We hope to see you there! @camcreatives.bsky.social @cambridgeindy.bsky.social @camglamresearch.bsky.social @incollusion.bsky.social @camdighum.bsky.social

Translating Conflict and Refuge: Language, displacement, and the politics of representation.

Translating Conflict and Refuge: Language, displacement, and the politics of representation

Translators, interpreters, scholars, refugees, and NGO representatives will explore the complex realities of translating conflict and refuge

24 April 2026
West Hub, CB3 0US
https://bit.ly/4bOBThO

The Spectre of State Capitalism Published in The AAG Review of Books (Vol. 14, No. 2, 2026)

The book forum on The Spectre of State Capitalism now has an issue in the AAG Review of Books, featuring great contributions by Jerome Roos, Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Pavlos Roufos, Juvaria Jafri and Nassar Alnassar, Angus McNelly, Rachel Bok. Check it out!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Select tickets – 10 Years of the Paris Climate Agreement: Reflecting on what has worked, what hasn’t and what comes next – The Howard Building, Downing College 10 Years of the Paris Climate Agreement: Reflecting on what has worked, what hasn’t and what comes next – The Howard Building, Downing College, Wed 6 May 2026 - A decade after it was adopted, the Pari...

10 Years of the Paris Climate Agreement: Reflecting on what has worked, what hasn’t and what comes next

📅 Wed 6 May 2026
🕑2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
📍The Howard Building, Downing College, CB2 1DQ

Register now: tickettailor.com/events/cambr...

@cambridgezero.bsky.social | #ClimateAction

Ready to take the first step on your Cambridge journey? 🤔

Our brand-new online hub brings together inspiring stories and information to get you started.

See this Instagram post by @cambridgeuniversity instagram.com/p/DWWSh46kSl...

Trauma response under structural constraint - CRASSH Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

CRASSH Healthcare in Conflict research network invites you to its next webinar lecture:

Trauma response under structural constraint: Field lessons from Palestine

📆 Wed 8 April
🕐 13:00 – 14:00 UK | 08:00 – 09:00 EST
👨‍💻 Online Only

Open to all. Register now: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/50797...

📣Book Presentation: Memories and Social Struggles in Contemporary Bolivia with author Sue A. S. Iamamoto (Federal University of Bahia, UFBA)
Chair: Sian Lazar (University of Cambridge)

For more Easter Term 2026 - CLAS Events: www.latin-american.cam.ac.uk/latest-news-...

AI For Good: The next event in the Bodily Autonomy in the AI Age Salon Series

📅Mon 30 March
🕕6PM
📍The Old Library, Pembroke College

We discuss how civil society is responding to AI rights abuses by promoting positive uses of AI.

Join us for drinks and discussion afterwards.

We are Trained to Become Leaders. But is that Enough? A Reflection on “Ethical Leadership” in the Cambridge Context — King's Entrepreneurship Lab This week we celebrated the selection of the 2026 Laidlaw Scholars, following the launch of the Laidlaw Leadership and Research Programme with the E-Lab last November. The programme offers first-year ...

Interesting commentary by 1st year HSPS undergrad and one of the newest Laidlaw Scholars, Leni Klöcker, explaining how students should embrace their ethical responsibility and use their privilege for meaningful social change. www.kingselab.org/blog/leni-kl...

World at One - 23/03/2026 - BBC Sounds News, analysis and comment from BBC Radio 4

Listen to Professor Helen Thompson (POLIS/Clare College) speak on BBC Radio 4’s World at One about the growing energy crisis (starts at 32m).

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Congratulations to Giovanni Mantilla. We can't wait to read the new book.

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

Today David & historian @robertsaunders.bsky.social explore the 80th anniversary of Churchill’s ‘Sinews of Peace’ speech given in March 1946. It's best known for introducing the idea of the ‘Iron Curtain’. What was Churchill trying to achieve?

Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

Join us for a European Seminar – Understanding EU Foreign Policy in Conflict with Thomas Maddock (Centre for European Reform) and Benedetta Morari (LSE)

📅Thurs 12 March
🕧 12:30 – 14:00 GMT
📍 Room 119, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road

All welcome. Refreshments provided.

We're hiring an Assistant Professor - China and Global Development to be based in the Centre of Development Studies and the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS). The post will be available from 1 September 2026.

Closing date: 7 April

www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

We agree.

BONUS EPISODE OUT NOW!

This bonus episode to accompany our series with Luke Kemp about how societies collapse and how they can recover explores his own story to explain how he came to think the way he does. Where does he think hope comes from?

Join PPF+ now: www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus

The war with Iran: Expert analysis Following attacks on Iran by the US and Israel, and counter-attacks by Iran across the Middle East, Dr Evaleila Pesaran, Senior College Lecturer in Politics

The war with Iran: Expert analysis with Dr Evaleila Pesaran. www.cam.ac.uk/news/the-war...

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

In today’s episode David talks to Luke Kemp, author of Goliath’s Curse, about the prospects for societal collapse in the 21st century. Is there any escape in an age when personal data has become the primary lootable resource?

Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

Applications are invited for an Assistant Professor in political theory, to be based in the Department of POLIS at Cambridge. The post will be available from 1 September 2026.

For more details: www.polis.cam.ac.uk/job-opportun...

The fourth talk in the Urban Multiplicities Seminar Series will be delivered by @princeguma.bsky.social (@campolis.bsky.social) in collaboration with @infrastructuralgeo.bsky.social

Tuesday 10th March, 16:30–18:00, Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!

✍️The 2026 RA Butler Prize essay questions are now available.

The RA Butler Prize is an annual essay competition in politics and international studies, open to students in Year 12 or the Lower 6th.

www.polis.cam.ac.uk/about-us/pri...

Join us Monday 12:30 in ARB S1 for Prof Peter Dunne's talk on "Gender Beyond the Binary in Europe." In person only. www.gender.cam.ac.uk/Events/gende...

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

In today’s episode David talks to Luke Kemp about the strengths and weaknesses of modern states and modern structures of authority. Are modern states any different from the criminal enterprises of coercion that preceded them?

Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

Metropolitan + Live Recording of Past Present Future Podcast with David Runciman, James Marriott Whit Stillman’s masterpiece explores the impossibly bookish lives of a group of young Manhattan socialites during party season as they talk their way through topics large and small. A glorious pre-int...

Just a handful of tickets left for the first in our new season of screenings & live recordings - Metropolitan with @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social.

🎬 Regent St Cinema, London
📅 Thursday 19th March
⏰ 7pm
🎟️ Book your ticket here ⬇️

www.regentstreetcinema.com/movie/metrop...

Our Middlebrook/Djerassi VP Prof Gloria Wekker arrives this week! Don't miss her talk on 11 March 5:30 "Still Crazy After All Those Years: Rethinking Intersectionality" at Christ's.

Thrilled to kick off our Development Studies Annual Lectures with @triofrancos.bsky.social!

Join us this Sunday at 5pm!

(on the International Women's Day ✌️)

NEW EVENT
Milei’s economics: Signpost or warning for Latin America and beyond?

Dr Irene Mia explores Javier Milei's dramatic economic experiment and its wider implications for Argentina, Latin America and beyond

🗓️ 4 Mar, 5.30-7.00 PM
🗺️ Trinity Hall
✒️ Registration & info: bit.ly/4kKQyPd

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

Today is the 3rd & final of David’s conversations with S. M. Amadae about nuclear weapons and nuclear war, this time looking to the future. What are the prospects for nuclear disarmament in the 21st century? Might we still get out of this alive?

Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

BONUS EPISODE OUT NOW!

In this PPF+ bonus episode to accompany our series about nuclear war and nuclear weapons, David explores the definitive piece of reportage on the experiences of the people of Hiroshima on 6th August 1945 and afterwards.

Join PPF+ now: www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus

New piece for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social, written with @jacktaggart.bsky.social and @tomchodor.bsky.social! It's an attempt at grasping the dismantling of multilateral global governance, in light of intensifying geopolitical rivalries, resurgent state capitalism, and hegemonic crisis. Link below: