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Beyond Neoliberalism Conference 2025

Be part of a transformative three-day event uniting global thinkers, scholars, and leaders to shape the future—sign up today!

Thu 28 April 2022 9:00AM - 6:30PM

Samurai: History and Legend

Samurai are a well-known image of Japan, but they are as much legend as history. Our Samurai: History and Legend exhibition explores the literary concept of the samurai and the changing nature of Japanese warrior culture from the 12th to the 19th centuries.

9:00AM - 7:00PM

Diverse pleasures

An exhibition of paintings and ceramics curated by Ben Risk

10:00AM - 4:00PM

CLASSROOM COURSE Introduction to botany

This lively, informative, hands-on course offers complete beginners a relaxed introduction to the world of botany

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Hockney's Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction

One of the most influential artists of our time, David Hockney (b.1937) takes over Cambridge this spring and summer with an exhibition across The Fitzwilliam Museum and The Heong Gallery, Downing College.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Hockney’s Eye: The Art and Technology of Depiction

One of the most influential artists of our time, David Hockney (b.1937) takes over Cambridge this spring and summer with an exhibition across The Fitzwilliam Museum and The Heong Gallery, Downing College.

11:00AM - 5:00PM

Ai Weiwei: The Liberty of Doubt

Kettle’s Yard is pleased to announce a new solo exhibition by internationally renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (b. 1957, Beijing) in which new and existing work will be shown alongside historic Chinese objects

4:00PM - 8:00PM

The Ashby Lecture - Professor Susan Neiman: 'Why the Left is not Woke'

Clare Hall's Ashby Lecture will be given by philosopher and writer, Professor Susan Neiman. Director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Susan has written extensively on the Enlightenment, moral philosophy, metaphysics, and politics. Her work shows that philosophy is a living force for contemporary thinking and action.

5:00PM - 6:30PM

The Marshall Lectures – Professor Ariel Rubinstein: ‘Economics Without Prices and Without Games’

Prof Rubinstein will give two lectures presenting non-standard theoretical models where conflicts between insatiable wants and limited resources are resolved through social institutions like 'social status', 'power' and 'preference biases' rather than 'prices and money'.

5:30PM

Shinoharu Rakugo Performance

With roots in early modern Japan and yet very much alive and ever-changing, rakugo is a type of performance that defies any easy description. Sitting on his zabuton cushion, one performer creates through words a world populated by different characters; a world filled with humour, suspense, tragedy, horror, and much more.

6:30PM - 8:30PM

ONLINE COURSE Humphry Repton & the Regency garden

Trace Repton's career from its picturesque beginnings to the Gardenesque style which changed England’s relationship with nature forever

7:00PM - 11:00PM

The Anchoress

Welsh songwriter and producer Catherine Anne Davies aka The Anchoress, has found a room of her own beneath pop’s playground, in the basement of prog’s castle, creating her one-woman sonic vision.

8:00PM - 10:00PM

Concert: Zubin Kanga, piano and keyboards

Join us for the last New Music concert of the 2021/22 season.