Prof. Maggie Kilgour (McGill): 'On First Looking into Milton's Shakespeare'

The seminars will be held virtually, using MS Teams and in order to attend, please register in advance by emailing renaissance@warwick.ac.uk, so that you can be included in the Teams meeting invite. The deadline for registration is Monday afternoon, 24 hours before the seminar. (Alternatively, to register for the entire programme of seminars, please simply specify this in your email.) We look forward to seeing you!

Prof. Maggie Kilgour (MacGill), 'On First Looking into Milton's Shakespeare'

Tuesday 23^rd November, 5pm via Teams

Seminar by Dr Michael Mitchell

The Dream of Paradise Produces Monsters:

Fictional Responses to the Jonestown Tragedy of 1978: Paul Theroux's The Mosquito Coast (1981), Fred D'Aguiar's Children of Paradise (2014) and Wilson Harris's Jonestown (1996).P

Please register by emailing F.Viala@warwick.ac.uk

This event is exclusively for students from the School for Cross-faculty Studies.

The School's Employability and Placement Manager is currently organising a work placement event for Tuesday 23 November 2021 from 5.30 - 7 pm on MS Teams (link to join the event). This event will involve students who have completed an intercalated work placement who will share their experience with you! Each student will talk about their placement journey. This is a great opportunity for you to:

• Speak directly with students who have been on placement and learn about their journey (challenges, benefits)
• Ask any questions you may have around placements
• Learn about different roles/placements that are available to you
• Explore a potential career path Gain insight into the different sectors/industries/employers that are interested in your skills

Dear colleagues, 

we are delighted to invite you to attend the first of a series of events organised by the University of Warwick to celebrate the 2021 Dante centenary.

23 november 2021

18:00-19:30 (UK time)

ONLINE SEMINAR on MS Teams

Alessia Benedetti 

(University of Manchester/John Rylands Library)

A “Product of a Certain Social Milieu”, a “Genius”

The Reception of Dante in pre- and Post-Revolutionary Russia

In 1921 Russia celebrated the Dantean centenary with numerous initiatives. By that year, the country had faced revolutionary ferment (in 1905 and 1917), embarked upon and withdrawn from a world war (1914-1918), and undergone a civil war which had ended with the definitive victory of the Bolsheviks and left them and the country to deal with the destructive consequences of the conflict. Considering the enormous difficulties Russia was facing at the time, and the religious outlook of the Divine Comedy, it may seem surprising that the newly formed Bolshevik government had an interest in preserving the legacy of Dante in the country. This paper intends to investigate the causes of this phenomenon. To do so, it will reconstruct the history of the reception of Dante in Russia from the late eighteenth-century until the 1917 October Revolution. Finally, it will explore different opinions on Dante expressed within the Bolshevik party around the Dantean centenary.

Respondents

Prof. Fabio Camilletti (University of Warwick) and Dr Federica Coluzzi (University of Warwick)

Please register via https://forms.gle/Y1x14mYPDTyhrdaGA