Madingley Lectures

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Created: 2013-03-07 15:04
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Description: A series of free public lectures given by leading authorities in their fields. The lectures take place at Madingley Hall, home of the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education (ICE). The Madingley Lectures are an important part of ICE's commitment to public engagement.
 

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Ann Cotton OBE: The justice and imperative of girls' education in Africa

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Ann Cotton OBE, Founder and Executive Director of Camfed International, delivers a public lecture at Madingley Hall on 5 March 2012.

The lecture is chaired by Dr Kate Pretty,...

Collection: Madingley Lectures

Institution: Institute of Continuing Education

Created: Wed 23 May 2012


Baroness Deech: Playing God: who should regulate reproductive medicine?

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Baroness Deech, Chair of the Bar Standards Board, delivers a public lecture at Madingley Hall on 3 October 2011.

The lecture is chaired by Professor Gordon Smith, Head of the...

Collection: Madingley Lectures

Institution: Institute of Continuing Education

Created: Wed 19 Oct 2011


Dr Francis Warner: Armageddon and faith: a survivor's meditation on the Blitz

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Dr Francis Warner, Honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, delivers the second Madingley Lecture at the Institute of Continuing Education on 19 February 2011.

The...

Collection: Madingley Lectures

Institution: Institute of Continuing Education

Created: Fri 25 Feb 2011


Dr Simon Thurley: Saving the past: the politics of preservation since 1997

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Dr Simon Thurley, Chief Executive of English Heritage delivers a public lecture at Madingley Hall on 14 July 2011.

The lecture is chaired by Dr Frank Salmon, Head of the...

Collection: Madingley Lectures

Institution: Institute of Continuing Education

Created: Mon 15 Aug 2011


Lord Rees: Life in the cosmos

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Lord Rees, Astronomer Royal and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, delivers the inaugural Madingley Lecture on 10 January 2011.

The lecture is chaired by Sir Leszek...

Collection: Madingley Lectures

Institution: Institute of Continuing Education

Created: Tue 1 Feb 2011


Professor Andrew Balmford: Nature's glass: half-full or half-empty?

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Professor Andrew Balmford, Professor of Conservation Science at the University of Cambridge, delivers a public lecture at Madingley Hall on 8 October 2012.

The lecture is...

Collection: Madingley Lectures

Institution: Institute of Continuing Education

Created: Mon 22 Oct 2012


Professor Colin McGinn: The science of philosophy

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Professor Colin McGinn, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami, delivers a public lecture at Madingley Hall on 19 November 2012.

The lecture is chaired by Professor...

Collection: Madingley Lectures

Institution: Institute of Continuing Education

Created: Thu 22 Nov 2012


Professor David Spiegelhalter: Communicating risk and uncertainty

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Professor David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at the University of Cambridge delivers a public lecture at Madingley Hall on 3 May...

Collection: Madingley Lectures

Institution: Institute of Continuing Education

Created: Thu 16 Jun 2011


Professor Simon Goldhill: Victorian desire and the classical body

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Professor Simon Goldhill, Director of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge, delivers a public lecture at...

Collection: Madingley Lectures

Institution: Institute of Continuing Education

Created: Mon 5 Mar 2012


Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz: Challenges of global health

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Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, delivers a public lecture at Madingley Hall on 24 November 2011.

The lecture is chaired by Dr...

Collection: Madingley Lectures

Institution: Institute of Continuing Education

Created: Thu 12 Jan 2012


Professor William Brown: How might we protect the wages of the weak?

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Professor William Brown, Montague Burton Professor of Industrial Relations at the University of Cambridge, delivers a public lecture at Madingley Hall on 20 June 2012.

The...

Collection: Madingley Lectures

Institution: Institute of Continuing Education

Created: Mon 9 Jul 2012


Professor Steven Connor: Quantum writing: literature and the world of numbers

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Professor Steven Connor, Grace 2 Professor of English at the University of Cambridge, delivers a public lecture at Madingley Hall on 13 June 2013.

The lecture is chaired by...

Collection: Madingley Lectures

Institution: Institute of Continuing Education

Created: Fri 5 Jul 2013


Professor Alison Sinclair: What’s wrong with wrongdoing?

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Professor Alison Sinclair, Professor of Modern Spanish Literature and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge, delivers a public lecture at Madingley Hall on 23...

Collection: Madingley Lectures

Institution: Institute of Continuing Education

Created: Tue 5 Nov 2013


What do we mean by 'music'? Talk by Professor Ian Cross

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Professor Ian Cross, Director of the Centre for Music and Science at the University of Cambridge, delivers a public lecture at Madingley Hall on 6 May 2014.

Since 1980 Prof...

Collection: Madingley Lectures

Institution: Institute of Continuing Education

Created: Tue 29 Jul 2014


Why is modern poetry difficult? Talk by Professor Geoff Ward

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Professor Geoff Ward, Principal of Homerton College Cambridge, delivers a public lecture at Madingley Hall on 3 March 2015. In it he tries to get to the source of the discomfort...

Collection: Madingley Lectures

Institution: Institute of Continuing Education

Created: Tue 24 Mar 2015


If Donald Rumsfeld were a scientist: talk by Professor Stephen Emmott

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Professor Stephen Emmott, Head of Computational Science at Microsoft Research Cambridge and author of '10 Billion', delivers a public lecture at Madingley Hall on 2 April...

Collection: Madingley Lectures

Institution: Institute of Continuing Education

Created: Thu 24 Apr 2014


Professor Nicola Clayton and Clive Wilkins: Imagination: the door to identity

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Professor Nicola Clayton and Clive Wilkins, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, deliver a public lecture at Madingley Hall on 21 January 2014.

The lecture is...

Collection: Madingley Lectures

Institution: Institute of Continuing Education

Created: Fri 21 Mar 2014


Superconductors are not just for MRI: talk by Professor David Cardwell

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Professor David Cardwell, Head of the Department of Engineering at Cambridge, delivers a public lecture at Madingley Hall on 11 May 2015. In it he describes the properties of...

Collection: Madingley Lectures

Institution: Institute of Continuing Education

Created: Fri 22 May 2015


The glass closet: why coming out is good business. Talk by Lord Browne

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Lord Browne of Madingley, Member of the House of Lords and former Chief Executive of BP, delivers a public lecture at Madingley Hall on 8 October 2014.

John Browne (Lord Browne...

Collection: Madingley Lectures

Institution: Institute of Continuing Education

Created: Tue 28 Oct 2014


Darwin in public and private: talk by Dr Alison Pearn

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Dr Alison Pearn, Associate Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project, delivers a public lecture at Madingley Hall on 2 July 2015. In it she argues that putting the public...

Collection: Madingley Lectures

Institution: Institute of Continuing Education

Created: Thu 16 Jul 2015


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