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SUMMARY:Way of type Evolution of Chinese typeforms
DESCRIPTION: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. \nNo booking is required for members of the University of Reading and off-campus attendees need to email typography@reading.ac.uk. 
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/chinese-typeforms/
LOCATION:Building 21 (TOB2)\, University of Reading\, Whiteknights\, Building 21 (TOB2)\, Department of Typography & Graphic Communication\, T-Spur exhibition space\, Reading\, RG6 6ER\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
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SUMMARY:Author event: Kit de Waal in conversation – in person/hybrid event
DESCRIPTION: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. \nKit 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. \nKit 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. \nShe 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. \nHer 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’. \nThis 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. \nQuestions 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.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/author-event-kit-de-waal-in-conversation-in-person-hybrid-event/
LOCATION:Edith Morley Building\, Van Emden Lecture Theatre\, Edith Morley Building\, University of Reading\, Reading\, Berkshire\, RG6 6UR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
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SUMMARY:Spring Children's Lecture: Wind of Change\, Curbing Cow Burps to Fight Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”27345″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text] \nWind of change curbing cow burps to fight climate change\nMilk 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. \nThat’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. \nWhat 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. \nAdmission free. Booking essential. \nSuitable for children 7 to 12 years. \nTo book your place visit www.reading.ac.uk/events[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/spring-childrens-lecture-wind-of-change-curbing-cow-burps-to-fight-climate-change/
LOCATION:JJ Thomson Ditchburn Lecture Theatre
CATEGORIES:Agriculture, Food & Health
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SUMMARY:2nd CBCP Postgraduate Symposium - call for papers
DESCRIPTION: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. \nPhD students and Postdoctoral researchers are invited to submit abstracts for 15-minute talks on relevant topics\, such as: \n\nbook production\, distribution\, and readership in global contexts.\nprinting and publishing trade.\nbook history\, typography\, and book design.\nmateriality of text and image (both analogue and digital).\nenvironmental histories of print cultures and book printing and sustainability.\nwider book cultures and publishing with a distinctive global\, multilingual\, and\nmultidisciplinary focus.\nprotagonists and professionals of the book market (such as publishers\, editors\,\ndesigners\, illustrators\, translators\, cultural mediators\, literary agents\, readers).\n\nThe 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). \nThe 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. \nAbstracts and enquiries should be sent to: Andrea Romanzi and Pritha Mukherjee. \nDelegates 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.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/2nd-cbcp-postgraduate-symposium-call-for-papers/
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
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SUMMARY:Contradictions of the Digital in Screen and Performance Cultures
DESCRIPTION:From Hyperconnectivity to Solitude: A Pharmacological Journey in Digital Performance Ecologies\nDigital 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. \nBio\nDr 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). \nDeepfakes in screen culture – transformations in image\, practice and performance\nSince 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. \nBio\nDr 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). \nAbout this event\nThe 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. \nEach invited paper is 25-30 minutes long and is followed by a participatory Q&A discussion. \nReserve a space here.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/contradictions-digital-screen-performance/
LOCATION:Online event
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
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SUMMARY:Deconstructing bi/multilingualism\, social communication\, and autistic sociality with a focus on clinical application
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) are happy to announce the speakers for the CeLM Seminar Series for the upcoming year. P \nPlease find information below\, including the date and time\, CeLM theme and location of each talk\, along with the speaker and talk title. \nIf 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. \n17th July\, 2023 (tbc) (6-7pm\, Health\, online)\nBetty Yu (San Francisco State University)\nDeconstructing bi/multilingualism\, social communication\, and autistic sociality with a focus on clinical application[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/deconstructing-bi-multilingualism-social-communication-and-autistic-sociality-with-a-focus-on-clinical-application/
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SUMMARY:AI and the Arts & Humanities
DESCRIPTION:The Digital Humanities CoP and the Artificial Intelligence CoP are pleased to announce two joint events for the summer 2023 term. \n  \nWednesday 24 May 2023 \n14:00 to 16:00 \nIn-person & hybrid \nKeynote: Professor David De Roure (Oxford) \n  \nNetworking Coffee/Tea \nWednesday 14 June 2023 \n14:00 to 15:00
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/ai-and-the-arts-humanities/
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
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SUMMARY:Bilingualism and Intersection of Race\, Disability and Nation
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (CeLM) are happy to announce the speakers for the CeLM Seminar Series for the upcoming year. P \nPlease find information below\, including the date and time\, CeLM theme and location of each talk\, along with the speaker and talk title. \nIf 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. \n25th May\, 2023 (1-2 pm\, Health\, online)\nVishnu Nair (University of Reading)\nBilingualism and Intersection of Race\, Disability and Nation \nUpcoming CeLM seminars: \n15th June\, 2023 (1-2pm\, Language and Literacy\, online)\nBeverley Jennings (University of Reading)\nAdolescent reading habits \n17th July\, 2023 (tbc) (6-7pm\, Health\, online)\nBetty Yu (San Francisco State University)\nDeconstructing bi/multilingualism\, social communication\, and autistic sociality with a focus on clinical application[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/bilingualism-and-intersection-of-race-disability-and-nation/
CATEGORIES:Prosperity & Resilience
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SUMMARY:Archives\, history and memory in memoir writing – a talk by Marina Warner
DESCRIPTION: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.] \nShe 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. \nThis event is run in partnership with the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL). \nDame 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. \nThis 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. \nA 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. \nTo book tickets to attend the event in person at the Museum of English Rural Life please click here \nTo book tickets for the online event (which covers the talk only) please click here \nThe event will finish at 7.00pm.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/archives-history-and-memory-in-memoir-writing-a-talk-by-marina-warner/
LOCATION:Museum of English Rural Life (The MERL)\, Redlands Road\, Reading\, RG1 5EX\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
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