Arts Faculty News

Check out the new learning resource released by Professor Hilary Marland Past Time: A Learning Resource About Victorian Prisons. It is available as a free download, behind a simple registration page here.

New Faculty of Arts building artwork commission. Can you spare 10 minutes to talk to artist Matthew Raw and to express your feelings and plans about the move of the Arts and Humanities departments into the new building? He is interested in talking to anyone who will live with the building (and mural!) every day. If you would like to be involved, please contact Sarah Shalgosky asap at S.H.Shalgosky@warwick.ac.uk.

The University of Warwick is celebrating the progress of its new Faculty of Arts development with a ceremony to mark the progress in construction.

Nurturing creative practice alongside academic knowledge

A new creative venture from the Faculty of Arts will help develop the University as a powerhouse for the artistic, cultural, creative and media industries in the region and beyond. The new School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures will redefine Warwick’s teaching and research in the arts, cultural and creative industries – offering great opportunities for students, graduates, external partners, academics and for public engagement.

A significant marker in the construction of the new Faculty of Arts Building. The commencement of demolition of the old Car Park 7. On Tuesday 8 May, representatives from the contractors Bowmer and Kirkland joined Alastair Dixon from the Estates Office and Diana Stonefield, the Director of Administration for the Faculty of Arts, to mark the start of the demolition of Car Park 7. The new Faculty of Arts building will be constructed on the site of Car Park 7 and is anticipated to be completed by 2021.

Rebecca Earle, Professor of History explains the roots of the tournament’s iconic dish stretch back centuries

Raad Khair Allah received an IASH Postdoctoral Digital Humanities Fellowship from the University of Edinburgh to work on Contemporary Arab Diasporas: Reimagining Nationhood in Arab Cultural and Digital Feminism, an interdisciplinary digital project that examines the literary and artistic contributions of Syrian and Palestinian women in the Western diaspora since the 1970s to nation-building.

By investigating how women leverage AI tools, such as Canva and Soundtrap, to create art, music, and literature that reflect their unique perspectives, her project highlights the interplay between transnational connections and their distinctive diaspora experience. It shows the relationship between the arts, technology, and society through showcasing how these elements interactively shape and influence nation-making narratives

By combining close readings with AI tools like Voyant Tools and Google Vision, the project reveals patterns and insights in cultural productions that traditional methods may overlook. This project will develop a searchable online database that serves as a comprehensive and accessible resource for researchers, educators, public engagement, and policymakers.

From cult cinema carnage to box office slasher success, the gore genre will enter the mainstream with the world’s first symposium on the Terrifier slasher film franchise, held at The University of Warwick.