📣 Open for applications Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship Apply to spend time at CRASSH as a salaried fellow from September 2027 to May 2028 ⬆️ Read the eligibility criteria and FAQs at https://bit.ly/44IBme6 ⏳ Apply by 16 October 2026

New exhibition at the ARB 🖌️ 'Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity' 27 July-18 Sept Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP PV 27 July 5-7pm, all welcome!🍷 Five artists whose work is connected by acts of attention that reframe the world and renew vision for viewers https://bit.ly/4fBioMw

📣 Open for applications CIRN Intesa Sanpaolo Visiting Fellowship Are you an early career postdoctoral scholar whose research focuses on Italy? Join us for a Fellowship on the theme of 'Italian Ecologies' in Spring 2027 Find out more at https://bit.ly/3CfiaXi ⏳ Apply by 18 September 2026

🎲 Scenes of play in German literature from 1750 10-12 Sept 2026, CB3 9DP Register at https://bit.ly/3TwubDn With speakers from nine countries and fields ranging from architecture to toy history, we’re excited to kickstart Play Studies in the UK and rethink how we play today

📣 Call for papers 'The Battle of Algiers' at 60 On the 60th anniversary of what is possibly the most important political film of all times, our conference from 5-7 Nov 2026 will consider 21st century interpretations of 'The Battle of Algiers' Submit your abstract by 4 August https://bit.ly/4gA17V6

Just about managed to squeeze everyone into this summer party photo! 😅 The next few weeks will be quieter at CRASSH as we take our holidays ⛱️ Wishing you all a great summer and see you again in the autumn!

💼 Join our admin team as Research Grants Administrator We are looking for an experienced administrator who can support the effective planning and delivery of research projects across the School of Arts and Humanities Find out more and apply at https://bit.ly/44apcuf Apply by 26 July 2026

CRASSH summer reading 📚 An interdisciplinary reading list courtesy of CRASSH’s research community - happy reading! https://bit.ly/4aBBVK9

Writing Week done! ✍️ 📚 ☀️ Our group enjoyed a sunny week dedicated purely to their own writing, meeting with a writing coach, and joining a community If you would like to stay informed about future Writing Weeks, you can sign up to our weekly newsletter at http://tinyurl.com/crasshnews

Got an idea for an event or creative initiative? CRASSH offers funding & support to Cambridge postdocs/academic staff for activities that spark interdisciplinary exchanges, build collaborations, and bring research to wider audiences Apply by 18 Oct 2026 at https://bit.ly/3CaV97M

​'Art after Democracy' brings together six participants who are jointly writing a book that will turn a critical eye on the political agency of art at a time when democracies across many regions of the world appear increasingly fragile Join the discussion 11 July from 2 - 6pm https://bit.ly/4f9iKd9

Are you interested in finding colleagues working on a related topic, to plan a collaborative grant application or start building an interdisciplinary network? CRASSH can help by offering an opportunity to convene a simple event or meeting Apply by 18 October 2026 https://bit.ly/4pMnj01

Join the NeuroCīvitās lab for their launch event on 2 July from 7pm NeuroCīvitās investigates how the built environment modulates core psychophysiological processes and how these, in turn, are associated with outcomes in stress regulation, recovery, and mental health https://bit.ly/3SgfWCe

Join us for a paid summer research placement! 🌞 We are looking for a PhD student or postdoc to help us put together a history of how and why CRASSH was founded 25 years ago, its evolution, and its impact on research at Cambridge and beyond Find out more at https://bit.ly/3PZBJgE ⏳ Apply by 28 June

This CRASSH Connections event brings together Cambridge-based scholars from across the humanities to explore commentary as a transhistorical practice Includes speed networking, informal discussion and refreshments 24 June, 4.30-6.30pm Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP https://bit.ly/4esVyFa

There's only a week left to see the beautiful Shape Shifters exhibition! A showcase of female voices that take the abstract to new depths Open until 26 June, 9am-7pm on weekdays Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DP Make sure you visit all four floors of art!

Holding it Together: Making, maintaining and mending from the Early Modern to the present 🪡 25-26 June Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP https://bit.ly/4e6qX1h Makers, menders, artists, curators and historians will put early modern preservation cultures into conversation with contemporary practice

Cloud capitalism and the AI transition A public lecture by Professor Kathleen Thelen (MIT) on the implications of a new cloud business model that is powering the advance of AI 22 June 2026, 5.30 - 7pm Lady Mitchell Hall, CB3 9DA https://bit.ly/4uWWkAW

📣 Call for art Artists and creatives - submit your work to CRASSH's 25th anniversary exhibition! The theme is 'Knowledge in a Fractured World' and can be interpreted broadly, from personal to global Deadline 31 July 2026 Find out more at bit.ly/4svggKv

Digital Platform Capitalism and its Regulations: Comparative approaches and future research directions Join scholars from political economy, economic and political sociology, law, political science, urban and political geography 22-23 June Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP https://bit.ly/4owMfsv

'Francis Bacon and the crisis of the palatinate' Quentin Skinner Lecture, 19 June https://bit.ly/442lfre Dr Samuel Zeitlin (UCL) will discuss Bacon’s evolving responses to the crisis of the Palatinate through writing and civil histories, in response to the onset of the Thirty Years War

Before the Credits: Feminist genealogies and the making of Italian women film pioneers, 1914-22 Join film, literary and feminist scholars and practitioners for presentations, a roundtable, and the screening of a silent film 17 June, 2-5pm Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP https://bit.ly/4egiWWx

📣 Come to our Afro-Asian Connections evening! This networking event aims to promote academic collaboration between scholars from across the university who are studying the diverse array of engagements between Africa and Asia 15 June at 5pm Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP https://bit.ly/3RdXedX

Thinking Problems Concretely: Hegelian logic, French philosophy and contemporary theory A discussion with Anna Ploug on Hegel’s dialectical-speculative notion of logical concreteness and its legacy in French philosophy 12 June , 1-4pm Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP https://bit.ly/4o7kdDH

Join Visiting Fellow Benjamin Hoffmann (Ohio State University) and Patrick Bray (UCL) for an in-conversation event on Hoffmann's latest novel 'The Bone War: Towards a learned fiction'. 📕 🦴 9 June 5 - 6.30pm Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP https://bit.ly/3Q0KM0E

How do stories shape legal responses to climate crisis, inequality, and social change? Join us for the conference 'Sustainability, Storytelling, and Law: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Polycrisis' 8 & 9 June Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP https://bit.ly/4uMXGi8

🎞️ Weirding Land short film festival An evening of films exploring eco-weird cinema, climate fiction, folk horror, experimental landscapes, deep time, and more-than-human worlds 4 June from 5.30 - 7pm Everyman Cinema Cambridge, free entry! 🎟️ https://bit.ly/4fQGRhs

📣 Apply now for the Quentin Skinner Lectureship 2027 The Lectureship will suit an early career scholar who is able to visit Cambridge in Spring 2027, and hold a lecture on a subject in the broad field of intellectual history since 1500 https://bit.ly/3js4P7Z ⏳ 15 June @camhistory.bsky.social

✍️ Would you like focused time to write? Would you benefit from joining a writing community? If so, take part in one of our CRASSH writing weeks! 🗓️ 6 - 10 July 2026 Apply at https://bit.ly/3Qc8AOO, no proposals or references are required

Join us at the Weirding Sustainability Festival! 4-5 June https://bit.ly/43DuBtm The ecological crisis has been described as ‘global weirding’ We will explore the potential for weirding sustainability to ask: What does global weirding mean for us as researchers and creative practitioners?