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SUMMARY:UoR - Natural History Museum - Evolution Day
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]You are invited to a day of in-person talks and discussions with colleagues from the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Division\, and the NHM’s Evolution of Life Theme – and the broader Science Group. \nThe aim of this event is to help us all learn more about our shared interests and expertise in the evolution of life\, with the goal of initiating new collaborative projects between the NHM and Reading. \nThis event will be held on the Whiteknights Campus at the University of Reading on Tuesday 4 February 2025.  \nPlease see here for more information and to register interest.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/uor-natural-history-museum-evolution-day/
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SUMMARY:Where Context Matters: Multi-factor Research to optimise Resource Protection | My Climate Risk Interdisciplinary Learning Group
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n\nManaging protection areas efficiently and effectively to ensure resource protection is a difficult task. This session will highlight the different factors that play into developing these protection strategies. By understanding how distance costs affect both extractors and enforcement strategies\, managers can enhance the efficiency of their protection measures. The work discussed serves to ultimately inform policies on buffer and no-take zones\, promoting a balance between resource dependence and conservation efforts\, highlighting the importance of context in empirical economic research. \n\n\n Link: \n\n\nhttps://walker.reading.ac.uk/my-climate-risk/interdisciplinary-reading-group/mcrilg-elizabeth-j-z-robinson/ \n  \n\n\nSpeaker note:  \n\n\nProfessor Elizabeth Robinson is Director of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE.  She is an environmental economist with over twenty-five years’ experience undertaking applied policy-relevant research\, particularly in lower-income countries\, including six while living in Tanzania and Ghana. Her research addresses the design of policies and institutions to reduce climate change emissions\, protect the environment\, and improve the livelihoods of resource-dependent communities. Her recent focus includes climate change and systemic risk; and tracking the co-benefits of climate change mitigation and health\, oriented particularly around food security and food systems. From 2004-09 she was coordinating lead author for the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development\, sub-Saharan Africa; and a Member of the global and sub-Saharan Africa design teams. She was on the UK Defra Economic Advisory Panel for five years; and in 2019-20\, Specialist Advisor to the UK House of Lords Select Committee on Food\, Poverty\, Health\, and Environment. She was Working Group 1 lead for the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change (2016-2024)\, that addresses climate change impacts\, exposures\, and vulnerability. Before joining the Grantham Research Institute\, Elizabeth worked at the University of Reading for ten years\, and prior to that she has variously worked at the Boston Consulting Group\, the World Bank\, Rockefeller Foundation\, Natural Resources Institute\, and as a tutorial fellow in economics at the University of Oxford. She has a first class degree in Engineering\, Economics\, and Management from Oxford University\, and a PhD in Applied Economics from Stanford University. \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/where-context-matters-multi-factor-research-to-optimise-resource-protection-my-climate-risk-interdisciplinary-learning-group/
CATEGORIES:Environment
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SUMMARY:Translations’ copyright/translators’ copyright: a history of power imbalance in the Italian book trade
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n\nSpeaker: Anna Lanfranchi – Teaching Fellow in Translation & Transcultural Studies & Italian at the University of Warwick\n \nThis research seminar is a hybrid event and is free & open to all. \n\nTo join us in person come along to Room 124\, Edith Morley building\, University of Reading (Whiteknights campus) \nTo join via MS Teams\, please register here\n\nSeminar topic:\nIn the second half of the 19th century\, international legal frameworks gave to the authors of literary works a new level control over the translation and publication of texts across national borders. While recognising the status of translations as original works in their own merit\, authors and translators faced different challenges in the rapidly changing transnational landscape. Drawing on research on the post-Unification Italian publishing industry\, the paper discusses the different treatment of translations’ and translators’ copyright in the first half of the 20th century\, and explores the consequences of such power imbalance for the structural and professional development of the Italian book trade. \nAbout our speaker:\nAnna Lanfranchi is a Teaching Fellow in Translation and Transcultural Studies and Italian at the University of Warwick (UK). Her research focuses on transnational book history from the 19th century to the present day. She has published on Italian translation and publishing history\, wartime book programmes\, and intellectuals in the book trade. Her first monograph\, Translations and Copyright in the Italian Book Trade: Publishers\, Agents\, and the State (1900-1947) (Palgrave 2024) explores the legal frameworks and the professional networks informing the negotiation of translation rights to British and US works in Italy in the first half of the 20th century. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nDetails\n\nDate:\n February 13 \nTime:\n\n5:00 pm – 6:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nVenue\n\nRoom 124\, Edith Morley building\, University of Reading (Whiteknights campus)\, RG6 6EL\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n  \n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/translations-copyright-translators-copyright-a-history-of-power-imbalance-in-the-italian-book-trade/
LOCATION:Edith Morley\, 124
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
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SUMMARY:Richard Bradley Lecture - The Past in the Present by Professor Laurent Olivier
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n\nThe Department of Archaeology is excited to welcome Professor Laurent Olivier of the French National Museum of Archaeology to deliver our inaugural Richard Bradley Lecture. The archaeological past continues to occupy the present\, even though its time has long since passed. This talk will explore the idea of ‘transformission’\, whereby the archaeological past is transformed as it is transmitted. It will also consider how the ‘Great Acceleration’ – the rapid increase in human activity which began in the mid-twentieth century – is crushing both past and future into a dead-end present. \nCan archaeology\, which restores the memory of people and places\, become a tool of resistance the age of devastation introduced by the advent of the Anthropocene? This lecture will be held in honour of Richard Bradley\, Professor Emeritus of Archaeology\, whose work has transformed our vision of the archaeological past. We hope to see many of you there! \nFor more information contact: d.j.garrow@reading.ac.uk \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/richard-bradley-lecture-the-past-in-the-present-by-professor-laurent-olivier/
LOCATION:Henley Business School\, Room G11\, Henley Business School\, Whiteknights Campus\, Reading\, RG6 6UR\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Digital Humanities Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nFor this session\, we invite you to read and bring your thoughts on one or both of ‘Bias in Big Data\, Machine Learning and AI: What Lessons for the Digital Humanities?’ (a journal article by Andrew Prescott) and Klara and the Sun (a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro). You are very welcome to join us for a chat\, even if you haven’t yet had the chance to read/finish the material. We would love to hear your thoughts on the theme of Artificial Intelligence\, to hear about what you have been reading recently\, and to know what you would like to read next or to see from the group in future. Please feel free to also bring your lunch! \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/digital-humanities-reading-group/
LOCATION:Edith Morley\, 181
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
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SUMMARY:The role of public engagement with research in REF2029
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Join the first Public Engagement with Research Community of Practice meeting for 2025! \nWe’re thrilled to welcome Sophie Duncan\, Co-Director of the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE)\, for an interactive presentation on “The role of public engagement with research in REF2029”. \n📅 Date: 20 February 2025 \n⏰ Time: 10:00 – 10:50 \n📍 Venue: Room 102\, Palmer Building\, Whiteknights Campus (and on Teams) \nThis session will explore: \n\nUKRI policy and funding council priorities for Public Engagement with Research.\nHow PER will be integrated into REF2029 (People\, Culture & Environment and Engagement & Impact elements).\nInsights on fostering high-quality\, impactful engagement activities.\n\nThe presentation will be followed by a Q&A/discussion session chaired by Academic Champion for PER\, Teresa Murjas. \nWhether you’re a researcher passionate about PER\, an academic with responsibility for REF\, or a professional services colleague\, this is a fantastic opportunity to gain insights from one of the UK’s leading experts in public engagement.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/the-role-of-public-engagement-with-research-in-ref2029/
LOCATION:Palmer Building\, Room 102\, Palmer Building\, Whiteknights Campus\, Reading\, Berkshire\, RG6 6UR\, United Kingdom
ORGANIZER;CN="Caroline%20Knowles%2C%20Research%20Communications%20and%20Engagement%20Team":MAILTO:c.l.knowles@reading.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:International Mother Language Day 2025: Linguistic Diversity in Reading
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nFind out more about which languages are most commonly spoken at the university and in Reading.\nThe Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism invites you to celebrate International Mother Language Day at a public lecture on 21 February 2025\, where we will showcase and celebrate language diversity in Reading. \nThe event will start at 6pm and take place on the University’s London Road campus. We will share the results of our survey capturing the languages that Reading residents and University staff and students speak. We will also showcase our research projects and staff and student “linguistic journeys”\, and do a linguistic bodymapping activity that everyone will be invited to take part in. \nAttendance is free and everyone is welcome. If you wish to attend please register here. \n\n\nLast year the centre collaborated with our community researchers to mark the day and brought together local people to celebrate Reading’s linguistic and cultural diversity through song\, dance\, poetry and other activities. \n\n\n[/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9OREtm29xE” title=”International Mother Language Day 2024″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/international-mother-language-day-2025-linguistic-diversity-in-reading/
LOCATION:L22\, G01\, London Road campus
CATEGORIES:Prosperity & Resilience
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SUMMARY:DIGITAL SPACE WORKSHOP - Digital Humanities Community of Practice
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nDIGITAL SPACE WORKSHOP – Wednesday 26 February 2025  \nExploring Digital Space – Fostering Interdisciplinary Collaborations and Grant Preparation \nThe Digital Humanities CoP and Hub are hosting an upcoming event centred around the theme of Digital Space which aims to serve as a platform for developing strategic partnerships\, encourage innovative ideas\, and lay the groundwork for future grant applications. We invite interested colleagues from all disciplines to attend the event to discuss their work\, to foster interdisciplinary collaborations and cultivate synergies between academics and our museum partners. \nWhat is Digital Space?   \nDigital spaces may represent\, interact with\, or perform similar functions to\, physical spaces. They may be virtual environments\, and/or platforms for interaction\, communication and collaboration. These spaces include digital repositories and archives\, online communities and social media platforms\, digital (re)constructions and virtual worlds\, e-learning and collaborative working environments\, and more. Digital spaces play a crucial role in social interactions\, knowledge exchange\, and cultural expression\, while also raising important questions related to privacy\, security\, ethics\, and governance. \nThe following examples indicate the type of thematic areas that could be considered under the Digital Space theme. \n·         Theoretical frameworks for understanding digital spaces \n·         The impact of digital spaces on social interactions\, community building\, and networks \n·         The design\, architecture\, and user experience of virtual environments \n·         Ethical considerations and privacy challenges in digital spaces \n·         The role of digital spaces in education\, learning\, and public engagement \n·         Artistic expression and the cultural significance of digital environments \n·         The intersection and blending of physical and digital spaces in museums\, heritage\, and the arts \n·         Policy-making\, governance\, and regulation of digital spaces \n·         Case studies involving museums and cultural institutions’ use of digital space \n·         Digital political space \n·         Threats posed to and by digital spaces \n·         Relationships between digital and physical spaces (replication\, preservation\, augmentation\, competition…) \n·         Language for\, and in\, digital spaces \nHow to respond \nWe are inviting all attendees to do a short presentation to introduce themselves and address the following points: \n1.      What ‘Digital Space’ means to you. \n2.      An outline of any research\, publications\, collaborations (etc.) that you have already done in this field. \n3.      Your ideas for future activity in this area\, including collaborations\, expertise and knowledge that you need to find or identify. \nIf you would like to attend the workshop\, please send a brief outline (up to 100 words) to cover the points above to Dr Mara Oliva (m.oliva@reading.ac.uk) by 1st February 2025. \nEvent Details: \nDate: 26 February 2025\, from 11.00 to 14.00 (coffee/ tea and lunch included) \nLocation:  Whiteknights Campus \nFormat: Flash presentations followed by breakout sessions designed to facilitate networking and interdisciplinary collaboration. \nFuture Collaboration Opportunity: This event will be followed by a one-day Action Lab in June 2025\, where participants will have the opportunity to further develop collaborative projects and prepare for upcoming grant proposals. \nWe look forward to hearing from you and sharing ideas at this workshop! \nThe DH CoP and Hub \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/digital-space-workshop-digital-humanities-community-of-practice/
LOCATION:Whiteknights campus\, University of Reading\, Whiteknights Campus\, Reading\, RG6 6AH\, United Kingdom
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