Talks
Keynote Panel: Creating the New Economy
Join us for an exciting and thought-provoking panel discussion on Creating the New Economy. In a world where economic systems are evolving rapidly, this event brings together some of the brightest minds to explore the future of global economics.
| Tue 18 June 2024 | 5:30PM - 6:30PM |
Highlight We Must Move the Needle on Inequality in Academia Annual Gloria Carpenter Lecture - delivered by Professor Ijeoma F. Uchegbu FMedSci, HonFRSC |
| 7:00PM - 8:00PM |
Highlight The Really Popular Book Club: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Join Cambridge University Library for our monthly online book club. All welcome! |
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| Wed 19 June 2024 | 9:30AM - 12:30PM |
Seeing Through Her Paintings: Leonora Carrington and technical art history This symposium gives insights into the recent and first technical art historical studies of works by the British-born Mexican artist Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) in Mexico and the United Kingdom. |
| 4:00PM - 5:30PM |
Book launch - The Homeric Centos: Homer and the Bible Interwoven Was Homer a Christian ‘theologian’? Could pagan gods and heroes express nascent Nicene faith? The Cambridge Interfaith Programme welcomes Dr Anna Lefteratou, Senior Lecturer in Patristics at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, with a launch for her book, The Homeric Centos: Homer and the Bible interwoven (OUP, 2023). |
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| 6:30PM - 7:45PM |
Think Firstly of Your Walls: Inspirations Behind David’s Designs with Fiona Rose Join former William Morris Society Trustee and Arts Society Lecturer, Fiona Rose for a talk about the inspirations behind David Parr’s designs. |
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| 7:00PM - 8:00PM |
Zoology Live! Animal Connections the LIVESTREAM Join us LIVE online as we chat to zoology experts |
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| Thu 20 June 2024 | 11:00AM - 2:00PM |
The Falling Walls Lab gives students and early-career professionals a chance to present their groundbreaking research to win a spot at the Falling Walls Lab finale in Berlin in November 2024. Each candidate has 3 minutes to showcase a breakthrough that creates a positive impact on science and society. The jury as well as the audience are going to vote for their favourite idea. |
| Sun 23 June 2024 | 2:00PM - 3:00PM |
A talk by Henry Stanier from the Wildlife Trust about the Great Fen. |