Events Calendar
The events listed below are open to all alumni and members of the College, unless indicated otherwise. Most events and activities are free of charge and do not need to be booked in advance. Please contact the Alumni office if you would like further information on any of the events listed: alumni@wolfson.cam.ac.uk or 01223 335922
Mr Roland Huntford, Wolfson College: Roald Amundsen, the Attainment of the South Pole, and the End of the Age of Discovery
13:00-14:00 Council Room
Formal Hall of particular interest to members in the School of Technology - group 2. Tonight's subjects include Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.
19:15 for 19:30 Dining Hall
This afternoon event will showcase Wolfson's many musicians - not just pianists! Please contact Andrew Goldman for further information (ajg91).
13:30
Professor David Maxwell: Zimbabwe since Independence.
17:45 for 18:00 - 19.00 Gatsby Room
19:15 for 19:30 Dining Hall
Dr Ramu de Bellescize, Wolfson College Visiting Scholar; Reader at the University of Rouen, Faculty of Law; Lawyer, Paris: Is French Law Different from English Law?
13:00-14:00 Council Room
'Entrepreneurship and Risk Taking: How to Foster an Entrepreneurial Society'
In this business briefing Dr Shailendra Vyakarnam will explore the background context to the rise in entrepreneurship in the UK over the last 3 decades. He will also discuss the importance of entrepreneurship to the UK economy and the skills required. Dr Shailendra Vyakarnam is Director for the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning, Cambridge Judge Business School and Senior Member of Wolfson College.
The event will be held on Thursday 30 May from 18:30-20:30 at the Oxford and Cambridge Club, 71 Pall Mall, London.
Attendance Fee:
£20 per person | University of Cambridge alumni and one professional colleague as their guest, register with www.cambridgejudgebriefings.com
£17 per person | Members of the Oxford and Cambridge Club, register with clubevents@oandc.uk.com
The Head Gardener, Phil Stigwood, will be walking the Wolfson gardens on Thursday 30 May to look at the many seasonal highlights (including new wild flower areas). Please email Phil on gardens@wolfson.cam.ac.uk if you would like to join the tour.
Meet at the Porters' Lodge at 2pm
19:15 for 19:30 Dining Hall
Dr Andrew Herbert OBE: EDSAC: The World's First Practical Electronic Digital Computer
18:00 for 18:15 Old Combination Room
19:15 for 19:30 Dining Hall
Andrew Goldman, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Music, Centre for Music & Science; Wolfson College: Scientific Approaches to Musical Improvisation
13:00-14:00 Combination Room
19:15 for 19:30 Dining Hall
Dr Samuel Aaron: Sonic Pi: Teaching Computer Science with Music
18:00 for 18:15 Old Combination Room
Barnaby Brown northern triplepipe and highland bagpipes
Works by the Blind Piper of Gairloch (1656-1754)
Free admission with retiring collection.
13:30 Lee Hall
19:15 for 19:30 Dining Hall
Prof. Simon Goldhill: Sappho, Lincoln, & the American Senate: Picturing Female Desire in the 19th Century
17:45 for 18:00 - 19.00 Gatsby Room
Zoe Strimpel, MPhil Candidate, Department of Geography, Gender Studies; Wolfson College: The Love Market: How Shopping for Dates Online Affects Women
13:00-14:00 Combination Room
Herman Koch, The Dinner
20:00 Plommer House Room A
Professor Margaret MacMillan, Warden of St Antony's College Oxford, will talk about the outbreak of the First World War.
This is the sixth lecture in the series of lectures endowed by Dr Lee Seng Tee on the occasion of the College's 40th anniversary in 2005.
The lecture is open to all.
17:30 Lee Hall
19:15 for 19:30 Dining Hall
Boat Club May Bumps Dinner (by invitation)
19:30 Dining Hall
Benefactors' Reception (by invitation)
14:00 to 15:30 Combination Room
Featuring music from the College Choir and Cambridge University Brass Band
Free admission, all welcome
15:00 to 17:00
Featuring finalists from the CUMS Concerto Prize: Robbie Stanley-Smith cello David Wong clarinet
Free admission with retiring collection for the College Piano Fund
19:30 Lee Hall
19:15 for 19:30 Dining Hall
This year's theme is 'Wolfstock' and alumni are very welcome to attend.
Let us transport you back to the swinging 60s, when the skirts were mini, the shirts flowery and the music shocked your parents...
Come Twist and Shout in the dance hall, enjoy a Summer Holiday on the beach, wear some Flowers in your Hair at Wolfstock festival and experience Good Vibrations at the carnival.
A night of space hoppers, Doc Martens and jelly tots. Put your kaftans on and get ready for a 60s summer!
For more details and tickets visit www.wolfsonjuneevent.co.uk
19:15 for 19:30 Dining Hall
14:00 Downing College Sportsground
Formal Hall of particular interest to Senior Members
19:15 for 19:30 Dining Hall
The Society of Emeritus Fellows is organising a visit open to all College members and guests on Tuesday 2 July to Shakespeare's Globe Theatre to see Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream.
For details of ticket prices and how to book, please contact elm1@cam.ac.uk (booking form/payment required by 15 April).
19:00 for 19:30 Dining Hall
19:15 for 19:30 Dining Hall
19:15 for 19:30 Dining Hall
19:15 for 19:30 Dining Hall
The 2013 Quinquennial and Decennial Reunion at Wolfson for all members who joined the College in academic years beginning October 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998 and 2003
Invitations will be sent closer to the time and online booking facilities will be available
Invitations will be sent closer to the time.