MCR Dinners
MCR Dinners are always wonderful events which bring together the whole of the post-graduate community at Girton (even those students who do not reside at Wolfson Court) and provide a time for chatting and socialising in an informal setting. Every dinner also features a guest speaker to give an after-dinner talk about their life and work.
Pre-drinks will be served at 6.45 pm, with dinner served at about 7.15 and then post-dinner coffee and drinks in the MCR.
We do enjoy having speakers from the Girton alumni at our dinners, and would positively encourage any member of the alumni who would like to give an after-dinner speech at an MCR Dinner to complete the form (click here) and return it using the instructions therein.
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Date: 19th January 2010
Guest Speaker: Mrs Margaret Braddock (Second World War Alum).
Margaret Braddock studied at Girton during one of the most important and interesting periods of national history, in the midst of the Second World War. She will be speaking on her memories of her student days.
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Date: 16th February 2010
Guest Speaker: Mr Julian Spalding (Museum & Gallery Curator and Critic).
Julian Spalding has been director of the museums and galleries of Sheffield, Manchester and Glasgow, has been fundamental in the opening of various museums and galleries across the U.K. and is a well-known critic of museum practice. He will be speaking about culture as a universal human attribute.
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Date: 9th March 2010
Guest Speaker: Prof. Dame Gillian Beer (Literary Critic & Booker Prize Judge).
Gillian Beer was a fellow at Girton for thirty years, Professor of English Literature at Cambridge and was, most recently, the President of Clare Hall. She was, in 1997, the Chair of the Booker Prize judges. She will be speaking about her time as a Booker Prize judge as well as her research and career in Cambridge.
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Date: 27th April 2010
Guest Speaker: Mr Max Alexander (Photographer).
Max Alexander is a noted photographer, having had a recent exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall in London. He has created many wonderful photographic essays on topics as varied as travel, science and theatrical performance. He will speak about his latest project, 'Explorers of the Universe'.
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Date: 18th May 2010
Guest Speaker: Lady Archer (Chair of the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust) Mary Archer, Baroness Archer of Weston-Super-Mare was a lecturer and research scientist (specialising in solar power conversion) at Cambridge, and sat on the executive board of Anglia Television before becoming the Chair of the National Energy Foundation.
She is currently the Chair of the Addenbrookes NHS Trust.
Mary is also a trustee of the Stem Cell Foundation and a patron of the Rupert Brooke Society (she lives in The Old Vicarage, Grantchester with her husband, the novelist, Jeffrey Archer). She will be speaking about her work with the Stem Cell Foundation and at Addenbrookes Hospital.
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Date: 8th June 2010
Guest Speaker: Prof. Susan Smith (Mistress of the College)
Susan Smith is the Mistress of Girton College. Before coming to Girton, she was the Director of the Institute of Advanced Study and Professor of Geography at the University of Durham. She will be offering some reflections on the year.
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