Founded in 2001, the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) promotes innovative, interdisciplinary research across the arts, humanities, and social sciences and supports connections between academic research and policy, cultural institutions, and wider public life.
The Centre’s twenty-fifth anniversary is an opportunity to reflect critically on how collaboration and knowledge-making operate across and beyond the academic community.
The anniversary theme Knowledge in a Fractured World examines how knowledge is produced, contested, and translated into action amid political polarisation, technological disruption, environmental crisis, and shifting global power relations. It asks what happens to knowledge in such conditions, and how it may serve either to entrench divisions or to imagine more just futures and enable new forms of understanding, solidarity, and action.
CRASSH will host a programme of events on the anniversary theme in 2026.
Call for art
Artists and creatives are invited to submit up to two works to the exhibition, which takes place from 5 October – 11 December 2026 at the Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP. The exhibition space is open on weekdays from 9am – 7pm, it is closed on weekends.
The theme Knowledge in a Fractured World can be interpreted in the widest sense – from personal to global. 2D, 3D, video/film and sound works can be submitted, provided they align with our guidelines below.
The deadline for submissions is 31 July 2026 (artists will be notified by the end of August)
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