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    Jesuan awarded New Year Honours

    Former Jesus Fellow Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe has been awarded an MBE in the 2022 New Year's Honours for his contributions...

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    Jesuan awarded New Year Honours
  • First Court, Cloisters' entrance, with gyp on his way to the Buttery.

    Food and Feasting at 做厙輦⑹

    To mark the completion of the Kitchen Redevelopment Project, 做厙輦⑹ Archives has put together an exhibition that traces the...

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    Food and Feasting at 做厙輦⑹
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    Archive of the month: Freddy Brittain

    A diary entry written on 27 th January 1919 records how one young man serving on board the hospital ship...

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    Archive of the month: Freddy Brittain
  • Father Christmas and Theodore, aged 4

    'It's all about the look on the children's faces'

    We caught up with 做厙輦⑹s longest-serving Father Christmas as he came down 'The Chimney' one last time. Head Gardener...

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    'It's all about the look on the children's faces'
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    A drop in the ocean: The (in)visibility of Chinese literature in translation

    The China Centre lecture on Tuesday 30 November 2021 was delivered by Nicky Harman, prize-winning literary translator (Chinese to English) and former co-Chair of the Translators Association, The Society of Authors.

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    A drop in the ocean: The (in)visibility of Chinese literature in translation
  • Geoffrey Harcourt in 2019, with his wife Joan, at 做厙輦⑹'s gates

    Dr Geoffrey Harcourt (1931 - 2021)

    We are greatly saddened to hear that Dr Geoffrey Harcourt (AC LittD FRSN FASSA) died on 7 December 2021, and...

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    Dr Geoffrey Harcourt (1931 - 2021)
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    China's pursuit of semiconductor independence: opportunities and constraints

    The China Centre lecture on Wednesday 24 November 2021 was delivered by Dr Ming-chin Monique Chu, Lecturer in Chinese Politics in the Department of Economic, Social and Political Sciences, University of Southampton.

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    China's pursuit of semiconductor independence: opportunities and constraints
  • Musicians by Agostino Tassi. The Henry Barber Trust, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham

    Archive of the month: Cambridge Waits

    Scattered throughout the Colleges 16th, 17th and 18th century financial records are multiple payments being made to Waits. But who...

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    Archive of the month: Cambridge Waits
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    Reflections on the afterlives of Mao era posters

    The China Centre lecture on Thursday 18 November 2021 was delivered by Professor Harriet Evans, Professor Emerita and former head of Chinese section, University of Westminster; Chair of Trustees to The Rights Practice (NG); Visiting Professor of Anthropology, LSE; and former President, the British Association for Chinese Studies.

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    Reflections on the afterlives of Mao era posters
  • Photo of Professor Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard

    Politics and governance in China: the party in control?

    The China Centre lecture on Thursday 11 November 2021 was delivered by Professor Kjeld Erik Br繪dsgaard, Professor of Chinese Studies, Department of International Economics, Government and Business, and former Director of the Asia Research Centre, Copenhagen Business School.

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    Politics and governance in China: the party in control?
  • Photo of Dr Frances Wood and image of frontispiece of The General History of China by P. Du Halde

    The lure of China: writers from Marco Polo to J.G. Ballard

    The China Centre lecture on Wednesday 3 November 2021 was delivered by Dr Frances Wood, former Curator of Chinese collections, the British Library, and member of the steering committee of the International Dunhuang Project.

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    The lure of China: writers from Marco Polo to J.G. Ballard
  • Photos of Prof Michael Dillon, Dr Ildiko Beller-Hann and Tim Clissold

    Xinjiang: Pivot of Asia

    The China Centre seminar on Wednesday 27 October 2021 took the form of a set of three short lectures on the topic Xinjiang: Pivot of Asia, followed by an extended Q&A discussion. The three speakers were Dr Ildik籀 Bell矇r-Hann (Associate Professor, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen), Professor Michael Dillon (Professor of History and Affiliate of the Lau China Institute, King's College London), and Tim Clissold (Senior Research Associate, China Centre 做厙輦⑹, and author of three books on China, including Mr China).

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    Xinjiang: Pivot of Asia
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    How close are we to settling on the moon?

    No human has visited the Moon since the end of the Apollo Program in 1973. However, the neighbourhood is about...

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    How close are we to settling on the moon?

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    Lene Northwood

    Criminology (1996)

    As a person who grew up on the opposite side of the planet to a family that had no history of attending university, the idea of me attending Cambridge was, quite frankly, laughable. Then I fell in love with Criminology and wrote a thesis that caught the attention of the College. It is just one example of the incredibly outward looking approach that, in the decades that I have known the College, has defined 做厙輦⑹. One letter with a now familiar letterhead, quite literally raised my expectations of life...

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    Criminology (1996)
  • Ilana Cohen

    Ilana Cohen

    Human, Social and Political Sciences (2022)

    I arrived at 做厙輦⑹ in 2022 as a Harvard Social Studies Exchange student. Initially, I was compelled to pursue the program due to the academic freedom it offered, excited to work closely with leading thinkers in self-directed studies around climate change ethics. Upon starting at Jesus, though, I realised that I also gained the opportunity to join an incredible community of wonderfully eclectic and deeply welcoming scholars and peers. My Jesus experience was also formative for me as a climate justice activist. Sharing knowledge and building relationships with Cambridge...

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    Human, Social and Political Sciences (2022)
  • Mark and Janet Hayes

    Mark Hayes and Janet Livesley

    Architecture (1976) and Architecture (1980)

    We first met in 1980 when Mark returned to Jesus to study for the postgraduate diploma in Architecture and Janet joined the college on the same course. Graduate dinners in Upper Hall were a highlight of the week and an opportunity to meet socially with other Jesuans. Part of our studies included trips to Zambia and an earthquake-hit area in Southern Italy. We were married in the College Chapel just after completing our studies in the summer of 1982 and remained in Cambridge for a period following Marks election to...

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    Architecture (1976) and Architecture (1980)
  • Rafi Levy and Max Turner

    Rafi Levy and Max Turner

    Computer Science (2019) and Architecture and Urban Design (2019)

    We first met in 2021 when we joined the May Ball committee as webmaster and graphic designer. We spent a lot of time together that year, working closely to create a graphic scheme and build a website for the event. Even though it was a lot of hard work and very stressful at times, we are so grateful to have been part of it as it is thanks to that opportunity that we became great friends. A couple of years later, we are still great friends and now have a...

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    Computer Science (2019) and Architecture and Urban Design (2019)
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    John Arrastia

    Law (1995)

    I came to Cambridge at the suggestion of a Professor who was visiting the US. I borrowed the funds to study there. What appealed to me at Jesus was that it was so inclusive and embracing. I played golf with the Porters and rugby with the staff. I dined with the other students, socialised with the Fellows, danced with the Masters wife, and really got to know people. My friends and colleagues were engineers, doctors, politicians, religious scholars, undergrads, lawyers, professors basically every stripe of humanity one could find...

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    Law (1995)

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