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Cancer researcher Tom Else sitting in a lab wearing a white lab coat

Sight and sound

06 Aug 2024

How photoacoustics could transform cancer detection and monitoring

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鈥淲e can鈥檛 put our trust in a system that doesn鈥檛 hear us鈥

24 May 2021

Major survey on Black British life launched by Cambridge 探花直播 and 探花直播Voice newspaper.

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Before race mattered: what archives tell us about early encounters in the French colonies

16 Nov 2016

As Europe expanded its overseas colonies, fixed ideas of racial differences took hold. Historian Dr M茅lanie Lamotte, whose forebears include a slave...

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Mexican Caste Paintings from the 18th century

When beauty matters: the politics of how we look

25 Aug 2016

Questions of beauty and its politics will be discussed at a summer school and conference next week (30 August to 3 September 2016). Participants will...

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Skulls in print: scientific racism in the transatlantic world

19 Mar 2014

A PhD student鈥檚 research at Cambridge鈥檚 Department of History and Philosophy of Science has revealed how racist ideas and images circulated between...

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Alexander Crummell 1866

探花直播remarkable story of Alexander Crummell

20 Oct 2011

A talk at the 探花直播 of Cambridge鈥檚 Festival of Ideas this evening will focus on the extraordinary life of Alexander Crummell 鈥 the son of a...

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