Talks
Annual Public Policy Lecture: We’re all going to die! (Or are we?)
Drawing on her experience as an entrepreneur, legislator and board member, Martha Lane Fox will explore what AI could mean for the next 50 years, including its effects on work, business, entrepreneurial opportunity, existing institutions, culture, security and defence. Chaired by Prof Diane Coyle, Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge.
| Mon 8 June | 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Sustainability, Storytelling, and Law: Interdisciplinary approaches to the polycrisis This interdisciplinary conference explores the relationship between law, literature, and cultural production in an age increasingly defined by ecological, social, and economic crisis. |
| Tue 9 June | 9:00AM - 6:00PM |
Sustainability, Storytelling, and Law: Interdisciplinary approaches to the polycrisis This interdisciplinary conference explores the relationship between law, literature, and cultural production in an age increasingly defined by ecological, social, and economic crisis. |
| 7:30PM - 9:00PM |
Mill Road History Society presents a talk about the legendary Chivers and Sons and their contributions to the development of the preserves industry |
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| Wed 10 June | 6:00PM - 9:00PM |
Join us at Kettle’s Yard for an evening of art, talks, music and making, inspired by our exhibition Handpicked: Painting Flowers from 1900 to Today. |
| Fri 12 June | 10:00AM - 6:00PM |
Highlight In Her Words: Women Artists and Life Writing Symposium For centuries, women artists have produced autobiographical accounts of their lives and careers, using diaries, letters and other types of writing as a means of resistance, reflection, and self-fashioning. Taking a broad geographical approach, this symposium will address how women artists, between 1900 and the present, navigate their artistic identities through writing. |
| 2:00PM - 3:00PM |
Maria Fusco reading in the Kettle's Yard house Join writer Maria Fusco for an afternoon reading in the Kettle’s Yard house, inspired by Gillian Ayres’ painting Untitled. |