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7 Feb 2022: Political crises, the past, present and future of eastern world orders, the outlook for feminism, new technologies and treatments for a range of diseases, and the state of our natural world top the bill at this year’s Festival, which returns with

13 Mar 2024: To download and print a copy of the PDF programme visit2024 University of Cambridge.

23 Feb 2022: These questions and more are set to be debated at this year’s Cambridge Festival (31 March – 10 April), during a series of events that explore the impacts of our ever-increasing dependence on technology. The Cambridge Festival is run by the

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

26 Feb 2024: These are just some of the research and questions set to be explored at the Cambridge Festival, one of the largest festivals of its kind in the country. Coordinated by the University of Cambridge, the festival runs from 13-28 March. Over 360 (mostly

2 Mar 2023: From Australian animals to African storytelling, from bird poo to virtual reality; this is a weekend full of ideas to spark your curiosity and imagination. Who’s going to laugh loudest… Elephants or Pumpkins? Girl or Wolf? Monkey or God? Who’s

23 Feb 2024: In "Can a Saint Wear Makeup? Cosmetics and Dress in the Middle Ages," (23 March), Alexandra Zhirnova asks ‘Do respectable women have to look a certain way?’ whilst exploring the medieval roots of stereotypes surrounding makeup and dress and

6 Mar 2023: How did the Romantic poets contribute to the collective imagination that enabled slavery to thrive? Who does Greek and Roman antiquity belong to? How do literary responses to the social, political and cultural changes from the 1920s compare with

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