The Brendan Bates quintet is a recently-formed jazz ensemble featuring some of the most exciting and talented musicians on the Cambridge jazz scene. Their repertoire spans the gamut of jazz music, from bebop through to modern jazz, with new takes on standards which have been re-interpreted for a slightly unconventional guitar and trumpet line-up backed by a strong rhythm section.

Guitar: Nick Goodwin
Trumpet / Flugelhorn: Brendan Bates
Keys: Liam Dunachie
Bass: Misha Mullov- Abbado
Drums Dave Burgoyne"

This event is free to all.

Hope to see you there,
Wolfson Ents

Dr. Maja Petrovic-Steger, Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge.

This is part of the multi-disciplinary gender research seminar

Dr Cesar Merchan-Hamann, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies

Professor Robin Weiss is known for his pioneering work in deepening the understanding of HIV/AIDS. His achievements in this field include identifying CD4 as its cell surface receptor, developing HIV screening tests and investigating how antibodies neutralise the virus. He has been the president of the British Association for Cancer Research and is currently President of the Society for General Microbiology.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slms/people/show.php?personid=12443

FREE ENTRY
Humans have speculated on life-forms existing elsewhere in the universe. Astronomers now use sophisticated techniques to analyse exoplanets, while biologists are on a perpetual quest for extraterrestrial life. We'll be asking if aliens of literature, art and film have a basis in science and, if not, we'll find out what biologists think aliens look like.

Join us for this lively panel event. Refreshments will be available after the talk and Q&A.

Panel:
Dr Jack Cohen (co-author of The Science of Discworld and Evolving the Alien)
Dr Lewis Dartnell (Centre for Planetary Sciences, UCL)
Dr Carolin Crawford (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)
Prof Mark Brake (University of Glamorgan)

Chairwoman:
Dr Monica Grady (The Open University, 2003 lecturer for The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures)

'The Global Food Crisis of 2008 - Causes, Consequences, and What We're
Doing to Make Sure it Happens Again, Soon'. The Ivory Tower Society is
lucky to have Pembroke GP member Dan Kim giving this talk based on his
presentation at the World Trade Organization in August, 2008. The
talk explores the reality of the highly distorted international
agriculture market, what has been done to fix it by the WTO, and how
their efforts have contributed to make agriculture a more volatile
market. Mainstream explanations for the rapidly rising food prices
have focused on the increasing demand for agriculture products.
Economics and politics combine to explain the crisis, and we are
nowhere near solving the problems.

Speaker: Mr. Dan Kim
Location: Outer Parlour, Pembroke College
Time: 7:45pm for 8pm on Monday November 23rd

We hope that you will be able to join us for what should be an
excellent lecture and opportunity for discussion. Visit
http://www.srcf.ucam.org/ivorytower/ for details.

All welcome!

Fabienne Viala (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of English and Centre
of Latin American Studies): 'Tragedy, Philosophy and Culture for Alejo
Carpentier and Aimé Césaire: Haiti, a Caribbean Historical Paradigm'

Wine and refeshments served. All are welcome.

Internal vs. External: A Case of Revolutionary Justice in Lev Kuleshov’s 'By the Law' (1926)

Presented by Rosie Baker (University of Durham)

According to Sergei Tret´iakov, ‘By the Law was worked out in the spirit of an algebraic formula, seeking to obtain the maximum of effect with the minimum of effort’. This paper will explore the ways in which the least expensive film ever produced in Russia presents the relationship between internal and external spheres in an environment where official institutions of administering justice are absent. I will primarily concentrate on how the narrative, aesthetic, and ideological programme for By the Law was shaped, subverted, and otherwise complicated by the filmmakers’ refusal to distinguish between opportunities for individual interpretation and the explicit promotion of state views for public consumption; as co-scriptwriter Viktor Shklovsky retrospectively declared, ‘Kuleshov did more with this film than I expected’.

Starting at 5:15pm, kvas and Russian-themed snacks will be provided. All welcome!

Managing Heritage: The National Trust for Scotland and Culloden
Prof. Christopher Duffy

Heritage in its present form is an oddly modern phenomenon, which seeks to reconcile the demands of ‘conservation’, ‘commerce’ and ‘community’. These principles have now been applied to the site of the cataclysmic battle of Culloden (16 April 1746), which put an end to any realistic hope of a Stuart restoration in Britain, and which carries powerful associations among Scots at the present day. A brief discussion of the course of the battle is followed by the story of the site over the next two and a half centuries, and of the thinking and striving which led to the opening of the restored battlefield and the new Visitor Centre in April 2009’

Reading lists are the area in which academic workflows, student needs and library services interact most directly. They act as a bridge between two of the University’s most important assets – academic expertise and library resources. They are fundamental to undergraduate learning and to library collection development. To date, there have been many attempts to solve the ‘problem’ of reading lists, with limited success.

I will examine if there is a problem with reading lists, and what the nature of that problem might be. Are the real issues to do with cooperation and collaboration between bodies involved in pedagogical support? If so, what is the solution, and where might it lead us in the future?”

About the speaker

Huw Jones is System Support Librarian at the University Library, offering services, support and training to libraries across Cambridge. He has a particular interest in developing interfaces which take advantage of advances in technology to facilitate new ways of working.

Having studied history at Manchester University, he worked in a range of libraries in Manchester and Cambridge before joining Electronic Systems and Services at the University Library in 2004. He has since developed a range of integrated online services for librarians, and worked on various projects from data duplication to user education.

From April to June 2009, Huw held an Arcadia Fellowship to investigate issues surrounding the introduction of a reading list system in Cambridge. His findings (published in a report available at Reading Lists in Cambridge: A Standard System?) will form the basis of this seminar.

This talk is part of the Arcadia Project Seminars series. Please notify mh569@cam.ac.uk if you plan to attend.

followed by a wine reception
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With demand for transplantable organs far exceeding supply and an aging global population, the science of bio-engineering organs has never been more relevant. Professor Hollander, who helped to create the first tissue-engineered trachea, explains how transplant rejection and scarcity are being overcome by creating organs using the patients' own stem cells.

entry: £2 (free for members)
more info: http://www.scisoc.com

The CRASSH Business and Society Research Group invites you to its bi-weekly meeting.

Ioanna Boulouta (PhD Candidate, Judge Business School)-- Corporate Social Responsibility and National Competitiveness

Today the business world faces increasing pressure from governments and international governmental or non-governmental organizations to adopt or improve their CSR practices. This pressure is mainly based on the assumption that CSR can contribute significantly to the successful implementation of international development goals such as poverty alleviation as well as to national competitiveness goals. However, these claims luck robust theoretical and empirical justification. The purpose of this paper is to provide theoretical underpinnings and new empirical evidence on the link between CSR and competitiveness at the macro level.

Rather than the common "presentation of a paper" model, sessions are intended to be accessible to a wide audience with presentations forming the basis for a discussion.
All are welcome and we're looking forward to an exciting and stimulating discussion!

On Wednesday, 25th November 2009, the Global Student Education Forum (www.gseforum.org) is hosting a talk, given by Professor KATHLEEN McCARTNEY (Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education). The talk, titled 'Whether the Environment Matters More for Children in Poverty' will be held at the Kennedy Room, Cambridge Union Society from 19:30 to 20:30.

The event is FREE. Places are limited. To reserve a seat, please do so at http://www.gseforum.org/kathleen_mccartney or e-mail GSEF Chairman, Natthapoj Vincent T., at nt279@cam.ac.uk.

The talk will be preceded by GSEF Chairman's Dinner (17:30 - 19:00), with Professor McCartney as our special guest. Dress code is black tie. The invitation is extended to members of all universities. Should you wish to attend the dinner, kindly send a cheque, made payable to ‘Global Student Education Forum’, to Natthapoj Vincent Trakulphadetkrai (GSEF Founder and Chairman) at 112 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0HL. Along with the cheque, please give your name and those of any guests you would like to bring, contact details, as well as specifying your choice for each course from our menu. Places are extremely limited, and thus are reserved on a first-come, first-served basis.

The deadline for your reservation(s) is Friday, 30th October 2009, and they will be £35 each. For more information, please direct your enquiries to chairman@gseforum.org, or visit
http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1gk4y/InvitationGSEFChairm/

Dr. Sophie Read, University Lecturer in English and Fellow of Christ's College will be speaking on 'Richard Bentley and the Rhetorical Rethinking of Paradise Lost'. Wine is free and all are welcome!

First of a new series featuring our own tellers, alternative humour and wild enchantment with Nigel Preston-Jones and Rachel O’Leary.

In the ground-breaking i-Teams programme, students and postdocs from across the University work together to discover the commercial potential of a real University invention. Each team collaborates with researchers and industry mentors to assess the route to market for the emerging technology.

Find out more and register in www.iteamsonline.org/

Applications no later than THURSDAY 26 NOVEMBER.

Dr Plesch has worked for various NGOs focused on the abolition of nuclear weapons and acted as an independent advisor to the UK and US governments as well as to Oxfam, the Foreign Policy Centre and Greenpeace. He is the founder of the British American Security Information Council (BASIC) which he directed until 2001, when he became the Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies in London. In 2006, he was invited to give a plenary address to the World Congress on Renewabe Energy. In this talk, Dr Plesch will be dicsussing President Obama's policy and the possibility of multilateral disarmament. There will be time after the talk for questions and discussion.

A talk on the history of beer and brewing accompanied by a free tasting of different beers plus a competition to win a supply of beer. tickets cost £5 and are available from Julie Darsley at the University Newcomers and Visiting Scholars - jrd32@admin.cam.ac.uk telephone 338099. (Joint event with the Graduate Union and Visiting Scholars)

Introduction to meditation. These weekly classes have been held in the University since 1963, teaching a meditation based on attention to the breath. All are welcome.

Many obscure Soviet compositions (including infamous opera about Stalin) will be premiered in the UK by the distinguished artists coming from America, Russia, Iceland, and from England (such as Kate Whitley, winner of the BBC Award, or Svetlana Savenko, professor at the Moscow Conservatory). More details on our web; £5-10 entrance fee.

Have you outgrown clubbing? Have you had a life and some experience before attending Cambridge University? Do you want some adult conversation or just the opportunity to have a chat with like minded people? We're not being rude just old fashioned, they call us mature but we're just grown-ups - it's not an age thing, just a state of mind.

Does this sound like you? If so, then come along to the GU Grown-Up Students' Party in the Graduate Union Lounge at 8pm on Saturday 28th November and meet some more Grown-Up Students! Entry is free and there'll be a free drink for the first 50 people to arrive - there's no need to book, just turn up on the night. The bar will be open serving cheap drinks until midnight.

As with all our events, this party is open to all Graduate and Mature students in Cambridge, but those whose teenage years are a slightly more distant memory will be particularly welcome!

For more information please contact social@gradunion.cam.ac.uk

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The Science Societies' Christmas Dinner
A BioSoc // CUPS // SciSoc joint event

Sun 29th Nov, 7:00pm for 7:30pm
BOOKING ESSENTIAL BY TUE 17th
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The CU Biological, Physical, and Scientific Societies are collaborating to bring you their biggest event this term! Everyone is warmly invited to join us for an evening of good fun and black-tie glamour. Our venue this year is ASK, which offers you a wide range of menu options of fine italian cuisine.

As usual, non-members are welcome - members get reduced ticket prices! Places go fast, so in order to make sure you get enough seats for you and your friends, use our online form to register as early as possible, but at the latest by Tuesday, the 17th of November.

For more information, the menu options, and the online Sign-Up sheet, check the event website: http://tinyurl.com/SciSocSCD

Alex Vinall (Oxford) presents a talk entitled '"The Search for a Usable Childhood": Representations of Young Nazis in Post-Unification German Cinema'. Discussion will follow the talk; wine, juice and snacks are provided.

The Cambridge University Global Health Student Initiative (CUGHSI) is proud to host Dr. Graham Lister, Fellow in Health (Judge Business School) in a discussion on 'The role of the EU in Global Health'. See http://www.globalhealtheurope.org/index.php for further information.

Following the talk, there will be an opportunity to find out more about CUGHSI as well as internships in global health.

All those with an interest in global health issues are welcome to attend!

In the run-up to Copenhagen, the world considers the difficulties ahead. Environmentalist Tony Juniper will discuss how those challenges reach beyond ‘green’ debate and into our society.
Named by the ENDS Report as one of the top 10 environmental figures of the last three decades, Juniper has been involved in every aspect of the campaign for an environmentally sustainable world. Formerly Executive Director of Friends of the Earth, Juniper currently writes for various newspapers, is Special Adviser to the Prince of Wales Rainforests Project, Senior Associate with the Cambridge University Programme for Sustainability Leadership and is running as the Cambridge parliamentary candidate for the Green Party.
The lecture hall is wheelchair accessible. Email aep37@cam.ac.uk to be sure of a spot!

The Howler is back, in roaring form.

Ray Peacock, one of the nittiest-grittiest funny men in the business, is headlining this edition of Cambridge's best stand up night. Hecklers beware.

Compere Ed Gamble will be on hand to steer the comedy ship on a straight course. The best local comics from the Cambridge scene will be down in support as usual, to, um, look out for icebergs?

Things kick off at eight. We recommend prompt arrival if you want to get a seat!

Hope to see you there,
The Howler Team.