October 2023 - February 2024
Venue: Reading Museum
Price:
Check each event for price and time
Part 1 - talks
October to December 2023
Making Mutants: How and Why We Break Genes on Purpose
Tuesday 10 October - 5:30 - 6:30 pm
Join Dr Louise Johnson from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Reading to explore how mutation in genetic research is helping to identify and understand the building blocks of life.
Suitable for adults and older children (14+)
£3 per person
Booking necessary: see website for booking details.
Sensation or Science? Monsters Ancient and Modern
Tuesday 7 November - 5:30 - 6:30 pm
Join Professors Emma Aston and Andrew Mangham from the University of Reading to explore how Classical myths worked their way into the monster science and monster stories of the modern period.
Suitable for adults and older children (14+)
£3 per person
Booking necessary: see website for booking details.
Player vs. Monster: The Making and Breaking of Video Game Monstrosity
Saturday 25 November - 3:00 - 4:00 pm
Video games seem to teach us that monsters must be fought and can be defeated. Join Dr Jarosłav Švelch from Charles University in Prague to explore how this came to be. Do games offer potential for more nuanced representations of monstrosity?
Suitable for adults and older children (14+)
£3 per person
Booking necessary: see website for booking details.
Under the Bed and Among the Dead: Monsters in Ancient Egypt
Tuesday 5 December - 5:30 - 6:30 pm
Learn from Dr Jordan Miller from the University of Cambridge about the fearsome qualities of some famous (and lesser-known) supernatural beings from ancient Egypt, the situations in which ancient Egyptians encountered them, and whether we might call them monsters.
Suitable for adults and older children (14+)
£3 per person
Booking necessary: see website for booking details.
Part 2 - creative events
January & February 2024
We are planning free activities and events for creative adults in January & February 2024. Details to follow.
