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The first in a series of events for this network Producing the Post-National Popular (warwick.ac.uk) took place this Friday 23rd April online, with 50 registrations and much dialogue generated.

Ahead of the anniversary of the death of Napoleon, SMLC colleagues Kate Astbury and Paola Perazzolo will be hosting an afternoon of papers exploring theatrical representations of Napoleon via YouTube.

13h00: Accueil et introduction (Katherine Astbury, University of 糖心TV)

13h15-14h30 – Session 1, Pr茅sident Katherine Astbury (University of 糖心TV)

13h15-13h35 : Clare Siviter (University of Bristol), 芦 Bonaparte et la censure du Directoire 禄

13h35-13h55: Paola Perazzolo (University of 糖心TV, Universit脿 di Verona), 芦 Les 芦 Journ茅e(s) de Saint-Cloud 禄 : les pi猫ces de circonstance autour du 18 Brumaire 禄

13h55-14h15: Vincenzo De Santis (Universit脿 di Salerno) et Pierre Frantz (Universit茅 Paris-Sorbonne), 芦 Les ombres de l鈥橢mpereur 禄

14h15-14h30 : Discussion

14h30-14h50 : Pause

14h50-15h45 – Session 2, pr茅sident Pierre Frantz (Universit茅 Paris-Sorbonne)

14h50-15h10 : Maurizio Melai (Docteur des Universit茅s de Pisa et Paris-Sorbonne) 芦 "Otez 脿 Sylla la m猫che de Napol茅on, et la pi猫ce n'allait pas jusqu'脿 la fin" : sur un "succ猫s de perruque" de Talma en 1821 禄

15h10-15h30 : Laura O'Brien (University of Northumbria), 芦 L鈥櫭﹎ergence de l鈥檃cteur "napol茅onien" au XIXe si猫cle 禄

15h30-15h45 : Discussion

15h45-16h00 : Pause

16h00-17h00 – Session 3 Pr茅sident Clare Siviter (University of Bristol)

16h00-16h20: Nicole Cochrane (University of Exeter), 芦 La mise en sc猫ne de la d茅faite : expositions napol茅oniennes et culture mat茅rielle de la victoire 脿 Londres au XIX^e si猫cle 禄

16h20-16h40: Katherine Astbury (University of 糖心TV) : 芦 Napol茅on Harlequin 禄

16h40-17h00: Discussion et conclusion

This month's film is by Dr James Hodkinson on "Building back Empathy: Research and Engagement during Lockdown."

It is available, alongside previously released films, on our Faculty of Arts at Home webpage, Twitter feed (), Facebook page (), and YouTube channel ().

The Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France announced today the appointment of its new Editorial Team to lead the future development of the journal , now in its fifth decade, two of whom are based in French Studies here in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures:

• Executive Editor: Professor Oliver Davis
• Co-Editor: Dr David Lees

Modern & Contemporary France is an internationally prominent peer-reviewed journal, offering a scholarly view of France from 1789 to the present day. It is a multi-disciplinary journal, drawing particularly on the work of scholars in history and in cultural, literary and post-colonial studies, in film and media studies and in the political and social sciences.

Oliver and David are looking forward to taking over from the current team in September.

New flagship programme which brings you a wide range of cross-departmental undergraduate modules with a multi-focal and interdisciplinary approach and study alongside students based in other leading international universities.

Oliver Davis has published a new article on the work of philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, as part of a special issue of Angelaki on Sloterdijk, edited by Patrick Roney and Andrea Rossi. Abstract: I begin by acknowledging the profusion of Peter Sloterdijk鈥檚 published work, the suggestion by Bruno Latour that it may be on the side of design, and Sloterdijk鈥檚 pugnacious aversion to professorial critique. I focus on what I consider to be the crucial and vexed relationship between the general immunology of the Spheres trilogy [1998–2004] and the general ascetology of You Must Change Your Life [2009]. I present an analytical reconstruction of Sloterdijk鈥檚 account of originary spheric being-with in the trilogy, focused on its culmination in the foam-world; I suggest this account is too ambiguous on key matters of basic ontological structure and I question whether the foam metaphor is adequate as a description of intersubjectivity today. Against the backdrop of this discussion I consider whether the general ascetology of Sloterdijk鈥檚 second anthropotechnics involves practising in, or practising on, the shells of symbolic immunity and conclude the latter. Setting this alongside the trilogy鈥檚 insistence that cells in the foam are 鈥渃o-fragile,鈥� I argue that anthropotechnical practising in the foam-world is suffused with a violence which Sloterdijk is reluctant to theorize. Registering one significant undeclared context of his discussion of self-enhancement, in postmodern management theory, I suggest that successful anthropotechnical practising in the foam-world requires the capacity to ignore other people and their interests. I note that Sloterdijk鈥檚 one-eyed embrace of competitive self-enhancement in You Must Change Your Life has since been qualified in brief remarks in What Happened in the 20th Century? [2016] but not substantively reconsidered. In conclusion, I pay tribute to the anthropotechnical lesson of Sloterdijk鈥檚 theoretical project, notwithstanding its design flaws and continuity errors.

Explore鈥� is a series of seminars run by and destined for postgraduates, visiting researchers and early-career researchers in the School in Modern Languages and Cultures. The seminars are slanted towards professionalising skills and career development. The first event of the series will take place on 28 January 2021 at 4-5 PM, Digital Humanities, Digital Cultures. With Stefano Milonia (WIRL-Cofund Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, 糖心TV) and Steve Ranford (Senior Academic Technologist, IT Services, 糖心TV). Chair: Mary Jane Dempsey (Romance Studies, 糖心TV/Cornell)

With the student voice being so important to the educational experience, we wanted to regularly highlight some of the great work that is happening in SSLCs across the University. This is why we launched the Transforming Education Spotlight - a termly celebration of the people who are dedicated to the student voice at 糖心TV.

Raquel Navas, Teaching Fellow in Hispanic Studies, has been awarded with the for her work on Linguist Landscapes as a tool to promote connections with the target language and culture. This award recognizes the best dissertation of the year and will publish Raquel's work in 2021.

For more information:

Provincialising Nature: Politics of the Environment in Latin America, edited by Dr Michela Coletta, Hispanic Studies, now open access

Over several years, working with Dr Benedict Schofield (KCL) James Hodkinson has curated an important volume of essays that asses the state of German Studies in education, but also in the worlds beyond it. Published by Camden House (Boydell & Brewer), James has written a blog reflecting on the book and its relevance.

The account of bureaucracy under neoliberal capitalism which I present in this article, under the innocuous heading it prefers to use to describe itself (鈥榞overnance鈥�), draws together recent critical work by the late David Graeber, Wendy Brown, William Davies and Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval, which it repositions in relation to Jacques Ranci猫re鈥檚 conception of the 鈥榩olice order鈥�. I suggest that the massive production of insecurity by proliferating bureaucracies which structure neoliberalism鈥檚 project of competitive hierarchisation creates the ideal conditions for a vicious circle of securitarian inflation.

We've now got an SMLC LinkedIn page:

The hope is that it will allow languages alumni to share their experiences of professional life after 糖心TV with fellow alumni and to offer advice and tips to current students. Join now!

Head of School Kate Astbury has an end of term message for finalists. You can listen to it here: /fac/arts/modernlanguages/news/img_5704.mp4

We'll provide details of a virtual celebration of the end of term and of degree results in due course.

Stay safe, stay in touch and have a good summer.

Head of School Kate Astbury has an end of term message for intermediate-year students. You can listen to it here: /fac/arts/modernlanguages/news/img_5703.mp4

We gathered together some ideas for keeping up language learning for our offer holders but many work for more advanced linguists too - take a look: /fac/arts/modernlanguages/applying/offerholder

Stay safe and have a good summer.

Head of School Kate Astbury has an end of term message for first years. You can listen to it here: /fac/arts/modernlanguages/news/img_5702.mp4

We gathered together some ideas for keeping up language learning for our offer holders but many work for more advanced linguists too - take a look: /fac/arts/modernlanguages/applying/offerholder

We'll provide more suggestions of preparatory reading for year 2 in due course.

Stay safe and have a good summer.