Political Ecology Group meetings

Leveraging cultural and scientific knowledge and practices for environmental conservation in Tali, Bhutan

Bruce Huett and Riamsara Knapp.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 19 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

How complex can this be? Let me introduce you to the Haft Paykar, a narrative poem composed in Persian by the giant poet Nizami of Ganja (12th C. AD)

Cristine van Ruymbeke, Soudavar Professor of Persian Literature and Culture Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Graduate Tutor and College Praelector of Darwin College.

Darwin College, Richard King Room.

Tuesday 19 October 2021, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

TDP-43 amyloids in neurodegenerative diseases

Dr Diana Arseni MRC-LMB.

King Richard Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Ice-geographies: Race, Indigeneity, and Coloniality

Jen Rose Smith, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Zoom.

Thursday 21 October 2021, 15:00-16:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Euro-American abolitionism in the African mirror

Benedetta Rossi, University College London.

History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 21 October 2021, 17:15-18:45

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

New Directions in Coastal and Underwater Geoarchaeology.

Email organisers for zoom link: rkb34@cam.ac.uk

Ruth Shahak-Gross, University of Haifa.

Online via zoom.

Friday 22 October 2021, 13:15-14:00

Black in Geography student led talks

Black in Geography Friday 22 October 4pm BST Black History Month Panel: Centring Blackness through Access and Research Practice

Dr. Jovan Scott Lewis (University of California Berkeley) and Cynthia Nkiruka Anyadi (Royal Holloway, University of London).

Zoom.

Friday 22 October 2021, 16:00-17:30

Political Ecology Group meetings

One Table Two Elephants

Dr. Alex Cullen.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 26 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Problematising Space: Caring for People

Dr Ariane Hanemaayer (CRASSH).

Darwin College, Richard King Room.

Tuesday 26 October 2021, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Hunting for new particles with ATLAS at the Large Hadron Collider

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

Ben Hodkinson, Experimental High Energy Physics.

King Richard Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 28 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

The Arctic at the End of the World: Hannah Arendt and the Narration of Apocalypse

Stephen Lezak, University of Cambridge (SPRI).

Zoom.

Thursday 28 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

pmh1000's list

Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene

Professor Nayanika Mathur, University of Oxford.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82075862878?pwd=WmVsWUFJTjNmaW0vd1hLc1BxcURUQT09 Meeting ID: 820 7586 2878 Passcode: 066892.

Thursday 28 October 2021, 16:00-17:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Whitehall and the problem of public service in nineteenth-century institutional reform

Ian Cawood, University of Stirling.

History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 28 October 2021, 17:15-18:45

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Specialized aquatic animal exploitation at Nahal Ein Gev II, Israel and the division of labor at the Epipaleolithic-Neolithic crossroads

Email organisers for zoom link: rkb34@cam.ac.uk

Natalie Munroe, University of Connecticut.

Online via zoom.

Friday 29 October 2021, 13:15-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

RAI Anthropology & Conservation conference debrief

Speaker to be confirmed.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 02 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Transitioning to just and sustainable cities

Dr Manu Sasidharan.

Darwin College, Richard King Room.

Tuesday 02 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

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

The ‘Origins of the Inuit’: Indigenous Marginalisation within a Transnational Debate

Peter Martin (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 02 November 2021, 16:30-18:00

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Humans think through and with materials. So what?

Email organisers for zoom link: med30@cam.ac.uk

Maikel Kuijpers, Leiden University.

Online via zoom.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

pmh1000's list

Veganism, Archives, and Animals: Geographies of a Multispecies World

Dr Catherine Oliver, University of Cambridge.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84036973246?pwd=TXhtRFg5RWcyd3dhUy9YYTVlREpMZz09 Meeting ID: 840 3697 3246 Passcode: 358721.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 16:30-17:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Railways, divergence, and structural change in nineteenth-century England and Wales

Xuesheng You, University of Swansea.

History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 04 November 2021, 17:15-18:45

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Practices, techniques and productions of a brass founder in a 15th century Brussels workshop

Email organisers for zoom link: med30@cam.ac.uk

Lise Saussus, University of Louvain.

Online via zoom.

Friday 05 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Strange Natures

Prof. Bill Adams.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 09 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Thinking about action in Early Greek Philosophy (and medicine).

Zoë Audra, PhD student in the Classics faculty..

Darwin College, Richard King Room.

Tuesday 09 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

Madeleine Emms.

King Richard Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

What is left unsaid within images of the aurora borealis? The use of linguistic strategies in deciphering the ‘Flaming Letters on the Dark Vault of Night’ in the First International Polar Year (1882-3)

Fiona Amery, University of Cambridge.

Zoom.

Thursday 11 November 2021, 14:00-15:30

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Tropical development

Tirthankar Roy, London School of Economics.

History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 11 November 2021, 17:15-18:45

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Understanding human adaptation from modern and ancient DNA sequences

5pm start. Email organisers for zoom link: ram88@cam.ac.uk

Rasmus Nielsen, University of California Berkely.

Online via zoom.

Friday 12 November 2021, 17:00-17:45

Political Ecology Group meetings

Urban Political Ecology

Dr. Kate Meehan.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Counterspeech: can and should we automate it?

Dr Stefanie Ullmann (CRASSH).

Darwin College, Richard King Room.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Making money in the early Middle Ages

Rory Naismith, Cambridge.

History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 18 November 2021, 17:15-18:45

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

A Genomic History of Britain

Email organisers for zoom link: ram88@cam.ac.uk

David Reich, Harvard Medical School.

Online via zoom.

Friday 19 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Situating mental health within the nature-climate-wellbeing triple challenge: Evidence from rural Uganda

Thomas Pienkowski.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 23 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Trauma Apps and the Making of the 'Smart' Refugee.

Maha Abdelrahman, Professor of Development Studies and Middle East Politics.

Darwin College, Richard King Room.

Tuesday 23 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Past ice sheet evolution: West Antarctica during warm climate intervals

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. Looking forward to seeing you there.

Lara Perez, British Antarctic Survey.

King Richard Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 25 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Short film discussion session: Utuqaq

Speaker to be confirmed.

Zoom.

Thursday 25 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

The Atlantic slave system and skills in industrialising Britain

Nuala Zahedieh, Cambridge.

History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 25 November 2021, 17:15-18:45

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Under the Surface: X-ray Imaging in the British Museum

Email organisers for zoom link: med30@cam.ac.uk

Dan O'Flynn, British Museum.

Online via zoom.

Friday 26 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

Political Ecology Group meetings

Talk by Annette Green

Annette Green.

Delivered online via Zoom.

Tuesday 30 November 2021, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

War, COVID-19 and the national debt.

Dr Duncan Needham - Dean and Senior Tutor, Darwin College - Director, Centre for Financial History.

Online (ask organizers for link).

Tuesday 30 November 2021, 13:15-14:00

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

Defence and Security in the Arctic

Duncan Depledge (Loughborough University).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 30 November 2021, 16:30-18:00

Core Seminar in Economic and Social History

Locating cryptocurrencies in the Western legal tradition

David Fox.

History Faculty Room 6, and online via zoom (for login details sign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk).

Thursday 02 December 2021, 17:15-18:45

Pitt-Rivers Archaeological Science Seminar Series

Palaeoproteomic analyses of dog palaeofaeces reveal a preserved dietary and host digestive proteome

Email organisers for zoom link: mae52@cam.ac.uk

Anne Kathrine Runge, University of York.

Online via zoom.

Friday 03 December 2021, 13:15-14:00

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

Denmark's Arctic foreign policy: regional ambitions and complications of the realm

Marc Jacobsen (Carlsberg Foundation's Internationalisation Fellow) .

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 07 December 2021, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Climate Change

Professor Sarah Bridle, University of Manchester.

Online.

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

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

The changing world of reindeer: People, climate and forests in Northern Fenno-Scandia

Ilona Kater (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 25 January 2022, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan?

Professor Andrew Knight, University of Winchester.

Online.

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

Financial History Seminar

Nixon

Dr Nigel Bowles (University of Oxford).

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

Monday 31 January 2022, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food, Power and Society

Ms Sarah Mukherjee, Journalist.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

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

Singing the Universe: Kant’s aesthetic and indigenous Siberian pop

Eleanor Peers (University of Cambridge).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

X-Ray Inspection of Food

Mr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Financial History Seminar

Who finances the financiers? Twenty years of HM Treasury resource accounts

Mario Pisani (HM Treasury).

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

Monday 14 February 2022, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food as Expression

Mr Alex Rushmer, Chef.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

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

Financial History Seminar

Protectionism, deindustrialisation and European integration: the crisis of British Keynesianism since the 1970s

Dr Colm Murphy (Institute of Historical Research).

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

Monday 28 February 2022, 17:00-18:30

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

Utopian Ambitions in the High Arctic at Resolute Bay

Alan Marcus (University of Aberdeen).

Scott Polar Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 01 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeology and the History of Food

Professor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 04 March 2022, 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

Financial History Seminar

The Global Financial Crisis and its aftermath: a perspective from fiction

Dr Linda Arch (ICMA, University of Reading).

John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom.

Monday 14 March 2022, 17:00-18:30