Shafquat Towheed
‘Reading in the Pandemic’ recordings now available
The READ-IT team were pleased to host the event ‘Reading in the Pandemic’, on 18 November, for the Being Human Festival. We enjoyed a great turnout for the online event,…
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READ-IT Consortium Meetings, 20-21.10.2020 (online)
The Open University were pleased to host the most recent consortium meeting on the 20-21 October 2020. On 20 October, we focussed on individual reports from all colleagues on different work…
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‘Bookshelves in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic: an online conference’, 3-4.11.2020
We are delighted to announce that registration is now open for The Open University History of Books and Reading (HOBAR) online conference, ‘Bookshelves in the Age of the COVID-19 Pandemic’,…
Read more‘Reading in the Pandemic’, 18.11.2020 (5-6pm GMT, online event)
The READ-IT team are pleased to host the event Reading in the Pandemic (18 November, 5-6pm, online) for the Being Human Festival. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed everything. Confined to…
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Open University History of Books and Reading seminar series, ‘Reading and Wellbeing’ (January-May 2020)
READ-IT UK team lead Dr Shafquat Towheed and his Open University colleague Dr Edmund King are co-running the annual History of Books and Reading seminar series at the Institute of…
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READ-IT workshop at ‘The Reader in the Book’ conference, London 19-20.03.2020
Members of the READ-IT team from The Open University will be presenting the READ-IT project, running an annotation workshop, and encouraging public contribution via our QR enabled postcards as part…
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READ-IT annotation and contribution workshop in Glasgow (11.12.2019)
Want to learn more about how to identify the evidences of reading in printed texts? Want to contribute your own thoughts and experiences of reading to our new European research…
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Contribute to READ-IT at ‘Edinburgh: A City of Readers’ (20.11.2019), a free Book Week Scotland event
Edinburgh is famous across the world for being a city of writers. Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Muriel Spark, Ian Rankin and J.K. Rowling to name just a…
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READ-IT digital showcase at the SHARP conference (15-19 July), Amherst, USA
READ-IT project UK PI Dr Shafquat Towheed will be running an interactive digital showcase about the READ-IT project at the annual conference of SHARP (The Society for the History of…
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READ-IT collaborative workshop (London, 3 July): ‘Reading the Classical Past’
READ-IT UK project team members Dr Shafquat Towheed, Dr Alessio Antonini, Dr Francesca Benatti and Dr Henry Stead will be working with Open University colleagues in Classical Studies and Digital…
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