Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Estherina Trachtenberg
Estherina Trachtenberg is a Blavatnik Postdoctoral Fellow in the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. She studies social connectedness and its impact on health, cognition, and the underlying brain networks.
Can ancient dead languages save today's endangered languages? A tale of identity and visibility
The world is facing a language crisis. Of its c.7,000 languages, Glottolog estimates that only 35% are safe - the rest are at varying stages of being threatened, moribund or nearly extinct. In some cases, it is already too late.
Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Professor Tim Minshall
Professor Tim Minshall is the inaugural Dr John C Taylor Professor of Innovation at the University of Cambridge, Head of the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) and Head of the IfM’s Centre for Technology Management (CTM).
Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Dr Mireia Crispin
Dr Mireia Crispin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Oncology at the University of Cambridge and co-leads the Ovarian Cancer Programme at the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Cambridge Centre.
Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Dr Matt Bothwell
Dr Matthew Bothwell is an astrophysicist, science communicator and author, and the current Public Astronomer at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.
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.
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?
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
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.
