Cambridge Festival 2023

The Cambridge Festival is an annual event run by the University’s Engagement Team. The Intellectual Forum was proud to host five events this March.

Beyond online safety: AI, web3, and the Metaverse. This panel discussion considered emerging forms of online harm, and what can be done to mitigate them, in the context of the Online Safety Bill Cohosted with the Bennett Institute for Public Policy

The power of storytelling: care survivors and reparative justice. Dr Véronique Mottier examined how the powerless can make their voices heard, the personal cost of stor ytelling, and whether reparative justice can ever be fully achieved

Romanticism and the Black Atlantic. Dr Mathelinda Nabugodi drew on her current work-in-progress, The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive, to explain how poets’ relics can prompt wide-ranging reflection on the Romantic period’s legacy in our own time.

Would I Sci to You? In this Cambridge Festival science comedy show, our two teams of science communicators, university researchers, and local STEM professionals dealt with current af fairs, crazy tales, and bizarre research and applications. Cohosted with the Cambridge Science Centre.

The universe in an atom: atoms as quantum sensors for fundamental physics. Professor of Many-Body Physics Ulrich Schneider discussed atoms’ power as quantum sensors and explained how we can turn seemingly limiting influences we cannot shield atoms against – for instance, gravity or dark matter – into a new tool to explore the universe and fundamental physics