Wednesday Lecture Programme

SPRING TERM 2012

This series of weekly lectures will take place in Room 3 of the University Lecture Rooms at 8 Mill Lane, starting at 2.15 pm.
All members are welcome to attend but guests can no longer be accommodated. Please have your membership cards ready to show on entry.

More details of lectures here

11 January           
Cambridgeppf’s work in and around Cambridge

Carolin Göhler, CEO of local environment charity Cambridge Past, Present and Future

18 January           
Searching the genome for malaria’s Achilles’ heel

Dr Julian Rayner and Dr Steve Scott, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

25 January           
Lives in Fragments

Dr Esther-Miriam Wagner, Dr Amir Ashur and Dr Gabriele Ferrario, Research Associates at the T-S Genizah Research Unit, University of Cambridge

1 February            
Violins

Nigel Brown OBE, violin enthusiast and founder of The Stradivari Trust

8 February            
‘Memory at War’ in Eastern Europe: the past that doesn’t pass.  (www.memoryatwar.org)

Judy Brown, Memory at War Project, Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Cambridge

15 February          
Energy policy: how much it costs you and what you get for your money

Michael Pollitt, Reader in Business Economics, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

22 February          
The Cosmos and your Place in it

Carolin Crawford, Gresham Professor of Astronomy and Outreach Officer, Institute of Astronomy

29 February        
Philip Larkin: Funny Man

John White, Emeritus Reader in American History at the University of Hull and Jazz, Consultant to the Philip Larkin Society

7 March                 
Spencer Perceval: Should he be remembered for more than his murder?

Hugh Gault, local writer and historian

14 March               
No Lecture - AGM        

Any last minute changes to the programme of Wednesday lectures will be publicised in the weekly bulletin