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Tuesday 27 February 2024, 6.00pm7.00pm GMT

Join Professor Jim Crow as he explores the changing views of research into one of Rome’s most enigmatic monuments, Hadrian's Wall.

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Wednesday 7 February 2024, 5.00pm6.00pm GMT

Join Professor Charles Ramble, as he explores some of the lesser-known pathways in the cultural legacy of this extraordinary mountain kingdom. 

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Tuesday 11 July 2023, 6.00pm7.00pm BST

Join Cambridge alumnus, former Antarctic ship naturalist and award-winning author James Lowen (Emmanuel 1991)  on a virtual cruise along the Beagle Channel and across the fabled Drake Passage to explore the Antarctic Peninsula.

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Tuesday 16 May 2023, 6.00pm7.00pm BST

Join Nirvana Romell, as she explores how Burgundy's ground-breaking advances in politics, art and culture affected the course of European history.

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Thursday 30 March 2023, 6.00pm7.00pm BST

Professor Jay Lewis, Associate Professor at Oxford University, will take the long view over two millennia and consider migration, kingship and statecraft, Buddhism, warfare, Confucianism, trade, colonialism, and modernity, to better understand the similarities and the unique aspects of both.

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Tuesday 24 January 2023, 6.00pm7.00pm GMT

Join Dr Koller (Magdalene 1993) as he attempts an overview of the culture and history of a region long considered as the climax and finale of the Grand Tour.

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Tuesday 5 July 2022, 7.00pm8.00pm BST

Join Dr David Beresford-Jones (Magdalene College 1999) he offers an overview of cultural development in the Andes over the millennia.

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Tuesday 14 June 2022, 7.00pm8.00pm BST

Join Professors Mike Searle and Bruce Levell as he takes you on a journey through the beautiful mountains of Oman. 

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Tuesday 29 March 2022, 7.00pm8.00pm BST

Take a journey through 'the big islands' history with Professor John Bennet.

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Tuesday 25 January 2022, 5.00pm6.00pm GMT

Join Dr Koller (Magdalene 1993) as he demonstrates how the Transcaucasus region’s great monuments and spectacular settings have become an expression of both the national consciousness and spirit of the peoples of Georgia and Armenia.

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Tuesday 14 December 2021, 7.00pm8.00pm GMT

This talk will cover three most iconic examples of Moorish architecture – the Great Mosque of Cordoba, the Alcazar of Seville and the Alhambra of Granada.

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Thursday 25 November 2021, 7.00pm8.00pm GMT

In this highly illustrated talk Dr Carolin Crawford (Newnham 1982) will discuss the how, where and why of the aurora, and the variety of shapes and structures they can form.

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Tuesday 19 October 2021, 4.00pm5.00pm BST

Himalayan Cultural historian Zara Fleming will explore the the art and culture of the Buddhist areas that lie along the Himalayas.

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Tuesday 21 September 2021, 4.00pm5.00pm BST

Join Professor Paul Barrett (Trinity 1990) as he discusses the latest evidence for the origins of the dinosaurs, in what is now South America.

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Wednesday 21 July 2021, 4.00pm5.00pm BST

Professor Leporc will explore Russian architecture against a social, artistic, economic and political panorama.

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Tuesday 29 June 2021, 7.00pm8.00pm BST

Join Professor Richard Hunter (Pembroke 1975) from the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge, as he takes us on a journey through the Carian and Lycian kingdoms of western Turkey.

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Wednesday 12 May 2021, 7.00pm8.00pm BST

Join Dr Sarah Shaw from the University of Oxford as she explains how Rudyard Kiplings childhood inspired him to write the Jungle Book and the Just So Stories.

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Monday 26 April 2021, 7.00pm8.00pm BST

Join Dr Owen Weller and Professor Marc St-Onge as they introduce the Canadian and Greenlandic High Arctic

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Thursday 25 March 2021, 7.00pm8.00pm GMT

Join Professors Mike Searle and David Gellner from the University of Oxford as they take us on a journey through Nepal.

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Thursday 18 February 2021, 4.00pm5.00pm GMT

Join Nirvana Romell, a native of Dalmatia, as she unravels the complex but absolutely fascinating history and cultures of the Central Balkans.

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Tuesday 26 January 2021, 7.00pm8.00pm GMT

Join Cambridge’s Professor Robert (Bob) White as he explains how the geologically youthful Iceland has grown above the plate tectonic rift between North America and Europe.

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Monday 14 December 2020, 3.45pm4.45pm GMT

Join Oxford University's Professor Roger Davies (Christ's 1975) as he explains the link between Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and solar eclipses.

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Tuesday 10 November 2020, 4.00pm5.00pm GMT

Join Professor Nick Davies as he explores the curiosity of Darwin, Wallace and Bates in the biodiversity hotspots of South and Central America.