| Wed 6 March 2024 | 9:00AM - 7:00PM |
Exhibition - The Expanded Librarian The Expanded Librarian exhibition is the result of a series of collaborative artists’ workshops investigating different approaches to what the figure of the Expanded Librarian can be, and to add to the existing discourses of text & image – theoretically, methodologically and as artistic strategy. |
| 10:00AM - 4:00PM |
Explore the hidden histories of the Polar Museum in this new label display. From the female figures in polar history to the origins of Inuit art; follow the stories around the museum exhibits and discover something new. |
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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 |
Crazy Cone Caper self-led trail Join us for a fantastic whodunit mystery this winter and track down who has been stealing seeds from pinecones! |
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| 10:00AM - 5:00PM on Sat 1 June 2024 |
Highlight William Blake’s Universe Discover William Blake’s universe and a constellation of European artists seeking spirituality in their lives and art in response to war, revolution and political turbulence. |
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| 11:00AM - 5:00PM |
Since 2011 Issam Kourbaj’s artwork has responded to the ongoing conflict in Syria, and reflects on the suffering of his fellow Syrians and the destruction of his cultural heritage. |
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| 4:15PM - 5:30PM |
Futures of State Capitalism in the Global North, East and South Dr Ilias Alami will speak about the role of the state as promoter, supervisor, shareholder-investor, and direct owner of capital across the world economy, or what commentators refer to as the “new state capitalism.” |
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| 5:30PM - 6:30PM |
Going hungry in the UK: our ‘food desert’ problem An on-line panel event about why the UK food system serves some of our least privileged citizens so poorly. |
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| 6:00PM - 7:00PM |
The Honorary Fellows Lecture by Professor Sir Peter Ratcliffe FRS, Distinguished Scholar, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford and Clinical Research Director, Francis Crick Institute, London. |
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| 7:30PM - 8:45PM |
Power and the unWEIRDification of behavioural science Catherine Angai discusses how to make behavioural science less WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and Democratic). |
