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Do Children and Other Animals Think Like Scientists? - Professor Marta Halina is a Senior Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence

University of Cambridge · Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry

For decades, psychologists have characterised young children as little scientists, a comparison made famous by the 1999 book The Scientist in the Crib.

Solar Islam: A New Concept for Rethinking the Historiography of Qajar Iran

University of Oxford · St Antony's College - MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building

Speaker: Dr Delbar Khakzad All welcome, no booking necessary. The event will be chaired by Dr Maryam Alemzadeh.

Philosophy of Vulnerable Perspectives: On Aestheticized, Urban and Artificial Selves

ETH Zurich

Workshop on Iris Murdoch and Literature

Central European University · Quellenstrasse 51 · Room Senate Room, Vienna

Iris Murdoch writes that “[f]or both the collective and the individual salvation of the human race, art is doubtless more important than philosophy, and literature most important of all.” (E&M, 362).

Analysis, synthesis, and why wisdom might not be for everyone

University of Birmingham · Education Building, Birmingham, B15 2TT

With speaker James Brown, from the University of Birmingham.

The Metabolism of Landscape: Ecology and Natural Philosophy in the Prints of Hercules Segers

The Courtauld Institute of Art

Join Elizabeth J. Petcu for a reinterpretation of Segers’s prints through seventeenth-century natural philosophy and its Aristotelian theories of metabolism as a mechanism of creative destruction.

Book Launch: Race in the Modern World

University of Glasgow · Humanities Research Hub 1 University Gardens

Book launch celebrating the volume co-edited by Dr Sarah Dunstan, 'Race in the Modern World: An Intellectual History'

Friday Forum – Science, Hope and Shaping Futures

The Good Science Project · Sherfield Building, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom

Thinking about the social value of your science? Anxious that your work should make the world a better place? Keen to understand how your ideas, combined with a practical understanding of policy…

Why I Stay: An Afternoon with Rev. Dr. Ray Aldred

University of Calgary · Calgary Central Library

The Chair of Christian Thought, in partnership with the Calgary Public Library, The Chair of Christian Thought Bentall Lecture onEducation and Theology:​ In this lecture, Rev. Dr.

Adam Smith's 'The Wealth of Nations' and Atlantic Slavery Studies

University of Glasgow · Lecture Theatre 2, Boyd Orr Building, University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8SP

Dr Stephen Mullen asks what role did Adam Smith play in the intellectual history of Atlantic slavery studies and what it means now.

Is Magnificence a Religious Virtue?

Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall

Magnificence, a virtue concerned with extravagant spending, features prominently in classical philosophy. However, in modern times magnificence has dropped out of favour. Maybe it seems elitist…

Authorship and Revelation: The case of Robert Alter’s Book of Genesis

Graham School

In this First Friday Lecture, we will examine the ways in which Robert Alter’s project of translating the Hebrew Bible demonstrates how and why we are right to hold as an article of faith that the…

"Tracing Mindfulness Back to Its Sources": T. T. and W. F. Chao Workshop with Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā and Paul Harrison

The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies · Alumni Center, McCaw Hall, 326 Galvez Street, Stanford, CA 94305

This workshop is a part of the T. T. & W. F. Chao Buddhism and Contemporary Society Series and will explore the early Buddhist sources of mindfulness meditation in theory and in practice.

Laurie Denyer Willis (University of Edinburgh) "Wife-Work in an Evangelical Rio: Pleasure, Protection and the Minimally Safe Bedroom"

University of Manchester · Boardroom, 2nd floor, Arthur Lewis Building, Manchester

This talk begins from an unlikely scene: a sex costume party hosted by an evangelical pastor in a woman’s home in Rio de Janeiro, where lingerie is prayed over as a tool of marital protection.

The Human Chatbot

Graham School

The question of whether AI chatbots are intelligent or conscious has been gaining steam lately. I’d like to visit this question on its own terms, while also raising a second set of questions about…

Religious & Civic Leader Gathering: “The Future of Religious Buildings: What Do We Do With Our Real Estate?”

Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance

Writer and consultant Rick Reinhard discusses the future of religious buildings in America.

CRAM: Ra’anan Boustan (Yale Divinity School)

Center for Global Antiquity · Rhode Island Hall

CRAM is a work-in-progress group for graduate, postdoctoral, and faculty researchers working on the cultures and religions of the Ancient Mediterranean.

Viral Is the New Ṣaḥīḥ? Digital Preachers and the Making of Femininity among Young Muslims in Austria

Central European University · Quellenstrasse 51 · Room D001, Vienna

A short clip, a familiar face, a confident voice and a few hundred thousand views. Over the past decade, social media preachers have become some of the most influential religious voices for young…

Institutional and individual virtues: meaningful distinction or false dichotomy?

University of Birmingham · Education Building, Birmingham, B15 2TT

With speaker Alex Nikolaidis, from University College London

Religious & Civic Leader Gathering: “The Future of Religion and AI”

Boniuk Institute for Religious Tolerance

Religion and science writer and speaker Greg Cootsona discusses the future of religion and AI.