Talks & Performance

Talk

How to be Faithful to a Face – Reconstructing an Egyptian Mummy | Jennifer Mann

Jennifer Mann’s love of portrait sculpting led her down an intriguing path, to study forensic facial reconstruction. In this talk she explains how she brought back to life the...

Talk

Tackling The Boy Crisis | Michael Kimmel

In the world of gender studies, Michael Kimmel is what you might describe as an early adopter. He has spent much of the last forty years calling himself a...

Talk

Picturing the Air Around Us | Emily Parsons-Lord

Emily Parsons-Lord asks us to picture the air in our imagination. What do we see? Empty space, clear blue sly or trees dancing in the breeze? We tend not...

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Ideas

Idea

How Ideas Spread: The Role of Social Networks

As we delve into our first investigation of how ideas spread (see the series intro here), we discover there’s one thing that most researchers seem to agree on...

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