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Alison Wood - 19 October 2018 - The End of Universities?
This event is part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas. Bookings will open at 11:00 on Monday 24 September 2018.
From MOOCS to networked institutions, remote and off-shore...
Collection: CRASSH
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Fri 11 Jan 2019
Boosting the Brain: how far would you go?
Cambridge Festival of Ideas Panel Discussion with Prof. Barbara Sahakian, Prof. Raymond Tallis, Revd Dr Alasdair Coles and Dr Pete Moore
Collection: Faraday Institute Lectures
Institution: Faraday Institute
Created: Mon 4 Nov 2013
Creating sound art and sound installation at the Festival of Ideas 2010
Listen in on a sound art and sound installations workshop for teenagers and adults led by composer, sound artist and educator Duncan Chapman.
This event was presented on...
Collection: Festival of Ideas 2010 at Anglia Ruskin University
Institution: Temporary Employment Service
Created: Tue 30 Nov 2010
Festival of Ideas 2019 : Artificial Intelligence and Social Change
This talk considers how specifically language-based AI systems (for example, speech recognition, machine translation or smart telecommunications interfaces) have affected and...
Collection: CRASSH
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Fri 1 Nov 2019
Festival of Ideas - 21 October 2017 - Freedom and Persuasion in the Attention Economy
James Williams, winner of the inaugural $100,000 Nine Dots Prize, Oxford doctoral candidate and former Google employee, explains his answer to the set question, 'Are digital...
Collection: CRASSH Festival of Ideas 2017
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Fri 12 Jan 2018
Festival of Ideas - 21 October 2017 - Who Believes in Conspiracy Theories?
This talk explores what factors - religious, economic, political - make some and not others believe in conspiracy theories. Hugo Drochon considers what impact that has had on...
Collection: CRASSH
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Tue 19 Dec 2017
Festival of Ideas - 21 October 2017 - Who to Trust about your Health?
We’re bombarded by information about our health. But who should be trusted? Physicians? Scientists? Patients? Pharma? Instinct? Come along for a range of researcher perspectives...
Collection: CRASSH
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Tue 19 Dec 2017
Fiction, emotion and imagination
Dr Cain Todd looks at the philosophical problem of why we have emotional responses to fictional artworks and whether there may be a distinctive class of 'aesthetic emotions'. ...
Collection: Fiction, emotion and imagination
Institution: Faculty of Philosophy
Created: Mon 1 Nov 2010
From hieroglyphs to txt at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas
In this clip, Bert Vaux explains the origins of some place names including 'Cambridge'.
Dr Bert Vaux and Dr James Clackson examine different writing systems from ancient times to...
Collection: Festival of Ideas 2010
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Mon 1 Nov 2010
From hieroglyphs to txt at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, clip 2
In this extract, James Clackson examines the origin of writing in the Middle East.
Dr Bert Vaux and Dr James Clackson examine different writing systems from ancient times to the...
Collection: Festival of Ideas 2010
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Mon 1 Nov 2010
From hieroglyphs to txt at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas, clip 3
James Clackson examines the transition from early symbolic writing systems to the modern alphabet.
Dr Bert Vaux and Dr James Clackson examine different writing systems from...
Collection: Festival of Ideas 2010
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Mon 1 Nov 2010
Good parenting: an evidence based perspective at the Festival of Ideas, clip 1
The issue of problem behaviour in teenagers.
This session reviews the evidence concerning parenting in the diverse range of families that characterise society, as well as drawing...
Collection: Festival of Ideas 2010
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Wed 3 Nov 2010
Good parenting: an evidence based perspective at the Festival of Ideas, clip 2
New family forms.
This session reviewed evidence concerning parenting in the diverse range of families that characterise contemporary society, as well as drawing out lessons for...
Collection: Festival of Ideas 2010
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Wed 3 Nov 2010
Good parenting: an evidence based perspective at the Festival of Ideas, clip 3
Ongoing child development
This session reviewed evidence concerning parenting in the diverse range of families that characterise contemporary society, as well as drawing out...
Collection: Festival of Ideas 2010
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Wed 3 Nov 2010
Is Open Research really changing the world?
Much research claims to benefit communities globally but are research outputs really available to everyone, even if they are made open access? We'll take a world tour with Dr...
Collection: Events hosted by the Office of Scholarly Communication
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Created: Mon 19 Nov 2018
Jacqueline Wilson at the Festival of Ideas, clip 1
Jacqueline Wilson talks about how she began writing.
The acclaimed children's author who created the famous Tracy Beaker, spoke about her life and works at the Cambridge Festival...
Collection: Festival of Ideas 2010
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Wed 27 Oct 2010
Jacqueline Wilson at the Festival of Ideas, clip 2
Jacqueline Wilson explains how she started writing teenage fiction at the Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2010.
Collection: Festival of Ideas 2010
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Tue 26 Oct 2010
Jacqueline Wilson at the Festival of Ideas, Clip 3
Jacqueline Wilson explains how 'Tracey Beaker's' name came about.
Collection: Festival of Ideas 2010
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Tue 26 Oct 2010
Life on other planets at the Festival of Ideas, clip 2
Lord Rees investigates whether we go into space ourselves.
Astronomer Royal Martin Rees believes that planets resembling Earth may be discovered in the next two to three years –...
Collection: Festival of Ideas 2010
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Mon 1 Nov 2010
Life on other planets at the Festival of Ideas, clip 3
'Will we send more people into space?'
Astronomer Royal Martin Rees believes that planets resembling Earth may be discovered in the next two to three years – although it may take...
Collection: Festival of Ideas 2010
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Mon 1 Nov 2010