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How do stories shape legal responses to climate crisis, inequality, and social change?
Join us for the conference 'Sustainability, Storytelling, and Law: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Polycrisis'
8 & 9 June
Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/4uMXGi8
Cloud capitalism and the AI transition
A public lecture by Professor Kathleen Thelen (MIT) on the implications of a new cloud business model that is powering the advance of AI
22 June 2026, 5.30 - 7pm
Lady Mitchell Hall, CB3 9DA
https://bit.ly/4uWWkAW
Join Visiting Fellow Benjamin Hoffmann (Ohio State University) and Patrick Bray (UCL) for an in-conversation event on Hoffmann's latest novel 'The Bone War: Towards a learned fiction'. π π¦΄
9 June 5 - 6.30pm
Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/3Q0KM0E
Who thinks concretely? What is a dialectical conception of problems?
Next Friday in Cambridge => Open workshop on Hegelian Logic, French Philosophy and Contemporary Critical Theory
@crasshlive.bsky.social
Join us for a paid summer research placement! π
We are looking for a PhD student or postdoc to help us put together a history of how and why CRASSH was founded 25 years ago, its evolution, and its impact on research at Cambridge and beyond
Find out more at https://bit.ly/3PZBJgE
β³ Apply by 28 June
Thinking Problems Concretely: Hegelian logic, French philosophy and contemporary theory
A discussion with Anna Ploug on Hegelβs dialectical-speculative notion of logical concreteness and its legacy in French philosophy
12 June , 1-4pm
Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/4o7kdDH
'Francis Bacon and the crisis of the palatinate'
Quentin Skinner Lecture, 19 June
https://bit.ly/442lfre
Dr Samuel Zeitlin (UCL) will discuss Baconβs evolving responses to the crisis of the Palatinate through writing and civil histories, in response to the onset of the Thirty Years War
Thinking Problems Concretely: Hegelian logic, French philosophy and contemporary theory
A discussion with Anna Ploug on Hegelβs dialectical-speculative notion of logical concreteness and its legacy in French philosophy
12 June , 1-4pm
Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP
https://bit.ly/4o7kdDH
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ON MONDAY! The Return of the Great Powers
Join Prof Brendan Simms for the launch of his new book exploring the rise, fall & return of the Great Powers
π 8 June, 5.15 - 7 pm
π The Chadwick Room, Selwyn College
π bit.ly/4nZPs3x
NEXT WEEK!
Four futures of NATO: In conversation with Dr Anna Wieslander
What is the future of NATO? Dr Anna Wieslander discusses the uncertainties when strategic complacency is no longer a viable option.
ποΈ 16 June, 5.30-7.00 PM
π Chadwick Room, Selwyn
π bit.ly/4dVGhfU