Past Events

John Henry Newman has been celebrated as a great thinker and as a great stylist. Yet Newman insisted that his elegance as a writer was no more than an accidental side-effect of his commitment to expressive clarity. But is that true?

How do disagreement and eventual agreement function in politics? What works? What doesn’t? Are the ways we conduct political discourse changing? The last year has arguably seen a loss of the virtues of reasonable, textured disagreement in politics globally, and a rise of either-or binary divisions.

Jointly organised with the Baroness Warsi Foundation & the Woolf Institute

A high-level panel session to discuss how the peaceful uprisings in 2011 have developed into a full-fledged civil, regional, and global war and the prospects of peace in Syria, the possible scenarios, and the regional and world powers involved in it.

A high-level panel session to discuss how the peaceful uprisings in 2011 have developed into a full-fledged civil, regional, and global war and the prospects of peace in Syria, the possible scenarios, and the regional and world powers involved in it.

Julian Baggini, Lorna Donlon, and Michael O'Loughlin

CHANGE OF DATE AND VENUE! Please note that this event will take place on Thursday 9th March in the College Chapel, and not in the Garden Room on Friday as previously announced.

Organised by the University of Cambridge’s Strategic Research Initiative for energy researchers, Energy@Cambridge in partnership with The Faraday Institute, Woolf Institute, VHI and KLICE

Organised by the University of Cambridge’s Strategic Research Initiative for energy researchers, Energy@Cambridge in partnership with The Faraday Institute, Woolf Institute, VHI and KLICE

The Contributions of Catholicism in the Third Millennium to a Secular University

H. E. Cardinal Luis Tagle, Archbishop of Manila