Clare Hall Summer Seminars 2025
The Clare Hall Summer Seminar Series will return this year, running from 23 July to 24 September. This series offers Clare Hall Visiting Fellows, Fellows and Life Members an opportunity to share their current research with the wider Clare Hall community.
The talks are intended to be accessible to a general yet intellectually engaged audience. Seminars will take place on Wednesdays in the Clare Hall Meeting Room from 6:00 to 7:00 pm, just before Formal Hall. All are welcome to attend. Given the interdisciplinary nature of the audience, speakers are kindly asked to avoid jargon and prioritise clarity and accessibility. Each session will feature a 30-minute presentation, followed by comments and questions over drinks.
The Summer Seminar Series is organised by Dr Li Tang.
There will be eight sessions held on the following Wednesdays:
| Date | Title of Paper | Presenter |
| 23.07.2025 | Dharma and Dispensation: The Hindu family’s Leveraging of Mughal Legalism, 1870-1937 | Prof. Hayden Bellenoit, US Naval Academy. Life Member |
| 30.07.2025 | Digitalization of Civil Procedure and Access to Justice | Prof. Etsuko Sugiyama, Hitotsubashi University in Japan. Visiting Fellow |
| 06.08.2025 | The Snail in the Bottle: The Most Famous Case in English Law | Prof David Ibbetson, Regius Professor of Civil Law emeritus (Cambridge); Honorary Fellow & former (2013-2020) President of Clare Hall |
| 13.08.2025 | Beauty, Grace, and Glamour: Discursive and Cross-Cultural Discourses on Feminine Ideals | Prof Eva Man, Hong Kong Metropolitan University; Life Member |
| 20.08.2025 | tba | Dr Nikolai Kazantsev, JRF Clare Hall |
| 03.09.2025 | A Women’s History of Vatican I | Prof Carol Harrison, University of South Carolina, Visiting Fellow |
| 10.09.2025 | International Law Inaction or in Action? Genocide and the International Courts | Prof Hitomi Takemura, Hitotsubashi University, Japan. Visiting Fellow |
| 24.09.2025 | Bach’s Church Cantatas | Dr Ruth Tatlow, University of Gothenburg; Life Member |