Darwin College, Richard King Room


2021-10-19 13:15: How complex can this be? Let me introduce you to the Haft Paykar, a narrative poem composed in Persian by the giant poet Nizami of Ganja (12th C. AD) (Cristine van Ruymbeke, Soudavar Professor of Persian Literature and Culture Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Graduate Tutor and College Praelector of Darwin College)

2021-10-26 13:15: Problematising Space: Caring for People (Dr Ariane Hanemaayer (CRASSH))

2021-11-02 13:15: Transitioning to just and sustainable cities (Dr Manu Sasidharan)

2021-11-09 13:15: Thinking about action in Early Greek Philosophy (and medicine). (Zoë Audra,  PhD student in the Classics faculty.)

2021-11-16 13:15: Counterspeech: can and should we automate it? (Dr Stefanie Ullmann (CRASSH))

2021-11-23 13:15: Trauma Apps and the Making of the 'Smart' Refugee. (Maha Abdelrahman,  Professor of Development Studies and Middle East Politics)

2021-11-29 13:15: War, COVID-19 and the national debt (Dean and Senior Tutor, Darwin College; Director, Centre for Financial History)

2022-01-25 13:15: Access to and learning outcomes from early childhood education: equity considerations for refugees and non-refugees in Uganda (Bea Simpson  Doctoral Candidate,  University of Cambridge  Faculty of Education,  Darwin College )

2022-02-08 13:15: Cybernetics Revolution in Contemporary China (Canhui Liu. Department of Sociology)

2022-02-15 13:15: Rethinking rotation in the Peripatetic Mechanica (Arthur Harris, Department of History and Philosophy of Science)

2022-02-22 13:15: Does AI de-Bias Recruitment? Race, Gender, and AI's ‘Eradication of Difference Between Groups’  (Dr Eleanor Drage, University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies)

2022-03-01 13:15: Speaking and Being (Kübra Gümüşay, Mercator Senior Fellow, CRASSH, LCFI)

2022-03-08 13:15: George Howard Darwin and the ‘Public’ Understanding of Nature (Dr Edwin Rose. Department of History and Philosophy of Science)

2022-03-14 13:15: Psychosocial function, legal involvement and violence in mental disorder (Alec Buchanan PhD MD, Yale School of Medicine)

2022-03-15 13:15: Young People and Work in the Global South (Dame Barbara Stocking, former president of Murray Edwards college)

2022-05-03 13:15: Unique Humanity:  We Journey; We Sing; We Make & Trade (Glen Milstein, Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme, Faculty of Divinity)

2022-05-10 13:15: Silicon Valley and the State: Amazon, Cloud Computing and Corporate Rule (Alina Utrata (Department of Politics and International Studies))

2022-05-17 13:15: Revolution and religion in Myanmar (Dr Michael Edwards (Centre of South Asian Studies))

2022-05-24 13:15: The Collapse of Complex Societies (Sabin Roman (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk))