| Mon 26 February 2024 | 6:00PM - 7:00PM |
Highlight The quest for the first stars and first black holes with the James Webb Space Telescope A Lecture by Professor Roberto Maiolino FRS, Professor of Experimental Astrophysics, the Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge. |
| 7:00PM - 9:00PM |
In Search of Berlin The Story of a Reinvented City John Kampfner will introduce his new book In Search of Berlin The Story of a Reinvented City |
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| Tue 27 February 2024 | 9:00AM |
Highlight Cambridge Networking Conference (CAN) Creative place-making – how the arts and culture make a thriving city |
| 12:30PM - 2:00PM |
Rescuing Religion from Obsolescence? John Templeton on Science and Religion On 27th February at 1pm Dr Pete Jordan will give a seminar entitled ‘Rescuing Religion from Obsolescence? John Templeton on Science and Religion’. A light sandwich lunch will be provided from 12:30 in the Healey Room, Westminster College, Madingley Road Cambridge. |
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| 5:00PM - 7:00PM |
How to be Human in a Collapsing Economy - The 10th Alistair Berkley Memorial Lecture The lecture is named in memory of Alistair Berkley, a student at Robinson College who was killed in the Lockerbie Air Disaster. Alistair’s parents established it to honour their son’s commitment to social justice, focusing in particular on issues of equality. |
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| 5:30PM - 7:00PM |
Disruption, Democracy & the Global Order: An Evening with Yuval Noah Harari CSER and King’s College Cambridge are pleased to host a talk by Professor Yuval Noah Harari on Disruption, Democracy & the Global Order |
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| 5:30PM - 7:00PM |
The Age of Revolutions in Southern Europe What is a revolution? What role did Southern Europe play in the history of modern politics? |
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| 6:00PM - 7:00PM |
Highlight In Conversation with Dame Deborah Bronnert DCMG In Conversation event with the former Ambassador to Russian Federation will be hosted by Dorothy Byrne, President of Murray Edwards College. |
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| 7:30PM - 8:45PM |
"Time and Western Man": Wyndham Lewis’s Modernist Critique Prof Paul Edwards takes us into the life and work of painter and writer Wyndham Lewis. |
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| Wed 28 February 2024 | 1:00PM - 2:00PM |
Social justice and health equity – Professor Sir Michael Marmot - Bradford Hill Seminar All are invited to the Bradford Hill Seminar 'Social justice and health equity' with Professor Sir Michael Marmot of the Institute of Health Equity and UCL Department of Epidemiology & Public Health. |
| Thu 29 February 2024 | 12:30PM - 1:30PM |
Highlight Rare Disease Day - Patient Centred Research This year, Rare Disease Day is on that rarest of days, 29th February, and to mark the occasion NIHR Cambridge BRC is hosting a free, online session on patient-centred rare disease research. |
| 5:00PM - 7:00PM |
Counterspeech: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Countering Dangerous Speech Book launch to celebrate the publication of Counterspeech: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Countering Dangerous Speech, edited by Stefanie Ullmann (CRASSH) and Marcus Tomalin (CRASSH). |
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| 5:30PM - 7:00PM |
Faith and Survival: A Religious History of the Thirty Years' War - The Dickens Brooks Lecture The Thirty Years War (1618-1648) was Germany’s first ‘Great War’. Europe had experienced nothing like it before and would experience nothing like it again until the twentieth century. This lecture will serve as a call to augment the study of religion’s role in precipitating and prolonging early modern conflict with a recognition of the importance of faith for survival and recovery. |
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| 5:30PM - 7:00PM |
The Place of Islamophobia within Debates on Racism Join us for the second event in our new series ‘Hierarchies of Racism?’ which will will feature an amazing line-up of scholars who will explore the theme of racism from different lenses. |
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| 6:00PM - 8:30PM |
This lecture is a must for anyone interested in international affairs and the Ukraine War! Demetrius A. Floudas, Adj. Professor at the University of Kaliningrad, furnishes a fascinating insight into how the continued standoff in Ukraine changes all parameters regarding nuclear conflict in the 21st century. |
