Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Dr James Sunderland

27 February 2025

Dr James Sunderland is a Research Fellow at the Woolf Institute working on the 'How to continue talking' project. His work aims to explore how interfaith communities can continue meaningful and respectful dialogue and to explore connections and encounters during times of extreme distress, such as after the Hamas attacks on Israel on 7 October 2023 and the war in Gaza.

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Duygu with her coral tanks

̽»¨Ö±²¥coral whisperer

25 February 2025

Duygu Sevilgen has built a coral lab in the basement of an old Zoology building. Here, 10 experimental tanks host multicoloured miniature forests, with each tank representing a different marine environment. Duygu uses extremely small sensors to record the fine details of coral skeletons and listen to their dialogue with algae. In doing so, she determines how much change corals can bear, and improves our chances of saving them in the wild.

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Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Estherina Trachtenberg

24 February 2025

Estherina Trachtenberg is a Blavatnik Postdoctoral Fellow in the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge and is currently working in the lab of Prof. Duncan Astle. She studies social connectedness and its impact on health, cognition, and the underlying brain networks.

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