Ivory Tower Society, Pembroke College


2007-10-15 19:30: St. Cinderella, a Virgin Martyr (Dr. Juliana Dresvina, Magdalene College, Cambridge)

2007-10-22 21:00: Is the world becoming more religious? (Revd. Christopher Lewis, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford)

2007-10-29 21:00: Blogs – the new wisdom of crowds? (Mr. Bob Shingleton, who blogs at www.theovergrownpath.blogspot.com)

2007-11-05 19:30: The Healing Power of Nature (Miss Tiffany Greene, Pembroke College, Cambridge)

2007-11-12 19:30: Free Software and Communism (Mr. Edward Brambley, Research Fellow in Applied Mathemathics)

2007-11-19 19:30: "The terrorist threat: keeping a sense of proportion" (Sir Richard Dearlove, Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge)

2008-01-21 19:45: Is there really a link between Genius and Madness? (Edward Pain)

2008-01-28 19:45: Google MP? How the Internet is Challenging our Notions of Political Power (Hamish Forsyth, Pembroke College)

2008-02-11 19:45: Emissions constraint: global leadership in social disruption? (John Buckley, International Renewable Energy Trade Promoter)

2008-02-18 19:45: The Physics of Musical Instruments (Matthew Smith, Harvard Scholar, Pembroke College)

2008-02-25 19:45: Pembroke College Chapel: who built it, and why? (Dr. Bill Grimstone, Pembroke College)

2008-03-03 19:45: Finding Music for Piers Plowman: a Post Modernist perspective on a Medieval Epic (Prof. Robin Holloway)

2008-03-10 19:45: Evolution of disease susceptibility - how ancient mosquitoes can ruin your life (Prof. Ken Smith, Genzyme Professor of Experimental Medicine, Cambridge)

2008-04-28 19:45: Is it really a model for Western Europe? Understanding the political and religious realities of ancient Greece (Dr. Michael Scott, Mary and Moses Finley Research Fellow in Ancient History, Darwin College)

2008-05-05 19:45: Cousin Marriage in the House of Submission and the Prospects for Democracy in the Middle East (David Verbeeten, Pembroke College, Cambridge)

2008-05-12 19:45: Nietzsche: Divine Madness (Sam Cane, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)

2008-05-19 19:45: Should the future be discounted? Lessons from Hanford and the atom bomb creation (Kelsey Edwardsen, Pembroke College, Cambridge)

2008-05-26 19:45: Royal Relics, Blood and Faith: The Painting of 'Doubting Thomas' in Westminster Abbey (Emily Guerry, Pembroke College, Cambridge)

2008-06-02 19:45: “Human Obesity: Science vs Stigma”, (Prof. Stephen O’Rahilly, Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine, Institute of Metabolic Science and Pembroke College)