CINN neuromethods: The role of isothiocyanates in health & food preference
2021-04-15 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | 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.

CINNergies Reading Club - Philosophy of science: do physiology and psychology align?
2021-05-07 09:00 - 12:00 | Microsoft Teams
CINNergies Reading Club
Philosophy of science: do physiology and psychology align?

7th May 2021: 0900-1200 BST
CINNergies are hosting a reading club and debate on the “Brain-Cognitive behaviour problem”. This debate is set to get to the heart of the challenges and potential benefits of interdisciplinary research.
According to nature research: “Cognitive neuroscience is the field of study focusing on the neural substrates of mental processes. It is at the intersection of psychology and neuroscience, but also overlaps with physiological psychology, cognitive psychology and neuropsychology. It combines the theories of cognitive psychology and computational modelling with experimental data about the brain.”
But can this scientific field successfully navigate the complex interdisciplinarity of the issues it is set out to investigate?
Sign up here and see below to access some of the resources we’ll be discussing.

Articles to read
Podcasts to listen to
Webinars to watch

György Buzsáki
The Brain–Cognitive Behavior Problem: A Retrospective

Russ Poldrack
Cognitive Ontologies
(Brain Inspired)

Russ Poldrak
The measurement crisis in cognitive neuroscience
(Reading Emotions 2020)

David Poeppel and Federico Adolfi
Against the Epistemological Primacy of the Hardware: The Brain from Inside Out, Turned Upside Down

György Buzsáki and David Poeppel
(Brain Inspired)

Anastasia Christakou
From molecules to mind

Shimon Marom
Dialogue Across Chasm: Are Psychology and Neurophysiology Incompatible?

CINNergies, part of the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics (CINN), is a creative and diverse community of early career researchers who share an openness for and motivation to engage in interdisciplinary research.

Fairbrother Lecture: Living with More than One Language - The Effects of Bilingualism on Mind and Brain
2021-05-11
Dr Toms Voits, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Language is frequently in the headlines, from worries about people speaking too many languages or too few, to questions of whether bilingualism protects against cognitive decline in later life. Bilingualism has featured prominently in language debates, with stories often over-simplifying a more complex picture.
Join former Reading doctoral researcher Toms Voits on a journey through the uniqueness and complexity of the human brain’s capacity for language. This public lecture will introduce the ways in which two or more languages co-habit within a single mind, how processing allows languages to compete and co-operate, and the much-debated effects of bilingualism on mind and brain. With a focus on research on bilingualism in older adults, the lecture will examine some of the complexities that need to be unpicked in order to understand relationships between ageing, cognitive health and language.
*Due to current restrictions, this year’s Fairbrother Lecture will be delivered as a pre-recorded film that can be viewed online at any time after its release on Tuesday 11 May.
To sign up to receive the link to view the lecture recording please visit the Events page.
For further information contact Dr Joanna John.
For information on Fairbrother Lectures in other years see previous events.

Why do humans reason? (RCCR Summer Seminar Series)
2021-05-11 17:00 - 18:30 | Microsoft Teams
Why do humans reason? Hugo Mercier
Hugo Mercier is a research scientist at the CNRS (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris), where his work with the Evolution and Social Cognition team and the Collective Intelligence team has focused on two main topics: The function and workings of reasoning (see The Enigma of Reason) and How we evaluate communicated information (see Not Born Yesterday).
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/

Spring Online Alumni Lecture Series: COVID – Stories from the Frontline – Culture Shock: How COVID has changed the arts
2021-05-13 18:30 - 19:30
COVID-19 has caused havoc and upheaval in ways no-one could have foreseen. In our spring online Alumni Lecture Series, we welcome University of Reading graduates from diverse backgrounds and industries to share their experiences and expertise on how the global pandemic has changed their sectors.
The global pandemic has had a devastating impact on the cultural sector – both in the UK and around the world. Diverse activities from live performances and theatre productions to exhibitions and galleries, have seen revenue fall dramatically as venues have closed their doors and gatherings have been limited by lockdowns and social distancing.
University of Reading Vice-Chancellor, Professor Robert Van de Noort wil be joined by successful music agent and executive, Reading graduate Emma Banks (BSc Food Science, 1989), who will share her experiences of how COVID-19 has impacted the music industry. This online discussion will provide an insight into what Emma thinks the short and long-term consequences are for the industry and what lessons she’s learnt from the pandemic.
Emma works for Creative Artists Agency (CAA) – a leading entertainment and sports agency – where she represents many of the world’s leading musicians, including Katy Perry, Muse, Arcade Fire, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Florence + The Machine, and Kylie Minogue.
Attendance free, but booking essential.

Horticultural Quality and Food Loss Network Sandpit Event
2021-05-18 09:00 - 12:30
The Horticultural Quality and Food Loss Network (HortQFLNet) is holding an online Sandpit Event on 18 May (09:00-12:30pm).
This is an opportunity to learn more about the Network and the 2021 Funding Call, meet and network with fellow academic researchers and industry partners, talk to the 2020 Cohort about their experiences of putting together a research proposal and find out ‘What makes the perfect research proposal’.
The Sandpit is open to all – please register here if you would like to attend.
Further information about the Network and Funding Opportunities can be found at HortQFLNet’s website. Please address any specific questions to Jane Bradbeer, Network Manager (SCFP) via info@foodlossnetwork.com.
Follow the Network on Twitter (@HortQFLNet) or connect with us on LinkedIn.

Normative folk psychology and decision theory (RCCR Summer Seminar Series)
2021-05-18 17:00 - 18:30 | Microsoft Teams
Normative folk psychology and decision theory, Joe Dewhurst
Joe Dewhurst is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, where he is working on a perspectival account of mechanistic functions in biology and cognitive science, as well as related projects on emergence and autonomy in the special sciences.
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/

Pictures on the Move - Infringement of Images
2021-05-19 16:00 - 18:30
Centre for Film Aesthetics and Cultures (CFAC) presents an Online Film Screening & Discussion Event
Wednesday 19th May 2021
Film Screening available from 4pm. Please watch here on Vimeo
Discussion Event 5pm to 6.30pm
Please register here on Eventbrite
Contributors to the Discussion Event:

Gertrud Koch
James Hellings
Katja Müller-Helle
Johannes Maier

For more information please visit the CFAC event page
To view the HUO (trailer) visit https://vimeo.com/539573503

Conversational experiments: some reflections on Sperber and Mercier (RCCR Summer Seminar Series)
2021-05-25 17:00 - 18:30 | Microsoft Teams
Conversational experiments: some reflections on Sperber and Mercier
Kathryn Francis, Hamish Greening, Nat Hansen
Kathryn Francis is a Lecturer in Psychology, University of Keele, Nat Hansen is Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Reading. Hamish Greening was Research Assistant on Hansen’s project ‘New Online Methods in Experimental Philosophy of Language’.
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/

Reading Assembly: Care
2021-05-27 08:00 - 2021-05-28 20:00 | Online event
What does caring mean to you? How has your understanding of ‘care’ changed in the last year?
Reading Assembly: Care is bringing together artists, social researchers and members of the local community to share their own memories and stories of care.
Join us for a lively programme of online workshops and discussions on 27 and 28 May 2021.

Online – Register here
Full programme online – highlights include:
THURSDAY 27 MAY

Defying the distance: Sustainable letters for loved ones: A workshop-based session of crafting seed paper to create plantable messages. 12:00-13:00
Cooking and Care: A workshop exploring the relationship between cooking, comfort and care. 13:00-15:00
A Walk With Nature: A workshop to creatively enhance your lockdown daily walks by producing artwork inspired by nature. 16:00-17:00

FRIDAY 28 MAY

Architecture Cares: A workshop to rework the ‘map of care’ created by students from the School of Architecture, remapping the city of Reading together. 12:00-13:00
Sounding Out: Listening Session: An audio play ‘Walking the Wing’ about incarceration during the COVID-19 pandemic, created with men serving prison sentences and prison staff. The play will be followed by a discussion with the makers. 17:00-18:00
What is the sound of care and solidarity? Open listening session with Reading Refugee Support Group and Ultra-red sound artist activist collective. 18:00-20:00

Understanding ourselves and others: reasoning and rationality (RCCR Summer Seminar Series)
2021-06-08 17:00 - 18:30 | Microsoft Teams
Understanding ourselves and others: reasoning and rationality (summing up), Emma Borg
Reflections on this year’s Summer Seminar Series from Emma Borg, 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/

London and the Peasants' Revolt: the People of 1381
2021-06-15 18:00
15 June 2021 marks the 640th anniversary of the meeting of Richard II at Smithfield with Wat Tyler and his fellow rebels – a key event in the Peasants’ Revolt. An exciting new research project, ‘The People of 1381’ at the Universities of Reading (Adrian Bell and Herbert Eiden), Oxford (Helen Lacy and Helen Killick), Glasgow (Andrew Prescott) and Southampton (Anne Curry, and Ian Waldock and Jason Sadler of Geodata), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, is underway. It has a ‘history from below’ approach, using legal and manorial records to explore those involved in the revolt. Currently we are tweeting the events of the revolt in this anniversary year (@peopleof1381 #reliving1381)
We are delighted to invite you all to our webinar organised through the Worshipful Company of Fletchers which is celebrating its own 650th anniversary in 2021 and of which Anne Curry is currently Master. We are also delighted that the Aldermanic Sheriff of the City of London, Michael Mainelli, will be introducing our talk.
Please join us on 15 June 2021 at 6 pm for London and the Peasants’ Revolt: the People of 1381. ‘Doors’ open at 5.40 pm UK time
For more information and details of how to join, please visit http://www.1381.online/media/?story_id=48

Being multilingual: Perspectives from language, education, health, neuroscience, migration
2021-06-16 18:00 - 19:00
CeLM Showcase: Language and Literacy, 16 June, 6-7pm BST
Do multilinguals think about space and time differently in their languages? What is the relationship between language learning and creativity? What happens in the brain when we learn new words, and how does neuro-degenerative disease affect multilingual speakers? How can photography address the experience of multilingual migrants and refugees?
The Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) will be addressing these exciting questions in a series of five short online events. Join us to find out about the latest research on what it means to be multilingual today.
Each event will take place online on a Wednesday evening (6-7pm) from 16th June – 14th July, 2021. In each talk, we will provide an overview of our research in different areas, and discuss some example projects. All events are free, but you will need to pre-register here.
16th June, Language and Literacy
23rd June, Education
30th June, Migration
7th July, Neuroscience
14th July, Health
For more information, please visit the CeLM website

Being multilingual: Perspectives from education
2021-06-23 18:00 - 19:00
CeLM Showcase: Education, 23 June, 6-7pm BST
Being multilingual: Perspectives from language, education, health, neuroscience, migration
Do multilinguals think about space and time differently in their languages? What is the relationship between language learning and creativity? What happens in the brain when we learn new words, and how does neuro-degenerative disease affect multilingual speakers? How can photography address the experience of multilingual migrants and refugees?
The Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) will be addressing these exciting questions in a series of five short online events. Join us to find out about the latest research on what it means to be multilingual today.
Each event will take place online on a Wednesday evening (6-7pm) from 16th June – 14th July, 2021. In each talk, we will provide an overview of our research in different areas, and discuss some example projects. All events are free, but you will need to pre-register here.
16th June, Language and Literacy
23rd June, Education
30th June, Migration
7th July, Neuroscience
14th July, Health
For more information, please visit the CeLM website.

Arts@Foxhill presents: Multidisciplinary Student Staff Symposium on 'Hope'
2021-06-24 13:00 - 15:00
Arts@Foxhill presents: Multidisciplinary Student Staff Symposium on ‘Hope’
The event will celebrate student submissions to our Arts@Foxhill competition 2021 on ‘Hope’ and reflect in a multidisciplinary webinar on the role of hope during a global pandemic, in the fight for equality and social justice, as part of personal development, etc. Students will present/recite their artwork, including paintings, digital art, text, photography, and poetry. Academics of various parts of the UoR (including Classics, Construction Management and Engineering, Education, Law, Pharmacy and Psychology) will address the theme ‘Hope’ from the perspective of their research/discipline. Come along to an exciting and (hopefully!) uplifting event!
Thursday, 24 June, 1-3pm
This event will be held on Microsoft Teams, please find a link here
For all enquiries, please contact Dr Anne Thies, School of Law, Arts@Foxhill

Reading Woolf in Europe
2021-06-25 - 2021-06-26
Reading Woolf in Europe aims to foster a critical discussion on the cultural mediation of Woolf in European countries and languages with specific focus on how literary institutions (publishing houses and book series, literary periodicals), literary agents (translators, literary agents, editors), and the composite sociocultural factors driving the selection, production, and publication of Woolf’s works “socially framed” the reading of her works and shaped her readers through processes of popularization and canonization in the literary systems in Europe.
Keynote speakers: Claire Davison (Professor of Modernist Studies at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), Nadia Fusini (Professor of Comparative Literature at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), Daniel Göske (Professor for American Literature at Universität Kassel), and Laura Lojo-Rodríguez (Senior lecturer at the University of Santiago de Compostela).
Organizers: Elisa Bolchi, Daniela La Penna, Nicola Wilson
View the programme here.
For further details, please visit: https://research.reading.ac.uk/italian-woolf/conference/
To register, please visit: https://www.eventbrite.it/e/reading-woolf-in-europe-registration-154530710515

JAB Showcase Event
2021-06-25 12:00 - 18:00
The Joint Academic Board of the University and Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust are running a showcase event on 25 June 2021. Please see below for more information.
Date: 25 June 2021 at 12pm-6pm
More information to follow.

Politics, Religion and Objects
2021-06-30 11:00 - 13:15 | Online event
Joint British Museum – University of Reading Webinar
This joint event celebrates the opening of the British Museum exhibition, ‘Thomas Becket – Murder and the Making of a Saint’. The exhibition focuses on connections between politics, religion and objects, which we take as the starting point to open discussions in a range of cultural and historical contexts.
Please email the Research Deans’ Office to register and receiving joining instructions.
Programme:
11.00 Lloyd DeBeer and Naomi Speakman (British Museum): ‘Becket and the Recusants: St Thomas of Canterbury in the late 16th century’
11.20 Sebastien Rey (British Museum): ‘The Statue of the Praying Ruler Gudea and its Temple Plan: Ritual, Performance and Politics in Ancient Sumer’
11.40 Rachel Mairs (Classics, University of Reading): ‘Zeus and the Buddha: The Religious Politics of Indo-Greek Coins’
12.00 break (15 minutes)
12.15 Imma Ramos (British Museum): ‘Tantra and revolution in colonial India’
12.35 Alanna Cant (Archaeology, University of Reading): ‘Negotiating the sacred-historic in Mexican Catholic material heritage’
12.55 closing discussion
13.15 end
