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The Humanities Research Centre invites paper proposals for an interdisciplinary conference on actor, image, and global screen icon, James Dean. The two-day conference will be held at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½'s Institute of Advanced Study on September 30th and October 1st, 2015, 60 years after Dean’s death.

Discussion of extracts from Frantz Fanon in Lawrence and Karim (eds), On Violence, pp. 78-100, and from Hannah Arendt in Catherine Besteman (ed), Violence: a Reader (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke and New York 2002), pp.19-35.

The readings will be circulated in advance.

The Memory Group, part of Warwick's European History Research Centre and organized for graduate students and staff across the university, will hold its first meeting of this term on October 30th, 3:30-5:00 pm, with a discussion of readings with Milija Gluhovic and Yvette Hutchinson (Theatre Studies, Warwick). All are welcome!

All graduate students in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences are invited to participate in the Memory Group. Memory studies has been a rapidly developing field that has brought together scholars in History, Literature, Sociology, Media and Cultural Studies and a wide range of other disciplines over the last 20 years. It is an empirically rich and theoretically challenging field that has implications for methodology and the way in which sources and data are understood across the board in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. The Memory Group is an interdisciplinary group of graduate students and faculty with research interests in memory, memorialisation, and related issues of trauma and nostalgia. The group aims to meet termly with meetings involving discussion of published (both recent and older) and unpublished work and formal presentations from experts in the field.

Forthcoming Events

Please note: There is a seminar on Thurs 16 October at 4pm with Carla Guelfenbein, an exile from the Pinochet coup in 1973 who will discuss writing and silence with Thomas Glave, a writer an gay rights activist from Jamaica. Also the Argentine film on the disappeared on Wed 22 October, at 6.15 in the Arts Centre, followed by Q&A with the director. This film has been re-released after 20 years and stars Vanessa Redgrave. Tickets are free: email M.Coletta@warwick.ac.uk. The film will be relevant for anyone coming later to the seminar by Alison and Loredana.

Forthcoming Events

The Memory Group is planning five meetings this year. There will be two in Term 1

• Thursday 30th October 3.30-5.00 (Week 5) venue - WAO.15 Avon Building, Westwood: Memory and Theatre – a discussion of readings with Milija Gluhovic and Yvette Hutchinson (Theatre Studies, Warwick) ( Diana Taylor, The Archive and the Repertoire)
  

• Wednesday 19th November 4.00-6.00 (Week 8) venue - H0.44 Humanities Building: Memory: Migrations and Translations - a discussion of readings with Professors Alison Ribeiro de Menezes and Loredana Polezzi (Spanish and Italian)

The third meeting in January (tbc) will look at Memory and Music - with papers and discussion of the interaction between music and memory and memorialisation.

The fourth meeting in February /March will involve graduate students discussing their own work and its relation to the study of memory and memorialisation; and the last on May 15 will be a public workshop with Astrid Erll, Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Wuppertal, Germany, and editor with Ansgar Nünning of A Companion to Cultural Memory Studies (de Gruyter, 2010).

• If you wish to be added to the mailing list for these events please contact mark.philp@warwick.ac.uk

William Doyle (University of Bristol) - Thinking about the Ancien Régime

An 18th Century Centre Seminar with speaker William Doyle (University of Bristol)

Refreshments served. All are welcome.