Former MP Patricia Hewitt, journalist Eleanor Mills, and Dame Carol Black will talk about their career lowlights and how they went on to achieve success as part of the Cambridge WOW Festival.
The trio will be joined by Professor Rae Langton, Philosopher, at the free event on Tuesday, March 1 in the Lucia Windsor Room at Newnham at 6pm.
Julie Etchingham, ITV news anchor and Newnham alumna, will chair the #EpicFail to #EpicFuture discussion which will cover everything from being passed over for promotion to failing to get into Oxford.
Dame Carol Black, Principal of Newnham College, said: “Everyone faces setbacks in their career and it is how you deal with them that can make all the difference.”
The discussion panel is one of three Newnham entries in the Cambridge Women of the World (WOW) Festival programme.
Dr Gill Sutherland, Newnham Historian, will discuss the history of women’s education and rights at a talk titled ‘Nasty Forward Minxes’ in the Lucia Windsor Room from 12.30pm-1.15pm on Wednesday, March 2.
And on International Women’s Day – Tuesday, March 8 – there will be two performances of Lady Connie and the Suffragettes in The Old Labs, Newnham College, at 2.30pm and 7.30pm.
This new play explores Lady Contance Lytton’s unique role in the suffragette movement, her personal background and her development into one of the suffragettes’ heroic icons.
The evening of moving drama and inspiring history is presented by Cambridge Devised Theatre in association with Classworks Theatre. The evening performance will be introduced with a short talk by Dr Naomi Paxton.
Tickets are £5 for Newnham students and £10 for the general public.
For more information and the full festival line-up, visit the WOW website.