The Migration, Identity and Translation Network (MITN) would like to invite you to our upcoming Shakespeare Workshop 'Lost in translation?'. We are an interdisciplinary research network based at Warwick and Monash that connects research students, early career researchers and senior academics who are interested in exploring issues relating to migration, identity, language and translation from various disciplinary perspectives. We would be delighted to welcome you to the following event...

Whitman’s Touch: Toward a Haptic Reading of Whitman’s Leaves

Cécile Roudeau (Université de Paris)

Whitman’s poetry makes sense through, and makes sense to, the reader’s senses; his poems ask us to touch and be touched, to hold him, man and body, in hand. This paper will turn to Whitman’s other leaves, the manuscripts that have been digitized and are now available through a (mental) haptic gesture in the section “In Whitman’s Hand” of the Walt Whitman Archives website. Whitman, like Dickinson and others at the time, wrote his poems on scraps of papers, on the flap of envelopes, on the back of newspaper articles written by himself or others. Reading Whitman on both sides / reading both sides of Whitman allows us to reassemble what has been made distinct through the combined agency of printer, editor and poet: prose and poetry; political pamphlets and love jottings; Whitman the eccentric hobo and Whitman the clerk in Washington. Recovering this material if contingent contiguity confronts us with a messier trove than the neat arrangements of both the death-bed edition of his poems or the volume of Collected Prose have so far suggested. Allowing those different leaves to touch challenges our own critical and analytical practices and the legibility of his oeuvre, helping us to revisit a commonplace liaison in Whitman’s oeuvre, that of poetics and politics. More specifically in this paper, I propose that reading Whitman with both hands complicates the poet’s democratic thrust even as it recovers a little-known genealogy of an American experiment with regulatory governance.

Cécile Roudeau is professor of American literature at Université de Paris. Her first book (Université Paris Sorbonne, 2012) revisits the notion of “place” in New England regionalist writing, and argues that “taking place” was as much a political and epistemic claim as a spatial experience. She is currently working on a book project titled “Beyond Stateless Literature: Practices of Democratic Power in Nineteenth-Century US Letters.” This book follows her essay, written in French, on the “Fictions of the Commons in Nineteenth-century US Literature.” Cécile is also the current editor of Transatlantica, the on-line peer-reviewed journal of the French Association of American Studies.

A two part session for staff and students in the arts and humanities.

When: Wed 5th Feb, 1:30pm - 3pm

Where: Wolfson Research Exchange Seminar Room 3 (Library Extension, Level 3) 

Hosted by the Library Academic Support Librarians, Digital Arts Lab (DAL) and Academic Technology, ITS with external speakers Chris Houghton and Joanne Richardson from Gale.

Part 1: Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and other Gale Primary Source collections

Find out how to access this and other contemporary, early modern to modern period and newspapers/periodical resources* through Gale Primary Sources – if you are a regular user of JISC Historical Texts you might have questions about how to cross search with EEBO, how to make the best use of the database’s functionality, and how it compares to what you have been using.

*Seventeen archives available through Gale Primary Sources covering contemporary studies, early modern to modern period, newspapers and periodicals.

Part 2: Digital humanities tools and methodologies for working with texts

The second half of the session will explore how digital humanities tools and methodologies can be used with these primary sources, and their application to teaching and research. It will feature:

• Named Entity Recognition
• Parts of Speech Analysis
• Topic Modelling

Bring your own device with a browser to get hands-on in the session. The digital humanities tools and methodologies will be demonstrated using the Gale Digital Scholar Lab - not currently available for staff/student use.

More information and registration at: warwick.ac.uk/digitalhumanities/events

On 05/02 the Applied Linguistics Seminar Series welcomes Prof Tony Liddicoat, Drs Tilly Harrison, Richard Smith, Daniel Dauber, Katharina Lefringhausen, & Kieran File from the University of Warwick to discuss Warwick Applied Linguistics’ Research Activity Group overview

All talks take place from 1600-1700 in S0.10

On 05/02 the Applied Linguistics Seminar Series welcomes Prof Tony Liddicoat, Drs Tilly Harrison, Richard Smith, Daniel Dauber, Katharina Lefringhausen, & Kieran File from the University of Warwick to discuss Warwick Applied Linguistics’ Research Activity Group overview

All talks take place from 1600-1700 in S0.10

a seminar with Tara Weinberg, Michigan University

Dr Regine May (Leeds) ‘Love hurts: Cupid and Psyche on magic gemstones’ 

Tara Weinberg (Michigan University)

Dr Giacomo Zanello (University of Reading): Use of Accelerometer Devices to Capture Energy Expenditure in Agricultural and Rural Livelihoods: Some Findings and Potential Applications in Development Studies

Staff and students from all Departments are welcome to attend thise event, as are external visitors.

Excavating the Anthropocene

Marcus Boon (York University, Toronto), “Vibration-In-Itself: Sound, Humanism and the Anthropocene”

Do you have pure passion for the moving image, its stars, genres and history, or an academic curiosity? Learn about the ambitious and innovative Film and Television degrees at Warwick. Ranked 2nd in the Guardian University 2019 in Media and Film Studies and 7th in the UK according to the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2018.