Darwin College Lecture Series

How the Cultural Revolution still shapes China

Ms Tania Branigan.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 08 March 2024, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Revolution by Natural Selection: a radical history of life from inside our cells

Professor Nick Lane, University College London.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 01 March 2024, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Worlds Turned Upside Down: Quiet Revolutions in Art

Professor Frances Spalding.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 23 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Exoplanet Revolution

Professor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 16 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

A Revolution in Thought? How hemisphere theory helps us understand the metacrisis

Dr Iain McGilchrist.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 09 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are Revolutions Justified?

Professor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 02 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Genetic Revolutions

Professor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 26 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

On the Disappointment of Revolutions

Professor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 19 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation of atomic mechanisms – the choreographer at play

Professor Sir Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 10 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Self-Imposed Isolation of North Korea

Professor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 03 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are we alone in the Universe?

Dr Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 24 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers

Professor Philip Jones, University College London.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 17 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Antarctica:Isolated Continent

Professor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 10 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Closeting of Secrets

Professor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 03 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Isolation of Asylum Seekers: immigration detention in Australia

Dr Amy Nethery, Deakin University.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 27 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

On Escaping or Not Escaping Solitude. Persian Tales of Turtles and Pearls

Professor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 20 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Political Economy of Conservation and Food Security

Professor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 11 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the Past

Professor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 04 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Cultural History

Dr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 25 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food as Expression

Mr Alex Rushmer, Chef.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 18 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

X-rays and Food Safety

Dr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 11 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food, Power and Society

Ms Sarah Mukherjee, IEMA.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 04 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan?

Professor Andrew Knight, University of Winchester.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 28 January 2022, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Climate Change

Professor Sarah Bridle, University of York.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 21 January 2022, 17:30-18:30

Modern and Medieval Languages Public Lectures

Cognitive Dissonance in a Literary Frame

Terence Cave, University of Oxford.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Philosophy Events

Existential Risk: Surviving the 21st Century

Huw Price, Martin Rees and Jaan Tallinn.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Wednesday 26 February 2014, 17:30-18:45

Cambridge Science Festival

Hidden in rock and frozen in time

Dr Eric Wolff, BAS; Dr Aradhna Tripati, Dept of Earth Sciences.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 14 March 2008, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Holidays beyond earth, the future of space tourism

Will Whitehorn, Virgin Galactic; Duncan Law-Green, National Space Centre.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Thursday 13 March 2008, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge Science Festival

Do hormones in the womb affect how your brain develops?

Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Autism Research Centre.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Monday 10 March 2008, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Science Festival

The big experiment

Dr Peter Wothers, Department of Chemistry.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Monday 10 March 2008, 18:00-19:00

Tanner Lectures

Medicine, Neuroscience, Ethics and Society

Important: Registration is required for Monday's talk given by Prof. Illes and Lord Winston. To register for tickets, please email Clare Hall's Alumni Officer at rw335@cam.ac.uk

Professor Judith Illes and Professor Lord Robert Winston.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Monday 22 October 2007, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Who Do You Think You Are?

Dr Wolf Reik.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Monday 19 March 2007, 19:30-20:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Comic Relief Charity Concert

Songs for Cynical Scientists (and Non-Scientists!)

Prof Ron Laskey and Friends (MRC Cambridge).

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 16 March 2007, 17:30-18:30

Cambridge Science Festival

Science in the Real World and Stem Cell Science

Professor Colin Blakemore and Professor Austin Smith.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Thursday 15 March 2007, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Science Festival

The Importance of Being Peripheral

Professor John Barrow.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Wednesday 14 March 2007, 19:30-20:30

Cambridge Institute for Language Research events

The Life History of a Sound Change

Professor William Labov (University of Pennsylvania).

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Monday 05 March 2007, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Institute for Language Research events

Real and apparent time: evidence from language change across the lifespan

Professor Gillian Sankoff (University of Pennsylvania).

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Monday 05 March 2007, 14:00-15:30