Congratulations to Cristian Mondello, who will be joining the department at Warwick as a British Academy Visiting Fellow. While at Warwick he will work on the ASINA tokens of late antiquity (which show a donkey), placed within the Token Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean team.

Congratulations to the Warwick Research Collective (WReC) who have been nominated for the Research Contribution Award

For more information regarding this research team see here.

Good luck with the nomination!

Video from the Scary Women Film Festival

The History Department is saddened to learn of the passing of former student John Hardeman. John came to Warwick University as a part-time mature student and graduated with a BA in European History in 2009 and an MA in Global History in 2012. He was an enthusiastic and active member of the Centre for Lifelong Learning (CLL), the History Department, the Alumni Association, and a frequent attendee of the part-timers lunches. John died on 19th April 2018 following complications after a fall at his home in February 2018. The Department's condolences go out to all of John's family and friends.

A few days ago, third-year PhD student Benedetta Pacini visited the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice where Vittore Carpaccio’s Legend of Saint Ursula cycle, a group of nine large-scale canvases, is being restored. In connection with her research, she interviewed chief restorer Egidio Arlango (seen with Benedetta in the photograph), who is working alongside CBC (Conservazione Beni Culturali) on the project. The work, scheduled for completion by 2019, is being carried out with the support of Save Venice Inc.

Benedetta’s doctoral thesis is entitled Navigating the Canals. Making and Moving Venetian Renaissance Paintings, and is a joint research project between the University of Warwick and the National Gallery in London. Her research focuses on the making and transportation of large-scale paintings in sixteenth-century Venice, with particular attention to those in the National Gallery.

The African Women's Playwright Network is publishing a new collection of plays, Contemporary plays by African Woman, by African playwrights from Egypt, Cameroon, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe and South Africa. See Brittle Paper post on its significance, https://brittlepaper.com/2018/04/collection-contemporary-plays-african-women/

Assistant Professor- Warwick - Cultural Policy - Arts Management

Permanent Position £39,992 to £47,722 per annum

The Centre wishes to appoint an Assistant Professor in Cultural Policy and/or Arts Management to play a leading role in the Centre’s teaching, research and administration. This is an exciting opportunity to develop innovative approaches in a mainly postgraduate context with the potential to contribute to the development and delivery of undergraduate programmes. Working with a committed team of colleagues, CCMPS at Warwick has an excellent international reputation for research in the creative industries, arts and enterprise, media and cultural policy, and media, culture and communication. You will build on and complement the Centre’s research and teaching strengths.....

Thursday 10th May - 3 - 7 pm - Graduate Space, 4th Floor, Humanities

This event is free but registration is required as light refreshments will be available all afternoon and we need to know numbers!

Come along, have a drink, and hear Warwick researchers reading from their new books:

3 - 3.50: David M. Anderson and Daniel Branch; Claire Shaw; Shafiee Katayoun, Alberica Bazzoni, Rachel Moseley

4 - 4.50:Paul Botley and Máté Vince; John West; Michele Ferrari and Beat Kümin; Elena Giusti; David Fearn

5.00 - 5.50:Jim Davis; Milija Gluhovic; Anna Harbin; Fabio Camilletti

6 - 6.50:Thomas Docherty, Emma Mason, David Taylor; Christina Lupton

Please sign up at https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/events/bl/bf/

New for 2018/2019: Home/EU Bursaries/Scholarships for up to 40% of MSc/MA Courses

We are pleased to announce that for the 2018/2019 year, the size of our postgraduate course bursaries/scholarships for applicants possessing UK or EU citizenship has doubled to £4,000, with multiple bursaries available for the MSc in Urban Informatics and Analytics, the MA in Digital Media and Culture, and the MSc in Big Data and Digital Futures (with the Warwick Q-Step Centre).

To apply for bursaries for the MSc in Urban Informatics and Analytics or the MA in Digital Media and Culture, please see CIM’s funding and fees page. To apply for bursaries for the MSc in Big Data and Digital Futures, please see the 2018 Q-Step bursaries page.