BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Doctoral College: Arts and Humanities Faculty - ECPv6.17.5.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Doctoral College: Arts and Humanities Faculty
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Doctoral College: Arts and Humanities Faculty
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:UTC
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:UTC
DTSTART:20240101T000000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250616T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250620T170000
DTSTAMP:20251215T101400Z
CREATED:20250515T090653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251215T101400Z
UID:945-1750064400-1750438800@dcahf.mmu.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Manchester Writing School Summer Festival
DESCRIPTION:This four-day intensive course is designed to give participants a taste of life in the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University\, one of the UK’s most successful literary centres\, and home to one of the country’s largest postgraduate English and Creative Writing communities. The course will introduce you to tutors and current students and offer opportunities to develop your own writing – and reading – in a lively and supportive environment. \n\n\n\nThe programme will include a choice of in-person or online masterclass workshops\, seminars and talks\, delivered by practising writers and critics\, with input from special guests. Sessions may include fiction\, poetry\, writing for children & young adults\, scriptwriting\, creative non-fiction\, how to present your work for publication\, performance skills\, and talks/Q&As with industry experts. \n\n\n\nThe programme for the Manchester Writing School Summer Festival has now been released. You can find details on the web page: \n\n\n\n\nWriting Festival\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt’s free to attend for current students and you can browse the programme and book a place / choose from the sessions via the links below. \n\n\n\n\nFestival Programme\n\n\n\nBooking Form
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/manchester-writing-school-summer-festival/
LOCATION:Grosvenor Theatre – Arts and Humanities Building\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/491/2025/02/Grosvenor-East.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250618T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250618T133000
DTSTAMP:20251114T092023Z
CREATED:20250605T150949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251114T092023Z
UID:1124-1750248000-1750253400@dcahf.mmu.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Guest seminar: Responding to violent extremism
DESCRIPTION:Lunchtime seminar: Responding to violent extremism – resilience and rehabilitation.Wednesday June 18\, 12-1:30pm \n\n\n\nRoom BS 7.03This seminar provides an opportunity to hear from two leading Australian scholars\, Ramon Spaaij (Victoria University; Manchester Met Global Chair) and Vivian Gerrand\, PhD (Deakin University)\, exploring novel approaches to countering violent extremism.It will feature a 15-minute presentation from each speaker\, followed by a facilitated conversation and an audience Q&A. \n\n\n\nLunch will be provided. \n\n\n\n\nRegistration\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaper 1: Facilitating disengagement from violent extremism \n\n\n\nProfessor Ramon Spaaij \n\n\n\nThe rehabilitation of terrorist offenders continues to be viewed with suspicion\, which is not helped by the limited evidence base for the success of disengagement programs. This presentation aims to advance the knowledge base by sharing the findings of recent research on facilitating disengagement from violent extremism. Drawing on a three-year mixed-methods inquiry into Australia’s longest-running Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) program\, I will present a focus on the experiences of terrorist offenders to chart their journeys through the program. By doing so\, I will identify key factors that affect meaningful engagement with CVE interventions and enhance the likelihood of successful disengagement from violent extremism. \n\n\n\nProfessor Ramon Spaaij is a sociologist at Victoria University\, Melbourne\, Australia\, and Global Chair at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is co-founder of the Applied Security Science Partnership (ASSP)\, a unique high-impact research program that brings together researchers\, embedded police\, defence and community members to develop novel responses to terrorism and violent extremism. \n\n\n\nPaper 2: Building resilience to (violent) misogyny? Alternative narratives to the manosphere \n\n\n\nDr Vivian Gerrand \n\n\n\nEfforts to mitigate the social influence of (violent) extremist movements through CVE counter-narrative campaigns or deplatforming initiatives have limited efficacy (Conway 2020; Hemmingsen and Castrob2017; Rogers 2020). Unlike counter-narratives\, alternative narratives can be more effective at challenging extremist narratives because they directly address real and perceived grievances as well as the psycho-social needs that may lead to engagement with extremist discourse. Alternative narratives meet people where they are and support critical-thinking and social capital resource allocation. Such narratives stand for rather than against something by conveying positive content\, centring on aspects of democracy and openness and promoting mutual understanding (Roose et al. 2021). Alternative narrative-based interventions can arguably be deployed to disarm the manosphere and support disengagement from violent extremist discourses. Drawing on interviews with manosphere adherents and an arts-based case study\, in this presentation I explore how alternative narratives might provide critically empathetic tools to support boys and men to build resilience and disengage from anti-women online movements.  \n\n\n\nDr Vivian Gerrand is a Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute\, Deakin University. Her current research addresses disinformation and (violent) extremism through alternative narratives. Vivian holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne and is the author of Possible Spaces of Somali Belonging (MUP\, 2016). She was a Max Weber Fellow in 2017-18. \n\n\n\nThis seminar is hosted by Manchester Met’s Migration and Interdisciplinary Global Studies Research Network\, and chaired by Dr Daniel Marshall. For enquiries\, email: migs@mmuac.uk \n\n\n\n\nRegistration
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/guest-seminar-responding-to-violent-extremism/
LOCATION:BS 7.03 Business School\, Oxford Road\, Manchester\, M15 6BH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/avif:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/491/2025/06/Guest-seminar-Responding-to-violent-extremism-Pictures-of-the-Speakers.avif
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR