Dr Sadiah Qureshi (University of Birmingham): Vanished: Hope and Histories of Extinction’ History Department Annual Stenton Lecture 2021 We are so familiar with extinction that it is hard to imagine…Read More >
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Ghetto: A Very Short Introduction Bryan Cheyette at the Cheltenham Literature Festival
It is a rarity that an email arrives which is cause for good cheer. The invitation to speak at the Cheltenham Literature Festival—on Ghetto: A Very Short Introduction— was one…Read More >
Abdulrazak Gurnah, the 2021 Nobel Literature Prize, and a Challenge to White Fragility
NPR, the US American public radio station, was broadcasting some critical reporting on the day of the announcement of the 2021 Nobel Literature Prize, 7 October. The journalists were discussing…Read More >
How to predict the summer weather – magic, miracle and meteorology
On July 15 971, the bones of St Swithin were removed from their resting place on the order of Aethelwold, Bishop of Winchester, and placed in a shrine inside the…Read More >
Cross-disciplinary Conversations on Caring in a Crisis
In this post Amie Bolissian considers how the ‘Old Age Care in Times of Crisis’ Symposium in April 2021, highlighted the polysemic nature of old age care, the different ways…Read More >
What Can a Dog Called Margarita Teach us About Ancient Rome?
The Classics Department of Reading recently announced the release of a special video called What Can a Dog Called Margarita Teach us About Ancient Rome? In this video Prof. Peter…Read More >
Broken Futures project: podcast, walking tour and exhibition
The Broken Futures project researches local historical prosecutions of sex between men in Berkshire’s Crime and Punishment Archives, 1861 to 1967 to understand how these men were experiencing life and…Read More >
Global Development workshop: Conceptualising historical legacies
It is widely acknowledged that the past can offer a window into the future. In academia, studying historical trends to explain the present or predict and imagine future events is…Read More >
Centre for Health Humanities Online Seminars
Janet Walls, ‘The Zodiac Sign as Body in the Late Medieval Period’ Tom Mills, ‘Medieval Leprosy and Bioarchaeology: The Body as a Physical Sign’ Claire Collins, ‘Secreta mulierum? The not…Read More >
A Cultural Biography of the Prostate
Centre for Health Humanities Online Seminars: ‘A Cultural Biography of the Prostate’, Ericka Johnson, Linköping University To join, email a.s.mangham@reading.ac.uk Please click here to see the other seminars in our…Read More >
