Festival of Ideas 2012
| Created: | 2012-10-30 11:32 |
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| Institution: | Office of External Affairs and Communications |
| Editors' group: | Members of "Office of External Affairs and Communications". |
| Description: | The Festival of Ideas is an annual celebration of arts, humanities and social sciences from the University of Cambridge.
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Media items
This collection contains 8 media items.
Media items
Are we being sold online?
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One in every nine people on Earth is on Facebook and the average Briton devotes an entire day to the site each month. This event examine whether the social media giants are...
Collection: Festival of Ideas 2012
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Tue 30 Oct 2012
Exposed in cyber space
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Michal Kosinski, Operations Director of the Psychometrics Centre, will show how online behaviour reveals our most intimate traits, such as sexual orientation, ethnic origin,...
Collection: Festival of Ideas 2012
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Fri 2 Nov 2012
Gender difference: nature vs nurture
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How much does nature influence gender and is neuroscience being used to bolster and emphasise traditional views about gender differences? Has the debate between scientists and...
Collection: Festival of Ideas 2012
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Fri 2 Nov 2012
How languages are built
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Have you ever wondered how and why one language differs from another? Find out in this interactive lecture, where Professor Ian Roberts, a world-renowned expert on the syntax of...
Collection: Festival of Ideas 2012
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Tue 6 Nov 2012
The US election seen from East Asia: What is at stake?
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Experts on East Asia and the US discuss the impact of the upcoming US election in a debate.
Collection: Festival of Ideas 2012
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Wed 31 Oct 2012
When China Rules the World
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Martin Jacques, author of When China Rules the World, discusses China's increasing economic power and how, as it becomes a major player, it won't necessarily become more Western;...
Collection: Festival of Ideas 2012
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Tue 30 Oct 2012
26 October 2012 - Steven Connor - Taking Pity on Things
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A talk by Professor Steven Connor, literary critic, cultural commentator and the author of Paraphernalia: The Curious Lives of Magical Things which investigates our strange...
Collection: Faculty of English, Festival of Ideas - 2012
Institution: Faculty of English
Created: Tue 5 Feb 2013
But in the end they played together
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Eight pianos, nine musicians, four cameras and one dog.
For two weeks, the 'Play Me, I'm Yours' event inspired choirs, ballerinas, pianists and poets to tickle the ivories at...
Collection: Festival of Ideas 2012
Institution: Office of External Affairs and Communications
Created: Tue 12 Mar 2013