The Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing (CBCP) is pleased to host this talk by Michelle O’Callaghan and Jake Arthur introducing the new online database of Early Modern Women’s Complaint…Read More >
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Beware Floods Ahead!
Join us at in the ExplorerZone Digital of the Oxford Science and Ideas Festival on Saturday 17 October – from 8am to 8pm from the comfort of your own home. …Read More >
British Academy Virtual Summer Showcase Featuring University of Reading researchers Yasmine Shamma and Vaibhav Singh
The British Academy Virtual Summer Showcase will take place on Friday 19 June and Saturday 20 June. Featuring live and pre-recorded talks, performances and demonstrations, our Summer Showcase brings the best new…Read More >
‘I, Sheep’: a woolly perspective on the world
What can we discover from putting a GoPro on a sheep? Teresa Murjas and James Rattee tell us about their unusual animal-led film and poetry project (camera work: Jess the…Read More >
The Long Take: Origins and Endings in Film Noir
On Saturday 24 November, the University’s Heritage & Creativity Institute for Collections is teaming up with Reading Film Theatre for a reading by acclaimed writer Robin Robertson, screening of the classic…Read More >
Poems about places and pasts: an extract from ‘On Magnetism’
Steven Matthews is professor of English Literature, University of Reading. His latest book of poetry, On Magnetism, was launched this week. It features poems about loss and remembrance, about the relation…Read More >
Room to Rhyme: Poetry, Arts Policy and Crisis
Afternoon Workshop Room to Rhyme is a British Academy funded research project investigating literature, crisis, arts policy and the public sphere, with special attention to poetry in Northern Ireland between…Read More >
The MERL Autumn Speaker Series – Jack Thacker
Showing, Doing, Telling: Craft And Making A Season Of Events Exploring Craft And Making At The MERL Specialists in craft and the arts examine different ways of responding to rural…Read More >
