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October 2021
Visualising the Database: Early Modern Women’s Complaint Poetry Index
The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (CBCP) is pleased to host this talk by Michelle O’Callaghan and Jake Arthur introducing the new online database of Early Modern Women’s Complaint…
Find out more »Executive Freedom in Descartes
Sir Anthony Kenny: Executive Freedom in Descartes Philosophy Department Cottingham Lecture Sir Anthony Kenny was born in Liverpool in 1931 and was educated at Upholland College and the Pontifical Gregorian University.…
Find out more »November 2021
Exploring Authenticity in Contemporary Literatures in English
Culture in general, and literature in particular, seem to be concerned with authenticity, or lack of it, more than ever: authenticity in politics, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and nationality. In contemporary…
Find out more »Beckett Week 2021
The Samuel Beckett Research Centre are delighted to announce that their annual Beckett Week will take in November at Minghella Studies on the Whiteknights Campus of the University of Reading.…
Find out more »Did the defendant use a gun? The philosophical foundations and practical consequences of applying corpus analysis in legal interpretation
The Reading Centre for Cognition Research (RCCR) is delighted to announce this new 2 year project: Did the defendant use a gun? The philosophical foundations and practical consequences of applying…
Find out more »Expanding the design canon: fresh perspectives on women in type and publishing
The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (CBCP) is delighted to collaborate with the St Bride Foundation to celebrate recent contributions to the field of graphic design history, which seek…
Find out more »PiCoBoo: A Research Project and an Open-Access Database
Dr Francesca Tancini, University of Newcastle PiCoBoo: a research project and an open-access database The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (CBCP) is pleased to host this free online event…
Find out more »Complex Lives: Developing the application of biography to the past
A joint University of Reading and British Museum Webinar. Speakers for the seminar: J.D. Hill (British Museum) Duncan Garrow (University of Reading) Laura Perucchetti (British Museum) and Abidemi Babalola (British…
Find out more »Tracing the Nigerian Civil War through Heinemann’s African Writers Series archives: an undergraduate research project and its afterlife
Dr Sue Walsh and Ms Temiloluwa Ogdugbesan Tracing the Nigerian Civil War through Heinemann’s African Writers Series archives: an undergraduate research project and its afterlife The Centre for Book Cultures and…
Find out more »Vanished: Hope and Histories of Extinction
Dr Sadiah Qureshi (University of Birmingham): Vanished: Hope and Histories of Extinction' History Department Annual Stenton Lecture 2021 We are so familiar with extinction that it is hard to imagine…
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