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IAS Fellows' Seminar by Giuliana Furci (Fungi Foundation of Chile)
02 December 2024
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Cosin‘s Hall, Seminar Room, Palace Green
The last workshop in a series of eight over the course of Michaelmas term in conjunction with the large-scale cross-faculty research project, Syntactical Structures and the Evolution of Mind and Culture, which explores the syntactical basis of a wide range of phenomena spanning cognitive and cultural domains, from learning and reasoning to narrative and memory to music and dance, to shed new light on the human mind, cultural evolution, and aesthetics.
03 December 2024
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Seminar Room, Institute of Advanced Study, Cosin‘s Hall, Palace Green, Durham, DH1 3RL
IAS Fellows' Public Lecture by Professor Paul Armstrong (Brown University)
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Kenworthy Hall, St Mary‘s College
A fourth and final interactive workshop in a series on soil, supported by the IAS
04 December 2024
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
A celebration of World Soil Day and the launch of the SMART Soils SRF project with special guests Merlin Sheldrake, Cosmo Sheldrake, Jo Pearl, IAS Fellow Giuliana Furci and IAS Visiting Scholar Anna Kryzwoszynska
05 December 2024
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Elvet Methodist Church, 8 Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HL
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Dr Anna Krzywoszynska (University of Oulu)
09 December 2024
The ‘Pasts in the Present’ project revolves around two fundamental questions: what is the cultural and social impact of former eras in the 21st century, and how does this interact with academic discourses? These questions have become increasingly important in the 21st century as ideologies of nation, often connected to racism and intolerance, have weaponised ideas about the past for contemporary political ends--and implicated academic disciplines in doing so.
09 January 2025
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Seminar Room, Institute of Advanced Study, Cosin‘s Hall, Palace Gree
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Professor Apollos Okwuchi Nwauwa (Bowling Green State University)
20 January 2025
IAS Fellows' Seminar by Professor Raouf Boucekkine (Aix-Marseille University)
27 January 2025
This workshop examines the complex world of health and fitness self-tracking through wearable technologies and digital self-tracking devices.
28 January 2025
Seminar Room, Cosins Hall, Palace Green
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