Liberal Arts News
Congratulations to the Warwick Institute of Engagement’s new Fellows from the School for Cross-faculty Studies
Congratulations to final-year Liberal Arts student Celine Nithila-George, Dr Gavin Schwartz-Leeper (Deputy Head of School for Cross-faculty Studies, Liberal Arts), and Dr Gioia Panzarella (Teaching Fellow and Student Experience and Engagement Manager in GSD) for being selected as Associate Fellows of the Warwick Institute of Engagement (WIE)!
Upcoming event: Launch of 'The Reception of Aristotle's Poetics in the Italian Renaissance and Beyond' (27 January)
The online launch of The Reception of Aristotle's Poetics in the Italian Renaissance and Beyond: New Directions in Criticism (London: Bloomsbury, 2020) will be taking place next week. The editor, Dr Bryan Brazeau, Senior Teaching Fellow in Liberal Arts, will present the volume in conversation with Professor Simon Gilson (Oxford) on Wednesday 27 January at 5pm. The event will take place via Teams.
Dr Stéphanie Panichelli-Batalla interviewed on Cuban International Solidarity Programme
Image credit: GovernmentZA on flickr
Dr Stéphanie Panichelli-Batalla, Head of the School for Cross-faculty Studies, was recently interviewed about her research on the Cuban International Solidarity Programme for an article published in the Austrian newspaper, Der Standard.
The article explores the work of Cuban doctors and nurses and the ‘Cut Profits to the Cuban Regime Act of 2020’, introduced by US Republicans and designed to make it more difficult for countries to use the services of Cuban medical professionals.
Dr Lauren Bird joins the Liberal Arts Department!
Dr Lauren Bird joined the School for Cross-faculty Studies at the start of this month as a Senior Teaching Fellow in Liberal Arts.
“I’m really looking forward to starting my first term in Liberal Arts – no doubt, it will be a challenging term for all - but I think many interesting conversations and ideas will emerge. The whole School for Cross-faculty Studies has been very kind and welcoming and I’m keen to meet our new and returning students this autumn.”
In interview: Dr Stéphanie Panichelli-Batalla on laughter in oral histories of displacement
Image credit: GovernmentZA/flickr
Dr Stéphanie Panichelli-Batalla, Head of the School for Cross-faculty Studies, was recently interviewed by the Oral History Review about the role of laughter in oral history interviews. You can read the interview here. This interview is directly linked to Stéphanie's paper, "Laughter in Oral Histories of Displacement: 'One Goes on a Mission to Solve Their Problems'", published in the Oral History Review.
Both the interview and paper are based on a wider project started by Stéphanie in 2014, entitled “Life Stories of Cuban internationalist healthcare professionals”. The project aims to fill the gap in the existing literature on Cuban internationalist healthcare professionals, allowing the professionals themselves to "share their stories and help us gain a better understanding of what it meant for them to join these missions, how the work impacted their lives and those of their families, and the challenges they faced as Cuban internationalists."
You might also be interested in the following news items on Stéphanie's recent work: