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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What's on

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Graduation Ceremony

03/05/2025 at 09.00

Graduation ceremonies are the culmination of students’ hard work and commitment, and a moment to celebrate the completion of their Cambridge degree.

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Giving Day Fair

06/05/2025 at 10.00

Welcome to Wolfson's first-ever Giving Day!

A bustling street in South Korea at dusk, lined with glowing neon signs in Korean, colorful storefronts, and overhead wires crisscrossing the sky.

Standard language ideology, linguistic nationalism and marginalisation: the case of South Korea

06/05/2025 at 17.30

What are the consequences of standard language ideology and linguistic nationalism?

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Music & Madeira: Celebrity Guitar Classics with Craig Ogden

06/05/2025 at 18.30

A household name to listeners of Classic FM and BBC Radio 3, with a string of number 1 recordings, Craig Ogden is one of the most successful classical guitarists of his generation. With thanks to Prof Brian Moore for sponsoring this, the inaugural Brian Moore Guitar Recital.

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Wolfson Research Event 2025

08/05/2025 at 09.30

Join us for the 2025 Wolfson Research Event: an interdisciplinary academic conference organised by students to showcase the diversity of the research carried out by Wolfson students.

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