Nihon Room, Pembroke College


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

2007-10-17 21:00: Life in the Oil Industry (Howard Skipp)

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)

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

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)

2008-05-07 17:00: Pembroke BT Annual Lecture:  "Unleashing the Power of Creativity" (Jeff Patmore, Head of Strategic University Research, BT)

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)

2008-10-12 19:45: What Makes North Korea Tick? (Joshua Karton)

2008-10-14 19:00: Book sale (Speaker to be confirmed)

2008-10-20 19:45: The Real Puppet Masters: The Gruesome Parasites Controlling Our Behaviour (Simon Spiro)

2008-10-27 19:45: How 'Special' is the Anglo-American Special Relationship? (Srdjan Vucetic)

2008-11-03 19:45: The Science of Personality Matching (Meet your Mr./Mrs. Right!) (Dr. Liz Miller)

2008-11-06 21:00: STIMULUS (Jenny Knights)

2008-11-17 19:45: Painting in 3D: Structural Colour in Nature (Michelle Rigozzi)

2008-11-26 21:00: Computing in Cambridge - From the Analytic Engine to Sentient Computing (Richard Stibbs (Downing College))

2008-12-01 19:45: CANCELLED Green knights, green men and green children: colour symbolism and the supernatural in the Middle Ages (Elizabeth Dearnley)

2009-01-19 19:45: Influential Pictures and Images in the Development of Science (Professor John Barrow FRS)

2009-01-21 21:00: Medicine, astrology, alchemy and magic in early modern England (Lauren Kassell (Pembroke College))

2009-02-02 19:45: Green knights, green men and green children: colour symbolism and the supernatural in the Middle Ages (Elizabeth Dearnley)

2009-02-09 19:45: A conversation on the Georgian political crisis (Mark Mullen)

2009-02-16 19:45: The problems and prospects of Darwinising homosexuality (Pieter Adriaens)

2009-02-23 19:45: The legacy of antiterrorist legislation and policies in the light of human rights standards (1965 onwards) (Francesca Galli)

2009-03-02 19:45: The Physics of Airplane Noise (Ed Brambley)

2009-03-09 19:45: Defeating Cancer from Within - Waging War Against Our Own Cells (Fiona Watt)

2009-04-27 19:45: Disease and Identity: AIDS, Mourning and Performance in Paul Monette's Love Alone (Gerardo con Diaz)

2009-04-30 17:00: Pembroke-BT Annual Lecture:  "Innovation and the Speed of Life" (Mr Matt Bross, CTO BT Group)

2009-05-11 19:45: Stem Cells and Repairing the Brain (Professor Robin Franklin)

2009-05-18 19:45: Studying the Beat Generation (James Riley)

2009-06-08 20:00: The Atheist Bus Campaign -- Why it worked, and what we've learned (Jon Worth)

2009-10-15 17:00: Exposing 'the private life of John Bull'? Sex and the popular press in post-war Britain (Adrian Bingham, University of Sheffield)

2009-11-02 20:00: Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Great Stink (Dr. Stephen Halliday (Pembroke College))

2009-11-09 20:00: Malory: The Life and Times of King Arthur's Chronicler (Christina Hardyment)

2009-11-16 20:00: On the global financial crises, macroeconomic slowdown and "exit strategies" (Dr. Demosthenes Tambakis, Pembroke College)

2009-11-18 21:00: Short Cuts: Stories from a Lifetime of Chemistry (Professor Ian Flemming)

2009-11-23 21:00: Culture and Community: the Flow of Information  in Meerkat Societies ( Dr. Alex Thornton - Zoology Fellow, Pembroke College)

2009-11-26 17:00: The legacy of Joan Robinson (Geoff Harcourt, Jesus College, Cambridge)

2010-02-03 21:00: Magic and the History of Science (Dr. Lauren Kassell (Pembroke College))

2010-02-10 20:00: Misconduct in academic publication:  how big is the problem and how can researchers avoid it? (Liz Wager, Chair of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and author of Getting Research Published (Radcliffe Publishing))

2010-02-10 21:00: Companions (Prof. Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield))

2010-02-17 21:00: Cancer -  Prof. Sir Bruce Ponder (Prof. Sir Bruce Ponder)

2010-02-24 21:00: The foetal testosterone theory of autism, by Prof. Simon Baron-Cohen (Prof. Simon Baron-Cohen)

2010-02-25 17:00: 'Measurement Practices and Institutional Change in the nineteenth-century British Economy (Aasish Velkar (LSE))

2010-03-03 21:00: SuperGenes: What Really Makes Us Human (Prof. Craig Mackay)

2010-03-11 17:00: 'Meddlesome Bureaucrats and Ratepayer Democracies: Public Health and the Public Sphere in Victorian England (Tom Crook  (Oxford Brookes))

2010-04-20 21:00: Test 1 (Speaker to be confirmed)

2010-04-21 20:00: Counterfactuals in Social Science and the Humanities (Prof. Ned Lebow, Dartmouth, LSE, Cambridge)

2010-04-21 21:00: Test 2 (Jayan. Why not?)

2010-05-12 17:00: Creativity and Commerce: Making the relationship work (Dr Ivan Boyd, Head of Business Engagement and Operations, BT Innovation and Design)

2010-05-17 19:00: THE PRICE OF LIFE: How the development of new medicines is changing healthcare (Prof. Ashok Venkitaraman, Pembroke College Cambridge)

2010-05-24 18:00: Islam vs. Islamism: Is there a difference? (Maajid Nawaz)

2010-10-12 19:00: What is life?  A question Physics should ask? (Michelle Rigozzi is a Physics PhD student at the University of Cambridge)

2010-10-13 21:00: Making New Medicines - Academia, Biotech or Big Pharma? (Prof. Tom Blundell)

2010-10-20 21:00: A Beginner's Guide to Chimpanzee Chasing (Alex Page (University of Cambridge))

2010-10-26 19:00: 'An Introduction to the Chinese Frontier' by Ross Anthony (Ross Anthony, University of Cambridge)

2010-10-27 21:00: Can We Trust Scientists? (Stephen John, History and Philosophy of Science)

2010-11-03 21:00: The evolution of menopause and human life history (Dr Rufus Johnstone, Zoology)

2010-11-10 21:00: Frozen in Time: ice cores and climate (Eric Wolff)

2010-11-17 21:00: What's in a Name? (Chris Duffin)

2010-11-24 21:00: From cells to embryo: the magic of gastrulation (Claudio Stern, UCL)

2011-01-19 21:00: Insects: saving the small things that run the world (Dr. Ed Turner (University of Cambridge))

2011-01-20 17:00: Paradoxes and complexities in British economic and social policy after the Second World War (Glen O’Hara (Oxford Brookes University))

2011-01-21 13:00: Human Rights as Constraints on States' Corporate Responsibility (Avia Pasternak, University of Essex)

2011-01-26 21:00: George Fitzgerald (Prof. Denis Weaire, FRS (Trinity College Dublin))

2011-02-03 17:00: Mechanical labour control and factory discipline in Belgium, England, France, and Italy, 1850-1900. An essay in comparative anthropological history (Alexis Litvine (University of Cambridge))

2011-02-04 13:00: The Arrogance of Politics: A Hallmark of Thinking Politically (Michael Freeden, University of Oxford)

2011-02-16 21:00: Engineers Without Borders (Mr Andrew Lamb (Engineers Without Borders UK))

2011-02-17 17:00: Assets of the dead: the rise of the paper economy in nineteenth-century England and Wales (David R. Green (King’s College London) and Alastair Owens (Queen Mary, University of London))

2011-02-18 13:00: The Relevance of the Real World (Nic Southwood, ANU/Oxford)

2011-02-23 21:00: When water does not boil at the boiling point (Prof. Hasok Chang (University of Cambridge))

2011-03-02 21:00: Dinosaurs (Dr Roger Benson (University of Cambridge))

2011-03-03 17:00: Structural Change and the Historian. How useful is the concept for an analysis of the post-war “Golden Age” and beyond? (Kim Priemel (Humboldt University Berlin and visiting Feodor Lynen research fellow, University of Cambridge))

2011-03-04 13:00: Reality Lost, Reality Regained? Ethics, Politics and Realism in the Imagination of Raymond Geuss (David Owen, University of Southampton)

2011-03-09 21:00: Thorium Fuelled Accelerator Driven Subcritical Reactors: The Future of Nuclear Power? (Geoff Parks (University of Cambridge))

2011-03-16 21:00: Little things that make you sick (Professor Colin Hughes (University of Cambridge))

2011-05-19 17:00: 'Close' marriage, and the development of class societies (Leonore Davidoff (University of Essex))

2011-10-12 21:00: Carbon Nanotubes - The Material of the Future (Maximilian Bock (Cambridge Carbon Nanotechnology Society))

2011-10-21 13:00: Egalitarian Theories of Religious Freedom (Cécile Laborde (UCL))

2011-11-04 13:00: On the Relationship between Principles of Justice in Schooling and Education (Philip Cook (Leicester))

2011-11-18 13:00: Female Quotas, Egalitarianism, and Public Policy (Jude Browne (Cambridge))

2011-11-23 21:00: Careers Evening: Summer Research Internships (Various)

2012-01-20 13:00: What is the Speech in 'Free Speech'? (Rae Langton (MIT))

2012-01-25 21:00: Hazardous Earth: How our planet is trying to kill us (Ekbal Hussain)

2012-01-26 17:00: Compensating slave-owners; compensating for slavery: British Emancipation and beyond (Nick Draper (University College London))

2012-02-01 21:00: Engineering High Speed 1 (Colin Stewart)

2012-02-02 17:00: Weighty matters: Lessons from historical body mass (Deborah Oxley (Oxford))

2012-02-03 13:00: Justifying the Special Significance of Equality of Opportunity (Martin O'Neill (York))

2012-02-08 21:00: Organic Electronics (Prof Henning Sirringhaus)

2012-02-15 21:00: Astrobiology:The hunt for alien life (Dr Lewis Dartnell)

2012-02-17 13:00: Revisiting Ruddick: Feminism, Non-violence and Pacifism (Kimberley Hutchings (LSE))

2012-02-22 21:00: Sci-Fi Film Night (Film to be decided)

2012-02-23 17:00: Fair shares for all? The underground economy of austerity Britain, 1939-1954 (Mark Roodhouse (York))

2012-02-29 21:00: Incredible Ears (Dr Phil Cox)

2012-03-02 13:00: Living with the Enemy: Military Occupation (Cécile Fabre (Oxford))

2012-03-07 21:00: Pheromones and Sex: Success of the Smelliest? (Dr Tristram Wyatt)

2012-03-08 17:00: The media and the 1976 UK IMF crisis (Duncan Needham (Cambridge))

2012-03-12 18:00: Robert Mugabe... what happened? (Simon Bright)

2012-04-24 17:30: Intelligence Night (Dan Larsen (Christ's) & Dr. Rory Cormac (King's College, London))

2012-05-02 21:00: Is there a conflict between science and religion? (Dr James Gardom)

2012-05-03 17:00: ‘Frontier encounters’: Class, gender and Christian youth work, 1958-1982 (Jane Garnett and Alana Harris (Oxford))

2012-05-09 21:00: Sci-Fi Film Night: Alien (Speaker to be confirmed)

2012-05-16 21:00: Hustings (Speaker to be confirmed)

2012-10-17 21:00: Book Sale (Speaker to be confirmed)

2012-10-24 21:00: Higgs Boson (Prof. Andy Parker)

2012-11-07 21:00: How Technology Impacts our Lives (Tanya Goldhaber)

2012-11-21 21:00: Careers Night (Speaker to be confirmed)

2012-11-28 21:00: The Fantastic Fruit Fly (Paola Cognigni)

2013-01-24 17:00: What the history of chambers of commerce tells us about shifts of eighteenth century interest representation (Robert Bennett (Cambridge))

2013-01-30 21:00: Shaking things up: new ways of doing chemical reactions and a new class of semiconductors (Patrick Beldon)

2013-02-06 21:00: Why Biologists Need Mathmos (Dr Julia Gog (DAMPT))

2013-02-07 17:00: Political extremism during the Great Depression (Kevin O’Rourke (Oxford))

2013-02-21 17:00: Time, public expenditure and the valuation of human life in Britain since 1951 (Martin Chick (Edinburgh) )

2013-02-27 21:00: Neurons feel the force (Dr Kristian Franze)

2013-03-05 17:30: 'Graphene and its implications for the Cambridge knowledge cluster' (Dr Quentin Tannock, the founder of Cambridge IP (a well known Cambridge based intellectual property and technology strategy company))

2013-03-06 21:00: Pembroke graduates present: synaesthesia, synthetic cell transduction, the next century of energy and finding the cure for cancer (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-03-07 17:00: Were the Trade Unions doomed by 1979? (Adrian Williamson (Cambridge))

2013-03-11 17:30: 'HUNTING FOR TED HUGHES' (DR MARK WORMALD, Director of Studies in English, Pembroke College)

2013-03-13 21:00: Platelets: Our Human Velcro in Health and Disease ( Dr Jo Howes)

2013-05-08 21:00: AGM and Hustings (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-10-16 21:00: DNA and Ancient Scrolls (Prof. Chris Howe)

2013-10-23 21:00: Weighing Forests (Prof. Shaun Quegan)

2013-10-30 21:00: The Ediacaran: When Life Became Interesting (Dr Emily Mitchell)

2013-11-06 21:00: Solving Scientific Problems and Making Money with Quantum Mechanics (Prof. Mike Payne)

2013-11-13 21:00: Tadpoles and Tumours: What's the difference? (Dr Anna Philpott)

2013-11-27 21:00: Mukluks on the Snow: Supporting CryoSat (Prof. Liz Morris)

2013-12-04 21:00: The sweet smell of E.coli division (Dr David Summers)

2014-01-22 21:00: Physics of the Everyday (Professor Dame Athene Donald)

2014-01-29 21:00: Gods, Devils and Alcohol - their influence in chemical nomenclature (Dr Peter Wothers)

2014-01-30 17:00: Saving Social Democracy? Hugh Clegg and the post-war programme to reform British workplace Industrial Relations - too little, too late (Peter Ackers (Loughborough))

2014-02-05 21:00: Electronics from Molecules (Professor Sir Richard Friend)

2014-02-12 21:00: Tunnelling under London - Keeping Big Ben Upright (Professor Robert Mair)

2014-02-13 17:00: The golden age of social mobility? Education and the working class in postwar England (Selina Todd (Oxford))

2014-02-14 18:00: New Era in Russian Politics: Mayoral Campaign of Alexey Navalny (Vladimir Ashurkov (Foundation for Fighting Corruption))

2014-02-19 21:00: Lighting the Future: Next Generation LED Lighting to save Energy and Improve our Health (Professor Sir Colin Humphreys)

2014-02-26 21:00: The Self Illusion: Why There is No You Inside Your Head (Professor Bruce Hood)

2014-02-27 17:00: Professionalization and regulation of English midwifery practice in the care of children with ophthalmia neonatorum, 1895-1914 (Anne Hanley (Cambridge))

2014-03-05 19:00: The early human occupations of Britain (Professor Chris Stringer)

2014-03-12 21:00: After a century of failure, time now to put science at the heart of drug and alcohol policy (Professor David Nutt)

2014-05-01 17:00: The Dollar Shortage in Anglo-American Public Discourse, 1943-1960 (Benjamin Choo (Cambridge))

2014-05-19 19:00: AGM and Hustings (N/A)

2014-10-15 21:00: Ebola: Ape Man Hunts Bat Virus (Dr Peter Walsh)

2014-10-22 21:00: Mars: Red Planet? Blue Planet? What has the Curiosity Rover Revealed? (Professor Sanjeev Gupta)

2014-11-12 21:00: Messing with Insects' Minds: The Sneaky World of Plant Viruses (Dr John Carr)

2014-11-19 21:00: Dark Energy: Is the Universe Playing Tricks on Us? (Dr Kathy Romer)

2014-11-26 21:00: Geohazards: Death by Corruption (Mr Ekbal Hussain)

2014-12-03 21:00: Consciousness: What in the World is it? (Professor Anil Seth)

2015-01-21 21:00:  Graphene: Future Emerging Technology (Professor Andrea Ferrari)

2015-01-28 21:00: The Spoon Lecture: Relativity and Anchors in Time (Speaker to be confirmed)

2015-02-04 21:00: Biophysics of Molecular Motors (Professor Eugene Terentjev)

2015-02-18 21:00: CSI: Crime Scene Insects (Dr Amoret Whitaker)

2015-02-25 20:00: Incest and Folk Dancing - Two Things to Avoid (Professor Steve Jones)

2015-03-04 21:00: Comets as Solar Explorers  (Professor Monica Grady)

2015-03-11 21:00: The LHCb Experiment  (Professor Val Gibson)

2015-03-12 18:00: Old Ships in New Bottles: Eric Jarosinski (@Neinquarterly) on Academia and Social Media (Eric Jarosinski)

2015-04-29 21:00: AGM and Hustings (-)

2015-05-06 21:00: The Health Impacts of Climate Change (Professor Hugh Montgomery)

2015-10-14 21:00: Neutrinos: Ghostly Shapeshifters (Professor Alfons Weber)

2015-10-21 21:00: The Autistic Mind (Dr Kate Plaisted-Grant)

2015-10-28 21:00: Fake Pheromones: GM Pest Control (Professor John Pickett)

2015-11-11 21:00: Designing Nanoparticles as Medical Tools (Dr Gemma-Louise Davies)

2015-11-18 21:00: Polymers: Experimental Evidence (Professor Dame Julia Higgins)

2015-11-25 21:00: Quantum Contextuality: At The Borders of Paradox (Professor Samson Abramsky)

2015-12-02 21:00: Playing Ping-pong with Single Electrons (Professor Chris Ford)

2016-02-03 21:00: Life on the Edge: Why Life Needs Quantum Mechanics (Professor Johnjoe McFadden)

2016-02-10 21:00: Cracking the Nut: The Psychology of Food Choice (Dr Suzanna Forwood)

2016-02-17 21:00: Neonatal Diabetes: From Molecule to Therapy (Professor Dame Frances Ashcroft)

2016-02-24 21:00: Causes of Climate Change and the Role of the Sun (Professor Joanna Haigh)

2016-03-02 21:00: The Red Queen: The Evolution of Sex (Associate Professor Kayla King)

2016-03-09 21:00: Chaos in Stokes Flows (Professor Thomas Mullin)

2016-04-27 21:00: Biology and the Meaning of Life (Dr Ruth Bancewicz)

2016-05-04 21:00: AGM and Hustings (Stokes Society)

2016-11-24 17:30: Pembroke College - BT Lecture:  What is Data Science, what do Data Scientists do, and how can we have a Science of Data? (Dr Simon Thompson, Head of Practice, Big Data and Customer Experience, BT Research)

2017-01-31 19:30: Create a career you can travel with (Clare Harrison)

2017-03-10 18:00: What's Next For Syria? (Ibrahim Hamidi (al-Hayat newspaper), Dr Ziad Majed (AU Paris), Laila Alodaat (Women's Intl League for Peace & Freedom))

2017-03-11 15:00: Travel Guide Writer - Dream Job? (Kiki Deere, Lottie Gross and Rebecca Hallett)

2017-11-24 18:00: Global Economic Governance: the role of the G20 and international institutions (Professor Turalay Kenc, Pembroke Visiting Professor of International Finance)

2017-11-29 18:00: Prof Norman Davies: Beneath Another Sky: A Global Journey Into History (Professor Norman Davies)

2018-11-13 17:00: Royalty in the Mountains: Russian Tsars Visiting the Caucasus (Dr Hubertus Jahn (Clare College))

2018-11-15 19:00: Nanoscale Patterning and Imaging ( Dr Taylor Stock,  London Centre for Nanotechnology.  Dr Colm Durkan, Nanoscience Centre, University of Cambridge )

2019-11-26 17:30: Strata and Three Stories: Toward a Multidisciplinary Anthropocene (Julia Adeney Thomas, Department of History Notre Dame University)

2020-02-03 18:00: Why Investors Might be Climate Allies: Corporate Governance Today (Professor Jon Jukomnik)