MERL Seminars

A Research Forum brings together academics from around the University with an interest in using and promoting the Museum's collections for research purposes. It organises talks and seminars based on this work which are open to the public.

Admission to the seminars is free and open to all, but as places for some of the seminars are limited, we request that you let us know in advance if you are planning to attend in by email: merlevents@reading.ac.uk, or by telephone: +44 (0) 118 378 8660.

To receive regular email reminders and updates about these events, please email merlevents@reading.ac.uk and ask to be added to the MERL Seminars mailing list.

 

Autumn/Winter 2011 Series

For details of the current series, visit MERL Seminars: Literature and the Countryside Series

 

 

 

 

 

Previous series

MERL Seminar Programme, Spring 2011

• Nucleus of a folk-lore museum: folk-lore, material culture and a museum that never existed
  10 May, 4.30pm
  Dr Ollie Douglas, University of Reading
  
  

• Media and the countryside Symposium
  12 May, 10am to 5pm

• £10, booking required

This special symposium is part of MERL's 60th anniversary events programme. For further details and a full programme, click here



• Conservation and analysis of the UK's oldest windmills
  18 January, 4.30pm
  Luke Bonwick, Bonwick Milling Heritage Consultancy
  
  
• Transatlantic traffic in rural imaginations
  22 February, 4.30pm Garrett Dash Nelson, University of Nottingham
  
  
• Business and Pleasure: women, work and the professionalisation of farming as a female career in England, c.1900-1950
  8 March, 4.30pm
  Dr Nicola Verdon, Sheffield Hallam University
  
  
• Rethinking Pitt Rivers: analysing the activities of a nineteenth century collector
  15 March, 4.30pm
  Alison Petch and Jeremy Coote, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
  
  
• Doing a good work: the Women's Institutes and village history in the interwar period
  22 March, 4.30pm
  Bridget Yates, University of Gloucestershire

 

MERL Seminar Programme, Autumn 2010

• A wasteful use of national resources? Farm subsidy in the uplands 1947-1970
  19 October, 4.30pm
  Dr Hilary Crowe, University of Cambridge and MERL Research Fellow

 

• The Making of Ballet
  2 November, 4.30pm (Rescheduled from January 2010)
  Susanne Clausen, artist and Reader in Fine Art at the University of Reading

 

• Landscapes and ecology - towards a sustainable future
  16 November, 4.30pm
  Dr Geoffrey Griffiths, University of Reading

 

• Shooting parties, gamekeepers and poachers
  30 November, 4.30pm
  Caroline Carr-Whitworth, Curator, Art, English Heritage (Brodsworth Hall)

 

• A grateful nation? British agriculture and the postwar reconstruction
  7 December, 4.30pm
  Dr Clare Griffiths, University of Sheffield

 

 

MERL Seminar Programme, Spring 2010

• Roundhouses, earthworks and worms: The role of experimental archaeology in understanding the past
  2 February, 4.30pm
  Professor Martin Bell, Professor of Archaeological Science, University of Reading

 

• Landscapes of reconstruction
  23 February, 4.30pm
  Paul Stiff, Reader in Typography & Graphic Communication, University of Reading

 

• Doing their bit: English children’s contribution to agricultural production during the Second World War
  16 March, 4.30pm
  Virginia Morrow, Reader of Childhood Studies, and Professor Berry Mayall, Professor of Childhood Studies, Institute of Education, University of London

 

• What is agribusiness?
  15 June, 4.30pm
  Shane Hamilton, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Georgia.

 

 

MERL Symposium

• Art and Landscape: interdisciplinary perspectives
  18 May, 2010, 2 to 6.30pm

Download the full programme (pdf - 691KB)