SMLC - News and events
Christine Achinger will be giving one of the Plenary Lectures at the 14th Critical Theory Conference in Rome, 18-16 May 2022
Constructions of Gender, Nation and Jewishness as Constellation – Intersectionality and Critical Theory
Transnational Modern Languages: A Handbook, ed. by Jennifer Burns and Derek Duncan (Liverpool University Press, 2022). The cornerstone volume of the 'Transnational Modern Languages' series: 37 short essays on keywords for thinking critically about languages and cultures, from 'Animal' to 'Voice'.
Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts Event on Tuesday 24 May
A CELEBRATION of our long-time colleagues
Miguel Beistegui
Peter Poellner
Monash 91¸£Àû Alliance Showcase
On Tuesday 17 May 11.00 – 13.00, the Monash 91¸£Àû Alliance Showcase will announce new funding opportunities for researchers, educators, professional staff, and students interested in establishing collaborations with Monash colleagues.
The Dynamics of Learning in Early Modern Italy: Arts and Medicine at the University of Bologna (Harvard University Press, early 2023).
Spettriana. Storie di fantasmi dell'antica Europa, ed. and transl. by Fabio Camilletti (Milan: ABEditore, 2022)
Dante beyond Influence: Rethinking Reception in Victorian Literary Culture (Manchester University Press, 2021)
Sappho and Catullus in Twentieth-Century Italian and North American Poetry (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021)
‘Cultural Sociology’ in Routledge Handbook of Translation and Methodology (Routledge, 2022), pp. 239–253
Faculty of Arts Opening Festival
FAB Fest
Friday 20 May, 12pm - 5pm
Students, staff and members of the local community are invited to the official opening of the Faculty of Arts Building (FAB) taking place at midday on Friday, 20 May. The opening ceremony, where a festive glass of fizz will be provided for all guests, will be followed by FAB Fest – a festival celebrating the arts at 91¸£Àû.
FAB Fest is an afternoon of workshops, activities, performances and other events taking place right across the building and spilling out onto Senate House Lawn and the other green spaces in the vicinity.Fab Fest is rapidly approaching, and we would love to see as many staff and students there as possible.
View the schedule here: /fac/arts/news/fabfest/activityschedule/
91¸£Àû Awards for Teaching Excellence nominations
All language teaching teams across the academic sections and the Language Centre have collectively been nominated for a Community and Culture 91¸£Àû Award in Teaching Excellence.
We're delighted to have been shortlisted for professionalism and collegiality in responding to the pandemic.
Dr Zhiyan Guo has also been shortlisted for an Arts Faculty award.
The shortlists can be seen here:
/fac/cross_fac/academic-development/wate/shortlistcategories/
Dr Antonia Hofstätter published a new edited volume "Adorno’s Rhinoceros. Art, Nature, Critique", Bloomsbury
Throughout his work, the philosopher Theodor W. Adorno repeatedly invokes the rhinoceros. Taking its cue from one of these passages in Aesthetic Theory, 'So a rhinoceros, the mute animal, seems to say: I am a rhinoceros', this book explores the life of this animal in Adorno's texts, and articulates the nuanced interconnections between art, nature and critique in his thought.
By thus illuminating key elements of Adorno's work, this volume reveals the invaluable contributions that this 'classical' thinker can make to our current reflections on the various pressing natural and political crises of our times.
Tom Whittaker is the inaugural José Amor y Vázquez scholar-in-residence at Brown University
Tom Whittaker has recently returned from completing a visiting fellowship at Brown University, Rhode Island, which took place in April 2021. At Brown, Tom delivered a public hybrid lecture entitled 'Photography and Postmemory in Pedro Almodóvar's Madres paralelas' and delivered a workshop to PhD students.
Intersections of Memory and Sustainability: Explorations in Eco-Art from the Caribbean and Latin America
As part of their artistic residency in the SMLC in late April 2022, Amazonian writer Juan Carlos Galeano and Martiniquian performance artist Henri Tauliaut will offer public events on 27 and 28 April to explore how written, visual, and performative practices can address issues of memory, sustainability and justice in precarious environments. All are welcome.
SMLC staff and students help Coventry community languages project win Parliament UK award
A Coventry community language project involving the city’s schools, universities, local council, businesses and MPs has been named Parliament UK Community Campaign of the Year in the Your UK Parliament Awards 2022.
New monograph, "Hatred of Sex" by Oliver Davis and Tim Dean, University of Nebraska Press (2022)
New monograph, "Heightened Genre and Women's Filmmaking in Hollywood: the Rise of the Cine-fille", by Mary Harrod, Palgrave (2021)
91¸£Àû's Interdisciplinary MSc Humanitarian Engineering
Want to learn more about 91¸£Àû's Interdisciplinary MSc Humanitarian Engineering?
Awarded by the School of Engineering, the accredited and interdisciplinary MSc Humanitarian Engineering (with Sustainability or Management) is an exciting and innovative programme designed for students from all disciplinary and professional backgrounds.
It brings together the expertise and insight of multiple disciplines to discover new and innovative solutions to the world's most pressing problems: water and environment; renewable energy; global health; sustainable cities, engineering, and supply chains; food security; urban data and resilience- as well as other timely topics underpinned by the UN's SDGs.
Full and part-time study applications are still being accepted for the 2022-23 academic year. 91¸£Àû students and alumni benefit from a 10% reduction in fees.
Want to connect to and have any questions you may have answered?
ATTEND our this Saturday 02 April at 10:30 where you'll receive a detailed programme overview by the Director of Studies, Professor Georgia Kremmyda and hear from students undertaking the programme.
REGISTER for weekly drop-in sessions to connect with current students to learn about their experience, and have questions answered by the programme team.
REQUEST a one-to-one meeting with the Programme Manager by emailing hum.eng@warwick.ac.uk or by completing this form.
See our Programme Brochure and Module Videos for more information.