Clare Hall Colloquium Podcast
1) David Gosling - Spying for the Russians (with a little help from MI6)
As part of a visiting fellowship at Delhi University in the mid 1990’s the speaker set up seminars relating to nuclear power, one of which was attended by a Russian diplomat who offered payment in ret...Show More
2) Catalina Taltavull - To fly or not to fly through a volcanic ash cloud
In this talk, Dr Taltavull will explore the importance of understanding the likelihood of a certain volcanic ash adhering into a substrate by taking into consideration both ash properties and environm...Show More
3) Elizabeth Garnsey - Science and Spin-Outs in Cambridge: Incentives and Impact
This talk offers an introduction to technology enterprise in and around Cambridge for those unfamiliar with the Cambridge tech scene. It will examine ways in which scientific knowledge is translated i...Show More
Elizabeth Garnsey - Science and Spin-Outs in Cambridge: Incentives and Impact
1:08:00 | Oct 18th, 2015
4) Mikiko Chimori - Gulliver in the Orient
The talk compares Japanese and English illustrations in various editions of Gulliver’s Travels published in Japan between 1880 and the early 1920s.
5) Foss Lene - Developing Entrepreneurial Universities
Global recessions and structural economic shifts are motivating government and business leaders worldwide to increasingly look to “their” universities to stimulate regional development and to contribu...Show More
6) Heide Estes - An Enemy Robbed Me of Life; Voices of Nature in Old English Poetry
In a series of Riddles written in about the year 1000, animals, plants, and even ore from the earth complain about being torn from their homes and deprived of life so as to become things useful to hum...Show More
Heide Estes - An Enemy Robbed Me of Life; Voices of Nature in Old English Poetry
59:54 | Jun 3rd, 2015
7) Rosanna Cantavella - Sexual education in the Middle Ages
Yes: hard to believe as it may be, sexual education was taught in the Middle Ages throughout Western Europe.
8) Pieter Botha - Considering land and religion in striving for identity
The recently completed Freedom Park provides a profound representation of South Africa’s troubled past, evoking memories of forgotten names and long suppressed South African identities.
9) Mercedes Aguirre, Richard Buxton - Cyclops, Changing Perceptions of an Ogre
Greek myths have always been powerful resources for thinking and feeling: they are ‘good to think with’. We shall illustrate this with the example of Polyphemus, the best known of the one-eyed, anthro...Show More
Mercedes Aguirre, Richard Buxton - Cyclops, Changing Perceptions of an Ogre
1:18:00 | Apr 28th, 2015
10) Ruth Parkin-Gounelas - Regarding Animals , Regarding Humans
How should humans define themselves in relation to other animals? This familiar question has recently attracted new attention in several disciplines, with some radical results.