Festival of Ideas

The Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2012 has over 170 events, most of them free, which celebrate what the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences have to...

A University of Cambridge graduate who taught himself graphic design has won this year's Face of the Festival competition to design the Festival of...

Artists who can visualise mankind’s dreams and nightmares could see their work showcased by the University of Cambridge.

As the centennial anniversary of the first arctic expeditions to the South Pole is celebrated, the Scott Polar Research Institute paid tribute to the...

Public and government obsession with security is hampering a rational, open debate about prison policy, the former governor of Brixton Prison told a...

Modern politicians are too stuck in a 24/7 media bubble to make the kind of grand speeches associated with past leaders, a debate on political...

Imagine a world in which there is no difference between blue and black or green and blue. A world where there are hundreds of different types of snow...

An online recreation of Charles Darwin’s famous experiment on the expression of emotion is being launched at Cambridge University’s Festival of Ideas...