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SUMMARY:Exploring Authenticity in Contemporary Literatures in English
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Culture in general\, and literature in particular\, seem to be concerned with authenticity\, or lack of it\, more than ever: authenticity in politics\, gender\, sexuality\, ethnicity and nationality. In contemporary fiction\, especially\, there appears to be a turn away from fiction as traditionally understood\, and a move towards authenticity as an ethical marker of subjectivity. The popularity of such narratives seems to suggest that we long for things we experience as lost\, searching for an identity\, be it individual or collective\, that eludes us. But what is authenticity and what does it entail in a globalised world? How is authenticity constructed and deconstructed in contemporary literature? In a ‘post-truth’ world – a world of ‘fake news’\, viral conspiracy theories and catfishing – is the concept of authenticity redundant\, or more vital than ever? The aim of the Symposium is to explore ideas of authenticity in their various manifestations in literatures in English. The online event will take place over two half days on 01-02 November 2021. \nThe organisers invite proposals of no more than 250 words for twenty-minute papers from scholars of all career stages. Possible topics include\, but are not limited to\, the following: \n\nAuthenticity and gender\nAuthenticity and sexuality\nAuthenticity and ethnicity\nAuthenticity and nationality\nAuthenticity and the global/the local\nRealism\, hyperrealism\, naturalism\nAuthenticity in the postmodern world\nAuthenticity and intertextuality: concepts such as original literary work\, reproduction\, printed representation\nGhostwriting\, diaries\, biographies\, autobiographies\, autofiction\nAuthenticity and adaptation\nAuthenticity and creativity\n\nThe keynote lecture will be given by Professor Daniel Lea\, Oxford Brookes University.\nWhen submitting your abstract\, please also include a brief biographical sketch of up to 50 words. Proposals must be submitted to Jeni Giambona\, by Friday 10 September 2021.\nTo register click here. Registration is free of charge.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/exploring-authenticity-in-contemporary-literatures-in-english/
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211104
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211107
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SUMMARY:Beckett Week 2021
DESCRIPTION:The Samuel Beckett Research Centre are delighted to announce that their annual Beckett Week will take in November at Minghella Studies on the Whiteknights Campus of the University of Reading. Beckett Week events will include: \n\nSPECTRAL LANDSCAPES: ABSENCE\, TRAUMA AND NATIONHOOD\nThursday 4th November and Friday 5th November\nBECKETT INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION SEMINAR\nSaturday 6th November\n\nFor further details please visit the Beckett Week page.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/beckett-week-2021/
LOCATION:Whiteknights campus\, University of Reading\, Whiteknights Campus\, Reading\, RG6 6AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211104T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211104T160000
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UID:22508-1636038000-1636041600@research.reading.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Did the defendant use a gun? The philosophical foundations and practical consequences of applying corpus analysis in legal interpretation
DESCRIPTION:The Reading Centre for Cognition Research (RCCR) is delighted to announce this new 2 year project: Did the defendant use a gun? The philosophical foundations and practical consequences of applying corpus analysis in legal interpretation. \nThis project will explore attempts to use the techniques of corpus linguistics to guide interpretation of legally contested terms (a fuller project overview is included below). We are very keen to hear from any University of Reading researchers (staff or postgraduate students) who might be interested in these issues. Please contact the PI\, Nat Hansen (n.d.hansen@reading.ac.uk) if you would like to discuss the project further. \nThe first (team-building) project meeting will take place virtually (on Teams) at: \nThursday\, Nov 4\, from 3-4pm \nAll are welcome.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/did-the-defendant-use-a-gun-the-philosophical-foundations-and-practical-consequences-of-applying-corpus-analysis-in-legal-interpretation/
LOCATION:Microsoft Teams
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211106T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211106T164500
DTSTAMP:20260501T215229
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SUMMARY:Beckett International Foundation Research Seminar
DESCRIPTION:The Beckett International Foundation at the University of Reading is pleased to announce that the Beckett Research Seminar will take place on Saturday\, 6 November 2021. \nThe event will be held in Minghella Studios\, Whiteknights Campus\, University of Reading. \nAs in previous years\, our speakers represent a mixture of early career researchers as well as established scholars\, local and international\, reflecting current research into Beckett’s work. We hope that the programme will\, as in the past\, attract a wide and varied audience. \nThe charge for the day is £20 per participant (£10 unwaged)\, which includes lunch and refreshments throughout the day. \nPlease register by 2pm on Friday 29 October 2021 using the following link: \nhttps://www.store.reading.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-arts-humanities-social-science/english-literature-department/beckett-international-foundation-research-seminar-2021 \nFor further information\, please visit the Beckett Research Seminar page.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/beckett-international-foundation-research-seminar/
LOCATION:Whiteknights campus\, University of Reading\, Whiteknights Campus\, Reading\, RG6 6AH\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211110T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211110T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T215229
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SUMMARY:FoodSEqual: FoodSystem Research PhD discussion
DESCRIPTION:Do you have ideas for a FoodSystem Research PhD? \nPlease note: this event is for academic staff only. FoodSEqual is one of four consortia funded to deliver UKRI’s ‘Transforming UK Food Systems’ SPF programme. This 5 year project brings together academic researchers\, food industry\, policymakers\, charity organisations and disadvantaged communities working together to tackle food inequalities and ‘ reimagine ’ how food products policy and supply chains can be developed in a sustainable way that is good for the planet. \nThe project is co-creating a framework and new food products to ensure that affordable\, sustainable nutritious food is available to all. Two 3 year PhDs co- funded by Cranfield University and University of Reading to complement the project will be available from October 2022. \nInterested?\nAcademic staff are invited to join the project team on 10 November 2021 (from 17:00) via Teams to propose/discuss topic ideas for these PhDs. \nContact Jane Bradbeer (Project Manager) (j.h.bradbeer@reading.ac.uk) for joining instructions.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/foodsequal-foodsystem-research-phd-discussion/
LOCATION:Microsoft Teams
CATEGORIES:Agriculture, Food & Health
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211110T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211110T203000
DTSTAMP:20260501T215229
CREATED:20210912T084046Z
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SUMMARY:Expanding the design canon: fresh perspectives on women in type and publishing
DESCRIPTION:The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (CBCP) is delighted to collaborate with the St Bride Foundation to celebrate recent contributions to the field of graphic design history\, which seek to shake established narratives to expand the design canon. Our panel of speakers will share their thoughts on the imperative to reconsider women’s depiction in received design histories\, and will highlight some past and present contributions by women to the fields of type\, graphic design and publishing. The evening will also feature the launch of an exciting new website comprising a visualisation of the findings of the ‘Women in Type’ Leverhulme Trust funded project. \nInvited Guest Speakers: \nMartha Scotford – ‘Research and Distribution: What Worked for Me’ \nBriar Levit – ‘Reorienting Approaches to Disseminating Design Histories’ \nRathna Ramanathan – ‘Tara Books: Working with Marginalised Voices Across Cultures’ \n‘Women in Type’ project speakers:\nFiona Ross\, Alice Savoie & Mathieu Triay – Women in Type: highlighting the contribution of women to type history \nOnline event via Zoom. Booking via this link.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/expanding-the-design-canon-fresh-perspectives-on-women-in-type-and-publishing/
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211111T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211111T140000
DTSTAMP:20260501T215229
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SUMMARY:Drone Stories
DESCRIPTION:Human Geography Research Cluster Seminar Series 2021/22 \nPresentation by Anna Jackman\, Lecturer in Human Geography \nDr Anna Jackman is a feminist political geographer interested in technological visibilities\, volumes\, relations and futures\, as approached through the unmanning of everyday\, urban and military life in the drone age. In this presentation\, Anna will share some ‘drone stories’ from her research. Turning to the sites and scales of the home and body\, she’ll reflect on how the drone’s growing domestic(ation) enacts complex (non-human) agencies while enabling and amplifying a range of uneven social relations. \nPresentation followed by commentary\, Q&A.\nDiscussant: Dr. Thomas Grisaffi \nThursday 11 November\n1-2 pm MS Teams \nJoin on your computer or mobile app – Click here to join the meeting \nOr call in (audio only) +44 20 3443 6294\,\,972099234#   United Kingdom\, London \nPhone Conference ID: 972 099 234# \nFind a local number | Reset PIN \n 
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/drone-stories/
LOCATION:Online event
CATEGORIES:Prosperity & Resilience
ORGANIZER;CN="Dr%20Ruth%20Evans%2C%20Global%20Development":MAILTO:r.evans@reading.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211111T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211111T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T215229
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LAST-MODIFIED:20211015T140805Z
UID:22446-1636650000-1636653600@research.reading.ac.uk
SUMMARY:PiCoBoo: A Research Project and an Open-Access Database
DESCRIPTION:Dr Francesca Tancini\, University of Newcastle\nPiCoBoo: a research project and an open-access database \nThe Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (CBCP) is pleased to host this free online event which is open to all. Please register your interest to receive the Zoom link here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/181636629047 \nThe PiCoBoo project aims to assess the significance of 19th-century European picturebooks\, printed in colour for children\, as a catalyst for major cultural and social changes. \nIt makes accessible a large corpus of picturebooks\, so far dispersed across countries and institutions\, only partially retrievable through local catalogues\, not always correctly described and in a not-uniformed way. The database now provides almost 600 books\, with hundreds of digitised images included and not retrievable elsewhere on the web. \nPiCoBoo project has been hosted by the Children’s Literature Unit at Newcastle University\, in partnership with Seven Stories\, The National Centre for Children’s Books\, and with the Victoria and Albert Museum\, London.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/picoboo-a-research-project-and-an-open-access-database/
LOCATION:Online event
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211117T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211117T173000
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SUMMARY:Complex Lives:  Developing the application of biography to the past
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A joint University of Reading and British Museum Webinar. \nSpeakers for the seminar: \nJ.D. Hill (British Museum)\nDuncan Garrow (University of Reading)\nLaura Perucchetti (British Museum) and Abidemi Babalola (British Museum)\nMary Lewis (University of Reading)\nCaroline Cartwright (British Museum)\nAmara Thornton (University of London)\nPeter Bray (University of Reading) \nThe full programme can be seen here.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/complex-lives-developing-the-application-of-biography-to-the-past/
LOCATION:Microsoft Teams
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
ORGANIZER;CN="Peter%20Bray":MAILTO:p.j.bray@reading.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211118T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211118T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T215229
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SUMMARY:Tracing the Nigerian Civil War through Heinemann’s African Writers Series archives: an undergraduate research project and its afterlife
DESCRIPTION:Dr Sue Walsh and Ms Temiloluwa Ogdugbesan\nTracing the Nigerian Civil War through Heinemann’s African Writers Series archives: an undergraduate research project and its afterlife \nThe Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (CBCP) is pleased to host this free online event which is open to all. Please register your interest to receive the Zoom link here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/182683369877 \nAs is well known\, Heinemann Educational Books’ African Writers Series was particularly significant for the development of postcolonial literature in Africa and when the series was first established in 1962\, Nigerian authors\, including its editorial adviser Chinua Achebe\, were among its most significant contributors. But\, when in 1967\, civil war broke out as the south-eastern part of Nigeria (Biafra) attempted to secede from the rest of the country\, Heinemann was left in a potentially difficult position; publishing a significant number of authors from the secessionist side of the conflict (including Achebe himself) whilst trying to maintain its offices in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. \nThis summer I supervised an undergraduate research project funded by the University of Reading\, in which a second-year student\, Temiloluwa Odugbesan\, conducted research into where and how the civil war was discussed in the papers of the publishers (held in the Heinemann archives at the University of Reading’s Special Collections) during the civil war period (1967-70). The purpose of the project was two-fold: 1) to conduct some initial research that would support my longer term research into how Heinemann handled the implications of the civil war for its business in Nigeria; 2) to introduce undergraduate students and others not familiar with the AWS archives to them\, through the production of a short series of blogs and an online exhibition to be hosted on the University of Reading’s Special Collections website. \nThis is the story of that research project\, what Temiloluwa found and how she put together an engaging set of blogs and a fascinating online exhibition intended to introduce people to some of the greats of Nigerian literature\, to the African Writers Series Archives\, and to give some brief background to the civil war and its implications for the publishers at Heinemann and their authors. \nSue Walsh \nI’m a lecturer in the Department of English Literature at the University of Reading. My original specialism is in children’s literature and theory and I am a member of the Graduate Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature\, Culture\, Media\, and I have published a monograph in this area (Kipling’s Children’s Literature: Language\, Identity and Constructions of Childhood\, was published in 2010 by Ashgate) \nMore recently however\, having been born in New Bussa in north-western Nigeria in 1967\, I have always been interested in Nigerian literature and particularly in the literature of the civil war period. I teach a third year module in Nigerian prose literature (from Achebe to Adichie) and have become more and more engrossed in archival work\, looking into what Heinemann’s papers can tell us about this period and its impact on the authors and publishers. \nTemiloluwa Odugbesan \nI’m a current 3rd Year Spanish and Economics BA student and\, during the summer of my second year\, I undertook a unique research project ‘Tracing the Nigerian Civil war through Heinemann’s African Writers Series’. \nMy name is Temiloluwa and I am one of the Nigerian speakers for this event\, which you may have been able to tell by my devastatingly wonderful name. I look forward to sharing my research project with you because not only is it relevant but also because the African Writers Series holds a special place in my heart as it celebrates Nigerian literature alongside many other great works. Growing up I have always appreciated literature and to explore it from an indigenous perspective this past summer has been amazing\, you truly get to see how every writer has their story. \nFurthermore\, through understanding the context this adds to the ambience and feel of the writers – more to come in the talk!
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/tracing-the-nigerian-civil-war-through-heinemanns-african-writers-series-archives-an-undergraduate-research-project-and-its-afterlife/
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
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SUMMARY:Vanished: Hope and Histories of Extinction
DESCRIPTION:History Department Annual Stenton Lecture 2021 \nDr Sadiah Qureshi (University of Birmingham): ‘Vanished: Hope and Histories of Extinction’ \nWe are so familiar with extinction that it is hard to imagine a world where nothing was believed to be extinct. We are accustomed to stories of extinction from playing with toy dinosaurs to museum visits. For decades\, anyone visiting the Natural History Museum in London immediately encountered\, Dippy the dinosaur. From July 2017\, visitors are greeted by ‘Hope’\, the blue whale. She dives from the ceiling towards the crowds in an astonishingly beautiful reminder of the fragility of the natural world in the Anthropocene. Below her\, in the alcoves of the vast entrance hall\, visitors can see collected specimens of extinct and endangered species\, from the mastodon to coral. \nYet\, the science of extinction is modern. Up until the eighteenth century\, well-known losses\, such as the Mauritian dodo\, were attributed to human actions. In the later eighteenth century\, working from the extensive natural history collections in Paris\, George Cuvier argued that fossilised elephantine beasts such as the Mastodon were a different species to their living relatives. This research helped establish the notion that extinction was both endemic and widespread in earth’s history and quickly underpinned new ideas about loss and endangerment in the modern world. In the twentieth century\, the rise of ecology and conservation movements in the 1960s and 1970s created a new awareness of anthropogenically-induced species loss and we are currently witnessing a new era of activism with the emergence of Extinction Rebellion. \nWe now know that rapacious exploitation of natural resources is directly contributing to the habitat loss\, overconsumption and pollution underpinning many modern extinctions\, from the great auk to the Yangtze dolphin. For millenia\, each loss permanently diminished the natural world. Yet\, within the last decade\, the serious prospect of de-extinction has arisen. Scientists are racing to resurrect lost species while their supporters dream of mammoths roaming the earth once more. \nDrawing on scientific writings\, activist art and museum collections and displays\, this Stenton Lecture will explore how naturalists established the notion that extinction was an endemic natural process and the lasting legacies of this shift for current debates about climate change\, the ‘sixth extinction’ and the future of our planet.’ \n  \nDr Qureshi’s lecture will be accompanied by a Stenton workshop in partnership with the British Museum entitled: ‘Collecting and Nineteenth-century Empires’. \nConfirmed speakers include Mirjam Brusius (German Historical Institute); Kate Nichols (Birmingham); Ricardo Roque (Lisbon); Subhadra Das (Galton Collections\, UCL)\, Marenka Thompson-Odlum (Glasgow/ Oxford)\, Amara Thornton (UCL)\, as well as speakers from the British Museum.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/vanished-hope-and-histories-of-extinction/
LOCATION:Online event
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
ORGANIZER;CN="Dr%20Rohan%20Deb%20Roy%2C%20History%20Department":MAILTO:r.debroy@reading.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211119T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211119T180000
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SUMMARY:Stenton Workshop: Collecting and nineteenth-century Empires
DESCRIPTION:History Department Annual Stenton Lecture & Workshop 2021 \nThe Stenton Lecture\, ‘Vanished: Hope and Histories of Extinction‘\, will be delivered at 6pm on 18 November. The Stenton Workshop will be held on the 19 November. Dr Sadiah Qureshi (University of Birmingham) is the  Stenton Lecturer for this year. \nDr Qureshi’s lecture will be accompanied by a Stenton workshop in partnership with the British Museum entitled: ‘Collecting and nineteenth-century Empires’. This workshop will be held on 19 November. \n\n\nSession one: 2pm – 3pm\nChair: Alexandra Green (British Museum) \n\nIsobel MacDonald (British Museum): Acquiring Empire?: A data-driven examination of the British Museum’s processes of acquisition\, 1814-1914\nAmara Thornton (School of Advanced Study\, London): Histories of Archaeological Collecting in the Caribbean\n\nBreak: 3pm- 3.15pm \nSession two: 3.15pm- 4.15pm\nChair: Imma Ramos (British Museum) \n\nKate Nichols (University of Birmingham): Indigenous dispossession and settler colonial art galleries: Anguish at the National Gallery of Victoria\nGaye Sculthorpe (British Museum): Engaging and mobilising Aboriginal objects in UK collections\n\nBreak: 4.15pm – 4.30pm \nSession three: 4.30pm – 6 pm\nChair: Rohan Deb Roy (Reading) \n\nSubhadra Das (Galton Collections\, UCL): Displays of power: historical perspectives on natural history collecting at University College London\nMirjam Brusius (German Historical Institute): What’s wrong with the Field? Race\, modernity\, and the history of collecting\nRicardo Roque (Lisbon): Collecting and the work of inscription in the nineteenth-century racial sciences\n\nRegistration for these events\nBoth the Stenton Lecture and the Stenton Workshop will be held online. To register for the Stenton Lecture and/or the Stenton Workshop\, please visit this registration page. \nFor further information please contact Dr Rohan Deb Roy
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/stenton-workshop-collecting-and-nineteenth-century-empires/
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
ORGANIZER;CN="Dr%20Rohan%20Deb%20Roy%2C%20History%20Department":MAILTO:r.debroy@reading.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211124T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211124T173000
DTSTAMP:20260501T215229
CREATED:20211118T112243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211118T163829Z
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SUMMARY:Walker Institute / Microsoft UK collaboration launch and COP26 next steps
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join the Walker Institute to celebrate the launch of our new collaboration with Microsoft UK and explore how public-private partnerships can better build climate-resilient societies\, particularly in the Global South. A panel of experts from different disciplines and backgrounds will reflect on the outcomes of COP26 and the implications it has for the future of climate-change risk management. With a focus on public climate partnerships and the role of research\, technology and capacity-building\, we will consider how we can help people manage climate risk in a sustainable way. \nRegistration and full programme. \nRegistering for this event via the Eventbrite website means that your personal data will be processed by Eventbrite\, Inc. in accordance with their privacy policy[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/microsoft-uk-walker-institute-collaboration-launch-and-cop26-next-steps/
LOCATION:ICMA Centre\, Large Lecture Theatre
CATEGORIES:Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211125T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211125T140000
DTSTAMP:20260501T215229
CREATED:20211004T143435Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211119T092729Z
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SUMMARY:The moral and emotional politics of food banking in (post)pandemic London
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Human Geography Research Cluster Seminar Series 2021/22 \nDr. Harry Pettit\, David Robins Research Fellow in Urban Geography\, Geography and Environmental Science \nThis presentation asks the question of how among food bank volunteers and employees a deep ethic of care towards food bank guests can co-exist alongside pervasive judgement regarding their neediness and expectations? Using 6 months of ethnographic fieldwork at an independent food bank in north London during the pandemic\, I argue that volunteers and employees are constantly caught between an emotional compulsion to satisfy guest needs\, the scarce and uneven availability of resources\, and a set of rules designed by management to delimit food bank use. This produces an incessantly messy guest relationship\, within which judgement towards their behaviour becomes one predominant way of squaring the moral and emotional dilemma of being unable to meet their needs. I want to suggest that this messy moral and emotional politics has broad consequences for the imaginaries of welfare. \nClick here to join the meeting[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/title-tbc-human-geography-research-cluster-seminar-series-2021-22/
LOCATION:Online event
CATEGORIES:Prosperity & Resilience
ORGANIZER;CN="Dr%20Ruth%20Evans%2C%20Global%20Development":MAILTO:r.evans@reading.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211125T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211125T180000
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SUMMARY:David King: Authoring the Visual Narrative by Design
DESCRIPTION:Professor Rick Poynor\nDavid King: Authoring the Visual Narrative by Design \nThe Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (CBCP) is pleased to host this free online event which is open to all. This research seminar will be a hybrid event\, taking place on the University of Reading campus (room TBC) and online. Please register your interest to receive the Zoom link here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/182700621477 \nDavid King (1942-2016) occupies an unusual position in British graphic design and publishing. At the Sunday Times Magazine\, where he worked for 10 years\, he was both a designer and a visual journalist\, developing\, researching and sometimes photographing his own stories. In 1972\, he co-authored his first book\, about Trotsky\, and he went on to build up a world-class private collection of graphics and photographs from the Russian revolutionary period (now owned by Tate)\, which he used in his own work. As an expert visual researcher with an ever-developing command of the subject\, he designed and authored a range of catalogues and books about Russian and Soviet history\, among them The Commissar Vanishes (1997)\, Ordinary Citizens (2003) and Red Star Over Russia (2009). King was a leading example of “the designer as author”\, able to conceive and construct visual narratives that would never be attempted by text-led historians or designers who lacked his deep historical knowledge. This talk will trace the development of King’s visual practice as an author\, consider the visual signature he derived from constructivism\, and assess the combination of visual and editorial skills that enabled his publishing projects. What are the implications of King’s body of work for a more complex form of visual authorship? \nRick Poynor is Professor of Design and Visual Culture at the University of Reading. He was the founding editor of Eye\, the international review of graphic design\, and co-founder of the Design Observer website. His most recent books are David King: Designer\, Activist\, Visual Historian (Yale University Press\, 2020) and National Theatre Posters: A Design History (Unit Editions\, 2017). His other books include Obey the Giant: Life in the Image World (2001)\, No More Rules: Graphic Design and Postmodernism (2003) and Jan van Toorn: Critical Practice (2008). Occasional Papers will publish Graphic Cultures\, his fourth volume of essays\, in 2022.
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CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
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SUMMARY:Persecuting Society? Defining the 'Orthodox Republic' in the Age of Justinian
DESCRIPTION:Department of Classics 11th Annual Percy Ure Lecture \nProfessor Peter Sarris (University of Cambridge): Persecuting Society? Defining the ‘Orthodox Republic’ in the Age of Justinian \nAll are welcome to join University of Reading’s Classics Department for the 11th Annual Percy Ure Lecture\, to be delivered by Peter Sarris\, Professor of Late Antique\, Medieval and Byzantine Studies at Cambridge University. This lecture honours Professor Percy N. Ure\, who founded the department. \nAdmission free. Booking essential \nWe are hoping to hold this event in person\, but will revert to an online lecture if necessary. \n 
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CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
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