Printable event list
This list shows all events that are taking place during Alumni Festival. Please check the event programme on our website for the most up-to-date information, including availability: alumni.cam.ac.uk/festival/events
Time | Event | Speaker(s) |
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9.00am to 9.45am | Changing the story of cancer |
Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald Professor Jean Abraham |
9.00am to 9.45am | Global food security: The maker's solution to the biologist's problem |
Dr Sebastian Eves-van den Akker |
9.00am to 9.45am | Legacies of the present past |
Dr Dacia Viejo Rose Oliver Antczak Elifgül Doğan Kieran Gleave |
10.15am to 11.00am | Artificial Intelligence and dispute resolution: does technology improve the way we solve our conflicts? |
Dr Felix Steffek Ludwig Bull |
10.15am to 11.00am | Misinformation and conspiracy theories |
Sander van der Linden Ph.D Roger Mosey |
10.15am to 11.00am | Student life in the 19th Century |
Dr Christopher Stray |
10.15am to 11.00am | The era of global risk |
Lord Martin Rees of Ludlow OM FRS Jessica Bland Lalitha Sundaram Haydn Belfield Constantin Arnscheidt |
10.15am to 11.00am | Understanding mass political polarisation across time and across countries |
Dr Lee de Wit Roger Mosey |
10.15am to 11.00am | Volcanic crystal clocks for Icelandic eruptions |
Dr John Maclennan |
10.15am to 11.00am | Will-writing in a post-pandemic world |
Alice Macek Amy Pettitt Dr Brian Sloan |
11.00am to 12.00pm | Quaternions at Twilight: Mary Somerville's studies of mathematics in old age |
Dr Brigitte Stenhouse |
11.00am to 12.00pm | The cutting edge: hierarchies of hair in the Greco-Roman world |
Dawn LaValle Norman Miles Pattenden Lea Niccolai |
11.30am to 12.30pm | Entrusting our health to AI? |
Andrew Blake Alicia Curth Srijit Seal Stefan Heimersheim |
11.30am to 12.30pm | Green ammonia for a carbon-free society |
Professor Laura Torrente |
11.30am to 12.30pm | Meet the Vice-Chancellor |
Professor Deborah Prentice Martin MacConnol |
11.30am to 12.30pm | Mindfulness for better sleep |
Dr Elizabeth English |
11.30am to 12.30pm | Rare beauty: seeking new physics at the Large Hadron Collider |
Harry Cliff |
11.30am to 12.30pm | The joys of multivocal soundscapes |
Dr Alisha Lola Jones |
11.30am to 12.30pm | What is more important in teaching? Experience, skills, or subject knowledge |
Baroness Sally Morgan Dr Hugh Rayment-Pickard Clare O'Sullivan Nell Macleod |
1.30pm to 2.30pm | 75 years of the NHS |
Professor Charlotte Summers Professor Mary Dixon-Woods Claire Stoneham |
1.30pm to 2.30pm | Braintastic: mastering memory |
Rebecca Williams |
1.30pm to 2.30pm | Devil-Land: England under siege 1588-1688 |
Dr Clare Jackson |
1.30pm to 2.30pm | Economics: what will the UK economy look like in the next 5 years? | |
1.30pm to 2.30pm | Lucy Cavendish Alumni Association AGM | |
1.30pm to 2.30pm | Photosynthesis to the rescue |
Dr Jenny Zhang |
1.30pm to 2.30pm | Why we need to understand the Global South in order to solve the big global issues of today |
Dr Adrián Lerner Patrón Jenni Skinner Professor Shailaja Fennell |
2.00pm to 2.50pm | Anatomy Unleashed: building a digital dog from the paws up |
Dr Stuart Eves |
2.00pm to 3.00pm | Molecular layers, thin films and coatings: an in-depth look at the superficial |
Professor Stuart Clarke |
2.00pm to 3.00pm | Trumpington Bed Burial |
Dr Sam Lucy |
3.00pm to 4.00pm | A frontrunner of postmodern architecture in the UK |
Professor Carl Watkins Jess Mailey David Artis |
3.00pm to 4.00pm | For meditators old and new! |
Dr Elizabeth English |
3.00pm to 4.00pm | Talking about a revolution |
Professor David Rowitch |
3.00pm to 4.00pm | The age of AI: myths, risks and opportunities |
Dr Stephen Cave |
3.00pm to 4.00pm | The Cavendish: A Tone Poem |
Ain Bailey |
3.00pm to 4.30pm | A Margaret Beaufort Institute garden party |
Reverend Dr Dominic White OP Dr Anna Abram Susanne Jennings |
4.00pm to 5.00pm | Sustainability and the Lucy community | |
5.00pm to 6.00pm | Fashioning Druids: classical Celts to contemporary couture |
Brigid Ehrmantraut |
5.00pm to 6.00pm | The geopolitical implications of Russia’s war in Ukraine |
Sir Laurie Bristow KCMG |
7.30pm to 9.30pm | Academy of Great St. Mary’s orchestral concert |
Time | Event | Speaker(s) |
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10.30am to 11.30am | The Sensory Garden, a new chapter in Girton College gardening |
Julia Andersson |
11.00am to 12.00pm | Newnham Conversation: history and its uses |
Dr Gill Sutherland Professor Mary Norton Professor Emily Clark |
11.00am to 12.00pm | So you think you know Cambridge! | |
1.00pm to 2.00pm | So you think you know Cambridge! | |
2.30pm to 3.30pm | So you think you know Cambridge! |