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Jonathan Birch

Animal Sentience

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Jürgen Schmidhuber

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Lauren Stewart

Effect of Music on the Brain

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Mathias Disney

Radiation and Land Surface

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David Phillips

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Chris Brierley

Climate Observations

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Arkhat Abzhanov

Skull Modularity in Evolutionary Morphology

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John Worrall

Causal Hypotheses in Medicine

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Jürgen Schmidhuber

Knowledge in Art

Art historian Jeffrey Taylor on connoisseurship, how can we tell an original painting from a copy and why lesser details are so important in art

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

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

Peter Jones on love as a contract, religious love in middle ages and why love is tied to self-sacrifice

Theory-Change and Scientific Realism

Professor of Philosophy of Science John Worrall on scientific revolutions, continuity of science, and the change of Newtonian physics by Einstein's theory

Modern Nationalism

Historian Richard Bourke on the components of nationalism, national identity, and the role of ideology and the state

Monetary Revolution in the 11th century England

Historian Rory Naismith on the monk Ælfric Bata, the formation of the English monetary system, and the silver standard

Science and Spectacle in the 18th Century Russia

Historian of Science Simon Werret on the Russian Academy of Sciences, the foundation of Saint Petersburg, and the application of a spectacle in order to develop scientific tradition

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

Renaissance Maps of Paradise

Historian Alessandro Scafi on the four rivers of paradise, Calvin's mapping of Eden, and the first attempts to imagine heaven not on Earth

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