Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)
The Institute of Continuing Education (ICE) is taking part in the Cambridge Festival of Ideas in 2013 with a varied programme of free events, including an afternoon at Madingley Hall on Sunday 27 October.
25 October 2013, 10.00am, Rampton village, Dr Susan Oosthuizen
Earthworks, watercourses and surviving buildings at Rampton tell a vivid story about the daily lives and aspirations of peasants living along the fen-edge between about 1000 and 1700 AD. This short guided walk with Dr Susan Oosthuizen aims to introduce participants to the historic landscape of the fens, and to enable them to begin to recognise similar landscapes elsewhere.
27 October 2013, 3.00pm and 4.30pm, Madingley Hall, Dr Sarah Burton
When is a poem not a poem? These creative writing workshops with Dr Sarah Burton are open to all ages and explore what happens when you write a piece of poetry as prose – and vice versa.
27 October 2013, 3.00pm, Madingley Hall, Dr Justin Meggitt
Accounts of trips to the moon and encounters with alien life forms are nothing new. An introduction to the earliest science fiction ever written, with Dr Justin Meggitt.
27 October 2013, 4.15pm, Madingley Hall, Dr Jenny Bavidge
From Sir Gawain's journey into the wilds of the Wirral to the gritty social realism of the 20th century, Dr Jenny Bavidge explores how the landscapes and voice of the North have functioned in British literature.
27 October 2013, 5.30pm, Madingley Hall, Dr Ed Turner et al.
Based on the format of the popular radio show, ‘Just a Marmot’ will feature a panel of Cambridge biologists who will be asked to talk about aspects of their specialist subject for a minute without pause or repetition!
The University of Cambridge Festival of Ideas celebrates the arts, humanities and social sciences and has been running for five years. It is the only free festival of its kind in the UK, and attracted over 14,000 visitors in 2012.
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