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SUMMARY:Seminar: Religious contexts of women’s vulnerability to HIV in Ghana
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The seminar entitled ‘Religious contexts of women’s vulnerability to HIV in Ghana‘ will be delivered by Dr Yaw Adjei-Amoako on Thursday 6 October from 1-2pm. Join us at the Sorby Room in the Wager Building on Whiteknights Campus. This seminar is open to all University staff and students. \nAbstract: \nHIV continues to exact its toll in sub-Saharan African countries\, including Ghana\, distorting their demographics\, and weakening their economies and institutions. Little is known about the role that religious denominations play in the spread or control of HIV in Ghana. Using semi-structured interviews and focus group discussion data collected in various Christian congregations in rural and urban areas in Ghana\, this paper explores how women’s vulnerability to HIV are mediated by type of Christian denomination – ‘mainstream’ churches or ‘healing’ churches. The results point to differences in women’s exposure to HIV-related information\, knowledge\, attitudes and behaviour to the disadvantage of women who attended healing churches\, particularly in the rural area. The study concludes that interventions aimed at initiating behavioural change and reducing women’s vulnerability to HIV must be comprehensive\, broadly oriented in the communities and take into consideration the many complex personal and contextual factors\, including religious affiliation and participation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/seminar-religious-contexts-of-womens-vulnerability-to-hiv-in-ghana/
LOCATION:Sorby Room\, Wager Building
CATEGORIES:Prosperity & Resilience
ORGANIZER;CN="Dr%20Hilary%20Geoghegan%2C%20Global%20Development":MAILTO:h.geoghegan@reading.ac.uk
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221006T210000
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SUMMARY:Reading Pathological Society and the University of Reading collaboration meeting
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Reading Pathological Society and the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Reading are pleased to announced a joint research meeting between the Royal Berkshire Health Trust and the University of Reading. \nVenue: The Meadow Suite\, University of Reading\, Whiteknights Campus\, Reading\, RG6 6AH. \nDate: 6 October 2022 \nProgramme\n18.15-18.20 Welcome speech by Dr Carl Waldmann \nPresident of Reading Pathological Society \nConsultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia\, Royal Berkshire Hospital \n  \n18.20-18.50 ‘An alphabet of gut microbiology’ by Professor Glenn Gibson \nProfessor of Food Microbiology\, University of Reading \n  \n18.50-19.20 ‘ProKIDNI Study: The use of machine learning to identify patients with rapidly declining chronic kidney disease’ by Dr Nitin Bhandary \nConsultant Physician and Nephrologist\, Berkshire Kidney Unit and University Department of Renal Medicine \n  \n19.20-19.50 The aetiology and treatment for common and rare complications following snakebite envenomation in humans by Professor Sakthivel Vaiyapuri  \nSchool of Pharmacy\, University of Reading \n  \n19.50-21.00 Pizza and drinks \n  \nTo reserve your place at this free event please contact Ketan Patel at ketan.patel@reading.ac.uk \n  \nDownload the event poster[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/24717/
LOCATION:Meadow Suite\, Park House\, Meadow Suite\, Park House\, RG6 6UR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Agriculture, Food & Health
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ORGANIZER;CN="Reading%20Pathological%20Society%20and%20the%20University%20of%20Reading":MAILTO:ketan.patel@reading.ac.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221010T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221010T140000
DTSTAMP:20260429T175629
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SUMMARY:ID Seminar: Examining and supporting holistic management of risks by smallholder farmers
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Department of International Development is pleased to have Doctoral Researcher\, Nuru Kipato\, delivering a hybrid seminar entitled: ‘Examining and supporting holistic management of risks by smallholder farmers’. \nThe seminar is taking place on Monday 10 October from 1-2pm in the Frank Parkinson Room\, Agriculture Building. You can also join via Teams here.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/id-seminar-examining-and-supporting-holistic-management-of-risks-by-smallholder-farmers/
LOCATION:Frank Parkinson room\, Agriculture\, Whiteknights\, RG6 7BE
CATEGORIES:Agriculture, Food & Health
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221013T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221013T180000
DTSTAMP:20260429T175629
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SUMMARY:A Room of One’s Own on the High Street: Women and Personal Bookshops\, 1916-1939
DESCRIPTION:Dr Matt Chambers\, CBCP Research Fellow\n\nThis research seminar is free and open to all. Join us in person in the Edith Morley Building\, Room G74. To join via Zoom\, register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/423971097967 \n\n\nFrom 1916 onwards\, a new form of bookselling became progressively more visible. Variously labelled “personal bookshops” or “bookshop salons\,” small bookselling businesses\, opened and operated often by women\, offered a different kind of retail experience. Stock was tailored to fit a certain theme or vision; the shop was imagined as a social space and could hold events; the owners would publish books\, periodicals\, and pamphlets which became synonymous with the shop; and in general\, the bookshop became the centre of a literary or political community. In reviewing The Sunwise Turn and the Harlem People’s Book Shop (New York City)\, as well as Bermondsey Books and Collet’s (London)\, and Shakespeare and Company and Les Maison des Amis des Livres (Paris)\, I will discuss how more than just a notable demographic shift\, these women-led bookshops represented a change in what was possible in book retail\, and permanently altered the bookselling landscape in the early twentieth century.\n\nThis research seminar is free and open to all.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/women-and-personal-bookshops/
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221017T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221017T140000
DTSTAMP:20260429T175629
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SUMMARY:ID Seminar: School feeding and the home grown in the Malawian context
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Department of International Development is pleased to have Doctoral Researcher\, Miki Gilbert\, delivering a seminar entitled: ‘School feeding and the home grown in the Malawian context’. \nThe seminar is taking place on Monday 17 October from 1-2pm in the 1L10 Seminar Room\, Agriculture Building.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/id-seminar-school-feeding-and-the-home-grown-in-the-malawian-context/
LOCATION:Agriculture Building\, Seminar Room 1L10
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221021T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221021T143000
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SUMMARY:‘Gender and the Archaeology of Medieval Nunneries’
DESCRIPTION:Close to 30 years ago Prof Roberta Gilchrist published ‘Gender and Material Culture: The Archaeology of Religious Women’. This influential book has been a cornerstone of gender and medieval archaeological research and studies of women religious more broadly. Its continued impact is evident in the recent book by Dr Tracy Collins\, ‘Female Monasticism in Medieval Ireland: An Archaeology’\, which is the first gender archaeology of medieval nunneries in Ireland. In this virtual event\, we bring together these two scholars to speak to the context in which their books were created –both times of renewed feminist activism. \nThis talk is the first in a new series of virtual events by the Society for Medieval Archaeology. \nRegister your place for free here.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/gender-archaeology-medieval-nunneries/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221024T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221024T140000
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SUMMARY:ID Seminar: Using evidence in policy and practice
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Department of International Development is pleased to have Prof Ian Goldman from University of Witwatersrand\, South Africa delivering an online seminar entitled: ‘Using evidence in policy and practice’. \nThe seminar is taking place on Monday 24 October from 1-2pm on Teams. You can join the seminar here.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/id-seminar-using-evidence-in-policy-and-practice/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Agriculture, Food & Health
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221026T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221026T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T175629
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SUMMARY:Ghandhi Research Seminar Series: Prof Duncan French
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Global Law at Reading (GLAR) is one of the leading groups of expert staff researching and teaching global law at any university in the UK. As Reading’s research hub for public international law\, EU law and human rights law it has a proud international reputation for research excellence in these areas. The series was launched in 2015. It is named in honour of Professor Sandy Ghandhi\, who taught at the School of Law from 1978 to 2013 and remains an emeritus professor at Reading.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] \nAnyone is welcome to attend this seminar\, and attendance is free.\n[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][vc_column_text]Wednesday 26 October \n12:30-1:30pm \nPalmer 108[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Professor Duncan French (University of Lincoln) \nEnvisioning Post-Holocene (Anthropocene) Global Commons[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/24884/
LOCATION:Palmer Building\, Room 108
CATEGORIES:Prosperity & Resilience
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221026T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221026T160000
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SUMMARY:Performing the Digital Humanities in contemporary academia
DESCRIPTION:In this talk I interrogate the position of Digital Humanities in the contemporary university\, particularly (but not exclusively) in British academia. I open up the question of what the role of Digital Humanities might be in this conjuncture\, which sees the arts and humanities often marginalised by academia. At the same time\, though\, the contemporary world presents a number of wider social\, political and technological challenges that the arts and humanities may be well equipped to address. I draw on my recent work on the importance of feminist theories of performativity (particularly Karen Barad’s and Judith Butler’s) to unpack the functioning of Artificial Intelligence\, Machine Learning and data-driven methods and policies\, as well as the injustices and inequalities they generate. I invite the Digital Humanities to enter in a critical dialogue with contemporary technology by taking into account at least two aspects. Firstly\, technology has always been central to the constitution of what we call “the human”. Secondly\, Digital Humanities can itself be a generator of social and political inequalities or\, conversely\, an important tool for redressing such inequalities. I conclude by considering the role of feminist performativity in rethinking what it means to perform Digital Humanities responsibly today. \nFederica Frabetti is Principal Lecturer in Digital Media at the University of Roehampton. She has a diverse professional and academic background in the humanities and ICT and has worked for a decade as a software engineer in telecommunications companies. She is the author of Software Theory (2015). She is also an editor and translator of The Judith Halberstam Reader (Italian). In 2011 she edited the special issue of the academic journal Culture Machine\, “The Digital Humanities Beyond Computing” 12. \n14.50 Break \n15.00 Roundtable: \nDr Eugene McSorley (Associate Professor of Experimental Psychology\nHead of the Active Vision Lab  |  Director of the Behavioural and Experimental Social Sciences Lab) \nDr Dominic Lees (Associate Professor of Filmmaking\, AI research group)  \nDr Mara Oliva (Associate Professor in US History\, DH Champion\, Digital Humanities Quarterly Editor) \n15.30 Q&A \n15.55 What’s next (DH CoP and Hub – future events) & close \nTo book your place (online or in person) please contact the Hub’s DH Champion\, Dr Mara Oliva – m.oliva@reading.ac.uk
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/performing-digital-humanities/
LOCATION:Edith Morley Building\, G25\, University of Reading\, Shinfield Rd\, Reading\, RG6 6EL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221026T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221026T173000
DTSTAMP:20260429T175629
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SUMMARY:The Rush of the Orinoco: The English Dream of El Dorado
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday 26th October\, 4-5.30pm\, in-person (Miller G05\, Whiteknights Campus\, University of Reading) and online (please register below for zoom link) \nReading Latin American and Caribbean network (R-LAC) and the Department of Languages and Cultures Research seminar series are pleased to invite you to a seminar with Dr Tomás Straka\, Director of the Research Institute of History\, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello\, Caracas. Venezuela. \nThe current trial in The Hague about Venezuela’s claim of the Essequibo is another inheritance that remains from the old times of the British Empire throughout the world. Whilst Venezuela and Guyana await the verdict of the International Court\, many people have started to think about the historical roots of the problem. A long history of all the imperialisms in the Caribbean – Spanish\, Dutch\, English and American – and slavery is in the background of the Venezuela-Guyana dispute\, as well as the Cold War and the oil economy during the last decades. This talk focuses on the intellectual aspect of this process. \nAlongside the British penetration in the Orinoco area (Orinoquia in Spanish)\, among the British developed a real fascination about this area as a realm of two types of utopias: the endless wealth of El Dorado\, and the place where Noble Savages live without troubles. From the adventures of Walter Raleigh to the fantastic novel of Arthur Conan Doyle\, the British Orinoquia literature was an inspiration to traders\, explorers\, filibusters\, slavers\, and poets. Not for nothing the most world-famous novel of the Orinoco is a classic of the English literature: Robinson Crusoe. \nTo register for zoom link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-rush-of-the-orinoco-the-english-dream-of-el-dorado-tickets-443273913207
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/orinoco-english-dream-el-dorado/
LOCATION:Miller G05\, Whiteknights Campus\, RG6 6UR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221027T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221027T120000
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SUMMARY:Open Research Forum
DESCRIPTION:Everything you want to know about Open Access but were too afraid to ask\n  \nBook your place at this Open Research Forum using this link \nTalks will be delivered by the Research Engagement Team from the Library.   \nStay for the full programme or just drop in for the sessions that you are interested in.   \n  \nProgramme   \n10.00-10.05 Introduction to the event and outline of the sessions   \n10.05-10.20 What is Open Access?\nWhat is Open Access?\, What’s the difference between Green and Gold Open Access?\, why is it important?\, who benefits?\, what’s in it for me?  \n10.20-10.35 CentAUR and the Green Open Access Route\nHow the University’s institutional repository can help you make your outputs Open Access via the Green route  \n10.35-10.50 Going for Gold – what does publishing Gold Open Access involve?\nWhat are Pure Gold and Hybrid Gold journals\, Creative Commons Licences\, finding Gold Open Access journals.   \n10.50-11.00 Short break for questions/catch-up  \n11.00-11.15 Paying for Gold Open Access at University of Reading\nWhat is funded\, who can apply for funding\, how to apply for funding\, finding journals in our publisher deals via the new SciFree tool.   \n11.15-11.30 Funder requirements for Open Access\nUKRI funder requirements and how to comply with them\, finding suitable journals\, navigating the Green Open Access route for funder compliance   \n11.30-11.40 Avoiding the Sharks – how to choose a reputable Open Access journal\nBasic checks to make sure that the journal you are submitting your manuscript to is a reputable one.   \n11.40-11.50 Open Access for PhD theses\nHow you can make sure your (or your students’) research is open once the PhD is completed.   \n11.50-12.00 Time for questions and closing remarks  
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/open-research-forum-4/
LOCATION:Online
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