Highlights
Today, 28 Nov. 2016
Anastasia Piliavsky
, as part of her research "hypothesis that the personal bonds between voters and politicians, decried by critics as 'corrupt', are the chief mechanism of India's electoral participation. 'Corruption', in other words, may itself be the key to India's prodigious democratic vitality. This line of thought has implications that stretch far beyond the shores of South Asia. It presses us to rethink our views on 'corruption', and perhaps even to adopt a less parochial view of democracy, as it migrates, settles and naturalises around the world', along with 'completing a book on hierarchy among thieves', will discuss, 'Hierarchy is India's biggest scandal. It is embarrassing that the world's largest democracy, with a constitution that guarantees liberty, justice and equality to individual citizens should also be the most elaborately hierarchical society on Earth. While critics deride hierarchy as an archaic and motionless order of subjugation, India's denizens see it as a source of hope: a vehicle for aspiration, upward mobility and positive change. What if we too could see in hierarchy a source of social flourishing? And what would it take for us - egalitarians - to see it that way?'
Very promising juxtaposition of contrastive concepts.
2. Translation and Drama (Workshop)
28 November 2016, 17:00 - 19:00
Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building.
How do translators grapple with conveying cultural codes across theatrical adaptations of plays?
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The workshop will mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death by focusing on translations of his plays in various languages.'
3. 'Livelihood strategies and signatures of vulnerability and resilience in eastern African landscapes'
Prof Paul Lane, Uppsala University
3. 'Livelihood strategies and signatures of vulnerability and resilience in eastern African landscapes'
Prof Paul Lane, Uppsala University
- Monday 28 November 2016, 17:00-18:00
Seminar Room S1 Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.
A powerful summation of the concepts of vulnerability and resilience in a manner relevant across disciplines, applied to Esst Africa.
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We live in a world of heightened concern with both vulnerability and resilience. The terms circulate repeatedly within the public sphere, and the political classes increasingly mobilise the concepts, with either positive or negative spins, to bolster their ideological positions. The idea of resilience is, perhaps, the more ambiguous of the two notions. On the one hand, resilience is something to be actively promoted and assessed. Yet, on the other, some practices deemed to be resilient may act against risk taking and potential innovation and may, in the longer term, work against societal development. Whereas resilience is generally regarded as an outcome of deliberate action, vulnerability is typically seen to be a condition and often defined solely by external observers rather than agents themselves. In other words, vulnerability is often portrayed as being a state of susceptibility to harm, and the obverse of resilience. Vulnerability is also highly relative – a vulnerable person, community, sites, artefact, landscape, society, etc. is only ever vulnerable to a prescribed set of threats, which may even be neither understood nor perceived as such in some quarters. Within archaeology, both resilience and vulnerability have received periodic attention. In the current context of escalating climate change and heightened awareness of these trends at local, regional and global levels, both terms have acquired particular resonance and are invoked to both leverage funding and guide interventions aimed at protecting archaeological resources. In this presentation, I will outline some of the ways these terms are being used in the discipline, the challenges involved in identifying either resilience or vulnerability archaeologically, and finally, what archaeologists working in eastern Africa (and elsewhere) might be able to contribute to discussions of these concepts and how their data sets may be of benefit when planning for more sustainable futures.'
4. Closing the Political Ambition Gap
A necessary question in a strategic challenge in maximising the totality of human potential within populations.
A necessary question in a strategic challenge in maximising the totality of human potential within populations.
Susannah Wellford, Running Start, and Belinda Phipps, Chair of the Fawcett Society 
Monday 28 November 2016, 17:15-19:00- Kaetsu Centre, Murray Edwards College.
'Examining why women don't run for office or don't get elected in nearly the numbers that men do.
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Susannah Wellford is the founder of Running Start, inspiring young women and girls to political leadership, & the Women under Forty Political Action Committee (WUFPAC)
With a response by Belinda Phipps, Chair of the Fawcett Society
Over the past sixteen years, Susannah Wellford has founded two organisations designed to raise the political voice of young women in America – Running Start, to inspire young women and girls to political leadership, and the Women under Forty Political Action Committee (WUFPAC), which Susannah co-founded in 1999 and led for five years. WUFPAC is a non-partisan national women's group dedicated to electing young women to political office.'
I am very curious as to how the speaker will correlate unify the Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci, the European fairy tale of Rapunzel letting her hair down through a window in the tower where she is imprisoned so her lover can use the hair as climbing ropes to meet her and the physics of hair.
- Prof. Raymond Goldstein FRS FInstp, Dept of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Churchill College, University of Cambridge
- Monday 28 November 2016, 19:30-21:00
- Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .
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