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Commemoration 2025
Events, News

Commemoration Weekend 2025

Newnham was thrilled to welcome back a range of year groups for Commemoration weekend including recent graduates (from 2000 and...

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Commemoration Weekend 2025
Team of volunteers in colourful t-shirts taking part in the festival.
News

Fun and learning at the Cambridge Festival!

Colleagues at Newnham have been involved in a variety of events throughout the Cambridge Festival, which aims to engage the...

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Fun and learning at the Cambridge Festival!
Liana Minkova (right) and the International Criminal Court, by Justflix, reproduced under Creative Commons licence
Research

Can the law save the world?

Dr Liana Minkova’s postdoctoral research project explores accountability mechanisms for environmental destruction in international law and the proposed new crime...

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Can the law save the world?
Chapa Sirithunge passes round materials used in robot design at a Pudding Seminar. Photo by Dasha Tenditna
News

Newnham comes to the Cambridge Festivals 

Updated with new events information: Newnham academics and alumnae will feature in a wide range of fascinating talks and workshops...

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Newnham comes to the Cambridge Festivals 

Newnham events

Self-portrait: Olga Rozanova courtesy of Ivanovo Regional Art Museum; and (right) Professor Catriona Kelly
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Jane Harrison Memorial Lecture

Border Crossings, Folk Modernism: From the Literature and Art of Russian Paris to Soviet Film after Stalin Modernism in the...

Jane Harrison Memorial Lecture
Old Hall -1875
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Summer Party and Campaign Celebration

Newnham alumnae, family and friends are invited to our annual day of celebration on Saturday 28 June. This summer, we...

Summer Party and Campaign Celebration