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Patrick Haggard

Voluntary Action

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David Adger

The Nature of Language

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Gareth Jones

Undecidable Problems

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David Adger

Language and Artificial Intelligence

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Steve Jones

Genes and the Environment

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Onur Güntürkün

Self-construction

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Anson Mackay

Fresh Water and Climate Change

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Erol Gelenbe

Cloud Computing

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John Ellis

Academic Freedom in Medieval Universities

Historian Peter Jones on Peter Abelard, logical analysis of the Scripture and what was the role of the universities in the Middle Ages

Student Life in the Medieval Universities

Historian Peter Jones on the seven liberal arts, first textbooks and drinking as part of the student culture

Scientific Examination of Art

Art historian Jeffrey Taylor on the documentation techniques in art forensics, types of paints and how can we use spectrum analysis to detect art forgeries

The Role of Science in Art

Art historian Jeffrey Taylor on the art market, the ‘American Leonardo’ and why connoisseurship doesn't work in a court of law

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

Historian Peter Jones on the medieval obsession with relics, Christian heresies and why we shouldn’t reduce objects just down to their function or purpose

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

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

Dante’s Heaven

Alessandro Scafi on Divine Comedy story line, the desire of God, and Mark Twain

Leonardo da Vinci

Historian of Art Martin Kemp on Leonardo da Vinci's intellectual contribution to engineering, Madonna Lisa, and the history of Earth

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