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Connection not conflict is the best way forward
Terrorism, and fear of terrorism, undermines the security, or sense of security, of many millions of people around the world. The motives of terrorists and their supporters, both active and silently...
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“Classics Question Time” to reveal enduring lessons from the ancient world
As part of a wider conference on the classical world, the University of Cambridge is hosting two open fora, billed as a "Classics Question Time", and featuring leading scholars, commentators and other...
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Can democracy meet our 21st century challenges?
David Runciman, Reader in Political Thought, told a debate on democracy which formed part of the Cambridge series at the 2012 Hay Festival, that the last 10 years had been bad for western democracies...
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India in the Global Age
The theme of the meeting will be 'India in the Global Age' and it will focus on issues of knowledge creation and transfer, bringing together Cambridge and Indian expertise in the arts, humanities and...
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Mongolian life stories database launched online
The website has been developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge’s Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit and is available at http://www.mongolianoralhistory.org/The ‘Oral History of...
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Alastair Campbell at the ‘Nexus of Media and Politics’ in Cambridge
In two public lectures and a symposium entitled ‘A Life At The Nexus Of Media and Politics’, Campbell will expand on and qualify his statement to the Leveson Inquiry two years ago: ‘…though I admire...
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Classic tales of intrigue and paranoia – coming to a cinema near you!
Conspiracies and conspiracy theories lie at the heart of many great films. The plots of some of cinema’s most gripping narratives turn on secrets and lies, deception and collusion, revelation and...
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First scientific report shows police body-worn-cameras can prevent...
Researchers from the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Criminology (IoC) have now published the first full scientific study of the landmark crime experiment they conducted on policing with...
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Anyone for digital democracy?
The recent release of the report from the Speaker’s Commission on Digital Democracy attracted significant attention but really only for one of the 26 recommendations. The report contained much that was...
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A democratic cacophony
In a remote village in a forgotten corner of West Bengal lives an old man called Fakhruddin Gazi. He has lived in the village for every one of his long years. However, since India was partitioned in...
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On the life (and deaths) of democracy
Following the history of democracy from its invention in 508 BCE to the 21st century, Democracy: A Life traces the development of political thinking over millennia. It also examines the many sustained...
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Opinion: Ancient Greeks would not recognise our ‘democracy’ – they’d see an...
We owe to the ancient Greeks much, if not most of our own current political vocabulary. All the way from anarchy and democracy to politics itself. But their politics and ours are very different beasts....
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“The best or worst thing to happen to humanity” - Stephen Hawking launches...
Speaking at the launch of the £10million Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) in Cambridge, Professor Hawking said the rise of AI would transform every aspect of our lives and was a...
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Elvis is alive and the Moon landings were faked: the (conspiracy) theory of...
Elvis is alive, the Moon landings were faked and members of the British Royal Family are shapeshifting lizards.Not only that: 9/11 was an inside job, governments are deliberately concealing evidence of...
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Opinion: Decision time in the US
Dr Emily Charnock, Faculty of HistoryQ: Has the 2016 US election been as unprecedented as we have been led to believe?A: In a word, yes. There have been nasty presidential elections and party splits...
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First Brexit and now Trump: what is populism and how might we view it?
As convenient shorthand for a brand of politics that has stolen the headlines, ‘populism’ has been used by academics and journalists to describe a host of movements and their leaders at different times...
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#ICYMI - Trump’s First Hundred Days
“I don't think that there is a presidential period of time in the first 100 days where anyone has done nearly what we've been able to do.” So declared President Donald J. Trump in a recent interview,...
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One Hundred Days of Trump
The concept of the Hundred Days was first used to describe the period between Napoleon’s return from exile and his final defeat at Waterloo, in 1815. As a marker of the president’s first months in...
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Opinion: Remainer or re-leaver? The philosophical conundrum posed by Brexit
If you only glanced at a recent YouGov survey, you might think that a large majority of the UK is in agreement about Brexit. The electorate may have divided pretty evenly in the referendum, but now...
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A democratic cacophony
In a remote village in a forgotten corner of West Bengal lives an old man called Fakhruddin Gazi. He has lived in the village for every one of his long years. However, since India was partitioned in...
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