News and Events

Wednesday 23rd November 2011 (12.45pm-4.00pm)
Reinvention Centre at Westwood

A practical workshop on Cormac McCarthy's The Road, led by Paul Bunyan and Ruth Moore - the authors and series editors of the Methuen Critical Scripts Teaching Activities - and introduced by Nicholas Monk.

This workshop is open to all and free of charge, but is capped at 30 participants. To register please email Amy.Clarke@warwick.ac.uk

Thursday 17th November 2011 (8am-10am)
CAPITAL Studio, Millburn House

IATL invites you to a joint presentation, by academics and students from Monash and Warwick Universities, on approaches to teaching interdisciplinary material.

This workshop is open to all and free of charge, but is capped at 30 participants. To register please email Amy.Clarke@warwick.ac.uk

A continental breakfast will be available at 7.30am

Registration has now closed as all places have been filled.

Dance is a global phenomenon of movement which celebrates a variety of uses, from religious, to personal expression and social interaction, to cultural nationalism. Jasmin Lau, an undergraduate in the Philosphy Department has been awarded an IATL Student as Producer Research grant for The Aesthetics of Dance project which aims to refocus a study of the dance aesthetic and its relation to the current generation.

She is looking for participants for a series of physical workshops, exploring dance via practice research, as well as theory. The group will engage with a diverse range of dance, including ethnic dances such as Indian Kathak, and both contemporary, classical and modern dance styles.

Interested students should send an expression of interest of 200-400 words to j.w.s.lau@warwick.ac.uk. No previous dance experience is expected.

On 1 August Professor Carol Rutter hands over to Dr Paul Taylor, who will be IATL Director for 2011/2. With Paul, she co-directed the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning in its first year to oversee the transition from two CETLs, the CAPITAL Centre, which she directed 2007-2010, and the Reinvention Centre, into the IATL.

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 IATL Newsletter - Summer 2011

10am - 3pm, Wednesday 29th June 2011
Main Library, University of Warwick

This Showcase, from the Learning and Development Centre, the Library and IATL, is open to anyone with an interest in the development of teaching. It will provide an opportunity to celebrate some of the excellent teaching and learning taking place at Warwick and will have the key theme of 'Teaching and Learning Post-Browne', to include:

• Interdisciplinarity
• Students as Producers
• Student Engagement
• Employability

Dr David Metcalfe, Founding Editor of Reinvention: a Journal of Undergraduate Research, has become IATL's first Associate Fellow, with key responsibilities including promotion of undergraduate research, mentoring interested undergraduates, and teaching research skills.

10am - 5pm, Monday 27 June 2011
University of Warwick

Registration has now closed as all places have been filled.

This free, one-day conference, open to academic staff, administrators and postgraduate students, will address the challenges of embedding creativity into teaching and learning in the HE sector across the disciplines. It will showcase the contribution to the debate of Warwick's Open-space Learning in Real World Contexts project - which aims to develop and embed new forms of creative pedagogy associated with workshop practice and collaborative learning in flexible learning spaces - featuring some of the key thinkers about creativity in education:

• Ron Barnett, Institute of Education, University of London, author of Being a University (2011)
• Jonathan Bate, University of Warwick, Founding Director of the CAPITAL Centre and, most recently, editor of The Public Value of the Humanities (2011)
• Jonothan Neelands, University of Warwick, Professor of Creative Education at Warwick Business School and Chair of Drama and Theatre Education
• Rob Pope, Oxford Brookes University, author of Creativity: Theory, History, Practice

6-8pm Thursday 9th June 2011
CAPITAL Studio (G.55), Millburn House

Following on from sucessful collaborative events such as 'Shakespeare on the Brain' and 'Beckett and the Brain' in 2009, this new project places medical students in dialogue with theatre artists in order to explore psychiatric practice. After recently attending the Clinical Skills Laboratory at Coventry and Warwickshire University Hospital, we are organising this special event to bring together medical and artistic practitioners. This inter-disciplinary project is part of Open-Space Learning in Real World Contexts and our research questions are as follows:

1. Where is the intersection between psychiatry and performance?
2. How can we engage the medical community through performance events?
3. How do we use these events to engage academic departments in embodied pedagogies?
4. Can these pedagogical practices improve clinical skills?

Places are limited. To book, please email Amy dot Clarke at warwick dot ac dot uk.

IATL is proud to have supported the two Warwick entries at Scarborough this year with its Performance Festival bursaries: The Resisitible Rise of Arturo Ui and Five Kinds of Silence. The Resistible Rise picked up two prizes: Lizzie Drapper won the Lighting Design award and the band received the Cameron Mackintosh Commendation for Musicality. The Festgoers Award went to Five Kinds of Silence . Congratulations to all concerned.