11.00-11.15 Alison Cooley (Classics and Ancient History)

The Senatus Consultum de Cn. Pisone Patre (Cambridge University Press, February 2023)

11.15-11.30 Emma Campbell (SMLC)

Reinventing Babel in Medieval French: Translation and Untranslatability (c. 1120–c. 1250)

(Oxford University Press, 2023)

11.30-11.45 Sarah Wood (English)

Piers Plowman and its Manuscript Tradition (York Medieval Press/Boydell & Brewer, 2022)

11.45-12.00 David Lines (SMLC)

The Dynamics of Learning in Early Modern Italy: Arts and Medicine at the University of Bologna (Harvard University Press, February 2023)

12.15-12.30 David James (Philosophy)

Property and its Forms in Classical German Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

12.30-12.45 Carolina Bandinelli (CMPS)

Fashion as Creative Economy: Micro-Enterprises in London, Berlin and Milan (Polity, December 2022)

12.45-13.00 Chris Bilton (CMPS)

Cultural Management: a research overview (Abingdon: Routledge, 2023)

Creativities: the what, how, where, who and why of the creative process 

Bilton, Chris, Cummings, Stephen, ogilvie, dt (2022). (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar)

13.15-13.30 Clive Gray (CMPS)

The Changing Museum (Routledge, November 2022)

13.30-13.45 Jane Woddis (CMPS)

Acting on Cultural Policy: Arts Practitioners, Policy-making and Civil Society (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).

13.45-14.00 Harry Warwick (English)

Dystopia and Dispossession in the Hollywood Science-Fiction Film, 1979-2017

(Liverpool University Press, 2023).

Fireside Tales of Terror: the Gothic and Winter took place on 15-16 December 2022. The conference was sponsored by the Humanities Research Centre, the ELCS department, and the International Gothic Association. As well as a large number of online audience members who weren’t participating, there were 33 presenting delegates with papers ranging from Romantic period epics, to Victorian short stories, through to video games and film, to fashion and vintage postcards. The two keynote speakers were Dr Derek Johnston (Queen’s University, Belfast) on his work on televisual period drama at Christmas and the Gothic mode, and Dr Monica Germana (University of Westminster) on Boreal Gothic, folklore and travel in winter.  

Our objectives were to bring scholars from around the world together to explore the environmental and affective traditions and departures between the Gothic mode and the winter season across different mediums in the arts and humanities. The conference itself was extremely successful in terms of exploring these topics, and forging new networks and the connections across papers, as well as new and innovative research being showcased. 

The HRC is pleased to announce that the new Director, Professor Alison Cooley, will take over in September 2022.

Alison is Professor of Classics and Ancient History and has been at Warwick since 2000.

We would like to thank the outgoing Director, Professor David Lambert, for his work and dedication to the HRC over the last three years.

Professor Tim Lockley from the Department of History and ex-Director of the Humanities Research Centre is one of a trio of University of Warwick academicsLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window recognised in the 2021 Queens Birthday Honours List. The award was in recognition of his services to his local community in Harbury, where he serves as a Parish councillor, and with particular recognition of his work in his area during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Congratulations to the winners of the HRC Doctoral Fellowship Competition:

Neils Boender (History) and Yara Staets (German Studies)

Tabina Iqbal (English and Comparative Literary Studies)

Charlotte Spear and Madeleine Sinclair (English and Comparative Literary Studies)

A one-day interdisciplinary conference to be held on Saturday 14th May 2022

Registration is now open

Keynote Speaker: Professor Diane PurkissLink opens in a new window

The HRC announces a competition for 3 internal Doctoral Fellows. Each Fellow will receive a research budget of £300 and a conference budget of £700 to organise a one-day interdisciplinary Post-Graduate Conference (to be held at Warwick, UK) during the academic year 2022/23.

A further £200 grant may be available if you set up a blog and write 8 blogs during the year about the conference and your research.

Closing date: 11.00 am Wednesday 16th March 2022

In the second blog accompanying the At Home In Empire: Colonial Experiences of Intimacy and Mobility conference, Hannah Dennett examines how the records of the Foundling Hospital can highlight black experiences of intimacy and mobility in eighteenth-century London.

To accompany the At Home in Empire: Colonial Experiences of Intimacy and Mobility conference, HRC doctoral fellows Hannah Dennett and Liz Egan will be writing a blog reflecting on their own research, the themes of the conference, and the practicalities of putting together an interdisciplinary event. In the first part of this series, Liz explores how the themes of home and mobility interact with her PhD research ‘Constructing and Challenging Creole Whiteness in Jamaica, 1865-1938’.

The HRC now has two book series showcasing the best current work in the faculty.

Warwick Series in the Humanities (with Routledge)

This series will publish the varied and multidisciplinary outcomes of the projects funded by the HRC.

We hope those receiving funding from the HRC (including doctoral fellowship conferences) will seriously consider publication in this series. In addition, the Series will accept proposals from the Faculty community in general, with the proviso that any such proposals are interdisciplinary.

Warwick Studies (with Anthem Press)

This is a new series that partners the HRC with Anthem Press, a small independent publisher offering a high quality list aimed at the academic community. Unlike the Warwick Series in the Humanities which is explicitly inter-disciplinary, the Warwick Studies will have more of a discipline-specific focus, and thus will be marketed as Warwick Studies in Literature, Warwick Studies in History etc.