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Oriel’s Inspiration Days – Academic Programme

We are pleased to announce an interdisciplinary programme of speakers and sessions available across our Inspiration Days, featuring Oriel’s research fellows and academics.

Being Human – Saturday 2 May

Booking available soon
AM: Human Health and Biotechnology

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

PM: Attention and Distraction

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

Past & Future – Saturday 16 May

Booking available soon
AM: Time & Space

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

PM: Origins

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

Risks & Opportunities – Saturday 6 June

Booking available soon
AM: Artificial Intelligence & Human Creativity

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

 

PM: Economic Growth & Sustainability

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