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Working with Publishers - a one-day workshop for PGRs and ECRs - Registration now open

Wed 29 Apr 2026, 08:00 | Tags: Humanities Research Centre News

Winners of the HRC Doctoral Fellowship Competition

Congratulations to:

Aidan Diable (History) / Adam Coleman (History of Art) - Pride and Place: Negotiating Self, Civic, and National Identities in Space

Jade Lindo (History) - Empire鈥檚 Fruit: Colonial Ecologies, Food Systems, and Imperial Power

Francesca Luppino (SMLC) - Say a Body where None. Necromanticism and Thanatological Imagination of the Afterlife in the Modern and Contemporary Age (1764-2027)

Fri 24 Apr 2026, 00:00 | Tags: Humanities Research Centre News

Doctoral Fellowship Competition - Winners announced

Congratulations to all the winners.

Eloisa Ocando Thomas and Jingyang Xu (both History): EDIBLE BOUNDARIES: Food, Identity, and the Material Culture of Eating and Drinking

Xiaoyan Tan (SMLC and Gustavo Ruiz da Silva (Philosophy): (Neo)Colonial Images and Literature: The Construction of the Other

Archana Vinod (English) & Malvika Nair (SMLC): Is a Better World Possible? - Solidarity as a Conversation across Temporalities

Mon 14 Apr 2025, 07:00 | Tags: Humanities Research Centre News

Winners announced - HRC Doctoral Fellowship Competition

Congratulations to the winners of the HRC Doctoral Fellowship Competition.

We look forward to their conferences next year (24/25)

Airelle Am茅dro (SMLC) & Enrica Leydi (SMLC) - 鈥業rresistible Decay: Aestheticization of death and life imbrications from the 18^th Century to today鈥�

Lu Feng (English) & Chun-Wai (Wayne) Kwong (English) - 鈥楢fter Postcolonialism: Global Theory, Local Transformations鈥�

Juli谩n Harruch-Morales (Hispanic) - 鈥楿ses and Abuses of the Decolonial鈥�

Anna Pravdica, Himesh Mehta & Mia Edwards (all History) - 鈥業ndividualism, Human Nature, & the Self: From the Early Modern Era to the Modern Western World鈥�

Sun 21 Apr 2024, 06:00 | Tags: Humanities Research Centre News

Warwick Festival of the Gothic

Happy Spooky Season! The SMLC is joining the Warwick Festival of the Gothic with a series of events celebrating the recent publication of , edited by Marco Malvestio and Stefano Serafini and including contributions by Fabio Camilletti and Simona Di Martino. Events will take place on the 31^st of October and the 1^st of November:

31 October, 5pm onwards, TRC. Film night: Mario Bava, La maschera del demonio (Black Sabbath, 1960), introduced by Jacopo Francesco Mascoli. In Italian with English subtitles. In collaboration with the Italian Cinema Seminar SeriesLink opens in a new window.

1 November, 2-5pm, FAB M0.01 Study Caf茅 Space, Student workshop: London Gothic 'Made in Italy'. Transnational, Translational, and Transmedial Readings of 'Dylan Dog', with Silvia Vari and Fabio Camilletti. No previous knowledge of Italian is needed. In collaboration with the Comics Reserch NetworkLink opens in a new window.

1 November, 5:15-7pm, OC 0.01, Roundtable: Italian Gothic, with Fabio Camilletti, Simona Di Martino, Francesco Dimitri, Marco Malvestio, Stefano Serafini, and Mark Storey. In collaboration with .

All events are part of the Italian Studies Research Seminar Series and have been generously sponsored by the Humanities Research Centre.

Wed 25 Oct 2023, 15:49 | Tags: Humanities Research Centre News Interdisciplinary Seminar Series

Launch Event for Doctoral Fellowship Competition

There will be a launch event taking place on Wednesday 6th December from 12.00 - 14.00 in FAB2.25 - we recommend that all potential applicants attend - useful information - free lunch - meet Alison and Sue - ask questions.

Booking for this event is now open - Booking Form

Doctoral Fellowship Competition (warwick.ac.uk)

Tue 03 Oct 2023, 16:25 | Tags: Humanities Research Centre News Funding Opportunity