Jennifer Wallace took part in the Cambridge series at this year's Hay Festival and spoke on a panel on whether tragedy is the perfect form for the modern world. She gives her impressions of the event and of the Festival itself.
Almost 50 Y10 pupils from state schools in Nottingham and West London have been welcomed to Peterhouse for a day designed to show them what life as an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge is really like.
The world-renowned pianist Alfred Brendel is to become an Honorary Member of the Faculty of Music and an Affiliate Artist of the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice.
The former Minister for Welfare Reform, Frank Field MP, will be giving a free public lecture on “Preventing poor children from becoming poor adults” at the University of Cambridge on Thursday (3 March).
A new lecture series which will give audiences the chance to question and hear from leading public figures about the economic crisis and the way the country is governed begins in Cambridge this week.
A Polish virtuoso musician widely regarded as one of the greatest pianists alive today will be giving a concert in Cambridge tomorrow, Thursday 18 November.
Some revealing insights into the life and work of sculptor George Kennethson lie within a batch of more than 80 of his hand-written letters donated to Cambridge University Library this week to mark the centenary of his birth.
The 2010 Xchanging Boat Race on Saturday 3 April - the 156th Race in the series between Cambridge and Oxford Universities - will see 14 of the 18 oarsmen making their first appearance in the Race.
Grammy award winning violinist Pinchas Zukerman will perform in Cambridge in a special concert on Monday 1 March, as part of the Camerata Musica: International Artists Series, thanks to an anonymous benefactor.
The number of places available on the Sutton Trust Summer Schools at Cambridge in 2010 has almost doubled, giving more year 12 students from UK state-maintained schools or colleges the opportunity to spend a week living and studying as a first-year undergraduate might at Cambridge.
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