The Faculty of Arts has a fixed term part-time Research Impact Coordinator role available through Unitemps. It is a professional services coordinator role and would be a great opportunity for a post doc or individual with professional services experience that was interested in roles in research impact. Impact roles are academic administrative and have an events and engagement aspect as well as supporting academic research and the REF.

Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick are delighted to be partnering with the Pod on a new collaborative research project: ‘Using Film to Affect Change: Mental Health, Social Advocacy and the Moving Image’.

Alison Cooley will be lecturing about new epigraphic finds at Pompeii on Saturday 29 June as part of the Roman Society's AGM colloquium 'Recent discoveries at Pompeii'

Many congratulations to all who have been recognised for their teaching via the recent WATE Awards.

Nancy Haijing Jiang and Michael Meeuwis were both short-listed and in the postgraduate group, Owain Burrell and Andy Irwin received a Commendation, and Elizabeth Sharrock was declared a winner.

WATE Postgraduates who teach

History's Dr Martha McGill, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, has won the individual staff "Outstanding Public Engagement" award at The Warwick Awards for Public and Community Engagement (WAPCE).

WAPCE seek to recognise the vital contributions Warwick staff and students make in engaging the public – on an international and national level as well as crucially within our region and local communities – in our learning and discovery, with the goals of sharing and co-producing knowledge, strengthening the role we play in the region and showcasing the role Warwick plays nationally and internationally in making the world a better place.

Full details of Martha's award and more about WAPCE here.

Therese Martin (Medieval Studies, Instituto de Historia, CCHS, Madrid) The art of rulership, or material evidence for reigning women: Subh of Córdoba (d. 998/999) and Urraca of León-Castile (d. 1126)

Please note: Seminars are in person only. Everyone welcome. The seminar will be followed by drinks.

Bobby Smith has published his monograph Theatre and Global Development: Performing Partnerships, which is available here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-55725-5

Two academics from Warwick’s newly established Design division recently delivered a range of engaging activities for an Esports camp aimed at young aspiring game designers.

Over the Easter holidays, Dr Edward Loveman and Dr James MacKrill were involved in a holiday camp for young attendees aged 4-16, who were able to experience the process of designing games based around sustainability and environmental awareness issues.

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Prishika is a student and one of our Liberal Arts ambassadors who is currently in her final year of study. In this blog, Prishika reflects on her studies as a Liberal Arts student and shares her plans upon finishing her undergraduate degree.

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You're warmly invited to the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies' Annual Lecture on Weds 19^th June at 5pm in the FAB Cinema, followed by a wine reception.

Entitled Ecologisation is not a metaphor: Culture in the Web of Life, the lecture draws from Dr. Sterling's research, critically examining heritage and museums through the lens of art and ecology. Abstract and bio below. Please register here https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/ccmps/research/beinghuman2024/annuallectureregistrationLink opens in a new window

The lecture forms part of our PGR conference Being Human in the Media and Creative Industries, that will run throughout the day on 19th June. Details and registration page for that are hereLink opens in a new window.

We hope to see you there!

ECOLOGISATION IS NOT A METAPHOR: CULTURE IN THE WEB OF LIFE

Ecological thinking has long been entangled with different ideas about how to organise political, economic and social life. In the face of climate change and the environmental crisis, the urgency of thinking and acting ecologically has only intensified. Cultural actors and institutions have mobilised to address these concerns with new environmental programming, innovative sustainability strategies, and declarations of a climate and ecological emergency. This talk will argue that such shifts don’t just point towards alternative ways of living on and with the planet, they also instigate a fundamental reorientation of culture in the web of life. Drawing on the work of Jason Moore, this conceptualisation recognises that – like all forms of human organisation – cultural policies and practices are always co-constituted through nature. By focusing on the evolving place of museums in this web, the talk will explore how museums have contributed to the planetary crisis through specific symbolic and material practices, but also how emerging approaches in the field might, in some small way, help to ecologise society more broadly.

Colin Sterling is Assistant Professor / Senior Lecturer in Heritage, Museums and the Environment at the University of Amsterdam, where he teaches across heritage and memory, museum studies and artistic research. Colin's research critically examines heritage and museums through the lens of art and ecology. He is the author of Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past (Routledge, 2020) and co-editor of Deterritorializing the Future: Heritage in, of and after the Anthropocene (Open Humanities Press, 2020). He is co-editor of the journal Museums & Social Issues.

CMPS is delighted to be welcoming Dr. Colin Sterling from the University of Amsterdam to give our Annual Lecture this year, Ecologisation is not a metaphor: Culture in the Web of Life, on Weds 19th June at 5pm in the FAB Cinema, followed by a wine reception. You're welcome to join us. Please register here

The event also forms part of our PGR conference Being Human in the Media and Creative Industries taking place throughout the day.

We are delighted to share the news regarding our past PhD student, and current honorary fellow Dr Gloria Moorman, who has received a Mellon Foundation Fellowship Award in recognition of “outstanding scholarly potential" to support her project 'Catacombs, Sacred Archaeology and the Early Printed Book: The Global Ownership of Discovery (c. 1578-1700)'.
This award will allow Gloria to start work on the project at the Newberry Library in Chicago from January-end of May 2025. Many congratulations, it will be a wonderful experience I'm sure, and we are all very proud of you!
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren/centrestaff/moorman/

The conference addresses the material, literary and visual culture associated with ‘corruption’ (broadly conceived). Relatively little attention has been paid to these dimensions of corrupt practices: to the gifts given as bribes, to the various material, artistic and cultural forms of public displays of corrupt wealth, and to the literary and visual representations of corruption. Nor has there been much debate about how to curate material bought or created with ‘corrupt’ money and how explain it to modern audiences.

In 2024, the year marking the 700th anniversary of the death of one of the world’s great explorers, Marco Polo, the University of Warwick is proud to partner with 36 global institutions to launch the Marco Polo International ProgrammeLink opens in a new window.

As part of the Marco Polo International Programme, Warwick academics, in conjunction with our European, Singaporean and Chinese partners, are involved in:

• the rediscovery, restoration and public display of 14th century records of Venetian travellers in India;
• the high-resolution scanning and interdisciplinary study of textiles, ceramics and lacquerware to aid our understanding of goods that travelled across the Silks Roads culminating in a series of virtual and physical exhibitions across the globe;
• the first-ever digitisation of the writings of the Islamic traveller Ibn Battuta as he explored around Africa and Asia;
• a deep dive into the worlds and cultures, which Marco Polo travelled through;
• the uncovering of the views of modern travellers to China during key moments of 20th century Chinese history;
• as well as a wider re-examination of what is at stake in travel writing – in the past and today.