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Thursday 30 June 2016, 6pm-7.30pm | Lecture Theatre M2, WBS Teaching Centre

An evening of provocations and discussion about Coventry, a city that is celebrating, reimagining and investing in its cultural identity by bidding for the UK's City of Culture 2021. An international panel including Rachel King, who will be talking about her IATL funded project, will share details of current collaborations between academic researchers, local artists, and cultural organisations, which aim to foster meaningful connections between Coventry's diverse communities, creating new ways of experiencing and participating in the city's urban landscapes.

10:00-12:00, Wednesday 29 June | R2.41, Ramphal Building
Followed by networking lunch 12:00 - 13:00, Ramphal Foyer

International Visiting Teaching Fellow, Geoff Malleck from University of Waterloo Canada, shares his perspective on the integration of student reflection in his courses. Included in the presentation are sample reflection pieces, which demonstrate the potential impact, not only on the student, but other key stakeholders. Geoff promises to share both the challenges and merits of reflection exercises in his presentation.

Postponed (was scheduled for 12:00-15:00, Wednesday 22 June 2016 in the Teaching Grid, University Library)

In a time of significant change, University staff are invited to join this conference about Enterprise Education and the role the University of Warwick and its staff have to play.

16:00-18:30, Wednesday 22 June | Woods-Scawen Room, Warwick Arts Centre

Academics and professionals from all disciplines are invited to join a debate about the value of Enterprise Education. This debate will help shape and develop Warwick's future approach to enterprise education.

Studying on an IATL module gives you the opportunity to work with students and lecturers from right across the university, developing connections between ideas, experiences and practice. In an IATL module you are not merely learning about the world, you are working with others to develop new ways of understanding it. Our undergraduate modules are available in a variety of CATS weightings to students in their second, third or fourth year.

On 18 and 19 May, we had a visit from Kaire Kollom, Head of Studies in the School of Educational Sciences, and her academic colleagues from Tallinn University in Estonia. They requested a visit to Warwick in order to exchange knowledge and experiences of planning and launching interdisciplinary projects.

Cancelled (was scheduled for 4-5pm, 23 June 2016 in the Teaching Grid, University of Warwick)

The Interdisciplinary Centre for Habitability (ICH) and IATL invite you to explore the concept of habitability, both on the Earth and other, distant planets, in this exciting, interdisciplinary roundtable discussion led by renowned writer Alastair Reynolds.

Talk: 5pm, Thursday 26 May | The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry
Workshop: 1pm to 3pm, Friday 27 May | Humanities Studio, University of Warwick

Emergency Circus describes itself as administering ‘inspirational circus shows and workshops to the hospitalised, the homeless, the imprisoned, and the undercircused everywhere.’ and has been performing at camps and train stations alongside thousands of refugees from Turkey to Calais.

1 June 2016, 6 p.m. | R0.21 (Ramphal Lecture Theatre)

In this public lecture, Professor Jack Zipes, a world authority on fairy tales and storytelling and recognised by the U.S. Department of Education as a national model for arts education, will discuss the potential abuses of fairy tales in society.

This book by IATL Director Dr Nicholas Monk, which is available now, argues that Cormac McCarthy's response to the modern world is more subtle and less laden with despair than many realise. It examines the experience of engaging with McCarthy's fiction in order to reveal why so many people report that "reading Cormac McCarthy changed my life."