Cambridge Festival launches extensive programme for 2023
These questions and more are set to be addressed during the annual Cambridge Festival, which this week launched its programme for 2023.
The festival, coordinated by the University of Cambridge, runs from March 17 to April 2.
There are more than 360 mostly free events, in person and online. Subjects range from politics and technology to health and climate change, with five core themes: power, society, health, environment and discovery.
One of the events is the talk 'On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory' on March 31, promoting a book by Stephen Hawking's close collaborator, cosmologist Professor Thomas Hertog.
On March 22, Dr Sean Campbell of Anglia Ruskin University, examines how popular musicians engaged with conflict in Northern Ireland in 'Combat Rock: Popular Music and the Northern Ireland Conflict'.
The war in Ukraine has highlighted the issue of food security, which is discussed in 'How Can We Improve Our Food Security?' on March 27. Read More…