Connecting Research

Conversational experiments: some reflections on Sperber and Mercier (RCCR Summer Seminar Series)
2021-05-25 17:00 - 18:30 (Europe/London) | 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 | Reading
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 | Reading
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 | Reading
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 | Reading
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
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 | Reading
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

Being multilingual: Perspectives from migration
2021-06-30 18:00 - 19:00 | Reading
CeLM Showcase: Migration, 30 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.

Reading Emotions 2021: Gut, brain, and affect
2021-07-05 - 2021-07-06 | Reading
Complex interactions between the resident bacteria in the gut and the host nervous system constitute one of the frontier areas of neuroscience. In the tenth anniversary meeting of Reading Emotions, we are delighted to welcome leading researchers from across the world to discuss how these interactions might be relevant for the study of emotions.
Phil Burnet, University of Oxford
John Cryan, University College Cork
Rochellys Diaz Heijtz, Karolinska Institutet
Sarkis Mazmanian, Caltech
Chair: Bhisma Chakrabarti, Professor of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Reading
Registration for this meeting is free, but places are limited. There are a limited number of slots for short talks. Please register here
Deadline for abstract submission: 25th May 2021

Research into action: Learning from REF 2021
2021-07-06 11:15 - 13:00 | Reading
Come and join us on Tuesday 6 July from 11.15 to 13.00 for our annual celebration of research engagement and impact across the University.
Our usual Research Engagement and Impact Awards have been postponed this year because lockdown disrupted so much activity. Instead we are taking the timely opportunity to reflect on our submission to REF2021, our impact case studies, and the work of some of our Early Career Researchers.
This online celebration will feature an overview of our REF submission and its strengths and highlights from Professor Dominik Zaum, followed by presentations and discussion of best practice case studies from REF across all our research themes. There will also be a discussion of how we can support engagement and impact in future as part of the new research strategy. We will finish off with the award of the 2021 Early Career Research Output Prizes.
Book your place now at the Research Engagement and Impact online celebration. A link to log in to the event will be sent nearer the time.
Outline programme

1115
Welcome and Overview of REF Submission
Professor Dominik Zaum, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research & Innovation)

1130
Impact case studies: Engagement as best practice

1210
Panel discussion: Pathways to impact – learning from REF 2021

1240
Engaged Research and Excellence: Following on from the REF
Professor Parveen Yaqoob, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research & Innovation)
ECR Output Prize Awards presentation

1255
Ends

Prizes for Early Career Research Outputs 2021

Agriculture, Food & Health: Az Alddien Natfji for his article, ‘Conjugation of haloperidol to PEG allows peripheral localisation of haloperidol and eliminates CNS extrapyramidal effects’, (Journal of Controlled Release 322 227-235)
Environment: Gyorgy Geher for his article, ‘Coexistency on Hilbert Space Effect Algebras and a Characterisation of Its Symmetry Transformations’ in Communications in Maths and Physics 379, 1077–1112 (2020).
Heritage & Creativity: Lisa Woynarski for her monograph, Ecodramaturgies: Theatre, Performance and Climate Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).
Prosperity & Resilience: Lisa Schopohl for her article, ‘Female CFOs, leverage and the moderating role of board diversity and CEO power’ in the Journal of Corporate Finance 101858 (2020) (with Andrew Urquhart and Hanxiong Zhang).

Open Research Forum
2021-07-07 10:00 - 11:00 | Reading
Members of the University are invited to join the University’s first Open Research Forum, a regular meeting for our recently appointed Open Research Champions and other members of the research community to share Open Research experience and ideas.
This is an opportunity for you to meet our Open Research Champions, and hear about some of their projects! We have a great programme for our first Forum, with four 15-minute talks from some of our Champions, and plenty of opportunity for discussion:

Open Research survey (Auvikki de Boon and Sophie Read)
Electronic lab notebooks pilot project (Cristiana Bercea)
An open hardware community for the University (Al Edwards)
Open data and land corruption (Marcello De Maria)

More details and registration at https://research.reading.ac.uk/open-research-champions/event/open-research-forum/.

Being multilingual: Perspectives from neuroscience
2021-07-07 18:00 - 19:00 | Reading
CeLM Showcase: Neuroscience, 7 July, 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.

Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (YES 2021)
2021-07-14 12:00 - 13:00 | Reading
IFNH (Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health) are hosting a session with Dr Simon Cutler on Wednesday 14th July 2021 at 12pm who will be talking about the Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (YES 2021) call.
We are now looking to recruit postdocs and postgrads for the YES 2021 competition. If you are interested in taking part, please contact Dr Simon Cutler (s.b.cutler@reading.ac.uk).
The YES 2020 competition managed to attract a record-breaking 5 University of Reading teams (comprising 24 ECRs). Some happy memories can be seen in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqN1h7orWa8.
The Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (YES) is a competition which encourages UK postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers to develop business awareness and an understanding of entrepreneurship. The competition asks those taking part to prepare a business plan for a company.
Take a look at the website if you’d like to find out more about the scheme.

Being multilingual: Perspectives from health
2021-07-14 18:00 - 19:00 | Reading
CeLM Showcase: Health, 14 July, 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.

Statistics workshop
2021-07-22 - 2021-07-23 | Reading
We are delighted to announce some FREE statistics and R training workshops to support our ECRs and PhD students and their professional development. The workshops will take place via Microsoft Teams in July and below you can find the programme for each course.
Please make sure you hold the dates and register by simply clicking the registration links below by Thursday 15th July.
Please contact Elena Carp with any questions at E.Carp@reading.ac.uk

Link registration: Statistics workshop

Statistics workshop – Day 1
Date: 22nd July 2021
Time: 13.00 – 17.00
Statistics workshop – Day 2
Date: 23rd July 2021
Time: 13.00 – 17.00

Application of Parametric and non-Parametric test
Statistical Tests e.g. ANOVA, T-test
Design, Sample Size, Power
Exercises via Mentimeter

Developing Statistical Analysis Plan for Grant writing
Exercise

Link registration: Statistical Introduction to R workshop

Statistical Introduction to R workshop – Day 1
Date: 26th July 2021
Session 1: 09.00 – 12.00
Session 2: 13.00 – 16.00
Statistical Introduction to R workshop – Day 2
Date: 27th July 2021
Session 1: 09.00 – 12.00
Session 2: 13.00 – 16.00

Session 1:

Introduction to RStudio
Analysing Data
Data types and Structures

(Practical will be along side theory)
Session 2:

Understanding Factors
Loops in R
Creating Functions
Best practise for Writing R codes

(Practical will be alongside theory)
Session 1:

One and two independent sample t-test
ANOVA & One-way repeated measures ANOVA
MANOVA
Chi-Square test

Session 2:

Linear Regression
Multiple Regression
Logistic Regression
Ordered logistic regression.

(Practical will be alongside theory)

Dwoskin, Disability and… Autobiography: Trying to Kiss the Moon
2021-07-22 19:00 - 21:00 | Reading
This is the the third in a series of screening and discussion events exploring the experimental filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin’s complex relationships with disability and creativity, memory and materiality. This event is co-hosted by the LUX and the Centre for Film Aesthetics and Cultures (CFAC) and supported by the Arts Committee and the Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives Fund of the University of Reading.
While feminist critics often associated Dwoskin’s films with the male gaze, he was equally prepared to turn the camera on himself. He conceived of TRYING TO KISS THE MOON (1994) as an autobiographical film, after seeing a cache of his father’s home movies, shot during his childhood in New York, many of them showing him before he contracted polio and lost the use of his legs. These inspired reflections on, among other themes, disability and diaspora.
And yet the finished film is far from straightforwardly autobiographical. As Laura Mulvey has written, TRYING TO KISS THE MOON “tells the double story of memory, bringing together the beauty of its documents and the sadness of its elusiveness”. Seemingly objective documents – both his father’s and his own home movies and still photographs – do not speak for themselves, even to those who were there at the time.
Instead, TRYING TO KISS THE MOON is a kind of bricolage that never smoothly integrates its constitutive parts. The documents are material objects, imperfect, incomplete, and made to seem so through Dwoskin’s painterly technique. Finished on the cusp of the digital era, it can be seen as a farewell to analogue formats. It won praise from Raymond Bellour, and Nicole Brenez saw in the home movies “magical moments” presaging the rest of Dwoskin’s career: “everything is already there!”
The event will begin with an introduction and communal viewing at 7pm on Thursday 22 July, followed by a discussion with Jenny Chamarette (author of Phenomenology and the Future of Film), Rachel Garfield (author of Experimental Filmmaking and Punk), and Henry K. Miller (editor of The Essential Raymond Durgnat) from the AHRC-funded project, ‘The Legacies of Stephen Dwoskin’s Personal Cinema’, led by Rachel Garfield.
TRYING TO KISS THE MOON has closed captions, and the live discussion will be BSL interpreted and live captioned. The discussion will last no longer than 60 minutes.
Book online here

Cerebral Haemodynamics Symposium
2021-07-23 13:00 - 17:30 | Reading
CINNergies is hosting the online Cerebral Haemodynamics Symposium on Friday 23rd July from 13.00 to 17.30. The event will be hosted by Dr Gabriella Rossetti and includes the following external speakers:
Dr Mariel Kozberg (Vascular Neurology Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital)
In Vivo imaging of vascular function in small vessel disease
Prof Paul Mullins (Director of Bangor Imaging Unit, Bangor University)
Using hypoxia to probe the coupling between metabolism, neural activity, and cerebral blood flow
Prof Gopikrishna Deshpande (Professor, Auburn University)
Haemodynamic response alterations and implications for resting state analyses
For further details please see the event poster or visit the event page for the symposium programme.

Statistical Introduction to R workshop
2021-07-26 - 2021-07-27 | Reading

Open Research Forum
2021-09-15 10:00 - 11:30 | Reading
Join the University’s Open Research Champions to learn about and discuss Open Research. All members of the University are welcome to attend. Visit the event page for details and booking.
We have two excellent talks lined up for our September meeting:
Organising ourselves for world domination: how junior academics can work together to improve research culture (Jess Butler, Senior Research Fellow at Centre for Health Data Science, University of Aberdeen)
We are delighted to welcome Jess Butler, who will discuss how funders and grassroots organisations are seeking to change research culture, and how early career researchers can be empowered to promote change in their own universities. Jess is a passionate advocate for research improvement and an inspiring communicator.
The UNESCO Open Science Recommendation, Open Research and ethics (Marzia Briel, PhD student, School of Law)
Open Research Champion Marzia Briel will discuss the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (in draft). The Recommendation defines shared values and principles for Open Science, and identifies measures on Open Access and Open Data, with proposals to bring citizens closer to science and commitments to facilitate the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge around the world. Marzia will bring her expertise in research ethics and the law to bear on discussion of this important legal instrument.

ALT+SHIFT+ARCHIVE: Unpacking the Past, Present and Future of Digital Archives
2021-09-20 - 2021-09-30 | Online event
Join us for an online digital archiving symposium!
Taking the form of an asynchronous discussion culminating with a series of three live online Q&As, the event situates ‘real world’ archiving in the context of academic and creative work.
Based on the digital forensics and data exploration branch of the AHRC-funded project ‘The Legacies of Stephen Dwoskin’, our presenters and discussants include members of the project team (Universities of Reading, Glasgow and Sheffield) along with the National Library of Scotland, Jisc, DPC, DCC, Transport for London Archive, and a range of scholars and artists.
BOOK HERE
The online discussion platform will open on 20 September.
The live Q&A sessions will be held on 28 Sept, 29 Sept and 30 Sept, from 4.30pm to 6.30pm (UK time).
Additional information
We aim to discuss a broad spectrum of questions, challenges and opportunities, for example:
– Snapshot of archiving in the real world – ‘practice’ in the sense of doing digital archive work?
– Creator of the archive as a creative practitioner – what challenges does that bring in the real world at the moment, and what challenges could that bring?
– Research applications for digital archives – how have they been used and what methods might we bring into the future?
– Re-activating the archive: making use of digital archives as a source of creative practice – examples and case studies?
– How we collaborate when we work on digital archives – how we build the teams that do the work that digital archives present us? What makes for an effective collaboration?
– How do we deal with ‘not knowing’, when we are doing interdisciplinary work?
Our discussants will offer critical perspectives based on their experience and knowledge.
Please follow us on Twitter @ArchiveAlt and on Instagram @alt.shift.archive for more details.
Find out more about the Dwoskin project here https://research.reading.ac.uk/stephen-dwoskin/

Reading Abbey at 900: Revealing Reading Abbey’s Archaeology
2021-09-28 19:00 - 20:30 | Whiteknights campus, University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus, Reading, RG6 6AH, United Kingdom
Reading was home to one of Europe’s greatest medieval monasteries, established in 1121 by Henry I. It has been subject to many small-scale archaeological excavations yet remains poorly understood. Archaeologist and architectural historian Tim Tatton-Brown digs deep into the archaeological archives to shed new light on the development of Reading Abbey, including the probable location of the tomb of Henry I.
Tim Tatton-Brown has published widely on the archaeology and architecture of England’s most prestigious medieval buildings. He has held the role of consultant archaeologist for Westminster Abbey, Canterbury Cathedral, Lambeth Palace, St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, and several other cathedrals, as well as consultant archaeologist for the Oracle Shopping Centre re-development in Reading.
Admission free. Booking essential. Please note this will be a LIVE public lecture.
To book your place visit, reading.ac.uk/events
We hope you will be able to participate in this special event. For additional queries, please contact events@reading.ac.uk

Royal Meteorological Society Masterclass Sea Ice in the Climate System
2021-10-06 15:00 - 16:30 | Online event
SPEAKER | Dr David Schroeder, Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, University of Reading
This session is part of the Royal Meteorological Society’s Masterclass Series The Oceans and Atmosphere: Maritime Meteorology and Climate, strengthening our understanding of the interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere in partnership with the University and sponsored by Fleetweather.
This Masterclass Series will cover broad topics relevant to marine meteorology such as tropical cyclone
development and the latest science relating to conceptual models; changes in Arctic sea ice and future projections that will impact marine routing through the Arctic; and recent developments in ocean modelling
and atmospheric/ocean coupling in numerical weather prediction.
The webinars are free of charge but please register to attend.

Decolonising Bereavement Studies: Diversity and Social Justice in the Aftermath of Death
2021-10-07 13:00 - 14:00 | Online event
Jane Ribbens McCarthy (The Open University)
Human Geography Research Cluster Seminar Series 2021/22
Death, dying and disposal are well-established topics of study, both academically in the humanities, arts, and social sciences and from medical perspectives, including the practice of palliative care. Bereavement studies, however, occupies a much more ambiguous space as a site for multi-disciplinary academic work, being very heavily dominated by individualised and medicalised perspectives, particularly psychiatry and psychology, and connected to ‘communities of practice’ in bereavement services. Such approaches are underpinned by the humanitarian desire to assist and support people experiencing something termed ‘grief’.
Recent work on family deaths in Senegal, however, has shown the limitations of such terms as ‘bereavement’ and ‘grief’, rooted in Anglophone linguistic contexts, and has challenged dominant assumptions in ‘bereavement studies’. At the same time, following on from the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement, work to address issues of decolonisation within the academy has gained new momentum.
This presentation begins to bring these ‘decolonising’ endeavours, and ‘bereavement studies’ into dialogue, seeking to open up conversations in a field that is currently very heavily dominated by particular perspectives that developed in affluent Minority worlds at a particular point in historical time. Such conversations demand new concepts, raise many new questions framed within different paradigms, and create opportunities for addressing issues of diversity and social justice in the aftermath of death, with the potential for further insights for climate justice for the benefit of all.
For further information, contact Ruth Evans (details below)

Royal Meteorological Society Masterclass Understanding Marine Environments
2021-10-13 15:00 - 16:30 | Online event
SPEAKER | Dr Samantha Lavender, Director, Pixalytics Ltd
This session is part of the Royal Meteorological Society’s Masterclass Series The Oceans and Atmosphere: Maritime Meteorology and Climate, strengthening our understanding of the interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere in partnership with the University and sponsored by Fleetweather.
This Masterclass Series will cover broad topics relevant to marine meteorology such as tropical cyclone
development and the latest science relating to conceptual models; changes in Arctic sea ice and future
projections that will impact marine routing through the Arctic; and recent developments in ocean modelling
and atmospheric/ocean coupling in numerical weather prediction.
The webinars are free of charge but please register to attend.

Royal Meteorological Society Masterclass Tropical Cyclones in the Climate System
2021-10-20 15:00 - 16:30 | Online event
SPEAKER | Professor Pier Luigi Vidale, University of Reading
This session is part of the Royal Meteorological Society’s Masterclass Series The Oceans and Atmosphere: Maritime Meteorology and Climate, strengthening our understanding of the interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere in partnership with the University and sponsored by Fleetweather.
This Masterclass Series will cover broad topics relevant to marine meteorology such as tropical cyclone
development and the latest science relating to conceptual models; changes in Arctic sea ice and future
projections that will impact marine routing through the Arctic; and recent developments in ocean modelling
and atmospheric/ocean coupling in numerical weather prediction.
Please register to attend the seminar.

Celebrating Black History Month: Sharing lived experiences of Oxford Road, Reading
2021-10-21 13:00 - 14:00 | Online event
Human Geography Research Cluster Seminar Series 2021/22
Find out more about the High Streets Heritage Action Zone (HSHAZ) storytelling project in west Reading.

Visualising the Database: Early Modern Women’s Complaint Poetry Index
2021-10-28 17:00 - 18:00 | Online event
The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (CBCP) is pleased to host this talk by Michelle O’Callaghan and Jake Arthur introducing the new online database of Early Modern Women’s Complaint Poetry
This online event is free and open to all. Please register your interest to receive the Zoom link here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/181636629047
Michelle O’Callaghan is Professor of Early Modern Literature at the University of Reading. Her most recent book Crafting Poetry Anthologies in Renaissance England: Early Modern Cultures of Recreation (Cambridge, 2020) builds on her digital edition, Verse Miscellanies Online, co-edited with Alice Eardley, and is a study of the craft of making printed poetry anthologies published in the second half of the sixteenth century in England, showing how these anthologies helped to shape recreational cultures within the nation’s households, drawing men and women together from across the social classes.
Jake Arthur is a DPhil candidate and Clarendon Scholar at Oxford University. His thesis examines early modern women’s work in translation and paraphrase and seeks to reclaim the expressive and intellectual possibilities of ‘derivative’ works. The preliminary title of the thesis is ‘“The stuffe not ours”: the work of derivation in women’s writing, 1560–c.1664’. In collaboration with Sarah C. E. Ross, he is co-editor of the poetry section of the forthcoming Palgrave Encyclopaedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing. With Rosalind Smith, he has co-authored a chapter in Early Modern Women and Complaint: Gender, Form and Politics (2020) which considers the implications of digital resources for the traditional first-line index in relation to early modern women’s complaint poetry. He works as a researcher on the ARC funded project Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer, and on the ARC and Marsden funded project, Woe is She: Early Modern Women and the Poetry of Complaint.
