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Yearly Archives: 2018

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  • 16 Jul 2018
    Ralph Ellis

    Intellectuals, Totalitarianism, and “Post-Truth Culture”

    Did we, as intellectuals, perhaps unwittingly, play a role in preparing the ground for what is now called “Post-truth Culture”?

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  • 3 Jul 2018
    Bill Ong Hing

    Deportation and the Trump Administration

    The outcry over the Trump Administration’s policy of separating migrant children from their parents has been overwhelming. The widespread criticism led to the President’s executive order halting the separation. However, the damage has been done to the emotional and physical well-being of the more than 2,500 children who were separated prior to the order. On […]

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  • 28 Jun 2018
    Stanley O. Gaines, Jr

    How Much of You is Reflected in Your Close Relationships?

    Cambridge author Stanley Gaines, Jr. discusses how much of an influence your partner can have on your own personality.

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  • 25 Jun 2018
    Wendy Heath

    Engaging the Research Methods Student

    I’ve been teaching undergraduates for almost 25 years, and every year one of my lectures holds my students’ attention more than any other. My students are rapt, at times laughing, at times seemingly astounded at the story I tell. What is this lecture about? The topic is Clark and Hatfield’s (1989) article on receptivity to […]

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  • 15 Jun 2018
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    Jim Kozubek

    The Year Without A Summer

    Jim Kozubek, author of "Modern Prometheus: Editing the Human Genome with Crispr-Cas9" talks about the infamous Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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  • 14 Jun 2018
    Conor Carville

    Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts

    The magnificent collection of Samuel Beckett’s manuscripts, notebooks, letters and other material held here at Reading was fundamental to the research for my new book Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts, which has just come out from Cambridge University Press. To take one example, I vividly remember, early on, calling up a tattered old jotter. […]

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  • 13 Jun 2018
    David Fastosvky

    Ask a Paleontologist…

    On 1st June, Professor David Fastovsky, co-author of Dinosaurs, hosted in an exciting Reddit IAmA session. Users had the opportunity to ask  palaeontology and dinosaur-related questions in a live Q&A. Here are the best questions and answers...

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  • 12 Jun 2018
    David McKitterick

    The Invention of Rare Books

    David McKitterick examines, for the first time, the development of the idea of rare books, and why they matter.

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