Migration – Darwin College Lecture Series 2018
| Created: | 2018-01-18 17:27 |
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| Institution: | Darwin College |
| Description: | In the second term of every academic year since 1986 Darwin College has organised a series of eight public lectures. Each series has been built around a single theme, approached in a multi-disciplinary way, and with each lecture prepared for a general audience by a leading authority on his or her subject. The theme of the 2018 lecture series is "Migration". |
| Website: | http://www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/lectures |
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Animal Migration
The extraordinary synchrony of motion exhibited as a flock of birds arcs overhead, or a school of fish turns, as a ripple of light, is captivating. Like some animate fluid the...
Collection: Migration – Darwin College Lecture Series 2018
Institution: Darwin College
Created: Tue 13 Mar 2018
Art and Migration
This lecture performance will present art by and about the migrant, created in workshops run for detainees awaiting deportation from the UK. Documentary photography, drawings,...
Collection: Migration – Darwin College Lecture Series 2018
Institution: Darwin College
Created: Wed 21 Feb 2018
Black and British Migration
David Olusoga:
Migration is the most controversial political topic in the Britain of 2018. Issues around migration underpinned and informed much of the BREXIT debate and infuse...
Collection: Migration – Darwin College Lecture Series 2018
Institution: Darwin College
Created: Tue 23 Jan 2018
Disease Migration
Dr. Eva Harris: Dengue and Zika are mosquito-borne viral diseases that consitute major public health and medical problems worldwide. Dengue has been a scourge for decades and only...
Collection: Migration – Darwin College Lecture Series 2018
Institution: Darwin College
Created: Mon 19 Feb 2018
Immigration and Freedom
Chandran Kukatha:
Restrictions on the movement of people to the countries developed west are often defended on the grounds that it is necessary to protect the liberal democratic...
Collection: Migration – Darwin College Lecture Series 2018
Institution: Darwin College
Created: Mon 29 Jan 2018
Migration in Science
Progress in science depends on a rapid exchange of ideas and exposure to new approaches and viewpoints. Historically, this progress has been accelerated by the movement of people....
Collection: Migration – Darwin College Lecture Series 2018
Institution: Darwin College
Created: Tue 6 Mar 2018
Refugees and Migration
How, in a world of modern nation states, shared prosperity, and boundless capabilities can refugees and migrants on the move today find themselves exposed to kidnapping for...
Collection: Migration – Darwin College Lecture Series 2018
Institution: Darwin College
Created: Mon 12 Feb 2018
The Partition of India and Migration
The Partition of the Indian subcontinent 70 years ago along religious lines, saw the largest migration in human history, outside war and famine. Millions were on the move in both...
Collection: Migration – Darwin College Lecture Series 2018
Institution: Darwin College
Created: Thu 1 Mar 2018