Shape Shifters exhibition.
New! Shape Shifters
20 April-26 June
PV 23 April 5-7pm - all welcome!
Open 9am-7pm weekdays
Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/4vx12qe
In this exhibition, 5 artists demonstrate that abstraction is not a genre closed off in the 20th century avant-garde, but is still a fertile territory
Veronica the cow, with a broomstick she uses as a back scratcher.
How does a cow learn to use a broom as a tool? 🐂 🧹
Join experts to explore some scientific puzzles at our event 'Thinking Through Things: How human and animal minds understand the physical world'
24 April, 3.30-5pm
Selwyn College, CB3 9BN
https://bit.ly/4bMLeqj
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
Portrait of Samuel Zeitlin.
Congratulations to Dr Samuel Garrett Zeitlin (Modern Intellectual History, UCL) who has been selected as Quentin Skinner Fellow 2026
The Quentin Skinner lecture 'Francis Bacon and the Crisis of the Palatinate' will take place on 19 June, details to follow soon
With @cam-english-fac.bsky.social
Driftlines Film Festival, 6-9 May 2026.
Driftlines Film Festival explores a range of themes, from food sovereignty and Indigenous governance to pollution and climate change. Our goal is to change global narratives around ocean justice, one film at a time
6 - 9 May 2026, Cambridge
Screenings, workshop, director Q&As
https://bit.ly/4tTAbmC
Person cycling to the Alison Richard Building.
We are hiring 💼
Join the Centre for Pandemic Risk Management as a Postdoctoral Research Associate
The Centre brings together a team of scientists, social scientists and public policy researchers to inform and build pandemic risk policy and practice
Apply by 3 May 2026
https://bit.ly/4dSnxiP
Call for art.
📣 Call for art
Artists and creatives - submit your work to CRASSH's 25th anniversary exhibition!
The theme is 'Knowledge in a Fractured World' and can be interpreted broadly, from personal to global
Deadline 31 July 2026
Find out more at bit.ly/4svggKv
Join us on 27 April, from 5 to 7pm, to celebrate the launch of the Cambridge branch of I-CIVIC, a new network of researchers, educators, policy makers and civic organisations, rethinking how we teach, learn and exercise democracy in Europe.
Register to attend: https://bit.ly/47v4NlN
The Unfolding World: Causal & physical cognition in humans and other animals.
The Unfolding World: Causal & physical cognition in humans and other animals 🐦⬛
This workshop brings together experts from animal cognition, developmental psychology, computational modelling, and philosophy to investigate
24-25 April 2026
Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/4by8cCM
@chuarchives.bsky.social @ansteecentre.bsky.social @cghrcambridge.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @clascam.bsky.social @lauterpachtcentre.bsky.social @mmll-cambridge.bsky.social @campolis.bsky.social @developingresearch.bsky.social @scbenetwork.bsky.social @camsociology.bsky.social
@chuarchives.bsky.social @ansteecentre.bsky.social @cghrcambridge.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @clascam.bsky.social @lauterpachtcentre.bsky.social @mmll-cambridge.bsky.social @campolis.bsky.social @developingresearch.bsky.social @scbenetwork.bsky.social @camsociology.bsky.social
We hope to see you there! @camcreatives.bsky.social @cambridgeindy.bsky.social @camglamresearch.bsky.social @incollusion.bsky.social @camdighum.bsky.social
It was a huge privilege to be involved in this collaborative event with Alice Mazzilli, Helen Magowan and Pule kaJanolintji (+others). A great research experience.
With support from @crasshlive.bsky.social and part of the @cambridgefestival.bsky.social
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Join a community of writers and receive guidance on your writing from a writing coach or public engagement specialist by taking part in our upcoming Writing Week, running from 6-10 July 2026
Applications close on 3 May
➡️ Find out how to apply: https://bit.ly/3Qc8AOO
Shape Shifters exhibition.
New! Shape Shifters
20 April-26 June
PV 23 April 5-7pm - all welcome!
Open 9am-7pm weekdays
Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/4vx12qe
In this exhibition, 5 artists demonstrate that abstraction is not a genre closed off in the 20th century avant-garde, but is still a fertile territory
Translation networks in the decolonising world, 1950s–1970s.
📣 Open for registration
Translation networks in the decolonising world, 1950s–1970s
24-25 April
King's College, CB2 1ST
Join us in exploring how cultural, linguistic and political translation served as a bridge for ideas, theories, and strategies for anticolonial struggles
https://bit.ly/47lMfV1
@crasshlive.bsky.social and Ambivalent Archives are delighted to invite you to the CRASSH 25th Anniversary Lecture featuring Professor Tina Campt.
Join us on 21 May from 5:00 to 6:30 pm to hear her talk, “Afterimages: Grieving in Fractured Time”.
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/50297/
From Climate Change to Energy Securitisation: Advancing the green transition amid shifting narratives of power and crisis.
Join us for the first event in our 25th anniversary series! 💥
From Climate Change to Energy Securitisation: Advancing the green transition amid shifting narratives of power and crisis
29 April 2026, 5.30-7pm
Babbage Lecture Theatre, CB2 3QZ
https://bit.ly/47zxwG6
With @camgeopolitics.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 Unfolding World: Causal & physical cognition in humans and other animals.
The Unfolding World: Causal & physical cognition in humans and other animals 🐦⬛
This workshop brings together experts from animal cognition, developmental psychology, computational modelling, and philosophy to investigate
24-25 April 2026
Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/4by8cCM
Abandoned buses in a desert.
How do we think, create, and act when the trajectories of life and knowledge are disrupted by war, exile, precarity, or the crises of the contemporary world?
Rethinking Exile: On fractured lives and the capacity of beginning anew
12 May 2026, 2-6pm
CRASSH, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/48qHauS
Veronica the cow, with a broomstick she uses as a back scratcher.
How does a cow learn to use a broom as a tool? 🐂 🧹
Join experts to explore some scientific puzzles at our event 'Thinking Through Things: How human and animal minds understand the physical world'
24 April, 3.30-5pm
Selwyn College, CB3 9BN
https://bit.ly/4bMLeqj
Translation networks in the decolonising world, 1950s–1970s.
📣 Open for registration
Translation networks in the decolonising world, 1950s–1970s
24-25 April
King's College, CB2 1ST
Join us in exploring how cultural, linguistic and political translation served as a bridge for ideas, theories, and strategies for anticolonial struggles
https://bit.ly/47lMfV1
From Climate Change to Energy Securitisation: Advancing the green transition amid shifting narratives of power and crisis.
Join us for the first event in our 25th anniversary series! 💥
From Climate Change to Energy Securitisation: Advancing the green transition amid shifting narratives of power and crisis
29 April 2026, 5.30-7pm
Babbage Lecture Theatre, CB2 3QZ
https://bit.ly/47zxwG6
With @camgeopolitics.bsky.social
Join a community of writers and receive guidance on your writing from a writing coach or public engagement specialist by taking part in our upcoming Writing Week, running from 6-10 July 2026
Applications close on 3 May
➡️ Find out how to apply: https://bit.ly/3Qc8AOO
Person cycling to the Alison Richard Building.
We are hiring 💼
Join the Centre for Pandemic Risk Management as a Postdoctoral Research Associate
The Centre brings together a team of scientists, social scientists and public policy researchers to inform and build pandemic risk policy and practice
Apply by 3 May 2026
https://bit.ly/4dSnxiP
Big idea:
What if ADHD isn’t a lack of attention, but hypercuriosity, an intensified urge to explore and understand?
A recent Positive News piece explores how reframing ADHD could change how we teach—and what we value.
www.positive.news/lifestyle/he...
Info slide: Who will your network be?
Would you like to run your own Research Network at CRASSH?
Applications are now open for Networks in 2026-27
You will receive funding of up to £2,000 per academic year, plus logistical assistance and a platform for events
➡️ The deadline for applications is 5 May 2026
https://bit.ly/3BknsiZ
The Unfolding World: Causal & physical cognition in humans and other animals.
The Unfolding World: Causal & physical cognition in humans and other animals 🐦⬛
This workshop brings together experts from animal cognition, developmental psychology, computational modelling, and philosophy to investigate
24-25 April 2026
Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/4by8cCM
@bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk @camedfac.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @mctd.bsky.social @campolis.bsky.social @carmmethods.bsky.social @developingresearch.bsky.social @camsociology.bsky.social