Why Are We All Not Equal?
2021-02-03 19:00 - 20:00 (Europe/London)
Why Are We All Not Equal? Annual Wolfenden Lecture with special guest, Hafsa Qureshi, Stonewall Bi Role Model of the Year 2019.
As a modern society, we treat the problem of inequality as a thing of the past. This lecture will work to dispel the notion that equality has been achieved. We will look at the ways society has adapted the way we discriminate against one another, and what we can do to oppose this.
This special event is named in memory of Lord Wolfenden, who was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Reading from 1950-64. Lord Wolfenden chaired a committee that wrote the 1957 ‘Wolfenden Report’, a key milestone in LGBT+ history in the UK.

Facial Disfigurement and Madness in Early Modern Britain: Reconsidering Arise Evans
2021-02-10 13:00 - 14:00
Centre for Health Humanities Online Seminars: ‘Facial Disfigurement and Madness in Early Modern Britain: Reconsidering Arise Evans’, Emily Cock, Cardiff University
To join, email a.s.mangham@reading.ac.uk
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Sport and COVID: What do we know?
2021-02-10 19:00 - 20:00
Sport and COVID: What do we know?
University of Reading Public Lecture by Professor James Reade (Economics)
Sport, like most aspects of our lives, has been heavily disrupted by Covid-19. Even as a vaccine begins to be rolled out, sporting events are being cancelled, rescheduled, or adapted to fit Covid-19. Sport without fans has become normal, yet before March 2020 less than 200 elite football matches had ever taken place without fans in the stadium. Removing all fans has affected sports clubs financially, and arguably also on the field – a number of academic studies have shown that this affects outcomes, especially for the visiting team. Sports events are mass events, and before now scant attention has been paid to their potential public health risk. Yet how much did they contribute to the first wave? Have they contributed at all in the second one?
In this talk Professor James Reade, Head of Department of Economics, will review the evidence that has been accumulated over the last year.

Human Geography Seminar Series – Spring 2021
2021-02-11 13:00 - 14:00
Human Geography Seminar Series – Spring 2021
We have a great line-up of speakers for the spring term:
11 February, 1-2pm: Thematic collages in participatory photography. Dr Grady Walker, University of Reading
25 February, 1-2pm: The Labour of Hope: meritocracy and neoliberal disconnection in post-revolutionary Egypt. Dr Harry Pettit, University of Reading
4 March, 1-2pm: “A riot in Shoeton”: Violence, insecurity and post-socialist geographies of racism. Dr Matej Blazek, Newcastle University
18 March, 1-2pm: Feeding the world Silicon Valley-style: Place, protein and promise. Dr Alex Sexton, University of Sheffield.
22 April, 1-2pm: Dr Sylvia Jaworska, University of Reading. Topic TBC
All sessions will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please email Ruth Evans (r.evans@reading.ac.uk) for more information.

Human Geography & Global Development Seminar
2021-02-11 13:00 - 14:00
Join us for the first Human Geography & Global Development online seminar this term. Grady Walker, Walker Institute, will be presenting on: Thematic collages in participatory photography: A process for understanding the adoption of Zero Budget Natural Farming in India.
11th February 2021 1-2 pm – join via Microsoft Teams
Please click for a link to the poster

Histories of Development and Change
2021-02-12 13:00 - 14:30
A Global Development Research Division workshop
Details to follow

Children's Literature in Translation: A window into the cultural changes of '68
2021-02-22 18:00 - 19:30
Children’s literature in translation: a window into the cultural changes of ’68
Dr Sophie Heywood
International Mother Language Day Annual Public Lecture
The Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) and the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (CBCP) are delighted to invite you to our annual public lecture celebrating International Mother Language Day at the University of Reading.
Books play an important role in our understanding of how society changes, both at the time of the change and in the long view of historical events. In this public lecture Dr Sophie Heywood will illustrate how the global upheaval caused by the protest movements of 1968 fuelled an explosion of radical creativity in children’s literature. By tracing the journeys of key books such as Where the Wild Things Are and The Little Red Schoolbook as they travelled across different countries, Dr Heywood will explore the crucial role that translations and cultural exchange played in the ‘children’s ’68’. How did concepts of what was ‘radical’ in children’s books change across time, place and context? And what were the long-term legacies of this watershed moment on children’s culture in Europe?
This online event is free and open to all. Please register your interest to receive a personal invitation: http://bit.ly/2KYp9N6
For further information please see the event information

Regenerative Agriculture Managing the Farm Carbon Footprint
2021-02-23 17:00 - 18:00
Regenerative Agriculture Managing the Farm Carbon Footprint
Annual Edith Mary Gayton Lecture, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development
Speaker: Jake Freestone, Farm Manager at Overbury Farms
Details to follow
To register please contact Teresa Hicks at
t.m.hicks@reading.ac.uk or telephone 0118 378 8152

The Making of Dominion: An interview with Tom Holland
2021-02-23 19:00 - 20:00
The Making of Dominion: An interview with Tom Holland
Annual Chaplaincy Lecture, University of Reading
Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster. During this online event, he will be discussing his most recent work, ‘Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind’.
‘If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed’, Sunday Times History Book of the Year.
Previous works by Tom Holland include studies of Rome, Greece, Persia, and early Islam: examples include Rubicon: The Triumph and the Tragedy of the Roman Republic; Persian Fire; and In the Shadow of the Sword.
Holland has adapted Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Virgil for the BBC and his translation of Herodotus was published in 2013 by Penguin Classics.
He is presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Making History and has written and presented a number of TV documentaries, for the BBC and Channel 4, on subjects ranging from Isis to dinosaurs.
Attendance free, but booking essential.

Meteorological Masterclass: Flood Forecasting Hours to Months Ahead
2021-02-24 15:00 - 16:30 | Online event
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.
Part of the University of Reading /Royal Meteorological Society Masterclass Series: Anticipating floods, droughts and heatwaves. Forthcoming dates include:
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 most 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.
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.

Harry Pettit Seminar, Thursday 25 February, 1-2pm
2021-02-25 13:00 - 14:00
Join us for our next Human Geography & Global Development online seminar this term.
Harry Pettit, David Robins Fellow in Urban Geography, University of Reading, will be presenting on: The Labour of Hope: meritocracy and neoliberal disconnection in post-revolutionary Egypt
Session:
Thursday 25 February 2021 at 1-2pm
Link to join

School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences - Spring Term Seminars
2021-02-25 13:00 - 14:00
Please find below a list of events arranged by the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences in the Spring Term. All sessions will be hosted on Microsoft Teams.
Sessions:
Thursday 25 February at 1pm-2pm – ‘Effects of Age and Education on Language and Cognition’, Alexandre Nikolaev and Christos Pliatsikas. Link to join

In my presentation I will discuss effects that older age and education demonstrate across domains of language and cognition: whether these domains show a) different effects of age and education, b) similar patterns of age-related change over time, and c) whether education moderates the rate of decline in these domains. I will also discuss language decline related to abnormal ageing in people with Alzheimer’s disease or mild cognitive impairment.

Thursday 4th March at 1pm-2pm – ‘Synthetic Datasets’, Dan Quintana and Lily Fitzgibbon. Link to join

Dan Quintana from the University of Oslo will deliver his workshop on the creation of synthetic datasets for sharing the properties of a dataset while eliminating disclosure risk.

Thursday 11th March at 12pm-1pm – ‘Enhancing Diversity Training in Policing’, Netta Weinstein, Carien van Reekum. Link to join

Prejudice continues to be a widespread problem in policing and other workplaces. In responding to this problem, billions are spent to develop and deliver diversity training meant to reduce employees’ prejudice. However, research findings, including in policing, show these attempts fail to produce meaningful change in attitudes and behaviour. This talk will describe the problem, explore solutions based in motivation science, and share the reasons for, and challenges of, testing these questions in real-world settings such as in police forces.

Thursday 11th March at 1pm-2pm – ‘Sex Differences in Interoceptive Abilities’, Jenny Murphy, Christos Pliatsikas. Link to join
Thursday 18th March at 12pm-1pm, ‘Developing an Open Research RRDP Course’, Lily Fitzgibbon. Link to join

In this special session, we will spend the hour working in small groups to draft a short course on Open Research to be delivered as an RRDP course for PhD students. Materials will also be available for those wishing to bring Open Research into their undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.

Thursday 25th March at 1pm-2pm, ‘What’s the Point of Qualitative Research’, Kate Harvey, Christos Pliatsikas. Link to join

I joined SPCLS nearly twenty years ago from a Health Services Research background, where qualitative research is widely used and highly valued. I was surprised to be met with considerable scepticism about qualitative approaches, and debate about whether they could even be considered “psychology”. Fast forward twenty years, and I’ve collaborated with numerous colleagues who discovered their research question might be best addressed using qualitative methods. Today I’ll be presenting some of that research and illustrating how qualitative approaches can progress our understanding of complex issues from child and adolescent mental health to food poverty, plus lots in between.

‘Sniffin’ Glue and Ripped & Torn: Two cases studies as to why fanzines matter
2021-02-25 17:00 - 18:00
Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing Seminar: ‘Sniffin’ Glue and Ripped & Torn: Two cases studies as to why fanzines matter’, Professor Matthew Worley (History)
This online research seminar will focus on Sniffin’ Glue and Ripped & Torn, two of the most influential fanzines to emerge through British punk in 1976-77. The objective is to use case studies to demonstrate the possibilities and limitations of fanzines as a cultural form, exploring the motivation that inspired their creation and their means of production. Attention will be given to the content of the fanzines, revealing how they provided a space for engagement, a mechanism for agency, and a medium to construct cultural meaning. From this, the benefit to the historian should be clear as semi-private/semi-public ideas in the process of becoming offer us insight into cultural histories formulating ‘from below’.

Matthew Worley is Professor of Modern History at the University of Reading.

Please join the seminar here using Microsoft Teams.

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Human Geography Online Seminar: Matej Blazek, 4 March 1-2pm
2021-03-04 13:00 - 14:00
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

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
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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
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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
