephen Emmott

Darwin College Lecture Series

7:30PM - 9:30PM

Highlight Acis & Galatea

Handel's enchanting pastoral opera, Acis & Galatea, is given a fully-staged performance by Brecon Baroque and Mid Wales Opera, directed from the violin by Rachel Podger

8:00PM

CUOS mainshow 2014: Don Giovanni

Cambridge University Opera Society presents their 2014 Mainshow, Mozart's Don Giovanni.

Sat 22 February 2014 8:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Exhibition: humour in colour

Yunoki Textiles, Curated by Miles Dodd

9:00AM - 9:00PM

e-luminate Festival

A festival of light, illuminating the city's historic architecture and latest technology.

10:00AM - 4:30PM

February orchid festival

The exotic allure of the tropical orchid will take centre stage in a special display in the Botanic Garden's Glasshouse Range.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight A world of private mystery: John Craxton, RA (1922 -2009)

A fresh retrospective on John Craxton - from his beginnings as a young hope of post-war British art, creating dark, meditative images of the natural world, to works of incredible vibrancy, light and colour from his later life in Crete.

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

From root to tip: Botanical art in Britain

This exhibition brings together a selection of watercolours from the Fitzwilliam’s outstanding collection of botanical art. It draws on over 300 years of work by both professional and amateur artists, tracing a history of flower drawing in Britain.

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

Marilyn Johns

The small selection of paintings exhibited here have been chosen by Marilyn Johns because they incorporate images and allusions that reflect a lifetime's association with the art of Italy.

10:15AM - 4:00PM

Source

One-to-one advice, gallery tours and studio space for students preparing for art exams, in particular GCSE and A Level.

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

2:00PM

CUOS mainshow 2014: Don Giovanni

Cambridge University Opera Society presents their 2014 Mainshow, Mozart's Don Giovanni.

2:00PM

Poussin, paint and perception

A lunchtime talk at the Fitzwilliam Museum with Helen Glanville, Research Associate Hamilton Kerr Institute.

2:15PM - 5:00PM

Israeli film club

All films are in Hebrew with English sub-titles.

8:00PM

CUOS mainshow 2014: Don Giovanni

Cambridge University Opera Society presents their 2014 Mainshow, Mozart's Don Giovanni.

Sun 23 February 2014 9:00AM - 9:00PM

e-luminate Festival

A festival of light, illuminating the city's historic architecture and latest technology.

10:00AM - 4:30PM

February orchid festival

The exotic allure of the tropical orchid will take centre stage in a special display in the Botanic Garden's Glasshouse Range.

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.

10:15AM - 4:00PM

Source

One-to-one advice, gallery tours and studio space for students preparing for art exams, in particular GCSE and A Level.

12:00PM - 5:00PM

Highlight A world of private mystery: John Craxton, RA (1922 -2009)

A fresh retrospective on John Craxton - from his beginnings as a young hope of post-war British art, creating dark, meditative images of the natural world, to works of incredible vibrancy, light and colour from his later life in Crete.

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

From root to tip: Botanical art in Britain

This exhibition brings together a selection of watercolours from the Fitzwilliam’s outstanding collection of botanical art. It draws on over 300 years of work by both professional and amateur artists, tracing a history of flower drawing in Britain.

1:15PM - 2:00PM

The French salon

The Edelmann Trio. Rachel Stroud (baroque violin), Guillermo (Turina baroque cello) and Lucie de Saint Vincent (fortepiano) perform pieces by Beethoven and Onslow.

2:15PM - 5:00PM

Israeli film club

All films are in Hebrew with English sub-titles.

2:30PM - 3:30PM

Highlight Vocal music by Britten and others

Alexander Simpson (countertenor), Kieran Brunt (tenor) and Tim Watts (piano) perform music by Britten (Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac, Op.51) and others, in this free afternoon concert at Madingley Hall.

4:00PM - 6:00PM

Concert - the Golgfield ensemble

A Sunday afternoon concert celebrating English Chamber music; 40 years, from the familiar to the unknown.

6:00PM - 6:25PM

Organ recital

Organ recital to be performed by Charlie Hubbard (Organ Student, Trinity Hall)

8:00PM - 10:00PM

Highlight CUMS Chorus performs Handel, Rameau and Bach

Handel Dixit Dominus Rameau Quam Dilecta J S Bach Cantata 196 CUMS Chorus Orchestral Score Ralph Woodward conductor Rachel Ambrose Evans soprano Camilla Seale soprano Helen Charlston mezzo-soprano SJ Senanayake tenor Michael Mofidian bass