Talks
Gates Cambridge Annual Lecture 2024
A global turning point: how to escape the permacrisis: Reid Lidow, Michael Spence and Mohamed A. El-Erian
| Tue 23 May 2023 | 1:00PM - 2:00PM |
Learning to teach controversial topics in school science education A part of The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion Easter Research Seminar Series |
| Thu 25 May 2023 | 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
Highlight The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography Professor Maurizio Viroli (Princeton University) will speak about Niccolò Machiavelli’s "Florentine Histories" (1532) and engage in discussion with the attendees. |
| 5:30PM - 6:30PM |
Highlight Christmas with Raymond Briggs Cambridge University Library will be taking an out of season look at Raymond Briggs's festive classics, and the traditions of Christmas storytelling. |
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| 6:00PM - 7:00PM |
Eating local: The Key to Food Security? Eat local is a common recommendation to reduce the carbon footprint of our diet. Food prices have been increasing forcing many families into poverty, and supermarkets have seen empty shelves for certain types of food. So the question that many are asking is “why can’t we just make or grow that food here and stop relying on imports?”. |
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| Fri 26 May 2023 | 11:00AM - 12:30PM |
Environmental emergencies in the Indo-Pacific The Indo-Pacific Roundtable 2023, Panel 1 |
| 1:30PM - 3:00PM |
Indo-Pacific Roundtable 2023, Panel 2 |
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| 3:30PM - 5:00PM |
Britain's role in the Indo-Pacific The Indo-Pacific Roundtable 2023, Panel 3 |
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| 5:30PM - 7:00PM |
The Emergence of Arctic Resources: impacts on geopolitics, the green transition and sustainability A talk from the former EU Ambassador to the Arctic, Honorary Wolfson Fellow Marie Anne Coninsx, on the emergence of arctic resources in a warming climate and their impact on geopolitics, the green transition and sustainability. |