Other Events
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Gothic Crossroads Conference 2025
A conference exploring and celebrating the multi and interdisciplinary crossings of Gothic and Horror Studies. Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies,Manchester Metropolitan University, 25th-27th June, 2025 The event is free for all MMU students and includes creative workshops, readings and reading groups - you're welcome to attend as much or as little as you like. The […]