🇬🇷 Greece's first openly non-binary author & academic 🌈 Sam Albatros discusses their second novel, Dad I want you to be ashamed of me, with Brown University's Elsa Amanatidou.

🏳️‍🌈 Hosted by Queer@King's & Proudly King’s - King's College London, supported by King's Centre for Hellenic Studies.

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📚 Join King's Philosophy's panel discussion on Thinking with Assent by the late Professor Maria Rosa Antognazza, who was a highly distinguished philosopher at King's and served as Head of the Department of Philosophy from 2011 to 2015.

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Join us for a talk by Prof Kate Fullagar #ceasefire on her fascinating book 'Bennelong & Phillip: A History Unravelled' which tells the story of the first encounters between Britain and Indigenous Australians.

Hosted by Menzies Australia Institute KCL

🗓️17 May, 5-8:30pm BST

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🎬 As part of King's Festival of Artificial Intelligence, Daniel Chávez Heras (@kingsdh) launches his new book, Cinema and Machine Vision, exploring how AI is reshaping our understanding of film & TV through the automation of vision.

📆 22 May
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👏 Dr Mercedes Bunz Mercedes Bunz (@kingsdh) has been awarded the Arts and Humanities Research Council BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides) Fellowship for her project “AI art beyond the gallery: exploring the capacity of cultural institutions to impact tech policy” in collaboration with Serpentine ⬇️
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📻 Did you hear Dr Christine Kenyon-Jones, Research Fellow in King's Arts & Humanities, on BBC Radio 4's Today in Parliament show?

Listen back to her analysis of Lord Byron as a parliamentarian and a poet, 200 years after his death ⤵️
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🇧🇷 Brazilian writer Antônio Callado began his career writing for the BBC Latin American Service. His plays were forgotten - until Dr Daniel Mandur Thomaz (@kingsdllc) collected them for his new book Transatlantic Radio Dramas 📻

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🤝 What does solidarity look like in writing & performing?

On 7 May, Christopher Berardino (UC Riverside), Paul Jaussen (@LawrenceTechU) & Danielle Drees (@bukhc) discuss carrying out solidarity in text & performance at this ISARN event.

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💡 How do you define intelligence?

As part of King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence Festival of Artificial Intelligence, Dr David Brydan (@kingshistory) examines the concept of intelligence and how knowing its history can help us consider AI's place in our world 🤖

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🥁 Who decides which music is worth archiving?

Hosted by the King's Music Beyond 1932 Research Project as part of Space21 Festival, Hardi Kurda launches Archive Khanah, his new project archiving forgotten voices from Kurdistan and Iraq.

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This week Spotify announced its largest quarterly gross profit, but can it maintain this in the long-term?

Writing for The Conversation, Dr Andrew White (@AndrewW80694871) explores whether the streaming giant has finally hit on a sustainable strategy. ⬇️

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👨‍👩‍👦 How far will a family go to ensure their daughter’s skin never darkens?

Join Dr R. Benedito Ferrão for a reading of The Girl Who was the Color of Nothing, his illustrated tale conceived as a children's story for adults.

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📢 New book alert!

Cinema and Machine Vision: Artificial Intelligence, Aesthetics and Spectatorship by Dr Daniel Chávez Heras explores the technologies, practices & consequences of learning to see through machines.

📆 Available from Edinburgh University Press in May 2024 ⬇️loom.ly/Jni0OC8

We're kicking off our #GHIL Summer Lecture Series next Tuesday with a Double Lecture by Hannah Murphy (King's History) and Sarah-Maria Schober (@sm_schober,Universität Zürich) on 'Artisanal Race-Making in Early Modern Germany'!

Join us in person or virtually: ghil.ac.uk/events/lecture…!

🇬🇭 As artists, intellectuals & activists flocked to 1950s Ghana, how did influences from abroad shape the newly independent nation's art & culture? LITAID, a £1.6 million King's English project funded by UK Research and Innovation, aims to find out.

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The annual Shakespeare Centre London’s post-graduate conference, hosted by both King’s College London and Shakespeare’s Globe , takes place 10th-11th May.

For more information head to the King’s English blog:

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🖥️ At this Digital Humanities 🐘 @[email protected] Computational Humanities Research Group event, Dr Haim Dubossarsky (@QMUL) presents the limitations of Applied Machine Learning, like failures in multilingual support & how language changes impede hate speech detection.

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🌃 What does queer nightlife look like around the world?

At this event, Queer@King's welcomes experts from the UK, USA and Canada to present their recent research on global queer nightlife cultures 🌈

Please email the organisers if you wish to attend ⬇️
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🤖 Does AI support or disrupt judicial practices & values?

On 7 May, Dr Janna van Grunsven joins King's Digital Futures Institute ( #DFI ) & The Dickson Poon School of Law to explore how AI adjudication may erode law as a site of moral perceptual progress.

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Booking is now open for the 71st Annual KCL Greek Play, Lysistrata in the Wings!
A script unsuitable for Victorian sensibilities. A growing gender revolution. A student theatre group. What could go wrong?
Tickets can be found on the KCL Greek Play Website:
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