This year’s Cambridge Festival will take place from 31 March to 10 April.
Here are a few Cambridge Language Sciences picks.
You can browse the full programme and book events at Cambridge Festival 2022.
5:00pm-6:00pm on Friday 1 April
SPEAKING WITH AUTHORITY: THE LANGUAGE OF OPINIONS, EXPERTISE AND CREDIBILITY
A talk by Shauna Concannon, Research Associate with the ‘Giving Voice to Digital Democracies’ research project at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH).
2:00pm-4:00pm on Saturday 2 April
PANDEMIC FRENCH POETRY: RECOVERING IN THE 14TH AND 21ST CENTURY
Lockdowns and plagues are nothing new. In the fourteenth century Europe, death and suffering from bubonic plague drove people to confinement at home, waiting for the epidemic to pass. In this talk we will discuss the longer-term, complex work to be done, in healthcare, medicine, art, and in society more generally, as we learn from lockdown and literature.
4:00pm-5:00pm on Monday 4 April
COMBATTING HARMFUL CONTENT ONLINE: THE POTENTIAL OF COUNTERSPEECH
A talk by Stefanie Ullmann, 'Giving Voice to Digital Democracies' project at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH).
2:00pm-3:00pm on Monday 4 April
ONLINE HARMS: HOW AI CAN PROTECT US
A talk given by Marcus Tomalin and Howard Mei, 'Giving Voice to Digital Democracies' project at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH).
5:00pm-7:00pm on Wednesday 6 April
ROUTES INTO LANGUAGES EAST MOTHER TONGUE OTHER TONGUE CELEBRATION EVENT
This celebration event is an opportunity for the winners of the 2021 Routes into Languages East Mother Tongue Other Tongue competition to perform their entries and for their achievements to be recognised.
2:30pm-3:30pm on Saturday 9 April
AI: RECLAIMING CONTROL
Though artificial intelligence is ubiquitous in our homes and workplaces, there is widespread misunderstanding of what it really is. Join us for this public lecture as Neil Lawrence, DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning, encourages us to reframe our view of AI.
3:00pm-4:30pm on Saturday 9 April
SPEAKING AND BEING WITH AUTHOR KUBRA GUMUSAY
In this lecture and performance, writer Kübra Gümüsay will share insights on how language shapes the way we think, perceive the world and the political as well as cultural implications. She will be accompanied by a musician (TBC) to both intellectually but also artistically stimulate the audience to change their perspective and approach to how we see this world, talk to and about one another.