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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.
Lost and Found: Excavating the world’s first farmers in Iraq and Iran, 10,000 – 7,500 BC
Palmer G10 Palmer Building, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, United KingdomProfessor Roger Matthews and Professor Wendy Matthews Forming part of the Being Human Festival, this richly-illustrated lecture delivered by Roger and Wendy Matthews will present the latest discoveries from their […]
Graduate Centre for Medieval Studies Seminar Series
Edith Morley 125 Edith Morley Building, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom‘Poverty heresies in southern France, c.1000-c.1250 CE’ – a seminar by Claire Taylor (Nottingham). Followed by informal drinks and questions.
Stenton Lecture: The Russian Revolution: A hundred years on
G11 Henley Business School Henley Business School, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, United KingdomThe 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 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 […]
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)
Digital Epitaphs Workshop
edith morley 175 Earley, Reading, United KingdomDigital Epitaphs A workshop at the University of Reading Friday 18th May, 11am-12.30pm Edith Morley 175 ‘To afford a subject for heroic poems is the privilege of very few, but every man may expect to be recorded in an epitaph’ -- Samuel Johnson, ‘An Essay on Epitaphs’ (1740) Confirmed participants: Professor Harold Mytum (Archaeology, University of Liverpool) Dr […]
Workshop: (Post)Colonial images
Minghella Building University of Reading, Building 195, Shinfield Rd, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom(Post)Colonial images: An Intermedial Approach Sponsored by the AHRC-FAPESP funded IntermIdia Project and CFAC, the Centre for Film Aesthetics and Cultures, University of Reading 21st June 2018 Keynote speech by […]