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 | Cancer and Artificial Intelligence |
Professor Grant Stewart BSc MBChB PhD Edin, MA Cantab, FRCSEd (Urol) Dr Mireia Crispin |
9.00am to 9.45am | Excavating Must Farm: uncovering Bronze Age life |
Dr Chris Wakefield |
9.00am to 9.45am | Lessons in Diplomacy: Politics, Power and Parties |
Leigh Turner |
9.00am to 9.45am | The appropriation of history |
Richard Cohen |
10.00am to 10.45am | Really? There's more to the UL site than the library?: a walking tour |
Murray Jacobs |
10.00am to 11.00am | A legendary collection of Japanese illustrated books: the lost library of Eugène Gillet |
Alessandro Bianchi |
10.00am to 11.00am | Frazer's Letters - alumni viewing | |
10.00am to 11.00am | Mind your languages |
Professor Silke Mentchen Professor Ianthi Maria Tsimpli Karoline Oakes |
10.00am to 11.00am | Pathways to pain: how to cure, not cause! |
Professor Ewan St. John Smith |
10.00am to 11.00am | Quantum Secrets |
Professor Suchitra Sebastian |
11.00am to 12.00pm | An AI assistant for football tactics |
Dr Petar Velickovic |
11.30am to 12.15pm | Really? There's more to the UL site than the library?: a walking tour |
Murray Jacobs |
11.30am to 12.30pm | Are the new class of GLP1 anti-obesity medications a panacea? |
Professor Giles Yeo |
11.30am to 12.30pm | Baby brains and big surprises |
Professor Rebecca Lawson |
11.30am to 12.30pm | The Atomic Human |
Professor Neil Lawrence Jessica Montgomery |
11.30am to 12.30pm | What can science do to improve policing and justice in the UK? |
Dr Matt Bland |
11.30am to 12.30pm | Women in 'Mrs Dalloway' (1925) |
Dr Trudi Tate |
1.30pm to 2.30pm | Constructing a Blockbuster TV Nature Documentary Series |
Mike Gunton |
1.30pm to 2.30pm | In conversation with Lord Owen |
Lord Owen CH FRCP |
1.30pm to 2.30pm | Public art in the city centre: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly |
Murray Jacobs |
1.30pm to 2.30pm | The different faces of Romania: History, Culture, Architecture |
Dr Alex Koller |
1.30pm to 2.30pm | The Good Robot: Why Technology Needs Feminism |
Dr Kerry McInerney |
1.30pm to 2.30pm | Unlocking the hidden complexities of evolution |
Professor Ian Henderson Dr Emily Mitchell Dr Aylwyn Scally |
1.30pm to 2.30pm | Wills, wording, trusts and taxes |
Alice Macek Catherine Mowat Chris Claxton-Shirley |
2.00pm to 3.00pm | A Woman’s Place is in the Lab: Celebrating Women in STEM | |
2.00pm to 3.00pm | Harmonic drums |
Dr Deepak Venkateshvaran |
2.00pm to 3.00pm | Why oracy matters |
Professor Neil Mercer Benjamin Strawbridge |
2.00pm to 3.30pm | AI: beyond hype and fear | |
2.00pm to 5.00pm | Exhibition - Newnham and Bletchley Park; women’s work in World War II |
Dr Gillian Sutherland Dr Sally Waugh Frieda Midgley Jonathan Byrne |
3.00pm to 4.00pm | A storied space: reading the environment in medieval literature of place |
Máire Ní Mhaonaigh |
3.00pm to 4.00pm | Brain inflammation in the race against dementia |
Dr Maura Malpetti |
3.00pm to 4.00pm | Department of Zoology Panel Games | |
3.00pm to 4.00pm | Integrating mental health: innovative approaches in paediatric care |
Professor Isobel Heyman Professor Hatice Gunes |
3.00pm to 4.00pm | The Hycean paradigm in the search for life elsewhere |
Professor Nikku Madhusudhan |
3.00pm to 4.00pm | The politics panel |
Roger Mosey Sir Vince Cable Gavin Barwell Charles Clarke Charlotte Ivers |
3.10pm to 5.50pm | Robert Ssempijja: Bound State | |
4.00pm to 5.00pm | Can blue skies research solve real life problems? |
Dr Aga Iwasiewicz-Wabnig FRSA (she/her) |
4.30pm to 5.30pm | How to survive a crisis: lessons in resilience and avoiding disaster |
Professor Sir David Omand GCB |
7.30pm to 9.30pm | Academy of Great St.Mary’s orchestral concert | |
8.00pm to 9.45pm | International Liszt Piano Competition prize winner performs at Hughes Hall |
Time | Event | Speaker(s) |
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9.30am to 10.30am | Public art in the city centre: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly |
Murray Jacobs |
10.00am to 11.00am | When nano met bio |
Dr Ljiljana Fruk |
10.30am to 12.00pm | Cambridge’s role in the sporting revolution that went global |
Nigel Fenner |
11.00am to 12.00pm | Public art in the city centre:"The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" |
Murray Jacobs |
11.00am to 12.00pm | The Newnham Conversation |
Beatriz Araújo Sarah Breeden Dame Julia Hoggett |
11.00am to 12.20pm | Violinist Miclen LaiPang plays: Bach, Beethoven, Gershwin, and Bizet | |
7.30pm to 9.30pm | Philip Glass Ensemble: Glassworks |