Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)
Members of the University are invited, where space permits, to attend the plenary lectures organised for participants in the University's official International Summer Programme. (Please note, these lectures are not open to non-members, or to guests.)
If you would like to attend one or more of these lectures, please fill in the web form below with your name, email address and department and select the lectures you would like to attend at least two days in advance. We ask you to arrive at least 10 minutes before the lecture is due to begin, late arrivals will not be admitted. Please show your University of Cambridge staff membership card on arrival. All talks take place in Lady Mitchell Hall on the Sidgwick Site.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Monday 8 July, 11.00am | Professor Bhaskar Vira | The political economy of conservation and food security |
| Monday 8 July, 3.30pm | Dr Jerry Toner | Risk management in the Roman world |
| Monday 8 July, 7.30pm | Andrew Hatcher | Making decisions - a perpetual battle between head and heart |
| Tuesday 9 July, 11.00am | Dr Hannah Critchlow | Joined up thinking |
| Tuesday 9 July, 3.30pm | Dr Louise Hardiman | Total Eclipse of the Art? Rediscovering Ukrainian Visual Culture |
| Tuesday 9 July, 7.30pm | Dr Seán Lang | Britain's second Elizabethan Age, 1952-2022 |
| Wednesday 10 July, 11.00am | Professor Jane Clarke | Has the protein folding problem been solved by AI? |
| Wednesday 10 July, 3.30pm | Dr Alex Carter | Philosophy and Humour: a double act? |
| Thursday 11 July, 11.00am | Dr Calum Nicholson | How to think about Climate Change |
| Thursday 11 July, 3.30pm | Dr Tim Rittman | Artificial intelligence in memory clinics |
| Friday 12 July, 11.00am | Dr James Gazzard | New horizons in Lifelong Learning: making sense of a fast-evolving field |
| Friday 12 July, 3.30pm | Dr Jenny Bavidge | The World's worst lecture |
| Monday 15 July, 11.00am | Dr Jon Davis | Britain and Russia from Gorbachev to Putin |
| Monday 15 July, 3.30pm | Dr Sarah Pearson | Francesco di Giorgio, Leonardo da Vinci and the transmission of ideas in Renaissance Italy |
| Monday 15 July, 7.30pm | Dr Peter Sheldon | Exceptional fossils – the surprising, the significant and the strange |
| Tuesday 16 July, 11.00am | Professor Herbert Huppert | ‘Is it going to rain today?’: The development of weather forecasting |
| Tuesday 16 July, 3.30pm | Dr Nigel Kettley | ‘Stay home, protect the NHS, save lives’: Health inequalities, social class and the COVID-19 pandemic |
| Tuesday, 16 July, 7.30pm | Dr Graham McCann | Wittgenstein, jam and philosophy: towards a practical academy |
| Wednesday 17 July, 11.00am | Dr Georgina Colby | ‘What brains they must have in Christminster': Jude’s Oxford |
| Wednesday 17 July, 7.30pm | Professor Mark Bailey | Did the Black Death liberate women? 'Girl Power' in northwest Europe 1350 to 1600 |
| Thursday 18 July, 11.00am | Dr Jessica Sharkey | Sad stories of the death of Kings: the end of the Tudors |
| Friday 19 July, 11.00am | Dr Ed Turner | Why people need nature |
| Friday 19 July, 3.30pm | Dr Matthew Bothwell | The case for Dark Matter |
| Monday 22 July, 11.00am | Jeremy Adelman | A short history of globalisation |
| Monday 22 July, 3.30pm | Professor Chris Smith | A Naked Scientist at nearly 50 |
| Monday 22 July, 7.30pm | Professor Mark Goldie | The intellectual aristocracy: how one dynasty captured English cultural and intellectual life, 1800-2000 |
| Tuesday 23 July, 11.00am | Dr Ali Al Sherbaz | Beyond LLMs: the advent of Gen-AI in educational paradigms |
| Tuesday 23 July, 3.30pm | Dr Lotte Reinbold | Thomas Chatterton: visionary or fraud? |
| Tuesday 23 July, 7.30pm | Professor Hugh Hunt | Can we refreeze the Arctic? |
| Wednesday 24 July, 11.00am | Dr Carina O'Reilly | Social media, globalised outrage and the collapse of ‘context’ in politics and policing |
| Wednesday 24 July, 7.30pm | Dr Seán Lang | Whodunnits and Headlines: a cultural history of English murder |
| Thursday 25 July, 11.00am | Toby Fenwick | Nuclear weapons programmes: contemporary issues |
| Thursday 25 July, 3.30pm | Marianne Olyver | Strings untangled: secrets of a violinist’s world |
| Thursday 25 July, 7.30pm | Professor Chris Young | The Paris Olympics 1924: sport, art and the body |
| Friday 26 July, 11.00am | Jo Rhymer | How to paint (as) a woman artist? |
| Monday 29 July, 11.00am | Dr James Grime | Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine |
| Monday 29 July, 3.30pm | Professor Rik Henson | Effects of mid-life activities and cardiovascular health on late-life cognition: clues from the CamCAN study |
| Monday 29 July, 3.30pm | Sir Tony Brenton | Are we really now in a "pre-war world"? |
| Tuesday 30 July, 11.00am | Dr Sarah Pyke | Peter Pan in the Tower |
| Tuesday 30 July, 3.30pm | Dr John Lennard | Let's eat my son! The power of punctuation |
| Tuesday 30 July, 7.30pm | Professor Nigel Saul | Oxford and Cambridge compared |
| Wednesday 31 July, 11.00am | Dr James Underwood | The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the legacy of Janusz Korczak – what they mean to children in the UK today |
| Wednesday 31 July, 3.30pm | Dr Matthew Symonds | The making of Britannia: from 'barbarians' to 'Roman Britons' |
| Thursday 1 August, 11.00am | Dr Stephanie Lahey | Uncommonly common copies: Medieval English Statute Books in Cambridge libraries |
| Friday 2 August, 11.00am | Professor Tim Minshall | Why is it difficult to make change happen? Three lessons from the world of manufacturing that will help save the planet |
| Friday 2 August, 3.30pm | Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell | Bursts, bangs and things that go bump in the night |
Please be aware that last-minute changes of subject or speaker may be necessary, in case of illness or unavailability.
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