Research Seminar 2024-25
Term 2
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3 22 Jan |
Climate Change and AI: Reconstructing Atmospheric Circulation Using GPT 4 and 40 Speaker: Dagomar DeGroot, Georgetown Chair: Tom Simpson |
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5 5 Feb |
Thirty seconds at Quetta: Time, disaster and earthquakes on India’s North-West Frontier History Research seminar with Dan Haines, UCL Chair: Katayoun Shafiee |
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7 19 Feb |
Leningrad under Water: Writing an Urban Environmental History of the Leningrad Flood of September 1924 speaker: Robert Dale, Newcastle Chair: Pierre Purseigle |
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9 5 Mar |
Settler Colonialism, Fear, and Climate among Early Zionists in Palestine Speaker: Netta Cohen, Christ Church, Oxford Chair: Anne Gerritsen Time, 12-2pm |
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Term 1
| Week | Seminar takes place on Wednesday 1-3pm at PS1.28 | Links |
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3 16 Oct |
The Soviet Anthropocene: Changing Notions of Human and non-Human Agency in the Context of an Authoritarian Regime Speaker: Egle Rindzeviciute, Kingston University London Chair: Claire Shaw |
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5 30 Oct |
Anthropomorphism, Anthropomimesis, and Social AI Speaker: Henry Shevlin, University of Cambridge Chair: Martha McGill |
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7 13 Nov |
The Artificial Intelligentsia and its Discontents: 1970s Social Critiques of Machine Intelligence Speaker: Rosamund Powell, The Alan Turing Institute Dealing with the Scarcity and Abundance of Born Digital Web Sources Speaker: Federico Nanni, The Alan Turing Institute Chair: Anne Gerritsen |
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9 27 Nov |
Reflections on the history of AI Speaker: Jonathan Agar, UCL Chair: Roberta Bivins |
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