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, and the specific issues that it raises for research methods in these areas. We will explore some of the key ethical dilemmas that a commitment […]
‘Passionate, eloquent, and determined: A new look at medieval heroines’ – a seminar by Helen Cooper (Cambridge). Followed by informal drinks and questions.
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
by Jon Andoni Duñabeitia (BCBL) http://www.bcbl.eu/people/staff/jon-andoni-dunabeitia/ Date Tues 14th November 2017 Time 16h15 – 17h15 Venue Edith Morley 127 Native languages are typically acquired in emotionally neutral academic environments. As a consequence of this difference, it has been suggested that bilinguals’ emotional reactivity in foreign language contexts is reduced as compared to native language […]
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 […]
‘Procession, Siege and Flying Heads: The Image of the First Crusade’ – a seminar by Simon Parsons (Royal Holloway). Followed by informal drinks and questions.
'Classics and Classification' – a seminar by Charlotte Roueche (KCL). The Seventh Annual Percy Ure Lecture will take place on Friday 17th of November, 5pm, in the Henley Business School (G15). Our distinguished speaker this year is Professor Charlotte Roueché of King's College London, who will speak on the topic of 'Classics and Classification'. The […]
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 […]
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)