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🏅 Today marks a historic moment as the 2024 Olympic Games open with athletes from around the globe navigating the Seine in Paris on boats, using the river and its banks as grand stages. 🌊✨ While this ceremony is celebrated as groundbreaking, it also harks back to a centuries-old tradition of waterborne festivals. This fascinating connection is explored in the newly published article, "Liquid Streets: Early Modern Waterways in Urban Spaces" in the edited volume The Street in the Urban Structure (Porto: CITCEM, 2024), based on Dr. Davide Martino's PhD research at the University of Cambridge. Dr. Martino's research draws intriguing parallels between urban highways and waterways, showing how waterways served as more than mere transport routes, but as venues for complex social and political activities. His work highlights examples like the 1589 celebrations in Tuscany, featuring a naval battle reenacted on the Arno river. Dr. Martino, now a postdoc in architectural history at Universität Bern, explains the contemporary relevance: “The Seine’s role in the Paris Olympics is thrilling. Beyond the opening ceremony, it will host open swimming, triathlon, and paratriathlon races. Despite criticisms over the clean-up costs, this effort symbolizes the healing of a century-old rift, as Paris reclaims the Seine as a vital urban space.” This research provides a profound perspective on the integration of waterways in urban development, emphasizing sustainable and shared use of our natural resources. 🌍 Read more here - https://lnkd.in/emCxJH78 #Paris2024 #OlympicGames! #UrbanHistory #Waterways #SustainableCities #ArchitecturalHistory

Hannah Claus wants to ensure that language technologies are accessible, fair and culturally sensitive across diverse communities worldwide - https://lnkd.in/e7f4PyUd

Congratulations to Stephen Lezak who has just signed a deal to write a book on Indigenous climate justice, based on his PhD - https://lnkd.in/emzRxeCK

Alina Utrata discusses the role of big tech in building or undermining tolerance in the latest episode of the Gates Cambridge podcast, So, now what? More here - https://lnkd.in/eTsidB_S

New research led by Kim van Daalen looks at the importance of ensuring risk scores for cardiovascular disease match local needs - https://lnkd.in/e3PX9J-k

Farhan Samanani on the Gates Cambridge podcast, So, now what?, talks about the need to question the stories we tell ourselves if we are to build a more tolerant society - https://lnkd.in/eTsidB_S

🌟 New Podcast Episode Release The sixth episode of "So, now what?" is out now, featuring three Gates Cambridge scholars debating how we can create a more tolerant world. Alina Utrata, José Izquierdo and Farhan Samanani discuss the crucial role of face-to-face interactions, trust and cooperation in building tolerance. They delve into how technology and social media can either promote or hinder tolerance and share their insights on the power of music, arts and creativity in fostering empathy. 🔗 Listen to the episode here:  https://lnkd.in/eTsidB_S  Stay tuned for our next episode on peacekeeping, coming at the end of July. #Tolerance #Podcast #GatesCambridge #SocialJustice #Creativity #TechForGood #Empathy

Oluwasegun Afolaranmi featured as a changemaker in cancer research for his work to enhance  immune cells to deliver a ‘kiss of death’ to cancer - https://lnkd.in/ekTRSaJD

Scholar-Elect Oscar Espinoza Martin sees archaeology and cultural heritage as tools for strengthening Indigenous people’s sense of citizenship - https://lnkd.in/eXkpVFTN

Christian Boehm is appointed VP of Human Frontier Science Program, which provides fellowships to post-doctoral researchers and grants to independent researchers in the life sciences  - https://lnkd.in/euycg7PH