ÌÇÐÄTV

Chris Sirrs, ZHU Jing, Timo Schrader

All interested staff and students are welcome to join this informal lunchtime reading group, tackling Dante's Divine Comedy one canto per week.

We are reading the parallel-text edition by Robert M. Durling (copies and e-book available in the library).

The group meets at 1-2pm on Wednesdays during terms 1 and 2 (except reading week) in H2.46.

To be added to the mailing list or for further information, please email sarah.wood@warwick.ac.uk.

David Swan (ÌÇÐÄTV): ‘Crisis in the Eastern Channel - The Transformation in Coinage wrought by Caesar’ 

Denise Wilding (ÌÇÐÄTV): ‘Local worlds on Local Tokens? The Roman Lead Tokens of Gaul and Egypt as Media of Local Expression’ 

On 13/11 the CAL Seminar Series welcomes Dr Daniel Dauber from the University of ÌÇÐÄTV to discuss 'Fostering Communication Skills Development in Internationalising HEIs: The Role of Students & Universities'. The Seminar will take place at 1600 in A1.11. All are welcome.

Getting Abroad Fair for all first- and second-year SMLC students. First year talk, 3 - 4pm MS.05; second-year talks 4 - 5pm, MS.03 and MS.05; the chance to visit the fair and talk to students: 4 - 6pm. For more information see our poster.

Dr Craig Morton (Loughborough University): Is an Environmentally Sustainable Transport System Possible? Tech-push vs Behavioural-switch Approaches

Staff and students from all Departments are welcome to attend this event, as are external visitors.

In the 1950s, the French philosopher, critic, and semiotician Roland Barthes wrote a series of texts which were published subsequently as a collection known as ‘Mythologies’ (1957), which constitute a dissection of popular culture from 1950s France. Barthes used theories embraced in linguistics and his approach has been replicated over the years, but in this paper, I argue that the participatory web, and in particular social network services (SNS), provide us with a perspective to rethink myth-making by non-elites, thanks to the networked language and semiotic practices of subscribers to a wide range of social networks. In other words, we look at how so-called ordinary citizens create a new set of myths by analysing the discursive presentations of a range of ‘things’ that individuals draw on at Orly, and how they are explicitly made to carry meaning, according to the captions, hashtags, and emoticons given by the original poster.

Speaker: Marianna Deganutti (University of Bath)

A launch of Marianna Deganutti's "Fulvio Tomizza: Writing the Trauma of Exile" (Cambridge: Legenda, 2018)

This week - reading Colleen Lye's "A Genealogy of the 'Yellow Peril': Jack London, George Kennan, and the Russo-Japanese War" as well as "On Autobiography and Theory" in Marcus Roediger's The Wages of Whiteness and "Class Organization in a Racially Segmented Labor Force" Alexander Saxton's The Rise and Fall of the White Republics

All welcome!