News from Hughes Issue 12 June 2010

News from Hughes June 2010

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Newsletter for Hughes Hall members

Celebrating 125 years

Hughes Launches its 125th Anniversary in Style The 125th anniversary year began with the inaugural Law Dinner on the 26 February, generously sponsored by Hughes Fellow, William Charnley, and attended by the President of the new Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Lord Phillips. This was followed by alumni receptions in New York and Washington on the 16 and 18 March, hosted by the President, Sarah Squire, and Development Director, Jonathan Taylor. Jonathan also attended the Hong Kong alumni party in honour of the Vice Chancellor on the 7 April, on behalf of the college.

Our students launched their own contribution to the anniversary with a highly successful Academic Evening in April, organised by the MCR to showcase some of the extraordinary research being done by Hughes members. It was a fine way to mark 125 years of academic innovation and the great diversity of disciplines now represented in college.

There will be other celebratory dinners and events throughout the year.

The City Lecture and Dinner takes place on the 17 May; this year’s May Ball, themed to commemorate our 125 years, is on 12 June. The Ogden Dinner for Education students and the MBA Matriculation Dinner are in September, and the Zimmern Medical Dinner will take place in November.

And finally of course there is the special Anniversary Dinner for all our former students, when we shall focus on the 125 years since the first students stepped through the college doors. This will be preceded by a lecture given by the distinguished historian Professor Ged Martin entitled A Beginning Place: Hughes Hall 1885–2010. Some of you may remember Professor Martin’s entertaining lecture on 19th century University life at the Alumni Weekend last year. The lecture and dinner will be on Saturday, 25 September and is timed to coincide with the University’s Alumni Weekend. This is an excellent opportunity for alumni and friends of Hughes to visit college and join us in commemorating our history.

Sir Robin Auld, the A L Goodhart Visiting Professor of Law, was the guest speaker at the Charnley Law Dinner. He wrote to the President after the event:

The Right Honourable the Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, President of the Supreme Court (left), chatting to (l to r) Dr John Barker of the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law, and Fellow, Hughes Hall, William Charnley and the President

What a splendidly successful inaugural Charnley Law Dinner you gave last night. The impressive list of those who attended shows the measure of support you have and can expect for your initiative to put Hughes Hall on the legal map…. And, in William Charnley, you have not only a generous, but also a highly proactive, supporter. The food, wine and attentive and friendly service of the college staff were, of course, of the best. But, above all, it was a jolly and companionable evening.

A date for your diary! The 125th Anniversary Alumni Lecture and Dinner on Saturday, 25 September. See page 5 for details.

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Participants at the Academic Evening listen to the President’s opening remarks

Mark Turin and the World Oral Literature Project Dr Mark Turin is a linguistic anthropologist. He studied archaeology and anthropology at the University of Cambridge, and holds a PhD in descriptive linguistics from Leiden University, where he was affiliated to the Himalayan Languages Project. He is currently a Research Associate at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and a Post Doctoral Research Associate at Hughes Hall. He directs both the recently established World Oral Literature Project, an urgent global initiative to document and make accessible endangered oral literatures before they disappear without record, and the Digital Himalaya Project which he co-founded in 2000 as a platform to make multi-media resources from the Himalayan region widely available online.

Mark in Mongolia, with guide

The Hughes Connection In early 2009, my role as a University Research Associate sans college affiliation provided me no outlet for combining my scholarly pursuits with contributing to the intellectual development of students through college life. Having been an undergraduate at Cambridge, and as a confirmed participant in scholarly communities through committees, review boards and fundraising panels, I was eager to be part of a college community.

When I applied to Hughes Hall to be a PDRA, and was invited to meet

Philosophy at Cambridge Conference to be held at Hughes Friday, 19 November and Saturday, 20 November, 2010 This event is being sponsored by the President of Hughes Hall and the Cambridge Philosophy Faculty, as part of the college’s 125th Anniversary.

Hughes student Alexis Papazoglou (PhD in Philosophy, 2008) is organising the conference. Philosophers from nine different Cambridge faculties and departments (Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science, Classics, History, Divinity, Politics and International Studies, Modern and Medieval Languages, Law and English) will respond to the question ‘What is your conception of philosophy?’ and will address the relationship between philosophy and science, the relation of the history of philosophy to the practice of philosophy, and the possibility of the impact of philosophy on everyday life.

Elections Quondam Fellow Rev Dr Philip Raymont NEW SENIOR MEMBERS Dr Martin Hadley-Brown – Tutor on Cambridge Graduate Course in Medicine Mr Tevita Aho – Department of Urology at Addenbrooke’s Hospital Dr Nathan Crilly – Department of Engineering Dr Agnieszka Iwasiewicz-Wabnig – Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics Dr Mukesh Kapila CBE

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the President and a number of Fellows over lunch, I was immediately impressed by the intellectually dynamic yet unstuffy feel of the college and its members. I was naturally delighted to be offered Associate status at Hughes Hall, and since my appointment I have been a regular participant at college events, brought scholars and guests visiting Cambridge to lunch at Hughes, accommodated visiting scholars in the college’s excellent guest rooms and enjoyed supervising one of Hughes’s own students!

Dr Peter Richards, 1951–2009 Quondam Fellow, Hughes Hall

An Appreciation Peter Richards, who has died of cancer, was my esteemed and much liked predecessor as Editor of News from Hughes. He came up to Cambridge to read Archaeology and Anthropology in 1970, and met his wife Mary on an archaeological student dig. He stayed on in Cambridge to complete his PhD on Anglo-Saxon trade, and then became one of the first graduate trainees at Cambridge University Press, where I first met him.

He left CUP to take up the editorship of CAM, the Cambridge University alumni magazine, and became a Fellow of Hughes at about the same time. He used his editorial skills and flair to excellent effect for News from Hughes, but combining the two roles became too onerous. I was already a Senior Member and was very pleased when Peter asked me if I would be interested in taking over from him as Editor of the college newsletter.

Peter was an active Fellow of Hughes, and a great supporter of the college and the students. He liked the diverse nature of college and varying points of view, and would argue passionately for what he felt was right, enjoying the cut and thrust of debate. He was a generous colleague and is much missed.

Annemarie Young, Editor, News from Hughes, Senior Member

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Congratulations to Hughes Hall undergraduates For all its 125 years Hughes Hall has been a college for future teachers; for some 40 years it has welcomed postgraduates in research and other vocational courses; and now for the last decade it has been a home for mature undergraduates, steadily increasing to the present cohort of about 85. This last development is less well-known than previous ones – indeed, we’re still sometimes seen as an entirely graduate college – but its effect has been just as profound and beneficial.

Cutting Global Poverty Lydia Keen, a second year BA student in Politics, Psychology and Sociology, was a hairdresser for over 10 years before coming to Hughes via an Access

Lydia Keen

course. After a life changing moment, she worked night shifts to finance

Hughes Hall undergraduates are all mature, ie over 21. Some have simply taken a long break after school, some come for a second degree (BA Affiliates or Graduate Medics), some come after military service in their home country. But many come as Access students, having left school with few qualifications, resumed study later and now proving themselves capable at the highest level.

her successful A level studies. She chose Hughes initially because of its reputation for good food, and is very glad she did. The college’s community spirit means it feels like home, something which is very important to her. Lydia devoted a day to cutting hair to fundraise for the Global Poverty Project, the initiative of Hughes International Relations student Hugh Evans. It’s an ambitious project, whose aim is to eradicate global poverty.

To admit undergraduates was a major undertaking for Hughes Hall. In Cambridge this meant setting up the full support system, including Directors of Studies and supervisors, and for a relatively small cohort, so without economies of scale.

Yet it has been hugely beneficial in many ways. Undergraduates are often very active round college, with characteristically wide interests and enthusiasms. Their presence in college for three years gives stability and continuity when many others are here for only a year. More importantly, their experiences and personalities mean that they give as much as they receive in the frequent interaction with postgraduates and the senior membership. Further, they link the college into the university and its faculties in a different way to postgraduates.

Hughes Hall undergraduates have also done extremely well academically. They regularly top the small table of mature-age colleges, while last year our undergraduates were at the edge of the top quartile of all Cambridge colleges across all Tripos results – a remarkable achievement.

Farewell to Louise Louise Daly at work during Formal Hall.

Louise has moved on and her friendly face and helpfulness are already much missed.

And Louise misses college: It’s such a friendly college. It was just like a second home. And the food was amazing!

Well done to our Hughes Hall undergraduates. Long may they flourish!

MUSIC AT HUGHES

Dr Philip Johnston, Senior Tutor

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Johnny Dankworth memorial concert Jazz composer, saxophonist and clarinettist Sir Johnny Dankworth CBE was an Honorary Fellow of Hughes. A jazz concert was held on 11 March in the packed out Pavilion Room as a tribute to Johnny and his distinguished career. The music was led by Martin Kemp, a fellow saxophone and clarinet player, with Iain Mann on violin, Will Curtis on bass, Bert Schilperoort on drums and Hughes student Paul Zinger on piano.

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Hughes helps win the 2010 Boat Race

Dara Sandhu – Boxing for the Blues ‘... must be fun!’

The first ever Boat Club President from Hughes, Deaglan McEachern, and two fellow Hughesians, Fred Gill and Derek Rasmussen, helped Cambridge win the race. Both the Blue Boat and Goldie produced outstanding performances to do what is supposed to be impossible, coming from behind on the Championship course. In one of the most remarkable races ever seen, the Light Blues, on the less-favoured Middlesex station, their much-vaunted fast start first matched and then overturned, somehow managed to resist all their opponents’ efforts to destroy their rhythm, then turn the disadvantage of the Surrey bend into first a neck and neck struggle and ultimately, at the Bandstand, edge the bow of ‘the 800th’ into a lead. Twice more the Dark Blues tried to come back and were repulsed, until stroke Fred Gill upped the rate one last time to generate clear water. Congratulations to Deaglan and his fellow Hughes Blues, to Code Sternal in Goldie, and to ‘spare’ Nick Edelman.

That’s what every second person at the Hughes bar seemed to say. Well, I’m not sure if training six times a week so intensively that your body never seems to recover can be described as fun! Balancing an MPhil in Real Estate Finance with rigorous training every day was a very exciting prospect at first. However, I started to wonder why I was putting myself through this and very often I just wanted to quit. These doubts all faded away the moment I won my first bout in a Town vs Gown event. The sense of accomplishment is incomparable to anything else I have experienced. While physical changes were obviously apparent, the rigorous six months changed my perspective. It gave me a willpower that I never had before to set myself targets and make sure I achieve them. Passion, dedication and commitment are words that get thrown around a lot, but I truly understood their meaning only after boxing for the Blues in 2008–2009.

Congratulations to the Hughes Hall badminton team on their great success this year!

Reflections of an MCR President: Nouar Qutob Nouar is a Palestinian, born and raised in Jerusalem. At the age of 16, she became a member of the Seeds of Peace organistaion and with the support of her encouraging parents, she chose to take on the challenge of studying far from home. Nouar has an undergraduate degree in Bioinformatics from Brigham Young University and an MPhil in Biological Sciences from Cambridge. She is currently studying for her PhD in Population Genetics.

I believe education is an important building block of great nations. Coming from Jerusalem, where the conflict is an obstacle to stability, freedom of movement and the pursuit of education, I’ve constantly felt that I need ‘to make a difference in my society’ by getting an education from top academic institutions.

My involvement in the MCR began shortly after I started my MPhil, when I realised the importance of college in our lives, be it at a social level or an educational level. I was MCR Social Secretary first and was then elected MCR President. During my term, I learned that representing and pleasing 500 students is a hard task, yet a rewarding one. A ‘thank you’ at the end of the day was more than enough to motivate me and drive me to do more. The MCR had a great year. Our calendar was packed with social activities; we had our first Annual Academic Evening, and the Hat Club flourished. Throughout the year, we tried to create a harmony between the committee members and the students by being approachable and friendly. Equally important, we worked hard on bringing together students, Fellows and college staff because we believe that they are a fundamental part of our lives here. At a university level, Hughes Hall MCR became known to the Graduate Union after hosting its successful annual garden party, and at an external level, we strengthened the links with our sister college in Oxford.

I truly enjoyed leading the MCR, working with our impressively diverse students and learning from them.

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Nouar (left) with her counterpart at Linacre College, Hughes’s sister college in Oxford, during a visit last October. Linacre returned the visit in April. 25 members of their MCR and 3 senior Fellows came to Hughes for a very convivial ‘Linacre Feast’.

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News from Hughesians Parnesh Sharma (Hughes Hall, MPhil in Criminology, 1999) completed his DPhil at Oriel College, Oxford. Parnesh writes ‘though my years at Oxford were indeed memorable, Cambridge remains for me the best of my years spent in the UK . . . thanks.’

Dr Mark Turin (Post Doctoral Research Associate) Congratulations to Dr Mark Turin and his wife Dr Sara Shneiderman on the birth of Nina in February, 2010.

Dr Joan Miller (Hughes Hall, PGCE in Geography, 1944) Congratulations to Dr E Joan Miller (née Wilson), who was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the College of Arts and Sciences at Illinois State University, USA, on 28 March, 2009.

David Van Reybrouck (Hughes Hall, MPhil in Archaeology and Anthropology, 1993) is soon to publish his 680 page history of the Congo. His previous book, A Plea for Populism, was awarded the Jan Hanlo Essay Prize, Holland’s most prestigious biannual prize for essay writing, as well as the Flemish Cultural Award, a state prize for non-fiction and essay.

Elaine Soon (PhD in Medicine, 2009) Congratulations to Elaine on getting the Young Investigator Award (sponsored by Pfizer).

Rosemary Robson (Hughes Hall, PGCE in Geography, 1949) We were sorry to hear the news that Rosemary passed away in April, 2009. Rosemary was Head of Geography at the Girls High School in Eastbourne, later Deputy Head and Deputy Principal of the Sixth Form College. An Honorary Fellow of the Geographical Association, she led a very active life in her retirement.

We were also sorry to hear of the deaths of: Nicholas Hutchinson (Hughes Hall, PGCE, 1996) Joyce Carpenter (Hughes Hall, Certificate of Education, 1946)

Events Diary The Margaret Wileman Music Society Future concert dates are on the website

Hat Club Research Seminars Contact Mark J McWilliams (mjm99@cam.ac.uk) for details. Hat Club Seminars take place every second Wednesday during full term.

May Bumps Wednesday, 9 June to Saturday, 12 June, 2010

Hughes Hall May Ball ‘Journey Through 125 Years’ Saturday, 12 June, 2010 (see page 8)

Judge Business School Alumni Grand Reunion Weekend Thursday, 17 June to Sunday, 20 June, 2010 (see page 7)

Alumni Weekend Events at Hughes Friday, 24 September, 2010 Lunch followed by a lecture given by Professor Anthony Dickinson, ‘Do other animals think about the future?’.

Saturday, 25 September, 2010 125th Anniversary Drinks Reception and Dinner (see below).

If you are interested in any of these events please contact Jenni Morris at events@hughes.cam.ac.uk

125th Anniversary Alumni Dinner All alumni are warmly invited to attend the 125th Anniversary Alumni Dinner on Saturday, 25 September.

As our main 125th Anniversary event, we would be delighted to see as many of you there as possible. The evening will begin at 6pm with a talk from Professor Ged Martin on the origins and history of Hughes Hall. This will be followed by drinks in the Peter Richards Room, and a three-course dinner in the college dining hall at 7:30pm. Join us and generations of Hughesians to raise a glass to the college’s anniversary.

Alumni can book free tickets for themselves and one guest, by contacting the Development Office. If you would like to bring extra guests, please let us know.

The tickets are free of charge, but if you would like to support the college in our 125th year, donations can be made to the Scholarships and Bursaries Fund, which gives direct support to our students.

Contact the Development Office by post or: Tel: +44 (0)1223 334895 Email: alumni@hughes.cam.ac.uk

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Scholarships: A Path to Educational Opportunity and Excellence Hughes Hall is a very already stands at £500,000 cosmopolitan college with and has enabled the college more than 40% of our students to offer a range of new domiciled outside the UK and Hughes Hall awards. representing 35 countries. We We are now launching a have particularly strong links major campaign, in this our with a number of countries, 125th Anniversary year, to ask including Hong Kong and our alumni to help us to triple China – with about 40 current the number of awards that we students and nearly 150 alumni. are able to offer – so that we Over the last couple of years will be able directly to assist a very strong collaboration over 20 students every year, in has built up with Hong Kong addition to those students who University, supported by win the existing scholarships the generous philanthropy and bursaries provided by our of two major donors to the current generous major donors. college, which has enabled the The difference these funds establishment of a series of will make will be considerable. scholarships. The most recent Students who might otherwise The Vice Chancellor in Hong Kong, presenting Mr Edwin Leong to be set up is the Edwin S H not be able to come up to – who recently set up a scholarship fund for Hughes students – Leong Hughes Hall Scholarships Cambridge will be able to with one of the watercolour prints of Hughes Hall featured – the first of which we hope take up their places confident in the last issue of News from Hughes will be awarded to a student that their financial provision beginning their postgraduate studies in 2010. is secure. The college will be able to attract increasingly strong These relationships with Hong Kong have developed thanks candidates who will add further to the developing academic to the exceptional generosity of a small number of great friends excellence of the college, its research vitality, and perhaps, in of the college. But there is a way for all of us to contribute in a time go on to become academic members of the college. way which can really help deserving future students.

The aim of the Anniversary Fund is primarily to pool lots of Attracting the finest students to Hughes Hall is, of course, a individual contributions – each one of which may be relatively major element in the college’s continuing strategy. Being able modest – so that collectively they can have a major impact on to offer scholarships and bursaries based on academic merit to the future of the college via the support that could then be excellent students enables us to support those who may not offered to deserving students. otherwise be able to afford the costs of undergraduate or further If you would be interested in supporting the 125th study at Cambridge. Crucial, timely support can give them the Anniversary Scholarships and Bursaries appeal, please do chance of continuing their education here. Especially important contact the Development Office – your gift could help to is funding to enable MPhil students who successfully complete transform a future student’s life. their Masters to continue on to PhD studies.

To enable the college to offer such scholarships and bursaries, Jonathan Taylor, Development Director and Fellow significant efforts have been made over a number of years to Development Office contact details: build up a capital fund capable of generating income from development@hughes.cam.ac.uk Tel: +44(0)1223 334895 which scholarships and bursaries can be offered. This fund

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HUGHES QUESTIONNAIRE

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Alumni and former members should by now have received the joint questionnaire from Hughes Hall and the University. If you haven’t returned it to us yet, please do take a few minutes to fill it in and tell us about your news.

The questionnaire can also be completed online at: www.hughes.cam.ac.uk/questionnaire

To receive News from Hughes by email, to submit articles for the newsletter, and to sign up to the Hughes alumni e-bulletin (which lists all news and forthcoming events in a termly email), contact the Development Office at development@hughes.cam.ac.uk

Help support Hughes by doing your Amazon shopping through the Hughes Hall website.

Just click on the Amazon link on the home page.

A percentage of the purchase price goes to the college, at no cost to you. Hughes Hall is an associate of amazon.co.uk

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Judge Business School and Hughes Hall MBA, MFin, MPhil and PhD students benefit from a very special relationship that has grown over the years between Hughes Hall and Judge Business School. A part of Hughes’s commitment as a college is to the professions, and business students represent a significant number of the yearly cohort. The strength of ties with JBS is clearly represented by the active involvement of members of the Business School in the life of Hughes as Fellows and Senior Members. Hughes is the first college to appoint a Director of Studies for MBA and other graduate management programmes to work with college Tutors as a pillar of support for postgraduate members and to help organise activities to enrich their experience at Cambridge and in their future careers.

The community of scholars at Hughes embraces highly influential and distinguished figures in entrepreneurship around Cambridge, such as Dr Hermann Hauser and Teri Willey, Chief Executive of Cambridge Enterprise, as well as City Fellows who are active in local and large global corporations. These City Fellows participate in special evenings to connect with business scholars throughout the year. Hughes Hall students have a long tradition of demonstrating leadership and a strong sense of community in their respective programmes. For example, last year, MBA students developed an online alumni portal for Hughes Hall students, which was unveiled at Hughes Hall to commemorate the 20 year anniversary of JBS. In attendance were a number of JBS faculty, Hughes Hall Fellows and Senior Members, including the President, Sarah Squire, JBS Director, Professor Arnoud de Meyer and MBA Director, Dr Jochen Runde.

There are a lot of activities to engage in and the college can be a special place to develop friendships and networks which will last a lifetime.

Dr Michael Barrett, Senior Member Hughes Hall, Director of Programmes and Reader in Information Technology and Innovation, Judge Business School

The Hughes Hall Business Society (HHBS) The Hughes Hall Business Society uses the presence of the largest concentration of business students in a Cambridge college to foster discussion among all students interested in entrepreneurship and business activities. The mission of the HHBS is to encourage and support business and enterprise activities within Hughes Hall, benefiting its members and the greater community.

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During the past year HHBS organised the first entrepreneurship themed Formal Hall, where academics from Cambridge Judge Business School and professionals in law, finance, marketing and operations gathered to discuss the requirements and challenges of setting up new businesses.

In addition, a series of distinguished guest speakers were invited to share their experiences with students and provide an informal forum for students to interact with these industry leaders. The HHBS has the potential to make significant contributions to the entrepreneurial spirit of students at the University of Cambridge.

Faisal Darras, MBA 2009 HHBS set itself seven strategic objectives: e To promote business opportunities to Hughes Hall members. r To encourage entrepreneurship projects led by Hughes Hall members. t To build and maintain relationships with Hughes Hall alumni in business and related fields. u To facilitate interaction between Hughes Hall members and the business community. i To support the role of Hughes Hall as an advocate of multi-disciplinary business co-operation. o To liaise with the University of Cambridge business and enterprise organisations. p To ensure the continuity of the Hughes Hall Business Society.

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What’s interesting about medieval robots?

Elly (E R) Truitt studied for her MPhil at Hughes in 1997–98, while working in the college bar and organising various social events. After taking her MPhil in Medieval History, she worked for several years in England and the US, before moving to the other Cambridge, in Massachusetts. She received her MA in the History of Science from Harvard University in 2003, and her PhD in 2007. She has completed several fellowships, including a Bourse Chateaubriand, during the course of which she lived in Paris, and a year-long residency at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is currently an assistant professor of Medieval History at Bryn Mawr College, an undergraduate college outside Philadelphia, and has recently been awarded a research grant by the National Science Foundation. ms historical legend, and cultural artefacts infor a few After I left Hughes, I bounced around for articles most of my work. I have published several grown had I . next do to t wha of sure not s, year platonist related to my current book project on neowith the somewhat exhausted with academia, and of ent philosophy and automata, the developm political more traditional institutional, religious, and ing early mechanical clocks, and tropes of mov Almost history that I had studied at Cambridge. r othe My statues in medieval French literature.

Science by chance, I learned about the History of about the ongoing research projects include articles it seemed, department at Harvard University, where, medieval to ce scien l introduction of advanced astra intellectual I could combine my interests in medieval cer’s England in the early twelfth century, Chau science, and cultural history with my interests in views rs’ write ieval med treatise on the astrolabe, medicine, technology, and magic. m, balsa of about history and literature, the history of Aurillac, ing and a second book project about Gerbert Over the past few years, I have been work ury. cent tual or a famously wicked pope of the tenth on a book about medieval automata—ac or le peop of form imaginary objects, often in the ieval In addition to my research, I also teach med moving. animals that were, or appeared to be, selfent, mom the history courses to undergraduates. For ad questions These objects allow me to consider myri courses, I teach the general medieval introductory rent about the uses and development of diffe crusades, the in ses as well as more specialised cour d and the technologies; ideas about the natural worl history medieval medicine, intellectual culture, the manuscripts, s, good ry luxu of nt eme mov the os; cosm my of magic, and the golden age of Islam. In ntine Empire, and knowledge across Europe, the Byza my leisure spare time, my research interests inform ideas about and the Dar al-Islam; western European watching pursuits, as I am often found reading or rtance of life, life-likeness, and death; and the impo medieval at science fiction and fantasy, or looking culture. robots, cyborgs, and androids in our own art and artefacts. the ding (inclu ce scien ieval med in General interest ation), occult sciences, like necromancy and divin

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Lancelot battles the copper knights guarding Doloreuse Garde. After defeating them, he finds the box that contains the enchantments over the castle. (Lancelot du Lac, French, c.1470)

Alexander the Great encounters two golden automata guarding the bridge to the Bois des Puceles. (Le Roman de Troie, France, c.1340)

May Ball As Hughes Hall is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year, the theme for the 2010 May Ball is A Journey Through 125 Years. The May Ball will take guests on a journey through time, starting from 1885. We hope you will be able to join us in celebrating 125 years of transformation and diversity.

Contact hughesmayball2010@googlemail.com for more information, and visit our website http://www.hughesmayball2010.com where you can buy tickets online.

News from Hughes: Editor Annemarie Young (annemarie.young@ntlworld.com) Design by Andy Wilson (andy@andywilson.biz) Contact us with your news, by post at: Hughes Hall, Cambridge CB1 2EW; or by email at development@hughes.cam.ac.uk Photographs courtesy of The University of Cambridge (view of Judge); Oxford University Library (Alexander the Great and automata: MS Bodley 264, fol. 70v); the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, (Lancelot and copper knights: MS Fr. 112, fol. 78); and contributors Printed in England

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