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Victoria Avery (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Co-curator of Feast & Fast exhibition)

Summary

The pineapple is an emblem of power, promise and...

Collection: Power, Promise, Politics: The Pineapple from Columbus to Del Monte

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Fri 6 Mar 2020

The advantages and disadvantages of democracy as a form of government.

Collection: How the World Works: Letters to Lily

Institution: King's College

Created: Wed 2 Jan 2013

Audio recording of 2023 Antcliffe Lecture with the Rt Hon Lord Robertson of Port Ellen

Title: Has Putin woken up at last?
Wednesday, 17 May at 5.30pm

The 2023 John...

Collection: Website

Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies

Created: Mon 11 Mar 2024

Greg Hands, MP for Chelsea and Fulham and Minister of State in the Department of International Trade will gave the 2016 Alcuin Lecture on Thursday 20th October.

Collection: Department of POLIS Lectures

Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies

Created: Tue 25 Oct 2016

Thomas Tufte discusses how civic action and participation in social change in Tanzania is being effected by access to new, more interactive, civil society created media platforms.

Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights

Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies

Created: Mon 24 Oct 2011

Professor Nancy Fraser, Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science and Professor of Philosophy at The New School, New York,
gives the Lent 2014 Diane...

Collection: University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies

Institution: Centre for Gender Studies

Created: Wed 19 Mar 2014

A talk given as part of the Michaemas Term 2017 Seminar Series

Collection: Centre of African Studies

Institution: Centre of African Studies

Created: Fri 3 Nov 2017

CGHR interviews Dr Duncan Omanga (Moi University; Visiting Fellow, Centre for African Studies, University of Cambridge). Dr Omanga's research looks at the use of social media by...

Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights

Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies

Created: Thu 23 Jun 2016

A brief introduction to CGHR's research themes, by theme leads Dr Ella McPherson (Human Rights in the Digital Age), Dr Thomas Probert (The Right to Life), Dr Devon Curtis...

Collection: Centre of Governance and Human Rights

Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies

Created: Mon 29 Jun 2015

Co-hosted by The Woolf Institute and The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion.

The window for action to turn things around and avert the worst of the climate breakdown is...

Collection: Faraday Institute Lectures

Institution: Faraday Institute

Created: Fri 20 Nov 2020

Co-hosted by The Woolf Institute and The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion.

The window for action to turn things around and avert the worst of the climate breakdown is...

Collection: Faraday Institute Lectures

Institution: Faraday Institute

Created: Mon 30 Nov 2020

One of eight lectures for first year Cambridge University students in February 2006. Introducing some of the major approaches to the anthropology of politics and economics.

Collection: Featured content

Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications

Created: Thu 14 Aug 2008

A distinguished panel discusses the broad questions: "are liberal democracies or autocratic governments better placed to respond to the current pandemic and to protect their...

Collection: Centre for Geopolitics

Institution: Department of Politics and International Studies

Created: Thu 16 Apr 2020

This lecture was given as the Alec Roche Lecture 2006 at New College, Oxford, under the title 'The Idea of International Society'.

Professor Allott re-recorded the lecture on...

Collection: Cambridge Law: Public Lectures from the Faculty of Law

Institution: Faculty of Law

Created: Tue 22 Jul 2014

This lecture was given as the Alec Roche Lecture 2006 at New College, Oxford, under the title 'The Idea of International Society'.

Professor Allott re-recorded the lecture on...

Collection: Cambridge Law: Public Lectures from the Faculty of Law

Institution: Faculty of Law

Created: Tue 22 Jul 2014

David Runciman, University of Cambridge
Dealing With Extremism
Darwin College Lecture Series 2017 – Extremes

Collection: Extremes – Darwin College Lecture Series 2017

Institution: Darwin College

Created: Thu 9 Feb 2017

Dr Kumarasingham presented a paper detailing the different discussions between the British government and the soon-to-be-independent South Asian colonies, and how practical...

Collection: Centre of South Asian Studies: Seminars

Institution: Centre of South Asian Studies

Created: Thu 24 Oct 2013

Justin Jones discusses the role of Islamic courts in the 1920s and 1930s, examining the ways in which the courts maintained their relevance and influence in the face of the...

Collection: Centre of South Asian Studies: Seminars

Institution: Centre of South Asian Studies

Created: Wed 6 Nov 2013

Louise Tillin, from King's College, London, examines the relationship between politics and the provision of welfare in two Indian states.

Collection: Centre of South Asian Studies: Seminars

Institution: Centre of South Asian Studies

Created: Mon 27 Jan 2014

Dr Markus Daechsel of Royal Holloway, London, investigates urban development work in Pakistan in the 1950s and 1960s.

Collection: Centre of South Asian Studies: Seminars

Institution: Centre of South Asian Studies

Created: Tue 11 Mar 2014