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Third Edition of Warwick-Johns Hopkins PhD Summer School Held at the Istituto Veneto

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 11:40:18 GMT

The third edition of the University of Warwick / Johns Hopkins University PhD Summer School took place at the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere, ed Arti and the Warwick Venice Centre from June 10th – 20th, 2025.

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SCFS host international ‘Nurturing Hope’ conference on Liberal Education, Democracy, and Designing Sustainable Futures

Tue, 20 May 2025 16:30:08 GMT

On 8th-9th May 2025, the Liberal Arts department and the School for Cross Faculty Studies ran an international conference titled ‘Nurturing Hope: Liberal Education, Democracy, and Designing Sustainable Futures,’ which aimed to demonstrate how even 2,000 years later, Liberal Arts education can still provide valuable critical tools for addressing modern-day problems from the very local (Warwick) to the global. The conference was planned as part of the University of Warwick’s 60th year anniversary celebrations and looks forward to the Liberal Arts department’s 10th year anniversary – which it will be entering in 2026.

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Liberal Arts department welcomes new Research Fellow Dr Katherine Travers

Wed, 14 May 2025 10:32:02 GMT

Dr Katherine (Kate) Travers has recently joined the Liberal Arts department at the University of Warwick as a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow. They previously held the position of Powys Roberts Postdoctoral Fellow in Modern Languages at St Hugh’s College at the University of Oxford.

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Research funding success for School for Cross-faculty Studies students

Fri, 19 Aug 2022 14:24:28 GMT

Congratulations to our students for securing funding for research projects over the summer!

The Undergraduate Research Support Scheme (URSS) enables undergraduate students to carry out an interdisciplinary summer research public engagement project. The scheme is open to any undergraduate student at Warwick and research can be completed in the UK or abroad.

This year, one student from the Liberal Arts Department and five students from the Global Sustainable Development (GSD) Department have successfully secured a URSS bursary. Their work will be recognised at the URSS Showcase 2022 on Wednesday 16 November between 1-4 pm in the Panorama room in the Rootes Building - all are welcome to attend!

Find out about our students' summer research projects.

Dr Gavin Schwartz-Leeper awarded Royal Historical Society Fellowship

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 08:49:00 GMT

We are delighted to share the news that Dr Gavin Schwartz-Leeper, Associate Professor in Liberal Arts, has recently been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS) in recognition of his contribution to historical scholarship.

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Prof. Stéphanie Panichelli-Batalla delivers keynote at Midlands4Cities workshop

Mon, 13 Jun 2022 10:17:00 GMT

Earlier this year, Professor Stéphanie Panichelli-Batalla, Head of the School for Cross-faculty Studies, delivered a keynote on her research for a Midlands4Cities (M4C) workshop. The workshop was aimed at PhD students interested in oral history.

Dr Bryan Brazeau participates in conference at the Newberry Library

Wed, 04 May 2022 08:42:00 GMT

On the 14th and 15th April 2022, Dr Bryan Brazeau (Associate Professor, Liberal Arts) participated in Processing the Pandemic I: Loss at the Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois. Bryan was one of the three co-organisers of the conference, along with Dr Rose Miron (Director of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry Library) and Dr Christopher Fletcher (Assistant Director of the Newberry Library's Center for Renaissance Studies).

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Professor Stéphanie Panichelli-Batalla shares her research on the Cuban Internationalist Solidarity Programme

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 14:19:00 GMT

In the final episode of the Faculty of Arts at Home Series, Professor Stéphanie Panichelli-Batalla (Professor in Global Sustainable Development and Head of the School for Cross-faculty Studies) gets us thinking about health and its delivery from a global perspective, by sharing her research on the Cuban Internationalist Solidarity Programme. Hear from Stéphanie about what healthcare means to the professionals on the programme, as well as how the programme itself has impacted Cuban society.

Find out more about staff research interests in the School for Cross-faculty Studies.

New publication in Classical Receptions Journal by Dr Bryan Brazeau

Wed, 07 Jul 2021 11:08:08 GMT

Dr Bryan Brazeau, Senior Teaching Fellow in Liberal Arts, has recently published an article in Classical Receptions Journal entitled “‘Defying Gravity’: Prose Epic and Heroic Style in Lucrezia Marinella’s 1602 Vita di Maria Vergine.”

School for Cross-faculty Studies students present at BCUR 2021

Thu, 06 May 2021 08:00:00 GMT

Current and former students from the School for Cross-faculty Studies presented their research on 12-13 April at the British Conference of Undergraduate Research (BCUR) 2021.

Established in 2011, BCUR is the largest conference in the UK dedicated exclusively to undergraduate research, promoting and sharing research in all disciplines. The conference usually takes place each year at a different University. This year, the University of Leeds delivered the conference virtually.