LIAS Inaugural Lecture Series: Professor Jamie Wood

The Lincoln Institute of Advanced Studies (LIAS) is delighted to invite you to the inaugural lecture of Professor Jamie Wood on Wednesday 20 March. Jamie is Professor of History and Education, Lincoln School of Humanities and Heritage.

His lecture, “Reading Lessons, from Papyrus to ChatGPT” will argue the need to rethink our relationship with reading. Prof Wood will suggest that despite its fundamental importance, reading is a neglected in skill in post-secondary education. Due to its ubiquity and the fact that most of us were long since taught how to read, it is easy to forget that it is an ability that has to be learned and cultivated throughout life. This has broader social implications for our ability to engage productively with information proliferation, misinformation and ‘fake news’. In this lecture, he will introduce a little-known cast of teachers from Late Antiquity who grappled with similar challenges and consider how their approaches to the teaching of reading might shed an interesting light on modern-day pedagogies.

The lecture will take place from 6pm until 7pm and will be held in NDH0020, Nicola de la Haye Building.

Attendance is free and coffee and tea will be served afterwards.

You can book your ticket here: www.lincoln.ac.uk/studentlife/whatson/events/inaugural-lecture-jamie-wood.html.

For more information on Professor Jamie Wood’s inaugural lecture, please email: lias@lincoln.ac.uk.

Story submitted by Rebekah Eager
REager@lincoln.ac.uk