Tackling climate change with entrepreneurship The story of the venture builder Carbon 13 Carbon 13 is a new accelerator based in Cambridge which focuses on delivering new ventures capable of reducing CO2(e) by > 10 million tonnes each (Carbon13 - The Venture Builder for the Climate Emergency). Chris Coleridge, CEO and founder of C13, will …

The Society's fifth quarterly virtual meeting to debate topics considered to be of interest by the participants, proposed in advance, will be held on Wednesday 2Oth October 2021 from 8pm to 9pm. Places will be limited to a maximum of 20 so everyone is able to have their say on each topic. The critical thing …

  All tickets for this event have now been sold However, it is possible to register on the waiting list and if there are cancellations the tickets that become available will be allocated in the order of receipt of waiting list applications. After a one year enforced Covid gap, the Oxford Society in Paris and …

The Society's quarterly virtual meeting to debate topics considered to be of interest by the participants, proposed in advance, will be held on Thursday 20th January 2022 from 8pm to 9pm. Places will be limited to a maximum of 20 so everyone is able to have their say on each topic. The critical thing is …

The watercolour of the White Cliffs of Dover is by Richard Andrewes (Trinity) This event is on Zoom Alan Macfarlane  (Worcester Oxford (MA & PhD), King's Cambridge (Fellow), London School of Economics (MPhil), SOAS (PhD).) was born in Shillong, Meghalaya, India. Alan is an anthropologist and historian, and a Professor Emeritus of King's College, Cambridge. …

PADFAS (The Arts Society Paris) invites members of the Cambridge Society of Paris to join their Live online Zoom lecture on Thursday 17th February, 2022 at 14.00. Deborah Jenner will present Paul Strand's "Straight Photography". Paul Strand’s sharply focused Straight Photography elevated this Machine Age tool – a camera – to a medium of Fine …

We are pleased to announce the next Oxford and Cambridge virtual prose and poetry reading on Tuesday 1st March at 7pm. It will take place on Zoom. This event is open to members of both Societies. The topic chosen is "Rich and Poor" which we hope gives you plenty of scope to select readings that …

Jean Khalfa is a Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge who specialises in the history of philosophy, modern literature (in particular contemporary poetry and writing in French from North Africa and the Caribbean), aesthetics and anthropology. He is also a member of the Council of the Ecole Normale Supérieure. Jean will give us a talk on …

TICKET SALES FOR THIS EVENT HAVE NOW CLOSED We have an excellent opportunity to find out about the challenges relating to political opinion polls from Mr Henri Wallard, CEO France and Group Deputy CEO of Ipsos. More information about the topic of the talk will be provided shortly. We have also been fortunate to be …