Wednesday Lecture Programme

Spring term 2010

A series of weekly lectures has been arranged this term.  These will take place in Room 3 of the University Lecture Rooms at no. 8 Mill Lane, starting at 2.15 pm.  All members are welcome to attend and are asked to show their membership cards.  If space allows, guests of members are welcome and are requested to make a £2 donation on the door. 

13 January

Challenges of Policing in the UK today

Mrs Julie Spence, Chief Constable Cambridgeshire

20 January

Why you lose your hearing as you get older, and what you can do about it

Professor Brian Moore, Department of Experimental Psychology,  Cambridge

27 January

What, if anything, is the matter with Africa?

Emeritus Professor John Lonsdale, Fellow of Trinity College

3 February

Hot News from the Big Bang: Update on modern Cosmology without the Technicalities

Professor Malcolm Longair, FRS, Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy, The Cavendish Laboratory

10 February

Changes and Challenges in Schooling and Education in the UK today

Mike Younger, Head of the Faculty of Education, Cambridge

17 February

Venice and the Islamic World

Professor Deborah Howard, Faculty of Architecture and the History of Art, Cambridge

24 February

Pompeii lost and found

Professor Mary Beard, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge

3 March

The City Livery Companies: Their History and Relevance for the 21st Century

David Short, Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Farriers

10 March

Photographic Books – a new area of book collecting