Darwin College Lecture Series
By Darwin College Lecture Series
Categories: Education, Courses, Society & Culture
Darwin College at Cambridge University has delivered eight public lectures each year since 1986, each series built around a single theme and approached from multiple disciplines. Leading scholars prepare their talks for general audiences, not specialists. Recent themes include Song, Code, and Revolution. Each series is later published as a book by Cambridge University Press. The range runs from asteroseismology to Palestinian music, from epigenetics to the cultural revolution in China. Follow the show and leave a five-star rating if you find an idea worth keeping.Links:Darwin College Lecture Series: https://www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/lecturesDarwin College: https://www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/
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- Vision of Future Technology by Sophie Hackford
Sophie will explore the idea that the way that computers see the world is becoming our dominant reality. The idea that a physical object, and its data ‘exhaust’, are in constant dialogue with each other. As machine autonomy creeps into our everyday lives, we are creating a physical internet, where…
- Throat Singing: Body, Spirit, Pathways, Place | Carole Pegg
“Throat-singing” is timbre-centred vocal music typified by the simultaneous separate sounding of a musical drone and its overtones or undertones by a solo vocalist. Here I also include the timbral vocal technique of heroic epic performers. Often perceived as otherworldly, these vocal sounds have…
- Computer Vision by Andrew Blake
Professor Andrew Blake, Samsung AI Research Centre.Can we trust the judgement of machines that see? Computer vision is being entrusted with ever more critical tasks: from access control by face recognition, to diagnosis of disease from medical scans and hand-eye coordination for surgical and…
- Songs of the Stars: Unravelling Stellar Music with Asteroseismology | Professor Conny Aerts
For the past two decades it has been possible to measure the seismic activity of stars with high precision. This is thanks to dedicated telescopes operating from space. Using these recorded ‘songs of the stars’, asteroseismologists can gaze into stellar interiors. By doing this, it is possible to…
- Perception of Visual Space by Colin Blakemore
The image in your eye, like a photograph or a precise figurative painting, is a two-dimensional projection of the world. But detecting the third dimension of that world is important for understanding the shapes of objects, as well as the distances of everything around us. Our forward-pointing eyes…
- Appearance and Physical Reality by Carlo Rovelli
Can we “see” photons, black holes, curved spacetime, quantum jumps, the expansion of the universe, or quanta of space? Physics challenges appearances, showing convincingly that our everyday vision of reality is limited, approximate and badly incomplete. Established theories such as quantum theory…
- How song shapes society, and society shapes song | Richard Morrison
From Renaissance princes and popes to modern-day democrats and dictators, those who rule countries, religious communities and empires have often kept a close watch on singers, songs and those who compose them. Equally, song has often been used as a subversive weapon, a tool of protest and a call…
- Viewing the Universe by Carolin Crawford
Astronomers depend on light for their understanding of the cosmos beyond the confines of the Solar System. Many of the most exciting discoveries over the last couple of decades were made possible by new generations of cameras and telescopes, both on the ground and in space. The resulting…
- Palestinian Song in Transition | Dr Issa Boulos
Between 1936 and 1948, Palestinian music experienced a transformative period shaped by the establishment of the Palestine Broadcasting Service (PBS) and the Near East Broadcasting Station (NEBS). These radio stations became influential cultural platforms that enabled Palestinian musicians to…
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