Jason James, Director General of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation will talk about Trinity alumnus Keiichi Kurosawa (黒澤敬一), early Western music pioneer
Video event (zoom, link will be sent to all registered in advance)
17:00 Tokyo time, Thursday 18 July 2024 start
9:00am UK time, Thursday 18 July 2024
17:15 – 18:00 (Tokyo time) James Jason: “Keiichi Kurosawa (黒澤敬一, Trinity), Japan’s early Western music pioneer” (zoom)
9:15am – 10:00am (UK time)
18:00 – (Tokyo time) discussions
10:00am – (UK time)
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Keiichi Kurosawa (黒澤敬一, Trinity 1925)
Eldest son of a wealthy Japanese industrialist, Keiichi Kurosawa (黒澤敬一) (Trinity 1925) took his Bachelor’s degree in Moral Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge, in the late 1920s. He was deeply involved in the music scene at Trinity during his time there, and through something of an accident came to discover the joys of madrigal singing. On his return to Japan he founded a madrigal group (Tokyo Madrigal Singers, 東京マドリガル会) and a string orchestra, and he and his circle played a key role in introducing Western ‘early music’ to Japan.
Keiichi Kurosawa matriculated at Trinity in October 1925, and graduated with a BA degree in June 1928.
東京マドリガル会（黒澤敬一主宰）1950年録音SPレコード The Tokyo Madrigal Singers 1950 Directed by Keiichi（Kei）Kurosawa
Speaker: Jason James
Jason James OBE is Director General of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation.
Having been fascinated by Japan on a choir tour at the age of 13, he chose to read Japanese Studies at King’s College, Cambridge, where he was a double scholar (academic and choral), graduating with a “starred first” (only the third time this accolade had ever been awarded by Cambridge’s Japanese Department) in 1987. Subsequently he worked in the financial industry, mostly specialising in Japanese equities, becoming Head of Research in the Tokyo office of HSBC Securities, and eventually Head of Global Equity Strategy at HSBC in London. From 2007-2011 Jason was Director of the British Council in Japan, during which time he also served as Chair of the European Union National Institutes of Culture Japan cluster, a Board Member of the Japan-British Society, and a Board Member of United World Colleges Japan. In London, in addition to his day job he was a Trustee of the Japan Society for six years, and a member of the Japan Season of Culture Action Committee. Jason is currently a member of the UK-Japan 21st Century Group and a Governor of King’s College School, Cambridge.
Jason’s interest in Japan is broad, covering the economy, financial markets and tax, as well as Japanese literature, art and history, and the relationship between the UK and Japan. Publications range from ‘The Political Economy of Japanese Financial Markets’ (co-author, Macmillan 1999), to ‘Edmund Blunden and Japan’ (Asiatic Society, 2010). Jason received an OBE for services to UK/Japan relations in The King’s Birthday Honours 2023.
Jason James OBE is Director General of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation.
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Professor Sarah Teichmann FRS (Trinity 1993), Head of Cellular Genetics, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge
Professor Sarah Teichmann (Trinity 1993), Head of Cellular Genetics at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, Director of Research at the Cavendish Lab, and alumna of Trinity, has kindly agreed to give us a video talk and discussion on her work.
Professor Sarah Teichmann’s principles: Be Bold. Be Brilliant. Be Kind.
17:00 Tokyo time, Tuesday 3 Oct 2023 start
9:00am UK time, Tuesday 3 Oct 2023
17:15 – 18:00 (Tokyo time) Professor Sarah Teichmann “Mapping the human body: one cell at a time” (zoom)
9:15am – 10:00am (UK time)
18:00 – (Tokyo time) discussions
10:00am – (UK time)
Prior registration required until Monday 2 October 2023. For registration you can use the form below.
Professor Sarah Teichmann FRS
Sarah heads Cellular Genetics / Teichmann Lab at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, is Director of Research at the Cavendish Lab in Cambridge, and visiting research group leader at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), and Senior Research Fellow at Churchill College Cambridge.
From 2005 to 2015, Sarah was Teaching Fellow and Director of Studies at Trinity.
In 2020, Sarah was elected Fellow of the Royal Society.
Sarah completed her Natural Sciences Tripos at Trinity with a first class BA in 1996, followed by her PhD at the LMB (Laboratory of Molecular Biology).
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Tobias Wolff (Trinity 1995) has kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion on his work as Intendant (director) of the Opera House Leipzig.
16:00 Tokyo time, Tuesday 11 July 2023 start
9:00am Germany time
8:00am UK time
16:15 – 17:00 (Tokyo time) Tobias Wolff, Intendant, Opera House Leipzig (zoom)
9:15 – 10:00am Germany time
8:15 – 9:00am UK time
17:00 – 17:30 (Tokyo time) discussions
10:00-10:30am Germany time
900 – 9:30am UK time
Intendant Tobias Wolff
Tobias Wolff (Trinity 1995) studied for his MA in Music at Trinity College, Cambridge University, 1995-1998.
Tobias Wolff studied music at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1995 to 1998, and viola at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen and the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. He gained initial professional job experience at the International Beethoven Festival in Bonn and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. Since 2002 Tobias Wolff has been living in Leipzig, where he initially worked as a freelance musician, concert promoter and music journalist, e.g. for the Leipziger Volkszeitung and MDR Kultur. In 2006, Tobias Wolff joined the Theater Altenburg-Gera as Chief Dramaturg and Marketing Manager. For the 2010/11 season, he took over the management of the five-branch theatre as Administrative Director and successful crisis manager. He concurrently completed an MBA at HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management in 2011, and in the same year was appointed Managing Director of the Göttingen International Handel Festival, one of the world’s longest-standing festivals for baroque music. The cultural manager re-positioned the festival internationally, introduced unconventional formats, and strategically promoted young talent and music education – receiving e.g. no less than two Helpmann Awards, the Music Education Award of the State of Lower Saxony, and EU funding for the eeemerging scholarship programme, which he co-initiated. In the Covid year 2020, Tobias Wolff was engaged in cultural politics as co-founder and spokesman of the Forum Musik Festival, an alliance of over 100 festival organisations throughout Germany.
On August 1, 2022, Tobias Wolff took over the post of the artistic director of Leipzig Opera House. He opened his first season with »Future: Now!«, an open-air spectacle in cooperation with Theater Titanick with the participation of over 220 children and students from Leipzig. Together with his management team, he initiated a consistent course of sustainability that has been awarded, among other things, funding from the Fonds Zero of the Federal Cultural Foundation, the Next Stage Grant of the Fedora network and the eku – Zukunftspreis 2023 of the Free State of Saxony. Oper Leipzig is the pilot institution of a climate calculator specially developed for the cultural sector, an innovation project of the cities of Leipzig and Dresden. Together with the National Opera of Iceland, Oper Leipzig is investigating the life cycle of costumes in the Sustainable Costumes project and will present its first climate-neutral opera production in December 2023 with Mary Queen of Scots. Oper Leipzig is currently striving for a DIN 20121 certification for its entire operations.
Leipzig Opera is the third oldest civil music theatre in Europe, founded in 1693, following the Teatro San Cassiano in Venice and the Oper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg.
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Sir Laurie Bristow (Trinity 1983) regularly writes on Russia and international security issues.
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Sir Laurie Bristow (Trinity 1983) has kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion on 22 June 2023. Sir Laurie today is President of Hughes Hall following a very distinguished and challenging career in Her Majesty’s Foreign Service, including posts as HM Ambassador to Russia, Afghanistan and Azerbaijan.
17:00 Tokyo time, Thursday 22 June 2023 start
9:00am UK time, Thursday 22 June 2023
17:15 – 18:00 (Tokyo time) Sir Laurie Bristow (zoom)
9:15am – 10:00am (UK time)
18:00 – (Tokyo time) discussions
10:00am – (UK time)
Sir Laurie Bristow
Sir Laurie Bristow, appointed President of Hughes Hall, Cambridge in 2022, was a British diplomat for 32 years. He was Ambassador to Afghanistan during the fall of the Republic to the Taliban in 2021, the UK’s Ambassador to Russia from 2016 to 2020, and Deputy Ambassador to Russia from 2007 to 2010. He was Ambassador to Azerbaijan from 2004 to 2007. Sir Laurie regularly writes and comments on Russia and national and international security issues. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute, and a Senior Associate Fellow of the European Leadership Network.
Sir Laurie read English, and completed a PhD on Ezra Pound, the American poet, at Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Professor Eilís Ferran ‘Looking Outwards from Cambridge’
Professor Eilís Ferran talks about her experiences as Provost of the Gates-Cambridge Trust and University pro-vice chancellor for international relations, and her research on international capital market competitiveness.
Professor Eilís Ferran FBA PhD, Professor of Company & Securities Law at the University of Cambridge, Professorial Fellow of St Catharine’s College and the Provost of the Gates-Cambridge Trust.
Professor Eilís Ferran has very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom event:
16:00 Tokyo time, Wednesday 10 May 2023 start
8:00am UK time, Wednesday 10 May 2023
16:15 – 17:00 (Tokyo time) Professor Eilis Ferran “Looking Outwards from Cambridge” (zoom)
8:15am – 9:00am (UK time)
17:00 – (Tokyo time) discussions
9:00am – (UK time)
Professor Eilís Ferran
Professor Eilís Ferran, FBA PhD is Professor of Company & Securities Law at the University of Cambridge, and a Professorial Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. She is also the Provost of the Gates-Cambridge Trust, which provides scholarships for postgraduate study at Cambridge funded by a major donation from the Gates Foundation.
Between 2015 and 2021 she was the University’s Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Institutional and International Relations. As Pro-Vice-Chancellor she had strategic responsibility for Cambridge University’s staff policies and significant international academic partnerships. She led the modernisation of career paths, co-ordinated the University’s response to covid as an employer, and was instrumental in the development of the University’s Strategic Partnerships Office. Between 2012 and 2015 she served as Chair of the University’s Law Faculty.
In her research, Eilís has written extensively on UK, EU and international financial regulation, company law and corporate finance law. Her publications include Principles of Corporate Finance Law (OUP, 2023, co-authored, forthcoming), Brexit and Financial Services (Hart Publishing, 2017 co-authored), The Oxford Handbook of Financial Regulation (OUP, 2015, co-edited) and The Regulatory Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis (CUP 2012, co-authored). She has advised UK Parliamentary committees and served as an academic member of the Stakeholder Group of the European Banking Authority.
Eilís is a Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple. She is an independent non-executive director of Euroclear Holding SA/NV and Euroclear SA/NV, and is the Chair of their Nomination and Governance Committees. She is also a non-executive director of the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, Cambridge.
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Kiyotaka Akasaka (Trinity 1972) is distinguished Japanese career diplomat, and has worked many years in leadership positions at the UN, the OECD and other international organizations, and the Japanese Foreign Ministry. Kiyotaka Akasaka has kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion on the topic “Has the UN been doing a good job for the war in Ukraine and other global challenges?”. Kyotaka may also include climate changes, since in December 1997, he was one of the top negotiators at the Kyoto Conference on Climate Change.
6pm Tokyo time, Thursday 13 April 2023 start
10:00am London Time, Thursday 13 April 2023
6:15pm -7:00pm Kiyotaka Akasaka “Has the UN been doing a good job for the war in Ukraine and other global challenges?”
7:00pm – discussions
Kiyotaka Akasaka 赤阪清隆 (Trinity 1972)
Mr. Kiyotaka Akasaka (Trinity 1972) is President of the Nippon Communications Foundation (Nippon.com). He held the position of United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information for five years from 2007 to 2012. He was in charge of the UN Department of Public Information. In December 1997, Kiyotaka was one of the top negotiators at the Kyoto Conference on Climate Change.
Before joining the UN, Mr. Akasaka held the position of Deputy Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), in charge of development, environment, and sustainable development. Mr. Akasaka was also Japan’s Ambassador to the UN in 2000 and 2001.
After retiring from the UN in 2012, he held the position of the President of the Foreign Press Center of Japan, a non-profit foundation for assistance to foreign journalists in Japan till 2020. He became President of the Nippon Communications Foundation in 2022.
He is the author of several books relating to the UN and other global affairs.
He obtained his Bachelor of Arts in law from Kyoto University in 1971. 1972 he matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a Bachelor and a Master of Arts in economics.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 9 February 2007 announced the appointment of Kiyotaka Akasaka of Japan as Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information (Kiyotaka Akasaka’s profile on the UNIC website on the occasion of his appointment):
The GATT and the Uruguay Round Negotiations (in Japanese)
The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (in English)
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Allegra Spender is the independent Member for Wentworth (Australia). She is a local resident who loves the environment our community is lucky enough to share. Her passion to make sure her kids and future generations continue to enjoy that beauty motivated her to run for parliament on a platform of climate action, political integrity, gender equality and decency. She was elected as part of a wave of so called “Teal” independents who swept into the crossbench in May 2022.
Allegra went to Ascham School Edgecliff, has an Economics degree from Cambridge University and Trinity College, an MSc from the University of London, and has completed business courses at Harvard and Dartmouth College. Before parliament Allegra worked as a business analyst at McKinsey, a policy analyst with UK Treasury and later Managing Director at Carla Zampatti Pty Ltd, her family’s fashion label. Allegra was also the chair of the Sydney Renewable Power Company, and CEO of the Australian Business and Community Network, which addresses educational disadvantage by partnering low socio-economic schools with leading Australian businesses.
As an MP she has taken a leading role with the crossbench in passing a legislated target for reducing Australia’s CO2 emissions, the establishment of the National Anti-Corruption Commission and critical examination of the government’s new Industrial Relations legislation.
She is on the Senate Standing Committee on Economics, The Joint Standing Committee on Migration, and is co-chair of the Parliamentary Friends of Entrepreneurs, Small and Medium Business, Uluru Statement from the Heart and International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA).
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Daan Frenkel, Honorary Fellow at Trinity, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge University
Professor Daan Frenkel, Honorary Fellow at Trinity, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge University, has very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion on his work using computer simulations for a very wide range of problems in chemistry:
5pm Friday 3 March 2023 start
5pm Tokyo time, 8am UK time, 0:00midnight SF time
5:15pm -6:15pm Professor Daan Frenkel
6:15pm – discussions
Professor Daan Frenkel
Daan Frenkel develops computer simulations which he applies to understand and solve a very wide range of problems in chemistry, materials science and biology.
Daan was Head of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, where was Professor since 2007, now Emeritus Professor. Daan is Honorary Fellow at Trinity.
Order, disorder and entropy (Lecture – 01) by Daan Frenkel
From self-assembly to cell recognition (Lecture – 02) by Daan Frenkel
Entropy production and phoretic transport (Lecture 3) by Daan Frenkel
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Oliver Smith, Architect, Founding Director of 5th Studio
Oliver Smith, Architect and Founding Director of 5th Studio has kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion on renovating some of Trinity’s historic buildings:
Friday 24 Feb 2023, 7:00pm Tokyo time, start
Friday 24 Feb 2023, 5:00am New York
Friday 24 Feb 2023, 10:00am Cambridge/UK time
7:15pm -8:15pm Oliver Smith
9:15am – discussions
Retrofitting Trinity
This presentation will describe the projects of 5th Studio to retrofit two buildings within the central Trinity College site and explore the different issues involved in the low-carbon retrofit of both historic buildings – and those of the later C20th and the balancing the concerns of character, heritage, and sustainability.
I’ll discuss why this is necessary, how it can be delivered, and the lessons that we have learned and that can be applied to other projects.
Using the completed projects for the retrofit of the Wolfson Building, but more particularly of the Grade 1 Listed buildings at New Court, I will describe the principal risks to the project– arising from the proposed fabric improvements to the building – and how these were addressed:
Risk to character and heritage significance
Risk to building fabric
Risk from planning and listed buildings process
I’ll finish with a description of the project outcomes, which range from the delivery of successful projects, to the application of the developed methodology to other projects and to local and central government policy formulation – and will close by setting out some of the lessons learned and how these have allowed us to streamline the process, timescale, and costs for other projects.
5th Studio’s retrofitting of New Court, Trinity College, wins Editor’s Award of Architecture Today Awards 2022
Oliver Smith is an architect and founding director of 5th Studio, a 25-strong practice with studios in Cambridge, London and Oxford. For many years Oliver combined practice with studio teaching at the University of Cambridge – focussing on attitudes to materiality and construction and particularly on research and the development of practice of sustainable construction with particular emphasis on the retrofit of existing buildings.
This research has informed the practice’s work on a range of other heritage retrofit projects, and has underpinned the strategies for estate decarbonisation that the practice are developing for a number of academic and commercial estates – combining demand reduction through retrofit of historic built fabric with supply of onsite renewable energy.
Taken together with new-build low-carbon accommodation and workplace projects that include the innovative use of MMC and renewable heat sources, this work has establishing the practice’s innovative approach to low-carbon buildings, estates, and cities and Oliver’s status as an AJ Climate Champion.
Oliver is an adviser on sustainable retrofit to the Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Climate Change Committee. He is convener of the NHS Retrofit Advisory Panel. Oliver is a founder member of the Cambridgeshire Quality Panel, advising on the sustainable growth of the city-region – including on the University developments at Eddington and the West Cambridge Site. He is a member of The Edge, AECB and UKGBC.
5th Studio are a unique spatial design agency, working across the fields of architecture, urban design, infrastructure and landscape. We work with our clients and commissioners to create beauty and enduring value from complex situations, for new and existing buildings, through to larger-scale urban strategies.
Our work is anchored by the experience of working and thinking across this spectrum of scales, disciplines and projects: we are skilled at thinking strategically, whilst also maintaining a meticulous attention to detail. With studios in London and Cambridge we are able to maintain a close connection to the people and environments with which we work.
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Iain Drayton, Partner and Managing Director at Goldman Sachs
Iain Drayton, alumnus of Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, has very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion on his work in investment banking:
10pm (Tokyo time) Wednesday 15 February 2023 start
10pm Tokyo time, 9pm Hong Kong time, 1pm London/UK time, 8am NY time, 5am SF time
10:15pm – 11:15pm Iain Drayton
11:15pm – discussions
Iain Drayton
Iain is head of the Investment Banking Division (IBD) in Asia Ex-Japan (AEJ) at Goldman Sachs. He is member of the Partnership Committee, Firmwide Client and Business Standards Committee, IBD Executive Committee, Asia Pacific Management Committee, IBD Council for Advancement of Racial Equity, EMEA and Asia Pacific Inclusion and Diversity committees and Investment Banking Services (IBS) Leadership Group. Iain serves on the Board of Advisors for Launch with GS, Goldman Sachs’ commitment to investment in companies and investments managers with diverse leadership, and he is also a sponsor of the Asia Pacific Black and Hispanic/Latinx Network. Previously, he was head of the Financial and Strategic Investors Group in Asia Pacific and head of IBS in AEJ. Iain joined Goldman Sachs in Tokyo as a managing director in 2006, relocated to Hong Kong in 2010 and was named partner in 2014.
Prior to joining the firm, Iain worked in London and Tokyo for SBC Warburg from 1995 to 2000 and Nikko Citigroup from 2000 to 2006.
Iain serves on the board of the China Development Foundation, a nonprofit focused on reducing the opportunity gap between rural and urban schools in China. He is a founding member of the American Ballet Theater Global Council, and is a co-founder of RIAC UK, a nonprofit focused on driving next generation board membership in the UK arts sector.
Iain earned a diploma in Mandarin and Economics from the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing in 1991 and an MA, first class honors with distinction, in Japanese Studies from Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, in 1995.
Iain Drayton – Why I’m backing Black access campaign Get in Cambridge
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Peter Littlewood: The transition to renewable energy
Peter Littlewood, Chair of Physics, University Chicago, and Exec Chairman of the Faraday Institution, and former Fellow of Trinity College
Professor Peter Littlewood, Chair of Physics, University of Chicago, and executive founding chairman of the Faraday Institution (“powering Britain’s battery revolution”), and former Trinity Fellow, and former Head of the Cavendish Laboratory, has very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion on “the transition to renewable energy”:
Thursday 2 Feb 2023, 8:00am Tokyo time, start
Wed 1 Feb 2023, 5:00pm Chicago time
Wed 1 Feb 2023, 11:00pm Cambridge/UK time
8:15am -9:15am Professor Peter Littlewood on “the transition to renewable energy”
9:15am – discussions
Professor Peter B Littlewood
Peter B Littlewood is Professor and Chair of Physics at the University of Chicago, who was previously Director of Argonne National Laboratory, and before that a Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge and Head of the Cavendish Laboratory. He began his career with almost 20 years at Bell Laboratories, ultimately serving for five years as head of Theoretical Physics Research. He is the founding executive chairman of the Faraday Institution.
His research interests include superconductivity and superfluids, strongly correlated electronic materials, collective dynamics of glasses, density waves in solids, neuroscience, and applications of materials for energy and sustainability. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of London, the Institute of Physics, the American Physical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and TWAS (The World Academy of Sciences). He serves on advisory boards of research and education institutions and other scientific organizations worldwide. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Natural Sciences (Physics) and a Doctorate in Physics, both from the University of Cambridge.
Senior Scholar, Trinity College Cambridge, 1974–76
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Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, Trinity Fellow and Professor of Cancer Prevention at the University of Cambridge
On Thursday 19 January 2023 at 6:00pm (Tokyo time), 9:00am (London/Cambridge time) Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, Trinity Fellow and Director of Medical Studies, Professor of Cancer Prevention at the University of Cambridge, and Director of the CRUK Cambridge Centre Early Detection Institute, has very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion of her work.
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Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald OBE FMedSci,
Founder & Director of the new Early Cancer Institute at Cambridge
Fellow and Director of Medical Studies at Trinity
Professor of Cancer Prevention and Program Leader at the MRC Cancer Unit at the University of Cambridge
Director of the CRUK Cambridge Centre Early Detection Institute
Honorary Consultant in Gastroenterology at Addenbrooke’s Hospital Cambridge
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Professor Jason Chin is Fellow of Trinity, and has just been elected Fellow of the Royal Society for his work on genetic code reprogramming, CSO & Founder of constructive.bio
On Friday 9 December 2022 at 5:00pm (Tokyo time), 8:00am (London/Cambridge time), 0:00midnight (SF time) Professor Jason Chin, joint Head of Division of the LMB’s Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (PNAC) Division at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Fellow of Trinity, has very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion on his work. Jason Chin has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society in May 2022.
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5:15pm – 6:15pm Professor Jason Chin
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Head, Centre for Chemical and Synthetic Biology, and Joint Head, Division of Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology; Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge; Associate Faculty in Synthetic Genomics, Wellcome Sanger Institute and Fellow in Natural Sciences, Trinity College, Cambridge
CSO & Founder of the company constructive.bio
Professor Jason Chin at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Jason Chin: A virus-resistant organism — and what it could mean for the future (TED talk)
Jason Chin: Reprogramming the genetic code
A virus-resistant organism — and what it could mean for the future (TED talk)
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Ulyana Gumeniuk, 2009-2011 Fellow in Creative Arts at Trinity College
On Thursday 24 November 2022 at 7:00pm (Tokyo time), 10:00am (London/Cambridge time) Ulyana Gumeniuk has very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom event.
Ulyana Gumeniuk was Fellow in Creative Arts at Trinity College 2009-2011, and among many other works has created portraits of John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh (2014), Katherine Parr (2013), Martin Rees, Lord of Ludlow, Master of Trinity (2010), and several other Fellows of Trinity. Among many other important works, 2008 Ulyana was Artist in Residence at the Zaporizhia Steel Factory, Zaporizhia, Ukraine.
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Ulyana Gumeniuk on art (photo copyright Iain Parker)
Ulyana Tumeniuk
Ulyana Gumeniuk was Fellow in Creative Arts at Trinity 2009-2011.
Profile
Ulyana Gumeniuk is a British-Ukrainian visual artist working primarily in oil. Born and raised in a family of a dissident artist in USSR, Ulyana pursues interest in social structures, their entropy and impact on individuals. She draws on science and old master paintings for a unique blend of techniques and compositions. Ulyana is a winner of a number of awards and exhibits internationally.
Amongst her awards are, post of Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College Cambridge 2009-2011, Zaporizhstall Steel Mill resident artist, Ukraine, BP Travel award at The National Portrait Gallery, London, winner of Welsh Portrait Award. She presented talks on painting techniques of old masters at The National Gallery, London 2008-2020 and at The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge.
She is a member of the Artist Union of Ukraine and an Advisory Member of Cavendish Arts Science Programme in Cambridge since 2016.
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Zoom discussion on the Ukraine crisis with Trinity College Cambridge Fellows Dominic Lieven and Heonik Kwon
On Thursday 20 October 2022 at 6:00pm (Tokyo time), 10:00am (London/Cambridge time) Professor Dominic Lieven and Professor Heonik Kwon have kindly agreed to hold a zoom discussion on the Ukraine crisis with us.
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6:15pm -7:15pm presentations by Professor Dominic Lieven and by Professor Heonik Kwon on the Ukraine crisis
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Dominic Lieven is Honorary Fellow and Emeritus Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, Fellow of the British Academy, and Honorary Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Dominic Lieven was Distinguished Professor in International History at the London School of Economics LSE, 1978-2011.
Heonik Kwon has been with Trinity College since 2011 in the capacity of Senior Research Fellow in Social Anthropology. Author of prize-winning books on the historical memories of the Vietnam War, Asia’s Cold War, and the Korean War, he is currently working on the history of cultural internationalism in the twentieth century and beyond.
Professor Heonik Kwon has just recently been elected Fellow of the British Academy.
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On Thursday 8 September 2022 at 4pm (Tokyo time), 8:00am (London/Cambridge time) Michael Waldron (Trinity, Music 2006, BMus 2009), has kindly agreed for a zoom event with us on music.
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4:15pm – 5:15pm Michael Waldron on Music
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Michael Waldron, choral conductor (Trinity, Music 2006, BMus 2009)
Michael Waldron is the leading choral conductor, Founder and Artistic Director of London Choral Sinfonia.
Michael has worked with many leading orchestras, Philharmonia Orchestra, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Britten Sinfonia, Academy of Ancient Music and many more. He is Musical Director (or similar leadership positions) at: Islington Choral Society, London Lyric Opera, Epworth Choir, Guildford Choral Society and University of West London Chamber Choir.
Michael was Organ Scholar at Trinity, matriculated in 2006 (BMus in 2009) and graduated in 2010.
Handel: Dixit Dominus – Michael Waldron & The London Choral Sinfonia
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On Friday 12 August 2022 at 6pm (Tokyo time), 10:00am (London/Cambridge time) John Ramsden (Trinity 1969), has kindly agreed for a zoom event with us, to discuss his most recent book “The Poets’ Guide to Economics”.
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6:15pm – 7:15pm John Ramsden “The Poets’ Guide to Economics”
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John Ramsden on his newest book: “My book is an introduction to poets who wrote seriously about ‘political economy’ (as it used to be called). They range in time from Defoe (1690s) to Pound (1940s). They left us works like ‘Vulgar Errors Concerning Taxation’, ‘The ABC of Economics’ or ‘Economics for Helen’. Why did they write them and what did they say? It’s not a book with some simple ‘message’ about today’s problems. I try to let the poets speak for themselves; and to keep it all readable and entertaining. But I’ll be glad to explain what I see as some ‘lessons’ for our own times; and very interested in any subsequent discussion among your members”
“The Poets’ Guide to Economics” by John Ramsden has been published by Pallas Athene Publishers on 16 June 2022:
After reading history & economics at Cambridge and two years in a merchant bank, John Ramsden joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1975. He was posted in Dakar and Vienna, and then spent two years in Hanoi (chronicled in Hanoi After the War, Skira 2017). He spent the rest of his career in Europe, including a secondment to the Treasury and posts in Berlin (1990-93), the UN in Geneva and Croatia (as Ambassador from 2004-2008). He has also written The Box in the Attic, based on letters from relatives who took part in some of the great events of the last century.
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Ms Mikwi Cho, PhD candidate at Trinity College and Cambridge University
On Thursday 30 June 2022 at 6:00pm (Tokyo time), 10:00am (London/Cambridge time) Ms Mikwi Cho (Trinity 2017), currently PhD candidate at Trinity College and Cambridge University (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies), has very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion on the migration of Koreans to Japan – the subject of her PhD research work, and also to give us a glimpse into her direct personal experience in this field.
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6:15pm – 7:15pm Ms Mikwi Cho
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Migration of Koreans to the Japanese metropole and living legacy of Japanese colonialism
Summary:
This talk will cover the migration of Korean people to imperial Japan during Korea’s colonial period (1910-1945) and the social, economic, and political situation of resident Koreans in postwar Japan. In the same way that Japanese people began to settle in Korea from the late 19th century, Korean people began to cross the Korea Strait to imperial Japan for a variety of reasons during the colonial period. When Korea was liberated from the Japanese empire in 1945, there were two million Koreans, primarily in the working class, residing in Japan. Among them, more than 600,000 Koreans permanently remained in Japan and came to be known as zainichi Koreans. While they were deemed ‘legal aliens’ and lost Japanese nationality upon the signing of the Treaty of San Francisco in 1951, first-generation zainichi Koreans also perceived Korea as their homeland and saw Japan as a temporary country of residence. As they struggled to be included in the ‘homogenous‘ country, they chiefly entered the non-manufacturing and service industry as self-employed. Today, the Korean markets in Ueno of Tokyo and Ikuno of Osaka, pachinko parlors, and yakiniku (grilled meat) restaurants are particularly symbolic of zainichi-owned businesses. Moreover, as people on the peninsula were ideologically split due to the division of Korea between the North’s communist system and the South’s capitalist system, so were zainichi Koreans in Japan. This led to the establishment of pro-North and pro-South organizations, where each founded schools for children to learn the language, history, as well as political ideology of their ‘imaginary homeland.’ In addition to my autobiography, this talk will end with suggestions for peacebuilding between the younger generation of zainichi Koreans and the Japanese mainstream population.
Mikwi Cho (Trinity 2017)
Mikwi Cho is a PhD candidate who examines the migration of Korean people to Japan from 1910-1945. To depart from the overemphasis on Koreans in the labouring class and women who served the Japanese Imperial Army during the colonial period, her study casts a spotlight on overseas students, Christian adherents, and women as a minority within a minority in imperial Japan. In 2019, she published her first article in European Journal of Korean Studies. She will soon publish another work on the migration of Korean overseas students to imperial Japan in an edited volume titled, Competing Imperialism in Northeast Asia: New perspectives, 1894-1953, by Routledge. Upon graduation, she will go to Earlham College as an Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies.
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Gavin Gordon, partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and the Private Equity Practice Group of Willkie Farr & Gallagher (UK) LLP
On Thursday 23 June 2022 at 17:00 (Tokyo time), at 9am (Cambridge/London, UK time) Trinity alumnus Gavin Gordon (Trinity 1993), partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and the Private Equity Practice Group of Willkie Farr & Gallagher (UK) LLP has kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion.
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Thursday 23 June 2022 at 17:00 (Tokyo time), at 9am (London/Cambridge time) – start
17:15 – 18:00 (UK: 9:15-10am) Gavin Gordon: “Private Equity – the continued move to private capital”
18:00 – 19:00 (UK: 10-11am) discussions
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Gavin Gordon (Trinity 1993) is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and the Private Equity Practice Group of the law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher (UK) LLP. He focuses his practice on leveraged buy-outs, mergers and acquisitions, and infrastructure transactions. Gavin has advised private equity funds and corporate clients on cross-border mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance transactions.
Gavin is rated among the leading private equity practitioners by Chambers UK (2022), The Legal 500 (2022), IFLR1000 (2022), Best Lawyers (2022) and Super Lawyers. Chambers has described him as “excellent” and “very commercial” highlighting that “he is praised by sources for his depth of knowledge in the private equity space” and “commercial, responsive and extremely knowledgeable”.
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Dr Emily Shuckburgh (Trinity 1994), Director of Cambridge Zero
On Friday 17 June 2022 at 5:00pm (Tokyo time), 9:00am (London/Cambridge time) Dr Emily Shuckburgh, Director of Cambridge Zero and alumni of Trinity, has very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion about Cambridge Zero and working towards a zero-carbon emission world.
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5:15pm – 6:15pm Dr Emily Shuckburgh
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Cambridge Zero: Vice-Chancellor Professor Stephen J Toope in conversation with Dr Emily Shuckburgh
Cambridge Zero
Dr Emily Shuckburgh (Trinity 1994), Director of Cambridge Zero
Dr Emily Shuckburgh (Trinity 1994) is the Director of Cambridge Zero, Cambridge University’s program towards zero carbon emission. She is Reader in Environmental Data Science in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, previously she worked in the British Antarctic Survey, where she was leader of a national programme on polar climate change. She graduated from the Part III Mathematics Tripos as student of Trinity, followed by a PhD in atmospheric dynamics at Trinity and at DAMTP (Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University), and was a Senior Rouse Ball Scholar at Trinity as well.
Dr Emily Shuckburgh – Data Anaytics for Climate Decision Making – CSaP Lecture
How Can We Create a Resilient, Sustainable Future? – Dr Emily Shuckburgh, Cambridge Zero
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Professor Louise Merrett, Vice-Master of Trinity, Professor of International and Commercial Law, and Barrister at Fountain Court
On Thursday 9 June 2022 at 5:00pm (Tokyo time), 9:00am (London/Cambridge time), Professor Louise Merrett, Vice-Master of Trinity, Professor of International and Commercial Law at Cambridge University and practicing Barrister at Fountain Court, has very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion about her work in Law and her thoughts on her work as new Vice-Master of Trinity.
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5:15pm – 6:15pm Professor Louise Merrett
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Professor Louise Merrett, Vice-Master, Trinity College
Professor Louise Merrett is Professor of International Commerical Law at Cambridge University, and in parallel practices law as Barrister at Fountain Court. Professor Louise Merrett was recently elected as Vice-Master of Trinity.
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Cambridge University, Faculty of Law, and list of publication
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Jeremy Gunawardena (Trinity 1977), Harvard Medical School – “Learning and cognition in single biological cells” (2 June 2022)
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On Thursday 2 June 2022 at 9pm (Tokyo time), 1pm (London/Cambridge/UK time), 8am (EDT/US East Coast/Boston MA), 5am (US West Coast) Jeremy Gunawardena, Associate Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School, and former Trinity Research Fellow, has very kindly agreed to join us for a video presentation and discussions on “Learning and cognition in single biological cells”.
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The meeting will be on ZOOM on Thursday 2 June 2022 as follows (we will have no in-person meeting this time):
9pm (Tokyo time)- event starts (1pm (London/Cambridge/UK time), 8am (EDT/US East Coast/Boston MA), 5am US West Coast)
9:15pm – 10:15pm Jeremy Gunawardena – “Learning and cognition in single biological cells”
10:15pm – follow-on discussions
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Abstract “Learning and cognition in single biological cells”
The question of whether single biological cells can learn – and what it means to “learn” – has been the subject of controversy for over a century. The consensus remains that individual cells are not capable of complex forms of learning, such as Pavlovian conditioning. I will suggest that it is time to reconsider this question in the light of progress in cognitive science, which offers a definition of learning in terms of information processing that is applicable not just to organisms with nervous systems but also to machines and even to individual cells. From this perspective, cells may be seen as agents that construct internal representations of their external environments to achieve their goals. Reconsidering the fundamental units of life in this way may have profound consequences for how we think about living organisms.
related publication:
J. Gunawardena, “Learning Outside the Brain: Integrating Cognitive Science and Systems Biology,” in Proceedings of the IEEE, doi: 10.1109/JPROC.2022.3162791
Abstract: Learning is commonplace in organisms such as ourselves and even in organisms as far distant as the bee and the octopus. Such learning is implemented by brains, or neuronal networks, and has been extensively studied within ethology, psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience. Whether learning also takes place in nonneuronal settings has remained a matter of sustained controversy, too often dominated by ideological views. In this survey, I will explain how learning can be rigorously interpreted as a form of information processing and then explore the evidence for whether learning also takes place in organismal contexts outside the brain, such as physiology, development, and individual cells. I will try to explain why it is important to build bridges in this way between cognitive science and systems biology, why concepts and methods from various branches of engineering may be helpful in this task, and what the eventual impact may be on how we think about the organism. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9764721&isnumber=4357935
Professor Jeremy Gunawardena (Trinity 1977)
Jeremy Gunawardena (Trinity 1977) is Associate Professor of Systems Biology in the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School. He is a pure mathematician by training. He undertook his PhD with Frank Adams at Trinity College, Cambridge where he was elected to a research fellowship. He spent several years in industry at Hewlett-Packard Research Labs and founded the company’s basic research programme in Europe. He returned to academic life at Harvard, where his research group studies cellular information processing using a combination of theoretical, computational and experimental methods.
Jeremy Gunawardena did Part III Maths at Trinity, followed by his PhD and was elected to Trinity Research Fellow in 1981, which he deferred for two years to work as Dickson Instructor at Chicago University, returning to Trinity 1983-1987 as Trinity Research Fellow.
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Professor Martin Morris, History of Architecture, Chiba University, Japan
On Friday 20 May 2022 at 18:00 (Tokyo time), at 10am (Cambridge, UK time), Martin Morris (Trinity 1976), Professor Emeritus, Chiba University (Japan), Graduate School of Engineering, Architecture Course, Research Field: History of Architecture and Architectural Conservation, has kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion.
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Friday 20 May 2022 at 18:00 (Tokyo time), at 10am (London/Cambridge time) – start
18:15 – 19:00 Martin Morris: Japanese Traditional Architecture
19:00 – 20:00 discussions
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Martin Morris (Trinity 1976) is Professor Emeritus, Chiba University Graduate School of Engineering, Architecture Course, Research Field: History of Architecture and Architectural Conservation.
Martin previously was for many years Professor of History of Architecture at Chiba University, Graduate School & Faculty of Engineering, in the fields of History of architecture, urban history, history of artificial environments, conservation and restoration of historic architecture, architectural design based on historical learning.
Major subjects of research:
Historical development of domestic architecture, focused on Japan from the Kofun Period to the end of the Edo Period. Analysis of the patterns of development and interaction between the house-types of different social groups & classes through time to achieve a grasp of the processes, social and technical, underlying the generation of house-types. Also engaged in East-West cross-cultural comparison of the development of lifestyles, at the level of both settlement and architecture, with a view to identifying the nature and significance of underlying similarities and differences, research into the development of building types and the impact of architecture on the environment through the ages.
Fascinated by history from childhood, combined this with architecture, studied at University, to research and teach the history of architecture and conservation of historic buildings. As a postgraduate researcher at Tokyo University in the 1980s & ‘90s, studied the development of the house in Japan, focusing on the relationship between elite and vernacular dwellings. From 1996, at Chiba University, involved in teaching History of Architecture (in Japan & globally), History of Residential Architecture, Conservation & Renovation of historic buildings, and related design courses. Currently working on historical study of Japanese house types in English. Interest in comparative analysis of architectural development through history in East and West and lessons of historic architecture for today’s world.
Born in Cambridge, England, UK. Graduated, 1979 (Architecture, Cambridge University), Dipl. Architecture, 1982 (Cambridge University), Monbusho Scholar from 1983 (Tokyo University), Master of Engineering, Architecture, 1986 (Tokyo University), Dr. of Engineering, Architecture, 1995 (Tokyo University), Lecturer, History of Architecture, 1996 (Chiba University), Associate Professor, History of Architecture, 2001 (Chiba University), Professor (2007 – 2022, retiring March, 2022)
Representative research papers, reports & translations:
「一宮町の歴史的建造物調査報告書（平成27年度版）」、東上総文化遺産総合活性化事業実行委員会（もば建築文化研究所、千葉大学モリス研究室編）、平成26年度文化庁文化芸術振興費補助金（文化遺産を生かした地域活性化事業）、全65 pp. （2016年3月）
「一宮町の歴史的建造物調査報告書（平成26年度版）」、東上総文化遺産総合活性化事業実行委員会（もば建築文化研究所、千葉大学モリス研究室編）、平成26年度文化庁文化芸術振興費補助金（文化遺産を生かした地域活性化事業）、全70 pp. （2015年3月）
“顧想園 Guide to Kosōen” （Registered Tangible Cultural Property Higashi Kurume City, Tokyo, Original Text by Ryūichi Mayuzumi）,（2014年7月）、全8ページ
“From Village Farmhouse to Suburban Oasis: reflecting upon Kosōen”, Martin Morris, The Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, fifth series, vol. 6, 2014 pp.195-213
“Nihon Minkaen: Japan Open-air Folk House Museum English Guide Book”, 監修、共同訳、マーティン モリス、発行：川崎市立日本民家園、全74pp. (2011年2月)
「ハンマービームトラスの由来と特性」、マーティン モリス、「千葉県指定有形文化財千葉教会教会堂保存修理工事報告書」、編集：岩瀬建築有限会社、発行：日本基督教団千葉教会 pp. 46-62 (2010年4月)
“The shop-houses of Hanoi’s 36 Guild Streets Area – thoughts on their development, place in history and potential”, Martin Morris, 「開発著しいハノイ都市圏における近郊農村・下町・新住宅地の町づくり研究―生活調査と町づくり活動報告」昭和女子大学国際文化研究所紀要、Vol.13/2009における第2部第2章、編集発行人：金子朝子（ISSN 1341-0431） pp.73-106 （2010年3月）
“Reading a minka frame – the lessons of the Yoshida House”, Martin Morris, 『建築史攷』(“Studies in Architectural History”)、編集：鈴木博之先生献呈論文集刊行会、中央公論美術出版（ISBN 978-4-8055-0622-6）pp.165-186 (2009年10月)
Kyo-Machiya: Tracing the Development of the Traditional Town Houses of Kyoto through the Medieval Centuries， Vernacular Architecture Vol 37， 1-23， 2006、
From the Ground up: the Reconstruction of Japanese Historic Buildings from Excavated Archaeological Data， Nichibunken Japan Review， No. 11， 3 – 30， 1999、
Houses of the People， Kitchens of the Great: A Japanese Enigma， Architectural Research Quarterly， 52-63， 1997年、
近世初期上層住宅の台所と庶民住居、建築史学、第２７号、2-33， 1996年
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Julian Huppert on Science, Politics and the future of Cambridge
On Friday 6 May 2022 at 17:00 (Tokyo time), at 9am (Cambridge, UK time) Trinity alumni Julian Huppert (Trinity 1996), BA in Natural Sciences, PhD at Trinity in Chemistry, former Trinity Fellow, and former Member of Parliament for Cambridge (2010-2015), and now Director of the Intellectual Forum at Jesus College Cambridge has kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion.
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17:15 – 18:00 Dr Julian Huppert on Science, Politics and the future of Cambridge
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Dr Julian Huppert (Trinity 1996) is Director of the Intellectual Forum, Jesus College, Cambridge Julian was at Trinity as an undergrad, PhD student (with the now Sir Shankar Balasubramanian) and then Research Fellow, working on understanding unusual structures of DNA and how they affect gene expression. He juggled his scientific research with political engagement, serving as the youngest elected Councillor (and Leader of the Opposition) on Cambridgeshire County Council, and then as the Member of Parliament for Cambridge. He now runs an interdisciplinary centre at Jesus College, Cambridge, as well as working in the NHS. He also holds numerous other roles across the public and private sectors.
In this interactive talk he will discuss his research and political careers, and speculate on the potential future for Cambridge and the UK.
Julian Huppert – Maiden Speech as MP for Cambridge in the House of Commons
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Alastair Morgan CMG (Trinity 1976) will discuss with us his time as British Ambassador to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and views from his distinguished career with the Foreign & Commonwealth Office
On Thursday 14 April 2022 at 18:00pm (Tokyo time), 10am (London/Cambridge time) Alastair Morgan CMG, alumnus of Trinity, with a long career with the Foreign & Commonwealth Office has very kindly agreed to join us for a zoom discussion about his time as British Ambassador to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
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Alastair’s career was with the British Foreign & Commonwealth office (FCO) and the home civil service. Alastair started with the DTI (Department for Trade and Industry), and strictly speaking was seconded to the FCO.
Alastair Morgan pursued a very distinguished career in Foreign & Commonwealth Office serving as British Consul-General in Guangzhou (China) from 2010 to 2014, as Commercial Counsellor and Director of Trade & Investment for China at the British Embassy in Beijing from 2007 to 2010.
From 2015 to 2018, Alastair was British Ambassador to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, stationed in Pyongyang.
He was regional security expert and Coordinator of the UN 1874 Panel of Experts on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea sanctions from 2019 to 2021.
Currently Alastair Morgan is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Department of War Studies, at the Centre for Science and Security Studies (CSSS) of Kings College London, and a Tokyo College Ushioda Fellow of the University of Tokyo, affiliated with Tokyo University’s Graduate School of Public Policy.
From 2002 to 2006 Alastair was First Secretary for Trade Policy and Director of Inward Investment at the British Embassy in Tokyo. Alastair worked also on secondment to Japan’s METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) from 2001 to 2022.
Alastair was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the New Honours for 2019.
Alastair (Trinity 1976) graduated in English Literature from Trinity.
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