Department of Politics & International Studies, Uni of Cambridge
@campolis.bsky.social
The Department of POLIS at the University of Cambridge - teaching and researching the world's most complex and pressing issues in politics around the world.
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Listen to Dr Evaleila Pesaran (POLIS) on this episode of Louise Hulland on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire discussing developments in #Iran.
Listen to Dr Pesaran at 3:09:12: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
@bbcnews.bsky.social @meccambridge.bsky.social
Listen to Dr Pesaran at 3:09:12: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
@bbcnews.bsky.social @meccambridge.bsky.social
Louise Hulland on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire - 15/01/2026 - BBC Sounds
Louise is here with the latest news, stories, guests and great music.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 19, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Listen to Dr Evaleila Pesaran (POLIS) on this episode of Louise Hulland on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire discussing developments in #Iran.
Listen to Dr Pesaran at 3:09:12: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
@bbcnews.bsky.social @meccambridge.bsky.social
Listen to Dr Pesaran at 3:09:12: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
@bbcnews.bsky.social @meccambridge.bsky.social
Professor Brendan Simms writes an op-ed for the Daily Telegraph on the current threats of US military action in Greenland, suggesting the UK should lead a new military effort to protect the North Atlantic as NATO can no longer guarantee its security.
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www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...,
Britain must prove to Trump that we believe Greenland is worth dying for
UK should lead a new military effort to protect the North Atlantic because Nato can no longer guarantee its security
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 15, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Professor Brendan Simms writes an op-ed for the Daily Telegraph on the current threats of US military action in Greenland, suggesting the UK should lead a new military effort to protect the North Atlantic as NATO can no longer guarantee its security.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...,
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...,
University of Cambridge - Centre of Latin American Studies
Book Launch 'Mexico: A History'
Paul Gillingham (Northwestern University)
Chair: Benjamin Smith (University of Warwick)
📆 Wednesday 21 January
🕓 5:00pm
📍 Room S2, Second Floor, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT
Book Launch 'Mexico: A History'
Paul Gillingham (Northwestern University)
Chair: Benjamin Smith (University of Warwick)
📆 Wednesday 21 January
🕓 5:00pm
📍 Room S2, Second Floor, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT
January 15, 2026 at 2:37 PM
University of Cambridge - Centre of Latin American Studies
Book Launch 'Mexico: A History'
Paul Gillingham (Northwestern University)
Chair: Benjamin Smith (University of Warwick)
📆 Wednesday 21 January
🕓 5:00pm
📍 Room S2, Second Floor, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT
Book Launch 'Mexico: A History'
Paul Gillingham (Northwestern University)
Chair: Benjamin Smith (University of Warwick)
📆 Wednesday 21 January
🕓 5:00pm
📍 Room S2, Second Floor, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT
Read this new essay from Christian Sorace in The Ideas Letter: "On the Perils of Comparing Trump to Mao".
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Where a Hundred Analogies Bloom - The Ideas Letter
Routine analogies between Donald Trump and Mao Zedong are not only historically inaccurate but intellectually disabling, contends Sorace, because they replace structural analysis with a moral fable th...
www.theideasletter.org
January 15, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Read this new essay from Christian Sorace in The Ideas Letter: "On the Perils of Comparing Trump to Mao".
www.theideasletter.org/essay/when-a...
www.theideasletter.org/essay/when-a...
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Why do #Venezuela and #Greenland matter to U.S. power? Professor Helen Thompson shares her analysis.
Helen Thompson is Professor of Political Economy at @campolis.bsky.social and a Fellow at Clare College.
Helen Thompson is Professor of Political Economy at @campolis.bsky.social and a Fellow at Clare College.
January 12, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Why do #Venezuela and #Greenland matter to U.S. power? Professor Helen Thompson shares her analysis.
Helen Thompson is Professor of Political Economy at @campolis.bsky.social and a Fellow at Clare College.
Helen Thompson is Professor of Political Economy at @campolis.bsky.social and a Fellow at Clare College.
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Is the U.S. action in Venezuela lawful, unlawful or legally grey? Professor Marc Weller shares his analysis.
Watch the full interview on YouTube 👉 https://bit.ly/4szTRMA
Marc Weller is Professor of International Law @campolis.bsky.social
Watch the full interview on YouTube 👉 https://bit.ly/4szTRMA
Marc Weller is Professor of International Law @campolis.bsky.social
January 7, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Is the U.S. action in Venezuela lawful, unlawful or legally grey? Professor Marc Weller shares his analysis.
Watch the full interview on YouTube 👉 https://bit.ly/4szTRMA
Marc Weller is Professor of International Law @campolis.bsky.social
Watch the full interview on YouTube 👉 https://bit.ly/4szTRMA
Marc Weller is Professor of International Law @campolis.bsky.social
Reporting on Chile’s recent election of far-right President, José Antonio Kast, The Guardian interviewed Dr Katia Chornik (CLAS). Her book, 'Music and Political Imprisonment in Pinochet’s Chile', exposes the realities of political imprisonment under Pinochet.
www.cam.ac.uk/stories/musi...
www.cam.ac.uk/stories/musi...
Pinochet’s prisoners were tormented with music but still found solace in it, a new book reveals
Under Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, prisoners were tormented with music but still found solace in it, a new book reveals
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January 6, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Reporting on Chile’s recent election of far-right President, José Antonio Kast, The Guardian interviewed Dr Katia Chornik (CLAS). Her book, 'Music and Political Imprisonment in Pinochet’s Chile', exposes the realities of political imprisonment under Pinochet.
www.cam.ac.uk/stories/musi...
www.cam.ac.uk/stories/musi...
Professor Helen Thompson (POLIS) talks to BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme about the situation in Venezuela, arguing that it is becoming clear that the western hemisphere is now central to resource conflict in the world (starts 50:02).
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Today - 05/01/2026 - BBC Sounds
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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January 6, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Professor Helen Thompson (POLIS) talks to BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme about the situation in Venezuela, arguing that it is becoming clear that the western hemisphere is now central to resource conflict in the world (starts 50:02).
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today is the 1st in our series of live eps recorded at the Regent St Cinema in London: David talks to crime writers Nicci Gerrard & Sean French (aka @niccifrench.bsky.social) about Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948), based on Patrick Hamilton’s play.
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Today is the 1st in our series of live eps recorded at the Regent St Cinema in London: David talks to crime writers Nicci Gerrard & Sean French (aka @niccifrench.bsky.social) about Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948), based on Patrick Hamilton’s play.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
December 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today is the 1st in our series of live eps recorded at the Regent St Cinema in London: David talks to crime writers Nicci Gerrard & Sean French (aka @niccifrench.bsky.social) about Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948), based on Patrick Hamilton’s play.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Today is the 1st in our series of live eps recorded at the Regent St Cinema in London: David talks to crime writers Nicci Gerrard & Sean French (aka @niccifrench.bsky.social) about Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948), based on Patrick Hamilton’s play.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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Duncan Bell, "John Stuart Mill on Federation, Civilization and Empire," History of Political Thought (2024)
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December 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Duncan Bell, "John Stuart Mill on Federation, Civilization and Empire," History of Political Thought (2024)
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America’s innovation ecosystem will survive Trump’s cuts to R&D writes @thinkwoodist.bsky.social @campolis.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk c.uk
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Why America’s innovation ecosystem will survive Trump’s cuts to R&D | USAPP
America’s “polycentric innovation state” remains and will continue to adapt to economic challenges.
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December 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
America’s innovation ecosystem will survive Trump’s cuts to R&D writes @thinkwoodist.bsky.social @campolis.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk c.uk
blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
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My book on American innovation policy is out!
'States of Innovation' shows how state and federal governments are active catalysts driving innovation-led growth, challenging the idea that US capitalism is uniquely market-driven.
www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...
'States of Innovation' shows how state and federal governments are active catalysts driving innovation-led growth, challenging the idea that US capitalism is uniquely market-driven.
www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...
States of Innovation: Driving the American Economy in the 21st Century eBook : D. G. Wood, James: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
States of Innovation: Driving the American Economy in the 21st Century eBook : D. G. Wood, James: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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December 16, 2025 at 8:30 AM
My book on American innovation policy is out!
'States of Innovation' shows how state and federal governments are active catalysts driving innovation-led growth, challenging the idea that US capitalism is uniquely market-driven.
www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...
'States of Innovation' shows how state and federal governments are active catalysts driving innovation-led growth, challenging the idea that US capitalism is uniquely market-driven.
www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...
Industrial policy returns as a weapon of national security by @haugejostein.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/haugejos...
Industrial policy returns as a weapon of national security
The US, China, and Europe are racing to dominate strategic industries. Here's what that means for the world economy.
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December 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Industrial policy returns as a weapon of national security by @haugejostein.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/haugejos...
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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today’s episode explores the trials of Nelson Mandela, variously charged by South Africa’s apartheid state with treason, incitement, illegal foreign travel, sabotage and conspiracy across a decade. How did Mandela defend himself?
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Today’s episode explores the trials of Nelson Mandela, variously charged by South Africa’s apartheid state with treason, incitement, illegal foreign travel, sabotage and conspiracy across a decade. How did Mandela defend himself?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:47 AM
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today’s episode explores the trials of Nelson Mandela, variously charged by South Africa’s apartheid state with treason, incitement, illegal foreign travel, sabotage and conspiracy across a decade. How did Mandela defend himself?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Today’s episode explores the trials of Nelson Mandela, variously charged by South Africa’s apartheid state with treason, incitement, illegal foreign travel, sabotage and conspiracy across a decade. How did Mandela defend himself?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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🚀 Launching the Local Government AI Accelerator 🚀
We're offering grants of up to £25,000 for proof-of-concept #AI projects developed in partnership with local authorities.
Application deadline: 13 Feb 2026
www.ai.cam.ac.uk/calls/local-...
We're offering grants of up to £25,000 for proof-of-concept #AI projects developed in partnership with local authorities.
Application deadline: 13 Feb 2026
www.ai.cam.ac.uk/calls/local-...
December 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
🚀 Launching the Local Government AI Accelerator 🚀
We're offering grants of up to £25,000 for proof-of-concept #AI projects developed in partnership with local authorities.
Application deadline: 13 Feb 2026
www.ai.cam.ac.uk/calls/local-...
We're offering grants of up to £25,000 for proof-of-concept #AI projects developed in partnership with local authorities.
Application deadline: 13 Feb 2026
www.ai.cam.ac.uk/calls/local-...
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We're looking for a Professor of Public Policy to join our senior leadership team.
They'll play a leading role in teaching on the School's postgraduate courses, & make a significant contribution to its research & research leadership.
Apply by 9 February 2026: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/profess...
They'll play a leading role in teaching on the School's postgraduate courses, & make a significant contribution to its research & research leadership.
Apply by 9 February 2026: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/profess...
December 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
We're looking for a Professor of Public Policy to join our senior leadership team.
They'll play a leading role in teaching on the School's postgraduate courses, & make a significant contribution to its research & research leadership.
Apply by 9 February 2026: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/profess...
They'll play a leading role in teaching on the School's postgraduate courses, & make a significant contribution to its research & research leadership.
Apply by 9 February 2026: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/profess...
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BONUS EPISODE OUT NOW!
In this PPF+ bonus to accompany our episode on the Lady Chatterley’s Lover trial, David explores the book at the heart of the case. Does the focus on sex miss the central themes of the book? And what is it with the red trousers?
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In this PPF+ bonus to accompany our episode on the Lady Chatterley’s Lover trial, David explores the book at the heart of the case. Does the focus on sex miss the central themes of the book? And what is it with the red trousers?
Join PPF+ now: www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
December 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
BONUS EPISODE OUT NOW!
In this PPF+ bonus to accompany our episode on the Lady Chatterley’s Lover trial, David explores the book at the heart of the case. Does the focus on sex miss the central themes of the book? And what is it with the red trousers?
Join PPF+ now: www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
In this PPF+ bonus to accompany our episode on the Lady Chatterley’s Lover trial, David explores the book at the heart of the case. Does the focus on sex miss the central themes of the book? And what is it with the red trousers?
Join PPF+ now: www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
If you have a Cambridge interview coming up, our students have some tips for you.
See this Instagram video by @cambridgeuniversity
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See this Instagram video by @cambridgeuniversity
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December 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
If you have a Cambridge interview coming up, our students have some tips for you.
See this Instagram video by @cambridgeuniversity
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See this Instagram video by @cambridgeuniversity
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Join us for this important conversation, where we will be thinking across academic freedoms in Turkey, Gaza, the US, the UK and beyond.
Last chance to register for 'Academic freedom, context and positionality'
📅3 December 2025
⏲️5pm - 6.30pm
📍SG2 Alison Richard Building
We'll bring global perspectives and experiences of academic freedom into dialogue.
Register: luma.com/2tpatkwf
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📅3 December 2025
⏲️5pm - 6.30pm
📍SG2 Alison Richard Building
We'll bring global perspectives and experiences of academic freedom into dialogue.
Register: luma.com/2tpatkwf
@cghrcambridge.bsky.social @crasshlive.bsky.social
Academic Freedom, Context and Positionality · Luma
This seminar will bring global perspectives and experiences of academic freedom into dialogue. We will take a spectrum, experiential approach to academic…
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December 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Join us for this important conversation, where we will be thinking across academic freedoms in Turkey, Gaza, the US, the UK and beyond.
Last chance to register for 'Academic freedom, context and positionality'
📅3 December 2025
⏲️5pm - 6.30pm
📍SG2 Alison Richard Building
We'll bring global perspectives and experiences of academic freedom into dialogue.
Register: luma.com/2tpatkwf
@cghrcambridge.bsky.social @crasshlive.bsky.social
📅3 December 2025
⏲️5pm - 6.30pm
📍SG2 Alison Richard Building
We'll bring global perspectives and experiences of academic freedom into dialogue.
Register: luma.com/2tpatkwf
@cghrcambridge.bsky.social @crasshlive.bsky.social
Academic Freedom, Context and Positionality · Luma
This seminar will bring global perspectives and experiences of academic freedom into dialogue. We will take a spectrum, experiential approach to academic…
luma.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Last chance to register for 'Academic freedom, context and positionality'
📅3 December 2025
⏲️5pm - 6.30pm
📍SG2 Alison Richard Building
We'll bring global perspectives and experiences of academic freedom into dialogue.
Register: luma.com/2tpatkwf
@cghrcambridge.bsky.social @crasshlive.bsky.social
📅3 December 2025
⏲️5pm - 6.30pm
📍SG2 Alison Richard Building
We'll bring global perspectives and experiences of academic freedom into dialogue.
Register: luma.com/2tpatkwf
@cghrcambridge.bsky.social @crasshlive.bsky.social
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Bonus - Capitalism After Neoliberalism w/ @iliasalami.bsky.social
Ilias Alami is on the show to talk state capitalism in the neoliberal age.
Link in the replies.
Ilias Alami is on the show to talk state capitalism in the neoliberal age.
Link in the replies.
December 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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How could political theory become more accessible to fellow citizens? @campolis.bsky.social 'The Attitude and Audience of the Public Political Theorist: Thinking Critically and Politically with Fellow Citizens' | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Attitude and Audience of the Public Political Theorist: Thinking Critically and Politically with Fellow Citizens | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
The Attitude and Audience of the Public Political Theorist: Thinking Critically and Politically with Fellow Citizens - Volume 1
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November 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
How could political theory become more accessible to fellow citizens? @campolis.bsky.social 'The Attitude and Audience of the Public Political Theorist: Thinking Critically and Politically with Fellow Citizens' | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Film screening of ‘Indexed Beings’ and Q&A with Helen Knowles
🗓️Monday 01 December
🕒3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
📍SG1, Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DT
Registration required: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/49009/
The event is free and open to all! @crasshlive.bsky.social
🗓️Monday 01 December
🕒3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
📍SG1, Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DT
Registration required: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/49009/
The event is free and open to all! @crasshlive.bsky.social
Film screening of ‘Indexed Beings’ and Q&A with Helen Knowles - CRASSH
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
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November 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Film screening of ‘Indexed Beings’ and Q&A with Helen Knowles
🗓️Monday 01 December
🕒3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
📍SG1, Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DT
Registration required: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/49009/
The event is free and open to all! @crasshlive.bsky.social
🗓️Monday 01 December
🕒3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
📍SG1, Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DT
Registration required: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/49009/
The event is free and open to all! @crasshlive.bsky.social
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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today’s ep in our occasional series about momentous political anniversaries with historian @robertsaunders.bsky.social looks at the life & legacy of Margaret Thatcher 100 years on from her birth. What made Thatcher such a distinctive politician?
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Today’s ep in our occasional series about momentous political anniversaries with historian @robertsaunders.bsky.social looks at the life & legacy of Margaret Thatcher 100 years on from her birth. What made Thatcher such a distinctive politician?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:30 AM
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today’s ep in our occasional series about momentous political anniversaries with historian @robertsaunders.bsky.social looks at the life & legacy of Margaret Thatcher 100 years on from her birth. What made Thatcher such a distinctive politician?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Today’s ep in our occasional series about momentous political anniversaries with historian @robertsaunders.bsky.social looks at the life & legacy of Margaret Thatcher 100 years on from her birth. What made Thatcher such a distinctive politician?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Rebuilding Ukraine: A Conversation with Deputy Minister of Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine Alyona Shkrum
📅Wednesday, 26 November
🕧6pm
📍Church Hall, Downing Place United Reformed Church, 4 Downing Pl, CB2 3EL
Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rebuilding...
📅Wednesday, 26 November
🕧6pm
📍Church Hall, Downing Place United Reformed Church, 4 Downing Pl, CB2 3EL
Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rebuilding...
Rebuilding Ukraine: A Conversation with Ukrainian Deputy Minister
A Conversation with Deputy Minister of Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine Alyona Shkrum, Cambridge Alumna
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November 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Rebuilding Ukraine: A Conversation with Deputy Minister of Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine Alyona Shkrum
📅Wednesday, 26 November
🕧6pm
📍Church Hall, Downing Place United Reformed Church, 4 Downing Pl, CB2 3EL
Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rebuilding...
📅Wednesday, 26 November
🕧6pm
📍Church Hall, Downing Place United Reformed Church, 4 Downing Pl, CB2 3EL
Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rebuilding...