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Wolfson College Science Society

Science Student Research Series

UserWolfson College's PhD students.

HouseRoger Needham Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 02 December 2022, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Informing more sustainable development of the oil palm industry

UserDr Michael Pashkevich, Insect Ecology Group, Department of Zoology, St Edmund’s College.

HouseRoger Needham Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 18 November 2022, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Wolfson Science Society Student Research Series

UserWolfson College, PhD students. See abstract for details..

HouseRoger Needham Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 21 October 2022, 17:45-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Can biodiversity make children happy?

UserKate Howlett, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoger Needham Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 10 June 2022, 17:45-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Parental care: an evolutionary case of “use it or lose it”

UserEllie Bladon, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoger Needham Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 27 May 2022, 17:45-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Using sleight of hand to investigate human action perception in diverse species and taxa

UserElias Garcia-Pelegrin, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 13 May 2022, 17:45-19:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society

Fortifying the Bosphorus and Dardanelles: Ottoman Measures against the Russian Threat

UserDr Hümeyra Bostan-Berber (Professor at Marmara University, Institute of Turkology Studies, and College Research Associate at Wolfson).

HouseGatsby Room, Chancellor's Centre, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 10 May 2022, 18:00-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society

Writing about democracy in the age of Modi and Trump

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UserProfessor Eugenio Biagni (Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Chancellor's Centre, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 03 May 2022, 18:00-19:15

Wolfson College Talks & Events

Can Liberal Democracies regulate the power of Tech Giants?

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UserJohn Naughton, Davi Runciman, Gina Neff, Jennifer Cobbe.

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College, Barton Road, Cambridge CB3 9BB.

ClockWednesday 06 April 2022, 18:00-19:30

Wolfson College Talks & Events

The Arts in Algeria: Growing Networks and Supporting Creativity

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UserDr Stephen Wilford (University of Cambridge, Wolfson College).

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College, Barton Road, Cambridge CB3 9BB.

ClockThursday 31 March 2022, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society

Circular Movements: Migratory Citizenships in Anticolonial Athens

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UserDr Tom Western (University College London).

HouseGatsby Room, Chancellor's Centre, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 15 March 2022, 18:00-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society

Opium’s Empire in the Nineteenth Century

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UserDr Devyani Gupta (Jindal Global University/ University of Leeds).

HouseWolfson College Zoom webinar.

ClockTuesday 08 March 2022, 18:00-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society

Cacao: An example for the movement of plants and food cultures across the early modern Pacific

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UserProfessor Angela Schottenhammer (KU Leuven).

HouseWolfson College Zoom webinar.

ClockTuesday 01 March 2022, 18:00-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society

Ancient Greek warfare beyond the Phalanx

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UserDr Roel Konijnendijk (University of Edinburgh) & Dr Matthew Lloyd (Norwich & District Historical Society, Canada).

HouseGatsby Room, Chancellor's Centre, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 22 February 2022, 18:00-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society

Science as a Cultural Human Right

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UserProfessor Helle Porsdam (Professor of Law and Humanities and UNESCO Chair in Cultural Rights, University of Copenhagen, Denmark).

HouseWolfson College Zoom webinar.

ClockTuesday 15 February 2022, 18:00-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society

CANCELLED - Writing a about democracy in the age of Modi and Trump

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UserProfessor Eugenio Biagini (Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge).

HouseWolfson College Zoom webinar.

ClockTuesday 01 February 2022, 18:00-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society

The Anti-Nazi: Hermann Budzislawski (1901-1978) and the Twentieth Century

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UserProfessor Daniel Siemens (Newcastle University).

HouseWolfson College Zoom webinar.

ClockTuesday 25 January 2022, 18:00-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Advances in Stroke Medicine: Blood Vessels, Brains, and Beyond

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UserDr Nicholas Evans (Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College).

HouseGatsby Room, Chanc.

ClockFriday 21 January 2022, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

The 2021 Annual Lee Seng Tee Distinguished Lecture - Race, Scientific Racism and Genetics

Livestream available

UserDr Adam Rutherford (geneticist, author and broadcaster).

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College, Barton Road, Cambridge CB3 9BB.

ClockWednesday 24 November 2021, 18:00-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society

The Final Frontier: Everyday Life in Colonial Chile

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UserDr Beatriz Marín-Aguilera (Renfrew Fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Junior Research Fellow of Churchill College).

HouseWolfson College Zoom webinar.

ClockTuesday 23 November 2021, 18:00-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society

Christian Felix Weiße (1726-1804) and the Anglophile Revolution in German Literature

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UserDr Tom Zille (PhD candidate, Wolfson College; Faculty of English, University of Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, .

ClockTuesday 16 November 2021, 18:00-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society

A History of the World in One Cathedral

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UserProfessor Astrid Swenson (Professor of History, Bath Spa University).

HouseWolfson College Zoom webinar.

ClockTuesday 09 November 2021, 18:00-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

We Are All Interconnected

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UserGordon Klein, MD MPH (University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston).

HouseGatsby Room, Chanc.

ClockFriday 05 November 2021, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society

Ya Lalla: The Digital Sphere & the Sensory: A Platform on Judeo-Arabic Songs for Birth from the Moroccan Sahara

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UserDr Vanessa Paloma Elbaz (Research Associate, Faculty of Music; Peterhouse College).

HouseGatsby Room.

ClockTuesday 26 October 2021, 18:00-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society

Putin’s Use of Russian History

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UserProfessor Orlando Figes.

HouseWolfson College Zoom webinar.

ClockTuesday 19 October 2021, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society

Is music the most important thing we ever did? (Part II)

Livestream available

UserProfessor Ian Cross (Director of the Centre for Music and Science; Fellow of Wolfson College).

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 12 October 2021, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

Daughters and Sons of the Post-Windrush Generation: Reflections and New Directions

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UserDr Kenny Monrose & panel.

HouseWolfson College Zoom meeting.

ClockTuesday 22 June 2021, 15:00-16:30

Wolfson College Science Society

Adaptations of Antarctic Marine Animals and Changing Environments

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UserProfessor Lloyd Peck (Science Leader of Biodiversity, Evolution and Adaptation Team, British Antarctic Survey & Fellow of Wolfson College).

HouseWolfson College Zoom meeting.

ClockFriday 11 June 2021, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Green Society

When Engineering meets conservation; passion is brewed and awards won

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UserCharlie Barty-King (Wolfson College Sustainability Hub Convener/The Green Society Founder).

HouseWolfson College Zoom meeting.

ClockThursday 10 June 2021, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society

Rachel Auerbach, Cultural Genocide and a New Conception of Victims’ Testimonies

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UserProfessor Leora Bilsky (Tel Aviv University).

HouseWolfson College Zoom webinar.

ClockTuesday 08 June 2021, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society

Christian Social Responsibility: Theology, Charity, and Development in Nigeria

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UserChristopher Wadibia (PhD Candidate, Selwyn College / Ax:son Johnson Research Assistant in Applied History, Centre for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge).

HouseWolfson College Zoom webinar.

ClockTuesday 01 June 2021, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Dynamic relationships between social connections and information transmission

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UserDr Ipek Kulahci (University of Notre Dame).

HouseWolfson College Zoom meeting.

ClockFriday 28 May 2021, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society

A Global Maghreb: Crossroads, Borderlands, and Frontiers

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UserProfessor Paul A. Silverstein (Reed College).

HouseWolfson College Zoom webinar.

ClockTuesday 25 May 2021, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Ageing in Harmony: Music’s Impact on Health & Well-being in Older Adults

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UserBill Ahessy (Heath Service Executive, Ireland).

HouseWolfson College Zoom meeting.

ClockFriday 21 May 2021, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

Listening Sessions: Musical Encounters with Peni Rokotuiba Masirewa

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UserPeni Rokotuiba Masirewa.

HouseWolfson College Zoom meeting.

ClockThursday 20 May 2021, 18:00-18:45

Wolfson College Science Society

The keys to the past: a mixed-methods approach to reconstructing the 1812 eruption of La Soufrière St. Vincent

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UserDr Jazmin Scarlett (Independent Researcher).

HouseWolfson College Zoom meeting.

ClockFriday 14 May 2021, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Green Society

How to use the power of social media for good?

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UserAdeel Khan (Sail4Kashmir).

HouseWolfson College Zoom webinar.

ClockThursday 13 May 2021, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society

"Objects, Bodies, and Emotions: How the Gas Mask Can Help Us Tell the History of Total War"

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UserProfessor Susan Grayzel (Department of History, Utah State University).

HouseWolfson College Zoom webinar.

ClockTuesday 11 May 2021, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Diseases without Borders: what can we do to combat the next pandemic

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UserProfessor James Wood (Head of Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge; Fellow of Wolfson College).

HouseWolfson College Zoom meeting.

ClockFriday 07 May 2021, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

‘Quelle émotion, quelle sensation!’: Listening for the Past in Eastern Paris, 1931

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UserDr Stephen Wilford (Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge & Wolfson College Cambridge).

HouseWolfson College Zoom webinar.

ClockThursday 06 May 2021, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

The Rules of Racial Standing: Race and Racism in the Era of the Public Lynching of George Floyd

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UserDr Nicola Rollock (Senior advisor to the Vice-chancellor).

HouseWolfson College Zoom webinar.

ClockWednesday 05 May 2021, 18:00-19:45

Wolfson College Humanities Society

The World of the Village Watchman in Colonial Eastern India

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UserDr. Partha Pratim Shil (Junior Research Fellow, Trinity College, University of Cambridge).

HouseWolfson College Zoom webinar.

ClockTuesday 04 May 2021, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Stories from Tree Rings

UserDr Claudia Hartl (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz).

HouseWolfson College Zoom meeting.

ClockFriday 30 April 2021, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Green Society

Engaging with architectural heritage in a changing climate: Views from academia and practice

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UserProf Henrik Schoenefeldt (University of Kent School of Architecture and Planning).

HouseWolfson College Zoom webinar.

ClockThursday 29 April 2021, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Empire in Mesopotamia… Felled by Dust?

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UserDr Stacy Carolin (Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge).

HouseWolfson College Zoom meeting.

ClockFriday 19 March 2021, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Challenges in Building a Career in Discoveries and Their Translation; Journey to the Unknown

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UserProfessor Hala Zreiqat (University of Syndey).

HouseWolfson College Zoom meeting.

ClockFriday 12 March 2021, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Green Society

Community Scale Engagement: Collective Action on Carbon

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UserProfessor Douglas Crawford-Brown (Professor Emeritus at the University of Cambridge and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Director of Cambridge Science and Policy Consulting; Director of the Community Carbon Reduction Project).

HouseWolfson College Zoom webinar.

ClockThursday 11 March 2021, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

From Mississippi to Cambridge: Marie Battle Singer,  Britain's first Black psychoanalyst

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UserProfessor Jane Rhodes (Department of Black Studies, University of Illinois-Chicago); Professor Lynn Hudson (Department of History, University of Illinois-Chicago).

HouseWolfson College Zoom webinar.

ClockWednesday 10 March 2021, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

The Fascist Welfare State: Cleavages, Rupture, and Mediation

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User Ilaria Pavan (Associate Professor of Modern History, Scuola Normale Superiore).

HouseWolfson College Zoom webinar.

ClockTuesday 09 March 2021, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society

Religion and the Politics of Race in 1960s London: Transnational Liberation Networks and Theologies of Resistance

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UserDr Hannah Elias (Lecturer in Black British History, Goldsmiths, University of London).

HouseWolfson College Zoom meeting.

ClockTuesday 02 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Back to the Future: Ice Cores and Climate Science

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UserDr Helene Hoffmann (Wolfson College, Cambridge).

HouseWolfson College Zoom meeting.

ClockFriday 26 February 2021, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Green Society

The Ice is Melting: The Impact of Global Warming on the Arctic and Beyond

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UserMs Marie-Anne Coninsx Former EU Ambassador at Large for the Arctic (2017-2019).

HouseWolfson College Zoom webinar.

ClockThursday 25 February 2021, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

“A Mild Despotism, Tempered by Sugar”: the Rise of the Overseer State in Britain’s Post-Slavery Empire

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UserDr. Sascha Auerbach (Lecturer in Modern British and Colonial History, Department of History, University of Nottingham).

HouseWolfson College Zoom webinar.

ClockTuesday 23 February 2021, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Designing Emotionally Intelligent Social Robots for Applications Involving Children

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UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseWolfson College Zoom meeting.

ClockFriday 19 February 2021, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

Dreams of Paradise

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UserDr Jane McLarty (Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge & Wolfson College).

HouseWolfson College Zoom webinar.

ClockTuesday 16 February 2021, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society

A Very British History: British-Bangladeshis

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UserDr. Aminul Hoque MBE (Goldsmiths, University of London).

HouseWolfson College Zoom webinar.

ClockTuesday 09 February 2021, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society

Religion and the Politics of Race in 1960s London: Transnational Liberation Networks and Theologies of Resistance

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UserDr Hannah Elias (Lecturer in Black British History, Goldsmiths, University of London).

HouseWolfson College Zoom webinar.

ClockMonday 08 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society

Toward a Black Ecomusicology, 1853? Listening to Enslavement with Solomon Northup

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UserDr Peter McMurray (University of Cambridge & Queens' College Cambridge).

HouseWolfson College Zoom webinar.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2021, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Green Society

Can Fashion be Sustainable?

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UserMs. Svetlana Dourassoff (Head of Advanced Concepts at PANGAIA).

HouseWolfson College Zoom webinar.

ClockThursday 28 January 2021, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

Commemorating war dead in ancient Athens from Homer to Thucydides

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UserDr Cezary Kucewicz (Faculty of History, University of Gdańsk & Wolfson College).

HouseWolfson College Zoom webinar.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2021, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Causes and Consequences of Gut Microbiome Variation in Wild Birds

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UserDr Gabrielle Davidson (Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge; Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College).

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 04 December 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Developing New Genomics Technologies to Map DNA Epigenetic Modifications in Human, Parasites and Cancer

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UserDr Sergio Martinez Cuesta (Research Associate, University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 27 November 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

Atoms for peace (and war): the Italian nuclear programme during the Cold War

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UserProfessor Elisabetta Bini (Professor of Contemporary History, University of Naples Federico II).

HouseZoom webinar.

ClockTuesday 24 November 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

From bed to bench side: bringing machine learning to day-to-day clinical practice

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UserDr Zohreh Shams (JRF, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 20 November 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Martian Deserts on Earth

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UserAnika Mehlis (Universität Bielefeld).

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 13 November 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

Is it a bird, is it a plane? No.... it's a Wildlife Trust drone.

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UserJosh Hellon (Monitoring and Research Manager, The Wildlife Trust BCN).

HouseZoom webinar.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

Antisemitism in the anonymous Renaissance dialogue Viaje de Turquía

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UserDr Şizen Yiacoup (University of Liverpool).

HouseZoom webinar.

ClockTuesday 10 November 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

The Science of Compassion in Healthcare

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UserDr Sophie Ames (Clinical Psychologist).

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 06 November 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

The Second World War and the Prospect of Quit India in Bengal: Perceptions, Rumours and Revolutionary Parties

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UserDr Anwesha Roy (SOAS, University of London).

HouseZoom webinar.

ClockTuesday 03 November 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Seeing What Everybody Sees but Thinking What No One has Thought

UserProfessor Rana Dajani (Hashemite University).

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 30 October 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

Does the Rule of Law Matter in China? History, System and Context of Chinese Legal System

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UserProfessor Ge Chen (Assistant Professor of Chinese Law at Durham Law School).

HouseZoom webinar.

ClockTuesday 27 October 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

Natural Beekeeping (Bees for Bees Sake)

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UserMr Kevin Hancock (Gardeners Beehive).

HouseZoom webinar.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

Wolfson (Ancient) Warfare Wednesdays — Greek Warfare and Mythology

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UserDr Cezary Kucewicz (NCN Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Gdańsk; Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College).

HouseZoom webinar.

ClockWednesday 08 July 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

Wolfson (Ancient) Warfare Wednesdays — Greek Warfare and Historiography

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UserDr Roel Konijnendijk (MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow, Leiden University).

HouseZoom webinar.

ClockWednesday 01 July 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

Wolfson (Ancient) Warfare Wednesdays — Greek Warfare and Economics

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UserDr Manu Dal Borgo (BA Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom webinar.

ClockWednesday 24 June 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

Wolfson (Ancient) Warfare Wednesdays — Greek Warfare and Video Games

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UserDr Joshua R. Hall (Linn-Benton Community College, Albany, OR).

HouseZoom webinar.

ClockWednesday 17 June 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

Sustainability, welfare and political change

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UserProfessor Donald M.Broom (Emeritus Professor of Animal Welfare, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom webinar.

ClockFriday 12 June 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

Wolfson (Ancient) Warfare Wednesdays — Greek Warfare and Psychology

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UserDr Owen Rees (Associate Lecturer in Ancient History, Manchester Metropolitan University).

HouseZoom webinar.

ClockWednesday 10 June 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Why can't I get rid of this belief?

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UserDr Anabela Pinto.

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 05 June 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

Rethinking the Emergence of the English

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UserProfessor Susan Oosthuizen (Emeritus Professor of Medieval Archaeology, University of Cambridge & Emeritus Fellow, Wolfson College).

HouseZoom webinar.

ClockTuesday 02 June 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Working in research through the COVID-19 crisis

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UserProfessor Gordon Dougan (Department of Medicine, Univeristy of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockFriday 29 May 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

How COVID-19 changes the way protected areas impact local communities

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UserDr Nikoleta Jones (Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom webinar.

ClockThursday 28 May 2020, 17:00-18:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

‘The Invisible Enemy’: Fighting Plague in Renaissance Italy

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UserProfessor John Henderson (Department of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London; Emeritus Fellow, Wolfson College).

HouseZoom webinar.

ClockTuesday 26 May 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

How to Breed Better Politicians

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UserDr Joel Peck (Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom webinar.

ClockFriday 15 May 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

Crossing Borders: W. H. Hudson and the Pioneers of Conservation

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UserConor Jameson (Birdlife International).

HouseZoom webinar.

ClockThursday 14 May 2020, 17:00-18:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

Whose Bled? Music, Sound and Public Spaces in (Post-)Colonial Algeria

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UserDr Stephen Wilford (Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson/Research Associate, Faculty of Music).

HouseZoom webinar.

ClockTuesday 12 May 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

The Changing Arctic, its Challenges and Global Impact

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UserMs Marie Anne Coninsx (former Ambassador at Large for the Arctic of the European Union).

HouseZoom webinar.

ClockThursday 30 April 2020, 17:00-18:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Talk will be postponed

UserDr Anabela Pinto.

HouseWolfson College, Lee Hall.

ClockFriday 24 April 2020, 17:45-19:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

CANCELLED - Diseases without Borders – Emerging infectious diseases in Africa

UserProfessor James Wood Head of Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge & Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge.

HouseThe Lee Hall, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 20 March 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

CANCELLED - Diseases without Borders – Infectious diseases in Africa

This event is part of the Cambridge Science Festival and of Wolfson Explores *BORDERS 2020. Please book your free ticket on Eventbrite.

UserProfessor James Wood (Head of Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge & Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge).

HouseWolfson College, Lee Hall.

ClockFriday 20 March 2020, 17:45-19:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

CANCELLED - Ambition without limits: Women in STEM

UserProfessor Jane Clarke, FRS, President of Wolfson College.

HouseThe Lee Hall, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 18 March 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

CANCELLED - Ambition without limits: Women in STEM

This event is part of the Cambridge Science Festival and Wolfson Explores ✱BORDERS 2020. Please book your free ticket on Eventbrite.

UserProfessor Jane Clarke (FRS, President of Wolfson College).

HouseWolfson College, Lee Hall.

ClockWednesday 18 March 2020, 17:45-19:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

Frontiers of Life in Antarctica

UserProfessor Lloyd Peck Science Leader of Biodiversity, Evolution and Adaptation team, British Antarctic Survey, & Fellow of Wolfson College.

HouseThe Lee Hall, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 13 March 2020, 18:00-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

CANCELLED - Frontiers for Life in Antarctica

This event is part of the Cambridge Science Festivaand and of Wolfson Explores *BORDERS 2020. Please book your free ticket on Eventbrite.

UserProfessor Lloyd Peck.

HouseWolfson College, Lee Hall.

ClockFriday 13 March 2020, 17:45-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

The only ways is upstream — The NCD emergency, intergenerational inequality and the urge need for systems change

all are welcome! This event is jointly organised by the Wolfson College Science Society and the Wolfson College Society of Emeritus Fellows.

UserProf Martin White, MD FFPH.

HouseWolfson College, Lee Hall.

ClockFriday 06 March 2020, 17:45-19:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Beginnings of Global Opera

UserDr Benjamin Walton, Faculty of Music, Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 03 March 2020, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Electronics on the Brain

UserGeorge Malliaras, Prince Philip Professor of Technology.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 28 February 2020, 17:45-19:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Gendering the City: Partition and post-colonial negotiations in South Asia

UserDr Anjali B. Datta, Lecturer in Modern South Asian History, Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 25 February 2020, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Smell in Eighteenth-Century England: putridity to perfume

UserDr William Tullett, Lecturer in History, Anglia Ruskin University.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 18 February 2020, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

"Why are so many hearing aids sitting in a drawer?"

UserProf Brian Moore, PFBSA, FMedSci, FRS, Dr. h.c..

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 14 February 2020, 17:45-19:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Stepping up climate change mitigation

UserDr Andre Cabrera Serrenho, Department of Engineering.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 07 February 2020, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Historical fiction as anthropological technique: in the mind of an enslaved Melanesian

UserDr Anthony Pickles, Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 04 February 2020, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

A Journey into Rap Studies: from London’s hip-hop scenes to grimey Englishness

UserDr Richard Bramwell, Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies, Loughborough University.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 21 January 2020, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Lunchtime Seminar - Hearing and Seeing Music in Early Twentieth Century Algeria

UserDr Stephen Wilford, Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson/Research Associate, Faculty of Music.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Content of Style - What makes Classical Greek Art 'Classical'?

UserProfessor Robin Osborne, University of Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 19 November 2019, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Prevention of mental illness in the adolescent years

UserProfessor Ian Goodyer, OBE,MD, FRCPsych, FMedSci, Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson College - The Lee Hall.

ClockFriday 15 November 2019, 18:00-19:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Lunchtime Seminar - Keeping our infrastructure safe: cracks, hydrogen embrittlement and other material degradation challenges.

UserDr Emilio Martínez-Pañeda, 1851 Research Fellow. Cambridge University, Engineering Department. Wolfson JRF.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Aging, Intelligence, and Slowing of Thought

UserProfessor Patrick Rabbitt.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 08 November 2019, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Lunchtime Seminar - Learning to Gamble in the Pacific Islands

UserDr Anthony Pickles, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Social Anthropology and JRF, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Lunchtime Seminar - The Wandering Brother: Possession and dispossession in the homeland

UserAnnie Zaidi, Nine Dots Prize Fellow CRASSH and Visiting Fellow Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

How do democracies change?

UserDr.David Runciman (Professor of Politics, POLIS).

HouseThe Lee Hall, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2019, 17:30-19:30

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Lunchtime Seminar - The contradictions of the authoritarian developmental state: energy boom and bureaucratic autonomy in Rwanda

UserDr Benjamin Chemouni, JRF Wolfson College, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Department of Politics and International Studies.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

James Watt (1736-1819): The Power to Change the World

UserDr Malcolm Dick, University of Birmingham.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 18 October 2019, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Lunchtime Seminar - The Odyssey of eighteenth-century scholarship and the entangled emergence of the Enlightenment

UserDr Jeffrey D Burson, Associate Professor French History at Georgia Southern University.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 16 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

The early origins of the Mortality Revolution: a perspective from evolutionary biology

UserDr Romola Davenport, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 14 June 2019, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Science Society

An evolutionary perspective on why health inequalities exist.

UserProf Rebecca Sear ( London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine).

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 07 June 2019, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Amorphous Carbon and Graphene for Advanced Memory Applications

UserDr Anna Ott, Cambridge Graphene Centre, Electrical Engineering Division, University of Cambridge; JRF at Wolfson.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 05 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Education Society

The Regionalisation of Higher Education in Latin America

UserAliandra Barlete, PhD graduate, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge & Wolfson College.

HouseSyndicate Room 2, Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK, CB3 9BB.

ClockThursday 30 May 2019, 17:45-19:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Two Trials: Law and Memory after Argentina’s Dictatorship

UserRam Natarajan, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College; Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Arkansas.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 29 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

*CANCELLED* Economic Transformation and the Proliferation of Gambling in the Western Pacific

UserDr Anthony Pickles, Bye-Fellow, Wolfson College, and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 28 May 2019, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Something ate my fossil: from anecdote to testing hypotheses

UserDr Elizabeth Harper, Department of Earth Sciences.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 24 May 2019, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Empathy and Justice in the Era of the Financial Crisis

UserTammy Amiel Houser, Senior Lecturer, The Open University of Israel and currently Visiting Scholar in the English Faculty at Cambridge University and VCRA Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 22 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Habitual Sophia? Retaining one’s ability to learn from within aach lay-professional encounter

UserProfessor Sylvie Delacroix, University of Birmingham and Alan Turing Institute.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 21 May 2019, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Education Society

Caught Between the Social Media machine and the Impact machine?

UserMark Carrigan, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

HouseSyndicate Room 2, Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK, CB3 9BB.

ClockThursday 16 May 2019, 17:45-19:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Human-like Computing: The importance of explanation in Artificial Intelligence (AI)

UserDr Zohreh Shams, Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 15 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Mindfulness meditation training for mental health promotion: the good, the bad and the ugly

UserDr Julieta Galante, Postdoctoral Fellow at Department of Psychiatry, JRF at Wolfson.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Philosophers against Idleness

UserProfessor Brian O’Connor, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, and University College Dublin.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 07 May 2019, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

There be monsters: adaptations in Antarctic marine animals

UserProfessor Lloyd Peck, British Antarctic Survey.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 03 May 2019, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

'Ordering Disorder': War, Migration and Urban Space in Delhi, 1939-1955

UserDr Anjali B Datta, Leverhulme Early career Fellow, Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 01 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

India: An idiosycratic democracy

UserDr David Washbrook, Trinity College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 30 April 2019, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson Press Fellowship

Making Robots Public: News Coverage of Artificial Intelligence in the United Kingdom

UserDr Scott Brennen, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford University.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 26 April 2019, 17:30-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Transformation of life: How behaviour shapes evolution.

UserProfessor Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 22 March 2019, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Science Society

Transforming cancer care

UserProfessor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Cancer Research UK.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockWednesday 20 March 2019, 18:45-20:10

Wolfson College Science Society

Transformation and mind: Using science to fight mental illness.

UserProfessor Peter Jones (Department of Psychiatry).

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 15 March 2019, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Politics Gone Missing

UserDr Graham Denyer-Willis (POLIS and Queens' College, University of Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 12 March 2019, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

The Science of Musical Meaning

UserProfessor Elizabeth Tolbert (Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute).

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 08 March 2019, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Cool liquid crystals

UserGuillaume Nataf, 1851 Research Fellow, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Conservation, Evolution and Biodiversity in Colombia

UserProfessor Chris Jiggins, Department of Zoology.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 01 March 2019, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Education Society

Negotiating Education: The First School for Aboriginal Children and the Diplomatic World of Colonial New South Wales, 1814-1822

UserAnnemarie McLaren, Endeavour Postdoctoral Fellow at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge.

HouseSyndicate Room 2, Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK, CB3 9BB.

ClockThursday 28 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Towards a socially conscious evolutionary science of culture

UserAzita Chellappoo PhD candidate, Department of History & Philosophy of Science, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The restitution of Nazi-looted art in post-fascist Austria, Italy and West Germany

UserDr Bianca Gaudenzi, Wolfson College, Cambridge and German Historical Institute, Rome.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2019, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

From Cambridge Classicists to Japanese Code Breakers: How the British trained wartime Japanese linguists

UserKayoko Takeda Professor, College of Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

An impossible method? Agreeing to disagree about comparison in anthropology

UserDr Matei Candea (Department of Social Anthropology and King's College, University of Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2019, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Mapping imperial edges: the French & the British in Southeast Asia, 1885-1914

UserMarie de Rugy JRF Wolfson College / British Academy Newton International Fellow.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

The power of superconductivity

UserCarla Palomares Garcia, Wolfson College.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 08 February 2019, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

From Redemption to Revolution: junk art and black power in 1960s California

UserDanny Widener, Visiting Fellow, CRASSH / University of California, San Diego,.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

How Churchill Waged War

UserMr Allen Packwood, OBE, FRHistS (Churchill College, University of Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 05 February 2019, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

CRISPR, the next generation of medicines

UserAlasdair Russell, Head, Pre-Clinical Genome Editing, CRUK Cambridge Centre.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Shakespeare, King James, and the Northern Yorkists

UserDr Richard Stacey (University of Glasgow).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 29 January 2019, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Bullying & Cyberbullying: protective factors and effective interventions

UserIzabela Zych, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Cordoba (Spain).

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

When did Marx think that capitalism would fall?

UserProfessor Gareth Stedman Jones (QMUL).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 22 January 2019, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Learning from Luther: 95 theses about technology

UserProfessor John Naughton, CRASSH, Cambridge..

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 07 December 2018, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Science Society

From blood to genomic variants: deciphering the genome of patients with rare disorders

UserDr Karyn Megy Department of Haematology, Wolfson College.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 30 November 2018, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Anglosphere Tradition in British Politics

UserProfessor Michael Kenny (Professor of Public Policy, POLIS, and inaugural director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge).

HouseDining Hall and Lee Hall, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 27 November 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Dr Pamela Jane Smith: Dorothy Garrod's experience

UserDr Pamela Jane Smith Fellow McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Profitable Labour? Learning Disability and Labour Markets in Modern Britain

UserDr Lucy Delap (Murray Edwards College & Faculty of History, University of Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Future developments in healthcare – does cancer lead the way?

UserProfessor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Cancer Research UK.

HouseWolfson College - The Lee Hall.

ClockFriday 16 November 2018, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Professor Bjorn Basberg: Two Strategies - C.A.Larsen and Chr. Christensen: a comparative analysis of two Antarctic Entrepreneurs

UserProfessor Bjorn Basberg, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College and Professor in Economic History, NHH Norwegian School of Economics .

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Re-membering Philologia: the past, present and future of an academic practice

UserProfessor Sylvia Adamson (Emeritus Professor of Linguistics & Literary History, University of Sheffield).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 13 November 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Unraveling the hidden microbial world of the river Cam.

UserLara Urban, European Bioinformatics Institute.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 09 November 2018, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Dr Carolina Armenteros: Looking for the Vedas -The Jesuits' India Missions and the Invention of Anthropology

UserDr Carolina Armenteros, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College and Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Santo Domingo.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Academic Citizenship and the Future University

UserDr Alison Wood (Homerton College, University of Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 06 November 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

In-Network Computing: Your network just got a lot smarter

UserDr Noa Zilberman, Department of Computer Science and Technology.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 02 November 2018, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Dr Olga Petri: Canaries in Imperial St Petersburg

UserDr Olga Petri, Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College and Leverhulme/Newton Trust Early Career Research Fellow, Department of Geography Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 31 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Dr Ursula Bsees: Scholars at the periphery: Text production and the transmission of knowledge in Early Islamic Egypt (7th-10th centuries)

UserDr Ursula Bsees , Visiting College Research Associate Wolfson College and Erwin Schroedinger Postdoctoral Scholar Austrian Science Fund.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Role of Water in Venetian Architecture

UserProfessor Deborah Howard (Professor Emerita of Architectural History, University of Cambridge, Fellow of St John’s College).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 23 October 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Anti-cancer drugs for transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils

UserMaximilian Stammnitz, Transmissible Cancer Group, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 19 October 2018, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Dr Yara E Sanchez Corrales: How do cells form tubular organs?

UserDr Yara E Sanchez Corrales, College Research Associate, Wolfson College and MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Synaesthesia & Art - Dance of Light

UserRhea Quien (Artist and Art Educator, Cambridge) and Professor Jamie Ward (Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Sussex).

HouseDining Hall and Lee Hall, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 16 October 2018, 17:15-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Dr Tom Schirris: How drugs affect and enter our cellular power plant.

UserDr Schirris is a Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College and EMBO Post- doctoral Fellow, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

CANCELLED ‘At the still point of the turning world’: Time and Place in the Medieval Dream

UserDr Lotte Reinbold (Bye-Fellow and Director of Studies in English, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 09 October 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Finding the past: Medieval coin finds at the Fitzwilliam Museum

UserDr Martin Allen (Fitzwilliam Museum and Wolfson College).

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 20 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

A cocoon of meaning. Person-Time-Place-Occasion Symbolism in Kimono

User Dr Corinne Duhig, College Research Associate, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 13 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Reforming the police from the 'Inside out'

UserSir Denis O'Connor, College Research Associte, Wolfson College, and Affiliated Lecturer, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 06 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'Who is my neighbour?': Stories of alms-seeking in early modern England

UserDr Rebecca Tomlin (CRASSH/Faculty of English, University of Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 05 June 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Relativity, Quantum Theory and Cryptography

UserProfessor Adrian Kent, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 01 June 2018, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Using basic science to develop psychological treatments for depression

UserDr Caitlin Hitchcock, Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, and Clinical Psychologist and Senior Scientist, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 30 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Death by Celibacy, or the Medieval Priest's Dilemma

UserDr Katherine Harvey (Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 29 May 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Race and gender in the scientific institution: Basic history and analysis.

UserCarmen Palacios, Quantum Information and Nanoscale Metrology Group.

HouseWolfson College, Old Combination Room.

ClockFriday 25 May 2018, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Reconciling conservation and development at the forest agricultural nexus: insights from the forested tropics

*Please note the change of venue for this event

UserRachel Carmenta, Frank Jackson Research Fellow, Wolfson College and University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute (UCCRI).

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Labour and the Left in the 1980s: A reassessment

UserDr Jonathan Davis (Faculty of Arts, Law & Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Labour History Research Unit, Anglia Ruskin University).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Umbrella Man: Appeasement and Neville Chamberlain eighty years after Munich

UserProfessor Tony Lentin, Senior Member, Wolfson College, and author.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 16 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Talks & Events

Professor Dame Carol Robinson - Changes of State and Mind

UserProfessor Dame Carol Robinson, FRS FMedSci, Dr Lee's Professor of Physical Chemistry, University of Oxford.

HouseThe Lee Hall, Wolfson College.

ClockThursday 10 May 2018, 18:00-19:30

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Unveiling the hidden lives of stars

User Dr Ghina Halabi Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, and Postdoctoral Research Associate Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Adano: Sicily, occupation literature and the American century

UserProfessor Robert Gordon (MML & Gonville and Caius, University of Cambridge) .

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 08 May 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Debate over Feature Film History

UserProfessor Vivian Bickford Smith (University of Stellenbosch and University of Cape Town).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 01 May 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

The genetics of depression

UserDr Na Cai, The European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 27 April 2018, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Systems for Big Data Applications:Revolutionising personal computing

UserNoa Zilberman, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Computer Science Department / Wolfson College JRF.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Systems for Big Data Applications: Revolutionising personal computing

UserDr Noa Zilberman, Wolfson College and Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Department of Computer Science and Technology .

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

What is the History of the Book?

UserProfessor 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).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 06 March 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson Research Event 2018

UserWolfson Research Event Committee .

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College Cambridge.

ClockFriday 02 March 2018, 11:00-18:30

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Finding the past: Medieval Coin Finds at the Fitzwilliam Museum

UserMartin Allen, Senior Assistant Keeper, the Fitzwilliam Museum.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 28 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Finding the past: Medieval Coin Finds at the Fitzwilliam Museum

UserDr Martin Allen, Wolfson College and Senior Assistant Keeper, the Fitzwilliam Museum.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 28 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Strong Bonds, Affective Labour: Sexually Transmitted Infections and the Work of History

UserDr Richard A. McKay (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 27 February 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'Alas, poor Yorick!': Laurence Sterne's "A Sentimental Journey" after 250 years'

UserDr Mary Newbould (Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 20 February 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Parkinson’s Rehabilitation using Interactive Dance Technology

UserDr Matthew Woolhouse, Wolfson College and Associate Professor McMaster University.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 14 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Roland the Hero

UserJohn DuVal, James E. and Ellen Wadley Roper Professor, University of Arkansas.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Roland the Hero

UserJohn DuVal, James E. and Ellen Wadley Roper Professor of Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas..

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Quotation and the Law

UserProfessor Lionel Bently (Faculty of Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 06 February 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Studying life one cell at a time: single-cell RNA sequencing technology and its applications

UserElo Madissoon, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 02 February 2018, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

The first geological chronology of ancient Egypt and the antiquity of man, 1847-63

UserMeira Gold, Wolfson College and Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 31 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Donald Trump: The Making of a World View

UserProfessor Brendan Simms (Fellow of Peterhouse and Professor in the History of International Relations at POLIS).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 30 January 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series

Are our genes to blame when our jeans don’t fit?

UserDr Giles Yeo, Wolfson College and Principal Research Associate, Metabolic Research Laboratories and MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge .

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 24 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Redrawing the Boundaries of Citizenship in the First World War

UserProfessor Daniela L. Caglioti (University of Naples ‘Federico II’).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 23 January 2018, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Boy and The Brothers: The story of a young Londoner in the service of higher powers

UserMr Shezad Dawood (Artist and Research Fellow in Experimental Media, University of Westminster).

HouseRoger Needham Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 28 November 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Cambridge University, Past and Present'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr B D Cox, Praelector, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 22 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

CPGJ Reading Group: Space, Borders, Power

UserCPGJ - Culture, Politics and Global Justice Research Cluster, Faculty of Education.

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 2S5.

ClockWednesday 15 November 2017, 16:00-17:30

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Ways of Reading, Looking, and Imagining: Contemporary Fiction and Its Optics'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Diane Leblond, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité, Lectrice at Gonville & Caius College..

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 15 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Piranesi in the Valley of the Uncanny

UserProfessor Caroline van Eck (Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 14 November 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Diamond for quantum technologies

UserBenjamin Pingault.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 10 November 2017, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'The Japanese Mingei Movement and the art of Katazome'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserMiles Dodd, MA (Oxon), Emeritus Professor Nihon University, Tokyo .

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 08 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'An idea whose time has come?' Tracing the history of Universal Basic Income in British politics, 1918-201

User Dr Peter Sloman (Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and Churchill College, Cambridge) .

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 07 November 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Honouring Giulio Regeni: a plea for research in risky environments'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Hugo Leal, CRASSH Researcher - 'Conspiracy and Democracy'; College Research Associate Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 01 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Boxes with false bottoms? The challenge presented by abstract key words in English

UserProfessor Alan Durant (School of Law, Middlesex University London).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 31 October 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Exoplanets, on the hunt of Universal life

UserProfessor Didier Queloz ( Astrophysics Group, University of Cambridge).

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 27 October 2017, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Cryptocurrency and BLOCKCHAIN – PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserGarrick Hileman, Senior Research Associate, Wolfson College, Judge Business School.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 18 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Walking through Language – Building Memory Palaces in Virtual Reality'

THis talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Aaron Ralby, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 11 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Italian, Male and Fascist. Rethinking Italian citizenship during the Fascist regime

UserProfessor Giulia Albanese (Department of History, University of Padua, Italy).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 10 October 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Talks & Events

European Legal Dialogues

UserThe Rt Hon. Lord Justice Laws, a former Lord Justice of Appeal. He served from 1999 to 2016. He is the current Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science at the University of Cambridge, and an Honorary Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge.

HouseRoger Needham Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 27 June 2017, 15:00-18:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Education, Spaces, Meanings: A Cultural Political Economy Account of the Role of Higher Education in Building Regions in Latin America'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserAliandra Lazzari Barlete, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 21 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Are Animals Musical?

UserJohns Hopkins Peabody Institute.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 16 June 2017, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Finance, Power and Globalisation: German Bankers and the Rise of International Banking in China (1885-1919)'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserGhassan Moazzin, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 14 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Art and Architecture in Nazi Germany

UserProfessor Sir Richard Evans, FBA (President of Wolfson College and Provost of Gresham College, London).

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 13 June 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Music, Rhythm and Developmental Dyslexia.

UserDr Sheila Flanagan, Centre for Neuroscience in Education.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 09 June 2017, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'I have sought to serve German art with all my strength': Impressionism and Foreign Cultural Policy in Weimar Germany, 1918-1933

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserMary-Ann Middelkoop, Junior Research Fellow Wolfson College; PhD Candidate in the Faculty of History..

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 07 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Adhesion Strength Diversity in Brain Tumours

UserDr Rasha Rezk, Engineering, Wolfson College.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 02 June 2017, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'"Chantez la vie, l'amour, et la mort": the French 'chanson' in context'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserHenri Schmitt, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 31 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Gender, Obedience, and Religious Experience: The Virgin Mary in a world after Kant

UserRuth Jackson (Research Fellow, CRASSH and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 30 May 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Do we need to be concerned about the rise of e-cigarettes?

UserDr. Milica Vasiljevic, Primary Care Unit.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 26 May 2017, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

‘The Right to do what one wants’: Ancient democratic conception of freedom and its reception in Plato and the Stoics

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Bernard Collette, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College Professeur agrégé, Faculté de philosophie, Université Laval.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 24 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Gender, sexuality and illness in early modern exorcism

UserBoyd Brogan (Wolfson College, University of Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 23 May 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

The metalsmith of the future

UserDr. Evripides Loukaides, Lecturer, University of Bath.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 19 May 2017, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Captured and Alive: War satire, time and space

UserJane Chapman (Lincoln University; College Research Associate, Wolfson College).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 16 May 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Partisanship, petitioning, and deliberation in British politics, c. 1689-1750'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Philip Loft, College Research Associate, Wolfson College; British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of History.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 10 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Poetry and memory: investigating the value of the memorised poem'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Debbie Pullinger, Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 03 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Privacy and Tabloid Journalism in the UK: A shifting landscape

UserTanya Aplin (The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 02 May 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Riverscapes of the Amazonian Wauja people'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Christopher Ball, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA and Visiting Research to Dept of Anthropology and Wolfson College..

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 15 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Pardoner's Passing and How it Matters: Gender, Relics and Speech Acts

UserDr Alex da Costa (University Lecturer at the Faculty of English; Fellow of Newnham College).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 14 March 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Are the dons still a self-governing community of Scholars?'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserGraham Allen, Vice-President of Wolfson, and former Academic Secretary of the University of Cambridge .

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 08 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Foreign Office, Margaret Thatcher and South Africa, 1979-90

UserProfessor Patrick Salmon (Chief Historian, Foreign and Commonwealth Office).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 07 March 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Courts, Constitution and Democracy in Bangladesh'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Adeeba Aziz Khan, Centre of South Asian Studies and Junior Research Fellow Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 01 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Music, Rhythm and Developmental Dyslexia. (POSTPONED)

UserDr Sheila Flanagan, Centre for Neuroscience in Education.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 24 February 2017, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson Research Event 2017

It's Not A Sprint – Milestones Along My Career As A Scientist

UserProfessor Jane Clarke FmedSci FRS - Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge. .

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College Cambridge.

ClockFriday 24 February 2017, 17:30-17:55

Wolfson Research Event 2017

The Role of Oncostatin M Receptor Overexpression in the Tumour Microenvironment of Cervical Squamous Cell Carcinoma

UserValtteri Tulkki – PhD Candidate, Pathology, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge .

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College Cambridge.

ClockFriday 24 February 2017, 17:10-17:20

Wolfson Research Event 2017

Genotype-Phenotype Relations in Human Genomics

UserLara Urban – PhD Candidate, EMBL – EBI, Wolfson College , University of Cambridge .

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College Cambridge.

ClockFriday 24 February 2017, 17:00-17:10

Wolfson Research Event 2017

Dairy Products Intake, Diabetes and Obesity – Is There A Link?

UserEirini Trichia – PhD Candidate, Nutritional Epidemiology, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge .

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College Cambridge.

ClockFriday 24 February 2017, 16:50-17:00

Wolfson Research Event 2017

Modelling Autistic Neurons by Cellular Reprogramming. “A Dishful of an Autistic Brain”

UserAicha Massrali – PhD Candidate, Psychiatry, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College Cambridge.

ClockFriday 24 February 2017, 16:40-16:50

Wolfson Research Event 2017

Prevention of Playing Related Injuries in a Specialist Music School: Using Action Research to Change Policy and Practice

UserSarah Upjohn – PhD Candidate, Faculty of Education, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College Cambridge.

ClockFriday 24 February 2017, 16:30-16:40

Wolfson Research Event 2017

Anglophone Southeast Asian Literature and Transnational Aesthetics

UserKelly Yin Nga Tse – DPhil Candidate, Faculty of English, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford .

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College Cambridge.

ClockFriday 24 February 2017, 16:20-16:30

Wolfson Research Event 2017

Analyzing the Effects of Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining on Agriculture for Policy Action; Evidence from Prestea Mining Region, Ghana

UserFrancis Arthur – MPhil Student, Oxford Department of International Development, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford .

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College Cambridge.

ClockFriday 24 February 2017, 14:50-15:00

Wolfson Research Event 2017

Austerity And Protest: The Cases of Portugal and Spain During The Great Recession

UserTiago Carvalho-PhD Candidate, Sociology, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College Cambridge.

ClockFriday 24 February 2017, 14:40-14:50

Wolfson Research Event 2017

Remembering the Second Chechen War: The Evolution of Collective Memory in Chechen Refugee Populations of Georgia

User Kyle Walter - MPhil Student, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford .

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College Cambridge.

ClockFriday 24 February 2017, 14:30-14:40

Wolfson Research Event 2017

Constructing New Qur’anic Language and Wisdom on the Metaphysics and Teleology of Homosexual Disposition

UserAzfar Anwar- MPhil Student, Oriental Institute, St Antonys College, University of Oxford.

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College Cambridge.

ClockFriday 24 February 2017, 14:20-14:30

Wolfson Research Event 2017

The Representation of Female Perpetrators of the Holocaust in the British Press, 1945 - Present

UserKate Docking- MPhil Student, Faculty of History, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge .

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College Cambridge.

ClockFriday 24 February 2017, 14:10-14:20

Wolfson Research Event 2017

Russia-EU Relations (2008-2016): Realism, Complex or Fragile Interdependence?

UserHuawei Zhen- St Antony’s College, University of Oxford.

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College Cambridge.

ClockFriday 24 February 2017, 14:00-14:10

Wolfson Research Event 2017

How Can You Be Simple Without Being Simplistic? – Writing for The General Public

UserDr Ha-Joon Chang- Reader in the Political Economy of Development, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College Cambridge.

ClockFriday 24 February 2017, 13:35-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'"All that is solid melts into air": Burne-Jones and the Matter of History'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Alison Syme, Associate Professor of Modern Art History, University of Toronto.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Bacterial control of their viral parasites through altruistic suicide

UserProf George Salmond, Biochemistry, Wolfson College.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 17 February 2017, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Science Society

Can mobile phones help people quit smoking?

UserDr. Felix Naughton, Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology, University of East Anglia.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 10 February 2017, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Whoah! We're going to Ibiza!' Know your rights as an air traveler

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserMarianne Hundahl Frandsen, PhD Fellow, Aalborg University, Visiting Student, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge and Wolfson College .

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Scholarly publication in the seventeenth century: Oxford, Cambridge and the 'learned press'

UserDr Gordon Johnson (Honorary Fellow and Former President, Wolfson College).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Optofluidic Tools to Study Antibiotic Resistance

UserDr. Jehangir Cama, Physics Department, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 03 February 2017, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Chasing Cuckoos'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserToby Smith, Senior Member, Wolfson College and Artist in Residence 2015/2016 at the University of Cambridge Conservation Institute.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 01 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Ideal Self: Flattery in Julius Caesar

UserDr Maria Sequeira Mendes (Beaufort Visiting Fellow, St John's College).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 31 January 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Anything but Idle: Reading and Editing the Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr R L Abrahamson, Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland University College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Trade unions and the British tradition of pluralism

UserDr Alastair Reid (Fellow, Girton College).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2017, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Talks & Events

Painting the Valleys

UserThe Rt Hon Kim Howells.

HouseThe Lee Hall, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 20 January 2017, 18:00-19:30

Wolfson College Science Society

The origin of altruism: Philosophical, theoretical, and empirical perspectives

UserDr Dieter Lukas, Dr Antonio Rodrigues, Dr Peter Woodford.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 09 December 2016, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Science Society

The art of computing with parallel universes: Quantum computing explained

UserDr Fernando Gonzalez-Zarba -Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory..

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 02 December 2016, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Editing Shakespeare in Translation'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Julia Paraizs, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College and Junior Research Fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Computational Interfacial Chemistry: What do we do ?

UserDr Chao Zhang -Department of Chemistry.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 25 November 2016, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Big Cats and the City: building evidence against out-of-place beasts in India'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserNayanika Mathur, British Academy postdoctoral fellow and postdoctoral research fellow on the project 'Conspiracy and Democracy: History, Political Theory and Internet Research'.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'The afterlives of an Anglo-Saxon cemetery; or, 'excavating' in the archives'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Corinne Duhig, Panel Tutor for the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education; Senior Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research; College Research Associate, Wolfson College Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Sustainability of Energy and Material Demand: Reducing the Demand for Steel

Meetings begin at 5.45pm with drinks; the talk follows at 6.00pm

UserDr. Andre Cabrera Serrenho, The Use Less Group, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson College, Roger Needham Room.

ClockFriday 11 November 2016, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'There should be a Kettle's Yard in every university'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserFrieda Midgley, Archivist, Kettle's Yard and Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'Researching Children's Histories under the Third Reich: Some Challenges Explored'

UserDr Helen Roche (Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 08 November 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Skipping between Portals: neutron analysis of membrane protein biogenesis

UserDr Nathan R. Zaccai -Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 04 November 2016, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'The Influence of Flavius Josephus upon Christian Art'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProfessor Gohei Hata, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College and Professor (retired) of Tama Art University, Japan.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson Press Fellowship

Post-truth politics and the US Presidential Election: implications for journalism and society

A special event organised by the Wolfson Press Fellowship Programme

UserSteve McGookin, John Naughton, David Runciman, Gary Gerstle.

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2016, 17:30-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Between Perversity and 'Good Practice': Same-sex Schoolgirl Intimacy in Colonial Korea'

this talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Samuel Perry, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College and Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at Brown University.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'The Humanities and the Machine'

UserProfessor Steven Connor (Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Remembering the Gold Era: the hidden heritage of Central Otago’s gold rush'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Lloyd Carpenter, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College and Lecturer in Māori Studies, Lincoln University, New Zealand .

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 19 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'Commemorating the First World War a 100 Years on in Popular and Public History'

UserDr Deborah Thom (Robinson College, University of Cambridge).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 11 October 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Can Journalism keep up with the Kardashians?

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast. This is a talk postponed from earlier in the term.

UserShayne Currie, Managing Editor of the 'New Zealand Herald' and Visiting Press Fellow, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 15 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Musilanguage in the Cradle

UserDr Fabia Franco, Middlesex University London.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 10 June 2016, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Gowns, squares, and bulldogs: Proctors and Constables in the University of Cambridge

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDavid Goode, Senior Proctor of the University of Cambridge, and Senior Member, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 08 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'The Power of Families in Preventing Radicalization -- a bottom up Security Strategy'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr. Edit Schlaffer, Founder of Women without Borders.

HouseRoger Needham Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 07 June 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Corporate Psychopaths at Work and in Society

UserProfessor Clive Boddy, Middlesex University London.

HouseWolfson College, Roger Needham Room (Chancellor Center).

ClockFriday 03 June 2016, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Migration and asylum in the UK: Catholic perspectives and contributions'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Elif Cetin, Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, Postdoctoral Researcher at The Von Hügel Institute, University of Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 01 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Organismal design and causation in social evolution

UserDr António Rodrigues, Department of Zoology.

HouseWolfson College, Old Combination Room.

ClockFriday 27 May 2016, 18:30-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

How Prediction Errors and Schemas Shape our Memories.

UserDr Andrea Greve, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

HouseWolfson College, Roger Needham Room (Chancellor Center).

ClockFriday 27 May 2016, 17:45-18:30

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'A Brief History of Demons: Encounters with the Supernatural in Body and Soul'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Louise Wilson, Affiliated Research Scholar Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 25 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Age of Assassination: Monarchy and Nation in Nineteenth-Century Europe

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Rachel G. Hoffman, Fellow in History of King’s College, Research Fellow on Conspiracy and Democracy, CRASSH.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 24 May 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

The Psychophysiology of the Vasovagal (Fainting) Response: Mechanisms and Interventions

UserDr Philippe T. Gilchrist, Wolfson College, Department of Psychology.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 20 May 2016, 17:45-18:30

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Hong Kong Literature after 1989: A Very Short Introduction'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Nim-yan Wong, Associate Professor Chinese University of Hong Kong; Visiting Fellow Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 18 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'Revisiting Edward Carson'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProfessor Eugenio F. Biagini, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Cambridge and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College .

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 17 May 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

The Invention of Consciousness

UserProfessor Nicholas Humphrey, LSE, New College of the Humanities, Darwin College.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 13 May 2016, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Science Society

Complex Analysis — Simplified!

UserProfessor Andy Raich, University of Arkansas.

HouseWolfson College, Old Combination Room.

ClockFriday 06 May 2016, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'The German Heraclitus: Exploring the esoteric habitus of Oswald Spengler'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserAndrew Presti, PhD candidate, Wolfson College and Department of German and Dutch.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

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

UserProfessor John Henderson, Fellow, Wolfson College; Professor of Italian Renaissance History, Birkbeck, University of London.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 03 May 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Checking out NHS Health Checks

UserProfessor Simon Griffin, Department of Public Health and Primary Care.

HouseWolfson College, Old Combination Room.

ClockFriday 29 April 2016, 17:45-19:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'The Significance of Design: how design can change your future'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserJayné Franck, PhD Candidate, Institute for Manufacturing, Engineering, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The propaganda of death: Italy's Fascist ossuaries of the First World War

UserHannah Malone, Lumley Junior Research Fellow, Magdalene College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 26 April 2016, 17:45-19:15

Technology and Democracy Events

"Social media and political turbulence"

UserProfessor Helen Margetts (Oxford Internet Institute).

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, West Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 26 April 2016, 14:00-16:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

"The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Early Jesuit Engagement with the Qur'an."

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Paul Shore, Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies University of Regina and Visiting College Research Associate at Wolfson.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 09 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Advertising the Future in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserBianca Gaudenzi, CRA Wolfson College and Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Konstanz.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 08 March 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'The River Ganges running red: reversing the divine'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserCleo Roberts, Visiting Research Associate, Wolfson College and Visiting student at the centre of South Asian studies.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 02 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

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

UserAssociate Professor Matthew S. Hopper, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, Smuts Visiting Research Fellow in Commonwealth Studies, Wolfson College and Centre of African Studies.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 01 March 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Beyond the Nuclear Family: An Evolutionary Perspective on Family and Fertility

UserDr Rebecca Sear, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

HouseWolfson College, Old Combination Room.

ClockFriday 26 February 2016, 16:00-17:10

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Cultural Narratives of Dementia and Care in Post-War Japan'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Katsura Sako, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College Associate Professor, Keio University (Japan).

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

"Oriental Plague": Sinophobias Compared

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Christos Lynteris, Senior Research Associate/ERC PI, CRASSH .

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 17 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Science Society

Cellulose Photonics: from nature to applications

UserDr Silvia Vignolini, Department of Chemistry.

HouseWolfson College, Old Combination Room.

ClockFriday 12 February 2016, 18:00-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Tuna, Geopolitics and the Indian Ocean'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Colin Barnes, POLIS and Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

London in the Fog: The Artistic Response to Air Pollution

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Christine L Corton, Wolfson College Senior Member .

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 09 February 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

A Fossil Feast: 31 December 1853, Sydenham Park, London

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Becky Lewis, Assistant Professor Emerita University of South Carolina; Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

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

UserJanet Todd, Professor emerita, University of Aberdeen and Hon Fellow of Newnham College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

The beauty and science of nebulae

UserProfessor Carolin Crawford, Institute of Astronomy.

HouseWolfson College, Old Combination Room.

ClockFriday 29 January 2016, 18:00-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Humanitarian Action in Armed Conflict'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Thomas Forster, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College, International Law..

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The Professor and the Ambassador - the Peel Commission on Palestine, 1937 and its aftermath

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserMr. George W. Liebmann, Senior Academic Visitor Wolfson College and Sir Henry Rumbold,Bt, grandson of Sir Horace Rumbold,Bt .......due.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Meaningful Music, Unmediated Sound: An Evolutionary History

UserProfessor Elizabeth Tolbert, Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute.

HouseWolfson College, Old Combination Room.

ClockFriday 22 January 2016, 18:00-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Social Media, African Chiefs and New Experiments in Public Administration in Kenya

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr. Duncan Omanga, Centre for African Studies and Wolfson Visiting Fellow 2015/16 .

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 20 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

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

UserKevin Lewis, Professor of Religious Studies, University of South Carolina and visiting fellow Wolfson College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 19 January 2016, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Optimizing endurance performance is an intellectual exercise

UserDr Christof Schwiening, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 15 January 2016, 18:00-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'The cultural self-fashioning of Frederick the Great'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProf. Tim Blanning FBA, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 08 December 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

'Making Sense of Assassinations'

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Andrew McKenzie-McHarg, postdoctoral research fellow at CRASSH, .

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2015, 13:00-14:00

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

UserProfessor Naomi Tadmor, Lancaster University.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Tales from the crypt: How science harvests death for humanity's benefit

UserProfessor Jeffery K. Tomberlin, Texas A&M University.

HouseWolfson College, Old Combination Room.

ClockFriday 27 November 2015, 18:00-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

‘Ted Hughes: Ecopoet and Environmentalist’

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Yvonne Reddick, University of Central Lancashire and Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College. .

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Stirbitch: Performing the Vanished Polis

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr.Michael Hrebeniak, Wolfson College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 24 November 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Human embryos: a visual history

UserDr Nick Hopwood, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

HouseWolfson College, Old Combination Room.

ClockFriday 20 November 2015, 18:00-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

"Curriculum confrontation: the perils of reviewing upper secondary education in the European Schools"

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Sandra Leaton Gray, Senior Lecturer, UCL Institute of Education and Senior Member, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

In the steps of the crusaders: heritage, poltiics, experience

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Astrid Swenson, Brunel University London.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

"English medieval romance in the age of print"

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Jordi Sanchez Marti, Visiting College Research Associate, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'Telling What Happened;. Shackleton's Endurance Expedition:Narratives and Narrators

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr. Meredith Hooper, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College and Polar Institute.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 10 November 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Thoughts on the current crisis in the NHS and how to resolve it: getting from lose/lose to win/win.

UserJan Filochowski, Clinical and Professional Adviser at CQC; NIHR; Commonwealth Fund and IHI.

HouseWolfson College, Roger Needham Room (Chancellor Center).

ClockFriday 06 November 2015, 18:15-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

"Approaching William Blake's Fourfold Vision through Cognitive Theory and Enlightenment Philosophy"

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserSiri Vevle, PhD Candidate at University of Bergen and Visiting Scholar Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

John Aubrey, My Own Life, an experiment in biography

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Ruth Scurr ( Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Director of Studies in Human, Social).

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 03 November 2015, 17:45-19:15

jjn1's list

Postcapitalism

UserPaul Mason, Economics Editor, Channel 4 News.

HouseRoom GR06/07 Faculty of English, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2015, 13:00-14:30

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

"A question of temperament": Identifying Musical Tones

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Dan Tidhar, College Research Associate, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Three Standing Figures - from stone, to studio, to the open air

this talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr. Jenny Powell, Senior Curator Kettle's Yard.

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 27 October 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Unravelling the Innovation Mystery

UserAnirban Lahiri, Xaar Ltd.

HouseWolfson College, room TBC.

ClockFriday 23 October 2015, 18:15-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

"How Britain missed its chance to bring democracy to Libya"

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserRichard Synge, Senior Member, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Moving pictures, moving stories: what archive films reveal

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Kevin Greenbank, Archivist and Administrator, CU Centre of South Asian Studies; Tutor, Wolfson College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 20 October 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

When to care for and when to kill another female's offspring

UserDr Dieter Lukas, Department of Zoology.

HouseWolfson College, Gatsby Room.

ClockFriday 16 October 2015, 18:00-19:15

jjn1's list

The End of Safe Harbour: Implications of the Schrems Judgement

UserJohn Naughton, Technology and Democracy Project, CRASSH.

HouseRoom B16, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.

ClockFriday 16 October 2015, 12:30-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

"Mixed feelings. Norwegian attitudes to the Britons, 1814-1914."

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProfessor Roald Berg, University of Stavanger and Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

‘Th’emprenting of hir consolacioun’: persuasive speech and resistant listeners in ‘The Franklin’s Tale’

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr. Alastair Bennett, Royal Holloway, University of London.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 13 October 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Creation, Collaboration, Contemplation: Academic Libraries and the Digital Revolution

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserMeg Westbury, Librarian, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 10 June 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Hiroshima: under the bomb 70 years on

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProfessor Alan Marcus, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College & Chair in Film and Visual Culture, University of Aberdeen.

HouseGatsby Room, W block, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 09 June 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Metaphor

NOTE: this talk is not on the usual day/time of Humanities Society talks but on Thursday 4th June from 16.30.

UserIrving Massey, Professor (Emeritus) of English and Comparative Literature and Adjunct Professor (Emeritus) of French, University at Buffalo; former Visiting Fellow Wolfson College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockThursday 04 June 2015, 16:30-19:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Living Conditions in Ancient Egyptian Settlements and the Place occupied by the Non-Elite Population

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Delphine Driaux, Fernand Braudel-IFER Post-doctoral Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Wolfon College Visiting Scholar.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 03 June 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Transgendered Copper Mining in the Levant

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr. Laura Zucconi, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College and Associate Professor ,Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 02 June 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

What is going on in Portugal? A Critical Reflection of the Political Consequences of Austerity

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserTiago Carvalho, Ph.D. Candidate, Wolfson College and Department of Sociology.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 27 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

George Eliot and the Religion of Favourable Chance

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProfessor Robert Koepp, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College & Illinois College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 26 May 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Trust and Power in the Art Market: A Machiavellian World?"

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr. Anna Dempster, CRA Wolfson College, Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 20 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Maynard Keynes and his Whaling Adventure.

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserBjørn L. Basberg, Professor in Economic History, Norwegian School of Economics; Visiting Fellow Wolfson College and Visiting Scholar, Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 19 May 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Aron’s political antinomies and the constitution of international order.

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserVítor Ramon-Fernandes Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Lusíada University of Lisbon and Visiting Fellow Wolfson College .

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 13 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

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

UserDr Jennifer Davis, Fellow, Wolfson College; Member, Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 12 May 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

John Clare: The Nature of Writing

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserHetty Saunders, M.Phil student, Wolfson College, Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Rock legends: naming planets

UserPaul Murdin, Wolfson College and Institute of Astronomy.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Rock legends: naming planets

UserPaul Murdin, Wolfson College and Institute of Astronomy.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Churchill and the Islamic World

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Warren Dockter, Research Fellow Clare Hall.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 28 April 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Experiences of a female lawyer in Kuwait

UserMs Bashayer Al Majed, Ph.D Student, Faculty of Law, University of Leeds.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 22 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Paradise Lost? How the Internet has changed

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserJohn Naughton, Vice-president of Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Muslims under Nazi rule, 1941-1945

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr David Motadel, Research Fellow in History at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 10 March 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

How to read the Confessions of Augustine

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserCatherine Conybeare Professor of Classics, Bryn Mawr College Visiting Fellow, CRASSH, University of Cambridge .

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

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

UserDr Justin Colson, Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 03 March 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Ancient Historians in Context: The Curious Case of Diodorus

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserCharles Muntz, Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Mysticism and politics; some thoughts about St Teresa of Avila

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalene College.

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 24 February 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

Life after death: social evolution in a grave

UserProf Rebecca Kilner, Department of Zoology.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 20 February 2015, 18:15-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

The Fitzwilliam Museum: A Short History

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserMargaret Greeves, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Ibsen's women - on and off the stage

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Robert Amundsen, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 17 February 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Aesthetics as Intrinsic to Sustainable Design: Architectural Education Projects From Around the World

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserMarga Jann, RIBA, AIA, DPUC, Chartered Architect, Member Lucy Cavendish College & Wolfson College (FMR Visiting Fellow LCC), Visiting Researcher Sociology Dept .

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'Hinduism': the challenges of a polycentric approach to shaping our world

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProf. Julius Lipner, Emeritus Professor of Hinduism and the Comparative Study of Religion, Fellow of Clare Hall.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 10 February 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Picturing Identities: A Participatory Visual Project with Young Italian migrants to the UK

UserAnna Bagnoli, Fellow and Tutor at Wolson College, Associate Researcher at Sociology Department.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Israel and Antisemitism

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProf. David Feldman, Birkbeck London, Director of the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 03 February 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

When Britons were slaves: Barbary slavery and its consequences

UserJustin Meggitt, University Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religion, Institute of Continuing Education, Fellow of Wolfson.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 28 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Opening of 'The Royal Academy at Wolfson'

This talk is open to the public

UserAnthony Green R.A..

HouseLee Hall, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 27 January 2015, 18:30-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

The Honour of Sharing : the Sharing of Honour

UserAdriana Alexander, B.A., PGCert, DPSI - Independent Researcher.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The oldest illustrated book in Cambridge - a reconsideration of the St Augustine Gospels

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProf. Nigel Morgan, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 20 January 2015, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

‘Triumph of the Real: From The Communist Manifesto to Jason Bourne’

UserDr David Hickman - Senior lecturer in film & television production Department of Theatre, Film & Television University of York and VF Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 03 December 2014, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

C.R.Fay: The Differences between Making History and Writing It

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserHugh Gault, biographer and independent researcher.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 02 December 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

How bees find the right flowers

UserDr Gregory Sutton.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 28 November 2014, 18:15-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Wild Animal Skins in Victorian Britain: The Belle Vue Zoo, Manchester

UserProfessor Ann Colley, SUNY Distinguished Professor, Dept. of English.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Religion and Humour: The Islamic Feast of Sacrifice in Egyptian Cartoons

This talk is open to the public

UserProfessor 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.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Ancient Hints for a Modern Method of Studying Consciousness

UserVarun Khanna - Wolfson College member, PhD student in Consciousness.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Does Westminster Still Represent the Westminster Model ?

UserProfessor Gerd Strohmeier Visiting Fellow Wolfson College and Technische Universität Chemnitz.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Technology, Tools, and Toys of Early Modern Science

This talk is open to the public, and may be podcast

UserDr Alexi Baker - CRASSH.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 11 November 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Adaptations and Illustrations of Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy

UserDr Mary Newbould, Wolfson College and Bowman Supervisor in English.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Communication in a globalised world: English is necessary but not sufficient

This talk is open to the public, and may be podcast

UserDr Nick Saville - Director of the Research and Validation Group, Cambridge English Language Assessment.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Pickwick in the Trenches: Dickens and Dickensians in the Great War

This talk is open to the public, and may be podcast

UserProfessor Jerry White - Birkbeck College, University of London.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 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 Past

This talk is open to the public as part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, and may be podcast

UserProf. Robin Cormack, Prof. Emeritus in the History of Art, London University.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

The colonial roots of German folklore studies, 1850s-1930s

UserDr Christof Dejung, Marie Curie Senior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and Senior Lecturer (Privatdozent) for Modern History at the University of Konstanz, Germany.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Erasmus Darwin: Poet of Progress

This talk is open to the public, and may be podcast

UserDr Patricia Fara - Clare College & Department of History and Philosophy of Science .

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 14 October 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

I spy with my MRI....

UserDr Mick Mantle, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

HouseSeminar Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 13 June 2014, 18:15-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Forty years of food

UserRay Palmer, Executive Chef, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 04 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Wax, wood and narrative: the miraculous culture of Renaissance Italy

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Mary Laven, Jesus College Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 03 June 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson Press Fellowship

Press Seminar: In the Name of the People

UserLara Pawson, Wolfson College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 28 May 2014, 17:30-19:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Un-Righteous Neutrality: Theodore Roosevelt and the Great War, 1914-1917

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProf. J.Lee Thompson, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 27 May 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Climate Change and Conspiracy Theory

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast.

UserProf. David Runciman, POLIS & Trinity Hall.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 20 May 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

The Roman tradition and the rebirth of public powers in Europe

UserSpyridon Flogaitis, Visiting Professor, Wolfson College; Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science (Lent and Easter Terms 2013).

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Further Thoughts on the Undivided Past

This talk is public and may be podcast

UserProfessor Sir David Cannadine, Princeton and School of Advanced Studies, University of London.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 13 May 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Intellectual Societies: Intimacy and Knowledge in the 19th Century

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProf. Bill Lubenow Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College & The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 06 May 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

TBC - personal genomics

UserPaul Flicek, EMBL - EBI.

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockThursday 13 March 2014, 18:15-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

The science of horror: post-traumatic stress in children and adolescents

UserRichard Meiser-Stedman, Clinical Psychologist & MRC Clinician Scientist Fellow MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Fidgets, Scoundrels and Mummy's Boys: Performing Masculinity in the Victorian House of Commons

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Ben Griffin, Girton College, Cambridge.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 11 March 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

May the force (of gravity) be with you: general relativity, black holes and beyond

UserPau Figueras, Dpt of Applied Mathematics and Theorical Physics.

HouseSeminar Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 07 March 2014, 18:15-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Archaeology and the trade of the port of Suakin, Sudan

UserLaurence Smith, Wolfson CRA and Library Assistant; Research Fellow, McDonald Institute.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 05 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Rogue Judges - Rebels or Reformers? The Case of Sir Henry McCardie

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProf. Tony Lentin, Wolfson College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 04 March 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Reforming teaching: a social cognitive perspective

UserSteven Watson, University lecturer in Mathematics Education, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, member of Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Neoliberalism, Socialism, and the Politics of Knowledge

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserDr Suvi Salmenniemi, University of Turku and CRASSH.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 25 February 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

The First Bohemians: the Artists of Eighteenth-Century Covent Garden

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast

UserProf. Vic Gatrell, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College Cambridge and Emeritus Professor of Modern British History, University of Essex .

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 18 February 2014, 17:45-19:15

Wolfson College Science Society

In search of personal meaning in a file of 3.3 billion DNA letters

UserDr. Manuel Corpas, The Genome Aanalysis Center, Norwich.

HouseSeminar Room, Wolfson College.

ClockFriday 14 February 2014, 18:15-19:15

Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series - Wednesdays of Full Term

Societies in Orbit: Historicizing the European Space Age, 1942-1972

UserAlexander Geppert, Emmy Noether Research Group Director Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut Freie Universität Berlin".

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

'The True Function of Education'

This talk is open to the public, and may be podcast

UserPhilip Allott, Emeritus Professor of International Public Law, Fellow of Trinity College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 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

UserDr. Dan Carter, Wolfson College.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 04 February 2014, 17:45-19:15

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