Michael Gardiner (English), ‘Kyoto and the Transparency Society’

15 March 2023

Katie Stone (Warwick): “Slaves and Objects of Amusement: West German Women under the Yoke of the American Colonizers”: Sexual Violence, Moral Outrage, and Propaganda in Cold War East Germany.

FAB 3.30

History Research Seminar with Emma Hart (Pennsylvania),

'Tobias Smollett and the Making of Imperial Britain'

Researchers in the faculty may be interested in the forthcoming AHTV conference, which is run by the AHRC and delivered by the Edinburgh TV Festival. The conference brings together academics and TV producers to discuss working together, with masterclasses, a keynote speech, and a chance to hear direct from TV commissioners.

AHTV is a programme of sessions, panels, speed meetings and round-table discussions designed to bring together academics working in the Arts and Humanities with Television professionals to foster relationships and improve understanding between the two. Previous speakers include David Olusoga, Bettany Hughes, Emma Dabiri and Sathnam Sanghera as well as commissioners from the BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky Arts.

It is taking place in London and online on the 22^nd March 2023. Tickets are free via the AHRC and applications open on Monday: https://www.thetvfestival.com/talent-schemes/ahtv/Link opens in a new window

For any further information, please contact Lucy Vernall of The Academic Ideas Lab and Producer for AHTV: lucy.vernall@academicideaslab.co.ukLink opens in a new window

The Boyfriend Trick - Installation. 23rd March 2-4pm, Studio 2, FAB

You are invited to an installation exploring the role of performance in advocating for social change. There are estimated to be 100,000 victims of modern slavery in the UK working in nail bars, car washes, the sex trade and criminal enterprises. The Boyfriend Trick installation uses verbatim material gathered in partnership with anti-slavery charities to tell the true story of one survivor from Albania.

Using the mediums of Text, Body and Artefacts the audience is invited to explore the story through an interactive installation consisting of:

Land of Eagles - five 4-minute audio monologues

The Boyfriend Trick - a 4-minute dance film

Artefacts - a collection of objects relating to the story

The installation will be followed by a panel discussion with creatives, charities and theatre scholars on how the arts can advocate for victims of modern slavery and human trafficking.

The panel members are:

Dr Margaret Shewring, Chair - Emeritus Reader of Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Warwick.

Alison Porter - Writer & PGR in Theatre & Performance Studies, University of Warwick

Polina Zelmanova - Film Director & PGR in Film & Television Studies, University of Warwick

Dr Evi Stamatiou - Senior lecturer in Acting for Stage and Screen, University of East London

Anxhela Bruci (online from Albania) - Global Crime and Justice scholar and activist with the anti-slavery charity, Arise.

For more informationLink opens in a new window or to reserve a place please contact alison.porter@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window

Please bring your mobile phone with a QR reader app installed and headphones (if you have them).

School for Cross-Faculty Studies Public Lecture Series 2023

“Public Engagement in the Middle Ages: Medieval Solutions to a Modern Crisis”

Dr. Christopher Fletcher (Newberry Library, Chicago).

Dear Colleagues,

The School for Cross-Faculty Studies warmly invites you to its upcoming public lecture; Dr. Christopher Fletcher (Assistant Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago, IL, USA) will be presenting his project entitled “Public Engagement in the Middle Ages: Medieval Solutions to a Modern Crisis.”

The event will take place on Wednesday 12^th April from 4-6 p.m. in Ramphal 0.12 and online (please register for the Teams link). The talk will be followed by a Q&A and a small reception.

For more information and to register your interest, please click the link below:

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/schoolforcross-facultystudies/events_calendar/events/scfs_public_lecture_series_fletcher/Link opens in a new window 

Should you have any questions regarding this event, please contact Bryan Brazeau (B.Brazeau@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window).

Dr Birgit Van Puymbroeck's - "Life Writing and Media: The (Meta)Fictional Biography on Radio"

This talk aims to reflect on the relation between life writing and media, focusing on the genre of the biography and the medium of radio. As an ephemeral medium, radio is not often linked to biography. Yet, during the twentieth century, many literary authors experimented with the genre of the radio biography, exploring the relation between public and private, character and voice.

After a brief introduction to the genre of the radio biography, this talk examines several radio biographies including Henry Reed’s fictional metabiography A Very Great Man Indeed and Angela Carter’s Come unto These Yellow Sands. How does the radio biography invite us to reflect on the relation between genre and medium? The expression of self and other and the materiality of sound and voice? To what extent does the study of the radio biography give us an insight into life storying and contemporary media practices? The lives that are told and those that are usually silenced?

Drawing on insights from literary studies, cultural studies, and media studies, and combining perspectives from audionarratology and media archeology, this talk explores the relation between life writing, sound/voice, and radio. It will be of interest to scholars working in literary studies, cultural studies, media studies, social studies, communication studies, (art) history and art.

Birgit Van Puymbroeck is Assistant Professor in Literature in English and Research Methodology at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Her research interests include modernism, identity, and media. She is the author of Modernist Literature and European Identity (Routledge 2020) and co-editor of the Edinburgh Companion to First World War Periodicals (Edinburgh University Press 2023). She currently co-directs the FWO-funded project “Broadcast Biographies: Innovations in Genre and Medium 1945-2020” (with Inge Arteel) and is a member of the Young Leaders Academy of the EUTOPIA European University Alliance, a network of ten European partner institutions.

*This is a hybrid event: TEAMS LinkLink opens in a new window 

Wednesday 3rd May: Elizabeth Benjamin (Coventry), ‘Lieux oubliés et pas perdus: mapping the monuments of Paris that never were’

Lydia Goehr (Columbia University): On working-through—Durcharbeiten—with musical notes: Adorno, Fanon, Freud

ADAM HANIEH

(Professor of Political Economy and Global Development, Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter)

A Contrapuntal Reading of the Anthropocene:

Knowledge Production and Absences in the History of World Oil

The lecture is free and open to the public.

For more information:

Rashmi.Varma@warwick.ac.uk

This workshop is part of the Re-imagining Democracy Project that has run since 2004 and is now focussing on Central and Northern Europe. It will bring together scholars of the history of the German speaking world to reflect on the contribution and limitations of the account of the history of the German word Demokratie provided in the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe ( a dictionary of historical concepts) in which Reinhart Koselleck played a leading part. Developments in digital resources and associated scholarship raise a series of critical questions about this account- and this workshop will bring together historians, and other scholars to review the contribution that these new resources and approaches might make. There will be no formal papers, but just structured discussion. Participants from Warwick are very welcome, and there will be opportunities to contribute to the work of the meeting.

For full details please contact mark.philp@warwick.ac.uk

Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies

University of Warwick

Summer Term 2023

As part of our Research Seminar Series, we are delighted to announce our next speaker:

Dr Kimberley Thomas

‘Oh that Turk’s Island was a horrible place!’:

The geographies of salt island slavery in the British Caribbean

This talk will take place in person on Tuesday 9th May, 6pm in Room OC0.05,

Oculus building, University of Warwick

Dr Kimberley Thomas (Warwick, 2020) is a Research Associate on the AHRC-fund

Ameena Gafoor Annual Lecture 2023

The YPCCS is proud to announce that our next keynote speaker for the Ameena Gafoor Annual Lecture will be Arlen Harris with a talk on:

‘Coolies and The Great War’

This in person event will be held on

Wednesday 10th May, 5.15pm in Room OC1.04, Oculus Building,

The Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies is pleased to welcome Professor Pamela Gilbert, Albert Brick Professor at the University of Florida. Prof. Gilbert will be speaking on “Hands, Race and Historical Will in Mid-Nineteenth Century Literature.” The talk will take place at 5:30pm on Wednesday 10 May in the English Study Space (FAB5.49). A reception and dinner will follow.

Public Talk: Emergence of Reproductive Rights in Post-war Europe, Maude Bracke, 11 May, 3:30-5:00pm

Women’s control, non-population control’: Reproductive rights, the UN, and the emergence of a global women’s health movement (1970-80s)

Speaker: Maud Bracke (Glasgow)

Where: FAB 3.31

When: 11 May, 3:30-5:00pm

Hosted by the Feminist History Group, in co-operation with the European History Research Centre

Confirmed Invited Speakers:

Organised by:

The HRC is organising a workshop on Wednesday 17^th May 2023 on the theme of ‘Biographical Turns’. We invite colleagues from the full range of departments and research centres in the Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences to express interest in presenting a paper at this event.

Decarbonising the Downturn: The Contradictions of Green Capitalism Today

Calling everyone in the Arts interested in the challenges we face in responding to global warming!

Organisers from English and PAIS welcome you to a hybrid talk by Jack Copley titled, ‘Decarbonising the Downturn: The Contradictions of Green Capitalism Today’.  

As Copley describes: “Avoiding catastrophic global warming requires the decarbonisation of the world economy. But this green transformation faces a series of intersecting obstacles posed by capitalism’s long-run developmental tendencies, including entrenched economic stagnation and the proliferation of surplus populations. Pursuing decarbonisation in this context will test the ability of capitalist states to govern while maintaining their liberal form.”

Copley completed his PhD at Warwick with PAIS in 2018 and is now Assistant Professor in International Political Economy in the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University. He is the author of Governing Financialization: The Tangled Politics of Financial Liberalization in Britain (Oxford, 2021).

To register, please state whether you will attend in-person or online by emailing will.berrington@warwick.ac.uk 

Once registered, a Microsoft Teams invite will be emailed to you closer to the time.

For any questions, please email the same address.

Wednesday 17th May: Jeremy Lane (Nottingham), ‘From Bourdieu to Piketty: tracing the emergence of a “nouveau capitalisme patrimonial”’

Yara Staets (Warwick): Presentation of PhD project on ‘Coming to Terms with the Present: Non-Realist Representations of War in early post-1945 German Literature’

Keynote Speakers:

Dr Catherine WheatleyLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, King’s College London

Dr Rachel MalkinLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, University of Oxford

Welcome to the page for the Humanities Research Centre Conference about post-war Homecoming, to be held on the 20th of May 2023. It promises to be a inter-disciplinary forum and meeting-place for the foremost scholars considering questions of return, trauma and post-war communities. It intends to be a face-to-face conference held at the University of Warwick. Look forward to announcements regarding a keynote speaker and Call for Papers soon. If you have any preliminary questions please get in touch with the organisers, Niels Boender and Yara Staets, or here: homecomingconference@gmail.com.

Keynote Speaker: Professor Kate McLoughlin (Harris Manchester College, Oxford) who will speak to us about her latest monograph Veteran Poetics.