| College Gardens Tour: Murray Edwards |
New Hall Art Collection Tour |
Blue Badge Tour: Cambridge Inscriptions |
Blue Badge Tour:
Famous Alumni |
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| Head Gardener, Jo Cobb, will give a guided tour of the College's beautiful gardens including the Fellows' Garden, herb garden and the Rosemary Murray Memorial Garden. |
Art Administrator Sarah Greaves will give a guided tour of the impressive New Hall Art Collection, the second largest collection of women's art in the world. The collection contains over 250 contemporary works by female artists including Maggi Hambling, Barbara Hepworth and Paula Rego. |
A tantalising glimpse into the wealth of beautiful inscriptions around Cambridge, both Town and Gown. A chance to test your Latin? (Although translations will be available). There are many inscriptions with a link to Eric Gill and a world famous local workshop. |
The alumni of Cambridge have influenced, informed and entertained the world. In this tour, follow in the footsteps of Milton, Byron, Wordsworth, Newton, Darwin, John Cleese, Peter Cook, Ted Hughes, AA Milne and many more. |
| The Botanic Garden Highlights Tour |
The Discovery of Greek Sculpture |
Global Food Security & Disease: Modelling the Risk |
Open House: Cambridge Judge Business School |
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| Enjoy a gentle stroll after busy weekend around the beautiful University Botanic Garden. Be guided around the historic Garden, its collections and seasonal highlights, by one of their experienced and extremely knowledgeable Garden Guides. |
Visit one of the most comprehensive collections of Greek and Roman plaster casts in the world, which tells the story of Greek and Roman sculpture and its discovery. Alumni will also be able to visit the special exhibition, The Olympic Games in context: festivals and competitions in Greek sanctuaries. |
Currently about 2 billion people worldwide either live in hunger or are undernourished. Dr Matt Castle, a research associate in the Epidemiology and Modelling Group in the Department of Plant Sciences and a mathematician by training, will illustrate examples of the risks posed to global food crops by modern pests and pathogens and illustrate how mathematical models of disease spread are informing current policy. |
Take a self-guided tour inside on of Cambridge's most colourful buildings. Learn more about the history of the building, the School and its programmes and research centres. Refreshments will be on offer. |
| High Days and Scarlet Days: The Ceremonial Life of the University in the Early 21st Century |
Blue Badge Tour:
Contemporary Architecture |
Blue Badge Tour:
Historic Architecture |
Coffee Concert: Music by Women Composers of the Baroque |
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| Learn more about the traditional life of Cambridge. Timothy Milner is the University's part-time Ceremonial Officer and an additional Pro-Proctor for Ceremonial Occasions. He has had a lifelong interest in costume, ceremonial traditions and heraldry and is an Honorary Fellow of the Burgon Society, which promotes the study of academical dress. |
For those interested in modern and contemporary architecture, there are many fine examples associated with the colleges and the University - designs by Norman Foster and Partners, Edward Cullinan and Michael Hopkins to name but a few. |
We can show you some of the finest example of Saxon, Norman, Gothic, Tudor and Classical architecture, not just in this country but in some cases the world. King's College Chapel along is widely regarded as the world's finest Late Gothic building and houses treasures worth a tour on their own. |
Enjoy coffee followed by a concert featuring music by Francesca Caccini, Isabella Leonarda, Barbara Strozzi and Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre performed by Marie Lemaire (soprano), Ryan Mark (violin) and Dan Tidhar (harpsichord). |
Gardens Tour:
Robinson College |
Gardens Tour:
Newnham College |
Newnham Conversation |
Lecture on the Selwyn Sundial |
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| A tour of the special garden at the centre of Robinson College, designed by J.S. Bodan Gruffydd to be a 'wild woodland water garden' at its heart, whilst keeping the more formal garden beyond. |
Head Gardener Tony Arnold will give a guided tour of some of the most attractive gardens in Cambridge (where walking on the grass is most definitely allowed!) |
In the year of the Olympics, Newnham is particularly proud to present two of its most eminent sporting alumnae in The Newnham Conversation. Clare Balding (Newnham 1999) TV and radio broadcaster and author, and Anna Watkins (Newnham 2001) rowing Olympic bronze medallist in Beijing, will talk about their times at Newnham and how the Cambridge Experience influenced their careers. |
Selwyn College has a fine example of a sundial that shows Babylonian hours and Italian hours. These are very rare in Britain. This talk by Dr Frank King, world expert on sundials and designer of Selwyn's unusual dial explains how it works. |
| Alumni Coffee Morning |
Risk and Resilience in an Age of Extreme Uncertainty |
How and Why Should we put a Value on Nature?
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| Coffee, cake and sandwiches will be served in the Cambridge University Press bookshop whilst you browse the latest literary sensations on offer. Don't forget your CAMCard for a 20% discount on all purchases. |
Major threats and extreme events such as severe weather or terrorism present managers of contemporary organisations with an acute and urgent picture of uncertainty which renders strategic decision making problematic. A recent study has looked at a range of organisations at risk, from those in high risk environments such as transport hubs to 'soft' postcard targets e.g. the Tower of London and iconic targets such as the Olympics. Bridgette Sullivan-Taylor Visiting Fellow at the Judge Business School will present her research findings on identifying ways in which these capabilities might be embedded and enhanced within and across organisations along key supply chains and the critical national infrastructure. |
One of the great challenges of the 21st century is to understand and manage human impacts on our planet's rich, but rapidly diminishing biodiversity. The Cambridge Conservation Initiative, a unique collaboration between the University and the large cluster of Cambridge-based conservation organisations, seeks to transform the global understand and conservation of biodiversity and the natural capital it represents and, through this, help secure a sustainable future for all life on Earth. A panel of eminent leaders in this field will share and debate their innovative ideas for valuing such natural capital.
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