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What's on at CRASSH: 

27 February - 6 March

Natasha Walter: From Sexism to Solidarity
3 - 8 March

Writer, broadcaster, campaigner and academic Natasha Walter will give a series of lectures on the theme of From Sexism to Solidarity, and will participate in the Cambridge Women of the World event on International Women's day.
Sir John Tomlinson in rehearsal for his first Humanitas event earlier this week.
Friday at 5pm The Construction of the Role of the Minotaur

In the final event of Sir John Tomlinson's acclaimed series of Humanitas lectures, he is joined by Sir Harrison Birtwistle in conversation on the role of the Minotaur. The event will be chaired by Professor Jonathan Cross (Oxford).

Free to attend; places allocated on a first come, first served basis.

5pm - 6.30pm, 27 February
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
Open Lecture: Lying in the Dark: the stories we tell to keep ourselves sane

"Story-telling is how we make sense of the world - especially the bits we don't understand"

Two leading writers talk about how this surfaces in - and influences - their work.

The event is followed by a wine reception.

5pm - 7.30pm, 3 March
SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge
Lightfoot teaching
Colloquium: The Discipline of Theology in the Nineteenth Century

A one day colloquium organised by the CRASSH project, The Bible and Antiquity in 19th-century Culture.

Speakers include: Thomas Albert Howard (Gordon College), Robert Priest (Royal Holloway) and Johannes Zachhuber (Oxford).

9.30am - 6pm, 4 March 
Seminar room 5, The Cripps Building, Chesterton Road, Cambridge
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Podcast: Election 2015
From the Department of Politics and International Studies comes the ELECTION podcast: a weekly politics podcast talking with the most interesting voices in the run-up to the British General Election in May.

This week, Martin Rees of the CRASSH Centre for Existential Risk, talks about surviving this century and scientists in politics.
View our open Calls for Papers
Graduate and Faculty Events this week
All events take place at CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, unless otherwise stated. Open to all.

Towards the Ethics of Bodily Giving and Sharing in Medicine - Kristin Zeiler (Linköping)
Work in Progress Seminar -- 12.30pm - 2pm, 2 March

The Drama of Ideas: Performativity and Intellectuals - Patrick Baert, Marcus Morgan and Floris Schuilling (Cambridge)
Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network -- 5pm - 7pm, 2 March

Cambridge Psychoanalysis Reading Group
1pm - 2.15pm, 3 March

Reflections on Max Ophuls (La Signora di Tutti, 1934) - Laura Mulvey (Birkbeck)
Screen Media -- 5.15pm - 7pm, 3 March, Parker Room, Corpus Christi College

Climate for Architects and Urban Microclimate - Andreas Matzarakis (Freiburg)
GreenBRIDGE -- 2pm - 4pm, 5 March

Round Table: The Greek Dialects - Stephen Colvin (UCL), Matthew Scarborough and Rupert Thompson (Cambridge)
Multilingualism and Exchange -- 5pm - 7pm, 5 March

Forgotten Voices of Communist Famine - Xun Zhou (Essex)
Places of Amnesia -- 5pm - 7pm, 5 March

The call for applications for the 2015/16 Graduate/Faculty Research Groups is open now. The deadline for applications is 23 April (3pm GMT). 

Work at CRASSH:

The Balzan Skinner Fellowship in Modern Intellectual History
Deadline: 9 March

2 x Research Associates in the Limits of the Numerical
Deadline: 31 March

2 x Research Associates in the Early Modern Period (History of Art and History of Science) Making Visible project
Deadline: 8 April
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