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Saturday 13th May 2023

Keynote Speakers:

Dr Maria Balaska, University of Hertfordshire

Dr Thomas Gould, University of East Anglia

Applications now open for fully-funded PhD Studentship (fees and maintenance) with the Lord Leycester Hospital

Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD studentship (fees and maintenance) to be held at the Department of History, University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ and the Lord Leycester Hospital, ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ. The studentship is funded through the and will start in October 2023. The Department of History has partnered with the Lord Leycester Hospital to offer a project on ‘Almshouse, Guild and Town Community: The Lord Leycester Hospital in its Urban Setting’. In addition to the PhD research the successful candidate will also gain experience and training in contributing to outreach and public engagement activities, including developing an exhibition.

In 2020, the Hospital secured a 3.8 million National Lottery Grant for restoration of the Grade I and II listed buildings, along with other improvements and engagement activities. This will include the creation of four new museum and exhibition spaces exploring and showcasing the Hospital’s 700-year history.

The project will be supervised jointly by Dr Naomi Pullin (ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ), Professor Beat Kümin (ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ), and Dr Heidi Meyer (Master of the Lord Leycester Hospital).

For more information about the project please contact Naomi Pullin (naomi.pullin@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window) or Beat Kümin (b.kumin@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window). Applications need to reach the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ by 11 January 2023: .

ECLS Halloween Special

The English and Comparative Literary Studies department warmly invite staff and students from across the

Faculty of Arts to join us for an afternoon of events celebrating our Gothic/Horror research and interests on:

Monday 31^st October, 12-5pm in FAB 5.49 (ECLS Hub)

A draft outline is below and a more detailed schedule will be updated in coming days here: /fac/arts/english/events/ecls_halloween_special/Link opens in a new window

12 -1pm – Gothic Projects

Two PhD students will introduce us to their projects on the UK as gothic ideology and Victorian Spiritualism.

1-2pm – Gothic Transformations

The English department student-led Transformations team will introduce the gothic reader and the witches reader produced each year in conjunction with local schools and will delight use with a dramatisation of a gothic scene related to their work.

1.30-2pm Minor Hauntings: An Introduction and Reading

Dr Jen Baker introduces and gives a short reading from her edited collection Minor Hauntings: Chilling Tales of Spectral Youth which was published as part of the in 2021.

2-2.30pm Fireside Readings

Student-led mini-critical introduction and reading from Gothic texts.

2.30-3pm Fireside Readings

Student-led mini-critical introduction and reading from Gothic texts.

3-3.30pm Fireside Readings

Student-led mini-critical introduction and reading from Gothic texts.

3.30-4pm Fireside Dramatic Read-a-long:

A student-hosted dramatic read-a-long where you, the audience, will take on roles of in a Gothic reading.

4 - 5pm Gothic pop-up books: A mini-workshop

Come and learn about and play with a host of Gothic pop-up books and some of the ways in which we can use them to challenge ideas of what is a book and what is literary!

5-7pm Secret Cinema (FAB 0.03) (booking required)

Screening of a Literary Adaptation of a Gothic text

Writing about web page /fac/arts/hrc/confs/homecoming/

In his first blog Niels Boender discusses the Vision for the Conference: Mediations of the theme of ‘homecoming’

University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ 19 May 2023 Keynote Speakers: Dr Catherine Wheatley, King’s College London Dr Rachel Malkin, University of Oxford