Past Events

This panel discussion will bring together international scholars of the Second World War and the Holocaust to explore the links between these events and share research on Holocaust education and commemoration.

A long year has passed since the all-out Russian invasion of Ukraine, and a year from now, a decade will have passed since the beginning of hostilities in Donbas.

With Xi Jinping’s visit to Saudi Arabia in December 2022 and the surprising Chinese-facilitated rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran in March, China’s growing influence in the Persian Gulf has been in the spotlight recently.

As part of the UK Union Programme, the Centre for Geopolitics is bringing to Cambridge those who have been at the heart of the UK Union’s recent history to further understanding of both the longer history of our Union, and what might lie in its future.

From Churchill to Mitrokhin: An introduction to the wealth of material within the Churchill Archives Centre for the study of the recent history of intelligence. The session will take the form of a short presentation followed by an archives display and then drinks.

In the second of our two events on Timor Leste, this panel will explore the historical and societal implications of its admission to ASEAN membership:

As part of the UK Union Programme, the Centre for Geopolitics is bringing to Cambridge those who have been at the heart of the UK Union’s recent history to further understanding of both the longer history of our Union, and what might lie in its future.

Perhaps more than ever, universities have become a geopolitical battlefield. In Hungary, Prime Minister Orban's effective ejection of the Central European University provoked widespread controversy.

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In the first of two events on Timor Leste, the panellists will explore the geopolitical implications of this small island nation's admission to ASEAN: