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Humanities Research Fund - Round 2 now open
The Humanities Research Fund (HRF) is now accepting applications for activities that are to be carried out between 1 August 2024 - 31 July 2025.
The deadline for Round 2 funding is Monday, 14 October 2024.
Funding is available to support research activity in the Faculty of Arts, including:
- Pump-priming to kick-start new, innovative research projects
- Conference travel
- Publication costs
- Membership of key societies/associations
Please note that this fund requires a 10% departmental contribution.
For more details and to apply please see:
Enquiries can be directed to WarwickHRF@warwick.ac.uk
HRC Annual Report 2023/24
Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies' Annual Lecture
You're warmly invited to the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies' Annual Lecture on Weds 19th June at 5pm in the FAB Cinema, followed by a wine reception.
Entitled Ecologisation is not a metaphor: Culture in the Web of Life, the lecture draws from Dr. Sterling's research, critically examining heritage and museums through the lens of art and ecology. Abstract and bio below. Please register here https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/ccmps/research/beinghuman2024/annuallectureregistrationLink opens in a new window
The lecture forms part of our PGR conference Being Human in the Media and Creative Industries, that will run throughout the day on 19th June. Details and registration page for that are hereLink opens in a new window.
We hope to see you there!
ECOLOGISATION IS NOT A METAPHOR: CULTURE IN THE WEB OF LIFE
Ecological thinking has long been entangled with different ideas about how to organise political, economic and social life. In the face of climate change and the environmental crisis, the urgency of thinking and acting ecologically has only intensified. Cultural actors and institutions have mobilised to address these concerns with new environmental programming, innovative sustainability strategies, and declarations of a climate and ecological emergency. This talk will argue that such shifts don’t just point towards alternative ways of living on and with the planet, they also instigate a fundamental reorientation of culture in the web of life. Drawing on the work of Jason Moore, this conceptualisation recognises that – like all forms of human organisation – cultural policies and practices are always co-constituted through nature. By focusing on the evolving place of museums in this web, the talk will explore how museums have contributed to the planetary crisis through specific symbolic and material practices, but also how emerging approaches in the field might, in some small way, help to ecologise society more broadly.
Colin Sterling is Assistant Professor / Senior Lecturer in Heritage, Museums and the Environment at the University of Amsterdam, where he teaches across heritage and memory, museum studies and artistic research. Colin's research critically examines heritage and museums through the lens of art and ecology. He is the author of Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past (Routledge, 2020) and co-editor of Deterritorializing the Future: Heritage in, of and after the Anthropocene (Open Humanities Press, 2020). He is co-editor of the journal Museums & Social Issues.
Impact Development Workshop
Please note that R&IS advise that this workshop is intended for research active staff and research students.
When |
Wednesday 3 July 2024, 12:00-15:00hrs [Lunch will be provided] |
Where |
Wolfson Research Exchange (The Library) |
Who should attend |
University of Warwick Research Active Staff (staff on Research-focussed, Teaching-focussed and Research and Teaching contracts), and PhD students. Participants will ideally have some introductory knowledge of impact and how it can be evaluated. Please see resources from two recent webinars on this on the booking page. |
Overview |
Previously called 'Pathways to Impact', this workshop covers how to develop impact plans and how to embed impact within research projects and research grant applications. The workshop enables participants to: o Interrogate their research in order to identify what range of beneficiaries would be able to utilise research findings. o Understand how to formulate impact strategies o Ensure that impact is woven throughout your research grant application following the removal of Pathways to Impact documents. o Build evaluation, measurement and recording of impact into your work. o Network and exchange ideas and perspectives about developing impact with colleagues from other disciplines. |
Booking |
Please book hereLink opens in a new window. Places are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment. |
Any questions? |
Please contact Lesley Chikoore |
Call for Papers: Radical Traditions The Role of Contemporary Arab Women in Revolutionising Arab Patriarchal Society
Call for Papers
Radical Traditions
The Role of Contemporary Arab Women in Revolutionising Arab Patriarchal Society
Saturday 12 October 2024/ University of Warwick/ Faculty of Arts
Call for Papers / Deadline: 30 July
Opening and Closing Keynote Speakers: Dr. Ebtihal Mahadeen (University of Edinburgh) & Prof. Rebecca Ruth Gould (SOAS, University of London)
Edited Collection CFP – Warwick Series in the Humanities, Routledge
Editor: Raad Khair Allah (University of Warwick)
In an interview with the Progressive Magazine, Nawal El Sadaawi, the Arab world’s most prominent feminist and writer, says: “Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can’t have anything without women” (2011). Influenced by these themes, this interdisciplinary one-day workshop and the proposed edited collection aim to shed light on the radical traditions expressed in the efforts and achievements of contemporary Arab women in challenging patriarchal social norms and structures and thereby transforming Arab societies.
We encourage participants to critically reflect on the meaning of freedom, challenge existing power systems of oppression, and imagine alternative possibilities for a more liberated and just society. By engaging in dialogue, reflection, and creative thinking, participants will be inspired to become agents of change and contribute to the ongoing struggle for freedom and social justice.
We are calling for papers from across disciplines such as literature, art history, film studies, gender studies, cultural studies, sociology, media, music, and anthropology and more.
You are invited to submit abstracts of maximum 300 words for 15-20-minute papers by 30 July 2024. Full chapters of 5000–7000-word chapters will be due by 30 January 2025 on a broad range of topics including but not limited to:
Ø Resistance and agency in contemporary Arab women’s literary and visual outputs
Ø Palestinian literature, cinema, and art of occupation
Ø Arab women’s struggle, in anti and post-colonial resistance and civil wars, for liberation and human rights
Ø Anti- colonial nationalism and the nation as a woman
Ø The intersection and the challenge of multiple forms of oppression
Ø Representations and the politics of sexuality, gender, and power dynamics
Ø The female body as a site of repression and resistance
Ø Intellectual, political, and sexual freedom
Ø Tensions between authenticity and originality in Arab feminist self-expression
Ø Censorship and suppression of feminist cultural artefacts
Ø Arab women’s resistance to localised forms of patriarchy and Western, orientalist stereotypes
Ø Writing the difference and the invention of “the new Arab woman”
Ø Arab feminism in local dynamics and in international and transnational worlds
Ø Art as a tool for reclaiming sexuality, identity, and power
Ø AI-generated representations and amplifying marginalised Arab women’s voices
Ø Contemporary Arab women’s movements: identity, mobilisation, autonomy
Ø The influence of digital platforms on the visibility and spread of Arab women’s works, serving as new spaces for artistic and narrative freedom
Please send abstracts and short biographies of 200-250 words to radicaltraditions@gmail.com
Winners announced - HRC Doctoral Fellowship Competition
Congratulations to the winners of the HRC Doctoral Fellowship Competition.
We look forward to their conferences next year (24/25)
Airelle Amédro (SMLC) & Enrica Leydi (SMLC) - ‘Irresistible Decay: Aestheticization of death and life imbrications from the 18th Century to today’
Lu Feng (English) & Chun-Wai (Wayne) Kwong (English) - ‘After Postcolonialism: Global Theory, Local Transformations’
Julián Harruch-Morales (Hispanic) - ‘Uses and Abuses of the Decolonial’
Anna Pravdica, Himesh Mehta & Mia Edwards (all History) - ‘Individualism, Human Nature, & the Self: From the Early Modern Era to the Modern Western World’