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DAS KAPITAL vI READING GROUP

DAS KAPITAL vI READING GROUP - Every other Monday, 5pm-6pm. FAB5.49 (English common room/Student hub). Wine.

Contact: Kishan.Katira@warwick.ac.uk

Have you read Das Kapital yet? If you write about Marxism, why not go to the source? Do not let others read it for you. As the haiku master Bashō Matsuo says, “to learn about pine trees, go to the pine tree; to learn of the bamboo, study bamboo”. Reading never more than 25 pages a week, we will meet once a fortnight during term time, and together get through Das Kapital Volume I. The text is free: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Capital-Volume-I.pdf 

Term 3 (Year 2025-26)

- Week 2 – Prefaces, and Chapter 1: ‘Commodities’.

- Week 4 – Chapter 2: ‘Exchange’, and Chapter 3: ‘Money, Or the Circulation of Commodities’.

- Week 6 – Chapter 4: ‘The General Formula for Capital’, Chapter 5: ‘Contradictions in the General Formula of Capital’, and Chapter 6: ‘The Buying and Selling of Labour-Power’.

- Week 8 – Chapter 7: ‘The Labour-Process and the Process of Producing Surplus-Value’, Chapter 8: ‘Constant Capital and Variable Capital’, and Chapter 9: ‘The Rate of Surplus-Value’.

- Week 10 – Chapter 10: ‘The Working Day’, Sections 1-5.

Tue 07 Apr 2026, 07:57

Book Deal Announcement: Louisa Toxværd Munch Signs with Penguin Press

Louisa Toxværd Munch has signed a book deal with Penguin Press (Allen Lane) for her forthcoming title Glitch: Thinking for a Time of Monsters. The book is scheduled for release in Spring 2028.

Fri 27 Mar 2026, 11:07

PLCRG co-convenes “The Academy in the Age of Utmost Catastrophes and Conjunctural Crises”

In cooperation with Warwick Social Theory Centre, the ECLS Palestinian Literature and Culture Reading Group convened the timely seminar “The Academy in the Age of Utmost Catastrophes and Conjunctural Crises” in attempt to critically address the role of academy and the challenges it faces in this excessive historical moment where the forces of neoliberal globalization, right-wing neofascism, fundamentalism, Zionism, and settler-colonialism compound and unleash imperial wars and genocides on a world scale.

Three critically insightful talks addressed the question with focus on Palestine, Kashmir and the UK, including a contribution by Abdeljawad Omar from Birzeit University entitled “The Shell and the Wound: On the University in Palestine,” a second contribution by Mudasir Amin from Warwick University entitled "Education as Erasure: Mapping the modalities of Indian state's academic repression in Kashmir," and a third one by Louisa Munch from Warwick University entitled "The University against the Banality of Evil: What UK academia can do in the fight against fascism.”

The talks instigated an open and genuine conversation to discuss further the challenges, exploring commonalities and interconnectedness as well as potential resources of hope and social change. Moderated by Nadia Hajal-Backleh.

Thu 12 Mar 2026, 08:10

Undergraduate English Modules 2026/27

The English Undergraduate module list for the 2026/27 academic year is now available for students to view online.

This page provides a comprehensive overview of the modules offered by the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies

Students are encouraged to explore the available modules ahead of the options application window, which will open on Thursday 12 March and close on Wednesday 18 March.

The full module list can be viewed here: UG Modules 2026/27

Students who would like to discuss their options or ask questions about English modules are also welcome to visit the English stand at the Module Fair, taking place in FAB (ground floor) from 1pm–4pm on Wednesday 11 March.

Further information about the application process can be found here: Options Information

Fri 06 Mar 2026, 16:28

Louisa Toxvaerd Munch on Sunday Morning Live: Student Loans and the Importance of Critical Thinking

We are pleased to share that Louisa Toxværd Munch spoke this past Sunday on the BBC programme Sunday Morning Live, addressing the pressing issue of student loans and highlighting the vital importance of critical thinking in today’s society.

Wed 04 Mar 2026, 12:59