12 events found.
Manchester Translation Series: Collaborative Translation Workshop
Manchester Poetry Library Grosvenor Building, Cavendish Street, Manchester, United KingdomJoin Oxford Professor of Poetry A. E. Stallings for an interactive collaborative translation workshop. No prior language or translation experience required. A.E. Stallings is the Oxford Professor of Poetry. Her poetry collections include Like (2018), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Olives (2012), which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award; Hapax (2006); […]
DoWell: Session 4: ‘Well-Maker-Spaces’
BS 3.01 Business School Oxford Road, Manchester, United KingdomDoWell Co-Design Workshop and Lectures Series 2024-2025 The DoWell research group offers an expanded interdisciplinary workshop and lectures series this year to provide the opportunity for colleagues to explore an exciting range of different topics, including practices and approaches to co-designing in various health and care contexts. The format of the monthly sessions is more […]
Manchester Translation Series: Who’s Laughing Now?
Manchester Poetry Library Grosvenor Building, Cavendish Street, Manchester, United KingdomTranslating humour across cultures can be a challenge. Often a literal translation of a joke from one language to another will fall flat. But is there creative potential to be found in failed translations of humour? Join Manchester City Poet Charlotte Shevchenko Knight for a workshop which explores the poetic possibilities of jokes lost in […]
Third Annual Manchester Translation Series Reading
Manchester Poetry Library Grosvenor Building, Cavendish Street, Manchester, United KingdomWe’re delighted to welcome Oxford Professor of Poetry A. E. Stallings and award-winning poet-translator Jeffrey Yang to Manchester Poetry Library for the third annual Manchester Translation Series. The event will include a poetry reading, along with a discussion on topics related to translation and the roles of literature in our current geopolitical moment. A.E. Stallings […]
‘Getting It Write’: Editing Clinic for Arts and Humanities PGRs
Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06 Cavendish Street, Manchester, United KingdomPlease note this in an in-person only event in GE 2.06 Struggling to edit your writing? Get help from your peers! In our editing clinic, you’ll discuss a draft of your work and get feedback to improve your writing skills. Before attending the clinic, you’ll be asked to complete a short task and to identify […]
Using thematic and structural approaches to narrative analysis
Please register your attendance if you would like to attend this online masterclass. Methods Masterclass Sessions are suitable for both doctoral students and academic staff. Narrative analytical methodologies provide social researchers with mechanisms and frameworks to explore people’s lived experiences. They allow researchers to gain understanding of how people experience social and material contexts from […]
“In it together”: Collaborative research and writing
Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06 Cavendish Street, Manchester, United KingdomCollaborative research is “unruly, rich and messy”, and collaborative research, writing and publishing offers unique opportunities and challenges to postgraduate and early career researchers. In this hands-on workshop we will explore the struggles and strategies of collaborative work for ECRs, and try out a collaborative, playful simulation of academic co-authorship. This event is in person […]
‘Getting It Write’: Editing Clinic for Arts and Humanities PGRs
Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06 Cavendish Street, Manchester, United KingdomStruggling to edit your writing? Get help from your peers! In our editing clinic, you’ll discuss a draft of your work and get feedback to improve your writing skills. Before attending the clinic, you’ll be asked to complete a short task and to identify the work you want to share with your peers. The task […]
PGR/ECR L19C Seminar Series 2024-25
PGR / ECR L19C Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series 2024-2527 March 2025 - online (free) Teaching the Long 19th Century Novel through Reader-Response Theory The PGR/ECR Long Nineteenth Century Interdisciplinary Research Group is organised by volunteer PGRs and ECRs at Manchester Metropolitan University. It aims to foster inter-institutional and multi-faculty networking and offers platforms for its […]
Looking Ahead to the Annual Review
Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06 Cavendish Street, Manchester, United KingdomAnnual Progress Reviews (APRs) give you the opportunity to demonstrate your research progress and receive formal feedback from academic reviewers. These take place annually and doctoral students must complete each review satisfactorily in order to progress to the next year of their research programme. In this informal session we’ll talk about what to expect from […]
Transnational Popular Print in the Long Nineteenth Century: Hybrid Seminar
Geoffrey Manton Building 4 Rosamond Street West, Manchester, United KingdomThis even will take place in Geoffrey Mantion G.09A and online. This afternoon research seminar provides an opportunity to trace the transnational dimensions of print culture in the long nineteenth century. It explores the uneven dynamics of both popular and personal print networks, as conveyed across borders in a range of modes, forms, and media. […]
Pitching to the Media
Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06 Cavendish Street, Manchester, United KingdomWith Professor Andrew McMillan and Lucy Zhou (Head of Publicity at Canongate). From both a writers and publicists point of view, find out about getting your work out there beyond the academy, how pitching to the media works and how to frame wider narratives around the narrow focus of your work. Please email Fran Brooks […]