SCFS Undisciplinary Education Conference 2025

Morning Sessions

9:00 AM — 9:30 AM: Welcome Coffee

9:30 AM – 11:00 AM: Session 4 –

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11:00-11:15 – Coffee Break

11:15-12:15 – Session 5 – Global Contexts of Liberal Education

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12:15-12:45 PM– Closing Comments

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12:45 – 2:00 PM – Closing Lunch and Networking

Dr Jane Webb is the Head of the School for Cross-faculty Studies at the University of Warwick, having previously held roles as Director of Design Studies at Manchester School of Art (Manchester Metropolitan University) and Deputy Head of Wolverhampton School of Art (University of Wolverhampton). Her research focuses on the processes of visual and material practice, and she frequently works with makers and making, archives, historical geographies and collections of dress and other objects to imaginatively explore individual histories of personal experience.

Dr Gavin Scwartz-Leeper is an associate professor within the Liberal Arts department at the University of Warwick. His research interests cover transdisciplinary approaches to issues of perception, especially in relation to uses of the past. He has previously worked on aspects of Renaissance historiography; codicology and manuscript studies; religious writings of the English Reformation; John Foxe; Thomas More; Renaissance humanist networks; Raphael Holinshed; William Shakespeare; John Skelton; George Cavendish; Thomas Cardinal Wolsey; Thomas Cromwell; early modern letterwriting; early modern landscapes; historical sociolinguistics; early modern martyrdom and its representations; Thomas Churchyard and the Mirror for Magistrates, and more recently, Richard Grafton and early modern European print cultures.