Human Geography Online Seminar: Matej Blazek, 4 March 1-2pm
2021-03-04 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/London)
Please join us for the next Human Geography online research seminar on Thursday 4 March, 1-2pm, with Matej Blazek, Newcastle University: “A riot in Shoeton”: Violence, insecurity and post-socialist geographies of racism.
HG seminar Matej Blazek
Join via Teams here

3rd Symposium on How It Is by Samuel Beckett
2021-03-05 10:00 - 19:00
Gare St Lazare Ireland and The Samuel Beckett Research Centre
Friday 5 March 2021, 10:00 – 19:00 GMT

A one day international symposium with guest speakers, panellists and a performance centred on Samuel Beckett’s novel How It Is.
Gare St Lazare Ireland, the Irish theatre company that specializes in staging the prose of Samuel Beckett, holds its 3rd symposium around discussion inspired by Beckett’s groundbreaking 1964 novel How It Is first published in French as Comment c’est 1961.
Supported by The Samuel Beckett Research Centre at University of Reading, the symposium will take place online. The speakers will include a cross section of academics and practitioners and it will also feature a short work-in-progress performance from Gare St Lazare Ireland’s ongoing staging of How It Is by Samuel Beckett.
Since 2015 Gare St Lazare have committed to staging the novel in three parts over 3 productions. Part 1 in January 2018 premiered at The Everyman Theatre, Cork and was subsequently performed at The Coronet Theatre, London. Part 2 premiered at The Everyman in September 2019. Its planned run at The Coronet in April 2020 was postponed. In January 2021 the company presented ‘How It Is by Samuel Beckett – A Digital Preview’ as an on line event in co-production with The Coronet and in association with The Everyman. They continue to work towards presenting all three parts in a single durational event.
Register for a free place here.
Following your registration you will receive a link to the Webinar which will be active from 10am (UCT/GMT) on Friday March 5th 2021.

Intersectionality and inequality
2021-03-05 13:00 - 14:30
A Global Development Research Division workshop
Details to follow

Dwoskin, disability and... accessibility: Face of Our Fear
2021-03-05 19:00
Dwoskin, disability, and… accessibility: Face of Our Fear is the first in a series of rare screenings and discussion events exploring the experimental filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin’s complex relationships with disability, accessibility, care, illness, and sexuality.
First shown on the launch night of Channel 4’s ‘Disabling World’ season in 1992, Face of Our Fear is an essay film about media representations of disability from antiquity to the modern era. Far from being a standard documentary, it is peppered with personal touches, surreal scenes, and echoes of Dwoskin’s underground films.
The film probes the social model of disability: the cultural narratives that pinion disabled people as victims, villains, freaks, and monsters, and the ableist and disabling built and social environments that become sites of daily negotiation. The overall result is incisive and polemical, accessible and witty.
The event will begin with an introduction and communal viewing of Face of Our Fear at 19:00 on Friday 5 March, followed by a discussion on accessibility, interdependence and care from 20:00 featuring David Ruebain and Yates Norton and chaired by Jenny Chamarette. Face of Our Fear will also be made available by the LUX for a week subsequent to the live event.
To take part, please use this page to register online. This a free event and open to everyone. The film will include closed captions, and the live discussion will be BSL interpreted and live captioned. The discussion will last no longer than 60 minutes.
This event is co-hosted by the LUX and the Centre for Film Aesthetics and Cultures (CFAC) at the University of Reading, and supported by CFAC, the Arts Committee and the Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives Fund of the University of Reading.
The Dwoskin Project is a three year AHRC funded project based at the University of Reading. The researchers are: PI is Professor Rachel Garfield and the Co-Is are Alison Butler (UoR), Dr Jenny Chamarette (UoR), Dr Yunhyong Kim (Glasgow), Dr Frank Hopfgartner (Sheffield). PDRAS: Dr Henry K Miller (Uor), Zoe Bartliff (Glasgow), Dr Maninder Pal (Sheffield).
Jenny Chamarette is a writer, scholar and curator, and Senior Research Fellow at Reading School of Art. She is Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded project, The Legacies of Stephen Dwoskin.
David Ruebain is Chief Executive of the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama. Prior to that he had been Chief Executive of Equality Challenge Unit, a policy and research agency funded to advance equality & diversity in the UK further and higher education and research sectors. Before that, he was a practicing solicitor for 21 years; latterly as Director of Legal Policy at the Equality and Human Rights Commission of Great Britain following a career in private practice. David is also a Visiting Professor of Law at Birkbeck University of London.
Yates Norton is currently a curator at DRAF, London. Previously, he was curator at Rupert, a publicly funded centre for art, residencies and education, located in Vilnius, Lithuania. There he directed Rupert’s 2020 events programme on Interdependence and Care. He studied at the University of Cambridge, Harvard University and the Courtauld Institute of Art, and his artistic practice includes collaborations with poets and artists in London, Cambridge and New York. He has spoken widely on subjects of interdependence and disability at the ICA, London and other contemporary arts venues.

A Cultural Biography of the Prostate
2021-03-10 13:00 - 14:00
Centre for Health Humanities Online Seminars: ‘A Cultural Biography of the Prostate’, Ericka Johnson, Linköping University
To join, email a.s.mangham@reading.ac.uk
Please click here to see the other seminars in our series
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Meteorological Masterclass: Representing Convection in Numerical Weather Prediction models and its Implications
2021-03-10 15:00 - 16:30 | Online event
Wednesday 10 March 2021: Representing convection in Numerical Weather Prediction models and its implications
Professor Bob Plant, University of Reading
The forecasting of convective precipitation remains among the most challenging and mosst stubborn problems in meteorology. In this talk, Bob will review the fundamental scientific challenges, discuss recent progress and advances being made in this field, and highlight some of the implications for operational forecasting.
Part of the University of Reading /Royal Meteorological Society Masterclass Series: Anticipating floods, droughts and heatwaves. Other dates include:
Wednesday 24 February 2021: Flood forecasting hours to months ahead
Dr Linda Speight: University of Reading
This Masterclass will discuss the very latest work in probabilistic hydrometeorological forecasting – hours to months ahead – and the use and communication of flood forecasts to support decision-making. It will look at how well we can forecast floods at a range of scales and how we can balance lead time and uncertainty to answer the important operational question “when and where will impact occur?”. It will also cover how flood forecasting can be used in locations with limited data to support early action and will close with a discussion on what the future research directions are for flood forecasting.
Wednesday 24 March 2021: Heatwaves and climate change in urban microclimates
Professor Sue Grimmond, University of Reading
The focus of this talk is on heatwaves and how urban areas can exacerbate their impact because of the well-known canopy layer urban heat island effects, and why cities and their residents are particularly vulnerable. Impacts of heatwaves have been very significant if people are not appropriately prepared (as witnessed during the 2003 heatwave across Europe). Attention will be directed to the important impact of scale and an understanding of the dynamics of urban climate, challenges in predictions and advance warning, and strategies and interventions for heat stress mitigation.
About the series
These masterclasses are intended to provide additional training for professionals working in Meteorology and Climate Science, and its operational application.
Each masterclass webinar will run from 3pm to 4.30pm, starting with a presentation followed by the opportunity for questions and discussion with the speaker. While the webinars are part of a series, delegates can choose which seminars they attend (attendance at all three is not compulsory).
Registration: Member: £20.00 | Non-member: £25.00
Last year we welcomed 542 delegates throughout the series – view all three seminars on the RMetSoc YouTube channel here.

Preventing A Clotting Catastrophe: The COVID Connection
2021-03-10 19:00 - 20:00
Preventing A Clotting Catastrophe: The COVID Connection
Professor Jon Gibbins, Institute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research
University of Reading Public Lecture
Our blood needs to clot quickly when we injure ourselves to keep us safe but blood clotting sometimes happens where it shouldn’t. If this is inside our veins and arteries, a process known as thrombosis occurs. While thrombosis is best known as the trigger for heart attacks and strokes, understanding unwanted clotting has become a major focus in 2020. Severe COVID-19 infection triggers clots to form in the lungs which are responsible for life-threatening impacts on lung function.
In this lecture we will explore what we have discovered about how and why clot formation occurs in this context, and how we are using this knowledge to test the effects of existing medicines that could alleviate the most serious consequences of COVID-19 infection.

The Limited Editions Club oxymoron: the affordable livre d’artiste
2021-03-11 17:00 - 18:00
Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing Seminar: ‘The Limited Editions Club oxymoron: the affordable livre d’artiste’, Cătălina Zlotea (Department of Typography and Graphic Communication)
This paper will present the idiosyncratic publishing model of the Limited Editions Club of New York and will focus on the four books which were illustrated by the British artist Charles Mozley (1914–1991). Founded by George Macy in the depression year of 1929, the Limited Editions Club was a subscription based service committed to supply its members one beautiful book each month, in a limited print run of 1500 copies. The Club has published more than 600 titles over its 80 years of existence and has commissioned a profusion of prominent artists, illustrators and designers like Matisse, Picasso, W. A. Dwiggins, Giovanni Mardersteig and, later, Cartier-Bresson and Mapplethorpe.
Charles Mozley illustrated four books for the Limited Editions Club: Man and Superman by G.B. Shaw in 1962, Galsworthy’s The Man of Property in 1964, The Invisible Man by H.G Wells in 1967 and The Captain’s Daughter and Other Stories by Pushkin in 1971.
Cătălina Zlotea is a PhD student in the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading. Her research investigates the life and work of Charles Mozley, artist, illustrator, printmaker, and designer.
Please join the seminar here using Microsoft Teams.

Amelia Jones: 'In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance'
2021-03-17 17:00 - 18:00
Art & History of Art CLUB Talks
Department of Art, supported by the UoR Arts Committee

Amelia Jones discusses her new book, In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance, with Q&A.
Amelia Jones is Robert A. Day Professor and Vice Dean of Academics and Research in Roski School of Art & Design, USC. Recent publications include Seeing Differently: A History and Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts (2012); Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories, co-edited with Erin Silver (2016); the catalogue Queer Communion: Ron Athey (2020), co-edited with Andy Campbell, and which accompanies a retrospective of Athey’s work at Participant Inc. (New York) and ICA (Los Angeles), has just been listed among “Best Art Books 2020” in the New York Times. Her book entitled In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance is published in 2021 by Routledge Press.
https://roski.usc.edu/community/faculty/amelia-jones
https://www.routledge.com/In-Between-Subjects-A-Critical-Genealogy-of-Queer-Performance/Jones/p/book/9780367533762
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Jones
To attend, please contact Dr James Hellings (j.hellings@reading.ac.uk) for more details.

Human Geography online research seminar
2021-03-18 13:00 - 14:00
Join us for the next Human Geography online research seminar tomorrow 18th March, 1-2pm, with Dr. Alex Sexton, University of Sheffield: Feeding the world Silicon Valley-style: Place, protein and promise, with Dr. David Rose as discussant.
Join via Teams here
HGRC Alexandra Sexton 18.3.21

Introducing the new IFNH education hub
2021-03-18 14:00 - 15:30
Introducing the new IFNH education hub: providing flexible training for healthcare and agri-food professionals
The Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health is delighted to invite you to the Education & Professional Training Hub (EPTH) launch event which will take place on Thursday 18th March at 2pm-3.30pm. The event is free to attend and for more information on the event and to register your attendance click here. Please register your attendance by Wednesday 17th March 2021.
The new EPTH is the leading high-level training provider for the agri-food and health sectors. Bridging the gap between industry and academia, the EPTH translates cutting edge academic research into applied industry expertise. We help the sectors best talent to deepen their knowledge, advance their skills and address scientific challenges.
In an era of climate change, food insecurity and an ever-growing, and ageing population, the Education & Professional Training Hub provides the opportunity for those employed in the health, food and agriculture sectors to deepen their knowledge, advance their skills and progress their careers.
The EPTH has developed bespoke, flexible education and training opportunities designed to fit around and complement your working life – from short courses to part-time postgraduate degrees.
We hope you’re able to join us!

Centre for Health Humanities Online Seminars
2021-03-24 13:00 - 14:00
Janet Walls, ‘The Zodiac Sign as Body in the Late Medieval Period’
Tom Mills, ‘Medieval Leprosy and Bioarchaeology: The Body as a Physical Sign’
Claire Collins, ‘Secreta mulierum? The not so private signs of pregnancy in late medieval England’
To join, email a.s.mangham@reading.ac.uk
Please click here to see the other seminars in our series
Follow us on Twitter @healthhums

Meteorological Masterclass: Heatwaves and Climate Change in Urban Microclimates
2021-03-24 15:00 - 16:30
Wednesday 24 March 2021: Heatwaves and climate change in urban microclimates
Professor Sue Grimmond, University of Reading
The focus of this talk is on heatwaves and how urban areas can exacerbate their impact because of the well-known canopy layer urban heat island effects, and why cities and their residents are particularly vulnerable. Impacts of heatwaves have been very significant if people are not appropriately prepared (as witnessed during the 2003 heatwave across Europe). Attention will be directed to the important impact of scale and an understanding of the dynamics of urban climate, challenges in predictions and advance warning, and strategies and interventions for heat stress mitigation.
Part of the University of Reading /Royal Meteorological Society Masterclass Series: Anticipating floods, droughts and heatwaves. Other dates include:
Wednesday 24 February 2021: Flood forecasting hours to months ahead
Dr Linda Speight: University of Reading
This Masterclass will discuss the very latest work in probabilistic hydrometeorological forecasting – hours to months ahead – and the use and communication of flood forecasts to support decision-making. It will look at how well we can forecast floods at a range of scales and how we can balance lead time and uncertainty to answer the important operational question “when and where will impact occur?”. It will also cover how flood forecasting can be used in locations with limited data to support early action and will close with a discussion on what the future research directions are for flood forecasting.

Wednesday 10 March 2021: Representing convection in Numerical Weather Prediction models and its implications
Professor Bob Plant, University of Reading
The forecasting of convective precipitation remains among the most challenging and mosst stubborn problems in meteorology. In this talk, Bob will review the fundamental scientific challenges, discuss recent progress and advances being made in this field, and highlight some of the implications for operational forecasting.
About the series
These masterclasses are intended to provide additional training for professionals working in Meteorology and Climate Science, and its operational application.
Each masterclass webinar will run from 3pm to 4.30pm, starting with a presentation followed by the opportunity for questions and discussion with the speaker. While the webinars are part of a series, delegates can choose which seminars they attend (attendance at all three is not compulsory).
Registration: Member: £20.00 | Non-member: £25.00
Last year we welcomed 542 delegates throughout the series – view all three seminars on the RMetSoc YouTube channel here.

Griselda Pollock: 'Gesture, Affect and the Post-Traumatic Image, or Raphael in Art and Art’s Histories after the Holocaust and in Contemporary Art'
2021-03-24 17:00 - 18:00
Art & History of Art CLUB Talks
Department of Art, supported by the UoR Arts Committee
Griselda Pollock discusses her pre-recorded lecture entitled, Gesture, Affect and the Post-Traumatic Image, or Raphael in Art and Art’s Histories after the Holocaust and in Contemporary Art.
Griselda Pollock is Professor emerita of Social and Critical Histories of Art (1990- 2020) and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory & History (CentreCATH) (2001-) at the University of Leeds. Griselda Pollock has taught for over 40 years in a School of Fine Art as a feminist, a social-historical art historian and a cultural analyst. In this lecture she creates transdisciplinary encounters between art and history, feminist and trauma theory, making and thinking, and the innovative forms through which the aesthetic and ethical challenges of art in a post-traumatic condition can be explored. Challenging the progressive logic of narrative, periodised art history, she presents and elaborates a new installation in her virtual feminist museum with film, literature and images that relay artists’ engagement with art and history through the relations of time, space and the archive in contemporary art making.
Griselda Pollock develops international, queer, postcolonial, feminist analyses of art’s diverse histories by formulating new concepts with which to deliver ‘feminist interventions in art’s histories’: Old Mistresses: Women, Art & Ideology (1981 New edition Bloomsbury, 2020), Vision and Difference: Feminism, Femininity & the Histories of Art (1988), Avant-Garde Gambits: Gender and the Colour of Art History (1992), Generations and Geographies in the Visual Arts (1992/96), Differencing the Canon: Feminist Desire and the Writing of Art’s Histories (1999) Encounters in Virtual Feminist Museum: Time, Space and the Archive (2007 and After-affects/After-images: Trauma and Aesthetic Transformation in the Virtual Feminist Museum (2013). Her most recent publications include the major monograph and first major art historical study of the artist, Charlotte Salomon and the Theatre of Memory [Leben? oder Theater? 1941-43] (Yale, 2018) and writings on Yael Bartana, Laura Mulvey, Penny Siopis, Monica Weiss and Christine Taylor-Patten. Crossing art, museology, philosophy and film, she analyses the perennial threat of ‘the concentrationary universe’ created by the totalitarianisms of the twentieth century: Griselda Pollock & Max Silverman (eds), the Concentrationary Cinema (2009), Concentrationary Memories (2011) and Concentrationary Imaginaries (2015); Concentrationary Art: Jean Cayrol, the Lazarean and the Everyday in Post-war Film, Literature, Music and the Visual Arts (2019). Forthcoming are books on Memory and Place on the work of Van Gogh, The Agency of Marilyn Monroe and on abstract painting titled Killing Men and Dying Women: Painting and Imag(in)Difference in 1950s New York (Manchester University Press). More information available here:
https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/staff/410/prof-griselda-pollock
https://centrecath.leeds.ac.uk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griselda_Pollock
To attend, please contact Dr James Hellings (j.hellings@reading.ac.uk) for more details.

The Transformative Female Publishers of Post-Franco Spain
2021-03-25 17:00 - 18:30
Democratizing Culture and Building a New Consciousness: The Transformative Female Publishers of Post-Franco Spain, Dr Marta Simó Comas (Department of Languages and Cultures)
This presentation will provide an overview of the role played by women publishers in the post-Franco publishing industry and the way in which they engaged intellectually and politically with the profession. In particular, we will consider the cultural practices of two emblematic publishing houses founded and run by women (Rosa Regàs’ La Gaya Ciencia and Esther Tusquets’ Editorial Lumen), and how these contributed both to the emergence of a new progressive and critical attitude among the public, and to the genesis of a new cultural and social paradigm.
Dr Marta Simó Comas is lecturer in Spanish Culture in the Department of Languages and Cultures at the University of Reading.
Please join the seminar here using Microsoft Teams.

ECR Dragons' Den
2021-03-29 15:30 - 17:00
ECR Dragons’ Den – Monday 29th March 15.30-17.00
Do you have a really great idea for a collaborative project? Have you been planning to write a grant but don’t have the pilot data to support your idea? Here is your big chance!
The ECR interdisciplinary group CINNergies, and the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences Research Committee have each donated £2,500 (that’s a total of £5,000) to support ECR-led collaborative pilot projects. Just like the real Dragons’ Den, our panel of “Dragons” will be sitting on piles of money (figuratively) and will choose to support the projects they feel have potential.
Projects must be collaborative and interdisciplinary! So, if there is a project that you’ve got your heart set on and you know of another ECR that you’ve been dying to work with… the time is now!! Spaces are limited so if you would like to apply, please submit a 500 word summary of your project proposal here. Applications will close on the 15th March at 12pm.
Those who are selected to go through to the next round will be required to give a short oral presentation at the event 15:30-17:00 on Monday 29th March.
Click here to join the Dragons’ Den event

Health Services Research and Pharmacy Practice conference
2021-04-08 09:30 - 2021-04-09 14:30 | Online event
This year’s conference will focus on Designing Healthcare: Stimulating Interdisciplinarity and Co-design for Quality Healthcare.There is widespread recognition and support for collaborative-working across disciplinary boundaries to solve real-world problems, with users’ needs firmly embedded within this process. The conference theme centres on design: interdisciplinary working between science and the arts to co-produce research. The conference will stimulate discussion, share experiences and generate ideas to design healthcare.
Abstracts are free to read here: https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpp/riab007

CINN neuromethods: The role of isothiocyanates in health & food preference
2021-04-15 15:00 - 16:00 | Microsoft Teams
The role of isothiocyanates in health & food preference, Luke Bell (Lecturer in Temperate Horticulture at the School of Agriculture, Policy & Development, University of Reading)
Isothiocyanates (ITCs) are produced by plants of the Brassicales order and are commonly found in our diets. High concentrations are produced by crops like broccoli, mustard, rocket, and watercress and have been linked with anti-cancer effects. There has also been research conducted to determine their effects on neurological health and prevention of disease, but only a few compounds have been tested to-date. Some ITCs are also noted for their pungent aromas and flavours and can impact liking and food preferences. They can also induce pain receptors in high concentrations. This has been attributed to taste receptor genotype sensitivity, but recent evidence suggests exposure to ITCs in the diet over time is a stronger determinant of liking. I will present some of my research and ideas in these areas and see if there is any scope for developing collaborations with CINN.

Microsoft Teams meeting: CINN neuromethods Thursday 15-Apr-2021 3pm

“neuromethods” is a weekly meeting held at CINN where we discuss published, ongoing, or planned research, ranging from formal presentations to informal problem-solving over coffee.
If you would like to discuss your work or a research idea (however unbaked), if you would like to join us occasionally, or would simply like to find out more, please email cinn@reading.ac.uk.
neuromethods sessions are listed in the CINN calendar, which you can open in Outlook by searching for CINN.

Can Motion Event Construal be Taught or Restructured? Evidence from Bilinguals and L2 Learners
2021-04-16 13:00 - 2021-04-17 15:30
Registration is now open for our workshop entitled ‘Can Motion Event Construal be Taught or Restructured? Evidence from Bilinguals and L2 Learners‘.
The workshop, organised by Dr Fraibet Aveledo and Professor Jeanine Treffers-Daller, will take place online on April 16th-17th, 2021.
The event is free, but if you would like to attend, please register by providing your contact details. You will then receive the Zoom links prior to the event. To register, please click here.
The workshop programme and abstract booklet are also now available. Further information, please email motionevent2020@gmail.com.

Rationality: reasons and heuristics (RCCR Summer Seminar Series)
2021-04-20 17:00 - 18:30 | Microsoft Teams
Rationality: reasons and heuristics, Emma Borg
Emma is Director of the Reading Centre for Cognition Research and Professor of Philosophy at University of Reading.
This seminar is part of The Reading Centre for Cognition Research’s 2021 Summer Seminar Series: Understanding ourselves and others: reasoning and rationality
The aim of this seminar series is to explore these newer approaches to reasoning and rationality, looking at cutting edge work in the area and asking what these moves might tell us about how we go about understanding the actions of others and ourselves.
A standard picture of humans as generally ordered and orderly thinkers has come under significant pressure in recent years, in particular from the work of Kahneman and others who have stressed our susceptibility to a range of cognitive traps (such as framing or bias). Although the claim commonly associated with this school of thought – that we are ‘predictably irrational’, in Ariely’s phrase – has been rejected by many, even those who seek to defend our status as good reasoners often suggest a more complex and potentially messy set of processes, mechanisms and features than those standardly appealed to in classic folk psychological approaches.
All welcome!
If you have any questions, please email Emma Borg e.g.n.borg@reading.ac.uk
Microsoft Teams meeting – join here
research.reading.ac.uk/cognition-research/

Human Geography Online Research Seminar
2021-04-22 13:00 - 14:00
Join us for our Human Geography online seminar. Sylvia Jaworska, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics, University of Reading, will be presenting on:
What a corpus-assisted multimodal discourse analysis can contribute to our understanding of the construction of ‘good’ food in the digital?
Thursday 22 April
1-2 pm MS Teams

IFNH Workshop: Building on 2020 EIT Food Projects
2021-04-22 14:00 - 16:45
IFNH Workshop: Building on 2020 EIT Food Projects, Thursday 22nd April (14.00-16.45)
In 2020 the University was involved in a large number of EIT Food projects covering all the EIT Food functional areas – Education, Innovation, Public Engagement and Business Creation. We are very keen to facilitate the sharing of results and lessons learned from this significant project portfolio, to ensure that the wider University community is aware of, and can benefit from, these outcomes. In addition, we are also very keen to support efforts to build further on these EIT Food projects, by exploring opportunities to take projects further forward and/or by exploring opportunities for further collaboration with EIT Food partners.
Please join our online workshop on the afternoon of Thursday 22nd April for an opportunity to hear colleagues share insights from their project experiences and to explore how the University can maximise and build on these.
To attend the workshop, please contact Elena Carp at e.carp@reading.ac.uk.

Languages in Lockdown
2021-04-22 16:00 - 17:30
Over the last year, measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic have affected our lives in unprecedented ways. One notable change has been the amount of time children have spent at home during repeated lockdowns and school closures. In families where more than one language is spoken, this new situation had the potential to change patterns of language use.
In the spring and summer of 2020, a team of researchers in the UK and one in Norway came together to get a snapshot of language use in multilingual families during the first lockdown through a survey. In this webinar researchers from the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (UK), UCL (UK), and MultiLing (Norway) will share some of the insights from this work, and they will be joined on the panel by parents who took part in the research.
We welcome audience participation, and there will be ample opportunity to engage with questions from participants.
This event is being held in conjunction with the Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan (MultiLing), Bilingualism Matters @ Reading and UCL BiLingo. For more information please see the event poster.
This online event is free and open to all. Please register your interest to receive a personal invitation: http://bit.ly/3sqVZqc

Online Children's Spring Lecture
2021-04-27 16:30 - 17:30 | Microsoft Teams
What is it like to be a climate scientist in Antarctica? Join polar scientist Dr Ella Gilbert in our Online Children’s Spring Lecture as she talks about her personal experiences of working in the coldest, driest, remotest continent on our planet. How do you set out to better understand climate change in one of the wildest and most unexplored places on Earth? Expect to hear the answer as Ella reveals the science of the sky using aeroplanes, weather balloons, clouds and much more!

Folk psychology, normative cognition, and the wide distribution of norms (RCCR Summer Seminar Series)
2021-04-27 17:00 - 18:30 | Microsoft Teams
Folk psychology, normative cognition, and the wide distribution of norms, Kristin Andrews
Kristin Andrews is York Research Chair in Animal Minds and Professor of Philosophy at York University (Toronto), where she also helps coordinate the Cognitive Science program and the Greater Toronto Area Animal Cognition Discussion Group. Her research explores the evolution of morality, the pluralistic and normative nature of human folk psychology, animal cognition, and normativity in human and nonhuman animals.
This seminar is part of The Reading Centre for Cognition Research’s 2021 Summer Seminar Series: Understanding ourselves and others: reasoning and rationality
The aim of this seminar series is to explore these newer approaches to reasoning and rationality, looking at cutting edge work in the area and asking what these moves might tell us about how we go about understanding the actions of others and ourselves.
A standard picture of humans as generally ordered and orderly thinkers has come under significant pressure in recent years, in particular from the work of Kahneman and others who have stressed our susceptibility to a range of cognitive traps (such as framing or bias). Although the claim commonly associated with this school of thought – that we are ‘predictably irrational’, in Ariely’s phrase – has been rejected by many, even those who seek to defend our status as good reasoners often suggest a more complex and potentially messy set of processes, mechanisms and features than those standardly appealed to in classic folk psychological approaches.
All welcome!
If you have any questions, please email Emma Borg e.g.n.borg@reading.ac.uk
Microsoft Teams meeting – join here
research.reading.ac.uk/cognition-research/

Online Panel: Experimental publishing and alternative networked cultures
2021-04-29 17:00 - 19:00
The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing is hosting an online panel on ‘Experimental publishing and alternative networked cultures’. The panel will be convened by Ruth Blacksell and Lozana Rossenova with contributions from Karen Di Franco, Aymeric Mansoux, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak.
The emergence of experimental post-digital publishing over the past decade has opened up new modes and methods of design practice that have allowed for extended relationships between social and media environments. This panel discussion draws on historical as well as contemporary references to examine such approaches through a range of perspectives, spanning the fields of art, graphic design, digital media and software development. The projects and practices discussed in the presentations and subsequent Q&A will consider the shift away from fixed to more fluid forms of publication and acts of publishing that are contingent upon networked, interactive and hybrid (digital/analog) contexts. Presentations will examine the links between conceptual and performance art practices from the 1960s, which fed into critical debates in art and design discourse – vis-a-vis the role of the active audience/reader/user – emerging in the 1980s and ‘90s with the broader availability of desktop computing and networked communications. Alongside these developments, a thriving landscape of grassroots publishing and alternative networked social relations, with roots in 1960s counterculture, continues to disrupt and re-examine conventions of authorship, copyright, design, dissemination and reception. Looking at practices, processes and projects that embrace and reflect back on a variety of strategies including collaboration, participation and anonymity, as well as forms that can be permanent or transient, provisional and iterative, in nature, this event proposes the need for new, cross-disciplinary vocabularies to enter traditional discourses relating to publishing as practice.
For more information on the contributors, please visit: https://research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-book-cultures-and-publishing/event/online-panel-discussion-experimental-publishing-and-alternative-networked-cultures/
This online event is free and open to all. Please register your interest to receive a personal invitation: https://bit.ly/3sVPgVC

CFAC presents Shulie (Dir. Elisabeth Subrin, 1997)
2021-04-29 19:00 - 20:30
Thursday 29th April 2021, 7-8:30pm (online)
The Centre for Film and Aesthetic Cultures (CFAC) at the University of Reading is delighted to host an online screening of Shulie, a shot-by-shot remake of an obscure 1967 documentary on Shulamith Firestone, an American art student who was on the cusp of becoming a major figure within the newly resurgent women’s movement with her 1970 work, The Dialectic of Sex. Director Elisabeth Subrin will join feminist scholars Natalie Thomlinson and Rachel Garfield in conversation after the screening to discuss the legacy of both the film and of Firestone. Called ‘a thing of wonder’ by the New Yorker, Shulie raises fascinating questions about the sometimes difficult place of the feminist past in the feminist present that are still central today, and, in the director’s own words, seeks to ‘investigate the mythos and residue of the late 60s’.
For more information please visit the CFAC website.
This event will take place via Zoom. Please register for a space on the Eventbrite page here for details of how to access the meeting: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shulie-with-q-and-a-with-director-elisabeth-subrin-tickets-148189810713

The logic of universalization guides moral judgment (RCCR Summer Seminar Series)
2021-05-04 17:00 - 18:30 | Microsoft Teams
The logic of universalization guides moral judgment, Fiery Cushman
Fiery Cushman is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, where he directs the Moral Psychology Research Laboratory. His research addresses the balance between learned and innate contributions to cognition; the human capacity to explain, predict and evaluate others’ behavior; and the architecture of learning and decision-making in a social context.
This seminar is part of The Reading Centre for Cognition Research’s 2021 Summer Seminar Series: Understanding ourselves and others: reasoning and rationality
The aim of this seminar series is to explore these newer approaches to reasoning and rationality, looking at cutting edge work in the area and asking what these moves might tell us about how we go about understanding the actions of others and ourselves.
A standard picture of humans as generally ordered and orderly thinkers has come under significant pressure in recent years, in particular from the work of Kahneman and others who have stressed our susceptibility to a range of cognitive traps (such as framing or bias). Although the claim commonly associated with this school of thought – that we are ‘predictably irrational’, in Ariely’s phrase – has been rejected by many, even those who seek to defend our status as good reasoners often suggest a more complex and potentially messy set of processes, mechanisms and features than those standardly appealed to in classic folk psychological approaches.
All welcome!
If you have any questions, please email Emma Borg e.g.n.borg@reading.ac.uk
Microsoft Teams meeting – join here
research.reading.ac.uk/cognition-research/

Online panel: Translation outreach in schools and the move online
2021-05-05 18:00 - 19:30
This online panel event is free and open to all. Please register your interest to receive a personal invitation: https://bit.ly/3wzSYGK
The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing and Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism at the University of Reading, in partnership with Outside in World, the organisation dedicated to promoting and exploring world literature and children’s books in translation, are delighted to invite you to a free online panel event on translation outreach in schools.
Translation workshops and activities with schools are a powerful way to nurture new linguists, promote understanding of multilingualism, raise confidence among multilingual students, and foster inclusive thinking. The panel brings together some of the most exciting people and organisations currently working with schools on translation, and whose activities encompass a wide range of perspectives and languages, including Arabic, French, German, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish, and Urdu. Their discussion will reflect on how the move online during the Covid-19 pandemic has generated new ways of working, new opportunities for collaboration, and new resources accessible for teachers.
This event is aimed at teachers of languages across primary and secondary schools, Key Stages 2-5, covering both Modern Foreign Languages and work with learners who have English as an Additional Language. It will also appeal to librarians, educators and all who are interested in translation for children. Participants will learn about some of the major initiatives being led in schools to promote multilingualism and intercultural awareness, and gain ideas and new digital resources for their teaching practice.
Speakers:

Sarah Ardizzone is an award-winning translator from French. Co-founder of Translators in Schools, the Stephen Spender Trust’s flagship education programme, Sarah also consults for its Creative Translation in the Classroom programme. She is a long-term contributor to Pop Up Festivals, including the forthcoming Pop Up Festival of Multilingual Literature.
Gitanjali Patel is a translator, social researcher and co-founder of Shadow Heroes. This organisation explores translation as a social justice practice in schools workshops and training for translators.
Greet Pauwelijn is a linguist, translator and founder of Book Island, an independent publisher known for its beautifully-illustrated and thought-provoking picture books from around the world.
Charlotte Ryland is Director of the Stephen Spender Trust, a charity whose mission includes promoting literary translation and multilingualism. The Trust is currently co-curating the forthcoming Pop Up Festival of Multilingual Literature. She founded the Queen’s College Translation Exchange in 2018, with the aim of bringing multilingual creativity and culture to people of all ages, in particular to inspire young language-learners to continue with their studies through GCSE, A Level and beyond.

Chair:

Clémentine Beauvais is an award-winning writer for children and young adults in French, and a literary translator from English to French. She is Senior Lecturer in English in Education at the University of York.

This event is part of an ongoing seminar series on translation for children led by the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing in partnership with Outside in World. To be kept updated on the series, register your interest here.

Royal Economic Society Annual Public Lecture 2021: Why digital is so disruptive
2021-05-06 13:00 - 14:30
The Royal Economic Society is pleased to announce that the RES Annual Public Lecture will be held online on Thursday 6 May between 1pm – 2.30pm. Bookings are now open.
Established in 2001, our Annual Public Lecture provides an opportunity for school students to watch internationally-renowned economists present their research. Principally aimed at sixth form students, the APL has become an established part of the senior school calendar. This year’s event will be online and co-hosted by the University of Reading and the University of York.
This year’s lecture will be chaired by RES President Dame Carol Propper and delivered by Prof. Diane Coyle CBE, Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Why digital is so disruptive: The Internet can be traced back to 1969, the World Wide Web to 1990, and iPhone to 2007 – yet it is only in the past few years that “digital disruption” has become a big theme in business. In this lecture, Diane Coyle, Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, and an expert on the digital economy, will explore why digital technology is rewiring the economy – especially now so much activity has been driven online – what economists are learning about its consequences, and how economic policies need to change.
Partners: Royal Economic Society and University of York
For more information please click here.
