Free Event - All invited - Refreshments will be provided so please feel free to bring your lunch.

PROGRAMME

11.00-11.15 Alison Cooley (Classics and Ancient History)

The Senatus Consultum de Cn. Pisone Patre (Cambridge University Press, February 2023)

11.15-11.30 Emma Campbell (SMLC)

Reinventing Babel in Medieval French: Translation and Untranslatability (c. 1120–c. 1250)

(Oxford University Press, 2023)

11.30-11.45 Sarah Wood (English)

Piers Plowman and its Manuscript Tradition (York Medieval Press/Boydell & Brewer, 2022)

11.45-12.00 David Lines (SMLC)

The Dynamics of Learning in Early Modern Italy: Arts and Medicine at the University of Bologna (Harvard University Press, February 2023)

12.15-12.30 David James (Philosophy)

Property and its Forms in Classical German Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

12.30-12.45 Carolina Bandinelli (CMPS)

Fashion as Creative Economy: Micro-Enterprises in London, Berlin and Milan (Polity, December 2022)

12.45-13.00 Chris Bilton (CMPS)

Cultural Management: a research overview (Abingdon: Routledge, 2023)

Creativities: the what, how, where, who and why of the creative process 

Bilton, Chris, Cummings, Stephen, ogilvie, dt (2022). (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar)

13.15-13.30 Clive Gray (CMPS)

The Changing Museum (Routledge, November 2022)

13.30-13.45 Jane Woddis (CMPS)

Acting on Cultural Policy: Arts Practitioners, Policy-making and Civil Society (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).

13.45-14.00 Harry Warwick (English)

Dystopia and Dispossession in the Hollywood Science-Fiction Film, 1979-2017

(Liverpool University Press, 2023).

A seminar with Luregn Lenggenhager, University of Cologne

The Chobe River between Namibia and Botswana - a Multispecies Border Regime?

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Mini-workshop on Universities in Renaissance Italy as part of a book launch for David Lines’s new publication The Dynamics of Learning in Early Modern Italy: Arts and Medicine at the University of Bologna. After a brief presentation of the book by the author, the discussion will explore various aspects of the Renaissance teaching of arts and medicine, including its institutional context and its articulation in the humanities, natural philosophy and mathematics, medicine, and theology. The invited speakers include: Jonathan Davies, Robert Black, Brendan Dooley, Vivian Nutton, and Matt Gaetano. This is an in-person event, in room FAB5.03 in the Faculty of Arts Building.

1.) Campbell Orchard (Warwick) '

Unveiling the Production Techniques of Trajan's Silver Coinage at Tarsus: A Die Study Methodology'

2.) Richard Allard-Meldrum (Warwick)
‘Ulpia Severina: A Tale of Two Biographies’

This paper will present new archival research at the collections and archives of the Musée Carnavalet, targeting documentation of monuments, memorials and museums that never came to be, for example the failed proposal to construct a memorial museum of the French Revolution at the 1889 centenary. The paper will explore the politics of the planning, commissioning and financing of a selection of the city’s monuments from the Revolution to the present, mapping an ephemeral network of lost and fading interactions with French history. The paper will discuss the historical planning of monuments, and the present development of cultural policies and politiques de mémoire. The evolution of the monumental landscape will be analysed to assess whether the development of these landmarks has become less elitist or simply inclusion-washed in new narratives that come with no concrete improvements for concerned communities. The work feeds into my new project ‘Mediating Memory through the Monuments of Paris’, which will address issues in accessibility and representation in monuments and memorials. The project will propose increased and improved cultural policies and practices surrounding the construction and maintenance of urban sites of collective memory.

Elizabeth Benjamin is Lecturer in French at Coventry University, UK. Her research is in the field of French and Francophone memory studies, with particular interest in monuments. Her current work looks at Paris and its problematic dominance over the Francophone memoryscape, through monuments, literature, and politics.

Wednesday 3rd May: Elizabeth Benjamin (Coventry), ‘Lieux oubliés et pas perdus: mapping the monuments of Paris that never were’

If the tragedy of the Holocaust was supposed to evoke immediate action to reform immigration laws that kept out tens of thousands of Jews in the 1930s, it did not happen. From 1945 on, antisemitism still ran deep and fears of communism returned in Australia and the US after a hiatus during the war. These forces not only had implications for Jewish survivors in Europe but also in Shanghai. In fact, the case of Shanghai’s 15,000 Central European Jewish refugees, who had fled Nazism in 1938-1940 and spent the war years in a ghetto, offers an opportunity to distance ourselves from the tensions between the West and the Soviet Union, particularly over displaced Europeans in Europe.

This talk will investigate how calls for accepting “war victims” “on humanitarian grounds” gave away to antisemitism and anticommunism expressed in the United States and Australia. While the Jewish refugees’ location in Shanghai sometimes complicated decision making, it elucidates how detractors fought to maintain racist immigration systems designed to keep people of East-Central and Eastern European origins, specifically Jews, out. By tracking the events in each country, side by side, it becomes clear how the two countries urged each other to be the better humanitarian to Shanghai’s Jewish refugees while seeking to admit only the “best” of Europe’s displaced persons on the basis of anticommunism. These moves also undergirded historical perceptions that China offered only unsuitable migrants.

There will be wine and nibbles.

FAB 2.32

History Research seminar

Photography and Technology in British India

speaker: David Arnold, Emeritus Prof, Warwick

chair: Anne Gerritsen

discussant: Nilakshi Das

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History Research seminar

Photography and Technology in British India

speaker: David Arnold, Emeritus Prof, Warwick

chair: Anne Gerritsen

discussant: Nilakshi Das

Lydia Goehr (Columbia University): On working-through—Durcharbeiten—with musical notes: Adorno, Fanon, Freud

ADAM HANIEH

(Professor of Political Economy and Global Development, Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter)

A Contrapuntal Reading of the Anthropocene:

Knowledge Production and Absences in the History of World Oil

The lecture is free and open to the public.

For more information:

Rashmi.Varma@warwick.ac.uk

The Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies

at the University of Warwick

invites you to

the 18^th ANNUAL EDWARD SAID MEMORIAL LECTURE 

by

ADAM HANIEH

(Professor of Political Economy and Global Development, Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter)

A Contrapuntal Reading of the Anthropocene:

Knowledge Production and Absences in the History of World Oil

 Wednesday, May 3, 2023

5 pm

Faculty of Arts Building 0.08

6 University Road, Coventry CV4 7EQ 

The lecture is free and open to the public.

For more information:

Rashmi.Varma@warwick.ac.uk

See here for more details.