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23 Feb 2021: Helping you explore our wonderful world We believe that it is never too early to begin investigating the world around us. That is why we are bringing you your very own magazine packed full of exciting activities to help you explore our wonderful

14 Jan 2021: Cambridge's public engagement events give the public the opportunity to explore research from across the University. Thanks to the generosity of the University, our sponsors and partners, most events are free to attend.

17 Mar 2021: Fred Pearce is a respected author on environmental issues. His books include Fallout: A journey through the nuclear age and When the rivers run dry. He is also environment consultant for the New Scientist magazine and a former UK Environment

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14 Jan 2021: Cambridge Festival Code of Conduct We are committed to creating an open, inclusive and safe environment where all attendees, event organisers and contributors feel welcome and able to participate.

22 Mar 2021: Tim Harford is an economist, broadcaster and senior columnist for the Financial Times. He will be speaking to David Spiegelhalter, Chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at the University of Cambridge, about Harford's recent

23 Mar 2021: A list of commonly asked questions and answers to help you with accessing in- person and online events at the Cambridge Festival.

9 Jun 2021: Four themes, ten days, 364 online events, and more than 100,000 views across 175 different countries. This could only be the Cambridge Festival.

15 Mar 2021: Christian Picciolini is the author of Breaking Hate: Confronting the New Culture of Extremism, a leader in the field of extremism intervention, prevention and disengagement and a former far-right extremist who founded the Free Radicals Project to

26 Mar 2021: Dr Pragya Agarwal is a behavioural and data scientist, author, speaker and a consultant. Her books include SWAY: Unravelling Unconscious Bias and Wish we knew what to say: Talking with children about race. She will be speaking on the panel

23 Mar 2021: Dr Nkatha Gichuyia is an environmental design consultant and lecturer at the University of Nairobi as well as a former Gates Cambridge Scholar at the University of Cambridge. She will be a panellist in a discussion on how climate change will affect

16 Mar 2021: Helen Scales is a diver, surfer, broadcaster and writer who, as a marine biologist, has spent hundreds of hours underwater watching fish. She has spoken about the mysteries of the deep sea with Robin Ince and Brian Cox on BBC Radio 4's The Infinite

24 Mar 2021: Dr Laura Davies leads ‘A Good Death?’, a research and impact project based in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge. It uses literature to open up conversations about death and dying and draws on historical death writing to inspire new

22 Jan 2021: Last year, we announced a brand new, exciting festival for Cambridge, which will replace the hugely popular Cambridge Science Festival and the Cambridge Festival of Ideas. The Cambridge Festival will host an extensive series of free, online events

18 Mar 2021: Simon Baron-Cohen is Director of the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge and professor in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry. His latest book, The Pattern Seekers: a new theory of human invention, celebrates human

19 Mar 2021: Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, UK, and leader of the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Group. Her group's research focuses on the development of social cognition and

15 Mar 2021: Celebrity speakers, leading conservationists and youth leaders are coming together to deliver stories of hope for our natural world in a free, open-to-all virtual event running from the 26 March to 4 April 2021. Led by the Cambridge Conservation

19 Mar 2021: The Festival, which launches next Friday 26th March, hosts an extensive programme of over 350 events, tackling many of the critical global challenges affecting us all. Coordinated by the University of Cambridge, it features hundreds of prominent

26 Feb 2021: The inaugural Cambridge Festival, which brings together the hugely popular Cambridge Science Festival and the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, runs from 26 March – 4 April. It hosts an extensive programme of over 350 events that tackle many of the

4 Mar 2021: This is one of the many questions asked during a series of free online events that reveal the political and social realities of modern families during the Cambridge Festival, which launches on 26th March and runs until 4th April. Discussions include

10 Mar 2021: The Cambridge Festival, which runs from 26th March to 4th April, brings together the hugely popular Cambridge Science Festival and the Cambridge Festival of Ideas to host an extensive programme of over 350 events that tackle many critical global

11 Feb 2021: The inaugural Festival, which brings together the hugely popular Cambridge Science Festival and the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, aims to tackle and offer solutions for humanity’s most pressing issues, from pandemics, climate change and global

23 Mar 2021: These are just some of the big questions tackled by a series of religious-themed events at the Cambridge Festival. The Cambridge Festival, which runs from 26th March to 4th April, brings together the hugely popular Cambridge Science Festival and the

26 Mar 2021: Created by The Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) the game-like e-book, Four Futures, One Choice invites children to explore what the future might be for Britain’s buildings, infrastructure, places and spaces. It is aimed at 8-12-year-olds

2 Mar 2021: These questions and more are set to be explored during a series of events focussed on our mental health and the brain at the Cambridge Festival, which launches on Friday 26th March and runs until Sunday 4th April. The Festival hosts an extensive

18 Mar 2021: The Cambridge Festival, which runs from 26th March to 4th April, brings together the hugely popular Cambridge Science Festival and the Cambridge Festival of Ideas to host an extensive programme of over 350 events that tackle many critical global

11 Mar 2021: The ‘Festival Zine’ is available to download online.

16 Feb 2021: If such machines are built, should we consider their moral and legal status? Or are we giving up too much control to machines that are too stupid to handle the tasks they are already charged with? These questions and more are set to be debated

23 Feb 2021: The future of democracy in a digital age, the impact of the Black Lives Matter movement, efforts to rebuild trust after Brexit, how we bridge political extremes and what we have learnt from a year of ‘following the science’ form just some of the

16 Mar 2021: All these questions and many more will be debated at education-related events at the Cambridge Festival. The Cambridge Festival, which runs from 26th March to 4th April, brings together the hugely popular Cambridge Science Festival and the Cambridge

2 Mar 2021: The inaugural Cambridge Festival, which runs from 26 March - 4 April, brings together the hugely popular Cambridge Science Festival and the Cambridge Festival of Ideas. It hosts an extensive programme of over 350 events that tackle many of the