What's on in the University

IN CONVERSATION WITH Doreen Lawrence, Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon OBE

A talk about the flora and folklore of Fenlands, covering subjects from herbal remedies to thatching, celebrating Cambridgeshire botany.

Indulge in the unique opportunity to explore our collection of plants and their associated wildlife before anyone else arrives, on an early morning guided nature walk around the Garden.

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

All are welcome to our next hybrid Bradford Hill Seminar by Prof Cath Mercer of the UCL Institute for Global Health, who will discuss 'Is perfection the enemy of good? Challenges and opportunities for building the evidence-base to inform sexual and reproductive health policy and practice'.

Please join us for a conversation with acclaimed novelist Min Jin Lee

Michael Nylan on "Documents [Shu]" by Fu Sheng

Tessa Rajak on "The Jewish War" by Flavius Josephus

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?

The inspiring story of young British farmers standing up against the industrial food system and transforming the way they produce food.

Explore the vital role that architects and planners play in providing solutions to today's environmental and social challenges.

Mill Road History Society presents a talk by Mary Joannou about the pioneering series of residential summer schools for working women organised by Newnham College from 1922 to 1950.

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