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Call for Contributions to the Warwick Cultural Memory Seminar 2026-27 programme
I am looking for speakers for the Warwick Cultural Memory Seminar for the next academic year. If your work touches on cultural memory and you would benefit from presenting your work in front of a group of memory studies people, please send me an email. The monthly seminars will have a 15-20 min paper, followed by a short response and discussion.
Please send me an email with your topic by Friday 10 July. Any recommendations for speakers across the university also gratefully received!
Dr. Alice KellyLink opens in a new window
Assistant Professor of Literature and History and Co-Convenor of English and History (BA)
Dr Christina Williamson of the University of Groningen, IAS Visiting Fellow.
From 8-18th June the Dept of Classics/Ancient History will be hosting Dr Christina Williamson of the University of Groningen, as an IAS Visiting Fellow.
Christina is an ancient historian who uses a transdisciplinary approach, integrating landscape, material culture, and text to explore the meanings and uses of sanctuaries in antiquity.
While at Warwick she will be participating in a number of events which are open to all (staff and PGs): Please see below for full details, and sign up on the relevant forms:
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/research/seminars/williamson/
More than Almsmen Brotherhood and Belonging at the Lord Leycester Hospital 1571-1700
2nd - 30th June 2026
Curated by Angus Crawford (M4C PhD student) and Dr Naomi Pullin in the History Department at the University of Warwick, this display explores the lives of the brethren who lived at the Lord Leycester Hospital between its foundation in 1571 and 1700. For centuries, attention has focused on the hospital’s founder, Robert Dudley, and his heirs, the Sidney family. This exhibition shifts the spotlight away from these well-known figures to the brethren themselves, asking who they were, how they were chosen and what daily life at the hospital was like.
Despite the later reputation of the Lord Leycester as a home for ex-servicemen, this exhibition shows that the Lord Leycester was home to a remarkably diverse group of people. Through their stories, we see complex webs of power that connected monarchs to their subjects, how patronage operated within major aristocratic households, and how ordinary people lived nearly four hundred years ago.