Feelings of Freedom Festival – Warwick Arts Centre

Join us Thu 25 - Fri 26 November for an engaging series of talks about freedom.

Organised in collaboration with Warwick Arts Centre and as part of the Resonate Festival/Coventry City of Culture, this is a two-day festival of ideas, culture, talks and provocations, exploring what freedom means to different people in different contexts. We want visitors to the Arts Centre to challenge their own thinking and beliefs, and through these events to re-examine how freedom is experienced and understood; its value and its cost; and the contested nature and significance of freedoms over time and space.

There is no limit to our exploration – from freedom of speech and no-platforming, to the policing of the pandemic; from trust in government, to fake news in ancient Greece; from the science that underpins government policy on lockdown, to local women resistance fighters in WWII; from human trafficking and slavery to ways of protecting women from sexual assault.

We want to explore whether freedom is always a good thing, and how it feels to live without it.

View the speakers and get your free tickets here: https://www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/news-and-blog/feelings-of-freedom-festival/

A one-day workshop consisting of talks on latest trends in Translation Studies, given by six academics from China, UK, and US, followed by a lively PhD forum. The event will be held on Microsoft Teams. Register at: https://bit.ly/2ZNAUNs

Full programme here.

We are pleased to let you know that the Translation Studies Team at SMLC is hosting a one-day online workshop on 'New Trends in Translation Studies: Perspectives from China, UK, and US' on the 26th of November, from 10 am to 5 pm (UK time). There will be six talks by academics from China, UK, and US, followed by a lively PhD forum. You are most welcome to join us.

The event will be held on Microsoft Teams. Please register at https://bit.ly/3HmhXmn to get the link for the event.

You can find the details of the workshop here.

We look forward to seeing many of you on the day. Please feel free to share this email with your networks.

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In this workshop, we will explore the concept of passanten and its different iterations in history, discussing the meaning of and changes in transient migration in early modern European cities and parishes and beyond. More...