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Two financial crises, but a shared political-economy?: Researching the French Revolution in the shadow of 2008

with Ronan Love

Despite occurring over a decade ago, we would struggle to find an area of our lives today that has not in some way been impacted by the global financial crisis of 2008. From the many left destitute at the hands of austerity to our collective ability to respond to COVID-19, its ongoing legacies are profound and ubiquitous, operating at levels social, political, cultural, economic, within nations and across borders. Although nobody has been spared - perhaps save the bankers - most do not fully understand what happened in those fateful months from 2007-08, which now seem more like a passing memory than historical turning point.

In this talk, I will put the GFC in conversation with my own research on the financial crisis of the French Revolution in order to make both events mutually comprehensible. What can we learn, if anything, about the GFC by revisiting the crisis of 1789? Are these events simply incommensurate, or can we spot similar processes - perhaps even a shared political economy - at work within the causes and consequences of the two crises? This talk will tentatively say we can, but it invites disagreement and an open debate, either from those who know a bit about both events or from those who simply want to know more!

Join us on Tuesday 24 November at 4pm in the History Common Room on Teams

An opportunity for you to speak to our tutors and current students about studying Liberal Arts and life at Warwick.

On Tuesday 24 November 2020, 5pm, Loreta Collins (Puerto Rico) & Maria Grau Perejoan (Balearic Islands) will talk about their recently published English-Spanish translation of Caribbean women poets The Sea Needs No Ornament/ El mar no necesita ornamento: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Caribbean Women Poets (Peepal Tree  Press, 2020). The event is organised by the YP Centre for Caribbean Studies in collaboration with Translation and Transcultural Studies (SMLC). Please note that all our talks will be held online this year and you will need to register your interest with Dr Fabienne Manicom, Director of the Centre. Please email her on F.Viala@warwick.ac.uk. You will then receive further details about accessing the lecture via Teams.

On Tuesday 24 November, 5 pm (Week 8) Dr Maria Pavlova (Warwick) will present her recently published book, Saracens and their World in Boiardo and Ariosto (Cambridge: Legenda, 2020). Respondent: Dr Marco Dorigatti (Oxford).

If you'd like to attend this book presentation or register for the entire programme of Italian research seminars, please email Dr Maria Pavlova or Dr Federica Coluzzi. The deadline for registration is 24 hours before the seminar. All welcome!

Dear colleagues,

 We are delighted to announce the first Italian Studies research seminar of the year. On Tuesday 24 November at 5pm Dr Maria Pavlova (Warwick) will present her recently published book, Saracens and their World in Boiardo and Ariosto (Cambridge: Legenda, 2020). Respondent: Dr Marco Dorigatti (Oxford).

Read on for a brief description of the book:

A ubiquitous presence in European chivalric literature, the multifaceted figure of the Saracen Other plays a vital role in shaping the knightly values and ideologies underpinning some of the most influential narrative poems of the Italian Renaissance. By combining historical research and close reading and bringing to bear a wealth of literary and documentary sources, some of which have never before been published, this book analyses portrayals of Saracens and their world in Boiardo’s Inamoramento de Orlando and Ariosto’s Orlando furioso.

Pavlova assesses for the first time the degree of realism in Boiardo’s and Ariosto’s representations of Islam and Islamic culture(s) and discusses the ideological implications of the two poets’ innovative treatment of their Saracen characters. She locates these and other fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century chivalric works within the rich, vibrant history of interactions between Italian rulers and their Islamic counterparts as well as within the centuries-long literary tradition, going back to such archetypal texts as the Chanson de Roland and the Chanson d’Aspremont.

 If you'd like to attend this book presentation (all are welcome), which will be held online via Microsoft Teams, please fill in this short registration form: https://forms.gle/Yyjcm1LKxvfuSAas6. The deadline for registration is 24 hours before the seminar. To register for the entire programme of Italian research seminars, please email Federica Coluzzi or Maria Pavlova. A poster is available here.

CRPLA is hosting an on-line reading group this autumn, to discuss the concept of crisis. We will meet on Tuesday evenings 5.30-7.00 pm, in Weeks 2, 4, 8 and 10. Each meeting will consider the concept of crisis from a different perspective. Professor Miguel Beistegui will launch the reading group in Week 2, with a brief history of the concept and readings on its role in political economy and legal theory. Further information on readings and logistics are available here:

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/research/researchcentres/phillit/crisisreadinggroup/

We hope you can join us.

Joint Seminar with the School of Modern Languages and Cultures/Translation Studies:  

 Speakers: Loretta Collins and Maria Grau Perejoan,

on their recent publication “The Sea Needs No Ornament/ El mar no necesita ornamento: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Caribbean Women Poets (Peepal Tree  Press, 2020). 

https://www.peepaltreepress.com/books/sea-needs-no-ornament-el-mar-no-necesita-ornamento 

Please note that all our talks will be held online this year and you will need to register your interest with Dr Fabienne Manicom, director of the Centre. Please email her on F.Viala@warwick.ac.uk. You will then receive further details about accessing the lecture via Teams.

CRPLA is hosting an on-line reading group this autumn, to discuss the concept of crisis. We will meet on Tuesday evenings 5.30-7.00 pm, in Weeks 2, 4, 8 and 10. Each meeting will consider the concept of crisis from a different perspective. Professor Miguel Beistegui will launch the reading group in Week 2, with a brief history of the concept and readings on its role in political economy and legal theory.

Further information on readings and logistics are available here:

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/research/researchcentres/phillit/crisisreadinggroup/

Tuesday 24th November, 5.30pm - Joint Seminar with the School of Modern Languages and Cultures/Translation Studies:

Speakers: Loretta Collins and Maria Grau Perejoan, on their recent publication “The Sea Needs No Ornament/ El mar no necesita ornamento: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Caribbean Women Poets" (Peepal Tree Press, 2020). https://www.peepaltreepress.com/books/sea-needs-no-ornament-el-mar-no-necesita-ornamento