Clare Hall Colloquium
| Created: | 2012-10-30 00:46 |
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| Institution: | Clare Hall |
| Description: | 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. |
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Ahmed Alwishah - Divine Knowledge and Human self-Awareness
The nature of Divine knowledge is a problem that has preoccupied philosophers in the monotheistic traditions; the speaker challenges the view that certain knowledge, such as...
Collection: Clare Hall Colloquium
Institution: Clare Hall
Created: Fri 9 May 2014
Andreas Kapardis - The whole is more than the sum of the parts: narrowing the gap between Psychology and Law
What is the evidence for, and why do some people confess to, crimes they have not committed? How reliable is the testimony provided by eyewitnesses, especially by children? Can...
Collection: Clare Hall Colloquium
Institution: Clare Hall
Created: Wed 16 Jan 2013
Boudewijn de Bruin - Ethics and the global financial crisis: Why incompetence is worse than greed
While unrestricted egoism is certainly a vice, I argue that the more serious moral defects in finance lie somewhere else.
Collection: Clare Hall Colloquium
Institution: Clare Hall
Created: Wed 5 Nov 2014
Bruno Ricco - From Silicon to Graphene and Beyond; The hidden engine of change
Silicon development cannot last forever so two complementary strategies are being pursued at research level: one seeks to extend the life of silicon technology, and the other...
Collection: Clare Hall Colloquium
Institution: Clare Hall
Created: Mon 16 Feb 2015
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...
Collection: Clare Hall Colloquium
Institution: Clare Hall
Created: Thu 9 Jun 2016
Clive Sherlock - What is emotion and how does it affect the body and mind? Western Psychology meets Buddhist insight
How our reactions to emotion cause depression, anxiety, anger, stress, rage and other psychological problems and what can be done about it.
Collection: Clare Hall Colloquium
Institution: Clare Hall
Created: Mon 11 Nov 2013
Covadonga Aldamiz-echevarria - Gender Equality and Diversity: a must for managing Human Resources
I present the findings of my research on the recruitment and promotion of women by ‘excellent’ British organizations (as defined by the European Foundation for Quality Management...
Collection: Clare Hall Colloquium
Institution: Clare Hall
Created: Wed 15 May 2013
Crosbie Smith - Unlocking the Secrets of Victorian Steamships
This talk will consider the ways in which insights from the recent history of science and technology can help to unlock the secrets of Victorian steamships in the context of an...
Collection: Clare Hall Colloquium
Institution: Clare Hall
Created: Thu 20 Feb 2014
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...
Collection: Clare Hall Colloquium
Institution: Clare Hall
Created: Thu 16 Feb 2017
David Ibbetson – Does Hittite Law Matter?
This talk will point to ways in which the Near East legal systems perhaps mark an important step forward in the development of law in the world before the rise of Greece and Rome.
Collection: Clare Hall Colloquium
Institution: Clare Hall
Created: Thu 23 Jan 2014
David Mayers - The Diplomacy of Crisis: FDR’s Ambassadors in Berlin and Policy Toward Nazi Germany, 1933-1941
American policy toward Germany in the years before Pearl Harbor can be approached from any number of angles. I shall in this talk explore an interpretative line that has been less...
Collection: Clare Hall Colloquium
Institution: Clare Hall
Created: Wed 12 Jun 2013
Elizabeth Garnsey - Could Cambridge become an Eco-City?
This talk reviews the emergence and spread of innovative technology-based firms in the Cambridge area, and then turns to the challenge of environmental innovation and some of the...
Collection: Clare Hall Colloquium
Institution: Clare Hall
Created: Sun 2 Dec 2012
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...
Collection: Clare Hall Colloquium
Institution: Clare Hall
Created: Sun 18 Oct 2015
Elizabeth Hale - Female Quixotism and Colonial Girlhood: 1895-1912
Turn of the century formulations of talented girlhood in literature from Australia, the United States and Canada
Collection: Clare Hall Colloquium
Institution: Clare Hall
Created: Sun 2 Dec 2012
Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde - The Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy; Liar, liar, pants on fire!
In this colloquium I explore the phenomenon lying and its comic potential. This talk should appeal not only to those working in French literature, cultural studies and...
Collection: Clare Hall Colloquium
Institution: Clare Hall
Created: Mon 16 Feb 2015
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...
Collection: Clare Hall Colloquium
Institution: Clare Hall
Created: Wed 17 Jun 2015
George van Kooten - Pagans and Christians in Debate: Mythology, Philosophy and Religion in the first two centuries AD
The speaker argues that from the time of Jesus the Christian movement consciously engaged with the broader Graeco-Roman world in many different ways.
Collection: Clare Hall Colloquium
Institution: Clare Hall
Created: Wed 21 May 2014
Gillian Brown - 500 years of changing patterns in English English grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation
I shall focus most of the discussion on the standard English used in the south east of England to describe very briefly some changes in the structures and use of English over the...
Collection: Clare Hall Colloquium
Institution: Clare Hall
Created: Wed 25 Feb 2015
Gohei Hata - Translating the Greek Bible into Japanese: a personal history
Many people have asked me why I became interested in the Greek Bible, not the Hebrew Bible. When I published my translation into Japanese of the first five books of the Greek...
Collection: Clare Hall Colloquium
Institution: Clare Hall
Created: Thu 21 Mar 2013
Graeme Garrard - Rousseau, Happiness and Human Nature
There is now substantial evidence supporting Rousseau’s view that status matters much more to individuals than do absolute levels of wealth. But there is also mounting evidence...
Collection: Clare Hall Colloquium
Institution: Clare Hall
Created: Wed 31 Oct 2012