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The  Annual Heritage Lecture will be given by Professor Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, University of Cambridge. Thursday 25th February 2027, 17:30 at Jesus CollegeThe lecture is free to attend, though places are limited so please do book a ticket to avoid dissapointment. Tickets will be available from eventbrite from 1st December 2026.  

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An exciting few days at Cambridge Heritage Research Centre, hosting an international workshop with a team of colleagues from The Centre of African Studies at The University of Edinburgh and Trust Fund for Victims at the ICCThis two-day workshop brought together Malian and international practitioners, policymakers, heritage professionals, victim rep…

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Museums must avoid reducing football into a sanitised corporate spectacleClick here to Read Dr Bland's debut article for the Museums Journal 

CHRC Partner Dr Eva Namusoke wrote a few words about one of her favourite activities so far in her role as Senior Curator, African Collections Futures, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.Focused on a return to Uganda, Afterlives of Return is a project within African Collections Futures, working with with the Museum of Archaeology and An…

We are delighted to have been awarded UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council Impact Starter Funding for a new project (Re)Forming Spaces to Places: Heritage Ecosystem Mapping of an Urban Setting, London Borough of HaveringThis project is the next step on from our 2025 project Heritage Ecosystem Impact Assessment - a tool which seeks to put the c…

Dr Tara Inniss from the The University of the West Indies joined Cambridge for two terms as part of the inaugural University of the West Indies–Jesus College Cambridge Sabbatical Exchange.

Last week we welcomed visiting speakers, academics, students & colleagues to our 26th Annual Symposium. Entitled 'The Role of Heritage in Shaping Ontological Security in the Contemporary World', the symposium was hosted jointly with the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts & Cultures.