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Highlight Endless Stories: Manuscripts, knowledge and translation in the 17th century

Cambridge University Library's exhibitions are free and open to the public.

9:00AM - 7:00PM

For Those Who Don’t Want to be Found

Selected artworks by artist Yvonne Salmon. Paint / Sand / Gold / Video / Photography / Digital

9:00AM - 7:30PM

"The Cost of Dying" display Cancelled

Explore the lived experiences of death and dying on the margins through "The Cost of Dying", a display of images and stories documenting the realities of dying at home while facing financial hardship.

10:00AM

The Women’s Art Collection: Conversation Not Spectacle

The Women’s Art Collection: Conversation Not Spectacle is a group exhibition that explores the history and development of The Women’s Art Collection.

10:00AM - 4:00PM

Highlight Hidden Histories

Explore the hidden histories of the Polar Museum in this new label display. From the female figures in polar history to the origins of Inuit art; follow the stories around the museum exhibits and discover something new.

10:00AM - 4:00PM

Little Robin’s Christmas Trail

Christmas is little Robin Redbreast’s favourite time of year. She visits all the festive plants in the Garden, and this year, you’re invited too!

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Highlight Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place

Experience the work of American contemporary artist Glenn Ligon in this landmark exhibition bringing together works by the artist alongside his unique interventions in The Fitzwilliam Museum's galleries.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight 70 Years of New Hall & Murray Edwards College

70 years ago, New Hall opened as the third foundation for women at the University of Cambridge on a shoestring with just 16 students. This exhibition traces the history of a women's college,

2:00PM - 4:00PM

Nigel Hall RA: Line, Edge, Shadow: drawings and sculpture

Nigel Hall RA is one of Britain’s most distinguished sculptors. His outside works, principally made of corten steel, painted steel or bronze, are concerned with three-dimensional space, mass and line. His geometric sculptures give as much prominence to voids and shadows as to the solidity of material; each work changes with light and viewpoint reflecting the landscapes that inspired them.

4:30PM - 6:00PM

Racism Kills! Bilingual Reading and Discussion with Çetin Gültekin and Mutlu Koçak

Join us for a reading with best-selling German Turkish authors and activists Çetin Gültekin and Mutlu Koçak to discuss literary reponses to the Hanau shooting (2020) and questions of racialised violende and social justice more broadly.

5:00PM - 6:30PM

The Right to Meaning

This article unsettles what the literature describes as the ‘central paradox’ of cultural trauma theory: the idea that while atrocities are most prevalent in the ‘non-western world’, successful cultural traumas have primarily emerged in western societies.

5:30PM - 7:00PM

Race, Policing and Me - Inclusive Leadership in the 21st Century

Organised by Wolfson's REACH Hub, this ongoing series explores the theme of racism via different lenses.

5:30PM - 7:30PM

Walk like a Linguist - exploring the place of walking in the field of Modern Languages

The inaugural lecture by Charles Forsdick, Drapers Professor of French.

6:00PM - 7:35PM

‘The End of Humanity’ Film Screening and Panel Discussion

On Thursday 14th November, in partnership with the AI Faith & Civil Society Commission, The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion will be hosting a film showing and panel discussion at 6pm, Queen’s Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The documentary The End of Humanity will be followed by a post-film discussion about AI and the future of humanity with a panel of experts.

7:00PM - 10:30PM

Naima Bock

Naima Bock brings her strong, purposeful arrangements filled with cradling space and warm light to Cambridge.