Join us from 6-10 March to celebrate languages, cultures, and the diversity of our global community.

Engage in virtual and in-person activities and events to develop your global outlook, meet new people, and be inspired to continue to enhance your international experience.

Co-organised by Kerry Gibbons and Molly Harrabin, this event will be a unique, transnational exploration into the idea of Fascism, its historical origins and its cultural legacies. Uniting experts, postgraduate students and undergraduate students from all sections of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Warwick, this symposium provides a forum for innovative and original projects which can contribute to our understanding of the political and cultural challenges that face contemporary Europe, as well as the re-emergence of ideologies, discourses and anxieties that have plagued the continent for centuries. In doing so, the contributions to this symposium will reflect the longstanding relationship between culture and Fascism, exploring topics which include but are not limited to: national identities, belonging, social transformation and experiences of persecution amongst minority communities. The participants in this event (indicated in the attached programme) represent a variety of disciplines and fields such as literature, history and politics, film, visual arts and translation studies. Their collaboration on this topic will demonstrate the invaluable role that culture plays in the establishment, representation and subsequent interpretation of Fascism. This is even more crucial in the light of recent political and social events across the globe that have been discussed in the context of Fascism; the election of Giorgia Meloni in Italy, the election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, the rise of Alternative für Deutschland in Germany, the increasing popularity of Marine Le Pen in France and the rise and fall of Donald Trump in the US. This leads us to consider whether a redefinition of the term ‘Fascism’ is required in the twenty-first century globalized world.

The Widening Participation Student and Staff Network’s present…

Student Voice: A Widening Participation Perspective

Wednesday 8^th March (9.15am – 3.15pm) – Westwood Teaching Centre

This free one-day event will take place at the University of Warwick and will be focused around exploring Student Voice from a widening participation perspective. It’s a fantastic opportunity for students from a Widening Participation background to engage with staff, and fellow students, share experiences and views, whilst also getting to take part in a mix of staff and student led sessions.

This year, there are a wide range of workshops and sessions delivered by students and staff from across the university, including:

• 'What is 'student voice' and how can it be used by universities in a non-exploitative way?'
• ‘Co-creation, gamification and student engagement’
• ‘A journey from Young People's experience to practical action’
• And many more!

This collaborative event has been designed and will be delivered by students and staff at Warwick. Students will have the opportunity to discuss ideas and thoughts about new and interesting ways to share the student voice and have a positive impact.

Please see below some feedback we had from attendees of last year’s conference where the focus was around sense of belonging:

‘The conference reflected an amazing sense of community. I both learnt and shared a lot throughout the day/hearing thoughts from a staff members perspective was eye-opening and the speakers were amazing.’

 ‘I thought it was great to bring student and staff voices together in a safe and supported space. It was a great opportunity to pause and take stock of the needs of others, which I think perhaps we forget to do when the day-to-demands are ever-growing.’

 The details are as follows:

Date: Wednesday 8^th March 2023

Time: 9.30am to 3.15pm (you are welcome to take part in some of the day or stay all day)

Location: Westwood Teaching Centre, University of Warwick

Lunch provided!

To sign up and for more information, please visit our website: https://warwick.ac.uk/study/outreach/currentstudents/wpstudentnetwork/studentvoice/

Discussant: Niels Boender

Hello, we are the Language Centre.

You can study languages with us at a range of levels, from beginners to advanced.

We currently offer 10 different languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

You can take language modules as part of your degree or alongside your degree.

Want to test your language skills and other language-related knowledge? Join us for this fun multilingual scavenger hunt. Working in a team, you will need to collect 16 clues posted in various places around campus and work out a 3-digit combination. When you think you have the right number, your team can attempt to unlock the case where the treasure is kept… first group to crack the code wins the prize!

We warmly invite you to our hybrid seminar this week as part of our Applied Linguistics Seminar Series - Language. Culture. Matters. On Wednesday 8 March, we're delighted to have Yvette Yitong Wang, The University of Warwick as our speaker, who will present 'A Case Study of a Pre-Service Language Teacher’s Classroom Practice of Intercultural Language Teaching: Challenges in the Knowledge Building’.

To join online, scan the QR code to register: