We are pleased to announce an interdisciplinary programme of speakers and sessions available across our Inspiration Days, featuring Oriel’s research fellows and academics.
We are pleased to announce an interdisciplinary programme of speakers and sessions available across our Inspiration Days, featuring Oriel’s research fellows and academics.
The session will be broken up into mini talks on the following topics:
How to Age Well: Restoring Health Resilience
Lynne Cox (Biochemistry)
God-Becoming-Man
Robert Wainwright (Theology)
Bias and Fairness in Medical Image Analysis
Irina Voiculescu (Computer Science)
Q&A
The session will be broken up into mini talks on the following topics:
Learning from Cultural and Literary History to Understand the “Crisis of Attention” in Our Own Time
Alessandra Aloisi (French)
Scientific Approaches to Consciousness
Kobi Kremnitzer (Mathematics)
Q&A
Short refreshment break
Attention Deficit Disorder: Crypto-Structure and the Listener in Beethoven’s Symphony No 3, Eroica
David Maw (Music)
Attention and Intensity: Aspects of Aesthetic Experience
Nicholas Gaskill (English)
Q&A
The session will be broken up into mini talks on the following topics:
Our Current Understanding of Time and Space
Pedro Ferreira (Astronomy)
The Philosophy of Time and Space
Oliver Pooley (Philosophy)
Q&A
Short refreshment break
Image and Musical Interpretation
Hugh Collins-Rice (Music)
Mathematical Descriptions of Space and Geometry
Kobi Kremnitzer (Mathematics)
Q&A
The session will be broken up into mini talks on the following topics:
On the Origins of Western Literature and the Possible Debts of the Earliest Greek Poets to ‘Eastern’ Literature
Bruno Currie (Classics)
Origin of the Universe
Julien Devriendt (Physics)
Q&A
Short refreshment break
Theology and the Origins (and Future) of the University
William Wood (Theology)
On the Origin and Evolution of Language
Víctor Acedo-Matellán (Linguistics)
Q&A
The session will be broken up into mini talks on the following topics:
Can We Trust AI? Making Artificial Intelligence More Reliable
Amirmohammad Farzaneh (Engineering)
The Artificial Composer: A Forensic Musicology Perspective on Artificial Intelligence and Music
John Peirce O’Reilly (Music)
Why Should We Think and Write for Ourselves?
Kathryn Murphy (English)
Q&A
The session will consist of a panel discussion followed by a contrasting mini talk on the following topics:
The Political Economy of Government Debt and Economic Growth – Panel discussion
Christopher Bowdler, Michael Devereux, Arhat Virdi, and Mungo Wilson (Economics)
Q&A
The German Peasants’ War of 1524–6: Land Use, Natural Resources, and Human-Environment Relations
Lyndal Roper (History)
Q&A