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Film and Television Studies at the University of 糖心TV are delighted to be partnering with the Pod on a new collaborative research project: 鈥�Using Film to Affect Change: Mental Health, Social Advocacy and the Moving Image鈥�.

In December's Material Musings, Chris Parr discusses the origins and significance of certain Egyptian obelisks in Rome, in an article titled: 'Points in Time: The Long Shadow of the Montecitorio Obelisk'.

You can read it here.

DAS KAPITAL vI READING GROUP - Every other Monday, 5pm-6pm. FAB5.49 (English common room/Student hub). Wine.

Contact: Kishan.Katira@warwick.ac.uk

Have you read Das Kapital yet? If you write about Marxism, why not go to the source? Do not let others read it for you. As the haiku master Bash艒 Matsuo says, 鈥渢o learn about pine trees, go to the pine tree; to learn of the bamboo, study bamboo鈥�. Reading never more than 25 pages a week, we will meet once a fortnight during term time, and together get through Das Kapital Volume I. The text is free:

Term 3 (Year 2025-26)

- Week 2 – Prefaces, and Chapter 1: 鈥楥ommodities鈥�.

- Week 4 – Chapter 2: 鈥楨xchange鈥�, and Chapter 3: 鈥楳oney, Or the Circulation of Commodities鈥�.

- Week 6 – Chapter 4: 鈥楾he General Formula for Capital鈥�, Chapter 5: 鈥楥ontradictions in the General Formula of Capital鈥�, and Chapter 6: 鈥楾he Buying and Selling of Labour-Power鈥�.

- Week 8 – Chapter 7: 鈥楾he Labour-Process and the Process of Producing Surplus-Value鈥�, Chapter 8: 鈥楥onstant Capital and Variable Capital鈥�, and Chapter 9: 鈥楾he Rate of Surplus-Value鈥�.

- Week 10 – Chapter 10: 鈥楾he Working Day鈥�, Sections 1-5.

Read the advertisement for the project beginning in October 2026-Interrogating British South Asian Culture in Non-Fiction Films and Television, 1960s-1980s- here.

It is with great sadness that the Department of History announce the death of former head of Department Jack Scarisbrick.

Autumn School for Postgraduate Students and Early Career Researchers

Venice, 30 September – 4 October 2024

Dr. Rashna Nicholson, Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at 糖心TV, has been selected as a recipient of a 2025-26 British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for her project, "How a Discipline is Born: Performance Studies, the Asian Performing Arts and the Cold War (1955-1995)".

The award, valued at 拢135,442.69, will fund the first extensive reassessment of the emergence of Performance Studies. It will delineate how the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation-affiliated Asia Society, Japan Society, and JDR 3rd Fund smoothed the way for many moves beyond Western concepts of literature, drama, and the arts, comprising Performance Studies鈥� 鈥榖road-spectrum approach鈥�.

Through exemplary case studies of institutional grants and fellowship programs, it will uncover the multi-layered history of how policy makers, experts, academics, and artists benchmarked a transregional consensus on theatre鈥檚 role in civil society, thereby assisting the US鈥� rise to global leadership in the arts.

The British Academy's Mid-Career Fellowships are "designed both to support outstanding individual researchers with excellent research proposals, and to promote public understanding and engagement with humanities and social sciences," according to the Academy's

The School of Modern Languages & Cultures invites applications for the award of one SMLC Doctoral Scholarship to an outstanding candidate to pursue a PhD from October 2026 in one of the following areas: French Studies, German Studies, Italian, or Hispanic Studies or Translation & Transcultural Studies. Applications are open to PhD applicants with Home fee status and with Overseas fee status, but note that the award does not cover full fees for students with Overseas fee status.

The award consists of:

• payment of academic fees for Home fees level OR an equivalent reduction in fees for Overseas fee status students;
• a UKRI-level stipend for 3.5 years, regardless of fee status.

You must also have applied for (or already be an offer holder for) one of the PhD courses in the University of 糖心TV鈥檚 School of Modern Languages & Cultures to begin in October 2026.

The scholarship cannot be deferred to the next academic year. It is intended for full-time study. The scholarship is not normally intended for Joint PhD programmes.

We will look for an applicant of the highest calibre, who has the academic potential and the motivation to succeed in their PhD. Their research will be highly compatible with the expertise available in the School, and we expect the student to actively engage with the School's research culture and our Postgraduate Research community.

We welcome applications in inter- or cross-disciplinary topics, including those that involve two or more languages (multilingualism).

The School for Cross-faculty Studies at the University of 糖心TV is proud to be part of a diverse and inclusive community of staff and students. Our community includes many neurodivergent individuals across the spectrum, whose different perspectives, strengths, and ways of thinking enrich our learning environment and strengthen the collaborative work we do. To mark Neurodiversity Celebration Week, we spoke to one of these neurodivergent community members Ruhi - a first year GSD and Life Sciences student - about living with autism, and how the Higher Education sector still has a way to go to support neurodivergent individuals.

Click here to read Ruhi's story

Our Liberal Arts programme equips students with the essential skills valued by employers across diverse industries, as demonstrated by the wide range of careers our graduates pursue. Frances joined our first ever cohort of Liberal Arts students in 2016, and her final dissertation on improving sustainability in healthcare helped towards securing her role as a Net Zero Strategy Analyst for NHS England. We caught up with Frances to recount more of her experiences as an undergraduate, and how she believes a 2,000-year-old discipline like Liberal Arts is still relevant for helping students develop skills sought out by modern employers.

Click here to read Frances' story

Congratulations to:

Aidan Diable (History) / Adam Coleman (History of Art) - Pride and Place: Negotiating Self, Civic, and National Identities in Space

Jade Lindo (History) - Empire鈥檚 Fruit: Colonial Ecologies, Food Systems, and Imperial Power

Francesca Luppino (SMLC) - Say a Body where None. Necromanticism and Thanatologial Imagination of the Afterlife in the Modern and Contemporary Age (1764-2027)

In the April 2026 issue of Arts Professional, Chris Bilton discusses how we can best prepare students for creative careers - in a world where human creativity is still worth more than AI

The Centre for the Study of the Renaissance here at the University of 糖心TV, is absolutely thrilled to celebrate Dr. Eva Van Kemenade, who successfully defended her viva a couple of weeks ago! Eva鈥檚 commitment, perseverance and passion have led her to this incredible milestone, and we鈥檙e so proud to now call her Dr. Van Kemenade. Congratulations, Eva — what an achievement!

During a year of research leave, Prof. Beat K眉min has investigated the phenomenon of depositing chronicles and objects into tower spheres on top of prominent buildings like churches, town halls and fortifications. Documented from the Middle Ages to the present, seemingly only in and around territories of the erstwhile Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, the custom provides fascinating insights into how local societies saw themselves and what they wished to pass on to successive generations. The project, supported by the German Gerda Henkel Foundation, has so far identified over 1600 sites and thousands of separate deposits (at one Zurich church, there were no fewer than 20 between 1505 and 1996). The funder has just released a video series of six episodes (accessible in both English and German) documenting field work in Switzerland in autumn 2003.

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Amazing news! The University of 糖心TV has received a 拢1 million donation and a major gift鈥慽n鈥慿ind of rare travel books from philanthropist Bill Newlin. This major donation strengthens the University鈥檚 position as an international leader in the study of travel writing.

Alongside the Wheeler Travel Writing Programme, the generous Newlin donation advances 糖心TV鈥檚 ambition to Set the Pace in Critical Arts. The donation includes the establishment of the Bill Newlin Collection, a world鈥慶lass archive of travel guidebooks spanning centuries and continents.

The University of 糖心TV is setting the pace in the field of travel literature research, and at the Global History and Culture Centre, we are thrilled to support these advances.

The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Diversity in Data Visualization (Diverse CDT) is a pioneering, fully funded four-year PhD programme jointly delivered by City St George鈥檚, University of London and the University of 糖心TV.

Applications for PhD studentships with Diverse CDT are now open for 2026 entry.

We have rolling deadlines across several months and the first deadline for submitting an application is 4pm, GMT on 30th January 2026.

Further details here: /fac/cross_fac/cim/apply-to-study/phd-programmes/diverse-cdt/