Friday 24 September 2021, 12.00am BST – Tuesday 28 September 2021, 12.00am BST
Join the Conservation team at the University Library as they discuss and demonstrate the making of model books as part of their work to preserve medieval manuscripts for the Polonsky Foundation Greek Manuscripts Project.
Friday 24 September 2021, 12.00am BST – Tuesday 28 September 2021, 12.00am BST
Join artist James Epps in conversation with Dr Susanne Turner, Curator, as they tour the Museum of Classical Archaeology's summer exhibition, A twist of the hand.
Join Dr Robert Heuschkel and Dr Louise Allen as they explore plans for a pioneering new children’s hospital and discuss how it will transform healthcare for Children and Young people.
In this fireside chat, Professor Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb and Professor John Aston will discuss the important links between maths and medicine and how these links are leading to a revolution in medicine and healthcare.
In 2020 Professor Gupta and Dr Kenyon had to rapidly pivot their HIV knowledge and research to learn more about COVID-19. In this session they'll discuss their experience and what we still need to know about COVID-19.
Join Dr Joshua Nall for a tour through the Whipple Museum as he recounts its history and introduces some of the instruments, models, and globes from its world-class collection.
Join Dr Dee Scadden (Darwin 1996), Dr Matthias Landgraf (St John’s 1992) and Dr Tim Weil as they discuss opportunities for innovative changes in education, made possible by a pandemic.
Join Professor Brendan Simms and a panel discussing the inter-relationship between the Irish Question, the British Problem and the European balance of power since 1500.
Join scientists Joseph Thottacherry and Edward Allgeyer from the Gurdon Institute as they discuss new ways to study cells and tissues in fruit flies, with applications in understanding disease.
Leading marketing and communications experts Antonia Wade (Newnham 1995), Claire Dixon (Sidney Sussex 1991), Eve Williams (Murray Edwards 2001), Kamyar Naficy (Queens' 2001) and Rohit Jayakaran (Executive Education: ALP 2019) discuss the future of marketing and its role in business and society.
Join Professor Tim Minshall (Christ's 1993) and colleagues as they discuss the transformation of student-industry projects for remote delivery and how this can contribute to a better student experience.
Join Dr Thomas Roulet and Tyler Shores (Queens' 2015) as they explore the impact of COVID-19 on the nature of work and what we will need to consider with the rise of the hybrid office.
Join University Director of Sport, Nick Brooking, as he talks to student athletes Louise Shanahan and Imogen Grant about their time at the recent Tokyo Olympics.
With the recent arrival of Stephen Hawking's archive at Cambridge University Library, this unique session will provide an insight into the archives of three era-defining scientists.
Led by Sarah MacDonald (Robinson 1992), broadcast live from Selwyn College Chapel, in aid of the University's ground-breaking Centre for Music Performance - this is a live interactive musical bonanza!
Join Jonathan Prentice (Emmanuel 1990), Head of Secretariat of the United Nations Network on Migration, and Dr Tugba Basaran (Bye-Fellow of Newnham) as they discuss the UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.
In this session we will learn about the results of Dr Julieta Galante's groundbreaking study, which led the University to establish regular mindfulness training in 2015.
Join Anna Lapwood and current Cambridge University student Robbie Boyd discussing topics ranging from preserving the best of music-making during the pandemic, to aspirations for music revival beyond the pandemic, and myths and challenges of establishing a music career.
Learn more about our current understanding of the formation of galaxies and black holes with Professor Roberto Maiolino, Professor of Experimental Astrophysics at the Department of Physics.
Join Dr Kersten Hall as he discusses the life and work of Florence Bell, and how she laid the foundations for one of the biggest discoveries of the 20th-century.
In this specially commissioned film discover The New Hall Art Collection, the largest collection of art by women in Europe, as well as the fascintating history of the collection, and the difference it makes to people who experience it.
Gold of The Great Steppe at the Fitzwilliam Museum (28 September 2021 – 30 January 2022) will display hundreds of outstanding gold artefacts from extraordinary ancient burial mounds built by the Saka people of East Kazakhstan. Ahead of the exhibition opening, curator Rebecca Roberts offers a fascinating preview.
Learn more about the 'wonder material' graphene and the work to create a new way to make large-area, transfer-free graphene, with Professor Sir Colin Humphreys CBE.
Join a panel discussion with Professor Bhaskar Vira (St John's 1988) on the growing global crisis of youth (un)employment, working lives and the challenges of making a living in the 21st century.
Get a peek behind the scenes at the Museum as we explore some of the highlights of the insect room, with beetles, butterflies and more. See specimens of historic importance and discover how insect collections are helping us to understand ecosystems today.
Join the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Stephen J Toope (Trinity 1983) for a thought-provoking conversation on the present and future of energy transition.
Dr William Fawcett and Dr Amelia Drew will disucss a new discovery from the Femi National Accelerator Laboratory and what it could mean for our current understanding of fundamental physics.
Join Professor Simon Goldhill (King's 1975) as he explores the great revolution in our understanding of time brought about by the development of Christianity in the Roman Empire.
Find out more about the evolution of food gardens in Medieval Italy with Dr Caroline Goodson (Fellow of King's), who will explore their history and explain how historians are learning about these gardens.
Join Katy Roper from the Cambridge Science Centre as she investigates why it’s important to have a variety of species, how plants and animals around us are connected, and what you can do to support greater biodiversity.
Join Newnham Fellows Dr Claire Barlow (Girton 1973) and Dr Sakthy Selvakumaran (Sidney Sussex 2006) as they discuss their careers and the impact of women in engineering.
A panel discussion with Dr Francesca Moore (Fitzwilliam 1999), Dr James Biddulph (Homerton 2000) and Elle Rose Hoskins (Homerton 2020), discussing teaching and learning online during a global pandemic and the effects on school-age and undergraduate students.
This session with Professor Wendy Pullan (Darwin 1989) will explore cities at the centre of conflict and the key drivers that can impact their renewal.
Join Emeritus Professor Charles Melville (Pembroke 1969) as he explores the image of Tamerlane through Persian manuscripts from the 14th to 17th century.
The legacies of empire continue to reverberate through to our own time not just in Britain, but also in the Middle East, India, and China. Find out more with Professor Esra Ozyurek, Professor Hans van de Ven and Dr Shruti Kapila.
Join Professor Wadhams (Churchill 1966) for a talk on the Shroud of Turin, followed by an exclusive tour of the awe-inspiring Turin Cathedral, which houses the Shroud, and a sneak-peak of the behind-the-scenes scientific goings-on. To conclude the session, Peter will be online for a live Q&A.
Professor Jaideep Prabhu, Dr Tanya Filer (Robinson 2004), Michael Kitson and Stephen Taylor discuss how governments are using new levers of state power to deliver change for citizens and what the future of government might look like.
Join Professor Oren Scherman to learn more about his research into Glioblastoma and how the tailoring of therapeutic loaded gels allows for improved survival rates in vivo.
Find out more about the work of Cambridge Public Health from Co-Directors Professor Carol Brayne (Department of Psychiatry) and Professor John Clarkson (Department of Engineering).
Find out more about the vital work of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative in this session, with talks from the team and videos showing the extent of their work.
Dr Jodi Gardner and law students Natasha Godsiff (Corpus Christi 2017) and Amelia Quince (Churchill 2020) will discuss their award-winning pro bono activities.
Join us for a discussion of the new book, The Power of Giving Away Power, between the author- former US Ambassador Matthew Barzun- and Allen Packwood, Director of the Churchill Archives Center.
Find out about how Cambridge Enterprise works with the University's researchers and students to help them bring their innovation and inventions to make an impact in the wider world.
Join Professor Paul Fletcher, the Bernard Wolfe Professor of Health Neuroscience, as he examines how video games are helping clinical scientists understand and manage mental distress.
In a debate chaired by Dr Lucy Delap (Queens' 1991), Professor Eugenio Biagini, Professor Richard Bourke (King's 1987) and Dr Niamh Gallagher (St Catharine's 2009) will discuss the formative years of 1920-1 for Ireland and the United Kingdom.
The Right Hon Lord David Loyd-Jones (Downing 1970), Professor Alison Young and Professor Mark Elliott (Queens' 1993) discuss if the UK Constitution is fit for purpose as current affairs put unprecedented pressure on it.
Join three Cambridge Olympic Rowers Dr Cath Bishop (Pembroke 1989), Sarah Winckless (Fitzwilliam 1993) and Anna Bebington-Watkin (Newnham 2001) as they discuss their rowing careers and how leadership in sport is essential in today’s society.
Dr Mireia Crispin, Professor Evis Sala (St John’s 1996) and Dr Ramona Woitek will discuss new developments in radiogenomics and how these can help our understanding of ovarian cancer.
Emily Farnworth, Director of the Centre for Climate Engagement, discusses climate change leadership on boards with Dr Emily Webster, Ismail Sami (Hughes Hall, 2018) and Helen Mahy CBE.
In this conversation, Professor Anna Korhonen (Trinity Hall 1996), Dr John Suckling and Professor Per Ola Kristensson discuss why it's critical to place humans at the centre of AI development and why they are launching a new interdisciplinary Centre dedicated to this cause in Cambridge.
Professor Esra Ozyurek, Dr Daniel H Weiss and Dr Safet HadžiMuhamedovi from Cambridge’s Interfaith Programme discuss the role of religious groups in our society.
Jack Ashby, Assistant Director of the Museum of Zoology, explores the summer exhibition Breaking Point. Learn about the fragility of fired clay in the context of environmental change.
Join Lady Hale (Girton 1963), Dr Pippa Rogerson (Newnham 1980), Tolu Mustapha (Fitzwilliam 2019) and Julia Freytag (Fitzwilliam 2020) for a discussion about diversity in the legal profession today, the changes that have taken place and the objectives that are yet to be met.
Dr Stephen Baker (Fellow of Wolfson), Director of Research in Infectious Disease, will take you on a tour of the large intestine and the friendly and not so friendly bacteria that live there.
What happens when robots work together to achieve complex tasks, and how do we program our robots to work together efficiently? In this talk, Dr Prorok will explore how new algorithms for coordination can help us solve some of the most pressing problems in transport and logistics
The last 18 months have presented a test and a validation of our role within the communities we serve. This talk will outline our experiences of finding ways to keep people connected with art during lockdown.
Join us for this informative virtual talk with Lucy Cavendish Fellow and tutor, Dr Howard P Nelson, as he discusses bird conservation in the Caribbean.
The closing plenary of the 31st Alumni Festival will see the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Stephen J Toope, joined by Director of Cambridge Zero, Dr Emily Shuckburgh OBE, and a panel of esteemed guests, to discuss the upcoming COP26 climate conference.
Join Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education), Professor Graham Virgo (Downing 1984), Matt Rogan (Fitzwilliam 1993) and Kerry Potter (Fitzwilliam 1993) as they discuss the wide range of areas in which exercise can have a positive impact on society.
Hilary Cooper (Queens' 1981) and Professor Simon Szreter (Pembroke 1976) discuss their new book, which argues that forty years of neoliberal policy left the UK exposed when Covid-19 struck and calls for us to learn important lessons from our past as we face the global challenges ahead.
