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27 Jun 2024: Search. Curing Thousands of Diseases. One of the great privileges of working in The Parker Library is the opportunity to slowly discover the collections, to spend a few minutes looking at a manuscript whose shelfmark you don’t recognise, to talk to readers working on things you’ve never considered, to share in the excitement of new discoveries, and to learn just a little bit more about an item, bit by bit. One could spend a lifetime getting to know the collection, but even given many such lifetimes, there would still be many items that I will never even begin to understand; for now, they must remain filed away in memory, black holes sitting next to the tiny pinpricks of light that are connected to their neighbors on the shelves. Every year we welcome the students from the Corpus Christi Medicine and English Summer School Program to The Parker Library. During each of these visits we give the participants a tour of our current exhibition and then bring out a few items that we believe may be of particular interests to the students that they are allowed to (gently) explore as we talk about the history of the book. This year, I was delighted to share MS 227, Curing Thousands of Diseases, an eight volume Chinese work that was

27 Jun 2024: Search site. The Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement. Cambridge Chinese Migration Studies Group/ 剑桥中国移民研讨小组简介. 剑桥中国移民研讨小组简介. Cambridge Chinese Migration Studies Group (CCMSG). For upcoming dates, please consult:. 剑桥中国移民研讨小组为依托剑桥大学全球人口流动研究中心、剑桥移民学社、牛津 大学移民、政策及社会研究中心建设的跨学科、多机构中英文研讨小组，旨在为相关 学界仝仁提供平等开放的平台及紧密支持的研究型社群。自 2019 年 11 月成立以来， 已举办线上线下研讨多次，参加学人遍布全球多间机构。在移民研究、人口流动、区 域发展研究、城市研究等多主题集思广益，促进各地学人交流合作。在海内外流动人 口研究相关社科界域拥有广泛影响力。. The Cambridge Chinese Migration Studies Group (CCMSG) is an interdisciplinary independent research and discussion group co-organised by the Centre for the Studies of Global Human Movement at University of Cambridge, Cambridge Migration Studies Society as well as the University of Oxford’s Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS). The target of this group

27 Jun 2024: This new page has been created to display online messages of condolence following the death of Professor Stephen Hawking, Fellow of Caius for over 50 years.  You are now free to roam this dimension with friends. All the best Merlin Jones

27 Jun 2024: Historiography and Hagiography. in Buddhism and Beyond. 8-10 July, 2024. Newnham College, University of Cambridge. This conference is generously sponsored by the Tzu Chi 慈濟Foundation as part of the Yin-Cheng Network. and the Glorisun Global Buddhist Network. 1. “Historiography and Hagiography in Buddhism and Beyond”. Newnham College, University of Cambridge. 8-10 July 2024. This conference is generously sponsored by the Tzu Chi 慈濟 Foundation. as part of the Yin-Cheng Network and the Glorisun Global Buddhist Network. Note: All sessions take place in the Lucia Windsor Room in Newnham College, Sidgwick. Avenue, Cambridge. The conference is open to the public; no registration is required. Conference Schedule. Monday, July 8. 9:30-10:00 Registration and coffee. 10:00-12:00 Session 1: Welcome and Keynote Addresses Welcome Address: Noga Ganany Rey Sheng Her. The Public History of Contemporary Buddhism: Exemplifying Tzu Chi’s Oral History and Documentation. Mark Meulenbeld Place and Presence: What Peach Spring tells us about Hagiography. 12:00-13:30 Lunch break. 2. 13:30-15:30 Session 2: The Life/Lives of the Buddha Chair: Richard Bowring Mario Poceski. Intersections of History, Legend, and Myth in the Live(s) of the Buddha.