Course Programme
10:00 Are we living in a post-satire era? (Dr Alex Carter)
11:15 Coffee
11:45 Satire, Social Media and The Simpsons (Tyler Shores)
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Journalism: entertainment or information? (Tyler Shores)
15:15 Tea
15:30 Punchline: humour and violence (Dr Alex Carter)
16:45 Day school ends
Tutors
Tyler Shores is a PhD student in Education at the University of Cambridge and received his Master’s Degree from the University of Oxford. He has worked as part of the University of Cambridge research ThinkLab and will be presenting his research on digital distraction at the 2018 Cambridge Festival of Science. At the University of California, Berkeley, he created and taught a course on The Simpsons and Philosophy — which became one of the most popular courses on campus at the time (with over 500 undergraduate and graduate students attending the first class). Tyler’s research interests include the experience of print and digital reading in relation in to attention and distraction — and has published scholarly articles and book chapters on social media, and the impact of digital technology in everyday life. Tyler is a regular contributor to the Wiley Blackwell Philosophy and Popular Culture book series, including the recently published LEGO and Philosophy, and other volumes such as Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy. He previously worked at Google on the Authors@Google lecture series, one of the world’s largest online lecture series and in online education at Stanford University.
Dr. Alex Carter was awarded his PhD in Philosophy by the University of Essex in 2015. Before this, Alex studied Philosophy & Ancient History at the University of Wales, Swansea and Philosophy at the University of Bristol. Alex has taught on a range of subjects including Ethics, History of Philosophy and Philosophy of Religion. He has worked at the Institute of Continuing Education since 2015 as Academic Director for Philosophy and as a Panel Tutor. Alex's teaching method invites students to feel the "pain of the problem", i.e. to recognise the very real ways in which philosophical problems affect our lives. Accordingly, Alex is most keen to offer his support to philosophical projects that, not only inform contemporary debates, but actively affect change. Alex's ongoing research interests include the theology of Simone Weil and Ludwig Wittgenstein's ethical philosophy.
Accommodation
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