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Humanities Research Centre - Doctoral Fellowship Competition - Launch Event

To find out more about the Fellowship, how to apply and an opportunity to meet the Director and Administrator we invite PGRs from the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy to join us at our special launch event on Wednesday 23rd November at 13:00 in the Wolfson Research Exchange, Room 3.

Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided. Feel free to bring your lunch with you.

Date: Wednesday 23rd November 2022

Time: 13:00-14:00

Location: In person event - Room 3, Wolfson Research Exchange (3^rd Floor, Library)

Reading chapters

Introduction

Chapter 1 WHAT, AFTER ALL, IS DECOLONISATION?

The HRC would like to invite Arts and Philosophy PGRs to attend the launch event for the annual HRC Doctoral Fellowship Competition.

You will be able to hear all about the scheme, how it works and what is expected of you if you win.

It also provides an opportunity for you to ask questions and meet the Director, Professor Alison Cooley and the Administrator, Sue Rae.

Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided.

Please email S.Rae@warwick.ac.uk to book your place.

Further information: Doctoral Fellowship Competition (warwick.ac.uk)

with Dr Tristan Kay (Bristol), Dr Valentina Mele (Leeds), Prof. Heather Webb (Cambridge) and Dr Federica Coluzzi. Invited speakers: Prof. Fulvio Conti (Florence), Prof. Anna Pegoretti (Roma Tre).

Dr Sal Consoli, The University of Edinburgh

This talk will draw on Pierre Bourdieu鈥檚 notion of capital. Bourdieu鈥檚 work has percolated various academic domains and transcended disciplinary boundaries, thereby leading to new vistas and questions. It is in the spirit of generating 鈥渘ew vistas鈥� that this talk offers a novel perspective which may serve as an epistemic and methodological drive to reinvigorate our research practices within language education. In particular, I will argue for a new application of Bourdieu鈥檚 sociological concept of capital to account more holistically for the complexities of our research experiences whilst addressing the 鈥渞ealities鈥� and 鈥渄ilemmas鈥� of our field (McKinley & Rose, 2017). Ultimately, I will propose life capital as a catalyst to promote a fresh a lens which, in the long run, may yield language education research that fully acknowledges, values, and celebrates the humanness of our inquiries

Bio: Dr Sal Consoli is Lecturer in Language Education at The Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh. Previously, he worked at other universities in the UK and Hong Kong. His research focuses on the psychology of language education with specific emphasis on student motivation and engagement as well as language teacher wellbeing. He also has an active interest in research ethics and reflexivity in applied linguistics. Dr Consoli has published in various international peer-reviewed journals, such as TESOL Quarterly, System, and the Journal of English for Academic Purposes. He is co-editor of (Routledge). Dr Consoli has co-edited a Special Issue on Narrative Inquiry for the journal and one on Research Engagement for the journal .

Pawe艂 Pawlikowski鈥檚 award-winning film Ida narrates the story of a Jewish girl who, on the eve of becoming a Catholic nun, learns of her Jewishness and of the tragic death of her parents and cousin. The family were murdered by a Polish peasant whose father had protected the family during the Holocaust. The only survivors of the carnage are Ida, whom the Pole entrusted to a Catholic priest, and Ida鈥檚 aunt, Wanda, who had joined communist resistance. After the war, the aunt becomes a magistrate in a Stalinist court and sends former members of the Armia Krajowa (National Army) resistance group to the gallows to eliminate a potential opposition to the Soviet-backed communist government.

Pawlikowski鈥檚 film clearly attempts to offer a complex picture of the Polish-Jewish wartime and postwar relations by, firstly, including both Polish rescuers and murders of Jews, and by foregrounding the mortal danger run by those harbouring Jews. In other words, while supporting the argument that Poles rescued Jews, Ida chimes with the belated attempts of scholars such as Jan Pawe艂 Gross, Barbara Engelking, and Jan Grabowski to throw light on Polish implication in the Holocaust. In addition, the character of Wanda who is based on the real-life character of Halina Wolinska-Brus, serves to illustrate the popular belief regarding the central role of Jews in establishing and maintaining communist rule in postwar Poland (偶测诲辞办辞尘耻苍补).

Adopting an ecocritical perspective, the paper focuses on the chronotope of the forest as embodiment and reinforcement of the duality of Polish responses to the persecution of Jews by the Nazis. It demonstrates that, while originally acting as a space of rescue, the forest becomes a space of murder. In the light of Eric Katz鈥檚 pioneering work in the discipline of Holocaust ecology and of the more recent work by scholars such as Agnieszka K艂os, Jacek Ma艂czy艅ski, and Miko艂aj Smykowski, the paper also examines the environmental and cultural resonance of the transference of Jewish remains from the forest to a Jewish cemetery, which, due to the annihilation of Poland鈥檚 Jews, has become disused and is being reclaimed by nature.

Helena Duffy is Associate Professor in French at the University of Wroc艂aw, Poland. In her career, she lectured French language and culture also at the University of Queensland, Australia, at the Universit茅 Blaise-Pascal, France, and at the University of Turku, Finland. Between 2016 and 2018 she held the prestigious Marie-Curie Research Fellowship at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she subsequently taught French and Comparative Literature. Her research interests lie with contemporary French culture, with a particular focus on the interplay between postmodern aesthetics and representations of the Holocaust. She is the author of two monographs, two edited volumes, and many journal articles and book chapters. Her publications include World War II in Andrei Makine鈥檚 Historiographic Metafiction (Brill, 2018) and The Holocaust in French Postmodern Fiction (Legenda, 2022).

Wednesday 23rd November: Helena Duffy (Wroc艂aw/Fernandes Fellow, 糖心TV), 鈥榃e Are Not out of the Woods Yet: The Forest as Embodiment of Polish Holocaust Memory in Pawe艂 Pawlikowski鈥檚 Ida鈥�

chair: Anna Ross

speaker: Lukas Schemper (ZFL, Berlin), Sovereignty, International Organization, and the Moral Economy of Saving Lives at Sea in the Ottoman Empire

discussant: Pierre Purseigle

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