The Ronin Institute holds seminars showcasing the scholarship in our community.
- Ronin Public Seminars are free and open to all who register for the seminar (sign up for our newsletter mailing list to get announcements of upcoming seminars).
- Ronin Institute Seminars are presented to an audience of Ronin members only, although a recording of the seminar may be available on our YouTube channel (or via the link in the list below).
Here are our past and upcoming seminars:
Date | Speaker | Title |
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Oct 27, 2021 | Immanuel Freedman | Ronin Public Seminar: Modern Methods of Chaos and Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy Hosted by: Thomas Buckholtz |
Oct 18, 2021 | Thomas Buckholtz | Ronin Public Seminar: The Tiny and the Vast: Predictions about Elementary Particles, Dark Matter, and the Cosmos Hosted by: Immanuel Freedman |
March 10, 2021 | Gregg Willcox | Ronin Public Seminar: Human Swarming: Towards Better Decision-making Systems Hosted by: Varsha Dani |
Feb 26, 2021 | Angelo Luidens | Ronin Public Seminar: The Value of Social Cohesion in Our Communities Hosted by: Keith Tse |
Feb 12, 2021 | Candace Gossen | Ronin Public Seminar: What Really Happened to the Trees on Easter Island? Hosted by: Stéphanie Cassilde |
Jan 29, 2021 | Bruce Caron | Ronin Public Seminar: Open Science, Culture Change, and You Hosted by: John Paulas |
November 6, 2020 | Keith Tse | Ronin Public Seminar: Biolinguistics and Language Evolution: formal 'simplicity' and 'structural simplification' Hosted by: Varsha Dani |
October 28, 2020 | Emily Monosson | Ronin Institute Seminar: Blight: the rise of fungal pandemics Hosted by: Alex Lancaster |
October 23, 2020 | Thomas J. Buckholtz | Ronin Public Seminar: Messaging Matters: A Checklist to Enhance Buy-in for Your Ideas Hosted by: Vesselin Gueorguiev |
September 30, 2020 | Jon Wilkins and Michelle Susberry Hill | Ronin Institute Seminar: Getting Your Research Funded through the Ronin Institute |
September 25, 2020 | Vesselin Gueorguiev | Ronin Public Seminar: COVID19 and Cutting Edge Technologies You Can Deploy From Home Yourself! |
September 16, 2020 | Martin Bohle | Ronin Public Seminar: Foundations & Examples for How to Tackle (Geo)ethical Dilemmas |
August 28, 2020 | Judy Daniels, Alex Lancaster, Emily Lankau, John Paulas, Jorrit Poelen, and Arika Virapongse | Ronin Institute Seminar: Getting Started in Consulting as an Independent Scholar |
August 7, 2020 | Chris | Ronin Institute Seminar: Umwelt Programming |
July 29, 2020 | Ruth Duerr | Ronin Institute Seminar: Climate Change Update: The Facts, Solutions, and What You Can Do |
July 24, 2020 | Laura Musgrave | Ronin Institute Seminar: Digital Privacy Gap and GDPR: AI Smart Speaker Use in the UK |
July 17, 2020 | Stéphanie Cassilde | Ronin Institute Seminar: From Multilingualism to Plurilingualism to Build an Linguistic Fragmentation Index |
May 22, 2020 | John Paulas | Ronin Institute Seminar: The Past, Present, and Future Work of Our Intellectual Community |
April 17, 2020 | Arika Virapongse | Ronin Institute Seminar: Understanding Independent Scholarship |
November 1, 2019 | Vesselin Gueorguiev | Ronin Institute Seminar: The Growth of the Density Fluctuations in the Scale-Invariant Vacuum Theory |
July 11, 2019 | Martin Bohle | Ronin Institute Seminar: Exploring Societal Frameworks of the Geosciences |
April 30, 2019 | Nick Jackson | Ronin Institute Seminar: Does Economics Explain or Legitimize Development? The Case of the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development Project |
April 26, 2018 | Gill Ragsdale | Ronin Institute Seminar: Epigenetics and the Evolution of Trust |
March 20, 2019 | Kristina Killgrove | Ronin Institute Seminar: Reading Past Lives: How Archaeologists Understand the Stories Written in Bone |
January 18, 2019 | Miguel Fortuna | Ronin Institute Seminar: Harnessing evolution through network ecology: insights from digital organisms |
December 14, 2018 | Vesselin Gueorguiev | Ronin Institute Seminar: Quantum Computing: History and Prospects |
December 7, 2018 | Ashton Sperry | Ronin Institute Seminar: The Bandit's Dilemma: Approaching Realistic Decision Theory with Reinforcement Learning |
November 30, 2018 | Alex Lancaster | Ronin Institute Seminar: Modeling cellular systems: stochastic approaches in evolutionary research and therapeutic applications |
November 9, 2018 | Vicente Reyes | Ronin Institute Seminar: Founding and Incorporating a Non-Profit R&D Corporation: My Own Experience |
October 26, 2018 | Gloria Montebruno | Ronin Institute Seminar: Atomic Bomb Survivors in North America. An Investigation of Their Social Activism, Medical Needs, and Peace Education Projects |
October 19, 2018 | Gordon Webster | Ronin Institute Seminar: There's more to life science data than being really, really, really ridiculously good looking. |
September 28, 2018 | Jocelyn Scheirer | Ronin Institute Seminar: A Twenty-Year Adventure in Wearable Computing |
June 7, 2018 | Martin Bohle | Ronin Institute Seminar: Exploring and Patching: Socio-Environmental Systems, Sense-Making, and Geoethics |
May 24, 2018 | Zak Stein | Ronin Institute Seminar: Education in a Time Between Worlds |
May 10, 2018 | Anne Thessen | Ronin Institute Seminar: Challenges Integrating Environment and Phenotype |
March 30, 2018 | Jeffrey Rose | Ronin Institute Seminar: Parting the Red Sea: Early Human Dispersals and the Original Exodus from Egypt |
March 22, 2018 | Peter Waddell | Ronin Institute Seminar: The Phylogenomic Origins and Definition of Homo sapiens |
March 15, 2018 | Lucas Mix | Ronin Institute Seminar: A Population Genetic Theory of Life |
March 8 2018 | Anamaria Berea | Ronin Institute Seminar: An Atlas of Communication Evolution Based on a Unified Database of Evidence |
March 1, 2018 | Jovita De Loatch | Ronin Institute Seminar: So, Where are Cultural and Social in Ecosystem Services? The Human Face of Nature |
February 22, 2018 | Marios Kyriazis | Ronin Institute Seminar: Systems Thinking in Ageing Research |
February 15, 2018 | Jon F Wilkins | Ronin Institute Seminar: Six Years of the Ronin Institute |
February 8, 2018 | Ruth Duerr | Ronin Institute Seminar: From Data to Information |
February 1, 2018 | Arika Virapongse | Ronin Institute Seminar: What is an Independent Scholar? Preliminary Insights from our Survey Results |
April 19, 2018 | Ruth Duerr | Ronin Institute Seminar: From Data to Information (Part II) |
April 5, 2018 | John S Wilkins | Ronin Institute Seminar: Species: The Evolution of the Idea |
January 25, 2018 | Kristina Markman | Ronin Institute Seminar: Between Admiration and Defamation: Reimagining the Knightly Ideal in the Wars against Lithuanians |
November 9, 2017 | Martin Bohle | Ronin Institute Seminar: Geoethics, Human Niche, and Citizen-Science |
September 15, 2017 | Gill Ragsdale | Ronin Institute Seminar: How gene-environment interaction shapes our stress response - as individuals and across generations. |
September 7, 2017 | Josh Mitteldorf | Ronin Institute Seminar: Aging is not good for our fitness. So why do we get old and die? |
September 1, 2017 | Alex Lancaster | Ronin Institute Seminar: Creating a Collaborative Community of Independent Scholars at the Ronin Institute |
August 18, 2017 | Jovita De Loatch | Ronin Institute Seminar: So, Where are Urban Cultural and Social in Ecological Services? A Spatial Metrics Suitability Analysis |
July 27, 2017 | Mickey von Dassow | Ronin Institute Seminar: How do Organisms Build Complex Transport Systems? |
June 29, 2017 | Schuyler Towne | Ronin Institute Seminar: How to Make a Lock |
June 9, 2017 | Emily Monosson | Ronin Institute Seminar: Breaking Away from our Toxic Traditions: Natural Defenses for Human Health and Agriculture |
June 2, 2017 | Brent Ranalli | Ronin Institute Seminar: The History (and Prehistory) of Scientific Peer Review |
May 12, 2017 | Anamaria Berea | Ronin Institute Seminar: Emergence of Cooperation in Social and Biological Networks |
Videos of prior seminars that have been made public by the speakers are available on the Ronin Institute’s YouTube channel.