What if sunlight could turn waste into the fuels and chemicals we rely on every day? In our next Speaker Spotlight with Professor Erwin Reisner, ahead of Beyond photovoltaics: Unlocking the photon economy with solar chemical technologies on 21 March 2026,
Ever wondered if you could swim in ice cream or why water is wet? In this speaker spotlight, we chat with Isabel Thomas ahead of her Cambridge Festival event, Even More Impossible Questions, on 29 March 2026.
Bakashimika: The Southern African photography festival rewriting who gets to tell the story
In Lusaka, amid the heat and hum of Zambia’s capital, a quiet transformation is underway. It is not powered by policy nor by politics, but by pictures - vivid, intimate, questioning pictures that insist on being seen.
Speaker Spotlight In Conversation with the Radiotherapy Research PPIE Group
Ahead of our key-note talk on the future of breast cancer, we spoke with members of the Radiotherapy Research Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) Group, who work alongside researchers and clinicians in Cambridge.
Cambridge Festival Family Weekend 2026: two days of discovery, creativity and curiosity in the heart of Cambridge
This March, families can enjoy a brilliant day out – or make a memorable weekend of it – as the University of Cambridge throws open its doors for the vibrant and much-loved Cambridge Festival Family Weekend.
In this Speaker Spotlight, Frank Close, Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford, previews his talk Destroyer of worlds: the prequel and sequel to Oppenheimer on 31 March.
Dr Elizabeth Phillips, Director of Education and Engagement at the Woolf Institute, discusses her upcoming workshop which invites us to rethink disagreement not as something to avoid, but as something that can add depth and flavour to our relationships.
Digital artist Lily Hunter Green is the artist-in-Residence in the Maori Lab, Department of Biochemistry, at the University of Cambridge and will be bringing Planet Laboratory to the Family Weekend at the Cambridge Festival.
