2025 Humanities Book Launch
Wednesday 14th May 2025 - Oculus Building, OC1.02
Hot and Cold drinks and a light lunch will be provided - please bring your own cups/mugs
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PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
11.00 Alison Cooley (Classics and Ancient History) Pompeii: An Archaeological Site History (2nd edition, Bloomsbury, October 2023)
11.15 Victoria Rimell (Classics and Ancient History) A Commentary on Ovid, Remedia Amoris (Oxford, 2024)
11.30 Curie Virág (Philosophy) and Douglas Cairns (eds) In the Mind, in the Body, in the World. Emotions in Early China and Ancient Greece (Oxford, 2024)
11.45 Maddie Sinclair (IATL) and Charlotte Spear (ECLS) Crisis and Body Politics in Twenty-First Century Cultural Production. Territorial Bodies
Warwick Series in the Humanities, (Abingdon: Routledge, 2025) (as editors)
12.00 Roxanne Douglas (IAS) Feminist Gothic, Critical Irrealism and Arab Women’s World-Literature: ‘Living with Ghosts’
‘New Comparisons in World Literature’ series (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)
12.15 Jo Hofer-Robinson (ECLS)The Plays of Charles Dickens (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) Edited by Joanna Hofer-Robinson, Pete Orford
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12.30 LUNCH BREAK (please bring your own cups/mugs)
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13.00 Beth Sharrock (ECLS) Shakespeare Broadcasts and the Question of Value (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
13.15 Niels Boender (University of Edinburgh) Homecoming Veterans in Literature and Culture: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives,
Warwick Series in the Humanities, (Abingdon: Routledge, 2025) (as editor)
13.30 David Lambert (History) Soldiers of Uncertain Rank (CUP, 2024): https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009464406
13.45 Myka Tucker-Abramson (ECLS) Cartographies of Empire: The Road Novel and American Hegemony (Stanford University Press, March 2025); Cartographies of Empire | Stanford University Press
14.00 Anna Lanfranchi (SMLC) Translations and Copyright in the Italian Book Trade: Publishers, Agents, and the State (1900-1947) (Palgrave September 2024): https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-64912-7
14.15 Helen Wheatley (SCAPVC) Television/Death (Edinburgh University Press, April 2024)
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OTHER RECENT AND FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS
- Nicholas Bernard (GSD) Fictions of Financialization: Rethinking Speculation, Exploitation and Twenty-First Century Capitalism (Pluto Press, 2025)
- Emily McGiffin (ECLS) Into the Continent (University of Regina Press, 2024)
- Mae Losasso (ECLS) Poetry, Architecture, and the New York School (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
- Alison Ribeiro de Menezes (Warwick, Anthology Editor), Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez (Anthology Editor), Adrian Shubert (Anthology Editor)
The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Spanish Civil War (Bloomsbury, November 2023)
- Andrew Cooper (Philosophy), Kant and the Transformation of Natural HistoryLink opens in a new window(September 2023), On the Vocation of WomanLink opens in a new window(translated edition)
- Mary Harrod (SMLC) Is it French? Popular Postnational Screen Fiction from France (Palgrave Macmillan/Open Access, 2023): Is it French? Popular Postnational Screen Fiction from France | SpringerLink - (fully Open Access and recently won Honourable Mention at the British Association of Film, TV and Screen Studies annual publication awards (Best Edited Collection category 2025)).