Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 106th Conversazione

Free Exhibition on the Wonders of the Natural World

Free Public Exhibition.

Common Room (First Floor) David Attenborough Building, University of Cambridge Pembroke St, Cambridge CB2 3QZ.

Saturday 19 April 2025, 11:00-17:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Interaction of Mechanical Ventilation and Natural Convection

Dan Toy, IEEF.

Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 24 April 2025, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Malaria Mosquito Genomics Across Africa

Dr Mara Lawniczak, Senior Group Leader, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 28 April 2025, 19:30-21:00

Labour History Cluster

Pan-European efforts to unionize survey interviewers in the 1970s

Alex Langstaff, New York University.

History Faculty Room 6 (2nd floor).

Tuesday 29 April 2025, 13:00-14:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology

Big Picture Talk: Bhopal 40 years on - What have we learned?

Professor Fiona Macleod.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site.

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 14:30-15:15

History and Economics Seminar

Transition, revolution, modernity: (re)thinking capitalism with Eric Hobsbawm

Emile Chabal (University of Edinburgh) .

Seminar Room 3, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 17:00-18:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Challenges in estimating historical crisis mortality: spatial heterogeneity, endogenous incompleteness, sample size, and ad hoc methods.​

Hampton Gaddy (LSE).

Rm 101, William Hardy Building, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Centre for Climate Science

CCfCS Polar Symposium

Speaker to be confirmed.

British Antarctic Survey, Aurora Conference Room.

Monday 12 May 2025, 13:00-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Bioelectronic Medicine

Professor George Malliaras FRS, Prince Philip Professor of Technology, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 12 May 2025, 19:30-21:00

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

The public speaks back: health communication in Britain, 1980s-2020.​

Alex Mold (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)​.

Rm 101, William Hardy Building, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 16:00-17:30

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

TBC

Prof Ljiljana Fruk ( Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology).

Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 11:30-12:30

Labour History Cluster

The culture of defense: Trade unionism, the arms trade, and the subject of labor history in neoliberal Britain

Kyle Zarif, Yale University.

History Faculty Room 6 (2nd floor).

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

History and Economics Seminar

Title TBC

Shigeru Akita (Osaka University) .

Seminar Room 3, Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Tuesday 27 May 2025, 17:00-18:00

Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (IEEF)

Optimization of deep ocean meridional circulation by turbulent mixing

Ali Mashayek (University of Cambridge).

Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 05 June 2025, 11:30-12:30

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure - seminar series

Violence and emigration; evidence from early modern Corsica.​

Jean-Pascal Bassino (ENS de Lyon)​.

Rm 101, William Hardy Building, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 11 June 2025, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

An Introduction to The Alan Turing Institute, the National Institute for Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence

Professor Mark Girolami, Chief Scientist, The Alan Turing Institute; RAE Research Chair in Data Centric Engineering, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 16 June 2025, 19:30-21:00