Public engagement
Lauren Child – best-selling children’s author and creator of Clarice Bean, Charlie and Lola, and now Ruby Redfort – will be in conversation with Morag Styles, Professor of Children’s Poetry, at this year’s Festival of Ideas in Cambridge.
Christianity, Buddhism, and the Baha’i Faith will come together for the first time in Cambridge on Friday 26 October as part of this year’s Festival of Ideas.
A University of Cambridge academic is to describe how the insights of a great nineteenth century French mathematician and theoretical physicist transformed our ideas about the geometry of space.
The UK’s biggest free celebration of the arts, humanities and social sciences begins today.
Western culture could be transformed by the rise of the BRICs countries, a debate at the Festival of Ideas will hear this week.
A city-wide public art installation of fifteen painted pianos will be placed on Cambridge streets for two weeks, as part of the University’s Festival of Ideas. Decorated by local artists and charities, the art invites the community to make music together.
A debate at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas asks What next for the Arab Spring?
Middle age is often viewed negatively – a time of gradual, uncontrolled decline. But according to Dr David Bainbridge, who will be speaking at the University of Cambridge’s Festival of Ideas, science suggests that it’s a crucially important period of our lives.
Dreams and Nightmares permeate the 2012 Festival of Ideas, running from the 24th October to the 4th November. This year’s programme will encourage debate and discussion in areas ranging from politics, to arts, to the sciences.
Is gender difference a result of nature or nurture? Is neuroscience research being manipulated to support gender stereotypes? A debate at the Festival of Ideas will explore the issue later this month.
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