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Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Contractual soldiering and negotiated authority during the French Revolutionary Wars

Room changed. This event is now hybrid. Please see below for the Teams link.

UserRory Butcher (University of Leeds).

HouseBoardroom in the Cambridge History Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 15 May 2025, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Autonomous Robots That Operate in Human Environments

UserFethiye Irmak Dogan (University of Cambridge, Department of Computer Science and Technology).

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 08 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Ethnography after Genocide: Working with Ezidi Women in Iraq

UserDr. Richard Latham Lechowick, Research Associate & Teaching Fellow, Global History Lab (CRASSH) .

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 06 May 2025, 13:10-14:00

Labour History Cluster

New Books in Labour History

UserMassimo Asta, Charmian Mansell, Pedro Ramos Pinto, Hillary Taylor, with Paul Cavill, Jonah Miller, Natalia Mora-Sitja.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 6 (2nd floor).

ClockTuesday 06 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Geographical Society (CUGS) talks

Nihilism and Technology

UserNolen Gertz, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Twente.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Geography Department, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 02 May 2025, 17:00-18:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

North to the Future

UserBennett Weissenbach (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge).

HouseHybrid: Seminar room, SPRI & Zoom - email organiser for details.

ClockThursday 20 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Financial History Seminar

Money: a Treasury-centric view

UserMario Pisani (HM Treasury and King's College, London).

HouseJohn Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

ClockMonday 17 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding our Humanity

UserProfessor Shannon Vallor, University of Edinburgh.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 14 March 2025, 17:30-18:30

Department of Geography - other talks

How 'Natural' are Natural Hazards?

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 13 March 2025, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Polari - a Very Queer Code

UserProfessor Paul Baker, University of Lancaster.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 07 March 2025, 17:30-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Physical Sciences Seminar

West Antarctic Ice Sheet readvance in the Holocene

UserDr. Jonathan Kingslake, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia Climate School.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

ClockThursday 06 March 2025, 17:00-18:00

Department of Geography - other talks

How can music propel environmental action?

UserBetsy Mortensen, co-founder Sustain Music & Nature.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 06 March 2025, 16:00-17:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Breaking the Ice: Abrupt climate change and deglaciation

UserRuza Ivanovic (University of Leeds).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockWednesday 05 March 2025, 17:30-19:00

Financial History Seminar

What does it mean to Democratize Finance?

UserDr Leah Rose Downey (University of Cambridge).

HouseJohn Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

ClockMonday 03 March 2025, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Volcanology Seminar

Volcanoes, Rhinoceros and Cabbage

UserProfessor Matthew Watson (University of Bristol).

HouseTilley Lecture Theatre, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockMonday 03 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Wayfinding through the Human Genome

UserDr Keolu Fox, University of California, San Diego.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 28 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Quantitative History Seminar

Railway closures in France, 1900-1940

UserAlexis Litvine (University of Cambridge), co-authored with Matteo Mazzamurro and Alban de Gmeline.

HouseRoom 12, Faculty of History, and on Teams.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2025, 13:15-14:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Exploring dietary behaviours, narratives and attitudes in Cambridge colleges

UserSigurdur Martinsson, MSt in Sustainability Leadership, Darwin College.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 25 February 2025, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Eve's Byte of the Apple

UserSandi Toksvig OBE.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 21 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Vital Geographies - Department of Geography

Book launch: "Pub", by Philip Howell

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEmmanuel college.

ClockThursday 20 February 2025, 17:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Reconstructing levels of volcanism in the late Pleistocene

UserJack Longman (Northumbria University).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2025, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Bloodshed, embodiment, politics, and theology

UserProfessor Daniel Weiss, Faculty of Divinity, Fellow of Darwin College.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 18 February 2025, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Epigenetics: A Code upon a Code?

UserProfessor Anne Ferguson-Smith, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 14 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

What can probate inventories tell us about grain storage in the early modern period?

UserLiam Brunt (NHH Norwegian School of Economics) and Edmund Cannon (University of Bristol).

HouseHistory Faculty Room 11.

ClockThursday 13 February 2025, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The microscopic barriers protecting your airway everyday

UserLeah Hurst, University of Cambridge.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 13 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative History Seminar

New Perspectives on the Economic History of War

UserJari Eloranta, University of Helsinki.

HouseRoom 12, Faculty of History, and on Teams.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2025, 13:15-14:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Economic Cost of Depression: A Mendelian Randomisation Study

UserFergus McCormack, PhD Candidate, Department of Economics.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 11 February 2025, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Using Maths to Decode the Universe

UserDr Tom Crawford, University of Oxford.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 07 February 2025, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Genetic drivers of early lung cancer

UserAlice Chernaik (Medicine, University of Cambridge).

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 06 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Chocolate and Bibles: How Victorian Collectors Spent their Evenings and Shaped Scholarship

UserDr Harry Spillane, Munby Fellow in Bibliography, University Library and Research Fellow, Darwin College.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 04 February 2025, 13:10-14:00

Financial History Seminar

A new history of the interwar Bank of England

UserDr Robert Yee (University of Oxford).

HouseJohn Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

ClockMonday 03 February 2025, 17:00-18:30

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Birders

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockThursday 30 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Vital Geographies - Department of Geography

Vital geographies for the kids

UserPrerna Singh Bindra, Philip Howell, and Olga Petri.

HouseSeminar Room, Department of Geography.

ClockTuesday 28 January 2025, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Bits with Soul

UserProfessor Simon Peyton Jones, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 24 January 2025, 17:30-18:30

Department of Geography - other talks

Climate justice, financing and resistance in the Indian Sundarbans

UserDr Annabel Dulhunty, Senior Lecturer at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockFriday 24 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Polar bear's range dynamics in the Holocene

UserProf. Heikki Seppa (University of Helsinki).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockWednesday 04 December 2024, 17:30-19:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Bonded by Apps? Labour Geographies in the age of Algorithmic Despotism

Inaugural Lecture by Dr Debangana Bose

UserDr Debangana Bose, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Future of Coding

UserDavid Vella Zarb, Computer Science.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 21 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Deeper and Stronger North Atlantic Gyre During the Last Glacial Maximum

UserDr. Jack Wharton (University College London).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2024, 17:30-19:00

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

Greening the Arctic [Panel Discussion Webinar, registration required]

Please register using the link below to receive the Zoom link to participate in the webinar. https://www.bu.edu/pardee/the-arctic-environmental-humanities-workshop-series-2/

UserHannah Bradley, Inuk Silis Hœgh, Jeffrey Kerby, Kim Neider, Ross Virginia.

HouseCo-hosted with Pardee Center for the Study of Longer-Range Future, Boston University.

ClockTuesday 19 November 2024, 15:00-16:30

Labour History Cluster

Doing the history of work from an early modern perspective

UserMaria Agren, University of Uppsala.

HouseRoom 3, Faculty of History.

ClockTuesday 19 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

Inuit Piqutingit: What Belongs to Inuit [Film Screening]

UserPanel Speakers: Bernadette Dean, Deborah Kigjugalik Webster (Inuit Heritage Insights), Carol Payne (Carleton University).

HouseScott Polar Research Institute Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

ClockTuesday 12 November 2024, 16:30-18:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Studying Research Culture at Cambridge: The Action Research on Research Culture Project (ARRC)

UserDr Lara Abel, Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, Action Research on Research Culture project (ARRC), Research Fellow at Darwin College.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 12 November 2024, 13:10-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Interrelations between security and the zero-carbon energy transition in the Finnish and Norwegian Arctic

UserMarja Helena Sivonen, Doctoral researcher, Sociology Department, Tampere University & Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE).

HouseHybrid: Seminar room, SPRI & Zoom - email organiser for details.

ClockThursday 07 November 2024, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Climate is on Thin Ice: Can We Thicken It?

UserJacob Pantling, Centre for Climate Repair, University of Cambridge.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 07 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Do look back – what can the palaeo record tell us about Antarctica’s Doomsday glacier(s)?

This talk is run in association with the Cambridge Centre for Climate Science (CCfCS).

UserDr. James Smith (British Antarctic Survey).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2024, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The changing values of feathers and their wearers: Transformation of the British society’s relationship with birds at the turn of the 20th century

UserDr Jakub Kronenberg, Associate Professor at the Social Ecological Systems Analysis Lab, University of Lodz and Visiting Scholar in the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 05 November 2024, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Wondering What Our Blood Holds

UserLaura Magnani, Haematology, University of Cambridge.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 31 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Investigating the stability of Antarctica’s ice shelves

Inaugural Lecture by Dr Rebecca Dell

UserDr Rebecca Dell, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Urban metabolism redux

UserMatthew Gandy, University of Cambridge.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

ClockThursday 24 October 2024, 16:30-17:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Dopamine signalling in the octopus visual system

UserAnna Jansson, Cambridge -- Translational Neuroscience.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 24 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Why was the Arctic sea ice free 127 000 years ago?

UserDr. Louise Sime ( British Antarctic Survey).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2024, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Pre-Christian Typologies in Greece and Rome

UserDr Peter Martin, Mary and Moses Finley Fellow, Darwin College.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 22 October 2024, 13:10-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Gatekeepers of the Greenland icesheet: The international politics of knowledge production on climate change

UserLin Alexandra Mortensgaard, PhD candidate, Danish Institute for International Studies & Department of Political Sciences, University of Copenhagen.

HouseOnline (email organisers for details).

ClockThursday 17 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Exploration, Empire, and a Revolution in the Natural History of the Pacific, 1769-1840

UserDr Edwin Rose, AHRC Early Career Research Fellow, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Advanced Research Fellow, Darwin College. .

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 15 October 2024, 13:10-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Ecosystem order and political rupture in the Arctic

UserDr. Elana Wilson Rowe, Research professor and Head of the Center for Ocean Governance at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs.

HouseScott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

ClockFriday 21 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Palaeoecological Insights into the Causes and Consequences of Mid-Late Quaternary Megafauna Extinction in Asia and Australia

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserSimon Haberle, Australian National University.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 12 June 2024, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

(CANCELLED) Extreme glacial implies discontinuity of early human occupation of Europe

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserVasiliki Margari, University College London.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 05 June 2024, 17:30-19:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The intoxicant economy in early modern England

UserPhil Withington, University of Sheffield.

HouseHistory Faculty Room 11.

ClockThursday 23 May 2024, 17:00-19:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Regional Variation of GDP per Head within China, 1080-1850: Implications for the Great Divergence Debate

UserStephen Broadberry (Oxford University), co-authored with Hanhui Guan (Peking University).

HouseRoom 5 (Faculty of History) and on Zoom.

ClockWednesday 22 May 2024, 13:15-14:45

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Radiocarbon dating and conspiracy theories

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserMaarten Blaauw, Queen's University Belfast.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 15 May 2024, 17:30-19:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Income Inequality in Imperial Austria, 1911

UserMichael Pammer (Johannes Kepler University Linz).

HouseRoom 5 (Faculty of History) and on Zoom.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2024, 13:15-14:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The neuro-ethics of brain-computer interface tool use

UserDvija Mehta, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 07 May 2024, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Towards an Ecological Mathematics

UserDr Siddharth Unnithan Kumar.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockTuesday 07 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Inaugural Lecture by Dr Hannah Hasenberger

UserDr Hannah Hasenberger, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 25 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Natural and forced behaviour of the Pacific Walker Circulation over the past 800 years

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserGeorgina Falster, Australian National University.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 24 April 2024, 17:30-19:00

Quantitative History Seminar

The Social Origins of Democracy and Authoritarianism Reconsidered: Prussia and Sweden in Comparison

UserErik Bengtsson (Lund University), co-authored with Felix Kersting (Humboldt University of Berlin).

HouseRoom 5 (Faculty of History) and on Zoom.

ClockWednesday 24 April 2024, 13:15-14:45

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Isobel Hutchison’s Arctic Quest

UserNaï Zakharia, PhD candidate, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseOnline (email organisers for details).

ClockThursday 14 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

The making and breaking of regulatory space: post Brexit economic geographies in the UK

Inaugural Lecture by Prof Sarah Hall

UserProfessor Sarah Hall, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 14 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

How a ledger became a central bank: a monetary history of the Bank of Amsterdam.

UserStephen Quinn (Texas Christian University) and Will Roberds (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta).

HouseJohn Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

ClockMonday 11 March 2024, 17:00-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

50,000 years of turnover and extinction in high-latitude megafauna communities

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserAlistair Monteath, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2024, 17:30-19:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Shareholder Democracy under Autocracy: Voting Rights and Corporate Performance in Imperial Russia

UserAmanda Gregg (Middlebury College), co-authored with Amy Dayton (Strider Technologies) and Steven Nafziger (Williams College).

HouseBoard Room (Faculty of History) and on Zoom.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2024, 13:15-14:45

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Inaugural Lecture by Prof Marc Macias-Fauria

UserProfessor Marc Macias-Fauria, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 29 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Infrastructural Fear: or When Climate Change Isn’t an Allegory

UserStephen Lezak, PhD candidate, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Gates scholar.

HouseHybrid: Seminar room, SPRI & Zoom - email organiser for details.

ClockThursday 22 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Microplastics from geologists' perspective

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserSaija Saarni, University of Turku.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2024, 17:30-19:00

Financial History Seminar

The long road to the Bank of Ghana, 1825-1966.

UserKofi Adjepong-Boateng CBE (University of Cambridge).

HouseOne Newnham Terrace, Darwin College and Zoom.

ClockMonday 19 February 2024, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Exoplanet Revolution

UserProfessor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 16 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet and sea level in the last interglacial

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserEric Wolff, Department of Earth Sciences, and the WACSWAIN team.

House Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2024, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Making Space for the Future: Imagining the Smart Nation in Singapore

UserAmelia Hassoun, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy.

HouseRichard King room, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 06 February 2024, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are Revolutions Justified?

UserProfessor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 02 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Deconstructing Development Realities in India

UserLovansh Katiyar (Cambridge) and Saberi Mallick (Delhi).

HouseRoom 9, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 29 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Genetic Revolutions

UserProfessor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 26 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

On the Disappointment of Revolutions

UserProfessor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 19 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The economic government of the world 1933-2023

All welcome

UserMartin Daunton (Cambridge).

HouseRoom 6, Faculty of History.

ClockThursday 30 November 2023, 17:15-18:45

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Pantastic archaeology in the northern Namib Sand Sea

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserAbi Stone, University of Manchester.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockWednesday 29 November 2023, 17:30-19:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The Socialist Experiment of Yugoslavia: Exploring the Effect of Labour-Managed Socialism on Economic Development

UserMagnus Neubert (Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies).

HouseRoom 12, Faculty of History.

ClockMonday 27 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Green Transition: New Frontiers of Extractivism

Note different time and room

UserChristine Schwöbel-Patel, CRASSH/Warwick Law School.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 21 November 2023, 18:30-19:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Sustainability and the Arctic - interdisciplinary ECR workshop in Tampere

UserSvenja Holst (Bielefeld University); Anna Ott (Syke and University of Lapland); Anna Varfolomeeva (University of Oulu); Marlene Payva (University of Lapland).

HouseOnline (contact organiser for Zoom link).

ClockThursday 16 November 2023, 13:45-15:45

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The Greenland Speleothem Record of Past Hydroclimate and Vegetation Changes

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserGina Moseley, University of Innsbruck.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockWednesday 15 November 2023, 17:30-19:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - other talks

Atiqput ("our names"): Inuit Oral History and Project Naming

Organised by the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge Visual Culture, and The Heong Gallery

UserCarol Payne, Beth Greenhorn and Deborah Kigjugalik Webster.

HouseThe Howard Theatre, Downing College, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 30 October 2023, 17:00-00:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The Pleistocene Evolution of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: An Interglacial Perspective

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserAidan Starr, Department of Geography.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockWednesday 18 October 2023, 17:30-19:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

A comparative history of national accounting in India and the USSR

All welcome

UserMaria Bach, Walras Pareto Centre, University of Lausanne. (Paper jointly authored with François Allison, Walras Pareto Centre, University of Lausanne).

HouseRoom 6, Faculty of History.

ClockThursday 12 October 2023, 17:15-18:45

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Vacuuming the Atlantic, Paepalology and getting things ‘wrong, wrong, wrong!’ – pollen tales from the archives

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserKevin J. Edwards, SPRI, McDonald Institute & University of Aberdeen.

House Harker 1, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

ClockWednesday 04 October 2023, 17:30-19:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Understanding Aboriginal-constructed landscapes in SE Australia, the impact of colonisation, and implications for land management under changing climate

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserMatthew Adeleye, Department of Geography.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 14 June 2023, 17:30-19:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Rambo in Palestine: Desert, War and the Making of the Planetary Frontier

UserDr Daniel Mann, Queen Mary University of London.

HouseHB101.

ClockTuesday 30 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - other talks

A glance at risk management of shipping in ice-covered waters

UserDr Liang Lu, Aalto University, Finland.

HouseFriends Room, .

ClockWednesday 24 May 2023, 12:30-13:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Connected Conservation: rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world

UserDr Rachel Carmenta, University of East Anglia.

HouseHB101.

ClockTuesday 23 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Squaring the circle: a coherent reconstruction of past species responses from multiple lines of evidence

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserAndrea Manica, Department of Zoology.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 17 May 2023, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

CANCELLED! Asking your mother: race, gender and positionality in remote oral history interviews

Postponed to 13th June 2023

UserSaffron East (Adrian Research Fellow, Black and Asian British and Irish history).

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 16 May 2023, 13:10-14:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Colonial Afterlives of Infrastructure: From Phosphate to Asylum Processing in the Republic of Nauru

UserDr Julia C. Morris, International Studies Department, University of North Carolina Wilmington.

HouseSmall Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

ClockFriday 12 May 2023, 12:45-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Holocene palaeoclimate reconstruction from a varved lake in East Anglia

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserPoppy Harding, University of Hertfordshire.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 03 May 2023, 17:30-19:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

"Heroes and Villains in the discourse of the Amazonian Bioeconomy of Brazil"

UserEmiliano Cabrera Rocha, University of Cambridge.

HouseHB101.

ClockTuesday 02 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation of atomic mechanisms – the choreographer at play

UserProfessor Sir Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 10 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Insulating the wild. Culture-Nature relationship through the lens of Antarctic Architecture

UserDr Victoria Nuviala Antelo, Faculty of Architecture, Design & Urbanism, University of Buenos Aires, Archive SUR – Archive of Architecture & Habitat in Antarctica .

HouseZoom - email organiser for details.

ClockThursday 09 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Can enzymes help address the climate crisis?

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserSam Cobb.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 09 March 2023, 13:10-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Constraining ash dispersal from historical eruptions

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserLauren Davies, Department of Geography.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 08 March 2023, 17:30-19:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Political Ecologies of Whale Biology

UserAnna Guasco, University of Cambridge.

Househttps://zoom.us/j/8314166462.

ClockTuesday 07 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Self-Imposed Isolation of North Korea

UserProfessor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 03 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Scalar politics and power processes in shared international spaces

UserDr Pauline Pic, École Supérieure d’études internationales (ESEI), University of Laval.

HouseZoom - email organiser for details.

ClockThursday 02 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Financial History Seminar

The Meade Committee on UK Tax Reform 1975-8

UserProfessor Susan Howson, University of Toronto.

HouseJohn Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

ClockMonday 27 February 2023, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are we alone in the Universe?

UserDr Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 24 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Creative Intelligence in Generative Models and Why Consciousness Matters

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserDvija Mehta.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 23 February 2023, 13:10-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

North-West Saharan Holocene rainfall driven by interhemispheric temperature differences (with climatic and archaeological considerations)

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserChris Day, University of Oxford.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2023, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers

UserProfessor Philip Jones, University College London.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 17 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Stable Southern Hemisphere westerly winds throughout the Holocene until intensification in the last two millennia

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserWillem van der Bilt, University of Bergen.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2023, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Antarctica:Isolated Continent

UserProfessor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 10 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Tools utilised by bacteria to interact with humans

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserVivian Monzon.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 09 February 2023, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Political ecologists on the inside: insights from attending CBD COP15

UserEllie Kirkland, Chris Sandbrook, Chloe King.

HouseHardy Building room 101.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Closeting of Secrets

UserProfessor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 03 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge University Geographical Society (CUGS) talks

Elizabeth Robinson - 'Tracking the links between climate change and health'

UserProfessor Elizabeth Robinson, Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, LSE.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Geography Department.

ClockThursday 02 February 2023, 17:00-18:00

Quantitative History Seminar

POSTPONED: Occupational structures and the composition of the rich in pre-industrial Italy

Postponed due to industrial action. This talk has been moved to the Easter term, further details to follow.

UserDr Guido Alfani (Universita Bocconi, Milan).

HouseSeminar Room 3, Faculty of History (stair access only) and online..

ClockWednesday 01 February 2023, 13:15-14:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Unlocking the power of cell therapy to reverse disease

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserSandra Petrus-Reurer.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 26 January 2023, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Can we use network analysis to predict violence?

UserDr Paolo Campana, Associate Professor in Criminology and Complex Networks, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2023, 13:15-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Plot: On Black Spatial Insurgency

UserDr J.T. Roane, Rutgers University.

HouseHardy Building Room 101.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

On Escaping or Not Escaping Solitude. Persian Tales of Turtles and Pearls

UserProfessor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge.

HouseLady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

ClockFriday 20 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Rapid decarbonisation of the NHS

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

UserJames Smith.

House1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

ClockThursday 19 January 2023, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Earth Observation Centre Seminar

Remote Sensing of Glacial Hazards in the Mountains

All is welcome -- networking event with drinks after the talk

UserOlga Tutubalina.

HouseMain Seminar Room (1.25), David Attenborough Building.

ClockThursday 15 December 2022, 15:00-16:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Embracing uncertainty: developing methods that take advantage of it

Building doors are card operated, so latecomers may not be able to access the venue.

UserMarco Aquino Lopez, Department of Geography.

HouseLarge Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world

UserDr Steven McGreevy, University of Twente.

Househttps://zoom.us/j/8314166462.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

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