Clare Hall Colloquium

Clare Hall Colloquium

56 episodes

The Clare Hall Colloquium offers an opportunity to test out ideas and arguments before an audience which is smart and interested, but has no specialist knowledge of the topic.

Podcasts

David Gosling - Spying for the Russians (with a little help from MI6)

Published: Feb. 16, 2017, 4:38 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 30 seconds

Listed in: History

Catalina Taltavull - To fly or not to fly through a volcanic ash cloud

Published: June 9, 2016, 7:17 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes

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Elizabeth Garnsey - Science and Spin-Outs in Cambridge: Incentives and Impact

Published: Oct. 18, 2015, 3:14 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes

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Mikiko Chimori - Gulliver in the Orient

Published: Sept. 2, 2015, 9:55 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes

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Foss Lene - Developing Entrepreneurial Universities

Published: June 17, 2015, 1:12 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 44 minutes

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Heide Estes - An Enemy Robbed Me of Life; Voices of Nature in Old English Poetry

Published: June 3, 2015, 2:10 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 54 seconds

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Rosanna Cantavella - Sexual education in the Middle Ages

Published: May 20, 2015, 9:17 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes

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Pieter Botha - Considering land and religion in striving for identity

Published: May 19, 2015, 3:37 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes

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Mercedes Aguirre, Richard Buxton - Cyclops, Changing Perceptions of an Ogre

Published: April 28, 2015, 9:44 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes

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Ruth Parkin-Gounelas - Regarding Animals, Regarding Humans

Published: March 11, 2015, 4:58 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes

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Gillian Brown - 500 years of changing patterns in English English grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation

Published: Feb. 25, 2015, 6:43 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes

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Michael Loewe - A journey up-stream, on the day of the Qingming festival

Published: Feb. 23, 2015, 5:49 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes

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Ian Goldberg - Privacy enhancing technologies: Combatting surveillance and censorship on the Internet

Published: Feb. 20, 2015, 5:36 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes

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Bruno Ricco - From Silicon to Graphene and Beyond; The hidden engine of change

Published: Feb. 16, 2015, 3:54 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes

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Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde - The Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy; Liar, liar, pants on fire!

Published: Feb. 16, 2015, 3:37 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes

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Malcolm Longair - The Cavendish Laboratory, 1932 to 1953; Decline and Regeneration

Published: Nov. 25, 2014, 11:31 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes

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Hasok Chang - Is Water H2O?

Published: Nov. 19, 2014, 1:50 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes

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Boudewijn de Bruin - Ethics and the global financial crisis: Why incompetence is worse than greed

Published: Nov. 5, 2014, 1:13 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes

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Laurie Zoloth - The Ethics of Translation; Power, Exchange, and Hospitality

Published: Oct. 30, 2014, 8:44 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 44 minutes

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John Parker - The man who knows everything; The life of John Stevens Henslow

Published: Oct. 15, 2014, 12:39 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes

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Tom Burton - Hearing is Believing: The Dialect Poems of William Barnes (18011886)

Published: Sept. 18, 2014, 3:04 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes

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Maria Freddi - Choice in Language

Published: May 28, 2014, 4:26 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes

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John D Barrow - Counter Culture: A look at some unusual applications of mathematics in the arts

Published: May 16, 2014, 2:36 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes

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Ahmed Alwishah - Divine Knowledge and Human self-Awareness

Published: May 9, 2014, 1:21 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes

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Jill Burton - Some Thoughts on History-Making with Reference to Lady Anne Clifford (15901676)

Published: May 3, 2014, 1:56 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes

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Iain Black - Lutyens, empire and the City of London

Published: March 26, 2014, 6:04 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes

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Crosbie Smith - Unlocking the Secrets of Victorian Steamships

Published: Feb. 20, 2014, 2:21 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 40 minutes

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Katherine H. Terrell - Poetry, Politics, and Legendary History in Medieval Scotland

Published: Feb. 5, 2014, 7:49 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour

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David Ibbetson Does Hittite Law Matter?

Published: Jan. 23, 2014, 1:47 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes

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Jenny Rampling - Unlocking the secrets of alchemy in Early Modern England

Published: Dec. 9, 2013, 3:55 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 27 minutes

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Michael Dunne - Kennedy: rhetoric, reality and recollections

Published: Dec. 9, 2013, 3:42 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 43 minutes

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Peter Marks - From Nineteen Eighty-Four to 2013 and beyond: The Surprising Legacy of George Orwell

Published: Nov. 21, 2013, 7:58 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

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Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade Analysing Attitudes to English Usage

Published: Oct. 24, 2013, 9:42 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 39 minutes

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Michael Loewe - Chinas sense of history past and present

Published: Oct. 16, 2013, 3:45 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes

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David Mayers - The Diplomacy of Crisis: FDRs Ambassadors in Berlin and Policy Toward Nazi Germany, 1933-1941

Published: June 12, 2013, 1:21 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes

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Robert Anderson - Academe and the Industrial Revolution

Published: May 23, 2013, 7:23 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes

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Trudi Tate and Keir Reeves - Memorialising war: How we remember, lest we forget

Published: May 15, 2013, 2:38 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes

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Covadonga Aldamiz-echevarria - Gender Equality and Diversity: a must for managing Human Resources

Published: May 15, 2013, 2:27 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes

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Robert Macauley - Ethics at the end of life

Published: May 12, 2013, 4:34 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes

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Gohei Hata - Translating the Greek Bible into Japanese: a personal history

Published: March 21, 2013, 6:02 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes

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Kati Parppei - Kulikovo Refought The role of medieval battles in Russian historiography

Published: Feb. 28, 2013, 9:53 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes

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Michael Loewe - Bletchley Park Code Breaker 1942-45

Published: Feb. 14, 2013, 4:16 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes

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Michelle L. Sheehan - Nature or nurture: how much of language is innate?

Published: Feb. 7, 2013, 4:38 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes

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Andreas Kapardis - The whole is more than the sum of the parts: narrowing the gap between Psychology and Law

Published: Jan. 16, 2013, 7:39 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes

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Elizabeth Garnsey - Could Cambridge become an Eco-City?

Published: Dec. 2, 2012, 3:44 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes

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Elizabeth Hale - Female Quixotism and Colonial Girlhood: 1895-1912

Published: Dec. 2, 2012, 3:07 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes

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Rowan Strong - Religion and British Emigrants 1849-c.1910

Published: Nov. 20, 2012, 1:19 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 49 seconds

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Graeme Garrard - Rousseau, Happiness and Human Nature

Published: Oct. 31, 2012, 8:35 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 49 seconds

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Jeff Shields - The US Presidential Campaign: How unlimited corporate money and political extremism have changed the game

Published: Oct. 30, 2012, 1:26 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 4 seconds

Listed in: History