Heritage Open Days 2024 – Drop in and sample the BRLSI video archive!
Heritage Open Days 2024 – Drop in and sample the BRLSI video archive!
As part of BRLSI’s Heritage Open Days celebration, alongside a series of taster lectures, throughout the week there will be short videos to watch, some edited from previous BRLSI talks, ranging from Why Bath is a World Heritage City to Applying Artificial Intelligence to solve scientific mysteries, plus five insightful extra videos on how our brains shape the way we live.
These will be showing on a loop in the Draper Room: 10am on Monday 9, Thursday 12 and Friday 13 and 1pm every day.
Sampling videos from the BRLSI archive is a great way of finding out what we are and what we offer.
These videos can be viewed:
Mornings: Monday 9, Thursday 12 and Friday 13 September 2024
Afternoons daily: Monday 9 to Friday 13 September 2024
The running order goes as follows:
Mornings
| Approx start time | |
| 10.00 | Linking the Mind & the Brain: Neuropsychologist Prof Chris Frith looks at physical aspects of brain function |
| 10.15 | What makes Bath a World Heritage City? By Barry Gilbertson and Prof Tim Mowl |
| 10.21 | Slowing the decline in insect populations: By Prof Stuart Reynolds |
| 10.41 | Culture and the Brain: Prof Chris Frith explains how simply being exposed to our culture modifies our brains |
| 10.51 | Hegel and the end of History: Andreas Wasmuth explains German philosopher Hegel’s universe in a nutshell |
| 11.03 | Questions about the plan to redevelop the rugby ground on Bath Rec: Paul Jackson looks at the risks and architect Mark Wilson-Jones suggests an alternative |
| 11.11 | Imitation and alignment: Prof Chris Frith explains how empathy helps us survive and thrive |
| 11.26 | Bath Floods: Dr Thomass Kjeldsen looks at terrible flooding in Bath’s past and how it was prevented |
| 11.48 | AI & Protein Folding: Professors Stuart Reynolds and Jean van den Elson on the contribution of artificial intelligence to the solution of a thorny problem in biological science |
| 11.59 | The Mental World: Prof Chris Frith explains how our perceptions affect how we see the world |
| 12.13 | Heideggar & the Question of Being: Andreas Wasmuth explains the thinking of German philosopher Martin Heideggar |
| 12.28 | Panoramas, Virtual Spaces & Immersivity: John Law explores virtual reality from historical panoramas to modern technical innovations |
| 12.37 | Creating Culture: Prof Chris Frith explains how sharing experiences builds social cohesion |
| 12.53 | Was the Hiroshima Bomb justifiable? Francis Pike explains why the Americans dropped the atom bomb |
| 12.56 | John Herschel’s Enduring Legacy: Dr Stephen Case highlights an international celebrity scientist now overshadowed by his more famous father |
| 13.11 | ENDS |
Afternoons daily: Monday 9 to Friday 13 September 2024
| 13.15 | Linking the Mind & the Brain: Neuropsychologist Prof Chris Frith looks at physical aspects of brain function |
| 13.30 | What makes Bath a World Heritage City? By Barry Gilbertson and Prof Tim Mowl |
| 13.36 | Slowing the decline in insect populations: By Prof Stuart Reynolds |
| 13.56 | Culture and the Brain: Prof Chris Frith explains how simply being exposed to our culture modifies our brains |
| 14.06 | Hegel and the end of History: Andreas Wasmuth explains German philosopher Hegel’s universe in a nutshell |
| 14.18 | Questions about the plan to redevelop the rugby ground on Bath Rec: Paul Jackson looks at the risks and architect Mark Wilson-Jones suggests an alternative |
| 14.26 | Imitation and alignment: Prof Chris Frith explains how empathy helps us survive and thrive |
| 14.41 | Bath Floods: Dr Thomass Kjeldsen looks at terrible flooding in Bath’s past and how it was prevented |
| 14.53 | AI & Protein Folding: Professors Stuart Reynolds and Jean van den Elson on the contribution of artificial intelligence to the solution of a thorny problem in biological science |
| 15.04 | The Mental World: Prof Chris Frith explains how our perceptions affect how we see the world |
| 15.18 | Heideggar & the Question of Being: Andreas Wasmuth explains the thinking of German philosopher Martin Heideggar |
| 15.33 | Panoramas, Virtual Spaces & Immersivity: John Law explores virtual reality from historical panoramas to modern technical innovations |
| 15.42 | Creating Culture: Prof Chris Frith explains how sharing experiences builds social cohesion |
| 15.59 | Was the Hiroshima Bomb justifiable? Francis Pike explains why the Americans dropped the atom bomb |
| 16.02 | John Herschel’s Enduring Legacy: Dr Stephen Case highlights an international celebrity scientist now overshadowed by his more famous father |
| 16.17 | ENDS |
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