Heritage & Creativity
CeLM Seminars: developmental disorders
Chancellors Building G.04 Whiteknights Campus, United Kingdom'Can people with developmental disorders function successfully as bilinguals?' Napoleon Katsos, University of Cambridge
Digital Visualisation in Education and Heritage
Meadow Suite, Park House Meadow Suite, Park House, United KingdomThis one day colloquium will bring together academic and heritage sector practitioners to discuss how digital visualisation is used to present historical architecture and landscapes to the public. Topics to be discussed include: Heritage practice and historical authenticity, including case studies on historical buildings, landscapes and interiors Education and digital reconstruction, including visualisations for MOOCS […]
Becket Seminar
The MERL - the Museum of English Rural Life Redlands Road, Reading, United KingdomThe Beckett International Foundation at the University of Reading is pleased to announce that the next Beckett Research Seminar will take place on Saturday, May 20th, 2017, 10am-4pm. The event will be held in the Conference Room of Special Collections, University of Reading, the Museum of English Rural Life, Redlands Road, Reading. As in previous […]
Spreading good taste: Winckelmann and the objects of dissemination
MERL London Rd Campus, United KingdomSpreading good taste: Winckelmann and the objects of dissemination University of Reading, 15 September 2017, 10:00 am - 6:45 pm Registration is now open for ‘Spreading good taste: Winckelmann and the objects of dissemination’, a one-day academic conference to be held at the University of Reading on 15 September. This is the second of three […]
History Department Seminar Series
Edith Morley 126 Edith Morley, Whiteknights House, Reading, United Kingdom‘Never the same again? Feminism, women and the miners’ strike’ Natalie Thomlinson (Reading)
Suffrage and Citizenship Lecture
Palmer G10 Palmer Building, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, United KingdomSuffrage is arguably the most important single event in women's history; despite popular conception it was not a fight for freedom, it was the campaign for equal citizenship waged by men and women across the class divide and the political spectrum. The refusal of the law to allow women to take part directly in political […]
Black History Month: In Conversation with Alice Mpofu-Cofu (Chigumira)
Minghella Studios Minghella Building, Whiteknights Campus, United KingdomWe are proud to present this 'in conversation' style event with University of Reading Alumna Alice Mpofu-Coles as part of the University's events to celebrate Black History Month. Alice is a former Zimbabwean diplomat, was herself a refugee, is a former Chairwoman of the Reading Refugee Support Group and has been honoured for her work […]
The moving form of film
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 […]
War Child
The MERL - the Museum of English Rural Life Redlands Road, Reading, United KingdomDr 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 English Rural Life as a means of reflecting on wider experiences of children ‘on the move’. Teresa will show films from the project and answer […]
Bi/Multilingualism and the History of Language Learning and Teaching
University of ReadingHoLLTnet international meeting: 'Bi/Multilingualism and the History of Language Learning and Teaching' University of Reading, United Kingdom, 6-7 July 2018 HoLLTnet (www.hollt.net) is a Research Network of AILA (L'Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée). The Research Network was founded in 2015 to stimulate research into the history of language learning and teaching within applied linguistics internationally. […]