What's On?

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6 February 2012 - 12 February 2012
 
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Professor Dirk Uffelmann (University of Passau)
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Professor Dirk Uffelmann (University of Passau)
Monday, 6 February
CRASSH Visiting Fellow Professor Dirk Uffelman presents his work in progress.
The Rhetoric of Selfishness and Selflessness: Moral Judgments about Family Formation, Practices and Dissolution.
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The Rhetoric of Selfishness and Selflessness: Moral Judgments about Family Formation, Practices and Dissolution.
Monday, 6 February
Afternoon session. Discussion Group. Part of the CIRF series
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Publishing an Academic Monograph
Monday, 6 February
A panel session for postdocs about the various stages of getting their first monograph published
Sibyl and the Elder: Women addressing the system. Has it changed?
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Sibyl and the Elder: Women addressing the system. Has it changed?
Monday, 6 February
Humanitas Visiting Professor in Women's Rights 2012: Baroness Helena Kennedy. A review of women and the law from victims, defendants and law's users to practioners and judges.
La Place de la Bastille and the Place of Cultural Topography
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La Place de la Bastille and the Place of Cultural Topography
Monday, 6 February
Professor Keith Reader (University of Glasgow). Part of the Screen Media Group series.
Advertising
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Advertising
Tuesday, 7 February
Dr Philippa Hubbard (Adam Matthew Digital) and Jenny Basford (University of York). Part of the Things: Material Cultures of the Long 18th Century seminar series.
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Cambridge Psychoanalysis Reading Group
Tuesday, 7 February
Brimmers and Boozers: Materialities, Identities, and the Politics of Drinking in Early Modern England
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Brimmers and Boozers: Materialities, Identities, and the Politics of Drinking in Early Modern England
Tuesday, 7 February
Angela McShane (History of Design, Royal College of Art/V&A Museum). Discussant: Dr David Hancock (History, Michigan University). Part of Food and Drink Network series. NB: The group meets on a different date and time
The Late Antique City: Models of Change
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The Late Antique City: Models of Change
Tuesday, 7 February
Dr Luke Lavan (Kent). Part of the Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar series.
Wounded Cities
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Wounded Cities
Tuesday, 7 February
Dr Karen E. Till (National University of Ireland Maynooth). Part of the City Seminar series
Women’s Rights and Women’s Woes: Who says human rights are universal?
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Women’s Rights and Women’s Woes: Who says human rights are universal?
Tuesday, 7 February
Humanitas Visiting Professor in Women's Rights 2012: Baroness Helena Kennedy. A look at the challenge of cultural difference to universality.
Money, Debt, and the American Empire, c. 1971-2012
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Money, Debt, and the American Empire, c. 1971-2012
Wednesday, 8 February
Professor Richard Drayton (King’s College London). Part of the Market Square PESCRG seminar series
Topic: Responsibility to Protect and Regimes of Accountability
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Topic: Responsibility to Protect and Regimes of Accountability
Wednesday, 8 February
Dr Sharath Srinivasan (Director, Center of Governance and Human Rights, Cambridge) and Dr Alan Keenan (Sri Lanka Project Director and Senior Analyst, International Crisis Group). Part of Between Civilisation and Militarisation seminar series.
CANCELLED-The Preservation of Fragile Irish Language Speaking Communities as Sustainable Language Communities
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CANCELLED-The Preservation of Fragile Irish Language Speaking Communities as Sustainable Language Communities
Wednesday, 8 February
Éamon Ó Cuív T.D., Part of the CELC seminar series. Due to unexpected circumstances this seminar has been cancelled.
Cambridge University Environmental Consulting Society: GreenLeague Table Decomposed
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Cambridge University Environmental Consulting Society: GreenLeague Table Decomposed
Thursday, 9 February
Dr Ben Russell (Cambridge Centre for Micromechanics CCM), other speakers tbc. Part of the GreenBRIDGE seminar series.
Ethics at the Intersection of Philosophy and Anthropology
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Ethics at the Intersection of Philosophy and Anthropology
Thursday, 9 February
A Mellon Teaching Seminar
Bought and Sold: Women and the Global Market
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Bought and Sold: Women and the Global Market
Thursday, 9 February
Humanitas Visiting Professor in Women's Rights 2012: Baroness Helena Kennedy. A look at the impact of globalisation on women from sex trafficking to domestic servitude to migrant labour and other forms of exploitation.
Nationalism and the City
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Nationalism and the City
Friday, 10 February to Saturday, 11 February
This conference will move to ‘re-centre’ the urban in theories of nations and nationalism, facilitating a dialogue across disciplines to address the many layers of what has been described as ‘the urban palimpsest’.