Clare Hall Colloquium Easter 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 30-45 minute presentation followed by 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. The Colloquia take place in term time, 7.30-9.30pm, in the Clare Hall Meeting Room. Refreshments are provided.
Easter 2025 Programme
29 April: Adia Mendelson-Maoz (The Open U. of Israel) – Yoram Kaniuk and Günter Grass: a fraught dialogue through time
6 May: Daniel Veres (Romanian Academy) – Environmental metal pollution in Europe from the onset of metallurgy to the present day
13 May: Calogero Santoro (U. of Tarapacá, Chile) – “A waterless people is a dead people”: 13,000 years of living under chronic water shortage in the Atacama Desert
20 May: Clarissa Chenovick (Florida Atlantic U.) – Touch, taste, and vision in early modern English passion poetry
27 May: Alexander Anderson (MRC Lab., Cambridge) – Food for thought: the importance of metabolism in the evolution and development of the human brain
3 June: Joyce Lindorff (Temple U, Philadelphia) – An Italian musician-priest in the early Qing court: sonatas, letters and politics of Teodorico Pedrini (1671-1746)
10 June: Kelly Fagan Robinson (U. of Cambridge) – Rebuilding research and researcher
17 June: Eric Nye (U. of Wyoming) – Leslie Stephens and “Sketches from Cambridge by a Don”
