Staff-Student Work-in-Progress Seminar
Work-in-Progress Seminar
What is the Work-in-Progress Seminar?
The seminar is an opportunity for SMLC staff and postgraduate research students to come together and talk about what they are working on in a relaxed and supportive environment. The aim is to try out ideas, share intellectual challenges, and discuss common themes or approaches.
Each week, a member of staff or a PGR student will briefly present a part of their research for about 10 minutes, followed by an informal discussion emerging from that work for the following 40 minutes.
For the person presenting, the aim is not to give a paper but to speak informally about work that you are currently doing: warts-and-all! We simply ask that you bring something which can focus the discussion: a paragraph from a text (with a loose translation if possible when it is in a foreign language), a film clip, a visual document (picture, painting, etc.), a theorical framework or a case study. The aim is for the preparation involved to be minimal: just bring what you’re working on.
When & Where?
The seminar will alternate between Tuesdays and Thursdays to widen the opportunities for different members of staff to attend. There is no need to commit to attending the entire series of seminars, you are welcome to drop in and out as often as you like.
TERM 1
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Week 1 |
Tuesday 3rd October 5pm-6pm |
FAB 5.52 |
Airelle Amédro on deathliness in queer literature |
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Week 2 |
Thursday 12th October 5pm-6pm |
FAB 1.13 |
Miriam Gordon on fieldwork in the Caribbean |
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Week 3 |
Tuesday 17th October 5pm-6pm |
FAB 5.52 |
Luca Peretti on Italian cinema and anticolonialism |
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Week 4 |
Thursday 26th October 5pm-6pm |
FAB 1.13 |
Neil Malloy on literature and ideas of reparation |
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Week 5 |
'Italian Gothic' Film Evening |
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Week 6 |
Reading week - No WIP seminar |
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Week 7 |
Thursday 16th November 5pm-6pm |
FAB 1.13 |
Susannah Wilson on microhistory, retrospective diagnosis, and how to know when to stop reading |
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Week 8 |
Tuesday 21st November 5pm-6pm |
FAB 5.52 |
Jenny He on "Red translation" of foreign novels into Chinese |
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Week 9 |
Thursday 30th November 5pm-6pm |
FAB 1.13 |
Gennaro Ambrosino on Geology, Archaeology and the Occult in the area of Naples (1765-1830) |
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Week 10 |
Tuesday 5th December 5pm-6pm |
FAB 5.52 |
Philippe Le Goff on theoretical elaborations of anticolonial humanism |
TERM 2
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Week 1 |
Thursday 11th January 5pm-6pm |
FAB 3.31 |
Daniel Cabeza-Campillo on Brexit in Translation |
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Week 2 |
Tuesday 16th January 5pm-6pm |
FAB 3.25 |
Silvia Vari on comics and the gamification of migrant experiences |
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Week 3 |
Thursday 25th January 5pm-6pm |
FAB 3.31 |
No seminar in Week 3 |
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Week 4 |
Tuesday 30th January 5pm-6pm |
FAB 3.25 |
Tanguy Harma on Jack Kerouac's spontaneous prose and Sartre's Existentialism |
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Week 5 |
Thursday 8th February 5pm-6pm |
FAB 3.31 |
Oliver Davis on writing an overview of French thought from 1984 to the present |
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Week 6 |
Reading Week - No WIP Seminar |
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Week 7 |
Thursday 22nd February 5pm-6pm |
FAB 3.31 |
Caroline Summers on narrative theory and literary translators as activists for translation |
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Week 8 |
Tuesday 27th February 5pm-6pm |
FAB 3.25 |
Enrica Leydi on poetic and visual representations of landscape in Leopardi and Turner |
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Week 9 |
Thursday 7th March 5pm-6pm |
FAB 3.31 |
Adam Agowun on Representing the Nation, gone wrong? The case of Jacques Chirac |
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Week 10 |
Walter Rodney Lecture by Fabienne Kanor |
TERM 3
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Week 1 |
Thursday 25th April 5pm-6pm |
FAB 1.11 |
Christine Achinger on Constellations of alterity: constructions of race, femininity and Jewishness in Germany’s long 19th century |
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Week 2 |
Thursday 2nd May 5pm-6pm |
FAB 1.11 |
Jennifer Burns on 'I or you or who else? Relationality in a recent Italian life narrative’ |
To be involved:
Anyone who would like to present their work this term (or in the coming terms), or who would simply like to chat about the possibility of doing so, please get in touch with neil.malloy@warwick.ac.uk