Pudding Seminars take place on a Friday and are an excellent opportunity to unite two of life’s great things: new research, and pudding!
Pudding Seminars are led by members of the College (undergraduates, postgraduates, Senior Members and staff), who give a brief 20 minute talk on their current research, followed by informal discussion.
Seminars start promptly at 1.15pm and end by 1.50pm. Tea, coffee and cake are available from 1pm.
There are usually seven pudding seminars in Michaelmas and Lent Terms and four in Easter Term. The talks begin at 1.15 pm and finish by 1.50 pm in order to enable everyone to get to 2.00 pm commitments. Tea, coffee and cake are available from 1.00 pm.
If you are interested in giving a pudding seminar, or would like further details about the series please contact Delphine Mordey (dmm36@cam.ac.uk). In 2025-26, seminars will take place in the Lucia Windsor Room, except on 14 November, when the seminar will be held in the Cynthia Beerbower Room.
Lent Term 2026
23 January: Alejandro Malkinson-Gregori (JCR) CANCELLED
30 January: Milena Ivanova (SCR), 'AI Revolution, at whose cost? Towards Environmental AI Ethics'
6 February: Kimberly Glassman (SCR), 'Women teaching women to speak the language of botany: instructions for pronouncing Linnean nomenclature (1780-1870)'
13 February: Harry Spillaine (SCR), 'Crime and Provenance: Gaston Lévy’s Looted and Invented Artworks'
20 February: Marie-Alix Bilgischer (alumna), on the role of animals within heritage discourse
27 February: Atticus Yus (MCR), 'Newnham, a Room, an Archive: Fanfiction and Safe Spaces Online'
6 March: Emma Perkins (SCR) and Sasha Gardner (Library), 'The Creation of the Universe': Robert Fludd, Cosmology, and Newnham's Floud Memorial textile'
13 March: Rachana Acharya (SCR), ‘In vitro organ models: studying biology with electronics'
Michaelmas Term 2025
10 October: Hannah Davidson (SCR), 'What counts as a discourse marker? Findings on 'savedir' in Mauritian Creole'
17 October: Frieda Midgley (College Archivist) and Laura Dennis (College Curator), 'The Art and Archive of Olive Cook (NC 1931) at Newnham College'
24 October: Lia Nordmann (MCR), 'Immanuel Kant and the Forbidden Hay'
31 October: Nicole Church (NC 2014) (SCR), 'Transforming Alloys for Healthcare'
7 November: Ella McCafferty Wright (NC 2019), 'Dorothy Garrod and Gertrude Caton Thompson: Newnham Stories in Archaeology'
14 November: Jenn Ashworth (NC 2000) (Honorary Fellow), introduces her new book, 'The Parallel Path: Love, Grit and Walking the North' NOTE ROOM CHANGE: CYNTHIA BEERBOWER
21 November: Olivia Krauze (Special Supervisor), 'Constance Garnett (NC 1879) and the Art of Affective Translation'
28 November: Pragya Agarwal (Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow), 'She is just being hysterical': misogyny and racial bias in medicine'
