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02/11 5pm-7pm: Italian Research Seminar - 'The Phantom Hitchhiker'

Sue Rae — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:10:53 GMT

When: 17:00 - 19:00, Mon, 02 Nov '26

03/11 5pm-6:30pm: STVDIO Seminar - Katrin Ettenhuber (Cambridge)

Sue Rae — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:25:50 GMT

When: 17:00 - 18:30, Tue, 03 Nov '26

3 Nov (Week 5), 5pm: Katrin Ettenhuber (University of Cambridge), title TBC.

17/11 12pm-1pm: TTS Research Seminar - Qian Liu and Fabio Camilletti

Sue Rae — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:34:32 GMT

When: 12:00 - 13:00, Tue, 17 Nov '26

Where: FAB6.03 and online

TTS Research Seminar and Book Launch with

Qian Liu and Fabio Camilletti [hybrid, in person

FAB6.03 and online]

17/11 5pm-6:30pm: Caribbean Studies Seminar

Sue Rae — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:02:59 GMT

When: 17:00 - 18:30, Tue, 17 Nov '26

Tuesday 17^th November, Tue 17 Nov '26, 5pm - 6:30pm:

Talk by Daniel Rood, Associate Professor, University of Georgia

"The De-Judaization of Caribbean Trade and the Making of a British Imperial Nation in the 17th Century

18/11 1:15pm-3:45pm: Warwick in Europe Showcase

Sue Rae — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:38:04 GMT

When: 13:15 - 15:45, Wed, 18 Nov '26

Warwick in Europe ShowcaseLink opens in a new window on Wednesday 18^th November, 13.15 – 15.45 hosted by Professor George Christou, Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Europe.

Join members of Warwick's Executive Team and colleagues from International Strategy and Relations to explore the latest opportunities for staff engagement across Europe.

Our networking-focused showcase will highlight current opportunities, funding schemes and partnership initiatives, while providing the chance to connect with colleagues and experts from across the University.

Discover:

Staff mobility and partnerships funding through Erasmus+- including opportunities now opening for a September 2027 start.
Research Grants through Horizon Europe calls, seed fund schemes and collaborative initiatives.
Strategic European networks - that support education, research and policy engagement, including EUTOPIA, the Warwick Venice Centre, policy networks and bilateral partnerships.
Dedicated networking opportunities with colleagues and experts who can help you develop ideas, partnerships and funding applications.

The event will take place on central campus and will conclude with the opportunity to network with colleagues over light refreshments.

To attend, please register your interestLink opens in a new window, as places are limited.

We hope to see you there!

Team Europe, International Strategy and Relations (ISR)

18/11 2pm-3:30pm: Warwick Cultural Memory Seminar

Sue Rae — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:09:47 GMT

When: 14:00 - 15:30, Wed, 18 Nov '26

Where: FAB5.49

Wednesday 18 November: Memory in Translation (FAB 5.49)

Lee Purvis (Translation & Transcultural Studies): ‘Translational Sites of Memory in the Weather-World: Tacit Narratives in the Old Quarter of Salamanca’

Charlotte Le Bervet (French): ‘“French Feminism” Never Existed (and Other Stories We Tell Ourselves) – Travelling Theories, Translation and the Politics of Feminist Cultural Memory’

Respondent: Caroline Summers (Translation & Transcultural Studies)

18/11 5pm-7pm: Italian Research Seminar - Rethinking Academic Mobility in Early Modern Italy

Sue Rae — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:08:50 GMT

When: 17:00 - 19:00, Wed, 18 Nov '26

19/11 1pm-3pm: EMECC-GHCC joint seminar, Unchartered Maritime Worlds

Sue Rae — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:46:18 GMT

When: 13:00 - 15:00, Thu, 19 Nov '26

Where: WRE 1&2

1pm - 3pm, Thu, 19 Nov '26

Location: Wolfson Exchange 1&2, Library

EMECC-GHCC joint seminar, Unchartered Maritime Worlds

Speaker, Craig Lambert, Southampton University

20/11 3pm-4pm: TTS Research Seminar - Sharon Black

Sue Rae — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:36:46 GMT

When: 15:00 - 16:00, Fri, 20 Nov '26

Where: OC1.04 and online

TTS Research Seminar with Sharon Black

(University of East Anglia) [hybrid, in person.

OC1.04 and online]

24/11 5:30pm-7:30pm: CRPLA Colloquium

Sue Rae — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:30:27 GMT

When: 17:30 - 19:30, Tue, 24 Nov '26

Where: A0.23 Social Sciences

Colloquium on Capriciousness and Consistency in Artistic Style and Taste

Speakers: Matthew Shlomowitz (Southampton), Karen Lang (Art Historian), and Eileen John (Warwick)

Tuesday 24 November, 17.30-19.30, A0.23 (Social Sciences Applied Linguistics wing)

25/11 5pm-7pm: Italian Research Seminar -Collodi Bicentenary

Sue Rae — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:12:49 GMT

When: 17:00 - 19:00, Wed, 25 Nov '26

01/12 5pm-6:30pm: STVDIO Seminar - Andrew Jotischky (Royal Holloway)

Sue Rae — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:27:30 GMT

When: 17:00 - 18:30, Tue, 01 Dec '26

1 Dec (Week 9), 5pm: Andrew Jotischky (Royal Holloway) (TBC).

02/12 3pm-4pm: TTS Research Seminar - Helen Vassallo

Sue Rae — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:38:39 GMT

When: 15:00 - 16:00, Wed, 02 Dec '26

Where: S0.18

TTS Research Seminar with Helen Vassallo

(University of Exeter)

[in person, S0.18]

02/12 5pm-7pm: Italian Research Seminar Series - Dr Marina Spunta

Sue Rae — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:14:38 GMT

When: 17:00 - 19:00, Wed, 02 Dec '26

04/12 2pm-4:30pm: EMECC Workshop and Book Launch

Sue Rae — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:49:14 GMT

When: 14:00 - 16:30, Fri, 04 Dec '26

Where: FAB2.43

2pm - 4:30pm, Fri, 04 Dec '26

Location: FAB2.43 Faculty of Arts Building

Espionage, Intelligence and Code Breaking in Early Modern Europe

With Prof. Nadine Akkerman (University of Leiden), Dr Jade Scott (Glasgow University), Dr Ioanna Iordanou (Oxford Brookes) and Prof. Penny Roberts (Warwick).

The workshop will be followed by a wine reception at 4.30pm to celebrate the publication of Penny Robert’s New Book Huguenot Networks: Truth and Secrecy in Sixteenth-Century Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2025).

09/12 2pm-3:30pm: Warwick Cultural Memory Seminar

Sue Rae — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:11:32 GMT

When: 14:00 - 15:30, Wed, 09 Dec '26

Where: FAB5:49

Wednesday 9 December: Memory Traces (FAB 5.49)

Katherine Stone (German): ‘Un-listened–to-stories of Wartime Sexualised Violence: Between Graphic, Anecdotal, and Narrative Memory in Post-1945 Germany’

Jorge Sarasola Herrera (Hispanic Studies): ‘Digging the Dictatorship’s Disappeared: Forensic Memory in Contemporary Uruguayan Literature’

Respondent: Mark Philp (History)

11/12: Pride and Place: Negotiating Self, Civic, and National Identities in Space

Sue Rae — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:10:54 GMT

When: Fri, 11 Dec '26

20/01 2pm-3:30pm: Warwick Cultural Memory Seminar

Sue Rae — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:13:11 GMT

When: 14:00 - 15:30, Wed, 20 Jan '27

Where: FAB5.49

Wednesday 20 January: Memory in Space / Memory in Detention (FAB 5.49)

Alfisha Sabri (History): ‘Partition and Remembrance in a Himalayan Hill Station’

Divya Suryawanshi (German): ‘Reimagining Prison: From Detention to Destination’

Respondent: Christoph Mick (History)

02/02 5:30pm-7pm: CRPLA Seminar - Charlotte de Mille (Courtauld)

Sue Rae — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:32:35 GMT

When: 17:30 - 19:00, Tue, 02 Feb '27

Where: FAB5.03

Charlotte de Mille (Courtauld)

Tuesday 2 February, 17.30-19.00, FAB5.03 (Faculty of Arts, 5th floor)

24/02 2pm-3:30pm: Warwick Cultural Memory Seminar

Sue Rae — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:14:31 GMT

When: 14:00 - 15:30, Wed, 24 Feb '27

Where: FAB3.26

Wednesday 24 February: The Limits of Memory (FAB 3.26)

Alison Ribeiro de Menezes (Hispanic Studies/SMLC): ‘The Insufficiency of Contemporary Cultural Memory Studies’

Benjamin Smith (History): ‘The Ungrievable: State Violence, Death and Memory in Modern Mexico’

Respondent: Fabienne Viala (Hispanic and Caribbean Studies/SMLC)

27/02: Say a Body where None. Necromanticism and Thanatological Imagination of the Afterlife in the Modern and Contemporary Age

Sue Rae — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:22:02 GMT

When: Sat, 27 Feb '27

Where: Wolfson Research Exchange, 91Ӱ��ƽ��

01/03 1pm-3pm: TTS Research Seminar - Federic Chaume

Sue Rae — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:41:41 GMT

When: 13:00 - 15:00, Mon, 01 Mar '27

Where: FAB5.03

TTS Research Seminar with Federic Chaume

(Universitat Jaume I)

[in person, FAB5.03 with networking event after]

02/03 5:15pm-7pm: Caribbean Studies Seminar

Sue Rae — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:05:10 GMT

When: 17:15 - 19:00, Tue, 02 Mar '27

Tue 02 Mar '27

5:15pm - 7pm:

Annual Walter Rodney lecture:

Professor Alejandro de la Fuente, Havard University: 'Their “exquisite works”: Rewriting the Art History of Cuba'

02/03 5:30pm-7pm: CRPLA Seminar - Pierre-Philippe Fraiture (Warwick)

Sue Rae — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:34:32 GMT

When: 17:30 - 19:00, Tue, 02 Mar '27

Where: FAB5.03

Pierre-Philippe Fraiture (Warwick)

Tuesday 2 March, 17.30-19.00, FAB5.03 (Faculty of Arts, 5th floor)

16/03 5:30pm-7pm: CRPLA Seminar - Naomi Vogt (Warwick)

Sue Rae — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:36:03 GMT

When: 17:30 - 19:00, Tue, 16 Mar '27

Where: SO.19

Naomi Vogt (Warwick)

Tuesday 16 March, 17.30-19.00, S0.19 (Social Sciences)

17/03 2pm-3:30pm: Warwick Cultural Memory Seminar

Sue Rae — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:16:06 GMT

When: 14:00 - 15:30, Wed, 17 Mar '27

Where: FAB5.49

Wednesday 17 March: Memory Objects (FAB 5.49)

Beat Kümin (History): ‘Coins, Relics & Covid Masks: Tower Capsule Objects left for Posterity in the German Lands’

Riccardo Bianco (Italian): ‘A Postcolonial Interpretation of Roman Auxiliary Military Tombstones’

Respondent: Chris Parr (Classics and Ancient History)

20/03: Empire’s Fruit: Colonial Ecologies, Food Systems, and Imperial Power

Sue Rae — Wed, 06 May 2026 11:49:39 GMT

When: Sat, 20 Mar '27

Where: tbc

28/04 2pm-3:30pm: Warwick Cultural Memory Seminar

Sue Rae — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:17:49 GMT

When: 14:00 - 15:30, Wed, 28 Apr '27

Where: FAB5.49

Wednesday 28 April: Memory and the State (FAB 5.49)

John West (English and Comparative Literary Studies): ‘Religious Addresses to the Restored Monarchy and the Memory of the Civil Wars’

Millie Jacoby (SMLC): ‘(Post)memory of Eastern Europe in Francophone Jewish life Writing and its (In)compatibility with Notions of National Literature in France’

Respondent: Penny Roberts (History)

19/05 12:30pm-2pm: Humanities Book Launch

Sue Rae — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:27:16 GMT

When: 12:30 - 14:00, Wed, 19 May '27

Where: FAB5.03

19/05 2pm-3:30pm: Warwick Cultural Memory Seminar

Sue Rae — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:19:11 GMT

When: 14:00 - 15:30, Wed, 19 May '27

Where: FAB5.49

Wednesday 19 May: Reparative Memory / Remembering and Forgetting (FAB 5.49)

Kate Astbury (French): ‘The “Brigands” of St Lucia and the Memory of Spaces: Re-examining Colonial History in the Eastern Caribbean’

Michael Mitchell (Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies): ‘The Persistence of Pain: (Post-)Memory and Identity in the Anglophone Caribbean’

Respondent: John Gilmore (English and Comparative Literary Studies)