Fri 02 Feb 13:00: Title - TBC
Speaker: Jie Yang, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Roychoudhuri Lab & College Research Associate at Homerton College
Host: Dr. Tim Halim, Group Leader at the Cancer Research UK – Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge.
For anyone who can’t attend in person, please join the Cambridge Immunology and Medicine Seminar on Zoom
Refreshments will be available following the Seminar.
This talk is part of the Immunology and Medicine Seminars series.
- Speaker: Jie Yang, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow
- Friday 02 February 2024, 13:00-14:00
- Venue: Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
- Series: Immunology and Medicine Seminars; organiser: Ruth Paton.
Fri 19 Jan 13:00: Title - TBC
Andrew McKenzie FRS F MedSci is a molecular biologist and group leader in the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB).
- Speaker: Andrew McKenzie, FRS FMedSci
- Friday 19 January 2024, 13:00-14:00
- Venue: Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.
- Series: Immunology and Medicine Seminars; organiser: Ruth Paton.
Fri 08 Mar 17:30: How the Cultural Revolution still shapes China
The Cultural Revolution is everywhere and nowhere in modern China. It is impossible to make sense of China without understanding what happened in this decade of political fanaticism, brutal violence and chaos, which saw perhaps two million die and tens of millions hounded. But it also seems impossible to truly understand this era, with its constant changes and contradictions. Discussion has been suppressed by both political diktat and personal trauma. Even so, its memory persists.
While many remain deeply scarred by the horrors, there is now a surprising nostalgia for the era. It speaks in large part to concerns about the present day but also reflects the appeal of powerful possibilities for transformation which existed in the era, however briefly and marginally.
What exactly are people remembering when they remember the Cultural Revolution? And how has an era which turned the nation upside down come to be an essential part of the party-state’s maintenance of the political status quo?
Tania Branigan is foreign leader writer at the Guardian and spent seven years as its China correspondent. Her book Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution won the Cundill History Prize 2023 and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford prize, the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding and the Kirkus non-fiction prize. It was named as one of the Wall Street Journal’s ten best books of 2023 and TIME ’s 100 must-read books of 2023.
- Speaker: Ms Tania Branigan
- Friday 08 March 2024, 17:30-18:30
- Venue: Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.
- Series: Darwin College Lecture Series; organiser: Janet Gibson.