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    The Nature of Language
    Professor of Linguistics David Adger on the similarities between all the languages, creation of the new grammatical rules and how social factors affect your word choice
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    Materiality in the History of Christianity
    Peter Jones on the medieval obsession with relics, Christian heresies and why we shouldn’t reduce objects just down to their function or purpose
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    The New Science of Culture
    Evolutionary biologist Armand Leroi on the division into natural sciences and humanities, how to read art using the machine learning and why culture should be studied as an evolutionary science
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    History of Laughter
    Peter Jones on three theories of laughter, humour as a way of doing politics and how laughter was perceived in the Medieval Europe
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    Anthropology of Revolution
    Social anthropologist Martin Holbraad on different approaches to revolution as a subject of an anthropological research, the role of every-day experience, and personal transformation of people involved in a revolution
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    Cuban Cultures of Revolution
    Social anthropologist Martin Holbraad on revolutionary transformations, Afro-Cuban religion, and the way revolution shapes every-day life
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    Social Сondenser and Socialist Urban Planning
    Social anthropologist Michal Murawski on the soviet constructivism in architecture, the origins of the concept 'microrayon', and the ideas behind soviet Khrushchevki-buildings
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    Media Literacy
    Media scientist Renira Rampazzo Gambarato on the freedom of speech online, netiquette, and the importance of media literacy acquisition in the modern world
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    Research in Socialist Cities
    Social anthropologist Michal Murawski on the advantages of socialist architecture, debates over the results of communist planning, and the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw
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    Eskimo-Aleut Languages
    Linguist Michael David Fortescue on the rare polysynthesis of the Eskimo languages, the role of affixes in them, and the prognosis for their survival
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