Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Dr Martin Ruehl

19 March 2025

Dr Martin Reuhl is a Senior Lecturer in German Intellectual History in the Faculty of History and a ̽»¨Ö±²¥ Associate Professor in German History and Thought in the Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge.

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Cambridge Festival celebrates pioneering women for International Women’s Day

07 March 2025

For International Women’s Day (8 March), the Cambridge Festival (19 March – 4 April) is celebrating some of the remarkable contributions of women across diverse fields. From philosophy and music to AI and cosmology, the festival will highlight the pioneering work of women who have shaped our understanding of the world in profound ways.

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Library life in the time of COVID

17 November 2020

What happens when you are a librarian without a library? This is exactly what happened with husband and wife Veronica Phillips, Assistant Librarian at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge Medical Library, and Matthias Ammon, Research Support Librarian at Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics Library. Here they discuss their experience of living, and working, through the coronavirus pandemic.  

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Rethinking

Rethinking eccentricity

01 May 2009

Miranda Gill traces shifting 19th-century perceptions of eccentricity, from its association with the intoxicating lure of modernity and fashion to the murky underworld of circus freaks and half-mad visionaries.

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Ear

Can a voice identify a criminal?

01 September 2007

Innovative research in the Department of Linguistics suggests that dynamic features of speech could provide a clue to forensic speaker identification.

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