Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has invited ten of the best UK poets writing today to take part in an unprecedented series of residencies at the...
As America reels from the devastation of Hurricane Sandy, a Cambridge academic and White House veteran is warning of a looming foreign policy storm...
A panel discussion for the Festival of Ideas examines whether social media giants are profiting from our willingness to share the most intimate...
Fancy listening to children's authors like Lauren Child talk about their writing or taking part in a circus skills workshop or doing a bit of...
Lauren Child – best-selling children’s author and creator of Clarice Bean, Charlie and Lola, and now Ruby Redfort – will be in conversation with...
Christianity, Buddhism, and the Baha’i Faith will come together for the first time in Cambridge on Friday 26 October as part of this year’s Festival...
A University of Cambridge academic is to describe how the insights of a great nineteenth century French mathematician and theoretical physicist...
The UK’s biggest free celebration of the arts, humanities and social sciences begins today.
Western culture could be transformed by the rise of the BRICs countries, a debate at the Festival of Ideas will hear this week.
A debate at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas asks What next for the Arab Spring?
Middle age is often viewed negatively – a time of gradual, uncontrolled decline. But according to Dr David Bainbridge, who will be speaking at the...
Dreams and Nightmares permeate the 2012 Festival of Ideas, running from the 24th October to the 4th November. This year’s programme will encourage...
