Hay Festival lectures
| Created: | 2013-06-04 08:26 |
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| Institution: | Office of External Affairs and Communications |
| Description: | The Hay Festival brings together writers from around the world to debate and share stories in the staggering beauty of the Welsh Borders. A host of Cambridge academics and alumni will speak about subjects ranging from obesity and smart drugs to US politics and domestic service at this year’s Hay Festival. 2013 is the fifth year that the University has run it Cambridge Series at the Hay Festival, one of the most prestigious literary events in the world. This year for the first time speakers include alumni such as Chris Blackhurst, editor of The Independent who will speak with Professor Simon Blackburn on the current crisis of trust in major institutions including the press, the police and parliament following a series of scandals. |
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Bad moves: how decision-making goes wrong
Professor Sahakian discusses the process of normal decision-making – our strategies, biases that affect us and influential factors. She will describe the abnormal patterns found...
Collection: Hay Festival lectures
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Tue 4 Jun 2013
Building the future
Dr Tim Minshall (Christ's 1993), University Senior Lecturer in Technology Management
Engineers are fantastic – they are the people who change the world. Engineers put a man on...
Collection: Hay Festival lectures
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Mon 10 Jun 2013
Do nice guys finish last – or first?
Simon Blackburn, Professor of Philosophy, and Chris Blackhurst, editor of The Independent
Trust in British public life has now reached catastrophically low levels for parliament,...
Collection: Hay Festival lectures
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Tue 4 Jun 2013
Equality
Jacqueline Scott, Professor of Sociology, in conversation with Gaby Hinsliff, author of Half a Wife
Despite much progress in the world of work, women are still often held back by...
Collection: Hay Festival lectures
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Tue 4 Jun 2013
Living with earthquakes: know your faults
James Jackson, Professor of Earth Sciences
Earthquakes in the last decade have revealed that rich nations have become very resilient in terms of loss-of-life, while much smaller...
Collection: Hay Festival lectures
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Tue 4 Jun 2013
Near and Distant Neighbours 1917–1989
Jonathan Haslam, Professor of the History of International Relations
The history of Russia’s Secret Services from the Revolution to the Fall of the Wall: the Military...
Collection: Hay Festival lectures
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Tue 4 Jun 2013
The future is nano
Sir Mark Welland, Professor of Nanotechnology
There's been a lot of hype about nanotechnology, but what is it and what is a realistic expectation of what it can do? Professor...
Collection: Hay Festival lectures
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Tue 4 Jun 2013
The lessons of the New Deal
Tony Badger, Paul Mellon Professor of American history and Master of Clare College
In 2009, as in 1933, a charismatic president succeeded a discredited president at a time of...
Collection: Hay Festival lectures
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Tue 4 Jun 2013
What is Britishness today?
Dame Fiona Reynolds (Newnham 1976), Master of Emmanuel College and former Director-General of the National Trust.
In a world of rapid change and global, multicultural influences...
Collection: Hay Festival lectures
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Mon 10 Jun 2013
What makes us fat?
Sadaf Farooqi, Professor of Metabolism and Medicine
In an age of obesity where sugary, fatty food is available 24/7, will it ever be possible to control our appetites? Professor...
Collection: Hay Festival lectures
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Tue 4 Jun 2013
“Only a pen can ease my pain”: voices from renaissance convents
Dr Abigail Brundin (Magdalene 1991), University Senior Lecturer in the Department of Italian, Pilkington Prize winner 2013
In C17th Italy, the number of girls and young women...
Collection: Hay Festival lectures
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Mon 10 Jun 2013