Faculty Taster Lecture Programme: 15 Minute Shorts
13.00-16.30, FAB 0.08
Have you always wondered what lectures from other departments are like? Or are you just curious about all things? Join us for an afternoon of taster lectures from across the Arts Faculty from English and History; to History of Art and Film.
Take a look at the programme of 15 minute mini-lectures to see what you can drop in for:
Ukraine
13.00-13.15
Christoph Mick, History
Details coming soon.
Where is the 'World' in World Literature?
13.30-13.45
Ross Forman, Rashmi Varma & Michael Gardiner, English and Comparative Literary Studies
What is the object of study of world literature? Does world literature contain the world? How does this field of study operate within literature departments today? The Roundtable on World Literature will explore these and other methodological and conceptual approaches to the study of world literature today.
Parker Tyler and His Circle: Tracing 20th Century Transnational Queer Cultures Through the Figure of The Film Critic
14.00-14.15
Jose Arroyo, Film and Television Studies
Parker Tyler is a key American film critic, one of the first people to write a full-length study on homosexuality in the movies (Screening The Sexes). Gore Vidal named the film critic in Myra Breckenridge after him. Largely forgotten for many years, he resurfaced as one of the key critics of the forties in Bordwell's Rhapsodes. This talk aims to do a quick genealogy of his connection to a group of artists in America and Europe that changed both what we see and how we see it, tracing his authorship in The Young and Evil, the connection to his co-author Charles Henri Ford, Ford being the publisher of View, the leading surrealist journal in America; Ford also being the brother of Ruth Ford, actress for Welles' Mercury Circle, wife of Zachary Scott, the oily 'rich' husband in Mildred Pierce. Ford was the lover of Pavel Tchelitchew and thus connected to the whole George Platt Lynes circle, a relationship not only to the literature and the arts but to Kinsey and thus wholesale changes in American attitudes to sexuality from the late forties, and even further to Gertrude Stein, Picasso and Cocteau in Paris. Thus, through a humble figure of a critic tracing, many of the major currents in twentieth century arts (and raising some of the problems, racism, sexism, homophobia, class etc.) but also the landscape of what we see and experience in art as well new ways of seeing, a queering already very evident in Tyler’s own criticism, and perhaps the reason he was left out of the critical boys’ room for so long.
The Environmental Humanities at Warwick
14.30-14.45
Jonathan Skinner & Nick Lawrence, English and Comparative Literary Studies
Nick Lawrence and Jonathan Skinner discuss the Environmental Humanities (EH) at the University of Warwick, both as a focus for research and teaching within the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies and as a cross-disciplinary research network across the University. We'll give a brief overview of EH research and teaching, with examples of what an EH module and what EH research looks like, as well as preview the MA in Environmental Humanities we aim to launch this Fall.
'Maps as Historical Source'
15.00-15.15
Dexnell Peters, History
This session will provide a brief introduction to how historians of cartography engage with maps as sources.
'Re-making Shakespeare'
15.30-16.00
Steve Purcell, English and Comparative Literary Studies
The year-long module 'Remaking Shakespeare' invites students to research, set and co-teach the Term 2 syllabus. Allowing students to pick their own Term 2 texts ensures a real diversity to the syllabus, and encourages students to take ownership of their subjects, each student in turn becoming the class’s resident expert on their chosen topic. This session will provide an overview of how the module works and share examples of recent student-set syllabi and assessed work for the module.
Experiencing Greek Lyric Poetry
16.45-17.00
David Fearn, Classics
Experience Sappho and Alcaeus! What is the poetry like, what does it do to us, how does it make us think? Short discussion of two fragments.