EVENTS DIARY AUTUMN 2014 Showcasing Our Lectures, Arts, Museum and Special Events for September–December

EVENTS DIARY AUTUMN 2014 Showcasing our lectures, arts, museum and special events for September–December

LIMITLESS POTENTIAL | LIMITLESS AMBITION | LIMITLESS IMPACT WELCOME… We are delighted to present highlights of this season’s events. Showcasing an exciting variety of lectures, arts, museum and special events, there is something for everyone to enjoy over the coming months. We hope that this diary contains all of the information that you need to make the most of our programme of events.

CONTENTS

4–9 10–15 Lectures & talks Arts

Museums & 16–19 special collections 20–21 Special events

2 | Autumn events diary | 2014 www.reading.ac.uk/events | 3 PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES 2014 The University of Reading’s Public Lecture Series is a showcase of 8.00pm | doors open at 7.15 pm We welcome group and school bookings; Palmer building, Whiteknights campus please contact us in advance of each lecture. research highlights from across the University. Established over forty Admission free, booking advisable. To book a place, Join the debate. Follow the lectures and ask your visit: www.reading.ac.uk/publiclectures or contact years ago, these popular lectures are given by Reading academics questions: @UniofReading #UoRLectures eminent in their field and cover a wide range of topical subjects. [email protected] | 0118 378 4313 Watch the lecture trailers in advance online at www.reading.ac.uk/publiclectures

THE IRAQ WARS: PLANET OF THE APES. past, present and yet to come WHAT MAKES US HUMAN? Professor Emma Borg, Department of Philosophy Dr Patrick Porter Department of Politics and International Relations Wednesday 19 November 2014 Wednesday 15 October 2014 Chimpanzees are our closest living evolutionary relatives, sharing some 94% of our DNA. They have many qualities Iraq’s wars never seem to end. From the middle ages to modern day, that can be described as human: they are social creatures, outsiders have presumed to impose their will on the country. Over the communicate with each other and are capable of complex past decade Iraq has suffered three attempts to reinvent the country; by thought, but if they and the other great apes are so similar the US-led coalition in 2003, by the Al-Qaeda terrorist network and the to human beings, can we and should we think of them as ISIS Islamist uprising. America had pledged to liberate Iraq, but instead people? In this lecture, Professor Emma Borg will discuss the invasion brought anarchy and opened a vacuum for other interlopers. philosophical conundrum, ‘what makes us human?’ and will Each time, the Iraqi people have rebelled and refused to submit to the explore whether this really is a planet of the apes. will of the outsider. In this lecture, Dr Porter will examine what he argues to be the flawed ideology behind these invasions, and, ultimately, the determination of Iraqis to make their own history.

Part of the UK's first national festival of the humanities: Being Human 2014. www.beinghumanfestival.org | #BeingHuman14

4 | Autumn events diary | 2014 www.reading.ac.uk/events | 5 CAFÉ SCIENTIFIQUE ANNUAL PERCY URE LECTURE: Monroe’s Rib House, 61 St. Mary’s Butts, Suffering Beauty: Reading, RG1 2LG | 7.30 pm The representation The British Science Association Thames Valley Branch and the University of Reading are delighted to present the autumn Café of animals in the Roman hunt Scientifique series. Café Scientifique is a place where, for the price of a cup of coffee or a glass of wine, anyone can come to explore the latest ideas in science and technology. It is a forum for debating scientific issues, and is committed to promoting public engagement with science and to making science accountable. Everyone is welcome to ask a question or make a comment. You don't need to be a scientist to enjoy the evening – just come with an open and enquiring mind. CAFÉ SAMUEL BECKETT Admission is free, all welcome. For more information, contact: THEOLOGIQUE: THROUGH HIS LETTERS [email protected] | 0118 378 4313 | www.reading.ac.uk/cafesci Delightfully punk: Professor Dan Gunn theology, personhood, TRAINING THE WEATHERMEN Friday 3 October | 5.30 pm BRAIN TO BEAT AT WAR and loving rage Minghella building, Whiteknights campus Revd Dr Graeme Fancourt Celebrating the University of Reading’s THE PAIN Monday 10 November internationally renowned collection of manuscripts from the Nobel Prize-winning writer Samuel Beckett Monday 8 September Dr Andrew Charlton-Perez, Monday 6 October | 7.30 pm (1906–1989). Professor Dan Gunn, editor of the Associate Professor of Zero Degrees, 9 Bridge Tim Salomons, Pain Emotion Letters of Samuel Beckett, will give a public talk Meteorology, University Street, Reading, RG1 2LR & Cognition Laboratory, focusing on Samuel Beckett’s letters. of Reading University of Reading The University of Reading Chaplaincy is delighted to present Admission is free, booking essential. EXPLORING this partnership event with the To book a place, please contact: THE HIGH-FLYERS Bishop of Reading, based on the Conor Carville on [email protected] Wednesday 22 October | 5.00 pm AND POLLINATORS: THE INVISIBLE popular Café Scientifique model. Henley Business School, The series will continue on Monday Whiteknights campus Monday 1 December EXHIBITION: Samuel Beckett in tracking the 24 November. The Department of Classics is delighted to Dr Simon Park, Department London – The Murphy notebooks movements of bees Admission is free, all welcome. present this year's Annual Percy Ure lecture, of Microbial Science, For more information about Wednesday 1 – Saturday 4 October to be delivered by Professor Kathleen Coleman and pollinating insects University of Surrey the series, please contact: Museum of English Rural Life, from Harvard University. Professor Coleman, Monday 13 October [email protected] normal Museum opening times* a renowned authority in Latin literature and 0118 378 8797 Roman arena spectacles, will talk about the Jason Lim, Chair of Radar View the working manuscript of Beckett’s first representation of animals in the Roman hunt in Reading.Cafe.Theologique Entomology Unit, major work, Murphy. The exhibition celebrates the various media: poetry, paintings, and mosaics. Rothamsted Research manuscript being available, for the first time, for those who wish to study it. Admission is free but places are limited. To book a place, please contact: Admission free, all welcome. For more information about [email protected] | 0118 378 8420 Beckett events, visit: www.reading.ac.uk/beckett For more information, visit: * For Museum opening times, visit www.reading.ac.uk/classics www.reading.ac.uk/merl

6 | Autumn events diary | 2014 www.reading.ac.uk/events | 7 CHILDREN’S CHRISTMAS LECTURE 2014 COULD EUROPE PUBLIC LECTURES STENTON READING’S WILD PREDATORS: HAVE AVOIDED AT THE INSTITUTE LECTURE 2014: deadly creatures on your doorstep WAR IN 1914? OF EDUCATION: Writing the history Professor Mark Fellowes Professor Margaret School mathematics? of one's own times Head of the School of Biological Sciences MacMillan, University Potential, policy and Professor Peter Hennessy Tuesday 16 December | 4.30 pm of Oxford practice FBA, Baron Hennessy of Palmer building, Whiteknights campus Tuesday 11 November Nympsfield, Attlee Professor Arrivals – from 4.00 pm Professor Dame Celia Hoyles, 4.00 pm | HumSS building, of Contemporary British Lecture starts – 4.30 pm Institute of Education, Whiteknights campus History Approximate end time – 5.30 pm University of London In 1914, Europe walked into a Thursday 27 November We all love learning about the world’s deadliest creatures and most catastrophic conflict that killed Tuesday 11 November 6.30 pm | Henley Business think that we have to travel far to see these awesome predators, but we millions, bled its economies 6.45 pm (doors open 6.15 pm) School, Whiteknights have animals just as deadly to their prey on our doorstep! In this fun and dry and shook empires and Building L22, London Road campus interactive lecture, learn about the predators that live with us in Reading. societies to pieces. It was a war campus that could have been avoided up The Department of History Our annual Children’s Christmas Lecture is for children aged 7–12. to the last moment, so why did The Institute of Education at presents the 2014 Stenton Admission is free but places are limited. Booking is essential for this it happen? In this talk, hosted Reading is delighted to welcome Lecture, to be given by author, popular event. We welcome school groups and recommend that large by the Department of Modern Professor Dame Celia Hoyle, who historian and Reading Honorary groups contact us in advance of the lecture. will deliver the first lecture in their Languages and European Studies, Graduate Professor Peter For more information and to book your tickets, please visit 2014–15 lecture series. award-winning author Professor Hennessy. In his lecture, Peter www.reading.ac.uk/events or contact us: [email protected] will reflect upon his career and Margaret MacMillan will explore Admission is free but places 0118 378 4313 consider the challenges and these questions and more, are limited. Booking is essential opportunities modern historians marking 100 years since the start for this event. For further face when writing the history of of the First World War. information and to book a place, their own times. Admission is free but places are contact: education-events@ limited. To book a place, visit: reading.ac.uk | 0118 378 2612 Admission is free but places are limited. For more information www.reading.ac.uk/events or For more information about the and to book a place, please visit contact: [email protected] series, visit: www.reading.ac.uk/ www.reading.ac.uk/history/ 0118 378 4313 ioe-publiclectures.aspx stentonlecture Supported by the CfBT Education Trust: www.cfbt.com

8 | Autumn events diary | 2014 www.reading.ac.uk/events | 9 MUSIC Throughout the term we organise an exciting variety of music events, featuring talented performers from within the University as well as visiting professionals. LUNCHTIME CONCERT SERIES COTTON WINTER CONCERT 2014

1.10 pm – 1.50 pm | Palmer building, Whiteknights campus CLUB LIVE Saturday 6 December | 7.30 pm (unless stated) Great Hall, London Road campus Sunday 2 November | 7.30 pm 30 September Ikuko Inoguchi, piano Eat at London Road, London University of Reading Big Band, Chamber Choir, Chorus and Symphony Orchestra 7 October Larry Stomberg, cello Road campus This year we are pleased to present our most diverse and ambitious 14 October Luca Luciano, clarinet Following the success of the summer event, Cotton Club Live Winter Concert, from classical to jazz, this performance has something 21 October Sara Minelli, flute returns for a second evening of for everyone to enjoy. Featuring: live music in the relaxed setting 28 October Timothy Schwarz, violin Extracts from Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concert of our University bar at London 4 November Lyric Piano Trio Road. Food and drink available Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker Suite to purchase. 11 November (Great Hall, London Road campus) A selection of Christmas Carols David Pether, organ Tickets: £5 / £3 (concessions), Joanna Bywater, conductor, Chamber Choir and Chorus This special Armistice Day organ recital students free. Available in Paul Cox, conductor, Symphony Orchestra will feature a specially created programme advance online: Amber Nunn, soprano/conductor, Big Band marking the centenary of the start www.reading.ac.uk/music of the First World War. or on the door Tickets: £10 / £6 (concessions) available in advance online at www.reading.ac.uk/music or on the door 18 November Harriet Kirk, soprano 25 November University of Reading Student Ensemble in Residence: Formation, Jazz ensemble 2 December University of Reading Chamber Choir 9 December Christmas Lunchtime Concert For more information, visit: www.reading.ac.uk/music or contact: [email protected] | 0118 378 8518

10 | Autumn events diary | 2014 www.reading.ac.uk/events | 11 02 FILM Belle (12A) p. 14 28 FILM Mood Indigo (L'écume des jours) (12A) 21 MERL MERL Takeover Day: EVENTS s/t p. 14 Youth Forum launch p. 19 04 MERL MERL is changing: Our Country Lives: Information day p. 17 30 MERL Our Country Lives Big Draw event p.19 24 MERL Archives & Texts Seminars: collections AT A GLANCE based seminar series p. 17 06 TALK Café Theologique p. 6 30 FILM The Borderlands + Reading Fringe SEPTEMBER Shorts (15) p. 14 25 MERL Huntley & Palmers: 07 MUSIC Lunchtime Concert: Larry Stomberg p. 10 a Christmas selection 04 ARTS RGA September Show Running until 4 January 2015 p. 17 Running until 14 September p. 15 07 FILM Lucy (15tbc) p. 14 NOVEMBER 25 MUSIC Lunchtime Concert: University MUSIC FILM 02 Cotton Club Live p. 11 05 MERL Toddler time starts p. 19 09 The Golden Dream (La jaula de oro) Student Ensemble in Residence p. 10 (12A) s/t p. 14 MUSIC 04 Lunchtime Concert: FILM 08 TALK Café Scientifique p. 6 25 Gone Girl (tbc) p. 14 12 Friends of the Harris Garden charity Lyric Piano Trio p. 10 09 The art and craft of Suttons open day p. 21 27 TALK Stenton Lecture: Writing the history MERL 04 FILM Two Days, One Night (Deux jours, une Running until 23 November p. 17 of one's own times p. 8 13 TALK Café Scientifique p. 6 nuit) (15) s/t p. 14 MERL 27 FILM Human Capital (Il capitale umano) (tbc) 11 Heritage Open Day: FILM MUSIC 06 A Most Wanted Man (15) p. 14 MERL behind the scenes tour 14 Lunchtime Concert: Luca Luciano p. 10 s/t p. 14

Running until 14 September p. 16 LIT 14 FILM Fruitvale Station (15) p. 14 07 Reading Poetry Festival starts p. 15 29 URE A world of heroes: The twelve labours 11 URE Heritage Open Day: Ure talk: Greek of Herakles (Hercules) p. 18 TALK 07 LIT Reading Poetry Festival: women on South Italian vases p. 16 15 Public Lecture: The Iraq wars: past, present and yet to come p. 4 Gerald Finzi Memorial Lecture p. 15 MERL DECEMBER 12 Heritage Open Day: TALK FILM 10 Café Scientifique p. 6 MERL family heritage tour p. 16 16 Cold in July (15) p. 14 01 TALK Café Scientifique p. 6 MUSIC URE 11 Armistice Day Lunchtime Concert: 13 URE Heritage Open Day: Ure: 17 Every soldier has a story p. 16 David Pether p. 10 02 MUSIC Lunchtime Concert: University of Heritage trail p. 16 18 URE A world of heroes: Reading Chamber Choir p. 10 11 TALK Could Europe have avoided war 14 Friends of the Harris Garden charity The twelve labours of Herakles in 1914? p. 8 02 FILM Ida (12A) s/t p. 14 open day p. 21 (Hercules) p. 18

TALK FILM MUSIC 11 Public lectures at the Institute of 04 Magic in the Moonlight (12A) p. 14 25 FILM Boyhood (15) p. 14 21 Lunchtime Concert: Sara Minelli p. 10 Education: School mathematics? p. 8 MUSIC FILM 06 Winter Concert 2014 p. 11 27 Undergraduate Open Day p. 20 21 Northwest (Nordvest) (15) s/t p. 14 11 FILM Finding Fela (tbc) p. 14 09 MUSIC Christmas Lunchtime Concert p. 10 MUSIC 22 Oscar Wilde and Reading 30 Lunchtime Concert: Ikuko FILM Gaol exhibition 13 Cycling With Moliere (Alceste à Inoguchi p.10 FILM Running until 6 February 2015 p. 21 bicyclette) (15) s/t p. 14 09 Bastards (12A) p. 14 FILM 30 Wind Rises, The (Kaze Tachinu) MUSIC FILM TALK 18 Lunchtime Concert: Harriet Kirk p. 10 11 Attila Marcel (tbc) s/t p. 14 (PG) s/t p. 14 22 Annual Percy Ure Lecture p. 7

FILM MERL 23 FILM Pride (15) p. 14 18 Jimmy's Hall (12A) p. 14 14 Wartime children's Christmas party p. 19 OCTOBER TALK 25 Undergraduate Open Day p. 20 19 Public Lecture: Planet of the Apes. 01 MERL Exhibition: Samuel Beckett in London What makes us human? p. 5 16 TALK Children's Christmas Lecture: – The Murphy notebooks 27 MERL Archives & Texts Seminars: collections Reading's wild predators p. 9 FILM Running until 4 October p.7 based seminar series p. 17 20 The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared 20 URE A world of heroes: 03 TALK Samuel Beckett through his letters p.7 28 MUSIC Lunchtime Concert: (Hundraåringen som klev ut genom Achilles, the warrior hero p. 18 Timothy Schwarz p. 10 fönstret och försvann) (15) s/t p. 14 www.reading.ac.uk/events | 13 READING FILM THEATRE

Reading Film Theatre (RFT) is Films are shown in either the Palmer building or READING POETRY FESTIVAL Minghella building on the Whiteknights campus. Doors an independent, not-for-profit open 45 minutes before the advertised start time. Friday 7 – Sunday 9 November London Road campus cinema run by volunteers who £8 / £7 concessions / £5 members are passionate about film. £20 membership The Department of English Literature is delighted to present the Reading Poetry Festival, a celebration of poetry, performance and the printed For more information, please visit: word. This year’s programme will feature many of the most exciting www.readingfilmtheatre.co.uk or contact: voices in contemporary poetry, from Don Paterson to A.F. Harrold. [email protected] | 0118 378 7151 Reading Film Theatre GERALD FINZI MEMORIAL LECTURE: @RFT_Cinema Thirteen ways to look at a poet ARTS s/t English subtitles Friday 7 November | 6.30 pm READING GUILD Building L22 London Road campus SEPTEMBER NOVEMBER OF ARTISTS’ Don Paterson OBE

25 7.15 pm | Palmer Boyhood (15) 04 8.00 pm | Palmer Two Days, One Night (Deux SEPTEMBER SHOW We are delighted to welcome the award winning poet, author and musician Don Paterson to give this year’s lecture. Don will talk about jours, une nuit) (15) s/t Thursday 4 – 30 7.45 pm | Palmer Wind Rises, The (Kaze Tachinu) the work of Michael Donaghy, the much-loved, influential and popular (PG) s/t 06 7.45 pm | Palmer A Most Wanted Man (15) Sunday 14 September poet who died in 2004, whose friend and editor he was. 10.00 am – 4.00 pm 11 8.00 pm | Minghella Finding Fela (tbc) OCTOBER Art building, London Road Gerald Finzi (1901 – 1956) was an English composer who lived near 13 8.00 pm | Palmer Cycling With Moliere (Alceste à campus Newbury, Berkshire, for much of his life. His local connection to Reading led his family to develop a link with the University after his death. This 02 7.45 pm | Palmer Belle (12A) bicyclette) (15) s/t The Department of Art at the annual lecture, established in his memory, is inspired by Finzi’s extensive 18 7.45 pm | Palmer Jimmy's Hall (12A) 07 7.45 pm | Palmer Lucy (15tbc) + pre-film talk by Dr Institute of Education is delighted collection of English Literature, now part of the University’s archive. Lisa Purse, Associate Professor 20 7.45 pm | Palmer The 100 Year Old Man Who to host the Reading Guild of Artists’ Admission is free but places are limited. of Film in the Department of Film, Climbed Out of the Window and September Show. Featuring a To book a place, visit www.readingpoetryfestival.org Theatre & Television Disappeared (Hundraåringen display of work by members of the 09 7.45 pm | Palmer The Golden Dream (La jaula de som klev ut genom fönstret och Guild, plus a variety of workshops oro) (12A) s/t försvann) (15) s/t and special events, there is so CONVERSATIONS AND much to see and do. 14 8.00 pm | Minghella Fruitvale Station (15) 25 7.45 pm | Palmer Gone Girl (tbc) POETRY READINGS Admission is free, all welcome. 16 7.45 pm | Palmer Cold in July (15) 27 8.00 pm | Palmer Human Capital (Il capitale umano) (tbc) s/t There may be a charge for some Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 November 21 8.00 pm | Palmer Northwest (Nordvest) (15) s/t events and workshops. London Road campus 23 7.45 pm | Palmer Pride (15) DECEMBER For more information, visit the Join celebrated and emerging poets and artists for a weekend of Reading Guild of Artists’ website: conversations and poetry readings, including a free family event and 28 8.00 pm | Palmer Mood Indigo (L'écume des jours) 02 8.00 pm | Palmer Ida (12A) s/t www.rga-artists.org.uk special sessions to mark the centenary of the start of the First World War. (12A)s/t 04 8.00 pm | Palmer Magic in the Moonlight (12A) 30 8.00 pm | Palmer The Borderlands + Reading Festival ticket prices: Fringe Shorts (15) 09 7.00 pm | Palmer Bastards (12A) + talk and Q&A £8 / £4 (concessions*) per event with Director Deborah Parkin, £30 / £15 (concessions*) day ticket former BBC journalist and £50 / £25 (concessions*) weekend tickets award-winning documentary *concession tickets: students, under 18s and OAPs film maker s/t Sunlight on Snowshill II For full programme details and to buy tickets, visit 11 8.00 pm | Palmer Attila Marcel (tbc) s/t (mixed Media) www.readingpoetryfestival.org

14 | Autumn events diary | 2014 www.reading.ac.uk/events | 15 MUSEUMS AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS SPECIAL COLLECTIONS IN FOCUS Staircase hall displays Our University museums are EVERY SOLDIER HAS A STORY All exhibitions and displays are open normal delighted to offer a host of events An evening of music, museum opening times. For details, visit: URE www.reading.ac.uk/merl and activities inspired by the animation and pottery collections held here at Reading. www.reading.ac.uk/special-collections Friday 17 October | 7.00 pm For full programme details and further information Ure Museum, Whiteknights campus THE ART AND CRAFT about each museum, please visit their websites. This unique event will bring ancient history and OF SUTTONS Museum of English Rural Life: the arts together in a fun and interactive evening www.reading.ac.uk/merl 9 September – 23 November Museum of English Rural Life for the launch of the Every soldier has a story project. www.reading.ac.uk/ See a special screening of the new animation, This display shows just a few of the many special-collections ‘Hoplites! Greeks at war’, based on artwork from an thousands of Suttons-related items held in the MERL Ure Museum: ancient Greek vase in the Ure Museum collection, collections at MERL and explores the ‘Art of www.reading.ac.uk/ure and hear a special performance by Thiasos Ancient OUR COUNTRY LIVES Suttons’, which attained full glory in the lavishly Theatre Company. illustrated catalogues of the late 19th century. Admission free, all welcome. Watch the animation MERL is changing: Information day The Cole Musuem: trailer online: www.panoply.org.uk Saturday 4 October | 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm HUNTLEY & PALMERS: www.reading.ac.uk/ For more information, contact: Museum of English Rural Life colemuseum [email protected] | 0118 378 6990 a Christmas selection Recently awarded a £1.8m Heritage Lottery 25 November 2014 – 4 January 2015 URE MERL Fund grant, this autumn the museum is embarking HERITAGE OPEN DAYS MERL BEHIND THE on a redevelopment project which will transform it This seasonal display shows off some of the and the way a new generation engages with visual delights in the University’s extensive Thursday 11 – Sunday 14 September SCENES TOUR rural heritage. archive of local biscuit manufacturer Huntley & Palmers. Heritage Open Days celebrate England’s fantastic Thursday 11 and Friday 12 September, The redevelopment project will see the museum close for up to a year as the galleries are transformed. architecture and culture by offering free access 11.00 am – 12.00 pm | Sunday 14 September, Join colleagues and specialists at the museum to find to places that are normally closed to the public or 3.00 pm – 4.00pm, Museum of English Rural Life charge for admission. This year, our museums are out about the exciting changes being planned for the ARCHIVES & TEXTS SEMINARS: opening their doors again as part of this national future, and how you can get involved. collections based seminar series four day celebration, with a special programme URE TALK: GREEK WOMEN Admission is free, all welcome. For more information, Monday 27 October and Monday 24 of free events. ON SOUTH ITALIAN VASES contact: [email protected] | 0118 378 8660 November 2014 | 5.00 pm – 6.30 pm Booking for each event required. Contact: To find out more, visit: Thursday 11 September | 4.30 pm Museum of English Rural Life Museum of English Rural Life: www.reading.ac.uk/merl/ourcountrylives Ure Museum, Whiteknights campus ‘Archives and Texts’ is an interdisciplinary research [email protected] | 0118 378 8660 seminar series co-organised by the Departments Ure Museum: URE HERITAGE TRAIL of English and Modern Languages & European [email protected] | 0118 378 6990 Studies, which this term will focus on the University’s Saturday 13 September | 12.00 pm – 4.00 pm Special Collections. For more information about the days, visit: Ure Museum, Whiteknights campus www.heritageopendays.org.uk Admission is free. For more information, visit: www.archivesandtexts.wordpress.com MERL FAMILY HERITAGE TOUR

Saturday 13 September | 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm Museum of English Rural Life

16 | Autumn events diary | 2014 www.reading.ac.uk/events | 17 MERL MUSEUMS TODDLER TIME MERL TAKEOVER DAY: Every Friday during September Youth Forum launch 10.00 am – 11.00 am Friday 21 November | 4.00 pm – 6.00 pm AND SPECIAL Museum of English Rural Life Museum of English Rural Life COLLECTIONS Then: Friday 3 October, Friday 7 November, This year’s Takeover Day will see the launch of the Friday 5 December 10.00 am – 11.00 am MERL Youth Forum. Open to anyone between the Our University museums offer Institute of Education Learning Hub, ages of 14 and 25, members of the Youth Forum will an exciting programme of family- London Road campus. work collaboratively on a number of exciting and interesting projects that will fall into the running and Come along with your little ones and enjoy songs, friendly events each term. future planning of MERL for a new generation. stories and activities based on the countryside. Come along to find out what’s involved. £2 per child. Suitable for families with children aged 2–4 Admission is free, booking required. For more information, contact To find out more and to book a place, contact [email protected] | 0118 378 8660 [email protected] | 0118 378 8660 A WORLD OF HEROES URE Saturday workshops from 18 October 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm A series of interactive workshops. Listen to stories, follow trails and have fun making objects inspired by the collection. £3 per child. Suitable for children aged 6+ The twelve labours of Herakles (Hercules) Saturday 18 October OUR COUNTRY LIVES and Saturday 29 November BIG DRAW EVENT WARTIME A unique opportunity to hear the wonderful stories of Thursday 30 October | 10.00 am, 11.30 am, CHILDREN'S the 12 Labours of the son of Zeus: Herakles (Hercules). 1.30 pm and 3.00 pm – Meet at the Museum Explore the Museum in search of the mythical hero and CHRISTMAS PARTY take part in a legendary craft activity. of English Rural Life Sunday 14th December | 2.30 pm – 4.00 pm MERL and the University’s Institute of Education Museum of English Rural Life Achilles, the warrior hero Department of Art are delighted to host this special Big Draw event. Design large format art with our Experience Christmas during the First World War. Saturday 20 December Art students, inspired by MERL's collections, using Meet a land army girl, a nurse, a farmer and other mixed media and printing presses. The artwork characters from the period and find out how war had Achilles is one of the greatest warriors who fought will decorate hoardings that will be used whilst the changed their lives. There will be a children’s activity at the battle of Troy. Listen to incredible stories of his museum is closed for the Heritage Lottery funded and festive refreshments, along with entertainment battles, friendship, honour and rage. redevelopment work. drawn from our Special Collections archives and of the period. Booking essential. Please contact: £3 per child. Suitable for families with children [email protected] | 0118 378 6990 families with aged 7+ £3 per child. Suitable for families with children aged 5+ Booking essential. To book a place, contact [email protected] | 0118 378 8660 Booking essential. To book a place, contact [email protected] | 0118 378 8660

www.reading.ac.uk/events | 19 FRIENDS OF THE EXHIBITION: HARRIS GARDEN Oscar Wilde and Reading Gaol CHARITY OPEN 22 October 2014 – 6 February 2015 | The Berkshire Record DAYS Office, 9 Coley Avenue, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 6AF

2.00 pm – 5.30 pm The Department of English Literature, in collaboration with Harris Garden, the Berkshire Record Office, is delighted to present this special Whiteknights campus exhibition to mark the final closure of Reading Prison. It presents archival materials from the prison, specifically relating to the Join the Friends of the Harris time of Oscar Wilde’s incarceration, and gives a sense of Wilde’s Garden as they open up the contribution to literary and cultural life. The exhibition presents University’s beautiful 12 for the first time specially commissioned photographs taken of the acre garden, situated on the prison as it was at the moment that it was closed. Whiteknights campus, to raise Admission is free, all welcome. money for good causes. For more information, visit: www.berkshirerecordoffice.org.uk Sunday 14 September Parenting Special Children Sunday 12 October Friends of the Harris 93% of Reading's graduates are employed or in further Garden study within 6 months. With over 200 courses to choose from, your future could be very bright. For more information, please visit: www.friendsof Our undergraduate open days give you theharrisgarden.org.uk the perfect chance to see what we're all about. Saturday 27 September and Saturday 25 October 9.30 am – 3.30 pm READING IS READY

20 | Autumn events diary | 2014 www.reading.ac.uk/events | 21 how to find us: Detailed information about how to get to the University, including maps of our campuses can be found at: www.reading.ac.uk/find-us

BUSES RUN FROM READING TOWN CENTRE TO THE POSTCODE FOR WHITEKNIGHTS CAMPUS READYBIKE – WHY NOT CYCLE TO OUR THE UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES REGULARLY. FOR SAT NAV USE IS RG6 6UR. FOR SOME EVENTS CAMPUSES WITH READING’S NEW ON STREET YOU MAY BE DIRECTED TO A PARTICULAR BICYCLE HIRE SCHEME? Whiteknights campus CAR PARK. Shinfield Road: Claret routes 21 and 21a (24 hour We have Readybike docking stations on our service) stop on the Whiteknights campus, collecting Events at Earley Gate Whiteknights and London Road campuses. from outside Reading Station. Scarlet route 9 and Guests are advised to use the Earley Gate entrance to For more information visit: www.readybike.co.uk the Leopard route 3 stop next to the Shinfield the University (as there is no car access to Earley Gate Road entrance* from the Shinfield Road entrance). Postcode for sat To find out about greener travel to the University, nav use: RG6 7BE. visit: www.reading.ac.uk/cleanandgreen/travel Pepper Lane: Claret routes 21 and 21a stop at the Pepper Lane entrance Events at London Road campus The London Road campus car park can be accessed Earley Gate: Routes 19a, 19b, 19c stop by this from London Road (turn left into Crown Place). entrance. The Purple route 17 (24 hour service) stops The postcode for sat nav use is RG1 5AQ. Visitors at Three Tuns on Wokingham road, which is a short attending an event at the Museum of English Rural Life walk from the Earley Gate entrance are invited to use the MERL car park or Acacia Road car London Road campus park (adjacent to the Museum). Postcode for sat nav Scarlet route 9 and Claret routes 21 and 21a both use: RG1 5EX. travel past the London Road campus en route to the Parking permits Whiteknights campus. If you are attending an event at any campus on a weekday For further information visit: before 5.00pm and plan on arriving by car, you will need www.reading-buses.co.uk/university a visitor’s permit, (available from Whiteknights House *All buses travelling through Whiteknights campus are Reception Monday–Friday, 8.00am–4.00pm), unless now hybrid buses. otherwise advised by the event organiser. After 5.00pm, and at weekends, a permit is not required. Please note that a permit does not guarantee a car parking space.

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22 | Autumn events diary | 2014 www.reading.ac.uk/events | 23 AUTUMN EVENTS DIARY For more information, please contact: Events Office University of Reading Whiteknights PO Box 217 Reading RG6 6AH Postcode for sat nav use: RG6 6UR [email protected] Tel (0118) 378 4313 www.reading.ac.uk/events

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