Meetup groups
public speaking
I’ve been running Meetup groups for about ten years. It’s an important part of my study process. I currently run these two meetup groups:
The Discussion Group
This is a record of past meetups (correct up to 25 January 2024):
| Date | Title | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 25 Jan 2024 | Depression and creativity | Ben |
| 18 Jan 2024 | Productivity before computers | James |
| 7 Dec 2023 | William Shakespeare | James |
| 30 Nov 2023 | Depression | James, Maria |
| 16 Nov 2023 | Free Will | James |
| 26 Oct 2023 | Witchcraft | James, Yoyo |
| 19 Oct 2023 | The microbiome | James, Maija Schmaijo |
| 5 Oct 2023 | Giordano Bruno | James |
| 21 Sep 2023 | Can we make conscious computers? | James, Gonzalo Guarner |
| 31 Aug 2023 | The Housing Crisis: let’s talk about it! | Anna Smit |
| 10 Aug 2023 | Free Will in Neuroscience | Hamed Ghane |
| 27 Jul 2023 | ’Scandal and Sensuality in Art: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood | James, Alexa Turner |
| 6 Jul 2023 | Art, Creativity and Magic | James, Alexa Turner |
| 22 Jun 2023 | Colour | James, Anna Smit |
| 8 Jun 2023 | The magic of fungi | James |
| 18 May 2023 | Could AI be conscious? | James |
| 20 Apr 2023 | The existential risks of AI | Gonzalo Guarner |
| 13 Apr 2023 | Ethics and AI | James, Valeria |
| 23 Mar 2023 | Neural Implants: From pacing the brain to augmenting it | Nicolás Barabino |
| 9 Mar 2023 | AI and the future of work | James |
| 2 Mar 2023 | To judge or not to judge: Renaissance paintings in modern moral context | James, Anna Smit |
| 16 Feb 2023 | Swarm intelligence: from ants to AI | Gonzalo Guarner |
| 2 Feb 2023 | Climate Change and the future of food | Evelyn Fitzherbert |
| 19 Jan 2023 | Intelligence and IQ | James |
| 15 Dec 2022 | Genetically modified (GM) crops: Why, how, and what if? | Jan |
| 24 Nov 2022 | Artificial Intelligence: Is this the start of a new epoch for mankind? | Raj |
| 27 Oct 2022 | What is real? What is true? | Jamse |
| 6 Oct 2022 | No more bullshit: an overview of fallacies and their (un)ethical uses | Lucy |
| 22 Sep 2022 | Masculinity and femininity today | James , Erica Zeitz |
| 11 Aug 2022 | Creativity and imagination | James |
| 4 Aug 2022 | The Wealth Gap | Anna Smit, Vinh |
| 21 Jul 2022 | Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell | Alex Rovira |
| 7 Jul 2022 | Linguistics: Chomsky and Pinker | James |
| 9 Jun 2022 | Schrödinger | James, Luuk |
| 19 May 22 | Ethics and morality | James, Maud Haffar |
| 12 May 22 | Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma | James |
| 28 Apr 22 | Serial killers | James, Maria Ventura |
| 31 Mar 22 | Emotion | James, Maud Haffar |
| 17 Mar 22 | Consciousness | James, Maud Haffar |
| 3 Mar 22 | Ukraine | James |
| 26 Jan 22 | The Social Contract - Rousseau’s concept and modern adaptations | Leo |