Cambridge Festival 💥
The Word for World is Forest: Imagining trees through art and climate fiction
19 March 2.30pm
17 Mill Lane CB2 1RX
https://bit.ly/47hXduw
An immersive workshop where art and climate fiction intertwine. Explore connections between creativity, storytelling, and the living world
Join us at the CRASSH Connections event 'Language, Ethics, and Society: Voices from research and AI'
Listen to talks by two leading experts & connect with researchers, students, and professionals from across disciplines
19 March
12.30-2.30pm, Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/4bkWZ78
Registration open - Check out our Cambridge Festival events! 💥
We have a record number of events for all ages and interests this year; from photography, art, film, performances, to an immersive ecological sci-arts experience
16 March-2 April 2026
Registration recommended 👇
https://bit.ly/46a7Fnp
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Would you like to run your own Research Network at CRASSH?
Applications are now open for Networks in 2026-27
You will receive funding of up to £2,000 per academic year, plus logistical assistance and a platform for events
➡️ The deadline for applications is 5 May 2026
https://bit.ly/3BknsiZ
Cambridge Festival 💥
Film Screening with Poetic Unity: Protest poetry
14 March, 4 - 6.30pm
SG1, Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/4aWzySI
Short films from Poetic Unity, a London-based charity championed by George the Poet
Followed by an Open Mic invite
1/ Explore the NEW website for the Legacies of Enslavement Special Initiative ⬇️
A central online hub for all research, collaboration and public engagement exploring @cam.ac.uk's historical links to slavery & the wider afterlives of enslavement and colonialism.
🔗 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/new-web...
@cghrcambridge.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @janewayinstitute.bsky.social @clr-cambridge.bsky.social @clascam.bsky.social @lauterpachtcentre.bsky.social @cambridgephilos.bsky.social
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Join the Decolonising Plant Knowledge Network for their final event this term 🌱
Beyond Domestication in Amazonia: Plant agency and decolonial relationships of resistance
11 March from 2-5pm
Pembroke College, CB2 1RF & Online
https://bit.ly/4b7Wn4S
Join the Academic Freedoms research network on Tuesday 17 March for their final seminar of the term which will put struggles for academic freedom in conversation with other struggles for freedom, particularly anti-slavery and anti-racism movements.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/4l5xwTM
Apply for CRASSH events funding! 💫
Have you got an idea that may:
- Foster the exchange of ideas across disciplines and cultures?
- Forge new collaborations ?
- Bring academic research to wider publics?
- Explore research and artistic practice?
Apply by 17 May 2026
https://bit.ly/3CaV97M
In the final Affective Encounters Network event for this term, we will hear a personal account of Bipolar Affective Disorder from clinical psychologist and lecturer Sophie Allen, followed by a discussion
11 March, 5.30-9pm
Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/4cCENIC
Don't miss it! Dr Joseph Hatfield, There Is No Such Thing As Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)
Join us for a provocative talk. Dr Hatfield argues that practical benefits would be gained if OSINT was reintegrated into traditional intelligence categories
🗓️Mar 13, 5.30-7PM
💻Online
🔗 bit.ly/40hkuc6
One week to go!
Towards a ‘Smart’ approach: Ukraine and the transformation of the European defence
Join us for a discussion on Ukraine’s role in shaping emerging European defence transformation and the implications for broader security
🗓️ 18 Mar 5-7 PM
🗺️ House of Commons
🔗 bit.ly/4skG2R9
First was a symposium on perspectives from the Global South on science, technology, and the political of knowledge at @crasshlive.bsky.social with Chidi Ugwu and Mercedes Ejarque www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTH5... (2/7)
📣 Registration open
Love, creativity and abolition in and beyond academia
13 & 14 March 2026
CRASSH, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/4c6aBoP
Join artists, academics and activists to explore portals to collective liberation through love politics, visionary storytelling, and cultural worldbuilding
NEXT WEEK!
Between peace and war: Britain’s response to hybrid threats
Join us to explore how the UK is adapting to a rapidly evolving security landscape where new risks extend beyond traditional military confrontation
🗓️12 Mar, 6-7 PM
🗺️Selwyn College
🔗 bit.ly/3MRmHrM
New Event!
Dr Peter Grace, ‘Uncertain Futures. The Crisis at CIA from 1947-1950 and the Arrival of the Intelligence Intellectuals’
🗓️ 20 Mar, 5.30-7 PM
🗺️ Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
🔗 Info: bit.ly/4rnsHXy
At Decolonising Plant Knowledge's upcoming event on Wednesday 11 March, discover how paying attention to the intertwining agency of Amazonian plants allows us to refocus their relationships with humans.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/4b7Wn4S
At 2pm tomorrow, join the Decolonising Plant Knowledge research network to discover how a greater consideration of the ambivalent healing and harming capacities of plants could contribute towards decolonising plant knowledge.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/4se6vje
Tomorrow, join the Healthcare in Conflict research network, from 1 to 2pm, to hear retired Senior Foreign Service Officer, Allan J. “Alonzo” Wind reflect on the the public health challenges that he observed in Gaza before and after the war.
Find out more about the talk: https://bit.ly/46zRZKo
🎵✏️ Jamigraphy: Writing as rhythm, movement, and embodiment
21 March
10am-1pm, Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/4ccYeHD
Explore rhythms of writing to music in this participatory workshop led by artist Alice Mazzilli in collaboration with Pippa Steele of @viewsproject.bsky.social
Join the Studies in Arts, Migration and Aurality research network and Roï Saade, founder of Huwawa Books, at 2pm on Wednesday for a discussion on the vital role of independent publishing across borders.
Find out more: https://bit.ly/4u4XcnA
🎞️ Film: Are you with me
Join the Precarious Aging Network for the online screening of this touching film in which 92 year old Joke van den Broek navigates her experience of Alzheimers' disease over the course of three years
5 March 2-4pm, online
Register to join https://bit.ly/46iYiSy
Find out more about the concepts of ‘backlash’ and ‘offence’ by taking part in a seminar and role-play session led by the Academic Freedoms research network tomorrow, from 5 to 7pm. 📚
Find out more about the event: https://bit.ly/4ciAZvO
Registration open - Check out our Cambridge Festival events! 💥
We have a record number of events for all ages and interests this year; from photography, art, film, performances, to an immersive ecological sci-arts experience
16 March-2 April 2026
Registration recommended 👇
https://bit.ly/46a7Fnp
