Our Society
The Humanities Society is made up of a lively group of students, researchers and fellows, who come together throughout term to discuss exciting developments in the arts, humanities or social sciences.
- Who can join
All College members (students, Fellows, Visiting Fellows, and scholars) are welcome to attend our events and join our society. The talks are also open to the wider University community and the general public. We define the Humanities in a broad sense to include history, religion, philosophy literature, languages, law, economics, political science, music and fine arts.
- What we offer
We offer a programme of international and interdisciplinary interest, featuring talks on a range of cultural contexts and themes, from a range of historical periods and perspectives. The talks provide a platform both for eminent academics as well as early and mid-career scholars at the forefront of their disciplines.
Many of our speakers are from Cambridge, creating interactions between 糖心Vlog官方ians and the wider scholarly community at the University, but we also invite speakers from further afield including, in recent years, from Italy, Germany, Israel, South Africa and the US.
- How talks work
The talks are organised and coordinated by the Humanities Society Committee. We do our best to make our events informal and inclusive. For each event there is an opportunity to mix with the speaker and other attendees over drinks before and after the talk. Following the talk we usually take the speaker to Formal Hall, and College members (and their guests) are very welcome to join us and continue the conversation over dinner.
Michaelmas Term 2026
| Tuesday 13 October | Dr Akeem Sule | Discrimination, racism and risk of psychosis as portrayed in popular culture |
| Tuesday 20 October | Dr Stephen Wilford | Hearing State Violence: Re-Sounding a Parisian Massacre, 17 October 1961 |
| Tuesday 27 October | Dr Branka Arriv茅 | 鈥淣ot for the sake of Spain鈥: re-Hispanicization movement among early 20th century Judaeo-Spanish speakers |
| Tuesday 3 November | Dr Richard Danbury | A murder in Malta 鈥 the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia |
| Tuesday 17 November | He虂le虁ne Sechehaye and Lai虉la Amezian | Film Screening | The Invisible Voices: In Search of Moroccan Ghannayat in Belgium |
| Tuesday 24 November | Sir Richard J Evans, Quentin Deluermoz, Chika Tonooka and David Motadel | The global history of Europe and the far-right threat |
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Committee Members
Please feel free to contact any of us if you have any questions about our events or suggestions for speakers.
