Wednesday 31st May: Stuart Elden (Warwick, PAIS), ‘Indo-European Thought in Post-War France’

Between 6 and 10 June the Early Modern and Eighteenth-Century Centre and Department of History are hosting an IAS Visiting Professorship: Professor Dena Goodman (University of Michigan)

• Lunchtime talk: ‘Peace Dividends: Collective Kangaroos for Science, Public, and Nation During the Peace of Amiens’, discussant Michael Bycroft, 6 June, 12-2pm, FAB 2.43.

For further details please contact Naomi Pullin naomi.pullin@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window and Charles Walton charles.walton@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window

Postgraduate and Early Career Discussion ‘Understanding the American Academic System’, Tuesday 6 June, 3-5pm, FAB 5.01.

For further details about these events please contact Naomi Pullin naomi.pullin@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window and Charles Walton charles.walton@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window

We are pleased to invite you to our next SCFS Interdisciplinary Research Seminar.

Dr Asya Kudlenko will give a talk entitled

‘Governance of Security in the Complex World: the EU and Security Sector Reform (SSR) in the Western Balkans’

Room R2.41 Ramphal Building on Wednesday, 7 June 2023, 12:00-1:00 pm.

Please see more details and register for the event via this link:

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

Abstract:

The presentation is based on the recently released monograph, which uses complexity thinking to trace the co-evolution of the Western Balkans as part of the EU/Europe security community and the European Union (EU) as a security actor. It aims to analyse the suitability and adaptability of EU security governance to a VUCA world, i.e. a world of increasing vulnerability, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity—the world of transformative change. It takes a detailed view on the transformation of regional and state security in the Western Balkans and the EU’s role in the process between 1991, the year that marked the flare-up of violence and large-scale conflict, and 2013, when the first state of the region joined the EU.

Calling everyone in the Arts interested in how we approach capitalism and comprehend its changes over time!

American Studies Research Group welcomes you to a hybrid seminar with Leigh Claire La Berge and Thomas Travers.

When: Wednesday, 7^th June – 16.00-18.00 (BST)

Where: Online / Room 1.06, The Oculus, University of Warwick, CV4 7AL

La Berge's talk is titled, “There is ‘No More’ Commodification".

As La Berge describes: “In this talk, I will explore the relationship between perceived increases in the intensity of various capitalist processes and schemes of periodisation that literary and cultural scholars rely on in their critique of capitalism. I will pay particular attention to discussions of abstraction and commodification as they have been employed in critical and literary theory in the past twenty years, and I will question whether such processes really do increase and whether they provide a sure enough conceptual ground to situate the kind of temporal unity that periodisation requires.”

Travers' talk is titled, “Beamed in Ahead of Schedule: The Novel After Value”.

As Travers describes: ”Faced with protracted economic stagnation, expanding surplus populations, and ongoing ecological collapse, Marxist literary scholarship has moved away from theorising the capitalist world-system in terms of its sublime complexity, with critical attention now directed towards the production of non-production. Taking Don DeLillo as a guide through the signal and perhaps terminal crisis of US hegemony, this talk will consider how recent efforts to re-periodise the post-1960s era as being 'after-yet-within' or simply 'after' value might affect uHnderstandings of the novel.”

Leigh Claire La Berge is assistant professor of English at the City University of New York (BMMC). She is the author of Scandals and Abstraction: Financial Fiction of the Long 1980s (Oxford, 2014), Wages Against Artwork: Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art (Duke, 2019), and the forthcoming Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary (Duke, 2023).

Thomas Travers is the author of Peripheralizing DeLillo (Bloomsbury, 2022). His work on the novel, critical theory, and imaginary labour has been published in Textual Practice and A Secret Plot.

To register, please state whether you will attend in-person or online by emailing will.berrington@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window 

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

For any questions, please email the same address.

Details here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/events?calendarItem=8a1785d8882e15cc018842d977e12258Link opens in a new window

Fashion as Creative Economy - 8th June 4.30pm FAB 0.08

CMPS is pleased to invite you to our Annual Lecture event featuring Angela McRobbie, Daniel Strutt and Carolina Bandinelli in conversation about their book, Fashion as Creative Economy (Polity, 2022).

Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in London, Berlin and Milan the book analyses the relations between urban policy regimes, micro-enterprises, the emerging political economy of fashion and the structures needed for designers to flourish.

Chaired by Rachel Moseley (Film and TV)

Drinks Reception from 6:30pm

ALL WELCOME!

About the authors: Angela McRobbie is Emeritus Professor at Goldsmiths University of London Daniel Strutt is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. Carolina Bandinelli is Associate Professor in Media and Creative Industries at the University of Warwick.

Please e-mail SCAPVCenquiries@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window if you plan to attend.

We hope to see you there!

David and Carolina

Cultures of Belonging: The Politics of Inclusion, Exclusion and Reparation 

Free public event: Wednesday 21st June 2023, Faculty of Arts Building, Room FAB0.03, University of Warwick

What is culture, and how do cultural practices shape inclusion and exclusion?

Join us for an evening of open panel discussion with three leading academics as they discuss cultures of belonging across time, place and context.

Culture is at the heart of who we are and how we relate to the world. It is a political category that can render one included and excluded. Culture is conditioned by histories and legacies which shape our contemporary practices in ways that are often unseen, difficult to talk about, yet experienced by all. ‘Culture wars’ bring the fault lines of culture into public imagination, framing many of the key debates facing modern societies with increasing urgency.

Three public intellectuals come together in conversation reflecting on the promises and caveats of cultures of belonging. Janina Ramirez (University of Oxford) is a bestselling author and art historian, Charles Forsdick (University of Liverpool) is James Barrow Professor of French and a Fellow of the British Academy. Xine Yao (University College London) is Lecturer in American Literature to 1900 and a BBC Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinker.

The open panel discussion will be accompanied by an art showcase by the poet, musician and artist Sujatha Menon in collaboration with digital artist Paul Windridge as they bring to life and celebrate the many fascinating projects that the Connecting Cultures GRP has funded over the past academic year. The event is followed by a drinks and nibbles reception.

For more information and registration visit our website https://warwick.ac.uk/research/priorities/connecting-cultures/events/culturesofbelonging/

Colleagues, all are welcome to this seminar commemorating the 50^th anniversary of the fall of Allende's government and the Pinochet coup d'état in Chile.

With best wishes,

Alison Ribeiro de Menezes 

Chile 50 Years On: Memory, Resistance and Solidarity

 University of Warwick, 29 June 2023, 2-6pm Occulus Building, Room OC 1.09  

Fifty years ago this year, a violent coup d’état led by General Augusto Pinochet removed Salvador Allende, the democratically elected President of Chile, from power. Allende died in that coup on 11 September 1973, which ended a unique dream to build socialism through the democratic process. Within Chile, the military’s seizure of power unleashed an intense wave of repression and initiated a brutal dictatorship which would become globally infamous for violations of human rights, including torture, disappearances, murder, and enforced exile. But it would also stimulate a wave of resistance both within Chile and abroad, as well as immense international solidarity and activism.

What is the significance of this watershed in Cold War history five decades on, and how did the Chilean experience change international human rights law? What was the response of British people to the plight of Chileans, and how do different generations of Chileans themselves remember the time? This seminar brings together scholars, solidarity actors and voices from the Chilean community to address the importance of remembering acts of solidarity and resistance to dictatorship fifty years on, and to consider how those events impacted their lives.

Programme

2pm Memory and Resistance in Chile Today  

             Alison Ribeiro de Menezes (University of Warwick)

Tanya Harmer (LSE)

2.45pm Exile Experience, Solidarity and Support in the UK: A Roundtable Discussion 

Geoffrey Bindman, Hernando Fernández, Helen Jackson, Rossana Leal, and Roger Plant, chaired by Maureen Freely

3.45pm Coffee Break 

4.15pm Chilean Memories Across Generations 

Sebastian Bustamante (University of Bristol), Verónica Díaz-Cerda (University of Warwick)

5.15pm Visit to Chilean Solidarity Exhibition, Modern Records Centre.

Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council 

 Organized by Alison Ribeiro de Menezes and Verónica Díaz-Cerda

 (for queries please email alison.menezes@warwick.ac.uk)

Art in Art

Monday 3 July, 16.30-18.00, in FAB2.43

Please join us for an end-of-year CRPLA party, with short talks on the phenomenon of artworks showing up in other artworks.

Speakers:

Michael Bell on D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, and Schubert

Diarmuid Costello on Cildo Meireles' Insertions in Ideological Systems: Coca Cola Project 

Eileen John on Marc Chagall's I and the Village in Alice Munro's 'Soon'

Nick Lawrence on Roberto Bolaño's "Days of 1978"

Helmut Schmitz on Annie Leibowitz’ photo of John Lennon & Yoko Ono in Ulrich Woelk’s novel Liebespaare (Couples) 

Please rsvp to eileen.john@warwick.ac.uk.

We are delighted to announce Arts in Action: The Faculty of Arts Impact Conference, taking place on Wednesday 22 March 2023 in Radcliffe Conference Centre, the University of Warwick.

• Weds 22 March 2023
• 09:00 – 16:30
• Radcliffe Conference Centre
• Lunch will be provided - please make sure to register your attendance so we can cater accordingly

* Registration is now open * - Booking LinkLink opens in a new window

This event is open to all Arts and Humanities researchers, at any career stage and of all levels of experience in research impact. Doctoral students are also welcome.

With a schedule of thematic panels - including, amongst others, ‘Public Engagement as a Pathway to Impact’, ‘Environment, Sustainability, and Net-Zero’ and ‘Contributing to and Supporting the Cultural Sector’ - this event is designed to:

• Encourage discussion about what research impact is at a fundamental level
• Facilitate interdisciplinary discussion, bringing together researchers at all stages of the impact journey and providing a forum for sharing ideas, best practice and opportunities for collaboration
• Celebrate and share the rich portfolio of impact work in the faculty thus far, reflect on REF 2021, set the scene for new and emerging impact work and inspire ambitious projects
• Share and discuss sector updates and situate our faculty impact activity in the national landscape
• Provide a springboard for those newer to impact work

Therefore, we hope this event will enable the Faculty of Arts at Warwick to participate in a wider discussion about impact, its role in the future of research, and how our faculty can be at the leading edge of this area.

For further information, please visit the event webpageLink opens in a new window or get in touch with the Faculty of Arts Impact Team on arts.impact@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window.

Confirmed keynote speakers

• Dr Chantal Wright Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window(Zurich University of Applied Sciences)
• Professor Douglas Robinson (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
• Professor Duncan Large (BCLT, University of East Anglia)
• Dr Julia Ng (Goldsmiths, University of London)

• Week 2 (10 October) at 5pm: Edmund Wareham (RHUL), "Soror in Christo dilectissima: Change and Exchange in the Correspondence of Nikolaus Ellenbog and his Sister Barbara."

EMECC-GHCC joint welcome lunch and book launch

We are thrilled to kickstart the 2023-24 Italian Research Seminar Series with our colleague Anna Lanfranchi, who will be speaking of Translations, Copyright, and Cultural Diplomacy: Italy in the Transnational Book Trade.

The seminar will take place on Wednesday 11^th October, 5:15-6:30 pm, in the fourth floor open room (FAB4.52).

The Italian Research Seminar Series is kindly supported by the HRC.

How do we continue to engage students with the early modern and pre-modern Hispanic world in innovative ways? How can we make these texts more accessible to today’s learners whilst also retaining the essential differences of another culture and another era? These are some of the questions that scholars, in collaboration with students, will explore in this interdisciplinary workshop that aims to rethink approaches and pedagogical methods to open up these texts and topics to higher education students. The workshop will include short presentations on all aspects of pedagogy and strategies for teaching, learning, and assessment that encourage learners to engage with key works using a variety of means, including visual and digital media. The purpose of the presentations is to initiate interdisciplinary conversations that might help participants to develop their own teaching practice. It will also feature keynote speaker Tara Munroe, Creative Director of Opal22 Arts and EdutainmentLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window (Leicester), who will talk about her exhibition 'CASTA - The Origins of Caste' Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new windowat the Leicester Museum & Art Gallery.

• One-day hybrid workshop at the University of Warwick on Friday, 13th October 2023.
• Registration is free. Please register here

Wednesday 18 October, 4:00-5:00 pm (UK time) - Hybrid

Prof Margaret HillenbrandLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window (University of Oxford). Repetition and Revolt: The Poetry of Zheng Xiaoqiong

FAB5.03

EMECC WiP: Michael Bycroft 'We Have Always Been Constructivists'

Wednesday 25 October, 4-5:30pm, FAB2.32

Justin Cammy (Smith College, MA): ‘From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg’

In cooperation with the Centre for Global Jewish Studies

A discussion of the ghetto memoir (1946) and testimony of Sutzkever, one of the great Yiddish poets to emerge from the Holocaust, translated into English by Justin Cammy. Why was the memoir ignored by critics and even by the author himself for so long? And why should we look anew at early post-liberation efforts to document events that established a foundation for both justice and collective memory?

This visit offers students and the wider community the opportunity to explore Dr Sanyal’s writing and her unique insights into contemporary German-language culture, through translation, discussion and public reading. The visit will form part of a high-profile programme of visits to 5 universities in the UK, co-organised with the universities of Edinburgh, Bristol, Oxford and Leeds and including a visit to the Goethe-Institut Glasgow. The host consortium has worked closely with Dr Sanyal’s English-language publisher – the Berlin-based V&Q books, run by the award-winning translator from German, Katy Derbyshire – to develop the programme for the visit. The planned activities at Warwick will bring students and the wider public community into direct contact with a significant voice in contemporary German-language culture. The two events will focus on Dr Sanyal’s Deutscher Buchpreis-short-listed novel, Identitti, and its recent translation by Alta Price for V&Q books, situating this within wider debates currently shaping the German-language cultural scene.

On 31 October-1 November 2023, the SMLC will host the event Italian Gothic, organised by Prof. Fabio Camilletti as part of the Italian Seminar Series and within the framework of the ‘Gothic Week’ co-ordinated by Dr Jen Baker (English) across the Faculty of Arts. The event will be composed of three parts:

- 31 October, 19:00-21:00, Transnational Resources Centre, FAB. Film night, organized in conjunction with the Warwick Cinema Seminars and led by Jacopo Francesco Mascoli (PhD candidate, SMLC), addressing the long-lasting, transnational legacy of Italian Gothic Cinema through the discussion of clips from selected films and TV series.

- 1 November, 14:00-16:30, room tbc. A workshop, organized in conjunction with the Warwick Comics Research Network, on Italian Gothic-Horror comics in translation. The workshop will be led by Prof. Camilletti and Silvia Vari (PhD candidate, SMLC), with the participation of Dr Stefano Serafini (University of Padua), and will focus on Dylan Dog, Italy’s most popular horror comic book, whose first issue appeared in 1986 and which has acquired a cult status since then. Created by Italian novelist Tiziano Sclavi, Dylan Dog is an ‘Occult Detective’ narrative taking place in a fictitious, highly Gothicized London, whose cityscape is intentionally constructed by Sclavi, with a remarkable postmodernist attitude, through the lenses of pop culture broadly intended (literature, cinema, comics, rock and pop music). The workshop, which will be interactive and will foresee activities directly aimed to UG students, will specifically focus on the short-lived adaptation of Dylan Dog made by Dark Horse Press, exploring issues of translation, cultural representation, and transnational exchanges from a quintessentially trans-medial perspective.

- 1 November, 17:15-19:00, room tbc. A roundtable, organized in conjunction with the University of Padua, on the theme of Italian Gothic between literature and politics. The roundtable will witness the participation of Dr Simona Di Martino (Warwick SMLC, MHRA fellow), Francesco Dimitri (London-based Italian novelist), Dr. Marco Malvestio (University of Padua/University of North Carolina), Dr. Stefano Serafini (University of Padua), and Dr Mark Storey (Warwick, English). The occasion for the roundtable is the recent publication of Italian Gothic. An Edinburgh Companion, co-edited by Dr Malvestio and Dr Serafini for Edinburgh University Press and including contributions, among others, by Prof. Camilletti and Dr. Di Martino

EMECC-GHCC joint seminar, ‘Following Ahmad Khan: Global Micro-History, Translation and the Social Power of Narrative’

Public Lecture Series - Arthur Keller (warwick.ac.uk)Link opens in a new window

Date: Wednesday, 8 November 2023, 2 – 4 pm

Location: Room R3.41, Ramphal Building

About:

Arthur Keller is a specialist in systemic risks and strategies toward collective resilience. He teaches systems thinking at the prestigious Centrale Supélec engineering school, trains elected representatives in community security, works with local authorities and public agencies, has advised the French National Assembly as part of a parliamentary task force on national resilience, and is also one of the leading French specialists in low-tech innovation.

In this lecture for the School for Cross-faculty Studies, Arthur will demonstrate how to use systems thinking to characterize the arch-predicament of our time: planetary overshoot. Mankind's ability to pull through this challenge in a dignified manner will condition the possibility of dealing with all other problems.

Then, he will discuss the fundamental difference between multidisciplinarity and systemics: the latter provides crucial keys to rethink the issues so as to come up with a coherent perception of the scope of possible pathways. Thereupon, participants will figure out why many of the options we perceive as "solutions" won't actually solve anything, and the limits of existing tools and delineate the room for manoeuvre that we have left. Finally, participants will explore what can be done, outline a strategy and provide attendees with general principles and actionable levers, give them some warnings and methodological advice, and share with them some useful insight to empower them to catalyze meaningful transformation.