Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2014


2014-10-15 19:30: Mill road history (Tony Kirby)

2014-10-20 17:00: Cambridge Shorts: premiere event (Stephen Harrison, Josephine Banks, Sara Merino, Steven Martin, Paola Ricciardi)

2014-10-20 18:00: Festival of Ideas and Curating Cambridge Launch (Hollie McNish)

2014-10-20 19:00: Learning to remember: how should we teach history? (Chris Mann, Richard Evans, David Cesarani, Katherine Edwards, Damian Collins)

2014-10-21 18:00: The memories of Eumaeus: a talk by James Warren (James Warren)

2014-10-21 18:30: Sir Hermann Bondi lecture: life on the edge - the coming of age of quantum biology  (Jim Al Khalili)

2014-10-21 18:30: METIS present World Factory: a café conversation  (Speaker to be confirmed ())

2014-10-22 18:00: How sexual desire works (Frederick Toates)

2014-10-22 18:30: From Time Team to Archaeology for All (Dr Carenza Lewis, Dr Jody Joy)

2014-10-22 19:00: A mind full of memories (Mark Lyndhurst, Amy Milton, Dr Hannah Critchlow )

2014-10-23 18:00: The dyslexia debate: or should that be the dyslexia diatribe?  (Professor Julian Elliott)

2014-10-23 18:30: Cambridge stars: big ideas 1 (Richard Hunter, Gareth Stedman Jones, Hamid Sabourian)

2014-10-24 18:00: A climate of conspiracy: a heated debate (Professor Davd Runciman, Dr Alfred Moore)

2014-10-25 11:00: Hustle, misfits and jugaad: alternative economic models from around the world  (Jaideep Prabhu, Tatiana Thieme, Alexa Clay, Kyra Maya Phillips )

2014-10-25 11:00: Mixed race: the future of identity politics in Britain (Sarfraz Manzoor, Dinah Morley, Gabriella Beckles-Raymond, Chamion Caballero)

2014-10-25 12:30: Jedi and witches and indigo children! Oh my!  (Beth Singler)

2014-10-25 13:30: Ben Okri in conversation (Ben Okri)

2014-10-25 13:30: Ben Okri in conversation (Ben Okri)

2014-10-25 14:00: New directions for area studies: a panel discussion  (Professor Ash Amin, Dr Susan Bayly, Dr Shailaja Fennell)

2014-10-25 14:30: How language shapes our identity (Dr Esther-Miriam Wagner)

2014-10-25 15:00: Challenges to sexual identities: global perspectives  (Peter Tatchell, Anthony Obidike, Dr Katherine Browne, Professor Susan Golombok)

2014-10-25 15:30: Animal communication and the evolution of human language (Dr Bert Vaux)

2014-10-25 16:30: Let’s talk about revolution (Benjamin Abrams)

2014-10-25 17:00: Borderlands and boundaries: forms of identity at the frontier (Dr Sunil Purushottam, Dr Bérénice Guyot-Réchard, Dr Jagjeet Lally)

2014-10-25 19:00: 10 seconds of film: colonial identity exhibited in archival footage (Kevin Greenbank, Annamaria Motrescu)

2014-10-27 17:30: Economics: a user's guide (Ha Joon Chang)

2014-10-27 19:00: Nationalism 101: should we be afraid?  (Professor Montserrat Guibernau, Professor Mike Kenney, Professor Margot Light, Dr Glen Rangwala)

2014-10-28 18:00: Writing for a modern world: a talk by Alexander McCall Smith (Alexander McCall Smith )

2014-10-28 18:30: Cambridge stars: big ideas 2 (Hans van de Ven, Christopher Page, Usha Goswami )

2014-10-29 18:00: The computing universe: origins of computational thinking (Tony Hey)

2014-10-30 18:00: Spoken English in today’s Britain  (Cambridge University Press)

2014-10-31 18:30: Cambridge stars: big ideas 3 (Roel Sterckx, John Kerrigan, Eilís Ferran)

2014-10-31 18:30: The cost of non-Europe (Marco Hafner, Dr Julie Smith)

2014-11-01 11:00: Big Brother 2.0: our future in an age of surveillance (Professor Jon Crowcroft, Professor John Rust, Dr. Nayanika Mathur,Professor John Naughton )

2014-11-01 15:00: India-Pakistan: the common ground (Professor Joya Chatterji, Dr Ornit Shani, Dr Bhaskar Vira, Dr Kamal Munir)