Protection and Removal of Information in Working Memory
2023-03-16 13:00 - 14:00 (Europe/London) | Harry Pitt Building, G79
Professor Jarrod A. Lewis-Peacock will be delivering a seminar entitled: ‘Protection and Removal of Information in Working Memory’.
Abstract: Protecting information in working memory from distraction is essential to goal-directed behavior. Discarding information from working memory may be just as important, as outdated information consumes precious storage capacity and can interfere with current goals. In this talk, I will discuss both of these abilities. First, I will review recent advances in cognitive psychology and neuroscience that have produced new insights into the nature of working memory and its ability to resist distraction. This includes our recent findings which demonstrate that the benefits associated with prioritization in working memory include a “bend but don’t break” policy for enduring distraction. Second, I will describe our recent neuroimaging work focused on intentionally removing information from working memory. We’ve identified distinct strategies for removal that have unique but stable patterns of brain activity with surprising consequences on the encoding of new information.
You can also join the seminar virtually on Microsoft Teams.

Hope into Action: Social Sciences Impact Conference
2023-03-20 09:30 - 2023-03-21 16:00 | St Anne’s College, Oxford
Hope into Action: Social Sciences Impact Conference, 20-21 March 2023 | FREE, Early-bird registration opens to University of Reading delegates.
Researchers, doctoral students and professional services colleagues across the O²RB Partnership (University of Oxford, Oxford Brookes University, University of Reading, and The Open University) can get early bird access to Hope Into Action: Social Sciences Impact Conference 2023 from Tuesday 24 January ahead of tickets going on general sale. Attendance is FREE to delegates from O²RB Partner universities, but spaces are limited, so book your place today!
This two-day conference – packed with workshops, panel discussions, skills sessions, and special guest speakers – will celebrate engaged and impactful social sciences research, and provide inspiration and support for researchers hoping to create change for the better through their work.
O²RB delegates: Register on the University of Oxford’s Social Science webpage for FREE, early-bird registration (enter ‘ImpactConferenceO2RB’ at checkout for full discount on conference registration fee. Please note this code will only work with your O²RB institutional email address. This discount is not applicable to the optional Monday night dinner).
Not a member of the O²RB Partnership? Tickets go on general sale from 30 January 2023.
Registration closes: 28 February 2023
Queries to impact@socsci.ox.ac.uk

Hybrid Rurality and migration in China
2023-03-20 13:00 - 13:50 | Frank Parkinson room, Agriculture, Whiteknights, RG6 7BE
Clark Ke Liu, PhD student at distance (based in New York/working for UN), will be delivering a seminar entitled: ‘Hybrid Rurality and migration in China .’
Join us in the Frank Parkinson room (Agriculture building) or via Microsoft Teams from 1–1.50pm on Monday 20 March.

‘Cold Books in Hot Lands: Winning and Losing Hearts and Minds in the Middle East’
2023-03-23 17:00 - 18:30
This online seminar will be presented by Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions research fellow at the Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands.
This event is free and open to all. Register for the event to access the Zoom link.
The various activities of the Franklin Book Programs, an American Cold War cultural diplomacy initiative for the development of indigenous publishing in the developing world and winning hearts and minds have been subject to public and academic query since its foundation in 1952. Reports and surveys of its activities, aims and objectives, and achievements have been featured in both American and non-American press, from The New York Times, Publishers Weekly to The Pakistan Observer and Al-Bilad. To exemplify the discourse, I present the story of how Franklin/New York convinced a young professor to put aside his paper but encouraged and supported the publication of another piece by a graduate student. Almost half a century later, I am asking the-now-retired-but-distinguished professor why did he oblige. This should shed some light on how Franklin/New York acted as a gatekeeper and promotor of a certain take on its operation.
Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam is an independent researcher. He was until recently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions research fellow at Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands. His recent research has focused on the cultural Cold War with a focus on the activities of Franklin Book Programs in the Middle East (Coldbihot). He is the author of Literary Translation in Modern Iran: A Sociological Study (2014). He is also a managing editor of the Journal of World Literature.

Edith Morley Annual Lecture: Coping with Cancer: Support, Research, Empowerment
2023-03-23 18:30 - 20:00 | Edith Morley Building, Van Emden Lecture Theatre, Edith Morley Building, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
On average, a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer every 10 minutes in the UK.
The 2023 Edith Morley event will be led by Professor Nazanin Derakhshan, who brings progressive and step-change research to the forefront of support systems for those with breast cancer.
Students, colleagues, alumni, community groups and members of the public are invited to join us for an in-depth discussion on Coping with Cancer. With lived experience as our cornerstone, we’ll explore support structures, cognitive research, and personal empowerment.Nazanin is the founder and chair of BRiC (Building Resilience in Breast Cancer Centre) which is positioned and energised to help those in need. As globally-leading experts and a collective of women with either a primary or secondary breast cancer diagnosis, they seek to discover new and improved ways to practice resilience. BRiC has an impressive track-record creating accessible resources and tools to help people manage anxiety and depression after a cancer diagnosis. As a welcoming collective, the centre provides a safe haven for all and seeks to improve quality-of-life, using cutting-edge neuroscience research.
Free to attend. Book via the University of Reading Events page.

Subversion and survival: navigations through performance and media cultures
2023-03-28 16:00 - 17:30 | Online event
Research Seminar Speakers: Swati Arora (Queen Mary, University of London) and Rohit K Dasgupta (University of Glasgow)
Under Cover: Insurgent Methods of Border Crossing
I draw on my forthcoming co-edited book on pluriversal conversations on transnational feminisms to assemble a few thoughts on border-crossing – disciplinary, epistemic, and linguistic. What does border-crossing in performance studies look like? The presentation offers a few insurgent methods of subterfuge and survival as we secure justice for our communities while acknowledging the colonial histories of our institutions.
Swati Arora is Lecturer in Performance and Global South Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. Her work exists at the convergence of performance and visual culture, feminist theory, Black Studies, and dramaturgies of urban space in the global South. Most recently, she published ‘Performing Refusal’ (Injury and Intimacy, MUP) and ‘A manifesto to decentre theatre and performance studies’ (STP).
Viral Assemblages & Patchworks: Cultures of Queer (Un)Belongings
This paper is based on ethnographic field work conducted in Kolkata during 2019–2021 with queer and trans people during the COVID pandemic. This paper develops a new framework of queer patchworks and discusses the various ways through which queer and trans communities are navigating survival during these non-normative times. This paper brings together patchworks of whatsapp texts, broken zoom conversations, cooking gossip and addas on the banks of river Hooghly as a nod to these new realities which are reshaping queer identities; thus, offering new ways to also acknowledge, accommodate and ‘queer’ what counts as knowledge.
Rohit K Dasgupta is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Industries at the University of Glasgow. His most recent books are COVID-19 Assemblages (Routledge, 2022) & South and East Asian Cinemas across Borders (Routledge, 2020). He is currently co-authoring a book on India’s creative industries. He is also an elected Labour & Cooperative councillor in the London Borough of Newham since 2018.
About this event.
The FTT Research Seminar Series is hosted by the University of Reading and puts research from scholars in Film, Theatre and Television into dialogue. This celebrates the exciting intersection of these fields within our department and seeks to support collaboration and conversation across Film, Theatre, and Television.
Each invited paper is 25-30 minutes long and is followed by a participatory Q&A discussion. This seminar will be held online.
Reserve your space to attend.

Collections and Digitisation workshop
2023-03-29 14:00 - 16:00 | Learning Studio, MERL, 6 Redlands Road, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 5EX, United Kingdom
Have you ever wondered about including an online exhibition, or other digital resource involving collections, in your research project? Do you want to find out more about what these involve?
We invite you to a Collections and Digitisation workshop on Wednesday 29 March 2023, 2pm-4pm at the MERL Learning Studio, run jointly by UMASCS (University Museums, Archives, and Special Collections Services) and the Digital Humanities Hub.
The workshop will help you gain first-hand understanding of what is involved in the digitisation process directly from the staff that would support collections-based research, to inform the inclusion of digital resources in your project proposals. It will cover:

Introduction to digitisation, sustainability and preservation
Collections research themes
MERL Online Exhibition templates
Case Study – Modernist Archives Publishing Project
Current Digitisation Projects at UMASCS
Tour of the Digitisation Equipment

The aim is to help you consider what you want to or could digitise and why, who your audience is, what level of images you might need and how you might want them to interact with the rest of your resource, including text.
We will also discuss the pre-existing solutions available to you if you want to include an online exhibition mainly for purposes of external engagement. Linking this in with collections research themes, and using templates based on the MERL’s website, will integrate your project with other UoR work and guarantee your resource will remain sustainable, without risk of loss or the need for manual updates.
Unsure whether collections-based research is suited to your work? For more information and ideas, have a look at our Working with Collections guide on the Digital Humanities Portal first.
Workshop details:
Date: Wednesday 29 March 2023
Time: 14:00-16:00
Where: Learning Studio, MERL (Museum of English Rural Life), Redlands Road
Who: Academic, technical and project staff based in all H&C divisions
Capacity: 30
If you would like to attend, RSVP to Olivia Thompson, Digital Humanities Officer o.j.r.thompson@reading.ac.uk by 23 March 2023.
Please also get in touch if you have any questions about the workshop or if you cannot attend but would be interested in training or advice on these subjects.
Please note this workshop is for H&C staff, it is not for PhD students. If you have any interested supervisees, there will be a separate workshop on Digital Scholarship with Collections for graduate students: please get in touch with Dr Rhi Smith, Director of UMASCS Academic Learning and Engagement (r.smith@reading.ac.uk).

2023 Research Awards - Deadline for entries
2023-03-31 12:00
New University Research Awards have been launched to celebrate the work of research and associated professional services staff.
Work that showcases research excellence or fosters a positive research culture and environment is eligible in four new categories:

Public Engagement with Research
Openness in Research
External Collaboration and Partnerships
Research Impact

The Awards are open to both researchers and associated professional services staff and entries are actively encouraged from all research themes and associated functions across the University.
Entries can be from individuals or groups and activities of any scale will be welcome but must have taken place in the last three years (i.e. since January 2020). Shortlisted applicants will showcase their projects at an in-person Awards event on Tuesday 13 June from 2pm and winners will receive £1000 towards their next engagement activity.
Further information can be found on the 2023 Awards page and in the guidelines and eligibility criteria. Applications via this online form must be submitted no later than 12 noon on Friday 31 March.

MonoGram Conference
2023-04-03 - 2023-04-05 | University of Reading, RG6 6UR
The School of Agriculture at the University of Reading has a varied and exciting programme in development for Monogram 2023, encompassing inspiring keynote speakers, thematic sessions, poster and flash presentations, and early career awards. We want the meeting to appeal to all the sector of the Monogram community, and we therefore welcome contributions from all cereal crops and grass research.
Lectures will be taking place in our 250-seater Madejski Auditorium in the School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, on Whiteknights campus.
We understand that some people will be unable to attend an in-person event and therefore are offering the opportunity to join the Monogram conference remotely through live-streaming of the talks. However, all presentations need to be in person.
Please submit your abstract for either an oral or poster presentation to monogram2023@reading.ac.uk, specifying under which of these six scientific sessions you would like it to be considered.
Physiology and resource use (response to abiotic stress and nutrient use efficiency)

Bioinformatics and genomics
Interactions with pathogenic and beneficial organisms
Developmental processes
End use quality and nutrition
Sustainable systems

Key dates

Student attendance bursary application deadline
6 January 2023

Registration for in-person attendance closes
8 February 2023

Abstract submission deadline
8 February 2023

MonoGram Early Career Excellence Awards (MECEA) application deadline
31 January 2023

Abstract notification
28 February 2023

Registration for virtual attendance closes
9 March 2023

Conference
3–5 April 2023

Visit the Monogram Conference 2023 website
Register via the University of Reading booking system

Way of type Evolution of Chinese typeforms
2023-04-17 10:00 - 2023-07-21 17:00 | Building 21 (TOB2), University of Reading, Whiteknights, Building 21 (TOB2), Department of Typography & Graphic Communication, T-Spur exhibition space, Reading, RG6 6ER, United Kingdom
This exhibition charts the development of Chinese type and type making technologies in China from the invention of movable type in the eleventh century to the design of digital typefaces today. It documents numerous Chinese typefaces created in different eras using varied techniques and technologies presented in high quality digital reproductions. The exhibition is an abridged version of Way of Type Modernisation of Chinese Typography in China which toured seven cities in China before travelling to the UK, and is a collaboration between the University of Reading and the Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing.
No booking is required for members of the University of Reading and off-campus attendees need to email typography@reading.ac.uk.

Author event: Kit de Waal in conversation – in person/hybrid event
2023-05-03 18:00 - 19:30 | Edith Morley Building, Van Emden Lecture Theatre, Edith Morley Building, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
In conversation with Shelley Harris, Creative Writing programme director, Kit will be discussing her writings – both fiction and memoir – and the impact she’s had in making publishing a better place for working-class writers. This is an in person/hybrid event.
Kit de Waal is a multi-award-winning author of short stories, novels, and an autobiography. My Name is Leon (2016), her first novel, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award. It was recently televised by the BBC, with a cast including Christopher Eccleston and Sir Lenny Henry, who also voiced the audiobook.
Kit has a passion for getting diverse voices heard. She used some of her author advance to set up the Kit de Waal Creative Writing Scholarship at Birkbeck to help improve working-class representation in the arts. It is dedicated to supporting a budding writer from a low-income household or other marginalized backgrounds. In its first year it attracted 138 applicants: this in turn, attracted other donations which has enabled the funding of additional scholarships.
She is the editor of Common People: An Anthology of Working-Class Writers (2019), the result of a project with Unbound and regional writing development organisations to feature working-class writers: this also involved mentoring and supporting new writers.
Her autobiography Without Warning & Only Sometimes – Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood published in 2022 and was a Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4. The Guardian described it as ‘A richly observed portrait of a working-class childhood and adolescence that finds magic in the mundane’.
This is a free in person/hybrid event but everyone attending (whether in person or online) will require a ticket from Eventbrite: click here for in person; click here for online.
Questions for Kit are welcome but we request they are submitted in advance by email to cbcp@reading.ac.uk by Monday 24th April, please. This will allow Kit sufficient time to consider her answers.

Spring Children's Lecture: Wind of Change, Curbing Cow Burps to Fight Climate Change
2023-05-04 16:30 - 17:30 | JJ Thomson Ditchburn Lecture Theatre
Wind of change curbing cow burps to fight climate change
Milk comes from cows and cows eat grass everyone knows that. But along with milk, the average dairy cow also burps out over 600 litres of methane, every day. That’s enough to fill more than 40 party balloons. And methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, which is making climate change worse.
That’s why the University of Reading’s Centre for Dairy Research gave our cows a different menu. We swapped out some of their grass for things like seaweed, garlic and herbs.
What happened next? Can farmers tackle climate change? Will cow’s milk be more planet friendly? And could a cow be trained to burp the National Anthem? Find out at our Spring Children’s Lecture, with dairy science expert Professor Chris Reynolds.
Admission free. Booking essential.
Suitable for children 7 to 12 years.
To book your place visit www.reading.ac.uk/events

2nd CBCP Postgraduate Symposium - call for papers
2023-05-05
The 2nd CBCP Postgraduate Symposium will be held at the University of Reading. It will mainly be an in-person event with an option for remote presentation and attendance.
PhD students and Postdoctoral researchers are invited to submit abstracts for 15-minute talks on relevant topics, such as:

book production, distribution, and readership in global contexts.
printing and publishing trade.
book history, typography, and book design.
materiality of text and image (both analogue and digital).
environmental histories of print cultures and book printing and sustainability.
wider book cultures and publishing with a distinctive global, multilingual, and
multidisciplinary focus.
protagonists and professionals of the book market (such as publishers, editors,
designers, illustrators, translators, cultural mediators, literary agents, readers).

The deadline for the submission of the abstracts is Monday 5th May 2023. Abstracts should also include single-line bio or affiliation descriptions and should not exceed 350 words in length (references and bio excluded).
The symposium will be an occasion for PhD students and Postdoctoral researchers to showcase their research while engaging with the wider community of researchers within the CBCP. No costs to attend: lunch and refreshments will be provided.
Abstracts and enquiries should be sent to: Andrea Romanzi and Pritha Mukherjee.
Delegates may also like to register to attend the Marina Warner talk on ‘Archives, history and memory in memoir writing’ which is taking place on the same evening, as an in person/hybrid event. For more information please click here.

Contradictions of the Digital in Screen and Performance Cultures
2023-05-17 16:00 - 17:30 | Online event
From Hyperconnectivity to Solitude: A Pharmacological Journey in Digital Performance Ecologies
Digital culture, through the democratisation of technologies, personal computing, and the Internet, has required the cultural sector to drastically rethink audiences’ modes of engagement/disengagement, not least during the pandemic, when artists and cultural organisations have been engaging with their audiences through networked and hybrid platforms. Through a pharmaco-phenomenological angle the paper analyses performance practices that invite participants to make/feel their way through a networked reality that oscillates between hyperconnectivity and solitary activity. This paper focuses on the role and significance of solitude in digital performance to propose an alternative understanding of the complex relationship between singularity and plurality in digital culture, where aloneness and togetherness are not necessarily antithetical. The paper discusses how solitude as a relational, embodied and situated experience invites a drastic reengineering of the relationship between humans and their technologies. In this context, the role of digital performance is dual: a) it offers an intervention into the dominant positioning of being alone as being isolated, and b) it serves as a pedagogical exercise speculating about the potentiality of being human in a digital ecology where our vulnerabilities, tensions and limitations can be met with new exigencies of care about self and the other.
Bio
Dr Eirini Nedelkopoulou is a Lecturer in Digital Arts and Performance at the University of Glasgow. Her work as an author and editor appears in the International Journal of Performance Arts & Digital Media, Contemporary Theatre Review, Performance Research, Performance Paradigm, and other. She is the co-editor of Performance and Phenomenology: Traditions and Transformations (Routledge 2015, 2018). Eirini is currently working on her monograph In Solitude: The Philosophy of Digital Performance Encounters (Bloomsbury, Thinking Through Theatre).
Deepfakes in screen culture – transformations in image, practice and performance
Since the inception of the ‘deepfake’ process of replacing faces in digital video, the primary use of the technology has been to make very low-quality content for viewing on smartphones. More recent technical advances in this form of machine learning allow their use in film and broadcast media. This talk will focus on how deepfakes are now being adopted in fiction and documentary production, examining ethical and cultural implications of current and future uses of synthetic media.
Bio
Dr Dominic Lees is Associate Professor in Filmmaking at the University of Reading, UK. His research into deepfakes began in 2019/20, with the Virtual Maggie project that experimented with deepfakes to resurrect Margaret Thatcher for a new period drama. He is interested in developing positive applications of deepfakes and synthetic media, including in education. Dominic has written on deepfakes for academic journals, the online current affairs journal, The Conversation and the BFI magazine, Sight and Sound. In 2021, he was co-editor of a special issue on deepfakes of the journal, Convergence. Dominic is convenor of the Synthetic Media Research Network, which held its inaugural symposium at the University of Reading in 2022, funded by The Alan Turing Institute. This work brings together researchers, creatives and screen industry stakeholders to scope the future opportunities for ethical applications of synthetic media. Dominic’s earlier career was in television and film production, working in current affairs and television documentaries; he has directed over 40 episodes of TV drama and the feature film, Outlanders (2008).
About this event
The FTT Research Seminar Series is hosted by the University of Reading and puts research from scholars in Film, Theatre and Television into dialogue. This celebrates the exciting intersection of these fields within our department and seeks to support collaboration and conversation across Film, Theatre, and Television.
Each invited paper is 25-30 minutes long and is followed by a participatory Q&A discussion.
Reserve a space here.

Deconstructing bi/multilingualism, social communication, and autistic sociality with a focus on clinical application
2023-05-19 18:00 - 19:00
The Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) are happy to announce the speakers for the CeLM Seminar Series for the upcoming year. P
Please find information below, including the date and time, CeLM theme and location of each talk, along with the speaker and talk title.
If you are interested in attending an online talk and are not at the University of Reading, please email Holly Joseph (h.joseph@reading.ac.uk) for a joining link.
17th July, 2023 (tbc) (6-7pm, Health, online)
Betty Yu (San Francisco State University)
Deconstructing bi/multilingualism, social communication, and autistic sociality with a focus on clinical application

AI and the Arts & Humanities
2023-05-24 14:00 - 16:00
The Digital Humanities CoP and the Artificial Intelligence CoP are pleased to announce two joint events for the summer 2023 term.

Wednesday 24 May 2023
14:00 to 16:00
In-person & hybrid
Keynote: Professor David De Roure (Oxford)

Networking Coffee/Tea
Wednesday 14 June 2023
14:00 to 15:00

Bilingualism and Intersection of Race, Disability and Nation
2023-05-25 13:00 - 14:00
The Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) are happy to announce the speakers for the CeLM Seminar Series for the upcoming year. P
Please find information below, including the date and time, CeLM theme and location of each talk, along with the speaker and talk title.
If you are interested in attending an online talk and are not at the University of Reading, please email Holly Joseph (h.joseph@reading.ac.uk) for a joining link.
25th May, 2023 (1-2 pm, Health, online)
Vishnu Nair (University of Reading)
Bilingualism and Intersection of Race, Disability and Nation
Upcoming CeLM seminars:
15th June, 2023 (1-2pm, Language and Literacy, online)
Beverley Jennings (University of Reading)
Adolescent reading habits
17th July, 2023 (tbc) (6-7pm, Health, online)
Betty Yu (San Francisco State University)
Deconstructing bi/multilingualism, social communication, and autistic sociality with a focus on clinical application

Archives, history and memory in memoir writing – a talk by Marina Warner
2023-05-25 17:30 - 19:00 | Museum of English Rural Life (The MERL), Redlands Road, Reading, RG1 5EX, United Kingdom
Writer and academic Dame Professor Marina Warner will discuss drawing on archives and the interweaving of history and memoir-writing. In her memoir ‘Inventory of a Life Mislaid’, Warner uses memory and imagination as well as writing and objects to recreate the extraordinary world of her childhood. [Cover design by Sophie Herxheimer.]
She has recently presented some of her family papers to the University book and publishing collections, relating to her father’s work in establishing a branch of WH Smith’s in Cairo after the second World War. A selection of artefacts from the WH Smith archives held by the University of Reading will be on display.
This event is run in partnership with the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL).
Dame Professor Marina Warner CH, DBE, FRSL, FBA is a writer and academic. Her works include novels, short stories and studies of art, myths, symbols and fairy tales. She is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London.
This will be an in person/online hybrid event with live streaming via Zoom to remote individuals who have pre-registered to attend. The video files of the talk will be published online after the event.
A selection of artefacts from the WH Smith archives held by the University of Reading will be on display and attendees will have the chance to view this from 5.30pm with refreshments available. The talk will start at 6.00pm.
To book tickets to attend the event in person at the Museum of English Rural Life please click here
To book tickets for the online event (which covers the talk only) please click here
The event will finish at 7.00pm.

2023 Research Awards
2023-06-13 14:00 - 17:00 | Meadow Suite, Park House, Meadow Suite, Park House, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
Invitation to 2023 Research Awards event
We are pleased to invite you to our 2023 Research Awards event on Tuesday 13 June 2023 from 1.45pm. The event will begin with a showcase of projects shortlisted for this year’s Research Awards and ECR Research Output Prize, followed by the announcement of the winners. The event will conclude with afternoon tea and posters and is an ideal opportunity to find out what research is going on across the University and for networking. A list of the shortlisted projects can be found here.
If you would like to attend, please click on the following image (or click the link in the attached PDF). Spaces are limited so please RSVP as soon as possible and before 29 May.

Shifting the focus of the global warming agenda to deal with adaptation and loss & damage (AL&D)
2023-06-14 14:00 - 16:00
In this workshop, Dr Terry Cannon, Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, will be presenting a paper and leading a discussion on the global political realities of policies and practices relating to climate change adaptation and loss and damage (AL&D). It should be a lively and provocative discussion so please come along. Please RSVP to a.h.arnall@reading.ac.uk by Wed 7 June to confirm attendance.
Everyone attending the workshop will be sent Terry’s short paper in advance. The paper has been discussed by a group at the Edinburgh Climate Change Institute, by a group from Toronto, York and Montreal Universities in Canada, and now at Reading and soon at Cambridge. There are many additions and some corrections to be made following the earlier discussions, and Terry hopes that new ideas and responses will emerge at Reading.

Screen Work Group: Practice as Research screening
2023-06-14 15:00 - 16:30 | Minghella Studios, Minghella Building, Whiteknights Campus, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
The University of Reading’s Screen Work Group is delighted to present an afternoon programme of practice work (at various stages of development) by research staff: Wed June 14th, 3.00 – 4.30.
The screening will take place in the cinema at Minghella Studios, and will be followed by a drinks reception. All welcome; no booking required.
Programme
Films to Die For: Wim Wenders and the Death of Glauber Rocha [PILOT] (Lúcia Nagib)
This essay film revolves around Wim Wenders’ The State of Things (1982), an emblematic cinephilic film that brings Hollywood and European cinemas together in a passionate, but ill-fated, affair, fed on allusion and self-reflexivity.
Creative Geography, Creative Connections: Candyman (John Gibbs)
An audiovisual essay foregrounding creative connections and overlooked histories in the relationships between a number of films, their creators and the spaces and social contexts with which they interact. Making use of a concept map, the video centres on Candyman (Rose, 1992) and its ‘spiritual sequel’, Candyman (DaCosta, 2021).
something is Happening (Christine Ellison)
This film documents a residency at the Bonotto Foundation in Veneto, Italy, home to the Bonotto Collection of Fluxus scores and concrete poetry. Here, Christine collaborated with filmmaker Robbie McKane (UoR Art and Film & Theatre graduate) and an international team of designers, dancers and musicians, in the development of a live performance and documentary, in which experimental scores from the collection become access points to open up critical questions around digital devices and the language of the interface.
Green Hills and Fresh Fish [WORK IN PROGRESS] (Adam O’Brien)
An experimental documentary, bringing together an audio recording of a poetry seminar (exploring Roger Robinson’s ‘A Portable Paradise’) with images taken by the photographer Peter Adams, sourced from the MERL archive. It probes the relationship between spectacle and language in our conceptions of better worlds (and how these worlds might work).

Reading Emotions
2023-06-15 - 2023-06-16 | University of Reading, RG6 6UR
Fluctuation and Change
Implications for Neurocognitive Development and Psychopathology
This year’s edition of Reading Emotions explores how we measure and understand the fluctuations in neural and psychological components of thought and behaviour, across development and through the course of disorder.

Keynote lectures will examine central themes and latest developments in theory, methods, and application
Early career researchers will present ongoing work in short talks
Poster presentations will facilitate the informal exchange of ideas, with opportunities for feedback and collaboration
Training workshops will address empirical and theoretical aspects of the challenge of fluctuation and change

Speakers:

Anastasia Christakou (Chair)
University of Reading

Eiko Fried
Leiden University

Rogier Kievit
Donders Institute, Nijmegen

David Lydon-Staley
University of Pennsylvania

Argyris Stringaris
University College London

Patrik Vuilleumier
University of Geneva

Schedule (TBC)

Submit an abstract for Reading Emotions

Register for Reading Emotions

Plus ECR short talks, research posters, workshops and debates.
Submit your work and/or register to let us know you are coming (free for UoR staff and students). For details: https://sites.google.com/site/readingemotions/
What: We established Reading Emotions as a small, specialist symposium in affective neuroscience with an interdisciplinary outlook in 2012. We tackle a different theme every year, typically inspired by our current research and/or compelling emerging ideas in the field. We host in the region of 100-150 participants, although hundreds more have been joining online in recent years. The intimate set-up encourages deep dives in theory and current experimental work, practical and clinical applications where relevant, and usually includes an explicit ECR/student training component. Past contributors have included BJ Casey, Irene Tracey, Hugo Critchley, Elaine Fox, Karl Friston, Mara Mather, Randy McIntosh, Russ Poldrack, Essi Viding, Tor Wager, as well as clinical practitioners, philosophers, and on occasion artists and architects. You can read about Reading Emotions, including the themes and speakers of previous years, here.
When: The symposium typically takes place over two days in mid- to late June, with the first day devoted to keynotes and ECR presentations, and the second day devoted to training workshops and methods presentations. This year’s symposium is on Thursday 15th and Friday 16th June.
Where: This year we meet in person at Whiteknights, our beautiful campus in Reading, and encourage deeper interactions with our students, colleagues, and visitors.

Adolescent reading habits
2023-06-15 13:00 - 14:00
The Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) are happy to announce the speakers for the CeLM Seminar Series for the upcoming year. P
Please find information below, including the date and time, CeLM theme and location of each talk, along with the speaker and talk title.
If you are interested in attending an online talk and are not at the University of Reading, please email Holly Joseph (h.joseph@reading.ac.uk) for a joining link.
15th June, 2023 (1-2pm, Language and Literacy, online)
Beverley Jennings (University of Reading)
Adolescent reading habits
Upcoming CeLM seminars:
17th July, 2023 (tbc) (6-7pm, Health, online)
Betty Yu (San Francisco State University)
Deconstructing bi/multilingualism, social communication, and autistic sociality with a focus on clinical application

Accommodating Diversity in the Workplace Conference
2023-06-19 09:00 - 2023-06-20 17:00
The first Accommodating Diversity in the Workplace Conference will be held in person at the University of Reading, UK on 19–20 June 2023.
This interdisciplinary conference is aimed at academics, practitioners and employers interested in issues of diversity and inclusion in the workplace and their implications for workplace practice.
Submissions of theoretical, experimental, quantitative and qualitative empirical work on any aspect of diversity in the workplace from any field are invited.
There is no conference registration fee.
Submit your abstract (max 500 words) by midnight on Sunday 23 April.
Keynote speaker: Dr Krystal Wilkinson, Reader in Human Resources Management, Manchester Metropolitan University.

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The first set of results from Prof. Jewell and Prof. Longhi’s ‘Maternal well-being, infant feeding and return to paid work decisions‘ project, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, will be discussed at the conference.
Information on registration will follow soon.
Visit the University of Reading website for details on travelling to the University, staying on campus and campus maps.
If you have queries, please contact the local organisers: Professor Sarah Jewell (s.l.jewell@reading.ac.uk) or Professor Simonetta Longhi (s.longhi@reading.ac.uk).

CBCP Summer School – Cultures of the book: lithography, consumption, reading
2023-06-20 - 2023-06-21
The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing at the University of Reading has released the full programme for their inaugural Summer School to be held on 20 and 21 June 2023. The event will be held at the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication and Special Collections at the University.
‘Cultures of the book: lithography, consumption, reading’ will explore how books have been made, consumed and read following the invention of lithography in the early nineteenth century. Talks by leading scholars and practitioners will be combined with a hands-on approach using the University’s collections and archives.
Keynote speakers include Prof Rathna Ramanathan on ‘Beyond the margins: Intercultural collaborations in independent publishing’ and Prof Michael Twyman talking about lithography and printed ephemera.
Other talks will cover the origins of today’s typefaces and text/picture integration (Paul Luna), as well as book-related ephemera popular in the late nineteeth and early twentieth century – the ‘Birthday Book’ (Cătălina Zlotea) and bookplates (Liz West).
Practical sessions on lithographic printing will be available (Geoff Wyeth and Borna Izadpanah), together with ‘hands-on’ examination of book-related printed ephemera (with materials in English and French) from the Centre for Ephemera Studies (Emma Minns).
Participants will also be able to view the exhibition ‘Evolution of the Chinese Typeform’ (curated by Xunchang Cheng).
Enrolment is open now and places can be booked here. Please email with any enquiries.

Screening: Samuel Beckett and Artists’ Cinema
2023-06-23 14:30 - 19:00 | Minghella Studios, Minghella Building, Whiteknights Campus, RG6 6UR, United Kingdom
Beckett’s work has inspired many contemporary visual artists, but in recent years it has been the area of artists’ film that has seen the clearest impact.
On Friday 23rd of June 2023, The Samuel Beckett Research Centre at the University of Reading will present rarely screened work by several artists. The screenings will be followed by a roundtable discussion and the launch of Samuel Beckett’s Afterlives: Adaptation, Remediation, Appropriation, the recent collection of essays edited by Jonathan Bignell, Anna McMullan and Pim Verhulst.
The programme for the event includes:
Stan Douglas, Vidéo (2007): Introduced by Conor Carville
Stan Douglas’ video installation Vidéo is a reimagining of both Orson Welles’s film “The Trial” (based on Kafka’s novel of the same name) and Beckett’s film “Film”.
John Gerrard, Bone Work (Gulf of Mexico) (2022): Introduced by John Gerrard (Via Zoom).
John Gerrard’s Bone Work (Gulf of Mexico) is a simulation centred on sixteen fragments of dead coral found by the artist on the shores of the Yucatán Peninsula on the Gulf Of Mexico.
Duncan Campbell, o Joan, no…(2006): Introduced by Duncan Campbell.
Duncan Campbell’s o Joan, no…(2006) is a short film drawing on the lighting directions and effects in Beckett’s Play.
Roundtable Discussion on Beckett, Artists’ Film/Installation and Adaptation.
Jonathan Bignell (Reading); Duncan Campbell; David Houston Jones (Exeter); Anthony Paraskeva (Roehampton); Derval Tubridy (Goldsmiths); Jivitesh Vashisht (UCD).
The screenings will begin at 2:30pm in Minghella Studios’s cinema at the University of Reading, with the roundtable discussion beginning at 4:30pm. The event will be followed by a reception at 6:00pm.
The event is free, and all are welcome, but places are limited, so please register here. More details of timings and participants to follow.
Image: Stan Douglas. Vidéo, 2007. High definition video installation, colour, sound (six musical variations. Courtesy the artist, David Zwirner New York/London, and Victoria Miro, London.

IFNH Free Statistics and R Programme Workshops
2023-06-28 09:00 - 2023-06-29 17:00
The aim of the statistics and R training workshops is to support our ECRs and PhD students with their research and for their professional development. The workshops will take place on Wednesday 28th June and Thursday 29th June and below you can find the programme for each course. More information, including link access and location details will follow after your registration.
Please note that your registration using the University of Reading email address is mandatory. The workshops are being organised by the University of Reading’s Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health (IFNH), an interdisciplinary research centre that brings together the University’s world-leading expertise in food, nutrition, agriculture, health and the environment to understand how improvements in food production, processing and nutrition can help deliver better diets and health.

Interdisciplinary Research – information and discussion opportunity
2023-06-28 13:00 - 16:30 | Online
Would you like to learn more about and better understand what interdisciplinary research is, and be inspired to design your research projects accordingly? If so, please join research colleagues and colleagues from Research Services in a short workshop to explore this area, on Wednesday 28th June 13.00-14.30, on Teams.
The session will include:

Exploration of what interdisciplinary research is and isn’t
Case studies – hear about interdisciplinary projects at University of Reading. What worked well, the benefits of the collaborations, and some of the pitfalls to look out for.
Information about the new UKRI cross research council responsive mode pilot scheme https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/ukri-cross-research-council-responsive-mode-pilot-scheme/
Q&A and discussion time

To register your place, please fill out this short form by Monday 26th June (only 2 questions!) https://forms.office.com/e/CHem9ihpcW.
If you cannot attend but would like to be kept informed of future activity in this area, please let us know through the form also.

IFNH workshop: Nutritional Epidemiology Research
2023-06-30 13:00 - 16:00
The workshops are open to anyone with an interest in Nutritional Epidemiology research. Register via Eventbrite.
Agenda:

Introduction to nutritional epidemiology research
Dietary assessment methods and their applications
Study designs and association analyses
Systematic reviews, meta-analysis, and its application
Case of individual studies, evidence synthesis, and policy application
Writing a research paper, peer-review, and post-publication agenda

The workshops are being organised by the University of Reading’s Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health (IFNH), an interdisciplinary research centre that brings together the University’s world-leading expertise in food, nutrition, agriculture, health and the environment to understand how improvements in food production, processing and nutrition can help deliver better diets and health.

Bookshops Online and On the High Street
2023-07-03 - 2023-07-04
The 2nd Annual Bookselling Research Network Conference, in association with the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing, 3rd-4th July 2023 at the University of Reading, UK.
Jeff Deutsch, in his recent In Praise of Good Bookstores, reflected that because “we no longer need bookstores to buy books…bookstores might well be an inefficient and inconvenient way to buy books in the twenty-first century.” Yet, as he goes on to show, and the industry seems to confirm, “good bookstores” are evident everywhere. The second annual Bookselling Research Network conference looks to discuss both the impact of bookshops in an era of online retailing and how booksellers, the book trade, and book-reading communities use online environments to return people back to the bookshop – wherever in the world these might be. What are the affordances, pitfalls, and challenges of bookselling in a digital era? What innovative, unique, or era-defying practices are evident and thriving? How have changes in bookselling affected literary production and reception? What cultural or political concerns remain prevalent for booksellers? What does it mean to operate a bookshop today?
This conference will be hosted at the University of Reading in association with the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing, 3-4 July 2023. This event will be held in-person but we will also make remote participation possible.
The Call for Papers can be seen here.
For more information please contact m.chambers@reading.ac.uk
