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 14 November 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. |
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| 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’. |
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| 10:00AM - 12:00PM |
The Personality and Legacy of Fox An exhibition highlighting innovative Cambridgeshire archaeologist Sir Cyril Fox (1882-1967). |
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| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Highlight Being Human Festival at the Fitzwilliam Museum The UK's national festival of the Humanities returns to 52 towns and cities across the country from 9–18 November and we're delighted to be part of this with events at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and The Fitzwilliam Museum. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM |
An exhibition of student art |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 11:00AM - 5:00PM |
Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-chia and friends This group exhibition is based on the pioneering vision of artist Li Yuan-chia (1929 – 1994) and the LYC Museum & Art Gallery which he founded and ran between 1972 and 1983 in the Cumbrian village of Banks, alongside Hadrian’s Wall. |
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| 2:00PM - 4:00PM |
The Personality and Legacy of Fox An exhibition highlighting innovative Cambridgeshire archaeologist Sir Cyril Fox (1882-1967). |
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| 4:00PM - 5:30PM |
Making Comics: The History and Practice of Producing Graphic Novels Outside the Mainstream How a counter-culture figure and a group of artists made their own graphic novels. |
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| 5:00PM - 6:00PM |
Highlight Illuminating the Dark Universe with Gravitational Waves The seventeenth Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture will be given by Professor Alessandra Buonanno (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics). |
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| 5:00PM - 6:15PM |
Illuminating the dark universe with gravitational waves Speaker: Professor Alessandra Buonanno, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics |
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| 5:30PM - 7:00PM |
The Taensa Trick: On the first hoax grammar in modern linguistics How do you trick a community of linguists into thinking your invented language is, in fact, real? |
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| 6:00PM - 7:00PM |
Why Corrupt Rulers Must Suppress Free Speech and What to Do About It Burhan Sonmez, Hughes Hall senior member and President of PEN International in discussion with Mark L. Wolf, Senior United States District Judge. |
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| 6:00PM - 8:00PM |
Why we need more women in science and beyond Hear three leading experts, Prof Athene Donald, physicist, Tabitha Goldstaub, tech entrepreneur, and Prof Diane Coyle, economist, discuss their experiences of working in male-dominated subjects, how [if] things have progressed, whether the digital revolution could have huge ramifications for the gender gap, and the significance to society and the economy. |
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| 7:30PM - 9:00PM |
The Great Plague in Cambridge 1665-1666 You've heard about the Great Plague of London, but do you know what was happening in Cambridge at that time? Join Mill Road History Society to hear Dr Evelyn Lord tell us. |
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| 7:30PM - 9:10PM |
St Catharine's College Music Society presents a programme of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 2 featuring conductor Rhys Lewis and soloist Ashwin Tennant. |