Broadcaster and PhD student Dr Saleyha Ahsan, co-convenor of the CRASSH ‘Healthcare in Conflict’ research network, will chair a panel discussion about healthcare workers and journalists in conflict zones following a film screening of her 2003 feature-length documentary, Article 17- Doctors in Palestine, in The challenges of delivering healthcare and telling the story in a war zone takes place on 21st March.
Radical cultural historian and activist Diarmuid Hester will be in conversation with the poet and Booker Prize judge Mary Jean Chan in an online event based on his new book, Nothing ever just disappears: Seven hidden histories, on how the gay imagination deals with place and displacement through time and place. March 18th, 8-9pm.
Adrian Liston, Professor of Pathology at the University of Cambridge, talks about our extraordinary immune system ahead of his event, Diversity in the immune system on 20th March.
Am I Normal? and Dreamy Cops are two art installations that investigate notions of AI, including computer vision, surveillance, the human body and normativity. The artist, Tristan Dot, is a Gates Cambridge scholar studying for a PhD in digital art history at Cambridge Digital Humanities. 11:00am-5:45pm on 15th March, Faculty of English, West Road.
Professor Erwin Reisner is the Professor of Energy and Sustainability. He is an expert in renewable energy and sustainable chemistry, in particular the sunlight-powered production of sustainable fuels and platform chemicals.
Dr Claire Hynes is a Lecturer in Literature & Creative Writing, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.
In their event, Longevity and nutrition: can we all really live to 100 and beyond? (16 March), Professor Justin Roberts and Dr Mark Cortnage from Anglia Ruskin University, delve deeper into the secrets of the Blue Zones diet, and lessons from the oldest people on Earth. They critique the feasibility of reaching a century and whether simple nutrition and lifestyle changes can really increase our life expectancy.
Alexandra Zhirnova is a PHD student in the Faculty of English at Cambridge University. Her work focuses on the religious and social history of Anglo-Saxon England, with a special interest in gender and patristic reception. Alexandra’s PHD thesis investigates the development of ‘cosmetic theology’ - a set of ideas that allowed the early Christian authors to ally ethics, theology, and nature with various modes of (female) self-presentation.
Clare Brooks is Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge. She will be speaking in a Question Time-style panel discussion on the teacher recruitment crisis on Who can fix the teacher recruitment and retention crisis? takes place on 20th March, 5-30-7pm in the Faculty of Education.
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