Events

A piano concert in aid of the Olympias Music Foundation with Patrick Hemmerle

Programme:

Bach Italian Concerto

Bach-Busoni Nun Komm der Heiden Heiland

Bach-Hess Jesus Joy of Man's Desire

Bach Toccata in D Major
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Dress to Impress in the Middle Ages

Lluís To Figueras
Senior Lecturer in Medieval history, University of Girona

In pre-industrial Europe where clothing was extremely codified and full of symbolic meaning, there was also space for individual choice and emulation, two fundamental aspects in a consumerism society. Evidence from wedding trousseaus shows how anxiety about cloth and...

Speaker: Andreas Jucker

The discourse of im/politeness in eighteenth-century English literature

The eighteenth-century in England has been called the Age of Politeness.

Educational plays and epistolary novels of this time provide a particularly rich source of data for the language historian to uncover the discourse of politeness (and impoliteness). The examples presented in...

Paradigm Shift in Biology

Professor Michael Hall, microbiologist, a pioneer in the fields of TOR signalling and cell growth control will deliver this year's annual King Lecture....

The internationally renowned Fitzwilliam String Quartet visit Clare Hall to play one of Schubert's greatest and most moving string quartets. Having worked with Shostakovich in his last years, they have a unique insight into his music and present one of his most personal works, together with the lyrical and evocative Sea-cradling by Jeremy Thurlow, a composer they have worked with over...