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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’.

In December's Material Musings, Chris Parr discusses the origins and significance of certain Egyptian obelisks in Rome, in an article titled: 'Points in Time: The Long Shadow of the Montecitorio Obelisk'.

You can read it here.

Stephen Gundle and Janna Wong announce 'DINO'S TOP TEN', a ten-episode podcast series about legendary film producer Dino De Laurentiis.

We are delighted to congratulate Dr Anna Hájková, Reader in Modern European Continental History, on receiving the 75th National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category for their latest publication, A People without History are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust.

The book is the first to examine queer Holocaust history, exploring same-sex desire and gender variance during the Shoah.

The National Jewish Book Awards are North America’s longest-running programme recognising outstanding work on Jewish history, culture, and ideas. Further details on all award recipients can be found on the Jewish Book Council website.

Autumn School for Postgraduate Students and Early Career Researchers

Venice, 30 September – 4 October 2024

In January, SCFS celebrated the Winter graduation of our GSD MASc students, in addition to several of our GSD and Liberal Arts undergraduates and our first ever PhD graduate.

The graduation ceremony took place at Butterworth Hall on the main Warwick campus and was followed by a food and drinks reception in the lobby of Ramphal, a location where our School predominantly resides and has become all too familiar for our graduates during their degree studies.

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Our Liberal Arts programme equips students with the essential skills valued by employers across diverse industries, as demonstrated by the wide range of careers our graduates pursue. Frances joined our first ever cohort of Liberal Arts students in 2016, and her final dissertation on improving sustainability in healthcare helped towards securing her role as a Net Zero Strategy Analyst for NHS England. We caught up with Frances to recount more of her experiences as an undergraduate, and how she believes a 2,000-year-old discipline like Liberal Arts is still relevant for helping students develop skills sought out by modern employers.

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Faculty of Arts Showcase

As some of you know, the showcase space in the FAB foyer was originally conceived in 2015 as part of a cabinet of curiosities project space to highlight research across the Faculty. The History of Art department’s 50^th anniversary display showed what a strong, department-led presentation can deliver. 

New Programme to Highlight Research

To increase strategic use of the showcase, the Art Collection curatorial team has worked with the Faculty on a new proposal, enabling staff and students to develop displays selected through a Faculty process.

While this programme gets underway, the Art Collection team has supported a new display by a Coventry artist, aligning with the University’s cultural strategy and its commitment to strengthening the city’s arts ecology.

This gives colleagues time to propose exhibitions for consideration. The Art Collection team will provide support and a small interpretation budget of £250 including VAT. If proposals are not forthcoming or viable, the young talent group from the Art Collection Committee will curate displays featuring other Coventry artists. Please see the paper for further detail on the policy and how to apply. 

Mead Gallery Forward Programme

Your proposals may also connect with our upcoming programme and help generate broader engagement and impact. Our schedule for the next academic year is: 

Autumn Term 2026

British Art Show 10: 1 October 2025 -10 January 2026

The British Art Show, held every five years, is the UK’s major survey of contemporary art. Coventry is the opening venue for its 10th edition, launching across the Mead, Herbert Art Gallery, and Coventry University.

I hope it would be possible to include any related departmental activity or events in the city-wide programme that is being curated around the core exhibition. 

Curated by Ekow Eshun, its themes include:

• A People Yet to Come: alternative futures, myth, and new forms of kinship
• Inner Visions: dreams, memory, and the subconscious
• Listen to the Land: ecological attention to the more‑than‑human world
• Traces of History: fragments of suppressed or unstable histories 

Summer Term 2027

George Shaw

George Shaw paints Tile Hill, the area immediately beyond the cemetery from campus. Using enamel paint, his work addresses themes of memory, urban environments, and British working‑class identity.

If you would like to discuss any of this, do please contact me.

Very best wishes

Sarah

Sarah Shalgosky (she/her)

Principal Curator, University of Warwick

The Centre for the Study of the Renaissance here at the University of Warwick, is absolutely thrilled to celebrate Dr. Eva Van Kemenade, who successfully defended her viva a couple of weeks ago! Eva’s commitment, perseverance and passion have led her to this incredible milestone, and we’re so proud to now call her Dr. Van Kemenade. Congratulations, Eva — what an achievement!

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]

Diversity in STEM is a set of GCSE Biology, Chemistry, and Physics resources that are designed to fit into existing lessons.

All the resources are curriculum-aligned and provide a simple, effective, and engaging way to highlight diversity in the STEM classroom.

There is an interactive website—Diversity in STEM: The Challenge—to get started: Diversity in STEM: The Challenge Interactive Website

As well as downloadable slides and lesson plans from both the website and the TES teachers’ resource portal: Diversity in STEM Slides and Lesson Plans

All resources are free to download, use and adapt. 

 They were developed by Dr James Poskett at the University of Warwick with funding from the History Department and the British Academy.

The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Diversity in Data Visualization (Diverse CDT) is a pioneering, fully funded four-year PhD programme jointly delivered by City St George’s, University of London and the University of Warwick.

Applications for PhD studentships with Diverse CDT are now open for 2026 entry.

We have rolling deadlines across several months and the first deadline for submitting an application is 4pm, GMT on 30th January 2026.

Further details here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/apply-to-study/phd-programmes/diverse-cdt/