Coming up this week: Thursday 6th February 2020 – Wednesday 12th February 2020.
Welcome back! Can you believe that we’re giving you the events for week four already? There’s a lot going on this week, particularly on Thursday! As always feel free to send in any events that you think your fellow geographers may be interested in.
Careers panel: Science and technical consulting; Thursday 6th February 2020; 17:00 – 18:30:
Hosted by: The University of Cambridge Careers Service.
Venue: Student Services Centre, Ground Floor, Lecture Theatre A.
About the event: The Careers Panel includes speakers Philip Howie (Scientist at Springboard), Paul Scott (Mechanical Engineer at Cambridge Design Partnership), Abi Graham (Consultant at The Technology Partnership), Laura Churcher (Consultant at Innovia), Henrike Resemann (Consultant at IQVIA) and Natalie Weir (Human Factors and Usability Consultant at Team Consulting).
2020 Christ’s Climate Series: Seminar 4; Thursday 6th February; 17:30 – 19:00:
Hosted by: Christ’s College.
Venue: Yusuf Hamied Theatre, Christ’s College.
About the event: A seminar on the economics and the fiscal challenges in mitigating climate change. Speakers are Niva Thiruchelvam (Deputy Director, Net Zero, HM Treasury), Professor Laura Diaz Anadon (Professor of Climate Change Policy) Dr Nina Seega (Research Director for Sustainable Finance) and Dimitri Zenghelis (Project Leader: The Wealth Economy). A reception will follow the seminar.
What about men? Engaging boys and men in gender equality; Thursday 6th February 2020; 17:30 – 18:30:
Hosted by: Murray Edwards College Cambridge.
Venue: Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, CB3 0DF Cambridge
About the event: A panel discussion chaired by Dame Barbara Stocking, President of Murray Edwards College,exploring multiple approaches to engaging men in gender equality.
TEGA x BME Campaign: Racism in the Environmentalist Movement; Thursday 6th February; 18:00 – 19:00:
Hosted by: Trinity Ethical and Green Affairs and CUSU BME Campaign
Venue:
About the event: Climate change has been documented as disproportionately affecting the Global South and people of colour. Discussing the issue are Mónica Moreno Figueroa (Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow in Social Sciences at Downing College, Cambridge), Nannette Youssef (Green Party City Councillor at Norwich City Council, and part of the Young Greens campaign) and Beth Bhargava (member of CUSU Ethical Affairs Campaign and Cambridge Zero Carbon Society).
Is nuclear power the answer to global warming; Thursday 6th February 2020; 19:15 – 21:00
Hosted by: Cambridge University Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Venue: Lightfoot Room, Old Divinity School, St. John’s College.
About the event: A talk and Q&A with Dr Ian Fairlie about nuclear power and whether it can be the answer to the climate crisis.
Brexit and Legacies of Empire; Friday 7th February 2020; 16:00 – 18:00:
Hosted by: King’s Traces of Empire.
Venue: Audit Room, King’s College.
About the event: This talk by Gurminder K Bhambra (Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies) intervenes in debates around reclaiming our ‘national sovereignty’ and the racialised identification of those who are deemed to have a ‘legitimate’ claim to the benefits of British citizenship. Specifically, it addresses issues around access to the welfare state – what has come to be understood as our national inheritance – and threats from outsiders.
Decolonising the Museum: Critique in Action Panel; Friday 7th February 2020; 17:00 – 18:30:
Hosted by: The Fitzwilliam Museum Society and Decolonise History of Art and Architecture.
Venue: Castlereagh Room, Fisher Building, St John’s College.
About the event: “Decolonising the Museum”, this may be a contradiction in terms. These sites are repositories of objects, donated, bought, stolen which are used to creative narratives of history, local and global. This panel will feature artists, activists and scholars who use the Museum as a site of criticism, often to re-member current dominant narratives.
TEGA x Green Thumbs Plant Sale; Sunday 9th February 2020; 13:00 – 15:00:
Hosted by: Trinity Ethical and Green Affairs
Venue: Blue Boar Common RoomTrinity College Cambridge CB2 1TQ, U.K., CB2 1TQ Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
About the event: This one’s pretty self-explanatory… A wholesome potted plant sale!!
Using tablets to get 1 billion children reading; Monday 10th February 2020; 19:15 – 21:00:
Hosted by: Cambridge Society for the Application of Research
Venue: Cambridge Society for the Application of Research, Churchill College, Storey’s Way, CB3 0DS Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
About the event: A talk from ne of Elon Musk’s Global Learning XPRIZE winners, Andrew Ashe, co-founder and CEO of onebillion, a non-profit organisation that has developed onecourse – an app for children to learn to read, write and become numerate in their own language. This is an important issue as according to the UN, we need 24.4 million more primary school teachers in order to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4 – quality education for all – by 2030. Andrew will discuss how we can do this!
Disaster Response: Knowledge Domains and Information Flows; Tuesday 11th February 2020; 10:30 – 17:00:
Hosted by: CRASSH
Venue: Cripps Court, Magdalene College, 2-10 Chesterton Rd, Cambridge.
About the event: An interactive workshop exploring the domains and flows of information in the context of disaster response. Speakers include Amy Donovan (University of Cambridge), Robert Evans (Cardiff University), Dorothea Hilhorst (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Elizabeth Surkovic (The Royal Society) and Benjamin Taylor (Evidence Aid).
Additional Information: All participants are expected to take part in the focus groups. Multiple perspectives and levels of experiences are encouraged and facilitators will be on hand to manage discussions. This workshop forms part of the ‘Expertise Under Pressure’ (EUP) project, funded by the Humanities and Social Change International Foundation. The EUP project’s overarching goal is to establish a broad framework for understanding what makes expertise authoritative, when experts overreach and what realistic demands communities should place on experts.
Work to Change the World Event; Wednesday 12th February 2020: 15:00 – 18:00:
Hosted by: Careers Service, University of Cambridge
Venue: The University Centre, Granta Place, Mill Lane, CB2 1RU Cambridge.
About the event: This gives you the opportunity to meet individuals and organisations in the UK Public sector, UK Development sector, environmental conservation, health, social and political research, humanitarian aid and business with a more than profit focus.
Climate Crisis, The Nation and Neo-colonialism; Wednesday 12th February 2020; 18:30 – 19:45:
Hosted by: Ethical Affairs in Cambridge.
Venue: Keynes Hall, King’s College.
About the event: From militarisation of borders at a time when climate refugees are created to the consumption of fossil fuels in conflicts, British militarism is deeply tied to its complicity in the climate crisis. This panel talk includes David Wearing (Teaching Fellow in International Relations), Safieh Kabir (Co-founder of Demilitarise Cambridge and Campaigns Officer at Undoing Borders, People and Planet) and Ibtehal Hussain (Universities Coordinator at Campaign Against the Arms Trade).