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5th Doctoral Symposium of the European PhDnet "Literary and Cultural Studies" hosted at the University of Warwick 9-11 February, 2022

Runs from Wednesday, February 09 to Friday, February 11.

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Classics and Ancient History Work in Progress Seminar
MS teams - Please email either J.Butler.4@warwick.ac.uk or Lucrezia.Sperindio@warwick.ac.uk for the link to attend.

Speaker: Dr Renaud Gagné, University of Cambridge

Chair: Prof Zahra Newby

“Weaving the World: Altars and Cosmography in Greek Sanctuaries”

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FAB Digital Wednesdays - Technology for Teaching (TEAL) Arts Faculty Review
Virtual - Teams

In this session we will review the tools, technologies and services that are available for us to use in teaching. How well do they fit the needs of the Arts Faculty? What's missing? Open to all staff and students. This will feed into the TEAL working group and the Faculty Education Committee. Open to all staff and students. Please use this form to register.

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PhDnet Symposium, Keynote Lecture: Professor Jennifer Burns "Transcultural Thinking, and Thinking Transculturally: Theory and Practice across Borders"
online

Abstract

This talk will engage with a number of theoretical and critical approaches to questions of mobility and transfer in cultural inquiry, with a primary focus on the era of nation-states and a look towards the post-national. The discussion will take its cues from a number of terms which have been applied to these questions (cross-cultural, intercultural, transcultural, transnational, comparative, global) and a range of theorists who have animated the discussion (including Ahmed, Appadurai, Clifford, Damrosch, Greenblatt, Mignolo). These will prompt and inform a consideration of our interpretative and critical practice as researchers who establish distinct expertise within the language(s) and culture(s) of our chosen specialisms whilst also understanding and valuing the passage of ideas, cultural products, creative practices and languages themselves between and beyond borders of nation, region, language, culture and ethnicity. The discussion will posit a practice of thinking transculturally as a core and distinctive competency of research in Modern Languages for the present and future.

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School of Creative Arts Performances and Visual Cultures seminar series - Caring the future: arts as social poiesis in an age of crisis
Online via Teams

This is to warmly invite you to the launching event of Warwick’s School of Creative Arts Performances and Visual Cultures seminar series.

Caring the future: arts as social poiesis in an age of crisis 

This seminar is concerned with the reconfiguration of artistic practices as they emerge at the crossroad between the political, social and economic realms. Discussing the work of Maddalena Fragnito, Emanuele Braga and Andy Abbott, we explore art as radical thought and action that intervene in the social fabric of the city. We will consider specific artistic practices currently challenging existing notion of care, exploring forms of financial, social and environmental sustainability. In conversation with Alberto Cossu, Heidi Ashton and Jonathan Cane, we investigate the potentialities and implications of artistic forms of care, how they can challenge existing technologies and institutions while creating new ones.

Wednesday 9th February 2022 – 17:00 18:30 Online. Register here

Maddalena Fragnito is a feminist artist and activist. Currently, Doctoral Student at Coventry University’s Centre for Postdigital Cultures. Co-autor of Rebelling with Care (2019) and Ecologie della cura. Prospettive transfemministe (2022).

Andy Abbott is an artist, musician, writer, and arts organiser who lives in Halifax, West Yorkshire, UK. He has exhibited and performed internationally as an individual artist and in various collaborations including the art collective Black Dogs. He is Visiting Research Curator of the UNIDEE Residency Programmes for Cittadellarte Fondazione-Pistoletto in Biella, Italy 2020 – 2022 where he is delivering hybrid programmes of remote and situated learning for international artists exploring facets of ‘embedded arts practice’. In 2020 he co-founded UBI Lab Arts: a group for artists and artworkers who are interested in using creative methods to deepen and broaden the conversation about Universal Basic Income. http://www.cittadellarte.it/unidee/people.html 

Emanuele Braga is an artist, researcher and activist, operating in various contexts on the relationship between art, economy, labour and new technologies. He's co-founder of Balletto Civile dance company, MACAO, new centre for art and culture in Milan, Landscape Choreography and IRI — Institute of Radical Imagination. He's a lecturer in Big Data and Digital Methods at the Milan State University.

Alberto Cossu is a sociologist and media scholar. His research investigates artistic and creative work, collaborative work and the digital economy. His monograph Autonomous Art Institutions is being published by Rowman and Littlefield International. He has published on Social Media + Society, European Journal of Cultural Studies, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Sociologia del Lavoro and Studi Culturali. He currently works at the University of Leicester, where he directs the MA in Digital Media & Society.

Heidi Ashton is a researcher and lecturer at the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies and a choreographer / movement director in film, television and theatre. Her research centres around work in the cultural and creative sector and in particular freelance working. This includes an interest in the social and economic policies and structures that shape and impact upon creative work and labour markets.

Jonathan Cane is based in History of Art at the University of Warwick. He holds a PhD in Art History from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and is the author Civilising Grass: The Art of the Lawn on the South African Highveld (2019), a queer and postcolonial study of gardening.

Curated and chaired by Carolina Bandinelli, Associate Professor in Media and Creative Industries at the University of Warwick.

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Research seminar: Thomas Clément Mercier (ANID FONDECYT, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez), Deconstruction and Dialectical Materialism: Divisions of Labour (Jacques Derrida's Seminars on Marx and Marxist Thought in the 1960s and 1970s)
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t is usually considered that Derrida’s first real incursion into Marx’s thought was Specters of Marx, published in French in 1993. However, archival research has revealed that Derrida had already offered very lengthy and detailed readings of Marx and Marxist texts much earlier in his career as a philosopher. During the 1960s and 1970s – a very important and prolific period for French and international Marxist thought – Derrida wrote and taught extensively about Marx and Marxist authors (including Engels, Lenin, Gramsci, Benjamin, Althusser, Balibar, Buci-Glucksmann, and so on), but none of this work was ever published in Derrida’s lifetime. The discovery of these unpublished materials (approximately 1000 pages altogether) sheds new light on Derrida’s engagement with Marxism and materialism, but also on the ethical and political implications of deconstruction – much earlier than Derrida’s so-called ‘ethical-political turn’ (usually dated, with much bad faith, in the late 1980s or early 1990s). In this talk, we will discuss the political and philosophical aspects of the question – notably the relationship between deconstruction and dialectical materialism, in theoretical and political terms, with special focus on the notions of ‘labour’ and the ‘division of labour’ – but also its historical dimension, that is, the intellectual and political context of the French Marxist scene during the Cold War, before and after May 68: What was Derrida’s relationship with the fields of theoretical and political Marxism? Why did he decline to publish his deconstructive analyses of Marx and Marxist thought at the time? What was Derrida’s position with respect to his Marxist colleagues and contemporaries – in particular his close friend Althusser? How can we interpret the change of scenery justifying the publication of Specters of Marx in 1993, after the end of the Cold War and Althusser’s death?

Thomas Clément Mercier is a postdoctoral researcher at the Universidad Adolfo Ibañez (Santiago, Chile). His work has been published in journals such as Poetics Today, Global Discourse, Oxford Literary Review, Parallax, Derrida Today, CR: The New Centennial Review, Aisthesis, Ostium and Philosophiques. He specialises in 20th-century French philosophy, political thought and international studies, with a particular interest in the multilayered problematics of democracy, violence, and political resistance from the perspectives of deconstruction, Marxism, queer and decolonial thinking. His current projects include a book on deconstruction and Marxist thought, as well as the edition and publication of the Derrida-Althusser correspondence.

To join the seminar on Teams click here.

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