Sustainability Art Prize
19 - 29 May 2020, 00:00
- Cambridge
- Free
Annual exhibition of Sustainability Art Prize entries by students at Cambridge School of Art.
May
June
A woman's worth: exploring the gender divide in Pakistani culture
1 - 30 June 2020, 12:00 - 17:00
- Free
Dr Sabina Akram, who was born and raised in England, highlights the struggles Asian women often face in their communities relating to expectations of getting married and starting a family.
Brain Computer Music Interfacing for Meditation
8 - 12 June 2020, 10:00 - 17:00
- Free
Krisztián Hofstädter's research connects real-time EEG and generative music with neurofeedback to help meditation practices.
Developing artificial minds: Joint attention and robotics
8 June 2020, 14:00 - 15:00
- Free
Humans possess a distinctive suite of social skills. Dr Mike Wilby, ARU, discuss the nature of these skills and how we might develop them in artificial systems to create ‘benign AI’.
Seeing through ‘older age’
9 June 2020, 14:00 - 15:00
- Free
While age-related distinctions are very common in social and employment contexts, the question is whether reduced capabilities can be straightforwardly linked to chronological age. Dr Helga Hejny, ARU, helps you to see beyond that and to question ‘is age really just a number’?
The sub 2-hour marathon: What does the future hold?
9 June 2020, 16:00 - 17:00
- Free
Join Dr Dan Gordon, Former Paralympian and consultant physiologist to Team GB Paralympic runners, as he explains the science behind the sub 2-hour marathon.
Because we are worth it! On new vision of gender roles in advertising
10 June 2020, 14:00 - 15:00
- Free
What would aliens learn about gender form ads? Does it matter? Dr Magdalena Zawisza-Riley, ARU, analyses the representation, effectiveness and effects of gendered ads based on her new book.
Sugar and spice and all things nice – a journey into taste sensors in the body
11 June 2020, 14:00 - 15:00
- Free
Dr Havovi Chichger, ARU, delves into the world of taste and discuss how and why our tissues, such as the kidney and lungs, can sense sweet and bitter substances.
Attraction explained: The science of how we form relationships
12 June 2020, 14:00 - 15:00
- Free
Can science explain how we form relationships? Prof Viren Swami, ARU, looks at how factors such as geography, appearance, personality, and similarity affect who we fall for and why.
My name is not refugee
17 June 2020, 18:00 - 19:00
- Free
Kate Milner, ARU graduate, talks about the inspiration and background to her picture book ‘My Name is Not Refugee’. Kate talks about how she made the book as a reaction to the depiction of refugees in main stream media.