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Merged list of all talks taking place at the Wolfson College. This talk series can also be used to announce individual talks that do not fit into any of the established Wolfson College seminars. If you have a question about this list, please contact: Julian Siebert; communications. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser. 0 upcoming talks and 527 talks in the archive: show all (slow!). Wolfson College Science Society Science Student Research SeriesWolfson College's PhD students. Roger Needham Room, Wolfson College. Friday 02 December 2022, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Informing more sustainable development of the oil palm industryDr Michael Pashkevich, Insect Ecology Group, Department of Zoology, St Edmund’s College. Roger Needham Room, Wolfson College. Friday 18 November 2022, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Wolfson Science Society Student Research SeriesWolfson College, PhD students. See abstract for details.. Roger Needham Room, Wolfson College. Friday 21 October 2022, 17:45-19:00 Wolfson College Science Society Can biodiversity make children happy?Kate Howlett, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. Roger Needham Room, Wolfson College. Friday 10 June 2022, 17:45-19:00 Wolfson College Science Society Parental care: an evolutionary case of “use it or lose it”Ellie Bladon, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. Roger Needham Room, Wolfson College. Friday 27 May 2022, 17:45-19:00 Wolfson College Science Society Using sleight of hand to investigate human action perception in diverse species and taxaElias Garcia-Pelegrin, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. Friday 13 May 2022, 17:45-19:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society Fortifying the Bosphorus and Dardanelles: Ottoman Measures against the Russian ThreatDr Hümeyra Bostan-Berber (Professor at Marmara University, Institute of Turkology Studies, and College Research Associate at Wolfson). Gatsby Room, Chancellor's Centre, Wolfson College. Tuesday 10 May 2022, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society In-situ Monitoring of Photocatalytic Processes within Optofluidic Hollow-Core Fibre Microreactors using Various Spectroscopic TechniquesDr Alexander Gentleman. Roger Needham Room, Wolfson College. Friday 06 May 2022, 17:45-19:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society Writing about democracy in the age of Modi and TrumpHybrid event: Register for webinar access details, see below Professor Eugenio Biagni (Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge). Gatsby Room, Chancellor's Centre, Wolfson College. Tuesday 03 May 2022, 18:00-19:15 Can Liberal Democracies regulate the power of Tech Giants?Please register on Eventbrite John Naughton, Davi Runciman, Gina Neff, Jennifer Cobbe. Lee Hall, Wolfson College, Barton Road, Cambridge CB3 9BB. Wednesday 06 April 2022, 18:00-19:30 The Arts in Algeria: Growing Networks and Supporting CreativityPlease register on Eventbrite Dr Stephen Wilford (University of Cambridge, Wolfson College). Lee Hall, Wolfson College, Barton Road, Cambridge CB3 9BB. Thursday 31 March 2022, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society Circular Movements: Migratory Citizenships in Anticolonial AthensHybrid event: Register for webinar access details, see below Dr Tom Western (University College London). Gatsby Room, Chancellor's Centre, Wolfson College. Tuesday 15 March 2022, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society Opium’s Empire in the Nineteenth CenturyRegister for webinar access details, see below Dr Devyani Gupta (Jindal Global University/ University of Leeds). Tuesday 08 March 2022, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society Cacao: An example for the movement of plants and food cultures across the early modern PacificRegister for webinar access details, see below Professor Angela Schottenhammer (KU Leuven). Tuesday 01 March 2022, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society Ancient Greek warfare beyond the PhalanxHybrid event: Register for webinar access details, see below Dr Roel Konijnendijk (University of Edinburgh) & Dr Matthew Lloyd (Norwich & District Historical Society, Canada). Gatsby Room, Chancellor's Centre, Wolfson College. Tuesday 22 February 2022, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society Science as a Cultural Human RightRegister for webinar access details, see below Professor Helle Porsdam (Professor of Law and Humanities and UNESCO Chair in Cultural Rights, University of Copenhagen, Denmark). Tuesday 15 February 2022, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society CANCELLED - Writing a about democracy in the age of Modi and TrumpRegister for webinar access details, see below Professor Eugenio Biagini (Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge). Tuesday 01 February 2022, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society The Anti-Nazi: Hermann Budzislawski (1901-1978) and the Twentieth CenturyRegister for webinar access details, see below Professor Daniel Siemens (Newcastle University). Tuesday 25 January 2022, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Advances in Stroke Medicine: Blood Vessels, Brains, and BeyondHybrid event: Register for webinar access details, see below Dr Nicholas Evans (Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College). Friday 21 January 2022, 18:00-19:00 The 2021 Annual Lee Seng Tee Distinguished Lecture - Race, Scientific Racism and GeneticsLivestream available Dr Adam Rutherford (geneticist, author and broadcaster). Lee Hall, Wolfson College, Barton Road, Cambridge CB3 9BB. Wednesday 24 November 2021, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society The Final Frontier: Everyday Life in Colonial ChileRegister for webinar access details, see below Dr Beatriz Marín-Aguilera (Renfrew Fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Junior Research Fellow of Churchill College). Tuesday 23 November 2021, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society Christian Felix Weiße (1726-1804) and the Anglophile Revolution in German LiteratureHybrid event: register for zoom details Dr Tom Zille (PhD candidate, Wolfson College; Faculty of English, University of Cambridge). Tuesday 16 November 2021, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society A History of the World in One CathedralRegister for webinar access details, see below Professor Astrid Swenson (Professor of History, Bath Spa University). Tuesday 09 November 2021, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society We Are All InterconnectedHybrid event: register for zoom details Gordon Klein, MD MPH (University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston). Friday 05 November 2021, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society Ya Lalla: The Digital Sphere & the Sensory: A Platform on Judeo-Arabic Songs for Birth from the Moroccan SaharaHybrid event: register for zoom details Dr Vanessa Paloma Elbaz (Research Associate, Faculty of Music; Peterhouse College). Tuesday 26 October 2021, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society Putin’s Use of Russian HistoryRegister for webinar access details, see below Professor Orlando Figes. Tuesday 19 October 2021, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson College Science Society Biotransformation: learning Nature's art of unmaking drugs to sustainably make new drugsGodwin Aleku . Friday 15 October 2021, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society Is music the most important thing we ever did? (Part II)Livestream available Professor Ian Cross (Director of the Centre for Music and Science; Fellow of Wolfson College). Tuesday 12 October 2021, 18:00-19:00 Daughters and Sons of the Post-Windrush Generation: Reflections and New DirectionsMake sure to register for the meeting below Dr Kenny Monrose & panel. Tuesday 22 June 2021, 15:00-16:30 Wolfson College Science Society Adaptations of Antarctic Marine Animals and Changing EnvironmentsRegister for webinar access details, see below Professor Lloyd Peck (Science Leader of Biodiversity, Evolution and Adaptation Team, British Antarctic Survey & Fellow of Wolfson College). Friday 11 June 2021, 18:00-19:00 When Engineering meets conservation; passion is brewed and awards wonRegister for meeting access details, see below Charlie Barty-King (Wolfson College Sustainability Hub Convener/The Green Society Founder). Thursday 10 June 2021, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society Rachel Auerbach, Cultural Genocide and a New Conception of Victims’ TestimoniesRegister for webinar access details, see below Professor Leora Bilsky (Tel Aviv University). Tuesday 08 June 2021, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society Christian Social Responsibility: Theology, Charity, and Development in NigeriaRegister for webinar access details, see below Christopher Wadibia (PhD Candidate, Selwyn College / Ax:son Johnson Research Assistant in Applied History, Centre for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge). Tuesday 01 June 2021, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson College Science Society Dynamic relationships between social connections and information transmissionRegister for meeting access details, see below Dr Ipek Kulahci (University of Notre Dame). Friday 28 May 2021, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society A Global Maghreb: Crossroads, Borderlands, and FrontiersRegister for webinar access details, see below Professor Paul A. Silverstein (Reed College). Tuesday 25 May 2021, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson College Science Society Ageing in Harmony: Music’s Impact on Health & Well-being in Older AdultsRegister for meeting access details, see below Bill Ahessy (Heath Service Executive, Ireland). Friday 21 May 2021, 18:00-19:00 Listening Sessions: Musical Encounters with Peni Rokotuiba MasirewaRegister for meeting access details, see below Peni Rokotuiba Masirewa. Thursday 20 May 2021, 18:00-18:45 Wolfson College Science Society The keys to the past: a mixed-methods approach to reconstructing the 1812 eruption of La Soufrière St. VincentRegister for meeting access details, see below Dr Jazmin Scarlett (Independent Researcher). Friday 14 May 2021, 18:00-19:00 How to use the power of social media for good?Register for webinar access details, see below Adeel Khan (Sail4Kashmir). Thursday 13 May 2021, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society "Objects, Bodies, and Emotions: How the Gas Mask Can Help Us Tell the History of Total War"Register for webinar access details, see below Professor Susan Grayzel (Department of History, Utah State University). Tuesday 11 May 2021, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson College Science Society Diseases without Borders: what can we do to combat the next pandemicRegister for meeting access details, see below Professor James Wood (Head of Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge; Fellow of Wolfson College). Friday 07 May 2021, 18:00-19:00 ‘Quelle émotion, quelle sensation!’: Listening for the Past in Eastern Paris, 1931Register for webinar access details, see below Dr Stephen Wilford (Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge & Wolfson College Cambridge). Thursday 06 May 2021, 18:00-19:00 The Rules of Racial Standing: Race and Racism in the Era of the Public Lynching of George FloydRegister for webinar access details, see below Dr Nicola Rollock (Senior advisor to the Vice-chancellor). Wednesday 05 May 2021, 18:00-19:45 Wolfson College Humanities Society The World of the Village Watchman in Colonial Eastern IndiaRegister for webinar access details, see below Dr. Partha Pratim Shil (Junior Research Fellow, Trinity College, University of Cambridge). Tuesday 04 May 2021, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson College Science Society Stories from Tree RingsDr Claudia Hartl (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz). Friday 30 April 2021, 18:00-19:00 Engaging with architectural heritage in a changing climate: Views from academia and practiceRegister for webinar access details, see below Prof Henrik Schoenefeldt (University of Kent School of Architecture and Planning). Thursday 29 April 2021, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson College Science Society Empire in Mesopotamia… Felled by Dust?Register for meeting access details, see below Dr Stacy Carolin (Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge). Friday 19 March 2021, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson Arts - Representation as a Matter of Fact (Professor Phillip Lindley in conversation with Amikam Toren)Register for webinar access details, see below Amikam Toren. Thursday 18 March 2021, 17:00-18:00 Wolfson College Science Society Challenges in Building a Career in Discoveries and Their Translation; Journey to the UnknownRegister for meeting access details, see below Professor Hala Zreiqat (University of Syndey). Friday 12 March 2021, 18:00-19:00 Community Scale Engagement: Collective Action on CarbonRegister for webinar access details, see below Professor Douglas Crawford-Brown (Professor Emeritus at the University of Cambridge and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Director of Cambridge Science and Policy Consulting; Director of the Community Carbon Reduction Project). Thursday 11 March 2021, 18:00-19:00 From Mississippi to Cambridge: Marie Battle Singer, Britain's first Black psychoanalystRegister for webinar access details, see below Professor Jane Rhodes (Department of Black Studies, University of Illinois-Chicago); Professor Lynn Hudson (Department of History, University of Illinois-Chicago). Wednesday 10 March 2021, 18:00-19:00 The Fascist Welfare State: Cleavages, Rupture, and MediationRegister for webinar access details, see below Ilaria Pavan (Associate Professor of Modern History, Scuola Normale Superiore). Tuesday 09 March 2021, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society Religion and the Politics of Race in 1960s London: Transnational Liberation Networks and Theologies of ResistanceRegister for meeting access details, see below Dr Hannah Elias (Lecturer in Black British History, Goldsmiths, University of London). Tuesday 02 March 2021, 14:00-15:00 Wolfson College Science Society Back to the Future: Ice Cores and Climate ScienceRegister for meeting access details, see below Dr Helene Hoffmann (Wolfson College, Cambridge). Friday 26 February 2021, 18:00-19:00 The Ice is Melting: The Impact of Global Warming on the Arctic and BeyondRegister for webinar access details, see below Ms Marie-Anne Coninsx Former EU Ambassador at Large for the Arctic (2017-2019). Thursday 25 February 2021, 18:00-19:00 “A Mild Despotism, Tempered by Sugar”: the Rise of the Overseer State in Britain’s Post-Slavery EmpireRegister for webinar access details, see below Dr. Sascha Auerbach (Lecturer in Modern British and Colonial History, Department of History, University of Nottingham). Tuesday 23 February 2021, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson College Science Society Designing Emotionally Intelligent Social Robots for Applications Involving ChildrenRegister for meeting access details, see below Speaker to be confirmed. Friday 19 February 2021, 18:00-19:00 Dreams of ParadiseRegister for webinar access details, see below Dr Jane McLarty (Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge & Wolfson College). Tuesday 16 February 2021, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society A Very British History: British-BangladeshisRegister for webinar access details, see below Dr. Aminul Hoque MBE (Goldsmiths, University of London). Tuesday 09 February 2021, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society Religion and the Politics of Race in 1960s London: Transnational Liberation Networks and Theologies of ResistanceRegister for webinar access details, see below Dr Hannah Elias (Lecturer in Black British History, Goldsmiths, University of London). Monday 08 February 2021, 14:00-15:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society Toward a Black Ecomusicology, 1853? Listening to Enslavement with Solomon NorthupRegister for webinar access details, see below Dr Peter McMurray (University of Cambridge & Queens' College Cambridge). Tuesday 02 February 2021, 18:00-19:00 Can Fashion be Sustainable?Register for webinar access details, see below Ms. Svetlana Dourassoff (Head of Advanced Concepts at PANGAIA). Thursday 28 January 2021, 18:00-19:00 Commemorating war dead in ancient Athens from Homer to ThucydidesRegister for webinar access details, see below Dr Cezary Kucewicz (Faculty of History, University of Gdańsk & Wolfson College). Tuesday 26 January 2021, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson College Science Society Causes and Consequences of Gut Microbiome Variation in Wild BirdsRegister for webinar access details, see below Dr Gabrielle Davidson (Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge; Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College). Friday 04 December 2020, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson College Science Society Developing New Genomics Technologies to Map DNA Epigenetic Modifications in Human, Parasites and CancerRegister for webinar access details, see below Dr Sergio Martinez Cuesta (Research Associate, University of Cambridge). Friday 27 November 2020, 18:00-19:00 Atoms for peace (and war): the Italian nuclear programme during the Cold WarRegister for webinar access details, see below Professor Elisabetta Bini (Professor of Contemporary History, University of Naples Federico II). Tuesday 24 November 2020, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson College Science Society From bed to bench side: bringing machine learning to day-to-day clinical practiceRegister for webinar access details, see below Dr Zohreh Shams (JRF, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge). Friday 20 November 2020, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson College Science Society Martian Deserts on EarthRegister for webinar access details, see below Anika Mehlis (Universität Bielefeld). Friday 13 November 2020, 18:00-19:00 Is it a bird, is it a plane? No.... it's a Wildlife Trust drone.Register for webinar access details, see below Josh Hellon (Monitoring and Research Manager, The Wildlife Trust BCN). Wednesday 11 November 2020, 18:00-19:00 Antisemitism in the anonymous Renaissance dialogue Viaje de TurquíaRegister for webinar access details, see below Dr Şizen Yiacoup (University of Liverpool). Tuesday 10 November 2020, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson College Science Society The Science of Compassion in HealthcareRegister for webinar access details, see below Dr Sophie Ames (Clinical Psychologist). Friday 06 November 2020, 18:00-19:00 The Second World War and the Prospect of Quit India in Bengal: Perceptions, Rumours and Revolutionary PartiesRegister for webinar access details, see below Dr Anwesha Roy (SOAS, University of London). Tuesday 03 November 2020, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson College Science Society Seeing What Everybody Sees but Thinking What No One has ThoughtProfessor Rana Dajani (Hashemite University). Friday 30 October 2020, 18:00-19:00 Does the Rule of Law Matter in China? History, System and Context of Chinese Legal SystemRegister for webinar access details, see below Professor Ge Chen (Assistant Professor of Chinese Law at Durham Law School). Tuesday 27 October 2020, 18:00-19:00 Natural Beekeeping (Bees for Bees Sake)Register for webinar access details, see below Mr Kevin Hancock (Gardeners Beehive). Wednesday 14 October 2020, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson (Ancient) Warfare Wednesdays — Greek Warfare and MythologyRegister for webinar series access details, see below Dr Cezary Kucewicz (NCN Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Gdańsk; Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College). Wednesday 08 July 2020, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson (Ancient) Warfare Wednesdays — Greek Warfare and HistoriographyRegister for webinar series access details, see below Dr Roel Konijnendijk (MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow, Leiden University). Wednesday 01 July 2020, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson (Ancient) Warfare Wednesdays — Greek Warfare and EconomicsRegister for webinar series access details, see below Dr Manu Dal Borgo (BA Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge). Wednesday 24 June 2020, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson (Ancient) Warfare Wednesdays — Greek Warfare and Video GamesRegister for webinar series access details, see below Dr Joshua R. Hall (Linn-Benton Community College, Albany, OR). Wednesday 17 June 2020, 18:00-19:00 Sustainability, welfare and political changeRegister for webinar access details, see below Professor Donald M.Broom (Emeritus Professor of Animal Welfare, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge). Friday 12 June 2020, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson (Ancient) Warfare Wednesdays — Greek Warfare and PsychologyRegister for webinar series access details, see below Dr Owen Rees (Associate Lecturer in Ancient History, Manchester Metropolitan University). Wednesday 10 June 2020, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson College Science Society Why can't I get rid of this belief?Register for webinar access details, see below Dr Anabela Pinto. Friday 05 June 2020, 18:00-19:00 Rethinking the Emergence of the EnglishRegister for webinar access details, see below Professor Susan Oosthuizen (Emeritus Professor of Medieval Archaeology, University of Cambridge & Emeritus Fellow, Wolfson College). Tuesday 02 June 2020, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson College Science Society Working in research through the COVID-19 crisisRegister for webinar access details, see below Professor Gordon Dougan (Department of Medicine, Univeristy of Cambridge). Friday 29 May 2020, 18:00-19:00 How COVID-19 changes the way protected areas impact local communitiesRegister for webinar access details, see below Dr Nikoleta Jones (Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge). Thursday 28 May 2020, 17:00-18:00 ‘The Invisible Enemy’: Fighting Plague in Renaissance ItalyRegister for webinar access details, see below Professor John Henderson (Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London; Emeritus Fellow, Wolfson College). Tuesday 26 May 2020, 18:00-19:00 How to Breed Better PoliticiansRegister for webinar access details, see below Dr Joel Peck (Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge). Friday 15 May 2020, 18:00-19:00 Crossing Borders: W. H. Hudson and the Pioneers of ConservationRegister for webinar access details, see below Conor Jameson (Birdlife International). Thursday 14 May 2020, 17:00-18:00 Whose Bled? Music, Sound and Public Spaces in (Post-)Colonial AlgeriaRegister for webinar access details, see below Dr Stephen Wilford (Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson/Research Associate, Faculty of Music). Tuesday 12 May 2020, 18:00-19:00 The Changing Arctic, its Challenges and Global ImpactRegister for webinar access details, see below Ms Marie Anne Coninsx (former Ambassador at Large for the Arctic of the European Union). Thursday 30 April 2020, 17:00-18:00 Wolfson College Science Society Talk will be postponedDr Anabela Pinto. Friday 24 April 2020, 17:45-19:00 CANCELLED - Diseases without Borders – Emerging infectious diseases in AfricaProfessor James Wood Head of Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge & Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. The Lee Hall, Wolfson College. Friday 20 March 2020, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson College Science Society CANCELLED - Diseases without Borders – Infectious diseases in AfricaThis event is part of the Cambridge Science Festival and of Wolfson Explores *BORDERS 2020. Please book your free ticket on Eventbrite. Professor James Wood (Head of Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge & Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge). Friday 20 March 2020, 17:45-19:00 CANCELLED - Ambition without limits: Women in STEMProfessor Jane Clarke, FRS, President of Wolfson College. The Lee Hall, Wolfson College. Wednesday 18 March 2020, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson College Science Society CANCELLED - Ambition without limits: Women in STEMThis event is part of the Cambridge Science Festival and Wolfson Explores ✱BORDERS 2020. Please book your free ticket on Eventbrite. Professor Jane Clarke (FRS, President of Wolfson College). Wednesday 18 March 2020, 17:45-19:00 Frontiers of Life in AntarcticaProfessor Lloyd Peck Science Leader of Biodiversity, Evolution and Adaptation team, British Antarctic Survey, & Fellow of Wolfson College. The Lee Hall, Wolfson College. Friday 13 March 2020, 18:00-19:00 Wolfson College Science Society CANCELLED - Frontiers for Life in AntarcticaThis event is part of the Cambridge Science Festivaand and of Wolfson Explores *BORDERS 2020. Please book your free ticket on Eventbrite. Professor Lloyd Peck. Friday 13 March 2020, 17:45-19:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Bridging the Gap: writing commentaries on the Dead Sea scrolls in the 21st centuryDr Noam Mizrahi, Associate Professor, Tel Aviv University. Tuesday 10 March 2020, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society The only ways is upstream — The NCD emergency, intergenerational inequality and the urge need for systems changeall are welcome! This event is jointly organised by the Wolfson College Science Society and the Wolfson College Society of Emeritus Fellows. Prof Martin White, MD FFPH. Friday 06 March 2020, 17:45-19:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks The Beginnings of Global OperaDr Benjamin Walton, Faculty of Music, Cambridge. Tuesday 03 March 2020, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Electronics on the BrainGeorge Malliaras, Prince Philip Professor of Technology. Friday 28 February 2020, 17:45-19:00 Wolfson College Education Society Individual, local, global: finding our voice and place as researchers, now and into the futureDr. James Underwood, University of Nottingham. Syndicate Room 2, Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK, CB3 9BB. Friday 28 February 2020, 17:30-19:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Gendering the City: Partition and post-colonial negotiations in South AsiaDr Anjali B. Datta, Lecturer in Modern South Asian History, Cambridge. Tuesday 25 February 2020, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Discovering Cosmic ReionisationJames Kent. Friday 21 February 2020, 17:45-19:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Smell in Eighteenth-Century England: putridity to perfumeDr William Tullett, Lecturer in History, Anglia Ruskin University. Tuesday 18 February 2020, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society "Why are so many hearing aids sitting in a drawer?"Prof Brian Moore, PFBSA, FMedSci, FRS, Dr. h.c.. Friday 14 February 2020, 17:45-19:00 Wolfson College Education Society The Challenges to Civic Education in a Jewish and Democratic State: between the rise of the populist right, growing Jewish religiosity and neo-liberal pressures—between the rise of the populist right, growing Jewish religiosity and neo-liberal pressuresDr Halleli Pinson Department of Education, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Syndicate Room 2, Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK, CB3 9BB. Friday 14 February 2020, 17:30-19:00 Wolfson College Science Society Stepping up climate change mitigationDr Andre Cabrera Serrenho, Department of Engineering. Friday 07 February 2020, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Historical fiction as anthropological technique: in the mind of an enslaved MelanesianDr Anthony Pickles, Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge. Tuesday 04 February 2020, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Of bounces and bangs: how much do we know about our universe beginningDr Chandrima Ganguly . Friday 31 January 2020, 17:45-19:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks ‘“Being an Islander”: art and identity of the large Mediterranean Islands’, or, can museums really contribute to research in social sciences?Dr Anastasia Christophilopoulou, Assistant Keeper and Cyprus Curator, Fitzwilliam Museum. Tuesday 28 January 2020, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Education Society The Public Sociologist in Authoritarian Times: Negotiating Risk and ComplicityLakshmi Sagarika Bose, PhD Student at the Faculty of Education. Syndicate Room 2, Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK, CB3 9BB. Thursday 23 January 2020, 17:45-19:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks A Journey into Rap Studies: from London’s hip-hop scenes to grimey EnglishnessDr Richard Bramwell, Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies, Loughborough University. Tuesday 21 January 2020, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Transformation of perception: What are psychotic disorders and why are ethnic minorities at increased risk?Dr Hannah Jongsma, UCL. Friday 06 December 2019, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Science Society The Nutrition and Cancer Journey: from Chemical-Physical Carcinogenesis to Metabolic Carcinogenesis.Professor Elio Riboli, MD, MPH, MSc, Imperial College, London. Wolfson College - The Lee Hall. Friday 29 November 2019, 18:00-19:10 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series Lunchtime Seminar - Hearing and Seeing Music in Early Twentieth Century AlgeriaDr Stephen Wilford, Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson/Research Associate, Faculty of Music. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 27 November 2019, 13:00-14:00 Wolfson College Science Society Exploring underutilised plants and fungi from Colombia to boost its bioeconomyDr Mauricio Diazgranados, Royal Botanic Gardens. Friday 22 November 2019, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series 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 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks The Content of Style - What makes Classical Greek Art 'Classical'?Professor Robin Osborne, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 19 November 2019, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Prevention of mental illness in the adolescent yearsProfessor Ian Goodyer, OBE,MD, FRCPsych, FMedSci, Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Cambridge. Wolfson College - The Lee Hall. Friday 15 November 2019, 18:00-19:10 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series 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 Wolfson College Science Society Aging, Intelligence, and Slowing of ThoughtProfessor Patrick Rabbitt. Friday 08 November 2019, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series Lunchtime Seminar - Learning to Gamble in the Pacific IslandsDr 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 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series Lunchtime Seminar - The Wandering Brother: Possession and dispossession in the homelandAnnie Zaidi, Nine Dots Prize Fellow CRASSH and Visiting Fellow Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 30 October 2019, 13:00-14:00 Wolfson College Science Society Chasing the bacteria in the river Cam with real-time DNA sequencing: Results of the PuntSeq studyDr Lara Urban, Wolfson College.. Friday 25 October 2019, 17:45-19:10 How do democracies change?Dr.David Runciman (Professor of Politics, POLIS). The Lee Hall, Wolfson College. Wednesday 23 October 2019, 17:30-19:30 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series Lunchtime Seminar - The contradictions of the authoritarian developmental state: energy boom and bureaucratic autonomy in RwandaDr 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 Wolfson College Science Society James Watt (1736-1819): The Power to Change the WorldDr Malcolm Dick, University of Birmingham. Friday 18 October 2019, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series Lunchtime Seminar - The Odyssey of eighteenth-century scholarship and the entangled emergence of the EnlightenmentDr Jeffrey D Burson, Associate Professor French History at Georgia Southern University. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 16 October 2019, 13:00-14:00 Wolfson College Science Society Understanding flowers and their pollinators: The role of petal texture in the pollination of wild tobaccosDr Gabriela Doria, Wolfson College. Friday 11 October 2019, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Science Society The early origins of the Mortality Revolution: a perspective from evolutionary biologyDr Romola Davenport, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. Friday 14 June 2019, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series How (Not) To Write Literary Biography: The Case of Michael ArlenDr Philip Ward, Senior Member, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 12 June 2019, 13:00-14:00 Wolfson College Science Society An evolutionary perspective on why health inequalities exist.Prof Rebecca Sear ( London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine). Friday 07 June 2019, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Education Society Technology and Transformation and Classrooms: Do/can/should they converge?Helen Siedel. Syndicate Room 1, Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK, CB3 9BB. Thursday 06 June 2019, 17:45-19:00 The (Political and Financial) Economics of Transformational TechnologyBill Janeway. The Lee Hall, Wolfson College. Wednesday 05 June 2019, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series Amorphous Carbon and Graphene for Advanced Memory ApplicationsDr 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 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks “Stay in your shell, that will be of use to you:” The miniature shell collection in Petronella Brandt’s dollhouseProfessor Hanneke Grootenboer, University of Oxford. Tuesday 04 June 2019, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Personality targeting and message framing of arguments for Brexit. Can a little psychology make a political campaign more persuasive?Dr Lee De-Wit, UCL. Friday 31 May 2019, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Education Society The Regionalisation of Higher Education in Latin AmericaAliandra Barlete, PhD graduate, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge & Wolfson College. Syndicate Room 2, Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK, CB3 9BB. Thursday 30 May 2019, 17:45-19:00 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series Two Trials: Law and Memory after Argentina’s DictatorshipRam Natarajan, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College; Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Arkansas. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 29 May 2019, 13:00-14:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks *CANCELLED* Economic Transformation and the Proliferation of Gambling in the Western PacificDr Anthony Pickles, Bye-Fellow, Wolfson College, and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge. Tuesday 28 May 2019, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Something ate my fossil: from anecdote to testing hypothesesDr Elizabeth Harper, Department of Earth Sciences. Friday 24 May 2019, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series Empathy and Justice in the Era of the Financial CrisisTammy 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 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Habitual Sophia? Retaining one’s ability to learn from within aach lay-professional encounterProfessor Sylvie Delacroix, University of Birmingham and Alan Turing Institute. Tuesday 21 May 2019, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society How to build a flower: Transformation in plant reproductive developmentDr Chiara Airoldi, Department of Plant Sciences. Friday 17 May 2019, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Education Society Caught Between the Social Media machine and the Impact machine?Mark Carrigan, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. Syndicate Room 2, Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK, CB3 9BB. Thursday 16 May 2019, 17:45-19:00 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series 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 Wolfson College Science Society How computerized assessment may transform measurement in mental healthDr Jan Stochl, Department of Psychiatry. Friday 10 May 2019, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series Mindfulness meditation training for mental health promotion: the good, the bad and the uglyDr Julieta Galante, Postdoctoral Fellow at Department of Psychiatry, JRF at Wolfson. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 08 May 2019, 13:00-14:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks The Philosophers against IdlenessProfessor Brian O’Connor, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, and University College Dublin. Tuesday 07 May 2019, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society There be monsters: adaptations in Antarctic marine animalsProfessor Lloyd Peck, British Antarctic Survey. Friday 03 May 2019, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series 'Ordering Disorder': War, Migration and Urban Space in Delhi, 1939-1955Dr 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 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks India: An idiosycratic democracyDr David Washbrook, Trinity College. Tuesday 30 April 2019, 17:45-19:15 Making Robots Public: News Coverage of Artificial Intelligence in the United KingdomDr Scott Brennen, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford University. Friday 26 April 2019, 17:30-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Transformation of life: How behaviour shapes evolution.Professor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology. Friday 22 March 2019, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Science Society Transforming cancer careProfessor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Cancer Research UK. Wednesday 20 March 2019, 18:45-20:10 Wolfson College Science Society Transformation and mind: Using science to fight mental illness.Professor Peter Jones (Department of Psychiatry). Friday 15 March 2019, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Education Society Prof. Roger Dale on ‘What are we to make of Global Citizenship Education?'Prof. Roger Dale, Professor of Education. Gatsby Room, Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK, CB3 9BB. Thursday 14 March 2019, 17:30-19:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Politics Gone MissingDr Graham Denyer-Willis (POLIS and Queens' College, University of Cambridge). Tuesday 12 March 2019, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society The Science of Musical MeaningProfessor Elizabeth Tolbert (Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute). Friday 08 March 2019, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series Cool liquid crystalsGuillaume Nataf, 1851 Research Fellow, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:00-14:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Musicians, Tazkiras, and the Scattering of Mughal Delhi: where music went after Muhammad ShahDr Katherine Butler Schofield (King's College London). Tuesday 05 March 2019, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Conservation, Evolution and Biodiversity in ColombiaProfessor Chris Jiggins, Department of Zoology. Friday 01 March 2019, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Education Society Negotiating Education: The First School for Aboriginal Children and the Diplomatic World of Colonial New South Wales, 1814-1822Annemarie McLaren, Endeavour Postdoctoral Fellow at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge. Syndicate Room 2, Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK, CB3 9BB. Thursday 28 February 2019, 17:30-18:30 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series Towards a socially conscious evolutionary science of cultureAzita Chellappoo PhD candidate, Department of History & Philosophy of Science, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:00-14:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks The restitution of Nazi-looted art in post-fascist Austria, Italy and West GermanyDr Bianca Gaudenzi, Wolfson College, Cambridge and German Historical Institute, Rome. Tuesday 26 February 2019, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society My part in the discovery of the black hole in Cygnus X-1Professor Paul Murdin. Friday 22 February 2019, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series From Cambridge Classicists to Japanese Code Breakers: How the British trained wartime Japanese linguistsKayoko Takeda Professor, College of Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:00-14:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks An impossible method? Agreeing to disagree about comparison in anthropologyDr Matei Candea (Department of Social Anthropology and King's College, University of Cambridge). Tuesday 19 February 2019, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Finding the right path: How do multidomain proteins avoid misfolding, and how can women avoid the pitfalls in their scientific career paths?Professor Jane Clarke, FRS, President of Wolfson College, Cambridge. Friday 15 February 2019, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series Mapping imperial edges: the French & the British in Southeast Asia, 1885-1914Marie de Rugy JRF Wolfson College / British Academy Newton International Fellow. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:00 Wolfson College Science Society The power of superconductivityCarla Palomares Garcia, Wolfson College. Friday 08 February 2019, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series From Redemption to Revolution: junk art and black power in 1960s CaliforniaDanny Widener, Visiting Fellow, CRASSH / University of California, San Diego,. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 06 February 2019, 13:00-14:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks How Churchill Waged WarMr Allen Packwood, OBE, FRHistS (Churchill College, University of Cambridge). Tuesday 05 February 2019, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Room Temperature Single-Molecule Magnets for Quantum Computing: Serendipity or Design?David Izuogu, Wolfson College. Friday 01 February 2019, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Education Society Roxane Noël: John of Salisbury on Education and Human FlourishingRoxane Noël, Philosophy PhD student, University of Cambridge. Roger Needham Room, Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK, CB3 9BB. Thursday 31 January 2019, 17:30-18:30 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series CRISPR, the next generation of medicinesAlasdair Russell, Head, Pre-Clinical Genome Editing, CRUK Cambridge Centre. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 30 January 2019, 13:00-14:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Shakespeare, King James, and the Northern YorkistsDr Richard Stacey (University of Glasgow). Tuesday 29 January 2019, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society The rise of machine learning and its relevance for the natural sciencesRyan-Rhys Griffiths, Wolfson College. Friday 25 January 2019, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series Bullying & Cyberbullying: protective factors and effective interventionsIzabela Zych, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Cordoba (Spain). Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 23 January 2019, 13:00-14:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks When did Marx think that capitalism would fall?Professor Gareth Stedman Jones (QMUL). Tuesday 22 January 2019, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Volcanic Crystal Clocks and CO2: Transforming our Prospects for Predicting Huge EruptionsDr John Maclennan, Department of Earth Sciences. Friday 18 January 2019, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Education Society Carrie Herbert: Rebuilding Victims of Bullying at the Red Balloon Learning CentreDr Carrie Herbert, Red Balloon Learning Centre. Gatsby Room, Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK, CB3 9BB. Tuesday 15 January 2019, 17:30-18:30 Wolfson College Science Society Learning from Luther: 95 theses about technologyProfessor John Naughton, CRASSH, Cambridge.. Friday 07 December 2018, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Science Society From blood to genomic variants: deciphering the genome of patients with rare disordersDr Karyn Megy Department of Haematology, Wolfson College. Friday 30 November 2018, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks The Anglosphere Tradition in British PoliticsProfessor Michael Kenny (Professor of Public Policy, POLIS, and inaugural director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge). Dining Hall and Lee Hall, Wolfson College. Tuesday 27 November 2018, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society From nuclear transfer to prospects for cell replacement therapy: The origins and future of pluripotency and cellular reprogrammingProfessor Sir John Gurdon, The Gurdon Institute. Wolfson College - The Lee Hall. Friday 23 November 2018, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series Dr Pamela Jane Smith: Dorothy Garrod's experienceDr Pamela Jane Smith Fellow McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Cambridge. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 21 November 2018, 13:00-14:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Profitable Labour? Learning Disability and Labour Markets in Modern BritainDr Lucy Delap (Murray Edwards College & Faculty of History, University of Cambridge). Tuesday 20 November 2018, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Future developments in healthcare – does cancer lead the way?Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Cancer Research UK. Wolfson College - The Lee Hall. Friday 16 November 2018, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series Professor Bjorn Basberg: Two Strategies - C.A.Larsen and Chr. Christensen: a comparative analysis of two Antarctic EntrepreneursProfessor 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 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Re-membering Philologia: the past, present and future of an academic practiceProfessor Sylvia Adamson (Emeritus Professor of Linguistics & Literary History, University of Sheffield). Tuesday 13 November 2018, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Unraveling the hidden microbial world of the river Cam.Lara Urban, European Bioinformatics Institute. Friday 09 November 2018, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series Dr Carolina Armenteros: Looking for the Vedas -The Jesuits' India Missions and the Invention of AnthropologyDr Carolina Armenteros, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College and Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Santo Domingo. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 07 November 2018, 13:00-14:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Academic Citizenship and the Future UniversityDr Alison Wood (Homerton College, University of Cambridge). Tuesday 06 November 2018, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society In-Network Computing: Your network just got a lot smarterDr Noa Zilberman, Department of Computer Science and Technology. Friday 02 November 2018, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series Dr Olga Petri: Canaries in Imperial St PetersburgDr 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 Wolfson College Education Society War on universities? Knowledge production, neoliberalism, and critiqueJana Bacevic (University of Cambridge). Gatsby Room , Wolfson College. Friday 26 October 2018, 17:30-18:30 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series 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 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks The Role of Water in Venetian ArchitectureProfessor Deborah Howard (Professor Emerita of Architectural History, University of Cambridge, Fellow of St John’s College). Tuesday 23 October 2018, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Anti-cancer drugs for transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devilsMaximilian Stammnitz, Transmissible Cancer Group, Cambridge. Friday 19 October 2018, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series 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 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Synaesthesia & Art - Dance of LightRhea Quien (Artist and Art Educator, Cambridge) and Professor Jamie Ward (Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Sussex). Dining Hall and Lee Hall, Wolfson College. Tuesday 16 October 2018, 17:15-19:15 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series 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 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks CANCELLED ‘At the still point of the turning world’: Time and Place in the Medieval DreamDr Lotte Reinbold (Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies in English, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge). Tuesday 09 October 2018, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series Finding the past: Medieval coin finds at the Fitzwilliam MuseumDr Martin Allen (Fitzwilliam Museum and Wolfson College). Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 20 June 2018, 13:00-14:00 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series A cocoon of meaning. Person-Time-Place-Occasion Symbolism in KimonoDr Corinne Duhig, College Research Associate, Wolfson College. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 13 June 2018, 13:00-14:00 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series 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 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks 'Who is my neighbour?': Stories of alms-seeking in early modern EnglandDr Rebecca Tomlin (CRASSH/Faculty of English, University of Cambridge). Tuesday 05 June 2018, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Relativity, Quantum Theory and CryptographyProfessor Adrian Kent, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge. Friday 01 June 2018, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series Using basic science to develop psychological treatments for depressionDr 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 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Death by Celibacy, or the Medieval Priest's DilemmaDr Katherine Harvey (Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London). Tuesday 29 May 2018, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Race and gender in the scientific institution: Basic history and analysis.Carmen Palacios, Quantum Information and Nanoscale Metrology Group. Wolfson College, Old Combination Room. Friday 25 May 2018, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series 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 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Labour and the Left in the 1980s: A reassessmentDr Jonathan Davis (Faculty of Arts, Law & Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Labour History Research Unit, Anglia Ruskin University). Tuesday 22 May 2018, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series Umbrella Man: Appeasement and Neville Chamberlain eighty years after MunichProfessor Tony Lentin, Senior Member, Wolfson College, and author. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 16 May 2018, 13:00-14:00 Professor Dame Carol Robinson - Changes of State and MindProfessor Dame Carol Robinson, FRS FMedSci, Dr Lee's Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Oxford. The Lee Hall, Wolfson College. Thursday 10 May 2018, 18:00-19:30 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series Unveiling the hidden lives of starsDr 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 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Adano: Sicily, occupation literature and the American centuryProfessor Robert Gordon (MML & Gonville and Caius, University of Cambridge) . Tuesday 08 May 2018, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society The Future of Solar Cells: Can solar eliminate fossil fuel use in the next 30 yearsDr Akshay Rao, The Cavendish Laboratory. Friday 04 May 2018, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series "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 CambridgeDr Pamela Jane Smith, Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 02 May 2018, 13:00-14:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks The Debate over Feature Film HistoryProfessor Vivian Bickford Smith (University of Stellenbosch and University of Cape Town). Tuesday 01 May 2018, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society The genetics of depressionDr Na Cai, The European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge. Friday 27 April 2018, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Liberalizing Contracts: Nineteenth Century promises through literature, law and historyAnat Rosenberg (Wolfson College, Cambridge). Tuesday 13 March 2018, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Does aspirin prevent cancer and vascular disease? 40 years of data and controversyProfessor Peter Elwood, Cardiff University. Friday 09 March 2018, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series Systems for Big Data Applications: Revolutionising personal computingDr 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 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks What is the History of the Book?Professor James Raven (Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for Bibliographical History, University of Essex; Fellow of Magdalene College and Director of the Cambridge Project for the Book Trust, Cambridge). Tuesday 06 March 2018, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series Finding the past: Medieval Coin Finds at the Fitzwilliam MuseumDr Martin Allen, Wolfson College and Senior Assistant Keeper, the Fitzwilliam Museum. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 28 February 2018, 13:00-14:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Strong Bonds, Affective Labour: Sexually Transmitted Infections and the Work of HistoryDr Richard A. McKay (Department of History and Philosophy of Science). Tuesday 27 February 2018, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series Rather more than Thirty-Nine Steps: the life of John BuchanUrsula Buchan. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 21 February 2018, 13:00-14:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks 'Alas, poor Yorick!': Laurence Sterne's "A Sentimental Journey" after 250 years'Dr Mary Newbould (Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge). Tuesday 20 February 2018, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series Parkinson’s Rehabilitation using Interactive Dance TechnologyDr Matthew Woolhouse, Wolfson College and Associate Professor McMaster University. Combination Room, Wolfson College. Wednesday 14 February 2018, 13:00-14:00 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series Roland the HeroJohn 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 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Quotation and the LawProfessor Lionel Bently (Faculty of Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, Cambridge). Tuesday 06 February 2018, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Studying life one cell at a time: single-cell RNA sequencing technology and its applicationsElo Madissoon, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge. Friday 02 February 2018, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series The first geological chronology of ancient Egypt and the antiquity of man, 1847-63Meira 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 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Donald Trump: The Making of a World ViewProfessor Brendan Simms (Fellow of Peterhouse and Professor in the History of International Relations at POLIS). Tuesday 30 January 2018, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series 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 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Redrawing the Boundaries of Citizenship in the First World WarProfessor Daniela L. Caglioti (University of Naples ‘Federico II’). Tuesday 23 January 2018, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks The Boy and The Brothers: The story of a young Londoner in the service of higher powersMr Shezad Dawood (Artist and Research Fellow in Experimental Media, University of Westminster). Roger Needham Room, Wolfson College. Tuesday 28 November 2017, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks 'A Double Delight': Spiritual experiences of recovery from illness in Early Modern England, c.1580-1720Dr Hannah Newton (Department of History, University of Reading). Tuesday 21 November 2017, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Piranesi in the Valley of the UncannyProfessor Caroline van Eck (Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge). Tuesday 14 November 2017, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Diamond for quantum technologiesBenjamin Pingault. Friday 10 November 2017, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks 'An idea whose time has come?' Tracing the history of Universal Basic Income in British politics, 1918-201Dr Peter Sloman (Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and Churchill College, Cambridge) . Tuesday 07 November 2017, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society The ins and outs of mitochondrial pharmacologyDr Tom Schirris. Friday 03 November 2017, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Boxes with false bottoms? The challenge presented by abstract key words in EnglishProfessor Alan Durant (School of Law, Middlesex University London). Tuesday 31 October 2017, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Exoplanets, on the hunt of Universal lifeProfessor Didier Queloz ( Astrophysics Group, University of Cambridge). Friday 27 October 2017, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks '(Ump,)': Printing hiccups in the authors' absence or, A Tale of compulsion and imprisonment in Early Modern EnglandDr Ian Burrows (Faculty of English, University of Cambridge). Tuesday 17 October 2017, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Italian, Male and Fascist. Rethinking Italian citizenship during the Fascist regimeProfessor Giulia Albanese (Department of History, University of Padua, Italy). Tuesday 10 October 2017, 17:45-19:15 European Legal DialoguesThe Rt Hon. Lord Justice Laws, a former Lord Justice of Appeal. He served from 1999 to 2016. He is the current Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science at the University of Cambridge, and an Honorary Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge. Roger Needham Room, Wolfson College. Tuesday 27 June 2017, 15:00-18:00 Wolfson College Science Society Are Animals Musical?Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute. Friday 16 June 2017, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Art and Architecture in Nazi GermanyProfessor Sir Richard Evans, FBA (President of Wolfson College and Provost of Gresham College, London). Tuesday 13 June 2017, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Music, Rhythm and Developmental Dyslexia.Dr Sheila Flanagan, Centre for Neuroscience in Education. Friday 09 June 2017, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Science Society Adhesion Strength Diversity in Brain TumoursDr Rasha Rezk, Engineering, Wolfson College. Friday 02 June 2017, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Gender, Obedience, and Religious Experience: The Virgin Mary in a world after KantRuth Jackson (Research Fellow, CRASSH and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge). Tuesday 30 May 2017, 17:45-19:15 Richard Sorrell: a Singular Artist - a talk to mark the opening of this exhibition at Wolfson CollegeRichard Sorrell, Artist. The Lee Hall, Wolfson College. Friday 26 May 2017, 18:00-19:30 Wolfson College Science Society Do we need to be concerned about the rise of e-cigarettes?Dr. Milica Vasiljevic, Primary Care Unit. Friday 26 May 2017, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Gender, sexuality and illness in early modern exorcismBoyd Brogan (Wolfson College, University of Cambridge). Tuesday 23 May 2017, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society The metalsmith of the futureDr. Evripides Loukaides, Lecturer, University of Bath. Friday 19 May 2017, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Captured and Alive: War satire, time and spaceJane Chapman (Lincoln University; College Research Associate, Wolfson College). Tuesday 16 May 2017, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Privacy and Tabloid Journalism in the UK: A shifting landscapeTanya Aplin (The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London). Tuesday 02 May 2017, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks The Pardoner's Passing and How it Matters: Gender, Relics and Speech ActsDr Alex da Costa (University Lecturer at the Faculty of English; Fellow of Newnham College). Tuesday 14 March 2017, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society How can we encourage kindness? A perspective from evolutionary biologyDr Joel Peck, Department of Genetics. Friday 10 March 2017, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks The Foreign Office, Margaret Thatcher and South Africa, 1979-90Professor Patrick Salmon (Chief Historian, Foreign and Commonwealth Office). Tuesday 07 March 2017, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Britain and the Continent: two thousand years of unpredictabilityProfessor Robert Tombs (St John's College). Tuesday 28 February 2017, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Music, Rhythm and Developmental Dyslexia. (POSTPONED)Dr Sheila Flanagan, Centre for Neuroscience in Education. Friday 24 February 2017, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Science Society Bacterial control of their viral parasites through altruistic suicideProf George Salmond, Biochemistry, Wolfson College. Friday 17 February 2017, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks The origins of India's democracy: making universal franchise in the world's largest democracyProfessor Ornit Shani (Haifa University). Tuesday 14 February 2017, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Can mobile phones help people quit smoking?Dr. Felix Naughton, Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology, University of East Anglia. Friday 10 February 2017, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Scholarly publication in the seventeenth century: Oxford, Cambridge and the 'learned press'Dr Gordon Johnson (Honorary Fellow and Former President, Wolfson College). Tuesday 07 February 2017, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Optofluidic Tools to Study Antibiotic ResistanceDr. Jehangir Cama, Physics Department, University of Cambridge. Friday 03 February 2017, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks The Ideal Self: Flattery in Julius CaesarDr Maria Sequeira Mendes (Beaufort Visiting Fellow, St John's College). Tuesday 31 January 2017, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Trade unions and the British tradition of pluralismDr Alastair Reid (Fellow, Girton College). Tuesday 24 January 2017, 17:45-19:15 Painting the ValleysThe Rt Hon Kim Howells. The Lee Hall, Wolfson College. Friday 20 January 2017, 18:00-19:30 Wolfson College Science Society The origin of altruism: Philosophical, theoretical, and empirical perspectivesDr Dieter Lukas, Dr Antonio Rodrigues, Dr Peter Woodford. Friday 09 December 2016, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Science Society The art of computing with parallel universes: Quantum computing explainedDr Fernando Gonzalez-Zarba -Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory.. Friday 02 December 2016, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks 'Invitations to Shared Viewership in Sandro Botticelli's Illustrations of Dante's Paradiso'Dr Heather Webb (Selwyn College, University of Cambridge). Tuesday 29 November 2016, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Computational Interfacial Chemistry: What do we do ?Dr Chao Zhang -Department of Chemistry. Friday 25 November 2016, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks 'Murder in Norwich, Narrative in Europe. The Birth of the 'Blood Libel' in Medieval England'Professor Miri Rubin (QMUL). Tuesday 22 November 2016, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks '[T]hough Ramme stinks with cookes and ale,/ Yet say thers many a worthy lawyers chamber,/ Buts vpon Rame-Alley': An Innsman Goes to the Playhouse'Dr Jackie Watson (Birkbeck/Oxford Spires). Tuesday 15 November 2016, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Sustainability of Energy and Material Demand: Reducing the Demand for SteelMeetings begin at 5.45pm with drinks; the talk follows at 6.00pm Dr. Andre Cabrera Serrenho, The Use Less Group, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Wolfson College, Roger Needham Room. Friday 11 November 2016, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks 'Researching Children's Histories under the Third Reich: Some Challenges Explored'Dr Helen Roche (Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge). Tuesday 08 November 2016, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Skipping between Portals: neutron analysis of membrane protein biogenesisDr Nathan R. Zaccai -Cambridge Institute for Medical Research. Friday 04 November 2016, 17:45-19:10 Post-truth politics and the US Presidential Election: implications for journalism and societyA special event organised by the Wolfson Press Fellowship Programme Steve McGookin, John Naughton, David Runciman, Gary Gerstle. Wednesday 26 October 2016, 17:30-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks 'The Humanities and the Machine'Professor Steven Connor (Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge). Tuesday 25 October 2016, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks 'David 'Jose' Rubio (1934–2000): A Personal Insight into Britain's Most Illustrious Musical Instrument Maker'Dr James Westbrook (Wolfson College, University of Cambridge). Tuesday 18 October 2016, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks 'Commemorating the First World War a 100 Years on in Popular and Public History'Dr Deborah Thom (Robinson College, University of Cambridge). Tuesday 11 October 2016, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Musilanguage in the CradleDr Fabia Franco, Middlesex University London. Friday 10 June 2016, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks 'The Power of Families in Preventing Radicalization -- a bottom up Security Strategy'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr. Edit Schlaffer, Founder of Women without Borders. Roger Needham Room, Wolfson College. Tuesday 07 June 2016, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Corporate Psychopaths at Work and in SocietyProfessor Clive Boddy, Middlesex University London. Wolfson College, Roger Needham Room (Chancellor Center). Friday 03 June 2016, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks An 'Age of the Crisis of Man'? 'Human Personality' in British Social Thought, 1910-1973Dr Tim Rogan, St Catherine's College. Tuesday 31 May 2016, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Organismal design and causation in social evolutionDr António Rodrigues, Department of Zoology. Wolfson College, Old Combination Room. Friday 27 May 2016, 18:30-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society How Prediction Errors and Schemas Shape our Memories.Dr Andrea Greve, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. Wolfson College, Roger Needham Room (Chancellor Center). Friday 27 May 2016, 17:45-18:30 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks The Age of Assassination: Monarchy and Nation in Nineteenth-Century EuropeThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Rachel G. Hoffman, Fellow in History of King’s College, Research Fellow on Conspiracy and Democracy, CRASSH. Tuesday 24 May 2016, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Behavioural flexibility and problem solving in an invasive birdDr Corina Logan, Department of Zoology. Friday 20 May 2016, 18:30-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society The Psychophysiology of the Vasovagal (Fainting) Response: Mechanisms and InterventionsDr Philippe T. Gilchrist, Wolfson College, Department of Psychology. Friday 20 May 2016, 17:45-18:30 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks 'Revisiting Edward Carson'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Professor Eugenio F. Biagini, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Cambridge and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College . Tuesday 17 May 2016, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society The Invention of ConsciousnessProfessor Nicholas Humphrey, LSE, New College of the Humanities, Darwin College. Friday 13 May 2016, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Science Society Complex Analysis — Simplified!Professor Andy Raich, University of Arkansas. Wolfson College, Old Combination Room. Friday 06 May 2016, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks '"A Plague on Both Your Houses": coping with epidemic disease in early modern Tuscany'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Professor John Henderson, Fellow, Wolfson College; Professor of Italian Renaissance History, Birkbeck, University of London. Tuesday 03 May 2016, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Checking out NHS Health ChecksProfessor Simon Griffin, Department of Public Health and Primary Care. Wolfson College, Old Combination Room. Friday 29 April 2016, 17:45-19:10 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks The propaganda of death: Italy's Fascist ossuaries of the First World WarHannah Malone, Lumley Junior Research Fellow, Magdalene College. Tuesday 26 April 2016, 17:45-19:15 Technology and Democracy Events "Social media and political turbulence"Professor Helen Margetts (Oxford Internet Institute). CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, West Road, Cambridge. Tuesday 26 April 2016, 14:00-16:00 Wolfson College Science Society Crop Science and Food security: the productivity, waste and distribution 'trilemma'Professor Howard Griffiths, Department of Plant Sciences. Wolfson College, Old Combination Room. Friday 22 April 2016, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Advertising the Future in Fascist Italy and Nazi GermanyThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Bianca Gaudenzi, CRA Wolfson College and Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Konstanz. Tuesday 08 March 2016, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks 'Antislavery and Empire: Paradoxes of Liberation in the Western Indian Ocean'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Associate Professor Matthew S. Hopper, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, Smuts Visiting Research Fellow in Commonwealth Studies, Wolfson College and Centre of African Studies. Tuesday 01 March 2016, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Beyond the Nuclear Family: An Evolutionary Perspective on Family and FertilityDr Rebecca Sear, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Wolfson College, Old Combination Room. Friday 26 February 2016, 16:00-17:10 Wolfson College Science Society Cellulose Photonics: from nature to applicationsDr Silvia Vignolini, Department of Chemistry. Wolfson College, Old Combination Room. Friday 12 February 2016, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks London in the Fog: The Artistic Response to Air PollutionThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Christine L Corton, Wolfson College Senior Member . Tuesday 09 February 2016, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks 'Male memory, female subject: writing Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft 'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Janet Todd, Professor emerita, University of Aberdeen and Hon Fellow of Newnham College. Tuesday 02 February 2016, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society The beauty and science of nebulaeProfessor Carolin Crawford, Institute of Astronomy. Wolfson College, Old Combination Room. Friday 29 January 2016, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks The Professor and the Ambassador - the Peel Commission on Palestine, 1937 and its aftermathThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Mr. George W. Liebmann, Senior Academic Visitor Wolfson College and Sir Henry Rumbold,Bt, grandson of Sir Horace Rumbold,Bt .......due. Tuesday 26 January 2016, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Meaningful Music, Unmediated Sound: An Evolutionary HistoryProfessor Elizabeth Tolbert, Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute. Wolfson College, Old Combination Room. Friday 22 January 2016, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks The Evolved and Evolving 'Mind' of the American South ?This talk is open to the public, and may be podcast Kevin Lewis, Professor of Religious Studies, University of South Carolina and visiting fellow Wolfson College. Tuesday 19 January 2016, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Optimizing endurance performance is an intellectual exerciseDr Christof Schwiening, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience. Friday 15 January 2016, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks 'The cultural self-fashioning of Frederick the Great'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Prof. Tim Blanning FBA, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Tuesday 08 December 2015, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society The role of perceived injustice in chronic pain: Outcomes, mechanisms, and opportunities for interventionDr Whitney Scott, King’s College London. Wolfson College, Old Combination Room. Friday 04 December 2015, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks 'The Social and Cultural Translation of the Hebrew Bible in Early Modern England'This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Professor Naomi Tadmor, Lancaster University. Tuesday 01 December 2015, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Tales from the crypt: How science harvests death for humanity's benefitProfessor Jeffery K. Tomberlin, Texas A&M University. Wolfson College, Old Combination Room. Friday 27 November 2015, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Stirbitch: Performing the Vanished PolisThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr.Michael Hrebeniak, Wolfson College. Tuesday 24 November 2015, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Human embryos: a visual historyDr Nick Hopwood, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Wolfson College, Old Combination Room. Friday 20 November 2015, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks In the steps of the crusaders: heritage, poltiics, experienceThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Astrid Swenson, Brunel University London. Tuesday 17 November 2015, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks 'Telling What Happened;. Shackleton's Endurance Expedition:Narratives and NarratorsThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr. Meredith Hooper, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College and Polar Institute. Tuesday 10 November 2015, 17:45-19:15 Digital Technologies and Democracy: A Minimalist, Practice-oriented Institutional ApproachRasmus Kleis Nielsen, Oxford. Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT. Monday 09 November 2015, 12:00-14:00 Wolfson College Science Society Thoughts on the current crisis in the NHS and how to resolve it: getting from lose/lose to win/win.Jan Filochowski, Clinical and Professional Adviser at CQC; NIHR; Commonwealth Fund and IHI. Wolfson College, Roger Needham Room (Chancellor Center). Friday 06 November 2015, 18:15-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks John Aubrey, My Own Life, an experiment in biographyThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Ruth Scurr ( Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Director of Studies in Human, Social). Tuesday 03 November 2015, 17:45-19:15 PostcapitalismPaul Mason, Economics Editor, Channel 4 News. Room GR06/07 Faculty of English, Cambridge. Wednesday 28 October 2015, 13:00-14:30 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Three Standing Figures - from stone, to studio, to the open airthis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr. Jenny Powell, Senior Curator Kettle's Yard. Tuesday 27 October 2015, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Unravelling the Innovation MysteryAnirban Lahiri, Xaar Ltd. Friday 23 October 2015, 18:15-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Moving pictures, moving stories: what archive films revealThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Kevin Greenbank, Archivist and Administrator, CU Centre of South Asian Studies; Tutor, Wolfson College. Tuesday 20 October 2015, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society When to care for and when to kill another female's offspringDr Dieter Lukas, Department of Zoology. Friday 16 October 2015, 18:00-19:15 The End of Safe Harbour: Implications of the Schrems JudgementJohn Naughton, Technology and Democracy Project, CRASSH. Room B16, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. Friday 16 October 2015, 12:30-14:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks ‘Th’emprenting of hir consolacioun’: persuasive speech and resistant listeners in ‘The Franklin’s Tale’This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr. Alastair Bennett, Royal Holloway, University of London. Tuesday 13 October 2015, 17:45-19:15 Book Launch: Operation Idris: Inside the British Administration of Cyrenaica and Libya, 1942-52 by Richard SyngeRichard Synge, Deputy Director, Wolfson Press Fellowship Programme. Wednesday 24 June 2015, 17:30-19:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Hiroshima: under the bomb 70 years onThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Professor Alan Marcus, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College & Chair in Film and Visual Culture, University of Aberdeen. Gatsby Room, W block, Wolfson College. Tuesday 09 June 2015, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks MetaphorNOTE: this talk is not on the usual day/time of Humanities Society talks but on Thursday 4th June from 16.30. Irving Massey, Professor (Emeritus) of English and Comparative Literature and Adjunct Professor (Emeritus) of French, University at Buffalo; former Visiting Fellow Wolfson College. Thursday 04 June 2015, 16:30-19:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Transgendered Copper Mining in the LevantThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr. Laura Zucconi, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College and Associate Professor ,Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. Tuesday 02 June 2015, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Building a Start-up from Cam’lab ResearchDr. Stone (Novalia) . Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 29 May 2015, 18:15-19:15 The Judge and the General: A film screening and Q&A with Chilean producer Patricio LanfrancoPatricio Lanfranco, introduced by Paul Mylrea. Thursday 28 May 2015, 18:30-20:30 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks George Eliot and the Religion of Favourable ChanceThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Professor Robert Koepp, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College & Illinois College. Tuesday 26 May 2015, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Maynard Keynes and his Whaling Adventure.This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Bjørn L. Basberg, Professor in Economic History, Norwegian School of Economics; Visiting Fellow Wolfson College and Visiting Scholar, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge. Tuesday 19 May 2015, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Toward cleaner vehicle emissions: catalyst technologies for today and tomorrowDr. York, Johnson Matthey. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 15 May 2015, 18:15-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks ‘Trade (mark) wars, 1860-1920: sweatshops, the retail trade and the meaning of trade marks.’This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Jennifer Davis, Fellow, Wolfson College; Member, Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law. Tuesday 12 May 2015, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Social security in Britain - cost or benefit? An historical perspective on a 2015 general election issue.Prof. Simon Szreter, History Faculty & St John's College. Tuesday 05 May 2015, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Analysing Daily Behaviours with Large-Scale Smartphone Data.Neal Lathia, Computer Laboratory. Old Combination Room, Wolfson College. Friday 01 May 2015, 18:15-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Churchill and the Islamic WorldThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Warren Dockter, Research Fellow Clare Hall. Tuesday 28 April 2015, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Mapping the rapid changes in mammalian genome regulationPaul Flicek, EMBL - EBI. Friday 13 March 2015, 18:15-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Muslims under Nazi rule, 1941-1945This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr David Motadel, Research Fellow in History at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Tuesday 10 March 2015, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks London Bridge in the late fifteenth century: ‘comparable in itself to a little city’?This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Justin Colson, Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter. Tuesday 03 March 2015, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society From Bench to Books: writing science books for childrenTiffany Taylor. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 27 February 2015, 18:15-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Mysticism and politics; some thoughts about St Teresa of AvilaThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalene College. Tuesday 24 February 2015, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Life after death: social evolution in a graveProf Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 20 February 2015, 18:15-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Ibsen's women - on and off the stageThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Robert Amundsen, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College. Tuesday 17 February 2015, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks 'Hinduism': the challenges of a polycentric approach to shaping our worldThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Prof. Julius Lipner, Emeritus Professor of Hinduism and the Comparative Study of Religion, Fellow of Clare Hall. Tuesday 10 February 2015, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Israel and AntisemitismThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Prof. David Feldman, Birkbeck London, Director of the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism. Tuesday 03 February 2015, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Opening of 'The Royal Academy at Wolfson'This talk is open to the public Anthony Green R.A.. Tuesday 27 January 2015, 18:30-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Structure of the DNA Replication MachineryJulian Conrad, MRC-LMB, Cambridge. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 23 January 2015, 18:15-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks The oldest illustrated book in Cambridge - a reconsideration of the St Augustine GospelsThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Prof. Nigel Morgan, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Tuesday 20 January 2015, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks C.R.Fay: The Differences between Making History and Writing ItThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Hugh Gault, biographer and independent researcher. Tuesday 02 December 2014, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society How bees find the right flowersDr Gregory Sutton. Friday 28 November 2014, 18:15-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Religion and Humour: The Islamic Feast of Sacrifice in Egyptian CartoonsThis talk is open to the public Professor Gabriel M. Rosenbaum - Dept. of Arabic Language and Literature,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Director, The Israeli Academic Center in Cairo and Visiting Fellow Wolfson College, Cambridge. Tuesday 25 November 2014, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Does Westminster Still Represent the Westminster Model ?Professor Gerd Strohmeier Visiting Fellow Wolfson College and Technische Universität Chemnitz. Tuesday 18 November 2014, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Technology, Tools, and Toys of Early Modern ScienceThis talk is open to the public, and may be podcast Dr Alexi Baker - CRASSH. Tuesday 11 November 2014, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Communication in a globalised world: English is necessary but not sufficientThis talk is open to the public, and may be podcast Dr Nick Saville - Director of the Research and Validation Group, Cambridge English Language Assessment. Tuesday 04 November 2014, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Flexible and Stretchable Electronics: Make Way for Wearables.Mark Allen, from Nokia. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 31 October 2014, 18:15-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Pickwick in the Trenches: Dickens and Dickensians in the Great WarThis talk is open to the public, and may be podcast Professor Jerry White - Birkbeck College, University of London. Tuesday 28 October 2014, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks 'The nightingales won’t let you sleep in Platres'. Re-visiting the Greek PastThis talk is open to the public as part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, and may be podcast Prof. Robin Cormack, Prof. Emeritus in the History of Art, London University. Tuesday 21 October 2014, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Erasmus Darwin: Poet of ProgressThis talk is open to the public, and may be podcast Dr Patricia Fara - Clare College & Department of History and Philosophy of Science . Tuesday 14 October 2014, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society I spy with my MRI....Dr Mick Mantle, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology. Seminar Room, Wolfson College. Friday 13 June 2014, 18:15-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Wax, wood and narrative: the miraculous culture of Renaissance ItalyThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Mary Laven, Jesus College Cambridge. Tuesday 03 June 2014, 17:45-19:15 Press Seminar: In the Name of the PeopleLara Pawson, Wolfson College. Wednesday 28 May 2014, 17:30-19:00 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Un-Righteous Neutrality: Theodore Roosevelt and the Great War, 1914-1917This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Prof. J.Lee Thompson, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College. Tuesday 27 May 2014, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Inclusive Human Computer Interaction - from Indian farmers to Eurofighter Typhoon pilotsDr. Pradipta Biswas, Engineering Design Centre. Seminar Room, Wolfson College. Friday 23 May 2014, 18:15-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Climate Change and Conspiracy TheoryThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast. Prof. David Runciman, POLIS & Trinity Hall. Tuesday 20 May 2014, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Further Thoughts on the Undivided PastThis talk is public and may be podcast Professor Sir David Cannadine, Princeton and School of Advanced Studies, University of London. Tuesday 13 May 2014, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society An Enlightenment tradition of characterising and caricaturing science and scientists: why words (and nerds) matter.Dr Jenny Mander (Department of French, University of Cambridge). Seminar Room, Wolfson College. Friday 09 May 2014, 18:15-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Intellectual Societies: Intimacy and Knowledge in the 19th CenturyThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Prof. Bill Lubenow Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College & The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. Tuesday 06 May 2014, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Open access publishing: a pioneer’s perspective.Ben Johnson, BioMed Central. Seminar Room, Wolfson College. Friday 25 April 2014, 18:15-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society TBC - personal genomicsPaul Flicek, EMBL - EBI. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Thursday 13 March 2014, 18:15-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Fidgets, Scoundrels and Mummy's Boys: Performing Masculinity in the Victorian House of CommonsThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Ben Griffin, Girton College, Cambridge. Tuesday 11 March 2014, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society May the force (of gravity) be with you: general relativity, black holes and beyondPau Figueras, Dpt of Applied Mathematics and Theorical Physics. Seminar Room, Wolfson College. Friday 07 March 2014, 18:15-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Rogue Judges - Rebels or Reformers? The Case of Sir Henry McCardieThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Prof. Tony Lentin, Wolfson College. Tuesday 04 March 2014, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Neoliberalism, Socialism, and the Politics of KnowledgeThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Suvi Salmenniemi, University of Turku and CRASSH. Tuesday 25 February 2014, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks The First Bohemians: the Artists of Eighteenth-Century Covent GardenThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Prof. Vic Gatrell, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College Cambridge and Emeritus Professor of Modern British History, University of Essex . Tuesday 18 February 2014, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society In search of personal meaning in a file of 3.3 billion DNA lettersDr. Manuel Corpas, The Genome Aanalysis Center, Norwich. Seminar Room, Wolfson College. Friday 14 February 2014, 18:15-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks 'The True Function of Education'This talk is open to the public, and may be podcast Philip Allott, Emeritus Professor of International Public Law, Fellow of Trinity College. Tuesday 11 February 2014, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Reform, Revolution, Reaction. Land and the indigenous question in Allende's Chile.This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr. Dan Carter, Wolfson College. Tuesday 04 February 2014, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Nanotechnology in healthcare: turning science fiction into science factDr Luis Garcia-Gancedo (Electrical Engineering Division, University of Cambridge). Seminar Room, Wolfson College. Friday 31 January 2014, 18:15-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Looking Inside the Box, Thinking Outside the Box: Exhibiting Fiji in CambridgeThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Lucie Carreau, Cambridge Museum of Archeology and Anthropology . Tuesday 28 January 2014, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Title to be confirmedJulian Conrad, MRC-LMB, Cambridge. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Thursday 23 January 2014, 18:15-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Spectators at the Print Shop Window: Caricature and the Rhetoric of the GazeThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr David Taylor, Toronto University & Visiting Fellow CRASSH. Tuesday 21 January 2014, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society How does cancer become an infectious disease?Dr Hannah Siddle (Dpt of Pathology, Cambridge University). Seminar Room, Wolfson College. Friday 06 December 2013, 18:15-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Planning for Survival in the Cold WarThis talk is open to the public Dr Donald Wilson, Emeritus Fellow, Wolfson College. Tuesday 03 December 2013, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Mermaids, Cables and the Deep Sea: the telegraphic imagery in the 19th centuryThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Clare Pettitt, Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture, Kings College London. Tuesday 26 November 2013, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Information storage in DNADr. Nick Goldman (EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge). Seminar Room, Wolfson College. Friday 22 November 2013, 18:15-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Visions of PowerThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast. Prof. Chris Clark, Faculty of History and St. Catherine's College. Tuesday 19 November 2013, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Calories and Corsets: 2000 years of diets and dietingThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast. Louise Foxcroft. Tuesday 12 November 2013, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society The Dark Matter Mystery and the Large Hadron ColliderProf. Ben Allanach (Theoretical Physics, Cambridge). Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 08 November 2013, 18:15-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Feudalism in the Medieval West: ‘The Tyranny of a Construct’This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Magnus Ryan (Peterhouse College and History Faculty). Tuesday 05 November 2013, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Ideological Ends of British Imperialism: Decolonisation and the ‘Federal Moment’This talk is open to the public as part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas. It may be podcast. Dr Michael Collins, Lecturer in History, UCL. Tuesday 29 October 2013, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society The Origin and Evolution of the UniverseProf. John Barrow (Dpt of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University) . Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 25 October 2013, 18:15-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Energy and the industrial revolution: opening Pandora's boxThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Prof. Sir Tony Wrigley, Cambridge. Tuesday 22 October 2013, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks The Arts and Humanities Today: Re-framing the ‘value’ debateThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast. Dr Anna Upchurch, Leeds University. Tuesday 15 October 2013, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Sappho, Lincoln, & the American Senate: Picturing Female Desire in the 19th CenturyThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast. This is the last talk of the term. Prof. Simon Goldhill Kings College and Director of CRASSH. Tuesday 11 June 2013, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Sonic Pi: Teaching Computer Science with MusicDr Samuel Aaron. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 07 June 2013, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society EDSAC: The World's First Practical Electronic Digital ComputerDr Andrew Herbert OBE. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 31 May 2013, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Zimbabwe since IndependenceThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Prof. David Maxwell (Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Faculty of History and Emmanuel College). Tuesday 28 May 2013, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Culture, Politics, identity: how we know who we think we areThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Professor Bruce Berman, Smuts Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College. Tuesday 21 May 2013, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Planetary landscapesProf Paul Murdin. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 17 May 2013, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Some English Scholars in Aleppo,1620-1760This talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr.Simon Mills (Wolfson College and CRASSH). Tuesday 14 May 2013, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Coin Finds and History in CambridgeThis talk is open to the public Dr Martin Allen (Fitzwilliam Museum and Wolfson College). Tuesday 07 May 2013, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Architecture & Design in Medieval Morocco: the building strategies of the Marinid sultansThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr. Amira Bennison (Magdalene College & faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge). Tuesday 30 April 2013, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society The impact of the genomic revolution on medicine and agricultureProf Dame Janet Thornton, Director of EMBL-EBI. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 26 April 2013, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Art, Empire, and Revolution: the Lives of Constance and Casimir MarkieviczThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Dr Lauren Arrington CRASSH and Liverpool University. Tuesday 12 March 2013, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Can yeast and a Robot Scientist help us design therapies for diseases like cancers and malaria?Prof Steve Oliver, Department of Biochemistry and Cambridge Systems Biology Centre. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 08 March 2013, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen and his "Diary of a Man in Despair": a conservative rebel in Hitler's GermanyThis talk is open to the public and may be podcast Prof. Sir Richard Evans ( President Wolfson College & Regius Professor of History, Faculty of History). Seminar Room, Wolfson College (note change of venue). Tuesday 05 March 2013, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Islanded: the British Empire and Sri LankaThis talk is open to the public Sujit Sivasundaram (Gonville and Caius College). Tuesday 26 February 2013, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Nature v. nurture: dissecting the tumour ecosystemProf Gillian Murphy, Department of Oncology. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 22 February 2013, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks The Aftermath of War: Iraq Ten Years OnThis talk is open to the public Dr. Glen Rangwala (Trinity College and POLIS). Tuesday 19 February 2013, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Best Seat in the House: viewing Greek history through its theatreThis talk is open to the public Dr Michael C. Scott ( Darwin College, Cambridge). Tuesday 12 February 2013, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Kinect: You Are The Controller - The Inside Story!Mat Cook, Microsoft Research. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 08 February 2013, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Brains, Science, and Human NatureJoint seminar with the Wolfson College Humanities Society Prof Simon Blackburn, Trinity College and UNC Chapel Hill. Tuesday 05 February 2013, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Brains, Science, and Human NatureThis talk is open to the public Professor Simon Blackburn (Fellow of Trinity College and research professor UNC Chapel Hill). Tuesday 05 February 2013, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Historicising Islamic Extremism in the PunjabThis talk is open to the public Dr. Tahir Kamran (Visiting Fellow Wolfson College and Centre of South Asian Studies). Tuesday 29 January 2013, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Publishing in Nature journalsDr Elisa de Rainieri, Nature Communications. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 25 January 2013, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Before Gallipoli there was Homer – the Classics and the Dardanelles Campaign of 1915This talk is open to the public Professor Sam Lieu . Tuesday 22 January 2013, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks What is Legal Philosophy?This talk is open to the public Professor Matthew Kramer (Faculty of Law, Churchill College). Tuesday 27 November 2012, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society The Great Ink CrisisProfessor Rick Mitchell, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Friday 23 November 2012, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Digital Affordances: some implications for the HumanitiesThis talk, and all of Wolfson Humanities Society talks are open to the public Professor John Naughton (Vice-President and Director of the Press Fellowship, Wolfson College). Tuesday 20 November 2012, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Merchants of Culture: the Making of BestsellersThis talk, and all of Wolfson Humanities Society talks are open to the public Professor John B Thompson (Department of Sociology, Fellow of Jesus College). Tuesday 13 November 2012, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Issues in fuel supply and utilisationDr John C. Jones, School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 09 November 2012, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Markets and Merchants in early ChinaProfessor Roel Sterckx, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Clare College . Tuesday 06 November 2012, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks 'Not Only To See All, But Also To See From Anywhere': Space, Duration and the Omnivision of the Mobile CameraDr Jenna Ng (Visiting Fellow Wolfson College). Tuesday 30 October 2012, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society 90 days of night: A year in Antarctica at the French/Italian base Concordia StationDr Eoin Macdonald-Nethercott, European Space Agency and Alumnus. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 26 October 2012, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Austerity, free trade, and the deficit: the mid 19th century origins of a British obsessionProfessor Boyd Hilton (Faculty of History, Trinity College). Tuesday 23 October 2012, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Inventing Phoenicia? The Levantine Coast and Geographical Perception in the Ancient WorldDr Fred Hirt (Visiting Fellow Wolfson College). Tuesday 16 October 2012, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Could the ageing be infectious?Dr Damian Crowther, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 12 October 2012, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks The Semantics of Peace in Early Modern EnglandDr Phil Withington, Christ's College. Tuesday 12 June 2012, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Hearing loss and hearing aidsProfessor Brian Moore, Department of Experimental Psychology. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 08 June 2012, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks "Filled with Dissenters?" Cambridgeshire religion in 1851Prof David Thompson, Emeritus Professor of Modern Church History. Tuesday 05 June 2012, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks The 1690s: England's First Modern Economic Crisis?Dr Brodie Waddell, Faculty of History. Tuesday 29 May 2012, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Extracting meaning from textProfessor Ann Copestake, Computer Laboratory. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 25 May 2012, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks The Politics of AusterityProf Andrew Gamble, POLIS. Tuesday 22 May 2012, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society From Gutenberg to the digital age: the challenges and opportunities of inkjet printingProfessor Ian Hutchings, Department of Engineering. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 18 May 2012, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Mesopotamia under Saddam: archaeology in Iraq 1969-1989Professor Nicholas Postgate. Tuesday 15 May 2012, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Good Companions and Fellow-boozers: Alehouses and Good Fellowship in Early Modern EnglandDr Mark Hailwood, Exeter and Institute for Historical Research. Tuesday 08 May 2012, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society The mammary gland: a source of milk and a cancer time bombDr Christine Watson, Department of Pathology. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 04 May 2012, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Emulating God's playfulness: Johannes Kepler's serious jokesProf Nick Jardine. Tuesday 24 April 2012, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society The Jet Engine: What Happens If....?Dr Ivor Day, Department of Engineering. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 09 March 2012, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks The History of RacismProfessor Francisco Bethencourt, King's College, London. Tuesday 28 February 2012, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society The Unexpected Side of EntropyProfessor Daan Frenkel ForMemRS, Department of Chemistry. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 24 February 2012, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Revolution, Bond Markets, and the Chinese Maritime Customs ServiceProfessor Hans van de Ven, FAMES. Tuesday 14 February 2012, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society The placenta: a remarkable but often neglected organProfessor Graham Burton, Department of Physiology. Roger Needham Room, Wolfson College. Friday 10 February 2012, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Foreign policy, fear, and civil societyProf Christopher Hill, POLIS. Tuesday 31 January 2012, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Consciousness at stake: Perspectives from an anaesthetistDr Ram Adapa, Division of Anaesthesia, School of Clinical Medicine. Roger Needham Room, Wolfson College. Friday 27 January 2012, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Watching proteins fold and unfold one at a time. How physics can teach us lessons about biologyProf. Jane Clarke, Department of Chemistry. Roger Needham Room, Wolfson College. Friday 25 November 2011, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society How nature might influence nurtureProfessor Baulcombe, Department of Plant Sciences. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 11 November 2011, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Russia's Cold WarProf Jonathan Haslam, Corpus Christi College. Tuesday 08 November 2011, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Mozart and three EmperorsProf Derek Beales, Sidney Sussex College. Tuesday 01 November 2011, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Communication with a single buttonDr Patrick Welche, Cavendish Laboratory. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 28 October 2011, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks History and the Financial CrisisProf Martin Daunton, Trinity Hall. Tuesday 18 October 2011, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Rubik's Planet; Global Consequences of Nanoscale PhenomenaDr Dr Christopher Forman, Institute for Manufacturing. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 14 October 2011, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks ‘My Desire is to be the Possessor of all the Best Books in this World of Struggle’: Respectability and Literary Materialism in Colonial IbadanDr Ruth Walson, Clare College. Tuesday 14 June 2011, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Wallace Stevens: Melodics of *Harmonium*Professor Simon Jarvis, Faculty of English. Tuesday 07 June 2011, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society The Nature of Empathy: Perspectives from PsychiatryProf. Simon Baron-Cohen, Autism Research Centre, Cambridge. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 03 June 2011, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks When ‘Comoners were made slaves by the magistrates’: Political Culture and Electioneering in 1620s NorwichDr Fiona Williamson. Tuesday 31 May 2011, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Bananas, bandits and biology on the high seasDr Anna Snowdon, Senior Member, Wolfson College. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 27 May 2011, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Nanotechnology: Science or Fiction?Dr Agnieszka Iwasiewicz-Wabnig, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 20 May 2011, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks The Lessons of the New Deal: did Obama learn the right ones?Prof Tony Badger, Clare College. Tuesday 10 May 2011, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks South Asian histories of citizenshipDr Joya Chatterjii, Trinity College. Tuesday 26 April 2011, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society Have I got path for you...?Prof. Alun Williams, Department of Veterinary Medicine. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 11 March 2011, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society "Quantum teleportation, its use and abuse"Prof Richard Josza, DAMPT. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 25 February 2011, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Who were the French revolutionaries?Professor William Doyle, Bristol. Tuesday 15 February 2011, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Death in Florence: the impact of plague in early modern ItalyProf John Henderson, Birkbeck College and Wolfson College. Tuesday 08 February 2011, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society "Printed and plastic electronics: will the microchips of the future be printed?"Dr Enrico Gili, Department of Physics. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 04 February 2011, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks How to write the history of the Persian EmpireProf Thomas Harrison, University of Liverpool. Tuesday 01 February 2011, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks 1919 and All That: The Treaty of Versailles and "Appeasement" at the Paris Peace ConferenceProf Tony Lentin, Wolfson College. Tuesday 25 January 2011, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society "Is nuclear reprogramming a route to cell replacement therapy?"Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS, Department of Zoology/Wellcome Gurdon Institute. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 21 January 2011, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society "Are my genes to blame when my jeans don’t fit?"Dr Giles Yeo, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Institute of Metabolic Science. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 26 November 2010, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Fiction as HistoryProf John Hatcher, Corpus Christi. Tuesday 23 November 2010, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society "Of water flumes, waxy walls and toilet bowls: trapping strategies of carnivorous pitcher plants"Dr Ulrike Bauer, Department of Zoology. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 12 November 2010, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Reactions to Neo-Nazi violence in RussiaProfessor Caroline Humphrey, King's College. Tuesday 09 November 2010, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Why is the Enlightenment so difficult to define?Prof. John Robertson, Clare College. Tuesday 02 November 2010, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Comparisons for the anthropologist: when organ and tissue donations are matters of concernProfessor Marilyn Strathern, Girton College. Tuesday 26 October 2010, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society "Causes and prevention of type 2 diabetes"Professor Nick Wareham, MRC Epidemiology Unit. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 22 October 2010, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Views of War, 1914 and 1939Dr Zara Steiner, Murray Edwards College. Tuesday 19 October 2010, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Science Society "The Master Puppeteer: How the Brain Controls the Body"Prof Daniel Wolpert, Department of Engineering. Old Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College. Friday 15 October 2010, 18:00-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Louisa Catherine Adams: Travel, Narrative, and GenderProfessor Michael O'Brien, Jesus College. Tuesday 01 June 2010, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Jesuits and Eunuchs in Late Ming ChinaDr Mary Laven, Jesus College. Tuesday 25 May 2010, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Spies and informants in Elizabethan LondonDr Stephen Alford, King's College. Tuesday 18 May 2010, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Social Mobility in Modern Britain: Myths and RealitiesProfessor Peter Mandler, Gonville and Caius College. Tuesday 11 May 2010, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Cultural politics of electioneeringDr Jon Lawrence, Emmanuel College. Tuesday 04 May 2010, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Rethinking the Tropics: a Brazilian contribution to the debateProfessors Peter Burke and Maria Lucia Pallares-Burke. Seminar Room, Wolfson College (note change of venue). Tuesday 02 March 2010, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks The Uses of Memory in the Early Middle AgesProf Rosamond McKitterick, Sidney Sussex College. Tuesday 23 February 2010, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity and Memory in Early Modern Britain and IrelandProf Alexandra Walsham, Exeter (newly appointed Professor of Modern European History, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge). Tuesday 26 January 2010, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks The geopolitics of slavery in North America and Africa, 1850-1890Professor Brendan Simms, Peterhouse. Tuesday 12 January 2010, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Ruskin and the Idea of a MuseumDr Marcus Waithe. Tuesday 24 November 2009, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks The Triumph of MusicProfessor Tim Blanning, Sidney Sussex, Cambridge. Tuesday 10 November 2009, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Reflections on "Reflections on Cambridge"Prof Alan Macfarlane, King's College, Cambridge. Tuesday 03 November 2009, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Jerusalem and the Cotswolds: the British discovery of the Holy CityProf Simon Goldhill. Tuesday 20 October 2009, 17:45-19:15 Please see above for contact details for this list. |
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