EVENTS BOOKING FORM FORTHCOMING COLLEGE AND SOCIETY EVENTS (continued) The EMMANUEL If you would like to attend any of these events, Society Garden Party – City of Dinner – please complete and return this booking form to Cambridge, Saturday 2018 the Development Office, Emmanuel College, 14 July 2018 The Society is planning a dinner for those who NEWSLETTER Cambridge, CB2 3AP. Members are invited to a garden party, work in or around the City of London next year. which will be held by the Emmanuel Society on Saturday 14 July from 2.30pm in the Fellows’ Garden and Paddock Private Exhibition Visit to Winter 2017 Name at the College. the British Museum David Souden, now Head of Exhibitions at There will be many entertainments during the afternoon the British Museum, has very kindly offered for all ages, including children, who are very welcome, to arrange a special event there in connection with one of College News as are other friends and relations. It is an excellent their exhibitions. opportunity to catch up with old friends and new, and to The College’s 2017–2018 University Challenge team the Cambridge News. She detailed how she went from address enjoy the College grounds in the summer. were victorious over St Hugh’s College, Oxford, winning being nervous before arriving at Emmanuel, and how 170–155 in their first-round match on Monday 2 October she was welcomed by the College, through the ‘parents’ Afternoon tea will be served in the Fellows’ Garden, and Careers Database on BBC Two. They also won their second-round match system, freshers’ week events, and the warmth and bring swimming costumes if you would like to test the against Strathclyde University with a score of 170–106 friendliness of Emma itself. temperature of the water in the pool. Join more than 800 members by adding or updating on Monday 13 November. The team have secured a your entry to the Emmanuel Careers Database. Do sign place in the prestigious quarter-final group stages of the The 2016–2017 University Challenge team, known The tennis courts will also be open, so do bring racquets up even if you graduated relatively recently, as advice on competition, where the winning team are guaranteed at online as #TeamEmma, played a match on BBC Two’s and balls if you would like to play. Children under the applications, surviving interviews and getting started in a least two more matches. Edmund Derby, Kitty Chevallier, Eggheads on Friday 15 September; it was up to Jenny age of 16 can attend at no cost, so we hope that many new job can all be really valuable. James Fraser and Alex Mistlin, played extremely well, Harris (2008) and Alex Guttenplan (2008) to take on Members will bring their children to make it a real and we are very proud of our continuing success on the the Eggheads’ team in the final round. Perhaps one of Home Telephone family event. programme; long may it continue! the longest and most tense ‘sudden death’ rounds on this Follow Us show, the Eggheads (led by six time World Champion COST: £25/HEAD; BOOK BY: FRIDAY 6 JULY: REQUEST A Third-year undergraduate, Emily Robb (2015), shared her Kevin Ashman) finally defeated Team Emma deep into Work Telephone BOOKING FORM OR ONLINE AT: Follow us on Twitter at: experiences of starting at the University and College, with proverbial ‘stoppage time’. www.emma.cam.ac.uk/members/events www.twitter.com/EmmaCambridge

Mobile Join us on LinkedIn at: Visit to Stowe House and ‘Alumni of Emmanuel College’ group page Landscape Gardens – Summer 2018 Find College on Pinterest at: Email Fellows’ News The Society is planning a visit to Stowe www.pinterest.com/EmmanuelColl for a tour of the restoration of the house and a visit to Search for ‘Emmanuel College’ In October, Dr Alexander Archibald was part of an ACSIS Dr Phil Howell, discussed ‘pets, how we interact with Signed the gardens landscaped by Capability Brown, in the on Google+ and add us to circles (North Atlantic Climate System Integrated Study) aircraft other species and how this has been represented spring/summer. field campaign, making measurements of the composition in art and literature’ on Radio Three’s Free Thinking, of the atmosphere from the UK to the Azores and around recorded on Thursday 23 November. Event for members who the North Atlantic. matriculated 1991–1993 & On Thursday 19 October Dr Alex Jeffrey gave a 1999–2001– Summer 2018 Dr Alan Baker has published Amateur Musical Societies speech at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg at the We will be holding an event, probably in and Sports Clubs in Provincial France, 1848–1914, with 33rd Session of the Congress of Local and Regional London, for members who matriculated between 1991 & Palgrave-Macmillan. Authorities, in a debate about the future of elections in 1993 and 1999 & 2001. Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the summer, Dr James Hillson published two articles Dinner in Glasgow – Autumn 2018 regarding his research into Gothic architecture. His Dr Robert Macfarlane has published The Lost Words, The Master and Society will be visiting essay ‘Imagining invention’ was published in British Art a new book of acrostic ‘spell-poems’ . The book ‘stands Glasgow in the autumn, and will be holding a Studies, and Decorated Revisited was published online by against the disappearance of wild childhood ... [and] ... dinner there for members. The speaker at the Brepols. He also advised on the production of the online is a joyful celebration of nature words and the natural dinner will be Alice Strang, Senior Curator at the National digital model of St Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster, which world they invoke’. It is accompanied by hand-painted Galleries of Scotland, and a Saltire Society Outstanding accompanies research from the University of York telling the illustrations by Jackie Morris. Woman of Scotland 2016. story of a building at the heart of government in Britain for more than seven centuries.

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Professor David Maxwell’s new book Relocating World New Publications and other Event for Entrepreneurs – Emmanuel Society Lecture Please send me a booking form for: Christianity: Interdisciplinary Studies, a combination of regionally College Merchandise Spring 2018 by James Fox – First Night of Television: focused case studies and thematic essays seeking to explain A new illustrated history of Emmanuel, Between Two Worlds: The Society is hoping to arrange another Wednesday 25 April 2018 Talk by Hugh Hunt – the emergence of World Christianity as a new academic sub- An Architectural History of Emmanuel College Cambridge, meeting in London for Emma members who Dr James Fox (2001) will be giving the Wednesday 31 January 2018 discipline over the last two decades, was published recently written by Jeremy Musson with specially commissioned are entrepreneurs. Emmanuel Society Lecture: Blue, at the Leighton House by Brill, and can be viewed online as an e-book. photography by Will Pryce, is available at a special price of Museum, Holland Park Road, W14 8LZ, with a drinks Burnaby Recital – £25 for members. London Drinks – reception in Leighton’s Studio afterwards. The Silk Room, Friday 2 February 2018 Professor Mark Thomson has been elected co-leader of the Tuesday 6 March 2018 Arab Hall, Leighton’s Dining Room and Drawing Room international DUNE collaboration: a flagship global science To buy the book, please use the order form contained The annual London Drinks will take place at will be open for viewing before and after the lecture. Talk by Nicola Blackwood – project studying the properties of mysterious particles called within this mailing package, or go to the website: the Phoenix Artist Club (1 Phoenix St, WC2H Wednesday 21 February 2018 neutrinos. He is the overall scientific lead of this new UK www.emma.cam.ac.uk/members/merchandise 8BU) from 6pm. All Members living and working in London Dr Fox is a Research Fellow of Gonville & Caius College, the London Drinks – Tuesday 6 March 2018 initiative that could change our understanding of the universe. are very welcome to attend; there is no need to book, but author of British Art and the First World War, 1914–1924, and We have also recently published a new guide book to please email the Events Officer for further details. BAFTA nominee for his BBC Four series British Masters. Intellectual Property Lecture – P A 3 Dr Vikas Trivedi has been elected as the Deputy Editor of Emmanuel, Emmanuel College Cambridge: An Historical The Society especially welcomes recent graduates! Tuesday 13 March 2018 2 B C

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