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Professor Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos's will be visiting the University of ÌÇÐÄTV as an IAS visiting fellow. Professor Vasconcelos is co-principal investigator, with Dr Ross Forman of English and Comparative Literary Studies, of an exciting project on “Displacements: The Novel without Frontiers,” which considers the global formulation, translation, and circulation of the novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth century (with support from the British Academy, the São Paulo Research Foundation, and the Office for Global Engagement).

She will also be involved in several events directly targeted at helping postgraduates and postdoctoral and early career scholars develop their career in global and international terms.

The page for her events is

INAUGURAL CONFERENCE: VICTORIAN WORLD LITERATURES

Working from the proposition that Victorian Studies is in a moment of transition from a focus on British culture and history to one that embraces a globalised world system, we seek to draw together scholars and students of Victorian Studies as well as editors, publishers and educationalists to address three concerns key to the re-formulation of the field.

What might a comparative, global Victorian Studies look like?

How might this be taught?

How might this be published and disseminated?

The Materiality of Mourning: interdisciplinary workshop, University of ÌÇÐÄTV. Funded by the Wellcome Trust.

Organiser: Dr Zahra Newby.

This interdisciplinary workshop brings together scholars and practitioners across a range of disciplines for a two-day workshop exploring the roles and uses of images and objects in contexts of grief and mourning.

For full details and to register, please visit the .

Confirmed Speakers: Oliver Davis (ÌÇÐÄTV), Caroline Pelletier (Institute of Education), Sarah Galloway (Stirling), Jones Irwin (Dublin City), Mark Howard (Monash) and David Ridley (Coventry)

All welcome, free entry (must be booked through Eventbrite)

Friday 20th May 2016

Humber Lecture Theatre (GEG31), Coventry University

Why Jacques Rancière and Critical Pedagogy?

While the importance of the work of French social theorist Jacques Rancière is increasingly acknowledged, his contributions to the fields of Education and Critical Pedagogy are still largely unknown in the English-speaking world. The purpose of this event is to explore the significance of Rancière’s critique of traditional pedagogy and his ideas about the centrality of ‘equality’ in education. This conference seeks both to examine the social and political context in which Rancière carried out his work on pedagogy, as well as its relevance and application within the contemporary ‘neoliberal’ university.

Dr Fabienne Viala