Conference Archive
Parish Communication (Twenty-Third Warwick Symposium on Parish Research) - Saturday 17th May 2025 - Report
Uses and Abuses of the Decolonial - Saturday 17th May 2025 - Report
'Burning Cities' Critical Theory Network IV Venice Seminar with Keynote Speaker Prof Shaul Bassi (Ca'Foscari, Venice) - 8th/9th May 2025 - Report
Cultures of Trauma in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe - 8th/9th May 2025 - Report
Annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture - 30th April 2025 - Palestinian writer Adania Shibli. Acclaimed author of the novel Minor Detail, longlisted for the Booker International Prize in 2021 and is the winner of numerous other international awards, including the Young Writer’s Award–Palestine by the A.M. Qattan Foundation for her novels Touch in 2001 and We are all equally far from love in 2003. She was named as one of the Beirut39, a group of 39 Arab writers under the age of 40 chosen through a contest organized by Banipal magazine the Hay Literary Festival. She has also published a collection of essays called A Journey of Ideas Across: In Dialogue with Edward Said (Berlin: HKW). -
Emotions and Labour in the Early Modern World - Tuesday 8th April 2025 (Keynote Speaker Prof Katie Barclay (Macquarie)) - Report
British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Annual Conference - 26th/28th March 2025 - Report
The Cultural Legacies of Corruption, 1500-today - 27th/28th March 2025 - (Warwick in Venice) - Report
After Postcolonialism: Global Theory, Local Transformations - Wednesday 26th March 2025 - Report
Irresistible Decay: Discourses of Death and Life from the 18th Century to today - Friday 7th March 2025 - Report
Being Human: Individualism and the Self from the Renaissance to the 21st Century - Saturday 22nd February 2025 - Report
Visiting Speaker - Dr Alessandro Metlica (Padua) - 5th/6th February 2025 - Report
Dr Metlica is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature in the Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies at the University of Padua. His research focuses on the representation of power in early modern Europe, in terms of both subversion (libertinism, free thinking) and containment (eulogy, propaganda), and his current concern is civic ritual in early modern Venice. He led the European Research Council project RISK, Republics on the Stage of Kings: Representing Republican State Power in the Europe of Absolute Monarchies, which addressed Republican displays of state power in the Europe of absolute monarchies from the late-sixteenth to early-eighteenth centuries, examining a multidisciplinary corpus of sources, including both texts and images (praising poems, civic orations, paintings and engravings, as well as the written accounts of public festivities and civic rituals).
While at Warwick, Dr. Metlica will lead three interdisciplinary events:
'A Republic in Print: Festival Books in Seventeenth-Century Venice and Monarchical Europe'
Research Seminar
Feb 5, 2.00-4.00 (OC 1.04)
Ritual, power and representation in early modern Venice
Reading Group with Alessandro Metlica and Giorgio Tagliaferro
Feb 6, 11.00-1.00 (FAB 3.30)
The texts to be discussed are:
Alessandro Metlica, ' Reshaping the Republican Ritual: The Entry of the Procurators of St Mark in Early Modern Venice', in Joris Oddens, Mart Rutjes, and Arthur Weststeijn (eds.), Discourses of Decline: Essay on Republicanism in Honor of Wyger R.E. Velema(Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2022), 168-181 https://brill.com/display/book/9789004470651/BP000020.xmlLink opens in a new window
Giorgio Tagliaferro, ‘The Meeting of Sebastiano Ziani and Alexander III in the Great Council Hall: Staging, Viewing, and Understanding the Body Politic in Late Sixteenth-Century Venice’, in Giovanni Florio and Alessandro Metlica (eds.), Contending Representations II: Entangled Republican Spaces in Early Modern Venice (Turnhout: Brepols, 2024), 44-65 https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/M.DUNAMIS-EB.5.137688Link opens in a new window
Political Ideas and Cultural Production: Visualising, Narrating, and Performing Politics in the Early Modern World
PhD Workshop
Feb 6, 3.00 – 5.00 (FAB 3.29)
This is an informal workshop for PhD students from across the Faculty of Arts. The central questions to be addressed will be: how can a certain idea of the state or other political body be visualised, narrated or staged? What social, diegetic, or stylistic devices are deployed to represent that idea across different media?
Radical Traditions: The Role of Contemporary Arab Women in Revolutionising Arab Patriarchal Society - 12th October 2024 - Report
Visiting Speaker - Dr. Federica Perazzini, Sapienza University of Rome - 19th/20th of November 2024 - Report
Speaking with the Dead: Italy and the Legacy of the Past in the Revolving Century (1750-1850) - 26th/27th September 2024 - Report
Visiting Speaker - Dr Martino Piperno - 26th/27th September 2024 - Report
Visiting Speaker - Dr Alessandro Giammei (Yale) - 26th September 2024 - Report
In Search of Lost Futures: Visual Media Narratives of Economic Migration in the Mediterranean - 19th/20th September 2024 - Report
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MindGrad 2024 Philosophy of Mind and Psychology - 22nd/23rd June 2024 - Report
Renaissance Europe and the Environmental Humanities: Venice and Beyond - 6th June 2024 -
Archaeology, Psychoanalysis and Colonialism: The Return of the Repressed in European Culture in the Modern Age - Friday 17th May 2024 - Report
Professor de Ceglia - Thursday16th May 2024 - Report
Warwick Symposium on Parish Research - Parish Memory Saturday 11th May 2024 - Report
HRC BES Colloquium- Collecting Antiquities in the British Isles Saturday 11th May 2024 - Report
Coinage and the State - An interdisciplinary Workshop on Coinage, Money and Economy - Friday 10th May 2024 - Report
Money and Medals Network Training Day - Thursday 9th May 2024
Forms and Feelings of Kinship in the Contemporary World - Saturday 27th April 2024 - Report
Professor Yannis Hamilakis - VS - Classical Association Conference - 22nd/24th March 2024 - Report
Stonebreakers: A documentary by Valerio Ciriaci and Issak Liptzin – 13th March 2024 - Report
Divine Disasters: Exploring distressed landscapes in literature and theology - Saturday 24th February 2024 - Report
Professor Valentina Carla Re - University of Link Campus (Rome) - January 2024 - Report
Medicine, Rhetoric and the Epideictic Across Cultures - 6th/7th December 2023 - report pending
Locations of (Dis)embodied Labour in Theatre and Performance - Thursday 30th November 2023 with Keynote Professor Nicholas Ridout (QM, London) - Report and Report
Annual Conference of Women in Spanish and Portuguese Studies - Keynote Speakers - LASTESIS (an interdisciplinary, intersectional and trans-inclusive feminist collective) - 10th/11th November 2023 - Report
Prof. Philip van der Eijk (Humboldt University, Berlin) - Public lecture on Galen - 5.00pm on 2nd November 2023 - Report
Italian Gothic - 31st October/1st November 2023, organised by Prof. Fabio Camilletti as part of the Italian Seminar Series and within the framework of the ‘Gothic Week’ co-ordinated by Dr Jen Baker (English) across the Faculty of Arts. - Report
Approaches to Teaching the #EarlyModernHispanicWorld to 21st-Century Students - Keynote speaker - Tara Munroe (Founder and Creative director of Opal22 Arts and Edutainment, Leicester) - Friday 13th October 2023 - Report
Spiritualism and Italian Culture XVIII-XX Centuries - 29th/30th September 2023 - Report
Afterlives of an Essay: 100 Years of Walter Benjamin's Task of the Translator - 29th/30th September 2023 - Report
PhD and Peernet Symposium - 20th/22nd September 2023 - Report
Warwick Numismatics Day - Friday 16th June 2023 - Report
Money and Metals Network Training Day - Thursday 15th June 2023 - Report
Sociability in Politics, Food and Travel in the Early Modern Era - 8th/10th June 2023 - Report
Visiting Speaker - Dr Ian Ellison - (University of Frankfurt / University of Kent) - 8th/10th June 2023 - Report
Archaeology, Antiquity and the Making of the Modern Middle East: Global Histories 1800 - 1939 - 25th/26th May 2023 - Report
Performing the Fantastic in Contemporary Culture - Thursday 25th May 2023 - Report
‘Homecoming’ after war: Comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives- Saturday 20th May 2023 - Report
Stanley Cavell and the Vicissitudes of Love - Friday 19th May 2023
Visiting Speaker - Argentine Journalist Uki Goñi- Monday 15th May 2023 - Report
Saying Nothing to Say: Sense, Silence and Impossible Texts in the 20th Century - Saturday 13th May 2023 - Report
Warwick Symposium on Parish Research - Parish and Performance - Saturday 13th May 2023 - Report
Culture and Global Responsibility: Rethinking Habitability in the Age of the Anthropocene - 12th/14th May 2023 - Report
Demokratie and the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe fifty years on - 4th/6th May 2023 - Report
Teaching Medieval French: Sustainable Approaches for the Next Generation - 27th/29th April 2023 - Report
Visiting Speaker - Professor Chris Rea (British Columbia) 25th April 2023 - Report
Processing The Pandemic: Hope - 13th/14th April 2023 -
Territorial Bodies: World Culture in Crisis - Saturday 25th February 2023 - Report
Adorno's 'Sexual Taboos and Law Today' – Sixty Years On - Friday 24th February 2023 - Report
Fireside Tales of Terror: The Gothic and Winter - 15th/16th December 2022 - Report
Visiting Speaker - Professor Carlo Caruso (Siena) 11th/12th October 2022 - Report
The Supernatural: Sites of Suffering in the Pre-Modern World - Saturday 14th May 2022
Following Living Things and Still Lives in a Global World- Saturday 12th February 2022
Breaking Down The Walls of Babel: Dialogues in Translation - Saturday 8th May 2021 - online
At Home in Empire: Colonial Experiences of Intimacy and Mobility - Saturday 13th March 2021 - online
The Remains of the Body: Legacy and Cultural Memory of Bodies in World Culture - Saturday 22nd May 2021 - online
Performance and Politics on the New Silk Roads - 27th June-1st July 2022
Examining the Sources of Hegel's Logic - 2nd-4th June 2022
Dispossessed: A Symposium on Marxism, Culture, Extraction, and Enclosure - Thursday 26th May 2022
Celebrations, Communities and Performances - 20th-22nd April 2022
"Blood on the Leaves/And Blood at the Roots": Reconsidering Forms of Enslavement and Subjection across Disciplines - 24/26th June 2021
Philosophy and Art: Scattered Systematicity - Conference Report