Titled "Crises, Classics and Climate Change", the Emerging Research Seminar Series is Christ's College's interdisciplinary research forum - where Master's and PhD students and Fellows present research to an interested and friendly non-specialist audience.
Firstly, Tim Kamsma, a 4th year PhD student, who is currently visiting Cambridge from Utrecht and will talk about brain-inspired computing that can contribute towards making computing devices more sustainable in line with current efforts to combat the climate crises.
Secondly, Clare Pryor, a 4th year PhD student at the Faculty of Classics, who will present her work on representations of the sublime in Claudian's Panegyrics, discussing how moments of crisis and tension are addressed in the literature of late antiquity.
Thirdly, Sophie Lanigan, a 3rd year PhD student at the Department of Architecture, who will share her latest research on the impact of climate change on coastal environments, architecture and design, inviting us to rethink the temporalities of design through the figure of the oyster.
And finally, we have Dr Miles Kempton, a Junior Research Fellow at Christs, who will speak to us to us about aspects of his current research which focusses on documentary filmmaking, conservation biology and ecotourism.
Booking for the ERSS session is not required. The seminar will be followed by a drinks reception at 7.00pm, and dinner at 7.30pm. To book into dinner as alumni and use your termly dining privileges, please contact alumni@christs.cam.ac.uk