Clare Hall Colloquium Michaelmas 2024
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.
Michaelmas 2024 Programme
15 October: Shaul Katzir (Tel Aviv U.) – Multiple inventions
22 October: Eugene Wong (U. of California, Berkeley) – Foresight and hindsight: science, technology and public policy
29 October: Mauricio Suarez (Complutense U., Madrid) – Modelling science: James Clerk Maxwell on analogy
5 November: Jonathan Bordo (Trent U., Ontario) – Canada the Proper Name of the Wilderness
12 November: Peter Allen (U. of Nottingham) – 2,000 years of taxing death in the UK: taxation reflecting its time
19 November: Buzz Baum (MRC Laboratory, Cambridge) – Our archaeal origins
26 November: Priscilla Garcia (U. of Cambridge) – The gospel of anti-communism: the rise and influence of the Christian Right in democratic Brazil
Future Colloquia
Prospective speakers should note that all colloquium slots for Lent term are now full. Some dates remain available for Easter term and the Convenor may be contacted for further information (kevin.edwards@abdn.ac.uk).
It should be noted that there is no budget for travel, accommodation or subsistence.