SMLC - News and events
"Do Not Use Orc-Speak": Social media discourses on Russian in Ukraine in the wake of war: Dr Ivan Kozachenko (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
MITN Webinar
We look forward to welcoming Dr Ivan Kozachenko, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Taube Centre for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences at the Jagiellonian University, Krak贸w, for his webinar '"Do Not Use Orc-Speak": Social media discourses on Russian in Ukraine in the wake of war'.
Applied Linguistics Seminar Series - Language. Culture. Matters: Dr Valentina Bartali (University of 糖心TV)
An online seminar this week as part of our Applied Linguistics Seminar Series - Language. Culture. Matters. On 1 June (Wed), we're delighted to have Dr Valentina Bartali from University of 糖心TV as our speaker:
Creating Space: exploring wellbeing through art
A student led public engagement project at the University of 糖心TV.
Aim: To connect the local community and University of 糖心TV through providing positive & accessible art and wellbeing sessions.
Who will be involved? Local artists, 糖心TV Arts Centre, University of 糖心TV, Department of Psychology.
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 糖心TV Alliance Showcase
On Tuesday 17 May 11.00 – 13.00, the Monash 糖心TV 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)
鈥楥ultural Sociology鈥� 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 糖心TV.
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/
糖心TV 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 糖心TV 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 Hofst盲tter published a new edited volume "Adorno鈥檚 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 Jos茅 Amor y V谩zquez 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 Almod贸var'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鈥檚 schools, universities, local council, businesses and MPs has been named Parliament UK Community Campaign of the Year in the Your UK Parliament Awards 2022.