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José Arroyo has just returned from a two week stint at EICTV (Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión) in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba, recently voted in the top five filmmaking schools to watch by The Hollywood Reporter. The school was founded in 1986 by Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, Argentine poet Fernando Birri and the Cuban producer Julio García Espinosa with the support of then-President Fidel Castro in order to provide as close to an ideal context for students from the ‘Three Worlds’ of Africa, Asia and Latin America to study filmmaking. The three founders dreamed up an ingenious system of workshop-based teaching where directors, sound men, cinematographers, critics, academics and just about anyone involved with any aspect of film culture arrive for a two week period, teach what they know, and then the same mini-bus that returns them to the airport brings in a new set of skilled people willing to share their knowledge. It’s a very effective system and one available now to students from ‘Todos los mundos’/ All the worlds.’ Arroyo was honoured to have been invited to lecture on The Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch’ and on ‘The Musical’.

Below are some photographs taken by José during his visit:

Catherine Lester, who is currently researching the children's horror film for her PhD in Film and Television Studies has won the Warwick Humanities Research Centre Doctoral Fellowship competition, which provides funding to put on a one-day interdisciplinary conference. Details of the conference - which is titled "Let's Hear It For The Girls": Discussing Girls and Girlhood, 1990-present - are now available online at this web page: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/girls/

The conference is due to take place on 12th March 2016 here at Warwick and is co-organised by Catherine and Leah Phillips, a PhD student in the English department.

The Department is delighted to announce that former PhD student Dr Elizabeth Ramirez (2009-2013), currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Valparaiso, Chile, is one of the runners-up in the AHGBI-Spanish Embassy Postgraduate Publication Prize for 2014.​ The award comes with a cash prize to go towards publication of her thesis with either Tamesis or Legenda press.

On March 12th Dr. Bayman was 'in conversation' with Palme D'Or winning director Ken Loach at Theatre Technis in London. More information here.

Developed in collaboration with the university's Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, the Centre will be launched in 2015. Established by Rachel Moseley and Helen Wheatley (Film and TV) and Joanne Garde-Hansen (CCPS), the Centre aims to develop and support interdisciplinary work on television history, and to generate national, international and cross-cultural research agendas around television heritage and memory.

The establishment of the Centre will enable the department to build upon its longstanding reputation for excellence in the field of historical television studies, and over the coming years, we plan to develop our existing connections with television production companies and archives in order to deliver innovative, world-class postgraduate education and training.

The new Centre for Television History, Heritage and Memory Research will develop bids for external funding for large scale and individual research projects, postdoctoral fellowships and collaborative doctoral training awards. There will be a regular programme of events which will include Visiting Scholars and other guest speakers, conferences, symposia and knowledge transfer events which will be public and industry-facing in addition to their more traditional address to an academic audience.

The team are keen to develop cross-disciplinary work on questions of television history, heritage and memory between scholars both within Warwick and around the world. So, whether you are an established scholar in Television Studies or an adjacent field, or a graduate student aiming to work in the field of television history, heritage and memory research and wish to hear more about our plans for the Centre, please contact the Director, Dr Rachel Moseley (Rachel.Moseley@warwick.ac.uk) for further details.

Keep watching our news feed for details of the formal launch of the Centre later this year, and for our programme of future events! Exciting times are ahead.....