The 2026 Ramsay Murray lecture was given at Selwyn on May 15th by Director General at Imperial War Museums (IWM), Caro Howell MBE. Her title was “War and Peace: The role of Imperial War Museums in the twenty-first century.”
Helen Arnold retired in May 2025 after more than three decades at Selwyn.
Robert talks with Roger Mosey about the construction of the story, his relationship with faith — and how the transformative power of Cambridge is changing.
One of our fellows — John Morrill — is a Catholic priest; but it wasn’t an easy path for him. He tells us about his academic and spiritual journey.
Christopher Wadibia (SE 2019), took his PhD at Selwyn and went on to a fellowship at Oxford. As an American citizen, he voted for Trump — and he explains why.
Ian McFarland, a Professor of Theology at Emory University, on the atmosphere in higher education institutions under Trump's Presidency.
David, a Kennedy Memorial Trust Scholar, talks about the dissonance between the meaning of his place at Harvard and the toxic political environment he found himself in America in 2025.
In May, Mary Beard enthralled an an audience at Selwyn with an account of her life and how her views have evolved. We collected some of those thoughts from that session.
Artificial intelligence could be one of the greatest opportunities for humanity – but is it also our biggest threat? We asked Selwyn fellow Marta Halina to guide us towards an answer to whether AI develop its own consciousness.
Chris Parker (SE 1988) has spent his career writing for some of the most familiar voices on British television. In an industry where budgets are tightening and AI tools are on the rise, what does the future holds for the television writer?
We profile three of our fellows to find out more about what brought them to Selwyn, and we discover that their starting points were Italy, Malaysia and Iran.
While the Selwyn College Choir may be the public-facing flagship, enormous amounts of other music-making are going on as well.
Over the past year the college has benefited from many new acts of generosity from alumni and friends.
