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Weekly talks from a wide range of topics. Wednesdays during full term, 13.00-14.00.

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Lunchtime Seminar - Hearing and Seeing Music in Early Twentieth Century Algeria

UserDr Stephen Wilford, Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson/Research Associate, Faculty of Music.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Lunchtime Seminar - Examining the racial discourses of the UK's widening participation policy agenda.

UserSharon Walker, PhD Student, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Lunchtime Seminar - Keeping our infrastructure safe: cracks, hydrogen embrittlement and other material degradation challenges.

UserDr Emilio Martínez-Pañeda, 1851 Research Fellow. Cambridge University, Engineering Department. Wolfson JRF.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Lunchtime Seminar - Learning to Gamble in the Pacific Islands

UserDr Anthony Pickles, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Social Anthropology and JRF, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Lunchtime Seminar - The Wandering Brother: Possession and dispossession in the homeland

UserAnnie Zaidi, Nine Dots Prize Fellow CRASSH and Visiting Fellow Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Lunchtime Seminar - The contradictions of the authoritarian developmental state: energy boom and bureaucratic autonomy in Rwanda

UserDr Benjamin Chemouni, JRF Wolfson College, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Department of Politics and International Studies.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Lunchtime Seminar - The Odyssey of eighteenth-century scholarship and the entangled emergence of the Enlightenment

UserDr Jeffrey D Burson, Associate Professor French History at Georgia Southern University.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 16 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

How (Not) To Write Literary Biography: The Case of Michael Arlen

UserDr Philip Ward, Senior Member, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 12 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Amorphous Carbon and Graphene for Advanced Memory Applications

UserDr Anna Ott, Cambridge Graphene Centre, Electrical Engineering Division, University of Cambridge; JRF at Wolfson.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 05 June 2019, 13:00-14:00

Two Trials: Law and Memory after Argentina’s Dictatorship

UserRam Natarajan, Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College; Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Arkansas.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 29 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Empathy and Justice in the Era of the Financial Crisis

UserTammy Amiel Houser, Senior Lecturer, The Open University of Israel and currently Visiting Scholar in the English Faculty at Cambridge University and VCRA Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 22 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Human-like Computing: The importance of explanation in Artificial Intelligence (AI)

UserDr Zohreh Shams, Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 15 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Mindfulness meditation training for mental health promotion: the good, the bad and the ugly

UserDr Julieta Galante, Postdoctoral Fellow at Department of Psychiatry, JRF at Wolfson.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

'Ordering Disorder': War, Migration and Urban Space in Delhi, 1939-1955

UserDr Anjali B Datta, Leverhulme Early career Fellow, Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 01 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cool liquid crystals

UserGuillaume Nataf, 1851 Research Fellow, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Towards a socially conscious evolutionary science of culture

UserAzita Chellappoo PhD candidate, Department of History & Philosophy of Science, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

From Cambridge Classicists to Japanese Code Breakers: How the British trained wartime Japanese linguists

UserKayoko Takeda Professor, College of Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Mapping imperial edges: the French & the British in Southeast Asia, 1885-1914

UserMarie de Rugy JRF Wolfson College / British Academy Newton International Fellow.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

From Redemption to Revolution: junk art and black power in 1960s California

UserDanny Widener, Visiting Fellow, CRASSH / University of California, San Diego,.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

CRISPR, the next generation of medicines

UserAlasdair Russell, Head, Pre-Clinical Genome Editing, CRUK Cambridge Centre.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Bullying & Cyberbullying: protective factors and effective interventions

UserIzabela Zych, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Cordoba (Spain).

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Dr Pamela Jane Smith: Dorothy Garrod's experience

UserDr Pamela Jane Smith Fellow McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Professor Bjorn Basberg: Two Strategies - C.A.Larsen and Chr. Christensen: a comparative analysis of two Antarctic Entrepreneurs

UserProfessor Bjorn Basberg, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College and Professor in Economic History, NHH Norwegian School of Economics .

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Dr Carolina Armenteros: Looking for the Vedas -The Jesuits' India Missions and the Invention of Anthropology

UserDr Carolina Armenteros, Visiting Fellow Wolfson College and Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Santo Domingo.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Dr Olga Petri: Canaries in Imperial St Petersburg

UserDr Olga Petri, Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College and Leverhulme/Newton Trust Early Career Research Fellow, Department of Geography Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 31 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Dr Ursula Bsees: Scholars at the periphery: Text production and the transmission of knowledge in Early Islamic Egypt (7th-10th centuries)

UserDr Ursula Bsees , Visiting College Research Associate Wolfson College and Erwin Schroedinger Postdoctoral Scholar Austrian Science Fund.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Dr Yara E Sanchez Corrales: How do cells form tubular organs?

UserDr Yara E Sanchez Corrales, College Research Associate, Wolfson College and MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Dr Tom Schirris: How drugs affect and enter our cellular power plant.

UserDr Schirris is a Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College and EMBO Post- doctoral Fellow, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Finding the past: Medieval coin finds at the Fitzwilliam Museum

UserDr Martin Allen (Fitzwilliam Museum and Wolfson College).

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 20 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

A cocoon of meaning. Person-Time-Place-Occasion Symbolism in Kimono

User Dr Corinne Duhig, College Research Associate, Wolfson College.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 13 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Reforming the police from the 'Inside out'

UserSir Denis O'Connor, College Research Associte, Wolfson College, and Affiliated Lecturer, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 06 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Using basic science to develop psychological treatments for depression

UserDr Caitlin Hitchcock, Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, and Clinical Psychologist and Senior Scientist, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 30 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Reconciling conservation and development at the forest agricultural nexus: insights from the forested tropics

*Please note the change of venue for this event

UserRachel Carmenta, Frank Jackson Research Fellow, Wolfson College and University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute (UCCRI).

HouseOld Combination Room (OCR), Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Umbrella Man: Appeasement and Neville Chamberlain eighty years after Munich

UserProfessor Tony Lentin, Senior Member, Wolfson College, and author.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 16 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Unveiling the hidden lives of stars

User Dr Ghina Halabi Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, and Postdoctoral Research Associate Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

"Small, dark and alive” to “cripplingly shy”: a review of Dorothy Garrod’s experienceas the first woman Professor at Cambridge, in the light of recent experiences of women at Cambridge

UserDr Pamela Jane Smith, Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 02 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Systems for Big Data Applications: Revolutionising personal computing

UserDr Noa Zilberman, Wolfson College and Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Department of Computer Science and Technology .

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Finding the past: Medieval Coin Finds at the Fitzwilliam Museum

UserDr Martin Allen, Wolfson College and Senior Assistant Keeper, the Fitzwilliam Museum.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 28 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Rather more than Thirty-Nine Steps: the life of John Buchan

UserUrsula Buchan.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Parkinson’s Rehabilitation using Interactive Dance Technology

UserDr Matthew Woolhouse, Wolfson College and Associate Professor McMaster University.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 14 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Roland the Hero

UserJohn DuVal, James E. and Ellen Wadley Roper Professor of Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas..

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 07 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

The first geological chronology of ancient Egypt and the antiquity of man, 1847-63

UserMeira Gold, Wolfson College and Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 31 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Are our genes to blame when our jeans don’t fit?

UserDr Giles Yeo, Wolfson College and Principal Research Associate, Metabolic Research Laboratories and MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge .

HouseCombination Room, Wolfson College.

ClockWednesday 24 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

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