End of 'A Great Campaign' Celebration

Dr Arik Kershenbaum, Girton Fellow and Director of Studies in Natural Sciences, will give an informal presentation about his research and his latest book: The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves.

https://vimeo.com/745369900

This session will explore the experiences of several successful entrepreneurs all of whom have an affiliation with Girton College. The panel also includes investors and advisors who will help provide a view into the complex industries that support high growth companies and add context to the entrepreneur’s journey.

Speakers: James Anderson (Bursar), Rob Durkin (2004), Amar Radia (1991) and Sabesan Sithamparanathan (former Tucker-Price Research Fellow in Science)

https://vimeo.com/743435580

The emergence and spread of infections deceases with pandemic potential has occurred regularly throughout history—Covid-19 is simply the latest pandemic. Chaired by Girtonian, Dr Phil Hammond (1981 Medical Sciences), this session will be a discussion between Catharine Arnold (1979 English), who will give us the historical perspective particularly in relation to the deadliest influenza in 1918, and Official Fellow, The Revd Dr Charlie Bell, on COVID-19 public health management today.

https://vimeo.com/743416252

Join us for a sneak peek at a Girton-focused book collaboration between Carol Adlam (Mary Amelia Cummins Harvey Visiting Fellow Commoner) and James Wade (Jane Elizabeth Martin Fellow in English). You’ll encounter artwork and/or poems about paradoxical boxes, puddles, giant eggs, teenage trees, outlaw cyclists, fed-up librarians, optical prostheses, interstitial vacuities, funny mirrors, thumb wrestling, mummies, mistresses, Crackers (the dog, not the snack), and the occasional Girtonian captured in their natural habitat.

https://vimeo.com/743486854

Girton’s art residency dates from 2013. It enables early-career visual artists to live and work in the College for up to a year. The hope is that their creativity will be influenced by us – by the history, geography and materiality of the site, by the Fellows, staff, and students who inhabit it – and that our thinking and practices might in turn be shaped by their presence. Join former Artist in residence, Yelena Popova (2016–17), as she talks about her residency at Girton and its consequences.

https://vimeo.com/743489497

Join the College Visitor, Lady Hale, in conversation with former Vice-Mistress, and Fellow in Law, Karen Lee, discussing her extraordinary life from her recently published autobiography 'Spider Woman'.

https://vimeo.com/743374590

This session will review the current state of the climate, the current trajectory and the options which have been considered by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The panel will discuss which of these really are possible and whether any of them are in fact satisfactory. The discussion will then move onto the options for not just preventing further climate change disasters but repairing our climate.

Speakers: Dr Shaun Fitzgerald OBE FRENG (1986), Professor Dame Ann Dowling OM FRS FRENG (1970), Dr Alison Monaghan MBE FGS CGEOL (1991), Dr Stuart Scott (Fellow)

https://vimeo.com/743457402

Interest in women’s sport has never been higher. 33 million people watched domestic competitions in 2021, a record driven by The Hundred & The FA Women’s Super League. Commercial sponsors are chasing these new audiences. Women’s sport is beginning to get the recognition it deserves, but it is still light years behind men’s sport investment from grass roots to professional levels. The panel will discuss the challenges and opportunities in Women’s Sport drawing on their own rich set of personal experiences.

Please join two elite Triathletes - Professor Dame Sarah Springman (1978), Dr Alistair Brownlee (2006), a pioneering sports journalist, Eleanor Oldroyd (1981), and the Chair of the FA’s Women’s Professional Leagues, Dawn Airey (1981), for a great debate.

https://vimeo.com/743471783

The unveiling of the latest portrait in the unique collection of People's Portraits, a permanent exhibition housed at Girton on long-term loan from the individual members of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. The reception marked the donation to the exhibition of Toby by Peter Brown RP. In addition visiting artist Carol Adlam (Mary Amelia Cummins Harvey Fellow Commoner) gave a portrait-themed talk titled The Dentist, the Former Thief, the Hairdresser, the Student: Story Time in Portraiture.

https://vimeo.com/743359601

Recording coming soon! The current Mistress (19th and third-longest-serving) gives a light-hearted whistle-stop tour of the past Mistresses, by way of curious incidents, tall tales and hidden figures.