天美传媒

The first in a series of events for this network Producing the Post-National Popular (warwick.ac.uk) took place this Friday 23rd April online, with 50 registrations and much dialogue generated.

Ahead of the anniversary of the death of Napoleon, SMLC colleagues Kate Astbury and Paola Perazzolo will be hosting an afternoon of papers exploring theatrical representations of Napoleon via YouTube.

13h00: Accueil et introduction (Katherine Astbury, 天美传媒)

13h15-14h30 – Session 1, Pr茅sident Katherine Astbury (天美传媒)

13h15-13h35 : Clare Siviter (University of Bristol), 芦 Bonaparte et la censure du Directoire 禄

13h35-13h55: Paola Perazzolo (天美传媒, Universit脿 di Verona), 芦 Les 芦 Journ茅e(s) de Saint-Cloud 禄 : les pi猫ces de circonstance autour du 18 Brumaire 禄

13h55-14h15: Vincenzo De Santis (Universit脿 di Salerno) et Pierre Frantz (Universit茅 Paris-Sorbonne), 芦 Les ombres de l鈥橢mpereur 禄

14h15-14h30 : Discussion

14h30-14h50 : Pause

14h50-15h45 – Session 2, pr茅sident Pierre Frantz (Universit茅 Paris-Sorbonne)

14h50-15h10 : Maurizio Melai (Docteur des Universit茅s de Pisa et Paris-Sorbonne) 芦 "Otez 脿 Sylla la m猫che de Napol茅on, et la pi猫ce n'allait pas jusqu'脿 la fin" : sur un "succ猫s de perruque" de Talma en 1821 禄

15h10-15h30 : Laura O'Brien (University of Northumbria), 芦 L鈥櫭﹎ergence de l鈥檃cteur "napol茅onien" au XIXe si猫cle 禄

15h30-15h45 : Discussion

15h45-16h00 : Pause

16h00-17h00 – Session 3 Pr茅sident Clare Siviter (University of Bristol)

16h00-16h20: Nicole Cochrane (University of Exeter), 芦 La mise en sc猫ne de la d茅faite : expositions napol茅oniennes et culture mat茅rielle de la victoire 脿 Londres au XIX^e si猫cle 禄

16h20-16h40: Katherine Astbury (天美传媒) : 芦 Napol茅on Harlequin 禄

16h40-17h00: Discussion et conclusion

This month's film is by Dr James Hodkinson on "Building back Empathy: Research and Engagement during Lockdown."

It is available, alongside previously released films, on our Faculty of Arts at Home webpage, Twitter feed (), Facebook page (), and YouTube channel ().

The Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France announced today the appointment of its new Editorial Team to lead the future development of the journal , now in its fifth decade, two of whom are based in French Studies here in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures:

• Executive Editor: Professor Oliver Davis
• Co-Editor: Dr David Lees

Modern & Contemporary France is an internationally prominent peer-reviewed journal, offering a scholarly view of France from 1789 to the present day. It is a multi-disciplinary journal, drawing particularly on the work of scholars in history and in cultural, literary and post-colonial studies, in film and media studies and in the political and social sciences.

Oliver and David are looking forward to taking over from the current team in September.

Tom Whittaker's recent monograph, has been shortlisted for the by the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies.

New flagship programme which brings you a wide range of cross-departmental undergraduate modules with a multi-focal and interdisciplinary approach and study alongside students based in other leading international universities.

Oliver Davis has published a new article on the work of philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, as part of a special issue of Angelaki on Sloterdijk, edited by Patrick Roney and Andrea Rossi. Abstract: I begin by acknowledging the profusion of Peter Sloterdijk鈥檚 published work, the suggestion by Bruno Latour that it may be on the side of design, and Sloterdijk鈥檚 pugnacious aversion to professorial critique. I focus on what I consider to be the crucial and vexed relationship between the general immunology of the Spheres trilogy [1998–2004] and the general ascetology of You Must Change Your Life [2009]. I present an analytical reconstruction of Sloterdijk鈥檚 account of originary spheric being-with in the trilogy, focused on its culmination in the foam-world; I suggest this account is too ambiguous on key matters of basic ontological structure and I question whether the foam metaphor is adequate as a description of intersubjectivity today. Against the backdrop of this discussion I consider whether the general ascetology of Sloterdijk鈥檚 second anthropotechnics involves practising in, or practising on, the shells of symbolic immunity and conclude the latter. Setting this alongside the trilogy鈥檚 insistence that cells in the foam are 鈥渃o-fragile,鈥� I argue that anthropotechnical practising in the foam-world is suffused with a violence which Sloterdijk is reluctant to theorize. Registering one significant undeclared context of his discussion of self-enhancement, in postmodern management theory, I suggest that successful anthropotechnical practising in the foam-world requires the capacity to ignore other people and their interests. I note that Sloterdijk鈥檚 one-eyed embrace of competitive self-enhancement in You Must Change Your Life has since been qualified in brief remarks in What Happened in the 20th Century? [2016] but not substantively reconsidered. In conclusion, I pay tribute to the anthropotechnical lesson of Sloterdijk鈥檚 theoretical project, notwithstanding its design flaws and continuity errors.

Explore鈥� is a series of seminars run by and destined for postgraduates, visiting researchers and early-career researchers in the School in Modern Languages and Cultures. The seminars are slanted towards professionalising skills and career development. The first event of the series will take place on 28 January 2021 at 4-5 PM, Digital Humanities, Digital Cultures. With Stefano Milonia (WIRL-Cofund Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, Warwick) and Steve Ranford (Senior Academic Technologist, IT Services, Warwick). Chair: Mary Jane Dempsey (Romance Studies, Warwick/Cornell)

Professor Jim Shields was a guest on BBC Radio 4鈥檚 to discuss the legacy of former French President Giscard d鈥橢staing

With the student voice being so important to the educational experience, we wanted to regularly highlight some of the great work that is happening in SSLCs across the University. This is why we launched the Transforming Education Spotlight - a termly celebration of the people who are dedicated to the student voice at Warwick.

We are delighted that the SMLC will host a Midlands4Cities Collaborative Doctoral Award:

'Refugee Narratives: World University Service's Ethiopian and Eritrean Scholarship Programmes in the Light of Current Practice'.

More information is available at:

• Chancellor's International Scholarships: the scheme is aimed at students from outside the UK and includes Overseas applicants, including students from the EU.
• China Scholarship Council / 天美传媒 Scholarships: this scheme will fund 25 students across various subjects for up to 4 years, with the University covering the full cost of tuition fees and CSC providing a maintenance stipend and return international airfare between the UK and China. Note that Foreign Languages and Literature is among the priority areas listed.
• Monash Warwick Alliance Scholarships (Warwick): this scheme is open to all students applying to Warwick for the Alliance Joint PhD. For 2021/22 entry there will be up to 3 scholarships available across the university.

The deadlines for these schemes are all on Thursday 21st January 2021, 23.59 GMT. Note that all supporting evidence (including transcripts and references) must be uploaded by the same time.

We welcome applications for our PhD programmes in:

• French and Francophone Studies
• German Studies
• Italian
• Hispanic Studies
• Translation and Transcultural Studies

Prospective applicants are encouraged to identify possible supervisors through our staff expertise pages. Early enquiries are strongly encouraged. Please send a draft proposal (up to 2 A4 pages) and CV to pglanguages@warwick.ac.uk by Friday 27 November 2020, 12 noon.

We continue to welcome enquiries also for the AHRC Midlands4Cities doctoral awards (deadline 13 January 2021).

As part of the Women in German Studies conference, Warwick is honoured to be hosting an online keynote lecture by Dr Rosemarie H. Pe帽a, which will be open to all who register via the booking form (deadline: 3rd November).

Rosemarie H. Pe帽a holds a PhD in Childhood Studies from Rutgers University-Camden where she also earned her MA in Childhood Studies and BAs in German and Psychology. She identifies as a dual heritage Black (Senegalese) German American transnational adoptee and is the founder and president of the Black German Heritage and Research Association (BGHRA).

Rosemarie has published in several academic journals, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies (2020), and is a contributing author in five edited volumes. Her most recent essay, 鈥淪tories Matter: Contextualizing the Black German American Adoptee Experience(s)鈥� is included in Marion Kraft鈥檚 edited volume Children of the Liberation: Transatlantic Experiences of Black Germans of the Postwar Generation (2019).

"Scholarly Activism: The Black German Heritage and Research Association (BGHRA) and Black German Studies in the United States"

Black Germans were among the first children whose natural lives would be forever altered by postwar 鈥渃hild-saving鈥� initiatives that inspired the institutionalization of transnational adoption in the United States. The adoptees are thereby among the experiential pioneers of the juristic process effectuating multicultural families by awarding guardianship of children born to mothers in one country and culture to genetically unrelated persons living in another. For nearly three decades, Black Germans born in the wake of the World War II who grew up in Germany, Denmark, and the United States have been searching for their original families and sharing their life experiences.

As this postwar cohort re-emerges as a topic of academic interest, the adoptees and their non-adopted peers who grew up in Germany without their fathers are reconnecting with their biological kin. The U.S. adoptees are, therefore, concomitantly reuniting in discourse and actuality with other Black Germans having disparate backgrounds, cultural roots, and connections to Germany. Many of the adoptees, whose ages now range from the early sixties to mid-seventies, are learning about their German ancestral roots in dialogue with journalists, academics, and filmmakers who are eager to hear their stories, write about them, and portray their adoption experiences in documentary films.

In her keynote, Rosemarie Pe帽a will discuss the role of the Black German Heritage and Research Association (BGHRA) with respect to Black German family and community reunification, and the expansion of Black German Studies in the U.S. as an interdisciplinary field of academic research.

Please register for the keynote lecture using this booking form by Tuesday 3rd November. Once registration has closed, you will be sent a link to join the virtual keynote.

Warwick is delighted to host the 32nd Annual, and 1st virtual, Women in German Studies conference on 5-7th November. The event will include a keynote lecture on 鈥淪cholarly Activism: The Black German Heritage and Research Association (BGHRA) and Black German Studies in the United States鈥� from Dr Rosemarie Pe帽a (Black German Heritage & Research Association), which is open to all, as well as a PG/ECR workshop on "Finding your Academic Voice" and a special workshop on online teaching. The full programme and details of how to register can be found on the conference website (/fac/arts/modernlanguages/academic/ks/womeningermanstudies).

Raquel Navas, Teaching Fellow in Hispanic Studies, has been awarded with the for her work on Linguist Landscapes as a tool to promote connections with the target language and culture. This award recognizes the best dissertation of the year and will publish Raquel's work in 2021.

For more information:

Di Zhao, PhD student in Translation and Cultures in Warwick's School of Modern Languages & Cultures, has published a translation into Chinese of the award-winning true-crime book Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep (William Heinemann, 2019). The translation was published by Straits Literature and Art Publishing House in Fuzhou, China in July 2020.