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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

Darwin College Sciences Group

Polymers for nanotechnology

UserPaul Zavala-Rivera.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 13 June 2013, 13:10-14:00

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

Darwin College Sciences Group

Canceled

UserEyemen Kheir .

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 23 May 2013, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities Group

TBC

UserEd Anderson.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 21 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

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 Sciences Group

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

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

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

Darwin College Humanities Group

Entering the Soul Niche

UserNicholas Humphrey.

HouseThe Richard King Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2013, 13:10-14:00

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

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

Darwin College Sciences Group

Malaria - algae that kill

UserEllen Nisbet.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 07 February 2013, 13:10-14:00

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 - 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

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 University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Net Neutrality. A realistic dream or an expired reality?

UserMatias Attwel - Director of Social and Mobile Media of Terra Latinoamérica; Nico Perez - Co-founder of Mixcloud; Professor Jon Crowcroft (host) - Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Computer Lab, at the University of Cambridge.

HouseTrinity Hall Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 09 November 2012, 17:30-19:00

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 Group

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

Cambridge Volcanology Group (CVG)

Volcanic Caves

Organised by Cambridge University Caving Club

UserYves Moussallam and Nial Peters.

HouseALB, Clare Hall, Herschel Road.

ClockTuesday 30 October 2012, 19:30-20:00

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

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

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

The financial crisis: what went wrong and will it happen again?

UserColm O’Shea, Founder, Comac Capital and Jamie MacIntosh, Director of the Institute for Security & Resilience Studies, University College London.

HouseTBC.

ClockTuesday 19 June 2012, 17:00-19:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

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

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

Cambridge Volcanology Group (CVG)

Microwave remote sensing of volcanic ash clouds.

This talk is part of the Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars series

UserDr Mario Montopoli, Dept. Geography, University of Cambridge,.

HouseUnilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

ClockMonday 21 May 2012, 14:15-15:30

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 Sciences Group

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

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 - 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

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Dealing with an Ageing Society: Perspectives from Science and Policy

UserProf Christopher Dobson FRS, and Mr Mark Gorman (as a discussant).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockFriday 04 May 2012, 17:30-19:00

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 - 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 - 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

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

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 Group

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

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 Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

The Challenges of Regulating the Internet

UserMr Simon Hampton, Director of European Public Policy at Google and Prof Derek McAuley, Professor of Digital Economy and Director of Horizon at the University of Nottingham (as a discussant).

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockFriday 17 February 2012, 17:30-19:00

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 Group

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

Darwin College Humanities Group

Homelessness and the Migrant Domestic Worker

UserDr Jessie Hohmann (Faculty of Law).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2012, 13:10-14:00

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

George Pitt-Rivers Seminar Series

Landscape and climate analysis: Egypt and beyond

UserDr Judith Bunbury, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

ClockFriday 03 February 2012, 13:15-14:00

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 Humanities Group

Religion, Trade and Chinese Merchants in East Africa

UserHUNG, Wing Lok (Centre of African Studies).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 31 January 2012, 13:10-14:00

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 Group

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

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 Group

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 Sciences Group

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Physical Sciences Seminar

Polar ozone loss

UserDr Neil Harris, University of Cambridge.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

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 Group

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 Sciences Group

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Physical Sciences Seminar

Microbial Communities in Antarctic Subglacial Aquatic Environments.

UserDr Mark Skidmore, Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

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 Group

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

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

The Challenges of Cyber Warfare

UserProf Sir Mark Welland, FRS, Prof Paul Cornish, and David Smart.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockFriday 11 November 2011, 17:30-19:00

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 Group

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

Darwin College Humanities Group

The G20 in a World of Financial Crises

UserMaha Kamel (University of Cambridge).

HouseEntertaining Room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 01 November 2011, 13:10-14:00

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 - 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 Group

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

George Pitt-Rivers 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 Sciences Group

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

George Pitt-Rivers 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

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Science in the service of the developing world

This lecture is now fully booked.

UserProf. Chris Whitty, Chief Scientific Advisor for the Department for International Development.

HouseJudge Business School - Lecture Theatre 3.

ClockFriday 27 May 2011, 18:00-19:00

George Pitt-Rivers Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Toomas Kivisild, LCHES, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

ClockFriday 27 May 2011, 13:15-14:00

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

George Pitt-Rivers 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

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

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Efficiency, sufficiency, growth: which way to a low carbon society?

Talk open to All - Registration required: www.dar.cam.ac.uk/connections

UserDr Julia Steinberger, Lecturer in Ecological Economics at the University of Leeds.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockTuesday 10 May 2011, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

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

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

George Pitt-Rivers Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Tony Legge, Department of Archaeology.

HouseSeminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

ClockFriday 18 March 2011, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge University Science and Policy Exchange (CUSPE)

Drivers, Challenges and Approaches to Innovation in the Construction Sector

UserProf. Jeremy Watson, Chief Scientific Advisor for the Department for Communities & Local Government and Global Research Director of Arup.

HouseMill Lane Lecture Room 9.

ClockThursday 17 March 2011, 17:30-19:00

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

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