Cambridge Society of Paris

Discovering the Peculiarity of the English - a talk by Alan Macfarlane and Fabienne Bonnet
2022-02-16 19:00 - 20:30 (Europe/Paris) | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
The watercolour of the White Cliffs of Dover is by Richard Andrewes (Trinity)
This event is on Zoom
Alan Macfarlane (Worcester Oxford (MA & PhD), King’s Cambridge (Fellow), London School of Economics (MPhil), SOAS (PhD).) was born in Shillong, Meghalaya, India. Alan is an anthropologist and historian, and a Professor Emeritus of King’s College, Cambridge. He is the author or editor of 20 books and numerous articles on the anthropology and history of England, Nepal, Japan and China. He has focused on comparative study of the origins and nature of the modern world. In recent years he has become increasingly interested in the use of visual material in teaching and research. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society.

How did I become interested in the English? My colonial background and birth in India; my schooling in English boarding schools and training in history at Oxford; my anthropological investigations in Nepal, Japan and China; my interest in grand social theory and particularly in French commentators â€“ Montaigne, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Tocqueville, Taine and Marc Bloch among others. And what are the peculiarities? Some outlined in”Understanding the English A-Z”, and others, which I will briefly sketch in, in a sequel “The Peculiarity of the English” – Games, Humour, Class, Education, Empire and more.
Society Member Fabienne Bonnet, the translator of “Understanding the English” will also talk about the process of translation of the book into French.

Fabienne’s background is St Thecle, Chamalières (73), American Field Service scholar, Waukesha WI. (74) MPhil Montpellier (79), Lectrice King’s Cambridge (90-94), Bye-Fellow, Homerton (2011-2016), Faculty of English, affiliated supervisor literary translation (1994-2014) (Franciscan. Life vows. 2001)

Hot Topics for Top Minds
2022-01-20 20:00 - 21:00 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
The Society’s quarterly virtual meeting to debate topics considered to be of interest by the participants, proposed in advance, will be held on Thursday 20th January 2022 from 8pm to 9pm. Places will be limited to a maximum of 20 so everyone is able to have their say on each topic.
The critical thing is to have a range of interesting topics, which is down to you please. The topics can be on almost any subject â€“ topical, scientific, philosophical, serious or amusing, it is up to you to suggest what you would like to discuss. Having thought of ideas, please include them in your booking form, or if you come up with an idea later, you can send your contributions directly to the Society’s President, Terry Quinn, on president@camsocparis.org. Terry will then compÃ¨re the event.
This event will be hosted on Zoom. A meeting link will be sent to all registered attendees two or three days in advance of the event.

Concert given by the Wells Consort "Motets and Christmas Carols"
2021-12-12 16:00 - 18:00 | Eglise St-Denys-du-St-Sacrement, 68bis rue de Turenne, Paris, 75003, France
Directed by Christopher Wells (Magdalene), the Wells Consort presents carols, motets and other festive music for the Christmas Season.
Entry free, with a voluntary contribution towards costs

Carols at the Travellers
2021-12-07 18:30 - 20:00 | The Travellers Club, 25 avenue des Champs-Elysées, Paris, 75008, France
All tickets for this event have now been sold
However, it is possible to register on the waiting list and if there are cancellations the tickets that become available will be allocated in the order of receipt of waiting list applications.
After a one year enforced Covid gap, the Oxford Society in Paris and the Cambridge Society in Paris are please to invite their members and guests, together with the members of PADFAS and the English Speaking Union and their guests, back to our:Â
Annual Carol Singing at
â€œThe Travellersâ€
25, avenue des Champs-ElysÃ©es, Paris 8’eme
From 6:30 PM on Tuesday, 7th December, 2021
Vin chaud and mince pies will be served prior to the singing
Numbers are limited to 100 in total. Places will be allocated on a â€œfirst come, first servedâ€ basis.
You will be required to present your “pass sanitaire” at the reception desk upon entry.
Please apply by booking through the “Tickets” section below. Cost per person is â‚¬20.
NB: Please note that the Travellers Club
requires gentlemen to wear jackets and ties

Hot Topics for Top Minds
2021-10-20 20:00 - 21:00 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
The Society’s fifth quarterly virtual meeting to debate topics considered to be of interest by the participants, proposed in advance, will be held on Wednesday 2Oth October 2021 from 8pm to 9pm. Places will be limited to a maximum of 20 so everyone is able to have their say on each topic.
The critical thing is to have a range of interesting topics, which is down to you please. The topics can be on almost any subject â€“ topical, scientific, philosophical, serious or amusing, it is up to you to suggest what you would like to discuss. Having thought of ideas, please include them in your booking form, or if you come up with an idea later, you can send your contributions directly to Terry Quinn on president@camsocparis.org. Terry will then compÃ¨re the event.
This event will be hosted on Zoom. A meeting link will be sent to all registered attendees two or three days in advance of the event. Since numbers will be limited to 20, you are encouraged to register early

Entrepreneurship and Building a Better World : Carbon13 - The Venture Builder for the Climate Emergency
2021-10-07 20:00 - 21:00 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
Tackling climate change with entrepreneurship
The story of the venture builder Carbon 13
Carbon 13 is a new accelerator based in Cambridge which focuses on delivering new ventures capable of reducing CO2(e) by > 10 million tonnes each (Carbon13 – The Venture Builder for the Climate Emergency).

Chris Coleridge, CEO and founder of C13, will join us to present his vision for this unique accelerator program and the progress to date. You will also have a unique opportunity to hear about some of the exciting ventures already formed as part of cohort 1 which started in MarchÂ 2021.

ReedÂ Walker, is co-founder of Agreed Earth, helping farmers profit, naturally, by building the data hub of regenerative agriculture. Backed by Carbon13.

Nicolas Nouvel is a member of the Committee of the Cambridge Society. “I am about toÂ embarkÂ on a fantastic adventure to co-create a business with significant impact on GHG emissions. Joining the second cohort of the phenomenal Cambridge-based acceleratorÂ Carbon13Â is an honour and a privilege. Together we will form teams to tackle climate change in our respective areas of expertise. It is going to be spectacular… so watch this space!”

Paris Freshers Welcome Drinks
2021-09-19 14:00 - 17:00 | Fondation Goodplanet, 1, Carrefour de Longchamp, Bois de Boulogne, Paris, 75116
The Cambridge Society of Paris is again taking part in the Universityâ€™s world-wide program of events for those students who have recently been successful in gaining a place at Cambridge, whether as an Undergraduate or a Graduate.
The aim is to give them an opportunity to meet other new students coming from France and to chat to members about their experience in Cambridge so they are better prepared on arrival in their College at the start of their first term.
This year we have found an outdoor venue, at the Fondation Goodplanet, which we hope will be conducive to the current rules relating to social distancing. The venue is in the Bois de Boulogne and for those without a car, there are three buses running about every 10-15 minutes:

line 43, which has a stop at Pont de Neuilly (metro line 1) and goes to Longchamp-Goodplanet
line 241, which leaves from Porte d’Auteuil (metro line 10) and goes to Les Moulins-Camping
line 244, which stops at Porte Maillot (metro line 1 or RER line C) and goes to Longchamp-Goodplanet

Entry is free and attendees are welcome to wander around the Fondation before or after the event.
There is no charge for the event. Freshers will be offered two complementary drinks, while Society members can purchase their refreshments at the ClairiÃ¨re’s bar.

A walk along the Aqueduc MÃ©dicis to the Observatoire
2021-09-12 10:00 - 13:00 | Parc Montsouris, 2 rue Gazan, Paris, 75014, France
George Young has developed a new walk which willÂ follow the trace in Paris of the Aqueduc MÃ©dicis, constructed in the early 17th century to supply water to among other things Queen Marie de MÃ©dicisâ€™ new palace of Luxembourg.
It generally follows the line of the Roman aqueduct of which some remains may be seen. The route also passes by the Observatoire, and the Paris meridian used by the French until they finally accepted the Greenwich meridian in 1911!

The walk will start at the Parc Montsouris, first laid out under Napoleon III in imitation of London parks, and finish at the Jardin du Luxembourg. It will take approximately two and a half hours. Afterwards, for those wishing it, a lunch reservation can be made in a brasserie near to the Jardin du Luxembourg.
This event is a walk and so aimed at those with reasonable mobility. It is recommended that you wear comfortable shoes, suitable for walking. You should also consider bringing a raincoat or umbrella if the weather on the day is not fair.
We will meet at 10am sharp at RER B Station CitÃ© Universitaire. The end point will be the Fontaine MÃ©dicis, close to RER B Luxembourg, but MÃ©tro OdÃ©on (lines 4 and 10) is also not far.
There is no charge for this event. There may be an opportunity to take refreshments during the walk, so please bring enough money to buy your own drinks and your lunch if you decide to stay on.
Guests are welcome, but numbers are strictly limited to 20, and places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. When you book, please indicate if you intend to stay on for lunch so that places can be reserved in the restaurant.

Peter Elliott - The â€˜artâ€™ of self-publishing: a view by a Trinity lawyer, an escapist into history
2021-09-08 19:00 - 20:30 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
Peter will tell a story of a Cambridge Law tripos student, who should have read history, but devoted a career to law, and then in retirement switched back to his first love, history.
From his rustic base in the Languedoc, far from sophisticated libraries, Peter carries out most of his research remotely. He will cover:

use of archives, libraries, databases;
building a network relating to the subject and topic; –
combining text and image to tell a story;
he art of self -publishing, and in particular use of the KDP Amazon self-platform.

Peter Elliott:

After leaving Â school in South Africa, and gaining a first degree at Cape Town University, Peter Elliott won a national scholarship to Cambridge in 1971, where he read law at Trinity (1971-1974). After graduating he qualified as a solicitor and pursued a legal career in England, in private practice and in industry. After retiring at the end 2011, he and his wife Maddy moved to the Languedoc, France, where they live surrounded by vines, in a landscape not unlike parts of the Western Cape.
Peterâ€™s lifelong interest in history Â drew him to biography. He has researched and published five titles, Â all with some focus on his country of origin, South Africa. Two are distinctly art biographies, but also tell a social and political history.

Dr Peter Hicks - Napoleon and the British, before and during St Helena
2021-06-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
The first ever biographies of Napoleon were written not in French but in English, the only serious biographies of the Consul and later Emperor were written in the same language and during his lifetime. During both of his abdications and exiles, â€˜Boneyâ€™ was frequently the subject of book, newspaper articles, etc. The exile on St Helena was to provide for the springboard for an obsession in the English-language world that lasts to this day. My talk will discuss this little-known, British part in the telling of the Napoleon story.

Peter Hicks is an historian of the Napoleonic period and International Affairs manager at the Fondation NapolÃ©on, Paris. He was Visiting Professor at the University of Bath (UK) (2008-2018) and is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution, Florida State University, USA. He also is ChargÃ© de cours at the Institut Catholic des Etudes SupÃ©rieures (ICES) La Roche sur Yon. His recent books include â€“Â (ed.), Emmanuel de Las Cases, Le MÃ©morial de Sainte HÃ©lÃ¨ne: Le manuscript retrouvÃ©, critical edition, with presentation and commentary with Thierry Lentz, FranÃ§ois Houdecek and Chantal Prevot, Perrin 2017, (ed.) La bataille de Waterloo : symbole de victoire, de dÃ©faite et lieu de mÃ©moire/Battle of Waterloo : Introductions to the Lectures and After-Thoughts â€“ in English, (Les Ã©ditions de la Belle alliance, 2015) and The Napoleonic Empire and the New European Political Culture, with Michael Broers and Agustin Guimera, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). His current publication projects include: joint-editor of volume 3 of Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars, (CUP 2020), a selection of British witnesses to Napoleon on St Helena (Perrin 2021). He also a musician. Recent Napoleonic projects include the creation, organization and performance of a week-long Festival of Napoleonic and Georgian music on the island of St Helena (May 2019) (concerts, recital, singing day) and a concert of Napoleonic music, HÃ´tel des Invalides, Paris, 24 May 2018 (choir, soloists and orchestra). His upcoming Napoleonic musical projects include: a Napoleonic recital (piano and voice), Lucca, Italy, August 2021 (covid permitting, but it is open airâ€¦), and the creation, organization and Â conducting of two concerts of famous and rare Napoleonic music, HÃ´tel des Invalides, October 2021 (choir, soloists and orchestra).

Martin Rees - The World in 2050 - and Beyond
2021-06-03 19:00 - 20:30 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow,Â OM, FRS, FREng, FMedSci, FRASÂ is aÂ BritishÂ cosmologistÂ andÂ astrophysicist. He has beenÂ Astronomer RoyalÂ since 1995Â and wasÂ MasterÂ ofÂ Trinity College, CambridgeÂ from 2004 to 2012 andÂ President of the Royal SocietyÂ between 2005 and 2010.
Martinâ€™s field is astronomy where he has achieved many important results, and recently Martin has founded the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at Cambridge University, where he studies the fundamental threats and risks to humanity.
In his book, “On the Future: Prospects for Humanity” published in 2018, he demonstrates that humanity has reached a critical moment. Our world is unsettled and rapidly changing, and we face existential risks over the next century. Various outcomesâ€”good and badâ€”are possible. Yet our approach to the future is characterized by short-term thinking, polarizing debates, alarmist rhetoric, and pessimism. In this short, exhilarating book, Martin argues that humanityâ€™s prospects depend on our taking a very different approach to planning for tomorrow.

Oxford and Cambridge Poetry and Prose Reading
2021-05-25 19:00 - 20:30 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
We are pleased to announce the third Oxford and Cambridge virtual prose and poetry reading on Tuesday 25th May at 7pm. It will take place on Zoom.
This event is open & without charge to all members of both Societies. Please register on the Cambridge website to participate.
This month, we have decided that we need to anticipate the end of the restrictions on our movements we have endured on and off for over a year now, but in particular in April when we were pretty much limited to a circle of 10 kms around our homes. This means that the theme of the readings is â€œTravellingâ€. Each reader should plan to come with two readings, each of 3 to 5 minutes (maximum) long.
Thus, in the 90 minutes available, you can expect to read both pieces. Paul Tracy (Oxford) will again act as moderator for the evening.

The ups and downs in the life of a top civil servant close to the heart of Government
2021-05-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
We invite you to join us in a presentation by Jonathan Slater, former Permanent Secretary of the Department for Education in London until summer 2020, when Boris decided to make a change. He is now now visiting Professor at Kingâ€™s College and at Queen Mary University, London

Katie Derham - The Great Silence... the power of music during the pandemic
2021-04-27 19:00 - 20:30 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
The face of theÂ BBC Proms, Katie has been presenting the BBCâ€™s coverage of the yearly musical extravaganza for the past eleven years. With a career in broadcasting spanning over two decades, Katie has collected an impressive number of credits, working as an award winning journalist and presenter in both radio and television. She regularly presents the drive time show, In Tune, on BBC Radio 3, interviewing the biggest names in music and the arts, and in 2019 joined forces with Radio France Musique for a unique broadcasting exchange.
Katie joined ITV News as Media and Arts Correspondent in 1998 and, as a 27-year-old, became the youngest newscaster on British national television and the youngest in ITN history. Always up for a challenge, Katie learned how to conduct on the BBC reality series Maestro, dusted off her violin for the Sky Arts series First Love, and danced her way to the final of Strictly Come Dancing in 2015. She runs her own production company, Peanut and Crumb.Â

Hot Topics for Top Minds
2021-04-21 20:00 - 21:00 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
The Society’s fourth quarterly virtual meeting to debate topics considered to be of interest by the participants, proposed in advance, will be held on Wednesday 21st April 2021 from 8pm to 9pm. Places will be limited to a maximum of 20 so everyone is able to have their say on each topic.
The critical thing is to have a range of interesting topics, which is down to you please. The topics can be on almost any subject â€“ topical, scientific, philosophical, serious or amusing, it is up to you to suggest what you would like to discuss. Having thought of ideas, please send your contributions directly to Terry Quinn on president@camsocparis.org. Terry will then compÃ¨re the event.
This event will be hosted on Zoom. A meeting link will be sent to all registered attendees two or three days in advance of the event. Since numbers will be limited to 20, you are encouraged to register early

Robert W Hanning - Stories for an Uncertain World
2021-04-13 19:00 - 20:30 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
The social fabric of human communities is woven primarily from the creation, transmission, and reception of stories.Â Is it merely an accident that Western Europeâ€™s two greatest tale collections originated within a long generation of each other, or is there something important we can learn about the culture of late medieval European civilization from a comparison of Giovanni Boccaccioâ€™s Decameron (1350s) and Geoffrey Chaucerâ€™s Canterbury Tales (1380s-early 1390s)?Â In fact, for all their differences, the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales frequently align in telling â€œstories for an uncertain worldâ€â€”a world shown to be challenged by radical uncertainties of knowledge, perception, and strategy, and lacking the serene comfort of faith in Divine Providence so often thought to characterize the medieval centuries. Â A comparison of passages, and stories, from both collections suggests instead that the necessary and proper response to their world is to deploy skills of calculation and deliberation that generate deeds, and supporting words, designed to control, as much as is possible, lifeâ€™s ever changing circumstances.Â Seen from this perspective, the frequent goal in these wonderfully told tales is not salvation but agency, Â and the appropriate virtue, rather than holiness, is a modified version of what Aristotle called â€œpractical wisdomâ€ (phrÃ³nesis) and we, following Cicero, call prudence (prudentia). Â
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Robert W. Hanning, Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, holds degrees from Columbia and Oxford.Â Recipient of Guggenheim, ACLS, NEH, and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, he gave the New Chaucer Societyâ€™s Biennial Chaucer Lecture in 1998 at the Sorbonne.Â He has published three books on classical, medieval, and Renaissance subjects and has co-translated two major medieval French texts.Â His monograph, â€œStories for an Uncertain World: Agency in Boccaccioâ€™s Decameron and Chaucerâ€™s Canterbury Tales,â€ is to be published by Oxford University Press.

How can business benefit from the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement? Opportunities and Challenges
2021-03-24 19:00 - 20:30 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
The UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement was hailed as the resolution to the long-running negotiations between Britain and the EU just before Christmas. But how should my business be using it? Is it as effective as businesses would like in the key areas that affect them? How can my business seize any opportunities?
These questions and many more are at the front of our minds as everyone tries to work out what the Agreement really means.
We are delighted to welcome two eminent experts in the field to a Forum on how business can deal with the Agreement, Catherine Barnard from Cambridge University and Paul Taylor from the Department for International Trade at the British Embassy in Paris. They will cover the key aspects of the Agreement, but above all we hope to cover those issues your business is facing and answer your questions. When you register, you will be invited to let us know what topics interest you and what your questions are. There will also be the opportunity to ask your questions during the Forum.
Catherine Barnard

Catherine Barnard is Professor of EU law and Employment Law and senior tutor and fellow of Trinity College.Â She is the author of EU Employment Law (Oxford, OUP, 2012, 5th ed.), The Substantive Law of the EU: The Four Freedoms, (Oxford, OUP, 2016, 5th ed), and (with Peers ed), European Union Law (Oxford, OUP, 2017, 2nd ed) . She is currently a Senior Fellow in the UK in a Changing Europe (http://ukandeu.ac.uk/) project. This is an authoritative, non-partisan think tank which does research and provides information about all aspects of Brexit. Part of its remit is to make that information accessible to the general public. So it does a lot of public engagement, especially with the media.Â She has appeared extensively on the main media channels – BBC, ITV and Sky – as well as some of the more specialist programmes such as Law in Action, Woman’s Hour and the Briefing Room. She has also written for the Guardian and the Telegraph. She has given evidence to numerous select committees on the legal issues connected with Brexit, immigration and the European Union (Withdrawal) Act.
Paul Taylor

Paul Taylor took up the role of Chief Operating Officer, Department for International Trade, at the British Embassy in Paris in May 2016. Immediately prior to his arrival in France, Paul spent five years in Prague as Regional Director for Trade & Investment with Central and South Eastern Europe. Paulâ€™s Government career encompasses both the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Trade. Previous responsibilities in Whitehall include managing bilateral relations with South America and, subsequently, the Middle East & North Africa; while other overseas experience includes diplomatic postings to the British Embassies in Mexico City, Santiago and Madrid.

David Willetts - The Past and Future of Universities
2021-03-15 19:00 - 20:30 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
The Rt Hon. Lord Willetts FRS is the President of the Resolution Foundation. He served as the Member of Parliament for Havant (1992-2015), as Minister for Universities and Science (2010-2014) and previously worked at HM Treasury and the No. 10 Policy Unit.
David Willetts will begin by setting out the very different histories of universities In France and England, especially the pre-eminence of Oxbridge to explain some of the very significant and continuing differences between higher education in the two countries. He will reflect on his relations with French ministers during his time as Minister for Universities and Science. Then after explaining the controversial changes he brought in he will speculate on future trends shaping higher education in both countries.Â
David Willetts has written widely on economic and social policy. His book â€œA University Educationâ€ is published by Oxford University Press. A second edition of his book on the Boomers and the young generation â€œThe Pinchâ€ was published in November 2019.
David Willetts is a visiting Professor at Kingâ€™s College London, a Board member of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), a Board member of Surrey Satellites and of the Biotech Growth Trust. He is Chair of The Foundation for Science and Technology, an Honorary Fellow of Nuffield College, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society and the Chancellor of the University of Leicester.

Oxford and Cambridge Paris Poetry and Prose Reading
2021-02-24 19:00 - 20:30 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
Following the successful experiment in January, OUSP and CamSoc Paris propose to hold another joint virtual prose and poetry reading on Wednesday February 24th. It will take place on Zoom.
This event is open & without charge to all members of both societies. Please register on the Oxford or Cambridge web site to participate.
Each reader should plan to come with one modern and one classical reading, each of 3 to 5 minutes (maximum) long. Anything written in the last 50 years will qualify as â€œmodernâ€.
Thus, in the 90 minutes available, you can expect to read both pieces. We would like, this time, to focus on the readings themselves, and avoid too much comment around them. This will help keep the rhythm brisk & hopefully interesting to all. Paul Tracy (Oxford) will act as moderator for the evening.
We look forward to seeing you then.

Achievements and Challenges in Weather Forecasting
2021-02-22 20:30 - 22:00 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
Advances in weather modelling have been driven as much by technological development as by improvements in weather science. The most notable of these are the rapid increases in supercomputer power and improvements in Earth observations from space. Rapidly improving modelling capability enabled by this technology has led to 3-day weather forecasts today being as accurate as 1-day forecasts were 20 years ago.

Dr Vicky Pope (Girton) will outline some of these improvements and where further improvements are still needed. Vicky is an honorary Professor at the Science Technology Engineering and Public Policy Institute at University College London. She had a long and varied career in the Met Office. She worked for many years on climate change. She led the development of some of the best climate models in the world and later ran the Met Office Hadley Centre Climate Programme, acting as the interface between scientists and government and other key stakeholders including the media.

UK Alumni Network Speed Networking Event 2021
2021-02-19 18:30 - 20:30 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
Welcome to the first online event organised by the Joint UK Alumni in France Network – a virtual business networking session for meeting like-minded professionals in a fun â€œspeed networkingâ€ setting.
If you came to the in-person speed networking session at the British Council two years ago, welcome to the online version!
We will meet up via Zoom and go into individual video chats with other participants. Each round of “speed networking” lasts for 6 minutes, that is 3 mins for each of you. There will be a timer to remind you the time left with your partner. We will pair you up with other participants throughout the session. There will also be opportunities for small group discussions with the alumni from your own university and for certain industries. We will have a small virtual aperitif break in the middle of the session so make sure your wine / beer / fruit juice / water is ready and chilled on the day.
ðŸŒŽ Mingle with other UK alumni
ðŸ¤ Make relevant and truly meaningful contacts in different domains
ðŸ—£ Practice your elevator pitch again and again
ðŸš€ Have a great time together
This is a professional networking event. Please make sure that you’re comfortable with video. Please change your Zoom name to “Name – Uni – Your Profession” for the event. Have your LinkedIn profile and contact info handy to facilitate exchange of contact info during the individual sessions.
To register, please use one of these links:
LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/events/jointukalumnifrancecommunity-vi6758022214852988928/
GoogleForm – for those who are not on LinkedIn
https://forms.gle/h4LRFzrnzu6pukfJA
We look forward to welcoming you on 19th February!
Your coordinators 🙂

Entrepreneurship and Building a Better World - Our second panel discussion
2021-01-28 18:00 - 19:30 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
We are delighted to confirm the participation of three great panelists for the second Cambridge Society of Paris “Entrepreneurship and Building a Better World” Panel Discussion. This time, we will be at the interface between Entrepreneurship and Sustainability, with the focus on â€œInnovative collaboration models to grow sustainability-driven communitiesâ€.

Our three panelists are:
Domini Hogg, Founder of Tried and Supplied, linkedin.com/in/domini-hogg-éƒæ€¡ç³-56286441
Dr. Simon Engelke, Founder & Chair of Battery Associates, linkedin.com/in/simonengelke
Rudradeb Mitra, Founder of Omdena,Â linkedin.com/in/mitrar
They are deploying innovative collaboration models and building sustainability-driven communities in their own respective fields! Three inspirational people to look forward to spending part of your evening with on 28th January 2021.

Hot Topics for Top Minds
2021-01-20 20:00 - 21:00 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
The Society’s third quarterly virtual meeting to debate topics considered to be of interest by the participants, proposed in advance, will be held on Wednesday 20th January 2021 from 8pm to 9pm. Places will be limited to a maximum of 20 so everyone is able to have their say on each topic.
The critical thing is to have a range of interesting topics, which is down to you please. The topics can be on almost any subject â€“ topical, scientific, philosophical, serious or amusing, it is up to you to suggest what you would like to discuss. Having thought of ideas, please send your contributions directly to Terry Quinn on president@camsocparis.org. Terry will then compÃ¨re the event.
This event will be hosted on Zoom. A meeting link will be sent to all registered attendees two or three days in advance of the event. Since numbers will be limited to 20, you are encouraged to register early

Third Cambridge Cutting Edge Lecture
2021-01-12 19:00 - 20:30 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
THIRD CAMBRIDGE CUTTING EDGE LECTURE
PROFESSOR PASCALE COSSARTÂ Â
â€œTHE EVOLVING SITUATION OF COVID-19 AND RECENT ADVANCES IN DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION OF VACCINESâ€
7pm Tuesday 12th January 2021
Presentation on ZOOM
the meeting link will be sent to registered participants on Friday 8th January
Professor Pascale Cossart, of the Institut Pasteur, is one of France’s leading biologists. The recipient of many national and international awards, she is SecrÃ©taire perpÃ©tuel pour la division Sciences chimiques, biologiques et mÃ©dicales, et leurs applications de l’ AcadÃ©mie des sciencess and a Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London.

Oxford and Cambridge Paris Poetry and Prose Reading
2021-01-06 19:00 - 20:00 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
Developing the theme of the Play Readings that were organised for the enjoyment of members of both the Oxford and Cambridge Societies in Paris, we have organised a Poetry or Prose reading evening, on Wednesday 6th January 2021 at 7pm.
This date has been chosen both as it coincides with the First Wednesday in 2021, and so we hope will help compensate for the continued absence of Monthly Drinks evenings, and also it is Epiphany which might offer a theme, if you choose to adopt it, for your reading.
The Cambridge Society has kindly agreed to lead the event, which will be hosted on Zoom.Â A meeting link will be sent to all registered attendees two or three days before of the event.
Each participant will be invited to select their choice of readings, in English, ideally each up to three minutes long. For the more adventurous, you can of course write your own. We expect you will have the opportunity of reading at least twice.

Christmas Quiz
2020-12-17 19:00 - 20:00 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
Join us for a topical quiz in the run-up to Christmas.
Test your knowledge of traditional – and not so traditional – aspects of the season.
The quiz will be held on Zoom at 7pm on Thursday 17th December. The access link to join the quiz will be sent to registered participants a couple of days before the event.
Book now to avoid disappointment.

Christmas Baking - Making the perfect mince pie from A to Z
2020-12-05 16:00 - 17:00 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
Making the perfect mince pie from A to Z – a tutorial with demonstrations by Sky Quinn
Sky, our Presidentâ€™s 14 year old London-based grandson, is an enthusiastic cook. He has taken twoÂ courses at Prue Leith’sÂ School of Food and Wine in London. Last year he got into the last 30 of the BBC junior Bake Off but was told he would be more suitable for the adult competition when he is old enough. He has made a good income for pocket money by cooking full dinners for his parentsâ€™ friends and neighbours. He is very interested in and knowledgeable about the history of food and recently made for his family a Mince Pie from a 16th century recipe (with real meat).
Aware that lockdown has prevented many of us from going over to the UK for our usual seasonal shopping, we hope this will give you the tricks and tips you need to make your own mince pies to enjoy on Christmas Day.
The demonstration will be shown on Zoom at 4pm on Saturday 5th December. The access link to join will be sent to registered participants a couple of days before the event.
Book now to avoid disappointment.

Entrepreneurship and Building a Better World
2020-11-26 18:00 - 19:30 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
The Cambridge Society of Paris is launching a series of events, currently on Zoom, aimed at those who are involved – or just interested – in all aspects relating to being an Entrepreneur.
Led by Committee Member Nicolas Nouvel, a series of forums will be held in which a selected panel of Deep Tech entrepreneurs will have an opportunity promote their business, increase their visibility and potentially get some support towards success. By Deep Tech entrepreneurs we mean people who own some specific patent or know-how in Clean Technologies, hence they will have some innovative and inspirational ways of building a better world by driving the adoption of cleaner technologies in essential yet highly polluting industries.
The first event will take place at 6pm on Thursday 26th November, on Zoom, and is expected last about 90 minutes.
The first half will be a panel discussion, followed by Q&A in the second half.
Please sign up using the ticket application box below. The link to the Zoom meeting will be sent to registered participants a couple of days before the event.

Hot Topics for Top Minds
2020-10-21 19:00 - 20:00 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
The Society’s third quarterly virtual meeting to debate topics considered to be of interest by the participants, proposed in advance, will be held on Wednesday 20th January 2021 from 7pm to 8pm. Places will be limited to a maximum of 20 so everyone is able to have their say on each topic.
The critical thing is to have a range of interesting topics, which is down to you please. The topics can be on almost any subject â€“ topical, scientific, philosophical, serious or amusing, it is up to you to suggest what you would like to discuss. Having thought of ideas, please send your contributions directly to Terry Quinn on president@camsocparis.org. Terry will then compÃ¨re the event.
This event will be hosted on Zoom. A meeting link will be sent to all registered attendees two or three days in advance of the event. Since numbers will be limited to 20, you are encouraged to register early

The Society's AGM and presentation by Louis Klee - Wednesday 23rd September
2020-09-23 19:00 - 20:30 | Virtual Zoom meeting, Your location, France
The Society’s Annual General Meeting will take place on Wednesday 23rd September at 7pm and will be followed by a presentation by Louis Klee, a beneficiary of the Trevor Brown Bursary in 2019 on a topic related to his research into the influence of Walter Benjamin & W.G. Sebald on French Surrealism & Culture.
Due to the current situation relating to Covid-19, and the ongoing increase in infection rates, we are not able to hold the meeting “in person”. The AGM will therefore take place on Zoom at 7pm, with Louis Klee’s presentation expected to start at around 7h45pm.
The “formal” notice of meeting and other papers relating to the AGM were sent to members towards the end of August. An updated set with the link to joint the Zoom meeting will be provided to all members in mid-September
To facilitate management of the Zoom meeting, please register using the form below if you would like to take part.
