This event takes place at The Poetry Library (round table) and Online via Teams.

This session is peer-led, and organised by Nicola Lewis-Dixon – please email Nicola or Fran Brooks if you’d like to come in person so that we can order the right amount of coffee and snacks.

This session will explore some of the practicalities of how arts and humanities researchers might identify, visit and use archives within their work, alongside thinking about how these institutional spaces can pose challenges, or where we might need to actively resist or question the stories (apparently) told.

Dr Hannah Singleton is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Art and Performance within Manchester School of Art, teaching theory units with a particular emphasis on material cultures, place and identity. Recent work explores séance in contemporary art practice and archives of mediumship; the legacy of the Pendle Witches through the analysis of material culture and artworks; writing in development connects folk horror, objects, and craft within filmic landscapes. Her PhD research explored the physical and immaterial traces of performance and temporal artworks through alternative and artistic archival approaches. Member of the Dark Arts Research Kollective (DVRK), and also The Stones Project, a collaborative research project which examines how we represent and experience ancient and modern standing stones focusing on themes of affect, materiality, mythology and temporality.