Visitors

We had some visitors this Easter. Having friends around means visiting all of the Cambridge tourist essentials!

Me in front of Downing College Chapel 

Priya helping out the tourists in London 

Discovering DNA at the Eagle Pub 

Thought for the day

'Cultural Chauvinism'
How would you define it? How can it be identified? With what might it contrast?

This leads me to the topic of multiculturalism.
How would you fill in the blanks?
culture : multiculturalism :: ? : ?

Concerts

In case you are keeping track....

Programs from last weekend:

Part - Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
Schubert - Unfinished Symphony
Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 20
Ravel - Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte

Mozart - Requiem
Foggit - Piano Concerto
Foggit - Te Deum

Programs for next weekend:

Brahms - Requiem

Saint Saens - Cello Concerto
Brahms - Symphony No. 1
Verdi - La Forza del Destino

let me know if you want details about where and when.

Varsity Squash Match

Friday was the annual Varsity Squash Match. I had a lot of fun watching and was once again impressed by the Royal Automobile Club. This year I even got to go to the fancy dinner afterwards!

I spent Saturday morning in the British Museum. The head curator of anthropology gave my museums group a lecture on Thursday about her newest exhibit - "Living and Dying." It was fantastic to go explore the exhibit after hearing her insights. I also studied the Americas room and portions of the Captain Cook collection on display. Objects collected during his third voyage on the Northwest Coast of America may play a large role in my dissertation. Of course, I couldn't make a trip to the British Museum without visiting the mummies! They have now incorporated some interesting CAT scan images of mummies that have never been unwrapped.

On the train home, I mastered Marxist ideological theory and Gramscian hegemony. I am now officially way too absorbed in anthropological theory.