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The King's Community

A Member for Life

As a former student you are part of a community of more than 10,000 Alumni (Non-Resident Members) across the globe. You are always welcome at King’s, and the Development Office is here to ensure that you're able to stay connected with the College, wherever life takes you and wherever you are in the world.

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There is always plenty going on in College and we look forward to welcoming you back or hearing from you.

Upcoming Events

5 Mar
6 Mar
13 Mar
21 Mar
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-> King's College, Cambridge (Keynes Hall; Public Forum at Sidgwick Site LG19)

Modern Inquiries into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Join us in Cambridge for a landmark two-day conference marking 250 years since the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (1776). Convened by Professor Gareth Austin (Cambridge), Dr...
Read more Modern Inquiries into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
2pm - 3pm
-> Audit Room, King's College & on Zoom

Ottoman Subject, Russian Prisoner, Servant of Persia: The Life, Writings, and Personal Archive of an Eighteenth-Century Ottoman-Armenian Envoy- Dr Henry Shapiro (Princeton University)

Dr Henry Shapiro is a Polonsky Research Fellow in the Department of History, Princeton University. He is a historian of the Early Modern Near East, with a particular interest in...
Read more Ottoman Subject, Russian Prisoner, Servant of Persia: The Life, Writings, and Personal Archive of an Eighteenth-Century Ottoman-Armenian Envoy- Dr Henry Shapiro (Princeton University)
2pm - 3pm
-> Keynes Hall, King's College & on Zoom

Geographies of Coercion in Late Imperial China, 1400-1900- Dr Christoph Hess (King's College, University of Cambridge)

Why did slave and serf-like bondservant labour persist in the densely populated regions of eastern China until the early twentieth century? A common set of explanations links labour coercion to...
Read more Geographies of Coercion in Late Imperial China, 1400-1900- Dr Christoph Hess (King's College, University of Cambridge)
12pm - 5pm

Foundation Lunch 2026

We are delighted to invite Members who matriculated in and before 1976, and their guests to this year’s Foundation Lunch taking place in College on Saturday, 21 March. The programme...
Read more Foundation Lunch 2026

Upcoming Events

5 Mar
6 Mar
13 Mar
21 Mar
View all events
All day
-> King's College, Cambridge (Keynes Hall; Public Forum at Sidgwick Site LG19)

Modern Inquiries into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Join us in Cambridge for a landmark two-day conference marking 250 years since the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations (1776). Convened by Professor Gareth Austin (Cambridge), Dr...
Read more Modern Inquiries into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
2pm - 3pm
-> Audit Room, King's College & on Zoom

Ottoman Subject, Russian Prisoner, Servant of Persia: The Life, Writings, and Personal Archive of an Eighteenth-Century Ottoman-Armenian Envoy- Dr Henry Shapiro (Princeton University)

Dr Henry Shapiro is a Polonsky Research Fellow in the Department of History, Princeton University. He is a historian of the Early Modern Near East, with a particular interest in...
Read more Ottoman Subject, Russian Prisoner, Servant of Persia: The Life, Writings, and Personal Archive of an Eighteenth-Century Ottoman-Armenian Envoy- Dr Henry Shapiro (Princeton University)
2pm - 3pm
-> Keynes Hall, King's College & on Zoom

Geographies of Coercion in Late Imperial China, 1400-1900- Dr Christoph Hess (King's College, University of Cambridge)

Why did slave and serf-like bondservant labour persist in the densely populated regions of eastern China until the early twentieth century? A common set of explanations links labour coercion to...
Read more Geographies of Coercion in Late Imperial China, 1400-1900- Dr Christoph Hess (King's College, University of Cambridge)
12pm - 5pm

Foundation Lunch 2026

We are delighted to invite Members who matriculated in and before 1976, and their guests to this year’s Foundation Lunch taking place in College on Saturday, 21 March. The programme...
Read more Foundation Lunch 2026
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Zadie Smith (KC 1994)