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Mon 25 April 2022 1:30PM - 5:15PM

Children and artificial intelligence: risks, opportunities and the future

The event aims to explore the future of online safety, and how to harness the opportunities of language-based AI for children while also ensuring that potential risks are minimised.

Tue 26 April 2022 5:00PM - 6:00PM

Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech

Join James Muldoon for an online event, as he charts a roadmap for an alternative vision for our digital future.

5:30PM - 6:30PM

Highlight Playing with samurai

Dr Laura Moretti’s talk explores how the adventures of two samurai, Minamoto no Yoshitsune and Benkei, were appropriated in early modern Japan to enable play.

Thu 28 April 2022 4:00PM - 8:00PM

The Ashby Lecture - Professor Susan Neiman: 'Why the Left is not Woke'

Clare Hall's Ashby Lecture will be given by philosopher and writer, Professor Susan Neiman. Director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Susan has written extensively on the Enlightenment, moral philosophy, metaphysics, and politics. Her work shows that philosophy is a living force for contemporary thinking and action.

5:00PM - 6:30PM

The Marshall Lectures – Professor Ariel Rubinstein: ‘Economics Without Prices and Without Games’

Prof Rubinstein will give two lectures presenting non-standard theoretical models where conflicts between insatiable wants and limited resources are resolved through social institutions like 'social status', 'power' and 'preference biases' rather than 'prices and money'.

6:30PM - 8:30PM

ONLINE COURSE Humphry Repton & the Regency garden

Trace Repton's career from its picturesque beginnings to the Gardenesque style which changed England’s relationship with nature forever

Fri 29 April 2022 5:00PM - 6:30PM

The Marshall Lectures – Professor Ariel Rubinstein: ‘Economics Without Prices and Without Games’

Prof Rubinstein will give two lectures presenting non-standard theoretical models where conflicts between insatiable wants and limited resources are resolved through social institutions like 'social status', 'power' and 'preference biases' rather than 'prices and money'.

6:00PM - 7:00PM

LucyGives Giving Week 2022: 'Optimism for Beginners' with Sophie Hannah

In celebration of LucyGives, Honorary Fellow Sophie Hannah will discuss how our understanding of what's achievable is often false and limiting.