Introduction

Chapter 5 Machines in the Palm Groves

Chapter 10 The Oil Palm's New Frontiers

Miro is the most popular platform for online creative collaboration, the default tool for many industries in design and creative digital. In this session Rob O'Toole will show how to get started, and share some of the tricks for successful collaborations and projects.

Please email robert.o-toole@warwick.ac.uk if you would like to attend.

Wednesday 25th January: Lydie Moudileno (University of Southern California), 'Finding Dahomey: African Royalty in the Diasporic Imagination'

chair: Roberta Bivins

speaker: Jonathan Reinarz, Birmingham

discussant: Andrew Burchell

This paper looks at the question of historical last chances through the prism of a 1944 poem by Bertolt Brecht, “Alles wandelt sich [Everything changes],” refracted through related work by two contemporaries, Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, and projected into an afterlife conditioned by altered senses of crisis and catastrophe. Reviewing the theory of historical contingency and opportunity developed by Benjamin, and the method of lyric reading proposed by Adorno, the paper aims to revise the latter’s understanding of a social poetics in which the poem serves as a ‘sundial telling the time of history.’ Instead, it outlines what might be called lyric theory for a warming world, in which, paraphrasing Andreas Malm, we can never read in the heat of the moment, only in the heat of an ongoing past.

25 January 2023

Nicholas Lawrence (Warwick): Title tbc.