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.

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

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.

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’