History and Economics Seminar

Courts, commerce, and labor. Investigating lay courts in nineteenth century Paris and France

Claire Lemercier (Sciences Po).

Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall, Trinity Lane.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

African Economic History Seminar

Ores for Development? Local Effects of Central African Copper Mining in Comparative Perspective (1910 to 2000)

Dácil Juif (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid).

King's College, Audit Room.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

BPI Seminar Series

Edward Hinton - Capillary trapping of CO2 in aquifers with vertically varying permeability and Chris Howland - Mixing in forced stratified turbulence

Edward Hinton, BP Institute and Chris Howland, DAMTP.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 11:30-12:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Assessing the impacts of the introduction of South Africa’s tax on sugar-sweetened beverages

Nicholas Stacey, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science & SAMRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand.

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Floreana: Rebirth of an island in the Galapagos

Mark Collins, past chair of the Galapagos Conservation Trust.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 18:45-20:30

Graphene CDT Advanced Technology Lectures

2d Semiconductors For Optics & Spin-valley Physics

Dr Bernhard Urbaszek, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, France.

Cambridge Graphene Centre, 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 OFA, UK.

Friday 24 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 24 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Financial History Seminar

Fiscal reform in Britain and Germany since 1945

Professor Martin Daunton (Cambridge) and Dr Marc Buggeln (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).

Darwin College, Old Library.

Monday 27 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Gene targeting therapies – what does the future hold for neurological disorders?

Professor Sarah Tabrizi, University College London.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 27 January 2020, 19:30-21:00

Quantitative History Seminar

How Equality Created Poverty: Japanese Wealth Distribution and Living Standards 1600-1870

Yuzuru Kumon (Bocconi University).

Seminar Room 6, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 13:15-14:30

BPI Seminar Series

SPECIAL SEMINAR - PLEASE SEE TIME AND LOCATION CHANGE

Prof Stephen Belcher, Chief Scientist, Meteorological Office .

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, meeting room MR2.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve

James Moss (the Reserve Manager) and Stephen Tomkins.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 18:45-20:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

Dr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 31 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Financial History Seminar

The anatomy of Britain’s inter-war super-rich: reconstructing the 1928 'millionaire' population

Professor Peter Scott, Henley Business School, University of Reading.

Darwin College, Old Library.

Monday 03 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

African Economic History Seminar

Nigeria, British Economic Interests and the Sterling Guarantee Agreement

Chibuike Uche, Leiden University.

King's College, Audit Room.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

BPI Seminar Series

TBC

Speaker to be confirmed.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Harrold-Odell Country Park

Richard Dowsett.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

Dr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 07 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Financial History Seminar

City financiers as patrons in the later seventeenth century

Dr Anthony Hotson (Centre for Financial History, University of Cambridge).

Darwin College, Old Library.

Monday 10 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

A Global Learning Crisis - Using tablets to get one billion children reading

Andrew Ashe, onebillion.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 10 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

BPI Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Graham Benham, École Polytechnique · Laboratoire d'Hydrodynamique (LadHyX).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Lines in nature and the landscape

Martin Davies.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigma of Emotion

Dr Tiffany Watt Smith, Queen Mary, University of London.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 14 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

African Economic History Seminar

Marching with the Times: Numbers and Temporalities in 1960s Ghana

Please note that, for this meeting only, we start at 17:30

Gerardo Serra (University of Manchester).

King's College, Audit Room.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 17:30-19:00

BPI Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Cedric Baume, Uni of Leeds.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars

Seminar – Applications of geospatial data and methods in environmental epidemiology

S.M. Labib, Department of Geography, School of Environment, Education and Development (SEED), University of Manchester..

Meeting Rooms 1&2, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Level 3, Institute of Metabolic Science, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QQ.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Three mammals: otters, bats and hedgehogs

Peter Pilbeam, Jo Chesham and Carole Baber.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

Professor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 21 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Cancer: From science to benefit.

Prof Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Cancer Research UK.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 24 February 2020, 19:30-21:00

Financial History Seminar

Three hundred years of Prime Ministers, 1721-2021: how has the office survived and adapted?

Sir Anthony Seldon (University of Buckingham).

Darwin College, Old Library.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

African Economic History Seminar

The fiscal history of the British Cape Colony in comparative perspectives: Rethinking the South African exceptionalism, 1814-1910

Abel Gwaindepi (Lund University).

King's College, Audit Room.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 17:00-19:00

BPI Seminar Series

TBC

Speaker to be confirmed.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Alternative plastics, grass and worms

Sophia Upton.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 18:45-20:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Eruptions, Emissions and Enigmas: from fuming volcanic vents to mass extinction events

Professor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 28 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

BPI Seminar Series

TBC

Speaker to be confirmed.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

The wonderful world of rocks, minerals and fossils

Mal Faloon.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeological Mysteries

Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 06 March 2020, 17:30-18:30

Financial History Seminar

Walter Bagehot: the life and times of the greatest Victorian

James Grant (Grant’s Interest Rate Observer).

Darwin College, Old Library.

Monday 09 March 2020, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Let food be thy medicine.

Professor Nita Forouhi, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 09 March 2020, 19:30-21:00

African Economic History Seminar

Capital and colonialism: The return on British investments in Africa 1869-1969

Klas Rönnbäck (Gothenburg University).

King's College, Audit Room.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 17:00-19:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Bismarck to No Effect: Fertility Decline and the Introduction of Social Insurance in Prussia

Timothy W. Guinnane (Yale University).

Seminar Room 6, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 13:15-14:30

BPI Seminar Series

Cleaning soil layers by impinging liquid jets

Ian Wilson, Dept of Chemical Engineering (University of Cambridge).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natura Urbana (film and discussion)

Part of the Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

Matthew Gandy, Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Seasearch

Part of the Cambridge Science Festival - free admission

Paul Mylrea.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 19 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

A trillion trees – A trillion reasons to thrive!

Stuart Dainton, Head of Trillion Trees WWF-UK.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 26 March 2020, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 101st Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science, day 1

Free Public Exhibition.

Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 03 April 2020, 13:00-18:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: 101st Conversazione

Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science, day 2

Free Public Exhibition.

Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Saturday 04 April 2020, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

AGM and Presidential Address: Cambridge Dragonflies

AGM and Duncan Mackay.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 18:45-20:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Dieselgate: The Inside Story

John German, International Council on Clean Transportation.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 04 May 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Climate Repair: Refreezing the Arctic

Professor Sir David King, The Centre for Climate Repair, University of Cambridge.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 18 May 2020, 19:30-21:00

IET

NEXT GENERATION SOLUTIONS FOR ELECTRICAL GRID MONITORING

Richard Prudence, 42 Technology.

CUED LT0.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Sportable: the story behind the world's first smart rugby ball

Dr. Pete Husemeyer, Sportable.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 01 June 2020, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

New tools to understand and protect the biosphere

Professor Alexandre Antonelli, Director of Science, Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 15 June 2020, 19:30-21:00