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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
Cambridge Ideas - Forgotten Heroes
A Cambridge University archaeologist, along with two other researchers in Guernsey, has uncovered a previously unseen archive featuring the testimonies of people who were deported...
Collection: Cambridge Ideas
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Wed 17 Nov 2010
Cambridge Ideas - How Many Lightbulbs?
Cambridge University physicist, David Mackay, in a passionate, personal analysis of the energy crisis in the UK, in which he comes to some surprising conclusions about the way...
Collection: Cambridge Ideas
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Fri 20 May 2011
Cambridge Ideas - Professor Risk
David Spiegelhalter's proper title is Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk. He is in two minds (literally) about playing it safe or chucking caution to the wind....
Collection: Cambridge Ideas
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Mon 15 Nov 2010
Cambridge Ideas - Sticky Feet
Ants have incredibly sticky feet. With them they can hang onto ceilings, while carrying 100 times their body weight. But if they are stuck down so successfully - how do they ever...
Collection: Cambridge Ideas
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Tue 12 Apr 2011
Cambridge Ideas - The Crime Experiment
Eminent criminologist Prof Lawrence Sherman has just set up a long term experiment with the police, to scientifically study crime in Manchester and come up with some solutions....
Collection: Cambridge Ideas
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Mon 15 Nov 2010
Cambridge's new Vice-Chancellor
On 1 October 2010, in a ceremony in Cambridge's Senate House, Sir Leszek Borysiewicz was admitted to office as the 345th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He was...
Collection: Vice-Chancellor
Institution: Governance and Compliance Division
Created: Thu 30 Sep 2010
Charlie Higson’s history of horror at the Festival of Ideas
Collection: Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2011
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Thu 3 Nov 2011
Charlie Higson’s history of horror at the Festival of Ideas: Charlie talks about his latest book
Collection: Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2011
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Thu 3 Nov 2011
Charlie Higson’s history of horror at the Festival of Ideas: listen to the full talk
Collection: Cambridge Festival of Ideas 2011
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Thu 3 Nov 2011
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
Encouraging reception students to share ideas and give reasons about their thinking
This clip shows a teacher of a reception class in an initial lesson prior to a teachers development programme with T-SEDA. The lesson's task was for the students to imagine that...
Collection: CEDiR group examples of dialogue in diverse educational contexts
Institution: Faculty of Education
Created: Mon 11 Nov 2019
Evelyn Fox Keller, Society and health, Tue 7 July
What do we mean by Darwinism?
Professor Evelyn Fox Keller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts, USA)
Summary: The neo-Darwinian synthesis brought great...
Collection: Darwin Festival 2009
Institution: Department of Biological Anthropology
Created: Thu 15 Oct 2009
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