The Academic Freedoms Research Network, convened by CGHR Co-Directors Ella McPherson & Sharath Srinivasan, will advance 3 projects related to banned books:
💕 "blind date with a banned book" installation
🗺️ interactive map on global banned books
✂️ scrapbooking
www.cghr.polis.cam.ac.uk/articles/ban...

A new paper co-written by CGHR Postdoctoral Scholar, Ashwin Varghese, and Aishwarya Rajeev, has been published in The Economic and Labour Relations Review.

Read the paper: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Join Alan Blackwell, Professor of Interdisciplinary Design, University of Cambridge, for our final seminar of the series on #AlgorithmicGovernance.

🗓️ Wednesday 12th November 2025
🕔 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
📍 SG2, Alison Richard Building

Get tickets here: cghr-12nov25.eventbrite.co.uk

Our penultimate seminar of the series on #AlgorithmicGovernance is TONIGHT at 5PM. Join Dean Wilson as he traces the emergence of police ‘platformization’ in the United States and the advancing mathematization of policing activity. This event is ONLINE.
Register here: cghr-05nov25.eventbrite.co.uk

For the first event of the @crasshlive.bsky.social research network on Academic Freedom last night, we used Lego Serious Play to answer the question: ‘What does academic freedom mean to us?’.

Join us on 4 November, as we discuss "Academic Freedom as a collective right". Register: luma.com/jqfiz36t

How does the favela use #AI and how can its AI practices inform more equitable AI governance from the margins?

Last few tickets available for our seminar with Andrea Medrado (@andreamedrado.bsky.social) on Wednesday, 22 October.

Register here: cghr-22oct25.eventbrite.co.uk.

CGHR co-sponsors CRASSH (@crasshlive.bsky.social) Academic Freedoms Research Network. The research network will build an interdisciplinary community of scholars interested in understanding and advocating for the protection of academic freedom. Learn more: shorturl.at/9bydU.

Thanks to everyone who came and supported our first seminar of the series on #AlgorithmicGovernance last night. There are still tickets available for the forthcoming seminars. Register here: shorturl.at/l2GPO

We're excited to announce details of our seminar series for Michaelmas, convened by our postdoctoral scholar, Ashwin Varghese.

Register for your next event: shorturl.at/saRod.

#AlgorithmicGovernance

Interested in #AIGovernance, and the power asymmetries between marginalised communities in the Global South and tech giants in the Global North?

Join Dr Andrea Medrado (@andreamedrado.bsky.social) on Oct 22 for our second seminar of Michaelmas. Get your tickets: cghr-22oct25.eventbrite.co.uk.

Join us for our inaugural event of the academic year!

🗓️ Wednesday 15th October 2025
🕔 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
📍 SG2, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DP

Register here: cghr-15oct25.eventbrite.co.uk