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SUMMARY:‘Getting It Write’: Editing Clinic for Arts and Humanities PGRs
DESCRIPTION:Please note this in an in-person only event in GE 2.06 \n\n\n\nStruggling 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 will be sent to you a week before the clinic. \n\n\n\nIf you would like to sign-up\, please email Francesca Brooks.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/getting-it-write-editing-clinic-for-arts-and-humanities-pgrs-2/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:DCAH's Research Training and Development Programme
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SUMMARY:Third Annual Manchester Translation Series Reading
DESCRIPTION:We’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. \n\n\n\nA.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); and Archaic Smile (1999)\, winner of the Richard Wilbur Award and finalist for both the Yale Younger Poets Series and the Walt Whitman Award. Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry anthologies of 1994\, 2000\, 2015\, 2016\, and 2017\, and she is a frequent contributor to Poetry and the Times Literary Supplement. Stallings’s latest verse translation is the pseudo-Homeric The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice (2019)\, in an illustrated edition with Paul Dry Books\, and her latest volume of poetry is a selected poems\, This Afterlife (2022\, FSG). She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. She lives in Athens\, Greece. \n\n\n\nJeffrey Yang is the author of the poetry collections Line and Light (Graywolf Press\, 2022)\, Hey\, Marfa (Graywolf Press\, 2018)\, Vanishing-Line (Graywolf Press\, 2011)\, and An Aquarium (Graywolf Press\, 2008). He is the translator of Bei Dao’s Sidetracks (New Directions\, 2024); Ahmatjan Osman’s Uyghurland\, the Farthest Exile (Phoneme Media\, 2015)\, cotranslated with the author; Liu Xiaobo’s June Fourth Elegies (Graywolf Press\, 2012); Su Shi’s East Slope (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2008); and Bei Dao’s autobiography City Gate\, Open Up (New Directions\, 2017). He edited the anthologies Birds\, Beasts\, and Seas: Nature Poems (New Directions\, 2011)\, Time of Grief: Mourning Poems (New Directions\, 2013)\, and the collection The Sea Is a Continual Miracle: Sea Poems and Other Writings by Walt Whitman (University Press of New England\, 2017). Yang works as an editor at New Directions Publishing and the New York Review of Books. He lives in Beacon\, New York. \n\n\n\n\nTickets
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/third-annual-manchester-translation-series-reading/
LOCATION:Manchester Poetry Library\, Grosvenor Building\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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SUMMARY:Manchester Translation Series: Who’s Laughing Now?
DESCRIPTION:Translating 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? \n\n\n\nJoin Manchester City Poet Charlotte Shevchenko Knight for a workshop which explores the poetic possibilities of jokes lost in translation. No materials or second languages are required for the session\, you need only bring a sense of humour. \n\n\n\nCharlotte Shevchenko Knight is a poet of British and Ukrainian heritage. Her debut pamphlet Ways of Healing was a winner of the 2022 New Poets Prize. Her debut collection Food for the Dead\, published by Jonathan Cape\, was a winner of the 2023 Eric Gregory Award\, and is shortlisted for the 2024 Forward Arts Foundation’s Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection. Shevchenko Knight is a PhD student at Manchester Metropolitan University and is based in York \n\n\n\n\nTickets
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/manchester-translation-series-whos-laughing-now/
LOCATION:Manchester Poetry Library\, Grosvenor Building\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250319T170000
DTSTAMP:20251215T101955Z
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SUMMARY:DoWell: Session 4: ‘Well-Maker-Spaces’
DESCRIPTION:DoWell Co-Design Workshop and Lectures Series 2024-2025 \n\n\n\nThe 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 flexible this year\, including online presentations and panel discussions as well as in-person workshops for colleagues to get hands-on experience and get involved in the different approaches to co-design. The workshops aim to provide a forum and time for colleagues to meet\, and to foster discussion and cross-faculty collaboration. \n\n\n\nSession 4: ‘Well-Maker-Spaces’ – insights to the role of spaces for making in healthier people and planet. \n\n\n\nWednesday 19 March 2025\, 3.30-5pm\, Business School BS 3.01 \n\n\n\nDr Nicholas Gant\, University of Brighton \n\n\n\nNick Gant is Co-Director of The Centre for Arts and Wellbeing at The University of Brighton and founder of the Community21 (.org) social and sustainable design research group. His work has helped over 50 communities\, industries and governing bodies develop their sustainable development agendas through the application of design and craft practice-based-research. He will demonstrate methodologies that deploy different models for maker-spaces that form new insights into how ‘making is good for us’ and we use making to support healthier people and places. Topical setting for these spaces includes inclusive community planning\, circular economy\, respite care and improving natural ecosystems. \n\n\n\n\nTickets\n\n\n\n\nAt DoWell –Design for Health and Wellbeing Research group– we pioneer the use of collaborative creative processes from craft and design to support people’s mental and physical health and to improve products\, environments\, services and interactions for health and care. We co-design our research into the social and societal aspects of health and wellbeing with the people who will benefit from our studies. Our research contributes to national and international action on mental health\, disability\, dementia and neurodiversity.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/dowell-session-4-well-maker-spaces/
LOCATION:BS 3.01 Business School\, Oxford Road\, Manchester\, M15 6BH\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Manchester Translation Series: Collaborative Translation Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join Oxford Professor of Poetry A. E. Stallings for an interactive collaborative translation workshop. No prior language or translation experience required. \n\n\n\nA.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); and Archaic Smile (1999)\, winner of the Richard Wilbur Award and finalist for both the Yale Younger Poets Series and the Walt Whitman Award. Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry anthologies of 1994\, 2000\, 2015\, 2016\, and 2017\, and she is a frequent contributor to Poetry and the Times Literary Supplement. Stallings’s latest verse translation is the pseudo-Homeric The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice (2019)\, in an illustrated edition with Paul Dry Books\, and her latest volume of poetry is a selected poems\, This Afterlife (2022\, FSG). She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. She lives in Athens\, Greece. \n\n\n\n\nTickets
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/manchester-translation-series-collaborative-translation-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Manchester Poetry Library\, Grosvenor Building\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250319T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250319T143000
DTSTAMP:20251215T102015Z
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SUMMARY:Manchester Translation Series: Trends in Translation
DESCRIPTION:Join editors Rachael Allen (Fitzcarraldo Editions\, Granta Books)\, Stefan Tobler (And Other Stories) and Jeffrey Yang (New Directions\, New York Review of Books) for a lively conversation on the current UK and US markets for literature in translation\, chaired by Brian Sneeden (World Poetry Books). \n\n\n\nRachael Allen is the author of Kingdomland (2019) and God Complex (2024)\, both published by Faber. Her works has received a Northern Writers’ Award and an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors. She is the poetry editor of Fitzcarraldo Editions\, and previously she edited the literary quarterly Granta and oversaw the poetry list for Granta Books. She was born in Cornwall and is currently a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Queen Mary University of London. \n\n\n\nStefan Tobler is the founder of And Other Stories. Authors he has translated include Clarice Lispector\, Raduan Nassar and Arno Geiger. He grew up in northern Brazil and southern England\, and has now made his home in the Dark Peak. \n\n\n\nJeffrey Yang is the author of the poetry collections Line and Light (Graywolf Press\, 2022)\, Hey\, Marfa (Graywolf Press\, 2018)\, Vanishing-Line (Graywolf Press\, 2011)\, and An Aquarium (Graywolf Press\, 2008). He is the translator of Bei Dao’s Sidetracks (New Directions\, 2024); Ahmatjan Osman’s Uyghurland\, the Farthest Exile (Phoneme Media\, 2015)\, cotranslated with the author; Liu Xiaobo’s June Fourth Elegies (Graywolf Press\, 2012); Su Shi’s East Slope (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2008); and Bei Dao’s autobiography City Gate\, Open Up (New Directions\, 2017). He edited the anthologies Birds\, Beasts\, and Seas: Nature Poems (New Directions\, 2011)\, Time of Grief: Mourning Poems (New Directions\, 2013)\, and the collection The Sea Is a Continual Miracle: Sea Poems and Other Writings by Walt Whitman (University Press of New England\, 2017). Yang works as an editor at New Directions Publishing and the New York Review of Books. He lives in Beacon\, New York. \n\n\n\nBrian Sneeden is the author of Last City (Carnegie Mellon\, 2018) and translator of four collections from the Modern Greek\, including Phoebe Giannisi’s GOATSONG (Fitzcarraldo\, 2025) and Cicada (New Directions\, 2022)\, shortlisted for the National Translation Award in Poetry. A co-founding editor of World Poetry Books\, he is a senior lecturer in creative writing and publishing at Manchester Metropolitan University. \n\n\n\n\nTickets
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/manchester-translation-series-trends-in-translation/
LOCATION:Manchester Poetry Library\, Grosvenor Building\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250319T103000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250319T120000
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SUMMARY:Manchester Translation Series: Translating the Contextual
DESCRIPTION:Poet-translators A. E. Stallings and Jeffrey Yang have worked across diverse sets of text – from ancient didactics and illustrated epics to Modern Greek activists in Stallings’ work\, to translations of Tang-Song Dynasty poets and contemporary Chinese and Uyghur activists in Yang’s work\, and much more. Beyond the textual and semantic\, how do they translate across time\, societal structures and norms\, and their varying degrees of personal proximity with the source text and its culture? \n\n\n\nIn this panel discussion\, we’ll explore how the contextual can (or cannot) be translated and what clues these poet-translators leave in their work to guide readers to a deeper appreciation of what otherwise might be a foreign\, inaccessible world. \n\n\n\nAnita Ngai is a poet and artist and a poetry MFA student at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her work bears witness on lives in between. Drawing on past lives as an engineer\, strategy consultant and marketer\, she works with different media\, including the poetic word\, data and space. Born in Hong Kong and raised in North America\, Anita’s writing was long-listed for The National Poetry Competition 2021 and commissioned for the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. \n\n\n\nA.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); and Archaic Smile (1999)\, winner of the Richard Wilbur Award and finalist for both the Yale Younger Poets Series and the Walt Whitman Award. Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry anthologies of 1994\, 2000\, 2015\, 2016\, and 2017\, and she is a frequent contributor to Poetry and the Times Literary Supplement. Stallings’s latest verse translation is the pseudo-Homeric The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice (2019)\, in an illustrated edition with Paul Dry Books\, and her latest volume of poetry is a selected poems\, This Afterlife (2022\, FSG). She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. She lives in Athens\, Greece. \n\n\n\nJeffrey Yang is the author of the poetry collections Line and Light (Graywolf Press\, 2022)\, Hey\, Marfa (Graywolf Press\, 2018)\, Vanishing-Line (Graywolf Press\, 2011)\, and An Aquarium (Graywolf Press\, 2008). He is the translator of Bei Dao’s Sidetracks (New Directions\, 2024); Ahmatjan Osman’s Uyghurland\, the Farthest Exile (Phoneme Media\, 2015)\, cotranslated with the author; Liu Xiaobo’s June Fourth Elegies (Graywolf Press\, 2012); Su Shi’s East Slope (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2008); and Bei Dao’s autobiography City Gate\, Open Up (New Directions\, 2017). He edited the anthologies Birds\, Beasts\, and Seas: Nature Poems (New Directions\, 2011)\, Time of Grief: Mourning Poems (New Directions\, 2013)\, and the collection The Sea Is a Continual Miracle: Sea Poems and Other Writings by Walt Whitman (University Press of New England\, 2017). Yang works as an editor at New Directions Publishing and the New York Review of Books. He lives in Beacon\, New York. \n\n\n\n\nTickets
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/manchester-translation-series-translating-the-contextual/
LOCATION:Manchester Poetry Library\, Grosvenor Building\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250318T160000
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SUMMARY:Thinking Ethics
DESCRIPTION:This session dedicated to ethics is designed to be responsive to your needs\, as identified in the ethics survey conducted earlier in the year. It will be an opportunity to think critically about the role that ethics plays in Arts and Humanities research\, from a philosophical as well as a methodological perspective. The workshop will be run by Adi Kunstman and Anna Bergqvist. \n\n\n\nThis event is in person and online\, the link for Teams is available via the Moodle area.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/thinking-ethics/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:DCAH's Research Training and Development Programme
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250318T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250318T143000
DTSTAMP:20251215T102045Z
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SUMMARY:Manchester Translation Series: In Other Words
DESCRIPTION:In an increasingly interconnected literary landscape\, translation is not just a feature but a defining force in contemporary publishing. In this panel\, poet and translator Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal chairs a conversation with Nashwa Nasreldin (ArabLit Quarterly\, Poetry Translation Centre) and Sana Goyal (Wasafiri) on the intricate\, dynamic editorial practices that shape contemporary literary magazines. How do editors navigate the complexities of working with multiple languages\, translators\, and linguistic traditions? What challenges and possibilities arise when curating literature that moves across borders? Drawing on their experiences\, the panellists will reflect on the role of translation in expanding literary landscapes\, the responsibility of editors in shaping cross-cultural dialogue\, and the creative potential of publishing multilingual voices in English. Join us for an insightful discussion on the creative and critical decisions that shape the multilingual literary sphere today. \n\n\n\nSupriya Kaur Dhaliwal is a writer\, researcher and literary translator\, and was born in Palampur\, India. She studied at St. Bede’s College\, Shimla; Trinity College\, Dublin; and Queen’s University\, Belfast. Her poems have been translated into Arabic\, German\, Italian; and have appeared in Ambit\, Bad Lilies\, Banshee\, bath magg\, Cyphers\, Gutter\, Oxford Poetry\, Poetry Ireland Review\, Poetry Jukebox\, Poetry London\, Rattle\, The Irish Times\, and elsewhere. Her criticism has appeared in Brixton Review of Books\, Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics and Wasafiri. In 2018\, she was one of the twelve poets selected for Poetry Ireland’s Introductions Series. Supriya was the 2021 Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at the University of Kent. She was awarded the fellowship to develop a series of poems tethered to the life and work of Norah Richards\, an Irish theatre practitioner who called the erstwhile Punjab and the Dhauladhars her home. Supriya is the author of The Yak Dilemma\, published by Makina Books. She is currently working towards a practice-based PhD at the Centre for Place Writing\, Manchester Metropolitan University. \n\n\n\nSana Goyal is the Editor and Publishing Director of Wasafiri. She has an MA in Postcolonial Studies and a PhD in literary prizes from SOAS\, University of London. She was formerly Deputy Editor at Wasafiri\, Publicity Manager at Tilted Axis Press\, and Marketing and Outreach Officer at Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal. Her reviews have appeared in The Guardian\, Financial Times\, Times Literary Supplement\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, The Poetry Review\, Vogue India\, and elsewhere. She was a judge for the 2022 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and 2023 Republic of Consciousness Prize and is a judge for the 2025 International Booker Prize. \n\n\n\nNashwa Nasreldin is a writer\, editor\, and literary translator of Arabic novels\, short stories\, poems\, screenplays and non-fiction. Her published book-length translations include Shadow of the Sun\, by Kuwaiti author Taleb Alrefai\, Shatila Stories\, the collaborative novel by nine refugee writers\, and After Coffee by Abdelrashid Mahmoudi\, among others. She writes poetry and literary essays\, and is a freelance writer and commissioning editor of poetry\, features and personal essays\, with a focus on language\, literature\, history and current affairs\, culture and the arts. Nashwa is Commissioning Editor at The Poetry Translation Centre’s and a contributing editor at ArabLit.org and its sister publication\, ArabLit Quarterly. She is a former programmes and documentaries producer at Al Jazeera English and a former video producer at Agence France Presse (AFP). She is also the founder of the Suffolk-based Bury St Edmunds Writers’ Workshop. She holds an MFA in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and was awarded a mentorship with the British Centre for Literary Translation in 2014. Nashwa is on the translations advisory board of The Other Side of Hope\, a journal publishing literature by refugees and immigrants. \n\n\n\n\nTickets
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/manchester-translation-series-in-other-words/
LOCATION:Manchester Poetry Library\, Grosvenor Building\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250318T103000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250318T120000
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SUMMARY:Manchester Translation Series: Collaborative Translation Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join award-winning visiting poet\, translator and editor Jeffrey Yang for an engaging collaborative translation workshop. No prior language or translation experience required. \n\n\n\nIn groups we will co-translate a poem by Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu (712-770 CE)\, teasing out different wordings and phrasings for the translation and playing with language. Using a ‘crib’\, or word-for-word translation provided by Jeffrey Yang\, we’ll collaboratively create a new translation to be printed in a limited-edition broadside. Join us! \n\n\n\nJeffrey Yang is the author of the poetry collections Line and Light (Graywolf Press\, 2022)\, Hey\, Marfa (Graywolf Press\, 2018)\, Vanishing-Line (Graywolf Press\, 2011)\, and An Aquarium (Graywolf Press\, 2008). He is the translator of Bei Dao’s Sidetracks (New Directions\, 2024); Ahmatjan Osman’s Uyghurland\, the Farthest Exile (Phoneme Media\, 2015)\, cotranslated with the author; Liu Xiaobo’s June Fourth Elegies (Graywolf Press\, 2012); Su Shi’s East Slope (Ugly Duckling Presse\, 2008); and Bei Dao’s autobiography City Gate\, Open Up (New Directions\, 2017). He edited the anthologies Birds\, Beasts\, and Seas: Nature Poems (New Directions\, 2011)\, Time of Grief: Mourning Poems (New Directions\, 2013)\, and the collection The Sea Is a Continual Miracle: Sea Poems and Other Writings by Walt Whitman (University Press of New England\, 2017). Yang works as an editor at New Directions Publishing and the New York Review of Books. He lives in Beacon\, New York \n\n\n\n\nTickets
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/manchester-translation-series-collaborative-translation-workshop/
LOCATION:Manchester Poetry Library\, Grosvenor Building\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250312T143000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250312T160000
DTSTAMP:20251215T102103Z
CREATED:20250219T104412Z
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SUMMARY:Research Funding: Postdocs
DESCRIPTION:This workshop is dedicated to postdoctoral research funding opportunities and the practicalities of applying for them. One way of continuing your research after you’ve finished your PhD is by securing a postdoctoral fellowship. There are a number of schemes open to researchers in the Arts and Humanities\, including those run by the British Academy\, the Leverhulme Trust\, as well as European researchers. What are the differences between each of these schemes\, and how do you go about finding them and writing a proposal? We’ll cover this in the workshop\, as well as learning about postdocs that are advertised as part of larger projects. \n\n\n\nThis event is in person and online\, the link for Teams is available via the Moodle area.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/research-funding-postdocs/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:DCAH's Research Training and Development Programme
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250312T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250312T160000
DTSTAMP:20251215T102113Z
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SUMMARY:MYRIAD: Creative Health Careers Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Join us on the 12th of March for an exciting and informative all-day conference exploring potential career opportunities in the exciting and growing field of Creative Health; how taking part in creative activity can support a community’s physical and mental health and wellbeing. \n\n\n\nThe event has been designed to inspire university students across Greater Manchester to think about how your unique skills and interests can pave the way for career progression in this vital\, growing field. Whether you’re an artist\, dancer\, passionate about museums\, a psychology or medical student\, or simply someone interested in creative ways to support health and wellbeing\, the day will be a chance to match your skills and passions with this new approach to health and wellbeing in Greater Manchester. \n\n\n\nYou’ll also learn about the role of the voluntary\, community\, faith and small enterprise sector\, (VCFSE) the key roles that artists and facilitators can play in these organisations and the potential for you to work with this sector in the future. \n\n\n\nThe day includes hands-on workshops\, led by professionals from VCFSE and creative organisations\, examples of potential career pathways\, volunteering opportunities\, and in-course placements. Whether you’re considering a future as a creative practitioner or exploring innovative ways to integrate creativity into the health\, social care or voluntary sectors\, this conference will spark new ideas and offer practical insights. \n\n\n\nThis is your chance to think outside the box\, ask questions\, and connect with others who are passionate about making a difference through creativity. The event is part of MYRIAD; a creative health initiative with a focus on global majority practitioners and communities in Greater Manchester and is open to all students. \n\n\n\nThe conference will be held in the Grosvenor Theatre in the Arts and Humanities Building\, Cavendish St\, Manchester M15 6BG\, United Kingdom. Please arrive at 10am for registration and welcome drinks. \n\n\n\nPlease register via the Eventbrite link here: \n\n\n\n\nEventbrite
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/myriad-creative-health-careers-showcase/
LOCATION:Grosvenor Theatre – Arts and Humanities Building\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250311T084500
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SUMMARY:March: Writer's Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Writers’ Retreats give postgraduate research students in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities the opportunity to devote a whole day to writing in a quiet\, structured\, and supportive atmosphere. \n\n\n\nThe retreats are facilitated by Dr Chad McDonald\, the faculty’s Senior Academic and Study Skills Tutor. Chad was awarded his PhD in History in 2019\, and he regularly took part in writers’ retreats during his postgraduate research. \n\n\n\nYou will need to arrive ‘ready to write’ but may\, of course\, bring any materials (laptops\, books\, data\, etc.) with you for the whole-day session. You may access data online\, but the retreat is a day free from active researching\, mobile phones\, or other internet access (emails\, Instagram\, online shopping\, etc.) that steals away focus and attention from writing! \n\n\n\nThere will be some short discussion around good writing practice and how to approach your writing as a professional task\, but much of the day will be devoted to writing without distraction. Whatever your writing project (e.g.\, annual report\, paper\, thesis)\, the retreat will provide a space away from your office or home in which to concentrate and reflect on the process of writing. \n\n\n\nWe hope the writers’ retreats will be a source of collegial support as you work alongside fellow PGRs who share similar goals—but also pressures and insecurities—in relation to academic writing. \n\n\n\nLunch and refreshments will be provided. Please notify us of any dietary requirements no later than 2 weeks before the date of the retreat you are attending. \n\n\n\nPlaces are limited so please email Fran Brooks if you wish to book a spot. 
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/march-writers-retreat/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Writer's Retreat
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250310T030000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250310T163000
DTSTAMP:20251215T102130Z
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SUMMARY:Reflecting on researcher vulnerability
DESCRIPTION:Please register your attendance if you would like to attend this  online masterclass. \n\n\n\nMethods Masterclass Sessions are suitable for both doctoral students and academic staff. \n\n\n\nIn this interactive online masterclass\, we will be exploring the topic of researcher vulnerability – the physical and/or emotional harm an individual may encounter when conducting research. Whether feeling upset about participants’ emotional stories when listening back to and analysing interviews\, or anxious about how future readers might perceive more vulnerable academic writing. We will reflect on what we mean by the term researcher vulnerability\, explore when it has impacted our own research experiences\, or might do in the future\, and discuss how we can move towards an academic culture more open about researcher vulnerability. \n\n\n\nClick here to join the session and then follow the link. \n\n\n\nDr Chloe Steadman: a Methods Masterclass
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/reflecting-on-researcher-vulnerability/
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250307T160000
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SUMMARY:International Film première– The Last Shoemakers of Doon Valley
DESCRIPTION:As part of Go Global Week 2025 in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities we will be showcasing a second film premiere by current PhD student Lokesh Ghai and his friend and collaborating filmmaker Jaymin Modi. \n\n\n\nThis film is a celebration of the resilient community of shoemakers of the Doon Valley in northern India. Shoemaking involves understanding the anatomy of the foot and translating creative ideas of footwear design with attention to comfort\, the nature of materials\, and the needs of daily life and work. While exploring people’s love for hand-crafted shoes\, the film raises the question: for how long will these shoemakers be able to continue their craft against the odds of mass production\, fast fashion\, caste discrimination and recent leather politics in India  \n\n\n\nThis film screening will be of interest to a range of students and connects themes that include: Social history\, capitalism and urbanisation\, heritage\, small-scale artisans’ business\, marginalisation\, human rights\, foot anatomy\, post-colonial studies\, and slow and fast fashion.  \n\n\n\nFollowing the premiere screening there will be a Q&A with a Guest Speaker and Director Lokesh Ghai.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/international-film-premiere-the-last-shoemakers-of-doon-valley/
LOCATION:Cinema GF12 SODA Building\, 14 Higher Chatham Street\, Manchester\, M15 6ED\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250307T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250307T140000
DTSTAMP:20251215T102223Z
CREATED:20250226T092426Z
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SUMMARY:Archives as Adventure: International Research In Progress
DESCRIPTION:An illustrated talk followed by Q&A discussing an exciting international research project in progress\, unearthing extraordinary archive material from a range of private and public archives in Germany\, Poland\, and France. \n\n\n\nManchester Metropolitan University researcher and writer Rachel Lichtenstein is currently six months into a two-year project to find previously unknown documents\, images\, recordings\, and other material relating to a Yiddish poet who once lived in London’s East End. Come and hear about her research adventures and detective work\, which has resulted in some incredible discoveries across Europe. Feel free to ask questions on international collaborations\, funding for projects and research as practise in this exciting session designed to inspire future global researchers to take up your own adventures!
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/archives-as-adventure-international-research-in-progress/
LOCATION:Manchester Poetry Library\, Grosvenor Building\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Douala:20250306T010000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Douala:20250306T020000
DTSTAMP:20251215T102233Z
CREATED:20250219T122557Z
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SUMMARY:PhD Led Seminar: 5.9
DESCRIPTION:This is a series of informal seminars led by and for Arts & Humanities doctoral students. Each seminar is presented by a different PhD researcher and involves plenty of interactive discussion. This is a friendly\, supportive space in which we develop critical research skills and build community. \n\n\n\nWhen and where: Thursday 6th March 2025 from 1-2 pm in Grosvenor East room 206 and on Teams\, with optional extension until 2.30pm for in-person attendees. Tea\, coffee\, juice and snacks are provided. \n\n\n\nPresenter: Ogechukwu (Oge) Okeke. Oge has a background in public health and health promotion (MSc) and is currently a PhD student at Manchester Fashion Institute\, MMU. Her PhD research unboxes the narrative that reusing clothing is all about solving environmental problems. In the quest to solve these problems\, donated second-hand clothing from Western countries are exported to developing countries like Nigeria\, which has led to significant environmental challenges and loss of capital. \n\n\n\nFormat/topic: Oge will begin with a brief introduction of her PhD research\, followed by Q&A and open discussion forum. The session aims to open up platforms for discussion around the question “Why do fashion waste crises exists?”. \n\n\n\nPreparation: There is no pre-reading for this session. \n\n\n\nIf you would like to attend: Email Loretta at 21441661@stu.mmu.ac.uk to say whether you would like to attend online or in person\, and if you have any dietary requirements (all snacks are vegetarian).
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/phd-led-seminar-5-9/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:PhD Student Led Seminar
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250305T200000
DTSTAMP:20251215T102243Z
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SUMMARY:Jason Allen-Paisant in conversation with Monique Roffey
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a very special evening presented by Manchester Met for GoGlobal Week: Jason Allen Paisant in conversation with Monique Roffey \n\n\n\nJason will be reading from and talking with Monique about his first non-fiction book\, “The Possibility of Tenderness”\, a personal history and migration tale narrated through the lens of plants and dreams — a people’s history of the land\, a family saga\, and an archival detective story through time. \n\n\n\nThe event will open with a drinks reception and Jason and Monique will be happy to sign copies of their books\, available for purchase on the night — including “Passiontide” and advance copies of “The Possibility of Tenderness”. \n\n\n\nBook your FREE tickets here:  \n\n\n\n\nTickets
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/jason-allen-paisant-in-conversation-with-monique-roffey/
LOCATION:Geoffrey Manton Building\, 4 Rosamond Street West\, Manchester\, M15 6LL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Other Events
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DTSTAMP:20251215T102252Z
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SUMMARY:Updated: Linking your Research to Impact
DESCRIPTION:This week’s training session on thinking about the connections between your research and real world impact outside of the university\, will now be led by Dale Townshend from the English Department. You’re welcome to join us online or in person. \n\n\n\nThis will be a hybrid session\, hosted online on TEAMs and in-person \n\n\n\n‘Thinking About Impact in the Arts and Humanities’ \n\n\n\nThis session will commence with an outline of an Impact Case Study (ICS) that is currently in preparation in the School of English. Having been spoken through the aims and objectives of this particular ICS\, participants will be invited to explore more broadly the ways in which their own research projects might inform the impact agenda. \n\n\n\nDale Townshend is Professor of Gothic Literature in the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies\, Manchester Metropolitan University. He has published widely in the field of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gothic writing.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/linking-your-research-to-impact/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:DCAH's Research Training and Development Programme
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250226T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250226T153000
DTSTAMP:20251215T102301Z
CREATED:20250219T103105Z
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SUMMARY:Postponed - What is Interdisciplinary Research?
DESCRIPTION:This is just a reminder that the panel discussion on Interdisciplinary Research\, which was due to take place tomorrow as part of the training session\, has unfortunately had to be postponed until the summer. More to follow in due course. \n\n\n\nWhat is interdisciplinarity and what does it look like in the day to day of your research? What are some of the challenges and opportunities of working across disciplines? What role does collaboration and co-creation play in successful interdisciplinary research? In this panel discussion MMU researchers from across the Faculty will reflect on their own interdisciplinary research projects and open up the conversation to PhD researchers. \n\n\n\nThis event is in person and online\, the link for Teams is available via the Moodle area.
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/what-is-interdisciplinary-research/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:DCAH's Research Training and Development Programme
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250220T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250220T140000
DTSTAMP:20251215T102312Z
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SUMMARY:PhD Led Seminar: 5.8
DESCRIPTION:This is a series of informal seminars led by and for Arts & Humanities doctoral students. Each seminar is presented by a different PhD researcher and involves plenty of interactive discussion. This is a friendly\, supportive space in which we develop critical research skills and build community. \n\n\n\nSeminar 5.8: ‘Autoethnography as a methodological process: exploring nature connection and photography as a therapy after trauma and illness’ \n\n\n\nWhen & where: Thursday 20th February 2025 from 1-2 pm in Grosvenor East room 206 and on Teams (the link can be found on Moodle)\, with optional extension until 2.30 pm for in-person attendees. Tea\, coffee\, juice and snacks are provided. \n\n\n\nPresenter: Nicola Lewis-Dixon. Nicola is in her 2nd year of part-time\, practice-based PhD research. She is co-founder of Photography on Wellbeing CIC\, set up by her and her business partner when they shared a photography-based creative approach in their own healing journeys. In Nicola’s case\, this was following cervical cancer\, years of invasive surgeries\, a close-to-death encounter and a subsequent hysterectomy. Following this\, Nicola went wild swimming with her camera in hand as a form of her own self-initiated social prescribing. \n\n\n\nFormat/topic: Nicola will start by introducing the many strands of embodied research that are combined to explore themes of the politics of cancer\, class\, shifting identity\, connection to place\, the idea of ‘thin places’\, and phototherapy to reclaim the body and express what words cannot initially say. Nicola will share samples of her video\, photography and print-based practical work\, all of which are made with sustainability in mind\, including her home-made botanical inks. Finally\, in-person attendees will take part in a mindful cyanotype printing taster session\, while online attendees will be asked to participate in some mindful at-home phone camera exercises. \n\n\n\nPreparation: There is no pre-reading for this session\, but for Q&A you may want to think about embodied research methods\, therapeutic art\, and the other topics discussed above in relation to your PhD project. You could also try safely getting into a lake\, whatever the weather\, if that’s something you would enjoy! For in-person attendees\, try mindfully walking over to Grosvenor East and if possible\, perhaps collect some foliage en route (even old tatty stuff is fine – it’s the silhouettes that will be captured in the cyanotype print). \n\n\n\nPlease note: Cyanotype printing isn’t a messy process\, but we will be working with low-toxic chemicals so you may wish to wear an old jumper just in case. Gloves will also be provided for those that wish to use them. \n\n\n\nIf you would like to attend: Email Loretta to say whether you would like to attend online or in person\, and if you have any dietary requirements (all snacks are vegetarian).
URL:https://dcahf.mmu.ac.uk/event/phd-led-seminar-5-8/
LOCATION:Grosvenor East (GE) 2.06\, Cavendish Street\, Manchester\, M15 6BG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:PhD Student Led Seminar
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