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Protecting your children: Teaching them to stay safe online

4:30pm-6:00pm on Wednesday 18 March

Anglia Ruskin University

The 2026 Baron de Lancey Lecture

5:00pm-7:00pm on Wednesday 18 March

Faculty of Law, The David Williams Building, LG19

Have we lost the ability to debate immigration – and what can education do about it?

5:00pm-6:30pm on Wednesday 18 March

Faculty of Education


Cambridge Poetry Prize

5:00pm-7:00pm on Wednesday 18 March

Plumb Auditorium, Christ's College

Are natural disasters inevitable? Insights from science and religion

6:00pm-7:15pm on Wednesday 18 March

Queen's Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College

The unwelcome return of scientific racism: The Olaudah Equiano annual race justice lecture

6:00pm-7:30pm on Wednesday 18 March

Anglia Ruskin University


Innovating solutions: Water for food futures

6:00pm-8:00pm on Wednesday 18 March

Cass Centre, Cambridge University Press

Ex Machina: A Cambridge Festival launch event with Evolution of Horror

6:00pm-9:00pm on Wednesday 18 March

Everyman Cinema, Screen 2

Climate repair: Hope or hype?

7:00pm-8:30pm on Wednesday 18 March

Babbage Lecture Theatre, (Through the Pembroke Archway)


Electroacoustic Day

9:30am-8:00pm on Thursday 19 March

West Road Concert Hall

500 years of science in print

2:00pm-3:00pm on Thursday 19 March
2:00pm-3:00pm on Friday 20 March
2:00pm-3:00pm on Saturday 21 March
4:00pm-5:00pm on Saturday 21 March

Whipple Library


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