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SUMMARY:Martin Dominik - Life = Language?
DESCRIPTION:More Details Coming Soon
URL:https://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/grcdi-visiting-speaker-martin-dominik/
LOCATION:https://www.youtube.com/live/bXI9mdvtBnA
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SUMMARY:Nicholas Feasey - Care Bundles\, Behaviour and the Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infection in Malawi
DESCRIPTION:Abstract coming soon \nSpeaker bio \nNicholas Feasey is the Sir James Black Professor of Infection Medicine at St Andrews University\, Professor of Microbiology at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and an NIHR professor of Global Health. He is a Clinical Microbiologist and Infectious Diseases physician\, currently working as a consultant microbiologist at NHS Fife\, although has previously held honorary consultant positions at The Royal Liverpool University Hospital (Infectious Diseases) and Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital\, Blantyre\, Malawi (Senior Physician). He studies the surveillance and management of antimicrobial resistant bacterial infection and taking a one health approach to exploring the transmission of enteric pathogens. His current focus is on reducing Healthcare Associated Infections by developing an Infection Prevention and Control programme in the Southern Region of Malawi. His research group uses implementation research\, health economics\, bacterial genomics\, spatial statistics and transmission modelling in collaboration with the Wellcome Sanger Institute (Nick Thomson)\, U Strathclyde (Tracy Morse) and the University of Lancaster (Chris Jewell).
URL:https://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/grcdi-visiting-speaker-nick-feasy/
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SUMMARY:Elodie Laügt - Poetical Intelligence\, Thinking Artificiality and Usefulness
DESCRIPTION:Abstract \nWhy are we increasingly turning to poetry? This talk will suggest that it is because poetry constitutes a version of artificiality based in a kind of calculation different from that used by technologies and\, in particular\, by Artificial Intelligence. We know that the kinds of calculation at work in the tools we use inform our relationship to the world. The calculation of the poem consists in creating particular effects by means of formal and stylistic means. But the strategies that poets use in their search for absolute precision (the poet’s specific ambition being to find the right word)\, are premised on a fundamental and structural uncertainty: the impossibility to know for certain how readers will read or hear the poem. The calculation of the poem makes space\, necessarily\, for the alterity of the reader. In other words\, it accounts for the incalculable. The community formed by the readers\, including the poet\, is thereby a community of alterities. It is the spacing between subjectivities and the possibility for them to identify always only intermittently with what the poem expresses that makes possible their being together. The poetic community is a community of syncopation because something in the poem resists calculation and predictability. That which is incalculable is essential to human society. In the wake of Christophe Tarkos’s declaration – a declaration full of playful irony: ‘Poetry is an intelligence’\, what I propose to call ‘Poetical Intelligence’ is partly conceived as that which interrupts the myth of calculability. It refers to the possibility of signifying the incalculable as incalculable\, as opposed to that which has not been calculated yet. Not only that but\, following poet Philippe Beck\, what is at stake is not simply the consideration of the usefulness of poetry or of poems as tools to think\, but it is also and first of all the possibility to use poetry in order to question our very conception of usefulness. It is precisely because it allows us to think about\, and even redefine\, the notion of usefulness that poetry today necessarily plays a critical role in thinking about technology\, at a time when usefulness is in many cases no longer indexed to anything other than economic and financial production or ‘growth’. \nSpeaker bio \nElodie researches issues of language in relation to poetry and poetics as well as the interface between literature\, philosophy and visual arts. She has published on C20th and contemporary poetry\, as well as the politics of aesthetics and the notions of community\, intrusion and patience. She writes poetry in French and in English and leads creative writing workshops for academic and non-academic audiences with a focus on multi- and trans-lingualism. \nIf you plan to attend this event in person\, please register here. Details on how to join online will be added closer to the event.
URL:https://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/grcdi-visiting-speaker-elodie-laugt/
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SUMMARY:Sofia Forss - Shaping and Shifting the Cognitive Phenotype: Ontogeny\, Urbanization\, and the Evolutionary Validity of Animal Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:Abstract \nIn any given species\, some individuals consistently appear more “intelligent” than their peers\, yet explaining the origin of this variation and its direct link to biological fitness remains a fundamental challenge in evolutionary biology. Because cognitive skills are heavily shaped by experiences during development\, understanding the impact of the early environment on adult phenotypes is critical—especially in mammals\, where early ontogeny represents a disproportionately impactful life stage. However\, our understanding of animal intelligence is historically biased toward either artificial laboratory settings or large-brained species\, decoupling cognitive studies from natural selection pressures. To bring ecological validity to the study of animal intelligence\, this talk integrates two distinct yet complementary paradigms in mammalian cognition: a longitudinal field study of small mammals and the shifting dynamics of the urban niche. First\, using a longitudinal\, developmental approach on wild meerkats\, I explore how socio-ecological drivers and key developmental life history transitions shape cognitive abilities. Second\, expanding this developmental and ecological framework to human-modified landscapes\, I examine the cognitive realities of the urban niche through the lens of the Urban Vervet Project. While urbanization is widely assumed to act as a selective or developmental driver for enhanced problem-solving\, I reconsider this consensus by evaluating the roles of anthropogenic habituation and cognitive exaptation. Pre-existing behavioural flexibility may simply allow certain species to exploit urban environments as “easy” niches\, rather than demanding novel cognitive adaptations. \nSpeaker Bio \nSofia Forss is an evolutionary biologist dedicated to understanding animal minds. Her research explores the evolutionary drivers of individual intelligence\, investigating how socio-ecological pressures\, intrinsic motivation\, and development interact to shape cognitive variation and biological fitness. Currently\, Sofia is a Group Leader at the University of Zurich’s Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Sciences. There\, she directs two major long-term field initiatives in South Africa: the Mongoose Cognition Project and the Urban Vervet Project\, where Sofia and her team critically evaluate how wild populations cognitively navigate both natural ecosystems and rapidly changing anthropogenic landscapes. \nIf you plan to attend this event in person\, please register here. You can also watch the talk live and participate on YouTube.
URL:https://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/grcdi-visiting-speaker-sofia-forss/
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SUMMARY:Luke Townrow - Nonhuman Primate Theory of Mind: Investigations Into Cues & Representations
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SUMMARY:GRCDI Speaker: Amalia Bastos
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URL:https://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/grcdi-speaker-amalia-bastos/
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SUMMARY:Diverse Intelligences Summit 2027
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URL:https://diverseintelligences.st-andrews.ac.uk/event/diverse-intelligences-summit-2027/
LOCATION:St Andrews University\, United Kingdom
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