This week sees the launch of a new Boat Fundraising Appeal, as Clare Hall Boat Club (CHBC) seek to fund a replacement new-used men's boat to support their future on the river.
Collin Smith, CHBC President 2021-22, says:
'As part of the smallest college in Cambridge, without a storied history and accumulated endowment, we are consistently competing above our size - and often shocking everyone with our success. However, it has become clear that our men's...
10 March 2022
Congratulations to Hayden Salway, a Sensor CDT PhD student at Clare Hall, who this week attended Parliament to present his engineering research as part of STEM for Britain, winning a silver medal.
Hayden’s poster on developing novel materials to revolutionise medical X-ray imaging was judged against dozens of other scientists’ research in the only national competition of its kind.
On presenting his research in Parliament, Hayden said:
'I am thrilled and honoured to have been...
09 March 2022
Philosopher and writer Professor Susan Neiman will give the Clare Hall Ashby Lecture 2022 next month. Professor Neiman is Director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam and has written extensively on the Enlightenment, moral philosophy, metaphysics, and politics. Her work shows that philosophy is a living force for contemporary thinking and action.
Thursday 28 April 2022, from 4pm at Robinson Auditorium and via Zoom.TicketsRegister for the Zoom version of this event via Eventbrite: https://www....
Read more08 March 2022
Cambridge Literary Festival’s spring programme (20-24 April 2022) will include a talk by Professor Frances Spalding, Affiliated Lecturer for Cambridge University’s History of Art Department and Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall.
Titled The Real and the Romantic, Professor Spalding’s talk will explore how English art flourished between the two World Wars. Frances will give an illustrated talk, speaking to fellow author David Reynolds about the volatile cultural landscape of the 1920s and 1930s, and illuminating the alliances and shifts in artistic sensibility which fed into the...
Read more07 March 2022
Several Clare Hall members are involved in this year’s interdisciplinary Cambridge Festival, which will run from 31 March-10 April with a mixture of online, on-demand and in-person events, covering all aspects of the world-leading research happening at Cambridge.
2022's festival focuses on the impacts of our ever-increasing dependence on technology. Below is a selection of events featuring Clare Hallers, including Professor Lord Martin Rees (Honorary Fellow of Clare Hall and Astronomer Royal), and Research Fellows Professor Li Su and Dr...
Read more28 February 2022
Congratulations to Professor Kevin Edwards, a Fellow Commoner of Clare Hall, who has been made an Honorary Life Member of the Quaternary Research Association (QRA), in recognition of his long-standing and wide-ranging contributions to Quaternary Science and the QRA.
Professor Edwards is one of three new Honorary Life Members recently announced by the QRA, which is the premier UK organisation concerned with research into the Quaternary Period. This covers the last 2.6 million years of geological time and uses multidisciplinary approaches from the earth, biological and human sciences...
Read more21 February 2022
A book titled Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150 – 700 CE, co-edited by Dr Maijastina Kahlos, a Visiting Fellow of Clare Hall, has just been published. It investigates the ideological, moral, cultural, and symbolic aspects of slavery, as well as the living conditions of slaves in the Mediterranean world in Antiquity.
Late ancient slavery was a complex and polymorphous phenomenon, one that was conditioned by culture and geography...
Read more18 February 2022
Work by a team including Professor Barbara Sahakian, a Fellow of Clare Hall, and Dr Christelle Langley, an Affiliated Postdoc, has highlighted key research priorities relating to gambling addiction, and the urgent need for independent research funding in the UK.
Writing in The Lancet Psychiatry, the group of clinicians and scientists set out their priorities for tackling the pervasive problem of gambling addiction, or ‘gambling disorder’.
Professor...
Read more17 February 2022
Writer and historian Dr Tess Little, a Life Member of Clare Hall, recently joined a careers panel on creative writing, organised by the University of Cambridge Careers Service.
Tess, who completed an MPhil in Modern European History at Clare Hall in 2013–14, has since been elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Her short stories and non-fiction have appeared in various places, including Words And Women: Two, The Mays...
Read more16 February 2022
Professor Jana M. Giles, a Life Member of Clare Hall, was recently elected to the Board of Trustees of the Joseph Conrad Society of America. She was promoted to Full Professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Monroe in autumn 2021, and continues as Endowed Professor in English Literature. Her latest publications have centered on the Polish-British author Joseph Conrad, and the South African author J.M. Coetzee, and the aesthetics of the sublime.
Professor Giles' most recent publication, 'The Beating Heart of Sublime Empire: The Secret Agent as Sequel to Heart...
Read more15 February 2022