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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

22 September 2023
Time Event Speaker(s)
11.00am to 11.30am Tour of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Dr Jane Hughes
11.00am to 11.30am Tour of Trinity Hall's Elizabethan Old Library Jenni Lecky-Thompson
11.00am to 12.00pm Curator's Tour: casting new light Dr Susanne Turner
11.00am to 12.00pm The networks that bind the world: vulnerabilities in global supply chains
11.00am to 3.00pm On the Coat Tails of History
11.30am to 4.00pm Self-led tour of the New Library at Magdalene College
11.45am to 12.15pm Tour of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Dr Jane Hughes
11.45am to 12.15pm Tour of Trinity Hall's Elizabethan Old Library Jenni Lecky-Thompson
12.00pm to 12.45pm Digitalization of the road industry - way forward Dr Mahendrini Ariyachandra
Professor Ioannis Brilakis
Tim Embley
Phillip Proctor
Dr Lavindra de Silva
12.00pm to 1.00pm A short history of the microscope Professor Clemens Kaminski
12.30pm to 1.00pm Tour of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Dr Jane Hughes
12.30pm to 1.00pm Tour of Trinity Hall's Elizabethan Old Library Jenni Lecky-Thompson
1.45pm to 2.15pm Tour of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Dr Jane Hughes
2.00pm to 3.00pm Computer vision: seeing the wood for the trees Professor Andreas Vlachos
Professor Alastair Beresford
Patrick Ferris
2.00pm to 3.00pm Curator's Tour: casting new light Dr Susanne Turner
2.00pm to 3.00pm Defending the unmodified body with Professor Clare Chambers Professor Clare Chambers
2.00pm to 3.00pm In God's name only? Re-examining the politics of four modern Jewish thinkers Dr Daniel Weiss
2.00pm to 3.00pm The evolving architecture of global climate law Professor Harro van Asselt
2.00pm to 3.15pm In conversation with Dame Vivien Rose of the Supreme Court Dame Vivien Rose
Professor Dame Sarah Worthington KC (Hon)
2.00pm to 4.30pm Tour of West Cambridge Engineering labs
2.15pm to 2.45pm Tour of Trinity Hall's Elizabethan Old Library Jenni Lecky-Thompson
2.30pm to 3.00pm Tour of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Dr Jane Hughes
3.00pm to 3.30pm Tour of Trinity Hall's Elizabethan Old Library Jenni Lecky-Thompson
3.15pm to 3.45pm Tour of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College Dr Jane Hughes
3.45pm to 4.45pm AI and the law: the road ahead Ruth Ward
Dr Emilija Leinarte
Katherine Apps KC
Imogen Ireland
4.00pm to 6.00pm From Ideas to Impact: empowering the next generation of innovators Umaima Ahmad
Dr Shima Barakat
Pam Garside
Professor Rachel Oliver
4.30pm to 10.30pm Come and Sing - singers
6.00pm to 6.50pm Coming full circle Professor Erwin Reisner
6.00pm to 8.00pm Reception with the Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Prentice
7.00pm to 9.30pm Lucy Cavendish alumni dinner
9.30pm to 10.30pm Come and Sing - performance
23 September 2023
Time Event Speaker(s)
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
24 September 2023
Time Event Speaker(s)
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!