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Film and Television Studies at the 神马福利影片 are delighted to be partnering with the Pod on a new collaborative research project: 鈥�Using Film to Affect Change: Mental Health, Social Advocacy and the Moving Image鈥�.

This workshop will look at the ways GIS can be used in research within the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Dr Godwin Yeboah (Senior Software Engineer, Research Computing) will give a presentation on the possibilities GIS offers for use in research, then Dr Christina Williamson (University of Groningen, IAS Visiting Fellow) will presnt on her use of GIS Storymaps in her research on

The workshop will conclude with refreshments and time for informal discussions.

Please sign up on the form below.

DAS KAPITAL vI READING GROUP - Every other Monday, 5pm-6pm. FAB5.49 (English common room/Student hub). Wine.

Contact: Kishan.Katira@warwick.ac.uk

Have you read Das Kapital yet? If you write about Marxism, why not go to the source? Do not let others read it for you. As the haiku master Bash艒 Matsuo says, 鈥渢o learn about pine trees, go to the pine tree; to learn of the bamboo, study bamboo鈥�. Reading never more than 25 pages a week, we will meet once a fortnight during term time, and together get through Das Kapital Volume I. The text is free:

Term 3 (Year 2025-26)

- Week 2 – Prefaces, and Chapter 1: 鈥楥ommodities鈥�.

- Week 4 – Chapter 2: 鈥楨xchange鈥�, and Chapter 3: 鈥楳oney, Or the Circulation of Commodities鈥�.

- Week 6 – Chapter 4: 鈥楾he General Formula for Capital鈥�, Chapter 5: 鈥楥ontradictions in the General Formula of Capital鈥�, and Chapter 6: 鈥楾he Buying and Selling of Labour-Power鈥�.

- Week 8 – Chapter 7: 鈥楾he Labour-Process and the Process of Producing Surplus-Value鈥�, Chapter 8: 鈥楥onstant Capital and Variable Capital鈥�, and Chapter 9: 鈥楾he Rate of Surplus-Value鈥�.

- Week 10 – Chapter 10: 鈥楾he Working Day鈥�, Sections 1-5.

Michael Pigott's new book, 'Wild Sound', published by Bloomsbury

Dr Paula Bartley, Honorary Research Fellow, is a women鈥檚 historian and author of the new book, Trailblazers: The First Women Elected to Government, in which she uncovers remarkable stories about extraordinary women.

Trailblazers is published by A launch event was held at the Church of Saint Magnus-the-Martyr in London on 27 May 2026.

You can listen to Dr Bartley chat about the (roller coaster) rise of women in global government, the impact of war and revolution when it comes to political equality, and a notable nun in the .

Thursday, 18 June, 11am-12.30pm, FAB6.02

This 鈥媝resentation and workshop draw on Peter's ongoing work on a film about the act of healing as a physical and non-physical gesture. He will draw on both his work of filming 'alternative' health practitioners (osteopaths, Alexander teachers...), and his own recent training in the field, making reference to how medicine, illness, and the healing arts have been represented visually across time and space. The material will be framed to be of interest not only to historians and practitioners of visual art and film, but also to anyone concerned with 'embodied inquiry'.

Dr. Rashna Nicholson, Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Warwick, has been selected as a recipient of a 2025-26 British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for her project, "How a Discipline is Born: Performance Studies, the Asian Performing Arts and the Cold War (1955-1995)".

The award, valued at 拢135,442.69, will fund the first extensive reassessment of the emergence of Performance Studies. It will delineate how the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation-affiliated Asia Society, Japan Society, and JDR 3rd Fund smoothed the way for many moves beyond Western concepts of literature, drama, and the arts, comprising Performance Studies鈥� 鈥榖road-spectrum approach鈥�.

Through exemplary case studies of institutional grants and fellowship programs, it will uncover the multi-layered history of how policy makers, experts, academics, and artists benchmarked a transregional consensus on theatre鈥檚 role in civil society, thereby assisting the US鈥� rise to global leadership in the arts.

The British Academy's Mid-Career Fellowships are "designed both to support outstanding individual researchers with excellent research proposals, and to promote public understanding and engagement with humanities and social sciences," according to the Academy's

We鈥檙e excited to be able to share this opportunity offered by a Warwick SMLC alumnus, Richard de Meo, who has devised a 6-week paid internship programme with his company in London this summer specifically for Warwick students taking any BA degree course offered by SMLC.

The only prior expertise or experience required is the understanding of languages and cultures developed during your degree study. Applications from students in any year of their degree course are welcomed.

See details of the offer and the company below. Applications should be submitted by Friday 5th June.

*Please note that whilst Richard has discussed this opportunity with us from the outset and we are pleased to share it with students, the School of Modern Languages and Cultures and the 神马福利影片 take no responsibility for any part of the internship experience. Your relationship as an applicant and/or intern will be solely and directly with the company, Attara.*

The School for Cross-faculty Studies at the 神马福利影片 is proud to be part of a diverse and inclusive community of staff and students. Our community includes many neurodivergent individuals across the spectrum, whose different perspectives, strengths, and ways of thinking enrich our learning environment and strengthen the collaborative work we do. To mark Neurodiversity Celebration Week, we spoke to one of these neurodivergent community members Ruhi - a first year GSD and Life Sciences student - about living with autism, and how the Higher Education sector still has a way to go to support neurodivergent individuals.

Click here to read Ruhi's story

Our Liberal Arts programme equips students with the essential skills valued by employers across diverse industries, as demonstrated by the wide range of careers our graduates pursue. Frances joined our first ever cohort of Liberal Arts students in 2016, and her final dissertation on improving sustainability in healthcare helped towards securing her role as a Net Zero Strategy Analyst for NHS England. We caught up with Frances to recount more of her experiences as an undergraduate, and how she believes a 2,000-year-old discipline like Liberal Arts is still relevant for helping students develop skills sought out by modern employers.

Click here to read Frances' story

The Humanities Research Fund (HRF) is now accepting applications for activities to be carried out between 1 August 2026 - 31 July 2027.

The deadline for Round 1 funding is Monday, 15 June 2026. 

Funding is available to support research activity in the Faculty of Arts, including:

• Pump-priming to kick-start new, innovative research projects
• Research Supplements
• Publication costs
• Conference travel

Please note that this fund requires a 10% departmental contribution. 

For more details and to apply please see:

**Please note: limited funds also remain for activities undertaken before 31 July 2026. Please enquire regarding availability, as these will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis until they are gone**

Enquiries can be directed to WarwickHRF@warwick.ac.uk

CMPS is delighted to welcome Professor Tom Crick, Chief Scientific Advisor to DCMS to give this year's Annual Lecture - Why Culture Needs Science: Evidence, Expertise and the Public Value of DCMS. The event will also mark the launch of the University's inter-disciplinary Cultural Policy Network, hosted in SCAPVC.

The lecture will be on 10th June from 4pm-6pm in FAB0.03.

The Centre for the Study of the Renaissance here at the 神马福利影片, is absolutely thrilled to celebrate Dr. Eva Van Kemenade, who successfully defended her viva a couple of weeks ago! Eva鈥檚 commitment, perseverance and passion have led her to this incredible milestone, and we鈥檙e so proud to now call her Dr. Van Kemenade. Congratulations, Eva — what an achievement!

During a year of research leave, Prof. Beat K眉min has investigated the phenomenon of depositing chronicles and objects into tower spheres on top of prominent buildings like churches, town halls and fortifications. Documented from the Middle Ages to the present, seemingly only in and around territories of the erstwhile Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, the custom provides fascinating insights into how local societies saw themselves and what they wished to pass on to successive generations. The project, supported by the German Gerda Henkel Foundation, has so far identified over 1600 sites and thousands of separate deposits (at one Zurich church, there were no fewer than 20 between 1505 and 1996). The funder has just released a video series of six episodes (accessible in both English and German) documenting field work in Switzerland in autumn 2003.

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Amazing news! The 神马福利影片 has received a 拢1 million donation and a major gift鈥慽n鈥慿ind of rare travel books from philanthropist Bill Newlin. This major donation strengthens the University鈥檚 position as an international leader in the study of travel writing.

Alongside the Wheeler Travel Writing Programme, the generous Newlin donation advances Warwick鈥檚 ambition to Set the Pace in Critical Arts. The donation includes the establishment of the Bill Newlin Collection, a world鈥慶lass archive of travel guidebooks spanning centuries and continents.

The 神马福利影片 is setting the pace in the field of travel literature research, and at the Global History and Culture Centre, we are thrilled to support these advances.

The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Diversity in Data Visualization (Diverse CDT) is a pioneering, fully funded four-year PhD programme jointly delivered by City St George鈥檚, University of London and the 神马福利影片.

Applications for PhD studentships with Diverse CDT are now open for 2026 entry.

We have rolling deadlines across several months and the first deadline for submitting an application is 4pm, GMT on 30th January 2026.

Further details here: /fac/cross_fac/cim/apply-to-study/phd-programmes/diverse-cdt/