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Arts Faculty News Read more from Arts Faculty News
Warwick Shaping the Path from A-levels to New Passions
Meet Tanisha Bhatara (BA, English Literature, 2022; MSc, Management, 2024), a distinguished alumna. Her journey at Warwick, shaped by her A-level experiences, and several leaps of faith, led her from English studies to Business. Guided by mentors, she explored new fields and is now on a graduation scheme with EY UKI (Ernst & Young Global Limited UK and Ireland) Assurance Graduate Programme to become a qualified accountant. Discover how Tanisha embraced Warwick’s opportunities, gaining a comprehensive education that prepared her for life beyond academics.
Centre for Arts Doctoral Research Excellence Read more from Latest Announcements
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.
English and Comparative Literary Studies Read more from English & Comparative Literary Studies News
UG Communication from the Director of Student Experience, Dr Jen Baker
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A reminder that we still want UGSSLC reps – we still have vacancies for Q300 First year rep, QW34 hons levels, Exchange student rep, Joint hons (based outside English) rep. The other levels and degrees are full, as is the EDI position. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/sslcadministeredbysslc First meeting is Wednesday of week 4 between 1-2pm and in-person. You also need to attend training with the SU and need to be quite active as reps in garnering feedback throughout term. Please email me by Wednesday 9th October at J.Baker.5@warwick.ac.uk with your details (course / year group) if you want to join the SSLC and please also let me know if you have already gone through the SU nominations process or are contacting me independently
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Thrive™ is an exciting new personal development programme at Warwick, which was co-created with students and launched in autumn 2023. Thrive aims to help increase students’ confidence, resilience and agency, and is open to both undergraduate and postgraduate students, in any year, studying any subject. For the open programmes, advertised here, students must identify as a woman or non-binary person comfortable in a female centred community. Places are limited to just 30 per programme, so we encourage students to book early to avoid disappointment – bookings are via myAdvantage (search on ‘Thrive’ or use the links from the Thrive webpage). See fantastic feedback from past students here - Student Feedback (warwick.ac.uk) along with powerful impact data. 4 open programmes will be running during 2024-25:
All will take place in person, in The Hub (in Senate House) on campus.
A big part of what Thrive is all about is building a sense of community with our students, through additional opportunities for connection such as the Thrive Celebration event (planned for April 2025). A robust optional mentoring offer has also been built into Thrive to elevate the power of the programme by further supporting students on their personal development journey. A selection of comments from those who attended a Thrive in 2023-24 can be found below. Thrive helped me to feel welcomed into the new community. I can enter the adult world with the courage and the toolkit Thrive provided me with. The guest speakers gave brilliant presentations and talks on topics that I felt really resonated with me. It has encouraged me to acknowledge and value my own strengths. I feel a lot more confident in myself, I've made some brilliant new friends. It was wonderful. I met a community of strong women and I felt very empowered. I particularly enjoyed the session about strengths, as I was then able to use it in a strengths-based job interview I had recently. I was able to connect with such a variety of women from different walks of life. I thoroughly enjoyed the Thrive programme. Hearing from such a large variety of speakers with their own unique experiences made me feel a lot less alone in navigating the challenges of the world. I feel a lot more confident going into social and career-based situations now.
We look forward to seeing you on a Thrive programme sometime. If you have any questions, please reach out to thrive@warwick.ac.uk
Kind Regards, Dr Jen Baker |
Film and Television Studies Read more from News
'Screening Venice' Module Off to a Flying Start
Film and Television Studies at Warwick has recently introduced an innovative intensive on-site undergraduate module based in Venice. Screening Venice offers students the chance to engage with the past of Venice’s long screen history, today’s Venice Film Festival and the future water cultures of the wider lagoon.
History Read more from History News
Undergraduates joining us in Autumn 2023
For all students joining us in Autumn 2023, we are very pleased to welcome you to the History Department.
Please visit the Undergraduate handbook for more information and a welcome message from the Head of Department, Professor Tim Lockley, MBE.
History of Art Read more from Research Events
History of Art Research Seminar Tuesday 7 May 2024, 4.00-6.00, Oculus 1.07
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.
Theatre and Performance Studies Read more from Theatre and Performance Studies News
Student Prizes 2021: Winners Announced
Congratulations to all of our students who are graduating this week. At our graduation ceremony we usually announce our Student Prizes. We have extended the list of prizes this year to reward group work and to acknowledge practice and research separately. As ever, we also want to acknowledge students who have contributed significantly to the Theatre and Performance Studies, the School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures, and the University during their time here. This year's prizes are as follows:
- Research Prize (Dissertation) Josh Myers
- Research Prize (Practice) Jana Azuipe
- Contribution Prizes: Hannah Khan, Lucy Chamberlain, Angelo Balagtas
- Group work prize for process: Niamh Mulcahy, Lyra Cooper, Elia Waymouth, Vishal Ratnajothy (Applying Theatre - Care Home Project)
- Group work prize for product: Adam Wilmhurst, Tabitha Collingridge, George Brown, Guillaume Massenet, and Ashwin Rupanagudi (Wired - Short Film).
School of Modern Languages and Cultures Read more from SMLC - News and events
Have you registered for the Warwick Award yet?
At the start of term, the brand-new Warwick Award – from Student Opportunity – officially opened its doors to all undergraduate and postgraduate taught students…have you registered yet?
The Award recognises and showcases all of the employability skills you’re building across your entire Warwick experience, to help put you in a position to make the start to life after graduation that you want to. It’s free to join, can be personalised to match your own skills development and can be completed whenever works best for you during your studies here.
It’s never too early – or too late – to start reflecting on your own skills development, and the Warwick Award will make that task much easier. More than 5,000 students have already registered in the last month alone, why not join them?
Head to the Award’s website to check out their launch video and register.
Get involved: warwick.ac.uk/warwickawardLink opens in a new window
Global Sustainable Development Read more from Global Sustainable Development News
GSD to welcome renowned artist for public lab and paper cutting workshop
The GSD apartment will be hosting reputable artist Sijia Chen for a collaborative public event that uses art and design to explore sustainability themes such as migration, food security, and climate change.
Liberal Arts Read more from Liberal Arts News
How Liberal Arts got me to where I am: Najma's Story
We recently caught up with alumna Najma; who was part of our first student cohort when we launched Liberal Arts in 2016. Najma currently works in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis as a specialist corporate lawyer, with a focus on financial services regulation. She shares her story about why she first chose to study Liberal Arts at Warwick and how her degree continues to benefit her legal career today.
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
Centre for the Study of the Renaissance Read more from News
Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre Read more from News
Global History and Culture Centre Read more from News from the Global History and Culture Centre
Questionable Allies: British Collaboration with Apartheid South Africa, 1960–90
In 2022, Sam Matthews Boehmer won the inaugural Global History dissertation prize, awarded to the best Warwick UG dissertation in the field of global history. His winning dissertation has now been published in the International History Review,Link opens in a new window and can be found hereLink opens in a new window.