Karnu Warrior

Until lions write their own history…

12 July 2013

An exhibition of contemporary textile art by Deanna Tyson has opened at the Alison Richard Building in response to the unique materials held there collected from all corners of the globe.

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Cities and how we live in them

19 February 2013

More and more of us live in cities where disparate communities jostle for space. Eminent sociologist Richard Sennett will give a public lecture on The Open City in Cambridge on Thursday 21 February.

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Philippe de Montebello

A work of art has many lives

20 November 2012

Eminent art historian and former director of New York’s Metropolitan Museum, Philippe de Montebello will this week give two lectures that explore the multiple lives of works of art. Both lectures are free and open to the public.

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Scene depicting a husband and wife accusing each other before a quadi (judge) from Les Makamat de Hariri (1054-1122). .

Encounters in medieval matrimony

17 May 2012

Scholars from five different institutions, and both Christian and Muslim backgrounds, will gather in Cambridge tomorrow to look at medieval Islamic marriage and how it was viewed by contemporary Christian travellers and polemicists.

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Tang Dynasty mirror

There but not there: the meaning of absence

14 May 2012

A lecture tomorrow by Professor Hung Wu is a rare opportunity to hear an eminent Chinese scholar talk about the ways in which the country’s artists have responded to huge social and political change over the last 40 years.

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Writing, Sunset, Italy.

The Idea of the University

10 October 2011

The idea of the university and the roles assigned to universities in the 21st Century will be the subject of a lecture series beginning in Cambridge this week.

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