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9 Feb 2024: in this talk, Tom Zille from the Faculty of English will be exploring the influence of Jane Austen’s novels on modern literary writers, who treated her as a model for their own styles, and also explaining why this influence is largely forgotten.

9 Feb 2024: How are stories of justice told and visualised? In what ways do stereotypes of victims entrench biases of race, class and gender? What presumptions do we have about violence and forms of justice?

9 Feb 2024: Timing:. In person. Format:. Exhibition. Age:. All Ages. What does new research recently carried out on the library of Sir Thomas Smith (1513–1577), famous humanist and former scholar of Queens’

9 Feb 2024: Why does landscape matter to us? Rural historian Dr Jeremy Burchardt (University of Reading) has spent nearly 20 years trying to find out.

9 Feb 2024: The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, CB2 1RP. In 2023, several stories about stem-cell-based embryo models hit the news, resulting in headlines such as: “Synthetic human embryo made without sperm ... Timing:. In person. Format:. Exhibition. Age:. All

9 Feb 2024: Join Cambridge University Library’s online book group, The Really Popular Book Club, as we discuss JM Barrie’s best-loved children’s book, Peter Pan, for the Cambridge Festival 2024.

9 Feb 2024: Babbage Lecture Theatre, (Through the Pembroke Archway), New Museums Site Downing Street, CB2 3RS.

9 Feb 2024: University of Cambridge New Museums Site, Downing Street, CB2 3RS. Join us for an interactive and educational experience that explores the science of clutter and messy bedrooms.

9 Feb 2024: This talk explores the myriad ways in which authors and audiences from Classical writers such as Caesar and Tacitus, to medieval literature set in the pre-Christian past, to the modern opera stage have interpreted and reinterpreted Celtic druids.

9 Feb 2024: If you have ever wondered why you feel the way you feel, we can tell you that molecules have a lot to do with it! Come and hear about how adrenalin makes you high on energy, or oxytocin gives you that loving feeling... and every other

9 Feb 2024: The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare health inequalities between different social groups in society. This session will explore the meaning, measurement and causes of health inequalities, including those associated with the pandemic.

9 Feb 2024: This event takes place at the Cambridge Central Mosque, which is the first eco-Mosque in Europe and hosts a permanent exhibition on 'Islam & Science'. Integrating these two themes (i.e.

9 Feb 2024: This panel event will explore the latest science and knowledge on marathon running and training. The panel will focus on the principles of marathon training and how to maximise your training results.

9 Feb 2024: In today’s dynamic and rapidly evolving world, leadership is not just about guiding and managing others; it’s also about resilience, adaptability and empowerment.

9 Feb 2024: Join us for an eye-opening panel discussion on modern-day slavery. Are you concerned about human rights and social justice? Do you want to make a meaningful impact on one of the most pressing global issues of our time? If so, we invite you to

9 Feb 2024: We are proposing an interactive demonstration of a prototype of a device that we have built which measures activity including recognising different postures in people with a range of physical abilities.

9 Feb 2024: Timing:. In person. Format:. Exhibition. Age:. All Ages. What does new research recently carried out on the library of Sir Thomas Smith (1513–1577), famous humanist and former scholar of Queens’

9 Feb 2024: Man-made climate change is one of the greatest existential challenges facing society. The consequences of this will be felt more acutely in the Global South, which already faces challenges of accessing food, clean water and energy.

9 Feb 2024: Studying how worms interact with their natural environment has led to a new understanding of how we develop and age, including how our brains develop, function and fail.

9 Feb 2024: More accolades followed in the years to come, including an NME Award, two Gold ARIAS, three New York Festival Awards and more.

9 Feb 2024: Even before they had specialised terms for comets, meteors, galaxies and aurora, the people of Ireland were writing about the phenomena they observed in the night sky.

9 Feb 2024: Our research group will be running an interactive Kahoot quiz with some interesting questions related to energy technologies. This event will run both in person and online simultaneously. Group members will also share highlights of their own

9 Feb 2024: Should we be using climate change to animate new grass-roots, bottom-up actions, rather than only seeking ‘breakthrough solutions’ to emerge from the next cycle of international negotiations? ... new climate action platform, Rootd Earth.

9 Feb 2024: By showcasing this new online resource, and thereby introducing the many lives of the Southampton Psalter to a wider audience, we hope to inspire a new generation of enthusiasts for manuscript

9 Feb 2024: The world that we live in today is acutely recognisable as affected by infectious diseases. Despite decades of work on predicting and preventing the next pandemic, the third major betacoronavirus outbreak within 20 years was still able to lead to

9 Feb 2024: University of Cambridge New Museums Site , Lecture Theatre A New Museums site Bene't Street, CB2 3PT.

9 Feb 2024: Search site. Wolfson College Cambridge Royal Academy Schools Graduate Prize: Enej Gala – After news before bed. ... The exhibition takes its name from an ongoing series of oil paintings started in 2022 and entitled ‘After news before bed’; it also

9 Feb 2024: This talk by Violet Hatch is based on her wider PhD project, which is examining the theme of hauntings in BBC radio dramas of the interwar period.

9 Feb 2024: Babbage Lecture Theatre, (Through the Pembroke Archway), New Museums Site Downing Street, CB2 3RS.

9 Feb 2024: The Centre for Intercultural Musicology at Churchill College will curate an experiential session on mindfulness, breathwork, motion and music. The aim of this interactive public engagement event is to promote relaxation using established wellness

9 Feb 2024: Crime fiction is the UK's most read, bought and borrowed genre. Cambridge University Library is drawing on its world-leading collections of British crime fiction to stage a murderously good exhibition!

9 Feb 2024: College. His latest novel, Austral, has been described by The New York Times as a “a masterly voyage of discovery, both physical and intellectual.”.

9 Feb 2024: Come to the Polar Museum for a talk and tour by the researchers behind the Arctic Cultures exhibition. There will be a 20 minute talk followed by the chance to browse the exhibition and talk to the researchers. Drop in event. For ages 16+

9 Feb 2024: Timing:. In person. Format:. Exhibition. Age:. All Ages. What does new research recently carried out on the library of Sir Thomas Smith (1513–1577), famous humanist and former scholar of Queens’

9 Feb 2024: An evening with the Vice-Chancellor - Professor Deborah Prentice, featuring a Q & A on her research in Psychology where she has specialised in the study of domestic violence, alcohol abuse and gender stereotypes.

13 Feb 2024: In mindfulness or in memory? In an interesting conversation or when waiting for news?

9 Feb 2024: This year, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for the ground-breaking discovery and synthesis of quantum dots. But what exactly are quantum dots, and are there other nanomaterials of significant interest? Furthermore, how are these tiny

9 Feb 2024: A seafarer keeps anxious watch in a storm, care-worn and shivering in the ice-cold waves; a lone wanderer travels the ocean in exile, weary under heart-sorrow and grief; in Beowulf, a hart trapped between huntsmen and the sea-edge must choose his

9 Feb 2024: Have you ever seen something move out of the corner of your eye, but there was nothing there? Convinced you heard the doorbell, but there’s no one at the door? Such brief ‘psychotic experiences’ are common and usually easy to dismiss.

9 Feb 2024: Madison Bennett, current PhD student, will share techniques about the process of parchment making, with opportunities for you to get hands-on by smoothing parchment using pumice stones and having a go at writing on them too!

9 Feb 2024: Research using data from patient records has the potential to increase our understanding of health conditions and support the development of better treatments and medicines.

9 Feb 2024: A Routes into Languages East event celebrating languages and the wonderful multilingual poets from schools in the region on this, the 70th anniversary of Murray Edwards College.

9 Feb 2024: PLEASE NOTE VENUE CHANGE!

9 Feb 2024: Timing:. In person. Format:. Exhibition. Age:. All Ages. What does new research recently carried out on the library of Sir Thomas Smith (1513–1577), famous humanist and former scholar of Queens’

9 Feb 2024: When Afrofeminist activists take to the streets of Paris, what do their protests have to do with environmentalists 250 miles away, battling with police to defend an autonomous zone preventing construction of an airport?

9 Feb 2024: Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, University of Cambridge New Museums Site, Benet Street, CB2 3PT.

9 Feb 2024: University of Cambridge Student Services, New Museums Site Bene't Street, CB2 3PT. ... Our approach is unique because it uses innovation and engineering techniques – a totally new way of examining depression.

9 Feb 2024: Water is all around us – most of the planet’s surface is covered with it, and it is the main substance inside you. In this exciting demonstration lecture, we will explore some of the surprising properties and reactions of this substance that you

9 Feb 2024: Playwright Steve Waters, award-winning writer Ari de Fauconberg and novelists Guinevere Glasfurd and Farah Ali will discuss how social entrepreneurs, writers and artists are taking action on the climate emergency. Guinevere Glasfurd is the author of

9 Feb 2024: There are nearly 50 ladybird species in the UK! Dr Peter Brown co-leads the UK Ladybird Survey, a national citizen science programme.