Explore the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences for Free for More Information Call: 01223 766766 Or Visit: Thank You

Explore the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences for Free for More Information Call: 01223 766766 Or Visit: Thank You

lingua språk 19 – 30 October 2011 Explore the arts, humanities and social sciences for free For more information call: 01223 766766 or visit: www.cam.ac.uk/festivalofideas Thank you Sponsors Irwin and Joan Jacobs Media Partners Keep up-to-date with the Festival events using the University of Cambridge’s iPhone app. The app features an events service as well as the latest news, research, a searchable map, video and audio from across the University. The app is free to download, just scan the QR code: Whilst every effort is made to carry out the programme as advertised all events are subject to change or cancellation. For the latest updates see the Festival website. Front cover image: Face of the Festival competition winner Clare Barry (page 4) 2 www.cam.ac.uk/festivalofideas 01223 766766 Welcome Welcome to the fourth anniversary programme! Explore the big ideas in the arts, humanities and social sciences for free at the 2011 Cambridge Festival of Ideas. The Festival offers hundreds of free talks, hands on activities, film screenings and workshops for all ages. Throughout the Festival, we will debate some of the biggest questions in modern times. As the population hits seven billion, we ask can the Earth sustain this many people and is reproductive freedom a fundamental liberty? Is Wikileaks causing a net revolution or setting the stage for net censorship? What is the future of communication; will the English language ever become extinct and why are so many other languages under threat? We are delighted to welcome world-renowned speakers to take part in this year’s Festival including author of the Young Bond series, Charlie Higson, Holly Walsh ( Mock the Week and Never Mind the Buzzcocks ) and Professor Marcus du Sautoy from the University of Oxford. The main day of the Festival on Saturday 22 October is bursting with free events for the whole family to enjoy. Join us on the University’s Sidgwick Site for talks by world famous children’s authors, debates by pioneering academics and dozens of hands on activities; for adults as well as kids! Follow us on: www.facebook.com/cambridgefestivalofideas www.twitter.com/camideasfest Bookings open on Monday 5 September www.cam.ac.uk/festivalofideas 01223 766766 3 Plan your Festival This year, the Festival strands are ‘Communication’, ‘Freedom’ and ‘Revolution’. Follow the strands throughout the programme: Communication Freedom Revolution From drawing workshops Explore everything from Take a look back on past to discussions on the right to intellectual and political and social bilingualism we explore the physical liberty to freedom revolutions as well as make diverse ways that we from gravity in our circus predictions for future communicate. We even find skills workshops. Join us for reforms through this time to unlock the secret of talks such as ‘Does prison Festival strand. We host musical communication in work?’ and ‘When Britons cutting-edge debates on our headline concert in were slaves’. everything from the future King’s College Chapel. of food to what universities are really for. Top tips • There is no need to book for events unless otherwise stated. • There may still be spaces available at events which are listed as ‘pre book’; you are welcome to turn up and enquire on the day. • Please arrive on time for events; please note that entry may be refused if the venue is full or if you arrive late. • All events are free-of-charge unless otherwise stated. • Children must be accompanied at all times. • See pages 38 – 39 for a map of Festival venues. Face of the Festival competition This year, the Cambridge Festival of Ideas launched a competition to design the Festival programme cover. The design had to be based on at least one of the three Festival strands. The lucky winner of this competition was Clare Barry. Entries to the competition will be exhibited during the Festival, for more information on the exhibition or to take part in next year’s competition, please see the Festival website. 4 www.cam.ac.uk/festivalofideas 01223 766766 Pre-Festival events G a e t a n L e e Can’t wait for the Festival to start? Then join in with these events to get you in the mood! Saturday 8 October 12noon – 4pm Tuesday 18 October 7.30pm – 9pm 001. The Big Draw: drawing together! 003. When is a fruit not a fruit? The Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street Ross Street Community Centre, Ross Street Get inspired in the run-up to the Festival with a day Join the Botanic Garden’s Head of Education to of Big Draw activities for the whole family. Come to find out more about the world of botany. Learn the Fitz Family Welcome Point between 12noon about the structure of flowers, the process of and 4pm to find out more. pollination and what makes a seed a seed. Map: 26, Hands on, Drop in, All ages Map: 29, Talk & Hands on, Ages 14+ Sunday 16 October 2pm – 7pm Tuesday 18 – Friday 21 October 10am – 12noon 002. Dark Sun – August, 1945 : be part 004. Think you can’t draw? Think again! of the performance The Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street West Road Concert Hall, Faculty of Music, (Tuesday 18 – Thursday 20) Sidgwick Site Museum of Classical Archaeology, Sidgwick Site This is your chance to perform as part of a large- (Friday 21) scale orchestral and choral work during the Festival This four day course offers a new way of working (please also see event 026). for those wanting to be more confident with their Map: 13, Rehearsal, All ages & abilities, Pre book drawing skills. You don’t need to be an expert; just tel: 01223 768927 email: events@mus.cam.ac.uk a willingness to experiment! or visit: www.mus.cam.ac.uk/events/festival-of- Map: 26, Course, Adults, Pre book tel: 01223 ideas 332904 or email: fitzmuseum-education@ lists.cam.ac.uk £15, concessions £10 all materials provided Show us your Cambridge: My Cam film competition The University has teamed up with Watersprite student film festival (www.watersprite.org.uk) to launch My Cam 2011, a competition designed for staff, students, alumni and local residents the opportunity to submit short films, either documentary or narrative, about any aspect of life in Cambridge. Entries can be submitted at any time before the deadline of Friday 9 September. There will be a screening event at 7.30pm on Thursday 27 October at the Auditorium, Queen’s Building, Emmanuel College. Please see: www.cam.ac.uk/mycam for more information. *Pre book: www.cam.ac.uk/festivalofideas *Pre book: 01223 766766 5 Wednesday 19 October R S e i c a h s a o r n d s M o f a M r s i h s t a s l l 3pm – 5pm 6pm – 8.30pm 005. Making the past present 008. D H Lawrence on film Anglia Ruskin University, East Road Arts Picturehouse Cinema, 38-39 St. Andrew A panel discussion on the relevance of world Street classics, epics and oral traditions to schools, Women in Love introduced by Professor Jeff museums and cultural organisations. Participants Wallace, Professor of Literature and Cultural will include storyteller and academic Vayu Naidu History followed by a post-screen discussion. and Claire Wheeler from the World Oral Literature Map: 31, Talk & Film, Ages 14+, Pre book tel: Project. 0871 902 5720 or visit: www.picturehouses.co.uk Map: 30, Talk, Adults, Pre book tel: 0845 271 standard admission charge applies 3333 or visit: www.angliaruskincommunity. Presented with Anglia Ruskin University eventbrite.com Presented by Anglia Ruskin University 7pm – 9.30pm 009. Season of Mists 5.30pm – 6.30pm The Graduate Union, 17 Mill Lane 006. Why do we work so hard? Seasons of Mists describes the displacement felt by Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane a Russian woman who came to the UK and found This talk by Dr Brendan Burchell, Department of the stable home she wanted, but can’t explain why Sociology, will examine why people work as hard she still feels out of place. Followed by a question as they do and whether it’s bad for their health? and answer session with the producer. Map: 18, Talk, Adults Map: 17, Film, Ages 14+, Pre book tel: 07904 458 787 or email: dc@camfa.org 6pm – 7pm 007. Sir Hermann Bondi Lecture: 8pm – 9pm secret mathematicians 010. Kiss the badge, fly the flag Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane CB2 café, Norfolk Street Professor Marcus du Sautoy explores the hidden In World Cup year, black comedian Paul Ricketts mathematical ideas that underpin artists’ creative supported the country of his birth, England, but felt output and reveals that the work of the uncomfortable in an England shirt; why? A funny, mathematician is sometimes no less driven by enlightening look at multi-cultural Englishness. strong aesthetic values. Map: 32, Performance, Adults, Pre book tel: Map: 18, Talk, Ages 14+, Pre book* 07889 176 050 email: Organised with the Cambridge Humanist Group robcoleman100@gmail.com or visit: www.wegottickets.com/event/117134 £5, unsold tickets available on the door for cash 6 *Pre book: www.cam.ac.uk/festivalofideas *Pre book: 01223 766766 Wednesday 19 October U T r l a r i c c e h y Z K i i n n k g S t o r m m o v i e a l l r i g h t s r e s e r v e d 8pm – 9pm Wednesday 19 – Friday 21, Monday 24 – Friday 28 011. Tim Minchin’s Storm October 10am – 5.30pm University Centre, Granta Place 014.

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