Lunchtime Talks Michaelmas 2024
We are continuing the tradition of Clare Hall Thursdays Lunchtime Talks beginning on 10 October at 1pm in a relaxed atmosphere. Every member from the College is invited to speak, including especially PhD students, postdocs, also spouses.
Research talks and talks of wider academic interest including for example travel experiences or other are welcome. Each session, talk and discussion will last 60 minutes. without recording. Participants are encouraged to have lunch together in the Dining Hall before the talks. Discuss your ideas and meet fellow members in our creative community.
Schedule
10 October– James Tanna (Life Member and Programme Officer at CBM), “Some Dos and Don’ts in Development Practice”
17 October – Joakim Nivre (Professor of computational linguistics, Uppsala University): “Large Language Models – Stochastic Parrots or Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence”
24 October – L. Vyas (Visiting Researcher and PhD at Sciences Po Law School): ‘Tracing the genealogy of the “Balance” discourse in international copyright law’
31 October – Malcolm Millbrook (Deputy Head, OIS): ‘Current and future challenges of Clare Hall and the Cambridge Colleges’.
7 November – Johan Bolhuis (Professor of Cognitive Neurobiology, Utrecht University): ‘Does the mind have a future? Evolution, language, and AI’
14 November – Gerrie Strik (Rector of Liberal Arts College in the Netherlands): “The Unbearable Lightness of Being. An introduction to literary existentialism”
21 November – Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre (Professor of German Literature at Stockholm University): “Early Modern Travel Narratives of the North/the Nordic Countries”
28 November – Valeria Ramirez (Postdoc, Institute for Manufacturing): “The quantification of social worlds: measuring communication performance in the digital age”
5 December – Christian Illies (Professor of Philosophy, Bamberg University) and Harald Wydra (Professor of Politics, Cambridge University): ‘Illusions of Liberty: Manipulation and Democracy’