Pre-dinner SCR/MSR talks
Dates
Trinity Term 2023
Times
18:30
Location
Senior Common Room
Summary
Organised by the Wadham Research Associates. Open to all members of the MCR and SCR.
Week 1 | Thursday 27 April
Music we have, and music that we don’t have: Handling soundscapes of the medieval past
Prof Karl Kügle, SRF, Music
Week 2 | Thursday 4 May
Social Connection: The Key to Longer Lives and Lasting Happiness
Sankalp Garud, DPhil student in Experimental Psychology and Sub-dean
Week 3 | Thursday 11 May
Teaching eighteenth-century literature in the 21st century: Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Prof Jenny Davidson, Visiting Fellow, English
No pre-dinner talk in Week 4
Week 5 | Thursday 25 May
The Dark Side of medication: Environmental Impacts and Solutions
Prof Raf Dewil, Visiting Fellow, Engineering Science
Week 6 | Thursday 1 June
Composition, Performance and the Musical Text
Patrick Brennan, DPhil student in Synthetic Biology and Music Scholar
Week 7 | Thursday 8 June
Cosmos and Canvas
Prof Jayanne English, SCR Associate Member, Astrophysics
Week 8 | Thursday 15 June
Psychopathology and Modern Literature
Sarah Haspard, DPhil student in English