As part of her work as a Senior Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and co-Project Lead of the AI Narratives Project, Dr Sarah Dillon is taking part in CogX 2018, a major festival of AI and emerging technologies being held in London on Monday 11th and Tuesday 12th June. […]
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Winner at The Vice-Chancellor’s Public Engagement with Research Awards
Dr Hazel Wilkinson – Junior Research Fellow in English at Fitzwilliam College – was amongst six winners from across the University of a Vice-Chancellor’s Public Engagement with Research Award. The new awards have been set up to recognise and reward those who undertake quality engagement with research. Dr Wilkinson received a trophy and a personal cash prize of […]
Continue ReadingYvonne Salmon hosts Q&A with ‘High Rise’ Producer Jeremy Thomas
Yvonne Salmon FRSA FRGS FRAI hosts a Q&A with renowned producer Jeremy Thomas after a showing of the new film adaptation of J. G. Ballard’s novel High Rise at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse, 6pm on Saturday 12th March. G. Ballard’s dystopian novel about society disintegrating within a giant tower block is brought to the screen […]
Continue ReadingDr Edward Wilson-Lee: Book reading and Signing at Stanfords Books and Maps
Dr Edward Wilson-Lee is doing a book reading and signing at Stanfords Books and Maps London on Tuesday 15 March from 18.30 to 20.00 for his new book Shakespeare in Swahililand. To celebrate the Ides of March in this Shakespeare anniversary year, Dr Wilson-Lee tells the story of how Julius Caesar started a riot in Uganda in the […]
Continue ReadingDr Marcus Waithe gives Gallery Talk on Ruskin And Craftsmanship
Dr Marcus Waithe gives a Lunchtime Talk on Ruskin and Craftmanship at the Millenium Gallery, Sheffield, on Monday 7 March 2016 at 1pm. Ruskin was a founding father of the Victorian Arts and Crafts movement, and he continues to inspire the makers of today. Dr Waithe’s talk examines Ruskin’s contributions to craftsmanship and the practical contribution […]
Continue ReadingDr Edward Wilson-Lee at Bath Festival of Literature
Dr Edward Wilson-Lee speaks to author and broadcaster Jenni Mills about his new book Shakespeare in Swahililand at the Independent Bath Festival of Literature on Thursday 3 March, from 4.30 to 5.30. Shakespeare in Swahililand, published on 10 March with HarperCollins, is the story of a search across eastern and central Africa to recover the extraordinary and unknown story of the […]
Continue ReadingDr Laura Wright Presents Radio 4’s Word of Mouth
Throughout March and April 2016, Dr Laura Wright co-hosts BBC Radio 4’s Word of Mouth, a series which explores the world of words and the ways in which we use them. Listen to Michael Rosen and Dr Wright discussing Shakespearean speech with Linguist David Crystal in a clip from the Radio 4 in Four podcast.
Continue ReadingLichen Ohms Seriatim and The Internet of Things
An installation that ran at Corpus Christi College Chapel during the Festival of Ideas in 2015, ‘Lichen Ohms Seriatim’–created by Drew Milne, Tom Hall, and Barry Byford and partially funded by the Faculty’s Judith E Wilson Fund–is gaining new popularity this week after the Raspberry Pi Blog posted about its use of the single-board computer […]
Continue ReadingBritish Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Elizabeth Savage Curates British Museum Exhibition
Earliest attempts at colour printing in the West are on display for the first time at British Museum exhibition of German Renaissance Colour Woodcuts curated by British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Elizabeth Savage. A new exhibition at the British Museum examines the earliest attempts to incorporate colour into printmaking in the 1400s and 1500s in […]
Continue ReadingDr Lucy Allen – Positively Medieval on BBC Radio 4
Dr Lucy Allen presents a new episode of Four Thought, a BBC Radio 4 series of thought-provoking talks in which speakers air their thinking on the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect culture and society. In Positively Medieval, Dr Allen argues that the way in which medieval society is often presented – as indifferent to sexual violence […]
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