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Fri 18 August 2023 12:00AM

Participate in behavioural research at Cambridge Judge Business School

Become a member of our participant pool, support academic research and get paid for it (£10/hour). There is no need to be a student or affiliated with the University of Cambridge.

9:00AM - 5:00PM

Fear & Yearning (and the sliver in between)

An exhibition by artist and filmmaker Jane Glennie

9:00AM - 6:30PM

Highlight Raymond Briggs: A Retrospective

A new exhibition at Cambridge University Library celebrates the life, work and legacy of the award-winning author and illustrator.

10:00AM - 4:00PM

Summer at the Museum 2023: Polar Pop-up activity station

Explore the museum this summer with your family and friends.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Beneath Our Feet: Archaeology of the Cambridge Region

A new exhibition at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology explores the traces of where people have lived, worked and died for thousands of years in Cambridgeshire.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Topos Embodied: Beauty Constructs and Female Landscape

An exhibition of female-led, interdisciplinary art.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Exhibition: Radium Dreams

Award-winning poet Sue Hubbard and internationally acclaimed artist Eileen Cooper RA celebrate the life and work of the groundbreaking scientist Marie Curie.

11:00AM - 12:00PM

Pepys Library Tours

A tour of the Pepys Library with Dr Jane Hughes, Pepys Librarian and Fellow of Magdalene College.

11:00AM - 5:00PM

Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery

Ancient, intimate and political, embroidery is the foremost cultural material of Palestine.

5:00PM - 7:00PM

Abstraction and Analogy: The Keys to Robust Artificial Intelligence

The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence annual Margaret Boden Lecture will take place this year on the 18th of August and will be given by Professor Melanie Mitchell. In this talk, Melanie asks, "What is Abstract thinking and why can't AI do it?"

5:30PM - 7:00PM

Lies, Spies and Double-Dealing: A Cambridge Spy Tour

A walking tour which unmasks the long tradition of Cambridge spying, from the earliest days of the university to recent times; from Christopher Marlowe to Anthony Blunt, via James Bond. Tours are led by Green Badge Guides.

7:30PM - 8:30PM

Haunted Cambridge Ghost Tours

Cambridge guides' scariest storytellers take you to the darker byways of our city, where the spirits of the dead still hover ...

7:30PM - 8:30PM

Haunted Cambridge Ghost Tours

Cambridge guides' scariest storytellers take you to the darker byways of our city, where the spirits of the dead still hover ...