Talks
The Really Popular Book Club: The Duke & I by Julia Quinn
Join cambridge University Library for their monthly, online reading group.
| Mon 1 December 2025 | 3:00PM - 5:00PM |
Screening of 'Indexed Beings' followed by a Q&A with film director Helen Knowles and Indigenous leader Soraida Chindoy Buesaquillo. |
| 5:30PM - 7:00PM |
Women of Troy and Hecabe: Psychiatry, theatre, and contemporary society In this talk, the psychiatrist and poet Femi Oyebode (Doppelganger, Madness at the Theatre, Sim’s Symptoms in the Mind) will unpack Euripides’ tragedies Trojan Women and Hecabe, reflecting on the traumatic experiences of war, the drive to migrate, and the social and psychiatric responses to immigrant status. |
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| Tue 2 December 2025 | 5:00PM - 7:00PM |
Activist Women and the Challenge to Patriarchy in the English Revolution Join us for the second event of the Women's History Seminar series. |
| 5:45PM - 7:00PM |
Professor Giles Yeo MBE: In a post-Ozempic world, have we cured obesity? Professor Giles Yeo MBE sheds light on popular weight-loss drugs in the Wolfson Science Society talk. |
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| 7:30PM - 8:45PM |
Growing healthier adult bodies: Lessons from rainforest communities Join healthcare consultant and author Dr Guen Bradbury for a whistle-stop interactive tour of hidden causes and effects that span the 80 years after toddlerdom and see how modern developmental science and traditional childrearing practices go hand in hand. |
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| Wed 3 December 2025 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
Academic freedom, context and positionality An event by the Studies in Academic Freedoms Research Network. |
| Fri 5 December 2025 | 6:15PM - 9:00PM |
Celebrating 125th anniversary of eminent astrophysicist Dr Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and Astronomy at Newnham. |
| Sat 6 December 2025 | 10:45AM - 11:45AM |
Hidden Cambridge team up with Michaelhouse Cafe Hidden Cambridge have a cunning plan to beat the wintry weather. We’ve teamed up with Michaelhouse Café to offer a unique city tour – without the walking! |
| 11:00AM - 5:30PM |
Celebrating 125th anniversary of eminent astrophysicist Dr Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and Astronomy at Newnham. |