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The project is funded under the Templeton’s Beyond the Turing Test challenge, part of its Diverse Intelligences initiative.

Monday 12 February – Naming Diseases. Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright explore how diseases are named and the political, economic and social impact of disease names past and present.

A follow-up to The Bad Trip (2019), Well Beings interrogates both the declinist and narcissistic narratives of the 1970s and against the backdrop of the period’s economic, political and

Medical techniques (auscultation, hearing tests, ultrasound). Acoustical engineering. Music therapy, talking cures.

Medical techniques (auscultation, hearing tests, ultrasound). Acoustical engineering. Music therapy, talking cures.

English, University of Cambridge; Department of Sociology, London School of Economics, and co-sponsored by the Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund and the Postcolonial Print Cultures International Research Network.

They used means such as the famous ‘Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test’, developed to explore the autism spectrum but also used more broadly as a test of empathy, to

RP is a collaboration between the University of Cambridge English Faculty, the London School of Economics Sociology Department, and University of the Western Cape Centre for Humanities Research.

post-colonial economic policies in Africa.

of knowing, more obviously ongoing across Theology, Natural Philosophy, Economics and Law.