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Autumnal trees near the Alison Richard Building.
Lauren Berlant reading group 📚
Join CRASSH Fellow @darlingorlaith.bsky.social in tracing Berlant’s understanding of normative fantasies and their role in maintaining and critiquing the social and political orthodoxies of given eras
From 13 October, Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
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🥪 Our Research Practice Seminars are back!
Join us in exploring some of the creative, critical, ethical, political or methodological aspects of research as a practice
Thursdays from 12-2pm, a sandwich lunch is provided
https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research-practice-seminars/
@bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk @cambridgegender.bsky.social @greatercambs.bsky.social @janewayinstitute.bsky.social @dphpc.bsky.social @cph.bsky.social @camsociology.bsky.social
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NEW! CRASSH Connections 💥
Want to find colleagues working on a related topic, plan a collaborative grant application, or start building an interdisciplinary network?
Join us for informal events to connect. Apply by 12 Oct 2025
https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/crassh-connections
“Cambridge has a high cost of living, which makes it hard for many households to feel a sense of security or belonging in the city" Dr Niamh Mulcahy, Director of the Centre for the Study of Financial Insecurity at @crasshlive.bsky.social #Cambridge abbeypeople.org.uk/community-re...
02.10.2025 17:18 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Looking forward to this!
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Term Card Michaelmas 2025
Our Term Card is out! Do join us for our Michaelmas Term 2025 events, all taking place at @newnhamcollege.bsky.social. First event is on 17 Oct to discuss Endangered Archives. Details on the website: newn.cam.ac.uk/newnham-events @crasshlive.bsky.social
03.10.2025 12:41 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Shutter Hub Open 2026
We are excited to announce that in January 2026 we will welcome the Shutter Hub Open photography exhibition to our space once more, and the call for entries is now open! 📷
The call is open to everyone, enter by 30 October 2025 for a chance to show your work. buff.ly/Hk7eyf5
Precarious Aging term card.
We are extremely pleased to be able to share the term card of 'Precarious Aging: Critical Concepts' at new Research Network at CRASSH https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/precarious-ageing
The first seminar 'Thinking about precarity and aging' takes place on 9 Oct at the Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
• Studies in Arts, Migration and Aurality (SAMA)
• The Cambridge Housing Network: Quality, Community and Value
Great to have you back 🤗
• Ambivalent Archives
• Healthcare in Conflict
• Post-Prohibition: Research, Pedagogy, Action
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Welcome 👋
• Academic Freedoms
• Affective Encounters
• Decolonising Plant Knowledge: Voices from Subverted Plant Worlds
• Precarious Aging: Critical Concepts
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Launched 🚀
Our Research Networks for 2025-26 have launched!
Our Networks programme facilitates the exchange of ideas across disciplinary boundaries and allows Cambridge researchers to explore new forms of collaborative work
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/blog/meet-our-research-networks-for-2025-2026/
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CRASSH Connections
NEW! CRASSH Connections 💥
Do you want to find colleagues working on a related topic, plan a collaborative grant application, or start building an interdisciplinary network?
Join us for informal events to connect. Find out more and apply by 12 Oct 2025
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/crassh-connections
On 23rd October, join @crasshlive.bsky.social for a special online seminar with Nine Dots Prize winner @grace_huckins that will provide an early insight into their work-in-progress book, including a draft chapter.
Register to attend here:
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48106/
Registration is now open for the inaugural (hybrid) event of the Decolonising Plant Knowledge: Voices from Subverted Plant Worlds research network @crasshlive.bsky.social (Oct. 15) with talks by Banu Subramaniam and Stephen Hugh-Jones
www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47794/
Excited to be involved with a new research network at @crasshlive.bsky.social exploring Precarious Ageing, past, present & future. We kick off 9th Oct/2pm, hybrid and in-person, with @paulfdhiggs.bsky.social & @evemworth.bsky.social in conversation. Register here www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47719/
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Work with us 💼
Apply for these exciting roles and join our team as:
👉 Research Associate, Algorithmic Kitchen Project
Apply by 5 October
👉British Academy Early Career Researchers Network Project Coordinator
Apply by 12 October
https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/about/vacancies/
📣 Quentin Skinner Lectureship 2025–26
Are you an early-career scholar in modern intellectual history since c.1500? Join our research community as a Visiting Fellow and deliver the Quentin Skinner Lecture 2026 with @camhistory.bsky.social
Apply by 1 October 2025
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On Geopolitics, Explorations - War, Episode 1 is now live!
@wjhurst.bsky.social dives into the subject of war in this brand new podcast series.
🎧 Listen now on:
bit.ly/Explore1Apple
bit.ly/Explore1Spot
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📣 Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship
Join our vibrant academic community as a salaried Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow to carry out your independent research in 2026-27
Learn more about the application process and apply by 24 Oct 2025
https://bit.ly/3oudw1R
📢 Calling all local council staff & @cam.ac.uk #AI researchers!
Join our new #AI in Local Government Fair to hear directly from councils about their toughest challenges and explore together how AI can strengthen #publicservices.
📅 Monday 24 November
➡️ Apply now: ai.cam.ac.uk/calls/ai-in-...
@crasshlive.bsky.social @trinityhallcamb.bsky.social @selwyn1882.bsky.social
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La Noire de... at 60 📽️
Join us from 12-14 November for a symposium & film screening to celebrate Ousmane Sembène’s La Noire de…/Black Girl (1966), the first feature-length film made by a Black African director, which won the Prix Jean Vigo at Cannes
https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47520/
Today is International Day of Sign Languages, a day commemorating the establishment of the World Federation of the Deaf and spotlighting the issues Deaf people face in their everyday lives.
This year's theme is: No Human Rights Without Sign Language Rights❗
Family Matters: Holding You Up.
List of artists
New exhibition coming soon!
Family Matters: Holding You Up opens on 16 Oct with a PV and performances from 6.30pm
18 artists' works offer us imaginative and playful ways to consider the impacts of family
Open from 9am-7pm on weekdays at the Alison Richard Building (CB3 9DP), until 17 December
Work with us 💼
Apply for these exciting roles and join our team as:
👉 Research Associate, Algorithmic Kitchen Project
Apply by 5 October
👉British Academy Early Career Researchers Network Project Coordinator
Apply by 12 October
https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/about/vacancies/
Last few days to put forward your ideas for a half-event in 2026! Proposals involving co-convenors from the sciences and/or considering the relationship between the humanities and the sciences are also very welcome.
The deadline is 28 September ⏳
Looking forward to meeting you! 👋
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Call for papers ✍️
Thalassopoetics: Ocean readings in French
What happens to French and Comparative Studies when we articulate them from a marine perspective?
Submit a paper by 31 Dec 2025
The conference takes place from 20-21 April 2026
https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47573/#call-for-papers
NEW! CRASSH Connections 💥
Want to find colleagues working on a related topic, plan a collaborative grant application, or start building an interdisciplinary network?
Join us for informal events to connect. Apply by 12 Oct 2025
https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/crassh-connections
