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Double success for SMLC at Warwick Awards for Public and Community Engagement

Tue, 28 Jun 2022 15:55:57 GMT

The Warwick Awards for Public and Community Engagement (WAPCE), like the Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence (WATELink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window), and Warwick Awards for Personal Tutoring Excellence (WAPTE), celebrate the very best of Warwick’s staff and students. The WAPCE awards recognise the vital contributions Warwick staff and students make in engaging the public – on an international and national level as well as crucially within our region and local communities – in our learning and discovery, with the goals of sharing and co-producing knowledge, strengthening the role we play in the region and showcasing the role Warwick plays nationally and internationally in making the world a better place.

SMLC is delighted that 2 of our most engaged researchers' work in public and community engagement has been recognised.

James Hodkinson has won a staff award for his work on community events and arts projects designed to facilitate cross-community encounters, enhance public debate, cross-community empathy and more nuanced mutual understanding between Muslim and non-Muslim communities in towns and cities across the UK.

Abigail Coppins won a Postgraduate award for the ways in which her research into Black prisoners of war in Britain during the French Revolution has had a significant impact on the young Black women at the National Youth Theatre who were involved in the R&D of a new play, The Ancestors. Her research has fed into educational resources for NYT and English Heritage and inspired a delegation of Garifuna people to travel from central America and the US to visit Portchester castle where the prisoners were held. Her work has also introduced Black undergraduates and young people from a community of 2nd generation St Vincentians in High Wycombe to the National Archives. She has, therefore, improved knowledge, strengthened networks, engaged with people from non-traditional backgrounds.

SMLC researchers enable Garifuna delegation to retrace their Ancestors' footsteps

Fri, 10 Sep 2021 09:31:00 GMT

Head of School and Professor of French Kate Astbury and her PhD student Abigail Coppins welcomed a delegation of Garifuna people to Portchester Castle on Wednesday 8th September 2021 to show them the fruits of Abigail's research into the prisoners of war from the Caribbean held their during the Revolutionary wars. You can watch the BBC South report of the visit here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=JOVWmfZuDuU

and read the Portsmouth News article about it here: https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/people/descendants-of-banished-caribbeans-visit-portchester-castle-to-find-out-about-revolutionary-heroes-3376145

Dr Jessica Wardhaugh publishes a research essay on theatricality for the Naxos Music Library

Fri, 25 Sep 2020 10:20:07 GMT

Dr Jessica Wardhaugh publishes a research essay on theatricality for the Naxos Music Library

Professor Ingrid De Smet has been admitted as a member of the Academia Europaea

Thu, 27 Jun 2019 15:07:00 GMT

Professor Ingrid De Smet has been admitted as a member of the Academia Europaea (Section of Literary and Theatrical Studies). The Academia Europaea (formed in 1988) is the pan-European academy of science, humanities and letters, with a membership of over 3800 eminent scholars, drawn from all countries of Europe, and all disciplines, nationalities and geographical locations.

Professor Kate Astbury will be on the BBC World Service Thursday 28th March at 9.06am

Tue, 26 Mar 2019 13:52:30 GMT

Professor Kate Astbury will be on the BBC World Service programme The Forum talking about Napoleon Bonaparte this Thursday 28th March at 9.06am UK time. Hosted by Bridget Kendall, the programme also includes contributions from Annie Jourdan (University of Amsterdam) and Rafe Blaufarb (Florida State University).

Congratulations to the Warwick French undergraduate debating team - winners of the 2018 Inter-University French Debating Competition at the Institut français !

Tue, 03 Apr 2018 07:30:40 GMT

Congratulations to the Warwick French undergraduate debating team - winners of the 2018 Inter-University French Debating Competition at the Institut français !

Congratulations to Mary Harrod (French) on being awarded a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award!

Thu, 29 Mar 2018 12:12:47 GMT

Congratulations to Mary Harrod (French) on being awarded a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award!

Kate Astbury (French) has appeared on BBC R4's 'In Our Time,' discussing Madame de Stael. Click here to listen!

Fri, 17 Nov 2017 09:37:20 GMT

Kate Astbury (French) has appeared on BBC R4's 'In Our Time,' discussing Madame de Stael. Click here to listen!

An interview with Professor Nick Hewlett on Marx and political violence

Thu, 09 Nov 2017 15:35:43 GMT

Professor Nick Hewlett is interviewed by the State of Nature Blog on Marx and political violence based on his recent book Blood and Progress. Violence in Pursuit of Emancipation

French Studies' film expert Dr Mary Harrod comments on the Weinstein scandal

Fri, 13 Oct 2017 14:49:33 GMT

French Studies' film expert Dr Mary Harrod comments on the Weinstein scandal