Goldsmiths Showoff: Strange days

Presented by: Goldsmiths, University of London

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0	LONDON: The Amersham Arms
P	Thursday 3rd November, 2016
N	6:30pm

Event information

Join us for a chaotic cabaret in the pub featuring a line-up of Goldsmiths experts who will reflect on the strange, dark time that has been 2016 and speculate wildly on what the future may hold.

What happens if you fill a pub with clever and lovely people then invite loads of amazing Goldsmiths academics to entertain them?

In 2016 we entered the Darkest Timeline: Brexit, Bowie... Trump? Join us at the Amersham Arms on 3 November - days before the most powerful nation on earth shows us how broken democracy really is - to hear Goldsmiths, University of London academics take you on a high-speed dash through their chosen subject.

Featuring the algorithms of online dating, hidden satanic messages, cats and class war. Expect laughs, facts that sound totally made up but aren't, and loads of terrible PowerPoints.

Comedian and compere Steve Cross will be venturing south of the river once again to keep everyone to time. He used to work at UCL, but we won't hold it against him.

The line-up:

Chris French (Psychology) on hidden satanic messages - find out if you can hear them

Kate Devlin (Computing) on the algorithms of online dating: a scientific and a personal perspective

Sylvia Pan (Computing) - What can virtual humans do for us?

John Price (History) - No Hard Felines: Class War... with cats

Dee Harding (Computing) - Tired of Experts

Rob Cenci (Media & Communications) on the Call of Insecurity - the first-person shooter

Dominique Santos (Anthropology) on the curious case of health and safety regulations in 2016 and how they impact on children's play in ridiculous ways

Sarah Wiseman (Computing) on the weird and wonderful world of the Quantified Self.



All proceeds from ticket sales will go to The Running Charity: www.therunningcharity.org

Line-up subject to change.