From London to Leiden to Little Gidding

Wolfson members present their academic work, research and performance at home and abroad.

events summer 2019

Wolfson alumni, Fellows and College Research Associates are having a busy month both in and outside of Cambridge. 

Opening this evening is the Cambridge University Architecture Society (ARCSOC) show in Bermondsey, London. Recent graduates Max Mulvany and Simon Wallington both have work in the exhibition.

The Friends of Little Gidding present TS Eliot at Little Gidding on Sunday 7 July, and Admissions Tutor Dr Michael Hrebeniak will be speaking on The Epoch of Space: The Waste Land as Collage.

At the Landbeach Tithe Barn on Saturday 5 July, the Course Director for MSt Building History, Dr Adam Menuge, will give an account of the Landbeach Tithe Barn and its development, in the wider context of vernacular farm buildings.

Next Monday 8 July at 19.30 in King's College Chapel, the King's Junior Voices will perform their Summer Concert conducted by Director of Music Lyn Alcántara, featuring special guests Junior Prime Brass — directed by the former Bursar, Christopher Lawrence. On Sunday 14 July, Junior Prime Brass will also be giving a lunchtime concert at the Cambridge Summer Music Festival at 13.10 in Robinson College Chapel.

On Monday 15 July, Wolfson CRAs Dr Akeen Sule and Dr Becky Inkster of HipHop Pysch will be presenting their research at a public lecture at the University of Manchester. The public lecture is free but you must register to attend.

If you are lucky enough to be in sunny Spain, Junior Research Fellow Dr Stephen Wilford will present Visualising Music in Franco-Algerian Colonial Encounters at the AVAMUS (Valèntian Musicological Society) Annual Conference (theme: 'The Mediterranean: Migrating Sounds') at the University of Valencia, 23-25 July.

Emeritus Fellow Dr Stephen Hoath is an invited speaker at the Lorentz Center's Fundamental Fluid Dynamics Challenges in Inkjet Printing in Leiden on 22-26 July.

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Image 'Barbarians under the rug' by Enej Gala

Art Exhibition: 'After News Before Bed'

20/04/2024 at 10.00

Visit Wolfson's latest exhibition 'After News Before Bed' featuring work by emerging artist Enej Gala, winner of the Wolfson Royal Academy Schools Graduate Prize.

Photo of speaker, Catherine Namono, on a rock during her research

'Sex'-on-the-rocks: Geometric rock art and musical expressions amongst the African Pygmy forest hunter-gatherers in search of 'balance', 'harmony'

22/04/2024 at 13.00


How does the interpretation of geometric rock art in Uganda shed light on the societal and cultural experiences of African Pygmy forest hunter-gatherers?

Modern office building with large glass windows surrounded by lush greenery and trees under a cloudy sky.

Cambridge Science Park Visit

25/04/2024 at 11.00

Dive into the Cambridge innovation ecosystem with a visit to the Cambridge Science Park.

Multicolored silhouettes of human heads in a collage forming a concept of diversity or population.

The Place of Antigypsyism within Debates on Racism

25/04/2024 at 17.00

This event is the third of three roundtables that Wolfson's REACH Research Hub will be organising over the academic year under the heading ‘Hierarchies of Racism?’

Photograph of Senate house, Cambridge

Cambridge Past and Present

26/04/2024 at 13.30

Join Emeritus Fellow Dr Brian D Cox for a talk which will outline the development of the University from its origins in 1209 until the present day.

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