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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

Week 1

Tuesday 3rd October 5pm-6pm

FAB 5.52

Airelle Amédro on deathliness in queer literature

Week 2

Thursday 12th October 5pm-6pm

FAB 1.13

Miriam Gordon on fieldwork in the Caribbean

Week 3

Tuesday 17th October 5pm-6pm

FAB 5.52

Luca Peretti on Italian cinema and anticolonialism

Week 4

Thursday 26th October 5pm-6pm

FAB 1.13

Neil Malloy on literature and ideas of reparation

Week 5

'Italian Gothic' Film Evening

 

 

Week 6

Reading week - No WIP seminar

 

 

Week 7

Thursday 16th November 5pm-6pm

FAB 1.13

Susannah Wilson on microhistory, retrospective diagnosis, and how to know when to stop reading

Week 8

Tuesday 21st November 5pm-6pm

FAB 5.52

Jenny He on "Red translation" of foreign novels into Chinese

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)

Week 10

Tuesday 5th December 5pm-6pm

FAB 5.52

Philippe Le Goff on theoretical elaborations of anticolonial humanism

TERM 2

Week 1

Thursday 11th January 5pm-6pm

FAB 3.31

Daniel Cabeza-Campillo on Brexit in Translation

Week 2

Tuesday 16th January 5pm-6pm

FAB 3.25

Silvia Vari on comics and the gamification of migrant experiences

Week 3

Thursday 25th January 5pm-6pm

FAB 3.31

No seminar in Week 3

Week 4

Tuesday 30th January 5pm-6pm

FAB 3.25

Tanguy Harma on Jack Kerouac's spontaneous prose and Sartre's Existentialism

Week 5

Thursday 8th February 5pm-6pm

FAB 3.31

Oliver Davis on writing an overview of French thought from 1984 to the present

Week 6

Reading Week - No WIP Seminar

 

 

Week 7

Thursday 22nd February 5pm-6pm

FAB 3.31

Caroline Summers on narrative theory and literary translators as activists for translation

Week 8

Tuesday 27th February 5pm-6pm

FAB 3.25

Enrica Leydi on poetic and visual representations of landscape in Leopardi and Turner

Week 9

Thursday 7th March 5pm-6pm

FAB 3.31

Adam Agowun on Representing the Nation, gone wrong? The case of Jacques Chirac

Week 10

Walter Rodney Lecture by Fabienne Kanor 

   

TERM 3

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

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