Clare Hall Colloquia – Lent 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.
Lent 2026 Programme
20 January: Professor Sidnie Crawford (Visiting Fellow, University of Nebraska-Lincoln) – The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Cairo Genizah: What has Qumran to do with Cambridge?
27 January: Dr Trudi Tate (Clare Hall Emeritus Fellow) – Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse (1927): The Mother in the Garden
3 February: Professor Sara Brill (Visiting Fellow, Fairfield University, USA) – Birth as Concept and Ideal in Plato’s Dialogues
10 February: Dr Birgit Rogalla (Clare Hall Research Fellow, Tutor) – Antarctic Ice Sheet Melt: How Much Are We to Blame?
17 February: Gillian Moore (Life Member) – The Trade in Indentured Labour in the South Pacific in the Late Nineteenth Century
24 February: Professor Midori Yamaguchi (Visiting Fellow, Daito Bunka University, Tokyo, Japan) – ‘Prosper the Work of Our Hands’: Gender, Clothing, and ‘Empire’ in the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 1860-1923
3 March: Professor Paavo Ritala (Visiting Fellow, LUT University, Finland) – Toward a Social Science of AI in Organizations
10 March: Dr Karthick Ram Manoharan (Smuts Visiting Fellow, National Law School of India University) – The Indian Emergency, 1975–1977
