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The society aims to create a forum for lectures and discussion on a topic chosen each term. The name was chosen because the focus is on thinking together and not in one particular discipline or interest. Each term a topic or question shall be chosen and speakers from the humanities and the sciences speak on this subject to provoke interdisciplinary dialogue. If you have a question about this list, please contact: Lloyd West. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser. 0 upcoming talks and 25 talks in the archive. Thinking Society: How is understanding possible? STUDENT TALKS AND GRAND DISCUSSIONSpeaker to be confirmed. Rushmore Room, St Catharine’s College. Thursday 08 May 2008, 19:30-20:30 Thinking Society: How is understanding possible? Chekhov’s poetic and social realism: poetry and politics on stageProfessor Anna Sica, University of Palermo, Theatre Studies. Rushmore Room, St Catharine’s College. Wednesday 07 May 2008, 19:30-20:30 Thinking Society: How is understanding possible? Possibilities and limitations of understandingDr Michael Nedo, Director of The Wittgenstein Archive. Rushmore Room, St Catharine’s College. Monday 05 May 2008, 19:30-20:30 Thinking Society: How is understanding possible? Are (human and other) animals rational?Professor Vaux, Department of Linguistics. Rushmore Room, St Catharine’s College. Thursday 01 May 2008, 19:30-20:30 Thinking Society: How is understanding possible? Understanding in ancient and modern Number TheoryProfessor John Coates, Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics. Rushmore Room, St Catharine’s College. Wednesday 30 April 2008, 19:30-20:30 Thinking Society: Is our university a place of free thinking? Student Papers and Grand DiscussionIs our university a place of free thinking? Mishko Hansen, Karin Doolan, Antoine Panaïoti. Monday 10 March 2008, 19:30-20:30 Thinking Society: Is our university a place of free thinking? Are academics intellectuals?: a reading of Edward SaidIs our university a place of free thinking? Dr. Priyamvada Gopal (Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies, University of Cambridge). Thursday 06 March 2008, 19:30-20:30 Thinking Society: Is our university a place of free thinking? Socrates and the invention of philosophical conversationIs our university a place of free thinking? Professor Malcolm Schofield (Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge). Monday 03 March 2008, 17:30-18:30 Thinking Society: Is our university a place of free thinking? The thought of poetry and its institutional discontentsIs our university a place of free thinking? Dr Drew Milne (Lecturer in Drama and Poetry, University of Cambridge). Thursday 28 February 2008, 19:30-20:30 Thinking Society: Is our university a place of free thinking? Freedom, Technology and TerrorIs our university a place of free thinking? Professor Ross Anderson (Security Engineering). Wednesday 27 February 2008, 18:00-19:00 Thinking Society: Is our university a place of free thinking? What use is a college education?Is our university still a place for free thinking? Dr Don MacDonald. Tuesday 26 February 2008, 19:30-20:30 Thinking Society: The Place of the Intellectual Grand DiscussionThe Place of the Intellectual Cristina Devecchi, Professor Geoffrey Hawthorn. Wednesday 16 May 2007, 17:00-19:00 Thinking Society: The Place of the Intellectual Plato and Aristotle on why an intellectual life is even better than a moral oneThe Place of the Intellectual Professor David Sedley, Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy. Tuesday 15 May 2007, 17:00-19:00 Thinking Society: The Place of the Intellectual Intellectuals, oil, and violenceThe Place of the Intellectual Dr Alexander Etkind, Lecturer of Slavonic and Russian Studies. Monday 07 May 2007, 17:00-19:00 Thinking Society: The Place of the Intellectual A scientific approach to the nature of ethicsThe Place of the Intellectual Professor Robert Hinde, Emeritus Professor of Zoology. Thursday 03 May 2007, 19:30-20:30 Thinking Society: What is Life? Student Papers and Grand DiscussionWhat is Life? Gaurav Jaggi, Colin Higgins, Kevin Channon - Discussion. Wednesday 14 March 2007, 17:00-19:00 Thinking Society: What is Life? What is Music? What is Life? and other unanswerable questionsWhat is Life? Dr Nikolaus Bacht, Research Fellow in the Faculty of Music. Tuesday 13 March 2007, 17:00-18:30 Thinking Society: What is Life? Self-discipline as a way of life: Why would anyone eat only fruits and vegatables?What is Life? Professor Matthew Kramer, Professor of Legal and Political Philosophy. Friday 09 March 2007, 17:00-18:30 Thinking Society: What is Life? Biological Reductionism: Does it describe life or Life?What is Life? Dr David Summers, Head of Genetics Department. Thursday 08 March 2007, 19:30-21:00 Thinking Society: What is Life? Incorporating Life into Philosophy: Dilthey, Bergson and HeideggerWhat is Life? Dr Melissa Lane, Senior Lecturer in History. Tuesday 06 March 2007, 19:30-21:00 Thinking Society: General and Particular Student papers and Grand DiscussionWebsite: www.srcf.ucam.org/think Dr Aldo Faisal, Rodrigo de Sousa, Alex Shannon. Tuesday 28 November 2006, 19:30-21:00 Thinking Society: General and Particular The death of theorising?Website: www.srcf.ucam.org/think Sir Patrick Bateson, Professor of Ethology, University of Cambridge. Thursday 23 November 2006, 19:00-20:30 Thinking Society: General and Particular Varieties of theory in modern AmericaWebsite: www.srcf.ucam.org/think Dr Joel Isaac, Keasbey Research Fellow in American Studies, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 21 November 2006, 19:30-21:00 Thinking Society: General and Particular Process or cultural relativism in prehistory?Website: www.srcf.ucam.org/think Dr Simon Stoddart, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Cambridge. Tuesday 14 November 2006, 19:00-20:30 Thinking Society: General and Particular Is history science?Website: www.srcf.ucam.org/think Professor Simon Blackburn, Professor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge. Monday 06 November 2006, 18:30-20:00 Please see above for contact details for this list. |
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