- Celebrating the Life of Lady Margaret Beaufort
On 27 June 2009 Christ’s College will celebrate the life and generosity of its foundress, Lady Margaret
Beaufort, who died 500 years ago, almost to the day. Her extraordinary life, spanning seven decades
of the most turbulent period of late medieval English history, culminated in the accession of her son as
Henry VII, the first of the Tudor monarchs. Her great personal wealth was then put to good use –
founding professorships in both Oxford and Cambridge, supporting the development of printing,
newly arrived in England and, in 1505, re-founding the impoverished God’s House as Christ’s
College. Her generosity laid the foundation for the continuing success of our College, helping it to
maintain and develop the quality and range of its education.
We invite you to join Professor Lisa Jardine, Miss Penelope Keith, Professor Geoffrey Martin,
Professor David Reynolds, Dr Charles Saumarez Smith, Professor Quentin Skinner, Dr David Starkey,
Professor Robert Swanson and Dr Francis Woodman, on this day of celebration which will be varied,
interesting and entertaining. There will be talks about Lady Margaret’s family background, her
portraits, her political significance, her sponsorship of printing, the founding of the College, her gifts
and benefactions and her personal writings and beliefs. There will be displays of period plate,
archives and rare books, as well as tours of the older College buildings and entertainment with period
music and readings.
The first talk begins at 10.00am in the Yusuf Hamied Centre at Christ’s College and lunch is included.
It is anticipated that the day’s activities will end at 5.15pm. The cost of the event is £45 per person.
In the spirit of Lady Margaret’s foundation, and of the many subsequent benefactors who have
enabled the College to survive and flourish, we are inviting attending College members, alumni and
friends to follow in her generous footsteps by supporting a fund for a College teaching fellowship in
history. The College is grateful to the distinguished speakers and performers on the day. All are
generously giving their time free to support the fund and some have also personally donated a total of
nearly £20,000 to the Fund. We are seeking a minimum donation of £250 to the fund from each person
attending the event, in addition to the charge for attending the day. The donation can be paid over
five years if you prefer.
You are also welcome to join members of College and other invited guests at a Solemn Evensong and
Liturgy of Commemoration in the Chapel at 6.00pm where the Preacher will be Professor Eamonn
Duffy. The service will be sung by the chapel choir, directed by Professor David Rowland, and will
include rarely-performed music from the 16th Century ‘Eton Choir Book’. Those attending the day’s
events will also receive priority booking for a commemorative banquet to be held in the College Hall
that evening at 7.15pm for 7.45pm. The cost of dinner including wine is £65 per person. A limited
number of single rooms is available in College for the night. For information about their cost and
availability please contact Ms Alex Cullen at ac597@cam.ac.uk.
We do hope you will be able to join us for this fascinating and insightful day. Places are limited so
please reply on this form as soon as possible and in any case by 15 May.
Frank Kelly
Master
Lady Margaret Beaufort
31 May 1443 to 29 June 1509
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- Lauren Davidson's Charity Skydive
I will be jumping out of a plane at 13,000 feet and plummeting to the ground at 120mph (until the parachute opens - hopefully) to raise money for Hazon Yeshaya.
Hazon Yeshaya is a charity which provides hot meals, groceries, health and dental care for those who cannot provide for themselves and their families. It supplies 400,000 hot meals a month, 70% of which goes to children of school age. It is open to anyone who needs, and does not discriminate between race, religion or nationality.
To find out more or to sponsor me (and I will have hilarious video footage to show), go to www.justgiving.com/laurendavidson. Feel free to email me with any questions on ld343@cam.ac.uk.
Thanks!
Lauren Davidson
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- Wolfson Howler
RIGHT. Let's go and comedy it up large - It's Wolfson Howler time innit.
THIS MONDAY - 27th April 8pm
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Headliner: Steve Williams -
- Chortle Award nominee - BBC New Comedy Award Finalist
Steve Williams is right ace - one of the most exciting and electrifying live performers of the new comedy generation. His style is a hybrid of bizarre stories, larger than life physicality, spontaneous improvisation and off-the-wall takes on everyday life.
Steve's TV credits include appearances on 'Edinburgh and Beyond' on Paramount Comedy and Essential Edinburgh.
Steve appeared in The Comedy Zone in Edinburgh 2004 and has returned to the Fringe with three solo shows 'Excitable', 'Binge Thinking' and 'The Ultimate Worrier'.
"A treat to behold. His inventive material and banter with the audience blended together effortlessly and seamlessly." Manchester Evening News
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MC: The magnificent Ed Gamble
With support from:
Alex iambic - Cambridge based comedy poet, runs the Upbeat Open-mic nights @ The Hopbine. www.myspace.com/alexiambic
Freddy Syborn - RSC Other Prize Winner and Footlights Harry Porter Prize nominee. 'Excellent...Syborn is clearly one to watch, both as an actor and writer... Shocking, Hilarious'. Varsity.
Phil Wang - compère and organiser of the King's Jest. 'Promising' 'Spontaneous yet perfectly at ease'. Varsity.
And More TBA.
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8pm
Tickets £6 on the door (£2 Wolfson members).
'Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks'. - Henri Bergson
Believe.
Come awn, forget your revision for a little while. F**k off, revision, f**k off for a little while.
YES! EXCITING! SEE! YOU! THERE?
For more information visit: www.myspace.com/wolfsonhowler
Here's a simple PDF map, directing you to Wolfson:
http://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/directions/cambridgemap.pdf
"My advice to you is simple: look Wolfson up on the map and miss the next Howler at your peril!"- **** - The Cambridge Student 07/02/2008
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- CUCO Concert
The Cambridge University Music Club presents
Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra
Varsity - "Quite simply breathtaking"
Saturday, 9th May
8:00
West Road Concert Hall,
West Road, Cambridge
O Appalachian Spring! I gained the ledge;
Steep, inaccessible smile that eastward bends
And northward reaches in that violet wedge
Of Adirondacks!
Copland - Appalachian Spring Suite
Jacob Ter Veldhuis- 'Tallahatchie' Concerto - UK PREMIÈRE
Schreker - Chamber Symphony
Saxophone- Rob Buckland
Conductor - Peter Stark
Put the textbooks down, forget the practice papers and leave a space in the revision timetable for this very exciting evening’s music.
Copland’s ballet suite moves between jubilant rhythmic play and deeply moving passages of exquisite simple beauty. Following this is the jazz inflections of Jacob TV’s concerto in its UK première performance, and the post romantic sound of Schreker’s little known gem. Peter Stark, CUCO’s principal conductor, will be joined by world-class saxophonist Rob Buckland in a very special concert, not soon to be forgotten.
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Book tickets and join the mailing list at www.cuco.co.uk
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- CUS Events
This week at the Cambridge Union, come along to any of the following events:
Pub Quiz
Bring your mates for some trivia-based fun with our resident quiz
master extraordinaire, William P. R. Dean - it's practically revision. £40
bar tab / Pizza Express vouchers for the winners each week. No entry fee.
Venue: Bar
Date: Mon 27th April, 2009 at 8:00pm
Rabbi Michael Melchior [CJUS] [CUIS]
Israeli Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism Remembrance Day
Cambridge University Jewish Society and Israel Society are very privileged
to welcome Rabbi Michael Melchior to speak on Monday 27th April at the
Cambridge Union, 8pm.
Rabbi Melchior was born in Denmark and moved to Israel in 1986. He became
involved in politics with the Meimad party under the leadership of Rabbi
Amital. The Meimad party is almost unique in Israel as it is a Religious
Zionist Left-Wing Political Party. Through an alliance with Ehud Barak's
Labour Party Rabbi Melchior not only became a Member of Knesset
(parliament) but was also appointed Minister of Social and Diaspora
Affairs, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Minister of Education,
Culture and Sport, and Deputy Minister of Social and Diaspora Affairs at
different occasions during three electoral terms spanning ten years from
1999 until the most recent election earlier this year. This year his party
Meimad failed to cross the electoral threshold required to win a seat
despite forming a coalition with the Green Party.
Rabbi Melchior will be speaking on the topic of: 'The Role of Religion
within the Israeli Army and its ramifications on broader society'
Venue: Chamber
Date: Mon 27th April, 2009 at 8:00pm
Jung Chang was born in China in 1952. At the age of 14, as an
ardent supporter of Mao in the ongoing Cultural Revolution, she joined the
Red Guards. She would later, in exile, become an outspoken critic of Mao's
regime and has written several books on Communist China. The most famous
one, "Wild Swans", tells the story of three generations of women in her
family, and spans across the many great changes occurring in modern China,
before and during Communist rule.
Recently she has published the book "Mao: The Untold Story", together with
her husband Jon Halliday, which has been met by both praise and
disagreement from the press and scholars.
Venue: Chamber
Date: Wed 29th
April, 2009 at 7:30pm
Robert Peston
"The New Capitalism: Why This is No Ordinary Recession".
Peston is one of the most knowledgeable and influential economic
commentators in Britain today. Having worked briefly as a stockbroker in
the '80s, he later embarked on a career as a journalist, which would come
to include becoming Financial Editor of the Financial Times and, currently,
Business Editor for the BBC. Famous for his scoop on the Northern Rock
Crisis, and critically acclaimed for his book on Gordon Brown, he has
unique insight into British politics and economics. This is the experience
he brings with him to the Union to speak on the issue of the current
financial crisis, and the long-term effects it will have.
Venue: Chamber
Date: Thu 30th April, 2009 at 6:00pm
What Future for the N.H.S.?
Chaired by SAM LISTER, Health Editor of The Times
BEN BRADSHAW, M.P., Minister for Health
HAMISH BELDRUM, Chairman of the British Medical Association
NORMAN LAMB, M.P., Liberal Democrat spokesman for health
PAUL GODDARD, Former President of the Royal Society of Medicine
KAROL SIKORA, Medical Director of CancerPartnersUK
Venue: Chamber
Date: Thu 30th April, 2009 at 7:30pm
These events are members only, subject to our usual guest policy (see the
Cambridge Union Society website for details).
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- Waster - Student DJ Night at The Place
Waster, a new night every Monday at the Place, brought to you by Big Fish Ents, invites you to come and party it up with residents Sonic Assault and the best student DJs of Cambridge providing you with all your music needs.
http://www.bigfishents.com/waster
With a mixture of indie, house, drum 'n' bass, ska, reggae, hip hop, commercial dance and a number of other styles.
Add some variety to your life and escape the 'cheese' of other club nights.
This will be no ordinary night. At Big Fish we think it is important to promote student DJ-ing and we want to give everyone who wants to have a go a chance to get on the decks at one of Cambridge's best nightclubs.
Have a look at http://www.bigfishents.com/big-fish/family to see who you can grab pre-entry tickets from.
This isn't your standard night out. Its not a cheesy Wednesday Cindies. We know we will start off smaller but please come and support proper music played by some of the best DJs in Cambridge so we can keep offering a viable alternative for a nightout!
So remember Waster,
Very cheap drinks where the DJs will be playing all the floorfillers for your pleasure! Even on a student budget, this is not a dent on the wallet.
If you want to DJ at Waster, then please do not hesitate to contact Si Burdus (sib@bigfishents.com) or Resident DJ Roberto Ireland (rob@bigfishents.com) of Sonic Assault who will organise a slot for you.
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Become a fan of Big Fish Enterprises on facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Big-Fish-Enterprises/49381252169
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- Be On TV
Do you think you have what it takes to be the next General Knowledge Giant?
Are you as clever as an Egghead?
Do you have a wider general knowledge than a set of encyclopedias?
The hit ‘BBC 2’ quiz is looking for a new super brain to join the most prestigious group in British quiz show history.
If you think you could call yourself an Egghead email naomi.richardson@12yard.com or areyouanegghead@12yard.com
Or call:
0207 156 5774
The deadline for application requests is Monday 27th April 2009!!
Would you be at home in the Mastermind chair?
Do you always know the final answer on ‘Millionaire’?
Could you be the next ‘Brain of Britain’
We are searching for the brightest of Britain’s quiz show talent to take part in a brand new, general knowledge challenge.
If you think you have a fantastic general knowledge and can take on and beat the best quizzers in the country email
applications@12yard.com
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- Teach in Nepal
Do you want to teach in Nepal this Summer?
Cambridge Volunteers in Nepal are a student-run charity that sends 14
volunteers each summer to teach in Nepal. Recently a number of spaces in
the charity have become available. Each teaching placement lasts for 6
weeks in one of our three schools. You will either live in the Children's
Peach Home (orphanage) or with the Headmaster of the school. You will teach
in the school during the day and in the evenings and weekends you have time
to do what you want. Most volunteers use this time to run games for the
children or to take part in the Nepali prayers and dancing. We encourage
volunteers to travel round the country as it's a once in a lifetime place
to visit. You can enjoy trekking around Everest or track rhinos in the
national parks or take part in Buddhist prayers. Nepal is a truly
spectacular country. Cambridge Volunteers in Nepal is a student-run charity
so there are no administration fees.
More information is available at
http://sites.google.com/site/cambridgevolunteersinnepal/ or by emailing
teachinnepal@googlemail.com . Go to the website to find the application
form. The deadline for applications is Friday 1st May.
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- Cambridge Rag Opportunities
Cambridge Rag is looking to recruit people for next year's committee. It's great fun (no, honestly), you get the chance to run big uni wide events, it looks great on your CV and you get to raise lots of money for charity, so why not?
We are looking for:
* Elected positions:
o Chairman
o Secretary - taking minutes and organise meeting venues
o Central Treasurer - keeping track of the money going in and out of our accounts
o College Treasurer - keeping track of college totals
* Co-opted positions:
o Reps Liaison - liaising with college reps and making sure they know what's going on
o Publicity officer - designing and arranging publicity
o Sponsorship - attaining sponsorship for our various events
o Webmaster - maintaining the website
o Charities Secretary - aliasing with charities and running the ballot
o Alumni Officer - communicating with alumni through newsletters and arranging the annual alumni and committee dinner
o Raids officers - running our street collections
o Events supervisor - ensuring that all the events reps have everything running smoothly
o Blind date reps - running what is probably the world's biggest blind date
o Jailbreak Reps - running Jailbreak
o Head of Rag Week
o Rag Week committee
o Rag Mag editor
o Rag Week Carnival
o Get Spotted
o College Reps - running Rag within your college
If you're interested email rag@cusu.cam.ac.uk to let us know what positions you're interested in and for more information
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- TCS Needs You
Applications for Section Editors for The Cambridge Student May Week edition and Michaelmas 2009 are now open
--> Applications to edit particular sections in either of the editions are now open. Please send a us a personal statement of around 400 words, including your relevant experience , a document of no more than 400 words detailing your vision for the section and a sample article of no more than 400 words.
-->In addition, we're looking for a web team for Michaelmas to manage content for our website - due to be overhauled this summer.
-->To apply, or if you have any further questions, e-mail apply@tcs.cam.ac.uk by May 1st for the May Week edition or 3rd May for Michaelmas, with either application for May week and/or Michaelmas in your subject line.
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- Cambridge EU - China Forum
Hosted by Cambridge University European Union Society (CUEUS) and Chinese Students & Scholars Association (CSSA-CAM).
CUEUS and CSSA-CAM are hosting a debate on ‘the political and economic relationship between China and the EU in the 21st century’.
The event will consist of a series of short keynote speeches, followed by a panel discussion and Q&A. Speakers include:
- Sir Christopher Hum KCMG (former Chinese Ambassador; Master, Gonville & Caius College)
- Stanley Crossick OBE (Founding Chairman, European Policy Centre; Senior Advisor, European Centre for Asian Studies)
- Michael O’Sullivan (former China Director, British Council; Secretary General, EU Chamber of Commerce).
Wednesday 29 April 2009
7:00pm - 8:00 pm
Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College
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- Being Global - Willett International Ltd - A Case Study in International Expansion
Time: 7-8:30pm 1 May Friday
Venue: Auditorium lounge Robinson College
Prof Alan Barrell from Entrepreneur in Residence, University of Cambridge, Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning, Judge Business School, will speak to the title "Being Global - Willett International Ltd - A Case Study in International Expansion"
The talk will explore the broader aspects of "Going Global" with a smaller
or medium sized business in the engineering and technology fields. It will
be based on real life experiences and will focus especially on the
successful establishment of this industrial electronics company in China in
the 1990s. "Being Global" has come to mean a great deal for the speaker who
spends his life working around the world now, with companies and in
Universities - with the Next Generation of World Citizens. The speaker has spent many years also in the Hospital field and Health Care
industry and will touch on special considerations in these fields in his
talk.
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- Amnesty Events
Voices of Tianamen - An Exhibition of Dreams, Despair and Hope
An exhibition that will bring life to the hope and tragedies of that "Beijing Spring", and explore its relevance today. Packed with information, photos, books, audio and video footage - an exhibition charting one of the largest peaceful protests of the twentieth century, and also one of its bloodiest.
2nd May (1pm - 10pm), 3rd May (10am -7pm)
Emmanuel College, Queens Building, Admission free, All welcome
As part of the event Ma Jian, writer and dissident, will be giving a talk "When Literature intersects history: On Beijing Coma".
His work has been banned by the Chinese government and his latest book, Beijing Coma, explores the ability to remember and the inability to act, described by the telegraph as a "landmark work of fiction".
2nd May, 7pm, Emmanuel College, Queens Builidin Lecture Theatre
Chinese with English Translation, Admission Free, All welcome
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- A Model for China?
CUHKCAS presents: Taiwan’s democratic experience: A model for China? – Talk by Dr. Steve Tsang
Speaker: Dr. Steve Tsang (St. Antony’s College, Oxford)
Date: **1st May, 2009**
Time: **5:30 – 6:45pm**
Venue: McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. There is no doubt that China, as a rising star in the international scene, has gone really far since 1949. Looking ahead into the next 60 years, China can expect to see dynamic shifts in her politics, economy and society. Could Taiwan's democratic experience be a model for China?
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- Queens' Arts Seminar
WEDNESDAY, 29 April, 7.30pm, Queens' College
(PLEASE NOTE room change -- follow the signs to the room in the
Queens' Bar. This is owing to the multimedia nature of this paper)
Dr. David Ashford (University of Surrey): 'Gorillas In The House of
Light: London Zoo and the Modernist Project'
Abstract:
In this talk Dr. David Ashford discusses the remarkable modernist zoo
architecture created in England by Berthold Lubetkin. At a time when
many people were compelled to live in substandard victorian terraces,
penguins, elephants, polar bears and gorillas at London, Dudley and
Whipsnade Zoo could be seen living in stylish Corbusian villas. For
most of the people who flocked to see them this was to be their very
first encounter with modernist architecture; and Lubetkin's zoos are
in fact a significant milestone for the movement, built at a time when
the works of the modernist mainstream centred in Paris remained for
the most part on the drawing board. These classic works of modernism
are to be examined in the new context provided by the pioneering
theoretical work that has been done on the significance of the
"Animal" in the history of European Rationalism - a project initiated
by Derrida. This talk considers how Lubtekin's Cartesian geometries
create the illusion of free circulation even as they police the
boundary between the human and the animal - a boundary that is shown
to have become increasingly fraught over the course of the inter-war
period - menaced by the apes that Lubetkin had place
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- Rethinking the Realities of the Spotless Mind
EVENT POSTPONED - NEW DATE
The Triple Helix Cambridge and the Gonville & Caius Film Society present:
(www.camtriplehelix.com)
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"Rethinking the Realities of the Spotless Mind"
Monday 11th May 2009, 7pm
Bateman Auditorium, Gonville & Caius College
FREE ENTRY
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If you could erase someone from your mind, would you? Is it presently even possible to do this? When first released, Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman's critically-acclaimed 2004 film, "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", sparked popular interest in memory reconsolidation and its applications. It also raised questions on how neuropsychiatry could
potentially change the way we view ourselves and our minds.
Dr Amy Milton from the Department of Experimental Psychology and Behavioural & Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge will be discussing her research interests in this area. Her brief talk will be followed by the screening of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". An informal Q&A session will be held after the event, over refreshments.
We look forward to welcoming you!
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- Join the Bone Marrow Register
SAVE A LIFE!: JOIN THE BONE MARROW REGISTER
Cambridge University Marrow Donor Recruitment Clinic
Wednesday 29th April 2009, 5-9pm, Queen's
Building, Emmanuel College
Come to the clinic, run by Cambridge University
Marrow, to join the Anthony Nolan Trust's bone marrow register. A small
blood sample will be taken if you choose to join and meet the necessary
criteria. Everything takes no more than 15-20 minutes!
For more information, read below, or look at Cambridge University Marrow's
website: http://www.srcf.ucam.org/marrow
# WHY JOIN? #
Every year thousands of people with diseases, including leukaemia, reach a
stage in their illness when their only hope of survival is from a bone
marrow stem cell transplant. In some cases a sibling or relative may
provide the best match, but in many cases an unrelated donor could be the
only option. The ANT bone marrow register allows a database of potential
donors to be searched and matched for tissue type. Put simply, the more
people who join the register, the greater the chance that a good match can
be found when a patient is in need of bone marrow. So, THE MORE PEOPLE WHO
JOIN THE REGISTER, THE MORE LIVES COULD BE SAVED!
The chance of being called up are fairly slim, but if you are then you will
be saving someone's life.
# WHO CAN JOIN? #
Most people aged between 18 and 40 can join the register (subject to
certain criteria - see below). There are certain groups of people who are
significantly under represented on the register, who we are particularly
seeking to recruit. There include MEN and also many ETHNIC MINORITY GROUPS.
As tissue types vary with ethnicity, it is particularly important for
members of these groups to sign up. When you attend the clinic you'll be
taken through the registration process by a trained counsellor, who can
answer any questions you may have. For detailed suitability criteria,
including medical conditions which may preclude registration, see the ANT
website (http://www.anthonynolan.com).
# FURTHER INFORMATION #
For information about the clinic please contact Ou Yanwen (yo228@cam.ac.uk)
or Myura Nagendran (mn337@cam.ac.uk) For info on Cambridge University
Marrow or the Anthony Nolan Trust, look at their respective websites
(above).
Best Wishes,
Cambridge University Marrow Committee 09/10
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