Festival of Ideas


2008-10-22 17:00: Into the Unknown: Medieval Travellers, Real and Imaginary (Prof James Montgomery, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)

2008-10-22 18:00: Conceptions of press freedom (Prof Onora O'Neill, Newnham College)

2008-10-22 19:00: Press Freedom in the Internet Age (Professor John Naughton (Wolfson College))

2008-10-23 17:00: China: The World's Only Super-Power in the Late First Millennium (Prof David McMullen, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)

2008-10-23 17:30: Jewish-Muslim relations: the state of play (Dr Edward Kessler, The Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations)

2008-10-23 17:30: Dead hands: Jane Austen's manuscripts and other puzzles (Prof Janet Todd, Lucy Cavendish College)

2008-10-23 19:00: What good are the arts? (Prof John Carey, author of 'What good are the arts?')

2008-10-24 17:00: Cambridge and the Meaning of Life (Prof Alan Macfarlane, Dept of Social Anthropology)

2008-10-24 18:00: The arts mean business (Prof Evelyn Welch, chair of the AHRS Beyond Text programme)

2008-10-25 10:00: Confucius in China: Old Ideas for a Modern World (Professor Roel Sterckx)

2008-10-25 10:00: A Short History of Death in England (Dr Leigh Shaw Taylor and Dr Simon Szreter)

2008-10-25 10:30: How to Illuminate an Elephant (Christopher de Hamel)

2008-10-25 10:30: Minding Your Manners (Hilary Larkin, Faculty of History)

2008-10-25 11:00: The Neglected Ally: China in World War II (Professor Hans van de Ven)

2008-10-25 11:00: The English Profile Project (Speaker to be confirmed)

2008-10-25 11:30: Cracking Alchemical Codes (Jenny Rampling, Dept of History and Philosophy of Science)

2008-10-25 11:30: Montaigne and his Books (Philip Ford, Professor of French and Neo-Latin Literature)

2008-10-25 12:00: How to Write a Mystery Story (Caroline Lawrence, author of 'The Roman Mysteries')

2008-10-25 12:00: Wagner: Music and Power (Dr Mark Berry)

2008-10-25 12:30: STOP PRESS: Louise Rennison in Conversation (Louise Rennison, popular author of books for teenagers)

2008-10-25 13:10: Image to Sound (Mark Bowden and Chris Mayo)

2008-10-25 13:30: Icons in French Culture (Speaker to be confirmed)

2008-10-25 13:30: Mythology and Marketing in the Renaissance (Speaker to be confirmed)

2008-10-25 14:00: Persian Miniature Paintings, Epic Poetry and the Internet (Dr Melville)

2008-10-25 14:30: Can Texting Make You More Literate? (Professor David Crystal)

2008-10-25 15:00: Political Hypocrisy (Dr David Runciman)

2008-10-25 15:30: Jeanne Masoero (Jeanne Masoero)

2008-10-25 16:00: Hollywood Versus the Telephone (Speaker to be confirmed)

2008-10-25 18:30: Facebook: Friendship and Social Interaction (Dr Kathleen Richardson, Dept of Social Anthropology)

2008-10-25 20:00: Art in Polar Regions (Vikky and Chris Furse)

2008-10-27 17:30: What's the point of economics? (Evan Davis, BBC Today presenter)

2008-10-27 17:30: Mapping Italy's Buried Roman Cities (Prof Martin Millett, Faculty of Classics)

2008-10-27 17:30: What are the limits of European integration? (Dr Julie Smith, Deputy Director of the Centre of International Studies)

2008-10-28 17:00: Eating Your Way Through East Asian History (Dr. Barak Kushner (Department of East Asian Studies))

2008-10-28 17:30: The art of resistance in the Middle East (Brendan Simms, Centre of International Studies)

2008-10-28 17:30: Climb Every Mountain: The Ups and Downs of Summit Diplomacy (Prof David Reynolds, Faculty of History)

2008-10-28 19:00: Cambridge ancient and modern: the architecture of the colleges and University (Adrian Barlow, Institute of Continuing Education)

2008-10-29 17:00: Keira Knightley's costume – Atonement in film and fiction (Adrian Barlow, Institute of Continuing Education)

2008-10-29 18:00: Millennia of Colour Making (Dr Spike Bucklow, Hamilton Kerr Institute)

2008-10-30 17:00: Does it all add up? Do Oscar winners live longer and left-handers die younger? (Prof Stephen Senn, author of "Dicing with Death: Chance, Risk and Health")

2008-10-30 17:15: Routledge Lecture in Philosophy: Iris Murdoch and the Rejection of Existentialism (Prof Richard Moran, Harvard University)

2008-10-30 18:15: The Third Reich at War (Prof Richard Evans, Faculty of History)

2008-10-30 19:00: Human Evolution: past, present and future (Prof Robert Foley, Dept of Biological Anthropology)

2008-10-31 17:00: The Importance of Nietzsche (Martin Ruehl, Dept of German and Dutch)

2008-10-31 17:15: Exploring Languages (Bert Vaux, Dept of Linguistics)

2008-10-31 18:00: Touching the Core: Lorca, Art and the Emotions (Prof Alison Sinclair, Dept of Spanish and Portuguese)