Programme 2008
The full programme including abstracts is available here:
Programme for Clare Research Symposium 2008 (pdf)
Session 1 – Arts
Chair – Dr Terry Moore
09.30 – 09.50 Anna Tristram, PhD Student, Linguistics
Variable concord in French and Spanish: an investigation of grammatical and sociolinguistic variation
09.50 – 10.10 Inga Schowengerdt, PhD Student, Social Psychology
Gender schematicity and gender-role identity in adolescents, and girls’ participation in math and engineering summer programs
10.10 – 10.30 Vladimir Orlov, PhD Student, Musicology
‘Musica Sacra’ of the Soviet state: Cantatas and oratorios by Sergei Prokofiev
10.30 – 10.50 Dr Stephen Fennell, CRA, Dept. of Modern & Medieval Languages
The Brothers Schlegel and the Bhagavadgita: the Ultimate Romance?
Session 2 – Sciences
Chair – Dr Phil Jones
11.10 – 11.30 Dean Alexis, PhD Student, Experimental Psychology
Animal foresight: Can Western Scrub-jays plan for the future?
11.30 – 11.50 Lee Harper, Part III, Chemistry
Development of an instrument for laboratory studies of atmospheric aerosol particles
11.50 – 12.10 Franziska Lautenschlaeger, PhD Student, Biophysics
Changes in optical deformability during differentiation – A physicists view of stem cells
12.10 – 12.30 Dr Giuseppe Lupo, CRA, Medicine
The retina as a model system for the study of embryonic development, disease and stem cell biology
12.30 – 12.50 Melanie Stefan, PhD Student, Molecular Biology
Models and brains
Keynote Speech
14.00 – 14.50 Keynote speech by Prof. A J Badger (Master, Clare College)
Session 3 – Arts
Chair – Prof Paul Cartledge
14.50 – 15.10 Katyuli Lloyd, Part II, Russian
Cocaine in Russian literary culture 1910-25
15.10 – 15.30 Uditi Sen, PhD Student, History
The citizen-refugees of post-colonial India: Complicating agency and victimhood
15.30 – 15.50 Charlotte Kingston, Part II, English
Vernacular Vitae: What Adam and Eve did next in Middle English
15.50 – 16.10 Natasha Goldberg, MPhil, History & Philosophy of Science
Is the universe finely-tuned for life?
Session 4 – Sciences
Chair – Dr William Foster
16.30 – 16.50 Chris Bird, PhD Student, Zoology
What do birds expect? Using the expectancy violation paradigm with rooks (Corvus frugilegus)
16.50 – 17.10 Suzannah Wake, Part IIB, Engineering
Smoke on the water: The linking of vortex rings
17.10 – 17.30 Tom Walters, PhD Student, Physiology, Development & Neuroscience
Making computers hear like humans: Auditory features for sound search
17.30 – 18.00 Dr Lidia Duncan, CRA, Biology
From bench to boardroom; From a PhD in molecular immunology to a University spin-out company