Webinars

Think Strategically: An Introduction to Game Theory with Ruohan Qin

Tuesday 27th January from 5-6pm (GMT)

Ruohan Qin, Lecturer and Director of Studies in  Economics , will deliver an introductory session on game theory — a compulsory part of the Economics Tripos at Cambridge and a core element of any undergraduate Economics Degree. 

The webinar will begin with an overview of the Economics Tripos at Cambridge, followed by an introduction to game theory and its profound influence on modern Economics. The session will cover fundamental concepts and classic strategic games, illustrating how Economists use game theory to analyse decision-making, competition, and cooperation. The session will conclude with an open Q&A, where participants are welcome to ask questions about applying to study Economics at Murray Edwards or about the subject more broadly.

We think you will be interested in this webinar if you are currently studying: Economics, Mathematics

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Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Workshop with Mr Kit Treadwell

Thursday 29^th January from 5-6pm (GMT)

This Discover and Discuss session is part of our DOME Languages Programme.

This interactive session aims to give current Year 12 students an insight into how languages fit into the study of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. This session will be discussion based and may include pre-reading that will be shared in advance. 

We think you will be interested in this webinar if you are currently studying: Classics  History and Modern Foreign Languages.

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Contract Law Workshop with Dr Christopher Hose

 Tuesday 3rd February from 5-6pm (GMT)

Dr Christopher Hose, College Lecturer in Law and Official Fellow at Murray Edwards College, will deliver a workshop that introduces the topic of Contract Law.

For those who sign up to this workshop, pre-reading will be shared in advance and attendees will be encouraged to engage in a discussion of different cases and consider different applications of Contract Law.

Attendance of this webinar will be capped at 100 attendees, and places will be confirmed on a first come, first serve basis. Dr Hose will deliver the webinar a second time, between 6:15 and 7:15pm on the same day if the workshop is over subscribed.

We think you will be interested in this webinar if you are currently studying: History, Politics, English, Sociology and Geography.

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Adolescence and anxiety: worrying about young people in nineteenth and twentieth century Britain with Dr Lucy Delap

Tuesday 10th February from 5-6pm (GMT)

Professor of Modern British and Gender History at the University of Cambridge, Director of Studies and Professorial Fellow at Murray Edwards College, Professor Lucy Delap, will deliver a sample history webinar that showcases what you could study as part of a History Degree at Cambridge and how the History Tripos works. 

Professor Delap has published widely on the history of feminism, gender, sexuality, labour and religion, including the prize-winning The Feminist Avant-Garde: Transatlantic Encounters of the early twentieth century (2007); Knowing Their Place: Domestic Service in Twentieth Century Britain (2011) and Feminisms: a global history (2020). 

We think you will be interested in this webinar if you are currently studying History, Politics, Religious Studies, Sociology, Psychology, Ancient History or Classics

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Revolutionary political thinkers from around the world with Dr Evaleila Pesaran

Tuesday 17th February from 5-6pm (GMT)

In this webinar, we will look at the political thought of Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), Frantz Fanon (1925-1961), Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), and Jalal Al-e Ahmad (1923-1969). Examining their critiques of colonial modernity and colonial violence alongside their consideration of the role of the intellectual and the importance of a shared sense of humanity, we will uncover the transnational connections that interlink these diverse thinkers.

If you are interested in studying Human, Social and Political Sciences and History and Politics, then we would encourage you to attend.

We think you will be interested in this webinar if you are currently studying: Politics, Geography, Sociology, Anthropology and Psychology.

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Gods, citizens and others: Religion and the Peloponnesian War with Dr Hannah Willey

Tuesday 24th February from 5-6pm (GMT)

The end of the fifth-century BCE found the Greek city-states engaged in a war unprecedented in its scale and effect. In this talk, we’ll explore the impact this war had on the ways that the Greeks engaged with and thought about their gods, as well as the new opportunities that the war provided for the disenfranchised to voice their concerns with the policies of the state.

This webinar will be delivered by Associate Professor of Classics, Dr Hannah Willey: a specialist on the topics of Greek religion and society; Greek law; historiography; and non-citizens in the ancient world. 

We think you will be interested in this webinar if you are currently studying: Classics, History, Latin or Ancient Greek

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Reading the bande dessinée: comics in French and Francophone cultures Professor Charles Forsdick

Tuesday 3rd March 5-6pm (GMT)

Murray Edwards College’s Professorial Fellow, Professor Charles Forsdick, will deliver a webinar on French graphic novels and graphic adaptations and how this quintessentially French phenomenon manifests itself across the French-speaking world.

Professor Forsdick’s research interests are in Francophone postcolonial studies - particularly postcolonial literature; French colonial history (including Haiti); the transatlantic traffic in enslaved Africans; travel writing and exoticism; translation studies; world literature and graphic fiction.

We think you will be interested in this webinar if you are currently studying: French and other Modern Foreign Languages 

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Close Reading with Dr Jenny Bavidge

Thursday 5th March from 5-6pm (GMT)

Official Fellow and Director of Studies, Dr Jenny Bavidge, will deliver this webinar on the skill of close reading and how to effectively employ it when analysing a text. 

Dr Bavidge's particular research interests lie in contemporary fiction, ecocriticism, children's literature, and thinking about how literature represents urban life.

We think you will be interested in this webinar if you are currently studying: English

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Peat and palaeoecology: using sedimentary archives to understand past climates, environments and people with Dr Helen Essell

Thursday 12th March from 5-6pm (GMT)

To understand modern ecological change, we must study the past. Palaeoecology traces how ecosystems have  changed over thousands of years and responded to climatic change and human impacts, providing the necessary context for sustainable conservation. This webinar explores the discipline of palaeoecology, focusing on how peatlands serve as high-resolution archives of past environments. We will explore how fossil proxies, such as pollen, that are preserved in sedimentary records are used to reconstruct millennial-scale relationships between climate, environmental change and human activity, and discuss the importance of this for nature conservation.

Dr Essell is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at in the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, where she uses palaeoenvironmental records (i.e., pollen, NPPs and charcoal) to understand environmental and land-use histories at wetland sites in the UK, Channel Islands, Canada, Ghana and Australia; she works with conservation agencies and indigenous groups in these regions, using palaeoenvironmental records to guide their restoration activities.

We think you will be interested in this webinar if you are currently studying: Geography, Archaeology, Politics, Law or Classics.

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Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic with Dr Ben Guy

Thursday 30th April from 5-6pm (GMT)

Lecturer and Assistant Professor in Celtic, Dr Ben Guy, will deliver a webinar that will introduce students to the subject of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic.

We think you will be interested in this webinar if you are currently studying: Classics, Ancient History, History and English

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