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French culture: 'let them eat bread'
University of Cambridge
Bread is such a symbol of France, so profoundly embedded in the country’s traditions, that to visit a boulangerie and queue with the locals is one of the great cultural experiences of France. Quite recently President Macron recommended to add French bread to the UNESCO list of national cultural trea... read more
BigDat 2019
University of Cambridge
BigDat 2019 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants on the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of big data, which covers a large spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation with an extraordinary potential for... read more
Ancient and Classical Worlds
University of Cambridge
Whether you are drawn by history or architecture, archaeology or literature, this programme allows you an unrivalled chance to immerse yourself in the latest thinking on antiquity. With subjects such as drama or poetry, Greek philosophers, the Egyptian Old Kingdom, Aegean empires, Visigoths and anci... read more
Skeleton keys: unlocking the past using bones, biomarkers and bioinformatics
University of Cambridge
By utilizing new technologies we are now able to answer some of the most important questions in human history. In this course, leading experts from the field of archaeology, analytical chemistry and bioinformatics will teach you how to apply these methods to reveal the mysteries of the past. Through... read more
Early Netherlandish art: the Van Eycks and their contemporaries
University of Cambridge
In 2020 the restoration of the Ghent Altarpiece by the Van Eyck brothers will be completed. The altarpiece is one of the highlights from a period that offers a wealth of colourful and astoundingly 'realistic' paintings, both religious and secular. This course will also discuss Netherlandish art in o... read more
History of early modern mathematics (1200-1700)
University of Cambridge
Innovations in mathematics over these five centuries caused revolutions in European civilisation and science - several times. Arithmetic, algebra, geometry, algebraic geometry and what they called Rational Mechanics or the mathematics of the infinite (you call it the calculus) changed the West's eco... read more