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President’s Seminars<br />

The President’s Seminar series provides a platform for the presentation and discussion of<br />

some of the fascinating and ground-breaking research that is carried out by Wolfsonians at<br />

all career stages. It is a chance for members of <strong>College</strong> to network, and to hear how other<br />

researchers plan, conduct, and complete their research projects.<br />

MICHAELMAS TERM: GRAVITY AND LEVITY<br />

Professor Wolfgang de Melo: ‘Gravity and levity in Varro, the Roman Grammarian’<br />

Dr Felix Tennie: ‘Gravity and what we (believe to) know about it’<br />

Mr Alexander Hardie-Forsyth: ‘Laurence Sterne’s line of gravitation’<br />

HILARY TERM: OPTICS, THE WAY WE LOOK AT THINGS<br />

Dr Paul Roberts: ‘Seeing in Pompeii’<br />

Dr Nir Shalev: ‘What we see and what we perceive’<br />

TRINITY TERM: DECISION MAKING<br />

Professor Matthew Rushworth: ‘Decision Making and the Brain’<br />

Dr Naoya Iwata: ‘The Weakness of Will in Greek Philosophy’<br />

Mr Alexis Toumi: ‘Complexity and Laziness in Human and Machine Thinking’<br />

FEATURES<br />

Wolfson Lecture Series <strong>2019</strong>/20:<br />

‘The Experience of Courts’<br />

The Experience of Courts is a new lecture series which aims to explore the socio-legal<br />

dimensions of our experience in courts, and other forms of legal proceedings. Find out<br />

more about our upcoming events at: wolfson.ox.ac.uk/events<br />

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