EVENTS BOOKING FORM FORTHCOMING COLLEGE AND SOCIETY EVENTS (continued) THE EMMANUEL If you would like to attend any of these events, CHARLES DICKENS AND HIS CIRCLE: SCRATCH MESSIAH AND SOCIETY AGM please complete and return this booking form to VISIT TO THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT – SATURDAY 11 NOVEMBER the Development Offi ce, Emmanuel College, GALLERY AND EXCLUSIVE TOUR – This year’s AGM will be held in College in the NEWSLETTER Cambridge, CB2 3AP. WEDNESDAY 12 JULY morning, followed by coff ee in the Harrods The Emmanuel Society will be holding a tour of the Room. Talks on medical ethics by The Revd Jeremy Caddick National Portrait Gallery at 2.15pm, led by Lucinda Hawksley, and Dr Stephen Barclay will follow. A sing- and play-through SPRING 2017 NAME author and descendant of Charles Dickens. The tour will of Handel’s Messiah from scratch will take place in the College be followed by a traditional afternoon tea in the Trafalgar Chapel in the afternoon. We will be joined by the Chapel Room, a private room in the National Gallery Café, at Choir and members of the College Music Society, and singers, 3.30pm. Please be aware that places are very limited on players and even brave listeners are all welcome. Messiah is FELLOWS’ NEWS Lucinda Hawskley’s tour. scored for strings, oboes, bassoon and trumpets. DR DEVON CURTIS has been investigating how ranging consideration of intellectual diasporas and ADDRESS Lucinda will lead an exclusive tour around the National BURNABY RECITAL – FRIDAY 17 NOVEMBER international peacebuilding strategies and ideas are working questioning what distinctive contribution exiles and Portrait Gallery, on which you will discover the world of The Choir of King’s College, London, directed by Joe Fort on the ground in the ‘realities and politics’ of post-confl ict expatriates have made to knowledge. The publisher Charles Dickens and his Circle. Through his writing and (2005), will give a recital in the Queen’s Building Lecture Africa, focussing on the cycles of violence, civil war and is Brandeis University Press. campaigning, Charles Dickens actively sought to change Theatre at 6.15pm. All are welcome to the concert, which genocide in Burundi, since achieving independence from the world in which he lived, and he succeeded. Not only will last approximately 45 minutes. It will be followed by Belgium in 1962. An article, entitled ‘When ideas of peace DR ROBERT MACFARLANE has curated a did he surround himself with fellow writers, but his circle dinner at High Table for members and their guests. meet politics of confl ict’, was featured on the University of photography exhibition at Wordsworth House (National of friends and acquaintances also included actors, artists, Cambridge research website and on The Wire online magazine. Trust), the childhood home of the poet William politicians, philanthropists, medical pioneers and fellow BOOK BY: FRIDAY 10 NOVEMBER: USE FORM ATTACHED TO Wordsworth. The exhibition illustrates Dr Macfarlane’s social campaigners. REQUEST A HARD-COPY FORM OR BOOK ONLINE AT DR CAROLIN CRAWFORD discussed her research into the work uncovering language used to describe British www.emma.cam.ac.uk/members/events icy Kuiper Belt region beyond Neptune (home to Pluto) on weather; The Telegraph details his desire to ‘revive these HOME TELEPHONE Lucinda Hawksley is an author and lecturer, and a regular In Our Time on BBC Radio 4, which was broadcast on 2 March. little-known words and expressions … include[ing] guest speaker at the National Portrait Gallery. She has PRIVATE EXHIBITION VISIT TO “shreep”, an East Anglian word for mist clearing slowly, written three critically acclaimed biographies of female THE BRITISH MUSEUM PROFESSOR PETER BURKE has recently published and “sun-scald”, a Sussex word for a patch of bright WORK TELEPHONE artists, as well as books about art history, social history, David Souden, now Head of Exhibitions at Exiles and Expatriates in the History of Knowledge, a wide- sunlight on water’. literature and the history of London. Her two books for the the British Museum, has very kindly off ered National Portrait Gallery are Moustaches, Whiskers and Beards to arrange a special event there in connection with one of MOBILE (about facial hair in portraiture) and Charles Dickens and his their exhibitions. Circle. Lucinda is also a great-great-great granddaughter of COLLEGE NEWS Charles and Catherine Dickens and a Patron of the Charles EMAIL Dickens Museum in London. Careers Database UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE CHAPEL CHOIR Join more than 800 members by adding or updating Emmanuel played what became their fi nal match in the The Chapel Choir will be taking their singing talents to SIGNED COST: £36/HEAD your entry to the Emmanuel Careers Database. Do sign 2016/2017 season of University Challenge on Monday 27 Poland in July, for which they are really excited! They will be BOOK BY: FRIDAY 30 JUNE: USE FORM ATTACHED TO up even if you graduated relatively recently, as advice on March against Wolfson College, Cambridge. The score at singing a programme including Gibbons, Vaughan Williams REQUEST A HARD-COPY FORM OR BOOK ONLINE AT applications, surviving interviews and getting started in a the end of the match was Wolfson 170, to Emmanuel’s 140. and Guero, with organ solos by Tippett and others. They www.emma.cam.ac.uk/members/events new job can all be really valuable. The match was thrilling, with Emmanuel starting strongly will be performing in Arka Pana and St Katherine’s churches and rallying in the last minutes, but unfortunately the in Krakow, and the Church of the Holy Cross in Zakopane. DINNER IN OXFORD – Follow Us Wolfson team’s answers triumphed. The match was much Do indicate on the attached tear-off slip if you would like FRIDAY 3 NOVEMBER hyped in the news and on Twitter, with many people further details when they are available. The Emmanuel Society will be holding a Follow us on Twitter at: wishing that this semi-fi nal had been the fi nal! We are very dinner for members and their guests at Exeter www.twitter.com/EmmaCambridge proud of the Emmanuel team, who played so well in all of College, Oxford on Friday 3 November. The evening will their matches, and we congratulate them on their success. Join us on LinkedIn at: begin with a drinks reception in the Rector’s Drawing Room, ‘Alumni of Emmanuel College’ group page followed by dinner in Hall and the guest speaker will be the BOAT RACE Master, Dame Fiona Reynolds. Find College on Pinterest at: We were thrilled to see Freddie Davidson (2016), a fi rst-year www.pinterest.com/EmmanuelColl undergraduate reading Engineering, racing in this year’s Drinks will be served from 6.45pm with dinner at 7.30pm. Search for ‘Emmanuel College’ Boat Race in seat number 2 in the Men’s Blue Boat. In a close Most people like to wear black tie, but this is not essential. on Google+ and add us to circles race, Oxford won by just four seconds; Cambridge will be back next year! EMMANUEL COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE T: (01223) 762792 E: development-o [email protected] www.emma.cam.ac.uk COLLEGE NEWS (continued) FORTHCOMING COLLEGE AND SOCIETY EVENTS JOHN HUGHES PRIZE Please express your interest in these events on the booking form attached. Please send me a booking form for: The John Hughes Prize for Theological Discourse has been MASTER’S VISIT TO THE US AND jointly won by Emmanuel graduates Jessica Scott and MASTER’S VISIT TO THE US AND CANADIAN WEST OLD EMMA VS. COLLEGE CRICKET MATCH – CANADIAN WEST COAST – MAY 2017 Arabella Milbank. COAST – MAY 2017 FRIDAY 16 JUNE The Master, her husband Bob Merrill, together with the The annual cricket match will be held at the College ground lunch party at the St Francis Yacht Club in COLLEGE GARDENS College’s Development Director, Sarah Bendall, will be visiting on Wilberforce Road from 11.30am. Do come along and San Francisco on Sunday 28 May The gardens have recently been plagued by chafer beetles in the USA and Canada in May where we will be holding three support your chosen side! supper at The Athenaeum in Los Angeles the grass on Front Court and Chapman’s Garden and groups receptions. We very much hope you will be able to attend: on Tuesday 30 May of crows have been digging up the lawns. Pesticides cannot • a lunch party at the St Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco BOOK BY: FRIDAY 9 JUNE dinner at the Vancouver Club on be used to control the beetles, so the gardeners, led by on Sunday 28 May or Wednesday 31 May Head Gardener Christoph Keate, have been dealing with the • supper at The Athenaeum in Los Angeles on Tuesday LUNCH IN BASEL – SATURDAY 17 JUNE problem by scaring off the crows by having plastic falcons 30 May or Emma members in and near to Switzerland TOUR OF THE CUTTY SARK – ‘flying’ overhead, and placing owls to scare off the pigeons. © SirCam • supper at the Vancouver Club on Wednesday 31 May are invited to an informal lunch in Basel on THURSDAY 8 JUNE P A 3 Saturday 17 June at Restaurant Krafft, 2 B OLD EMMA VS. 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