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Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term
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An informal lunchtime seminar series is held in Wolfson College most Wednesdays of full term. The series is designed to enable and encourage junior members of Wolfson College to speak in an informal setting about their past and/or current research. College visitors and other college members are also encouraged to participate and give talks. Participants can bring in their trays and have lunch during the talks, and we encourage friendly debate over complimentary coffee and biscuits. Seminar topics are invited across all academic disciplines. College members who are interested in presenting and or in helping the lunchtime team with the organisation, planning and chairing of sessions can email the current organisers at wolfson-lts@lists.cam.ac.uk If you know somebody who might be interested to give a talk or if you are interested yourself please fill the following form and we will get back to you as soon as possible: http://goo.gl/80WMF If you have a question about this list, please contact: DJ Goode; Dr Marie Kent; Graham Allen; fg319. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser. 0 upcoming talks and 196 talks in the archive. Systems for Big Data Applications:Revolutionising personal computingNoa Zilberman, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Computer Science Department / Wolfson College JRF. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 07 March 2018, 13:00-14:00 Finding the past: Medieval Coin Finds at the Fitzwilliam MuseumMartin Allen, Senior Assistant Keeper, the Fitzwilliam Museum. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 28 February 2018, 13:00-14:00 Rather more than Thirty-Nine Steps: the life of John BuchanUrsula Buchan, journalist and author. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 21 February 2018, 13:00-14:00 Parkinson's Rehabilitation using interactive Dance TechnologyMatthew Woolhouse, Associate Professor, McMaster University. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 14 February 2018, 13:00-14:00 Roland the HeroJohn DuVal, James E. and Ellen Wadley Roper Professor, University of Arkansas. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 07 February 2018, 13:00-14:00 The first Geological Chronology of Ancient Egypt and the antiquity of Man,1847-63Meira Gold, PhD student, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 31 January 2018, 13:00-14:00 Are our genes to blame when our jeans don't fit?Giles Yeo, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 24 January 2018, 13:00-14:00 'Cambridge University, Past and Present'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr B D Cox, Praelector, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 22 November 2017, 13:00-14:00 'Ways of Reading, Looking, and Imagining: Contemporary Fiction and Its Optics'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Diane Leblond, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, Lectrice at Gonville & Caius College.. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 15 November 2017, 13:00-14:00 'The Japanese Mingei Movement and the art of Katazome'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Miles Dodd, MA (Oxon), Emeritus Professor Nihon University, Tokyo . Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 08 November 2017, 13:00-14:00 'Honouring Giulio Regeni: a plea for research in risky environments'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Hugo Leal, CRASSH Researcher - 'Conspiracy and Democracy'; College Research Associate Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 01 November 2017, 13:00-14:00 'Cryptocurrency and BLOCKCHAIN – PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Garrick Hileman, Senior Research Associate, Wolfson College, Judge Business School. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 18 October 2017, 13:00-14:00 'Walking through Language – Building Memory Palaces in Virtual Reality'THis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Aaron Ralby, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 11 October 2017, 13:00-14:00 'Education, Spaces, Meanings: A Cultural Political Economy Account of the Role of Higher Education in Building Regions in Latin America'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Aliandra Lazzari Barlete, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 21 June 2017, 13:00-14:00 'Finance, Power and Globalisation: German Bankers and the Rise of International Banking in China (1885-1919)'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Ghassan Moazzin, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 14 June 2017, 13:00-14:00 'I have sought to serve German art with all my strength': Impressionism and Foreign Cultural Policy in Weimar Germany, 1918-1933This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Mary-Ann Middelkoop, Junior Research Fellow Wolfson College; PhD Candidate in the Faculty of History.. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 07 June 2017, 13:00-14:00 '"Chantez la vie, l'amour, et la mort": the French 'chanson' in context'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Henri Schmitt, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 31 May 2017, 13:00-14:00 ‘The Right to do what one wants’: Ancient democratic conception of freedom and its reception in Plato and the StoicsThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Bernard Collette, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College Professeur agrégé, Faculté de philosophie, Université Laval. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 24 May 2017, 13:00-14:00 'Partisanship, petitioning, and deliberation in British politics, c. 1689-1750'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Philip Loft, College Research Associate, Wolfson College; British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of History. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 10 May 2017, 13:00-14:00 'Poetry and memory: investigating the value of the memorised poem'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Debbie Pullinger, Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 03 May 2017, 13:00-14:00 'Riverscapes of the Amazonian Wauja people'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Christopher Ball, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA and Visiting Research to Dept of Anthropology and Wolfson College.. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 15 March 2017, 13:00-14:00 'Are the dons still a self-governing community of Scholars?'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Graham Allen, Vice-President of Wolfson, and former Academic Secretary of the University of Cambridge . Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 08 March 2017, 13:00-14:00 'Courts, Constitution and Democracy in Bangladesh'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Adeeba Aziz Khan, Centre of South Asian Studies and Junior Research Fellow Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 01 March 2017, 13:00-14:00 '"All that is solid melts into air": Burne-Jones and the Matter of History'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Alison Syme, Associate Professor of Modern Art History, University of Toronto. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 22 February 2017, 13:00-14:00 'Whoah! We're going to Ibiza!' Know your rights as an air travelerThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Marianne Hundahl Frandsen, PhD Fellow, Aalborg University, Visiting Student, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge and Wolfson College . Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 08 February 2017, 13:00-14:00 'Chasing Cuckoos'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Toby Smith, Senior Member, Wolfson College and Artist in Residence 2015/2016 at the University of Cambridge Conservation Institute. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 01 February 2017, 13:00-14:00 'Anything but Idle: Reading and Editing the Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr R L Abrahamson, Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland University College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 25 January 2017, 13:00-14:00 'Editing Shakespeare in Translation'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Julia Paraizs, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College and Junior Research Fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 30 November 2016, 13:00-14:00 'Big Cats and the City: building evidence against out-of-place beasts in India'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Nayanika Mathur, British Academy postdoctoral fellow and postdoctoral research fellow on the project 'Conspiracy and Democracy: History, Political Theory and Internet Research'. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 23 November 2016, 13:00-14:00 'The afterlives of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery; or, 'excavating' in the archives'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Corinne Duhig, Panel Tutor for the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education; Senior Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research; College Research Associate, Wolfson College Cambridge. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 16 November 2016, 13:00-14:00 'There should be a Kettle's Yard in every university'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Frieda Midgley, Archivist, Kettle's Yard and Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 09 November 2016, 13:00-14:00 'The Influence of Flavius Josephus upon Christian Art'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Professor Gohei Hata, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College and Professor (retired) of Tama Art University, Japan. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 02 November 2016, 13:00-14:00 'Between Perversity and 'Good Practice': Same-sex Schoolgirl Intimacy in Colonial Korea'this talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Samuel Perry, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College and Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at Brown University. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 26 October 2016, 13:00-14:00 'Remembering the Gold Era: the hidden heritage of Central Otago’s gold rush'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Lloyd Carpenter, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College and Lecturer in Māori Studies, Lincoln University, New Zealand . Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 19 October 2016, 13:00-14:00 Can Journalism keep up with the Kardashians?This talk is open to the public and may be podcast. This is a talk postponed from earlier in the term. Shayne Currie, Managing Editor of the 'New Zealand Herald' and Visiting Press Fellow, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 15 June 2016, 13:00-14:00 Gowns, squares, and bulldogs: Proctors and Constables in the University of CambridgeThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast David Goode, Senior Proctor of the University of Cambridge, and Senior Member, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 08 June 2016, 13:00-14:00 'Migration and asylum in the UK: Catholic perspectives and contributions'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Elif Cetin, Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, Postdoctoral Researcher at The Von Hügel Institute, University of Cambridge. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 01 June 2016, 13:00-14:00 'A Brief History of Demons: Encounters with the Supernatural in Body and Soul'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Louise Wilson, Affiliated Research Scholar Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 25 May 2016, 13:00-14:00 'Hong Kong Literature after 1989: A Very Short Introduction'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Nim-yan Wong, Associate Professor Chinese University of Hong Kong; Visiting Fellow Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 18 May 2016, 13:00-14:00 "'If I were a Rich Man...' The extraordinary rise and fall of the Jewish department store entrepreneur in Germany 1881-1939'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr John F. Mueller, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 11 May 2016, 13:00-14:00 'The German Heraclitus: Exploring the esoteric habitus of Oswald Spengler'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Andrew Presti, PhD candidate, Wolfson College and Department of German and Dutch. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 04 May 2016, 13:00-14:00 'The Significance of Design: how design can change your future'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Jayné Franck, PhD Candidate, Institute for Manufacturing, Engineering, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 27 April 2016, 13:00-14:00 "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Early Jesuit Engagement with the Qur'an."This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Paul Shore, Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies University of Regina and Visiting College Research Associate at Wolfson. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 09 March 2016, 13:00-14:00 'The River Ganges running red: reversing the divine'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Cleo Roberts, Visiting Research Associate, Wolfson College and Visiting student at the centre of South Asian studies. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 02 March 2016, 13:00-14:00 'Cultural Narratives of Dementia and Care in Post-War Japan'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Katsura Sako, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College Associate Professor, Keio University (Japan). Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 24 February 2016, 13:00-14:00 "Oriental Plague": Sinophobias ComparedThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Christos Lynteris, Senior Research Associate/ERC PI, CRASSH . Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 17 February 2016, 13:00-14:00 'Tuna, Geopolitics and the Indian Ocean'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Colin Barnes, POLIS and Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 10 February 2016, 13:00-14:00 A Fossil Feast: 31 December 1853, Sydenham Park, LondonThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Becky Lewis, Assistant Professor Emerita University of South Carolina; Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 03 February 2016, 13:00-14:00 'Humanitarian Action in Armed Conflict'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Thomas Forster, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College, International Law.. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 27 January 2016, 13:00-14:00 Social Media, African Chiefs and New Experiments in Public Administration in KenyaThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr. Duncan Omanga, Centre for African Studies and Wolfson Visiting Fellow 2015/16 . Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 20 January 2016, 13:00-14:00 'Making Sense of Assassinations'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Andrew McKenzie-McHarg, postdoctoral research fellow at CRASSH, . Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 02 December 2015, 13:00-14:00 ‘Ted Hughes: Ecopoet and Environmentalist’This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Yvonne Reddick, University of Central Lancashire and Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College. . Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 25 November 2015, 13:00-14:00 "Curriculum confrontation: the perils of reviewing upper secondary education in the European Schools"This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Sandra Leaton Gray, Senior Lecturer, UCL Institute of Education and Senior Member, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 18 November 2015, 13:00-14:00 "English medieval romance in the age of print"This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Jordi Sanchez Marti, Visiting College Research Associate, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 11 November 2015, 13:00-14:00 "Approaching William Blake's Fourfold Vision through Cognitive Theory and Enlightenment Philosophy"This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Siri Vevle, PhD Candidate at University of Bergen and Visiting Scholar Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 04 November 2015, 13:00-14:00 "A question of temperament": Identifying Musical TonesThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Dan Tidhar, College Research Associate, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 28 October 2015, 13:00-14:00 "How Britain missed its chance to bring democracy to Libya"This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Richard Synge, Senior Member, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 21 October 2015, 13:00-14:00 "Mixed feelings. Norwegian attitudes to the Britons, 1814-1914."This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Professor Roald Berg, University of Stavanger and Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 14 October 2015, 13:00-14:00 Creation, Collaboration, Contemplation: Academic Libraries and the Digital RevolutionThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Meg Westbury, Librarian, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 10 June 2015, 13:00-14:00 Living Conditions in Ancient Egyptian Settlements and the Place occupied by the Non-Elite PopulationThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Delphine Driaux, Fernand Braudel-IFER Post-doctoral Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Wolfon College Visiting Scholar. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 03 June 2015, 13:00-14:00 What is going on in Portugal? A Critical Reflection of the Political Consequences of AusterityThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Tiago Carvalho, Ph.D. Candidate, Wolfson College and Department of Sociology. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 27 May 2015, 13:00-14:00 Trust and Power in the Art Market: A Machiavellian World?"This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr. Anna Dempster, CRA Wolfson College, Cambridge. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 20 May 2015, 13:00-14:00 Aron’s political antinomies and the constitution of international order.This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Vítor Ramon-Fernandes Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Lusíada University of Lisbon and Visiting Fellow Wolfson College . Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 13 May 2015, 13:00-14:00 John Clare: The Nature of WritingThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Hetty Saunders, M.Phil student, Wolfson College, Cambridge. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 06 May 2015, 13:00-14:00 Rock legends: naming planetsPaul Murdin, Wolfson College and Institute of Astronomy. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 29 April 2015, 13:00-14:00 Rock legends: naming planetsPaul Murdin, Wolfson College and Institute of Astronomy. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 29 April 2015, 13:00-14:00 Experiences of a female lawyer in KuwaitMs Bashayer Al Majed, Ph.D Student, Faculty of Law, University of Leeds. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 22 April 2015, 13:00-14:00 Paradise Lost? How the Internet has changedThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast John Naughton, Vice-president of Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 11 March 2015, 13:00-14:00 How to read the Confessions of AugustineThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Catherine Conybeare Professor of Classics, Bryn Mawr College Visiting Fellow, CRASSH, University of Cambridge . Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 04 March 2015, 13:00-14:00 Ancient Historians in Context: The Curious Case of DiodorusThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Charles Muntz, Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 25 February 2015, 13:00-14:00 The Fitzwilliam Museum: A Short HistoryThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Margaret Greeves, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 18 February 2015, 13:00-14:00 Aesthetics as Intrinsic to Sustainable Design: Architectural Education Projects From Around the WorldThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Marga Jann, RIBA, AIA, DPUC, Chartered Architect, Member Lucy Cavendish College & Wolfson College (FMR Visiting Fellow LCC), Visiting Researcher Sociology Dept . Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 11 February 2015, 13:00-14:00 Picturing Identities: A Participatory Visual Project with Young Italian migrants to the UKAnna Bagnoli, Fellow and Tutor at Wolson College, Associate Researcher at Sociology Department. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 04 February 2015, 13:00-14:00 When Britons were slaves: Barbary slavery and its consequencesJustin Meggitt, University Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religion, Institute of Continuing Education, Fellow of Wolfson. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 28 January 2015, 13:00-14:00 The Honour of Sharing : the Sharing of HonourAdriana Alexander, B.A., PGCert, DPSI - Independent Researcher. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 21 January 2015, 13:00-14:00 ‘Triumph of the Real: From The Communist Manifesto to Jason Bourne’Dr David Hickman - Senior lecturer in film & television production Department of Theatre, Film & Television University of York and VF Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 03 December 2014, 13:00-14:00 Wild Animal Skins in Victorian Britain: The Belle Vue Zoo, ManchesterProfessor Ann Colley, SUNY Distinguished Professor, Dept. of English. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 26 November 2014, 13:00-14:00 Ancient Hints for a Modern Method of Studying ConsciousnessVarun Khanna - Wolfson College member, PhD student in Consciousness. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 19 November 2014, 13:00-14:00 General Thompson’s Enharmonic GuitarDr James Westbrook, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 12 November 2014, 13:00-14:00 Adaptations and Illustrations of Laurence Sterne’s Tristram ShandyDr Mary Newbould, Wolfson College and Bowman Supervisor in English. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 05 November 2014, 13:00-14:00 Useful Idiots: On the Democratic Virtues of Conspiracy TheoriesAlfred Moore. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 29 October 2014, 13:00-14:00 'Mount Athos; the artist's view'Markos Kampanis. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 22 October 2014, 13:00-14:00 The colonial roots of German folklore studies, 1850s-1930sDr Christof Dejung, Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and Senior Lecturer (Privatdozent) for Modern History at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 15 October 2014, 13:00-14:00 Popular Sentiment and Constitutional Problems in the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake: Self-Defense Forces, the Imperial System and DemocracyProf UMEDA Yurika. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 11 June 2014, 13:00-14:00 Forty years of foodRay Palmer, Executive Chef, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 04 June 2014, 13:00-14:00 The War Philosophers: How much were our ideas shaped by war?Mr Iain King CBE, former Fellow, Wolfson College . Combination Room, Wolfson College. Monday 02 June 2014, 13:00-14:00 "The Role of Creative Nonfiction and Literary Journalism in the American Literary Academy."Howard Wolf. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 28 May 2014, 13:00-14:00 Stopped transit. Eastern European Jews in Weimar BerlinAnne-Christin Sass, Visiting Fellow,Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 21 May 2014, 13:00-14:00 The Roman tradition and the rebirth of public powers in EuropeSpyridon Flogaitis, Visiting Professor, Wolfson College; Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science (Lent and Easter Terms 2013). Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 14 May 2014, 13:00-14:00 Do Chinese Fathers Say the L Word?Xuan Li, PhD candidate, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 07 May 2014, 13:00-14:00 The science of horror: post-traumatic stress in children and adolescentsRichard Meiser-Stedman, Clinical Psychologist & MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 12 March 2014, 13:00-14:00 Archaeology and the trade of the port of Suakin, SudanLaurence Smith, Wolfson CRA and Library Assistant; Research Fellow, McDonald Institute. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 05 March 2014, 13:00-14:00 Reforming teaching: a social cognitive perspectiveSteven Watson, University lecturer in Mathematics Education, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, member of Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 26 February 2014, 13:00-14:00 Helmut Schmidt, Harold Wilson, and the British Renegotiation of EC-Membership, 1974-5Mathias Haeussler, PhD student, Robinson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 19 February 2014, 13:00-14:00 Societies in Orbit: Historicizing the European Space Age, 1942-1972Alexander Geppert, Emmy Noether Research Group Director Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut Freie Universität Berlin". Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 12 February 2014, 13:00-14:00 The memories of a village in the Revolution: Las Terrazas (Cuba)Nicholas Williams. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 05 February 2014, 13:00-14:00 Tudor Renaissance Monuments Deconstructed and Reconstructed: 3D Laser scanning and the Tombs of the Dukes of NorfolkPhilip Lindley, Reader in History of Art, Univ of Leicester. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 29 January 2014, 13:00-14:00 Radical Sisters: Four Victorian WomenCharles Jones, Emeritus Reader in International Relations, Department of Politics and International Studies; Emeritus Fellow, Wolfson College; Director, Centre of Latin American Studies. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 22 January 2014, 13:00-14:00 To Be or Not to Be: British Approaches towards Europe in the Postwar WorldBenjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon, Associate Professor of History, University of Arkansas, and Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 04 December 2013, 13:00-14:00 Libya's post-Qadhafi Fissures: Federalists, Islamists, Berbers and the MilitiasJason Pack Ph.D. Student; Faculty of History. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 27 November 2013, 13:00-14:00 Legacies of Forced Migration: Attending to History and DiscourseStephen Ahern, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College (2013-14); Professor of English, Acadia University, Canada. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 20 November 2013, 13:00-14:00 The role of popular Islam in SudanShadia Taha, Member of Wolfson College, Visiting Scholar McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 13 November 2013, 13:00-14:00 The quest to conceive: How intended parents navigate the new reproductive technologiesKathleen Hammond, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 06 November 2013, 13:00-14:00 Reforming Law to deal with banking crisesValia Babis, Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 30 October 2013, 13:00-14:00 Smile when Suffering: Cartoons from the Trenches, 1914-18Professor Jane Chapman. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 23 October 2013, 13:00-14:00 The joy of gardeningPhil Stigwood, Head Gardener, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 16 October 2013, 13:00-14:00 The Love Market: How Shopping for Dates Online Affects WomenZoe Strimpel, MPhil Candidate, Department of Geography, Gender Studies; Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 12 June 2013, 13:00-14:00 Scientific Approaches to Musical ImprovisationAndrew Goldman, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Music, Centre for Music & Science; Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 05 June 2013, 13:00-14:00 Is French Law Different from English Law?Dr Ramu de Bellescize, Wolfson College Visiting Scholar; Reader at the University of Rouen, Faculty of Law; Lawyer, Paris. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 29 May 2013, 13:00-14:00 Roald Amundsen, the Attainment of the South Pole, and the End of the Age of DiscoveryMr Roland Huntford, Wolfson College. Old Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 22 May 2013, 13:00-14:00 Derek Mahon's 'Museum Without Walls'Dr Karen E Brown, IRCHSS CARA Postdoctoral Mobility Research Fellow, Trinity College, Dublin & University of Cambridge. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 15 May 2013, 13:00-14:00 BerlusconItaly's Immor(t)alityDr Georg Schedereit, Wolfson Press Fellow 2012, Broadcaster and Commentator at RAI Sender Bozen (South Tyrol/Italy). Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 08 May 2013, 13:00-14:00 An Evening with Artist Anthony GreenReception in the Combination Room from 19:00-20:30 Anthony Green & Dr Frank Whitford. Wednesday 01 May 2013, 18:00-19:00 The "Giants" of Ancient Peru: Secrets of the Moche Royal Court (AD 200-800)Trisha Biers, Division of Archaeology, PhD Candidate; Wolfson College Junior Member. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 13 March 2013, 13:00-14:00 Anglo-German Victims of The Great War: The Troublesome Case of Sir Edgar SpeyerProfessor Tony Lentin, Wolfson College Senior Member. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 06 March 2013, 13:00-14:00 Not Just Old Bones: The Birth of Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology in the UKDr Corinne Duhig, Wolfson College Research Associate; Senior Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 27 February 2013, 13:00-14:00 Witchcraft and the Rise of the First Confucian EmpireDr Liang Cai, Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas; Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 20 February 2013, 13:00-14:00 Ambassadorial Housekeeping in Paris During 1762-1763Dr Julia E Poole FSA, Senior Member of Wolfson College; Formerly Keeper of Applied Art, Fitzwilliam Museum. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 13 February 2013, 13:00-14:00 Britain, Modernity and the Change of Historical Consciousness in Korea, 1960-2000Professor Young-Suk Lee, Professor of Gwangju University and Visiting fellow at Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 06 February 2013, 13:00-14:00 Where is China’s Urbanisation Heading?Yunlian Chen. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 30 January 2013, 13:00-14:00 In the Beginning (Almost) was University College: Cambridge's New Graduate Colleges in the 1960sDr Gordon Johnson, Former President of Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 23 January 2013, 13:00-14:00 Bernstorff ReconsideredGeorge Liebmann, Senior Academic Visitor. Council Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 21 November 2012, 13:00-14:00 Imagining the Transnational Character of "1968" - Reassessing the Importance of Global Developments in Shaping Austrian and West German ProtestorsRafael Kropiunigg, PhD student, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 14 November 2012, 13:00-14:00 Owning up to the Past: The KMT's Role in the War Against Japan and the Impact on CCP LegitimacyDr Robert Weatherley, Fellow of Robinson College, Lecturer at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 07 November 2012, 13:00-14:00 The Development of a Masculine Gender Identity during AdolescenceAllison Ujejski, PhD student. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 31 October 2012, 13:00-14:00 Polychromy? ... It’s all Greek to me!Dr Hannelore Hägele, Senior Member Wolfson College, Independent Scholar. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 24 October 2012, 13:00-14:00 Can the US and China Build Trust and Cooperative Institutions?: The Case of Global FinanceDr Michael Tai, Wolfson College Junior Member. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 17 October 2012, 13:00-14:00 Stories from a Country PracticeDr Neville Silverston, MBE FRCGP, Senior Member Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 10 October 2012, 13:00-14:00 Between Pan-Americanism and Intervention: The Quest for a Pan-American Legal Order and the Foundations of US Hegemony in the Americas, 1898-1933Juan Pablo Scarfi, PhD Candidate, Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 13 June 2012, 13:00-14:00 Is the Revisionist View of the Industrial Revolution up for Revision?Sebastian Keibek, MPhil student, Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 06 June 2012, 13:00-14:00 Understanding Multiprocessors: Science, Craft, Engineering, or Mathematics?Dr Peter Sewell, Reader in Computer Science and EPSRC Leadership Fellow, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge and Wolfson fellow. Old Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 30 May 2012, 13:00-14:00 The Poetry of Anne Stevenson: An IntroductionDr Ian Gordon, Anglia Ruskin University. Old Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 23 May 2012, 13:00-14:00 Across the Oceans: Emigration from Cumberland and Westmorland Before 1914Dr Margaret E. Shepherd, Wolfson Fellow Emerita. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 16 May 2012, 13:00-14:00 'World Needs New Tendencies in Poeting and Paintry': Representing Speed & Force in 1920s New YorkDr Michael Hrebeniak, Fellow, Admissions Tutor & Director of Studies in English, Wolfson College, Cambridge. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 09 May 2012, 13:00-14:00 Ancient Divination Text: Useful for a Modern Scholar?Dr Margaret Pearson, Professor Emerita, Skidmore College, USA. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 02 May 2012, 13:00-14:00 No Russian Spring?Sir Tony Brenton, Former British Ambassador to Russia & Governing Body Fellow, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 25 April 2012, 13:00-14:00 Christian and Manichaean Art in Medieval China (8th-14th C AD/CE)Professor Samuel N.C. Lieu, Inaugural Distinguished Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie University (Sydney); Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 14 March 2012, 13:00-14:00 Notes on the Synthesis of MusicDr Sam Aaron: Research Associate, Computer Laboratory, Digital Technology Group, University of Cambridge. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 07 March 2012, 13:00-14:00 How to Turn Your Idea into a Commercial SuccessDr Andrea Cantone, Senior Technology Associate, Cambridge Enterprise. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 29 February 2012, 13:00-14:00 The Song Remains the Same? Aesthetic, Psychological and Technical Aspects of the Audio ‘Loudness War’Dr Michael A. Stone, Auditory Perception Group, Department of Experimental Psychology. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 22 February 2012, 13:00-14:00 The Patron, the Press, the People and the Progress: A Discussion on the Media’s Response to the Duchess of Cambridge’s Choice of CharitiesMatthew Harris, Wolfson College Alumnus; Producer/Filmmaker, cambridgefilm.com. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 15 February 2012, 13:00-14:00 Close Encounters with Pakistan’s TalibanDr David L. Gosling, Life Member & Former Spalding Fellow, Clare Hall. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 08 February 2012, 13:00-14:00 From Fog to Smog: A Literary JourneyDr Christine Corton, Senior Member, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 01 February 2012, 13:00-14:00 The Importance of Cheap and Reliable Optical Sources Capable of Short Pulse and High Power GenerationVojtech Olle, PhD Student, Photonics. Old Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 23 November 2011, 13:00-14:00 Ambition and Decorum: Women's Entry into the Professions in Belle Époque FranceDr Felicia Gordon Senior Research Fellow, Anglia Ruskin University. Old Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 16 November 2011, 13:00-14:00 What Is the Gender of Passion?: Negotiating Sexuality and Sex Roles in TangoDr Emily Bernhard Jackson, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 09 November 2011, 13:00-14:00 The Environmental Impacts of London BusesUven Chong, PhD Student, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 02 November 2011, 13:00-14:00 Linnaeus and the Troglodyte: Natural History and Europe's Encounter with Human Diversity in the Eighteenth CenturyDr Christina Skott, Director of Studies in History & Tutor, Wolfson College; College Lecturer & Director of Studies in History, Magdalene College; Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of History. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 26 October 2011, 13:00-14:00 Traumatic Brain Injury: What can MRI tell us?Virginia Newcombe, Research Fellow, Wolfson College; NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Neurocritical Care, Addenbrooke's NHS Trust. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 19 October 2011, 13:00-14:00 Negative Long-Term Impact of School Bullying: Synthesizing Data from Longitudinal StudiesDr Maria M. Ttofi, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 12 October 2011, 13:00-14:00 Translating ‘In an Evil Hour You Were Valiant’ in the Song of RolandProfessor John DuVal. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 15 June 2011, 13:00-14:00 Ports and Power: Excavation a Dynastic Capital of the Indian OceanRobert Harding. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 08 June 2011, 13:00-14:00 Faster than the blink of an eye: the jump of the insectGregory Sutton. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 01 June 2011, 13:00-14:00 The Food of the Gods: the True Tale of ChocolateTrisha Biers. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 25 May 2011, 13:00-14:00 Knowledge across Borders: The Early Communication of Evolutionism in ChinaDr. Yang Haiyan, Associate Professor, Department of Medical Humanities at Peking University, Visiting Scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 18 May 2011, 13:00-14:00 Victorian Tourists and Climbers in the Alps: Sinking the SublimeAnn C. Colley, SUNY Distinguished Professor, Department of English. SUNY College at Buffalo, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 11 May 2011, 13:00-14:00 Roland and his Enemies: a look into the scholarly debate on La Chanson de Roland, 1830-1900Isabel DiVanna. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 04 May 2011, 13:00-14:00 New Research on Medieval Sino-African Relationships.Cliff Pereira, Royal Geographical Society Fellow. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 24 November 2010, 13:00-14:00 The Mummies of Puruchuco: Archaeology of an Inka Period Cemetery in Lima, Peru.Trisha Biers, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 17 November 2010, 13:00-14:00 Mapping the Jews of ByzantiumNicholas de Lange with Gethin Rees and Alexander Panayotov, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 10 November 2010, 13:00-14:00 How Big is Infinity?Olga Goulko, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 03 November 2010, 13:00-14:00 Colonial Rule in Africa: European Rivalry or a Common European Project?Alois Maderspacher, Clare College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 27 October 2010, 13:00-14:00 Quarrying for Rome: Life in the Eastern Desert of Roman Egypt.Fred Hirt, Wolfson College Visiting Fellow. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 20 October 2010, 13:00-14:00 Real Men in the Second Century: Establishing a Christian IdentityJane Mclarty, Wolfson College Senior Tutor. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 13 October 2010, 13:00-14:00 Darwinism and EnvironmentalismBrian Garvey (Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Lancaster University). Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 02 June 2010, 13:00-14:00 Ten Corrupt Practices at the Longjiang Shipyard: Management Lessons in 16th Century ChinaSally Church (Fellow, Wolfson College, Civilizations in Contact research project, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies). Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 26 May 2010, 13:00-14:00 Wall-E or Terminator? The past, present and future of Machine LearningPlease note unusual venue Zoubin Ghahramani (Professor, Department of engineering, University of Cambridge). Council Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 19 May 2010, 13:00-14:00 The Quest for RealityAdrian Kent (Fellow, Wolfson College, Reader in Quantum Physics, University of Cambridge). Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 12 May 2010, 13:00-14:00 Sucking the Blood of Society: The Origins and Evolution of the Byronic FigureEmily Bernard Jackson (Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, English Department, University of Arkansas). Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 05 May 2010, 13:00-14:00 Mexican Chocolate and Chinese Cups: Trade and Artisanal Knowledge in the Early Modern WorldMeha Priyadarshini, (PhD student, Department of History, Columbia University, New York and Needham Research Institute, Cambridge University). Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 28 April 2010, 13:00-14:00 Illicit printing in the English Revolution, 1643-46David Adams (Munby Fellow, Cambridge University Library; Visiting Fellow, Darwin College). Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 21 April 2010, 13:00-14:00 Getting electrons to talk to one anotherKantimay Das Gupta (Senior Research Associate, Department of Physics). Council Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 25 November 2009, 13:00-14:00 Around the World in 1209, Cambridge's Anniversary YearCaroline Stone (Civilizations in Contact, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies). Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 18 November 2009, 13:00-14:00 Harvesting DNA: genetics, archaeology and agriculture.Hugo Rafael Oliveira (PhD Student, Wolfson College). Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 11 November 2009, 13:00-14:00 Silver tokens of the Chinese Salt Tax on the Bed of the Java SeaJanice Stargardt (Professorial Research Fellow in Asian Historical Archaeology & Geography). Council Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 04 November 2009, 13:00-14:00 Melancholy, Sex, and Bloodsuckers: A History of Lord Byron'sEmily Bernhard Jackson (Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College). Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 28 October 2009, 13:00-14:00 Philippine Studies in St. PetersburgMaria V. Stanyukovich (Visitor, Civilizations in Contact, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies). Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 21 October 2009, 13:00-14:00 Russia and Europe: an insoluble problem?Anthony Brenton (Former British Ambassador to Russia, Wolfson College). Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 14 October 2009, 13:00-14:00 Russia and Europe: An Insoluble Problem?Tony Branton, Former British Ambassador to Russia, Fellow of Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 14 October 2009, 13:00-14:00 Wolfson Informal Lunchtime Seminar Series Russia and Europe: an insoluble problem?Participants can bring their lunches to the talk Tony Branton, Former British Ambassador to Russia, Fellow of Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 14 October 2009, 13:00-14:10 Collaboration, Resistance and Ambiguity during the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong, Malaya and SingaporeDr Felicia Yap, Faculty of History. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 10 June 2009, 13:00-14:00 Title to be confirmedPaul Lunde. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 03 June 2009, 13:00-14:00 "Man is either going to rediscover the earth or is going to leave it": Charles Olson and the Biocentric Imagination.Dr. Michael Hrebeniak, University of Cambridge Lecturer in English. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 13 May 2009, 13:00-14:00 The European Peace Settlement, 1919: so what was wrong with the Treaty of Versailles?Professor Tony Lentin. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 06 May 2009, 13:00-14:00 The Tiger and the Unicorn: investigating the significance of images on Indus sealsJane McIntosh, Senior Research Associate at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 22 April 2009, 13:00-14:00 The Use of Madness: On Darwinism and PsychiatryDr Pieter R. Adriaens, Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Foundation, Flanders & Visiting Scholar, Department of History & Philosophy of Science. Wednesday 11 March 2009, 13:00-14:00 Orange Revolution in Ukraine: Democracy or Velvet Restoration?Vsevolod Samokhvalov, PhD student, Centre of International Studies. Wednesday 04 March 2009, 13:00-14:00 Radio 4: A Very British HistoryDr David Hendy, Visiting Fellow, CRASSH & Reader in Media, University of Westminste. Wednesday 25 February 2009, 13:00-14:00 The Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: A Case Study on Science and Cross-Disciplinarity in the Context of Environmentally-Driven Innovation in 19th Century ArchitectureHendrik O. Schoenefeldt, PhD student, Martin Centre for Architectural & Urban Studies. Wednesday 18 February 2009, 13:00-14:00 Printed Circuits: Ink-Jet Printing and its Applications in Organic ElectronicsDr Enrico Gill, Senior Member, Research associate, Optoelectronics Group, Cavendish Laboratory. Wednesday 11 February 2009, 13:00-14:00 From Time to Time: Problems in the Conversion of Calendars, Especially for the History of Ancient Mathematical AstronomyDr Raymond Mercier, Affiliated Research Scholar, Dept of History & Philosophy of Science. Wednesday 04 February 2009, 13:00-14:00 How Long is a Foot? The Size of the Ships on China's 15th-Century Maritime ExpeditionsDr Sally K. Church, Research Associate, Civilisations in Contact Project, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Wednesday 28 January 2009, 13:00-14:00 The big picture - mining millions of imagesDr Chris Town, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 12 November 2008, 13:00-14:00 From Qing China to Carmen's Tobacco Factory: Chinese Export EmbroideriesCaroline Stone, Civilizations in Contact project, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 05 November 2008, 13:00-14:00 The Eternal Taj Mahal: Prehistory and DevelopmentDr Robert Harding, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 15 October 2008, 13:00-14:00 Please see above for contact details for this list. |
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