Tag Archives: Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein

A Ladybird Talk at MERL

Posted on February 14, 2017 by Cindy

On Thursday February 23rd at 5:30 pm, Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein will be giving a talk on a Ladybird Book, British Birds and their Nests, for the MERL Book Club. The talk is free and there is no need to book: … Continue reading →

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CIRCL seminars in the Spring Term

Posted on December 12, 2016 by Cindy

Please find here the CIRCL seminars for Spring 2017: 18th January 2017, at 1 pm, Dr Chris Milson, former CIRCL BA, MA and PhD student, will be speaking on Reading Funny Words: Sex, Gender and Language in Silverberg and Smyth’s ‘Sex is … Continue reading →

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CIRCL seminars – starting next week!

Posted on November 23, 2016 by Cindy

30th November 2016 – please note that this CIRCL seminar will run at a different time than usual! It will start at 2 pm and run to 3 pm: CIRCL Visiting Scholar Xu Dan will speak about: Discipline and Deviation: … Continue reading →

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Tony Watkins lecture – all welcome!

Posted on November 22, 2016 by Cindy

A reminder that you are all warmly welcome at The Annual Tony Watkins Lecture on Children’s Literature, Culture, Media for 2016 Assistant Professor Helle Strandgaard Jensen from the Department of History, University of Aarhus in Denmark, expert on Scandinavian and … Continue reading →

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The 2016 Tony Watkins Lecture

Posted on October 23, 2016 by Cindy

The Annual Tony Watkins Lecture on Children’s Literature, Culture, Media for 2016: Assistant Professor Helle Strandgaard Jensen from the Department of History, University of Aarhus in Denmark, expert on Scandinavian and transcultural children’s media, will be speaking on: ‘Always Shiny … Continue reading →

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Karín Lesnik-Oberstein reviews The Metamorphoses of the Brain

Posted on July 19, 2016 by Cindy

Karín has just had a review published of a book critiquing neuroscience in the leading Theory journal in the USA, Critical Inquiry. The review relates to her own critical work on neuroscience.      

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Award winning Bonnie McGill

Posted on December 17, 2015 by Cindy

Professor Karín Lesnik-Oberstein writes: At Graduation last Friday, our former BA and M(Res) in Children’s Literature student (and present PhD student) Bonnie McGill was awarded the ‘Most Outstanding PGT Studentship Prize (M A Ward Prize Fund)’. At the Graduation ceremony, … Continue reading →

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The latest publication from Professor Karín Lesnik-Oberstein

Posted on June 15, 2015 by Cindy

Professor Karín Lesnik-Oberstein has just published a new, edited, volume, for which she has also written the introduction and first chapter, and which includes contributions from a wide range of colleagues from CIRCL (The Graduate Centre for International Research in … Continue reading →

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Celebrating teaching and learning

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Cindy

On the 17th March last term, RUSU held their Partnership in Teaching and Learning Showcase at which winners of the Teaching Excellence Awards were invited to speak. These teaching awards aim to recognise members of University of Reading staff who … Continue reading →

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CIRCL conference

Posted on March 23, 2015 by Cindy

At the forthcoming CIRCL conference in Seoul, Korea, on ‘Childhood and Gender’ Professor Karin Lesnik-Oberstein will give the keynote lecture and other CIRCL members, including Dr Sue Walsh, will be giving lectures. Past PhD students of CIRCL will be coming from Taiwan, … Continue reading →

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