Conferences
The HRC sponsors many workshops, symposiums and conferences. These range from half-day events to 3-day international residential conferences. Details about conferences can be obtained from the HRC or from the conference organisers.
HRC Doctoral Fellowship Conferences
Being Human: Individualism and the Self from the Renaissance to the 21st Century - Saturday 22nd February 2025 (tbc)
After Postcolonialism: Global Theory, Local Transformations - Wednesday 26th March 2025
Irresistible Decay: Discourses of Death and Life from the 18th Century to today - Friday 7th March 2025
Uses and Abuses of the Decolonial - Saturday 17th May 2025
Other HRC Sponsored Conferences/Events
- Visiting Speaker - Dr Alessandro Metlica (Padua) - 4th/6th February 2025
- Emotions and Labour in the Early Modern World - Monday 10th March 2025 (Keynote Speaker Prof Katie Barclay (Macquarie))
- British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Annual Conference - 26th/28th March 2025
- The Cultural Legacies of Corruption, 1500-today- 27th/28th March 2025 - (Warwick in Venice)
- 'Burning Cities' Critical Theory Network IV Venice Seminar with Keynote Speaker Livia Apa - 8th/9th May 2025
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Annual Edward Said Memorial lecture - May 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).
- Material Literacy in the Age of the Global Turn - 18th/20th June 2025
- Women in World-Literature: Climate, Crisis and Contagion - 19th/20th June 2025