Breaking boundaries - University of Cambridge

Throughout the Festival
ZOE SUMNER
Christl Donnelly Stuart Clark Carolin Crawford
6pm – 7pm, 15 March
Out of the box: objects, museums
and Pacific Island communities
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,
Downing Street
Talk by Dr Julie Adams, Research Fellow at the
Museum, which considers the consequences of
projects aimed at reconnecting museum
collections with source communities in the
Pacific. Includes a film shot in Vanuatu in 2007.
Map: 9, Talk, Ages 14+, Pre book tel: 01223
764769 or email: sarahjane.harknett@maa.cam.ac.uk
6pm – 7pm, 15 March
What can we learn from the early
astronomers?
University Centre, Granta Place
Join Dr Stuart Clark to explore how from Kepler
to Newton to Einstein, the greatest
breakthroughs in our understanding of the
Universe came by studying motion in the
Universe. Once again, astronomers are seeing
movements in the Universe they cannot explain.
Is the next big breakthrough imminent?
Map: 28, Talk, Ages 14+
6pm – 7pm, 15 March
Outbreak: how epidemiologists
work to protect you
Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Mill Lane
Join Christl Donnelly, Professor of Statistical
Epidemiology, in a race against the clock to limit
the spread of a newly identified infectious
disease. Learn why some outbreaks never take
off and other infections spread across the world.
Map: 27, Talk, Ages 14+
6pm – 7pm, 15 March
The development of vaccines and
immunotherapies against human
papillomaviruses, the cause of
cervical cancer
Lucy Cavendish College, Lady Margaret Road,
CB3 0BU
A talk from Margaret Stanley OBE on the
mechanisms of host defence and the
development of vaccines and immunotherapies
to combat cervical cancer.
Map: N/A, Talk, Ages 18+
7.30pm – 8.30pm, 15 March
Helen Keen: robot woman of the
future!
University Centre, Granta Place
Award-winning comedian Helen Keen returns to
Cambridge with her esoteric mix of standup
comedy, science and shadow
puppetry. This new hour
features robots! The
future! And a
woman!
From
clockwork
French ducks to
human computers, Keen presents an
idiosyncratic guide to the way the
‘cutting-edge’ has changed the
everyday world we live in.
Map: 28, Performance, Ages 16+, Pre
book visit: www.wegottickets.com/
event/150347, £5
8 *Pre book visit: www.cam.ac.uk/sciencefestival or tel: 01223 766766
SIMON WALLACE