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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.

Forthcoming Lectures

Event date: 
Thursday, 8 May, 2025 - 19:00
Venue: 
Virtual

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...

Event date: 
Thursday, 26 June, 2025 - 19:00
Venue: 
Virtual

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...

Event date: 
Tuesday, 12 August, 2025 - 19:00
Venue: 
Virtual

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,...

Past Lectures

Event date: 
Thursday, 18 February, 2021 - 19:00

During this panel discussion an ICE Creative Writing tutor will chair a discussion between Di Speirs and Ingrid Persaud about the craft of the short story, what makes a prize winning piece of...

Event date: 
Tuesday, 16 February, 2021 - 19:00

Join us for an evening to celebrate the book launch of Elly Griffiths latest book ' The Night Hawks'. Elly is a crime fiction author and also teaches on a number of the Creative Writing programmes...

Event date: 
Thursday, 4 February, 2021 - 13:00
Venue: 
Online

A quiet revolution has been going on during lockdown. Well over 20 million adults in the UK engaged in some form of professional and/or continuing education. This phenomenon has been mirrored...

Topical Talks 2021
Event date: 
Monday, 25 January, 2021 - 19:00
Venue: 
Online

In this Holocaust Memorial Day event, barrister Robert ‘Judge’ Rinder will be in conversation with ICE’s Dr Gilly Carr. We will be learning about his family's Holocaust experiences, which ended in...

Collage of Judge Rinder and grandfather
Event date: 
Thursday, 7 January, 2021 - 14:00
Venue: 
Online

In recent years, there has been a global renaissance in the interest in flexible and life-wide forms of higher education. 

Drivers such as longer working lives, the fourth industrial...

Event date: 
Tuesday, 2 June, 2020 - 18:30
Venue: 
Online

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Event date: 
Tuesday, 28 April, 2020 - 18:30
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Event date: 
Tuesday, 3 March, 2020 - 18:30
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