Join us LIVE online as Dr Roz Wade chats with Dr Erica McAlister, expert in flies & Senior Curator at London's Natural History Museum. PLUS watch our very own Professor Ed Turner's methods for monitoring insects in Cambridge - what will Ed find in the Cambridgeshire countryside? You might be surprised by the wealth and diversity of insects that are on our doorsteps. Our Young Zoologists have also been enjoying making puppets, and these will be displayed on the livestream.
Join us for the second of our after-hours film screenings of queer films. Lose yourself in immersive vulgar Latin with our screening of Derek Jarman’s Sebastiane (1976), a film which frames a loose retelling of the story of a Christian saint within an explicitly homoerotic gaze.
Whipple Scribble!
After-hours sketching at the Whipple Museum, Cambridge.
Thursday 8 May, 5.30-7.30pm
Free - Donate What You Can!
Ever fancied sketching among telescopes, globes, and ancient scientific instruments? Step into Cambridge University's home for the history of science for a relaxed, creative evening.
Far less than 1% of all collections are on display in the world’s natural history museums, and they consistently top the polls for the most popular tourist attractions. Yet we don’t often stop to think about what they tell us about our world, how crucial they might yet be to saving life on earth, or their role in honestly reframing social histories. What is the science is being done behind the scenes? What is chosen for display and why? Who collected it? What has been left out? Can they tell us new stories for the 21st century?
This exhibition presents eight contemporary artists whose works offer vantage points on a world in perpetual crisis. Rather than representing specific political events, or taking singular positions, each artist in this exhibition explores broader conditions of domination and conflict, as well as horizons for survival.
Explore the exhibition, join one of our talks, soak up the music and visuals and enjoy tasty food and drinks. Future Legacies is an online interdisciplinary community commissioning platform focused on exploring the Black Atlantic. The aim of the platform is to foster ongoing dialogue and showcase cultural production and critique for diasporic communities, bridging the museum’s Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance exhibition (Sept 2023—Jan 2024) and the current Rise Up: Resistance, Revolution, Abolition exhibition.
According to the late antique historian Orosius, the appearance of Augustus as the sole ruler of the Roman Empire was part of God’s plan for the Christianisation of the world: “Caesar’s empire was established with a view to the future coming of Christ”.
Join Tim Whitmarsh to explore to what extent did the spread of early Christianity depend on the emergence of the new world order. Is the success story of the new cult separable from that of the new political dispensation?
This event is part of Cambridge Festival.
Grab a glass of wine and engage in an evening of unconventional conversation where we will celebrate the body, both sculpted and flesh-and-blood.
What is the place of our body when we enter a museum? How can we find space amongst a roll-call of sculpted perfection for our own embodiment, however messy and real? Choreographer Sivan Rubenstein’s dance performance will foreground the mother’s growing body in transformation, while Caroline Vout and Sarah Fine bring academic and philosophical discourse back to the body.
