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Read more at: Interesting, inspiring and informative: The Cambridge Festival 2024

Interesting, inspiring and informative: The Cambridge Festival 2024

The Cambridge Festival 2024 ran from 13 March to 28 March 2024, with several pre-festival events also taking place in early March. It attracted a wide audience of all ages from the local area and beyond, including international visitors and viewers.


Read more at: From seismic symphonies to literary climate activism: the final week’s events at Cambridge Festival

From seismic symphonies to literary climate activism: the final week’s events at Cambridge Festival

What is education for? How do we move to a more equal society and what are the group dynamics that make us embrace beliefs that we might be uncomfortable with?


Read more at: CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Dr Domenico Vicinanza

CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Dr Domenico Vicinanza

Dr Domenico Vicinanza is a pioneering expert in data sonification from Anglia Ruskin University. He will take his audience on an auditory journey through the seismic wonders of Yellowstone National Park


Read more at: CamFest Speaker Spotlight: George the Poet

CamFest Speaker Spotlight: George the Poet

George the Poet is a spoken word performer whose innovative brand of musical poetry has won him critical acclaim both as a recording artist and a social commentator. He will be in conversation with Sharath Srinivasan.


Read more at: Listen to the new season of Say That Again Slowly: The Cambridge Festival podcast now!

Listen to the new season of Say That Again Slowly: The Cambridge Festival podcast now!

New season includes Must Farm, nuclear fusion, a Russian composer and the history (and future) of vaccines.


Read more at: CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Dr Tom McClelland

CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Dr Tom McClelland

Tom McClelland is a lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He will be speaking aboutrecent research findings on the much contested ground of who does the housework and what impact gender has.


Read more at: How do we protect doctors, media and NGOs in war? - a time to discuss

How do we protect doctors, media and NGOs in war? - a time to discuss

Dr Saleyha Ahsan explores why journalists and medics are now increasingly seen as targets in warzones and what can potentially be done to support them.


Read more at: CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Professor Adrian Liston

CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Professor Adrian Liston

Adrian Liston, Professor of Pathology at the University of Cambridge, talks about our extraordinary immune system ahead of his event, Diversity in the immune system on 20th March.


Read more at: CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Dr Diarmuid Hester

CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Dr Diarmuid Hester

Radical cultural historian and activist Diarmuid Hester will be in conversation with the poet and Booker Prize judge Mary Jean Chan in an online event based on his new book, Nothing ever just disappears: Seven hidden histories.


Read more at: 80 years of Cambridge’s changing railway landscapes

80 years of Cambridge’s changing railway landscapes

From remnants of Victorian industry and transport to a Second World War defence system to recent transport additions such as Chisholm Trail Bridge, follow a five-kilometre route of industrial heritage in Cambridge.