Prize tomato
30 May 2012A group of students on the University of Cambridge’s MPhil course in Engineering for Sustainable Development has devised a project that will help Mexico’s small...
Death and the image: an introduction to palliative filmmaking
29 May 2012A new book by Professor Emma Wilson from the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages looks at how death is addressed through modern artworks based...
The art of survival
22 May 2012A collection of artefacts made by prisoners from the Channel Islands in World War II has gone on display in Jersey to mark the 70th...
Can Hollande live up to expectations?
18 May 2012As Francois Hollande takes up his seat as President of France, will he be able to live up to the huge expectations of those who...
Intoxicating history
18 May 2012In tracing the modern history of Germany’s policy on intoxicant and drug use, which favours therapy rather than punishment, Cambridge historian Dr Victoria Harris highlights...
The End Of Honecker
17 May 2012A film about the downfall of the East German head of state, Erich Honecker, which includes an astonishing interview with his apparently unrepentant widow, will...
Encounters in medieval matrimony
17 May 2012Scholars from five different institutions, and both Christian and Muslim backgrounds, will gather in Cambridge tomorrow to look at medieval Islamic marriage and how it...
Cambridge Language Sciences launched
15 May 2012The University launched its new Strategic Initiative in Language Sciences at a special one-day conference at Newnham College on 12 May, attended by over 90...
Ethical dilemmas and global health
15 May 2012Sociologists David Stuckler and Sridhar Venkatapuram discuss how tensions within society are slowing down the process of combating disease worldwide.
There but not there: the meaning of absence
14 May 2012A lecture tomorrow by Professor Hung Wu is a rare opportunity to hear an eminent Chinese scholar talk about the ways in which the country’s...