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Early Alistair Cooke Episodes found on B-side of Old Opera Recordings

Early Alistair Cooke episodes found on B-side of old opera recordings

The Head of the History Department, Professor Tim Lockley MBE, features in a Times article about the discovery of three complete and two partial copies of Alistair Cooke’s famous ‘Letter from America’ series, dating from the late 1940s and the early 1950s, which were missing from the BBC archives.

Read the article in full here.

Prof Lockley has also been interviewed by Vic Minnett of BBC CWR for their feature ‘Vicapedia’ discussing why cricketers wear white jumpers.

Listen again on BBC Sounds from 2:40.

Thu 19 Dec 2024, 09:48

Centre for Arts Doctoral Research Excellence Read more from Latest Announcements

‘Using Film to Affect Change: Mental Health, Social Advocacy and the Moving Image’

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’.

Mon 11 Oct 2021, 09:08 | Tags: PGR, PhD

Classics and Ancient History Read more from Classics News and Events

September's Material Musings Blog Article

New for September on the Material Musings blog, Jurriaan Gouw discusses changes to Greek warfare in the 5th-4th centuries BC and the development of the Macedonian phalanx, in an article entitled 'Less is More: The Transition from Hoplite to Phalangite'.

You can read it here.

Wed 18 Sept 2024, 15:32

English and Comparative Literary Studies Read more from English & Comparative Literary Studies News

Celebrating Achievements

We are delighted to celebrate one of our PGR Students - Raad Khair Allah for two remarkable achievements:

  1. DAHL Hero Medal 2024
    Raad has been honored with the prestigious DAHL Hero Medal 2024 by The Digital Arts and Humanities Lab (DAHL). This recognition celebrates their groundbreaking digital project, "Marginalization of Arab Women and Revolutionising Patriarchy". The same project was also a finalist for the Paula Svonkin Creative Award from the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), USA, in 2022.
    👉 Learn more about the DAHL Hero Medal: Read here

  2. Award from Duke University
    Adding to this impressive roster of accolades, Raad recently received an award from Duke University, USA, granting them the opportunity to participate in the International Annual Feminist Theory Workshop. This renowned workshop, hosted by Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke, will take place in March 2025.

Tue 03 Dec 2024, 08:06

Film and Television Studies Read more from News

Stephen Gundle to Give the Keynote Address at a Symposium marking the Centenary of Italian Screen Actor Marcello Mastroianni.

Stephen Gundle will be giving the keynote address at a Symposium to mark the centenary of Italian screen actor Marcello Mastroianni. The event is to be held at the Italian Cultural Institute in London on Friday 13 December.

History Read more from History News

Historic Venetian record restored

BBC News have published an article on the restoration of a historic Venetian record featuring History's Professor Luca Mola.

Prof Mola, who rediscovered the document, said it was a "unique window into the active trade routes that brought east and west together" between the 13th and 15th centuries.

Read the article in full.

Wed 18 Dec 2024, 12:08 | Tags: Faculty of Arts, Media, Research

History of Art Read more from Research Events

Marco Polo and the Silk Roads – Call for Applications

Autumn School for Postgraduate Students and Early Career Researchers

Venice, 30 September – 4 October 2024

Wed 07 Aug 2024, 15:10

Theatre and Performance Studies Read more from Theatre and Performance Studies News

Marco Polo and the Silk Roads – Call for Applications

Autumn School for Postgraduate Students and Early Career Researchers

Venice, 30 September – 4 October 2024

Wed 07 Aug 2024, 15:11

School of Modern Languages and Cultures Read more from SMLC - News and events

Interested in pursuing a PhD in Modern Languages or Translation Studies?

The University of Warwick’s School of Modern Languages & Cultures invites applications from highly qualified prospective doctoral students for its PhD programmes in French, German, Italian, and Hispanic Studies, and Translation & Translation Cultural Studies (TTS).

 

For further information, see the School’s webpages on postgraduate study.

Doctoral funding is available through university-wide schemes (Chancellor’s International Scholarships, China Scholarship Council/University of Warwick scholarships), the AHRC Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership, and joint PhD programmes (e.g. the Monash-Warwick Alliance, Shanghai Jiao Tong University-Warwick Joint PhD programme).

Given the early deadlines (in late November; December; or January, depending on the scheme), and the multi-stage selection process, we encourage applicants to get in touch with their preliminary enquiries by sending an academic CV and draft research proposal to the School Director of Graduate Studies, Professor Ingrid De Smet (I.de-Smet@warwick.ac.uk), by 28 October 2024,

and/or to the relevant subject-specific postgraduate research admissions advisors:

Enquiries from suitably qualified self-funded or externally funded (sponsored) students are also welcome.

Online PhD admissions interviews will likely be held in the weeks commencing 9th and 16th December 2024.

 


Global Sustainable Development Read more from Global Sustainable Development News

SCFS runs its Work Placement Fair for 2024

On Tuesday 29th October, the School for Cross-Faculty Studies (SCFS) ran its Work Placement Fair, offering Warwick students the opportunity to meet students who have undertaken a work placement and find out more about their experiences.

Read more.


Liberal Arts Read more from Liberal Arts News

School for Cross-Faculty Studies welcomes Architectural History Expert for Engaging Workshops

On 13th November 2024 our Liberal Arts and Global Sustainable Development departments collaborated with leading theorist and historian Francesco Proto to run a series of workshops for students and staff around the concepts of Baudrillard and the hyperreal, along with an overview of Francesco’s theoretical work and his recently published book.

Read more.

Mon 16 Dec 2024, 19:30 | Tags: Event Liberal Arts School for Cross-faculty Studies

Humanities Research Centre Read more from News


Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies Read more from Cultural and Media Policy Studies News and Events

New publication - Greening European Film Policy: Towards a Sustainable European Film and TV Industry

GREENING EUROPEAN FILM POLICY: TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE EUROPEAN FILM and TELEVISION INDUSTRY

 

Lead authors: Pietari Kääpä (Warwick) and Hunter Vaughan (Emerson College/Cambridge)

Co-authors: Norma Cuadros (Warwick), Kate Moffat (Warwick) and Vanessa Zarm (UCL)

 

 

The Greening European Film Policy report is available for download from the Global Green Media Network website: https://www.globalgreenmedianetwork.org/reports

 

 

This report examines European film, television, and streaming industry sustainability policies, management, financing, and production at local, state, and EU levels. It explores policy support for institutionalizing these practices and offers solutions to fill policy gaps.

 

Produced in collaboration with Green Eyes (Hungary), Ecomuvi (Italy), Film London (UK), Screen Greening (Ireland), and Neptune Environmental (UK), the report aims to make green film production an active agent for positive transformation in the industry. Addressing funding, production, and reportage phases, the report provides three key recommendations.

 

1. Minimum Standards:

Establish standardised sustainability expectations and norms, from development-stage planning to on-set baselines, for both publicly-financed and commercial productions.

 

2. Finance

Adopt mandatory financial investment schemes for all productions, including incoming mobile productions and international co-productions, to link financial incentives with verifiable reductions in environmental impact.

 

3. Auditing

Introduce third-party auditing and certification focused on exceeding minimum standards, directly tied to financial incentivisation.

 

Please contact Pietari Kaapa (P.Kaapa@warwick.ac.uk) or Hunter Vaughan (hunter.vaughan@emerson.edu) with any questions.

Tue 01 Oct 2024, 11:34 | Tags: Impact, Publications, Research news

Centre for the Study of the Renaissance Read more from News

Messages to Posterity – Tower Capsules in the the German Lands

During a year of research leave, Prof. Beat Kümin has investigated the phenomenon of depositing chronicles and objects into tower spheres on top of prominent buildings like churches, town halls and fortifications.

Wed 11 Sept 2024, 12:51

Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre Read more from News

Messages to Posterity - Tower Capsules in the German Lands

During a year of research leave, Prof. Beat Kümin has investigated the phenomenon of depositing chronicles and objects into tower spheres on top of prominent buildings like churches, town halls and fortifications. Documented from the Middle Ages to the present, seemingly only in and around territories of the erstwhile Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, the custom provides fascinating insights into how local societies saw themselves and what they wished to pass on to successive generations. The project, supported by the German Gerda Henkel Foundation, has so far identified over 1600 sites and thousands of separate deposits (at one Zurich church, there were no fewer than 20 between 1505 and 1996). The funder has just released a video series of six episodes (accessible in both English and German) documenting field work in Switzerland in autumn 2003.

[English Trailer] [Episodes] [Project Homepage]

Wed 04 Sept 2024, 17:53

Global History and Culture Centre Read more from News from the Global History and Culture Centre

Travel Studies: Theories, Methods, Materials

This workshopLink opens in a new window focuses on significant theoretical and methodological developments in the interdisciplinary field of travel studies and reflects on the directions that it might take next. We will consider the legacies of the New Historicist and postcolonial approaches which shaped the study of travel in the 1980s and 1990s before turning to the insights and provocations offered by more recent scholarship rooted in feminist, queer, Black, migration, and decolonial studies. With these various theories and methods in mind, we will examine items drawn from the Newberry Library’s extensive collection of materials on travel, including maps. In doing so, we will discuss the questions these materials raise about issues at the heart of travel studies, such as the relationship of knowledge and power, different forms of positionality and perspective, the challenges of translation and comparison, and the definition of “travel” itself.

Led by Natalya Din-Kariuki (University of Warwick). May 16, 2025, 9:30am–4:30pm, at the Newberry. The application deadline is November 15, 2024.

Tue 08 Oct 2024, 14:55 | Tags: Workshop

Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies Read more from CIM News