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
- Uses and Abuses of the Decolonial - Saturday 17th May 2025
- EDIBLE BOUNDARIES: Food, Identity, and the Material Culture of Eating and Drinking
- (Neo)Colonial Images and Literature: The Construction of the Other
- Is a Better World Possible? - Solidarity as a Conversation across Temporalities
Other HRC Sponsored Conferences/Events
- 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).
- 'Burning Cities' Critical Theory Network IV Venice Seminar with Keynote Speaker Prof Shaul Bassi (Ca'Foscari, Venice) - 8th/9th May 2025
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Cultures of Trauma in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe - 8th/9th May 2025
- Parish Communication (Twenty-Third Warwick Symposium on Parish Research) - Saturday 17th May 2025
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Breaking Containment: A Public Experimental Lab on Artistic Design, Engagement and Practices of Knowing - 12th June 2025
- 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
- Corpo a corpo: transhistorical and transmedial perspectives on the body of Italian culture – 16th/19th September 2025 (Venice)
- Visiting Speaker – Marco Libardi (Cultural Association ‘Hamelin’) - 16th/19th September 2025
- Enchanted Reading across Languages, Cultures and Times - 19th September 2025