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Wed 7 October 8:00AM - 5:00PM

CamIris: Reflections photography exhibition

CamIris: Cambridge Women's Photography group

9:00AM - 7:00PM

Threads of life - an exhibition by Jenny Langley

Exploring and celebrating the structural diversity of proteins through embroidery and printing

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Following Hercules: the story of classical art

Hercules is one of the best loved heroes from ancient Greece. Known in antiquity for completing twelve tasks or ‘labours’ that confirmed his status as a god, Hercules is today tasked with one more — to show visitors to the Fitzwilliam how sculptures made in the Mediterranean millennia ago came to define western art.

10:30AM - 4:30PM

Highlight The Power of Paper: 50 Years of Printmaking from Australia, Canada and South Africa

From the mid-twentieth century onwards, colonized peoples and indigenous communities began to represent themselves through art in modern media. In Australia, Canada and South Africa, they depicted culture, history and struggle through printmaking. This exhibition at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is a revelation of eloquent art made by black and indigenous artists since the 1960s.

11:00AM - 4:00PM

Brass Rubbing - Cambridge - Great St. Mary'

Brass Rubbing at the centre of Cambridge including replicas of Sir Roger de Trumpington and St. George and the Dragon

5:30PM - 7:00PM

Inaugural Lecture at CJBS: In search of 'good' energy policy - the social limits to technological solutions to energy and climate problems

On Wednesday 7 October, Michael Pollitt (Professor of Business Economics Director of Studies in Management and Economics) will give his inaugural lecture at the Cambridge Judge Business School.

6:00PM - 7:00PM

Searches for micro-organisms in the earth's atmosphere

What could the discovery of live cells & bacteria, found at heights of up to 41km in the earth's atmosphere, tell us about the origins of life on Earth? A lecture by Professor Jayant V Narlikar.

6:00PM - 7:30PM

St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series: Valpy Fitzgerald

Debt and Distribution: the Inequality Implications of the Crisis Aftermath

6:30PM - 8:00PM

Life clubs - Self improvement workshops

Life clubs was created in 2004 by Nina Grunfeld, best-selling author of The Life Book. Sessions are every Wednesday.