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From the 20^th to 22^nd April 2022, we will be inviting up to 30 young people from Year 12 to our campus. Participants will spend three days and two nights experiencing university life, with many being away from home for the first time.

Events will involve taking part in Faculty taster sessions, life skills workshops, shopping, cooking and a mini group project. The aim is to support young people to make the transition from school and home life to a more independent future.

For further details, please contact Damien Homer, Faculty of Arts Widening Participation Coordinator at Damien.Homer@warwick.ac.uk

The biennial conference of the SIS at the University of ÌÇÐÄTV on 20^th-22^nd April 2022 looks forward to bringing together again the Italian Studies community in the UK and Ireland, Italy, and beyond to share their emergent and ongoing research. We welcome scholars and practitioners at all stages of their academic and professional careers who are working on the diversity of cultures, languages, histories, and creative practices associated with Italy from the medieval period to the present and future. In planning papers, panels, and broader participation, colleagues are invited to think inclusively about what is encompassed by research and teaching in Italian Studies, which kinds of expertise and experience contribute meaningfully to its advancement, and how knowledge, outcomes, and ideas might most effectively be exchanged in the context of this gathering of diverse specialists after the recent interruption to the rhythm of regular, discipline-wide engagement.

The is due to culminate in a multi-day festival on the University of ÌÇÐÄTV campus from 19 - 21 April. Helen Wheatley, Festival Director and Arts very own Professor of Film & Television Studies, is inviting you to come and participate in an exciting of activities and events. The FAB, ÌÇÐÄTV's stunning new Faculty of Arts Building and the refurbished are at the very centre of these arts and cultural events, which include contributions from Arts colleagues as follows:

Classics and Ancient History

Michael Scott’s Was Fake News a Problem in Ancient Athens

Paul Grigsby’s Roman Coventry Activity Day

Francesca Modini’s Roman Coventry and Music

Cross Faculty Studies

Kirsten Harris’s Freedom in Utopia  

English and Comparative Literary Studies

Justin Tackett’s Make Some Noise

History

Beat Kümin’s Rethinking Hospitality

David Lees’ Cooking up the Past 

Martha McGill’s Invisible Worlds: Humans and the Supernatural Enlightenment in Britain 

School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures

Ronan Hatfull’s To Tell My Story: Remaking Hamlet – workshop on restaging Hamlet with Zoe Templeman Young and Devon Glover

Michael Pigott’s Listening to our Environments workshop and Concrete Cinema installation

Vishalakshi Roy’s Coventry Made Me ­

School of Modern Languages and Cultures

James Hodkinson’s The Art of Visual Storytelling

Alison Ribeiro de Menezes’s Rewind

Kate Astbury’s Celebrating Languages

Zhiyan Guo’s Chinese Culture in Words, Voices and Music

Mary Harrod’s Let’s Talk About Sex –

From Thomas More’s Utopia to Marvel’s Black Panther, this fascinating talk from Dr Kirsten Harris explores questions of freedom through utopian imaginings from a range of places and times.

"What does freedom look like to different people, cultures or societies?

Does freedom mean liberty from oppression, or is it having the freedom to pursue your own desires and interests?

Utopian thinkers identify major problems in their own societies and propose solutions to imagine better futures. 'Freedom' features a lot in this kind of social dreaming.

Writers, film-makers, activists and theorists all explore ways of living that bring greater liberty and happiness. But freedom is a disputed concept."