The Wolfson Green Team will be hosting a MOVIE NIGHT on Tuesday 12 Feb at 8.15pm at the ECR, showing "Tomorrow" (2015), a documentary about inspiring initiatives to fight climate change all around the world. The idea of the communal screening is also to raise awareness about the carbon footprint of the internet, especially streaming video content. While it's difficult to tell exactly how big the emissions are from internet usage, it is estimated that they exceed that of air travel. More info here.

For one evening, instead of streaming something on Youtube or Netflix, why not come dispel 5th week blues with us at the new tv room (temporary ECR)? For directions, please ask at lodge.

Dr Markian Prokopovych will talk to us about patterns of overseas migration from Habsburg Hungary.

This workshop brings together experts from different backgrounds in order to address general and specific issues related to the repairing and restoring of buildings in Ancient Greece. Ancient repairs have increasingly attracted the attention of scholars over the past two decades, but this interest has been mostly confined to moveable objects. While the study of ancient architectural repairs has recently developed in Roman contexts, the Greek world has been somewhat left behind. Therefore, the purpose of the workshop is to assess the importance of this new field for the understanding of ancient Greek construction, with an emphasis on cross-disciplinary approaches. Technical and institutional aspects, as well as methodological issues, will be addressed.

The Wolfson Family Society invites you to join in for a children’s art event on Sunday, 24th February, 10 am - 1 m, in the Haldane Room. Children of all ages in Wolfson college are invited to explore and share their creativity. Where do different colours come from? How many colours can you make? We will start the day by exploring the colour wheel together and mixing our own colours. We will make a large panorama painting featuring all the colours we made, and the children can also use their individual projects if they prefer (or both). To make this day as inclusive as possible for children of all ages, we will be using non-toxic finger paint. Please remember to wear old clothes, as we anticipate some mess! Tea, coffee, and some snacks provided, but any nut-free contributions from parents are very welcome. Parents of young children need to stay.

All welcome for convivial, informal discussions on art, culture and interdisciplinarity over lunch, in Hall. Hosted by Wolfson's Creative Arts Fellow, Carey Young.

Every day we make multiple choices about the best course of action to take in a variety of situations. My research is aimed at understanding the brain processes that allow us to work out how good the outcome of a choice might be and which allow us to make decisions between multiple choices.

I am interested in the components of brain circuits and their interactions that mediate decision making and learning. I want to know not just how people make decisions and learn by themselves but how they do so when they are interacting with others. I use a variety of techniques including some, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, that are designed to record brain activity and others, such as transcranial magnetic and ultrasound stimulation, that transiently change brain activity.

You are warmly invited to an introductory talk by Wolfson's new Creative Arts Fellow, visual artist Carey Young. Young's uses photography, video, performance, installation and print, and takes an interdisciplinary, collaborative approach, examining language, behaviours, architectures and theoretical frameworks related to law and business, as well as science and politics. Recent work explores the relations between jurisprudence, materiality, gender and fiction. The talk will centre on a screening of her video ‘Palais de Justice’ (2017), which features female judges at Belgium's main courthouse, positing a speculative future in which women control the judicial system (on view at Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne (Feb 17 to June 2). Her work has been exhibited widely, including Tate Britain, Centre Pompidou, Whitechapel Gallery, MoMA/PS1 (NYC) and Walker Art Center (Minneapolis). She is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Law, Birkbeck and Associate Professor in Fine Art at the Slade, UCL.