Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)
Come along to one of our many public lectures and Topical Talks throughout the year. These talks are given by leading experts from the University of Cambridge and beyond, and are an important part of our commitment to public engagement. Learn more about a new subject and join the discussion.
Fraser Grace, co-director of ICE’s Master’s in Writing for Performance, will be in conversation with non-fiction writer and creative writing tutor Midge Gillies in this free Zoom event on Thursday...
Creative writing tutor Derek Niemann will be in conversation with fellow nature writer Nic Wilson about her debut book, Land Beneath the Waves: Nature, Place and Chronic Illness in this free Zoom...
Dr Joe Reed will be in conversation with fellow ICE creative writing tutor Dr Alycia Pirmohamed about his new novel, Terrestrial History in this free Zoom event on Tuesday, 12 August 2025, 7pm,...
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Today gay men and women in the Western world enjoy greater acceptance and legal protections than ever before. Yet an alarming number of businessmen and women choose to remain closeted at work. Lord Browne, the former chief executive of BP, draws on his experiences as a closeted gay man in the oil industry to explore what holds them back.
Professor Ian Cross, Director of the Centre for Music and Science, discusses some recent research that demonstrates that music has significant effects on how we interact with others, and suggests that speech and music are underpinned by many of the same social and cognitive processes.
Stephen Emmott, Head of Computational Science at Microsoft, explores the current knowledge gaps in some of the most important areas of science, and asks what we might need to do differently in future to address them.
The Institute of Continuing Education (ICE) is taking part in the Cambridge Science Festival in 2014 with a programme of events at Madingley Hall on Sunday 16 March.
Professor Nicola Clayton and Clive Wilkins explore how the nature of imagination impedes and disorientates memories, and diversifies reality. We make use of this to define multiple realities, coexisting side by side. But are we unique among the animal kingdom in traveling mentally in time?
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Professor Alison Sinclair, Professor of Modern Spanish Literature and Intellectual History, explores Spanish and English popular literature of the 19th century, and how this allows us to think about how we engage with victims, perpetrators, those who lament (or moan) and those who are braggarts.
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