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Events for 2011/12
Thursday 20 October
6-7pm in the Woodlegh Seminar Rooms, Strathaird
Creating poets: the English experience in Asia by Professor Agnes Lam, Centre for Applied English Studies of the University of Hong Kong, and known internationally as a poet.
Sunday 23 October
5pm in Warburton Hall
Cruel Sisters: a bewitching event of music and readings for Hallowe'en with Nicky Jakeways, reader, Nicky Haire, violin, Jon Ward, guitar, Simon Marlow, piano and the Lucy Cavendish Singers.
Thursday 3 November
6-7pm in the Woodlegh Seminar Rooms, Strathaird
Orthopaedic sports injuries - can humans help horses? Frances Hudson, Lecturer in Equine Studies (Surgery), University of Cambridge
Thursday 10 November
6-7pm in the Woodlegh Seminar Rooms, Strathaird
Towards a Silent Aircraft: Professor Dame Ann Dowling
Saturday 12 November
6pm in the Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College

Remember me, my deir: An hour of music to warm and cheer. With Nicky Haire, violin; Jon Ward, guitar; Sarah Sharrock, double bass and the Lucy Cavendish Singers.

There will be an exhibition of watercolours of the Singers by Lesley Fotherby in the Bateman Room immediately before and after the concert.

Tuesday 15 November
7.15pm in the Woodlegh Seminar Rooms, Strathaird
Anna Bidder Research Evening
Two talks, one from Professor Ruth Cameron on Medical Materials; the second from Dr Rose Spear on Ferromagnetic Fibre Networks for Orthopaedic Applications; Open to Members of the College Community only.

Thursday 24 November
6-7pm in the Woodlegh Seminar Rooms, Strathaird 

'The Novel in the Viola - A True Story?' or, why do we want our fiction to be fact? Natasha Solomons, Screenwriter and Author
Tuesday 29 November
7.15pm in the Woodlegh Seminar Rooms, Strathaird
Anna Bidder Research Evening
A talk from Dr Lucy Frith on 'Egg freezing for social reasons: the ethical and social debate'

Saturday 3 December
3pm onwards in the Oldham Hall Conservatory / Common Room Area
4.30pm onwards in Warburton Hall

Advent Carols and Children's Christmas Party
From 3pm the Children's Christmas Party will be taking place with children's games, afternoon tea and a visit from Father Christmas.
Following that, from 4.30pm there will be mince pies and mulled wine and carols in the Hall, led by the Lucy Cavendish Singers.
Thursday 19 January
6-7pm in the Woodlegh Seminar Rooms, Strathaird
Our Endangered Heritage: A National Asset at Risk
A talk from Loyd Grossman OBE.
Thursday 26 January
6-7pm in the Woodlegh Seminar Rooms, Strathaird
Dr Nicola Mackie, Consultant Physician & Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College will talk about The strategic use of anti-retroviral therapy (ART).
Thursday 2 February
6-7pm in the Woodlegh Seminar Rooms, Strathaird
'In conversation with Dame Stella Rimington', Chair of the 2011 Man Booker Prize Judges, Ex-Director General of MI5 and Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College. Dame Rimington will be discussing her own books, how they connect with her career and her work as a Man Booker judge.
Thursday 16 February
6-7pm in the Woodlegh Seminar Rooms, Strathaird
Kind of Cruel by Sophie Hannah
Sophie Hannah will be speaking in College to launch her latest psychological thriller - Kind of Cruel.