Events — Culture calendar
Anglia Ruskin University
Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Events
There is something for everyone here in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, with a wide range of events including performance, visual arts, conferences, public lectures, industry collaboration, networking events and more!
Many events are free of charge and open to all. Explore the events below and find new ways of thinking, creating and collaborating.
Pinned Event — Public Lecture
AHSS Presents Public Lecture Series
Microsoft Teams
5 May 2021, 17:30
Welcome to AHSS Presents: a series of talks to educate, entertain and inspire hosted by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
Exhibition
Better Late Than Never Exhibition
Gallerie V 13 St Johns St, Cambridge CB2 1TW21 August 2021, 11:00
2020 Cambridge School of Art Illustration graduate showcase.
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Conference
Objects of Poverty, 1100-2021 Online Conference
Online27 August 2021, 12:00
This online conference will take place on Friday 27 August.
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Summer School
Children's Book Illustration Summer School
Cambridge School of Art, ARU, East Road, Cambridge, CB1 1PT.23 July 2021, 09:00
Join our Writing, Illustrating and Designing for Picturebooks Summer School and learn from the world-leading MA Children’s Book Illustration team and international experts.
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Talk
Lunchtime Research Webinar - 'Clinical Improvisation and music performance'
Online14 July 2021, 12:30
Dr. Darnley-Smith is asking: Is clinical improvisation still a distinct form of music making and can it be performed?
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Talk
'Seeing Myself' Talk and Q&A with Aneela Rose - Self-realisation: Who am I?
ZOOM8 July 2021, 12:00
Internal event for ARU Students.
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Conference
PIER21: Tackling Online Child Sexual Abuse: A focus on offenders and protecting children
Online29 June 2021, 10:00
The aim of the event will be to present the most up-to-date and cutting-edge research and evidence in the investigation and prevention of CSA.
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Talk
'Seeing Myself' Talk and Q&A with a BAME alumni guest speaker Zino Vinci
Online24 June 2021, 12:00
Internal event for ARU Students.
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Art Exhibition
CLARITY - 3rd Year BA Fine Art Exhibition
Coslett Cafe Windows, Anglia Ruskin University campus, Cambridge.21 June 2021, 12:00
Clarity is the result of these two-week collaborations in January, a chance to see what can happen when two artists combine their creative skills and produce a single work.
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Virtual Celebration
Cambridge School of Art Graduate Showcase Celebration Event 2021
ZOOM17 June 2021, 17:00
A celebratory event featuring student presentations and live music.
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Online Talk
Contemporary Hungarian Social Photography
ZOOM16 June 2021, 18:30
Talk by the Hungarian photographer and academic Bea Kolozsi on changes in the concept of social photography
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Talk
AHSS Lunchtime Research Webinar - Music Interaction in Genetic Improvisation and Human-Machine Co-Creativity
Online16 June 2021, 12:30
AHSS Lunchtime Research Webinar with Dr. Sebastian Trump.
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Fashion Show
GRADUATE FASHION WEEK 2021: A showcase of selected graduate works from Anglia Ruskin University.
Online16 June 2021, 10:30
A showcase of selected graduate works from Anglia Ruskin University.
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Live Streamed Film
Live Stream BA Film & Television Production Graduation Films: Program Two
Present Showcase Website14 June 2021, 18:30
Made under the restrictions of Covid 19, ingenuity is showcased here with students making films across borders and countries, with flatmates and family, using archive and technology.
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Talk
CIMTR Public Research Lecture: "The music gives calmness to the soul" - Music Therapy with Refugees with Bolette Daniels Beck, Ph.D.
ZOOM14 June 2021, 17:30
You are warmly invited to the 2020-2021 CIMTR Research Webinar Series.
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Public Talk
Cambridge School of Art - PGR Forum - Ofri Cnaani- Active Residues, performance-data-matter After the Museum
Microsoft Teams14 June 2021, 13:30
Join a conversation with Ofri Cnaani, PhD researcher and Associate Lecturer at the Visual Cultures Department, Goldsmiths, UoL.
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Fair & Exhibition
Illustration Fair & Exhibition
Ruskin Green, ARU, East Road, Cambridge12 June 2021, 11:00
Illustration Fair & Exhibition from our 2021 graduating BA (Hons) Illustration students.
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Live Streamed Film
Live Stream BA Film & Television Production Graduation Films: Program One
Present Showcase Website11 June 2021, 18:30
Made under the restrictions of Covid 19, ingenuity is showcased here with students making films across borders and countries, with flatmates and family, using archive and technology.
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Art Exhibition
'Awakening' on-line Private View and 'Supanee Gazeley Fine Art Prize' award
ZOOM10 June 2021, 18:30
3rd year BA Fine Art students Degree Show.
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Live Streamed Performance
Festival of Performance - After Party (2)
Present Showcase Website4 June 2021, 19:00
A murder mystery play about a group of Uni friends trying to piece together the events of a houseparty which led to their friend’s death.
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Live Streamed Performance
Festival of Performance - Unboxing
Present Showcase Website4 June 2021, 18:00
"Unboxing” is a short film with dark themes.
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Live Streamed Performance
Festival of Performance - Ruskin's Repulsive Tales
Present Showcase Website4 June 2021, 17:00
An audio-collection featuring retellings of popular childhood stories, only these have some dark twists... Happily ever after? There's no such thing.
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Live Streamed Performance
Festival of Performance - Workshop 4
Present Showcase Website4 June 2021, 16:00
A combination of vocal and movement workshops from Drama and Musical Theatre Students.
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Live Streamed Performance
Festival of Performance - Triad Comedy Club
Present Showcase Website3 June 2021, 20:00
10 short sketches to be pre-recorded and presented as a live event online.
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Live Streamed Performance
Festival of Performance - Phlebotomist
Present Showcase Website3 June 2021, 17:00
A student performance of a play written by Ella Road.
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Virtual Private View
Sustainability Art Prize 2021 - Virtual Private View
ZOOM3 June 2021, 17:00
Join us to celebrate SAP 2021 and explore the works shortlisted this year.
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Live Streamed Performance
Festival of Performance - Picasso Project
Present Showcase Website3 June 2021, 16:00
A compilation of poetic and physical interpretations of the art of Pablo Picasso
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Live Streamed Performance
Festival of Performance - Workshop 3
Present Showcase Website3 June 2021, 15:00
A combination of vocal and movement workshops from Drama and Musical Theatre Students.
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Live Streamed Performance
Festival of Performance - Shank
Present Showcase Website2 June 2021, 16:00
An original short film called ‘Screen’.
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Live Streamed Performance
Festival of Performance - The Feast of Fools (Musical Showcase)
Present Showcase Website2 June 2021, 14:00
BA (Hons) Performing Arts students will perform will songs from The Feast of Fools musical.
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Live Streamed Performance
Festival of Performance - Workshop 2
Present Showcase Website2 June 2021, 13:00
A combination of vocal and movement workshops from Drama and Musical Theatre Students.
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Live Streamed Performance
Festival of Performance - After Party (1)
Present Showcase Website1 June 2021, 16:00
A murder mystery play about a group of Uni friends trying to piece together the events of a houseparty which led to their friend’s death.
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Live Streamed Performance
Festival of Performance - What’s Inside (Female empowerment Concert)
Present Showcase Website1 June 2021, 15:00
A compilation of musical theatre songs sung by inspirational female characters.
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Live Streamed Performance
Festival of Performance - Workshop
Present Showcase Website1 June 2021, 14:00
A combination of vocal and movement workshops from Drama and Musical Theatre Students.
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Guest talk
Phantom Futures: Performing Creative Technologies
Microsoft Teams26 May 2021, 14:00
Artist Sian Fan and creative technologist Dave Norton who will be speaking about their practice and recent work Phantom.
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Other
Remembering Caron Freeborn
Online21 May 2021, 19:00
Students and colleagues from ARU will read poems and pay tribute to a teacher and writer Caron Freeborn.
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Talk
AHSS Lunchtime Research Webinar - Art and visual impairment
ZOOM19 May 2021, 12:30
Dr Hillary Engward and Tom Kersey on working with arts and veterans with visual impairment
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Talk
CIMTR Public Research Webinar: Safe & Sound - Music Therapy for Refugee Children and Adolescents: a process evaluation’
Online17 May 2021, 17:30
You are warmly invited to the 2020-2021 CIMTR Research Webinar Series.
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Guest Lecture
Professor Corinne Fowler (University of Leicester): Colonial Countryside. Or, When Heritage Gets Political?
ZOOM12 May 2021, 11:00
Professor Fowler will talk to staff and students about her work on stately homes and the legacy of empires and slavery.
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Musical
The Theory of Relativity (Second Screening)
Online30 April 2021, 19:30
A musical performed by ARU's 1st year BA Musical Theatre students
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Musical
The Theory of Relativity
Online30 April 2021, 14:30
A musical performed by ARU's 1st year BA Musical Theatre students
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Guest Lecture
Guest speaker: Dr Mark Prince OBE
Online30 April 2021, 13:00
Please join us for a guest lecture with Dr Mark Prince OBE.
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Online Private View
Proximity by Proxy - MA Fine Art and Printmaking Exhibition Launch
Microsoft Teams29 April 2021, 18:00
Proximity By Proxy - MA Simulated Show Private View Ten Masters’ students in Fine Art and Printmaking, at Cambridge School of Art
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Webinar
Studio Masterclass with Matty Moon
YouTube Live29 April 2021, 11:00
Studio masterclass with Cambridge based engineer and producer, Matty Moon.
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Talk
PIER Public Lecture Series 2020-21: Making the Case for Futures Thinking in Policing
Online28 April 2021, 17:30
You are warmly invited to the 2020-2021 PIER public lecture series
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Talk
'Seeing Myself' Talk and Q&A with a BAME alumni guest speaker Asante Boyce
Online28 April 2021, 12:00
Internal event for ARU Students.
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Talk
CIMTR Public Research Lecture: Music Therapy in Neurorehabilitation Roundtable
Online26 April 2021, 17:30
You are warmly invited to the 2020-2021 CIMTR Research Lecture Series.
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Research Seminar
PhD Animation Research: Stop-motion Animation Aesthetics 2
Online22 April 2021, 18:00
A post-graduate research seminar on stop-motion animation aesthetics
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Public Talk
Fine Art Research Unit (FARU) Art History Talk: Nina Lübbren, 'Käthe Kollwitz: A Printmaker's Sculpture'
Microsoft Teams21 April 2021, 14:00
This talk explores some of the relationships of the artist's prints and drawings to her sculpture
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Talk
AHSS Lunchtime Research Seminar - Creative Communication and Technology Assisted Learning with Prof Rob Toulson
Online21 April 2021, 12:30
Creative Communication and Technology Assisted Learning with Prof Rob Toulson
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Online Private View
Unmasked Exhibition Virtual PV - MA Fine Art
Microsoft Teams13 April 2021, 17:30
For the first time these 10 emergent UK and internationally based artists come together to explore various aspects of their own hidden psyches, which are now exposed and in full view.
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Research Seminar
CSCI Research Seminar Series: Screenwriting in the Academy
Online13 April 2021, 15:00
Please join us for this seminar presenting four perspectives on screenwriting as practice research and as an industry production tool and reflect on some of the questions that arise.
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Public Seminar
19th Century Studies Unit Guest Lecture Series: Professor Fiona Price (University of Chichester): “Real, Solemn History”: Historical Fiction Before Scott
Online12 April 2021, 16:30
We are pleased to invite you to the 19th Century Studies Unit public seminar series.
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Study Day
ART & CARE, study day
Online2 April 2021, 16:00
A study day, part of the Cambridge Festival program.
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Talk
AHSS Lunchtime Research Webinar with Dr Tullett on Olfaction, the Archive, and Interdisciplinary Pasts.
Online24 March 2021, 12:30
AHSS Lunchtime Research Webinar with Dr Tullett on Olfaction, the Archive, and Interdisciplinary Pasts.
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Guest talk
Talk and Q&A with a Literary Agent - Stevie Finegan
Online23 March 2021, 18:00
Join Stevie Finegan for an hour-long talk during which she'll discuss what the job entails, how to approach an agent, and what to expect form the relationship.
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Talk
CIMTR Public Research Lecture: Homeside Roundtable: participant experiences in a randomised controlled trial examining music and reading interventions for people living with dementia
Online22 March 2021, 17:30
You are warmly invited to the 2020-2021 CIMTR Research Lecture Series.
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Public Seminar
19th Century Studies Unit Guest Lecture Series: Dr. Stephen Basdeo (Richmond University, London): “A Plague of Blue Locusts”: Police Brutality in 1830s Newspapers, Periodicals, and Fiction
Online22 March 2021, 16:30
We are pleased to invite you to the 19th Century Studies Unit public seminar series.
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Online Private View
BA Fine Art 3rd Year Interim Exhibition - 'Intermission'
Microsoft Teams11 March 2021, 19:00
‘Intermission’ is a digital exhibition produced by 3rdyear BA Fine Art students at Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.
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Guest Lecture
Is it possible to overcome racism in your career? with Mary Stretch
Microsoft Teams11 March 2021, 16:00
Is it possible to overcome racism in your career? with Mary Stretch ARU Alumna, ex-BBC Journalist and producer, successful entrepreneur.
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Public Talk
Fine Art Research Unit (FARU) Artist Talk: Jennet Thomas- The Unspeakable Freedom Device
Microsoft Teams10 March 2021, 14:00
A talk from Jennet Thomas- The Unspeakable Freedom Device
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Guest talk
Author Talk and Q&A with Gareth L Powell
Online9 March 2021, 18:00
Join award-winning author Gareth L Powell for a talk about being a hybrid author (one who publishes both traditionally and through self-publishing outlets).
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Public Webinar
StoryLab's Creative Practice Event Series: Covid Through a Creative Lens
Online9 March 2021, 17:30
Join our webinar on "The Frontline" project for a panel discussion and Q&A
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Talk
CIMTR Public Research Webinar: Women in Academia
Online8 March 2021, 17:30
You are warmly invited to the 2020-2021 CIMTR Research Webinar Series.
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Public Seminar
19th Century Studies Unit Guest Lecture Series: Professor emer. Rosemary Mitchell (Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, Leeds Trinity University): A Catholic and Continental Catherine? Exploring Victorian Representations of Catherine of Aragon.
Online8 March 2021, 16:30
We are pleased to invite you to the 19th Century Studies Unit public seminar series.
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Research Seminar
ARRCIMS Seminar 'Illuminating Cambridge Admissions' and 'UGs investment in English'
Online4 March 2021, 09:30
We are very honoured to welcome Dr. Daniel Weston (University of Hong Kong) to our seminar series this term.
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Public talk
PhD Animation Research: Stop-Motion Aesthetics
Online3 March 2021, 18:00
This event is an opportunity for PhD research students, focusing on stop-motion animation, to present their ideas and discuss them with their peers
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Guest talk
Behind the scenes with a bookshop events manager - Dr Amy Crawford, the Events Coordinator at Waterstones Cambridge
Online2 March 2021, 18:00
Public talk and Q&A with Dr Amy Crawford, the Events Coordinator at Waterstones Cambridge.
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Public Talk
'The Essentials' - 5 Steps Towards a Professional Art Practice with Artist Mentor and Curator Matt Roberts
Microsoft Teams2 March 2021, 12:00
Matt Roberts will explain best practice in presenting your work and your ideas online and in communication with galleries and arts professionals.
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Public Talk
Wham Bam Thank You Cambs
Online25 February 2021, 19:30
Three ARU alumni, Ellie Breeze, Denise Kehoe and Ary Hilfiker talk about how they formed as an art collective following the completion of their MAs at ARU, and how this then led to running the Motion Sickness Project Space in Cambridge.
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Virtual Exhibition
PRESENT: MA Showcase Launch Event
Microsoft Teams25 February 2021, 18:00
Discover the research & practical explorations of this year's graduating MA students in an inspiring virtual showcase.
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Talk
PIER Public Lecture Series: ‘A Perfect Storm’ Supporting Victims/Survivors of domestic abuse through the Pandemic
Online24 February 2021, 17:30
You are warmly invited to the 2020-2021 PIER public lecture series
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Public Talk
Exhibiting Your Practice with Artist Mentor and Curator Matt Roberts
Microsoft Teams23 February 2021, 14:00
' A Professional Practice Talk to coincide with PRESENT: MA Graduate Showcase. All Welcome
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Talk & Interactive Session
LGBTQ+ History Month: LGBTQ+: Queer Matters for everyone’
Online23 February 2021, 12:00
Please join us for an AHSS Talk & Interactive Session: LGBTQ+: Queer Matters for everyone’
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CIMTR Public Research Lecture: The role of (musical) sound and Artistic Human-Computer Interaction Design for therapy, with Dr Jin Hyun Kim
Online22 February 2021, 17:30
You are warmly invited to the 2020-2021 CIMTR Research Lecture Series.
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Public Seminar
19th Century Studies Unit Guest Lecture Series: Dr. Brian Murray (King’s College, London): The Journeys of ‘Kalulu’ and Saleh Bin Osman: African Travellers in the Imperial Archive
Online22 February 2021, 16:30
We are pleased to invite you to the 19th Century Studies Unit public seminar series.
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Guest Talk
Guest Talk: Kill the Cat Theatre 'Adapting Performance to Online'
Microsoft Teams17 February 2021, 16:00
A guest lecture with Q&A to explore how artists can adapt their work to reach digital audiences during the pandemic
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Guest talk
Creative tech careers: How to survive and thrive as a digital practitioner
Online17 February 2021, 14:00
An inspirational talk from Sound Artist and Noise Maker Frazer Merrick.
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Talk
AHSS Lunchtime Research Seminar - Dr. Kirk Woolford: The role of the creative practitioner in transdisciplinary collaboration
Online17 February 2021, 12:30
Dr. Kirk Woolford: The role of the creative practitioner in transdisciplinary collaboration
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Special Lecture
Commission Projects: On Commissioning Public Art
Microsoft Teams17 February 2021, 10:15
Special Lecture: Commission Projects: On Commissioning Public Art
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Public Talk
Sustainability Art Prize 2021 Talk
ZOOM16 February 2021, 10:00
A talk about sustainability in the creative curriculum in relation to Sustainability Art Prize.
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Guest talk
PRE-PRESS - CSA Annual Photography Lecture
Online15 February 2021, 17:00
You're invited to the CSA Annual Photography Lecture with Laura Pannack and Donna Ferrato
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Public Talk
PGRs forum series at CSA – Melinda Guillén– Big Time Sensuality: Connecting Feminist Art Criticism & Intersectionality
Microsoft Teams15 February 2021, 15:30
Dr Melinda Guillén will frame and discuss her experience as feminist art historian, and writer within the Los Angeles art scene.
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Research Seminar
ARRCIMS Public Seminar - Dr. Alim Tusun (University of Cambridge) & Stephan George
Online11 February 2021, 10:00
We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Alim Tusun (University of Cambridge) as the first speaker of our seminar series this term
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Online Talks
Cambridge-Szeged Society online talk: Mátyás Seiber and Lilla Bauer: Remarkable Parents and their Circles
ZOOM10 February 2021, 18:30
Talk by Julia Seiber Boyd about her parents, the well known composer Mátyás Seiber and the ballet dancer Lilla Bauer.
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Public Talk
Fine Art Research Unit (FARU) Artist Talk: Dan Hays- Touch Screen
Microsoft Teams10 February 2021, 14:00
Fine Art Research Unit (FARU) Artist Talk: Dan Hays- Touch Screen
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Talk
CIMTR Public Research Lecture: The Impact of Dramatherapy
Online8 February 2021, 17:30
You are warmly invited to the 2020-2021 CIMTR Research Lecture Series.
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Public Seminar
19th Century Studies Unit Guest Lecture Series: Dr. Duc Dau (University of Western Australia): “Love is God”: The Song of Songs in the work of Charlotte Brontë and Thomas Hardy
Online8 February 2021, 12:00
We are pleased to invite you to the 19th Century Studies Unit public seminar series.
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Guest talk
Visiting Lecturer: Phoebe English - Sustainability and building a brand in fashion
Online3 February 2021, 10:00
Visiting Lecturer: Phoebe English will be speaking on Sustainability and building a brand in fashion.
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Guest talk
Visiting Lecturer: Bethany Williams - Talk on sustainability and building a brand in the fashion industry
Online2 February 2021, 10:00
Visiting Lecturer: Bethany Williams will be speaking on sustainability and building a brand in the fashion industry
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Public Talk
Fine Art Research Unit Talk : Véronique Chance - 'Running Artfully.'
Microsoft Teams27 January 2021, 14:00
Fine Art Research Unit Talk : Véronique Chance - 'Running Artfully.'
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Public Talk
Cambridge School of Art - PGR Forum - on diagrams and other forms of research visualization
Microsoft Teams25 January 2021, 13:30
Join a conversation on ways in which we represent and or visualise research. Particularly, in the context of creative research, these might become the work itself in a metalinguistic fashion
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Virtual Comedy Night
The Comedy Store LIVE - Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences & ARU Student's Union
Online22 January 2021, 19:00
Get settled in and get ready for some BIG laughs as The Comedy Store brings its brightest and best comedy talent direct to your home for one night only.
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Talk
AHSS Lunchtime Research Seminar - Children's Picturebooks:, Research, Practice, Research through practice with Prof. Martin Salisbury and Beatriz Lostalé Seijo
Online20 January 2021, 12:30
Children's Picturebooks:, Research, Practice, Research through practice with Prof. Martin Salisbury and Beatriz Lostalé Seijo
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Talk
CIMTR Public Research Lecture: "Music listening systems and technology for arousal adjustment - presentation and discussion of current developments and directions"
Online18 January 2021, 17:30
You are warmly invited to the 2020-2021 CIMTR Research Lecture Series.
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Talk
PIER Public Seminar Series 2020-21: Rape, Gender and Class: Intersections in Courtroom Narratives
Online13 January 2021, 16:30
You are warmly invited to the 2020-2021 PIER public seminar series.
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Talk
PIER Public Lecture Series 2020-21: A Review and an Assessment of the Law Enforcement Response to the Threat of Online CSA/E
Online16 December 2020, 17:30
You are warmly invited to the 2020-2021 PIER public lecture series
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Cambridge-Szeged Society online talk: Attila Kiss on Shakespeare in Hungary
ZOOM14 December 2020, 20:15
Zoom talk on the part Shakespeare played in building a Hungarian national identity in the nineteenth century.
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Talk
CIMTR Public Research Webinar: Interacting brains of clients and therapists: EEG case reports on neural emotional markers during receptive and active music therapy
Online14 December 2020, 17:30
You are warmly invited to the 2020-2021 CIMTR Research Webinar Series.
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Film Screening
Festive Film Night - Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences & ARU Students Union
Netflix Teleparty10 December 2020, 18:00
Join us for the Festive Film night! Hosted on Netflix Teleparty, this event is a a collaboration between Arts, Humanities & Social Science & ARU Students Union!
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Talk
AHSS Lunchtime Research Webinar on Art, Sustainability and Place with Dr. Cologni, Neil Henderson and Jo Joelson
Online9 December 2020, 12:30
AHSS Lunchtime Research Webinar on Art, Sustainability and Place with Dr. Cologni, Neil Henderson and Jo Joelson
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Research Seminar
CSCI Research Seminar Series: Two approaches to film practice: Hans Petch and Jennifer Nightingale
Online7 December 2020, 14:00
Please join us for a CSCI research event that focuses on two colleagues from Film and Media who approach filmmaking from quite different angles.
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Talk
Degree Show 2020
Location23 August 2020, 17:00
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