Warwick's Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts (CRPLA) is seeking proposals for speakers and small workshops for AY 2015-2016. We are specifically interested in supporting speakers and events that would be of wide interest to graduate students, and interdisciplinary student-groups from grads in Philosophy, Film, English, Art History and Modern Foreign Languages. The CRPLA welcomes proposals such as those offering to host single speakers (UK based or low-budget travel), a graduate supported forum or seminar, a small panel, or an efficient conference platform. Proposals costing up to£150-£200 (max) may be funded in full. Any proposal involving more than a single funded visiting speaker is likely to require some independent fundraising. This is certainly possible from other University sources (e.g. IAS, HRC and/or Dept budgets) once CRPLA backing is secured, given sufficient lead time. Please make sure that your proposal, besides being interesting and relevant, is realistically and fully costed, and allows time for such further fund-raising if required. Ask yourself how much transport (return train tickets to Coventry, taxis, catering for lunch, dinner and/or tea and coffee, and accommodation, where required, will cost).

Please also note that the CRPLA invites speakers from the UK to present their research during the Autumn and Spring terms. Generally talks do not run past week 3 of the Summer term. We encourage you to suggest interesting speakers for this fortnightly event to speak at Warwick in AY 2015-16.

All proposals should include a brief summary of the specific theme, its direct relation to the interests of both the CRPLA and its graduate community, and a proposed itinerary and detailed budget, if applicable. The latter must include all possible costs, as listed above. All graduates students, from any of the above named departments, are encouraged to apply. Please send any questions, your suggestions for visiting speakers, and workshop proposals to the CRPLA Graduate Representatives, Johannes Niederhauser and Joseph Shafer, to the following email address, we've set up for this purpose: CRPLAgradreps@gmail.com

The University of Warwick has launched over £1.2million of scholarships for Taught Masters students in 2015-16. 125 awards of £10,000 per student will be available to eligible Home/EU students from under-represented groups. The deadline for applications to be received is Tuesday 31st March (17:00hrs GMT). Visit the webpage for further information, including eligibility criteria.

'Prospects for an Ethics of Self-Cultivation' will hold its second conference at Monash University Prato Centre (near Florence, Italy) from 29th June–1st July 2015. We have up TEN student bursaries for travel and accommodation for this event. Please apply to selfcultivation@warwick.ac.uk by 16th March with a 200-word statement of your interest in the project. All Warwick undergraduates or postgraduates are eligible to apply.

Friday 13th – Saturday 14th February 2015

Senate House, Malet Street WC1, London (Deller Hall)

This workshop brings together philosophers and theorists from the UK, USA, Canada, France, Belgium and Germany to discuss very recent developments in the philosophy of photography. Over the last few years, philosophers have taken up the challenge that artists’ use of photography poses for hitherto standard philosophical conceptions of photography as a ‘purely causal’ process ensuring ‘belief independent feature tracking’ or ‘natural counter-factual dependence’ of photographs on what they are photographs of. The workshop considers whether taking photographic art seriously requires a fundamental re-conception of the field.