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High Sheriff honours University of Warwick Professor

Nadine Holdsworth, Professor of Theatre and Performance at The University of Warwick, was presented with the High Sheriff’s award at a special ceremony last night (19 March), where her achievements were celebrated in style, alongside other worthy recipients from across the region.

Professor Nadine Holdsworth and the High Sheriff of the West Midlands credit Edwin Ladd

Nadine received the award in recognition of her unwavering commitment, empathy, and leadership on behalf of Coventry-based community theatre company Underground Lights, a group run for and by people experiencing homelessness, mental distress, or social isolation. The value of Nadine’s research impact achieved while working with global charity Arts & Homelessness International was also acclaimed, where she led local initiatives to platform the work of several artists experiencing homelessness, and foster confidence and community among people who have been marginalised within society.

Professor Nadine Holdsworth said: “I’m thrilled and honoured to receive this award. It is especially heartening to know that the creative organisations I work with value what I have been able to contribute by supporting and showcasing the wonderful work they do with people who have experienced often multiple disadvantages in society.”

At the awards ceremony, the High Sheriff spoke of how Nadine has been pivotal in creating a supportive, inclusive environment where disadvantaged people can engage in theatre and creative expression. He outlined how her work has made a lasting difference and embodies the true spirit of community service. Nadine was described as uniquely bridging the gap between high-level academia in one of the UK's top universities while also being a hands-on community changemaker.

Douglas Wright MBE, the West Midlands High Sheriff, said: “This event is a wonderful opportunity to honour Nadine’s hard work and commitment to making a difference in our community - congratulations on this well-deserved recognition. Nadine’s efforts inspire those around her, and we are excited to celebrate her accomplishments.”

Nadine’s work with the Coventry and Warwickshire community has been supported by the Warwick Institute of Engagement.

Fri 21 Mar 2025, 10:15

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

The Art of Veiled Speech, from Antiquity to Modern Times: 1st May 2025, 4pm

Subtexts are all around us. In conversation, business transactions, politics, literature, philosophy, and even love, the art of expressing more than what is explicitly said allows us to live and move in the world. But rarely do we reflect on this subterranean dimension of communication. Words don't just say what they say, and often we can understand (as listeners) and convey (as speakers) more, or something else entirely, than what is expressly said. Every day, we send out double-meaning messages and decipher those sent to us by others, without even taking notice. Greco-Roman rhetoric provides invaluable theoretical tools for thinking about this phenomenon, notably with the rhetorical notion of “figured speech”. History offers striking examples of the use of innuendo in ancient and modern political contexts. In personal and public life, veiled speech has many functions, including diplomatic, poetic, humorous and polemical. It also raises difficulties, as it carries the risk of misunderstanding. Criteria can therefore be proposed to remedy uncertainty and guarantee interpretation.

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Professor Susan Carruthers new book release

Professor Susan Carruthers new book 'Making Do; Britons and the Refashioning of the Postwar World' was officially published Thursday 24 April. In this richly textured history, Prof Carruthers unpicks a familiar wartime motto, 'Make Do and Mend', to reveal how central fabric was to postwar Britain. Clothes and footwear supplied a currency with which some were rewarded, while others went without. Making Do moves from Britain's demob centres to liberated Belsen – from razed German cities to refugee camps and troopships – to uncover intimate ties between Britons and others bound together in new patterns of mutual need. Filled with original research and personal stories, Making Do illuminates how lives were refashioned after the most devastating war in human history.

The Sunday Times featured the publication as 'book of the week' and the Daily Mirror ran an exclusive two page feature about the book.

For more information about Prof Carruthers new book visit Cambridge University Press website.

‘This is a necessary inoculation for anyone prone to nostalgia. Making Do is proof that clothing is always a reflection of the human condition - especially when those conditions are dire. Carruthers deftly brings the historic significance of wartime down to the human level, with entertaining interludes and well-researched stories that will make you question your own relationship to your garments.’ Avery Trufelman - host and producer of Articles of Interest

‘From Land Girl breeches to demob suits, austerity chic to Dior’s New Look, Making Do follows the fascinating story of bodies in motion, through air raids, rationing and recycling, as a nation sought to dress the part for war and peace.’ Alan Allport - author of Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938–1941

Wed 30 Apr 2025, 08:57 | Tags: Media Announcement Publication

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

Slow, Spectacular Labours: Liveness in Contemporary Dance

We are delighted to announce the publication of Bryony White's article 'Slow, Spectacular Labours: Liveness in Contemporary Dance' in Contemporary Theatre Review.

Mon 24 Feb 2025, 13:44 | Tags: Publications Research Dr Bryony White

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

Mario Vargas Llosa – 28 March 1936 - 13 April 2025

Hispanic Studies at Warwick is saddened to hear of the death of Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian Nobel Prize Winning author and one of the greats of Latin American literature.

Tue 15 Apr 2025, 16:34 | Tags: Hispanic Studies - News SMLC News

Global Sustainable Development Read more from Global Sustainable Development News

My University Journey - Professor Chris Dolan

My University Journey - Professor Chris Dolan

In the latest of our University Journey series – where members of our GSD teaching faculty discuss what they picked for their undergraduate degree and why – we speak to Professor Chris Dolan, who convenes on our modules Violence, Peace, and Sustainable Development, Taboo Topics, and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence. He shares his experiences of his university days; from switching degrees in his second year of study to his research on internally displaced persons struggling to survive conflict in Northern Uganda.

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Liberal Arts Read more from Liberal Arts News

SCFS host international ‘Nurturing Hope’ conference on Liberal Education, Democracy, and Designing Sustainable Futures

On 8th-9th May 2025, the Liberal Arts department and the School for Cross Faculty Studies ran an international conference titled ‘Nurturing Hope: Liberal Education, Democracy, and Designing Sustainable Futures,’ which aimed to demonstrate how even 2,000 years later, Liberal Arts education can still provide valuable critical tools for addressing modern-day problems from the very local (Warwick) to the global. The conference was planned as part of the University of Warwick’s 60th year anniversary celebrations and looks forward to the Liberal Arts department’s 10th year anniversary – which it will be entering in 2026.

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Humanities Research Centre Read more from News

Is a Better World Possible? - Solidarity as a Conversation across Temporalities - CALL FOR PAPERS

A one-day interdisciplinary hybrid conference at the University of Warwick

Saturday 29th November 2025

Confirmed Keynote speaker: Dr Anna BernardLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, King’s College London

We live in an age where lives and livelihoods are constantly rendered precarious due to various crises in the form of war, political and economic instabilities, gender disparities, racial exploitation and climate change. Our times have therefore seen calls for solidarities oriented toward making a better world possible- a world built around principles of social justice and equality. ‘Is a Better World Possible?’ will be a one-day hybrid and interdisciplinary conference exploring solidarity and its relationship with temporality. This conference aims to excavate the many forms, meanings and approaches attached to the idea of solidarity, spanning historical manifestations such as anticolonial national liberation struggles to more contemporary movements such as ‘Black Lives Matter’ in the US, the feminist ‘Ni Una Menos’ movement across Latin America, and the ongoing Palestine solidarity and BDS movement. While solidarity has been approached in different ways within academia in recent years, the temporality of solidarity remains an underexplored territory. Discussing the temporality of solidarity, Nowak (2020) argues that solidarity is simultaneously a historical condition, a contemporary action and a future aspiration.

Solidarity is as much about time as it is about space, fostering connections between people in different places and across different historical moments, while it grounds itself in present struggles it constantly anticipates futures. Even when pessimism and hopelessness about the future prevails in the neoliberal age, solidarity continues imagining a better world- “it calls for in order to call forth” (Wilder 2022). Thus, utilising the temporal aspect of solidarity as the conceptual basis, our conference asks:firstly, how does solidarity and the practice of solidarity engage with what is often deemed as impossible futures?Secondly, what is the role of imagination in solidarity theory and practice? Thirdly, what can contemporary social movements learn from the solidarity practices of social movements in the past? And finally, what are the difficulties that practitioners of solidarity face in bringing forth the futures they wish to see?

Potential contributions can include (but are not limited) to the following:

  • Theorisations of solidarity adopting gender, race, class or caste-based approaches

  • Construction and manifestation of solidarity during specific social movements

  • Transnational solidarity, especially with a comparative approach

  • Solidarity as affect

  • The challenges of and past failures in constructing solidarity in a neoliberal world

  • Literary and artistic activism, and representations of solidarity

  • Forms of solidarity that address the ‘newer’ kinds of systemic challenges such as vulnerability to climate change, and precarity of lives and livelihoods today

  • Problematise an oppression-based solidarity (Kelley 2019) and hollow rhetoric, especially on social media like ‘All Lives Matter’ or Men’s Rights movements

Submission Guidelines:

We anticipate theoretical and praxis-based submissions, which will bring together scholars, activists and artists, across the fields of history, political science, literature, philosophy, gender and cultural studies. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words and submitted by June 30, 2025 to solidarityconference25@gmail.comLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window. Select contributions will be considered for publication in an edited volume with the Warwick Series in the Humanities (with Routledge).

Wed 21 May 2025, 18:01 | Tags: Call For Papers

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Centre for the Study of the Renaissance Read more from News

Matteo Leta - winner of the 2024 Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation award

The Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation awards three Encouragement Prizes to young, French-language writers each year. To highlight the 2024 winners, Morgane Le Roy, Head of the Institute's Bookstore, spoke with Matteo Leta, Antoine Chatelain, and Dea Liane in the reception rooms of the Hôtel Pereire, the foundation's headquarters. Full details on the website https://www.fondation-del-duca.fr/actualites/entretien-avec-les-laureats-2024-du-prix-dencouragement/  or go directly to YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iEgeuMmKek 

Tue 18 Mar 2025, 13:22

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

Congratulations to Professor Susan Carruthers!

Congratulations to GHCC member Professor Susan Carruthers, whose book 'Making do: Britons and the Refashioning of the Postwar World' has just been published! PGR student Jeremy Goh has also been recently published in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society

Fri 09 May 2025, 10:18

Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies Read more from CIM News

New press release on warning of marginalised young adults in low and middle-income countries facing “growing online abuse”

Coverage of the report aired on the BBC World Service Tech Live last Tuesday at 8:30pm, as well as afterwards on the Tech Live podcast

Mon 19 May 2025, 10:45