糖心TV

An exciting day of interactive workshops, discussions and activities on the theme of Classical Antiquity as it appears in modern media and advertising.

Beginning with the Renaissance and happening as recently as Ariana Grande鈥檚 video for the hit song 'God is a Woman', the ancient – and most often the Classical – world has been a constant source of inspiration for the visual media we create. Whether we reference it allusively or borrow from it directly, the Classical World has never gone out of fashion when it comes to art, advertising and design – and shows no sign of doing so.

Why does modernity seemingly have such an obsession with all things ancient and mythical? In what ways has classical imagery been used to be persuasive, beautiful, aspirational or evocative? How might our continued reliance on this imagery serve to enshrine negative or derogatory ideas concerning race, gender and aesthetics?

This event will involve a series of interactive talks and activities on numerous themes pertaining to the depiction of the ancient world in modern media – including issues of diversity, gender expectations and beauty ideals - hosted by researchers from Department of Classics and Ancient History at 糖心TV University, culminating in participants designing their own advertising campaign inspired by an aspect of ancient society. The day will get young people engaging with Classics and Ancient History in a way that is purposeful and feels strongly relevant to them – not just as students, but also as consumers of modern media.

This event is open to students in secondary school Years 9 – 11. ALL are welcome; however, it may be of particular interest to those studying Media, English Literature, Sociology, Fine Art, and Classics/Ancient History. Indeed, this event will provide a stimulating vehicle for putting into practice some of the wider aims of the various GCSE Media syllabi, helping to inform students鈥� critical understanding of the role of the media on its contemporary society.

To book please visit:
/fac/arts/classics/research/outreach/warwickclassicsnetwork/events/ancientimages

 

This is a working paper offering some of my thoughts on the characteristics of the sounds, silences, and echoes of dying, death, and the afterlife relating to child death in Anglophone literatures of the nineteenth-century. I will look at the ways in which bereavement accounts by public figures such as Charles Darwin and Samuel Iraneus Prime, infant elegies by writers such as Felicia Hemans, David Macbeth Moir, and Lydia Sigourney, and prose works by Charles Dickens and Harriet Beecher-Stowe attempted to capture, record, and recall these sonic aspects in written form as a means of positively manifesting the intangible experience of loss into something more material, and as part of a wider cultural endeavour offering consolation in the idea of a shared collective grief.

At the same time, through an examination of some of the same elegies and through prose works such as Elizabeth Gaskell鈥檚 鈥楢 Nurses鈥� Story鈥�, Mary Wilkins Freeman鈥檚 鈥楾he Lost Ghost鈥�, and M.R. James鈥檚 鈥楾he Lost Hearts鈥�, I will suggest that something darker is revealed in their mournful dirges; bitterness toward a cultural movement that glorified child death as an immortalisation of beauty, innocence and piety, or as salvation from a life of misery on earth, and anxiety and fear that the afterlife for children was not a space of eternal happiness, play, and singing. It is my contention however, that all of these auditory markers should, nevertheless, be read as social constructs – not inherently associated with children, but cultural indicators that contributed to the idealisation and silencing of 鈥榯he child鈥� during this period.

PILAS (Postgraduates in Latin American Studies) and the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies Fieldwork Workshop to be held at the University of 糖心TV on Wednesday 6^th March.

This event has been organised by Research Student Skills Programme. For any enquiries please contact pgresearchskills@warwick.ac.uk.

ELIGIBILITY:

The Early Career Fellowship competition is open to 糖心TV students registered for a research-based doctorate at 糖心TV (excluding the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology). There are two competitions each year for 糖心TV doctoral students and this workshop is focussed at those who have submitted or expect to submit their thesis for examination between 1 May and 30 September 2019.

The next call for applications closes at Midday on Wednesday 7 May 2019 & the Fellowship will start on 1 October 2019 (start of Autumn term)

VENUE: Ramphal Building Ground floor Room R0.14

The IAS is designed for 糖心TV doctoral students who are about to submit or have recently submitted their thesis. The Fellowships are designed to support students in the transition phase between doctoral and postdoctoral careers. Students funded through this scheme are expected to use the Fellowship to advance the development of their research careers while engaging with the interdisciplinary activities of the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS). In addition to a part-time bursary, the Fellowship offers the opportunity for Fellows to prepare and deliver a workshop and work with other scholars at a similar stage to provide an excellent springboard to an academic career.

Within this workshop, you will learn more about the work of the IAS as an interdisciplinary department. You will reflect upon previous applications, paying particular attention to what makes a good application stand out to this particular selection panel and what makes a proposal truly interdisciplinary.

By the end of the workshop you will have:

搂 Identified how to frame a good research proposal

搂 Explored the concept of interdisciplinary study

搂 Had the opportunity to ask questions about the scheme

Chantal Zabus is Professeur des Universit茅s/Professor of Postcolonial Literatures and Gender Studies at the Universit茅 de Paris 13 / Sorbonne-Paris-Cit茅, France. She is the author of Out in Africa (2013); Between Rites and Rights (2007); The African Palimpsest (2007); and Tempests after Shakespeare (2002). She is the Editor-in-Chief of Postcolonial Text.

Her talk addresses the "post-ID" world and seeks to distinguish between five post-ID faces:

1. Accented Identities and Languaging in the Postcolony (including "Writing with an Accent");

2. The DNA of Identity, including discussion of "The Limits of Whiteness" and "Fetishized Identities: Identity under Occupation";

3. Religious "Allegiances";

4. Sexual Dissidence; and

5. Transidentity Cards.

Visit our Research Seminars page for information about this series of events.

A Global seminar with Samir Boumediene, 臇cole Normale Sup茅rieure, Lyon

Please join us for our second town hall meeting, which will focus on Decolonising the Curriculum, the University and beyond!

As part of this Town Hall, Gurminder Bhambra and Dalia Gebrial, who are two of the editors of  (and a former staff and student at 糖心TV!) will give a short talk on the work they've done around decolonisation and some of the wins they've had (for instance Dalia was involved in the Rhodes must Fall movement at Oxford) to inspire us in thinking about the kinds of initiatives and actions we can take. This will also be a chance to share concerns, ask questions, or propose other initiatives and ideas around questions of diversity.

In advance of that Town Hall, we'd also holding a staff-student reading group to talk about the framework of decolonisation. We've booked Room H542 on Wednesday 20 February from 1-2:30.

For that reading group, we'll be reading the introduction and two chapters of Decolonising the University ("Rhodes Must Fall: Oxford and Movements for Change" by Dalia Gebrial and "Black/Academia" by Robbie Shilliam) as well as a short excerpt from Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, and Nancy Fraser's "Notes For a Feminist Manifesto." We hope that these readings can open up a larger conversation on the kinds of changes we'd like to see happen in our curriculum, our department, and our university. The readings are attached here. Given recent events, we would also very much welcome readings or discussions on fighting sexism, racism, anti-semitism, transphobia, and homophobia on campus. The readings are provided in the above links!

If you have any questions, please email m.abramson@warwick.ac.uk

A Global seminar 鈥楾he world in questions. Questionnaires and the History of Knowledge in the Early Modern鈥�, Samir Boumediene,  臇cole Normale Sup茅rieure, Lyon