Clare Hall Colloquium

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 fully developed in the historiography, namely, the viewpoint of U.S. diplomats posted in Berlin.

Having been involved in the management and the leadership firstly of the British university system, Martin Harris talks among other topics related to education, on the changing nature of the student body and how this has been financed, including attitudes to Fair Access, and on the funding of the system more generally.

In this talk, Robert Anderson explores how the academic world and industry came together in unpredictable ways in Scotland in the later eighteenth century.

Trudi Tate and Keir Reeves engage in a conversation about their work on Australia’s involvement in foreign wars, and how this is remembered (or not) in the years which follow.

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 criteria). Drawing on their best practices I make recommendations on how gender equality may be encouraged. Slides for this talk can be found on the ASH pages of the Clare Hall Website at http://www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/index.php?id=312.

An ethicist and palliative care physician examines end of life questions from both analytic and practical angles.

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 Bible almost ten years ago, many people asked me if I would keep translating the Greek Bible to its very end.  I am here at Clare Hall to continue the task.

In this postdoctoral project Russian historiography is used as a case study, tracing the formation, changes and interpolations of narratives of famous medieval battles, such as the Kulikovo Battle (1380), from the middle ages to the present.

Michael Loewe relates his personal experience of work at Bletchley Park during WW2. The high-level intelligence produced at Bletchley Park, codenamed Ultra, provided crucial assistance to the Allied war effort. Sir Harry Hinsley, a Bletchley veteran and the official historian of British Intelligence during the Second World War, believed that Ultra shortened the war by two to four years and that the outcome of the war would have been uncertain without it.

The question of how language is acquired has fascinated scholars of linguistics and philosophy since ancient times. In this talk, I discuss the status of language universals and gaps in relation to this debate.