
What's On in and around the University of Cambridge, published by the Public Engagement Team.
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2025-03-29 19:30 - Beethoven and Dvorak
Beethoven's Emperor Concerto and Dvorak 8th Symphony, performed by CCSO
2025-01-30 19:00 - My Childhood Journey to Belsen: Peter Lantos with Professor Gilly Carr OBE
Join us on 30 January 2025 in recognition of Holocaust Memorial Day to hear Peter Lantos share his extraordinary story in conversation online with ICE's Professor Gilly Carr OBE, followed by an opportunity to ask your own questions.
2025-03-18 17:30 - The Baxandall Visiting Fellow Lecture: 'The Jury, the Witch, and the Shadow of Doubt: Witchcraft on Trial in Early Modern England'
Juries saved a high proportion of people accused of crimes related to witchcraft during the 'witch hunting’ era in England’s history. Trial juries sent hundreds of women (and some men) to the gallows. This talk focuses on the restraint and doubt shown not by learned, elite scholars or judges but by community members who acted as witnesses or jurors and helped free many hundreds more.
2025-02-20 17:00 - Under the Sea: A Twilight Event
We need your help! Can you reunite the hero Odysseus with his shipwrecked men? Join us for an adventure under the sea as we open late and turn out the lights for Twilight at the museum.
2025-02-19 16:30 - Twilight at the Museum of Zoology
Join us at Twilight at the Museums: Battle of the Twilight Beasts - and discover how animals have adapted to live in low light conditions.
2025-02-19 16:30 - Twilight at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences: Night-time Explorers
With the lights turned down very low, grab your torch and search for dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures lurking in the shadows at the Sedgwick Museum.
2025-02-19 17:00 - Twilight at the Whipple Museum
Grab your torch and explore our collections after dark with our space-themed family trail.
2025-02-17 18:00 - Twilight at Great St Mary's Church
See The Cambridge University Schola Cantorum (previously St John’s Voices) in rehearsal for night prayer (Compline), and learn how the cycle of the moon impacts Christian, Jewish, and Muslim festivals.
2025-02-18 15:00 - Twilight with the Fitzwilliam Museum
The Fitzwilliam Museum invites you to experience twilight under a different light... Come to get hands on with free activities in the galleries for all the family, enjoy live performances, or read your favourite stories.
2025-03-03 18:00 - Protein self-assembly – understanding and controlling the machinery of life
This talk will outline our efforts to discover, understand and use the basic principles that drive protein assembly into larger scale structures and phases.
2025-03-12 18:00 - Towards a Net Zero World: Developing and applying new tools to understand how materials for Li and “beyond-Li” battery technologies function
Existing battery technologies, challenges in designing batteries and new techniques.
2025-02-08 10:00 - CAMBRIDGE JAPAN FEST FEB – MAR 2025
Join us for the fourth edition of the Cambridge Japan Fest through February and March. Meet Japanese film directors, producers, and talent. See a wide range of new Japanese titles which are being screened for their first and likely only time in Cambridge.
2025-01-23 09:00 - Shutter Hub Open 2025
The Shutter Hub OPEN 2025 exhibition brings together over 100 international photographers in a selected exhibition of diverse and creative imagery – covering the walls over four floors of the Alison Richard Building.
2025-02-06 18:00 - Private View: A Room of One's Own
Celebrate the opening of our exhibition, A Room of One's Own by Mark Mann
2025-01-28 10:00 - A Room of One's Own
An exhibition of contemporary queer art by Mark Mann
2025-05-01 19:30 - Song recital - Huw Montague Rendall, baritone & Joseph Middleton, piano
Song Recital
2025-03-20 19:30 - Song recital - Carolyn Sampson, soprano - CD LAUNCH RECITAL
CD Launch Recital - Carolyn Sampson, soprano and Joseph Middleton, piano
2025-01-23 16:30 - Varieties of Empire: Famine and the Political Economy of Colonial Rule in India
Global Social Theory Workshop from Prof Gurminder Bhambra for the Knowledge, Power, Politics Research Cluster in the Faculty of Education
2025-02-07 17:30 - Mill Road Fringe - Films
Cambridge Film Projects are delighted to be showing a programme of classic films, local shorts and illustration work by ARU students at St Philip’s Church on Mill Road on Friday 7 February.
We invite you to come in out of the cold, indulge in film on the big screen and celebrate Mill Road’s long film exhibition traditions.