Rouse Ball Lectures

The quandary of the quark

Professor Christine Davies, University of Glasgow.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane.

Tuesday 21 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

Social Anthropology

Smuts Commonwealth Lecture - Empire and the Historical Imagination in Colonial India

Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane.

Tuesday 18 October 2011, 17:00-18:30

Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

Life, extended mind, and physical reality

Device Materials Group (Materials Science) Special Seminar

Prof. Brian Josephson, Mind-Matter Unification Project, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane.

Wednesday 05 May 2010, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Fred Hoyle: Cosmology and controversy

Dr Simon Mitton.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane.

Thursday 18 March 2010, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Science Festival

From the Blitz to Bin Laden: how Londoners respond to adversity

Professor Simon Wessely.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane.

Monday 15 March 2010, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Science Festival

One hundred years of rehabilitation: how far have we come and how far still to go?

Professor Barbara Wilson.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane.

Thursday 11 March 2010, 18:00-19:00

Festival of Ideas

How can we best encourage social mobility

Anastasia de Waal, Director of Fmily and Education at Civitas, Professor Diane Reay, Joe Baden, Manager of the Open Book programme at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Brenda King, Chief Executive of ACDiversity.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane.

Wednesday 28 October 2009, 17:30-18:30

Festival of Ideas

Mark Pigott Lecture: Henry VIII: famous for 500 years

David Starkey, historian and broadcaster.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane.

Tuesday 27 October 2009, 17:30-18:30

Festival of Ideas

Can there be peace in the Middle East?

Dr Glen Rangwala, lecturer in international policies. Professor Anoush Ehteshami, Head of the School of Government and International Affiars at Durham University.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane.

Monday 26 October 2009, 17:30-18:30

Festival of Ideas

What will the recession's lasting legacy be?

Robert Chote, Head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Professor Jacqueline Scott, Bob Rowthorne, Emeritus Professor of Economics, and Dr Alistair Milne of Cass Business School will lead the discussion, chaired by Professor Willy Brown.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane.

Friday 23 October 2009, 17:30-18:30

Festival of Ideas

Are we entering a new era of austerity for the arts?

Peter Florence, Hay Festival Director, Sue Hoyle, Director of the Clore Leadership Programme, Julie Smith, Deputy Director of the Centre of International Studies and Professor Shearer West, Director of Research at the Arts and Humanities Research Coucil,.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane.

Thursday 22 October 2009, 17:30-18:30

Festival of Ideas

Where do ideas come from?

Dame Gillian Beer, Professor Rosamond McKitterick, author Lisa Appignanesi, President of English PEN, and author Andrew Robinson will lead the discussion, chaired by Professor Adrian Poole.

Mill Lane Lecture Room 3, Mill Lane.

Wednesday 21 October 2009, 17:30-18:30