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UK students and French senior citizens beat loneliness in lockdown together
Students at the UK’s University of Warwick are spending their lockdown chatting online with elderly people in France, bridging intergenerational and international divides in a time marked by isolation.
Two Chairs Creative Writing Competition teaching children about unity
A new writing competition with prizes of £250, is inspiring Coventry schoolchildren to see the world from the perspective of other people.
The Two Chairs Creative Writing Competition, which is open to all, has seen its competition’s creator, Dr James Hodkinson of the University of Warwick, has been holding workshops in schools to discuss the themes and ideas behind the competition.
Palazzo Pesaro Papafava hosts exhibition during Art Night Venezia
Warwick’s Venetian campus will host ‘Italy is Out’, a unique exhibition of photographer Mario Badagliacca’s work during this year’s Art Night Venezia, on Saturday 17 June.
Researchers offer opportunity to re-enact history in unique Georgian playhouse
Dr Katherine Astbury Associate Professor of French Studies in the University of Warwick’s School of Modern Languages and Cultures is calling for amateur actors to take part in a theatrical melodrama on stage in the country’s most complete Georgian playhouse.
Warwick welcomes Julie Christie for special evening of poetry and film
The University of Warwick Centre for Modern Languages is hosting a special evening of poetry and film to mark the launch of a new research project Chilean Exiles and World University Service (WUS) on 25 May 2017 at 18:00 in the Warwick Arts Centre cinema.
Warwick to host 18th Century magic conjured by world class illusionist
The University of Warwick is hosting a series of free public events that will explore themes of deception, belief, and enchantment. The series, Mesmerized! re-stages 18th-century demonstrations in mind bending physics, intertwined with an analysis of rhetorical and mechanical techniques, offering a “behind the curtains” look into the illusionists tool box.
Discover Caribbean past and present at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry
The ‘Embodied Islands’ exhibition of Caribbean photography organised and curated by the Centre for Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick will be on show in the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry from 3rd to 28th October.
Europe’s ‘Other’ Faith: Islam in German History and its Implications for Britain today
Dr James Hodkinson and Dr. Abdullah Sahin, a leading Islamic educational theorist at the Markfield Institute of Higher Education, Leicester, are delivering a free public lecture in Coventry Cathedral on 4 May 2016, where they will discuss how Islamic faith and culture were represented across German history in the Nineteenth century.