The University of Warwick celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2015. As part of the
celebrations, our Global Research Priorities programme has developed an exciting programme of
research-led events to support and develop existing and new research collaborations.We would be delighted if you
could join us at our Venice event being held Friday 23rd – Saturday 24th October 2015 at Palazzo Pesaro-Papafava.
This event is being led by the Connecting Cultures GRP in collaboration with the International Development GRP.
Vice Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture – Sir David King
Professor Sir David King was appointed as the
UK Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative
for Climate Change (full-time) in September
2013. Sir David was previously the
Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor from
2000 – 2007, working with Prime Ministers
Blair and Brown, during which time he raised
awareness of the need for governments to act
on climate change and was instrumental in
creating the Energy Technologies Institute.
Programma
Friday 23 October 2015 Theme:Material and Cultural Economies
14.30-15.00 Travelling to work: the city as a site of depletion.
Professor Shirin Rai
15.00-15.30 Peripheral Patna: Cultural Production in a Zone of Backwardness.
Associate Professor Rashmi Varma
16.00-16.30 LiquidMemories: A Proposal on Remembering City Rivers through DigitalMedia.
Associate Professor Joanne Garde-Hansen
16.30-17.00 Sustaining Venice in the Late Middle Ages.
Associate Professor Louise Bourdua
17.30-18.30 Roundtable event
18.30-19.30 Networking event
Saturday 24 October 2015
Theme: Translation in the City
09.30-10.00 High Tide, High Time: Alfredo Jaar’s 2013 Biennale Installation Venezia, Venezia.
Dr NicolasWhybrow
10.00-10.30 The Merchant in Venice, Shylock in the Ghetto
Associate Professor Shaul Bassi.
11.00-11.30
Landscapes After The Battle, Life Stories on the Edge: Entanglements of Memory and
crisis in Contemporary Spain
Professor Alison Ribeiro de Menezes
11.30-12.00 Translating Cities.
Professor Susan Bassnett
12.00-14.00
Keynote Lecture.
Public Understanding of Risk.
Professor Alex Quintanilla