Ideas Alive
All the talks below take place either in Showroom 5 or the Cafe from 5.45-6.45pm.They are free to attend and there's no need to book (places subject to availability).
These talks by academics at the University of Sheffield will introduce you to new ideas and cutting edge research.
Mon 13 Oct – 5.45pm
Echoing Helicon: Music, Art and Identity in the Este Studioli A talk by Dr Tim Shephard
A look at how despotic rulers of Rennaissance Italy used the arts to create an illusion of power, virtue and cultivation.
Sponsored by the University of Sheffield Public Engagement with Research – Gold Sponsor
Fri 17 Oct
Propaganda and Counter-terrorism: Strategies
for Global Change
Doctor Emma Briant Department of Journalism
Studies
An
account of Anglo-American attempts to adapt propaganda strategies to a
post-9/11 global media environment
Mon 20 Oct
A Study
of the Letters of Joan and Maria Thynne 1575-1611
Doctor Graham Williams
School of English
A study of familiar
letters written by two aristocratic women in late Elizabethan and early
Jacobean England
Tues 21 Oct
Fly
Photoreceptors Compute
Professor Daniel Coca
Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
A look at how cutting
edge technology and image processing may improve the design of retinal implants
Weds 22 Oct
Social
Evolution and Inclusive Fitness Theory: An Introduction
Doctor James A R
Marshall Department of Computer Science
A look at how
evolutionary thinking seeks to explain the adaption of individuals and groups
such as honey bees to their environment
Thurs 23 Oct
Harnessing
Chaos: The Bible in English Political Discourse since 1968
James Crossley
Biblical Studies
A look at what people
think the bible ‘really means’ in English politics and culture since the 1960s
Fri 24 Oct
Forensics
of Nuclear Fused Sand
Professor Neil Hyatt
Department of Materials Science
A talk on the forensic
analysis of fused desert sand from the first nuclear explosion in 1945 and
applications for today
Mon 27 Oct
The
Developing Embryo: Marvel and Puzzle
Doctor Tanya Whitfield
Bateson Centre and Department of Biomedical Science
This talk looks at
some of the big questions in developmental biology
Tues 28 Oct
The
Science of Silks
Doctor Chris Holland
Department of Materials, Science and Engineering
A look at the history
and definition of silk and tomorrow’s high tech applications
Weds 29 Oct
Modernism
and Cosmology: Absurd Lights
Doctor Katherine Ebury
School of English
A look at Yeats, Joyce
and Beckett and how literature might be influenced by science and vice versa
Thurs 30 Oct
Polymer
Electronics
Professor Mark
Geoghegan Department of Physics and Astronomy
A look at polymers and
how they and other organic materials are being used in electronics
Fri 31 Oct
Social
Realism: Art, Nationhood and Politics
David Forrest Film
Studies
A talk about Social
Realism in cinema from 1930s Night Mail to Shane Meadows
Sponsored by University of Sheffield Public Engagement with Research Team – Gold Sponsor
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