Talks
Holding it Together: Making, Maintaining and Mending from the Early Modern to the Present
‘Holding it Together’, a two-day symposium taking place in late June 2026, addresses this gap, bringing together makers and scholars of material culture to co-create new and robust concepts of lastingness rooted in both historical understanding and contemporary practice.
| Tue 11 February 2025 | 2:00PM - 8:00PM |
Highlight Reaching Out: Gesture, Texture & Text Symposium Exploring interrelations between the idea of the gestural and the textural, with a particular focus on the written word. |
| 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market Public Lecture by Professor Adam Hanieh, chaired by Professor Helen Bao. Adam Hanieh is Professor of Political Economy and Global Development at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, and Joint Chair in Middle East Studies at the Institute of International and Area Studies at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. |
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| 7:00PM - 9:00PM |
Explore the AI revolution and its potential social and political impacts at this participatory workshop. |
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| 7:30PM - 8:30PM |
Cambridge’s Original Green Belt: Our Urban Commons What exactly is a common and how have these areas featured in the growth and development of Cambridge? Mill Road History Society looks at how these spaces have been used and changed over the centuries. |
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| Thu 13 February 2025 | 11:30AM - 12:00PM |
Tour of Renaturation: Fractured Identities, Future Selves by Debbie Yeboah Join us for an exhibition tour of Renaturation: Fractured Identities, Future Selves by Debbie Yeboah. |