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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?

FILM SCREENING - "MOSUL" followed by Q and A

Description: There will be a screening of the new film "MOSUL", by directors Olivier Sarbil and James Jones followed by a Q&A session.

Research Seminar in SPLAS

Description: Maria Sílvia Cintra Martins (USP) on Brazilian writer Raduan Nassar: Listening to echoes of Antigone in the novel Ancient Tillage. Part of the Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies research seminar series 2017/18

Contesting Authoritarianism: Critical Journalists in Russia and China

Description: This paper theorizes about such practices through a comparative study of critical journalists in China and Russia. Drawing on in-depth interviews and participant observation in the two countries, the paper presents two distinct types of boundary-spanning activity: within-the-system resistance, carried out in partnership with the state, and extraneous or defiant contestation deployed in opposition to the system.

KCrim: Michaelmas Hearings with Professor Miriam Gur-Ayre

Description: Kcrim: Michaelmas Hearings with Professor Miriam Gur-Ayre, Judge Basil Wunsh Professor of Criminal Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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