Monthly Archives: January 2017

Medical Humanities Reading Group

The Medical Humanities Reading Group has a Guest Speaker on Tuesday 31st January. Dr Sasha Garwood-Lloyd will be talking about sexuality, starvation and selfhood in Early Modern England. Sasha’s research focuses on female self-starvation during the early modern period, and its precise differentiation from … Continue reading

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EMRC seminar next week

The next EMRC seminar will be held at 1 pm, 30 January, HUMSS 127 Dr. Edmond Smith (Kent), Cultures of commerce and governing behaviour in early modern England

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Pia Tafdrup and Peter Robinson read from their work – all welcome!

Poetry Reading by Pia Tafdrup and Peter Robinson 6 pm Wednesday 15 February HumSS 127 Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading Admission is FREE. All are WELCOME. There will be REFRESHMENTS. As part of her Walking over the Water Tour, which … Continue reading

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A civil rights experience

Whilst we, as a department, do not endorse the individual views of members of our department, we are happy to share Shelley Harris’s account of her experiences at a recent civil rights event: At the weekend I flew out to … Continue reading

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Melissa Harrison opens the MERL/DEL Visiting Speaker Series

Melissa Harrison is a novelist, photographer and nature writer based in south London. Her first novel, Clay (2013) established her as a leading voice among the new ‘urban naturalists’. Her second, At Hawthorn Time (2015), is a powerful and ambitious … Continue reading

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Holocaust books?

With Holocaust Memorial Day fast approaching (January 27), Bryan Cheyette ponders on whether there is too much focus on the Holocaust. He asks this question as the chair of the Jewish Quarterly/Wingate Prize judges with 4 out of 5 books … Continue reading

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Our new Head of Department

We are delighted to announce that Professor Peter Stoneley took up his post as Head of Department at the start of this term. Peter has been with the department for twelve years and was most recently Director of Postgraduate Studies … Continue reading

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream in school

On 7 December, Dr Rebecca Bullard visited Robert Piggott Junior School in Wargrave to lead a workshop with children in Year 6 (aged 10 and 11) who have been studying William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream this term. Each class … Continue reading

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