Showing, Doing, Telling: Craft And Making A Season Of Events Exploring Craft And Making At The MERL Specialists in craft and the arts examine different ways of responding to rural […]
The Heritage & Creativity and Prosperity & Resilience joint Academic Forum will build on ongoing wider debates about “open research“, and explore its place in Arts, Humanities, and non-quantitative Social Sciences, […]
We are delighted to welcome gyuest speaker Professor Matthew Cobb, Professor of Zoology at University of Manchester to deliver this year's Cole Lecture Where do we come from? For thousands […]
‘Passionate, eloquent, and determined: A new look at medieval heroines’ – a seminar by Helen Cooper (Cambridge). Followed by informal drinks and questions.
THE MOVING FORM OF FILM: EXPLORING INTERMEDIALITY AS A HISTORIOGRAPHIC METHOD 6-8 November 2017, University of Reading, UK As part of the AHRC/FAPESP-funded IntermIdia Project (www.reading.ac.uk/intermidia), led by investigators from the University of Reading (UoR), UK, and the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil, this international conference seeks to invite discussion of intermediality as […]
From its birth, the film medium has fuelled debates around its possible specificity versus its obvious connections with other arts and media. In recent days, with the advent of digital technologies that trigger and depend on media convergence, it has become indisputable that film is inherently intermedial, giving scope for reconsidering film history in light […]
‘’The Moving Closets of Brave Ladies, and Beautiful Virgins’: Coaches Through the Male Gaze on the Restoration Stage’ – a seminar by Gabriella Infante (KCL).
Showing, Doing, Telling: Craft And Making A Season Of Events Exploring Craft And Making At The MERL Specialists in craft and the arts examine different ways of responding to rural life, exploring how best to nurture old skills, contemporary creative responses and traditional practice. In this talk, woodsman, bodger and scythesman Mark Allery joins the MERL […]
School of Biological Sciences Research Seminar Series: ‘The challenges of measuring oxidized phospholipids and understanding their biological effects’ Prof Corinne Spickett, School of Life & Health Sciences, Aston University Hosted by Dr David Leake Phospholipids are essential components of cell membranes, and are transported within the body in lipoproteins. Unsaturated phospholipids can be oxidized enzymatically […]
Understanding city-scale environment for people and microbes Presenter: Prof Yuguo Li from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong A livable habitat is necessary and essential for both people and microorganisms. Many scientists and engineers explored how major environment parameters in a habitat are maintained and changed, and how we might […]
Speaker: Dr Ulrike Mayrhofer, University of Jean Moulin Lyon 3 Topic: TBC Seminars are open to all academic staff, PhD students, and other students on certain degree programmes. Lunch is provided.
Explore Brazil’s cinematic past in fresh conversation with the present. This seven-screening programme offers a rare chance to see some of the films that defined tropicalist imaginary of the 60s and 70s, alongside contemporary works responding to, restoring or even resisting the legacy of the previous generation. Tropicália and Beyond: Dialogues in Brazilian Film History is curated by […]
It isn’t just polar bears being affected by climate change – people all over the world are already being negatively affected by changes to the climate, from droughts, flooding, and ruined harvests. That’s not fair. Particularly as these communities had no role in making the problem in the first place. Fast forward a few years, […]
Showing, Doing, Telling: Craft And Making A Season Of Events Exploring Craft And Making At The MERL Specialists in craft and the arts examine different ways of responding to rural life, exploring how best to nurture old skills, contemporary creative responses and traditional practice. Dr Ciara Healy, Lecturer in Art at the University of Reading, […]
Speaker:Â Dr Xufei Ma, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Topic: TBC Seminars are open to all academic staff, PhD students, and other students on certain degree programmes. Lunch is provided.
Dialogue and interaction in business and commerce: forms, invoices, correspondence, trade cards Throughout 2017/18 we are hosting open afternoons to introduce university colleagues to this amazing source material as inspiration for cross–disciplinary research and other activities. Each session will include some lightning talks that draw attention to some of the ways ephemera are being used […]
School of Pharmacy Research & Scholarship Seminar Thursday 16th November, 1pm – 2pm, Hopkins 101 Mildred Foster and Alison Provins, The Oxford Academic Health Science Network (Oxford AHSN) "Patient and Public Involvement – Why do it?" We will explore this often asked question and seek to demonstrate why the need to consider Patient and Public […]
NOTE: This event is part of the NERC UnEarthed event VENUE: Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh The Soil Security Programme, based at the University of Reading, is running an interactive exhibit on soils. Read more here >
Speaker:Â Dr Gabor Bekes, Central European University of Budapest Topic: TBC Seminars are open to all academic staff, PhD students, and other students on certain degree programmes. Lunch is provided.
The Russian Revolution transformed the face of an empire, established the world's first socialist state, and profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the twentieth century. A hundred years on, the master historian Professor Stephen Smith reflects on the tumultuous events of 1917 and our attempts to understand this epochal moment […]
Dr Teresa Murjas from the University of Reading will introduce audiences to her project ‘War Child’. This inspiring project examined the creation of the Evacuee Archive at the Museum of […]
Afternoon Workshop Room to Rhyme is a British Academy funded research project investigating literature, crisis, arts policy and the public sphere, with special attention to poetry in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1978. The first project workshop will take place at the University of Reading on the afternoon of 29th April 2107. The afternoon will […]
‘A Model of Engagement Between Artwork and Architecture- The Use of Transitional Space in Suzanne Lacy’s Between The Door And The Street (2013)’ – a seminar by Donna Yamani (Reading)