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36 upcoming talks and 3280 talks in the archive.

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Natural and forced behaviour of the Pacific Walker Circulation over the past 800 years

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserGeorgina Falster, Australian National University.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 24 April 2024, 17:30-19:00

Quantitative History Seminar

The Social Origins of Democracy and Authoritarianism Reconsidered: Prussia and Sweden in Comparison

UserErik Bengtsson (Lund University), co-authored with Felix Kersting (Humboldt University of Berlin).

HouseRoom 5 (Faculty of History) and on Zoom.

ClockWednesday 24 April 2024, 13:15-14:45

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Isobel Hutchison’s Arctic Quest

UserNaï Zakharia, PhD candidate, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseOnline (email organisers for details).

ClockThursday 14 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

The making and breaking of regulatory space: post Brexit economic geographies in the UK

Inaugural Lecture by Prof Sarah Hall

UserProfessor Sarah Hall, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 14 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

How a ledger became a central bank: a monetary history of the Bank of Amsterdam.

UserStephen Quinn (Texas Christian University) and Will Roberds (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta).

HouseJohn Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

ClockMonday 11 March 2024, 17:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

50,000 years of turnover and extinction in high-latitude megafauna communities

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserAlistair Monteath, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2024, 17:30-19:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Shareholder Democracy under Autocracy: Voting Rights and Corporate Performance in Imperial Russia

UserAmanda Gregg (Middlebury College), co-authored with Amy Dayton (Strider Technologies) and Steven Nafziger (Williams College).

HouseBoard Room (Faculty of History) and on Zoom.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2024, 13:15-14:45

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Inaugural Lecture by Prof Marc Macias-Fauria

UserProfessor Marc Macias-Fauria, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 29 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Infrastructural Fear: or When Climate Change Isn’t an Allegory

UserStephen Lezak, PhD candidate, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Gates scholar.

HouseHybrid: Seminar room, SPRI & Zoom - email organiser for details.

ClockThursday 22 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Microplastics from geologists' perspective

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserSaija Saarni, University of Turku.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2024, 17:30-19:00

Financial History Seminar

The long road to the Bank of Ghana, 1825-1966.

UserKofi Adjepong-Boateng CBE (University of Cambridge).

HouseOne Newnham Terrace, Darwin College and Zoom.

ClockMonday 19 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Exoplanet Revolution

UserProfessor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 16 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet and sea level in the last interglacial

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserEric Wolff, Department of Earth Sciences, and the WACSWAIN team.

House Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2024, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Making Space for the Future: Imagining the Smart Nation in Singapore

UserAmelia Hassoun, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 06 February 2024, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are Revolutions Justified?

UserProfessor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 02 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Deconstructing Development Realities in India

UserLovansh Katiyar (Cambridge) and Saberi Mallick (Delhi).

HouseRoom 9, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 29 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Genetic Revolutions

UserProfessor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 26 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

On the Disappointment of Revolutions

UserProfessor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 19 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The economic government of the world 1933-2023

All welcome

UserMartin Daunton (Cambridge).

HouseRoom 6, Faculty of History.

ClockThursday 30 November 2023, 17:15-18:45

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Pantastic archaeology in the northern Namib Sand Sea

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserAbi Stone, University of Manchester.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockWednesday 29 November 2023, 17:30-19:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The Socialist Experiment of Yugoslavia: Exploring the Effect of Labour-Managed Socialism on Economic Development

UserMagnus Neubert (Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies).

HouseRoom 12, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 27 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Green Transition: New Frontiers of Extractivism

Note different time and room

UserChristine Schwöbel-Patel, CRASSH/Warwick Law School.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 21 November 2023, 18:30-19:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Sustainability and the Arctic - interdisciplinary ECR workshop in Tampere

UserSvenja Holst (Bielefeld University); Anna Ott (Syke and University of Lapland); Anna Varfolomeeva (University of Oulu); Marlene Payva (University of Lapland).

HouseOnline (contact organiser for Zoom link).

ClockThursday 16 November 2023, 13:45-15:45

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The Greenland Speleothem Record of Past Hydroclimate and Vegetation Changes

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserGina Moseley, University of Innsbruck.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockWednesday 15 November 2023, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Youth Work in an Unsettled and Affectively Charged Setting

Note different time

UserHonor Gitsham (she/her), Social Anthropology.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 07 November 2023, 18:30-19:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - other talks

Atiqput ("our names"): Inuit Oral History and Project Naming

Organised by the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge Visual Culture, and The Heong Gallery

UserCarol Payne, Beth Greenhorn and Deborah Kigjugalik Webster.

HouseThe Howard Theatre, Downing College, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 30 October 2023, 17:00-00:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The Pleistocene Evolution of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: An Interglacial Perspective

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserAidan Starr, Department of Geography.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockWednesday 18 October 2023, 17:30-19:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

A comparative history of national accounting in India and the USSR

All welcome

UserMaria Bach, Walras Pareto Centre, University of Lausanne. (Paper jointly authored with François Allison, Walras Pareto Centre, University of Lausanne).

HouseRoom 6, Faculty of History.

ClockThursday 12 October 2023, 17:15-18:45

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Vacuuming the Atlantic, Paepalology and getting things ‘wrong, wrong, wrong!’ – pollen tales from the archives

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserKevin J. Edwards, SPRI, McDonald Institute & University of Aberdeen.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockWednesday 04 October 2023, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Understanding Aboriginal-constructed landscapes in SE Australia, the impact of colonisation, and implications for land management under changing climate

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserMatthew Adeleye, Department of Geography.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 14 June 2023, 17:30-19:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Rambo in Palestine: Desert, War and the Making of the Planetary Frontier

UserDr Daniel Mann, Queen Mary University of London.

HouseHB101.

ClockTuesday 30 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - other talks

A glance at risk management of shipping in ice-covered waters

UserDr Liang Lu, Aalto University, Finland.

HouseFriends Room, .

ClockWednesday 24 May 2023, 12:30-13:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Connected Conservation: rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world

UserDr Rachel Carmenta, University of East Anglia.

HouseHB101.

ClockTuesday 23 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Squaring the circle: a coherent reconstruction of past species responses from multiple lines of evidence

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserAndrea Manica, Department of Zoology.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 17 May 2023, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

CANCELLED! Asking your mother: race, gender and positionality in remote oral history interviews

Postponed to 13th June 2023

UserSaffron East (Adrian Research Fellow, Black and Asian British and Irish history).

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 16 May 2023, 13:10-14:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Colonial Afterlives of Infrastructure: From Phosphate to Asylum Processing in the Republic of Nauru

UserDr Julia C. Morris, International Studies Department, University of North Carolina Wilmington.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

ClockFriday 12 May 2023, 12:45-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Holocene palaeoclimate reconstruction from a varved lake in East Anglia

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserPoppy Harding, University of Hertfordshire.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 03 May 2023, 17:30-19:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

"Heroes and Villains in the discourse of the Amazonian Bioeconomy of Brazil"

UserEmiliano Cabrera Rocha, University of Cambridge.

HouseHB101.

ClockTuesday 02 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation of atomic mechanisms – the choreographer at play

UserProfessor Sir Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 10 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Insulating the wild. Culture-Nature relationship through the lens of Antarctic Architecture

UserDr Victoria Nuviala Antelo, Faculty of Architecture, Design & Urbanism, University of Buenos Aires, Archive SUR – Archive of Architecture & Habitat in Antarctica .

HouseZoom - email organiser for details.

ClockThursday 09 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Can enzymes help address the climate crisis?

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserSam Cobb.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 09 March 2023, 13:10-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Constraining ash dispersal from historical eruptions

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserLauren Davies, Department of Geography.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 08 March 2023, 17:30-19:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Political Ecologies of Whale Biology

UserAnna Guasco, University of Cambridge.

Househttps://zoom.us/j/8314166462.

ClockTuesday 07 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Self-Imposed Isolation of North Korea

UserProfessor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 03 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Scalar politics and power processes in shared international spaces

UserDr Pauline Pic, École Supérieure d’études internationales (ESEI), University of Laval.

HouseZoom - email organiser for details.

ClockThursday 02 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Financial History Seminar

The Meade Committee on UK Tax Reform 1975-8

UserProfessor Susan Howson, University of Toronto.

HouseJohn Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

ClockMonday 27 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are we alone in the Universe?

UserDr Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 24 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Creative Intelligence in Generative Models and Why Consciousness Matters

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserDvija Mehta.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 23 February 2023, 13:10-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

North-West Saharan Holocene rainfall driven by interhemispheric temperature differences (with climatic and archaeological considerations)

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserChris Day, University of Oxford.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2023, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers

UserProfessor Philip Jones, University College London.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 17 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Stable Southern Hemisphere westerly winds throughout the Holocene until intensification in the last two millennia

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserWillem van der Bilt, University of Bergen.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2023, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Antarctica:Isolated Continent

UserProfessor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 10 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Tools utilised by bacteria to interact with humans

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserVivian Monzon.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 09 February 2023, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Political ecologists on the inside: insights from attending CBD COP15

UserEllie Kirkland, Chris Sandbrook, Chloe King.

HouseHardy Building room 101.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Closeting of Secrets

UserProfessor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 03 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Quantitative History Seminar

POSTPONED: Occupational structures and the composition of the rich in pre-industrial Italy

Postponed due to industrial action. This talk has been moved to the Easter term, further details to follow.

UserDr Guido Alfani (Universita Bocconi, Milan).

HouseSeminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

ClockWednesday 01 February 2023, 13:15-14:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Unlocking the power of cell therapy to reverse disease

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserSandra Petrus-Reurer.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 26 January 2023, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Can we use network analysis to predict violence?

UserDr Paolo Campana, Associate Professor in Criminology and Complex Networks, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2023, 13:15-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Plot: On Black Spatial Insurgency

UserDr J.T. Roane, Rutgers University.

HouseHardy Building Room 101.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

On Escaping or Not Escaping Solitude. Persian Tales of Turtles and Pearls

UserProfessor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 20 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Rapid decarbonisation of the NHS

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserJames Smith.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 19 January 2023, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Earth Observation Centre Seminar

Remote Sensing of Glacial Hazards in the Mountains

All is welcome -- networking event with drinks after the talk

UserOlga Tutubalina.

HouseMain Seminar Room (1.25), David Attenborough Building.

ClockThursday 15 December 2022, 15:00-16:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Embracing uncertainty: developing methods that take advantage of it

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserMarco Aquino Lopez, Department of Geography.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world

UserDr Steven McGreevy, University of Twente.

Househttps://zoom.us/j/8314166462.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Black in Geography student led talks

Black in Geography - Geographers as Insurgent Scholars 18 November at 4pm GMT

UserProfessor Thembela Kepe - University of Toronto .

HouseZoom.

ClockFriday 18 November 2022, 16:00-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

When did humans first alter atmospheric CO2? Constraining the Holocene CO2 conundrum with new ice core data

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserThomas Bauska, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The awakening of the genome –modelling embryonic genome activation programs in vitro

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserJasmin Taubenschmid-Stowers.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 10 November 2022, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The place of desire for more-than-human political ecology

UserDr Jared Margulies, University of Alabama.

Househttps://zoom.us/j/8314166462.

ClockTuesday 08 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

New approaches for understanding macroscale brain network development

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserSofia Orellana.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 03 November 2022, 13:10-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Dansgaard-Oeschger events and their impact on atmospheric carbon dioxide

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserMarkus Jochum, University of Copenhagen.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

30% – ‘Re-percent-ing’ ocean governance

UserDr Paula Satizábal, Oldenberg University.

Househttps://zoom.us/j/8314166462.

ClockTuesday 01 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

A Respectable Living and Women’s Work, England, 1270-1860

UserJane Humphries (London School of Economics).

HouseHistory Faculty, Room 6.

ClockThursday 27 October 2022, 17:15-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Dementia and ageing brains: what can population studies tell us?

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserCarol Brayne.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 27 October 2022, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The molecular mechanism of DNA crosslink repair

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserPablo Alcon.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 20 October 2022, 13:10-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

How high and how fast? Improving future predictions of long-term sea-level rise through studying the Last Interglacial

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserAmy McGuire, University of Leeds.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 19 October 2022, 17:30-19:00

Decolonial Research Lab

Beyond the Decolonial: Critical Muslim Geographies

UserProf. James D Sidaway (Geography, National University of Singapore).

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockFriday 14 October 2022, 12:45-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Necessity of Bubbles

UserWilliam H. Janeway (Cambridge).

HouseHistory Faculty, Room 6.

ClockThursday 13 October 2022, 17:15-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Supernovae: Superheroes of the universe

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserOr Graur.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 13 October 2022, 13:10-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Unravelling the legacy of 7000 years of metal pollution in south-eastern Europe

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue

UserDaniel Veres, Romanian Academy, Cluj.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 15 June 2022, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Examining glacial-interglacial climate changes by water isotope modelling efforts

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may be unable to access the venue

UserMartin Werner, Palaeoclimate Dynamics, Alfred-Wegener-Institut.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 08 June 2022, 17:30-19:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The trouble with relational values

UserRogelio Luque Lora (University of Cambridge).

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 07 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Ringing the alarm for a liveable future: Reproductive anxiety and the climate crisis

UserKatie Dow (University of Cambridge) and Heather McMullen (Queen Mary University of London).

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 31 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Illuminating Gender in the Early Modern Urban Space of Edo: A study on Edo Meisho Zue

UserDanielle van de Heuvel & Marie Yasunaga (University of Amsterdam).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 5.

ClockThursday 26 May 2022, 17:00-19:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Histories of Antarctica

UserHenrietta Hammant, Anthropology of Heritage PhD candidate, University of Reading; Elias Angele, PhD candidate Department for Contemporary East European History and Culture, University of Bremen.

HouseHybrid: Seminar room, SPRI & Zoom - email organiser for details.

ClockThursday 26 May 2022, 16:00-17:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Protecting privacy on the Internet: background, research, and practice

UserDaniel Hugenroth, Department of Science and Technology.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 26 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Collapse of Complex Societies

This talk is part of the Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Lunchtime Seminar series. Grab your lunch at the servery and join us for an interesting talk. Everyone is welcome!

UserSabin Roman (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk).

HouseDarwin College, Richard King Room.

ClockTuesday 24 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

Black in Geography student led talks

Black in Geography: Blackness and Policing

UserDr. Wangui Kimari and Dr. Adam Elliot-Cooper.

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 19 May 2022, 16:00-17:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Revolution and religion in Myanmar

This talk is part of the Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Lunchtime Seminar series. Grab your lunch at the servery and join us for an interesting talk. Everyone is welcome!

UserDr Michael Edwards (Centre of South Asian Studies).

HouseDarwin College, Richard King Room.

ClockTuesday 17 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

Vital Geographies - Department of Geography

Modern British birdsong and civilization

Please email pmh1000@cam.ac.uk if you would like to attend this talk in person; owing to Covid safeguards, attendance is restricted in numbers.

UserMichael Guida, University of Sussex.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, and online (Zoom): https://zoom.us/j/98817387914?pwd=Y2pOV1Rsbko3RjRDTFZHQ0NKaXZ6QT09 Meeting ID: 988 1738 7914 Passcode: 640898.

ClockMonday 16 May 2022, 16:00-17:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Do we have enough energy resources for a net-zero 2050?

UserJennifer Hawkin, Department of Engineering.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 12 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Wild journeys for wild microbiomes - Conservation through the gut

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserGal Zanir, Conservation Leadership.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Unique Humanity: We Journey; We Sing; We Make & Trade

This talk is part of the Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Lunchtime Seminar series. Grab your lunch at the servery and join us for an interesting talk. Everyone is welcome!

UserGlen Milstein, Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme, Faculty of Divinity.

HouseDarwin College, Richard King Room.

ClockTuesday 03 May 2022, 13:15-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Women, girls and biodiversity loss: an evidence and policy review

UserFrancesca Booker (IIED), Hilary Alison (Green Goals) and Fleur Nash (University of Cambridge).

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 03 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Visualising mRNA in a developing tissue

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserDr Tamsin Samuels, Department of Genetics.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 17 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Dietary Change in Human Evolution

In conjunction with the Biological Anthropology Seminar Series

UserMark Thomas, University College London.

HouseLCHES Seminar Room, Henry Wellcome Building Fitzwilliam Street.

ClockTuesday 15 March 2022, 16:30-17:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Young People and Work in the Global South

UserDame Barbara Stocking, former president of Murray Edwards college.

HouseDarwin College, Richard King Room.

ClockTuesday 15 March 2022, 13:15-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Plotting the Coloniality of Conservation - reading discussion

UserVictoria Maguire-Rajpaul, Ariadne Collins, Judith Krauss.

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 15 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Political Economy of Conservation and Food Security

UserProfessor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 11 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

Black in Geography student led talks

BLACK IN GEOGRAPHY X RACE TALKS: Green Violence, Abolition Geographies and Black Repair

UserProfessor Maano Ramutsindela (University of Cape Town), Assistant Professor Camilla Hawthorne (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Assistant Professor Kevon Rhiney (Rutgers University).

HouseZoom.

ClockFriday 11 March 2022, 16:00-17:30

Decolonial Research Lab

Land-Grab Universities

UserDr Robert Lee, History Faculty, University of Cambridge.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

ClockFriday 11 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Problem of the Earth's Figure and the Logic of Measurement in Modern Geoscience

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserMiguel Ohnesorge, History and Philosophy of Science.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 10 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

George Howard Darwin and the ‘Public’ Understanding of Nature

UserDr Edwin Rose. Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

HouseDarwin College, Richard King Room.

ClockTuesday 08 March 2022, 13:15-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The Forest That Walks: Digital Fieldwork and Distributions of Site

UserJennifer Gabrys, University of Cambridge.

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 08 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Decolonial Research Lab

The Paradox of Law and Violence: Policing on the Frontlines of Struggles against the Settler Colonial State

For information, please email Sarah Radcliffe sar23@cam.ac.uk

UserDr Michael Simpson, University of St Andrews.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

ClockTuesday 08 March 2022, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the Past

UserProfessor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 04 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Wnt signalling in the gill arches of the little skate during development

This talk will be delivered remotely, but people are welcome to still join from the Richard King Room and have lunch during the talk. We will put the talk on the projector screen.

UserJenaid Rees, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 03 March 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Speaking and Being

UserKübra Gümüşay, Mercator Senior Fellow, CRASSH, LCFI.

HouseDarwin College, Richard King Room.

ClockTuesday 01 March 2022, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Cultural History

UserDr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 25 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Decolonial Research Lab

Sound's Colonialities: Formatting, Recording and Saving on Indigenous Lands

UserDr Max Ritts, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.

HouseHardy Building rm101, Downing Site.

ClockFriday 25 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Probing Li:ion batteries with fibre-optic Raman spectroscopy to support transport electrification

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserMegan Groom, Department of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 24 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food as Expression

UserMr Alex Rushmer, Chef.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 18 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Can we use electrical energy to reduce carbon emissions? An investigation into the electrochemical approaches for carbon capture

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserNiamh Hartley, Department of Chemistry.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 17 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Rethinking rotation in the Peripatetic Mechanica

UserArthur Harris, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

HouseDarwin College, Richard King Room.

ClockTuesday 15 February 2022, 13:15-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Ringing the alarm for a liveable future: Reproductive anxiety and the climate crisis

UserHeather McMullen and Katharine Dow Queen Mary University of London, Institute of Population Health Sciences, Centre for Global Public Health Reproductive Sociology Research Group (ReproSoc), University of Cambridge.

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 15 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

X-rays and Food Safety

UserDr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 11 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

A talk about some Very Good Dogs

UserAudrey Lin, Smithsonian Institution.

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 11 February 2022, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

From quantum tunneling in a topology-changing fermionic bath to topological quantum superpositions

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserJan Behrends, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 10 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food, Power and Society

UserMs Sarah Mukherjee, IEMA.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 04 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Prehistory of the Eastern European Plain

UserLehti Saag, UCL / Tartu University.

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 04 February 2022, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Assessing Implications of the Deployment of Sustainable Flight in the UK

This talk will be delivered remotely, but people are welcome to still join from the Richard King Room and have lunch during the talk. We will put the talk on the projector screen.

UserMike Lau, University of Princeton.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 03 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan?

UserProfessor Andrew Knight, University of Winchester.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 28 January 2022, 17:30-18:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Microbial lipids and their application to study ancient microbiomes and environments

UserAinara Sistiaga, University of Copenhagen / Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 28 January 2022, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Trends, Determinants, and Effects of ESG-linked Pay around the World

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserProfessor Lin Peng, Faculty of Economics, Cambridge.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 27 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Climate Change

UserProfessor Sarah Bridle, University of York.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 21 January 2022, 17:30-18:30

Black in Geography student led talks

Black in Geography - Mobilities Across Boundaries

UserDr. Rudo Mudiwa (UC Irvine), Dr. James Esson (Loughborough University), and Dr. Victoria Okoye (Sheffield Hallam University).

HouseZoom.

ClockFriday 21 January 2022, 17:00-18:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Palaeoproteomic analyses of dog palaeofaeces reveal a preserved dietary and host digestive proteome

Register for zoom link here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0oce6uqT4tE90DfFgL4c46ogL7fVq9Xn9E

UserAnne Kathrine Runge, University of York.

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 03 December 2021, 13:15-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Talk by Annette Green

UserAnnette Green.

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 30 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

War, COVID-19 and the national debt

Last talk of term

UserDean and Senior Tutor, Darwin College; Director, Centre for Financial History.

HouseDarwin College, Richard King Room.

ClockMonday 29 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Under the Surface: X-ray Imaging in the British Museum

Register for zoom link here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMld-mhpj0qEtzlqAZTCsh2t1hCvtPSYrkF

UserDan O'Flynn, British Museum.

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 26 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Fieldwork, Access, and (Dis)Embodiment: On An Ethic of Not Going There

For information on venue/virtual participation, please email Sarah Radcliffe sar23@cam.ac.uk

UserAnna Guasco, Department of Geography, Cambridge.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

ClockFriday 26 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Past ice sheet evolution: West Antarctica during warm climate intervals

This week the talk will be starting at 1pm. Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserLara Perez, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 25 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Trauma Apps and the Making of the 'Smart' Refugee.

UserMaha Abdelrahman, Professor of Development Studies and Middle East Politics.

HouseDarwin College, Richard King Room.

ClockTuesday 23 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Large-Scale Migration into Britain During the Middle to Late Bronze Age

Register for zoom link here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsfuurrD4sHdU5CdQT7wGxOi9KJH5w_wV1

UserDavid Reich, Harvard Medical School.

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 19 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Department of Geography - other talks

Perfecting the River: Dams, Dreams and Organic Machines

UserProfessor Bill Adams, University of Cambridge.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 16 November 2021, 15:00-16:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Urban Political Ecology

UserDr. Kate Meehan.

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 16 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Understanding human adaptation from modern and ancient DNA sequences

5pm start. Register for zoom link here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkf-2przsjG9JE-RQnUJgSUdiiz2AiodMd

UserRasmus Nielsen, University of California Berkely.

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 12 November 2021, 17:00-17:45

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

'Values, de/coloniality and the more-than-human world in Chile's uprising and constituent process'.

To get invite to Teams meeting, please email sar23@cam.ac.uk

UserRogelio Luque-Lora, Geography Department, Cambridge.

HouseOnline Teams.

ClockFriday 12 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The impact of climate-induced habitat loss on coral reef fishes in the Red Sea

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserMadeleine Emms, Department of Zoology.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 11 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Strange Natures

UserProf. Bill Adams.

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 09 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Practices, techniques and productions of a brass founder in a 15th century Brussels workshop

Register for zoom link here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAuf-CspzotHtPJx89wyDFPL-7oX1cY0IxV

UserLise Saussus, University of Louvain.

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 05 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

When Turing meets Waddington: Theory of mechanochemical patterning in biphasic biological tissues

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserDr Adrien Hallou, Gurdon Institute & Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 04 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Humans think through and with materials. So what?

Register for zoom link here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYsceyprTorH9J4NbrVQZsiascNDsx1rnYJ

UserMaikel Kuijpers, Leiden University.

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockWednesday 03 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Specialized aquatic animal exploitation at Nahal Ein Gev II, Israel and the division of labor at the Epipaleolithic-Neolithic crossroads

Register for zoom link here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYude6sqz8pH9doiA7b3hfD8rraUO_qqwxb

UserNatalie Munroe, University of Connecticut.

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 29 October 2021, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Hunting for new particles with ATLAS at the Large Hadron Collider

This talk will be virtual but we will project the talk in the Richard King room, so, as usual, grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserBen Hodkinson, Experimental High Energy Physics.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 28 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Crafting usable knowledge for sustainable development

UserHannah Parris, University of Cambridge .

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 26 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Black in Geography student led talks

Black in Geography Friday 22 October 4pm BST Black History Month Panel: Centring Blackness through Access and Research Practice

UserDr. Jovan Scott Lewis (University of California Berkeley) and Cynthia Nkiruka Anyadi (Royal Holloway, University of London).

HouseZoom.

ClockFriday 22 October 2021, 16:00-17:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

New Directions in Coastal and Underwater Geoarchaeology.

Email organisers for zoom link: rkb34@cam.ac.uk

UserRuth Shahak-Gross, University of Haifa.

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 22 October 2021, 13:15-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Ice-geographies: Race, Indigeneity, and Coloniality

UserJen Rose Smith, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 21 October 2021, 15:00-16:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

How complex can this be? Let me introduce you to the Haft Paykar, a narrative poem composed in Persian by the giant poet Nizami of Ganja (12th C. AD)

UserCristine van Ruymbeke, Soudavar Professor of Persian Literature and Culture Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Graduate Tutor and College Praelector of Darwin College.

HouseDarwin College, Richard King Room.

ClockTuesday 19 October 2021, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Exploring the genetics of the extinct Darwin’s ground sloth (Mylodon darwinii) population from Cueva del Milodón, Chile

Email organisers for zoom link: ram88@cam.ac.uk

UserMaria Zicos, Natural History Museum.

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 15 October 2021, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Functional redundancy of Drosophila melanogaster SoxB proteins in central nervous system development

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. First come first served up to 30 people capacity. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserBarbara Joo, Department of Genetics.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 14 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Deep time proteins: an eggcellent resource for reconstructing past human-environment interactions

Email organisers for zoom link: mae52@cam.ac.uk

UserBeatrice Demarchi, University of Turin.

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 08 October 2021, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Evolution and development of vertebral regionalization in fishes

We are back hosting the science seminar series in person, so do come and join us for the first talk of the term. Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserKatharine Criswell, Research Associate, Department of Zoology.

HouseKing Richard Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 07 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Mapping and deliberating values for Uplands management

UserJanet Fisher, University of Edinburgh.

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 15 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Tracing the copper trade in Central Africa during the 2nd millennium CE: a cross-disciplinary approach

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0tdeGqqD0oG9LTOUmtpDqjNplXbg-jUtK3

UserDr Nicolas Nikis, Université libre de Bruxelles & Africa Museum.

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 11 June 2021, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

‘The Uruk Phenomenon’: Ceramic Variation and Cultural Connections in the 4th Millennium BCE in the Zagros Foothills

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwtduGqrjMrH9GGMdDCoq5KW41YIplLr1Ot

UserMichael Lewis, University of Cambridge..

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 04 June 2021, 13:15-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Contentious Collections? Decolonising the Polar Museum

UserMia Surridge & Alex Partridge (The Polar Museum, Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 03 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Vital Geographies - Department of Geography

Resisting the Rule of Law in Nineteenth-Century Ceylon

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82103353807?pwd=QTNTUGFFMWVjNjZuRFlsdE5RZVlJZz09 Meeting ID: 821 0335 3807 Passcode: 354795

Userjsd24@cam.ac.uk.

HouseOnline (Zoom).

ClockTuesday 01 June 2021, 16:00-17:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

More-than-human nationalisms in Catalonia and Scotland

UserGuillem Rubio Ramón, University of Edinburgh.

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 01 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

New evidence and model for the early medieval "Adventus Saxonum"

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAocuqtpj0sGdDbft7sFvwZ6ctdJzgWVWz-

UserDr Sam Leggett, University of Oxford.

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 28 May 2021, 13:15-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The roots of our ecological crisis

UserRogelio Luque-Lora, University of Cambridge.

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 25 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Archaeological Science and Repatriation: collaboration and connection

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwuduiupjspHNJLou_IbVbaCyGxAwAuCixy

UserDr Trish Biers .

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 21 May 2021, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Hominin behavioural dynamics in the insular rainforests of eastern Wallacea

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrcOiprzsqGNNqDLBbPSs7qp2Wq0HuZlua

UserDylan Gaffney, University of Cambridge.

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 14 May 2021, 13:15-14:00

Vital Geographies - Department of Geography

Imperial Slippages: Encountering and Knowing Ice in and beyond Colonial India

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87871680387?pwd=VUtzZkwzZVR4TktXSTQxaWViVHh4UT09 Meeting ID: 878 7168 0387 Passcode: 362935

UserTom Simpson (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge).

HouseOnline (Zoom).

ClockThursday 13 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Quantitative History Seminar

Transport and urban growth in the first industrial revolution

UserDan Bogart (University of California, Irvine).

HouseONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

ClockWednesday 12 May 2021, 13:00-14:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

John Muir, Indigenous erasure, and conservation reckoning

UserPaul Robbins, University of Wisconsin-Madison .

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 11 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Human Religion: Concern and Clarity in One Darwin Sentence

UserGlen Milstein, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Psychology The City College of New York .

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

ClockTuesday 11 May 2021, 13:15-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Opium, Tea and Cotton: The Rise and Fall of the Sassoon Dynasty in South East Asia

UserProfessor Shalva Weil, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 10 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Open Brainstorming Session: Reconstructing an Iron Age burial ritual. Kurgan 4, Early Saka-Scythian burial complex -Eleke Sazy, Kazakhstan

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqd--trTssGdVniqax6zfKk7KwBHShd7fF

UserSaltanat Amirova, University of Cambridge..

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 07 May 2021, 13:15-14:00

Black in Geography student led talks

Black in Geography Talk 7 May, 1-2pm

UserJazmin Scarlett (Independent Researcher) .

HouseZoom.

ClockFriday 07 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Making and trading iron in the Swahili world: an archaeometallurgical study of iron production technologies in coastal Tanzania

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJctceuvrj0jGNUXmaepR0CFYq_aXUUR46e9

UserDr Ema Bauzyte, University of Cambridge.

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 30 April 2021, 13:15-14:00

Financial History Seminar

HM Treasury and its management of the Financial Crisis, 2007-2009

UserDr Eleanor Hallam, HM Treasury and Centre for Financial History.

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 15 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood Sculptures

UserMr Marc Quinn, Artist.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 12 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Understanding domestication in the genomic era

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYrc-2hqjkjGtYroR2imIYvJZ9Wb9ECRVG5

UserDr. Laurent Frantz (1,2).

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 12 March 2021, 13:15-14:00

Black in Geography student led talks

Black in Geography Pat Noxolo Talk - 12th March 1-2pm

UserDr. Pat Noxolo University of Birmingham .

HouseZoom.

ClockFriday 12 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

How places matter: A new theory of environmental value.

UserDr Simon P. James, University of Durham.

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 09 March 2021, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Cold Blood

UserProfessor Stuart Egginton, University of Leeds.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 05 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Dung and desert copper - Evaluating 3rd millennium BCE desert subsistence at the macro- and microscales

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEscuiprzkiEtGgkyFFkjUZy8ap3Eq0QWG1

UserDr Zachary Dunseth (Brown University).

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 05 March 2021, 13:15-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Poland, the international monetary system and the Bank of England, 1921–1939

UserWilliam Allen (National Institute of Economic and Social Research).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 01 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood villains and heros

UserMs Rose George, Journalist.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 26 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Recipes for Success: Paleoethnobotanical Evidence for Women’s Wealth through Root Processing on the Canadian Plateau

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtdOGqpz4jG9Nr7b8gdXBwsHmeXnyy_8mZ

UserDr. Monica Ramsey (University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 26 February 2021, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Books, Botany and the Understanding of Nature in Eighteenth-Century Cambridge

UserDr. Edwin Rose, Munby Fellow in Bibliography, University of Cambridge.

HouseOnline (ask organizers for link).

ClockTuesday 23 February 2021, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Bloodlines of the British

UserProfessor Sir Walter Bodmer, University of Oxford.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 19 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Celia’s ghosts: On biotic loss and recovery in the Pyrenees.

UserAdam Searle, University of Cambridge.

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 16 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Menus without prices? Manifestos, party competition, and public finance in Britain, c. 1955-1983

UserDr Peter Sloman (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 15 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Dracula, Vampires and the New Woman

UserProfessor Carol Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 12 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Pressing Concerns: Urartian Wine Production Equipment

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAlcOqvpjkrG9z4d1rumXxKk3sTV_gYCGAc

UserVictoria Newson (University of Sheffield).

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 12 February 2021, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood in Motion: The Physics of Blood Flow

UserProfessor Tim Pedley, University of Cambridge.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 05 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Iron Age (1100-300BC) in Oman and the United Arab Emirates: a discussion on the ceramics and columned halls

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcocu2uqD8jGt3sP3CCcDZeCNvOvZ6Qnfi7

UserSam Botan (Leiden University) .

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 05 February 2021, 13:15-14:00

Financial History Seminar

The Great Demographic Reversal: ageing societies, waning inequality, and an inflation

UserProfessor Charles Goodhart (LSE) and Dr Manoj Pradhan (Talking Heads Macro).

HouseZoom.

ClockMonday 01 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England

UserDr Sara Read, Loughborough University.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 29 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Seeing the woods for the trees: a palaeoecological investigation of native woodlands to inform present and future woodland conservation management strategies in Northern Scotland

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckcOqgpjIrHdJmhUaSHCXLXYyCbyw6N5wo

UserDr. Jasmijn Sybenga (University of the Highlands and Islands).

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 29 January 2021, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Battle Blood

UserDr Claire Roddie, UCL.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 22 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

The Genomics of Megaliths: Hierarchy and Heterogeneity in Irish Neolithic Society

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArd-2vqDssGN3r3r9JzlCL9w3NoHlB21an

UserDr. Lara Cassidy (Smurfit Institute of Genetics Trinity College Dublin).

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 22 January 2021, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Medieval medicine and leprosy: new insights from dental calculus analysis

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqcO-upzktE91PIXfWQSFyh_QYmqGvI0Hq

UserElena Fiorin (Sapienza University of Rome).

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 04 December 2020, 13:15-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Negotiating the panoptic gaze: power & conservation surveillance

UserTrishant Simlai, Department of Geography.

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2020, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Embodying Suicidal Emotions, 1700-1850

UserElla Sbaraini (Clare College, Cambridge).

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockMonday 30 November 2020, 12:30-13:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

A short-lived but memorable style: Lapita Pottery in Vanuatu (NOTE: Unusual time)

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIucOGqpzMsGdRESX34ueGDCwtWH8rrgwv2

UserDr. Mathieu Leclerc (Australian National University).

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 27 November 2020, 11:00-11:45

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

The new global apartheid

Further information: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/29382

UserProfessor Robbie Shilliam, Johns Hopkins University.

HouseOnline (Zoom).

ClockThursday 26 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

The mobility of Upper Palaeolithic prey in the Siberian Arctic

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAud-irpjIjEtBorycKWN69meITA9IZKBXO

UserWouter Bonhof, University of Exeter.

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 20 November 2020, 13:15-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Conservation finance in a post-covid world

UserDr Sophia Cooke, Dr Chris Sandbrook & Prof Bhaskar Vira.

HouseDelivered online via Zoom.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Early food production and human-animal relations: Isotopic insights into Neolithic social reconfiguration in the Near East

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwlceusqzooH905h9NRiWPbSPG8PFLv3a--

UserProf. Cheryl Makarewicz (University of Kiel).

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 13 November 2020, 13:15-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Roundtable discussion: Conducting Research in a Pandemic

UserCharlotte Schoonman (AWI), Anna Guasco (University of Cambridge), Karla Boxall (SPRI).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 12 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Opportunities and challenges for an ecological Constitution in Chile

UserBeatriz Bustos, University of Chile.

HouseOnline, via MS Teams.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Copper metallurgy at Kerma: Technological innovation in the Nile Valley

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJErce2upjkqGtwWK_MOXgoBzaU-1rzVtxoD

UserDr. Frederik Rademakers (KU Leuven).

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 06 November 2020, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Heritage Quest: An Archaeological Survey of the Veluwe based on Data Science and Citizen Science

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtdeqqrTIiH9a-LWlPoRjSNt8LfztjLuE5

UserDr. Karsten Lambers (Leiden University).

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 30 October 2020, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

The Genetic History of the Plague: From the Stone Age to the 18th Century

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkceipqjsqE91n7OeMQQGolXXy3lkmDX5w

UserProf. Dr. Johannes Krause (Max Planck Institute).

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 23 October 2020, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Palaeoproteomics in Archaeology: Recent Applications and Future Directions

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkd-msqD4vGNyztfdId5Czxcle1PhOY5Ab

UserDr Jessica Hendy (Department of Archaeology - University of York).

HouseOnline via zoom.

ClockFriday 16 October 2020, 13:15-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Finding connections across space, time, and disciplines: Space and Antarctica

UserAlice Oates (University of Cambridge) and Osnat Katz (University College London).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 15 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

Arctic Energy Before Petroleum: Or, What Whales Can Tell Us About Writing History

Note that the talk is accompanied by a "pre-reading" available to download upon registration.

UserProfessor Bathsheba Demuth (Brown University).

HouseCo-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

ClockTuesday 13 October 2020, 18:00-19:30

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

Why we should develop Arctic Humanities

UserProfessor Sverker Sörlin, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden.

HouseCo-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

ClockTuesday 29 September 2020, 16:00-17:30

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

The Shaggy Saviour of Northern Norway

UserProfessor Dolly Jørgensen, Faculty of History University of Stavanger, Norway.

HouseCo-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

ClockTuesday 01 September 2020, 17:00-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

The influence of Arctic Fog on Glaciers

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

UserDr. Hester Jiskoot, Associate Professor of Physical Geography & Glaciology, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 13 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

CANCELLED: Recent advances in understanding climate, glacier and river dynamics in high mountain Asia

Cancelled due to strike action

UserDr Walter Immerzeel, Faculty of Geosciences, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2020, 13:00-15:00

Financial History Seminar

Walter Bagehot: the life and times of the greatest Victorian

UserJames Grant (Grant’s Interest Rate Observer).

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 09 March 2020, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeological Mysteries

UserDr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer, Scientist.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 06 March 2020, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

The effect of Inhibitory Control over Negative Autobiographical Memories

UserGiulia Barsuola, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 March 2020, 13:10-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

The use of marine geophysical data to investigate the climate and environment of the Quaternary

This talk is by the Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography Seminar Series - NOTE THE DIFFERENT TIME, DATE & VENUE

UserChristine Batchelor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.

HouseRm 101, William Hardy Building, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 27 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

UserProfessor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 21 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

The living dead: cellular functions of pseudoenzymes

UserIain Hay, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 20 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Out of Africa: former Colonial Officials and objects of colonial memory

UserDr Chris Jeppesen, Department of History, University of Cambridge .

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigma of Emotion

UserDr Tiffany Watt Smith, Queen Mary, University of London.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 14 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Brain organoids to study development and function

UserDr Laura Pellegrini, Division of Cell Biology, MRC-LMB.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 13 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Financial History Seminar

City financiers as patrons in the later seventeenth century

UserDr Anthony Hotson (Centre for Financial History, University of Cambridge).

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 10 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

UserDr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 07 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Investigating Individual Differences in political networks on Twitter

UserElizaveta Karmannaya, Department of Psychology. University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 06 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Financial History Seminar

The anatomy of Britain’s inter-war super-rich: reconstructing the 1928 'millionaire' population

UserProfessor Peter Scott, Henley Business School, University of Reading.

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 03 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

UserDr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 31 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Bringing the science back into scientific realism

UserMiguel Ohnesorge, History and Philosophy of Science Department, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 30 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Fiscal reform in Britain and Germany since 1945

UserProfessor Martin Daunton (Cambridge) and Dr Marc Buggeln (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 27 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

UserProfessor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 24 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Talk 1 of 2: Speleothem records of abrupt warming events during the last glacial period

This is part I of a two part seminar dedicated to synchronising climate archives. Second talk is being given by Raimund Muscheler (Lund University): "Synchronising climate records via the cosmic ray signal in environmental archives"

UserRussell Drysdale (University of Melbourne).

HouseRiley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road.

ClockThursday 23 January 2020, 17:30-19:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates - the Field as a Minefield

UserMira Al Hussein, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 23 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Human Origins

UserDr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 17 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Global Methane, Project MOYA, and the UK’s Net Zero target

UserProf. Euan Nisbet, Professor of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 16 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Talk 2 of 2: Synchronising climate records via the cosmic ray signal in environmental archives

This is part 2 of a two part seminar dedicated to synchronising climate archives

UserRaimund Muscheler (University of Lund).

HouseRiley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road.

ClockThursday 09 January 2020, 17:30-19:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Subglacial landscapes: Tunnel valleys in the central and northern North Sea

UserDr. Margaret Stewart, Senior Scientist - Marine and Petroleum Geology, British Geological Survey..

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockThursday 05 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Investigating human blood development at the single-cell level

UserAnna Maria Ranzoni - Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute/Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 December 2019, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Social Assessment of Protected Areas

UserRob Small, Fauna and Flora International .

HouseHardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 26 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

You rock! Understanding words with many meanings

UserLucy MacGregor - MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 21 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Equality for Women = Prosperity for All

UserDr Augusto Lopez-Claros, the World Bank Group.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 12 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

Financial History Seminar

City financiers as patrons in the later seventeenth century

UserDr Anthony Hotson (Centre for Financial History, University of Cambridge).

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 11 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

The Weddell Sea, Antarctica: modern science and the search for Shackleton’s Endurance

UserProfessor Julian Dowdeswell, Department of Geography & Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Aerosols and Ancient History in Arctic and Alpine Ice

UserJoe McConnell, Desert Research Institute, current "Shackleton visiting fellow" at Clare Hall.

HouseClare College (Latimer Room).

ClockThursday 31 October 2019, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

How to Build a Neuron: establishing spatial identity in a structurally complex cell

UserMichael Fernandopulle - Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 31 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Pacific Shoguns: Japan’s Attempt to Open the Pacific, 1600-1625

UserDr Joshua Batts, Research Associate, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 29 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The effects of wind on trees and forests

UserToby Jackson - Cambridge Conservation Initiative .

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 24 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Social Impact of Automatic Hate Speech Detection

UserDr. Stefanie Ullmann, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Centre for Humanities and Social Change.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 22 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Affective economies and the atmospheric politics of lively capital

UserMaan Barua, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseHardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 22 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The safety revolution in oceanic shipping, c. 1780-1825

UserProf. Morgan Kelly, University College Dublin.

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 17 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Krill swarms: the carbon export highway - S*£% matters!

UserAnna Belcher - British Antarctic Survey.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 17 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Perovskite nanocrystals: tuneable future for display industry

UserKaiwen Zhang, PhD student in Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 10 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

Department of Geography - other talks

Foucault and the New Materialists

ERC Horizon 2020 Urban Ecologies Lecture

UserThomas Lemke.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 08 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - other talks

Reconfiguring the effects of acetylene gas on the use of colour in Dr E. A. Wilson’s watercolours

UserAlex Partridge, Maciej M Pawlikowski MA, Dr Lindsay MacDonald, Dr Liz Watkins, Isaac Gilbert.

HouseLecture Theatre, Scott Polar Research Institute.

ClockThursday 29 August 2019, 11:00-12:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Addressing health: sickness and retirement in the Victorian Post Office

UserDavid Green (KCL), Doug Brown (Kingston University), Kathleen McIlvenna (University of Derby) and Nicola Shelton (UCL).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockWednesday 12 June 2019, 13:15-14:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

‘To dam or not to dam?’ Issues in financing and developing large hydropower.

UserJudith Plummer Braeckman - Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

HouseHardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 04 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

A new perspective on the role of public investment in sanitation and mortality decline in urban England 1870-1911

UserToke Aidt (Faculty of Economics, Cambridge), Romola Davenport (Cambridge Group) and Felix Grey (Faculty of Economics, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockWednesday 22 May 2019, 13:15-14:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The Evolution of Financial Markets in the Early Modern Netherlands

UserOscar Gelderblom (Utrecht) and Joost Jonker (Amsterdam).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 16 May 2019, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Persistent pneumococcal colonisation: Dynamics, genomic diversity and evolution

UserDr Chrispin Chaguza (Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 16 May 2019, 13:10-14:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Occupational Structures in the Republic of Venice (1780–1790)

UserAndrea Caracausi (University of Padova) and Giulio Ongaro (Bicocca University Milan).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockWednesday 15 May 2019, 13:15-14:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Relief Stocks in Early Modern Holland

UserJessica Dijkman, University of Utrecht.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 09 May 2019, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Trustworthy AI

UserDr Adrian Weller (Machine Learning Group, Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 09 May 2019, 13:10-14:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

The famine that wasn't? 1799-1801 in Ireland

UserLiam Kennedy (Queen's University, Belfast) and Peter Solar (Free University, Brussels).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2019, 13:15-14:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Paving an enlightened path to anyons and quantum computation

UserDr Shovan Dutta (Physics Department, Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 25 April 2019, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Decolonising African politics: Where is there evidence of change?

UserStephanie Diepeveen, Centre of Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 23 April 2019, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Learning from rivers about long-term controls on Earth’s climate

UserDr Jotis Baronas (Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 14 March 2019, 13:10-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

MPhil Presentations

UserMustafe, TBD, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 11 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Perception of Visual Space

UserProfessor Sir Colin Blakemore, School of Advanced Study.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 08 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

Centenary Lecture Series, Department of Geography

Stratigraphical discourse in the Anthropocene: towards a more critical geographical tradition

UserProfessor Stuart Lane, Faculté des géosciences et de l'environnement, Université de Lausanne.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 07 March 2019, 17:00-18:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Women, wellbeing and wildlife management areas in Tanzania

UserProfessor Katherine Homewood, Dept of Anthropology, UCL.

HouseHardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

MPhil Presentations

UserEliska, Udayan, and Merel, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 04 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Computer Vision

UserProfessor Andrew Blake, Samsung AI Research Centre.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 01 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Assembling Conservation as Territoriality in Timor-Leste.

UserDr Alexander Cullen, Lecturer in Political Ecology, Geography Department, University of Cambridge..

HouseHardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Viewing the Universe

UserDr Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 22 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Evolution, development and function of flower patterns

UserMs Alice Fairnie (Sainsbury Laboratory, Botanic Garden Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 21 February 2019, 13:10-14:00

ERC Research Presentations, Department of Geography

ARCTIC CULT

UserDr Richard Powell, Department of Geography, Cambridge University.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Appearance and Physical Reality

UserProfessor Carlo Rovelli, International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 15 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Quantitative History Seminar

The return of regional inequality: Europe from 1900 to today

UserNikolaus Wolf (Humboldt University Berlin).

HouseRoom 12, Faculty of History.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2019, 13:15-14:15

Financial History Seminar

Taxes and growth: new narrative evidence from interwar Britain

UserNicholas Dimsdale, University of Oxford.

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 11 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Vision of Future Technology

UserMs Sophie Hackford, Futurist, co-founder 1715Labs.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 08 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Centenary Lecture Series, Department of Geography

Bloody Geography: injured bodies and the spaces of modern war

UserProfessor Derek Gregory, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 07 February 2019, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Hearing and seeing things that are not there: Quantifying brain structure related to hallucinations

UserColleen Rollins (Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 07 February 2019, 13:10-14:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

City Seminar: Ariel Caine

UserAriel Caine, Goldsmiths University (Forensic Architecture).

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 05 February 2019, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Evolution of the Eye

UserProfessor Dan-Eric Nilsson, Lund University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 01 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Climate change and water security in Africa

UserProfessor Declan Conway, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, The London School of Economics and Political Science.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 31 January 2019, 16:15-18:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Planet Nine: To Be or Not To Be

UserMr Antranik A. Sefilian.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 31 January 2019, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Colour and Vision

UserProfessor Anya Hurlbert, Newcastle University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 25 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Gorilla Society: investigating cooperation, territoriality and social support in our evolutionary cousins

UserRobin E Morrison (Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge).

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 24 January 2019, 13:10-14:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

The medieval clothier

UserJohn Lee (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York).

HouseWalters Room, Selwyn College.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2019, 17:00-18:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

TBC

UserPoul Christoffersen (University of Cambridge).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Resilient Leadership: Place-Based Learning for Sustainable Transformation.

UserAjay Rastogi, Director of the Foundation for Contemplation of Nature based in Central Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India..

HouseHardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 22 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Visions

UserProfessor Paul Fletcher, Cambridge Neuroscience.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 18 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Oil palm: what’s true and what’s to do?

UserAmelia Hood (Zoology Department, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 17 January 2019, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Post-Arab Spring Tunis: Materialising Revolution in the City

UserDena Qaddumi, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 15 January 2019, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Deadly Truths and Lively Tensions: Saving Nature in the Era of Post-Truth and Platform Capitalism

UserBram Büscher, Professor and Chair of the Sociology of Development and Change group at Wageningen University.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Geography Department, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 11 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

ERC Research Presentations, Department of Geography

Rethinking Urban Nature

UserProfessor Matthew Gandy, Department of Geography, Cambridge University.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Global Estimates of Marine Nitrogen Fixation based on a Non-Redfield Inverse Model

UserProf. Francois Primeau (University of California Irvine, USA).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 22 November 2018, 17:30-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Movers and stayers: populations, movement and measurement in historical demography

UserDr Eilidh Garrett (Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure).

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 22 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Economics of Right-Wing Populism

UserValentina Ausserladscheider, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2018, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Inheritance law and the uniform civil code in India

Time and title to be confirmed. This talk will be held in conjunction with Cambridge University India Society (CUIS) and the Cambridge Society For Economic Pluralism (CSEP)

UserBina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment University of Manchester.

HouseTo be confirmed.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2018, 00:00-00:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Conflict management in northern Europe, 1350-1570

UserDr Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz (University of Amsterdam).

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Mechanism of transformation of neural stem cells by fusion onco-proteins.

UserRobert Kupp (CRUK Cambridge Institute / Oncology).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 November 2018, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Institutionalising environmental values and valuation into policy

UserDr Jacob Phelps, Lecturer in Tropical Environmental Change and Policy, Lancaster University.

HouseRoom 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

ClockTuesday 13 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Brick and tile making in Athens, Greece, during 20th century

UserMichalis Bardanis (University of Ioannina, Greece).

HouseRoom 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 12 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Is sea level rise accelerating and what are the implications for coastal flooding?

UserDr Ivan Haigh, Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton at the University of Southampton.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 08 November 2018, 16:15-18:00

Fieldwork Seminar: Methodologies in the 'field'

Archival Methods Forum

UserAnne Alexander (CRASSH), Sebastian Haug, Phil Howell, Francesca Moore, Nida Rehman & Sipke Shaughnessy.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 30 October 2018, 10:00-14:00

Centenary Lecture Series, Department of Geography

Border crossings: geographies of class, gender, mobility and migration

UserProfessor Linda McDowell, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 25 October 2018, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Perovskite Solar Cells: Printing the future of photovoltaics

UserStuart Macpherson (StranksLab, Optoelectronics group, Physics, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 25 October 2018, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Bombarding with data? Drones, oil extraction and environmental justice in the Amazon

Note this talk will be held on a Wednesday, while ordinarily the Political Ecology talks are on a Tuesday.

UserMurat Arsel, Murat Arsel, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Re-thinking the boundaries of dendrochronology

UserProf. Ulf Buentgen (Department of Geography).

HouseCripps Auditorium, Magdalene College.

ClockThursday 18 October 2018, 17:30-18:30

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

Varves and tephras in the palaeoclimate record of the Dead Sea

UserDr Ina Neugebauer, GFZ Potsdam (Visiting Scholar, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge) .

HouseWilliam Hardy Building, Room 101, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 18 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Counting Crime the Cambridge Way

UserProfessor Larry Sherman, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge; Emeritus Fellow, Darwin College.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 16 October 2018, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Nano-photonics for better detection of toxic molecules in air

UserDr Tanya Hutter (Chemistry Department, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 11 October 2018, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

How did Dmitrii Mendeleev make his predictions?

UserKaroliina Pulkkinen, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 09 October 2018, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The production of an urban post-political ecology: Or, is the apocalypse really such a good thing?

Note this talk is unusually on a Monday, thereafter unless otherwise specified, PE talks will be on a Tuesday 1-2pm. As this is the first session of term, there will be a short introduction at the beginning.

UserEarl Harper, University of Bristol.

HouseRoom 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

ClockMonday 08 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Divided Kingdom: inequalities in the UK since 1900

UserProfessor Pat Thane (King’s College London).

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 04 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Designing Ultra Low Power Sensor Interfaces for the Internet of Things

UserDr Arokia Nathan (Cambridge Touch Technologies Ltd).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 04 October 2018, 13:10-14:00

Department of Geography - other talks

Pigs, Politics and Petroleum: Development, disruptive politics and disjunctures in Papua New Guinea's extractive sector

UserProfessor Glenn Banks, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University, New Zealand.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockMonday 27 August 2018, 14:00-15:00

Biogeography and Biogeomorphology - Department of Geography

Tidal flat morphodynamics: Sediment sorting, self-weight consolidation and marsh distribution

UserDr Zeng Zhou, Associate Professor in Coastal Geomorphology, Hohai University, Nanjing, China.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockWednesday 11 July 2018, 11:00-12:00

Winton Discussions

The impact of policy on the low-carbon transition: opening the black box of energy technologies

UserProfessor Laura Diaz Anadon, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge.

HouseMaxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

ClockTuesday 26 June 2018, 14:30-15:30

Biogeography and Biogeomorphology - Department of Geography

Lessons learnt from 100 years of coastal flooding in the UK

UserDr Ivan Haigh, Associate Professor in Coastal Oceanography, University of Southampton.

HouseDepartment of Geography, HB101.

ClockMonday 25 June 2018, 12:00-13:00

Quantitative History Seminar

160 years of occupational structure: Late Imperial China and its regions

Note change of date

UserCheng Yang (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockTuesday 19 June 2018, 16:00-17:30

Winton Discussions

Hidden problems in the global wind industry

UserDr Jim Platts, Institute of Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

HouseMaxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

ClockFriday 15 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Transforming global “win-win” discourse

UserJosie Chambers, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockTuesday 12 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Debtors’ schedules: a new source for understanding the economy in 18th-century England

UserTawny Paul, University of Exeter, and Jeremy Boulton, Newcastle University.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 24 May 2018, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Capitalism, Debt and Inequality

UserDr Anthony Hotson (Centre for Financial History and Darwin College).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2018, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Urban livestock keeping in Hanoi: policies, risks and benefits

UserJohanna Lindahl, Intl. Livestock Research Institute, Uppsala University.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

From Goethe to Macaques: What auctions can teach us about decision making

UserMr Robert Hickman, Department of Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience, Univesity of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 17 May 2018, 13:10-14:00

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Space of Biodiversity Expertise

Geographies of Knowledge annual lecture

UserProfessor Esther Turnhout, Professor in Forest and Nature Conservation Policy, Wageningen University.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

ClockThursday 10 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Echo mapping the gravitational potential well of black holes

UserDr William Alston, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 10 May 2018, 13:10-14:00

Fieldwork Seminar: Methodologies in the 'field'

First year PhD Fieldwork Forum

UserIsabel Airas, Lander Bosch, Ed Bryan, Lucy Goodman, Debolina Majumder & Adam Searle.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 08 May 2018, 11:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Design of novel hybrid foam materials for impact applications

UserMr. Adam Boyce, Centre for Micromechanics, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 03 May 2018, 13:10-14:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Game of Homes: The Financialisation of Housing

Seminar co-hosted by Development Studies and the Infrastructural Geography TRG

UserProf Manuel Aalbers.

HouseS1 Alison Richard Building.

ClockWednesday 02 May 2018, 12:15-13:45

Political Ecology Group meetings

The political ecology of voice (PEV) of oil company-community relations in Peru’s Loreto Region

UserAdrian Gonzalez, Royal Docks School of Business and Law, University of East London.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockTuesday 01 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Record of abrupt changes of last climate cycle in European glacial dust deposits

UserDenis-Didier Rousseau - Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique & CERES-ERTI.

HouseBawden Room, West Court, Jesus College.

ClockThursday 26 April 2018, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Engineering mitochondrial DNA in the mouse germline using designer nuclease technology

UserMs Beverly McCann, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 26 April 2018, 13:10-14:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

GSI Seminar - Using stories in energy research: Snapshots of three approaches

UserDr Rosie Robison, Dr Chris Foulds, Dr Mel Rohse (Global Sustainability Institute).

HouseCoslett (COS207), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 24 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

GSI / Environmental Law seminar - Richard Buxton Law

UserMatthew McFeeley and Hannah Brown, claimant lawyer at Richard Buxton Environment and Public Law Firm.

HouseHelmore (HEL113), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 10 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Tuberculosis, Cancer & Gout: Archaeolgical evidence of disease from Medieval Cambridge

UserDr Jenna Dittmar, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 March 2018, 13:10-14:00

Fieldwork Seminar: Methodologies in the 'field'

CANCELLED First year PhD student fieldwork seminar

Cancelled due to strike action

UserGeography PhD students.

HouseTBC (Department of Geography).

ClockTuesday 13 March 2018, 11:00-00:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Animal Migration

UserProfessor Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 09 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Electoral intrigue, ethnic politics and the vibrancy of the Kenyan public sphere

UserDr Stephanie Diepeveen, Department of Politics and International Studies.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 06 March 2018, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Migration in Science

UserDr Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, PRS.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 02 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Antibiotic resistance: The search for novel Lipoteichoic acid Synthase inhibitors

UserMr Rohan Eapen, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 01 March 2018, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Partition of India and Migration

UserMs Kavita Puri, BBC.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 23 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Modeling and understanding of Quaternary climate cycles

Normal time and place

UserAndrey Ganopolski, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

HouseLatimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

ClockThursday 22 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Does inflammation contribute to Pregnancy Associated Breast Cancer?

UserDr Jessica Hitchcock, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 22 February 2018, 13:10-14:00

Department of Geography - other talks

Greenland ice cores tell tales on past sea level changes

Distinguished International Visiting Fellow Lecture

UserProfessor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Disease Migration

UserProfessor Eva Harris, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 16 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Religion, revelry and resistance in Jacobean Lancashire

UserDr Jonathan Healey, University of Oxford.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 15 February 2018, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Automated modelling of industrial plants

UserEva Agapaki, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 February 2018, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Refugees and Migration

UserMr Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 09 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

The Anxiety of Ice: Visualizing Climate Change and Arctic Moving Images

UserAnna Stenport (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Scott MacKenzie (Queen's University, Kingston).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

ClockFriday 09 February 2018, 11:30-12:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Art and Migration

UserProfessor Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, University of Birmingham.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 02 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

The Cultural Functions of Climate

This talk is part of the Christ's climate series, found here: http://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/events/climate-seminar-3-1-feb-2018/

UserMike Hulme.

HousePlumb Auditorium, Christ's College.

ClockThursday 01 February 2018, 17:30-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Elite women and the agricultural landscape

UserDr Briony McDonagh, University of Hull.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 01 February 2018, 17:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

On the role of the Southern Ocean in modulating (past) climate variability

Please note different time/venue

UserSamuel Jaccard, University of Bern.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockThursday 01 February 2018, 17:00-18:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Infrastructural Geographies Launch event

UserCharlotte Lemanski (University of Cambridge).

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockThursday 01 February 2018, 15:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Immigration and Freedom

UserProfessor Chandran Kukathas, LSE.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 26 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Black and British Migration

UserMr David Olusoga, Historian & Broadcaster.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 19 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

Department of Geography - other talks

Racial banishment: Old and new forms of urban transformation in the United States

Distinguished International Visiting Fellow Lecture

UserProfessor Ananya Roy, The Institute on Inequality and Democracy, University of California, Los Angeles.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 18 January 2018, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Water Sensitive Urban Design for Cities of the Future

UserDr Leon Kapetas, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 18 January 2018, 13:10-14:00

Department of Geography - other talks

Postcolonial theory and the project of urban studies

Distinguished International Visiting Fellow Seminar

UserProfessor Ananya Roy, The Institute on Inequality and Democracy, University of California, Los Angeles.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 17 January 2018, 16:15-17:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

The Open City: its ethics and its design

UserProfessor Richard Sennett, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics .

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 30 November 2017, 16:15-18:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Alzheimer’s Disease: The story so far

UserKatarina Pisani (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 30 November 2017, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Conservation by Algorithm

UserBill Adams, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockTuesday 28 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Measuring landscape resilience: tephra, soil and spatial patterns

UserDr Richard Streeter, School of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 23 November 2017, 16:15-18:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Distributed Ledger technology: beyond the block chain hype

UserKC Sivaramakrishnan (Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 23 November 2017, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

What do conservationists believe about people, nature and markets?

UserChris Sandbrook, Department of Geography, University of CAmbridge.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockTuesday 21 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Culture and Climate Change: experiments in collaboration and engagement

UserProfessor Joe Smith, Department of Geography, The Open University and Dr. Renata Tyszczuk, University of Sheffield, School of Architecture.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 16 November 2017, 16:15-18:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Multimodal driver displays, autonomous car handovers, and inclusiveness

UserDr. Ioannis Politis (Engineering Design Centre, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 16 November 2017, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Scarce land, diverse livelihoods - Tracking 35 years of change in central Mali

UserProfessor Camilla Toulmin, Lancaster University and iied.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockTuesday 14 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Molecular Origin of Capacity Fade in Sodium Ion Batteries

UserDr. Lauren Marbella (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 09 November 2017, 13:10-14:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

Tree-rings and genetics

UserDr Alma Piermattei, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseRm 101, William Hardy Building, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 09 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Environmental and climatic effects of volcanic aerosol: past, present and future

UserDr Anya Schmidt, Department of Geography and Department of Chemistry, Cambridge University.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 02 November 2017, 16:15-18:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

How is continuous experience transformed into discrete memories?

UserDr. Aya Ben-Akov (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 02 November 2017, 13:10-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Managing the global land resource

UserPete Smith, University of Aberdeen.

HouseDepartment of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 02 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Volcanic eruptions, climate and humans: How lessons from the past can help us to prepare for the future

UserMichael Sigl, Paul Scherrer Institut & Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern.

HouseLatimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

ClockThursday 19 October 2017, 17:30-18:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Under the Physical Geography Parasol: Climate and History

UserProfessor Christine Lane and Professor Ulf Büntgen, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 19 October 2017, 15:30-18:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

DNA-repairing proteins: View of a structural biologist

UserDr Domi Baretic (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 19 October 2017, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Graphene for ultrafast lasers

UserGiancarlo Soavi (Cambridge Graphene Centre).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 12 October 2017, 13:10-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Respectable banking: the search for stability in London’s money and credit markets since 1695

UserDr Anthony Hotson, Centre for Financial History and Darwin College.

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

WikiFactMine: Scientific Knowledge for Everyone

UserDr. Peter Murray-Rust (Unilever Centre, Dept. Of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 October 2017, 13:10-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Composition of Wealth: Between Kinship Entitlements and Market Access

UserMargaret Lanzinger (Vienna) and Janine Maegraith (Cambridge).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 9.

ClockThursday 27 April 2017, 17:00-19:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Controls on the rapid drainage of supraglacial lakes

UserDr. Jerome A. Neufeld, Department of Earth Sciences & DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 15 March 2017, 16:30-17:30

Financial History Seminar

Money: the unauthorised biography

UserDr Felix Martin, Institute for New Economic Thinking and Centre for Global Studies .

HouseDarwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St).

ClockMonday 13 March 2017, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Cultural and Historical Geography (CCHG) - Department of Geography

CCHG series: Political Geology Workshop

Please note the adjusted time - starting 10am

UserAndrew Barry (UCL), Nigel Clark (Lancaster).

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockFriday 10 March 2017, 10:00-12:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Neutrinos in Seven Questions

UserLorena Escudero, HEP Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 09 March 2017, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Change and necessity: forest resilience and conservation for the 21st century

UserJonathan Spencer, Head of Planning & Environment Forest Enterprise Forestry Commission.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

ClockWednesday 08 March 2017, 17:00-18:00

Societies, Markets, States - Department of Geography

Keeping while giving? Expectations of reciprocity among Arab donor states

UserInken Wiese, Sociology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Konstanz.

HouseGeoraphy Department Seminar Room.

ClockMonday 06 March 2017, 16:15-17:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Ageing

UserProfessor Sarah Harper, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 03 March 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Geographical Society (CUGS) talks

Saskia Sassen: Geographies of Expulsion

All Welcome - Free for CUGS members (with membership card), £2 for non-members

UserSaskia Sassen, Colombia University.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Geography Department, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 02 March 2017, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Understanding consumer demand in the wildlife trade

UserAmy Hinsley, Oxford Martin School University of Oxford.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

ClockWednesday 01 March 2017, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Workshops

How to… balance study/career and children

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockWednesday 01 March 2017, 12:30-13:30

Financial History Seminar

Why did Britain have broad money supply targets?

http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/directory/djn33@cam.ac.uk

UserDr Duncan Needham, Centre for Financial History.

HouseDarwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St).

ClockMonday 27 February 2017, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Politics

UserProfessor Matthew Goodwin, University of Kent.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 24 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Conservation and invasive species in freshwater ecosystems

UserDavid Aldridge, Department of Zoology University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2017, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge University Geographical Society (CUGS) talks

Jason Dittmer: Geopolitics of the UK & the World

All Welcome - Free for CUGS members (with membership card), £2 for non-members

UserJason Dittmer, Professor of Political Geography, University College London.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Geography Department, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2017, 18:00-19:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extremes of the Universe

UserProfessor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 17 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Sex, eggs and videotape: techniques in threatened bird conservation

UserDebbie Pain Director of Conservation, The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT).

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2017, 17:00-18:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Critique of Punitive Reason

UserDidier Fassin, James Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2017, 17:00-18:45

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

The Public Presence of the Social Sciences

Distinguished Visitor lecture

UserDidier Fassin, James Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 14 February 2017, 16:15-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Rowing

UserRoz Savage MBE, Ocean Rower, Yale University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 10 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Geographical Society (CUGS) talks

Nicholas Crane: Humans Shaping Britain

All Welcome - Free for CUGS members (with membership card), £2 for non-members

UserNicholas Crane, President, Royal Geographical Society.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Geography Department, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 09 February 2017, 18:00-19:15

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Modelling the Last Glacial-Interglacial Cycle: How sensitive are past climates?

UserPaul Valdes, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol.

HouseLatimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

ClockThursday 09 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Pathological Lives: on the cosmopolitics of losing self-assurance

UserProfessor Steve Hinchliffe, Geography and College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 09 February 2017, 16:15-18:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Lessons from plants that don’t stay put: Mendicant baobabs and acrobat acacias

UserChristian Kull, Institut de géographie et durabilité Université de Lausanne.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2017, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Cultural and Historical Geography (CCHG) - Department of Geography

Austerity Nostalgia

CCHG public lecture

UserOwen Hatherley, guest speaker.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2017, 16:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Dealing with Extremism

UserProfessor David Runciman, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 03 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Geographical Society (CUGS) talks

Joe Smith: Climate Change in the Media

All Welcome - Free for CUGS members (with membership card), £2 for non-members

UserJoe Smith, Professor of Environment and Society, Open University.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Geography Department, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 02 February 2017, 18:00-19:15

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Divergences or varieties in European economic development?

UserChristof Jeggle (University of Würzburg).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 02 February 2017, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Events and How to Live with Them

UserProfessor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 27 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Late Quaternary tephrostratigraphies from East African lakes

UserChristine Lane, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseLatimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

ClockThursday 26 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Mapping a viral interactome

UserLuis Nobre, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 26 January 2017, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

UNESCO biosphere reserves: concept, challenges and opportunities

UserProfessor Martin Price, Perth College Chair of the UK MAB Committee Chairholder, UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Mountain Development Director, Centre for Mountain Studies.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2017, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Weather

UserDr Emily Shuckburgh, BAS.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 20 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Turing Test for Smart Materials

UserDr Stoyan Smoukov, Energy Research.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 19 January 2017, 13:10-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

tbc

UserDr Tim Brown, Queen Mary University of London.

HouseRoom 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

ClockMonday 16 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

The great devolution debate

Please let us know if you plan to attend this event at gsi-info@anglia.ac.uk

UserPanel of experts from academia and local government.

HouseCoslett Building (COS 107), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2016, 13:00-15:00

Darwin College Workshops

How to commercialise your idea/research

UserTanya Hutter (University of Cambridge).

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 17 November 2016, 19:30-21:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Inequality and social mobility in medieval England

UserProfessor Chris Dyer, University of Leicester.

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 17 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Labouring in early modern London

UserDr Judy Stephenson, University of Oxford.

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 27 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Digging deeper: What living athletes can tell us about behaviour in prehistory

UserDr Alison Macintosh, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 27 October 2016, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Surviving the 21st Century

UserMartin Rees, Partha Dasgupta, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh and Bonnie Wintle, The Centre for Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge.

HouseBabbage Lecture Room - David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2016, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Ivo Andric and the Dynamic Aspects of the Balkan Cultural Identity

UserProf Dr Kornelije Kvas, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philology.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

HIV-1 vectors: How can you convert a pathogen to a therapeutic vehicle?

UserEirini Vamva, PhD Candidate in the Department of Medicine .

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 20 October 2016, 13:10-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Common Law and the origins of shareholder protection

UserProfessor John Turner, Queen's University Belfast.

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 13 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

'Pressure from without': Karl Marx and the politics and economics of 1867

UserProfessor Gareth Stedman Jones, University of Cambridge and Queen Mary, London.

HouseGraham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 06 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

Winton Discussions

Energy Catalyst

UserMichael Priestnall, Lead Technologist in Energy for Innovate UK.

HouseMaxwell Centre, JJ Thomson Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 19 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Large CO2 emissions from pre-industrial land use change – Does the carbon budget add up?

UserBenjamin Stocker. Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London.

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 12 May 2016, 17:30-18:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Slaves and slave ownership in Ottoman Bursa, 1460-1880

UserHülya Canbakal (Sabanci University, Istanbul) (with Alpay Filiztekin, Sabanci).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 12 May 2016, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

An 18,000-year old Crime Scene Investigation

UserDr Ana Marin-Arroyo, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 10 May 2016, 13:10-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

A formal subdivision of the Holocene Series/Epoch

UserMike Walker, School of Archaeology, History & Anthropology, Trinity Saint David, University of Wales, Lampeter, and Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University.

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 05 May 2016, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Emerging solar cell technologies: a microscopist's view

UserGiorgio Divitini, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 May 2016, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The technocratic empiricism of the Obama administration

UserJack Wright, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 03 May 2016, 13:10-14:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Anglo-American productivity differentials once again

UserMark Thomas (University of Virginia).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 25 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Winton Discussions

Fuel cells and hydrogen – moving towards a low carbon economy

UserGareth Hinds, National Physical Laboratory (NPL).

HouseMaxwell Centre, JJ Thomson Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 21 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Commons and commodities: Struggles for hegemony in environmental governance

UserProfessor Erik Gomez-Baggethun (Norwegian University of Life Sciences, NMBU).

HouseRoom 206, Sir William Hardy Building.

ClockThursday 10 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Nigeria: energy past to climate future

UserJohn Ward, Vivid Economics & Norbert Edomah, Global Sustainability Institute.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 107), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Gene editing for conservation: a desirable future?

UserJasper Montana (Department of Geography, University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockTuesday 08 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Knowledge, human capital and economic development: evidence from the British industrial revolution, 1750-1930

UserProfessor B. Zorina Khan (Bowdoin College, USA, and National Bureau of Economic Research).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 07 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Game Theory of Conflict

UserDr Thomas C Schelling, University of Maryland.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 04 March 2016, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

How languages signal highlights using mismatches as methodology

UserDr Jenneke van der Wal, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 01 March 2016, 13:10-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

M. Phil Presentations II. Financial and Business History

UserLeslie Chang, Jacapo Satori, Ryan Ripamonti, Emiliano Travieso, and Aditya Basrur (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 29 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Games Animals Play

UserProfessor Nick Davies, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 26 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Department of Geography - Distinguished International Fellows

Plantations, Violence, and the Monopoly Form

UserProfessor Tania Murray Li, Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2016, 17:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

The end of the Swiss economic model

UserProfessor Jonathan Steinberg, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European History at the University of Pennsylvania.

HouseDarwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St).

ClockMonday 22 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

M.Phil Presentations I. Economics, Politics and Policy

UserDaniel Allemann, Stephanie Ternullo, Rosa Hodgkin, Connor Lempriere, and Callum Easton (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 22 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Games for the Brain

UserProfessor Barbara Sahakian, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 19 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Title to be confirmed

UserJessica Hope.

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockTuesday 16 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

"Losing the New Great Game"

UserDr Frank Ledwidge, Barrister, Writer and Lecturer.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 12 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Smelling molecules with optical nano-noses

UserDr Tanya Hutter, Department of Chemistry .

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 11 February 2016, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Cold War origins of the Euro

UserDr Duncan Needham, Faculty of History.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 09 February 2016, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Title to be confirmed

UserAlbert Arhin (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockTuesday 09 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Games in Sports

UserSir Dave Brailsford, Team Sky.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 05 February 2016, 17:30-18:30

Department of Geography - other talks

Mangrove loss & Ecosystem Services

UserDan Friess, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore.

HouseHardy Building 101, Department of Geography.

ClockFriday 05 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

“Do I look fat in these genes?”

UserDr Ines Barroso, Sanger Institute.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 04 February 2016, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Managing tropical agriculture to minimise biodiversity loss

UserDavid Edwards, Dept. of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2016, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Workshops

How to stay confident in Cambridge

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2016, 19:30-21:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Revisiting Meiji Japan's economic miracle: the structural and regional dimensions of productivity growth (1874-1909)

UserDr Jean-Pascal Bassino (ENS Lyon), Dr Kyoji Fukao (IER, Hitotsubashi University) and Dr Tokihiko Settsu (Musashi University).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 01 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Wittgenstein's Games

UserProfessor A C Grayling, New College of the Humanities.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 29 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

What’s in a flame? — the modern theory of combustion

UserGirish Nivarti (Department of Engineering).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 28 January 2016, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Science Policy and Expertise

UserRob Doubleday, Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP), University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, Level 1, The David Attenborough Building.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2016, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Game of Crime and Punishment

UserMrs Nicky Padfield, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 22 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

Winton Discussions

Living Laboratory for Sustainability

UserEmily Dunning - Coordinator of the Living Laboratory for Sustainability.

HouseMaxwell Centre, JJ Thomson Seminar Room.

ClockThursday 21 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Designing metal forming machines

UserDr Evros Loukaides (Department of Engineering).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 21 January 2016, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Workshops

How to Talk to the Media

UserNick Saffel & Dr John Nilsson-Wright.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 19 January 2016, 19:30-21:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Double-bill: Polar Representation in Museums

UserClaire Warrior (National Maritime Museum) and Charlotte Connelly (Polar Museum, SPRI).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

ClockTuesday 19 January 2016, 14:30-16:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Personal Principles and the Political Game

UserBaroness Sayeeda Warsi, House of Lords.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 15 January 2016, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Climate and Society: Examples of the climate impact on civilizations

UserSebastian Breitenbacher (Earth Sciences Department, University of Cambridge).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 03 December 2015, 17:30-18:30

Economic and Social History Seminars

Global Economic Development and the Anthropocene

UserGareth Austin (Geneva/Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 03 December 2015, 17:00-18:30

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

The Pope and the planet: religion in climate change

UserIan Christie (Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group, University of Surrey).

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 207 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockWednesday 02 December 2015, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Conservation of orang-utans and tigers in Malaysia – interventions and progress of work from the field.

UserDr Melvin Gumal, Director of the Malaysian Wildlife Conservation Society, and Darwin alumnus..

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2015, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

To Be Confirmed

UserSunita Chaudhary.

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2015, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Relating mind and brain: can brain activity predict perceptual experience?

UserDr Marieke Mur (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 26 November 2015, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Wildlife in the Anthropocene: conservation after nature

UserJamie Lorimer, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Role Models: research models to answer policy questions

UserMr. Davide Natalini (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, uk) James Woodcock, Centre for Diet and Activity Research.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 207 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockTuesday 24 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Using the Land-Ocean Transition to understand coastal landscapes

UserMark Bateman (Department of Geography, University of Sheffield).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 19 November 2015, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Mendicant baobabs and acrobat acacias: lessons from plants that don’t stay put

UserChristian Kull, Institut de géographie et durabilité, Université de Lausanne.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Political Ecology of Invasive Species

UserChristian Kull (Extra Session!).

HouseSCR, St. Catherine's College .

ClockWednesday 18 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Measured with Ceremonies

UserTim Milner, Darwin Deputy Praelector and University Ceremonial Officer..

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2015, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Ph.D. Presentation (1st Year Grad Forum)

UserKaren Wong (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Economic and Social History Seminars

British Demography, c.1850-c.2000. How and Why was Scotland Different?

Note this seminar will start at 5.30pm

UserMichael Anderson (Edinburgh).

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 12 November 2015, 17:30-19:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Unusual questions/ extraordinary answers

UserHands-on exhibition bringing new perspectives to sustainability.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 006), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 12 November 2015, 16:00-18:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Commonness and conservation: should we bother about the rare stuff?

UserSandy Knapp, Life Science Plants Division, Natural History Museum.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Landscape Retreat and 'Jumping': Late Prehistoric Fenland Environmental Adaption/Response

UserChristopher Evans (Division of Archaeology, University of Cambridge).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 05 November 2015, 17:30-18:30

Economic and Social History Seminars

Medieval English Peasants and Culture

UserPhillipp Schofield (Aberystwyth).

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 05 November 2015, 17:00-18:30

Department of Geography - Distinguished International Fellows

Public lecture: The fugitives - blackness as urban method

UserProfessor AbdouMaliq Simone (Professor of Sociology and Urbanism, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2015, 17:00-19:00

Department of Geography - Distinguished International Fellows

Department Seminar: Urbanisation at the interface of the habitable and uninhabitable: on redescription and detachment

UserProfessor AbdouMaliq Simone (Professor of Sociology and Urbanism, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity).

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 03 November 2015, 17:00-19:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Clim'art' therapy: where do climate change, the arts and psychotherapy meet?

UserPanel Discussion with artists Ackroyd & Harvey, Marina Velez and Zoe Svendsen led by Dr Renee Lertzman (Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC).

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB 002), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 29 October 2015, 18:30-20:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Limits to growth - a new generation

UserIrma Allen and Roberto Pasqualino (Global Sustainability Institute).

HouseRoom 302, Helmore Building (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockFriday 23 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Invasive alien species on islands: problems and solutions

UserAnthony Martin, South Georgia Habitat Restoration Project, South Georgia Heritage Trust and University of Dundee.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

Magic Circle seminar group

Magic Circle Seminar 2014-2015

Userthe Magic Circle is taking a rest 2014-2015.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute.

ClockFriday 16 October 2015, 11:00-13:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The last 1000 years in East Antarctica: insights from a new temperature proxy.

UserAnais Orsi, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-sur-Yvette (France).

HouseCripps Meeting Room 4, Cripps Court Building, Chesterton Road, Magdalene College.

ClockThursday 15 October 2015, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Vision-Based Over-Height Vehicle Detection

UserBella Nguyen (Department of Engineering).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 October 2015, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Conflicts in conservation: hunting for solutions

UserSteve Redpath, Institute of Biological & Environmental Sciences, Aberdeen University.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Regional Man-land Relationship in the Northern Chinese Frontier in History

Please note earlier start time of 12.10pm. Sandwiches and fruit will be available at the start.

UserProfessor Deng Hui, Peking University .

HouseSeminar Room, Main Geography Department Building, Downing Place.

ClockMonday 13 July 2015, 12:10-13:00

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

Bodies of Violence: Theorizing Embodied Subjects in International Relations

All welcome - drinks reception to follow

UserDr Lauren Wilcox, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies.

HouseRoom SG1 (Ground floor), Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockThursday 11 June 2015, 17:30-18:30

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

Virtue and Virility: Images of Male Sexuality in Early Nineteenth-Century France

All welcome

UserDr Andrew Counter, Lecturer in 19th Century French Studies, King's College, London.

HouseRoom S1 (1st floor), Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

ClockThursday 04 June 2015, 13:00-14:00

Winton Discussions

Piezoelectric nanogenerators: Power solutions for autonomous devices

UserDr Sohini Kar-Narayan, Lecturer Department of Materials Science.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockThursday 21 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Darwin's children

UserCharissa Varma, Darwin Correspondence Project.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 19 May 2015, 13:10-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Boron isotopes as pH proxy: a critical evaluation

UserDr. Sambuddha Misra (Godwin Laboratory for Palaeoclimate Research, Earth Sciences Department, University of Cambridge).

HouseCripps Meeting Room 3, Cripps Court Building, Chesterton Road, Magdalene College.

ClockThursday 14 May 2015, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Metabolic cooperation in a synthetic yeast community

UserKate Campbell (University of Cambridge).

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 14 May 2015, 13:10-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Doctrinal determinants of Federal Reserve policy, 1914-1934

UserProfessor Barry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 11 May 2015, 17:00-18:30

Quantitative History Seminar

Railways and population: spatial interactions

Note: this seminar will start at 12.30pm. Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.15pm.

UserEduard Alvarez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain) and Professor Jordi Marti Henneberg (University of Lleida, Spain).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 11 May 2015, 12:30-14:00

Financial History Seminar

The Coalition Effect, 2010-2015

UserDr Mike Finn, Director of the Centre for Education Policy Analysis and David Howarth, Member of Parliament for Cambridge from 2005–10..

HouseDarwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St).

ClockWednesday 06 May 2015, 19:00-20:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - other talks

Blizzard blowing again and considerable discomfort on board as usual

UserDr Ursula Rack, University of Canterbury.

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockThursday 30 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Land Access Inequality and Education in Pre-industrial Spain

UserDr Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia (with Julio Martínez-Galarraga) (Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 27 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Remaking our future: a radically different approach

Lunch Provided

UserRob Shaw, Director of Sustainability & Climate Change, LDA Design.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 005 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockFriday 24 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Mr Osborne’s Economic Experiment

UserWilliam Keegan, Senior Economics Commentator, The Observer.

HouseDarwin College (Old Library).

ClockThursday 23 April 2015, 18:00-19:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Foundling Hospital Children and their Employment, c. 1750-1850: Some Preliminary Findings

We normally have dinner with the speaker afterwards. All welcome.

UserHelen Berry (Newcastle).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 12.

ClockThursday 23 April 2015, 17:00-19:00

Winton Discussions

Patents in theory and in practice

UserDr Anwar Gilani - Venner Shipley.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockThursday 16 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Marine terminating glaciers within Elmer/Ice: model and applications

NOTE: THIS TALK IS ON A THURSDAY

UserOlivier Gagliardini (Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de l’environnement).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockThursday 19 March 2015, 16:30-17:30

Winton Discussions

A remarkable set of contemplations

UserCraig Bennett - Friends of the Earth.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockThursday 12 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Sustainability success: Leadership influence or serendipity?

UserProf Janet Haddock-Fraser, Dean of the Faculty of Social and Applied Sciences & Dr Peter Rands, Director of Sustainability Development Canterbury Christ Church University.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 109 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockTuesday 10 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

British Financial Crises in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

UserProfessor Forrest Capie, Cass Business School, City University, London.

HouseDarwin College, Old Library.

ClockMonday 09 March 2015, 17:00-18:30

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Feminist Tales of the Italian Resistance

All welcome

UserMs Beatrice Balfour, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge .

HouseLightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP.

ClockMonday 09 March 2015, 12:30-13:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

MPhil Presentations

UserAlexandra Digby/Neil Gandhi (Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 09 March 2015, 12:30-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Technology Development

UserDr Hermann Hauser, Amadeus Capital Partners.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 06 March 2015, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Retreat of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet; landforms, sediments, dates and the BRITICE-CHRONO project

UserProf Chris D. Clark, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield (UK).

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 05 March 2015, 17:30-18:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Neoliberalism and the environment revisited: The North American Free Trade Agreement and the US-Mexico border 20 years on

UserProfessor Diana Liverman Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge Regents Professor of Geography and Development and Co-Director of the Institute of the Environment University of Arizona.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 02 March 2015, 16:15-18:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

MPhil Presentations

UserEllen Nye/Tim Rudnicki/Cheng Yang (Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 02 March 2015, 12:30-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Economic Development

UserDr Ha-Joon Chang, Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 27 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Towards bi-treated glass

UserMarco Zaccaria.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 26 February 2015, 13:10-14:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Marketing the Women Writer in Sixteenth-Century Italy

All welcome

UserDr Abigail Brundin, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge.

HouseLightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP.

ClockMonday 23 February 2015, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Biomimicry - Development of Sustainable Design

UserMichael Pawlyn, Exploration Architecture.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 20 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

New DNA approaches to understanding Late-Quaternary and recent biodiversity changes – potential and problems

UserProf Mary E. Edwards, Department of Geography and Environment, University of Southampton (UK).

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 19 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Making Smarter Artificial Muscles

UserStoyan Smoukov (University of Cambridge).

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 19 February 2015, 13:10-14:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Feminism, Motherhood and Eugenics in pre-WWI Berlin; or: How to promote reform through literary writing?

All welcome

UserDr Godela Weiss-Sussex, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge.

HouseLightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP.

ClockMonday 16 February 2015, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Development of Climate Science

UserProfessor Dame Julia Slingo, Met Office.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 13 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Assessing the energy, water and land nexus in China

UserYing Qin, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 12 February 2015, 13:10-14:00

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

'A New Kind of Wildness' - the Rite of Spring and Other Queer Journeys into the Wild

All welcome

UserProfessor Jack Halberstam, The Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies .

HouseThe Main Lecture Theatre, Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1 TP.

ClockTuesday 10 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Penny-Pinching Pedagogy: desperately seeking the ‘authentic thrifter’

All welcome

UserDr Tracey Jensen, School of Law and Social Sciences, University of East London.

HouseLightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP.

ClockMonday 09 February 2015, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Developing a Sense of Self

UserProfessor Bruce Hood, Bristol.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 06 February 2015, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Why do black holes shine?

UserProf. Christopher Reynolds, Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, USA.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 February 2015, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Another take on frac(king): the triumph of the frock coat and the lounge suit

UserTim Milner, Darwin Deputy Praelector and University Ceremonial Officer.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 03 February 2015, 13:10-14:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Sharing Responsibility for Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence

All welcome

UserMs Alasia Nuti, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge.

HouseLightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP.

ClockMonday 02 February 2015, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Development of Galaxies

UserProfessor Richard Ellis, Caltech.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 30 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Sex, Gender and Generation in Early Modern Medical Records

All welcome

UserDr Lauren Kassell, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

HouseLightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP.

ClockMonday 26 January 2015, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Development of an Athlete

UserDr Katherine Grainger, Olympic Gold Medallist.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 23 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

Winton Discussions

An ideal limit for the performance of large wind farms

UserDr Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockThursday 22 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Women’s work and structural change. Manufactures in 18th-century rural Spain

UserProfessor Carmen Sarasúa (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 19 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Rites of Passage: sexual knowledge in Cate Shortland’s “Lore”, 2012

All welcome

UserProfessor Andrew Webber, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge.

HouseLightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP.

ClockMonday 19 January 2015, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Reprogramming Animal Development

UserProfessor Sir John Gurdon, Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 16 January 2015, 17:30-18:30

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

Women in Dark Times

Drinks Reception at 1830 - all welcome

UserProfessor Jacqueline Rose, the Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor.

HouseThe Palmerston Room, Fisher Building, St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP.

ClockWednesday 03 December 2014, 17:00-19:00

Economic and Social History Seminars

What was an organic economy?

UserProfessor Sir E.A. Wrigley (Cambridge).

HouseGraham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 27 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Investigative Interviewing of Children

UserDr Beth Ahern, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 27 November 2014, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Tracking marine turtles for conservation

UserProfessor Brendan Godley, University of Exeter.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

Family Politics: Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival 1900-1950

All Welcome

UserProfessor Paul Ginsborg, Professor of Contemporary European History, University of Florence.

HouseThe Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Rescuing homeless tsunami victims by law

UserJulius Weitzdörfer (Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2014, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The Politics of Conservation

UserBill Adams and Chris Sandbrook.

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Economic and Social History Seminars

The aftermath of the demographic transition in the developed world

UserProfessor David Reher (Complutense University, Madrid).

HouseGraham Storey Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 20 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

What can we understand from the structure of a protein?

UserDr Paul Elliott, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Medical Research Centre.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 20 November 2014, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Landscape scale conservation - a bird's eye view

UserDr Juliet Vickery, RSPB Centre for Conservation Science.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

The age of climate resilience

UserDr David Viner, Principal Advisor for Climate Resilience, Mott MacDonald.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building (LAB) 220 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockWednesday 19 November 2014, 16:30-18:15

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Book as Instrument, 1570–1720

UserDr Boris Jardine (Munby Fellow at the University Library).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2014, 13:10-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The North American deglaciation: linking rapid climate change, ice sheet retreat and sea level rises

UserDr Lauren Gregoire (School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockFriday 14 November 2014, 17:30-18:30

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

The age of climate resilience”

UserDr David Viner, Principal Advisor for Climate Resilience, Mott MacDonald.

HouseCoslett Building 124 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockFriday 14 November 2014, 16:30-18:15

Darwin College Science Seminars

Genetic code expansion in vivo: making proteins with novel properties

UserDr Ambra Bianco, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 13 November 2014, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The politics of belonging in Europe

UserDr Jeff Miley (Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 11 November 2014, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Title to be confirmed

UserJudith Schleicher.

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockTuesday 11 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Men and Masculinities in International Relations Research

All welcome

UserProfessor Terrell Carver, School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol.

HouseLightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP.

ClockMonday 10 November 2014, 12:30-13:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Changes in the Global Carbon Cycle over the last 800,000 years - an ice core perspective

UserProf Dr Hubertus Fischer (Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern).

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 06 November 2014, 17:30-18:30

Economic and Social History Seminars

Trees, trade and textiles: tracing ecological dependency in British industry, c.1550-1750

Note change of venue: Lecture Theatre, Trinity Hall

UserProfessor Paul Warde (East Anglia).

HouseLecture Theatre, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 06 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Energy storage: Understanding supercapacitors for improving them

UserDr Céline Merlet, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 06 November 2014, 13:10-14:00

Financial History Seminar

The international monetary arrangement is dysfunctional: surges in cross-border investment flows are the source of financial turbulence.

UserProfessor Robert Z. Aliber, Professor Emeritus of International Economics and Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business..

HouseDarwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St).

ClockWednesday 05 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

Magic Circle seminar group

xxx

Userxxx.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2014, 10:00-12:00

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

Feminism and the Abomination of Violence

All welcome

UserProfessor Jacqueline Rose, the Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor.

HouseWilliam Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 03 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

From the Pill to the Pen: an autobiography by Professor Carl Djerassi

All welcome

UserProfessor Carl Djerassi, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University, Inventor of the Contraceptive Pill, Playwright.

HouseWilliam Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockMonday 03 November 2014, 13:00-14:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Scientific instruments before science

UserDr Alexi Baker, CRASSH & History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 30 October 2014, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Planetary Boundaries 2.0: the latest advancements on defining a safe operating space for humanity on Earth

UserJohan Rockström Professor in Environmental Sciences Executive Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The social impacts of using drones for wildlife conservation

UserDr Chris Sandbrook (Department of Geography, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 28 October 2014, 13:10-14:00

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Michaelmas Term Lecture

UserSusanna Ferrar: "Stuff: what good is an Antarctic Heritage?".

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 25 October 2014, 19:30-21:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Top-down and bottom-up evidence for the early anthropogenic hypothesis

UserProf Bill Ruddiman (Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, US).

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Discussion on Resilience

UserDr. Chris Sandbrook (University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Living Long and Living Well: Changing Prospects for Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease and Late Life Dementias, 2014

UserProf. Eric Larson, Group Health Research Institute, Medicine and Health Services, University of Washington.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 16 October 2014, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Literary Criticism and the New Left (1956-62)

UserAlexander Hutton (Faculty of History, University of Cambridge).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 14 October 2014, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

'From individuals to populations to communities: Climate change impacts on birds'

UserDr James Pearce-Higgins, Director of Science, British Trust for Ornithology.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 13 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Carrying Trade

Note change of start time: 12.30pm

UserCarolyn Dougherty (York).

HouseSeminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 13 October 2014, 12:30-14:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

You can’t stop progress

Sustainable Lunch Provided. Free to attend.

UserRupert Read, Reader in Philosophy, University of East Anglia.

HouseCoslett Building 124 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockMonday 06 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Fracking the fjords: Earthquakes and glacial erosion, with some additional thoughts about stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

People should be aware that 7th July is Tour de France day, but we hope things will have become accessible by 5.00 pm.

UserProfessor Richard Alley, Evan Pugh Professor of Geoscience, Penn State University, USA.

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences.

ClockMonday 07 July 2014, 17:00-18:30

Winton Discussions

Energy vs materials availability. Equivalent or different?

UserProfessor David Cahen, Weizmann Institute of Science.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 23 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Feasibility of Wind & Solar Energy Systems for Large Geographic Domains

UserDr Christopher Clack, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

HouseCoslett Building 124 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockMonday 23 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Mapping Methane in the Arctic

UserMichelle Cain, Centre for Atmospheric Science, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 29 May 2014, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Bio-geo-graphy: landscape, dwelling and the political ecology of human-animal relations

UserDr. Maan Barua, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford .

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockTuesday 27 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Between comparison and singularity: architecture, Auroville and the aesthetic politics of urban Utopianism

Please note the time and venue: Seminar Room at 5pm.

UserDr Tariq Jazeel, Department of Geography, University College London.

HouseSeminar Room (Department of Geography, Downing Site).

ClockThursday 22 May 2014, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Science of Dishwashing

UserAkin Ali, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, University of Chembridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 May 2014, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Conservation in a crowded place: people and forest on Mount Elgon, Uganda

Please note that this session will take place in a different room.

UserDr. Marieke Sassen, UNEP-WCMC.

HouseHB101.

ClockTuesday 13 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Winton Discussions

Current Issues in Energy Policy

UserDr Chi-Kong Chyong (Energy Policy Research Group, University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 12 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

CANCELLED: Fluvio-centric Currents of River History: From the Mersey to the Po

We regret this seminar has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances

UserProfessor Peter Coates, University of Bristol.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 08 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Transport into the cell: How many ways to get in?

UserVassilis Bitsikas, MCR Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 08 May 2014, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Neuroprediction and the law

UserRaj Patel (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 06 May 2014, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The political ecology of a customary conservation practice: understanding processes of translation and hybridisation

UserRiamsara Kuyakanon Knapp, Geography Department, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockTuesday 29 April 2014, 13:00-14:00

Winton Discussions

The future of Artificial Photosynthesis - academic curiosity or real-world application?

UserDr. Erwin Reisner (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 31 March 2014, 16:00-17:00

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Lent Term Lecture 2

This is a normal lecture in the lecture series - and not a special ticketed event as advertised in Polar Bytes 69.

User‘The Life and Work of MacDonald Gill: mapmaker and artist ’ by Caroline Walker, Andrew Johnston and Angela Johnston.

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 22 March 2014, 19:30-21:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Climate Confusion: Lessons and Pitfalls in the Study of Climates Past

UserProfessor John Lowe, Emeritus Professor of Quaternary Science of the University of London, Gordon Manley Professor of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 13 March 2014, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

The future of biodiversity in tropical landscapes

Come along for this very special lunchtime talk to find out about the future of biodiversity! Feel free to bring your own lunch, but light refreshments will be also provided.

UserEd Turner, Department of Zoology.

HouseRoom N7, Pembroke College.

ClockThursday 13 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Wildlife and Environment

"You can't clear scrub and get chalk grassland unless ...." Forty years experience on the Devil's Ditch

All welcome Members free Non-members £3

UserPeter Grubb, Emeritus Professor of Investigative Plant Ecology at the University of Cambridge.

HouseSix Bells Public House, Fulbourn High Street, CB21 5DH.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2014, 19:30-22:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & Metaphor

UserDr Rowan Williams, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 07 March 2014, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Tibial rigidity through prolonged culture change: Adaptation across ~6150 years of agriculture in Central Europe

UserAlison Macintosh, Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 06 March 2014, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

System of Rice Intensification and the Shifting Dynamics of Gender and Labour

UserRegina Hansda, Geography Department, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockTuesday 04 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

The political economy of inflation in the 1970s

UserProfessor Jim Tomlinson, University of Glasgow.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 03 March 2014, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & Economic Collapse

UserProfessor Ian Morris, Stanford University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 28 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Trapping CO2 using sponge-like materials

Slight refreshment will be provided.

UserPu Zhao, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom N7, Pembroke College.

ClockThursday 27 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Hybrid corn and endangered maize: historical perspectives on the conservation of plant genetic resources

UserDr Helen Curry; Department of History & Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Urban political ecology of small towns in Africa and India

UserDr Tatiana Thieme, Dr Bhaskar Vira, Dr Emma Mawdsley and Dr Ivan Scales, Geography Department, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockTuesday 25 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Cultures of Childlessness: current debates and past experiences, Germany 1900-2010

UserDr Christina Benninghaus, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

HouseLightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP.

ClockMonday 24 February 2014, 12:30-13:30

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Lent Term Lecture 1

UserSubmarines in the Arctic: four decades of pack ice and the Royal Navy by Dr Charles Swithinbank, Prof Peter Wadhams and Dr Nick Hughes.

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 22 February 2014, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Human Plague

UserProfessor Stephen Emmott, Microsoft Research.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 21 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Spiking irregularity in cortical inhibitory interneurons

UserPhilipe Mendonca, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 20 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Mapping Methane in the Arctic

UserDr Michelle Cain, Centre for Atmospheric Science, Dept of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom N7, Pembroke College.

ClockThursday 20 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

The Politics of Thinking Big in Conservation

UserProfessor Bill Adams; Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Bhaskar Vira presents (title to be confirmed)

UserDr. Bhaskar Vira, Geography Department, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockTuesday 18 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

The Irish Famine and British Financial Crisis

UserCharles Read, Centre for Financial History and Christ's College.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 17 February 2014, 17:00-18:30

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Mapping the Post-Oedipal Landscape in Feminist and Gender Studies

UserDr Victoria Browne, Department of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University.

HouseLightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP.

ClockMonday 17 February 2014, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues, Populations & Survival

UserProfessor Stephen J O'Brien, St Petersburg State University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 14 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

No Going Back: The Scientific and Political Ethics of Ecological Novelty

Paul Robbins is an International Visiting Fellow in Geography.

UserProfessor Paul Robbins, International Fellow, from University of Wisconsin-Madison.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 13 February 2014, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Producing Eden: Can wildlife thrive beyond national parks in India?

Joint seminar, hosted with the Cambridge University Geographical Society (CUGS)

UserDr Paul Robbins; Department of Geography International Fellow & University of Wisconsin-Madison.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Paul Robbins leads an Early Career Researcher Seminar

UserProfessor Paul Robbins, International Fellow from University of Wisconsin-Madison..

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockTuesday 11 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Nature of Plagues

UserProfessor Angela McLean, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 07 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

Behind Marx’s “hidden abode”: toward a gender-sensitive conception of capitalism

Free entrance. Drinks Reception will follow Lecture

UserProfessor Nancy Fraser, Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science at The New School for Social Research, New York.

HouseKeynes Hall, King's College, Cambridge, CB2 1ST.

ClockFriday 07 February 2014, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cassandra's Climate

UserMichael Sheppard, Emeritus Schlumberger Fellow, Schlumberger.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 06 February 2014, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Riamsara Kuyakanon Knapp will lead a discussion on Traditional Ecological Knowledge

UserRiamsara Kuyakanon Knapp, Geography Department, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockTuesday 04 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Contagion and Intervention in the 1772-3 Credit Crisis

UserPaul Kosmetatos, Centre for Financial History and Darwin College.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 03 February 2014, 17:00-18:30

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Lilacs Out of the Dead Land: Alina Marazzi's home movies

All welcome

UserProfessor Emma Wilson, Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge.

HouseCastlereagh Room, Fisher Building, St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP.

ClockMonday 03 February 2014, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Silicon Plagues

UserMikko H Hypponen, CRO F-Secure & columnist.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 31 January 2014, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Is Carbon Storage safe? Insights from the >400,000 year old Green River natural analogue , Utah

UserAlexandra Maskell, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 30 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

The relevance of botanic garden greenhouses in the modern era

UserAlexander Summers, Botanic Garden.

HouseRoom N7, Pembroke College.

ClockThursday 30 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Friend or foe? Making sense of social research and biodiversity conservation

UserDr Chris Sandbrook; UNEP-WCMC & Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 29 January 2014, 17:00-18:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Dark Snow in Greenland

UserJason Box (Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 29 January 2014, 16:30-17:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Biofuels and Marginal Lands: Interrogating the Land Use Change Impacts of Jatropha Promotion in South India

UserDr. Jenn Baka, Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Sciences.

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockTuesday 28 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Good and Evil in Sexual Objectification: putting Kant to feminist work

All welcome

UserProfessor Rae Langton, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge.

HouseLightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP.

ClockMonday 27 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & History

UserProfessor Chris Dobson, Dr Mary Dobson, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 24 January 2014, 17:30-18:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

At Home in a Diaspora City: Urban Domesticities and Domestic Urbanism

Co-hosted with the University's ESRC Doctoral Training Centre

UserProfessor Alison Blunt, Queen Mary, University of London.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Graphene: When a Crystal Goes Flexible

UserDr Felice Torrisi, Cambridge Graphene Centre, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Michael Bravo leads a discussion on three articles by Paul Robbins

UserDr. Michael Bravo, Scott Polar Research Institute, Geography Department, University of Cambridge .

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockTuesday 21 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Saving the City: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914

UserProfessor Richard Roberts - Director, Centre for Contemporary British History at Kings College, London .

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 20 January 2014, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & Medicine

UserProfessor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 17 January 2014, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Strength of Broken Glass

UserCaroline Butchart, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 December 2013, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

The (moral) dilemmas of (conservation) research(ers?)

UserDr Bhaskar Vira; Director, Cambridge Conservation Research Institute (UCCRI) and Department of Geography.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 04 December 2013, 17:00-18:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Discussion on 'Environmental Humanities'

UserDr. Bhaskar Vira, Geography Department, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockTuesday 03 December 2013, 13:00-14:00

Winton Discussions

Jugaad Innovation: A Frugal, Flexible and Inclusive Way to Grow

UserProf Jaideep Prabhu, Judge Business School.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 02 December 2013, 16:00-17:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Unravelling Long-term Ecosystem Dynamics in Central Asia Using Palaeoecology

UserProfessor Anson W. Mackay, Environmental Change Research Centre, University College London.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 28 November 2013, 16:15-18:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Is it possible track and predict the Huntington's disease progression?

UserYe Yuan, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 28 November 2013, 13:10-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Benthic foraminiferal assemblages as proxies of paleoceanographic changes across Pleistocene glacial terminations in the NE Atlantic

CHANGE OF DATE: now on Wednesday Nov. 27th

UserDr. Patrick Grunert (U. of Graz, Austria).

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Mysterious goings-on around Antarctica

See this map for the venue location: http://www.zerocarbonsociety.org/wordpresszcs/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Picture3.png

UserAlek Petty, Earth Sciences Department, Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, UCL.

HouseBuckingham Room, Magdalene College.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Topic to be confirmed

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockTuesday 26 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Feminism in Israel: Spotlight on the Israeli multicultural rifts

All welcome

UserProfessor Henriette Dahan Kalev, Gender Studies, Ben Gurion University, Israel and Senior Academic Visitor, St Antony's College, University of Oxford.

HouseCastlereagh Room, Fisher Building, St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP.

ClockMonday 25 November 2013, 12:30-13:30

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Michaelmas Term Lecture 4

UserBritish Antarctic Survey Aviation by Rod Arnold.

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 23 November 2013, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Studying the intracellular localisation of Y RNAs

UserEyemen Kheir, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 21 November 2013, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Conservation of UK seabirds: a big issue or a done deal?

UserProf. Sarah Wanless, Seabird Ecologist, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, NERC.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Using underwater robots to observe the rapidly melting Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica

See this map for the venue location: http://www.zerocarbonsociety.org/wordpresszcs/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Picture3.png

UserLouise Biddle, University of East Anglia.

HouseBuckingham Room, Magdalene College.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

Sex, Gender and Heteronormativity: Seeing 'Some Like it Hot' as a Heterosexual Dystopia

All welcome

UserProfessor Terrell Carver, Professor of Political Theory, University of Bristol.

HouseUpper Hall, Jesus College, CB5 8BL.

ClockMonday 18 November 2013, 17:30-18:30

Magic Circle seminar group

Translating Lord Krishna and the Prince of Wales into Arabic

UserAdeel Khan (Doha International Centre for Interfaith Dialogue).

HousePiers Vitebsky's office, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 15 November 2013, 11:00-13:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cutting as Untying (Topo2: Resolving the Gordian Knot of the Cell since 3.8 billion B.C.)

UserMelissa Antoniou-Kourounioti, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 14 November 2013, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Discussion session: Urban political ecology of waste

UserDr. Tatiana Thieme, Dept. of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockTuesday 12 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Interglacials of the last 800,000 years

UserProf. Eric Wolff (Dept. of Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 07 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Functional Integrated Plastic Systems

UserAntony Sou, Optoelectronics Group, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 07 November 2013, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Mainstreaming Natural Capital into Decision-Making: Frontiers in Research and Policy

** Note:one-off THURSDAY seminar - no Wednesday session this week ** Joint seminar with CRASSH - Humanitas.

UserProf. Gretchen Daily, Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 31 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Abrasive Wear of Nano-structured Steel: Does Hardness Matter?

UserSubhankar Das bakshi, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge..

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 31 October 2013, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Topic and venue to be confirmed

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

The 'ethereal female' motif in Arctic fiction of the 19th Century

All Welcome

UserDr Shane McCorristine, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseCastlereagh Room, Fisher Building, St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP.

ClockMonday 28 October 2013, 12:30-13:30

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Michaelmas Term Lecture 2

UserOperation Tabarin by John Dudeney.

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 26 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

A Postgenomic Perspective on Sex and Gender

This talk will be followed by a drinks reception. All welcome - Free entrance.

UserProfessor John Dupré, Professor of Philosophy of Science and Director, ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (Egenis) at the University of Exeter.

HouseKeynes Hall, King's College, Cambridge, CB2 1ST.

ClockThursday 24 October 2013, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The paleoceanography frontier: proxies, new technologies and novel questions

Note unusual time

UserProf. Howard J. Spero (University of California).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 24 October 2013, 16:00-18:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

How Biomolecular Simulations of Molecules Can Help Us Understand What Matters

UserFlorian Roessler, Chemistry Department, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 24 October 2013, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Predicting wildlife dynamics in a changing environment

UserDr Ben Collen, Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research, UCL.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Assessing participatory forest management: a practice based approach

UserProfessor Bas Arts, Wageningen University.

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockTuesday 22 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Taking a closer look at the last glacial sediments

Canceled

UserDr. Maryline Vautravers (Cambridge).

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 17 October 2013, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

The World’s First Bulk-Type Fully High-Temperature Superconducting Machine

UserZhen Huang, Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 17 October 2013, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Lessons from the Dodo: restoring species and ecosystems on Mauritius

UserProf. Carl Jones, Scientific Director of the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, and International Conservation Fellow at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 16 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Margaret Mead as a mid-20th century public intellectual

All welcome

UserProfessor Peter Mandler, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.

HouseLightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP.

ClockMonday 14 October 2013, 12:30-13:30

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Michaelmas Term Lecture 1

UserExotic terrestrial mammals in Antarctic regions by Bob Headland.

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 12 October 2013, 19:30-21:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cool Conductors

This talk will include a great and memorable experimental demonstration of the discussed effect!

UserSven Friedemann, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 10 October 2013, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The Norwegian Nature Index: Challenges and Successes

UserPer Arild & Iulie Aslaksen, Statistics Norway.

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockTuesday 08 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

Winton Discussions

Winton 2nd Annual Symposium on Materials Discovery

UserFor full list of speakers visit http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/materialsdiscovery.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockMonday 30 September 2013, 09:00-18:00

Financial History Seminar

Why Zambia Failed: Institutional Degradation and Economic Decline Since 1964

UserMr Stuart Barton, MBA, CFA (CFH and Corpus Christi).

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockTuesday 25 June 2013, 17:00-19:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Political ecologies of the Anthropocene

Please note this session is on Wednesday 19th June

UserProfessor Bill Adams, Dept of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockWednesday 19 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Safeguards and ‘Dangerguards’: Towards a framework for unpacking social safeguards for REDD+

UserAlbert Arhin, PhD Candidate, Dept. of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockTuesday 18 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Winton Discussions

Creating Impact from Research

UserDr Andrea Cantone and Dr Gillian Davis, Cambridge Enterprise.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 17 June 2013, 16:00-17:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The King Returns: Politics, culture and conservation in the Mountains of the Moon, Uganda

UserDr. Mark Infield, Director, Cultural Values and Conservation, Fauna & Flora International.

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockTuesday 11 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Does Ice have Politics? The Materiality and Mobility of Frozen States

UserDr. Michael Bravo, Dept. of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockTuesday 04 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

The Disappearing Equity Risk Premium on the 1920s NYSE

UserDr Ali Kabiri, University of Buckingham.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 27 May 2013, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Canceled

UserEyemen Kheir .

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 23 May 2013, 13:10-14:00

Winton Discussions

Biological photovoltaic systems

UserProf Chris Howe, Department of Biochemistry.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 20 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Financial History Seminar

The Pricing Revolution in Marine Insurance, 1600-1824

UserMr Adrian Leonard (Trinity Hall and CFH).

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 13 May 2013, 17:00-19:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Sample-selection bias in the historical heights literature

Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30

UserProfessor Tim Guinnane, Department of Economics, Yale University.

HouseHB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room.

ClockMonday 13 May 2013, 12:45-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

open discussion / roundtable

UserDiscussion session.

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockTuesday 07 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

State Constitutional Commitment to Health and Health Care and Population Health Outcomes: Evidence from Historical U.S. Data

Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30

UserDr Hiroaki Muppy Matsuura, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford.

HouseHB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room.

ClockMonday 06 May 2013, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Work Meets Life project: How does Work get done?

talk 1-2pm special workshop 2-3pm

UserProf Robert A. Levin.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 02 May 2013, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

What do conservationists think about markets?

UserDr. Chris Sandbrook, UNEP-WCMC, Affiliated Lecturer.

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockTuesday 30 April 2013, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

A Global Census of Corporations in 1910

UserProfessor Leslie Hannah, LSE and Tokyo.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 29 April 2013, 17:00-19:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Pollinator diversity and land sharing/sparing

UserDiscussion session.

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockTuesday 23 April 2013, 13:00-14:00

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Lent Term Lecture 4

User'DROMLAN: a travelogue, A personal experience of the Dronning Maud Land Air Network (DROMLAN) in the austral spring of 2004' by Peter Clarkson..

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 23 March 2013, 19:30-00:00

Winton Discussions

Can you build a computer without using roads? Where we are going we don't need roads!

UserDr Chris Forman, Institute for Manufacturing (IfM).

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 18 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Re-wilding: putting natural processes back on track

**Last talk in Series!**

UserFrans Vera, Director, The Foundation of Natural Processes, The Netherlands.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Tax justice for snow leopards? Tax dodging and the environment

UserJonathan Hanson, PhD candidate, Dept. Geography.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre.

ClockTuesday 12 March 2013, 13:00-14:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Clerical policy and local population studies: christening fees in Georgian Westminster

Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30

UserProf. Jeremy Boulton, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Newcastle.

HouseSeminar Room, Main Building, Dept of Geography .

ClockMonday 11 March 2013, 12:45-14:00

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Lent Term Lecture 3

User'Discovering Bellingshausen' by Rip Bulkeley.

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 09 March 2013, 19:30-00:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Ancient Mesopotamia

UserProfessor Francesca Rochberg, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 08 March 2013, 17:30-18:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

John Lanchberry on the politics of the UNFCCC

UserJohn Lanchbery, RSPB.

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockTuesday 05 March 2013, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Women's work by marital status in England and Wales in 1881: Evidence from the Census Enumerator's Books

Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30

UserMr Xuesheng You, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, Main Geography Department Building, Downing Place.

ClockMonday 04 March 2013, 12:45-14:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Disappear here: Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa as a Web-Situated Subculture

Free entrance - all welcome

UserMs Charlotte Wu, Alumnus, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies.

HouseRamsden Room, St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 04 March 2013, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight and Self-Control

UserProfessor Terrie Moffitt, Duke University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 01 March 2013, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Making Poverty History – what role for biodiversity conservation?

UserDr Dilys Roe, International Institute for Environment & Development (IIED).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2013, 17:00-18:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Discussion of MacDonald and Corson (2012) 'TEEB Begins Now'

UserReading and Discussion session.

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Winton Discussions

Sustainability and Architecture

UserProf Koen Steemers, Head of the Department of Architecture.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 25 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Weak But Clever: The (Not So) Hidden Strengths of Women in Medieval French and Spanish Comico-Didactic Tales

Free entrance - all welcome

UserDr Andreea Weisl-Shaw, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Cambridge.

HouseRamsden Room, St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 25 February 2013, 12:30-13:30

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Lent Term Lecture 2

User'The Sirius Dog Sledge Patrol' by Lieutenant Commander John S Ash.

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 23 February 2013, 19:30-00:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foreseeing Space Weather

UserDr Jim Wild, Lancaster University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 22 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Testing the Bytham river hypothesis

UserProf. Philip Gibbard (Dept. of Geography, U. of Cambridge).

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 21 February 2013, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

Farewell to Prices and Incomes Policy

UserMr Adrian Williamson, Trinity Hall.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 18 February 2013, 17:00-19:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Writing in the Mother Tongue: the yin-centred feminism of Ursula Le Guin's 'The Left Hand of Darkness'

Free entrance - all welcome

UserDr Liesl King, Department of English Literature, Faculty of Arts, York St John University.

HouseRamsden Room, St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 18 February 2013, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Music

UserProfessor Nicholas Cook, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 15 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Geographical Society

Martha Crockatt - Earthwatch

UserMartha Crockatt - Research Assistant to Head of Climate Change Research at Earthwatch.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Geography Department, Downing Site.

ClockFriday 15 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Bernardo Strassburg - presentation

UserBernardo Strassburg, International Institute for Sustainability (IIS), Rio de Janeiro.

HouseSir William Hardy Building, room 206.

ClockTuesday 12 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

The Practices of Executive Selection: A Gender Analysis

Free entrance - all welcome

UserMs Monica Wirz, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies.

HouseRamsden Room, St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 11 February 2013, 12:30-13:30

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Lent Term Lecture 1

User'Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins' by Gavin Francis.

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 09 February 2013, 19:30-00:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Scientific Method

UserProfessor Hasok Chang, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 08 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Thinker-doers: Adding value in a climate crisis

UserGracen Johnson, MPhil Student, Land Economy Faculty.

HouseDirac Room, Fisher Building, St Johns College.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Gender Equality Law and Policy for 15 or for 27? Lessons from the Post-Communist Czech Republic

Free entrance - all welcome

UserDr Barbara Havelková, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.

HouseRamsden Room, St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 04 February 2013, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight and Fiction

UserRobert J Sawyer, Author.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 01 February 2013, 17:30-18:30

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

Willful Women: Feminism and the History of Will

Drinks reception to follow

UserProfessor Sara Ahmed, Goldsmiths College, University of London.

HouseUpper Hall, Jesus College.

ClockThursday 31 January 2013, 17:00-18:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

open discussion / roundtable

UserDiscussion session.

HouseSeminar Room.

ClockTuesday 29 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Populating 19th century Siam: war/capture/resettlement versus the recruitment of free labour in a southeast Asian demographic system

Sandwiches and fruit will be available from 12.30

UserDr Amornrat Bunnag, Academic Officer, Centre of Doctrine and Strategic Development, Army Training Command, Bangkok..

HouseSeminar Room, Main Building, Dept of Geography .

ClockMonday 28 January 2013, 12:45-14:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

From Old Jew to New Jew and Back Again: The Metamorphosis of Israeli Masculinity in the Twentieth Century

Free entrance - all welcome

UserDr Yaron Peleg, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge and Centre for Modern Hebrew Studies.

HouseRamsden Room, St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 28 January 2013, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Journalism

UserMs Bridget Kendall, BBC.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 25 January 2013, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Modern human adaptations to Pleistocene rainforest: the archaeology of the Niah Caves, Sarawak, Borneo

UserProf. Graeme Barker (McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research, U. of Cambridge).

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 24 January 2013, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Molecular biology and sustainable agriculture

**First for Lent Term**

UserProfessor Sir David Baulcombe, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2013, 17:00-18:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Gendering the Early Modern Witch-Craze

Free entrance - all welcome

UserDr Ulinka Rublack and Laura Kounine, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.

HouseRamsden Room, St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 21 January 2013, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Foresight in Ancient Civilisations

UserProfessor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 18 January 2013, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The release of d14 C and d18 O-depleted water from the Arctic Ocean upon glacial termination

UserDr. David Thornalley (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA).

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockThursday 10 January 2013, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas

**last for Michaelmas Term**

UserProf. Bill Laurance, Distinguished Research Professor & Australian Laureate, JCU, Australia.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 12 December 2012, 17:00-18:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

New estimates of tropical ice age temperature

UserDr Anna-Lena Grauel (Dept. of Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockFriday 30 November 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

'Prosuming' Conservation: interrogating the value of conservation in the web 2.0 age

UserProf. Bram Buscher, Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainable Development at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

What's going on in Greenland?

N.B. Change of date

UserDr Alun Hubbard, Aberystwyth University.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2012, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Food for Thought: ‘Effects of Ocean Acidification on Marine Organisms’

User Emma Cross, PhD Student, Dept. of Earth Science, British Antarctic Survey..

HouseWordsworth Room, St John's College, First Court (on left hand side).

ClockWednesday 28 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Prosuming Conservation: Web 2.0, Nature and the Intensification of Value-Producing Labour in Late Capitalism

UserDr. Bram Buscher, Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainable Development at the Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, and visiting Associate Professor at the Dept. Geography, Environmental Management & Energy Studies, U. Johannesbur.

HouseHardy Bldg Rm 206, Department of Geography.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Towards a grounded and dynamic sociology of climate change adaptation

UserDr. Martin Mulligan, Associate Professor, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University, Melbourne.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockTuesday 27 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Michaelmas Term Lecture 4

Doors open at 7pm for a 7:30pm start

UserBy Wind Power Across Antarctica by Ramon Larramendi.

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 24 November 2012, 19:30-00:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

The state of the world's birds: how science underpins conservation and advocacy.

UserDr Stuart Butchart, Global Research and Indicators Co-ordinator, BirdLife International.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Food for Thought: ‘Carbon Foot-Printing’

UserJon Coello, PhD Student, Dept. of Engineering & the Environment, University of Southampton..

HouseWordsworth Room, St John's College, First Court (on left hand side).

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Global Sustainability Institute lunchtime seminars

Art and the environment

Lunch will be provided

UserDave Pritchard, CIWEM Arts and Environment Network Steering Group.

HouseLord Ashcroft Building 222, Anglia Ruskin University, East Rd, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 19 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Fidgets, Scoundrels and Mummy's Boys: performing masculinity in the Victorian House of Commons

Free - all welcome

UserDr Ben Griffin, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.

HouseRamsden Room, St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 19 November 2012, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Shifting baselines and habitat restoration: Setting appropriate goals

UserDr Line zu Ermgassen, visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Winton Discussions

Smart energy meters for all - sustainability panacea or waste of money?

UserDr Michael Pollitt, Judge Business School.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 12 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Michaelmas Term Lecture 3

Doors open at 3pm for a 3:30pm start - note this is an afternoon talk and will finish at approx. 5pm

UserFrozen Planet - the making of the TV Series by Vanessa Berlowitz.

HouseBristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre at the Department of Chemistry (off the SPRI car park).

ClockSaturday 10 November 2012, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Smarter ways to monitor wildlife

UserProf Kate Jones, Joint UCL and ZSL Chair, Ecology and Biodiversity, Institute of Zoology, ZSL.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Curating Feeling: Victorian Sentimental Art

UserVicky Mills (University of Cambridge, English).

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 06 November 2012, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Local community participation in Wadi El-Gemel National Park

UserSalwa Elhalawani, PhD Candidate, Dept. Geography.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockTuesday 06 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Contested Forest: National Park, Local State, and Forest Owners in Postsocialist Romania

UserDr. Stefan Dorondel, Francisc I. Rainer Institute of Anthropology Bucharest & Visiting Fellow, CRASSH, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockTuesday 30 October 2012, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

Women, Language and Grammar in Italy, 1500-1900

Free - all welcome!

UserDr Helena Sanson, Department of Italian, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Ramsden Room, St Catharine's College.

ClockMonday 29 October 2012, 12:30-13:30

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Michaelmas Term Lecture 2

Doors open at 7pm for a 7:30pm start

UserHenry 'Birdie' Bowers - Captain Scott's Marvel by Anne Strathie .

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 27 October 2012, 19:30-00:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Saving the Tasmanian devil from a transmissible cancer

UserDr Elizabeth Murchison, Junior Research Fellow, King's College, Cambridge & Research Fellow in Cancer Genetics & Genomics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute..

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Emiratisation: bringing youth into the workforce of the United Arab Emirates

Free - all welcome!

UserMs Mona Hamade, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies .

HouseRamsden Room, St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 22 October 2012, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Tropical forests in the Anthropocene: what does this mean for conservation?

UserDr Simon Lewis, Royal Society Research Fellow, School of Geography, University of Leeds.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Michael Term Lecture 1

Doors open at 7pm for a 7:30pm start

UserThe Third Reich in Antarctica – the story of the Third German Antarctic Expedition of 1938-39 by Colin Summerhayes.

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 13 October 2012, 19:30-00:00

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

Gender, Security and Inter-generational Conflict in Muslim Societies Post 9/11

Drinks Reception to follow

UserProfessor Akbar Ahmed, American University, Washington DC.

HouseWilliam Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockThursday 11 October 2012, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

How might we make space for nature in landscapes of the future?

** First talk of term **

UserDr Ben Phalan, Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Winton Discussions

Climate finance: barriers and opportunities

UserDr Aled Jones, Anglia Ruskin University.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 24 September 2012, 16:00-17:00

Global Sustainability Institute lunchtime seminars

Water meter debate: vital for adapting to climate change or doomed to failure?

Lunch will be provided

UserAndy Brown (Anglian Water) and Dr James Jenkins (University of Hertfordshire).

HouseLord Ashcroft Building 222, Anglia Ruskin University, East Rd, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 24 September 2012, 13:00-14:00

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Summer Lunch Talk

For lunch attendees only - pre-booking required

UserIn the spirit of Scott. by Lt. Col. Edwards.

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 14 July 2012, 12:30-00:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

(1) ‘New findings from the family reconstitution data.’ and (2) ‘Nothing but a poor man with money? The changing fertility decisions of the rich before the English demographic transition.’

Please note that this extended seminar will run from 12 till 3pm. There will be two papers with a break for sandwiches 1.15 to 1.45.

User’ Paul Sharp (University of Southern Denmark), Nina Boberg-Fazlic & Jacob Weisdorf (University of Copenhagen).

HouseHB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room.

ClockMonday 25 June 2012, 12:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Diagnostiques Sans Frontières: Low-Cost, Rapid Diagnostics for Everyone

The talk will be nontechnical. Especially, those interested in global health and telecommunications are encouraged to join.

UserAli Yetisen.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 07 June 2012, 13:10-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Re-thinking the origins of the British public debt, 1643-1742

UserDr D'Maris Coffman, Newnham College and Centre for Financial History.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 28 May 2012, 17:00-19:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Women, water and work - examining the role of the statecraft in irrigation management in Northern India

UserAlexandra Girard, DPhil candidate, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Carbon isotopes and glacial-interglacial CO2: the curious case of Marine Isotope Stage 12

UserDr Natalia Vazquez-Riveiros (Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge).

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockFriday 18 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Filaments of the Bacterial Cytoskeleton

UserJan Löwe, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 17 May 2012, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Only what is counted counts? The scientific and economic representation of biodiversity

UserEsther Turnhout, Associate Professor at the Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockTuesday 15 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

The Role of Venture Capital in the Innovation Economy

UserDr Bill Janeway, Cambridge Finance and Pembroke College.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 14 May 2012, 17:00-19:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Poor Relief and Community in Elizabethan Hadleigh

*Please note this seminar will start at the later time of 1 p.m.

UserProfessor Marjorie McIntosh (University of Colorado).

HouseHB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room.

ClockMonday 14 May 2012, 13:00-14:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Glaciers on Mars

UserProfessor Bryn Hubbard, Aberystwyth University.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

EED Film Series: '7-49 Up'

EED Film Series: '7-49 Up’

UserGarth Stahl, Faculty of Education.

HouseDonald McIntyre Building 2S4.

ClockTuesday 08 May 2012, 17:30-19:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Assessing discursive practices associated with Terra Preta governance in Amazonas state, Brazil

UserIsabel Melo Vasquez, Visiting student from the Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockTuesday 08 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

A bipolar seesaw in Atlantic deep-water ventilation: Wally was right

UserDr Luke Skinner (Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockFriday 04 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

EED Film Series: 'Educating Rita'

EED Film Series: 'Educating Rita'

UserGarth Stahl, Faculty of Education.

HouseDonald McIntryre Building 2S4.

ClockTuesday 01 May 2012, 17:30-19:00

Winton Discussions

Energy Efficient Lighting

UserWinton Community.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 30 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

Winton Discussions

Biofuels

UserWinton community.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 16 April 2012, 16:30-17:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Challenges in modeling future sea level rise from melting glaciers

UserDr Valentina Radic, Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 21 March 2012, 13:45-14:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Pleistocene and Holocene in Murchisonforden area, Nordaustlandet, Svalbard.

UserProfessor Veli-Pekka Salonen, Dept. of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki (and Visiting fellow at Clare Hall).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 21 March 2012, 13:00-13:45

Financial History Seminar

The economy of Spain in the eurozone before and after the crisis of 2008

UserProfessor Larry Neal, Cambridge Finance Visitor, NBER.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 19 March 2012, 17:00-19:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Climate models and uncertainty

UserErica Thompson (Imperial College London) and Emma Boland (University of Cambridge).

HouseCoslett 408 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockMonday 19 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Film and History Seminar Series: Teaching Modern South Asian History with Film and Oral History

Nepal and the Himalayas on film: from the British Raj onwards

The event is free, but please book a seat by telephone at 01223 338094 or amm230@cam.ac.uk

UserDr Annamaria Motrescu, Centre of South Asian Studies.

HouseAV Suite, Room 211, 2nd floor, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 15 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

The next 40 years

UserProfessor Jorgen Randers (Professor of Climate Strategy at the Norwegian Business School ; Co-author of Limits to Growth).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

REDD: a good idea, impossible to implement?

Last in Series for 2012!

UserArild Angelsen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB).

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 17:00-18:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

"Reviewing the effectiveness of ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation"

UserDr. Bhaskar Vira (Department of Geography) and others.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockTuesday 13 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Geographical Society

Professor Nigel Thrift

UserProfessor Nigel Thrift - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 12 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Title to be confirmed

Lent Term Lecture 3

UserDavid Baillie.

HouseTrinity House, London.

ClockSaturday 10 March 2012, 18:45-00:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The After Life

UserProfessor Clive Gamble, University of Southampton.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 09 March 2012, 17:30-18:30

Film and History Seminar Series: Teaching Modern South Asian History with Film and Oral History

After Independence: India and Pakistan

The event is free, but please book a seat by telephone at 01223 338094 or amm230@cam.ac.uk

UserDr Annamaria Motrescu, Centre of South Asian Studies.

HouseAV Suite, Room 211, 2nd floor, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 09 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Film and History Seminar Series: Teaching Modern South Asian History with Film and Oral History

Partition: politics, memory and experience

The event is free, but please book a seat at 01223 338094 or amm230@cam.ac.uk

UserDr Annamaria Motrescu, Centre of South Asian Studies.

HouseAV Suite, Room 211, 2nd floor, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 08 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Making peace with the Earth

UserDr Vandana Shiva ( Navdanya International, India and the International Forum on Globalisation).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2012, 18:00-19:30

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

The English Riots of 2012: Race, Rhetoric and Policies, but What Solutions?

User Dr Patricia Daley (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford).

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2012, 16:15-18:00

Financial History Seminar

Asymmetric Propagation of Financial Crises During the Great Depression

UserDr Olivier Accominotti, London School of Economics.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 05 March 2012, 17:00-19:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

The Female as a Defective Male in Aristotle's Biology

Note unusual time

UserDr Sophia Connell, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge.

HouseRamsden Room, St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 05 March 2012, 13:15-14:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Artificial Life

UserProfessor Chris Bishop, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 02 March 2012, 17:30-18:30

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Reflections on countertopography

UserProfessor Cindi Katz, Environmental Psychology Program Graduate Center, The City University of New York.

HouseRoom 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

ClockFriday 02 March 2012, 16:15-18:00

Cambridge University Geographical Society

Professor Klaus Dodds - CANCELLED

Unfortunately this talk has been cancelled for personal reasons. CUGS and Professor Klaus Dodds both extend their apologies. We hope that Professor Dodds will be able to rearrange - so watch this space!

UserProfessor Klaus Dodds - Royal Holloway University CANCELLED.

HouseQueen’s Building Emmanuel College.

ClockThursday 01 March 2012, 17:00-18:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable capitalism: if not now, when?

UserJonathon Porritt CBE (Director of Sustainability, Forum for the Future).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 29 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Reading: Land Sparing/Land Sharing

UserDr. Chris Sandbrook, Department of Geography.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockTuesday 28 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Winton Discussions

Tea time conversation

UserWinton community.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 27 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

How vulnerable is reindeer herding in the European Arctic?

Please note the earlier start time. Lent Term Lecture 2

UserGareth Rees.

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 25 February 2012, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life and Death of a Cell

UserProfessor Ron Laskey, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 24 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Lessons from the High Arctic: new results from late Quaternary studies in Nordaustlandet, Svalbard

UserProf. Veli-Pekka Salonen (Dept. of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, and Visiting fellow at Clare Hall).

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockFriday 24 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Film and History Seminar Series: Teaching Modern South Asian History with Film and Oral History

The Indian National Movement

The event is free, but please book a seat by telephone at 01223 338094 or amm230@cam.ac.uk

UserDr Annamaria Motrescu, Centre of South Asian Studies.

HouseAV Suite, Room 211, 2nd floor, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 23 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Trading Protection: The Rationality behind Anti-dumping

UserJosué F. Mathieu (Centre for Rising Powers, POLIS).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2012, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

‘Framings of scale challenges in the governance of biodiversity’

UserDr. Evangelia Apostolopoulou, Visiting Scholar from the Department of Ecology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Winton Discussions

Hydrogen fuel cells

UserWinton community.

HouseTCM Seminar room, 530 Mott.

ClockMonday 20 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Science and Technology in Parliament

UserDr Stephen Allen, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology.

HouseHelmore 201 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockMonday 20 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Choice Feminism, Breast Implants and Ideas of Consent in North American Feminist Theory

UserDr Joanne Wright, Political Science, University of New Brunswick, Canada; Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge.

HouseRamsden Room, St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 20 February 2012, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in Conflict

UserDr Mark de Rond, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 17 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Geographical Society

Professor Stuart Elden

UserProfessor Stuart Elden - Durham University.

HouseRobinson College.

ClockThursday 16 February 2012, 19:00-20:30

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

After Blue Labour? State and Democarcy on the British Left

All welcome

UserProfessor Marc Stears, Political Theory, University of Oxford.

HouseHarley Mason Room, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 16 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Making Progress Toward Sustainable Societies in the Context of Global Climate Change

UserDr Don Huisingh (Senior Scientist in Sustainable Development, University of Tennessee ).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Wombats, Weapons & Water: the making of international conservation treaties.

UserCatherine MacKenzie, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2012, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Using consumers to protect labour standards

UserProf. William Brown (Master of Darwin College).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 14 February 2012, 13:10-14:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Feminist Debates Over NRTs Revisited: or, whatever happened to FINRRAGE?

UserProfessor Sarah Franklin, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.

HouseRamsden Room, St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 13 February 2012, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in the Ancient World

UserDr Michael Scott, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 10 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

The power of markets to protect nature

UserIan Cheshire (Group Chief Executive, Kingfisher Group).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

How high should Climate Change taxes be?

UserChris Hope, Cambridge Judge Business School.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2012, 17:00-18:00

EED Film Series: 'Waiting for Superman'

EED Film Series: Waiting for 'Superman'

UserGarth Stahl, Faculty of Education.

HouseDonald McIntyre Building 2S4.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2012, 17:30-19:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Darwin and Gender

UserDr Philippa Hardman, Darwin Correspondence Project, University of Cambridge.

HouseRamsden Room, St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 06 February 2012, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Spark of Life

UserProfessor Frances Ashcroft, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 03 February 2012, 17:30-18:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable Materials - with both eyes open

UserDr Julian Allwood (Cambridge University Engineering Department).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 01 February 2012, 18:00-19:30

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

Are we on the road to real equality?

Drinks reception to follow Lecture

UserMs Virginija Langbakk, Director, European Institute for Gender Equality.

HouseWilliam Mong Hall, Sidney Sussex College.

ClockWednesday 01 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

EED Film Series: 'City of God'

EED Film Series: City of God

UserGarth Stahl, Faculty of Education.

HouseDonald McIntryre Building 2S4.

ClockTuesday 31 January 2012, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Life in Ruins

UserDr Robert Macfarlane, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 27 January 2012, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Geographical Society

Professor Jamie Peck – ‘Beyond the neoliberal zombieland’

All talks are free for members (with membership card) and £1 for non-members.

UserProfessor Jamie Peck - professor of geography at the University of British Colombia.

HouseQueen’s Building Emmanuel College.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2012, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

iTrade Wildlife: detecting rare online behaviour

First in Lent Term's Series

UserDavid Roberts, DICE, University of Kent.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2012, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Before the Silk Road: tracing the earliest East West contacts

UserMartin Jones ( George Pitt-Rivers Professor of Archaeological Science ).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2012, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Political Ecology Lunch Social

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Inventing a secondary market for sovereign debt in later medieval England

UserDr Tony Moore, University of Reading, ICMA Centre.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 23 January 2012, 17:00-19:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

I don't believe in Climate Change

UserDr David Viner, Red Kite Enterprise and Environment.

HouseHelmore 201 (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge Campus).

ClockMonday 23 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

From Genomes to the Diversity of Life

UserProfessor Michael Akam, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 20 January 2012, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Peter Abaelard and the Development of Logic

UserProf. Christopher Martin, Auckland University, New Zealand (Leverhulme Visiting Professor of Philosophy).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 17 January 2012, 13:10-14:00

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Sir Joseph Hooker and the Ross Antarctic Expedition

Please note earlier start time. Doors open at 18:30. A chance to preview the These Rough Notes exhibition.

UserDr Peter Donaldson.

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockTuesday 06 December 2011, 19:00-20:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Role of the Tropical Pacific in Millennial-Scale Climate Events

UserDr Aleksey Sadekov (Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room 3, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockFriday 02 December 2011, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Genetics of obesity: How are genes shaping us

UserElena Bochukova, Institute of Metabolic Science.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 01 December 2011, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Biodiversity offsets and the journey to No Net Loss.

Last talk of term

UserKerry ten Kate, BBOP Forest Trends.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2011, 17:00-18:00

Film and History Seminar Series: Teaching Modern South Asian History with Film and Oral History

Gendered politics in the visual representation of South Asia

The event is free, but please book a seat by telephone at 01223 338094 or amm230@cam.ac.uk

UserDr Annamaria Motrescu, Centre of South Asian Studies.

HouseCentre of South Asian Studies, Laundress Lane, CB2 1SD.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

How and when did the first Chinese crops arrive in Europe?

UserDr Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute (University of Cambridge).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2011, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

'The rights of nature in the Ecuadorian constitution’

UserDr. Freddy Alvarez, Visiting Scholar, Department of Geography.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Path of Life from A to B: How Astronomy leads to Biology

In coordination with the Astrobiology workshop taking place at Darwin College, the keynote speech from this workshop will be open to all Darwin members. Note the talk will take place in the Old Library rather than the Entertaining Rm.

UserProf. Monica M. Grady, The Open University.

HouseOld Library, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 24 November 2011, 13:10-14:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Irrigation Resurrected in South Thailand

UserJanice Stargardt, Professorial Research Fellow in Asian Historical Archaeology & Geography.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 24 November 2011, 12:30-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

‘Creating protected areas in post-conflict Cambodia’

This talk is being organised by Flora and Fauna International

UserHis Excellency Dr. Mok Mareth, Senior Minister and Minister of the Environment, Royal Government of Cambodia.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2011, 17:00-18:00

Film and History Seminar Series: Teaching Modern South Asian History with Film and Oral History

Visual anthropological perspectives on South Asian society

The event is free, but please book a seat by telephone at 01223 338094 or amm230@cam.ac.uk

UserDr Annamaria Motrescu, Centre of South Asian Studies.

HouseCentre of South Asian Studies, Laundress Lane, CB2 1SD.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Carbon, Forests and the REDD Paradox

UserDr Chris Sandbrook (University of Cambridge).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2011, 13:10-14:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Collecting Time: on reading Luisa Passerini's 'Autobiography of a Generation'

UserDr Lisa Baraitser, Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London.

HouseRushmore Room, St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 21 November 2011, 12:30-13:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Traces of the Baltic Ice Lake drainage in the northern Baltic Sea and southern Finland

UserOuti Hyttinen (Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, FInland).

HouseSeminar Room 3, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockFriday 18 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Conservation Seminars

Mapping Africa's natural capital: progress, problems, potential

UserRuth Swetnam, Conservation Science Group, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2011, 17:00-18:00

Film and History Seminar Series: Teaching Modern South Asian History with Film and Oral History

Colonial South Asia: cultural conflicts and racial hierarchies

The event is free, but please book a seat by telephone at 01223 338094 or amm230@cam.ac.uk

UserDr Annamaria Motrescu, Centre of South Asian Studies.

HouseCentre of South Asian Studies, Laundress Lane, CB2 1SD.

ClockTuesday 15 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

‘Environmental assessment in Canada: The Mackenzie gas project'

This meeting is being organised in collaboration with the Travelling Knowledges reading group

UserDr. Peter Usher, Visiting Scholar, Department of Geography.

HouseHardy Building Room 101.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Challenges of Preparing Educators in Kenya

UserMoses Orwe-Onyango (University of Cambridge).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 08 November 2011, 13:10-14:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Sex Before the Sexual Revolution in England 1918-1963

Note unusual time

UserProfessor Simon Szreter, Faculty of History, Cambridge.

HouseRushmore Room, St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 07 November 2011, 13:15-14:15

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Evolution of ocean temperature and ice volume from the Mid Pleistocene Climate Transition

UserProfessor Harry Elderfield (Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockFriday 04 November 2011, 17:00-18:30

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Towards a Genealogy of Care: The Treatment of Scotland’s Inebriates

Please note this is a Tuesday; please note the earlier starting time.

UserDavid Beckingham (Sidney Sussex, University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room (Department of Geography, Downing Site).

ClockTuesday 01 November 2011, 16:00-17:45

Film and History Seminar Series: Teaching Modern South Asian History with Film and Oral History

Visual constructions of South Asian society in film.

The event is free, but please book a seat by telephone at 01223 338094 or amm230@cam.ac.uk

UserDr Annamaria Motrescu, Centre of South Asian Studies.

HouseCentre of South Asian Studies, Laundress Lane, CB2 1SD.

ClockTuesday 01 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

‘Political ecology: Meeting travellers along the way’

This talk is being organised by the Cambrige University Geographical Society

UserProf. Piers Blaikie, University of East Anglia.

HouseEmmanuel college.

ClockTuesday 01 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

Women on Boards: Business as Usual!

UserProfessor Susan Vinnicombe and Dr Ruth Sealy, Cranfield University.

HouseRushmore Room, St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 31 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

Film and History Seminar Series: Teaching Modern South Asian History with Film and Oral History

Moving pictures, moving stories: photographs, films and interviews from the end of the Raj

The event is part of Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2011 series. It is free, but please book a seat by telephone at 01223 338094 or admin@s-asian.cam.ac.uk

UserDr Kevin Greenbank, Dr Annamaria Motrescu. Centre of South Asian Studies.

HouseMill Lane, Lecture Room 5.

ClockSaturday 29 October 2011, 15:00-16:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

New insights on old questions concerning Quaternary northern hemisphere glaciation

UserDr Ian Bailey (School of Ocean & Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton).

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2011, 17:00-18:30

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Gender in Medicine: is there benefit or harm in sexless healthcare?

UserDr Anita Holdcroft, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London.

HouseRushmore Room, St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 24 October 2011, 12:30-13:30

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

Superman, Tiger Mother: Aspiration Management and the Child as Waste

This talk will be followed by a Drinks Reception

UserProfessor Cindi Katz, City University of New York.

HouseUpper Hall, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 21 October 2011, 17:00-18:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Why do glaciers fall apart?

UserMartin O'Leary, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, University of Michigan.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 19 October 2011, 16:30-17:30

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The Regenerative Economy: a technical solution to meet world's population needs while preserving the environment.

Open to all - please send email if not from Darwin College

UserAleix Altimiras-Martin, Land Economy Dept, 4CMR.

HouseDarwin College, Entertaining Room.

ClockTuesday 18 October 2011, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Title to be confirmed

UserProf. Zhijun Zhao (Chinese Academy of Sciences).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 11 October 2011, 13:10-14:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Conflict and Compatibility of Reproductive and Productive Roles: evidence from British longitudinal data

UserProfessor Heather Joshi, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Institute of Education, University of London.

HouseRushmore Room, St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 10 October 2011, 12:30-13:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Sue Colledge, Institute of Archaeology, University College London.

HouseSeminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

ClockFriday 17 June 2011, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cosmic Dawn: The Search for the First Galaxies

UserDan Stark (Institute of Astronomy).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 16 June 2011, 13:10-14:00

Financial History Seminar

A Shareholder Lawsuit in Fourteenth-Century Toulouse

UserProfessor Will Goetzmann (International Center for Finance at the Yale School of Management).

HouseLT2, Judge Business School.

ClockWednesday 15 June 2011, 12:00-13:15

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserHugo Oliveira, PhD Candidate, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

ClockFriday 10 June 2011, 13:15-14:00

Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit Seminar Series

The tribulations of suspended agency: bordedom in Inner Mongolia

UserPaula Haas (Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit, University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room, The Mond Building, New Museums Site.

ClockTuesday 07 June 2011, 16:30-18:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

A special set of QDG talks

UserDr Axel TImmermann (SOEST, University of Hawai'i, USA); Dr Jess Adkins (CALTECH, USA).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockTuesday 31 May 2011, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

Financial innovation and the crisis

UserProfessor Michael Dempster, Centre for Financial Research.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 30 May 2011, 17:00-19:00

Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit Seminar Series

Shamanism, ethnic spirits and dead prisoners in Ulaanbaatar

UserGrégory Delaplace (Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit, University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room, The Mond Building, New Museums Site.

ClockTuesday 24 May 2011, 16:30-18:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Françoise Barbira-Freedman, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

ClockFriday 20 May 2011, 13:15-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Regulatory Capture in Microfinance: The Irish Loan Fund Board, 1860-1914

UserDr Eoin McLaughlin (School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh).

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 16 May 2011, 17:00-19:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

TEPUI: Biological islands lost in space and time. From origins to conservation

UserFabian Michelangeli, Simon Bolivar Professor, Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge 2010-11.

HouseHardy Building 101, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 12 May 2011, 12:30-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

A Case for Astrobiology

UserMs. Katinka Apagyi (University of Cambridge).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 May 2011, 13:10-14:00

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Director-General of the BBC

UserMark Thompson, Director-General of the BBC.

HouseQueens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2011, 18:30-20:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Urban water security - a possibility or pipedream?

UserDr Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy, Director, School of Global Sustainability, University of South Florida.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2011, 18:00-19:30

Financial History Seminar

An Italian bank and its international and local credit networks: Filippo Borromei & company of Bruges and London in the 1430s

http://www.history.qmul.ac.uk/research/borromei/index.html

UserProfessor Jim Bolton, School of History, QMUL.

HouseSidgwick Hall (or Old Dining Room), Newnham College.

ClockMonday 02 May 2011, 17:00-19:00

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Sir Richard Dearlove

UserSir Richard Dearlove.

HouseQueens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2011, 18:30-20:00

Wildlife and Environment

The Staffordshire Treasure

tickets cost £10, to include a glass of wine

UserDr Kevin Leahy, National Finds Adviser for early mediaeval metalwork.

HousePerse Upper School, Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 14 April 2011, 19:00-22:00

Wildlife and Environment

How are the Water Voles doing?

UserRuth Hawksley, Water for Wildlife Officer with the Wildlife Trust.

HouseSt John's Church Hall, Hills Road, opposite Homerton College.

ClockWednesday 30 March 2011, 19:30-22:00

Wildlife and Environment

How are the Water Voles doing?

UserRuth Hawksley, Water for Wildlife Officer with the Wildlife Trust.

HouseSt John's Church Hall, Hills Road, opposite Homerton College.

ClockWednesday 30 March 2011, 19:30-22:00

Wildlife and Environment

How are the Water Voles doing?

UserRuth Hawksley, Water for Wildlife Officer with the Wildlife Trust.

HouseSt John's Church Hall, Hills Road, opposite Homerton College.

ClockWednesday 30 March 2011, 19:30-22:00

Wildlife and Environment

How are the Water Voles doing?

UserRuth Hawksley, Water for Wildlife Officer with the Wildlife Trust.

HouseSt John's Church Hall, Hills Road, opposite Homerton College.

ClockWednesday 30 March 2011, 19:30-22:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Decarbonising the transport system

UserProfessor David Cebon and Professor Nick Collings ( Cambridge University Engineering Department) and Mark White (Jaguar Land Rover).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 16 March 2011, 18:00-19:30

Land Economy Seminar Series

Celebrity, Environment and Development.

UserDr Dan Brockington, University of Manchester.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, Room 4.

ClockWednesday 16 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Science and Beauty of Nebulae

UserDr Carolin Crawford, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 11 March 2011, 17:30-18:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Managing the risks of regional climate change using knowledge action networks

UserProfesor Charles Kennel (University of California, San Diego; formerly , Director of the Scripps Institute of Oceanogaphy).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2011, 18:00-19:30

Land Economy Seminar Series

Land matters: Towards a land use strategy in Scotland.

UserProf Greg Lloyd, University of Ulster.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, Room 4.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Financial History Seminar

'The South Sea Bubble of 1720: rational bubble or gambling mania?'

UserDr Helen Paul (Economics, University of Southampton).

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 07 March 2011, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Terror by Beauty: Russo-Soviet perspectives

UserProfessor Evgeny A Dobrenko, University of Sheffield.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 04 March 2011, 17:30-18:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserAnkica Oros Sršen, Institute for Quaternary Paleontology and Geology, Zagreb, Croatia.

HouseSeminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

ClockFriday 04 March 2011, 13:15-14:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

A Sustainable Future- The Leadership Challenge of our Time

UserDr Goran Carstedt ( Chairman of the Natural Step International and Senior Director of the Clinton Climate Change Initiative).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 02 March 2011, 18:00-19:30

Land Economy Seminar Series

The Edinburgh Concordat: Promising Positive Planning?

UserDr Deborah Peel, University of Ulster.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, Room 4.

ClockWednesday 02 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Financial History Seminar

Regulatory responses to financial crises: Spain, 1850-2000

UserProfessor Pablo Martín-Aceña, Universidad de Alcalá (Madrid).

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 28 February 2011, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & Happiness: Chinese perspectives

UserProfessor Jason Kuo, University of Maryland.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 25 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Four million years of back pain

UserDr Asier Gómez Olivencia, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

ClockFriday 25 February 2011, 13:15-14:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable Energy - an industry view on the obstacles and opportunities

UserProfessor Ellen Williams ( BP Chief Scientist, formerly Director of University of Maryland Material Research Science and Engineering Centre).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 23 February 2011, 18:00-19:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Oceanography in Arctic fjords

THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED

UserFinlo Cottier (Scottish Association for Marine Science).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 23 February 2011, 16:30-17:30

Land Economy Seminar Series

Crisis in Europe and Policy Alternatives.

UserDr Ozlem Onaran, Middlesex University.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, Room 4.

ClockWednesday 23 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & Attraction: in the eyes of the beholder

UserProfessor Jeanne Altmann, Princeton University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 18 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency

UserMargareta Wahlstrom, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator.

HouseQueens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockWednesday 16 February 2011, 18:30-20:00

Land Economy Seminar Series

Beyond Money: Willingness to Pay for GHG Emissions Reductions.

UserProf Timo Goeschl, University of Heidelberg.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, Room 4.

ClockWednesday 16 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Sound of Beauty

UserDr Elizabeth Eva Leach, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 11 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Isotope analysis for migration and diet during the crusades

UserDr Piers Mitchell, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

ClockFriday 11 February 2011, 13:15-14:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Nuclear Renaissance

UserDr. William Nuttall, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

HouseHardy Building 101, Downing Site (please note change of venue).

ClockThursday 10 February 2011, 12:30-14:00

Land Economy Seminar Series

Is German wage policy destroying the Euro?

UserProf Engelbert Stockhammer, Vienna University of Economics.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, Room 4.

ClockWednesday 09 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Quantum Beauty

UserProfessor Frank Wilczek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 04 February 2011, 17:30-18:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainability and the Perfect Storm (title to be confirmed)

UserProfessor Sir John Beddington (Government Chief Scientific Advisor and Head of the Government Office for Science).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 02 February 2011, 18:00-19:30

Land Economy Seminar Series

Economic Policy in Asset and Deflation Cycles.

UserProf Elias Karakitsos Director, Guildhall Asset Management, Ltd.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, Room 4.

ClockWednesday 02 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & The Grotesque

UserJose Hernandez, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid).

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 28 January 2011, 17:30-18:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Physique and morphological integration in human long bone variation: A 3D laser scan approach

UserThomas Davies, PhD Candidate, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

ClockFriday 28 January 2011, 13:15-14:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Energy Security and UK Energy Policy

UserProfessor Ian Fells (Emeritus Professor of Energy Conversion at Newcastle University).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 26 January 2011, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Beauty & Truth

UserProfessor Lord Robert May of Oxford, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 21 January 2011, 17:30-18:30

Financial History Seminar

Stock market development in Germany: 1869-1925

UserDr Carsten Burhop, MPI for Research on Collective Goods.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 13 December 2010, 17:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

The Belle Epoque of International Finance: French Capital Exports, 1880‐1914

UserDr Rui Pedro Esteves, Department of Economics, Oxford.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 06 December 2010, 17:00-19:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

ANTARCTICA DAY Inaugural Lecture

Note unusual time (7 PM)

UserPaul A. Berkman (University of Cambridge) & David W. H. Walton (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 01 December 2010, 19:00-20:00

Land Economy Seminar Series

Does Adaptation to Climate Change Provide Food Security: Evidence from Ethiopia

UserDr. Salvatore Difalco, London School of Economics.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, Room 9.

ClockWednesday 01 December 2010, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Design of iced airfoils

UserTiziano Ghisu.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 25 November 2010, 13:10-14:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Towards a sustainable hydrogen economy

UserJohn Andrews - Associate Professor RMIT University.

HouseLT6, Engineering Department.

ClockWednesday 24 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Land Economy Seminar Series

Efficiency in the UK commercial property market: A long-run perspective

UserDr Steven Devaney, University of Aberdeen.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, Room 9.

ClockWednesday 24 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Preserving a Violent Past: Politics and the Transmission of the Saga of Icelanders

UserVicky Cribb (PhD Candidate in the Dept of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 23 November 2010, 13:10-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Ex post: The investment performance of collectible stamps 1865-2008

UserProfessor Elroy Dimson, London Business School.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 22 November 2010, 17:00-19:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Two Theses on the Afghan Woman: Samira and Hana Makhmalbaf Filming Agheleh Farahmand

All welcome

UserProfessor Haim Bresheeth, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of East London.

HouseLLT, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 22 November 2010, 12:30-13:30

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

The Northern Party – in the shadows of the heroic age?

Doors open 7:30PM

UserRobin Back, Chairman, Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute.

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 20 November 2010, 20:00-21:00

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

London 2012 Olympic Games

UserDenis Oswald, Chairman of the IOC's London 2012 Olympic Commission.

HouseJudge Business School, LT2.

ClockFriday 19 November 2010, 18:30-20:00

Land Economy Seminar Series

EU Emission Trading for Aviation - Impacts on Airlines and EU Member States

UserMr Wolfgang Grimme, Institute of Air Transport & Airport Research.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, Room 9.

ClockWednesday 17 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Sustainable development of culturally significant urban areas

UserTatiana Vakhitova (Centre for Sustainable Development).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 16 November 2010, 13:10-14:00

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

The Great White Silence

Unique first preview of the digitally remastered, official record of Scott's Terra Nova expedition 1910-13

UserBryony Dixon, Curator Silent Film, British Film Institute.

HouseBMS Lecture Theatre, School of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 13 November 2010, 16:00-18:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

New taphonomic and archaeological perspectives on bone accumulators: the bearded vulture

UserDr Ana Belén Marín Arroyo, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

ClockFriday 12 November 2010, 13:15-14:00

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Don't Look Now: Representations of Violence in Media

UserAnthony Lane, Film Critic, The New Yorker magazine.

HouseBateman Auditorium , Gonville and Caius College.

ClockWednesday 10 November 2010, 18:30-20:00

Land Economy Seminar Series

Fixing fuel poverty

UserDr Brenda Boardman, University of Oxford.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, Room 1.

ClockWednesday 10 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Marriage: a study in modern kinship

All welcome

UserDr David Lehmann, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLLT, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 08 November 2010, 12:30-13:30

Tanner Lectures

Tanner Lectures 2010: Respondents' Discussion

UserKate Barker, Gavin Wood, Marja Elsinga, Matthew Bullock.

HouseRobinson College Umney Theatre.

ClockThursday 04 November 2010, 09:30-13:00

Tanner Lectures

Care-full Markets: Miracle or Mirage?

Tickets for this event can be picked up from the Porters' Lodge (32360)

UserProfessor Susan Smith FBA, Mistress of Girton College.

HouseRobinson College Auditorium.

ClockWednesday 03 November 2010, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Zoophagous geology: William Buckland and extra-visual scientific observation

UserDavid Allan Feller (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 02 November 2010, 13:10-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Ice Stream Tides

Note unusual time (MONDAY)

UserHilmar Gudmundsson (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockMonday 01 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Melting ice - rising seas: Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment

Doors open 7:30PM

UserDr. Colin Summerhayes, a marine geologist, is a past Director of the UK's Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory and a former Deputy Director of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton..

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 30 October 2010, 20:00-21:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Production and Trade of Olive Oil during the Roman Period

UserMaria del Carmen Moreno Escobar, PhD Candidate, Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Spain).

HouseSeminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

ClockFriday 29 October 2010, 13:15-14:00

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

Geographies of Regulation: Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Empire

All welcome

UserDr Phil Howell, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseUpper Hall, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 29 October 2010, 13:00-14:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Computer games and mental health interventions

UserDr David Coyle (Computer Laboratory).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 13:10-14:00

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

Global Gametes: Reproductive 'Tourism' and Islamic Bioethics in the High-tech Middle East

All welcome

UserProfessor Marcia Inhorn, The Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies.

HouseRiley Auditorium, Gillespie Centre, Memorial Court, Clare College, Queen's Road, Cambridge, CB3 9AJ.

ClockTuesday 26 October 2010, 17:30-18:30

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

Glory and Agony: Isaac's Sacrifice and National Narrative

All welcome

UserDr Yael Feldman, Katsh Professor of Hebrew Culture, Affiliate Professor of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies, New York University.

HouseUpper Hall, Jesus College.

ClockMonday 18 October 2010, 13:00-14:30

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

“Sir Hubert Wilkins – Forgotten Hero?”

Doors open 7:30PM

UserJim McNeill, Explorer and Adventure Travel organiser.

HouseSPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockSaturday 16 October 2010, 20:00-21:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Where's Foucault now?

All welcome

UserProfessor Simon Goldhill, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.

HouseLLT, Department of Plant Sciences, Downing Site, Downing Street, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 11 October 2010, 12:30-13:30

Land Economy Seminar Series

Assessing the Financial Benefits of Eco-Labelling: Evidence from US Office Markets

UserDr Franz Fürst & Prof Patrick McAllister, University of Reading .

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, Room 1.

ClockWednesday 06 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Cities and the ethic of care among strangers

UserProfessor Ash Amin, Professor of Geography and Director of the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University.

HouseDepartment of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 21 September 2010, 14:00-15:00

Financial History Seminar

Efficiency of the Dojima rice futures market in Tokugawa-period Japan

UserProfessor Shigeru Wakita, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 21 June 2010, 17:00-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The History of Quaternary Research at Cambridge University

UserRichard West (Professor emeritus, Cambridge University, Clare College).

HouseThirkill Room, Clare College.

ClockFriday 11 June 2010, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

Jewish Financiers in the City of London: Reality and Rhetoric, 1830 – 1914

UserProfessor Ranald Michie, Department of History, University of Durham.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 07 June 2010, 17:00-19:00

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

Darwin and the Descent of Woman

This event is free and open to the public

UserProfessor Dame Gillian Beer, Emeritus Professor of English Literature, Cambridge.

HouseThe Newton Room, The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 02 June 2010, 17:00-18:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

NATO in the 21st Century

UserAdmiral James Stavridis, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (SACEUR) / Commander, US European Command.

HouseTBC.

ClockMonday 31 May 2010, 18:30-20:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Assemblage and critical urbanism

UserDr Colin McFarlane, Department of Geography, Durham University.

HouseRoom 101, Hardy Building.

ClockWednesday 26 May 2010, 16:15-17:30

Financial History Seminar

'Reforming the Global Reserve System; Historical Perspectives'

This talk has been re-scheduled from the Michaelmas term, when it was delayed due to speaker illness.

UserProfessor Catherine Schenk, Economic and Social History, Glasgow.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 24 May 2010, 17:00-19:00

Land Economy Seminar Series

An Introduction to Economic Models of Population-Resource Dynamics with Systems Analysis

UserDr Yoko Nagase from the Department of Economics and International Business, Oxford Brookes University Business School.

HouseLaundress Lane Seminar Room 1.

ClockFriday 21 May 2010, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

No Talk This Week

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 20 May 2010, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Labor Compensation in the Portuguese and Dutch Merchant Empires

UserProfessor Claudia Rei, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University.

HouseBarbara White Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 17 May 2010, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Nanocapillaries: Cheap and Safe Nanotech

UserLorenz Steinbock ( Cavendish Laboratory).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 13 May 2010, 13:00-14:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Taming leviathan - dealing with (dis)integrated water management (RESCHEDULED from 21st April)

This talk has been re-scheduled for 12th May, (postponed from 21st April)

UserProfessor Richard Ashley, Peninne Water Group, Sheffield University.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 12 May 2010, 18:00-19:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

The Plundered Planet: Why We Must-and How We Can-Manage Nature for Global Prosperity

UserProfessor Paul Collier, Fmr Director of Development Research at the World Bank and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford.

HouseQueens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockTuesday 11 May 2010, 18:30-20:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainability in action at University of California San Diego: the campus as a living laboratory

UserProfessor Paul Linden, Director Sustainability Solutions Institute, University of California, San Diego.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 05 May 2010, 18:00-19:30

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

Domestic Violence and International Law

Free and all welcome

UserProfessor Bonita Meyersfeld, Head of Gender, Centre for Applied Legal Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

HouseThe Keynes Lecture Theatre, King's College, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 05 May 2010, 17:00-19:00

Land Economy Seminar Series

Untangling the US Mortgage Crisis: Sorting out the key causes

UserProf Alex F. Schwartz from Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, Room 1.

ClockWednesday 05 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Cloning, Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine: The World After Dolly

UserProfessor Sir Ian Wilmut, Director of the Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh.

HouseCambridge Union Society.

ClockTuesday 04 May 2010, 18:00-19:30

Land Economy Seminar Series

Drowning behind the Dykes? Flooding Risks and Dutch Housing Prices

UserProf Harry Garretsen from University of Groningen.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, Room 1.

ClockThursday 29 April 2010, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary

All welcome

UserProfessor Miri Rubin, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History, Queen Mary, University of London.

HouseThe Keynes Lecture Theatre, King's College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 29 April 2010, 13:00-14:30

Wildlife and Environment

Flowers of the Brecklands

UserTim Pankhurst, Breckland Officer for Plantlife.

HouseSt John's Church Hall, Hills Road, opposite Homerton.

ClockWednesday 28 April 2010, 19:30-21:45

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Science - facts and frictions

UserDr. Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief, Nature and Nature Publications.

HouseQueens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockWednesday 28 April 2010, 18:30-20:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

The politics of urban space: building parks in Savannah, Atlanta and Nashville, 1850-1915

New date to be confirmed

UserMelanie Jones, PhD student, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 28 April 2010, 16:15-17:30

Wildlife and Environment

Wimpole Hall, Past and Present

UserSimon Damant, Head Ranger at Wimpole Hall, National Trust property.

HouseSix Bells Public House, Fulbourn High Street..

ClockThursday 22 April 2010, 19:30-21:45

Darwin College Science Seminars

Automatic Visual Recognition in Natural, Medical, and 3D Imagery

UserJamie Shotton (Microsoft Research Cambridge & Darwin College).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 22 April 2010, 13:00-14:00

Wildlife and Environment

Enchanted Galapagos

UserJean Burns, RSPB.

HouseUniversity Chemical Labs, Lensfield Road,.

ClockWednesday 21 April 2010, 20:00-21:30

Wildlife and Environment

Wildlife Gardening in a Landscape Garden

UserRichard Todd, Head Gardener at Anglesey Abbey.

HouseSt John's Church Hall, Hills Road, opposite Homerton.

ClockWednesday 31 March 2010, 19:30-21:45

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

The South Sandwich Islands

Free lecture in conjunction with South Georgia Association

UserRobert Headland, Scott Polar Research Institute and South Georgia Association.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, School of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockSaturday 20 March 2010, 20:00-21:00

Financial History Seminar

'Keynes, the Investor'

UserDr David Chambers, Judge Business School.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 15 March 2010, 17:00-19:00

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

Annual Gender Symposium: Gender and Scales of Empowerment

Free entrance - all welcome

UserProfessor Cindi Katz - CUNY Graduate Centre, Professor Catherine Campbell - LSE, Dr Matt Houlbrook - University of Oxford, Professor Cynthia Cockburn - City University London, Dr Nayanika Mookherjee - Lancaster University.

HouseThe Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ's College, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 12 March 2010, 09:00-16:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

The Energy Efficient Cities Initiative

UserSteven Barret, Ruchi Choudary and Ying Jin - University of Cambridge.

HouseLT2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 10 March 2010, 17:00-18:00

Land Economy Seminar Series

Large wind farms: Output and maximising Value from trading with the power system

UserProf. S Howell, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, Room 1.

ClockWednesday 10 March 2010, 16:00-17:00

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Lessons from the Obama Campaign: Making the Obama Digital Model Work in Politics and Beyond

UserJoe Rospars, New Media Director for Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign.

HouseCambridge Union Society Debating Chamber.

ClockMonday 08 March 2010, 18:30-20:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

'More than Love': Levinas and Rosenzweig from Eros to Ethics

All welcome

UserMs Andrea Cooper, Mainzer Visiting Fellow, New York University.

HouseHardy Building (Downing Site) Room 101.

ClockMonday 08 March 2010, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and (Human-induced) Climate Change

UserProfessor Bob Watson, University of East Anglia.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 05 March 2010, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Electric & hybrid leisure aircraft

Last talk of term!!! Not to be missed!

UserPaul Robertson.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 04 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

Land Economy Seminar Series

Institutions for housing supply, and their effects

UserProf Barrie Needham, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, Room 1.

ClockWednesday 03 March 2010, 16:00-17:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Sex, gender and fair play - policing the Athletic Body in international sport

All welcome

UserDr Vanessa Heggie, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

HouseHardy Building (Downing Site) Room 101.

ClockMonday 01 March 2010, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and Natural Catastrophes

UserProfessor Mark Bailey, Armagh Observatory.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 26 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Cities of the Future

UserPaul Brown, Executive Vice President CDM Camp Dresser and McKee Inc..

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2010, 18:00-19:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Chemical Looping Combustion: One Technology for the Clean Utilisation of Coal

UserDr John S Dennis - Reader in Chemical Reaction Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseLT2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Gendered Detection: Crime Fiction and Modern Narrative

All welcome

UserProfessor Mary Evans, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent and Visiting Professor at the LSE.

HouseHardy Building (Downing Site) Room 101.

ClockMonday 22 February 2010, 12:30-13:30

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Penguins to Polar Bears

For non-members of the Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute, there is an entry fee of £5 payable at the door.

UserPaul Goldstein.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, School of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockSaturday 20 February 2010, 20:00-21:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk, Security and Terrorism

UserProfessor Lucia Zedner, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 19 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Land Economy Seminar Series

Criminal sanctions to protect the environment: Economics, law, and empirical evidence

UserDr Timo Goeschl, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, Room 1.

ClockWednesday 17 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Financial History Seminar

'Household Finance in Early Modern Germany: Evidence from Personal Inventories'

UserProfessor Sheilagh Ogilvie, Dr Markus Küpker and Dr Janine Maegraith.

HouseSidgwick Hall (or Old Dining Room), Newnham College.

ClockMonday 15 February 2010, 17:00-19:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Family snaps: doing family, home and mothering with photographs

All welcome

UserProfessor Gillian Rose, Department of Geography, Open University.

HouseHardy Building (Downing Site) Room 101.

ClockMonday 15 February 2010, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and Humanities

UserProfessor Mary Beard, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 12 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

The Poetry of Early Motherhood

All welcome

UserMs Joanne Limburg, Writer and Royal Literary Fund Fellow, Magdalene College.

HouseHardy Building (Downing Site) Room 101.

ClockMonday 08 February 2010, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and Government: The architectonics of blame-avoidance

UserProfessor Christopher Hood, University of Oxford.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 05 February 2010, 17:30-18:30

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

The Disenchantments of Sexuality

All welcome

UserProfessor Henrietta Moore, William Wyse Chair of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.

HouseUpper Hall, Jesus College.

ClockThursday 04 February 2010, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Families Created Through Surrogacy: Is There Cause For Concern?

UserPolly Casey (Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 04 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

Land Economy Seminar Series

The contradictions of sustainable consumption under climate change

UserProf. Edwin Zaccai, Director of the Centre of Studies on Sustainable Development, in the Institute for Environmental Management and Land Planning (IGEAT) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, Room 1.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Acting up and acting out: encountering children in a longitudinal study of mothering

All welcome

UserProfessor Rachel Thomson, School of Health and Social Welfare, Open University.

HouseHardy Building (Downing Site) Room 101.

ClockMonday 01 February 2010, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk and the Brain: The neural basis of decision making under uncertainty

UserProfessor John O'Doherty, Trinity College Dublin.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 29 January 2010, 17:30-18:30

Wildlife and Environment

Wildllife Sounds and Sound Recording

UserWilliam Seale, Madingley Toad Rescue.

HouseSt John's Church Hall, Hills Road, opposite Homerton College.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2010, 19:30-21:45

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Roadmap to 2050

UserProfessor David MacKay, Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2010, 18:00-19:30

Financial History Seminar

'Bankruptcy and Debtor's Rights in Early Modern England: Punishment to Rehabilitation'

UserProfessor Ann Carlos (U. of Colorado/University College Dublin).

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 25 January 2010, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk: Science and the Media

UserDr Ben Goldacre, The Guardian.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 22 January 2010, 17:30-18:30

All CRASSH events

Sir Michael Rawlins - Keynote Lecture

UserSir Michael Rawlins (National Institute of Clinical Excellence).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Halls, Room 1.

ClockThursday 21 January 2010, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Black holes: weather and landscape

UserAlexander Blustin (University of Cambridge; IoA and Darwin College).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 21 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Risk: Trying to quantify our uncertainty

UserProfessor David Spiegelhalter, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 15 January 2010, 17:30-18:30

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

In Conversation with...Dr Celia Roberts, author of Messenger of Sex

All welcome to this free event

UserDr Celia Roberts, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University.

HouseUpper Hall, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 15 January 2010, 13:00-14:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

To within minutes of a black hole

First talk of term!

UserProf Andy Fabian.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 14 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Land Economy Seminar Series

Is economic volatility detrimental to global sustainability?

UserDr Yongfu Huang, Department of Land Economy University of Cambridge.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Rooms, Room 1.

ClockWednesday 13 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Concentrator Photovoltaics (CPV) for Europe: Economics, Technical and Social Issues

UserDavid Faiman - Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel), Ben Gurion National Solar Energy Centre.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockMonday 07 December 2009, 17:00-18:00

Financial History Seminar

'Historical Banking Crises and the Rules of the Game'

UserProfessor Charles Calomiris, Columbia Business School.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 07 December 2009, 17:00-19:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Subaerial salt extrusions in Iran as analogues of ice sheets, streams & glaciers

Image caption: view across the northern namakier at Kuh-e-namak (Dashti), Iran Zagros. Salt is > 500 my old.

UserChristopher Talbot (Earth Sciences, University of Uppsala).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, LIBRARY (1ST FLOOR).

ClockWednesday 02 December 2009, 16:30-17:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

The Cyberknife

UserMark Brenner, MD, Chief of Radiation Oncology, Cyberknife Center.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Theatre 9.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2009, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Intercultural Relations in the late Middle Kingdom in Egypt (1820-1720 BC)

UserDr Bettina Bader, Research Fellow of McDonald Institute for archaeological research.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2009, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Magnetism Under Pressure: Using Diamonds to Study Quantum Matter

UserLara Sibley, Shoenberg Laboratory for Quantum Matter.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 26 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Wildlife and Environment

Small Mammals in Cambridgeshire

UserSheila Pankhurst, Principal Lecturer in Animal Behaviour in the Zoology Department of Anglia Ruskin University.

HouseSt John's Church Hall, Hills Road, opposite Homerton.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2009, 19:30-21:45

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Cambridge University Eco-Racing: Solar Cars

UserMartin McBrien - Cambridge University Eco Racing Founder.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Peeling off the skin, peeling off the past: the politics of aesthetics and practices of health in Serbia

This event is free and open to all

UserDr. Maja Petrovic-Steger, Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge.

HouseHardy Building (Downing Site) Room 101.

ClockMonday 23 November 2009, 12:30-13:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Gates Coffeehouse Webinar: Breaking into Politics

UserFour young Europeans and Americans engaged in politics; see website for more info.

HouseOnline webinar; see website to register..

ClockSaturday 21 November 2009, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Can worms unlock the secrets of our mind? Automatic quantitative analysis of C.elegans behaviour

UserTadas Jucikas, William Schafer group, Cell Biology Division, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 19 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Neogene terrestrial environment of Antarctica

UserAlan Ashworth (Department of Geosciences, North Dakota State University).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, LIBRARY (1ST FLOOR).

ClockWednesday 18 November 2009, 16:30-17:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

What _is_ the Right to Housing?

UserDr. Jessie Hohmann, Darwin College, Cambridge.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2009, 13:10-14:00

Financial History Seminar

'The Political Economy of Competition and Credit Control'

UserMr Duncan Needham, Cambridge History Faculty and Trinity Hall.

HouseSidgwick Hall (or Old Dining Room), Newnham College.

ClockMonday 16 November 2009, 17:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

'Exploring the Medici-Gondi Ledgers in the Henry Charles Lea Library.'

http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~ddc22/cfh/seminars.html

UserMs Claudia Scala Schlessman, Original Manuscript Cataloguer, Henry Charles Lea Library.

House101 Coach House, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 16 November 2009, 12:00-14:00

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

In Conversation with...Professor Karen O'Brien author of Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain

All welcome to this free event

UserProfessor Karen O'Brien, Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick.

HouseUpper Hall, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 13 November 2009, 13:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Balancing conservation and development in the Brazilian Amazon: do win-win solutions really exist?

UserDr Toby Gardner, Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 12 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Researching Social Change: Methodology, History and Memory.

This event is free and open to all

UserAssoc. Prof Julie McLeod. Melbourne Graduate School, University of Melbourne.

HouseHardy Building (Downing Site) Room 101.

ClockMonday 09 November 2009, 12:30-13:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Gates Internal Symposium: Social Science and the Scientific Method

UserVarious student speakers; see website for more information.

HouseLocation and time TBA.

ClockSunday 08 November 2009, 16:30-18:30

Financial History Seminar

'Quicksilver Production and Consumption in Early Modern Europe: Reflections on Premodern Commodity and Financial Markets in the Second Phase of Globalization.'

http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~ddc22/cfh/seminars.html

UserProfessor Thomas Max Safley, History Department, University of Pennsylvania.

HouseSidgwick G-20, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 02 November 2009, 17:00-19:00

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

Not Our Mother's Movement: Historical Amnesia and the Attenuated Legacies of U.S. Feminism

All welcome to this free event

UserProfessor Nancy Hewitt, Visiting Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.

HouseUpper Hall, Jesus College.

ClockMonday 02 November 2009, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

John Bell and the nature of Reality

UserDr Carlos Lobo, Department of Physics.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 29 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Marine Ice in Larsen Ice Shelf

Note: unusual venue

UserPaul Holland (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, LIBRARY (1ST FLOOR).

ClockWednesday 28 October 2009, 16:30-17:30

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Gender Segregation in Employment: International Patterns of Inequality and Difference

This event is free and open to all

UserDr. Bob Blackburn. Emeritus Reader in Sociology, Cambridge.

HouseHardy Building (Downing Site) Room 101.

ClockMonday 26 October 2009, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

From the laboratory to the market: how the results of scientific research are transformed into products on the market

First talk of term - All welcome!

UserDr. Franz Wittwer, Strategic IP Manager, BIOTRONIK AG.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Just listen they're scared: The application of hostage negotiation in everyday life.

UserRichard Mullender, Former member of the Hostage and Crisis Negotiation Unit, Scotland Yard.

HouseLecture Theatre 9, Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 13 October 2009, 17:30-18:30

Financial History Seminar

'Shattered on the Rock? British Financial Stability from 1866 to 2007'

http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~ddc22/cfh/seminars.html

UserProfessor Geoffrey Wood, Cass Business School.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockMonday 12 October 2009, 17:30-19:30

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Sex-gender-family relations, the twentieth century experience

All welcome to this free event

UserProf Göran Therborn. Department of Sociology, Cambridge.

HouseHardy Building (Downing Site) Room 101.

ClockMonday 12 October 2009, 12:30-13:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Cradle to Cradle Design

UserBill McDonough William McDonough and Partners.

House Cambridge Unuiversity Engineerintg Department, LR0.

ClockWednesday 07 October 2009, 18:00-19:30

Wildlife and Environment

40 Years of the Hawk and Owl Trust: from the verge of extinction to the tower at Tate Modern

Also, there will be short illustrated talks on the education, research and conservation of the Hawk and Owl Trust

UserGuest speaker: Jefferey Boswall, Wildlife film maker at the BBC Natural History Unit and later for the RSPB.

HouseCripps Court, Magdalene College, Cambridge.

ClockSunday 20 September 2009, 12:00-14:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

I Can't Get No Satisfaction: Drug Discovery in the 21st Century

Last talk of term!

UserMax Macaluso, Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics, Department of Chemistry.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 11 June 2009, 13:00-13:45

Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research Seminar Series

A Green New Deal: Climate Change Mitigation as an Economic Stimulus

This talk is part of the Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research (4CMR) seminar series. Please bring your lunch.

UserDr Alex Bowen, Principal Research Fellow, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.

HouseLand Economy Laundress Lane seminar room 1.

ClockFriday 05 June 2009, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Microcephaly genes & the evolution of primate brain size

UserStephen Montgomery (Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 04 June 2009, 13:00-13:45

Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research Seminar Series

The Effect of Energy Prices on Operation and Investment in OECD Countries: Evidence from the Vintage Capital Model

This talk is part of the Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research (4CMR) seminar series

UserDr Karsten Neuhoff & Dr Jevgenijs Steinbuks. Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

HouseLand Economy Laundress Lane seminar room 1.

ClockFriday 29 May 2009, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Evo-devo and neo-Darwinism: hostility, synergy or indifference?

Special guest speaker - Professor Wallace Arthur, Department of Zoology, National University of Ireland

UserProfessor Wallace Arthur.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 21 May 2009, 13:00-13:45

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Where Have All the Icebergs Gone?

UserChris Woodworth-Lynas (NW Atlantic Ocean Observing System Partnership).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, LIBRARY (1ST FLOOR).

ClockWednesday 20 May 2009, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research Seminar Series

On the rebound: could energy efficiency improvements backfire?

UserHugh Parnell - Cambridge Energy Forum (CEF), Dr Terry Barker - 4CMR, Dr Philip Sargent - CEF, Steven Sorrell - University of Sussex, Blake Alcott, Prof Roger Kemp - Lancaster University, Dr Tim Foxon - University of Leeds, Tina Dallman - UK govmt DEFRA.

HousePitt Building, Trumpington Street.

ClockThursday 14 May 2009, 13:30-17:10

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cuckoo-host arms races

Earlier start time! Talk starts at 1pm

UserDr Justin Welbergen, Department of Zoology.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 14 May 2009, 12:45-13:45

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Healthy Country, Healthy People

UserJonathan Kingsley (Visiting Scholar Cambridge/Deakin).

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 07 May 2009, 16:15-17:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

William MCDonough (CANCELLED)

UserWilliam McDonough Author of "Cradle to Cradle".

HouseCANCELLED.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2009, 00:00-00:00

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

Beyond GDP Growth: measuring real progress in a developing country

All welcome, admission free. To book, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserPavan Sukhdev, Chair of Deutsche Bank's Global Markets Centre, Mumbai.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 30 April 2009, 17:15-18:30

Wildlife and Environment

Wild flower seeds for Gardens, and for Landscape and Conservation projects

These talks are run by the Cambridge City Group of the Wildlife Trust

UserRichard Brown, who with Mark Schofield, set up Emorsgate Wild Seeds..

HouseSt John's Church Hall, Hills Road, opposite Homerton College.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2009, 19:30-21:45

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

A 21st Century View of National Security

UserSir Richard Dearlove, Master of Pembroke College and former Head of the British Secret Intelligence Service.

HouseBoys Smith Room, Fisher Building at St. John's College.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2009, 18:00-20:00

Wildlife and Environment

Saving Ely's Wildspace

This talk follows the AGM of the Friends of the Roman Road and Fleam Dyke. Members free. Non-members £2.50

UserProfessor of Conservation Biology at the Zoology Department, C.U..

HouseCambridge Masonic Hall, Bateman Street, opposite the former entrance to the Botanic Garden.

ClockThursday 23 April 2009, 19:30-21:45

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Superconducting Motor with Its Perspective

First talk of term!

UserRuilin Pei, Department of Engineering.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 23 April 2009, 13:00-13:45

CRASSH events

Cosmic Centers and the Subject of the 21st Century

NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED!

UserShelly Errington (Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz).

HouseLecture Theatre 9, Mill Lane.

ClockFriday 27 March 2009, 16:30-18:00

CRASSH events

Screening of: 'Terlena: the Breaking of a Nation' (2004)

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

UserAndre Vltchek (Filmmaker and Political Commentator).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 26 March 2009, 19:30-21:45

Wildlife and Environment

Long Strides for Wildlife: ten years of the Wildlife Trust

These talks are run by the Cambridge City Group of the Wildlife Trust

UserNicholas Hammond, Director of the Wildlife Trusts bcnp.

HouseSt John's Church Hall, Hills Road, opposite Homerton College.

ClockWednesday 25 March 2009, 19:30-21:45

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

The Arctic on the Edge: Policy Issues in Canada's Back Yard

All welcome, admission free. To book, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserDr Peter Harrison, Skelton-Clark Fellow in the School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 19 March 2009, 17:15-18:30

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Innovating to sustainability

UserProfessor Charles Ainger, MWH Ltd and Centre for Sustainable Development, Cambridge University.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2009, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Boundaries of Darwinism

UserProfessor John Dupre, University of Exeter.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 06 March 2009, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Intelligent Polymers.... just add water

UserJameel Zayed, Department of Chemistry.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 March 2009, 13:00-13:45

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

The role of fuel cell technology in a low carbon economy

UserNigel Brandon, Professor of Sustainable Development in Energy - Imperial College.

HouseLR2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2009, 17:00-18:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Sustainable Organic Fuels for Transport

UserDr Richard Pearson, Lotus Engineering, Norwich, Norfolk, UK.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2009, 15:30-16:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Vaccine Development in the Year 2100

UserDr. James P. Nataro, University of Maryland..

HouseRiley Auditorium, Gillespie Centre, Clare College.

ClockMonday 02 March 2009, 18:00-19:15

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Lent Internal Symposium 2009

Recording of the lecture is available from: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pb400/GatesInternalSeminar.mp3

UserJoshua R. Cook, Will Smiley, Oleksandr Poplavskyy, Joseph C. Bonneau, University of Cambridge.

HouseGates Common Room, Cambridge.

ClockSunday 01 March 2009, 16:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Is Human Evolution Over?

UserProfessor Steve Jones, University College London.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 27 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

How to teach a computer to recognize digits

UserNicolas Le Roux (Microsoft Research).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 26 February 2009, 13:00-13:45

Wildlife and Environment

Alternatives to Fossil Fuels

David MacKay is a wonderful speaker: lively, funny, wonderfully clear and easy to follow. Do not think that you cannot understand the problem, or that talks by professors of physics are not for you. Professors are not what they used to be!

UserDavid MacKay, Professor in the Department of Physics, CU.

HouseSt John's Church Hall, Hills Road, opposite Homerton College.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2009, 19:30-21:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

Evolution and Conservation of Biodiversity

UserProfessor Craig Moritz, University of California.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 20 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Transportation in a Climate-Constrained World

UserAndreas Schäfer, Lecturer in Architecture - University of Cambridge.

HouseLR2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Cambridge and the Environment

Recording of the lecture is available from: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pb400/ViceChancellorRichards.mp3

UserProfessor Alison Richard, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.

HouseHicks Room, University Centre.

ClockTuesday 17 February 2009, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Darwin and Human Society

UserProfessor Paul Seabright, University of Toulouse.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 13 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

Darwin in his time - and in ours

Free admission, all welcome. To register, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserProfessor Sir Robert May, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 12 February 2009, 17:15-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

On the use of magnetic nanoparticles in medicine

200th Anniversary of Darwin's Birth - join us for a celebration!!!!

UserNick Darton, Research Associate, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 12 February 2009, 13:00-13:45

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Water, health and sustainable development

UserDr Jamie Bartram, Co-ordinator of Water, Sanitation and Health at the World Health Organisation.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2009, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Darwin in the Literary World

UserProfessor Rebecca Stott, University of East Anglia.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 06 February 2009, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

From building blocks to systems: where do we go next?

UserSarath Janga, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 February 2009, 13:00-13:45

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Reproducing Rome: Motherhood in Senecan drama (Medea and Phaedra)'.

UserDr. Mairead Mcauley-Dept of Classics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, SA..

HouseHardy Building (Downing Site) Room 101.

ClockThursday 05 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Energy use in the University of Cambridge

UserPaul Hasley, University Energy Manager - University of Cambridge.

HouseLR2, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Whether a creation-based religion can be consistent with science and evolution

Recording of the lecture is available from: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pb400/RabbiWeinreb.mp3

UserDr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, the executive vice president of the Orthodox.

HouseUnion Debating Chamber at 9a Bridge Street.

ClockMonday 02 February 2009, 19:00-20:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Global Darwin

UserProfessor Jim Secord, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 30 January 2009, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The carbon cycle during the Pleistocene

UserPeter Koehler (Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany).

HouseLloyd Room, Christ's College.

ClockFriday 30 January 2009, 17:15-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Schizophrenia: is it all in the mind?

UserDr James Kirkbride, Sir Henry Wellcome Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 29 January 2009, 13:00-13:45

Wildlife and Environment

Kingfishers Bridge Project

These talks are run by the Cambridge City Group of the Wildlife Trust

UserRoger Beecroft, Wildlife Consultant, has worked on the project from 1995.

HouseSt John's Church Hall, Hills Road, opposite Homerton College.

ClockWednesday 28 January 2009, 19:30-21:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

Darwin's Intellectual Development

UserProfessor Janet Browne, Harvard University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 23 January 2009, 17:30-18:30

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

Can Climate Engineering be a Sensible Plan B?

Free admission, all welcome. To register, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserDr Steve Koonin, Chief Scientist, BP.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 22 January 2009, 17:15-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Conical cells and pollinator attraction - A bee's eye view of molecular evolution

All welcome to attend!

UserKatrina Alcorn, Department of Plant Sciences.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 22 January 2009, 13:00-13:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Making of the Fittest

UserProfessor Sean Carroll, University of Wisconsin.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 16 January 2009, 17:30-18:30

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

In Conversation with... Andrew Tucker

Wine will be served from 5pm and the event will start at 5:30 pm

UserDr. Andrew Tucker, Geography Dept. University of Cambridge.

HouseUpper Hall, Jesus College.

ClockFriday 16 January 2009, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Sensing DNA with a Single Pore

First talk of term!

UserLorenz Steinbock, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 January 2009, 13:00-13:45

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Feminism Counts: Quantitative Methods and Gender Inequalities.

Feel free to bring your lunch

UserProf Jackie Scott – Department of Sociology, Cambridge..

HouseHardy Building (Downing Site) Room 101.

ClockThursday 15 January 2009, 13:00-14:00

CRASSH events

Culture Wars: Heritage and Armed Conflict in the 21st century

Closing date for registration is 5 December 2008. Fees range from £20 - £60. See here: https://webservices.admin.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/esales/confbookvmuh/intro.cgi

UserAbbas Alhussainy, Michael Barry, Reinhard Bernbeck, Patrick Boylan et al.

HouseGonville & Caius, Stephen Hawking Building.

ClockFriday 12 December 2008, 09:00-17:00

CRASSH events

Still in the Aftermath of Waterloo

UserMargaret Miles, American School of Classical Studies, Athens; UC Irvine.

HouseFitzwilliam Museum, Seminar Room, Trumpington Street.

ClockThursday 11 December 2008, 17:45-18:45

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Thighs wide open, hair loose – Gender specific attitudes towards napping in Japanese public transport.

Feel free to bring your lunch

UserBrigitte Steger – Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. University of Cambridge.

HouseHardy Building (Downing Site) Room 101.

ClockThursday 27 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Energy efficiency opportunities from heat pumps

UserAlex White - Senior Lecturer in Thermofluids, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

The Cultures of Climate Change

Film Screening and Discussion: "The Happening" (2008)

UserBenjamin Morris and Bradon Smith (University of Cambridge).

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2008, 17:00-19:00

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

In Conversation with...Hisham Matar

This event is free and open to all

UserHisham Matar.

HouseUpper Hall, Jesus College.

ClockMonday 24 November 2008, 13:00-14:30

The Cultures of Climate Change

The Climate Crunch: Ethics, Ecology and the End of Civilisation

UserDr Michael Northcott, Divinity, University of Edinburgh.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockThursday 20 November 2008, 19:00-20:30

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Mother-Daughter relations in Chodorow and Irigaray

Feel free to bring your lunch

UserAlison Stone – Department of Philosophy. Lancaster University.

HouseHardy Building (Downing Site) Room 101.

ClockThursday 20 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Practising gender: Men's experiences of transition to first-time fatherhood

Feel free to bring your lunch

UserTina Miller – Department of International Relations, Politics and Sociology. Oxford Brookes University.

HouseHardy Building (Downing Site) Room 101.

ClockThursday 13 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Britain’s building stock: a carbon challenge

UserMichael Kelly - Professor of Technology, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

TBA

UserAdrian Luckman (Swansea University).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

The Cultures of Climate Change

Listening in Place

UserDr Katharine Norman, City University.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 11 November 2008, 17:00-18:30

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

In Conversation with...Hisham Matar

This event is free and open to all

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseFaculty of Law Room LG17.

ClockSunday 09 November 2008, 15:00-16:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Tuned passive control of combustion instabilities

UserDan Zhao, Acoustics Lab, Department of Engineering.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 06 November 2008, 13:10-13:45

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

The New Food Security Debate: Should the UK produce as much of its own food as possible?

All welcome, admission free. To book, please email directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserTim Lang, Professor of Food Policy, City University.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 30 October 2008, 17:15-18:30

Tanner Lectures

What's Left of Culture and Society?

For further information and free tickets, please call 01223 332368 email: tanner.admin@clarehall.cam.ac.uk

UserProf Lisa Jardine, Queen Mary, University of London.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 30 October 2008, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The role of Insigs in nutritional sensing and fat accumulation

UserRachel Hagen, IMS, Clinical Biochemistry.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 30 October 2008, 13:10-13:45

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Energy plans that add up

UserDavid MacKay - Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2008, 17:00-18:00

Centre for Gender Studies-Public Events

Women's Status Men's States

All welcome to this free event

UserCatharine MacKinnon (Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School).

HouseFaculty of Law Room LG17.

ClockThursday 23 October 2008, 15:00-16:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Carbon aspects of the cycles of metals

UserThomas Graedel - Professor of Industrial Ecology, Yale University.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockFriday 17 October 2008, 17:00-18:00

The Cultures of Climate Change

Kyoto 2: A New Future for Energy Policy

UserOliver Tickell, author of "Kyoto2: How to Manage the Global Greenhouse".

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockFriday 17 October 2008, 16:00-17:30

Multidisciplinary Gender Research Seminars

Women's experience of harassment in public space.

Feel free to bring your lunch

UserKate Painter. Department of Criminology, Cambridge.

HouseHardy Building (Downing Site) Room 101.

ClockThursday 16 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

Antarctic Engineering

UserMurray Mitchell (OPUS Engineering - New Zealand).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2008, 16:30-17:30

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

What to do with the CO2 we can’t eliminate?

UserMr. Derek McLeish (Carbon Sciences Inc).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2008, 14:15-15:00

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

The Future of Electric Vehicles & Fuel Cells

UserMr Richard Blundell (Think UK) and Mr Michael Evans (CMR Fuel Cells).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2008, 12:30-13:15

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

The Possibilities – Changing How We Approach Design

UserMr. Ross Lovegrove (Lovegrove Studios).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2008, 11:45-12:30

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Public Policy

UserSpeaker TBC (AEA Technology).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2008, 10:30-11:15

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Education of Climate Change at Cambridge & Beyond

UserProfessor David Mackay (Cambridge University).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2008, 09:45-10:30

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Behaviour Change and the Role of NGOs

UserMr Duncan McLaren (Friends of the Earth Scotland) and Mr Gavin Starks (AMEE).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockWednesday 24 September 2008, 09:00-09:45

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Solar Power: Incentives for Scaling Up

UserPanel (chair: Prof. Peter Guthrie).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2008, 15:00-15:45

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Large Scale Deployment of Solar Energy, Working with Policy and Investment

UserProf. Doenitz (MAN/ Solar Millennium), Dr. Joachim Reiss (Q-Cells) and Dr. Harry Zervos (IDTechEx).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2008, 14:00-15:00

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Energy Efficient Cities - An Integrated Approach to Achieving Low Carbon

UserProf. Ann Dowling (University of Cambridge) And Clare Shuttleworth (White Young Green).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2008, 11:00-11:45

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Venture Capital, Risk and the Business of Global Climate Change - A Global View

UserMr. Bernie Bulkin (Vantage Point Venture Capital) and Prof. Michael Manielli (ZYen, London Accords).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2008, 09:45-10:30

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Policies for an Environmentally Sustainable Economy

UserMr. Roman Webber (Deliotte) and Paul Ekins (Green Fiscal Commission).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2008, 09:00-09:45

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Nuclear Power – What else?

UserDr Fabian Roques (CERA).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockMonday 22 September 2008, 15:15-16:00

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Overview of Alternative Technology Expansion & Its funding

UserFilipe Santos (Martifer Solar) and Sarah Forrest (Goldman Sachs).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockMonday 22 September 2008, 13:15-14:00

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air

UserProf David Mackay (Cambridge University).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockMonday 22 September 2008, 11:30-12:15

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

The Economics of A Zero Carbon Society

UserDr Terry Barker (Tyndall Centre, 4CMR).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockMonday 22 September 2008, 10:45-11:30

Entrepreneurship for a Zero Carbon Society

Global Context of Energy Crisis

UserProf Robert Watson (DEFRA).

HouseLaw Faculty, LG19, 10 West Road.

ClockMonday 22 September 2008, 09:30-10:15

Darwin College Science Seminars

Manipulating single electrons in silicon quantum dots

UserMichael Tanner, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 12 June 2008, 13:10-13:45

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Containment and Democratic Cosmopolitanism

Wine reception from 5:30 to 6 pm. Everyone is welcome.

UserProfessor Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University.

HouseDirac Room, Fisher Building, St. John's College http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/cms_misc/media/large_images/drawn_map.gif.

ClockThursday 05 June 2008, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Probing thin liquid films at the nanometer scale

UserDavid Barbero (University of Cambridge).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 June 2008, 13:10-13:45

Darwin College Science Seminars

IP3 receptor clustering: when togetherness redefines individuality

UserTaufiq-ur-Rahman (University of Cambridge, Department of Pharmacology).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 29 May 2008, 13:10-13:45

Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research Seminar Series

Policies for Reducing Personal Carbon

Registration Required:

UserDr Terry Barker, 4CMR, and others.

HousePitt Building, Trumpington Street.

ClockFriday 16 May 2008, 13:45-18:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Boeing 787 vs. Airbus 380

UserSungho Yoon, Department of Engineering.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 May 2008, 13:10-13:45

The Cultures of Climate Change

The Ecological Thought

UserTimothy Morton, UC-Davis.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 12 May 2008, 17:00-18:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle

This talk is open to everyone. Wine reception from 5:30 to 6 pm before the talk.

UserRobyn Scott, Author of "Twenty Chickens for a Saddle".

HouseGates Scholars Common Room, University Centre on Mill Lane.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2008, 17:30-19:00

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

International environmental governance

Admission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserProfessor Bob Watson, Chief Scientific Adviser, DEFRA.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 01 May 2008, 17:15-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Back to The Future: Cell tracing assays to study developmental events in a vertebrate embryo

UserKaterina Bilitou, Department of Oncology, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 01 May 2008, 13:10-13:45

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Climate Change and Ecosystem Services: Science, Economics and Ethics

UserProfessor Robert Watson (Chief Scientific Advisor, DEFRA and Director of Strategic Development at the Tyndall Centre).

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2008, 18:00-19:30

The Cultures of Climate Change

Climate Refugees: Destabilising an Unstable World

UserNorman Myers, University of Oxford.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 28 April 2008, 17:00-18:30

Wildlife and Environment

The Great Fen Project

Wildlife Trust and Natural History Society members £2, non-members £3

UserChris Gerrard, Project Officer for the Great Fen Project.

HouseThe Gilmour Building , C U Botanic Garden. The entrance is via the drive next to 47 Bateman Street, St Mary's Sixth Form College, NOT through the main gate..

ClockThursday 24 April 2008, 19:30-21:45

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

Ocean Acidification: the other CO2 problem

Admission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserProfessor Nick Owens, Director, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 24 April 2008, 17:15-18:30

Wildlife and Environment

Climate Change and Local Wildlife

This talk follows the AGM of the Friends of the Roman Road and Fleam Dyke. Members free. Non-members £2.50

UserBrian Eversham, Conservation Director of the Wildlife Trust for this area, a remarkable expert on invertebrates..

HouseThe Six Bells Public House, High Street, Fulbourn.

ClockThursday 10 April 2008, 19:30-21:45

Wildlife and Environment

Cambridge, Coprolite City

This talk is organised by the Cambridge City Group of the Wildlife Trust

UserDr Toby Carter, Lecturer in Zoology at Anglia Ruskin University and President of the Cambridge Natural History Society.

HouseThe Gilmour Building of the Botanic Garden. The entrance is via the drive next to 47 Bateman Street, St Mary's Sixth Form College, NOT through the main gate..

ClockThursday 27 March 2008, 19:30-21:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Some Novel Applications of Carbon Nanotubes

UserXiaozhi Wang, Department of Engineering.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 13 March 2008, 13:15-13:45

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Regulating Global Capitalism

UserProfessor Peter Nolan, Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management and Chair of the University of Cambridge's Development Studies Committee, Director of the Chinese Big Business Programme (CBBP) at the Judge Business School.

HouseGates Scholars' Common Room, University Centre.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2008, 18:30-20:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Lighting for the 21st Century

UserColin Humphreys - Professor of Material Science, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR1, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2008, 17:00-18:00

The Cultures of Climate Change

The Bounding Main: On Poetry and Frost

UserMelanie Challenger, award-winning poet and writer.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 10 March 2008, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Understanding Humans - Serendipity and Anthropology

UserProfessor Richard Leakey, Stony Brook University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 07 March 2008, 17:30-18:30

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

Creating a healthy environment: challenges facing China

Admission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserSian Griffiths, Professor of Public Health, Chinese University, Hong Kong.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 06 March 2008, 17:15-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Measuring Nitrogen Oxides and Ozone in the Atmosphere

UserWill Flynn, Department of Chemistry.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 06 March 2008, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

Cosmological Serendipity

UserSimon Singh, Author, Journalist, TV producer.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 29 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Can we live on renewables?

UserDavid MacKay - Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR1, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2008, 17:00-18:00

The Cultures of Climate Change

Le Corbusier: Ecology and Sustainable Development

UserDr Emma Dummett (Department of Architecture, University of Edinburgh).

HouseCRASSH Meeting Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 25 February 2008, 15:00-16:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Serendipity as a Force in Physics

UserProfessor Sir Richard Friend, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 22 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

The Cambridge University City Seminar 2007-08

Sound and the City: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

UserJanet Cardiff, Eric Clarke, Michael Bull, Graham Jeffrey, Jacob Kreutzfeldt, Juliana Hodkinson, Robin Rimbaud/Scanner.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockFriday 22 February 2008, 10:00-18:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Why Galaxy Clusters Ignore Gravity

UserMark Rosin, DAMTP Astrophysics.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 21 February 2008, 13:15-13:45

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Why do humans share food?

Wine reception from 5:30 to 6 pm before the lecture at 6 pm. This talk is open to the general public.

UserProfessor Martin Jones, George Pitt-Rivers Professor of Archaeological Science at Cambridge University.

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2008, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Serendipity in Political Life

UserOliver Letwin, Member of Parliament.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 15 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

The Economics of Climate Change: Governments, Companies and Households

Admission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserAdair Turner, Former Director-General of the CBI.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 14 February 2008, 17:15-18:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

High efficiency, low emissions: Power generation on the road to thermotopia

UserJohn Young - Professor of Applied Thermodynamics, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR1, Engineering Department, Inglis Building.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2008, 17:00-18:00

The Cultures of Climate Change

The Political Aesthetics of Climate Change

UserKathryn Yusoff, University of Exeter.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 11 February 2008, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Unanticipated Pleasures of the Writing Life

UserSimon Winchester, Author of 'The Map that Changed the World'.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 08 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Chemistry of Volcanic Plumes

UserTjarda Roberts, Centre for Atmospheric Science.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 07 February 2008, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

HIV and the Naked Ape

UserProfessor Robin Weiss, University College London.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 01 February 2008, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Genetic Code -Insights into its Origin and Evolution

UserHiroyuki Oshikane, Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 31 January 2008, 13:15-13:45

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Directions to 2050

UserDavid Hone - Group Climate Change Adviser, Royal Dutch Shell.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2008, 17:00-18:00

The Cultures of Climate Change

Imaging the Arctic

UserNick Cobbing, www.nickcobbing.co.uk.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 28 January 2008, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Stratigraphy of Serendipity

UserProfessor Susan Alcock, Brown University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 25 January 2008, 17:30-18:30

Environment on the Edge Lecture Series

Travelling 1st class on the Titanic?

Admission free; all welcome. To register, email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org

UserBarbara Young, Chief Executive, Environment Agency.

HouseBuckingham House Lecture Theatre, New Hall, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

ClockThursday 24 January 2008, 17:15-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Nonverbal Communication and Autism

UserDigby Tantam, University of Sheffield.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 24 January 2008, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Lecture Series

Serendipity's Guide to the Galaxy

UserProfessor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 18 January 2008, 17:30-18:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Early-Modern Iberian Empires and the Scientific Revolution

There will be a wine reception at 5:30 pm before the lecture begins at 6 pm.

UserPROFESSOR JORGE CANIZARES-ESGUERRA (Department of History, University of Texas at Austin—Author of ‘How to Write the History of the New World: History, Epistemology, and Identities in the 18th C. Atlantic World’).

HouseThe Old Library, Emmanuel College.

ClockTuesday 11 December 2007, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

What a fish can do for our sight!

UserElena Dreosti, Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 06 December 2007, 13:15-13:45

The Cultures of Climate Change

Climate of Fear or Fear of Climate? 'Lines of Defence' on the East Coast of England

UserBettina Furnee, www.ifever.org.uk and 2008 UL Artist-in-Residence.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 03 December 2007, 17:00-18:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Neuroethical Issues in Cognitive Enhancement and Neuroimaging

There will be a wine reception at 5:30 pm before the lecture begins at 6 pm.

UserPROFESSOR BARBARA SAHAKIAN, FMEDSCI (Clinical Neuropsychology, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge University).

HouseQueen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockTuesday 27 November 2007, 17:30-19:00

The Cambridge University City Seminar 2007-08

Conflict and recovery: archaeology and planning in post-war Beirut

UserDominic Perring, Director, Centre for Applied Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University College London.

HouseMain Seminar Room at CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 27 November 2007, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research Seminar Series

Drinking in the last chance saloon: what hope for 2° C?

UserDr Kevin Anderson, University of Manchester & Dr Terry Barker, University of Cambridge.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Halls, Room 1.

ClockMonday 26 November 2007, 13:45-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Watts up with the ultimate 'green' aircraft?

UserPaul Robertson, Department of Engineering.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 22 November 2007, 13:10-13:45

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Material, Energy and Climate Change

UserErnst Worrell, Lead-author of the Fourth IPCC Assessment Report.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2007, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Carbon Detox

UserGeorge Marshall, COIN (Climate Outreach Information Network).

HouseDebating Chamber, Union Society.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2007, 18:45-20:30

The Cultures of Climate Change

ICT and Climate Change

UserMolly Webb, The Climate Group.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 19 November 2007, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

How the camel lost its hump: Tales from the study of semantic disorders

UserKaralyn Patterson, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 November 2007, 13:10-13:45

The Cambridge University City Seminar 2007-08

TBC

UserDalibor Vesely, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge.

HouseMain Seminar Room at CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 13 November 2007, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Molecules and Computers

UserAli Shah, Department of Chemistry.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 08 November 2007, 13:15-13:45

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

‘The weather within’; 9 Bio-climatic designs

UserAlan Short, Professor of Architecture - University of Cambridge.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2007, 17:00-18:00

The Cultures of Climate Change

What is a Climate Refugee?

UserDeborah Staines, Macquarie University and CRASSH Visiting Fellow.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockMonday 05 November 2007, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Massive Nanocrystalline Metals

UserHarry D.K. BHADESHIA PhD, FREng, FRS (Physical Metallurgy).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 01 November 2007, 13:00-13:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

The Global Conservation Crisis

A wine reception will follow the talk. Offered in collaboration with The City Seminar at CRASSH.

UserMr. Anthony Tung, author of 'Preserving the World's Great Cities: the Destruction and Renewal of the Historic Metropolis'.

HouseQueen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockTuesday 30 October 2007, 17:30-19:00

The Triple Helix Lecture Series

Science of the Skies - what the government needs to know in the fight against climate change

UserDr Victoria Pope, Head of Climate Change for Government at the MET Office Hadley Centre.

HouseLG17, Law Faculty, 10 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockTuesday 30 October 2007, 17:30-19:00

The Cambridge University City Seminar 2007-08

The Global Conservation Crisis

offered in collaboration with the Gates Cambridge Trusts' Distinguished Lecture Series

UserAnthony M Tung, author of 'Preserving the World's Great Cities: The Destruction and Renewal of the Historic Metropolis'.

HouseQueen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

ClockTuesday 30 October 2007, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

How C. elegans navigate their environment

UserEmanuel Busch (MRC-LMB and Darwin College).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 25 October 2007, 13:00-13:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Sequestration of carbon from conventional fossil fuel power plants

UserAndy Woods, BP Professor - BP Institute for Multiphase Flow, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2007, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Panel Discussion on the UK Climate Bill

UserDr Terry Barker, Dr David Frame, Tim Helweg-Larsen.

HouseLG18, Law Faculty, 10 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockTuesday 23 October 2007, 14:45-16:30

Tanner Lectures

Tanner Lecture: The Respondents

Please note that this event is taking place at Robinson College. Registration for this event is not required (the main talk on 22 October is).

UserProf. Roger Brownsword, Dr. John Cornwell, Prof. Peter Lipton, Dr. Adrian Owen.

HouseAuditorium, Robinson College.

ClockTuesday 23 October 2007, 09:30-13:00

Tanner Lectures

Medicine, Neuroscience, Ethics and Society

Important: Registration is required for Monday's talk given by Prof. Illes and Lord Winston. To register for tickets, please email Clare Hall's Alumni Officer at rw335@cam.ac.uk

UserProfessor Judith Illes and Professor Lord Robert Winston.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockMonday 22 October 2007, 16:00-17:30

The Cambridge University City Seminar 2007-08

The Magic of the Corner: Getting Lost with Walter Benjamin

UserAlex Regier, Research Fellow, King's College Cambridge.

HouseCRASSH Seminar Room, 17 Mill Lane.

ClockTuesday 16 October 2007, 17:00-18:30

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Happiness, Global Catastrophe, and the National Assembly for Wales

UserGareth Clubb, Senior Research Officer, National Assembly of Wales.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 12 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Agrofuels and the risk of ecosystem collapse

UserDeepak Rughani, BioFuelWatch.

HouseFriends Meeting House, 12 Jesus Lane.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2007, 19:00-20:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Engineering for a Low Carbon Future: challenges and opportunities

UserJulian Allwood, Senior Lecturer - Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2007, 17:00-18:00

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Global Warming

UserProfessor Bjorn Lomborg, Director of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre and Author of 'The Skeptical Environmentalist’, ‘How to Spend $50B to Make the World a Better Place’, and ‘Cool It’.

HouseGates Scholars' Combination Room, University Centre.

ClockWednesday 03 October 2007, 15:00-16:30

British Antarctic Survey

Sustainable Energy - Without the BS

Open to non-BAS; please contact Ryan Woodard (rywo@bas.ac.uk or 221383) if you would like to attend.

UserDavid MacKay, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseBritish Antarctic Survey, conference room.

ClockTuesday 26 June 2007, 11:00-12:00

Conservation Science Talks

CCF Seminar: The Global Oil Depletion Debate

UserSteven M. Gorelick, Cyrus F. Tolman Professor, Stanford University.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

ClockWednesday 13 June 2007, 17:00-18:00

Armourers and Brasiers Cambridge Forum

Environmentally informed material choice: strategies, tools, data and difficulties

THE NINTH KELLY LECTURE

UserProfessor Mike Ashby CBE, FRS, FREng., Engineering Department, Cambridge University.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site.

ClockTuesday 12 June 2007, 17:30-18:30

Armourers and Brasiers Cambridge Forum

Novel Nanostructured Hydride Composites: Hydrogen Storage Materials for Zero-Emission Car

UserProfessor Dr Rüdiger Bormann, Institute for Materials Research, GKSS Research Centre, 21502 Geesthacht,, Germany.

HouseDepartment of Materials Science and Metallurgy, New Museums Site.

ClockTuesday 12 June 2007, 14:35-15:05

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

The role of packaging in society

UserDick Searle, Chief Executive of the Packaging Federation.

HouseLecture Room, Institute for Manufacturing IfM.

ClockWednesday 06 June 2007, 17:00-18:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

Sustainable Development

UserProfessor Sir David King (Chief Scientific Advisor to HM Government).

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 02 May 2007, 18:00-19:30

Stephen Stretton's list

An Environmental Case for Nuclear Energy? Talk and kick-off meeting

UserStephen Stretton: Cambridge Zero Carbon Society & Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy.

HouseBowett Room, Queens College.

ClockThursday 15 March 2007, 19:30-20:45

Soc Doc Soc

'Garbage Warrior' sneak-preview screening with director and producer for Q&A

FREE members, £2 non-members

UserOllie Hodge and Rachel Wexler.

HouseRobinson College, Umney Theatre.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2007, 17:00-19:00

The Cambridge University City Seminar at CRASSH

Title to be confirmed

UserMirjam Struppek (Urban Media Research; Berlin).

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX.

ClockTuesday 13 March 2007, 17:15-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

SPECIES IDENTITY: WHEN IT MATTERS

UserPeter Crane, University of Chicago.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 09 March 2007, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Nuclear power in the light of climate change

UserKeith Barnham (Imperial College London), Dave Elliott (Open University), Steve Kidd (World Nuclear Association), Bill Nuttal(Cambridge University Judge Business School).

HouseLaw Faculty LG17.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2007, 18:45-20:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

The Visual and the Visceral: Pornography and Sanctity, Modern and Medieval

UserDr William Burgwinkle, Reader in Medieval French and Occitan Literature, Fellow of King's College.

HouseSir Humphrey Cripps Auditorium - Magdalene College.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2007, 18:00-19:00

10th Annual Sustainable Development Lecture Series 2012

One Planet Living

UserPooran Desai OBE (Technical Director and co-founder of Bioregional).

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Engineering Department, Trumpington Street.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2007, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

IMMUNOLOGICAL SELF

UserPhilippa Marrack, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Denver, Colorado.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 02 March 2007, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Cancelled talk

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 27 February 2007, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

IDENTITY AND THE MIND

UserRaymond Tallis, Manchester University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 23 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Carbon Calculation and your personal footprint

UserRosemary Randall and Andy Brown, Cambridge Carbon Footprint.

HouseQueen's College, Bowett's Room.

ClockThursday 22 February 2007, 19:30-21:00

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Web 2.0

UserDr Philip Evans, senior Vice President, Boston Consulting Group. Boston, USA.

HouseOCR, Trinity College.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2007, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

IDENTITY AND THE LAW

UserLionel Bently, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 16 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

The Cambridge University City Seminar at CRASSH

Title to be confirmed

UserMette Ramsgard Thomsen (Centre for Information Technology and Architecture; Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen).

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX.

ClockTuesday 13 February 2007, 17:15-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

MATHEMATICAL IDENTITY

UserMarcus du Sautoy, Oxford University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 09 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

Managing China's Rise

UserSir Christopher Hum, KCMG, Master of Gonville and Caius College.

HouseBenson Hall, Magdalene College.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2007, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

IDENTITY OF MEANING

UserAdrian Poole, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 02 February 2007, 17:30-18:30

The Cambridge University City Seminar at CRASSH

Alternative spatialities for a global city

UserDoreen Massey (Geography; The Open University).

HouseCRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX.

ClockTuesday 30 January 2007, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

VISUALISING IDENTITY

UserLudmilla Jordanova, King's College London.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 26 January 2007, 17:30-18:30

Gates Distinguished Lecture Series

To Boldly Go. My Life in Physics.

To reserve a place email GatesHawking@gmail.com

UserProfessor Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College.

HouseThe Arthur Goodhart Lecture Theatre (LG19), Faculty of Law.

ClockWednesday 24 January 2007, 18:00-19:00

fpk1's list

Global Earth Science and Sustainability

C. P. Snow Lecture

UserProfessor Charles Kennel (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego).

HouseTheatre, Christ’s College.

ClockWednesday 24 January 2007, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

MUSICAL IDENTITY

UserChristopher Hogwood.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 19 January 2007, 17:30-18:30

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Nanotechnology and precautionary risk management

NOTE: Rescheduled from Tuesday 5th.

UserProfessor Roland Clift (Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey).

HouseLecture Room, Institute for Manufacturing IfM.

ClockWednesday 06 December 2006, 17:00-18:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Hurricane Katrina - A Study of Geosystems in Crisis

5.00pm *LR0*

UserProfessor Tom O’Rourke (School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University).

HouseEngineering Department - LR0.

ClockThursday 30 November 2006, 17:00-18:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Demarcating Boundaries. Geopolitical, Legal and Ethical Considerations in the Construction of an Israeli-Palestinian Border

UserProfessor David Newman (Dept of Politics and Government, Ben Gurion University, Israel and Visiting Leverhulme Professor, University of Bristol 2006-2007).

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 30 November 2006, 16:15-17:30

Cambridge Zero Carbon Society

Zero Carbon City Dongtan

UserDr Neil Kirkpatrick, Associate Director, Arup.

HouseChemical Engineering Department LT1.

ClockMonday 27 November 2006, 19:30-21:00

Manufacturing Research Forum

Rubbish

UserClaire Barlow, Production Process Group.

HouseSeminar Room B, Engineering, Institute for Manufacturing IfM.

ClockFriday 24 November 2006, 10:00-10:40

Darwin College Science Seminars

Thin films

UserDavid Barbero.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 23 November 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Using sunlight to save the earth

UserSuil In, Chemistry Department.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 16 November 2006, 12:45-14:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Well Dressed? The present and future sustainability of clothing and textiles in the UK

UserJulian M.Allwood, Søren E Laursen, Cecilia M de Rodriguez, Nancy M P Bocken (IfM, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Room, Institute for Manufacturing IfM.

ClockWednesday 15 November 2006, 17:00-18:00

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Living Dangerously: My Life as an Explorer

Tickets £12.50, available in advance from the Scott Polar Research Institute, Lensfield Road

UserRanulph Fiennes.

HouseBMS Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockSaturday 11 November 2006, 17:00-18:00

Department of Geography - Seminars in Cultural and Historical Geography

Traces of Europe

UserLuiza Bialasiewicz, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London.

HouseRoom 101, Hardy Building.

ClockWednesday 08 November 2006, 16:15-17:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Genetic determinism and four-letter words: how unique are unique genomes?

UserGiselle Walker, University Museum of Zoology/ Dept of Earth Sciences/ Darwin College.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 02 November 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Autonomy in Medical Ethics

UserGemma Mitchell, Darwin College, Cambridge.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 31 October 2006, 12:45-14:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Protecting the Environment: Criminal Law and the European Union

UserMrs Nicky Padfield, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 19 October 2006, 16:15-17:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Clinical Neuroscience

UserRamez Reda Moustafa.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 19 October 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Machine Learning

UserAnkur Agarwal.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 12 October 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Remote Sensing

UserSarah Hamylton.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 05 October 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

How does a black hole heat up a galaxy?

UserProfessor Andy Fabian, X Ray lab, Institute of Astronomy.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 15 June 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Hands-free writing

UserDavid Mackay, Darwin College/Inference Group, Cavendish Lab.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 08 June 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

One third of life's diversity

UserGiselle Walker, Darwin College/ University Museum of Zoology.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 25 May 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

If I only had a brane

UserCarlos Martins, DAMTP.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 11 May 2006, 12:45-14:00

ELCF - Engineering for a Low Carbon Future (seminar series)

Emissions trading, energy efficiency, and the law of unintended consequences

UserMichael Grubb, Director of the Carbon Trust, and professor of economics in Cambridge and Imperial College.

HouseLecture Room, Institute for Manufacturing IfM.

ClockMonday 08 May 2006, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Climate Change: The case for burying CO2

UserMike Sheppard, Schlumberger Cambridge Research (Honorary Fellow).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 04 May 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVAL INTO THE FUTURE

UserDiana Liverman, Oxford University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 10 March 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

To be confirmed

UserSian Piper.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 09 March 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVING LONGER

UserCynthia Kenyon, University of California, San Francisco.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 03 March 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

To be confirmed

UserRosienne Farrugia.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 02 March 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVING POVERTY AND FAMINE

UserAndrew Prentice, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 24 February 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

To be confirmed

UserAmir Chaudhry.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 23 February 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVING NATURAL DISASTERS

UserJames Jackson, Cambridge University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 17 February 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cancer and DNA - tying up loose ends

UserPeter Ahnesorg, Wellcome Trust and Cancer Research UK Institute.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 16 February 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVING DISEASE

UserRichard Feachem, Global Fund.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 10 February 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Tissue Engineering

UserRachael Walker.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 09 February 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVAL OF LANGUAGES

UserPeter Austin, School of Oriental & African Studies London.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 03 February 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Seismic Data

UserTim Sears.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 02 February 2006, 12:45-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVAL OF CULTURE

UserEdith Hall, Durham University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 27 January 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

SURVIVAL OF EMPIRES

UserPaul Kennedy, Yale University.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 20 January 2006, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

TBA

UserMark Shinwell, Darwin.

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 17 November 2005, 12:45-14:00

Offtopic Lunch

Sustainable computer workstations

UserSeb Wills, Inference Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

HouseRoom 911, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 05 October 2005, 12:30-13:30

Offtopic Lunch

Sustainable Energy

UserDavid MacKay, Inference Group.

HouseRyle Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 14 June 2005, 12:30-13:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Paul Robbins, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 14 February 2000, 10:01-10:01

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