Inaugural Meeting of Gender in Innovation Working Group

Prof. Andree Woodcock is leading a new working group to increase the profile, awareness and gender responsive outputs of Living Labs. The Working Group has been set up by the Horizon funded GILL project, which involves 5+ researchers across the university.  At the inaugural meeting an action plan for the upcoming year was developed and a gender competency checklist piloted.

Although not a literal transcription, Interior (oil on canvas 122cm x 152cm) is an improvised work that is inspired in part by a scene from the 1979 film Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky and in part by our own culture of surveillance. 

Painting by John Devane on exhibit at RBSA Gallery  

A painting by John Devane selected for RBSA Prize 2024 is on exhibit this month. This exhibition takes place at the RBSA Gallery, 4 Brook St, Birmingham, B3 1SA (3/09/24 until 12/10/24). The selected painting entitled Interior is an output relating to ongoing research into the interrelatedness of painting, photography and film.The RBSA Prize 2024 is an open submission exhibition and the judging panel are: David Ferry President of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, Yvonne Hindle Senior Lecturer Birmingham School of Art and Tabish Khan Critic, writer and trustee of City and Guilds , London Art School.

Prof. Judith Mossman to give the Donald Russell Memorial Lecture, St John's College Oxford 

CAMC's Premoderns Group are pleased to announce that Prof. Judith Mossman will deliver the 2nd annual Donald Russell Memorial Lecture: ‘Plutarch Speaking Metaphorically’. The lecture will be held in St John’s College Auditorium, St Giles’, Oxford, on Thurs 24 Oct 2024 at 5pm.

Catalina Sirbu and Sheena Gardner presented at ESFL Conference 

Catalina Sirbu and Sheena Gardner presented a paper at the ESFL conference in Timisoara, Romania in July 2024. The paper was entitled 'a Trinocular exploration of nominalisation in Romanian student academic writing in English'. Coventry has a long standing involvement with ESFLA through conference presentations, committee membership and chairing sessions. We hosted the 24th conference at Coventry in 2013.

Prof. Juliet Simpson takes up Visiting Full Professor  at prestigious Universite Libre de Bruxelles  

Juliet will take up her Visiting Professorship invitation at ULB Brussels this October for a 10-day research intensive stay at the Maison des Sciences et des Arts. Collaborating with international colleagues in the Modernitas project (funded by the prestigious Flanders NWO), Prof Simpson will be guest lecturing and leading research workshops on alternative and hidden cultures of modernity and modernism in art and visual cultures of the early 1900s-1930s. Putting a spotlight on women as artists and networkers, alternative artistic communities and emotional modernities, Juliet sheds light on 'modernistas' in global contexts, and for a forthcoming publication on this theme.