Changing the Human Experience

Part of the Magdalene Festival of Change. A unique opportunity to hear speakers across disciplines engaging with a key theme in the modern world: this year, the theme is Change. Festival of Change events are open to all and free to attend.

Silke Mentchen and Hannah Critchlow

What shapes our ever changing perception of the world? How is our sense of identity created and how does it develop?  What drives us to communicate in the way that we do?
Join us to explore the relationship between memory, perception, language and emotion  with a panel of experts working in the wide ranging fields of psychology, linguistics,  computer science and music. 
Free to attend. Lunch and Refreshments Provided.
Individual talks:
Memories are made for the future: Explore memory, perception and human experience through a magical mixture of science, literature and the performing arts with Nicky Clayton, Professor of Psychology at Cambridge University and Artist in Residence Clive Wilkins. 
How to speak like an alien: The way we communicate our highly individual perception of the world helps to form our identity. Language is our major communication tool, but how is it constructed? Bettina Beinhoff, Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge explores these questions through the unlikely approach of studying how ‘alien’ language is constructed for films and literature.
Reading your emotions: Perhaps a complex emotional repertoire is what helps to make humans so unique? Or could the nuances of human feeling simply be reduced to code? Marwa Mahmoud, Research Associate at the Computer Laboratory, Cambridge University has developed automating machine understanding to interpret complex emotions and discusses some of the medical and ethical implications of its use. Your opportunity to discover whether a robot could read emotions better than you?  
<A HREF="http://interstellar227.de" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Interstellar 227</A>: Changing and alienating what you think you know - transposing audience thoughts and emotions into live musical pieces.  
Timings
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11.00 Arrival and refreshments available
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11.30 Profesor Nicky Clayton and Clive Wilkins, Memories are made for the future
12.00 Q&A
12.15 Dr Bettina Beinhoff, How to speak like an alien
12.45 Q&A
13.00 Lunch
13.45 Dr Marwa Mahmoud, Reading your emotions
14.15 Q&A and Panel Discussion
14.30 Performance by Interstellar 227, putting your thoughts to music

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