Mathematical Modelling of Immunoglobulin Class Switching
2018-11-13 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/London) | M212, WhiteKnights, Reading, RG6 6AX, United Kingdom
Department of Mathematics and Statistics Seminar Series – Autumn 2018
Mathematical Biology Group Meeting
Osamah Alayafi – University of Reading
For further information, please email maths@reading.ac.uk or telephone 0118 378 8996

Political Voices: A View Across The Border - In Conversation With Danny Kinahan
2018-11-13 16:15 - 17:30 | Edith Morley, Room G25, Edith Morley Building, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
On November 13, the Politics and IR Research Seminar will be a little different. As part of marking UK Parliament Week, we have invited former Ulster Unionist MP and MLA member Danny Kinahan to share his views and insight on the thorny problems of Northern Ireland and Brexit.
In accepting the invitation, Danny said: “It makes obvious sense to discuss Northern Ireland and Brexit now. That means explaining our electoral system and how we got to where we are – and how we manage our way through this quagmire.”
Danny will present his thoughts and will be happy to take questions from staff and students alike. The event will start at 4.15 and conclude by 5.30pm. It is open to all students and staff.

Discussion and Debate: Faith In A Changing World
2018-11-13 18:00 - 20:00 | Henley Business School, Room G11, Henley Business School, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
Interfaith Week 2018
Politically and socially, the world has changed over the last few years in ways that few could predict. In this complex and fast-changing world, what is the place of religious faith? How have world religions contributed and reacted to social and political changes in recent times? How do believers of different kinds interpret these events and what suggestions do various faith paths have for finding a way forwards?
At this event, which is being held in Interfaith week 2018, representatives from different world religions, including Rabbi Jonathan Romain (Maidenhead Synagogue) and Rt Revd Andrew Proud (Bishop of Reading) provide their own perspectives and answer questions from the audience.
Admission free. Booking essential.
To book your place visit www.reading.ac.uk/events

Putting Things in the Right Place: How do bacteria get organised?
2018-11-14 13:00 - 13:50 | Harborne Lecture Theatre, Harborne Building, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6UR
Professor Judith Armitage, University of Oxford
Putting things in the right place; How do bacteria get organised?
Lowry Lecture 2018, School of Biological Sciences,
Hosted by Prof Kim Watson

Real Estate and Planning research seminar - Affordability, Viability and the National Planning Policy Framework
2018-11-14 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker: Professor Antonia Layard, University of Bristol

Engaging with Policymakers
2018-11-14 13:30 - 16:00
Researcher Development Programme- Communications Training Sessions
At some point in their career, many researchers will be asked to provide advice to policymakers in government, the public sector or the private sector. In this session, we will discuss some of the different ways that researchers can engage with Westminster and with Whitehall. We will look at how policymakers access information to help them make decisions and explore some of the different routes that researchers can use to engage in parliamentary processes. We will also discuss how to write an impartial summary of your research and situate your work in a wider policy context. We will work with practical examples with plenty of time for discussion.
To book a place on this session, please contact peopledevelopment@reading.ac.uk

Vocabulary Learning Through Listening: Comparing L2 Explanations, Teachers Codeswitching, Contrastive Focus-on-Form and Incidental Learning
2018-11-15 13:00 - 14:00 | London Road, Building LO24, Room G06, 4 Redlands Road, Reading, RG1 5AQ, United Kingdom
Institute of Education Seminar Series- Autumn Term 2018
Dr Anthony Zhang, ECR
Please feel free to bring your lunch along to this event.

Political Voices: Dr Philip Lee MP On Brexit
2018-11-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Edith Morley Building, Van Emden Lecture Theatre, Edith Morley Building, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
Join us in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Reading to meet our latest ‘Political Voice’. Our guest is both the MP for Bracknell and a practising GP and until June he was a Junior Justice Minister in Theresa May’s Government. Yet this conservative loyalist chose to resign from government over the direction Theresa May’s team has set – and in particular over the Chequers proposal.
Phillip will be talking about this and about his views on Brexit overall and its impact on the UK. A keen sportsman, he’s not known for pulling political punches so there’s no doubt his talk and our open Q&A session will be compelling and challenging – who knows, it might even cross a few ‘red lines’.

Chemical and Physical Methods For Making Nanoparticles and Their Application, Especially In Heterogeneous Catalysis
2018-11-19 15:30 - 16:30 | Lecture Theatre G, Chemistry, Whiteknights Campus, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
Chemistry Seminar Series – Autumn 2018
Dr Peter Ellis and Dr Alistair Kean
All are welcome
For further information on this seminar contact b.l.parr@reading.ac.uk

Workshop: Creating an inclusive learning environment for pupils with visible differences
2018-11-20 16:30 - 18:00 | Edith Morley, Room G44, Edith Morley Building, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
For more information contact Dr Marjorie Gehrhardt.

Is Facial Prejudice The Last Taboo?
2018-11-20 19:30
We are all exposed to a visual diet that tells us that our happiness and success depend on our facial looks. James Partridge, founder of the charity Changing Faces, was severely injured in a car fire at the age of 18. He has since worked tirelessly to support people with unusual-looking faces and to raise awareness of our unconscious prejudice against facial disfigurement. He will share his inspiring story of challenging society to stop taking people at ‘face value’.
Health Humanities Public Lecture. Admission free. Register to attend this event here.
For more information contact Marjorie Gehrhardt at: languages@reading.ac.uk

Research Data Management: An Introduction
2018-11-21 09:30 - 11:30
Researcher Development Programme – Communications Training Sessions
The aim of this course is to introduce general principles and practices of research data management that will be applicable to researchers at all stages of their careers working with research data in any discipline, whether in the sciences, social sciences or humanities. The course will cover public funders’ and the University’s research data policies and requirements; data management plans for funding applications; ethics and legal compliance; storage, organisation and documentation of data; ownership of rights in data; data preservation and sharing.
To book a place on this session, please email peopledevelopment@reading.ac.uk

The Accuracy of Consensus Real Estate Forecasts Revisited
2018-11-21 13:00 - 14:00 | Henley Business School, Room G14, United Kingdom
Real Estate and Planning Research Seminar
Speaker: Professor Pat McAllister, University of Reading

Stakeholder Mapping for Research Staff
2018-11-21 13:30 - 16:00
Researcher Development Programme- Communications Training Sessions
Understanding your key stakeholders and what they want from your research is a fundamental part of any successful communications or engagement plan. This session will introduce some simple tools to help identify and prioritise potential stakeholders and to decide how best to work with them. We will use case studies from research teams across the University and live examples from participants to show how understanding your audiences can help you to improve your research and its impact. Led by Research Communications and Engagement team. This is a new session that is currently being developed.
Please reserve the date and time if you think this may be of interest to you, as it is not yet available to book via Employee Self Service.

Human Rights, Global Wrongs: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70
2018-11-21 19:30 | Palmer Building, Room G10, Palmer Building, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
Professor Rosa Freedman, School of Law
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was created in 1948, as a method to combat the horrors of Nazi Germany ever happening again. The Declaration sets out that there are fundamental rights that all people have by virtue of being born human. Seventy years later and we see violations of those rights across the world. Torture, enforced disappearances, gender-based violence, repression of political dissidents, and many more. Recent years have seen the rise of totalitarian regimes and of state-sponsored racism and xenophobia.

In this public lecture Professor Rosa Freedman will explain what human rights are, why they matter, and the challenges we face in ensuring that individuals have their fundamental rights protected.

Part of the University of Reading’s Public Lecture series
ADMISSION FREE – BOOKING ADVISABLE

Register to attend here.

LOB Research Seminar
2018-11-22 12:00 - 15:00 | Henley Business School, Room G10, Whiteknights, RG6 6AH
Leadership Organisations and Behaviour Research Seminar
Guest speaker Satish Nambisan

The Stenton Symposium
2018-11-22 13:00 - 17:00 | Palmer Building, Room 102, Palmer Building, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
English Royal Charters 1066-1215: Discoveries, Gaps and Opportunities
This symposium brings together half a dozen of the world’s leading experts on English twelfth-century history, to discuss the usefulness of charters as a historical source, and the possibilities for their future exploitation.
For further information contact execsupporthums@reading.ac.uk

Register to attend here

Coral Bleaching: A Global Perspective On Heat Stress Over Time
2018-11-22 14:00 | Meteorology Building, Room HP175, WhiteKnights Campus, Earley Gate, Reading, RG6 6BB, United Kingdom
Visiting Speaker – William Skirving, NOAA and University of Queensland, Australia

The Letters of England's Kings and Queens 1154-1215: A vast new resource?
2018-11-22 18:30
Professor Nicholas Vincent, University of East Anglia
University of Reading Stenton Lecture 2018
Oxford University Press is about to publish the largest corpus of charter materials (essentially the letters and title deeds) preserved for any twelfth-century king. The 4600 such instruments issued in the name of King Henry II not only outnumber those preserved for the kings of France and Germany combined but demonstrate the extent to which Henry II of England towered over his contemporaries and rivals. Ruler of the largest collection of lands assembled in the west since the fall of the empire of Charlemagne, Henry II was also a patron of literature and intellectuals. At the same time, he was notorious both as an unfaithful husband to his queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and as the reputed author of the murder of Thomas Becket, his archbishop of Canterbury. What does our new collection of materials, many of them previously unknown or unpublished, tell us that we did not previously know? What do the charters reveal, both of the extent of Henry’s grip on power, in England, France and Ireland, and of his more personal relations, not only with Becket but with a wider circle of courtiers? The result of more than forty years of scholarly endeavour, the publication of this vast new resource is likely to alter for ever our image of one of medieval Europe’s most fascinating kings.
Professor Nicholas Vincent has published a dozen books and some hundred academic articles on various aspects of English and European history in the 12th and 13th centuries, having arrived at Norwich via Oxford, Cambridge, Paris and Canterbury. He is currently finishing an edition of the charters of the Plantagenet kings and queens from Henry II to King John, and leads a major project researching the background to Magna Carta. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. Professor Vincent teaches courses in medieval European History and the Crusades, and a 3rd year special subject on the Norman Conquest of England. He also supervises graduate students in most subjects relating to English and European history 1000-1300AD.
Register to attend this lecture here.
With an accompanying symposium ‘English Royal Charters 1066 -1215: Discoveries, Gaps and Opportunities’

The Long Take: Origins and Endings in Film Noir
2018-11-24 16:30 - 20:00 | Minghella Studios, Minghella Building, Whiteknights Campus, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
On Saturday 24 November, the University’s Heritage & Creativity Institute for Collections is teaming up with Reading Film Theatre for a reading by acclaimed writer Robin Robertson, screening of the classic Orson Welles film ‘Touch of Evil’, and pop-up exhibition.
The Long Take
We welcome Robin Robertson who will read from his vivid verse novel ‘The Long Take’, winner of the Roehampton Poetry Prize, the Goldsmiths Prize, and shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize.
Robin Robertson will be joined in conversation with John Gibbs, Professor of Film, and Steven Matthews, Professor of English Literature to reflect on his use of noir style.
Touch of Evil
This will be followed by a rare opportunity to see the celebrated 1958 film noir, written, directed and co-starring Orson Welles, widely regarded as one of Welles’ best motion pictures and one of the best classic-era films noir.
Doors open at 16:30
ADMISSION FREE – BOOKING ESSENTIAL
Register to attend here
This event is part of the Being Human Festival, a national forum for public engagement with humanities research. This year the festival will feature innovative events and provoke debate around the theme of ‘Origins and Endings’.

Inorganic Metal-Fluoride Complexes- Toward Next Generation PET Imaging Radiotracers
2018-11-26 15:30 - 16:30
Chemistry Seminar Series – Autumn 2018
Professor Gill Reid- University of Southampton
All are welcome
For further information contact b.l.parr@reading.ac.uk

Biological Sciences Seminars Series
2018-11-27 13:00 - 13:50 | Harborne Lecture Theatre, Harborne Building, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6UR
School of Biological Sciences
Research Seminars Series – Autumn Term, 2018
Tuesdays 1:00- 1:50pm
Venue – Harborne Lecture Theatre, Harborne Building
Dr Chris Faulkes – Queen Mary University London
‘The extraordinary biology of the naked mole-rat: applications to biomedical research’
Hosted by Prof Ketan Patel

A Mathematical Model of the Role of Aggregation in Sonic Hedgehog Signalling
2018-11-27 13:00 - 14:00 | M212, WhiteKnights, Reading, RG6 6AX, United Kingdom
Department of Mathematics and Statistics Seminar Series – Autumn Term 2018
Mathematical Biology Group Meeting
Daniel Derrick – University of Reading
For further information about this seminar email; maths@reading.ac.uk or telephone; 0118 378 8996

Heritage and Creativity Academic Forum
2018-11-27 14:00 - 16:00 | ICMA G09, Henley Business School, University of Reading, Earley, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6BA, United Kingdom
Heritage and Creativity Academic Forum – Autumn, 2018
The Heritage and Culture academic forum will be focusing on the opportunities for using Digital Humanities methodologies and/technologies in research. The forum promises to provide stimulating ideas for application to arts and humanities research.
The forum will include:

Presentations by Jonathan Bignell (Film, Theatre and Television) and Rebecca Bullard (English Literature) reflecting on the impact that the Digital humanities at Oxford Summer School has had on their research, and understanding of Digital Humanities more widely.
An update on the Digital H&C project, including plans for DH consultancy to support H&C researchers.
Information on upcoming H&C pump-priming opportunities for DH.

Please contact the Research Deans Office – researchdeansoffice@reading.ac.uk to confirm a place at this session.

Compensating Human Rights Violations: Damages Before The European Court of Human Rights
2018-11-28 13:00 - 14:00 | Foxhill House, Room 1:04
The Ghandi Research Seminar Series
Dr Veronika Fikfak – University of Cambridge
Chair – Dr Ruvi Ziegler
Attendance is free
Visitors coming from outside the University of Reading are asked to send advanced notification of their attendance to globallaw@reading.ac.uk

The Ephemera of Food Packaging
2018-11-28 14:00 - 16:45 | Typography, TOB 2, Room T4, Earley Gate, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AU
Inspiration for using ephemera in your research and teaching

14.00 Introduction (Sue Walker)
14.10 The Brusson Company and baguette bags (Michael Twyman)
14.30 MERL Collections: milk bottles, Huntley and Palmer biscuit tins and more (Guy Baxter)
14.40 Health narratives on food labels 1850-1970 (Bodil Olsen)
15.00 Tea break
15.30 ‘The perfection of foods’: the marketing of cocoa in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (Julie-Anne Lambert)
15.50 What people respond to on food packaging (Alison Black)
16.00 Discussion

Research Paper and Social
2018-11-29 13:00 - 14:00
Institute of Education – Autumn 2018
Dr Alan Floyd
Please feel free to bring along lunch.

European Manuscripts Collection exhibition
2018-11-29 17:00 - 21:00 | MERL, London Rd Campus, RG1 5AQ, United Kingdom
On Thursday 29th November 2018 there will be the monthly extended opening hours at the MERL which see the Reading Room open until 9pm. November’s late opening hours will also feature a pop-up exhibition of the European Manuscripts Collection for the public in the MERL Learning Studio.
(University of Reading academics and PhD students are also invited to an ‘Open Afternoon’ with the European Manuscripts Collection from 3-5pm on the same day, in the same location)
Read more about the exciting new acquisition of the European Manuscripts Collection here: http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/special-collections/2018/09/important-new-acquisition-the-european-manuscripts-collection/

Reading 2050: Future Health and Quality of Life in Reading
2018-11-29 18:00 - 19:00
Please join Dr William Bird from Intelligent Health, for a lecture: ‘Future Health and Quality of Life in Reading’
The lecture is part of the ‘People and Lifestyle’ theme of the Reading 2050 lecture series, which provide a platform to discuss how Reading should evolve into a smarter and more sustainable city by 2050 (www.reading2050.co.uk )
Admission to the lecture is free.
The SBE, Barton Wilmore and Reading UK, established the Reading 2050 group in 2013. The Reading 2050 lecture series is structured around three themes, which underpin the Reading 2050 vision:
*Place and Environment
*People and Lifestyle
*Economy and Employment
In 2017, the School brought together expert speakers to discuss Reading’s heritage and history, the future of its transport and energy and the impact of climate change and floods. A discussion on Reading’s Art and Culture was facilitated earlier this year, and there are other Reading 2050 events planned for 2019.
https://livingreading.co.uk/publications-events

Biological Sciences Seminars Series
2018-12-04 13:00 - 13:50 | Harborne Lecture Theatre, Harborne Building, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6UR
School of Biological Sciences Research Seminars Series – Autumn Term, 2018
Dr Michael Stich- Aston University
‘Recent advances in biological modelling: Examples from supermolecular oscillations, RNA genotype-phenotype maps and biphasic lifespans’
Hosted by Dr Sillas Hadjiloucas
