Latest Past Events

Reconsidering Movie Special Effects Seminar

HUMSS 124 Whiteknights Campus

Reconsidering Movie Special Effects: Aesthetics, Reception, and Remediation   In an era in which digital visual effects are ubiquitous, questions of aesthetic achievement and imaginative and creative labour are central to industry and public discourses on special effects craft. At the same time, this ubiquity and its reception obscure the long aesthetic and craft histories […]

International Women’s Day Seminar

Miller G05 Whiteknights Campus

In recognition of International Women's Day, the School of the Built Environment will be hosting a 1-hour seminar with Chrissi McCarthy, founder and managing director of Constructing Equality. The event will be held in Miller G05, on 8 March, from 1 - 2pm, with refreshments served from 12:30pm. Chrissi will speak about the gender balance issues that […]

Policy in Practice Seminar

HumSS 128 Edith Morley Building, University of Reading, Reading

Michaela Bergman, Chief Counsellor for Social Issues at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development