Clare Hall Colloquia – Michaelmas 2025
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.
Michaelmas 2025 Programme
14 October: Professor Andrew Blake (Vice President, Tutor of Clare Hall) – Self-driving Taxis Coming to the Roads Near You?
21 October: Professor Peter Jeffery (Visiting Fellow; University of Notre Dame, USA) – Vestiges of Greek Hymnody in the Medieval “Ambrosian” Rite of Milan
28 October: Professor Petri Pellikka (Visiting Fellow; University of Helsinki, Finland) – Climatic Impacts of Land Use and Land Cover Change in Africa – Remote Sensing and Environmental in situ Measurements in Taita Hills Kenya since 2003
4 November: Dr Elisabeth Salje (Clare Hall; Birkbeck, University of London) – A Tale of Two Forests: Early Modern Forestry Politics in France and England, a Comparison, 1660s–1680
11 November: Professor Gregory MacIsaac (Visiting Fellow; Carleton University, Canada) – ‘Theaetetus’ – Plato’s Dialogue about Knowledge
18 November: Professor Linda Williams (Visiting Fellow; University of Exeter) – Carol Morley’s Button Badge, and the Material Histories of Women’s Screen Work
25 November: Professor Romeo Turcan (Life Member; Aalborg University Business School, Denmark) – Toward a Research Programme in International Business – Business Model Innovation
2 December: Professor Bill Lionheart (Visiting Fellow; University of Manchester) – Mathematician in a Minefield
