Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Systematic improvement of molecular excited state calculations by inclusion of nuclear quantum motion

Antonios Alvertis.

Zoom.

Wednesday 21 October 2020, 11:30-12:30

Causal Inference Reading Group

A Negative Correlation Strategy for Bracketing in Difference-in-Differences

Ting Ye (University of Pennsylvania).

Zoom.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 13:30-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Linking the global and the local: the double burden of child malnutrition in Jamaica, c. 1960–2020

Henrice Altink (University of York).

Zoom.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 15:30-17:00

Department of Archaeology - Garrod seminar series

Slavery, emancipation, and the quest for reparations in Antigua and Barbuda

Dr Beatriz Marín-Aguilera, University of Cambridge.

Zoom.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 16:00-17:30

The Cambridge Russian-Speaking Society (CamRuSS)

Russian Poetry of the Second World War, a talk by Dr Maria Bloshteyn with poetry readings in Russian and English and Q&As - Thursday, 22 Oct, 19:00

Dr Maria Bloshteyn.

Zoom.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 19:00-20:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Artificial Intelligence and the Exploitative Optimization Problem

Annette Zimmermann (York).

Zoom.

Friday 23 October 2020, 13:00-14:30

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

TBA

Macarena Lago (KICP, University of Chicago).

Zoom.

Friday 23 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

New 1D models for localisation in slender structures

Claire Lestringant, Structural Engineering, Cambridge.

zoom 853 4440 7455 - for password email hh463@cam.ac.uk .

Friday 23 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Visible labour? Productive forces and imaginaries of participation in European insect studies, ca. 1680–1830

Dominik Hünniger (University of Hamburg).

Zoom.

Monday 26 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Disaster Research Network

Saving Lives

Josh Macabuag (SARAID, World Bank), Saki Yotsui (Ritsumeikan University), Freya Jephcott (Centre for Existential Risk).

Zoom.

Monday 26 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Politics and Salus Populi: Hobbes and the Sovereign as Physician of the State

Raffaella Santi (University of Urbino).

Zoom.

Monday 26 October 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge ESRC DTP Annual Lecture 2020

Politics is nothing else but medicine writ large: Ideology, impartiality and research

Cambridge ESRC DTP.

Zoom.

Monday 26 October 2020, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Morphogenesis club

Monthly Morphogenesis club talks

Arnaud Ambrosini and Margherita Battistara.

Zoom.

Tuesday 27 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Constraining Variational Inference with Geometric Jensen-Shannon Divergence

Jacob Deasy.

Zoom.

Tuesday 27 October 2020, 13:15-14:15

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Europe in the global rise of reproductive rights: abortion and transnational feminisms (1960s–80s)

Maud Bracke (University of Glasgow).

Zoom.

Tuesday 27 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Discovery of a weak topological insulating state and van Hove singularity in triclinic RhBi2

Gunnar Lange.

Zoom.

Wednesday 28 October 2020, 11:30-12:30

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

What’s in a model? Shifting multi-species relationships in Sakha (Yakutia)

Eleanor Peers (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Thursday 29 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The history of the electric charge c. 1897–1906 through the lenses of perspectival realism

Michela Massimi (University of Edinburgh).

Zoom.

Thursday 29 October 2020, 15:30-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

TBA

James Bonifacio (DAMTP).

Zoom.

Friday 30 October 2020, 13:00-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Revolutionary Republicanism: Robespierre, Condorcet, Grouchy

Geneviève Rousselière (Duke University).

Zoom.

Monday 02 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge University SIS Society

How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit

This event is open and free to all, subject to availability. Please register.

Alex Edmans.

Zoom.

Monday 02 November 2020, 18:00-19:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Modulated Bayesian Optimisation

Carl Henrik Ek.

Zoom.

Tuesday 03 November 2020, 13:15-14:15

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Author Meets Critics: North Pole: Nature and Culture

Michael Bravo (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Tuesday 03 November 2020, 16:00-17:30

Early Science and Medicine

The body whole and quotidian: experiencing the body in 18th-century Britain

Karen Harvey (University of Birmingham).

Zoom.

Tuesday 03 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Letting the machines vote: Committee neural network potentials control generalization errors and enable active learning

Christoph Schran (UCL).

Zoom.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 11:30-12:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

Prosocial Motivation Increases Framing Bias in Risky Decisions for Others

Professor Vincent Mak (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

A material history of 16th-century astronomy?

Anita McConnell Lecture

Jim Bennett (University of Oxford, emeritus).

Zoom.

Thursday 05 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

Geoscience in Context

Unique Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the U.S.

Karletta Chief (University of Arizona).

Zoom.

Thursday 05 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Contemporary Political Theory

The Meaning of "Rich Individuality" in Marxist Theory

Vanessa Wills.

Zoom.

Friday 06 November 2020, 13:00-14:30

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

TBA

Prahar Mitra (DAMTP).

Zoom.

Friday 06 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

The Cambridge Russian-Speaking Society (CamRuSS)

Member of the Family or Barbarian at the Gate? Russia and the West, by Sir Tony Brenton followed by Q&As – Friday, 6 November, 19:00.

Sir Tony Brenton.

Zoom.

Friday 06 November 2020, 19:00-20:30

Cabinet of Natural History

'Congo' the TV chimpanzee and the 'biology of art' at London Zoo, 1956–62

Miles Kempton (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Zoom.

Monday 09 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Disaster Research Network

Built Environment

Brigitte Steger (AMES) , Kristen MacAskill (Engineering), Ed Barsley (Architecture).

Zoom.

Monday 09 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement

Brandon Terry (Harvard University).

Zoom.

Monday 09 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Second Order Behaviour in Augmented Neural ODEs

Alexander Norcliffe and Cris Bodnar.

Zoom.

Tuesday 10 November 2020, 13:15-14:15

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Microbe smiths: engineering microbial control in 20th-century Japan

Victoria Lee (Ohio University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 10 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Understanding the Peculiarities of Metallic Bonding

Prof. Volker Heine FRS.

Zoom.

Wednesday 11 November 2020, 11:30-12:30

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

The Accidental PI: JUSTNORTH

Corine Wood-Donnelly (Uppsala University).

Zoom.

Thursday 12 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Africa, race and the most expensive vaccine yet: stakes of hepatitis B immunisation research in Senegal and the Gambia

Noémi Tousignant (University College London).

Zoom.

Thursday 12 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Computing second order gravitational perturbations of Kerr black holes

Justin Ripley (DAMTP).

Zoom.

Friday 13 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

A magnetic world: understanding the lodestone in the early modern Iberian empires

Leonardo Carrio Cataldi (LMU Munich).

Zoom.

Monday 16 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Three Lions in Winter: William Petty and the Debates over the Fiscal and Constitutional Structure of the Interregnum and the Restoration State

Shannon Stimson (Georgetown University).

Zoom.

Monday 16 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

Nicholas Lane.

Zoom.

Tuesday 17 November 2020, 13:15-14:15

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Gender and generation in premodern Europe

Leah DeVun (Rutgers University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 17 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Amphipathic Nature of Graphene Flakes

Karolina Milowska.

Zoom.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 11:30-12:30

Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

How to talk about your feelings: The peculiar relationship between words and emotions

Dr Ryan Boyd (Lancaster University).

Zoom.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The case for modelled democracy

Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij (Birkbeck, University of London).

Zoom.

Thursday 19 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

Contemporary Political Theory

Thinking About Black Republicanism: An Introduction

Melvin Rogers (Virginia).

Zoom.

Friday 20 November 2020, 13:00-14:30

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

TBA

Johannes Noller (DAMTP).

Zoom.

Friday 20 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Tuning into nature in interwar Britain: biology and natural history on the BBC

Max Long (Faculty of History).

Zoom.

Monday 23 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Disaster Research Network

Culture and disasters

Rory Walshe (Geography), Julie Morin (Geography), Roger Abbott (The Faraday Institute for Science & Religion).

Zoom.

Monday 23 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Poetry, Mores, and Laws: Herder's response to Montesquieu

Eva Piirimae (University of Tartu).

Zoom.

Monday 23 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

Marinka Zitnik, Harvard University.

Zoom.

Tuesday 24 November 2020, 13:15-14:15

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Beyond Sublime: Antarctic art since WWII

Jean de Pomereu (Associate of SPRI).

Zoom.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

How to study animal minds

HPS Virtual Conversation

See description.

Zoom.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 15:30-17:00

The Cambridge Russian-Speaking Society (CamRuSS)

When Art Danced with Music: Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, by Dr Natalia Murray followed by Q&As

Dr Natalia Murray.

Zoom.

Friday 27 November 2020, 19:00-20:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Between Virtue and Necessity: Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy, ca 1590-1650

Lisa Kattenberg (Gonville & Caius, University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Monday 30 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Title to be confirmed

Ferenc Huszár.

Zoom.

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 13:15-14:15

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Exploration, Celebrity and the Making of a Transnational Hero: Fridtjof Nansen and the Fram Expedition

Max Jones (University of Manchester).

Zoom.

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 16:00-17:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The shadow of slavery: measuring miscegenation in the early 20th century

Rana Hogarth (University of Illinois).

Zoom.

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 17:00-18:30

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Title to be confirmed

Iqra Choudhury (University of Manchester).

Zoom.

Thursday 03 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

Geoscience in Context

Science and Justice in the Anthropocene

Professor Jill Schneiderman (Vassar College).

Zoom.

Thursday 03 December 2020, 15:00-16:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Corporatism: Reviving a Constitutional Concept

Steven Klein (King's College London).

Zoom.

Monday 25 January 2021, 17:00-19:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Captive polar bears: politics, (re)production, and performance

Henry Anderson-Elliott (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Tuesday 26 January 2021, 16:00-17:30

Financial History Seminar

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

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

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Carl Schmitt in Leipzig – Defence of Democracy or Autocratic Subversion?

Lars Vinx (Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Monday 01 February 2021, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Thucydides’ Tragic Science of Democratic Defeat

Mark Fisher (Georgetown University).

Zoom.

Monday 08 February 2021, 17:00-19:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Defence and Security in the Arctic: The UK perspective

Duncan Depledge (Loughborough University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 February 2021, 16:00-17:30

Financial History Seminar

'Where's the money coming from?' Manifesto costings and fiscal credibility in British general elections, 1955-2019

Dr Peter Sloman (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Kant's 'True Politics'

Susan Shell (Boston College).

Zoom.

Monday 15 February 2021, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Experiencing Republican Texts

Rachel Hammersley (Newcastle).

Zoom.

Monday 22 February 2021, 17:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

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

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

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Not Being Kantian about Moral Justification

Luc Foisneau (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS).

Zoom.

Monday 01 March 2021, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Hegel and Italian Political Thought

Fernanda Gallo (Homerton College, University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Monday 08 March 2021, 17:00-19:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Change, continuity and value in Svalbard

Samantha Saville (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 16:00-17:30

Financial History Seminar

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

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

Zoom.

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

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Separation of Powers as a New Theory

Jeffrey Tulis (University of Texas at Austin).

Zoom.

Monday 15 March 2021, 17:00-19:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Languages of Emergency, Infrastructures of Response and Everyday Heroism in the Circumpolar North

Olga Ulturgasheva (University of Manchester) and Barbara Bodenhorn (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Tuesday 11 May 2021, 16:00-17:30

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Title to be confirmed

Andy Minn, University of Pennsylvania.

Zoom.

Thursday 16 December 2021, 13:00-14:00