Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

Sumé: the Sound of a Revolution (film pre-screening and discussion)

Inuk Silis Høegh, Independent filmmaker.

Co-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

Wednesday 16 December 2020, 16:00-17:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Medieval medicine and leprosy: new insights from dental calculus analysis

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqcO-upzktE91PIXfWQSFyh_QYmqGvI0Hq

Elena Fiorin (Sapienza University of Rome).

Online via zoom.

Friday 04 December 2020, 13:15-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Champagne capitalism: the economics of French informal empire in the nineteenth century

David Todd (King’s College, London).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 03 December 2020, 17:00-18:30

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

SCAR in the 60s: The successes and failures of science diplomacy in Antarctica

Iqra Choudhury (University of Manchester).

Zoom.

Thursday 03 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Improved ReaxFF for Large-Scale Reactive Molecular Dynamics Simulations

David Furman.

ONLINE - Email organiser to request link - Details to be sent by email.

Thursday 03 December 2020, 13:10-14:00

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

An auto-ethnographic account of a hitchhiking journey from Gateshead to Poland

Marijn Nieuwenhuis (Durham University).

Online.

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Exploration, Celebrity and the Making of a Transnational Hero: Fridtjof Nansen and the Fram Expedition

Max Jones (University of Manchester).

Zoom.

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 16:00-17:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

"Climate change is not a game... but what if it was?"

Dr Michela Leonardi .

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 13:15-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Negotiating the panoptic gaze: power & conservation surveillance

Trishant Simlai, Department of Geography.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Embodying Suicidal Emotions, 1700-1850

Ella Sbaraini (Clare College, Cambridge).

Delivered online via Zoom.

Monday 30 November 2020, 12:30-13:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

A short-lived but memorable style: Lapita Pottery in Vanuatu (NOTE: Unusual time)

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIucOGqpzMsGdRESX34ueGDCwtWH8rrgwv2

Dr. Mathieu Leclerc (Australian National University).

Online via zoom.

Friday 27 November 2020, 11:00-11:45

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Prosecuting women: a comparative perspective on crime and gender before the Dutch criminal courts, c. 1600-1810

Ariadne Schmidt (Leiden).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 26 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

The new global apartheid

Further information: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/29382

Professor Robbie Shilliam, Johns Hopkins University.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 26 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Beyond Sublime: Antarctic art since WWII

Jean de Pomereu (Associate of SPRI).

Zoom.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Bioelectrocatalysis in porous electrodes: The local environment may be more basic (and complex) than it appears

Sam Cobb, Research Fellow, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Reisner Lab.

ONLINE - Email organiser to request link - Details to be sent by email.

Thursday 26 November 2020, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Wind power and the emergence of the green institutional investor

Dr Mercedes Galindez.

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 24 November 2020, 13:15-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Democratising infrastructure? Governing energy democracy in South Africa

Dr Jon Phillips.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 24 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

The mobility of Upper Palaeolithic prey in the Siberian Arctic

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAud-irpjIjEtBorycKWN69meITA9IZKBXO

Wouter Bonhof, University of Exeter.

Online via zoom.

Friday 20 November 2020, 13:15-14:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Linking Urban Public Space and Migrant Integration in China: The Struggle for and the Magic of Time

Chen Qu.

Online (Zoom).

Friday 20 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Comparing the incomparable: economic development in Britain and France 1700-1850

Alexis Litvine (Cambridge).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 19 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Efficient colour representation in digital systems

Maryam Azimi.

ONLINE - Email organiser to request link - Details to be sent by email.

Thursday 19 November 2020, 13:10-14:00

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

The climatic pivot: Mapping water, people, and empires in Central Asia, c.1850-1930

Tom Simpson (Cambridge University).

Online.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Smart assistive technology provision for older people living in England: the social and political dynamics

Dr Phoebe Stirling.

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 17 November 2020, 13:15-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Conservation finance in a post-covid world

Dr Sophia Cooke, Dr Chris Sandbrook & Prof Bhaskar Vira.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 17 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Technological Change and the Inequality of Jobs: American Transport, 1750–1860

Benjamin Schneider (Merton College, Oxford).

Delivered online via Zoom.

Monday 16 November 2020, 12:30-13:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Early food production and human-animal relations: Isotopic insights into Neolithic social reconfiguration in the Near East

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwlceusqzooH905h9NRiWPbSPG8PFLv3a--

Prof. Cheryl Makarewicz (University of Kiel).

Online via zoom.

Friday 13 November 2020, 13:15-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The UK’s disappearing wartime imports 1939-1945: a statistical, ideological, and historiographical accounting

David Edgerton (King’s College, London).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 12 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Roundtable discussion: Conducting Research in a Pandemic

Charlotte Schoonman (AWI), Anna Guasco (University of Cambridge), Karla Boxall (SPRI).

Zoom.

Thursday 12 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Quantum chaos in the SYK model

Jan Behrends.

ONLINE - Email organiser to request link - Details to be sent by email.

Thursday 12 November 2020, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Opportunities and challenges for an ecological Constitution in Chile

Beatriz Bustos, University of Chile.

Online, via MS Teams.

Wednesday 11 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Climate migration: A mobile idea

David Durand-Delacre.

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 10 November 2020, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Copper metallurgy at Kerma: Technological innovation in the Nile Valley

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJErce2upjkqGtwWK_MOXgoBzaU-1rzVtxoD

Dr. Frederik Rademakers (KU Leuven).

Online via zoom.

Friday 06 November 2020, 13:15-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Internal migration in England and Wales, 1851-1911: the where, when, why and how

Joe Day (Bristol).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 05 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Gravitational waves and fundamental physics

Francesco Muia.

ONLINE - Email organiser to request link - Details to be sent by email.

Thursday 05 November 2020, 13:10-14:00

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Archiving Arctic ecologies in the early twentieth century: the field and its archival prostheses

Johanne M. Bruun (Cambridge University).

Online.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Author Meets Critics: North Pole: Nature and Culture

Michael Bravo (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Tuesday 03 November 2020, 16:00-17:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Documenting a Child's Rule: Louis IX of France and the Vision for his Kingship, 1226-1235

Dr Emily Ward ( Faculty of History).

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 03 November 2020, 13:15-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Pro Bono Publico: James Ashley, Punch, and the Alcoholic Drinks Trade in Eighteenth-Century London

Tyler Rainford (University of Bristol).

Delivered online via Zoom.

Monday 02 November 2020, 12:30-13:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Heritage Quest: An Archaeological Survey of the Veluwe based on Data Science and Citizen Science

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtdeqqrTIiH9a-LWlPoRjSNt8LfztjLuE5

Dr. Karsten Lambers (Leiden University).

Online via zoom.

Friday 30 October 2020, 13:15-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Making a modern central bank: the Bank of England 1979–2003

Harold James (Princeton).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 29 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

What’s in a model? Shifting multi-species relationships in Sakha (Yakutia)

Eleanor Peers (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Thursday 29 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Joseph Banks, Georg Forster and the Publication of Nature in the Age of Revolutions

Edwin Rose.

ONLINE - Email organiser to request link - Details to be sent by email.

Thursday 29 October 2020, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Peer-to-Peer Energy Markets: Understanding the Values of Collective and Community Trading

Dr Denise Wilkins.

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 27 October 2020, 13:15-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

The Genetic History of the Plague: From the Stone Age to the 18th Century

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkceipqjsqE91n7OeMQQGolXXy3lkmDX5w

Prof. Dr. Johannes Krause (Max Planck Institute).

Online via zoom.

Friday 23 October 2020, 13:15-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Writing the history of education as social and economic history

Peter Mandler (Cambridge).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 22 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

The awakening of the genome – how embryonic transcriptional programs are initiated

Jasmin Stowers, Babraham Institute.

ONLINE - Email organiser to request link - Details to be sent by email.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

The Collapse of Complex Societies

Dr Sabin Roman.

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 20 October 2020, 13:15-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

A Social History of Keynesian Full Employment in Australia, 1936-75

Cameron Coventry (Federation University).

Delivered online via Zoom.

Monday 19 October 2020, 12:30-13:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Palaeoproteomics in Archaeology: Recent Applications and Future Directions

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkd-msqD4vGNyztfdId5Czxcle1PhOY5Ab

Dr Jessica Hendy (Department of Archaeology - University of York).

Online via zoom.

Friday 16 October 2020, 13:15-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Financing the African colonial state: fiscal capacity building and forced labor

Marlous van Waijenburg (Harvard Business School).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 15 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Finding connections across space, time, and disciplines: Space and Antarctica

Alice Oates (University of Cambridge) and Osnat Katz (University College London).

Zoom.

Thursday 15 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Is there solid-on-solid contact in a sphere-wall collision in a viscous fluid?

Dr Sumit Birwa, Goldstein Lab, DAMTP.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Thursday 15 October 2020, 13:10-14:00

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

Arctic Energy Before Petroleum: Or, What Whales Can Tell Us About Writing History

Note that the talk is accompanied by a "pre-reading" available to download upon registration.

Professor Bathsheba Demuth (Brown University).

Co-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 18:00-19:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Philosophy, Fiction, and Videogames

Prof Derek Matravers .

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 13:15-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Black Death in England and the origins of the Little Divergence, 1348-1400

Mark Bailey (University of East Anglia).

Delivered online via Zoom (for login details contact campop@geog.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 08 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

Why we should develop Arctic Humanities

Professor Sverker Sörlin, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden.

Co-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

Tuesday 29 September 2020, 16:00-17:30

Arctic Environmental Humanities Workshop Series

The Shaggy Saviour of Northern Norway

Professor Dolly Jørgensen, Faculty of History University of Stavanger, Norway.

Co-hosted with Pardee Center, Boston University.

Tuesday 01 September 2020, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Anti-racist praxis in the digital age: Everyday Resistance against the Prison-Industrial Complex (PIC)

Mayumi Sato.

Online (ask for the link from nah46@cam.ac.uk).

Tuesday 30 June 2020, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Anti-racist praxis in the digital age: Everyday Resistance against the Prison-Industrial Complex (PIC)

Mayumi Sato.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Tuesday 30 June 2020, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

The Makings of Love: The Evolution of Non Monogamy

Ezra Hampikian.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Thursday 25 June 2020, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Remote, online teaching during the COVID-19 lockdown and beyond: the case of the Cambridge University Language Programme (CULP)

Dr Nebojša Radić, Chair of the SAH Online Teaching Working Group, Director of CULP.

Online (ask for the link from nah46@cam.ac.uk).

Tuesday 23 June 2020, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Scalable, rapid and sensitive detection of SARS-CoV-2 using RT-LAMP for laboratory and home testing

Max Kellner.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Thursday 18 June 2020, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Living with the seasons – an exemplar of Circadian Design

Professor Dean Hawkes, Emeritus Fellow, Darwin College.

Online (ask for the link from nah46@cam.ac.uk).

Tuesday 16 June 2020, 13:15-14:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

[online] Polar humanities research in the Covid-19 pandemic: Where does the SPRI library fit in?

Eleanor Peers and Frances Marsh (Polar Library, Scott Polar Research Institute).

Zoom.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Cell biology of hereditary spastic paraplegias

Eliska Zlamalova.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 13:10-14:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

Using documentary archive material to develop an improved historical chronology of cyclones in Mauritius and lessons for disaster risk reduction

Rory Walshe (University of Cambridge).

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Wednesday 10 June 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Memory and Masculinity in the Work of Ocean Vuong

Darryl Peers, Darwin College.

Online (ask for the link from nah46@cam.ac.uk).

Tuesday 09 June 2020, 13:15-14:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

[online] On Blue Ice: Antarctic Meteorites and Deepening Planetary Time

Alexis Rider, University of Pennsylvania.

Zoom.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 15:00-16:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Diving into the Black Atlantic: Reappropriating Water as a Racialized Space

Jeff Gu, Musicology.

Online (ask for the link from nah46@cam.ac.uk).

Tuesday 02 June 2020, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Integration Strategies for Ultra Low Power Flexible Electronics

Professor Arokia Nathan.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 13:10-14:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

Assessing hazards in distributed volcanic fields

Lis Gallant (University of Cambridge).

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 28 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

If we build it, will they come? The role of amenities in attracting migrants to Chinese cities

Evelyn Fok.

Online (ask for the link from nah46@cam.ac.uk).

Tuesday 26 May 2020, 13:15-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Physical Sciences Seminar

Insights from mapping Greenland’s supraglacial lakes at unprecedented temporal and spatial scales

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19

Dr. James Lea, University of Liverpool.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Roundtable discussion on Myths of meritocracy, friendship and "fun work": Performative informality in North American archaeological communities

Dr Mary Leighton, University of Michigan.

South Lecture Room, Department of Archaeology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3ER.

Friday 15 May 2020, 13:15-14:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

[online] Elusive Resources and Community Expectations: Petroleum Narratives by the Norwegian Barents Sea

Ragnhild Feng Dale (Western Norway Research Institute).

Zoom.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

Experimental insights on volcanic ash as a reactive agent in the environment

Dr Elena Maters (University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry).

Webinar (via Zoom online)- link to follow.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Physical Sciences Seminar

The influence of Arctic Fog on Glaciers

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

Dr. Hester Jiskoot, Associate Professor of Physical Geography & Glaciology, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 13 May 2020, 16:00-17:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

[POSTPONED] Languages of Emergency, Infrastructures of Response and Everyday Heroism in the Circumpolar North

Olga Ulturgasheva (University of Manchester) and Barbara Bodenhorn (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 12 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

Financial History Seminar

Sharing the blame for the Great Depression: The Federal Advisory Council, 1918-36.

Dr Rasheed Saleuddin, Judge Business School.

Darwin College, Old Library.

Monday 11 May 2020, 17:00-18:30

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Offshore oil, unruly icebergs, and the war against unpredictability in the North Atlantic Ocean

Professor Mark Carey, University of Oregon.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 06 May 2020, 16:15-00:00

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Toward climate justice -- Should we rethink our narratives of Arctic glaciers and icebergs?

Professor Mark Carey, University of Oregon.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 05 May 2020, 17:00-00:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

[online] Researching the field at home: the field and its doubles

Johanne Bruun (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Virtual Seminar Room.

Thursday 30 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Quantitative History Seminar

When did mothers work? Determinants of the labour supply behaviour of married women in nineteenth century Britain

Yoko Morita and Chiaki Yamamoto.

ONLINE - Details to be sent by email.

Wednesday 29 April 2020, 13:00-14:30

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

[Cancelled] ‘No work before breakfast’: Putting people first at Halley Bay research station, Antarctica

Alice Oates (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 12 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

CANCELLED: Recent advances in understanding climate, glacier and river dynamics in high mountain Asia

Cancelled due to strike action

Dr Walter Immerzeel, Faculty of Geosciences, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 13:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

English Royal Representation in Colonial Contexts

Joanna Smith.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 13:10-14:00

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeological Mysteries

Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer, Scientist.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Social enterprise, consultancy and commercialisation as research impact: a guide for humanities and social science researchers

Dr Emma Salgard Cunha, Cambridge Enterprise.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 06 March 2020, 13:15-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Integrating northern and southern hemisphere stalagmites: what they can tell us about tropical climate dynamics and civilization collapse at the 4.2 kyr event

Nick Scroxton (University College Dublin).

Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 17:30-19:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Physical Sciences Seminar

Hydrological networks and flow of the Greenland Ice Sheet: Overview of the RESPONDER project

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED DUE TO INDUSTRIAL ACTION

Poul Christoffersen (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

The effect of Inhibitory Control over Negative Autobiographical Memories

Giulia Barsuola, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 05 March 2020, 13:10-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

[POSTPONED] Fridtjof Nansen’s FRAM expedition and the Making of a Transnational Hero

Max Jones (University of Manchester).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

A New Approach to Campbell's Experimental Designs: From Research Designs to Design Elements

Jo Chih Soh.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Negotiating the panoptic gaze: people, power and conservation surveillance in the Corbett tiger reserve, India

Trishant Simlai, University of Cambridge.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

[CANCELLED] Diversity, identities, and social structure: investigating Indus Civilisation rural ceramic industries, traditions and communities of producers in Northwest India

Alessandro Ceccarelli, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 28 February 2020, 13:15-14:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

The use of marine geophysical data to investigate the climate and environment of the Quaternary

Christine Batchelor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.

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

Thursday 27 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Physical Sciences Seminar

The use of marine geophysical data to investigate the climate and environment of the Quaternary

This talk is by the Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography Seminar Series - NOTE THE DIFFERENT TIME, DATE & VENUE

Christine Batchelor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.

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

Thursday 27 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

CANCELLED: From networks to fretworks: mapping the interface of patient involvement and animal research

Cancelled due to strike action

Professor Gail Davies, Geography, University of Exeter.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 13:00-15:00

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Geographies of Sexual Risk: Rethinking the Ontology of Migration through a Case Study of Epidemiological Research

Arthur Davis.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The infrastructural other: spatial effects of the Standard Gauge Railway in Kenya

Gediminas Lesutis, University of Cambridge.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

CANCELLED West Indies technologies in the East Indies: Imperial preference and sugar business in Bihar, 1800-1850s

Karolina Hutkova (London School of Economics).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

The living dead: cellular functions of pseudoenzymes

Iain Hay, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

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

Season of death: mortality in infancy and beyond in Scotland, 1861-1973

Beata Nowok (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 6, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 13:15-14:30

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

Implications of Holocene cryptotephra records in North America

Lauren Davies, University of Alberta.

Harker II, Department of Earth Sciences.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Out of Africa: former Colonial Officials and objects of colonial memory

Dr Chris Jeppesen, Department of History, University of Cambridge .

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Roundtable discussion on 'Intersectionality and International Polar Research'

Morgan Seag (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Want to stop fake news? Become a fake news tycoon!

Jon Roozenbeek.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

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

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

"Constructing the ‘foetal environment:’ making intergenerational publics in a regional biobank"

Dr Maria Fannin, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 16:15-18:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Brain organoids to study development and function

Dr Laura Pellegrini, Division of Cell Biology, MRC-LMB.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

Volcanic mercury and plant mutagenesis during the end-Permian mass extinction

Niall W. Paterson, CASP.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Constructing the Other: representations of Arctic native communities in Russian regional museums

Sofia Gavrilova (University of Oxford).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Frequent job changes can signal poor work attitude and reduce employability

Dr Frédéric-Guillaume Schneider.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

City Seminar

Dr Sunil Kumar, LSE.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 11:00-12:30

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

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Investigating how Neanderthal’s subsistence was affected by MIS3 climatic oscillations and the arrival of AMH

Dr Ana B. Marín-Arroyo, University of Cambridge & University of Cantabria.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 07 February 2020, 13:15-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Abrupt CO2 release to the atmosphere under glacial and early interglacial climate conditions

Christoph Nehrbass-Ahles (University of Cambridge/BAS).

Clare College (Latimer Room).

Thursday 06 February 2020, 17:30-19:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Physical Sciences Seminar

Characteristics and changes of glaciers, rock glaciers and glacial lakes in High Mountain Asia since the 1960s

Dr. Tobias Bolch, University of St. Andrews.

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Roundtable discussion on “Off the beaten track? Critical approaches to exploration studies”

Peter Martin (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Investigating Individual Differences in political networks on Twitter

Elizaveta Karmannaya, Department of Psychology. University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

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

Causes of death in Copenhagen, 1876-1900

Catalina Torres (University of Southern Denmark).

Seminar Room 6, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 05 February 2020, 13:15-14:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

"Whatever they (weigh) will be given to him in plenty”: Commemorative Objects as Expression of Mercantile Religious Identities in the Ancient Near East

Dr Nancy Highcock.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Invasive species and ecological imperialism in South America. Current interactions between wood industry, wild boars, perroquets and hunters in Uruguay

Juan Martin Dabezies, Universidad de la República (Uruguay).

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Enviro-ethnoarchaeology and archaeology: scientific approaches in archaeology utilising an ethnoarchaeological approach.

Dr Sarah Elliott, Bournemouth University.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 31 January 2020, 13:15-14:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

El Niño, tropical forests and the potential instability of the global carbon cycle

Professor Yadvinder Malhi, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 16:15-18:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Roundtable discussion on ‘Decolonising the Polar Library: Moving forward’

Frances Marsh and Eleanor Peers (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Bringing the science back into scientific realism

Miguel Ohnesorge, History and Philosophy of Science Department, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

Introduction of new PhD students

CED new PhDs.

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

Thursday 30 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Gender and 20th century Antarctic fieldwork: Constructing and dismantling the 'ice ceiling'

Morgan Seag (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Topics in Political Philosophy: Luck Egalitarianism & Comparative Fairness

Ben Jooste-Jennings.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Gender and Extractivism in Plurinational States – An intersectional approach to mining in Bolivia and Ecuador

Isabella M. Radhuber, University of Vienna (Austria).

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Talk 1 of 2: Speleothem records of abrupt warming events during the last glacial period

This is part I of a two part seminar dedicated to synchronising climate archives. Second talk is being given by Raimund Muscheler (Lund University): "Synchronising climate records via the cosmic ray signal in environmental archives"

Russell Drysdale (University of Melbourne).

Riley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 17:30-19:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The ‘unruly infected’: enforcing the plague orders in Cambridge in 1625

Samantha Williams (Cambridge).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates - the Field as a Minefield

Mira Al Hussein, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Tourist taxation and heritage cities

Dr Guo Ji.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The political ecology of polar bear conservation: a circumpolar policy trainwreck

Doug Clark, University of Saskatchewan (Canada).

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Human Origins

Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

The Old Ashmolean Museum and Oxford’s 17th century scientific community. An archaeological science approach.

Umberto Veronessi, UCL Institute of Archaeology.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 17 January 2020, 13:15-14:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Human Anxieties, Bovine Solutions: Political Subtexts of Native Cattle Conservation in Northeastern Siberia

Zoia Tarasova (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Global Methane, Project MOYA, and the UK’s Net Zero target

Prof. Euan Nisbet, Professor of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 16 January 2020, 13:10-14:00

Quantitative History Seminar

The Impact of Copper Mining Activities on Schooling in Zambia from a Long-Term Perspective (1920 to 2000)

Dácil Juif (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid).

Seminar Room 6, Faculty of History.

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

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Talk 2 of 2: Synchronising climate records via the cosmic ray signal in environmental archives

This is part 2 of a two part seminar dedicated to synchronising climate archives

Raimund Muscheler (University of Lund).

Riley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road.

Thursday 09 January 2020, 17:30-19:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Our daily glazes: revisiting how and why glazed ceramics become a popular household item since the medieval times

Dr Carmen Ting, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 06 December 2019, 13:15-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Tyranny of a Concept: the Origins of the European Marriage Pattern

Prof. Richard Smith, Cambridge.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 17:00-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Physical Sciences Seminar

Subglacial landscapes: Tunnel valleys in the central and northern North Sea

Dr. Margaret Stewart, Senior Scientist - Marine and Petroleum Geology, British Geological Survey..

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Arctic Visible: Picturing Indigenous Communities in the Nineteenth-Century Western Arctic

Eavan O'Dochartaigh (Umeå University).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Investigating human blood development at the single-cell level

Anna Maria Ranzoni - Wellcome - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute/Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 13:10-14:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

The evolution of laminar thermals - from blob, to jellyfish, to ring.

Jack Atkinson (Department of Geography, Cambridge).

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

Thursday 05 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Forests of Refuge: Decolonizing Forest Governance in Guyana and Suriname

Ariadne Collins, ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry .

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Evading problems of IRD in palaeocurrent estimation: Glacial to Recent changes in flows around Greenland

Nick McCave, University of Cambridge.

Clare College (Latimer Room).

Thursday 28 November 2019, 17:30-19:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

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

Prof. Peter Scott, Reading.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Sexual Health, Risk and Migration: Challenging exclusionary constructions of migrant men who have sex with men

Arthur Davis - Centre for Gender Studies.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

From Empire to Globalisation: Jean Gottmann's Political Geographies

Dr Antonio Ferraz-de-Oliveira, Downing College.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

US Cybersecurity in International Relations: the manifold renderings of security

Alex Grigor.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Social Assessment of Protected Areas

Rob Small, Fauna and Flora International .

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

From Cyprus to Central Asia: Revisiting the spread of glaze technologies

Dr Carmen Ting, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 22 November 2019, 13:15-14:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

New insight on the mycorrhizal fungus–host association, expected to emerge from combining dendrochronology, wood anatomy, mycology and ecology

Giada Centenaro (Department of Geography, Cambridge).

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Friday 22 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Beyond mean climate change:  Using paleoclimate archives to better constrain climate variability.

Thomas Laepple, Alfred Wegener Institute.

Clare College (Latimer Room).

Thursday 21 November 2019, 17:30-19:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Did peasants plough? Agricultural technology and the growth of the medieval economy

Alexandra Sapoznik, King's College London.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Physical Sciences Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Poul Christoffersen (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

The Selected Body: Investigating Ideas about Nerves and Constitutions in the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration

Ed Armston-Sheret (Royal Holloway, University of London).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

You rock! Understanding words with many meanings

Lucy MacGregor - MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

The uses of messiness: understanding climate governance in practice

Professor Vanesa Castán Broto, Urban Institute, The University of Sheffield.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

From Arctic statehood to self: State personnel’s articulations of Arctic identity in Norway, Iceland, and Canada

Ingrid Medby (Oxford Brookes University).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Things Seen and Heard: Regional Identity in Sigurd F. Olson’s Environmental Ethic

Jacob Bruggeman.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The Political Ecologies of Urban Macaques in India

Anindya Sinha, Indian Institute of Science.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

The IntCal20 radiocarbon calibration curve - composition and consequences

Paula Reimer, Queens University Belfast.

Riley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 17:30-19:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Roundtable discussion of "The Lion's Share: Inequality and the Rise of the Fiscal State in Preindustrial Europe" (2019)

Prof. Guido Alfani (Bocconi, Milan) and Dr Matteo di Tullia (Pavia).

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

From Epic Bards to Pop Stars in North-East Siberia: Song as Patriotic Education

Eleanor Peers (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Engaging Indigenous Communities in Malaysia: Snapshots of Culture, Genomics and Health

Maude E Phipps, Monash University Malaysia.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Accumulate to circulate: cultures of exchange in nineteenth-century museums

Dr Caroline Cornish, Royal Hollaway.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

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

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Geographies of Knowledge Annual Lecture: Configuring and Contesting Planetary Health: Knowledge Politics in Ecologies of Disease

Professor Melissa Leach, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 17:00-18:15

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Configuring and Contesting Planetary Health; Knowledge Politics in Ecologies of Disease

Professor Melissa Leach, IDS, University of Sussex.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Equality for Women = Prosperity for All

Dr Augusto Lopez-Claros, the World Bank Group.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

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 11 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Farming by numbers: multi-proxy analyses of Anglo-Saxon agriculture

Dr Mark McKerracher, University of Oxford.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 08 November 2019, 13:15-14:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Other Radical Traditions: Brazilian geographers between exile and military dictatorship

Federico Ferretti.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Friday 08 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Women Workers of the World United: Towards a global history of households, gender and work

Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Utrecht.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Introducing Tikigaq - Living with the Whale in the Arctic

Othniel Art Oomittuk Jr and Ellis Doeven (Visiting Artists, Alaska).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Antarctic climate of the last 115,000 years from ice cores

Isobel Rowell.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

Volcanic history archived in glacial ice

Joe McConnell (Desert Research Institute, USA).

Tilley Lecture Theatre, Earth Sciences Department, Downing Site.

Thursday 07 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

The Weddell Sea, Antarctica: modern science and the search for Shackleton’s Endurance

Professor Julian Dowdeswell, Department of Geography & Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - Physical Sciences Seminar

The Weddell Sea, Antarctica: modern science and the search for Shackleton’s Endurance

Note unusual time and venue

Julian Dowdeswell, Scott Polar Research Institute.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Making something out of nothing: Tracing the story of a medieval manuscript at Cambridge University Library

Dr Andrew Dunning, Munby Visiting Fellow in Bibliography, Faculty of History.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Coal, custom, and constitution: worldly politics in contemporary KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Thomas Cousins, University of Oxford.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Aerosols and Ancient History in Arctic and Alpine Ice

Joe McConnell, Desert Research Institute, current "Shackleton visiting fellow" at Clare Hall.

Clare College (Latimer Room).

Thursday 31 October 2019, 17:30-19:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The occupational structure of China (1736-1898) and the Great Divergence

Cheng YANG (University of Cambridge).

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

"Minorities in Polar Research"-Network

Prem Gill (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

How to Build a Neuron: establishing spatial identity in a structurally complex cell

Michael Fernandopulle - Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Meat to Mittens: a short history of survival science and extreme physiology in the Arctic and Antarctic regions

Vanessa Heggie (University of Birmingham).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Pacific Shoguns: Japan’s Attempt to Open the Pacific, 1600-1625

Dr Joshua Batts, Research Associate, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Understanding the use of green spaces using social media data – possibilities and challenges

Dr. Tuuli Toivonen, University of Helsinki, Digital Geography Lab.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Study of organic residues in pottery from the Indus Civilisation in northwest India

Akshyeta Suryanarayan, University of Cambridge.

South Lecture Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 25 October 2019, 13:15-14:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Does climate change really cause collapse? Insights from the Land, Water and Settlement and TwoRains projects

Cameron Petrie, University of Cambridge.

Riley Auditorium, Clare College Memorial Court, Queens Road.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 17:30-19:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Political Economy of Serfdom: State Capacity and Institutional Change in Prussia and Russia

Prof. Tracy Dennison, California Institute of Technology.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

#AanaJaana [#ComingGoing]: Curating gendered digital lives in Delhi's urban peripheries

Professor Ayona Datta, Department of Geography, King's College, London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 16:15-18:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Science Policy Workshop Report/Arctic Circle Assembly 2019

John Woitkowitz (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

The effects of wind on trees and forests

Toby Jackson - Cambridge Conservation Initiative .

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

Validating the NAME dispersion model with TROPOMI satellite observations for the 2019 Raikoke eruption

Hans de Leeuw, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

Rm Harker 2, Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Site.

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

The Social Impact of Automatic Hate Speech Detection

Dr. Stefanie Ullmann, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Centre for Humanities and Social Change.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Affective economies and the atmospheric politics of lively capital

Maan Barua, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The safety revolution in oceanic shipping, c. 1780-1825

Prof. Morgan Kelly, University College Dublin.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Krill swarms: the carbon export highway - S*£% matters!

Anna Belcher - British Antarctic Survey.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Clumsy solutions for climate change: whose knowledge is needed?

Dr Rob Bellamy, University of Manchester.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

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

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Life in Alaska as an Inupiaq Artist

Willy Topkok (Independent Artist, Alaska).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Infrastructure as techno-politics of differentiation: social effects of the Standard Gauge Railway in Kenya

Dr Gediminas Lesutis, Research Associate, Department of Geography.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Zombie leopards, voodoo science and post-truth challenges to conservation

Martin Walsh, Wolfson College.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Drawing on History for Radical Policy: Incentivising an Ethical Economics

Simon Szreter.

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 10 October 2019, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Perovskite nanocrystals: tuneable future for display industry

Kaiwen Zhang, PhD student in Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 10 October 2019, 13:10-14:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

The use of marine geophysical data to investigate the climate and environment of the Quaternary

Cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances

Christine Bachelor (SPRI).

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

Thursday 10 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Compound-specific carbon isotope analysis of lipid combustion residues from herbivore dung. An experimental approach

Dr Natalia Égüez, University of Cambridge & University of La Laguna.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Wednesday 02 October 2019, 13:15-14:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Japan and its Arctic identity: Forming a narrative about the region

Aki Tonami (University of Tsukuba).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Friday 16 August 2019, 11:00-12:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

The Sublimity of Sublimating Ice: Ruins of the Anthropocene

Mia Bennett (University of Hong Kong).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 20 June 2019, 11:00-12:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The continued marginalisation of cocoa farmers: from colonialism to contemporary, climate-smart governance

Victoria Maguire-Rajpaul University of Oxford.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Wednesday 19 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The Politics of Marine Biodiversity Data: Global and National Policies and Practices of Monitoring the Oceans

Alice Vadrot University of Vienna.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 18 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Grains of truth: rethinking past agriculture through stable isotope and geometric morphometric approaches

Dr. Michael Wallace, University of Sheffield.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 14 June 2019, 13:15-14:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Visual Infrastructures: Lunchtime film screening

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

'Museum Entanglements: acquisitions, engagement and exhibitions at the Polar Museum

Alex Partridge (The Polar Museum).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 11:00-12:00

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

Addressing health: sickness and retirement in the Victorian Post Office

David Green (KCL), Doug Brown (Kingston University), Kathleen McIlvenna (University of Derby) and Nicola Shelton (UCL).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 12 June 2019, 13:15-14:30

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

City Seminar: Joana Kusiak

Joanna Kusiak, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tuesday 11 June 2019, 17:30-19:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

A Tale of Two Regions: The Living Landscapes of Jordan and Oman in the Bronze Age

Dr Caroline Cartwright, British Museum.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 07 June 2019, 13:15-14:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Visual Infrastructures: Lunchtime film screening

Speaker to be confirmed.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Antarctic Building and Dwelling: the Poetics of the 'Wide, White Page'

Elizabeth Lewis Williams (University of East Anglia).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 11:00-12:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

‘To dam or not to dam?’ Issues in financing and developing large hydropower.

Judith Plummer Braeckman - Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 04 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

New developments in compound specific analysis of ancient biomolecules in archaeology

Dr Thibaut Deviese, University of Oxford.

South Lecture Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 31 May 2019, 13:15-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Nature in the City: thinking 'post' ecologies in Delhi

Suresh Babu Ambedkar University Delhi .

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 28 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

*CANCELLED* Lives in the landscape: translating pollen records into understandings of land cover and landscape resources in the British Neolithic

Canceled

Dr Jane Bunting, University of Hull.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 24 May 2019, 13:15-14:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

‘They Should Do It Themselves’: Settler Affect and Indigenous Sovereignty on Alaska’s North Slope

Elizabeth A. Walsh (Department of Anthropology).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

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

A new perspective on the role of public investment in sanitation and mortality decline in urban England 1870-1911

Toke Aidt (Faculty of Economics, Cambridge), Romola Davenport (Cambridge Group) and Felix Grey (Faculty of Economics, Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 13:15-14:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

65,000 years of human-environment interaction: An archaeobotanical investigation of human occupation at Madjedbebe, northern Australia

S. Anna Florin, University of Queensland.

South Lecture Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 17 May 2019, 13:15-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The Evolution of Financial Markets in the Early Modern Netherlands

Oscar Gelderblom (Utrecht) and Joost Jonker (Amsterdam).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Persistent pneumococcal colonisation: Dynamics, genomic diversity and evolution

Dr Chrispin Chaguza (Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 13:10-14:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

‘Indigenous’ avant la lettre. The Origin and Livelihoods of the Sámi in European Scholarly Thought 1930-1960

Otso Kortekangas (Stockholm University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Occupational Structures in the Republic of Venice (1780–1790)

Andrea Caracausi (University of Padova) and Giulio Ongaro (Bicocca University Milan).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 13:15-14:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Critical Geopolitics of the Polar Regions: An Inter-American Perspective

Dorothea Wehrmann (Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 14 May 2019, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Rare Diseases, equity and social justice in contemporary UK healthcare

Alev Sen, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 14 May 2019, 13:10-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the Dates as Data approach

Dr Enrico Crema, University of Cambridge.

South Lecture Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 10 May 2019, 13:15-14:00

Sinews of Sustainable Development Distinguished Speakers Series

Britain after Brexit: How to redesign the UK's role in sustainable development

Rt Honourable Andrew Mitchell MP.

Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 17:45-18:45

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Relief Stocks in Early Modern Holland

Jessica Dijkman, University of Utrecht.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Trustworthy AI

Dr Adrian Weller (Machine Learning Group, Cambridge).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 13:10-14:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Identity in Change/Svalbard Futures - with an introduction to the Svalbard Social Science Initiative

Dina Brode-Roger (KU Leuven) & Sam Saville (Aberysthwyth).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

Department of Geography - Distinguished International Fellows

Public Lecture: In Praise of Floods: homo sapiens and rivers

Professor James Scott, Yale University.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

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

The famine that wasn't? 1799-1801 in Ireland

Liam Kennedy (Queen's University, Belfast) and Peter Solar (Free University, Brussels).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 13:15-14:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

The Future of Coal in the Global Energy Transition: Geopolitical, Economic, and Technological Perspectives

Stephanie Metzger, Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Who can afford (not) to mitigate? Agency, inequality, and additionality in agricultural carbon finance

Connor Joseph Cavanagh Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU).

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

A winter's tale - shellfishing in the Stone Age

Dr Emma Loftus, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 03 May 2019, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

From molecules to materials: new catalysts for artificial photosynthesis

Dr Souvik Roy (Chemistry Department, Cambridge).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

The making of the ‘climate migrant’: how a label emerges and circulates

David Durand-Delacre, Department of Geography.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 13:10-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Charity, Debt and Social Control in > England's Early Modern Prisons

Richard Bell, Oxford University.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 17:00-19:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Can Taxation Help Indigenous Peoples Remap Space?: The Socio-Legal History of the Native Village of Kluti Kaah

Maximilien Zahnd (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Paving an enlightened path to anyons and quantum computation

Dr Shovan Dutta (Physics Department, Cambridge).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Decolonising African politics: Where is there evidence of change?

Stephanie Diepeveen, Centre of Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 23 April 2019, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Saving forests with love? Connection with nature at a tropical deforestation frontier

Dr. Kasia Mikolajczak.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 16 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

Moments of crisis – volcanic eruptions, environmental impacts and societal change in the northern European past

Prof. Felix Riede, Aarhus University .

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Monday 15 April 2019, 17:30-18:30

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

The anatomy of abrupt climate change over Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles seen from the North Atlantic/Nordic Seas

Trond Dokken, Norwegian Research Centre, Bergen.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 28 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

The Frustrating Geography of Bees in Chinese History

Dr David Pattinson, University of Leeds.

South Lecture Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 15 March 2019, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Learning from rivers about long-term controls on Earth’s climate

Dr Jotis Baronas (Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 13:10-14:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Ivan Chai and King Crabs

Ruth Maclennan (SPRI).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 14 March 2019, 11:00-12:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - Physical Sciences Seminar

Integrating Photogrammetry and Computer Vision into the study of Glacier Change

Dr Penny How, University of York.

Lecture Theatre, Scott Polar Research Institute.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Mittimatalik Arnait Miqsuqtuit Collective and the Art of Sealskin Sewing

Nancy Wachowich (University of Aberdeen).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 16:30-18:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Protecting a Beyul: Harnessing the Power of Mountain Gods and Environmental Law to Protect a Sacred Landscape

Bruce Huett, Associate member Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit, University of Cambridge.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Economic uncertainty over the long run: a natural language processing approach.

Dr Walter Jansson, Bank of England.

Darwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St).

Monday 11 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

MPhil Presentations

Mustafe, TBD, University of Cambridge.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 11 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Perception of Visual Space

Professor Sir Colin Blakemore, School of Advanced Study.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 08 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

Centenary Lecture Series, Department of Geography

Stratigraphical discourse in the Anthropocene: towards a more critical geographical tradition

Professor Stuart Lane, Faculté des géosciences et de l'environnement, Université de Lausanne.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 17:00-18:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Visual Infrastructures: Lunchtime Film Screenings

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Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 07 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

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

The Age of Entrepreneurship: whole-population analysis of trends in entrepreneurship 1851-1911 from the censuses

Bob Bennett, Harry Smith, Carry van Lieshout, Piero Montebruno (University of Cambridge).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:15-14:15

Political Ecology Group meetings

Women, wellbeing and wildlife management areas in Tanzania

Professor Katherine Homewood, Dept of Anthropology, UCL.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

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

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Memories in the Skolt Sámi Area of the Arctic: Notes from a Visiting Artist

Tuuli Malla & Skolt Sámi Cultural Foundation.

Boardroom, Department of Architecture.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 17:30-19:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

'As Far North As Whale Hunters Go': The Medieval Arctic Environment, Experienced and Imagined

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough (Durham University).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Sophie Calle: Turning Love Backwards

Jezebel Mansell.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 13:10-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

MPhil Presentations

Eliska, Udayan, and Merel, University of Cambridge.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 04 March 2019, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Computer Vision

Professor Andrew Blake, Samsung AI Research Centre.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 01 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Prehistoric Land-Use History and Food Production in Early Agricultural Societies

Dr Nicki J. Whitehouse, University of Plymouth.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 01 March 2019, 13:15-14:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Partnerships in Mining: Stories, Emotions, and the Quest for Stable Relationships in the Greenlandic Mining Sector

Lill Rastad Bjørst (Aalborg University).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Solving Darwin’s 'abominable mystery': the evolution and development of nectar spurs

Ms Erin Cullen (Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 28 February 2019, 13:10-14:00

Quantitative History Seminar

Purchasing Paradise: gardens in the English economy, 1660-1815

Sir Roderick Floud.

Room 12, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:15-14:15

ERC Research Presentations, Department of Geography

Urban ecologies: governing nonhuman life in global cities

Dr Maan Barua, Department of Geography, Cambridge University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Creating a Commonwealth intelligence culture? Security sector reform and the politics of assistance in building the Tanzanian state, 1945-1989

Thomas Maguire.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Assembling Conservation as Territoriality in Timor-Leste.

Dr Alexander Cullen, Lecturer in Political Ecology, Geography Department, University of Cambridge..

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Bankers with different 'golden dreams': bank business models and the British money supply in the early Industrial Revolution.

Dr John Gent, KCL.

Darwin College, Old Library.

Monday 25 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The Origins of ‘Penitents’: The Socio-Economic Backgrounds of the Inmates in an English Anglican Magdalen Home, 1848-1914

Moritz Kaiser, University of Aberdeen.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 25 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Viewing the Universe

Dr Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 22 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

European building activity in times of crisis, 13th-17th centuries

Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist (Stockholm).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Evolution, development and function of flower patterns

Ms Alice Fairnie (Sainsbury Laboratory, Botanic Garden Cambridge).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 13:10-14:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

The freedom to act incompetently and the right to be fed suitably: Childhood and agency in the medieval English village

Miriam Müller (University of Birmingham).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 17:00-18:00

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

'If only this could be my last': new ideas about reducing family size during the demographic transition

Alice Reid (University of Cambridge).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:15-14:15

ERC Research Presentations, Department of Geography

ARCTIC CULT

Dr Richard Powell, Department of Geography, Cambridge University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

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

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

A tale of a Syrian city at war: destruction, resilience and memory in Homs

Ammar Azzouz, Arup.

Boardroom, Department of Architecture.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Game Theory and Anti-Microbial Resistance – Examining the Global Response to AMR

James Beringer.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 13:10-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Conflicts, State Growth and Economic Inequality in Pre-Industrial Germany, c. 1400-1618

Felix Schaff, London School of Economics.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 18 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Appearance and Physical Reality

Professor Carlo Rovelli, International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 15 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Iron, fire, steel and rust. Ferrous technology in pre-Roman Iberia: framing the problem

Dr. Marc Gener-Moret, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 15 February 2019, 13:15-14:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Roundtable discussion on "Gender in Polar Research"

Morgan Seag (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Genome sequencing paves the way for precision medicine in the NHS: the Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) point of view

Dr Stefan Gräf.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 13:10-14:00

Quantitative History Seminar

The return of regional inequality: Europe from 1900 to today

Nikolaus Wolf (Humboldt University Berlin).

Room 12, Faculty of History.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:15-14:15

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Knowledge, governance and scale in climate change litigation

Dr Joana Setzer, Grantham Institute, LSE.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Strategic Donor Competition in Foreign Aid - Evidence from a Spatial Panel Model for Sub-Saharan Africa

Luca Messerschmidt.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Engaging Conservation: Forest-Employed Villagers and Intervention Bureaucracies in Central India

Adam Runacres, UCL.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Taxes and growth: new narrative evidence from interwar Britain

Nicholas Dimsdale, University of Oxford.

Darwin College, Old Library.

Monday 11 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Consumption Change in the Early and Mid-Qing: A Case Study of the Lower Yangze Delta

Yitong Qiu, London School of Economics.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 11 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Vision of Future Technology

Ms Sophie Hackford, Futurist, co-founder 1715Labs.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 08 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Centenary Lecture Series, Department of Geography

Bloody Geography: injured bodies and the spaces of modern war

Professor Derek Gregory, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 17:00-18:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Hearing and seeing things that are not there: Quantifying brain structure related to hallucinations

Colleen Rollins (Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 13:10-14:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Visual Infrastructures: Lunchtime Film Screenings

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Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 07 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Neighbourhood, city and region: social networks on the margins of late medieval London

Charlotte Berry (Goldsmiths’ Company).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 06 February 2019, 17:00-18:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

City Seminar: Ariel Caine

Ariel Caine, Goldsmiths University (Forensic Architecture).

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Rhythm: A personal act of 'knowing'

Satinder Gill.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 13:10-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The Crisis of the Monetary System in Cromwellian Ireland

Christopher Whittel, University of Cambridge.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 04 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Evolution of the Eye

Professor Dan-Eric Nilsson, Lund University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 01 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

A Tale of Two (Bronze Age) Settlements: interpreting the faunal remains from development-led excavations

Vida Rajkovača, Project Officer and Zooarchaeologist, Cambridge Archaeological Unit.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 01 February 2019, 13:15-14:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Eric Williams and William Forbes: Copper, colonies, and the industrial revolution

Nuala Zahedieh (Edinburgh).

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 17:00-19:00

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Climate change and water security in Africa

Professor Declan Conway, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, The London School of Economics and Political Science.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 16:15-18:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Planet Nine: To Be or Not To Be

Mr Antranik A. Sefilian.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:10-14:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Visual Infrastructures: Lunchtime Film Screenings

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Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Antarctic Heritage and International Relations: Commemorating the Ross Sea Party

Bryan Lintott (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Mapping the knowledge landscape: rethinking adaptation to climate change in the Western Ghats

Dr Anshu Ogra, King's College London.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

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

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

The role of the Arctic in the development of Soviet climate science

Jon Oldfield (University of Birmingham).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Blockchain & crypto: A legal view

Ann Sofie Cloots.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Endangered genes and the International Seed Bank: conserving crop diversity after the Green Revolution

Dr Helen Curry, University of Cambridge.

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

The Scottish Ministers' Widows' Fund: the world’s first soundly-funded pension plan

David Pitt-Watson, Judge Business School.

Darwin College, Old Library.

Monday 28 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The spatial distribution of Italy's population and the emergence of Zipf's Law, 1861-1991

Andrea Ramazzotti, London School of Economics.

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 28 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Colour and Vision

Professor Anya Hurlbert, Newcastle University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 25 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Gorilla Society: investigating cooperation, territoriality and social support in our evolutionary cousins

Robin E Morrison (Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge).

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 24 January 2019, 13:10-14:00

Department of Geography - Distinguished International Fellows

Public Lecture: Can we save nature by selling it?

Professor Rebecca Lave, Indiana University.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

The medieval clothier

John Lee (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 17:00-18:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Physical Sciences Seminar

TBC

Poul Christoffersen (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, main lecture theatre.

Wednesday 23 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

City Seminar: Gruia Badescu

Gruia Badescu, University of Konstanz.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Bots at the Gate - The Human Rights Impacts of New Technologies on Migration

Petra Molnar.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Resilient Leadership: Place-Based Learning for Sustainable Transformation.

Ajay Rastogi, Director of the Foundation for Contemplation of Nature based in Central Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India..

Hardy Building 101 (first floor), Downing Site, Cambridge.

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The occupational structure of Chongqing in the Upper Yangzi Valley, China, 19th and 20th centuries

Ying Dai (University of Cambridge).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 21 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Visions

Professor Paul Fletcher, Cambridge Neuroscience.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 18 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

The Domestic Pig: Selective Breeding and Prevailing Tastes, Morphological and Genetic Variation over 100 Generations

Dr Ashleigh Haruda, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.

Seminar Room, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

Friday 18 January 2019, 13:15-14:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Test

Test.

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Friday 18 January 2019, 11:30-12:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Oil palm: what’s true and what’s to do?

Amelia Hood (Zoology Department, University of Cambridge).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Post-Arab Spring Tunis: Materialising Revolution in the City

Dena Qaddumi, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 15 January 2019, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Deadly Truths and Lively Tensions: Saving Nature in the Era of Post-Truth and Platform Capitalism

Bram Büscher, Professor and Chair of the Sociology of Development and Change group at Wageningen University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Geography Department, Cambridge.

Tuesday 11 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Inducements to technical innovation in the British Industrial Revolution: markets, materiality and the invention of the spinning jenny

Professor John Styles (University of Hertfordshire).

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

A tale of Terror and Erebus: international collaboration and competition in the search for Franklin’s lost expedition

Dr Nanna Kaalund (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 13:10-14:00

ERC Research Presentations, Department of Geography

Rethinking Urban Nature

Professor Matthew Gandy, Department of Geography, Cambridge University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

“From Your Sister’s Things…” Clothing Pins and Women’s Economic Agency across Early Second Millennium Anatolia and Assyria

Dr Nancy Highcock, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

From a white desert to a strategic resource: history of the commodification of the Uyuni salt flat in Bolivia

Daniela Sanchez-Lopez, University of Cambridge.

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Fieldwork Seminar: Methodologies in the 'field'

‘Doing’ comparative research in South Asia: Positionality, postcolonial cities and the making of urban place

Shreyashi Dasgupta, Centre of Development Studies.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The diffusion of mechanised technologies in the West Riding of Yorkshire textile industry c.1780­‐1911 and its impact on employment and wages

Alex Tertzakian (University of Cambridge).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 26 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Global Estimates of Marine Nitrogen Fixation based on a Non-Redfield Inverse Model

Prof. Francois Primeau (University of California Irvine, USA).

Latimer Room, Clare College.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 17:30-18:30

Centenary Lecture Series, Department of Geography

Climate Changed Urban Futures: imaginaries, experiments & justice in the Anthropocene city

Professor Harriet Bulkeley, Department of Geography, Durham University.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 17:00-18:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Movers and stayers: populations, movement and measurement in historical demography

Dr Eilidh Garrett (Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure).

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Neurons, Fake News, DNA and your iPhone: The Mathematics of Information

IOANNIS KONTOYIANNIS.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

The Economics of Right-Wing Populism

Valentina Ausserladscheider, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Inheritance law and the uniform civil code in India

Time and title to be confirmed. This talk will be held in conjunction with Cambridge University India Society (CUIS) and the Cambridge Society For Economic Pluralism (CSEP)

Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment University of Manchester.

To be confirmed.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 00:00-00:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Years of Turbulence, Years of Hope: Central African Copperbelt and the Industrial Development in Congo-Léopoldville and Zambia, from the Political Independence to the Economic Nationalization

Mostafa Abdelaal (University of Cambridge).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 19 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Conflict management in northern Europe, 1350-1570

Dr Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz (University of Amsterdam).

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Mechanism of transformation of neural stem cells by fusion onco-proteins.

Robert Kupp (CRUK Cambridge Institute / Oncology).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 13:10-14:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

Climate and human health in the last two millennia

Prof Hans Linderholm, University of Gothenburg.

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

Thursday 15 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Antarctic Mosaic: Integrating Science and History in the McMurdo Dry Valleys

Adrian Howkins (University of Bristol).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

The Degree of the Corporate-Level Re-Allocation of Resources in the Multi-Business Firm: Dynamism vs. Persistence

Niklas Lindlbauer, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Institutionalising environmental values and valuation into policy

Dr Jacob Phelps, Lecturer in Tropical Environmental Change and Policy, Lancaster University.

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

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

Fieldwork Seminar: Methodologies in the 'field'

Researching otherwise: some reflections on the decolonisation of research practice (and production of knowledge), beyond extractivism and epistemicide

Giulia Torino, Department of Architecture.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Brick and tile making in Athens, Greece, during 20th century

Michalis Bardanis (University of Ioannina, Greece).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 12 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

Is sea level rise accelerating and what are the implications for coastal flooding?

Dr Ivan Haigh, Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton at the University of Southampton.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 16:15-18:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Less meat, less heat: how can cafeterias increase vegetarian sales and reduce meat consumption?

Emma Garnett.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 13:10-14:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

City Seminar: Nicholas Simcik Arese

Nicholas Simcik Arese, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Room 1, Department of Architecture, 1-5 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 17:30-19:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

ERC ARCTIC CULT Launch Presentation

Richard Powell and project team (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Recognising books made in Cambridge: a University Library bookbindings project

Dr David Pearson, Senior Member, Darwin College.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Could ‘dark logic’ help to avoid causing harm in conservation interventions?

Peadar Brehony, University of Cambridge.

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

European integration and immigration policy, French and British experiences, 1976-1992

Yasmin Shearmur (University of Cambridge).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 05 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

A comprehensive climate history of the last 800,000 years and its application to ecological modelling

Dr Mario Krapp (Department of Zoology).

Cripps Meeting Room 3, Magdalene College.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Biomimetic surface engineering: manufacturing functional surfaces using digital processing technologies

James Macdonald.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 13:10-14:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

World Enough & Time: Tephrostratigraphy and Modern Human Evolution in Middle-Late Pleistocene East Africa

Dr Nick Blegen, University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 01 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

From animism to speculation: representations of geopower among the Dene of Tulita, Northwest Territories, Canada

Brice Perombelon (University of Oxford).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

The Environment of the Elizabethan House – Hardwick Hall

Professor Dean Hawkes, Emeritus Fellow, Darwin College.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Discussion of chapters from Steven Pinker's book "Enlightenment Now"

Professor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge.

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Fieldwork Seminar: Methodologies in the 'field'

Archival Methods Forum

Anne Alexander (CRASSH), Sebastian Haug, Phil Howell, Francesca Moore, Nida Rehman & Sipke Shaughnessy.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 10:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Obscenity and the Politics of Moral Regulation in China and Singapore, 1919-1937

Yushu Geng (University of Cambridge).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 29 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

Centenary Lecture Series, Department of Geography

Border crossings: geographies of class, gender, mobility and migration

Professor Linda McDowell, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford University.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 17:00-18:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Britain's wars with France, 1793-1815 and their contribution to the consolidation of the Industrial Revolution

Professor Patrick O’Brien (London School of Economics).

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Perovskite Solar Cells: Printing the future of photovoltaics

Stuart Macpherson (StranksLab, Optoelectronics group, Physics, University of Cambridge).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Bombarding with data? Drones, oil extraction and environmental justice in the Amazon

Note this talk will be held on a Wednesday, while ordinarily the Political Ecology talks are on a Tuesday.

Murat Arsel, Murat Arsel, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

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

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

City Seminar: Tim Edensor: Commemorating the Past in Stone: Destabilizing Melbourne's Memoryscape

Tim Edensor, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tuesday 23 October 2018, 17:30-19:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

The Crops, People and Pollinators project

Harriet Hunt.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 23 October 2018, 13:10-14:00

Fieldwork Seminar: Methodologies in the 'field'

Managing participation and relationships in the field

Tanvi Bhatkal, Department of Geography.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tuesday 23 October 2018, 11:00-12:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Industrial development paths from an evolutionary perspective: the Chinese case, 1998-2013

Yiwen Qiu (University of Cambridge).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 22 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Re-thinking the boundaries of dendrochronology

Prof. Ulf Buentgen (Department of Geography).

Cripps Auditorium, Magdalene College.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 17:30-18:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Opening the black box of the common-law legal regime: contrasts in the development of corporate law in Britain and the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Professor Naomi Lamoreaux (Yale University).

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Expanding the Genetic Code to Address Biomedical Challenges

Dr Charlie Morgan.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 13:10-14:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

Varves and tephras in the palaeoclimate record of the Dead Sea

Dr Ina Neugebauer, GFZ Potsdam (Visiting Scholar, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge) .

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

Thursday 18 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Counting Crime the Cambridge Way

Professor Larry Sherman, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge; Emeritus Fellow, Darwin College.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 16 October 2018, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Group discussion of decolonising conservation – based on a video of Paige West’s plenary session at this year’s Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) conference

Jose Chambers.

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 16 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

The Spinelli Family: A mid-sized Florentine firm’s response to the opening of the Americas and Cape Route trade, 1450-1520

Eleanor Russell (University of Cambridge).

Room 6, Faculty of History.

Monday 15 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

When Your Life Depends on It Extreme Decision making lessons from the Antarctic

Brad Borkan.

SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 11 October 2018, 18:00-19:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Women in banking: the introduction of the ‘Personal Banker’ at Barclays Bank in the 1970s

Dr Lucy Newton (University of Reading).

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 11 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Nano-photonics for better detection of toxic molecules in air

Dr Tanya Hutter (Chemistry Department, University of Cambridge).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 11 October 2018, 13:10-14:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

City Seminar - Raphael Susewind: Rifah-E Aam Club, Lucknow: Politics and Poetics of Publicness

Raphael Susewind, King's College London.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tuesday 09 October 2018, 17:30-19:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

BOOK LAUNCH: Studying Arctic Fields: Cultures, Practices, and Environmental Sciences

Richard Powell (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 09 October 2018, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

How did Dmitrii Mendeleev make his predictions?

Karoliina Pulkkinen, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 09 October 2018, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The production of an urban post-political ecology: Or, is the apocalypse really such a good thing?

Note this talk is unusually on a Monday, thereafter unless otherwise specified, PE talks will be on a Tuesday 1-2pm. As this is the first session of term, there will be a short introduction at the beginning.

Earl Harper, University of Bristol.

Room 101, Hardy Building, Department of Geography.

Monday 08 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Graduate Workshop in Economic and Social History

Patterns of female employment in the Pays de Caux and the Perche, 1792-1901

Auriane Terki-Mignot (University of Cambridge).

Room 5, Faculty of History.

Monday 08 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Divided Kingdom: inequalities in the UK since 1900

Professor Pat Thane (King’s College London).

Old Library, Darwin College.

Thursday 04 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Designing Ultra Low Power Sensor Interfaces for the Internet of Things

Dr Arokia Nathan (Cambridge Touch Technologies Ltd).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 04 October 2018, 13:10-14:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

Orbital-scale East Asian-Australian summer monsoon dynamics and a centennial earth magnetic reversal event at 98 ka

Chuan-Chou Shen, National Taiwan University.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Wednesday 03 October 2018, 11:00-12:00

Department of Geography - other talks

Pigs, Politics and Petroleum: Development, disruptive politics and disjunctures in Papua New Guinea's extractive sector

Professor Glenn Banks, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University, New Zealand.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Monday 27 August 2018, 14:00-15:00

Biogeography and Biogeomorphology - Department of Geography

Tidal flat morphodynamics: Sediment sorting, self-weight consolidation and marsh distribution

Dr Zeng Zhou, Associate Professor in Coastal Geomorphology, Hohai University, Nanjing, China.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Wednesday 11 July 2018, 11:00-12:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Singing in the Wilderness: Antarctic Sledging Songs of the 'Heroic Age'

Elizabeth Leane (University of Tasmania) and Carolyn Philpott (University of Tasmania).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 02 July 2018, 16:30-18:30

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

POLAR2018: Conversations and outcomes

Morgan Seag and Bryan Lintott (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 28 June 2018, 11:00-12:30

Winton Discussions

The impact of policy on the low-carbon transition: opening the black box of energy technologies

Professor Laura Diaz Anadon, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge.

Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

Tuesday 26 June 2018, 14:30-15:30

Biogeography and Biogeomorphology - Department of Geography

Lessons learnt from 100 years of coastal flooding in the UK

Dr Ivan Haigh, Associate Professor in Coastal Oceanography, University of Southampton.

Department of Geography, HB101.

Monday 25 June 2018, 12:00-13:00

Biogeography and Biogeomorphology - Department of Geography

Sentinel/Google Earth Engine users meeting

Ben Evans, Department of Geography.

Department of Geography, Seminar Room.

Thursday 21 June 2018, 12:00-14:00

Quantitative History Seminar

160 years of occupational structure: Late Imperial China and its regions

Note change of date

Cheng Yang (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Tuesday 19 June 2018, 16:00-17:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Local perceptions of Justice and Natural Resources in a Mexican fishing community

Karen Wong-Perez, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 19 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Winton Discussions

Hidden problems in the global wind industry

Dr Jim Platts, Institute of Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

Friday 15 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

The Polar Museum: Museum store tour and discussion

Alex Partridge (The Polar Museum).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Museum Store.

Thursday 14 June 2018, 11:00-12:30

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

‘We are tax-paying citizens, we deserve attention’: Karachi’s upper-middle class and the politics of governance

Dr Sobia Ahmad Kaker, Goldsmiths: University of London.

Hardy Building (Downing Site) Room 101.

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

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Screening of Ruth Maclennan's film: Call of North

Ruth Maclennan.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

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

Political Ecology Group meetings

Transforming global “win-win” discourse

Josie Chambers, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 12 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

"This isn’t South Africa" – on using the analytical tools of memory studies and transitional justice in Greenland

Astrid Nonbo Andersen (Danish Institute for International Studies) .

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 11:00-12:30

Biogeography and Biogeomorphology - Department of Geography

Sentinel/Google Earth Engine User meeting

Dr Harriet Allen (University of Camridge).

Department of Geography, HB101.

Wednesday 06 June 2018, 14:00-16:00

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

Environmental shocks and demographic consequences in England: 1280-1325 and 1580-1640 compared

Richard Smith (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Tuesday 05 June 2018, 16:00-17:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

Assemblages for sustainable development: omissions and transformations in Bolivia

Jessica Hope, University of Bristol.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 05 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Fieldwork Seminar: Methodologies in the 'field'

Asking about poverty and injustice: Managing others' expectations and keeping emotional health during fieldwork in Mexico

Karen Wong-Perez (Department of Geography).

HB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 05 June 2018, 11:00-12:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Cryolite Ghosts - histories of absence from Ivittuut

Stine Alling Jacobsen (University of Oslo).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Friday 01 June 2018, 11:00-12:30

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

The Kabyle Diaspora's Politics; Articulating Nativism and Indigeneity in France

Jonathan Harriss, University of Cambridge.

Hardy Building (Downing Site) Room 101.

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

Political Ecology Group meetings

Biodiversity offsetting, urbanization and the right to nature

Elia Apostolopoulou,University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 29 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Fieldwork Seminar: Methodologies in the 'field'

Doing social science in the most populated country in the world: how does one get representative results?

Yifu Wang (Department of Geography).

HB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 29 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Debtors’ schedules: a new source for understanding the economy in 18th-century England

Tawny Paul, University of Exeter, and Jeremy Boulton, Newcastle University.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 17:00-19:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Supposed-to-be-Land: Indigenous Tales of the Beaufort Sea

Peter Martin (University of Oxford).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 11:45-12:30

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Equal Opportunities on Ice: Sex discrimination legislation and British Antarctic science

Morgan Seag (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 11:00-11:45

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Lord, state and community elites in the late medieval and early modern village: the evidence of manorial officeholding

Spike Gibbs (University of Cambridge).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 17:00-18:00

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

New insights into historical plagues using GIS analysis: towards a retrodiagnosis of the unknown 1705 epidemic in Martigues (Bouches-du-Rhône, South of France)

Isabelle Séguy (French National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED)) .

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Tuesday 22 May 2018, 16:00-17:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Capitalism, Debt and Inequality

Dr Anthony Hotson (Centre for Financial History and Darwin College).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 22 May 2018, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Urban livestock keeping in Hanoi: policies, risks and benefits

Johanna Lindahl, Intl. Livestock Research Institute, Uppsala University.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 22 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Fieldwork Seminar: Methodologies in the 'field'

Dealing with insecurity in the field: reflections on fieldwork in Laikipia, Kenya

Sipke Shaughnessy (Department of Geography).

HB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 22 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

From Goethe to Macaques: What auctions can teach us about decision making

Mr Robert Hickman, Department of Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience, Univesity of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 13:10-14:00

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Trust and Safety: Data and the Business of Trust-Making

Dr Graham Denyer Willis, University of Cambridge.

Hardy Building (Downing Site) Room 101.

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

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

Population growth and female status in 19th century Southeast Asia: evidence from parish-level data for the Philippines

Jean-Pascal Bassino (Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Lyon; Lyons Institute of East Asian Studies).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 16:00-17:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Continental Drift: Is the Euro’s fixed exchange rate regime undermining cohesion policy?

Christopher Day (Dept. of Land Economy).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 13:10-14:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

The Eastern Sahara: From Holocene climate to prehistoric archaeology to the desert roots of Pharaonic civilisation and World Heritage

Stefan Kröpelin, University of Cologne.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Session on the Green Economy: How does politics and economics interact with respect to the environment?

Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge.

Alison Richard’s Building, S1, Sidgwick Site.

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 12:00-14:00

Fieldwork Seminar: Methodologies in the 'field'

Ñande reko: alterity and (non-)participatory research with guaraní women in Bolivia

Sibylla Warrington (Department of Geography).

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

Financial History Seminar

What would Keynes make of President Trump's economic policies?

Graham Turner, GFC Economics.

Darwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St).

Monday 14 May 2018, 17:00-18:30

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

'They don't know about the people who live here': Local non-participation in extractive resource management in Greenland

Nina Doering (University of Oxford).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 14 May 2018, 16:30-18:30

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Current MPhil dissertation research

Cameron Mackay (SPRI) and Jamie Sandall (SPRI).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Friday 11 May 2018, 11:00-12:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

The extreme seasonality of early modern casual labour and what it means for workers’ incomes: Sweden 1500-1830

Kathryn Gary, University of Lund.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 17:00-19:00

Geographies of Knowledge - Department of Geography

Space of Biodiversity Expertise

Geographies of Knowledge annual lecture

Professor Esther Turnhout, Professor in Forest and Nature Conservation Policy, Wageningen University.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Echo mapping the gravitational potential well of black holes

Dr William Alston, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 13:10-14:00

Medieval Economic and Social History Seminars

Fortunes of urban fullers in fourteenth-century England

Milan Pajic (University of Cambridge).

Walters Room, Selwyn College.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 17:00-18:00

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

Population and poverty in pre-famine Ireland

Note start time of 5pm

Alan Fernihough (Queen's University Belfast).

Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

Tuesday 08 May 2018, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

A Journey through Time: Revisiting the Landfalls of Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle

Prof David Catling (University of Washington).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 08 May 2018, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Managing telecoupled landscapes for the sustainable provision of ecosystem services and poverty alleviation

Julie Zaehringer, Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern.

Manatee Room, David Attenborough Building (DAB).

Tuesday 08 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Fieldwork Seminar: Methodologies in the 'field'

First year PhD Fieldwork Forum

Isabel Airas, Lander Bosch, Ed Bryan, Lucy Goodman, Debolina Majumder & Adam Searle.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tuesday 08 May 2018, 11:00-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Efficient derivatives pricing before Black, Scholes and Merton: evidence from the interwar London Metals Exchange

Dr Rasheed Saleuddin, UCL and Centre for Financial History.

Darwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St).

Monday 07 May 2018, 17:00-18:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

Contested ground: Agricultural improvement in Hatfield Level, 1625-1660

Eleanor Robson, University of Cambridge.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Design of novel hybrid foam materials for impact applications

Mr. Adam Boyce, Centre for Micromechanics, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 13:10-14:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

The plural parent system in Saami reindeer herding families

Vegard Nergård (UIT The Arctic University of Norway).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 11:00-12:30

Financial History Seminar

The Invention of Monetary Policy. Divergent Paths of Monetarist Experimentation in Switzerland and the UK

Dr Leon Wansleben, London School of Economics.

Castlereagh Room in the Fisher Building, St John’s College.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 16:00-18:30

Infrastructural Geographies - Department of Geography

Game of Homes: The Financialisation of Housing

Seminar co-hosted by Development Studies and the Infrastructural Geography TRG

Prof Manuel Aalbers.

S1 Alison Richard Building.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 12:15-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Language Games in the Periphery of European Chemistry

Karoliina Pulkkinen (HPS).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

The political ecology of voice (PEV) of oil company-community relations in Peru’s Loreto Region

Adrian Gonzalez, Royal Docks School of Business and Law, University of East London.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Fieldwork Seminar: Methodologies in the 'field'

Following those who follow mosquitoes

Nida Rehman, Department of Geography.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Record of abrupt changes of last climate cycle in European glacial dust deposits

Denis-Didier Rousseau - Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique & CERES-ERTI.

Bawden Room, West Court, Jesus College.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 17:30-18:30

Early Modern Economic and Social History Seminars

‘Women’, ‘Lads’ and ‘Copers’: Household, community, and the divisions of labour at the Derbyshire lead mines, c.1736-1765

Matthew Pawelski, University of Lancaster.

History Faculty Room 12.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 17:00-19:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Engineering mitochondrial DNA in the mouse germline using designer nuclease technology

Ms Beverly McCann, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 13:10-14:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Polar Social Sciences Workshop - Planning Discussion

Henry Anderson-Elliott (SPRI).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Seminar Room.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 11:00-12:30

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

GSI Seminar - Using stories in energy research: Snapshots of three approaches

Dr Rosie Robison, Dr Chris Foulds, Dr Mel Rohse (Global Sustainability Institute).

Coslett (COS207), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Tuesday 24 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - HCEP (Histories, Cultures, Environments and Politics) Research Seminars

Brand Antarctica: Advertising and the South

Hanne Nielsen (University of Tasmania).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Monday 23 April 2018, 16:30-18:30

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Cold cases in Antarctic history

Doors open 5.30pm

Dr. Ursula Rack.

SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 11 April 2018, 18:00-19:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

Debating Nature's Value Conference

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lord Ashcroft Building (LAB002), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Wednesday 11 April 2018, 09:30-19:00

Global Sustainability Institute Seminars & Events

GSI / Environmental Law seminar - Richard Buxton Law

Matthew McFeeley and Hannah Brown, claimant lawyer at Richard Buxton Environment and Public Law Firm.

Helmore (HEL113), Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

Tuesday 10 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute lecture series

Ireland’s Antarctic Explorers

doors open at 4pm

Michael Smith.

SPRI Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

Saturday 17 March 2018, 16:30-17:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Tuberculosis, Cancer & Gout: Archaeolgical evidence of disease from Medieval Cambridge

Dr Jenna Dittmar, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 15 March 2018, 13:10-14:00

Financial History Seminar

Bears, Bulls and Boers: Market Making and Southern African Mining Finance, 1894-1899

Professor Ian Phimister, University of the Free State.

Darwin College (Seminar Room, No. 1 Newnham Terrace - entrance via Porters Lodge on Silver St).

Tuesday 13 March 2018, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

On the climate change conversation

Dr Dan Jones, British Antarctic Survey.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 13 March 2018, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

To be confirmed

Bram Buscher.

Small Lecture Theatre (SLT), Department of Geography .

Tuesday 13 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Fieldwork Seminar: Methodologies in the 'field'

CANCELLED First year PhD student fieldwork seminar

Cancelled due to strike action

Geography PhD students.

TBC (Department of Geography).

Tuesday 13 March 2018, 11:00-00:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Animal Migration

Professor Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 09 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

Quantifying transport time and degradation of terrigenous organic carbon across the East Siberian Arctic shelf

Climate Environmental Dynamics Research Group Seminar

Lisa Bröder.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Friday 09 March 2018, 14:00-15:00

Fieldwork Seminar: Methodologies in the 'field'

Comparing what? Ethnography at the riverbanks and the potential of experimental comparison

Lucilla Barchetta (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy).

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Friday 09 March 2018, 11:00-12:00

Quaternary Discussion Group (QDG)

Recent developments and debates in East Asian monsoon palaeoclimatology

Barbara Maher, Lancaster University.

Latimer Room (Old Court), Clare College, Trinity Lane.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION Recent advances in understanding climate, glacier and river dynamics in high mountain Asia

Dr Walter Immerzeel, Faculty of Geosciences, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 16:15-18:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Physical Sciences Seminar

CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION Recent advances in understanding climate, glacier and river dynamics in high mountain Asia

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION

Walter Immerzeel, University of Utrecht.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 16:15-17:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

Combining models and data for improved understanding of Antarctic climate change

Dr Max Holloway, British Antarctic Survey.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Electoral intrigue, ethnic politics and the vibrancy of the Kenyan public sphere

Dr Stephanie Diepeveen, Department of Politics and International Studies.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 06 March 2018, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

To be confirmed

Jess Hope.

Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 06 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Fieldwork Seminar: Methodologies in the 'field'

CANCELLED Ñande reko: alterity and (non-)participatory research with guaraní women in Bolivia

Cancelled due to strike action

Sibylla Warrington (Department of Geography).

Seminar Room, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Tuesday 06 March 2018, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Migration in Science

Dr Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, PRS.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 02 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

Department of Geography - main Departmental seminar series

What sort of challenge is climate change? Fifty years of editorialising in ‘Nature’ and ‘Science’

Professor Mike Hulme, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Small Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 16:15-18:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Antibiotic resistance: The search for novel Lipoteichoic acid Synthase inhibitors

Mr Rohan Eapen, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 13:10-14:00

Climate and Environmental Dynamics - Department of Geography

Deep-water circulation changes lead North Atlantic climate during deglaciation

Francesco Muschitiello ( Department of Geography, University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 01 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Scott Polar Research Institute - Physical Sciences Seminar

CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION Concentrated, “pulsed” axial glacier flow: structural glaciological evidence from Kvíárjökull in SE Iceland

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION

Emrys Phillips, British Geological Survey, Edinburgh.

Ramsden Room, St Catharine's College.

Wednesday 28 February 2018, 16:30-17:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Mandatory Madness: Colonial Psychiatry and British Mandate Palestine, 1920-48

Chris Wilson, Faculty of History.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 27 February 2018, 13:10-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Biodiversity offsetting and the construction of "Equivalent natures": A Marxist critique

Elia Apostolopoulou, University of Cambridge .

HB101, Sir William Hardy Building Seminar Room, Department of Geography.

Tuesday 27 February 2018, 13:00-14:00