Stenton Lecture: The Russian Revolution: A hundred years on

G11 Henley Business School Henley Business School, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, United Kingdom

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 […]

War Child

The MERL - the Museum of English Rural Life Redlands Road, Reading, United Kingdom

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 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 […]

Department of Classics Seminar Series

Edith Morley G25 Edith Morley Building, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

'The Poems of Catullus from Manuscript to Print, and Back' – a seminar by Daniel Kiss (Barcelona)

Room to Rhyme: Poetry, Arts Policy and Crisis

Edith Morley 127 Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

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 […]

Department of Classics Seminar Series

Edith Morley G25 Edith Morley Building, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

‘Lucretius and the Jesuits’ – a seminar by Yasmin Haskell (Bristol)

Department of History Seminar Series

Edith Morley 126 Edith Morley, Whiteknights House, Reading, United Kingdom

‘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)

Department of Philosophy Seminar Series

Edith Morley 126 Edith Morley, Whiteknights House, Reading, United Kingdom

‘Experimental argument analysis’ – a seminar by Eugen Fischer (UEA)