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Tue 18 February 2020 9:00AM - 5:00PM

Wordsworth at 250 Cancelled

This event has been cancelled.

9:00AM - 7:00PM

Beating Time: A Conversation Between Painting and Poetry

An exhibition by Sandra Becarelli, Miranda Boulton, Alison Critchlow and Una d'Aragona

10:00AM - 4:00PM

Walking on Thin Ice Cancelled

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10:00AM - 5:00PM

FEAST & FAST: The art of food in Europe, 1500 –1800 Cancelled

This event has been cancelled.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Inspire Cancelled

This event has been cancelled.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Lines of Site: The Parthenon Frieze Cancelled

This event has been cancelled.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Rembrandt and the Nude

Rembrandt made etchings of female nudes during two distinct periods of his career: in the 1630s, and another two decades later. This exhibition draws attention to the beauty and power of Rembrandt’s treatment of the female form, despite attacks received from critics of the time.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Sharpening Perceptions Cancelled

This event has been cancelled.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Creative Connections: Portraits of Women Scientists and Artists

An exhibition of photographic portraits of female scientists and artists.

12:30PM - 2:00PM

Consciousness, Intention, Final Causality and the Desire for God

Seminar talk given by Prof. Simon Oliver

1:10PM - 2:00PM

Lunchtime Concert Series: Cambridge University Instrumental Award Scheme

Performances by musicians from the Cambridge University Instrumental Award Scheme.

5:00PM - 6:00PM

Dr Nicholas Penny, Slade Lectures in Fine Art 2020

Avatars of Antiquity: Premise and Practice in European Painting and Sculpture 1500-2000

5:30PM - 7:00PM

Federal Indifference: Sexuality, the State, and Social Reform during the early HIV/AIDS Crisis

Lecture by Stephen Colbrook (University College London) as part of the Churchill History Lecture Series. This lecture examines the interaction between HIV/AIDS and state policymaking in the US between the early 1980s and mid-1990s.

5:30PM - 7:00PM

Fighting Federal Indifference: Sexuality, the State, and Social Reform during the early HIV/AIDS Crisis

Stephen Colbrook, PhD candidate at UCL, will give this talk as part of the Churchill History Lecture Series

6:00PM - 7:00PM

Oon Lecture, Structure-based drug design using Electron Cryomicroscopy, by Richard Henderson

Downing College hosts the 12th Oon Lecture, this year given by Dr Richard Henderson, CH FRS and Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry. Tuesday 18 February at 6 pm in the Howard Theatre, Downing College.

7:00PM - 8:30PM

Highlight Café Sci Cambridge: The Genetics of Depression

Join Dr David Howard, Kings College London, for a brief overview of the history of human genetics with a focus on the research conducted around depression.

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