By 2032 a quarter of the British population will be over the age of 65. On November 3, a panel of economists, businessmen and social scientists will gather in Cambridge to discuss the issues surrounding this rapid demographic change.
Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has invited ten of the best UK poets writing today to take part in an unprecedented series of residencies at the University of Cambridge, supported by Arts Council England.
As America reels from the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, a Cambridge academic and White House veteran is warning of a looming foreign policy storm for the next President of the United States.
A panel discussion for the Festival of Ideas examines whether social media giants are profiting from our willingness to share the most intimate details of our lives online, and whether we should be worried by this compromise to our privacy.
Fancy listening to children's authors like Lauren Child talk about their writing or taking part in a circus skills workshop or doing a bit of graffiti art?
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.
Western culture could be transformed by the rise of the BRICs countries, a debate at the Festival of Ideas will hear this week.
A debate at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas asks What next for the Arab Spring?
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