Clare Hall Colloquia – Easter 2026
Clare Hall’s Colloquia provide members of the College – especially (but not exclusively) Visiting Fellows and Life Members – with an opportunity to present their research, whether in its early stages or already published, in a friendly setting. They are a great way to discuss your ideas, meet fellow members and to contribute to our vibrant community.
The Colloquia typically consist of a 40-minute presentation followed by 30-45 minutes of open discussion. We attract an audience from many different disciplines and post-talk dialogue is often very lively and constructive. Talks are intended to be accessible to a general audience and speakers are requested to avoid unnecessary jargon and obscurantist language. Presentations are intentionally kept ‘in-house’ with no videoconferencing or recording. Sessions take place on Tuesday evenings during term time, 7:15–9:15 pm, in the Clare Hall Meeting Room. Refreshments are provided.
Easter 2026 Programme
28 April: Dr Elise Garritzen (Visiting Fellow, University of Helsinki, Finland) – Re-Imagining the Historian in Victorian England
5 May: Professor Ioannis Brilakis (Clare Hall Official Fellow, University of Cambridge) – Twin Systems: The end of the beginning. How to plan, design, construct and operate a digital twin systems in the built environment
12 May: Gloria Carnevalli Hawthorn (former Clare Hall Research Fellow, Life Member) – Ambiguities and interstices in Painting
19 May: Dr Norman Fraser (Clare Hall Fellow Commoner) – How legitimation works?
26 May: Professor Lassi Roininen (Visiting Fellow, LUT University, Finland) – From Ionosphere to Infrastructure: Bayesian and Machine‑Learning Tools for Global Challenges
2 June: Professor Anna Marie Roos (Emerita, Visting Fellow, University of Lincoln) – Taking Newton on Tour: The Scientific Grand Tour of Martin Folkes (1690-1754)
9 June: Professor Francesca Tinti (Visiting Fellow, Univ. of the Basque Country, Spain) – Before the Grand Tour: The English in Rome in the Early Middle Ages
16 June: Dr Markku Hokkanen (Visiting Fellow, University of Oulu, Finland) – Experimentation and cross-cultural medical encounters in South-Central Africa, c. 1875-1930s
