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If you have a question about this list, please contact: . If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser. 0 upcoming talks and 207 talks in the archive. How AI Development is Shaped by Science Fiction NarrativesDr. Kerry McInerney and Dr. Eleanor Drage (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence). Thursday 23 November 2023, 17:30-19:00 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 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 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 Humanities Society talks The Beginnings of Global OperaDr Benjamin Walton, Faculty of Music, Cambridge. Tuesday 03 March 2020, 17:45-19:15 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 '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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Historicising Islamic Extremism in the PunjabDr. Tahir Kamran (Visiting Fellow Wolfson College and Centre of South Asian Studies). Tuesday 29 January 2013, 17:45-19:00 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 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 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 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 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 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 Humanities Society talks The Politics of AusterityProf Andrew Gamble, POLIS. Tuesday 22 May 2012, 17:45-19:15 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 Humanities Society talks Emulating God's playfulness: Johannes Kepler's serious jokesProf Nick Jardine. Tuesday 24 April 2012, 17:45-19:15 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 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 Humanities Society talks Foreign policy, fear, and civil societyProf Christopher Hill, POLIS. Tuesday 31 January 2012, 17:45-19:15 Cambridge Countercultural Studies Research Group The Bad Trip: Neo-Psychedelic Art and the 'End of the Sixties'.Dr. James Riley, Junior Research Fellow in English, Wolfson College. Friday 11 November 2011, 16:00-18:00 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 Humanities Society talks History and the Financial CrisisProf Martin Daunton, Trinity Hall. Tuesday 18 October 2011, 17:45-19:15 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 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 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 Cambridge Countercultural Studies Research Group Two films: Sixties Counterculture in Cambridge; Roger 'Syd' BarrettAlexandros Papathanasiou. Friday 25 March 2011, 16:30-19:00 Cambridge Countercultural Studies Research Group Film Counter-Culture: Underground Cinema in London, 1963-7Henry K Miller (ARU). Friday 04 March 2011, 16:00-19:00 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 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 Humanities Society talks Fiction as HistoryProf John Hatcher, Corpus Christi. Tuesday 23 November 2010, 17:45-19:15 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 Humanities Society talks Views of War, 1914 and 1939Dr Zara Steiner, Murray Edwards College. Tuesday 19 October 2010, 17:45-19:15 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 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 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Serbia and the Outbreak of War in 1914Prof Chris Clark, St Catherine's College, Cambridge. Tuesday 06 October 2009, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Within the Secret State: A Disturbing Study of the Use and Misuse of PowerChair: Dr Felicia Yap Peter Evans. Tuesday 09 June 2009, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks The naturalisation of reason in the seventeenth century: origins and consequencesChair: Dr David Adams Dr. Richard Serjeantson, Trinity College, Cambridge. Tuesday 26 May 2009, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Crown and Nobility in Late Medieval EnglandChair: Dr Max Lieberman Prof Christine Carpenter. Tuesday 05 May 2009, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks TBCChair: Dr David Gange Professor Simon Goldhill. Tuesday 28 April 2009, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks "How to Write the History of the Mediterranean"Chair: Dr Max Lieberman Professor David Abulafia. Tuesday 10 March 2009, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks 'Missing Links: the Church of England and the Rhineland Palatinate 1565-1642'Chair: Dr David Adams Professor Anthony Milton, University of Sheffield. Tuesday 24 February 2009, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks "La Semaine Sanglante, 1871: a revision"Chair: Dr Isabel DiVanna Professor Robert Tombs. Tuesday 17 February 2009, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks "History, Truth and Memory: Reflections on the Irving/Lipstadt Libel Trial (Jan-Apr 2000)."Chair: Dr Isabel DiVanna Professor Richard Evans. Tuesday 03 February 2009, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Rousseau's JULIE: The Unread Best-Seller of the Eighteenth CenturyChair: Dr Carolina Armenteros Professor Timothy O'Hagan. Tuesday 27 January 2009, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Rousseau's Second Discourse: Between Stoicism and EpicureanismChair: Dr Carolina Armenteros Dr Christopher Brooke. Tuesday 25 November 2008, 17:45-19:15 Wolfson College Humanities Society talks Milton's angelsChair: Dr David Adams Professor Joad Raymond. 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