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
- (Neo)Colonial Images and Literature: The Construction of the Other - Saturday 30th May 2026
- Pride and Place: Negotiating Self, Civic, and National Identities in Space - December 2026 (tbc)
- Say a Body where None. Necromanticism and Thanatological Imagination of the Afterlife in the Modern and Contemporary Age - Saturday 13th February 2027
- Empire’s Fruit: Colonial Ecologies, Food Systems, and Imperial Power - Saturday 20th March 2027
Other HRC Sponsored Conferences/Events
- "Whose Freedom? Worksites of Freedom & The Aesthetic of Solidarity” International Symposium 14th/16th May 2026 - Warwick in Venice
- UKLAH 2026 - 15th May 2026
- Parish Data Warwick Symposium on Parish Research - Saturday 16th May 2026
- Women, Power and Money - 11th June 2026
- Visiting Speaker – Dr Peter Snowdon – filmmaker, scholar and research associate at MAD-PXL School of Arts (Brussels) :
17 June 5pm, FAB cinema (FAB0.21) 'The Uprising' screening and Q&A
Peter Snowdon's film The Uprising (2013) – which J. Hoberman called a 'masterpiece of iPhone cinema' – coalesces YouTube videos from the Arab revolutions. It shows the Arab Spring from the inside, as it was experienced by citizens of Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Bahrain, Libya, and Yemen – marking the first time that participants took it upon themselves to film, narrativize, and broadcast their efforts to overthrow oppressive regimes in real time. This movie and Snowdon's book The People Are Not an Image (Verso, 2020) treat the phone camera as an extension more of the arm than of the eye, examining what happens when film becomes a direct tool of revolutionary action.
18 June, 11am-12.30pm, FAB6.02 'What Is at Stake in Filming Acts of Healing?' presentation & workshop
This presentation and workshop draw on Peter's ongoing work on a film about the act of healing as a physical and non-physical gesture. He will draw on both his work of filming 'alternative' health practitioners (osteopaths, Alexander teachers...), and his own recent training in the field, making reference to how medicine, illness, and the healing arts have been represented visually across time and space. The material will be framed to be of interest not only to historians and practitioners of visual art and film, but also to anyone concerned with 'embodied inquiry'
- Warwick Restoration Conference 2026: ‘Fashioning, Forging and Faking Identities, 1660-1714 - 28th/30th July 2026
- BrANCH 33rd Annual Conference - 9th/11th October 2026
- Enchanted Reading across Languages, Cultures and Times - October 2026 (tbc)