12 events found.
Guest seminar: Responding to violent extremism
BS 7.03 Business School Oxford Road, Manchester, United KingdomLunchtime seminar: Responding to violent extremism - resilience and rehabilitation.Wednesday June 18, 12-1:30pm Room 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 […]
Seminar 6.3: Sophie Scott
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. Presenter: Sophie Scott. Sophie is in her 2nd year of a practice-based PhD. The research is investigating how pre-consumer fabric waste solutions can be more aligned to real world challenges, faced by fashion […]
Arts and Humanities Summer Party and Social
Business School Atrium Oxford Road, ManchesterWe are pleased to announce a date for our annual Arts and Humanities Summer Party and Social, which will take place this year on Thursday 19th June from 4.30 to 6.30 pm in the Grosvenor East, 3rd Floor Open Space and Roof Terrace. This will be a great opportunity to catch up with everyone and […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]