12 events found.
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Entangled II: Poetry Reading
Manchester Poetry Library Grosvenor Building, Cavendish Street, Manchester, United KingdomManchester Poetry Library and online Join poets Mark Pajak, Anita Slater, and Domenic Suntrapak for a poetry reading and discussion as they untangle the threads that link their poetry and research at Manchester Metropolitan University. Mark Pajak’s PhD research explores the question of what poetry does for young lives by working with children in schools, […]
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Postponed: Practice-based Conversations: Mapping Methods and Methodologies with Sara Davies
Manchester Poetry Library Grosvenor Building, Cavendish Street, Manchester, United KingdomUnfortunately this Practice-based Conversation has to be postponed. We're sorry about this, but Sara's session on Mapping Methods and Methodologies will be back in the new academic year. The Poetry Library (round table) and Online via Teams This is a peer-led event organised by Nicola Lewis-Dixon Thinking about methods and methodologies in arts and design […]
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DoWell Co-Design Workshop and Lecture Series 2024-2025: Session 7
Session 7: Co-Designing with Neurodiverse People: An Embodied Creativity Perspective Wednesday 25 June 2025, 3.30 -5pm, Online session Dr Laura Malinin, Inaugural Director, Nancy Richardson Design Center & Associate Professor of Interior Architecture + Design, Colorado State University This presentation describes two multi-year projects where an interdisciplinary group of researchers and students engaged neurodiverse people […]
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Book Launch: Routledge Companion to Irish Art
1st Floor Open Space, Righton Building Cavendish Street, Manchester, United KingdomPlease join us to celebrate the launch of the Routledge Companion to Irish Art (2025) edited by Dr Fionna Barber (Reader in Art History, Dept of Art and Performance, Manchester Metropolitan University) and Dr Fintan Cullen (Emeritus Professor of Art History, University of Nottingham). The launch is hosted by the Visual Culture Research Group at MMU. The event […]
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Moving Images: Audiovisual Representations of Migration and Migrants
Geoffrey Manton Building 4 Rosamond Street West, Manchester, United KingdomThe Migration and Interdisciplinary Global Studies (MIGS) Research Network is pleased to announce a free, one-day, in-person event exploring migration and audiovisual representation, to be held on campus on Thursday June 26th. Bringing together academics, artists, practitioners, activists, and community members, this event will showcase diverse audiovisual works created by and with migrants. Via a […]
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Queer Stories of Belonging: Visual Art, Songs and Medi
GF.11 Grosvenor East Cavendish Street, Manchester, United KingdomThis event will consist of an artist panel talk involving the display and discussion of digital artwork interspersed and framed by dance and music performances, exploring queer diasporic experiences. The event will feature Tahini Molasses from the Turkish and Middle Eastern drag collective Harem of No One, and Natis, a queer migrant painter based in […]
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Bunker Talk #152: Lena Šimić x James Marriott
The Salutation Pub - Upstairs 12 Higher Chatham Streey, Manchester, United KingdomDr Lena Šimić is Liverpool-based transnational performance maker, local politician, activist, pedagogue and scholar researching contemporary performance and the maternal as well as arts responses to the climate crisis. Reader in Drama at Edge Hill University. Lena was a co-organiser of the Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home between 2008 and […]
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Seminar 6.4: Louise Kenward
Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06 Cavendish Street, Manchester, United KingdomGrosvenor East room 2.06 and on Teams, with optional extension until 2.30 pm for in-person attendees. Seminar 6.4: Beachcombing as methodology: the stories of objects washed up by the sea When and where: Thursday 3rd July 2025 from 1-2 pm in Grosvenor East room 206 and on Teams, with optional extension until 2.30pm for in-person […]
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PhD Reading Group: Sound Methodologies
Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06 Cavendish Street, Manchester, United KingdomJoin us for a peer-led session exploring Sound (or silence) in practice-based research. Open to all PhD researchers in Art, Design, and Humanities, at any stage of study. Please see below for a reading list from Markus Hetheier in advance of the reading group in July. From Markus: longlist and shortlist reading recommendations plus questions […]
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July: Writer’s Retreat
Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06 Cavendish Street, Manchester, United KingdomWriters’ Retreats give postgraduate research students in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities the opportunity to devote a whole day to writing in a quiet, structured, and supportive atmosphere. The retreats are facilitated by Dr Chad McDonald, the faculty’s Senior Academic and Study Skills Tutor. Chad was awarded his PhD in History in 2019, and […]
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Seminar 6.5: Quen Took
Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06 Cavendish Street, Manchester, United KingdomGrosvenor East room 2.06 and on Teams, with optional extension until 2.30 pm for in-person attendees. Tea, coffee, juice and snacks provided. Email Loretta to say whether you would like to attend online or in person, and if you have any dietary requirements (all snacks are vegetarian).
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The Aftershock Review Launch
John Rylands Research Institute and Library 150 Deansgate, Manchester, United KingdomTHE AFTERSHOCK REVIEW LIVE AT JOHN RYLANDS RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND LIBRARY Join us for the powerful live launch of The Aftershock Review Issue One — a groundbreaking new poetry magazine exploring trauma, survival, and literary transformation. Set in the iconic surrounds of the John Rylands Library, this event brings together some of the most urgent […]