Lunchtime Seminar - Hearing and Seeing Music in Early Twentieth Century Algeria

Dr Stephen Wilford, Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson/Research Associate, Faculty of Music.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Lunchtime Seminar - Examining the racial discourses of the UK's widening participation policy agenda.

Sharon Walker, PhD Student, Wolfson College.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Lunchtime Seminar - Keeping our infrastructure safe: cracks, hydrogen embrittlement and other material degradation challenges.

Dr Emilio Martínez-Pañeda, 1851 Research Fellow. Cambridge University, Engineering Department. Wolfson JRF.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Lunchtime Seminar - Learning to Gamble in the Pacific Islands

Dr Anthony Pickles, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Social Anthropology and JRF, Wolfson College.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

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

Lunchtime Seminar - The Wandering Brother: Possession and dispossession in the homeland

Annie Zaidi, Nine Dots Prize Fellow CRASSH and Visiting Fellow Wolfson College.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Lunchtime Seminar - The contradictions of the authoritarian developmental state: energy boom and bureaucratic autonomy in Rwanda

Dr Benjamin Chemouni, JRF Wolfson College, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Department of Politics and International Studies.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Lunchtime Seminar - The Odyssey of eighteenth-century scholarship and the entangled emergence of the Enlightenment

Dr Jeffrey D Burson, Associate Professor French History at Georgia Southern University.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 16 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

How (Not) To Write Literary Biography: The Case of Michael Arlen

Dr Philip Ward, Senior Member, Wolfson College.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Amorphous Carbon and Graphene for Advanced Memory Applications

Dr Anna Ott, Cambridge Graphene Centre, Electrical Engineering Division, University of Cambridge; JRF at Wolfson.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 05 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Two Trials: Law and Memory after Argentina’s Dictatorship

Ram Natarajan, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College; Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Arkansas.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Empathy and Justice in the Era of the Financial Crisis

Tammy Amiel Houser, Senior Lecturer, The Open University of Israel and currently Visiting Scholar in the English Faculty at Cambridge University and VCRA Wolfson College.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Human-like Computing: The importance of explanation in Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Dr Zohreh Shams, Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Mindfulness meditation training for mental health promotion: the good, the bad and the ugly

Dr Julieta Galante, Postdoctoral Fellow at Department of Psychiatry, JRF at Wolfson.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

'Ordering Disorder': War, Migration and Urban Space in Delhi, 1939-1955

Dr Anjali B Datta, Leverhulme Early career Fellow, Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cool liquid crystals

Guillaume Nataf, 1851 Research Fellow, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

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

Towards a socially conscious evolutionary science of culture

Azita Chellappoo PhD candidate, Department of History & Philosophy of Science, Wolfson College.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

From Cambridge Classicists to Japanese Code Breakers: How the British trained wartime Japanese linguists

Kayoko Takeda Professor, College of Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

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

Mapping imperial edges: the French & the British in Southeast Asia, 1885-1914

Marie de Rugy JRF Wolfson College / British Academy Newton International Fellow.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

From Redemption to Revolution: junk art and black power in 1960s California

Danny Widener, Visiting Fellow, CRASSH / University of California, San Diego,.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

CRISPR, the next generation of medicines

Alasdair Russell, Head, Pre-Clinical Genome Editing, CRUK Cambridge Centre.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Bullying & Cyberbullying: protective factors and effective interventions

Izabela Zych, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Cordoba (Spain).

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Dr Pamela Jane Smith: Dorothy Garrod's experience

Dr Pamela Jane Smith Fellow McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Cambridge.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Professor Bjorn Basberg: Two Strategies - C.A.Larsen and Chr. Christensen: a comparative analysis of two Antarctic Entrepreneurs

Professor Bjorn Basberg, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College and Professor in Economic History, NHH Norwegian School of Economics .

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

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

Dr Carolina Armenteros: Looking for the Vedas -The Jesuits' India Missions and the Invention of Anthropology

Dr Carolina Armenteros, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College and Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Santo Domingo.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Dr Olga Petri: Canaries in Imperial St Petersburg

Dr Olga Petri, Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College and Leverhulme/Newton Trust Early Career Research Fellow, Department of Geography Cambridge.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Dr Ursula Bsees: Scholars at the periphery: Text production and the transmission of knowledge in Early Islamic Egypt (7th-10th centuries)

Dr Ursula Bsees , Visiting College Research Associate Wolfson College and Erwin Schroedinger Postdoctoral Scholar Austrian Science Fund.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

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

Dr Yara E Sanchez Corrales: How do cells form tubular organs?

Dr Yara E Sanchez Corrales, College Research Associate, Wolfson College and MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Dr Tom Schirris: How drugs affect and enter our cellular power plant.

Dr Schirris is a Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College and EMBO Post- doctoral Fellow, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Finding the past: Medieval coin finds at the Fitzwilliam Museum

Dr Martin Allen (Fitzwilliam Museum and Wolfson College).

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 20 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

A cocoon of meaning. Person-Time-Place-Occasion Symbolism in Kimono

Dr Corinne Duhig, College Research Associate, Wolfson College.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 13 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Reforming the police from the 'Inside out'

Sir Denis O'Connor, College Research Associte, Wolfson College, and Affiliated Lecturer, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 06 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Using basic science to develop psychological treatments for depression

Dr Caitlin Hitchcock, Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, and Clinical Psychologist and Senior Scientist, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Reconciling conservation and development at the forest agricultural nexus: insights from the forested tropics

*Please note the change of venue for this event

Rachel Carmenta, Frank Jackson Research Fellow, Wolfson College and University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute (UCCRI).

Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Umbrella Man: Appeasement and Neville Chamberlain eighty years after Munich

Professor Tony Lentin, Senior Member, Wolfson College, and author.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Unveiling the hidden lives of stars

Dr Ghina Halabi Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, and Postdoctoral Research Associate Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

"Small, dark and alive” to “cripplingly shy”: a review of Dorothy Garrod’s experienceas the first woman Professor at Cambridge, in the light of recent experiences of women at Cambridge

Dr Pamela Jane Smith, Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Systems for Big Data Applications: Revolutionising personal computing

Dr Noa Zilberman, Wolfson College and Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Department of Computer Science and Technology .

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Finding the past: Medieval Coin Finds at the Fitzwilliam Museum

Dr Martin Allen, Wolfson College and Senior Assistant Keeper, the Fitzwilliam Museum.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 28 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Rather more than Thirty-Nine Steps: the life of John Buchan

Ursula Buchan.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Parkinson’s Rehabilitation using Interactive Dance Technology

Dr Matthew Woolhouse, Wolfson College and Associate Professor McMaster University.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 14 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Roland the Hero

John DuVal, James E. and Ellen Wadley Roper Professor of Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas..

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

The first geological chronology of ancient Egypt and the antiquity of man, 1847-63

Meira Gold, Wolfson College and Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Are our genes to blame when our jeans don’t fit?

Dr Giles Yeo, Wolfson College and Principal Research Associate, Metabolic Research Laboratories and MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge .

Combination Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 13:00-14:00