Heritage & Creativity

Loddon Observatory Showcase

The Loddon Observatory is organising a Loddon Showcase on 25th September 2018, 12:30-4:00pm in Meadow Suite, Park House, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6UA.

This will be an opportunity to present and learn about work undertaken within the Loddon catchment on Water, Environment, Climate, Governance and Heritage and to meet other people from the University and our External Partners.

Please register online here by 14th September at the latest.

We are inviting abstracts, in particular for posters, and short 3-5 minute talks presenting research relevant to the Loddon catchment, to be submitted as soon as possible and by 14th September at the latest on the website above or by email to a.duranel@reading.ac.uk.

 

 

Seminar: Winckelmann – Ideals and Nations

To commemorate the Winckelmann anniversaries 2017/2018, Christ Church Library is preparing a series of events in collaboration with the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford.and the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology, University of Reading.

The events will start with a symposium on Ideals and Nations: New perspectives on the European reception of Winckelmann’s aesthetics.

Keynote speakers: Professor Elisabeth Décultot (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg) and Professor Alex Potts (University of Michigan).

The event is generously sponsored by the A.G. Leventis Foundation, Medieval and Modern Languages Oxford.

For the symposium programme, please click here.

Student/ECR without lunch: £5
Standard ticket without lunch: £10

Student/ECR with lunch: £15
Standard ticket with lunch: £20

For online registration, please click here.

For further details about the symposium, please contact Dr Lucy Russell (levrussell@outlook.com) and Dr Fiona Gatty (fiona.gatty@materials.ox.ac.uk). For general information about the events, please contact Dr Cristina Neagu (cristina.neagu@chch.ox.ac.uk).

The symposium will be followed by a drinks reception and book launch in the Upper Library at Christ Church to launch the exhibition Winckelmann and curiosity in the 18th-century gentleman’s library.

Democratising Heritage workshop

An upcoming workshop co-hosted by Historic England and the University of Reading, on the subject of Diverse Participation and Representation in the Heritage Sector, will take place on 4 July 2018. 

The day will bring together museum and heritage professionals with researchers to discuss: 

– developing dynamic relationships between heritage and users

– using co-production methods to diversify the framing of heritage and place

– and exploring co-curation with diverse volunteers. 

The workshop takes place on 4 July from 10am-4.30pm, at the University of Reading. For more information and to book, please see the attached flyer: Heritage Workshop Flyer

Workshop: (Post)Colonial images

(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 Vicente Sánchez-Biosca (University of Valencia), and a stellar line-up of speakers and artists

Screening of The Song of Ossobó (Silas Tiny, 2017)

Organised by Maria do Carmo Piçarra (University of Reading/University of Minho)

Admission is free, but booking is highly recommended-  email carmoramos@gmail.com

Programme

11h-13h00 Cinema, Minghella Building G4 Opening by Lúcia Nagib. Screening The Song of Ossobó (Silas Tiny, 2017, 99’)

13h00-14h00 Lunch break

14h00-14h40 Studio Space, Minghella Building room 102 Maria do Carmo Piçarra (Minho/Reading) – Intermedial approaches to Portugal, France and England representations of the empire in the cinema

14h40-15h40 Studio Space, Minghella Building room 102 Katy Stewart (Sheffield) – Singing for Timbuktu and Kinshasa: Intermedial voices in African cinema’s digital revolution Sérgio Dias Branco (Coimbra/ Durham) – Spectres of today: Fractured history and digital modulation in Horse money (2014) Chair: Maria do Carmo Piçarra (Minho/Reading)

15h40-16h00 Coffee break 16h-16h30 Studio Space, Minghella Building room 102 Artistic take Quarries of wandering form by Judy Rabinowitz Price (Kingston)

16h30-18h00 Studio Space, Minghella Building room 102 Keynote speaker Vicente Sanchéz-Biosca (Valencia) – When the images are missing. Rithy Panh and the visual strategies to address the Cambodian Genocide

 

Voice and Vote: Women and Parliament

Voice and Vote: Women’s place in Parliament

Wednesday 27th June – Saturday 6th October

09:00 – 17.30

Westminster Hall, London

100 years since women gained the partial vote, an interactive exhibition will be hosted in Westminster Hall telling the story of women in Parliament – the campaigning, the protests and the achievements.

Dr Jacqui Turner, University of Reading History lecturer and Vote 100 adviser, and the University of Reading Special Collections are recreating Nancy Astor’s mailbag for the exhibition. Nancy Astor was the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat, and her letters of correspondence are stored in the University of Reading’s Special Collections.

The exhibition will also feature other rare and previously unseen historic objects, pictures and archives.

Admission free.

For more information and to book your place visit: https://www.parliament.uk/get-involved/vote-100/voice-and-vote/

Internal event: Government use of academic research

Policy engagement and Government use of academic research

Thursday 21st June, 1.00-2.30pm,  Agriculture Ag 1L06

You are invited to a policy engagement seminar with invited speaker Dr Catherine Haddon from Institute for Government, a leading think tank working to make government processes more effective, in helping senior politicians and civil servants to think differently and bring about change in terms of policy decision making.

Catherine is keen to pass on lessons from the work they are instigating in connecting researchers and government policy teams, and is looking at the mechanisms and culture in government to help engagement. She would also like to learn more about what our academics are doing at Reading and how we embrace government with our research, along with advising on how to get work into think tanks and getting career experience in the world of political research.

Seminar agenda

  1. Introduction by Dominik Zaum, Academic engagement with policy
  1. Catherine Haddon, Institute for Government- Discussion of policy mechanisms to reaching policy makers, what is currently going on within government and other areas to encourage engagement, experiences of academic engagement with policymakers, policy engagement and impact.
  2. University of Reading examples of policy engagement: Routes to policy, challenges and lessons
    1. Professor Kath Ryan (Social Pharmacy), APPGroup Infant Feeding
    2. Professor David Oderberg (Philosophy), Parliament legislation protecting freedom of conscience in health care
    3. Professor Simon Potts (Centre for Agri-Environmental Research), DEFRA National Pollinator Strategy
    4. Professor Chris Collins (Environmental Science), DEFRA and Devolved Administrations
  3. Closing remarks

Apologies for the short notice of this event, but please do feel to pass this information on to your research groups or students who may benefit from learning about policy engagement experiences.

 

Places are limited therefore, if you wish to attend, please e-mail Chris Anderson in the Research Deans’ Office on c.j.anderson@reading.ac.uk.

Internal event: Industrial Strategy Forum

Staff are invited to attend a forum on the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) on Whiteknights Campus on Weds 27 June. The ISCF offers significant funding opportunities to academia with relevance to all themes.

Speakers include representatives from BBSRC, ESRC and Innovate UK and staff will have the opportunity to talk and question funders directly.

Demand is expected to be high and places will be given out on a first-come-first-served basis, so please do register your interest by simply emailing researchdeansoffice@reading.ac.uk as soon as possible.

 

Industrial Strategy Forum poster

Social Media Technologies in Immersive Performance

You are warmly invited to join us in Reading this June for:

USER NOT FOUND: Social Media Technologies in Immersive Performance

A one-day performance symposium

Thursday 28th June from 1.30pm at Minghella Studios, University of Reading

 

The research project User Not Found: Social Media Technologies in Immersive Performance, based at the University of Reading, is investigating social media in immersive participatory performance. The project is a collaboration between Dante or Die (theatre company), Marmelo Digital (technology company) and the centre for death and society at the University of Bath.

 

As part of the project, theatre company Dante or Die have teamed up with Marmelo Digital to devise User Not Found, a performance that uses social media to explore the impact personal digital devices has on our grieving process. The audience will participate in the live performance via mobile phones and headphones, as they follow a character’s experience of bereavement.

 

This one-day symposium aims to explore ideas connected to social media in theatre. We particularly welcome attendees interested in taking part in conversations on issues of liveness, the impact of social media technologies on performance and space and its future potential for technological intermediality and immersivity. It will also address questions around digital legacies, virtual memorialisation, and the impact of social media on the grieving process. The format of the day includes practitioner presentations, panel discussions and a keynote paper that looks at the use of headphones in theatre. The event includes a special evening performance of User Not Found (90 minutes) at South Street Arts Centre, followed by a discussion led by theatre company, Dante or Die and Lib Taylor. Wine and canapés will be served upon arrival at the theatre from 6pm.

 

To sign up for this FREE event please email Lucy Jeffery via lucy.jeffery@reading.ac.uk and specify whether you require tickets for the performance as well as the symposium. Tickets for the performance will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

 

PARTICIPANTS INCLUDE:

Luke Alexander & Abhinav Bajpai (Co-founders of Marmelo Digital)

Dan Barnard (Artistic director of fanSHEN and lecturer at London South Bank University)

Terry O’Donovan & Daphna Attias (Co-artistic directors of Dante or Die)

Sophie Gunn (Access associate for Dante or Die)

Laurence Hill (Director of the Brighton Digital Festival)

Professor Rosie Klich (University of Essex)

Jack Lowe (Artistic director of curious directive)

Dr Eirini Nedelkopoulou (University of York, St. John)

Dr Jo Scott (University of Salford)

Professor Lib Taylor (University of Reading)

Dr John Troyer (University of Bath)

Janet Vaughan (Designer and co-artistic director of Talking Birds)

Additional contributors to be confirmed.

For further information please contact the organisers, Lib Taylor and Lucy Jeffery: l.j.taylor@reading.ac.uk lucy.jeffery@reading.ac.uk

 

https://research.reading.ac.uk/usernotfound/

https://twitter.com/UserNotFound_18

 

This symposium is part of the AHRC funded project, User Not Found: Social Media Technologies as Immersive Performance; Principal Investigator Professor Lib Taylor, University of Reading, and Co-Investigator Dr John Troyer, Centre for Death and Society, University of Bath

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Creativity, Spirituality and Mental Health

The University Chaplaincy’s next Café Théologique will be held on Monday 4th June, 7.30pm-9pm, Zero Degrees Bar, Bridge Street.

 

The speaker is Revd Dr Joanna Collicutt, Karl Jaspers Lecturer in Psychology and Spirituality at the University of Oxford.

She’ll be exploring the connections between human creativity and mental health.

The format of the evening is an informal presentation for 45 minutes followed by open discussion.

 

All are welcome. Café Théologique is an initiative of the University of Reading Chaplaincy and the Bishop of Oxford. It aims to provide a space to discursively explore contemporary theological issues.

 

https://www.facebook.com/events/412923482518662/

 

Classical Civilisations in a Digital World

Explore the ancient world through a digital lens. Experience robots, holograms, 3D printing and virtual models of Ancient cities and treasures. At this family friendly event you can get hands-on experience of some of the digital research currently going on in the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology and Department of Classics.

This event is free of charge, but booking is advisable – email ure.education@reading.ac.uk or call 0118 378 6990 to book a space.