Rob Stothard, “What Does a Jew Look Like”

"What does a Jew look like?" Well, it's complicated… Too often, the answer seems to be: "Jews wear black hats, black coats and have beards." Of course, some do, but the answer to the question "what does a Jew look like?" is much more complicated – and much more interesting.

This book of portraits of British Jews showcases some of the many different ways men and women can be Jewish in Britain today. Alongside the portraits, each subject explains what it means to them to be a Jew. For those who don't know what a Jew looks like – or for those who think they know – the book is designed to surprise, inform and beguile. For those who are Jewish, the book will perhaps introduce parts of the Jewish community that they may not be familiar with."

Photographer Stothard will be the inaugural speaker at the new Centre for Global Jewish Studies

Everyone welcome

Clara Verri (Gießen/ Helsinki): 'Dissatisfaction: A Literary Self-World Relationship in the Novels of K.O. Knausgård and M. Houellebecq'

The Economic and Social Research Council’s Festival of Social Science Link 2022.Link opens in a new winLink opens in a new window

Monique Roelofs (Amsterdam), ‘Decoloniality beyond Transculturation: Memory, Fluids, and Life in Claudia Llosa’s The Milk of Sorrow’

ECLS Halloween Special

The English and Comparative Literary Studies department warmly invite staff and students from across the

Faculty of Arts to join us for an afternoon of events celebrating our Gothic/Horror research and interests on:

Monday 31^st October, 12-5pm in FAB 5.49 (ECLS Hub)

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/events/ecls_halloween_special/Link opens in a new window

Widening Participation 

Speakers:

Claire Edden (Widening Participation Faculty Co-ordinator, Social Sciences)

Dr. Elizabeth ChantLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window (Hispanic Studies)

Dr. Holly LangstaffLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window (French Studies)

Research Seminar: 'Queering the Pitch?' Male Survivors and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence

Professor Chris Dolan from the Global Sustainable Development Department will be giving a talk about the multiple ways in which the phenomenon of sexual violence against men - and the realities experienced by the survivors produced by that violence – destabilise established understandings of how such violence works, who is victimized by it, and how and why it needs to be tackled. It then looks at how this destabilisation in turn challenges us to reconsider core assumptions about the relationship between data and intervention.

All Warwick staff, students, and alumni are welcome to attend. Register for the event.Link opens in a new window 

Wednesday 2nd November: Sophie Fuggle (NTU), ‘Toxic island ecologies: the multiple lives of an island called “Mother”’

Professor Sasha Turner:

Coming to Grips with Caribbean History: Sources and Production

Sasha Turner is the author of the multi award winning Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing and Slavery in Jamaica and is associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University.

(joint event with the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, University of Toronto)

'A Roundtable on the Global Renaissance'.

Speakers: Prof. Nicholas Terpstra, Prof. Ethan Matt Kavaler (both Uni of Toronto), Dr Natalya Din-Kariuki, Prof. David Lines.

In Celebration of Marcel Proust: On the centenary of Proust’s death, a one-day workshop on Proust at the crossroads of literature and philosophy. Talks by Peter Boxall (Sussex) and Joshua Landy (Stanford); others tba. Organised by CRPLA PG Representatives Jonny Clarke-West and Zak Stinchcombe. NB: This event will be held in FAB0.08 (ground floor of the Faculty of Arts Building).

Dr Xiaona Wang (CSR)

'An English 'Disciple' of Galileo: John Wallis on Gravity and Centre of Gravity'

The Future of Languages Roundtable

Speakers:

Raquel NavasLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window (Hispanic Studies)

Dr. Cecilia PiantanidaLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window (Italian Studies)

Professor Ingrid De SmetLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window (French Studies)

Roundtable on Radical Landscapes (Mead Gallery), with David Bather Woods (Philosophy), Diarmuid Costello (Philosophy), Chris Earley (Philosophy), Nadine Elzein (Philosophy), Nick Lawrence (English & Comparative Literary Studies), Danielle Stewart (Art History) and Eileen John (Chair). Reception to follow outside the Mead. (If you can, visit the exhibition before the roundtable – it opens 7 October.)

The HRC would like to invite Arts and Philosophy PGRs to attend the launch event for the annual HRC Doctoral Fellowship Competition.

You will be able to hear all about the scheme, how it works and what is expected of you if you win.

It also provides an opportunity for you to ask questions and meet the Director, Professor Alison Cooley and the Administrator, Sue Rae.

Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided.

Please email S.Rae@warwick.ac.uk to book your place.

Further information: Doctoral Fellowship Competition (warwick.ac.uk)

Wednesday 23rd November: Helena Duffy (Wrocław/Fernandes Fellow, Warwick), ‘We Are Not out of the Woods Yet: The Forest as Embodiment of Polish Holocaust Memory in Paweł Pawlikowski’s Ida’

On Friday 25^th November the Warwick UK Cities of Culture Project are hosting a Roundtable Event.

This AHRC-commissioned event, led by Cultural Partnership Director, Professor Jonothan Neelands and Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor for Research, Professor Jackie Hodgson (both University of Warwick) is the first in a series of three roundtables as part of the Warwick UK Cities of Culture Project.

The event will showcase some of the innovative research and creative projects and independent City of Culture evaluation research case studies before discussing ‘What’s next?’. We will do this via a series of café-style panel discussions with performances and respondents to animate the conversation and help the audience explore the panel areas. With exciting exhibits, videos and songs that have been produced as part of our City of Culture work, this is an opportunity to celebrate and look ahead.

For further info, please visit:

Warwick UK Cities of Culture Project: Coventry Live Event, 25th November 2022

Connecting place, culture, research and impact – stories from Coventry Tickets, Fri 25 Nov 2022 at 09:00 | Eventbrite – link to register

Antonia Hofstätter (SMLC), ‘The Enigma of the Grooves: Adorno on Music in the Age of (Mechanical) Digital Reproduction’