Heritage & Creativity
Department of Classics Seminar Series
Edith Morley G25 Edith Morley Building, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom‘Studying Egyptian Graffiti’ – a seminar by Hana Navratilova (Reading)
Tropicália And Beyond: Dialogues In Brazilian Film History
Starr Cinema Bankside, London, United KingdomExplore 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 […]
Department of Philosophy Seminar Series
1L16 Agriculture Earley Gate, Whiteknights, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom‘Names for 'merely statistical people'’ – a seminar by Anna Mahtani (LSE)
The MERL Autumn Speaker Series – Dr Ciara Healy
The MERL - the Museum of English Rural Life Redlands Road, Reading, United KingdomShowing, 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, […]
CeLM Seminar – ‘ Speaking foreign languages from the heart ‘
Edith Morley 127 Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdomby 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 […]
Typography & Graphic Communication collections and archives open afternoon
Department of Typography & Graphic Communication TOB 2, Earley Gate, Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United KingdomDialogue 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 […]
Department of History Seminar Series
Edith Morley 126 Edith Morley, Whiteknights House, Reading, United Kingdom‘Suburban Relapse: British Punk and the Politics of Boredom’ – a seminar by Matthew Worley (Reading)
Department of Philosophy Seminar Series
Palmer 105 Whiteknights Campus, United Kingdom‘Epicurus on Pleasure, a Complete Life, and Death: A Defence’ – a seminar by Alex Voorhoeve (LSE)
Department of Film, Theatre & Television research seminar series
Studio Space 102, Minghella Studios Minghella Building, Reading, Berkshire, United KingdomSeminar by Dr Cristina Delgado-Garcia, University of Birmingham
Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies Seminar Series
Edith Morley 125 Edith Morley Building, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom‘Procession, Siege and Flying Heads: The Image of the First Crusade’ – a seminar by Simon Parsons (Royal Holloway). Followed by informal drinks and questions.