1.30pm - 2.30pm
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Duels, Gangs and Terrorists: the Unacceptable Reach of Joint Enterprise Liability in the Criminal Law - Professor Graham Virgo
If two people agree to commit one crime and whilst doing so, one of them commits murder the other party could be guilty of murder as well. This has proved to be especially relevant in respect to gang crime. But can this use of the criminal law be justified?
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1.30pm - 2.30pm
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Consuming Wrongdoing - Professor Alison Sinclair (Clare)
Why are we fascinated by the wrongdoings of others? What goes on in our search for thrills in sensational art and literature? This lecture draws on some particularly striking examples in Spanish street-literature of the 19th century, which are held in Cambridge University Library, to explore these questions. |
1.30pm - 2.30pm
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Colonial Improvement: Rethinking the Great Irish Famine - Dr. David Nally
The Great Irish Famine has been mired in debate over the level of culpability of the British government. Most scholars reject the extreme nationalist charge of genocide, but beyond that there is little consensus. Drawing lessons from famine experiences across the British Empire, and from the voices of those who vehemently protested against state policy, Dr Nally argues for a more nuanced understanding of "famineogenic behaviour" - conduct that aids and abets famine - and suggests that while the 'faults of omission' weighed heavily on the British government policy, the 'crimes of commission' also left their deadly impress. |
1.30pm - 2.30pm
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Are your Genes to Blame when your Jeans don't Fit? - Dr Giles Yeo
Recent dramatic changes in our environment have led to the current obesity epidemic. However, we have all responded differently to these changes. Dr Yeo will argue that bodyweight is a highly heritable trait, providing us with the opportunity to use genetics as a tool to understand the molecular mechanisms controlling food intake. |
1.30pm - 2.30pm
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Birth, Brains, Immunity and Human Evolution - Professor Ashley Moffett (King's)
An exploration of 'the obstertric dilemma' faced by humans. A pelvis adapted to bipedalism and a large brain is associated with pregnancies where very large and very small babies have high morality rates. The maternal immune response to the placenta is the key to setting the conditions for successful pregnancy.
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3.00pm - 4.00pm
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Have we been Tricked by the Trickster? Don Juan Today - Dr. Samuel Llano (Clare)
What does Don Juan stand for today? It seems striking that, at the start of the twenty-first century, we still feel fascinated by Don Juan, We condemn his appalling acts, and yet we enjoy the many versions that have been written of this myth. Have we been tricked by the trickster?
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3.00pm - 4.00pm
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The Healing Presence of Art - Richard Cork (Trinity Hall)
This lecture focuses on the extraordinary richness of art produced for hospitals, from the Renaissance to the modern period. Masterpieces by Piero della Francesca, Grunewald, El Greco, Hogarth, Tiepolo, Van Gogh, Munch, Frida Kahlo and Naum Gabo are among the great works which humanise hospitals and leave a profound, lasting impression on patients, staff and visitors. |
3.00pm - 4.00pm
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Cambridge and Global Health - Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz
Addressing healthcare is a complex problem - the sort of problem that Cambridge is good at tackling. In this lecture Sir Leszek will discuss the changing nature of global disease, and of healthcare. He will explain how health, education, social development, and agricultural development are mutually dependent: and how health has become a measure of societal development and national wealth, as well as an important goal in its own right. |
3.00pm - 4.00pm
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Engineering, Maths, Art and Nudity - Dr Allan McRobie (St Edmund's)
A gentle look at how the mathematics of singularity that is used to study the stability of engineering systems can rather unexpectedly also give new insights into art, and particularly the portrayal of the nude. Warning: this talk contains mathematics and nudity. |
3.00pm - 4.00pm
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Will Chinese Banks Change the World? - Dr. Simon Taylor (Sidney Sussex)
Chinese Banks are now among the world's largest by assets, profits and employment. So far they have largely remained in China but they are starting to expand aboard. Their motives are opaque and they are the product of deep-seated rivalries in the Chinese government system - but will they change the world banking system? |
4.30pm - 5.30pm
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The Changing Contours of Work Intensity in Europe Since 1990 - Dr Brendan Burchell
This lecture explores the changing pattern of hard work around Europe over the last 20 years, and tries to unravel the puzzle of why, whilst work in the rest of Europe has been intensifying, workers in the UK have been slowing down. |
4.30pm - 5.30pm
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Charles Dickens: A celebration of his Fiction - Dr. Jan-Melissa Schramm (Trinity Hall)
Charles Dickens engaged passionately with the political debates of his time. This lecture traces the contours of his jurisprudential and theological interests, and illuminates the distinctive contributions that fiction can make to the formation of public opinion. In this bicentenary year, we celebrate the transformative powers of Dicken's narrative art. |
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Leading a World-Class University
The Chancellor, Lord Sainsbury of Turville, in conversation with Stephen Sackur, joined by the Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz.
Together they will give the inside track on what it is like sitting at the helm of this leading university and take questions from the floor on the big issues from how Cambridge has a key role to play in food security to the future of research funding.
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