All CRASSH events

House McDonald Institute Seminar Room , Department of Archaeology.

The Economic Downturn and the Carbon Economy

User Seb Henbest, New Carbon Finance.

Tuesday 26 May 2009, 17:00-18:30

House Lecture Theatre 9, Mill Lane.

Cosmic Centers and the Subject of the 21st Century

NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED!

User Shelly Errington (Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz).

Friday 27 March 2009, 16:30-18:00

House Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

Screening of: 'Terlena: the Breaking of a Nation' (2004)

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

User Andre Vltchek (Filmmaker and Political Commentator).

Thursday 26 March 2009, 19:30-21:45

House Lecture Theatre 9, Mill Lane.

Introducing "Zomia": Site of the Last Great Enclosure Movement of (relatively) Stateless Peoples in Mountainous Southeast Asia

NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED!

User James Scott (Political Science, Yale).

Thursday 26 March 2009, 16:30-18:00

The Cultures of Climate Change: Max Boykoff (ECI, Oxford)

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Tuesday 10 February 2009, 17:00-18:30

The Cultures of Climate Change: Reading Group

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Tuesday 27 January 2009, 17:00-18:30

House Gonville & Caius, Stephen Hawking Building.

Culture Wars: Heritage and Armed Conflict in the 21st century

Closing date for registration is 5 December 2008. Fees range from £20 - £60. See here: https://webservices.admin.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/esales/confbookvmuh/intro.cgi

User Abbas Alhussainy, Michael Barry, Reinhard Bernbeck, Patrick Boylan et al.

Friday 12 December 2008, 09:00-17:00

House Fitzwilliam Museum, Seminar Room, Trumpington Street.

Still in the Aftermath of Waterloo

User Margaret Miles, American School of Classical Studies, Athens; UC Irvine.

Thursday 11 December 2008, 17:45-18:45

Film Screening and Discussion: "The Happening" (2008)

User Benjamin Morris and Bradon Smith (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 25 November 2008, 17:00-19:00

The Climate Crunch: Ethics, Ecology and the End of Civilisation

User Dr Michael Northcott, Divinity, University of Edinburgh.

Thursday 20 November 2008, 19:00-20:30

Listening in Place

User Dr Katharine Norman, City University.

Tuesday 11 November 2008, 17:00-18:30

Kyoto 2: A New Future for Energy Policy

User Oliver Tickell, author of "Kyoto2: How to Manage the Global Greenhouse".

Friday 17 October 2008, 16:00-17:30

The Disjointed Temporality of Climate Change

User Karen Pinkus, USC.

Monday 19 May 2008, 17:00-18:30

The Ecological Thought

User Timothy Morton, UC-Davis.

Monday 12 May 2008, 17:00-18:30

Climate Refugees: Destabilising an Unstable World

User Norman Myers, University of Oxford.

Monday 28 April 2008, 17:00-18:30

The Bounding Main: On Poetry and Frost

User Melanie Challenger, award-winning poet and writer.

Monday 10 March 2008, 17:00-18:30

"Serious Things": On Literature and Environmentalism

User Gregory Norminton.

Monday 25 February 2008, 17:00-18:30

House CRASSH Meeting Room, 17 Mill Lane.

Le Corbusier: Ecology and Sustainable Development

User Dr Emma Dummett (Department of Architecture, University of Edinburgh).

Monday 25 February 2008, 15:00-16:00

Sound and the City: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

User Janet Cardiff, Eric Clarke, Michael Bull, Graham Jeffrey, Jacob Kreutzfeldt, Juliana Hodkinson, Robin Rimbaud/Scanner.

Friday 22 February 2008, 10:00-18:00

The Political Aesthetics of Climate Change

User Kathryn Yusoff, University of Exeter.

Monday 11 February 2008, 17:00-18:30

Imaging the Arctic

User Nick Cobbing, www.nickcobbing.co.uk.

Monday 28 January 2008, 17:00-18:30

Climate of Fear or Fear of Climate? 'Lines of Defence' on the East Coast of England

User Bettina Furnee, www.ifever.org.uk and 2008 UL Artist-in-Residence.

Monday 03 December 2007, 17:00-18:30

House Main Seminar Room at CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane.

Conflict and recovery: archaeology and planning in post-war Beirut

User Dominic Perring, Director, Centre for Applied Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University College London.

Tuesday 27 November 2007, 17:00-18:30

ICT and Climate Change

User Molly Webb, The Climate Group.

Monday 19 November 2007, 17:00-18:30

House Main Seminar Room at CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane.

TBC

User Dalibor Vesely, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 13 November 2007, 17:00-18:30

What is a Climate Refugee?

User Deborah Staines, Macquarie University and CRASSH Visiting Fellow.

Monday 05 November 2007, 17:00-18:30

House Queen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

The Global Conservation Crisis

offered in collaboration with the Gates Cambridge Trusts' Distinguished Lecture Series

User Anthony M Tung, author of 'Preserving the World's Great Cities: The Destruction and Renewal of the Historic Metropolis'.

Tuesday 30 October 2007, 17:00-18:30

Klaatu barada nikto - Climate Change and other acts of Imagination

User Caspar Henderson, Author and Journalist.

Monday 22 October 2007, 17:00-18:30

The Magic of the Corner: Getting Lost with Walter Benjamin

User Alex Regier, Research Fellow, King's College Cambridge.

Tuesday 16 October 2007, 17:00-18:30

Title to be confirmed

User Mirjam Struppek (Urban Media Research; Berlin).

Tuesday 13 March 2007, 17:15-18:30

Kierkegaard & Copenhagen: From Genius in a Market-Town or Philosopher-Flâneur

User George Pattison (Theology; University of Oxford).

Tuesday 27 February 2007, 17:15-18:30

Title to be confirmed

User Mette Ramsgard Thomsen (Centre for Information Technology and Architecture; Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen).

Tuesday 13 February 2007, 17:15-18:30

Alternative spatialities for a global city

User Doreen Massey (Geography; The Open University).