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Clare Hall Summer Seminars 2024

Date: Wednesday 17 July – Wednesday 18 September 2024, 6pm
Location: Clare Hall Meeting Room, Herschel Road, Cambridge CB3 9AL

We are delighted to invite you to the 2024 Clare Hall Summer Seminar Series. This is an opportunity for Clare Hall Fellows, Visiting Fellows and Life Members to share topics of their research with the Clare Hall audience. This event will take place in the Clare Hall Meeting Room from 6 to 7 pm right before Wednesday Formal Halls. Each talk will last about 20 minutes followed by comments and questions amidst drinks.  The Summer Seminar Series has been organised by Li Tang.

Dates for the Clare Hall Summer Seminars Series:

17 July: ‘Creating an AI System with Social Good Values’, Prof Victor O.K. Li (University of Hong Kong, Clare Hall Life Member)

24 July: ‘Space Between Notes: Can white spaces make music easier to read?’ Dr David Duncan (Junior Research Fellow, Clare Hall)

31 July: ‘Green Trade Finance and Carbon Emission of Chinese Export Companies’, Prof Jin Sun (Central University of Finance and Economics, China, Clare Hall Visiting Fellow)

7 August (N.B. meeting in the King Room): ‘The Dolmetsch Family’s Contribution to the Early Music Revival: New Evidence from the Archives’, Prof David Irving (ICREA & Institució Milà i Fontanals de Recerca en Humanitats (IMF), CSIC, Barcelona)

14 August: ‘Lessons from COVID-19: Three Steps to Building Pandemic Preparedness’, Dr Nikolai Kazantsev (Elected Junior Research Fellow, Clare Hall)

21 August: ‘The Lost Worlds of Birds: The Overwhelming Abundance of Avian Imagery in the Medieval Arts of Armenia. History of Art and Cultural Zoology’, Dr Christiane Esche-Ramshorn (Clare Hall Life Member and Art Historian)

28 August: ‘Translating research into impact – some reflections on the early stages’, Dr Jehangir Cama (Tutor and Official Fellow, Clare Hall)

4 September: ”Law’ in the Ancient World’, Prof David Ibbetson, (Honorary Fellow, President of Clare Hall 2013-2020)

11 September: ‘A Modernist Icon or ‘A Very Bleak House’: How Tuberculotic Patients Experienced the Architecture of the Paimio Sanatorium’, Prof Heini Hakosalo (University of Oulu, Finland, Clare Hall Visiting Fellow)

18 September: ‘A Brief Introduction to the Phenomenon of Bloomsbury’, Prof Frances Spalding (Emeritus Fellow, Clare Hall, Chair of Art Committee)