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Alumni Festival 2019 recordings

Alumni Festival 2019 recordings

Audio recordings of some of the highlights from Alumni Festival 2019 are available for you to listen to here.
Mind

Alumni Festival 2019 - Inside the mind: the quest to understand how the brain makes sense of the world around us

Can we understand the power of the brain? What could be unlocked if we could?

Speaker: Professor Zoe Kourtzi

Person Ringing Service Bell Hold By Robot

Alumni Festival 2019 - Are we ready for Artificial Intelligence?

The ethical, philosophical and social issues raised by AI and how people are prepared, or not, for the changes it will bring

Speaker: Dr Beth Singler

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Alumni Festival 2019 - Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen, mother, political leader, legend

Hear about a woman in power, one of the most influential women of the twelfth century.

Speaker: Dr Julie Barrau 

Symptoms

Alumni Festival 2019 - If your symptoms are influenced by your attitude, does this make them psychosomatic?

Symptoms are influenced by your attitude: but are they organic or psychosomatic?

Speaker: Professor Richard Holton

genetic inheritance

Alumni Festival 2019 - The origins of cancer: What's in our genes, and what isn't?

Learn about new research that is uncovering how a person’s genetic inheritance colludes with non-genetic factors to influence the risk of developing cancer.

Speaker: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman

A Timber tower along the river at night

Alumni Festival 2019 - Skyscrapers: The Next Generation

Supertall timber: impossibly high wooden skyscrapers

Speaker: Dr Michael Ramage

Three interlocking cogs with flags inside, including USA and Russia

Alumni Festival 2019 - Trade War

How will the world trading system respond to new threats of disruption?

Speaker: Dr Meredith A. Crowley

Self-healing infrastructure

Alumni Festival 2019 - Making a global impact: self-healing concrete

Can nature inspire resilience?

Speakers: Professor Abir Al-Tabbaa, Dr Chrysoula Litinaa, Dr Lívia Ribeiro de Souza

Badbury Rings - 1947

Alumni Festival 2019 - Britain from the air: 1945-2000

Discover the University’s remarkable Collection of Aerial Photography, recording lost archaeological sites and industrial and post-industrial landscapes of Britain.

Speakers: Professor Tom Spencer, Professor Martin Millett, Huw Jones, Dr Robert Bewley