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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!

Tue 17 October 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 - 6:30PM

Highlight Spitting Image: A Controversial History

Savage, grotesque, hilarious: explore Spitting Image, the puppet show that became an icon of 20th century television, with Cambridge University Library's current exhibition.

9:00AM - 7:00PM

The Anxiety of Interdisciplinarity 2.0

An exhibition of 40+ contemporary artists exploring the terrain of anxiety or uncomfortable ‘between-ness’.

10:00AM - 12:00PM

The World According to Jirí Kolár

A exhibition of remarkable collages by 20th century Czech artist and political dissident Ji?í Kolá?.

10:00AM - 4:00PM

CLASSROOM COURSE Red, yellow and blue: A colour palette

Learn the basic processes and techniques of paint production from plants

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

Highlight Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance

Which stories get remembered, and why? This exhibition explores some new stories from history – stories that help us to separate fact from fiction and history from myth.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Bodies: Past and Present

An exhibition of student art

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Real Families: Stories of Change

Bringing together more than 120 artworks spanning painting, photography, sculpture and film, 'Real Families: Stories of Change' asks us to consider what makes a family today, and the impact our families have on us, through the eyes of contemporary artists

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Women & Water

Our exhibition Women & Water explores the relationship between women and water in the works of 17 women artists, spanning from the early twentieth century to the present day. The exhibition examines how water has been used by artists both as subject matter and artistic medium to reflect the multiplicity of women’s experiences.

11:00AM - 5:00PM

Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery

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

12:30PM - 2:00PM

Cancer, Immortality, and Christology: The Theological Resonance of Henrietta Lacks

On 17th October at 1pm Prof. Benjamin Doolittle will give a seminar entitled ‘Cancer, Immortality, and Christology: The Theological Resonance of Henrietta Lacks’. A light sandwich lunch will be provided from 12:30 in the Shasha Suite, Woolf Building, Madingley Road Cambridge.

2:00PM - 4:00PM

The World According to Jirí Kolár

A exhibition of remarkable collages by 20th century Czech artist and political dissident Ji?í Kolá?.

5:30PM - 7:00PM

The Police Outrage: A Killing, a Coverup, and a Campaign for Justice in Victorian London

One summer night in 1851, a London police officer beat a young man to death. This talk tells the story of what happened next: a struggle for truth, justice, and equality before the law.

7:30PM

Summer and Smoke by Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams’ haunting classic about longing, passion and self-destruction in the heat of summer.