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Professor Carrie Lambert-Beatty is a contemporary art historian. She holds a joint appointment in the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Department of Art, Film and Visual Studies at Harvard. She's the author of some of the most influential arts writing of the 21st century, including the award-winning book Being Watched, Yvonne Rainer in the 1960s and the essay, Make Believe: Parafiction and Plausibility (pdf). Carrie is also a co-editor at the illustrious arts theory journal October.
Her current research is on 30 years of fiction presented as fact in contemporary art, asking what happens when artworks deceive their audiences? What do the experiences of artists’ trickery teach about contemporary ways of knowing? And how can contemporary art help in developing a progressive epistemic set, one able to counter the culture of post-truth and to resist an epistemic return to order?
Artworks mentioned:
A Tribute to Safiye Behar (2005) by Michael Blum
Nike Ground (2003) by Eva & Franco Mattes
He Named Her Amber (2007) by Iris Häussler
Carrie Lambert-Beatty: What Happens When an Artwork Deceives Its Audience?
Faculty page: https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/people/carrie-lambert-beatty
Website: https://scholar.harvard.edu/lambert-beatty

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Caroline Criado Perez is a writer, broadcaster, speaker and feminist campaigner.
She successfully campaigned to put a woman on the British £10 note in 2013 and campaigned to put a statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square in 2018 thereby making Parliament Square a little bit less of a sausage fest.
Her book 'INVISIBLE WOMEN: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men' was a Sunday Times #1 best seller, and won both the Financial Times Book of the Year Award and the Royal Society Science Book prize.
Caroline’s Invisible Women Newsletter:
Caroline’s website: https://carolinecriadoperez.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CCriadoPerez
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ccriadoperez
Sexist snow ploughing https://www.thelocal.se/20131211/snow-plowing-should-be-gender-equal-greens
Notes:
The book Caroline mentioned that opened her eyes to sexism: 'Feminism and Linguistic Theory' https://www.waterstones.com/book/feminism-and-linguistic-theory/deborah-cameron/9780333558898
Author of 'Feminism and Linguistic Theory', Deborah Cameron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Cameron_(linguist)
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Professor Hanneke van Laarhoven is professor of translational medical oncology at the University of Amsterdam and head of the Department of Medical Oncology of the Amsterdam University Medical Center. She is a world-renowned specialist on gastrointestinal cancer, but her interests reach far beyond the body, including psychology, AI, philosophy and theology. She is also known for helping develop the first large-scale databases collecting tumour and blood samples, archives which hopefully will one day provide a key to unlocking the mysteries still surrounding the disease today.
Van Laarhoven calls herself a “staunch advocate of interdisciplinarity”. She certainly has the credentials to back it up: she has PhDs in both Medical Oncology and Religious Studies, and has long been involved with spiritual and artistic projects. Not the most obviously related disciplines, you might say, but it has offered her a uniquely important position from which to understand the concerns of her patients, many of whom find themselves unexpectedly faced with questions of uncertainty, and, indeed, mortality.
Faculty page: https://researchinformation.amsterdamumc.org/en/persons/hanneke-w-m-van-laarhoven
European Society for Medical Oncology page: https://www.esmo.org/about-esmo/biographies/hanneke-van-laarhoven

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Professor Sophie Scott CBE is the Director of the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, as well as the Head of their Speech Communications Group.
Her research interests include the neural basis of vocal communication - how our brains process the information in speech and voices, and how our brains control the production of our voice. She is also interested in the expression of emotion in the voice, especially laughter.
She is very active in the public communication of science and presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 2017, has appeared on loads of TV and radio shows in the UK, she regularly performs standup comedy.
Faculty page: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/icn/people/sophie-scott
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sophiescott
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Scott
Royal Institution profile: https://www.rigb.org/explore-science/explore/person/sophie-scott
TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/sophie_scott_why_we_laugh?language=en

NOTES:
Parasocial relationships https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction

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Philippa Perry- or to use her proper title, Philippa, Lady Perry - is an author, psychotherapist and artist. She has written several books including a graphic novel titled 'Couch Fiction: a Graphic Tale of Psychotherapy', the #1 Sunday Times Best Seller 'The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read...' And her current book called 'The Book You Want Everyone You Love To Read...'
She has presented various documentaries on British tv and during Covid she co-hosted three seasons of Grayson's Art Club on Channel 4. Since 2021 she has been writing The Observer newspaper's ‘Ask Philippa’ column in which she provides advice on personal problems sent in by readers.
https://www.philippaperry.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Philippa_Perry
Philippa Perry's Observer columns: https://www.theguardian.com/profile/philippa-perry

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Our guest today is Martin Surbeck. An assistant professor in evolutionary biology at Harvard University, Surbeck is one of the world’s foremost experts in primatology.
He is interested in questions of social behavior in animals: competition but also cooperation, a skill and strategy often considered unique to humans. His main research object? Apes and monkeys, chimpanzees and bonobos especially, our cousins from 8 million years ago. Chimpanzees, as anyone who has ever been to the zoo knows, are experts at competing - with each other and seemingly everyone else. But what Surbeck and his team have shown is that bonobos are skilled at cooperation, too. And not just amongst their close relatives and peer groups, but across them, too. That’s better than most of us can say these days. In a New York Times article devoted to Surbeck’s study, his co-author Dr. Liran Samuni said that these bonobos are teaching us about our past. But maybe they’ve got a few things to learn us about our future as well.
There’s more to these bonobos that is interesting, but we’ll get to that. Much of his research takes place at his research lab at the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve in the DRC, but we’re finding him in his office in Cambridge today, a few blocks away from Tim.
Faculty page: https://heb.fas.harvard.edu/people/martin-surbeck
'Scientists Find First Evidence That Groups of Apes Cooperate' (New York Times): https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/science/bonobos-cooperation-study.html
Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve: https://www.bonobo.org/programs/kokolopori-bonobo-reserve


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