What's on in the University

A talk by Jana C Schuster (Historic England & New York University) in the 'Cambridge Seminars in the History of Cartography' series.

Reflections on the legacy of Sir Joseph Rotblat in a time of rising nuclear risk: the responsibility of scientists

IN CONVERSATION WITH Doreen Lawrence, Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon OBE

The Cambridge University Brass Ensemble (CUBE) returns to the Painted Church once again for a Sunday lunchtime recital in a varied programme for all.

Paul Seaward on "The History of the Rebellion" by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon

Join us for the East of England Health Data Event, where we'll introduce the new Secure Data Environment and discuss your views.

This event looks at addressing gender-based violence and creating safe spaces. Lunch will be provided.

'The boy who breathed on the glass at the British Museum': what, or whom, is the past for?

The event includes a student workshop, a round table around photographic collections and three lectures on Susan Drucker’s work, on the historisation of field interactions and on mestizaje and categories of identification in Mexico.

This free exhibition, curated and researched by Paula López Caballero, displays photographs and ethnographic fieldnotes produced by Cambridge-based anthropologist Susan Drucker-Brown (1936-2023) in the Mixtec-speaking village of Jamiltepec (Oaxaca, Mexico) in 1957 and 1958.

This talk offers a critical evaluation of the popularly-held view that the origins of the English lie in 5th- and 6th-century population movement from north-west Europe. It argues, instead, that surviving evidence indicates post-imperial evolution and adaptation from the Romano-British past.

How does the interpretation of geometric rock art in Uganda shed light on the societal and cultural experiences of African Pygmy forest hunter-gatherers?

Inside Sigmund Freud's lost psychobiography of American president Woodrow Wilson.

How have Russia’s sanctions impacted international business? What keeps CEOs awake at night--and what should be keeping them awake?

The Choir of St John’s College and The Gesualdo Six in concert in the St John's College Chapel..

The Centre for Faith in Public Life at Wesley House and The Woolf Institute – both members of the Cambridge Theological Federation – are co-sponsoring an in-person day conference on The Bloom Review: Does government ‘do God’? an independent review into how government engages with faith.

In their last event of the year, the Cambridge University Wind Orchestra will be performing a special Gala Concert.

In their final concert of the 23/24 season, Cambridge University Orchestra presents an exciting programme of Haydn, Mozart and Rameau under the direction of Margaret Faultless.

IAS quartets perform Bartók String Quartet No. 2 and Robin Holloway’s String Quartet No. 4.

Max Todes conducts a chamber orchestra of students from across the university, convened especially for the lunchtime concert series in a performance of Beethoven's sixth symphony.