News

The autumn newsletter is out, on the Museum Studies web site.

• Introduction from network coordinator Robert O'Toole.
• The Museum Explorations podcast and YouTube channels.
• Exhibitions by Warwick People (Kate Astbury, Cathy Hampton).
• Publications by Warwick academics (Jamie Larkin).
• Special edition of the Exchanges journal, and how you can contribute.
• Plans for the next event, on gaming, arts, humanities, and museums.
• The Campus as Gallery and Museum.
• Progress update on the Bridges conference, bringing together art, maths, and science.
• Museum technologies (including funding opportunities).
• Is it possible to be over-museumed? 25 museums in one summer, what did we learn? – a personal reflection.

Read it online here.

Students and staff from across the university are invited to join us for a new lecture series exploring censorship and freedom of speech: "Culture Wars: Power, Censorship, Freedom".

Each week throughout the year, an academic from a different discipline will explore this important topic from their own angle. There will also be time for questions and discussion.

This term, all lectures are in MS.04 (Zeeman Building) on Mondays, 11am-12pm, beginning on Monday 13 October (Week 2).

The first lecture, by Professor Gary Watt from the School of Law, is titled "Moving Statues and Social Movements - Free Speech Acts and the Colston Case".

You can read a schedule for the series and descriptions of each talk in Term 1 here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/culturewars/Link opens in a new window 

Do please join us.

Dr Stephen Purcell

English and Comparative Literary Studies

We are excited to announce the return of the Spooky History Conference for 2025.

We invite abstracts for 15-minute papers on any aspect of history (broadly defined) that is spooky! This can include studies on the supernatural, witchcraft, magic, the gothic, or Halloween, as long as it is spooky!

Suggested topics include but are not limited to:

• · ghosts
• · the supernatural
• · witches
• · death
• · the gothic
• · the history of Halloween

We strongly encourage submissions from PGRs, ECRs, and independent researchers.
This informal conference will be entirely online on Halloween!

All papers should be c.15 mins and we invite submissions from individuals (200 words) as well as panel proposals of 3-4 speakers (600 words). Please submit your abstracts along with a short biography to spookyhistory23@gmail.com by Friday the 3rd of October 2025.

The conference will be held online via Zoom on Friday the 31st of October 2025.

All the best,

The Spooky History Team

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.

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 – 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