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Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies
All events are held on Wednesday from 4-6pm. With the exception of two in the first term, all will take place in the Student Hub (FAB5.49). Though some events will be more relevant for PGRs, all events are open to all PGT and PGR students.

For ad-hoc queries and 1-1 support, please email Alírio Karina, alirio.karina@warwick.ac.uk

17 June 5pm, FAB cinema (FAB0.21)

'The Uprising' screening and Q&A

Peter Snowdon's film The Uprising (2013) – which J. Hoberman called a 'masterpiece of iPhone cinema' – coalesces YouTube videos from the Arab revolutions. It shows the Arab Spring from the inside, as it was experienced by citizens of Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Bahrain, Libya, and Yemen – marking the first time that participants took it upon themselves to film, narrativize, and broadcast their efforts to overthrow oppressive regimes in real time. This movie and Snowdon's book The People Are Not an Image (Verso, 2020) treat the phone camera as an extension more of the arm than of the eye, examining what happens when film becomes a direct tool of revolutionary action.