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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Darwin College Sciences Group

Title to be confirmed

David Furman.

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

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

Polar Humanities and Social Sciences ECR Workshop

Title to be confirmed

Iqra Choudhury (University of Manchester).

Zoom.

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

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

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Battle Blood

Dr Claire Roddie, UCL.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 22 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

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

Captive polar bears: politics, (re)production, and performance

Henry Anderson-Elliott (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Tuesday 26 January 2021, 16:00-17:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England

Dr Sara Read, Loughborough University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 29 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

Financial History Seminar

The Great Demographic Reversal: ageing societies, waning inequality, and an inflation

Professor Charles Goodhart (LSE) and Dr Manoj Pradhan (Talking Heads Macro).

Zoom.

Monday 01 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood in Motion: The Physics of Blood Flow

Professor Tim Pedley, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 05 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

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

Defence and Security in the Arctic: The UK perspective

Duncan Depledge (Loughborough University).

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 February 2021, 16:00-17:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Dracula, Vampires and the New Woman

Professor Carol Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 12 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Financial History Seminar

'Where's the money coming from?' Manifesto costings and fiscal credibility in British general elections, 1955-2019

Dr Peter Sloman (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Monday 15 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Bloodlines of the British

Professor Sir Walter Bodmer, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 19 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood villains and heros

Ms Rose George, Journalist.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 26 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Financial History Seminar

Poland, the international monetary system and the Bank of England, 1921–1939

William Allen (National Institute of Economic and Social Research).

Zoom.

Monday 01 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Cold Blood

Professor Stuart Egginton, University of Leeds.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 05 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

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

Change, continuity and value in Svalbard

Samantha Saville (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 16:00-17:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood Sculptures

Mr Marc Quinn, Artist.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 12 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

Financial History Seminar

HM Treasury and its management of the Financial Crisis, 2007-2009

Dr Eleanor Hallam, HM Treasury and Centre for Financial History.

Zoom.

Monday 15 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Financial History Seminar

The landed gentry in British politics after World War II: from taxed decadence to subsidized cultural heritage

Dr Jenny Pleinen, German Historical Institute London.

Zoom.

Monday 03 May 2021, 17:00-18:30

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

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

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

Zoom.

Tuesday 11 May 2021, 16:00-17:30