Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

A case study of AI education in high schools in the Tema district of Ghana

Salomey Addo, Department of Computer Science and Technology.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Infiltrator and Indicator? Understanding the Intricacies of the Cuckoo Bumblebee Lifecycle

Sofia Dartnell, Zoology.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

“To Illuminate this Proverbial Dark Continent”: Lighting Infrastructure and the South African Night, 1860-1976

Zachary Fleishman, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Future of Coding

David Vella Zarb, Computer Science.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 21 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The ancient Egyptian personification of the Milky Way as the sky-goddess Nut: an astronomical and cross-cultural analysis

Dr Or Graur.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Chalk Talk Series

Darwin Chalk Talk

Speaker to be confirmed.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Monday 18 November 2024, 18:00-19:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Tiny animals, mighty impacts: modelling polar species on the move

Jen Freer, British Antarctic Survey.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Studying Research Culture at Cambridge: The Action Research on Research Culture Project (ARRC)

Dr Lara Abel, Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, Action Research on Research Culture project (ARRC), Research Fellow at Darwin College.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Climate is on Thin Ice: Can We Thicken It?

Jacob Pantling, Centre for Climate Repair, University of Cambridge.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 07 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The changing values of feathers and their wearers: Transformation of the British society’s relationship with birds at the turn of the 20th century

Dr Jakub Kronenberg, Associate Professor at the Social Ecological Systems Analysis Lab, University of Lodz and Visiting Scholar in the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 05 November 2024, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Wondering What Our Blood Holds

Laura Magnani, Haematology, University of Cambridge.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 31 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Data Flows & Menstruation: How Users of Period Trackers Navigate the Datafication & Commodification of their Menstrual Cycles

Dr Stefanie Felsberger, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Dopamine signalling in the octopus visual system

Anna Jansson, Cambridge -- Translational Neuroscience.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 24 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Pre-Christian Typologies in Greece and Rome

Dr Peter Martin, Mary and Moses Finley Fellow, Darwin College.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 22 October 2024, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Scaling Up Mental Health Support: Automated annotation for Recovery Stories using AI

Shrankhla Pandey (University of Cambridge).

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 17 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Exploration, Empire, and a Revolution in the Natural History of the Pacific, 1769-1840

Dr Edwin Rose, AHRC Early Career Research Fellow, Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Advanced Research Fellow, Darwin College. .

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 15 October 2024, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Producing carbon nanotubes and hydrogen from natural gas: can fossil fuels assist the energy transition?

Jack Peden, Department of Engineering.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 10 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Darwin Gas Heating: smart sensor trial review and future prospects

Kilian Bartsch, Department of Engineering.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 18 June 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Wind farms and power companies: from test sites to fossil fuels divestment, 1990-2019

Mercedes Galindez.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 21 May 2024, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Reconstructing humanity’s ghosts: genetic evidence for interbreeding among archaic humans

Trevor Cousins.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 16 May 2024, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Can International Law Stop Genocide? Investigating Whether States Have a Responsibility to Protect

Kiran Basra.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 14 May 2024, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The sense of smell: from an overlooked research field to new approaches

Chloe Guillaume.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 09 May 2024, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Overcoming challenges to sustainable heat using physics-informed machine learning

Javier Sandoval.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Rethinking Development from the Ethics of Care

Blanche Tardif-De-Moidrey.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 30 April 2024, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Entangled Lives - Exploring plant biology through the fungal lens.

Alan Wanke.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 25 April 2024, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

A Second Charter: Imagining a Renewed United Nations

Augusto Lopez-Claros, Global Governance Forum.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 18:30-19:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Reconstructing humanity’s ghosts: genetic evidence for interbreeding among archaic humans

Trevor Cousins.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 07 March 2024, 18:30-19:20

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

The Rejection of Magic in Early Greek and Chinese Medicine

Arthur Harris, History and Philosophy of Science.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 05 March 2024, 18:30-19:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Are we bearing the fruits of the personalized 'omics revolution?

Yasemin Cole.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 18:30-19:20

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Farming of Bones: Ethics in Bioarchaeology - a conversation with Myesha Jemison around the study and treatment of indigenous human remains

Chike Pilgrim, Archeology.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 18:30-19:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Mechanical force guided cell migration in early embryonic development

Lakshmi Balasubramaniam.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 18:30-19:20

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Denying religious exemptions to secure LGBTQ+ equality

Sam Cole, Philosophy.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 20 February 2024, 18:30-19:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Harnessing quantum mechanics to predict the properties of materials

Benjamin Shi.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 18:30-19:20

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Crime and Punishment: Rethinking Right Wing Authoritarianism

Malia Marks, Criminology .

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Lake Malawi Cichlids – A Model System for Speciation Research

Moritz Blumer.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Making Space for the Future: Imagining the Smart Nation in Singapore

Amelia Hassoun, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 06 February 2024, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Dancing in the sunlight: Light-responsive materials for drug delivery to energy storage

Bea Jones.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Farming of Bones: Ethics in Bioarcheology - conversations with indigenous communities and other stakeholders with respect to Holocene Era human remains in Trinidad and Tobago

Canceled

Chike Pilgrim, Archeology.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 30 January 2024, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Results from the world’s largest trial of the 4-Day Week: imagining the future of work

Jon White, Sociology.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Enhancing dimensionality of in-vitro GPCR drug discovery

Ned Wills.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 18 January 2024, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

AI & Arbitration: A Compatible Marriage?

Canceled

Maroof Rafique, Law.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 18:30-19:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Road to Future Roads: Carbon Data Ontology

Jinying Xu.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 18:30-19:20

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Surprising Uses of Dating Apps in Times of Emergency: Lessons Learned from the Covid Sex Lives Project

Note different time

Rachel Katz, Digital Media Sociology.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 18:30-19:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Novel protein-based vaccine technologies to tackle global health threats

Gabrielle Admans.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 18:30-19:20

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Youth Work in an Unsettled and Affectively Charged Setting

Note different time

Honor Gitsham (she/her), Social Anthropology.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 07 November 2023, 18:30-19:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Predicting outcomes for patients with dementia requiring psychiatric inpatient care

Oriane Marguet.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 18:30-19:20

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Visions of Vengeance: Tracking the Father through New Hollywood Cinema

Harrison Whitaker, Film & Screen Department.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The priest, the philosopher, the scientist, and the new age of medicine

Benjamin Doolittle.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Enlightenment, Empire and Thomas Pennant's Practices of Natural History

Edwin Rose, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Artifical photosynthesis: fuels and pharmaceuticals from using solar power

Tessel Bouwens.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Gender Bias in Machine Translation Systems

Stefanie Ullmann (she/her), CRASSH.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 17 October 2023, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

A Tale of Vertebrae: A time travel to the origin of South American snake diversity

Andres Alfonso-Rojas.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 12 October 2023, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Hierarchical Models for Knowledge Transfer in Industrial Fleets

Maharshi Dhada, Industrial Engineering.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Gilded Stories: Unearthing the Significance of Indus Ornamentation

Aritri Samadder.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 05 October 2023, 13:10-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Functional redundancy of Drosophila melanogaster SoxB proteins in central nervous system development

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch. First come first served up to 30 people capacity. Looking forward to seeing you there.

Barbara Joo, Department of Genetics.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 14 October 2021, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Workshops

How to… balance study/career and children

Speaker to be confirmed.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Science Seminars

Emotion and emotion regulation; application in mental health disorders

Dr Laura Vuillier (Department of Psychology).

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 22 October 2015, 13:10-14:00