Professor Elizabeth Loftus: events to stream online

Thursday, 03 May 2018

The School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences is delighted to welcome renowned cognitive psychologist Professor Elizabeth Loftus to the University of Reading this week for a series of special events. 

During her visit, the School will award Professor Loftus the Albert Wolters Visiting Distinguished Professorship.

If you were unable to get tickets for her fully booked events, you’ll be able to watch several of them live online – see below for full details. 

Albert Wolters Public Lecture:  The Fiction of Memory

Thursday 3 May, 8.00pm

In this sold out event, Professor Loftus will discuss “rich false memories”. Her research group has explored tampering with people’s memories, changing the details of events that someone actually experienced or planting entire memories for events that never happened. If false memories can be so readily planted in the mind, do we need to think about “regulating” this mind technology? 

The lecture will be livestreamed on our University of Reading Facebook page – be sure to tune in! 

A Conversation with Professor Elizabeth Loftus

Friday 4 May, 10.30am

In this sold out event, Professor Loftus will be talking to students about her work and life, as well as taking questions from the audience. 

The event will be livestreamed on our University of Reading Facebook page.

The Current State and Future of Eye Witness Testimony – Research Worksho 

Friday May 4, 2.00pm

A special workshop aimed at research staff, which highlights important and emerging aspects in the field of eye witness testimony, future developments and perspectives. The workshop will cover a range of issues and approaches including research into face recognition (by humans or automated systems), fundamentals of human memory and the practice of interviewing (especially vulnerable) eyewitnesses and eyewitness identification.  

Limited spaces are still available – if you would like to attend, please email pclsevents@reading.ac.uk.