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9 Feb 2024: A talk and reading that centres on the work of three very different poets: the sixth-century Latin elegist Maximian, the cult Spanish poète maudit Leopoldo María Panero (1948-2014), and the contemporary memoirist Manuel Vilas (born 1962).

9 Feb 2024: Large Hadron Collider experiments at CERN have discovered the Higgs boson, the final missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics.

9 Feb 2024: Our health protection team gives advice and guidance on a huge variety of illnesses, bugs and germs that we encounter in our everyday lives, in an attempt to stop the spread of infections and protect the health of the public.

9 Feb 2024: Learn how to crystallise a protein, and look down a microscope to see your crystals growing!

9 Feb 2024: Join textile artist Clare Wilkes (@clareewilkes, www.periodically.blog) to hear about her temperature records in yarn and thread.

9 Feb 2024: Join the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC), colleagues from Darwin and Churchill Colleges and the National Underground Asset Register (NUAR) for games, hands-on activities and experiments to discover how engineers

9 Feb 2024: Join us as we kick off Sunday with a quiet hour. Come and colour in pictures that illustrate our research themes, design your own optical illusion, or have a go at solving one of our word searches or other puzzles. Why not create some graffiti for

9 Feb 2024: Re-shaping Landscapes is a collaborative multimedia performance project, delving into the ephemerality of disappearing and transforming landscapes.

9 Feb 2024: Discover how the Colouring Cities’s international network using open-source code to generate interactive maps that create, store and visualise data on homes, offices, factories, shops and schools in order to improve the lives of city dwellers –

9 Feb 2024: For one night only: join us for an immersive experience at the Museum of Classical Archaeology as artist Ella McCartney transforms our Cast Gallery.

9 Feb 2024: Join us for an open day at the UK’s leading heart and lung hospital, and discover all about what goes into providing world-class heart, lung and sleep care to patients

9 Feb 2024: The Museum of Classical Archaeology is home to more than 450 plaster casts of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture. But why do we have a collection of copies or ‘fakes’? Join Curator Dr Susanne Turner on this tour of the Museum of Classical

9 Feb 2024: Visit the Museum of Zoology after hours for animal-themed board games. Grab a drink, play strategy games, create canine chaos or battle to be the best at Hungry Hungry Hippos.

9 Feb 2024: Researchers from the MRC Toxicology Unit are transforming into (temporary) tattoo artists for our family weekend! Choose a temporary tattoo, and while it’s being applied, talk to the researchers about the unique design and how it relates to their

9 Feb 2024: Join us for an exciting and educational adventure, as we blend fun and learning into a unique game designed for kids! This game will engage children in the fascinating world of microbes that live inside your cells, all while enjoying the beloved

9 Feb 2024: Join us for a unique exhibition of art and design creations that showcase some of the world’s most burning questions in novel and creative ways.

9 Feb 2024: East Anglian Air Ambulance is a charity providing life-saving critical care 24 hours-a-day, 365 days-a-year by air and road across Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.

9 Feb 2024: Psychologists Dr Magdalena Zawisza and Dr Craig Owen discuss the fascinating topic of digital consumer and gender bias. This talk will focus on big picture questions such as: How are women and men portrayed on the internet in digital advertisements

9 Feb 2024: ‘Walking with Constable’ is a university-wide research project led by Cambridge Digital Humanities, the Fitzwilliam Museum and the University Digital Library, which has been exploring how we can use digital technologies to take archive material

9 Feb 2024: Calling all curious and budding scientists! Get ready for a fascinating journey into antibody landscapes, which provide a way of showing how the body responds to pathogen variants, from flu to COVID-19. Learn how we use antibody landscapes to choose

9 Feb 2024: With elections due in many countries in 2024, including the UK, a panel of experts - Dr Ella McPherson, Associate Professor of the Sociology of New Media and Digital Technology at the University of Cambridge; Dr Melisa Basol, Research manager at

9 Feb 2024: Commoners Comedy and Custard Comedy are proud to present an evening of comedy to make you think. The second show of the night is Tadiwa Mahlunge: Inhibition Exhibition.

9 Feb 2024: The inequitable distribution of domestic and caring labour in different-sex couples has been a long-standing feminist concern. Some have hoped that having both partners at home during the COVID-19 pandemic would usher in a new era of equitable work

9 Feb 2024: With the NHS and social care on emergency support, this panel - comprised of Professor Mike Kelly, University of Cambridge; Thara Raj Director of Population Health and Inequalities at an NHS Trust in Warrington; Dr Geoff Wong from the University of

9 Feb 2024: Karen Spärck Jones, a Fellow of Wolfson from 2000 until her death in 2007, was a computer scientist whose concepts are considered to be the basis for how the modern internet search engine works.

9 Feb 2024: Come and join us for this one-off amazing live podcast event as part of the Cambridge Festival 2024 – The Live Animal Heartbeat Podcast will be recorded on 26 March at 7.30pm – from the Old Devinity Lecture Theatre, St John’s College, Cambridge

9 Feb 2024: Dive into the pre-frontal cortex for an off-balance, fun, emotive dance exploration of the three modes of emotional regulation: threat, drive, soothe. Award-winning Infusion Physical Theatre looks at adrenaline, dopamine and oxytocin in a multimedia

9 Feb 2024: The award-winning Meta Lab uses emerging digital technology in innovative ways to create transformational educational experiences. Come and meet Lab Director, Dr Chris Macdonald, and experience a pioneering VR Public Speaking project.

9 Feb 2024: You are sure to have a blast creating and launching your own mini rocket! You will also be able to learn about aerodynamics and find out about some of the advances in technology that have improved lives in Cambridge and around the world.

9 Feb 2024: Festival favourites The Variables return once more to the Portland Arms and the Cambridge Festival, to show the funny side of science. Join our scientists as they become comedians for an evening, and find out what it’s really like to delve into

9 Feb 2024: Women’s health researchers from Cambridge Cardiovascular will be available to talk about pre-eclampsia and other complications of pregnancy, highlighting the impact that these conditions can have on women’s cardiovascular health in the longer

9 Feb 2024: Learn how to make music like a DJ with computer code. Find out how robot cars can navigate their way around humans. Craft your own binary bracelet. Take a tour of the William Gates Building. Or solve the puzzles on Pirate Island and find the codes

9 Feb 2024: Embark on an ice-cool journey of discovery – step inside British Antarctic Survey as we open our HQ doors in Cambridge on 16 March 2024 to unveil the fascinating world of polar research, technology, engineering and operations. Why is Antarctic ice

4 Mar 2024: Ever wanted to display your artwork on a punt? We are looking for student artwork relating to the theme of WATER to display on punts on the River Cam as part of Cambridge Festival Creatives. The aim of this exhibition is to see how art interacts

9 Feb 2024: Technology offers us the world – but what does it take away? What is the bargain here? The Faust Shop, an augmented theatrical experience embedded in a lab environment, asks these and related questions. Faust Shop 2.0 adapts Johann Wolfgang

9 Feb 2024: Hear from Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox (Department of Psychology | (cam.ac.uk) & the Brazelton Centre UK (www.brazelton.co.uk) in this mini-talk about newborn language and communication signals.

9 Feb 2024: Different short videos and documentaries will be running in a continuous loop at location. Audience will be able to watch at their leisure what it is of interest to them in relation to climate change research.

6 Feb 2024: This year we've had a gorgeous PDF programme designed so you can easily find the events you want to attend. You will need to visit the website to book onto those events which require booking but hopefully this is now an easier way to find the things

9 Feb 2024: Story, art and science: three ways of looking at the challenges facing our planet. Let storyteller Marion Leeper and illustrator Tonka Uzu take you on a timeless journey to a remote atoll in the Pacific Ocean to meet Sky Mother and her handsome sons.

9 Feb 2024: The SunSpaceArt team will be running ‘drop-in’ workshops for children during the family weekend (23–24 March 2024) at the Cambridge Festival. The activities will involve making colourful ‘pop-up’ and collage cards about the Sun, Solar

9 Feb 2024: Join the Wolfson gardening team on this special tour that will take you around our beautiful College grounds. Our gardens consist of a series of lawned courtyards forming a set of garden ‘rooms’, with some stunning herbaceous borders.

9 Feb 2024: To create change in our current world, we have to be able to imagine otherwise. In this workshop led by Sonji Shah, we will use speculative fiction to help us create glimpses of how we can relate differently to other beings and our environments.

9 Feb 2024: Leadership is a dynamic, evolving set of behaviours and mindsets, transforming, and responding to its surroundings. A traditional one-directional view has shifted to recognize leadership as a dialogue between leaders and followers, with the

9 Feb 2024: Come and see how the Shoestring team are using low-cost technologies like web cameras, Raspberry Pis, open source software, engbarcode scanners and tiny sensors (for temperature, distance, vibration, light intensity) to create simple systems that

9 Feb 2024: We often refer to bodies and body parts as being ‘natural’. So, we use the ideas of natural hair, natural nails, natural makeup and natural bodybuilding. But what does it mean to say that our bodies are ‘natural’, especially when we often

9 Feb 2024: In this event, participants and families who are interested will be invited to test their knowledge about sustainable solutions to climate change by entering into our Sustainability Quest (which can be done autonomously).

9 Feb 2024: An exhibition exploring how objects, texts and maps have shaped public perceptions of the Arctic. Discover how the Arctic is framed in particular ways, and why it matters.

9 Feb 2024: In this talk, researchers will look into the relationship between dementia, diet and menopause.

9 Feb 2024: Dr Domenico Vicinanza, a pioneering expert in data sonification from Anglia Ruskin University, will take you on an auditory journey through the seismic wonders of Yellowstone National Park and, in conversation with Earth scientist Dr Carrie Soderman

9 Feb 2024: How do we learn about the world around us, and what sources do we trust for information? We may turn to teachers and books, but we also turn to collective knowledge online. Each month, Wikipedia and Wikimedia entries are viewed over 20 billion times.