Events Archives - Lost In A Cup

December 17, 2020December 17, 2020

Festive-themed Cultural Café on Sunday 20th December!

On Sunday the 20th of December it is time for the last digital Cultural Café event of the year! As the holidays are just around the corner we thought of making it a bit festive talking about the tradition of Christmas, Saint Lucy (Sankta Lucia), Saint Nicholas and more.

How do you celebrate Christmas? Are traditions important for you and your close ones or not that much? Is there something stronger and deeper in traditions that goes beyond the religious calendar? These questions and more will feature in our usual format, this time pushed to a bit of a later time on a Sunday based on our previous feedback.

Joining Alex, founder of Lost in a Cup, in hosting the event is Alexandra Coutinho PhD, best known as Alex or here on Lost in a Cup as ‘Dr Alex’. She has been working in the background over the past months and is going to be co-chairing the event from Uppsala.

To make sure you save yourself a spot go to the form and sign up. It’s the season to be jolly, bring friends, family and colleagues – the more the merrier!

Never been to a Cultural Café event before?

Here you find all the information on what to expect!!

Questions? Don’t hesitate to get in touch!

Event will be held on Zoom, so make sure you bring your own tea, coffee, biscuits, mulled wine or whatever tickles your fancy.

Event’s hashtags: #EspressøYourself #TraditionValues

HoHoHo!

November 13, 2020November 16, 2020

Cultural Café #4: The evolution of warfare – what will it look like? in the future?

Lost in a Cup’s cultural café will talk about warfare, surveillance and how the use of developing technology will effect future conflicts – for better or for worse.

For the occasion we are happy to announce that we are partnering up with Pax et Bellum, a student society which focuses on exploring themes relevant to the study field of ‘peace and conflicts’.

Important to remember that this is a meeting place for people from all walks of life and from different countries so there is no pre-required knowledge needed on the topic as the event is structured in a way to enable conversations based on the material we provide and common knowledge.

Chairing the digital event this time will be Alexander Maxia, founder of Lost in a Cup and Maël Hanon, vice-president of Pax et Bellum.

This event’s Academic speakers:

Pere Brunet

Professor in Software and VR at the Technical University of Catalonia and researcher at the Delas Center for Peace Studies. His research interests lie in the social implications of science and engineering and on a science-inspired analysis of militarism and terrorism.

Kristiaan Pelckman

Associate Professor at the department of Information Technology, division of Systems and Controls at Uppsala University, His research touches on machine learning, automatic control and different applications of either.

> Don’t forget to save yourself a spot by signing up to the event here!

Never been to a Cultural Café event before?

Here you find all the information on what to expect!!

Questions? Don’t hesitate to get in touch!

Event will be held on Zoom, so make sure you bring your own tea, coffee, biscuits or whatever you fancy.

Event’s hashtags: #EspressøYourself #TechWar

September 29, 2020October 6, 2020

Cultural Café #3: Can We Recycle Our Way To Sustainability?

October’s cultural café will focus on environment and dig into the big questions around aspiring to live in a sustainable way but at the same time continuing to live the lifestyle we got used to.

Recycling efforts have increased massively, especially in Europe, but is that actually the full answer to our problem?

To explore this thematic we have partnered up with environmental think tank Ecoll ective who has helped us in researching the topic and will also co-host the event with us. Joining Alex as event coordinator is the CEO of Ecolective, Nils Weber.

As always, there will be plenty to discuss and thanks to the internet we will have the opportunity of hosting and connecting people from different parts of the world to take part in the conversation.

Still not sure what our events are about? Check out the info on our digital cultural cafés.

The event will be held on Zoom and link will be provided by email the day before the event.

In order to save yourself a spot please sign up via our form that you find here.

WHEN: Tuesday 6th October @ 19:00 Stockholm CET time / 18:00 London BST

WHERE: Wherever you are – online event via Zoom. Click on this link a few minutes before the event.

PASSWORD: espresso

HASHTAG: #RethinkRecycling

Join our events on our social media channels and invite friends, family, colleagues, acquaintances and your local bus driver!

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Any questions, get in touch: info@lostinacup.com

August 15, 2020August 15, 2020

September 2nd – Cultural Café #2: Should I report this?

After a Summer break and loads of iced coffees in the sun, Lost in a Cup is back in town and so are the Cultural Cafés!

Following the success of our first digital event in July, we decided to keep it going and hold more events in the coming months with different themes and topics to focus on to get the debates going and bring people together in our borderless cultural cafe.

The theme this time is going to allow us to debate a situation of doubt we have all experienced at some point or other in our lives. When we see someone breaking the law should we: report it, try to sort it out ourselves or just walk past and totally ignore it?

Whether it directly affects you or it doesn’t, should you report what you’ve witnessed? To what extent should we tolerate wrong doings? Or take our own direct action? When instead should we delegate it to the authorities?

We look forward to gather together once again, with people from different countries and backgrounds, to discuss the topic and challenge our thoughts with inspiration from academic research. Prepare your coffee-cup and get ready for the second Cultural Café!

Still not sure what our Cultural Café events are all about?! Click here and find out!

Cultural Café #2: Should I report this?

WHEN? 2nd September 2020
WHERE? Online! Via the Zoom platform (meeting link available 48 hours before)
TIME? 19:00 – 20:30 Stockholm & Central European Time
LANGUAGE? English
HOW? Sign up via the form. Click here (it will open in a new tab).
HASHTAGS: #ShouldIReport #EspressøYourself

Don’t forget to tell friends who could be interested, as we are holding the event digitally we don’t have to worry about running out of chairs ! > Click here to invite your friends to the Facebook event

Find out about all the upcoming Cultural Cafe events in the following months.

Thoughts? Questions? Comments? Don’t hesitate to get in touch!

July 28, 2020November 23, 2020

Cultural Café Events in 2020: Save the Dates!

The ‘Cultural Cafe‘ is Lost in a Cup’s signature event and we would love it if you came!

That’s why we are publishing all the dates of the upcoming digital events now – for the rest of 2020, so you can write it down in your diary and join us.

The themes of the events will be announced on our website and social media channels a few weeks before the events.

The time of the events remains the same:

20:00 Central European Time (Stockholm, Bruxelles, Paris, Madrid, Rome)

Other time zone:

Europe: 19:00 GMT, London, Lisbon / 21:00 – Helsinki, Athens, Moscow

Americas: 14:00 New York, East Coast / 11:00 Los Angeles, West Coast

Asia: 22:30 Tehran / 00:30 (+1) New Delhi

Events will take place digitally via Zoom so in order to take place you need to reserve a spot via the specific sign-up forms:

If you have any questions just get in touch!

July 10, 2020July 10, 2020

Cultural Café #1: Are historical ‘sins’ ever to be forgiven?

History teaches us of the many great things mankind has achieved but can also show us the big mistakes made over and over again in time.

Depending on how you were taught it in school you most likely either love it or hate it and that has a lot to do with how it was presented and what way you engage with the past. This video by ‘The School of Life‘ gives a good intro to ‘History’ as a subject and the problems in the way it is taught.

Through time many things change including consensus over certain topics and behaviours which brought us to discussing if moral behaviours committed by people in the past should be judged by today’s standards. We listened to some extracts of BBC Radio 4’s programme ‘The Philosopher’s Arms’, originally aired in 2013 and available online via BBC Sound.

During the discussions, the participants shared a lot of interesting suggestions on things to read about connected to the topic. We listed some of them here:

Books:

“Enlightenment Now” by Steven Pinker
“Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.” by Bertolt Brecht
”Årstafruns dagbok” a dairy by Mrs Märta Helena Renstierna
“The World of Yesterday” by Stefan Zweig

Originally the event was scheduled to last approximately an hour but ended up lasting almost two hours. We sent out a survey to all the participants to get their feedback and see what can be done to improve the format before our next event which we expect will take place towards the end of July / beginning of August. More info coming soon!

Our first digital cultural café was presented by Alexander Maxia and Tove Ljung from Base10 startup hub in Uppsala. It took place on Thursday, July 2nd and people joined from four different countries. More events will follow, keep following us on social media and sign up to our mailing list here!

Big thanks to Jason Dainter, CEO of Base10 for kindly lending us the space to broadcast; Joakim Fichtel from Almi Uppsala for the support and advice leading up to the event and James Maxia for additional research into the topic presented.

April 25, 2019April 25, 2019

Career Day 2019

Lost in a Cup was proud collaborator at ‘Career Day 2019’, a yearly fair organised by five different student organisations who focus on creating events for students who study degrees in the political science / diplomatic sphere at Uppsala University.

The event was held at V-Dala Nation and counted over 400 participants who had the chance of speaking to recruiters and explore career paths in the various stands.

Lost in a Cup had its own stand, providing Italian style coffee to energise the participants with espressos and the occasional cappuccinos.

Those who stopped by for a coffee also got the chance to win an Adesso Espresso electric milk foamer!

It was a fantastic experience, many coffees were made and interesting conversations took place with the many who stopped-by. Special thanks to the team of volunteers who organised such a successful event and all who took part!

March 1, 2019June 30, 2020

PopUp Cultral Café: Does Tech Make Society Alienating?

The first PopUp Cultural Café by Lost in a Cup will take place in Base10, right in the heart of Uppsala’s Tech Startup scene.

During the evening there will be a series of interesting talks, open debate and ample opportunity to mingle with people who share similar interests on the topic.

As the Cultural Café will Pop-Up in a StartUp hub, the topic is technology in modern society and the impact its having on our lives. Whilst the advantages of innovation are uncountable and in the StartUp world we often praise their glory, is there also a down side to this? Is our use of technology increasing the sense of alienation for us and the people around us?