The Cambridge Festival, two weeks of talks, films exhibitions and other events returns this year in sites across the city between 16 March and 2 April.
We would like to highlight a number of events that may be of interest to members of the Legacies Network, but the full programme is available on the Festival’s website.
On Friday 20 March, Wolfson College will host Decolonisation and Independence: An exhibition of 1960s books about African nations. The collection was a bequest from the family of Bill Kirkman, who was the Africa Correspondent for the times in the 1960s. This is a drop in session.
On Sunday 22 March, and Sunday 29 March, Uncomfortable Cambridge will host a African Legacies in Cambridge Tour through the University’s museums, based on Dr Eva Namusoke’s 2024 report African Collections Futures Report. Booking required. On Saturday 21st March and Thursday 26th March, the group will also host an (Un)Ethical Science Tour, an opportunity to discover “untold stories and explore the ethical questions behind some of Cambridge’s most influential scientific discoveries”. Booking required.
On Wednesday 18 March, broadcaster and author Dr Adam Rutherford (BBC4 Start the Week, R4’s The Human Subject and author of, amongst other books, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived) will deliver Anglia Ruskin University’s Olaudah Equiano Annual Race Justice Lecture on ‘The Unwelcome Return of Scientific Racism’. This is a ticketed event and registration is required.
On Monday 30 March, Cambridge PhD student Malik Al Nasir will discuss his book Searching for My Slave Roots: From Guyana’s Sugar Plantations to Cambridge at the Cambridge Unions Society. This is a free ticketed event and registration is required.