This calendar lists events associated with Trinity College. Members of College are welcome to add events to it.
| Date | Time | Category | Event | Details |
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| 9th Mar 2012 | 19:30 | Music | Dixit Dominus - La Nuova Musica | Leading players and singers of Baroque music perform settings of 'Dixit Dominus' by Vivaldi and Handel.
Soprano Lucy Crowe sings Vivaldi's 'In furore iustissimae irae' (Chapel). Cambridge Early Music. |
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| 8th Mar 2012 | 17:30 | Societies | The Ottoman Empire: Good or Bad? | Conquering Constantinople in 1453, twice besieging Vienna and becoming a daunting threat to the Venetian merchants, the Ottomans left their mark on Europe as fierce warriors and theocratic repressors. Yet did the Ottoman phenomenon truly slow down economic, intellectual and cultural growth or was it simply a world so different to the one the West envisaged? Was the 'sick man of Europe' an inevitable geopolitical liability or a stabilising buffer in the East? Were the Sultans womanising tyrants or skilled rulers?
The Trinity College History Society presents a fantastic debate:- Prof. Ben Fortna (SOAS), educated at Yale, Columbia and Chicago, is a specialist of the late Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish Republic.
- Dr. Kate Fleet (Cambridge) is the foremost Ottomanist at the University of Cambridge. She is head of the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman studies.
- Prof. David Abulafia (Cambridge) is a world-renowned expert of the politics, economy and society of the Mediterranean and author of 'The Great Sea.' He specialises in the Medieval and Renaissance periods and is a Fellow of the British Academy.
Complimentary drinks. (Old Combination Room). |
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| 8th Mar 2012 | 19:00 | Societies | Reprogramming the Genetic Code (joint event with BioSoc) | Speaker: Dr Jason Chin
The information for synthesizing the molecules that allow organisms to survive and replicate is encoded in genomic DNA. In the cell, DNA is copied to messenger RNA, and triplet codons (64) in the messenger RNA are decoded - in the process of translation - to synthesize polymers of the natural 20 amino acids. This process (DNA RNA protein) describes the central dogma of molecular biology and is conserved in terrestrial life. We are interested in re-writing the central dogma to create organisms that synthesize proteins containing unnatural amino acids and polymers composed of monomer building blocks beyond the 20 natural amino acids.
I will discuss our invention and synthetic evolution of new 'orthogonal' translational components (including ribosomes and aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases) to address the major challenges in re-writing the central dogma of biology. I will discuss the application of the approaches we have developed for incorporating unnatural amino acids into proteins and investigating and synthetically controlling diverse biological processes, with a particular emphasis on understanding the role of post-translational modifications. TCSS (Large Lecture Theatre, Plant Sciences) |
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| 8th Mar 2012 | 20:00 | Music | Vocal Recital Series | Songs by Britten, Schubert and Brahms - Toni Beardsall
£3/£2/TCMS members free. (Old Combination Room). |
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| 7th Mar 2012 | 18:00 | Societies | Politics and Postmodernism | Join the Dialectic Society for our POSTMODERN POLITICS Discussion Panel as- Prof Thomas Docherty (Warwick)
- Prof Pelagia Goulimari (Oxford)
- Prof Stuart Sim (Northumbria) &
- Prof. John Roberts (Wolverhampton)
debate on: WHAT IS THE POLITICAL RELEVANCE OF POSTMODERNISM TODAY?
Regarded both as a still ongoing process and a 'moment' of the past, Postmodernism's political relevance and legacy today will be discussed in a variety of different contexts, from mass education and globalisation to politics of representation in relation to the state.
Q&A session in the end. 18.00-20.00 (Winstanley Lecture Theatre). |
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| 7th Mar 2012 | 18:30 | Fellows | Fellows' Research Talks | The speakers will be:- Rev Dr Michael Banner (Theology): 'What is morality?'
- Prof. Nick Kingsbury (Engineering): 'Natural Scenes, Vision and Wavelets'
Drinks will be served, and all in college are welcome, including partners.
6.30pm to 7.50pm in the Master's Lodge.
Please email Ruth Easthope (ree23) if you are planning to come. For any queries, please contact Fiona McConnell (frm24). |
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| 7th Mar 2012 | 20:00 | Music | Vocal Recital Series | Choral Scholar Recital II - Song recital given by Trinity choral scholars taught by Ulla Blom
£3/£2/TCMS members free. (Old Combination Room). |
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| 6th Mar 2012 | 13:00 | Music | Vocal Recital Series | Choral Scholar Recital I - Song recital given by Trinity choral scholars taught by Fiona Dobie
£3/£2/TCMS members free. (Old Combination Room). |
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| 6th Mar 2012 | 18:15 | Societies | The Apprenticeship of a Scientist | Speaker: Professor Sir Michael Atiyah
What is research? How does one start? What are the crucial choices? I will address such issues based on my personal experiences and will be happy to turn the event into a discussion forum. TCSS (Winstanley Lecture Theatre). |
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| 6th Mar 2012 | 20:00 | Music | Chamber Music Series | Beethoven & Brahms Violin Sonatas: Mary Robertson and James Fraser-Andrews
£3/£2/TCMS members free (Chapel). |
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| 5th Mar 2012 | 20:30 | Societies | Star-Triangle transformation | Prof Geoffrey Grimmett (Stats Lab)
Since its discovery around 1899, the star-triangle (or Y-Δ) transformation has become an important tool in the theory of disordered physical systems. It turns out in addition to have an important connection to tilings of the plane.
All talks will begin at 8.30pm with port and orange juice from 8.15pm.
Talks are for members only; non-members may join at the door. Membership is just £2.50 for life. (Winstanley Lecture Theatre). TMS. |
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| 4th Mar 2012 | 10:00 | Societies | Trinity Mathematical Society: Annual Symposium | The Trinity Mathematical Society is running our first symposium, from 10:00 to 19:00. We will have a talk by Lord Rees, three other fellows and a number of PhD students, ranging across all areas of mathematical research. The event is in the Winstanley Lecture Theatre, and is free and open to all. There is no need to stay for the whole day - just drop in on talks you find interesting. For more details, and the timetable, please go to: http://www.srcf.ucam.org/tms/ (Winstanley Lecture Theatre). TMS. |
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| 4th Mar 2012 | 18:15 | Chapel | Choral Evensong | Preacher: The Dean of Chapel
Scenes from the Life of Christ: Suffering
El Greco's 'Disrobing of Christ'
preceded by Organ Recital at 17:40
Ben Comeau (Girton College) plays music by Bach, Hammond and Mozart (Chapel). |
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| 4th Mar 2012 | 21:00 | Music | Leavers' Concert | Master's Lodge
Admission free. TCMS. |
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| 3rd Mar 2012 | 20:00 | Music | Trinity Singers | £5/£3/TCMS members free (Chapel). |
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| 3rd Mar 2012 | 21:00 | Music | Jazz in the Bar | 9-11pm TCMS. |
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| 2nd Mar 2012 | 17:00 | Fellows | D.H. Green Memorial Lecture | Prof Jens Haustein (Jena): Zwischen Geschichte und Mythos: Die Wartburg als Literaturort vom Hochmittelalter bis ins 19. Jahrhundert.
Dirac Room, St John's College. All welcome. |
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| 2nd Mar 2012 | 17:30 | Academic | The Cult of Venus: a lecture by Jean-Jacques Lebel | In this lecture the French artist, activist, writer and curator Jean-Jacques Lebel is welcomed to Cambridge by Dr Alyce Mahon (Fellow in History of Art, Trinity College) to discuss the significance of Venus in the long history of art and for his own art practice, with a particular focus on his film-installation Les Avatars de Vénus (2007). The event is sponsored by the French Embassy.
All are welcome (Winstanley Lecture Theatre). |
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| 1st Mar 2012 | 13:00 | Music | Vocal Recital Series | German Lieder: Schumann, Schubert and Brahms - Judith Lebiez
£3/£2/TCMS members free. (Old Combination Room). |
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| 28th Feb 2012 | 18:15 | Societies | Zero Degrees of Empathy | Speaker: Professor Simon Baron-Cohen
Empathy is the drive to identify another person’s thoughts and feelings and to respond to these with an appropriate emotion. Empathy comes by degrees, with individual differences evident in the traditional bell curve. We now know quite a lot about which parts of the brain are used when we empathize and how empathy develops in children. We also know that early experience affects empathy, but so does biology: hormones in the womb, and specific genes. There are several ways in which one can lose one’s empathy, clearly seen in psychiatric conditions such as the personality disorders including the psychopath. However, there is one condition, autism, which not only entails difficulties with empathy but can lead to a talent in ‘systemizing’: the aptitude to spot patterns in the world. We discuss how people with autism and psychopaths show opposite empathy profiles. Finally, the discovery that there may be ‘genes for empathy’ implies that empathy may be the result of our evolution. TCSS (Winstanley Lecture Theatre). |
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| 28th Feb 2012 | 18:30 | Societies | Leader and Forster - Debate | Is the axiom of choice a bit of a joke?
Why is Banach-Tarski not a paradox? Or is it after all as weird as you thought?
Imre Leader and Thomas Forster debate the right way to use - or not - the axiom of choice.
Non-constructive views and non-well-orderly behaviour tolerated.
(organised by Nik Sultana)
MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.
18:30 - 19:30. TMS. |
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| 26th Feb 2012 | 18:15 | Chapel | Choral Evensong | Preacher: The Very Reverend Michael Tavinor, Dean of Hereford
Scenes from the Life of Christ: Healing
Manetti's 'The Stigmatization of St Catherine of Siena'
preceded by Organ Recital at 17:40
Jeremy Cole (Trinity College) plays music by Buxtehude and Bach (Chapel). |
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| 25th Feb 2012 | 16:00 | Film | An Ecology of Mind | A film about Gregory Bateson, one of the most creative anthropologists of the 20th century and a Cambridge graduate, will be shown in the College this Saturday from 4-6pm.
For further details please see:Organised by Professor Kwon. (Winstanley Lecture Theatre). |
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| 25th Feb 2012 | 20:00 | Music | Trinity Players | - Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D minor
- Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor
£5/£3/TCMS members free (Chapel). |
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| 23rd Feb 2012 | 13:00 | Music | Vocal Recital Series | Opera Arias: Michael Craddock
£3/£2/TCMS members free. (Old Combination Room). |
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