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Gen Doy: Be careful what you bath for

Description: An audio installation created by King's artist Gen Doy, currently resident in the Department of Classics, which focuses on William Weddell MP who died visiting the Strand Lane "Roman" bath in 1792.

Gen Doy: Be careful what you bath for

Description: An audio installation created by King's artist Gen Doy, currently resident in the Department of Classics, which focuses on William Weddell MP who died visiting the Strand Lane "Roman" bath in 1792.

Bulldogs in the Duma: Intra-Executive Conflict and Legislative Politics in Contemporary Russia

Description: The Russian State Duma is often dismissed as a 'rubber stamp'. Rather than acting as a meaningful branch of power - a check on executive behaviour or a venue of independent law-making, say - conventional wisdom holds that the lower chamber of the Federal Assembly simply approves decisions made elsewhere, providing a thin veneer of legitimacy for executive decisions.

Mirroring in Natural Language

Description: Professor Beatrice Sczcepek Reed gives the Annual Lecture of the Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication. The presentation explores how speakers' joint orientation to the musical aspects of language is crucial for the underlying coherence of human interaction.

Professional use of wargaming within defence

Description: This will be an open guest session of Professor Sabin's MA option in Conflict Simulation. Two guest speakers will address different aspects of professional use of wargaming within defence.

Professor Michael Pitt's Inaugural Lecture

Description: On Thursday 23 November 2017, Professor Michael Pitt will be delivering his inaugural lecture titled 'Dynamic estimation - new approaches to inference for time series models. Professor Professor Michael Pitt joined the Department of Mathematics in 2016. He has worked on a number of statistical and econometric problems throughout his academic career.

Nowville: How will we be remembered?

Description: Nowville is an evolving miniature metropolis that plays out the utopian dreams of a city. There are four drop-in Nowville Conventions happening in the city: the fourth looks at the language and legacy of Nowville and what the miniature culture created says about society.

Nowville: Silicon quarry

Description: Nowville is an evolving miniature metropolis that plays out the utopian dreams of a city. There are four drop-in Nowville Conventions happening in the city: the third looks at the theme of technology and the battle between miniature man and miniature machine.

Nowville: The day that money came to town

Description: Nowville is an evolving miniature metropolis that plays out the utopian dreams of a city. There are four drop-in Nowville Conventions happening in the city: the second looks at the theme of economy, asking questions such as who owns what? How are valuable resources spent? Does this seem fair?

Nowville: The opening of Nowville parliament

Description: Nowville is an evolving miniature metropolis that plays out the utopian dreams of a city. There are four drop-in Nowville Conventions happening in the city: the first looks at the theme of community and creates an open forum on how the city will be run. How will decisions be made? What is important here?

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