Giving Voice to Digital Democracies

Mindful of AI: Language, Technology and Mental Health

Event website: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/29297

Four sessions over two days (1st and 2nd October).

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Thursday 01 October 2020, 11:00-15:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Fabulation and the Right to the City: The Bacchae with Saidiya Hartman and Hannah Arendt

Bonnie Honig (Brown).

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Friday 09 October 2020, 13:00-14:30

Cambridge Disaster Research Network

Introduction to the network

Amy Donovan (Department of Geography), CDRN convenors.

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Monday 12 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Statelessness: A Roundtable Discussion

Mira Siegelberg (University of Cambridge).

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Monday 12 October 2020, 17:00-19:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Seeing like a welfare state: sickle cell disease, medical racism and patient advocacy in the National Health Service, 1975–1993

Grace Redhead (University College London).

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Tuesday 13 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Thomas Paine in the French Revolution

Adam Lebovitz (Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge).

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Monday 19 October 2020, 17:00-19:00

Early Science and Medicine

The first Egyptian society

Anna Marie Roos (University of Lincoln).

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Tuesday 20 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Contemporary Political Theory

TBC

Annette Zimmermann (York).

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Friday 23 October 2020, 13:00-14:30

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

New 1D models for localisation in slender structures

Claire Lestringant, Structural Engineering, Cambridge.

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Friday 23 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Disaster Research Network

Saving Lives

Josh Macabuag (SARAID, World Bank), Saki Yotsui (Ritsumeikan University), Freya Jephcott (Centre for Existential Risk).

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Monday 26 October 2020, 17:00-18:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Politics and Salus Populi: Hobbes and the Sovereign as Physician of the State

Raffaella Santi (University of Urbino).

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Monday 26 October 2020, 17:00-19:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Europe in the global rise of reproductive rights: abortion and transnational feminisms (1960s–80s)

Maud Bracke (University of Glasgow).

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Tuesday 27 October 2020, 17:00-18:30

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Shuvra Das, CUED.

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Friday 30 October 2020, 15:30-16:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Revolutionary Republicanism: Robespierre, Condorcet, Grouchy

Geneviève Rousselière (Duke University).

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Monday 02 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Early Science and Medicine

The body whole and quotidian: experiencing the body in 18th-century Britain

Karen Harvey (University of Birmingham).

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Tuesday 03 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Geoscience in Context

tbd

Karletta Chief (University of Arizona).

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Thursday 05 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Contemporary Political Theory

The Meaning of "Rich Individuality" in Marxist Theory

Vanessa Wills.

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Friday 06 November 2020, 13:00-14:30

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Plato’s cube and the natural geometry of fragmentation

Prof Gabor Domokos, Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

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Friday 06 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Disaster Research Network

Built Environment

Brigitte Steger (AMES) , Kristen MacAskill (Engineering), Ed Barsley (Architecture).

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Monday 09 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

The Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement

Brandon Terry (Harvard University).

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Monday 09 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Microbe smiths: engineering microbial control in 20th-century Japan

Victoria Lee (Ohio University).

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Tuesday 10 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dr Sina Askarinejad, CUED.

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Friday 13 November 2020, 15:00-15:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Three Lions in Winter: William Petty and the Debates over the Fiscal and Constitutional Structure of the Interregnum and the Restoration State

Shannon Stimson (Georgetown University).

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Monday 16 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Gender and generation in premodern Europe

Leah DeVun (Rutgers University).

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Tuesday 17 November 2020, 17:00-18:30

Contemporary Political Theory

Thinking About Black Republicanism: An Introduction

Melvin Rogers (Virginia).

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Friday 20 November 2020, 13:00-14:30

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Prof Shaochen Chen, Chair of NanoEngineering Department, University of California,.

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Friday 20 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Disaster Research Network

Culture and disasters

Rory Walshe (Geography), Julie Morin (Geography), Roger Abbott (The Faraday Institute for Science & Religion).

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Monday 23 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Poetry, Mores, and Laws: Herder's response to Montesquieu

Eva Piirimae (University of Tartu).

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Monday 23 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Between Virtue and Necessity: Reason of State in the Spanish Monarchy, ca 1590-1650

Lisa Kattenberg (Gonville & Caius, University of Cambridge).

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Monday 30 November 2020, 17:00-19:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

The shadow of slavery: measuring miscegenation in the early 20th century

Rana Hogarth (University of Illinois).

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Tuesday 01 December 2020, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Corporatism: Reviving a Constitutional Concept

Steven Klein (King's College London).

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Monday 25 January 2021, 17:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

The Great Demographic Reversal: ageing societies, waning inequality, and an inflation

Professor Charles Goodhart (LSE) and Dr Manoj Pradhan (Talking Heads Macro).

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Monday 01 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Carl Schmitt in Leipzig – Defence of Democracy or Autocratic Subversion?

Lars Vinx (Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge).

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Monday 01 February 2021, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Thucydides’ Tragic Science of Democratic Defeat

Mark Fisher (Georgetown University).

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Monday 08 February 2021, 17:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

'Where's the money coming from?' Manifesto costings and fiscal credibility in British general elections, 1955-2019

Dr Peter Sloman (University of Cambridge).

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Monday 15 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Kant's 'True Politics'

Susan Shell (Boston College).

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Monday 15 February 2021, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Experiencing Republican Texts

Rachel Hammersley (Newcastle).

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Monday 22 February 2021, 17:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

Poland, the international monetary system and the Bank of England, 1921–1939

William Allen (National Institute of Economic and Social Research).

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Monday 01 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Not Being Kantian about Moral Justification

Luc Foisneau (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS).

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Monday 01 March 2021, 17:00-19:00

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Hegel and Italian Political Thought

Fernanda Gallo (Homerton College, University of Cambridge).

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Monday 08 March 2021, 17:00-19:00

Financial History Seminar

HM Treasury and its management of the Financial Crisis, 2007-2009

Dr Eleanor Hallam, HM Treasury and Centre for Financial History.

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Monday 15 March 2021, 17:00-18:30

Political Thought and Intellectual History

Separation of Powers as a New Theory

Jeffrey Tulis (University of Texas at Austin).

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Monday 15 March 2021, 17:00-19:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Title to be confirmed

Andy Minn, University of Pennsylvania.

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Thursday 16 December 2021, 13:00-14:00