School for Cross-faculty Studies’ Research Seminar series

‘A critical history of poverty finance’ to be led by Dr Nick Bernards.

The event takes place on Wednesday 11 January 2023 starting at 12 noon in R1.15 and online via Microsoft TEAMS.

Finance, mobile and digital technologies - or 'fintech' - are being heralded in the world of development by the likes of the IMF and World Bank as a silver bullet in the fight against poverty. But should we believe the hype?

In this seminar, Dr Nick Bernards will introduce his new book, A Critical History of Poverty Finance. The book demonstrates how newfangled 'digital financial inclusion' efforts suffer from the same essential flaws as earlier iterations of neoliberal 'financial inclusion'. Relying on artificially created markets that simply aren't there among the world's most disadvantaged economic actors, they also reinforce existing patterns of inequality and uneven development, many of which date back to the colonial era.

Bernards offers an astute analysis of the current fintech fad, contextualised through a detailed colonial history of development finance, that ultimately reveals the neoliberal vision of poverty alleviation for the pipe dream it is.

Find out more about the seminar and REGISTER here: SCFS Research Seminar: A critical history of poverty finance (warwick.ac.uk)

History Research seminar

Nataliia Voloshkova (Kazimierz Wielki University)

They Differ in Many Respects from the Moscovites: Representations of Ukrainian Lands and People in British Travel Accounts in the Long Eighteenth Century Discussant: Christoph Mick; Chair: Charles Walton Week 1, Wednesday 11 Jan, 4.30 – 6 pm, OC0.04, Oculus Building

Work-in-Progress

Ronan Love

Debt, Sovereignty, and 1789: Government Finance and the Beginning of the French Revolution

Discussant: Maria Tauber Week 1, Thursday 12 Jan, 12 – 1 pm, FAB 5.03, Faculty of Arts Building

Paul Smith (History of Art), ‘Cezanne, Perception, Autism: (Not) Putting the Pieces Together.’ Respondent: Naomi Eilan (Philosophy). A Warwick Mind and Action Seminar/CRPLA joint seminar.

Join us for a lunchtime talk linking the Faculty of Arts with events at Warwick Arts Centre. Thomas Ellmer, Exhibitions Curator for the Mead Gallery will introduce Katrina Palmer’s new exhibition – What’s Already Going On? in the Cinema on the ground floor of the FAB (FAB0.21) at midday on Wednesday 18^th January.

Due to open on 12^th January 2023, the exhibition is the artist’s largest commission to date and showcases a new body of work that departs from Palmer’s well-known text-based projects, including sculptures, drawings and moving image. This talk will appeal to those interested in contemporary art and visual culture, as well as anyone keen to experience something new.

To attend, please register here.

Hispanic Studies Research Seminar: Alejandro Veiga Exposito (University of Warwick): 'Corruption and Extractivism: Ethics in Contemporary Venezuelan Literature

Prof. Emma Smith (University of Oxford) on tbc.
This is an in-person event, in room 2.43 in the Faculty of Arts Building.

Wednesday 25th January: Lydie Moudileno (University of Southern California), 'Finding Dahomey: African Royalty in the Diasporic Imagination'

25 January 2023

Nicholas Lawrence (Warwick): Title tbc.

David Fletcher, The Rule of Law Keynote: Clare Jackson (Cambridge), The Rise of Common Law, Sir Edward Coke and Jurisprudence With papers from Thomas Pert, David Fletcher, Charles Walton, Hannah Straw, and Rebekah Andrew

Week 3, Friday 27 Jan, 2 – 5.30 pm, Wolfson Exchange 1&2, Library.

Further event information and programme here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ecc/eventsnew/ruleoflaw/

Please join us for the next CRPLA Seminar, with speaker Catherine Wheatley (Film and Visual Culture, KCL).

Tuesday 31 January, 5.30-7.00 pm, in A0.23

Green means go. A brief cultural history of the green light.

Every small child knows that green means go. Green lights stand at crossings, intersections, and entrances, signalling permission to move forward, to continue our journey or embark upon a new one. So potent is their symbolism that the object has become a verb. To greenlight is to give the go-ahead, at least to certain persons and activities. Greenlighting a project ushers it into existence.

But where did they come from, these green lights, which originally signalled “caution” – or even “stop”? And how have they shaped the ways we think about matters of freedom, control and consent? Following a road lined with green lights taken from film, literature, TV and pop music, leading from the 19th century Houses of Parliament to contemporary Los Angeles, this paper asks where the green light has led us so far, and what its future projections might be.

Catherine Wheatley is Reader in Film and Visual Culture at King’s College London. She has published widely on questions pertaining to film, ethics and aesthetics. Catherine is the author of four monographs, including Michael Haneke’s Cinema: The Ethic of the Image (Oxford: Berghahn, 2009); the BFI Classics book on Caché (London: BFI Publishing, 2013), and Stanley Cavell and Film: Scepticism and Self-Reliance at the Cinema (London: Bloomsbury, 2018) Catherine also writes regularly for Sight & Sound magazine, and is a convenor of the BFI’s Philosophical Screens series.

The Warwick UK Cities of Culture Project is holding a Coventry Live Event on Friday 3^rd February 09:00-15:30.

This one-day live event will focus on the learning outcomes from the Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 intensive independent research programme, led by the University of Warwick and Coventry University with local artists, communities and citizens.

The day will look ahead to researching Coventry’s legacy programme and the opportunities for Bradford UK City of Culture 2025.

To register your attendance, please visit the event webpage.

Dr Edward Wilson-Lee (University of Cambridge) on tbc. This is an in-person event in room 2.43 in the Faculty of Arts Building.

Research Seminar - Silvia Orlandi

‘Working on Pirro Ligorio: manuscripts, paper editions, digital databases’ - joint paper for colleagues & students in Dept of Classics & Ancient History and Centre for Study of the Renaissance.

Followed by refreshments in the Classics Academic Studio, 2nd Floor, FAB. Sponsored by Institute of Advanced Study.

Wednesday 8th February: Jussi Palmusaari (Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston), ‘Althusser’s Place’

Thu 09 Feb '23

Hispanic Studies Research Seminar: Verena Dolle (University of Giessen): 'Migrants from the Global South in Europe as Seen Through the Prism of Colombian Narrative'

Term 2: Environment & Sustainability

• Wednesday 15 February 2023
• 12:00 - 13:30
• FAB5.03
• Interchange is open to all researchers at any career stage; doctoral students are also welcome
• Lunch will be provided: please make sure to register your attendance so that we can cater accordingly

Addressing the climate crisis and generating sustainable solutions for society is at the top of the agenda for the university, the region, the nation and the world. What role can Arts and Social Sciences researchers play in tackling this challenge, and how can we ensure our contribution finds the right audience?

Speakers: 

• Dr Caroline Kuzemko (Politics and International Studies)
• Dr Pietari Kaapa (Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies)

Chair: Professor Chris Brown (Education Studies)

For further details and to register, please visit: warwick.ac.uk/services/ris/impactinnovation/interchange 

Yesu Persuad Centre for Caribbean Studies

Dr Stève Puig:

Haiti and Congo: transatlantic solidarity in Youssoupha’s rap

Dr Puig’s online talk will cover the Franco-Congolese rapper, Youssoupha and his influences and his admiration for Haiti and its history. 

This event will be online on Teams on Wednesday 15^th February, time 5pm UK time.

Please register by emailing Lisa.D.Cook@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window

You will receive an email invitation with the link to access the seminar.

The Habitability GRP is pleased to invite you to the relaunch of our Reading Group. Link opens in a new window

The event will take place on Thursday, February 16^th (Week 6), between 11-14:30 in the small bar at Scarman. Refreshments including lunch will also be provided.

Our hosts will be Stefano Bellin (English and Comparative Literary Studies) and Gah-Kai Leung (Politics & International Studies), who will each introduce a piece of reading, followed by a discussion. The session will also be used to share information about the upcoming conference, ‘Culture and Global Responsibility: Rethinking Habitability in the Age of the AnthropoceneLink opens in a new window – co-organised by Stefano Bellin, Guido Bartolini (Ghent University), and Michael Niblett.

We envisage the session will run as follows:

11.00-12.00: Introduction by Stefano Bellin (10-15 mins) and reading discussion.

12.00-12.15: Coffee/comfort break.

12.15-13.15: Introduction by Gah-Kai Leung (10-15 mins) and reading discussion.

13.15-14.30: Lunch.

For further information, including access to the readings and registration, click hereLink opens in a new window.

Please ensure you register before noon on February 9th. Spaces are limited, so please register as soon as possible.

If you are unable to attend, please share information about the event with your colleagues and networks.

We very much hope you can attend and look forward to seeing you.

Christine Kirchhoff (International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin): The 'Non-Identical and the 'Leftover'. Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis and Ideology

Christine Kirchhoff (International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin): The 'Non-Identical and the 'Leftover'. Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis and Ideology

Symposium on ‘Adorno’s “Sexual Taboos and Law Today” – Sixty Years On’

10 am – 6 pm Wolfson Research Exchange

In cooperation with the Department of Philosophy

Keynote Addresses:

Dr. Lauren Wilcox, University of Cambridge

Prof. Kathryn Yusoff, Queen Mary University London

Call for Papers now availableLink opens in a new window

Dr Elena Giusti (Warwick) on tbc.

This is an in-person event, in room 2.43 in the Faculty of Arts Building.

Wednesday 1st March: Valérie Hayaert (Law, Warwick), ‘Éléments pour une typologie des images de justice en Europe (1450-1800)’

Hispanic Studies Research Seminar: João Vicente Faustino (University of Warwick): Investigating the Past: Memory Work in Contemporary Iberian Detective Fiction

EMECC Workshop with Jeffrey Ravel (MIT), 'Accommodation: The Policing of Used Playing Cards in Late Eighteenth-Century Paris'