Liberal Arts News
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2019
Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), the world's largest campaign to promote entrepreneurship, took place at the end of last year from 18-24 November. To celebrate this week, Warwick Enterprise hosted and co-hosted a number of student-focused and student-led events on campus.
As Innovation Fellows, students in Liberal Arts and Global Sustainable Development (GSD) were actively involved in running the events on campus, as well as writing content for the Warwick Enterprise website, promoting Warwick Enterprise around the University and attending events themselves.
Upcoming Event: SCFS Work Placement Fair
The School for Cross-faculty Studies (SCFS) Work Placement Fair will be taking place on Tuesday 11 February 2020, 4:00pm-5:30pm, The Oculus, room OC0.01.
Blog post: A Sustainable Serenissima
Senior Teaching Fellow in the Liberal Arts Department Dr Bryan Brazeau looks back on the largely successful Venice and Sustainability project, hosted in Liberal Arts. Find out what staff and students discovered in this innovative problem-based module during their time in Coventry and Venice, and watch a media project looking at cultural sustainability in the city produced by Global Sustainable Development students.
The Black Women's Project takes home two awards at the Bright Network’s Society of the Year Awards 2019
On Wednesday 4 December 2019 in London, The Black Women's Project won the Women's Society of the Year and the Society of the Year at the Bright Network's Society of the Year Awards 2019. The Bright Network's Society of the Year Awards is an annual day of celebration and recognition for university societies around the country that have made a real difference on campus.
The current executive team has had a flying start in their new roles, winning multiple awards at the event in December last year. Matilda Oduntan and Olamide Ajisafe, second-year Liberal Arts students, are currently Welfare Officers at The Black Women's Project. We spoke to Matilda and Olamide about the organisation's recent achievements.
CHANGE Festival: Writing for better futures
Last month, CHANGE Festival took place on campus at the Warwick Arts Centre. This new, not-for-profit arts festival featuring over 20 events brought together shows, talks, comedy, and workshops, with the aim to inspire visitors to imagine a better, more positive future for all. Better food. Better homes. Better communities. Better lives for ourselves and generations to come.
One of the festival workshops was led by Dr Kirsten Harris, a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Liberal Arts Department. Kirsten's workshop, Utopias: Writing for Better Futures, encouraged visitors to think about how fictional visions of alternate or future societies can offer hope and drive change.