News
New HRC Director - Dr William Rupp
The HRC is pleased to announce that our new Director is Dr William Rupp (Cross-Faculty Studies-Liberal Arts).
He will take up the three year post on 1st September 2025.
Capacity Building: Inclusive Climate and Environmental Communication
As part of the Sustainability Spotlight Forum we are welcoming Seema Mundoli an associate prof at Azim Premji University, India. She will in addition to her participation at the forum, will be organising a workshop and talking about moving research from academic silos into real world impact through popular writing.
This will be on 2nd July and is supported by the Nexus Project.
More details here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/research/projects/nefdef/climatefinance/wcgpn/climate/Link opens in a new window
Inclusive Education in the Arts 2025 Conference
Inclusive Education in the Arts 2025 Conference – registration open
Dear everyone,
We’re thrilled to share the programme for the Inclusive Education in the Arts 2025 Conference, and to open registrations for the event!
The conference sees representation across the Faculty, with staff and students coming together to discuss inclusive practice in the Arts. It will take place on Tuesday 20 May, 13:00-16:00, in person in FAB5.01 and online – please register on the event pageLink opens in a new window to secure your place!
All the best,
Faculty DSEP Team
Theatre and Performance Studies - 50th Anniversary Event
Dear Arts Faculty Colleagues,
As you may know, this year Theatre and Performance Studies turns 50. We’re marking this special anniversary with an event on 28 June 2025 which brings back many former colleagues and plenty of our alum too – with over 100 signing up so far.
You can find out more about the programme in the grey box on this page:
The programme includes workshops, alumni panels and a special roundtable with retired staff who spent most of their careers in the department (Richard Beacham, Margaret Shewring and Gerry Cousin).
We’re particularly keen to share the event with colleagues who have worked closely with us over the years – but anyone is welcome!
If you’d like to attend, please email D.J.Coates@warwick.ac.uk.
Doctoral Fellowship Competition - Winners announced
Congratulations to all the winners.
Eloisa Ocando Thomas and Jingyang Xu (both History): EDIBLE BOUNDARIES: Food, Identity, and the Material Culture of Eating and Drinking
Xiaoyan Tan (SMLC and Gustavo Ruiz da Silva (Philosophy): (Neo)Colonial Images and Literature: The Construction of the Other
Archana Vinod (English) & Malvika Nair (SMLC): Is a Better World Possible? - Solidarity as a Conversation across Temporalities
New Publication: Crisis and Body Politics in Twenty-First Century Cultural Production Territorial Bodies
Edited by Charlotte Spear and Madeleine Sinclair (Warwick) January 2025
The twenty-first century has been deemed the “Age of Crisis”. We are witnessing the catastrophic unfolding of environmental crisis, financial crisis, pandemic and conflict. But are we to understand these crises as new phenomena? Is their seemingly simultaneous existence purely coincidental? Or rather do they instead form part of a singular, historically produced, unfolding crisis, which only today has reached a generalised consciousness? And perhaps most urgently, how far can we separate the crises of human experience from those exacted upon the land?
The chapters collected in Crisis and Body Politics in Twenty-First Century Cultural Production: Territorial Bodies deploy the framework of “Territorial Bodies” to address urgent social, ecological and political challenges. Examining themes such as (inter)national bodily governance, racialised bodies, eco-feminist movements, spatial justice and bodily displacement, this collection provides a deeper analysis of the interconnected forms of violence perpetrated against marginalised human and non-human bodies, taking this combined violence as the defining feature of contemporary crisis.